Chapter 405: Routine Disinfection

Thunder rumbled.

Amidst the echoing roar, massive amounts of spiritual essence flowed, lingering in the sky, changing with the mercury, refracting brilliant rainbow light, just like turning a rainbow into a ribbon.

When it fluttered in the wind, it was beautiful and gorgeous, beyond compare.

Likewise, it formed a fatal temptation for the insects that were ignorant and had only the instinct to spread and propagate.

Piercing chirps rose one after another.

In the swamp covered by many plants, among countless rotting snakes, insects, rats, and ants, one moth after another rising and falling suddenly trembled its wings and soared into the sky.

It was like countless dust gray rising into the sky, converging into a torrent, turning into a violent river, twisting wildly in the sky.

Amidst the sharp flapping of wings, the gray river dancing wildly had already rolled over.

But then, it stopped in mid-air.

As if frozen.

In that instant, the rain curtain of thousands of threads flickered imperceptibly.

Just like a casual wave of the hand.

Thus, those spiritual essence moths frozen in mid-air ruptured and annihilated one by one, leaving no flying ash.

It was like an invisible palm sweeping across the sky, erasing all stains and dust, wiping the gray river from the mortal world from beginning to end, with only the overlapping, fine, bursting sounds spreading endlessly.

In that short instant, in Isis’s observation, every moth dancing in the gray river had been locked onto. Then, countless mercury threads broke through the air, each tiny thread, difficult to observe with the naked eye, intertwined with each other, like living things, accurately piercing through every moth from head to tail, weaving a dense and complex net in the sky.

In fact, there was no need to spend any effort to crush them one by one.

Those mercury threads, thin enough to break at the touch of a breeze, vibrated slightly after piercing through. Then, the Solid Alchemy sequence engraved in the mercury activated, operated, absorbed all external spiritual essence, instantly hardened, turned into sharp crystals, and rapidly expanded and grew, piercing out from the moth’s body.

Until every bit of spiritual essence was thoroughly swallowed within it.

Only countless crystals fell from the sky, and then, gathered into the endless mercury rain, rose into the sky, welcoming the final purification and processing!

The swarm of moths dissipated without a trace in a snap of the fingers.

And the huge shadow of Isis’s Crown continued to move forward slowly, sweeping across the earth inch by inch. Wherever it passed, all flying insects and spiritual essence were annihilated and disappeared without a trace!

In fact, under the attraction and recovery of Solid Alchemy, all that remained was a "vacuum" of spiritual essence in the wilderness.

If a certain craftsman surnamed Lou witnessed such a scene, he would probably doubt his own eyes.

Was something wrong somewhere?

Why did it look so much like his own unique skill... Absolute Spirit Extinction Domain?!

It is a pity that similarity cannot explain anything. The Absolute Spirit Extinction Domain forms an ultra-large-scale spiritual essence inert field through Lou’s ability, forcibly causing all spiritual essence to fall into silence, and even, conversely, interfering with the opponent’s spiritual essence and creations. And what Ji Jue did was simpler and more violent.

Just drain all the spiritual essence!

The terrifying volume of Isis’s Crown, combined with the precise operation of Isis’s Hand, and supported by the material resources of the entire Coastal Industry and the computing power of the supercomputing center, was enough to form a spiritual essence environment infinitely close to a vacuum as long as it was within the area covered by the rain!

What followed was the spontaneous flow of massive spiritual essence from the spirit-rich zone to the spirit-poor zone, just like a change in air pressure, which was a matter of course.

But no matter how tiny the flow was, once it was magnified to such a jaw-dropping scale, it was enough to form a celestial phenomenon like the end of the world!

Accompanied by the operation and forward movement of Isis’s Crown, the situation was intensifying!

The subtle changes that initially felt like a breeze gradually expanded and became cruel. Gradually, a huge vortex had already intertwined around the storm of rain, and like a raging typhoon, it carried more than several times its own spiritual essence forward. All the complex spiritual essence gathered, like falling into a bottomless pit, disappeared into that storm that was gradually expanding.

In fact, it was getting simpler and simpler.

In the spirit-rich environment, the increasingly excited moths didn't even notice any abnormality, and they drilled into the clouds along with the increasingly dense spiritual essence flow, just like jumping into a meat grinder voluntarily!

At this moment, between heaven and earth, it was a shocking scene of disaster.

A storm intertwined with neon light circled above the silver clouds like an iron curtain, raging on the land of Haizhou with the heavy rain, wandering and spreading.

Wherever it passed, streaks of spiritual essence rose from the earth like firelight, swaying, and annihilated in the darkness. Only the rain curtain, like an iron wall, pushed forward silently, approaching inch by inch.

Even if it looked slow, with such a large scale, it was already unimaginably fast.

In fact, there was no room to escape.

"What... is this..."

Amidst the series of high-pitched alarms, at the highest point of the settlement, the observer on the tower was already sweating profusely, his face pale.

In the chaotic settlement, there were wails and screams everywhere, or hysterical shouts and cries.

"Everyone run!"

"Xinquan is attacking!!!"

"Why, damn it!"

The leader of the settlement sat slumped in his chair, tears falling: "Is that guy named Ji crazy? I just delayed your payment for a few months, is it necessary? Is it necessary!!!

It’s all your fault. I said, Xinquan’s money can't be delayed, can't be delayed. Now it’s good, all the money was scammed by some bullshit blockchain and virtual currency, and now we’re going to die without a burial place!"

"Not necessarily, brother, not necessarily..."

The subordinate next to him comforted: "Think on the bright side, if Xinquan wanted to kill us, they would just send a few cars. If that didn't work, they’d send a few missiles and flatten us directly. There’s no need to make such a big fuss. Do you think this is using anti-aircraft guns to hit mosquitoes?"

"Re... really?" The leader’s eyes were teary, looking over, a glimmer of hope ignited.

The subordinate was about to speak, but the person next to him added with a slumped face: "Maybe they just want to make an example of us."

As soon as the words fell, the leader wailed, his eyes rolled back, and he passed out.

At this moment, in the entire chaotic settlement, some people were taking the time to pack their valuables and drive away, some had already seen that there was no way to escape and hid in the cellar with their families, some were running around aimlessly like flies, and some were even crazy enough to take out weapons and shoot at the approaching storm, firing grenades...

Others had already completely despaired and found a comfortable place to lie down in their final moments.

Sitting and waiting for death.

Whether it was resistance, begging, or giving up the struggle, nothing worked.

The silver storm continued to approach step by step. In the roaring wind, endless silver light swallowed the entire settlement, and then, without caring, it shifted direction and headed to the next place.

Only in the gradually dissipating wind, there were stunned faces, unable to understand, and hard to believe.

What happened?

That’s not right, I’m perfectly fine, didn't lose anything! At most, falling into a spirit-poor environment, instinctively dizzy, a little out of breath.

No, what for!

What are you here for, brother?

The rain was silent, just moving forward silently, raging in the wilderness of Haizhou, from one settlement to another, forcibly breaking through all defenses, cruelly covering every corner, and leaving without any attachment.

Only the "survivors" who were still in shock looked at each other. After realizing it, they cursed endlessly, or cheered with tears.

In just a few hours, the scale of Isis’s Crown had expanded to several times its original size. In fact, if Isis hadn't deliberately limited the scale to avoid physical overload and loss of control, it would have been even more exaggerated.

Accompanied by the formation of the vortex, as the silver storm spread, more and more moths were swallowed and crushed, and strange colors gradually emerged from the silver-white, with wisps of blood-red scarlet revealed from within.

Like a natural disaster!

Facing the annihilation brought by Isis’s Crown, countless spiritual essence moths seemed to fall into chaos. Unfortunately, they could no longer escape, just instinctively wanting to fight back in the desires that constituted themselves.

Just when pure quantity was useless, a large number of rotting and infected birds rushed into the storm one after another. Unfortunately, they were crushed into a pool of blood mist by the hardened mercury raindrops before they even got close.

In the end, the chirps rose one after another and gradually converged.

Right in the foul-smelling swamp, the silt and sewage suddenly boiled, and rotting giant trees and large amounts of silt surged, gradually rising.

It was as if some behemoth was rising rapidly underneath.

Vines wailed and cracked one after another. Right in the rain, the mud pool burst, countless mud splashed, and one rotting tentacle after another rose toward the sky like a giant pillar, rapidly expanding, countless suckers and mouthparts opened, greedily entwining on the clouds.

Disaster Beast!!!

Right in the silt of the swamp, a behemoth that was more than half rotten was still wriggling, as if the head of a giant squid had grown moss and two saplings.

The blessings of the Vortex System and the Wasteland had gradually developed its body to this extent, and it could even temporarily expand to a more exaggerated degree, but unfortunately, there was no consciousness to protect it.

After eating too many flying insects and infected animals, it had long been eroded and parasitized by Dream-Loss Syndrome. At this moment, in the huge eye sockets, countless moths were constantly wriggling.

Although it was already dead, the Vortex System blessing was still maintaining the activity of the flesh. In the parasitism of the flying insects, it was constantly recovering the rotting flesh, and at the same time, it was difficult to sustain. In the cycle of growth and rot, one unrelated limb and tumor after another had already covered the body.

Now, tens of thousands of moths gathered in that empty shell, and under the irrigation of endless desires, it actually stimulated hunger again, preying!

One iron-gray tentacle after another rose toward the sky, ignoring the slashing of the mercury rain, and all collisions were bounced away.

Like bullets, the tentacles shot out and entwined on the rain clouds, and were even still sucking spiritual essence greedily, wanting to tear this storm apart completely.

Until, Isis, in confusion, lowered her eyes slowly, noticing the stench and rotting flesh stained in the silver-white clouds.

Ah, new clothes, dirty...

The moment such a thought emerged from the soul, inside the clouds, countless brilliant starlight illusions were all dyed into angry scarlet.

Behind the layers of mist, that blurred face slowly opened her eyes.

Coldly overlooking everything in front of her.

Instantly, the mortal world froze.

Countless raindrops hovered in mid-air, rapidly growing, revealing sharp cold light. Under the alternating use of Fluid Alchemy and Solid Alchemy, endless blood-red surged out, turning the rain covering the earth into pure scarlet.

Just one look.

BOOM!!!

It was as if a giant cannon had fired out of thin air. On the body of the dead Disaster Beast, a huge blood hole suddenly appeared, piercing through!

In an instant, in the deepest part of Isis’s Crown, massive amounts of mercury collapsed, turning into sharp blades and shooting out.

Cutting through the tentacles, piercing into the body, tearing the rotting flesh, and exploding with a bang.

Then came the second, third, fourth...

Amidst the instinctive wailing and screaming, the Disaster Beast’s body shook violently, one blood hole after another exploded on the body, one after another, the broken tentacles fell off and were crushed into splashing minced meat.

The cruel ravaging seemed to have no end, and the roaring sound was endless.

Until the entire huge Disaster Beast was completely torn apart, and countless moths scattered, wanting to escape in all directions, only to realize that the blood-red rain was gradually shrinking and closing.

In the end, with the growth and hardening of the blood water, it completely locked the four directions, isolating the inside and outside.

Countless mercury pillars slowly fell from the clouds, slender and long, connecting heaven and earth, and then, one sharp blade after another grew from above...

Started spinning!

After the blockade, a hair-raising low hum rang out from the rain, endless.

Bones shattered, blood evaporated, flesh annihilated, every inch of the remaining tissue was thoroughly ground into minced meat that was difficult to distinguish, not to mention the so-called moths.

And when the scarlet rain moved forward again, all that remained in place was a river mixed with massive amounts of stone powder, sawdust, and minced meat, winding and raging, drawing a shocking scar on the earth as the rain moved.

"Hmm?"

Ji Jue couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, sighing in realization, "It’s actually a structure similar to Pan Ying?"

Using Isis’s Crown as a container, after looting a large amount of spiritual essence through mercury, it created a structure like a furnace by imitating the spiritual essence composition of the worm.

Using the massive spiritual essence gathered by Hidden Anger and Old Grudges as the source, through Fluid Alchemy, it cast mercury into a one-time consumable weapon, adopted a structure similar to Pan Ying, and after blood sacrifice to improve power, finally used Burning Desire to thoroughly catalyze the spiritual essence, triggering an explosion.

Even though he had never made a similar design, Isis had already optimized it as a matter of course.

It seems she has learned a lot!

Not caring at all about the potential hidden dangers behind this, nor worrying about what kind of thing he had created, Ji Jue beamed and clapped in praise.

Worry about what?

Isn't it a good thing that children like to learn!

Unfortunately, the process was slightly cumbersome and redundant. After all, it was limited by the composition and foundation, and there was no way to flexibly and fully utilize this power and accumulation.

When Ji Jue completes the rebirth form later, he can start the branch of the Matrix · Non-Aggression and the creation of the Matrix Sacred Object. By then, with the ability to hand-craft alchemy based on spiritual essence, he will naturally no longer be so limited.

It’s just that, in this case, the carrier part needs to be thought about more...

At least use some good materials, right?

Ji Jue took out a pen and started writing and drawing on the paper, thinking about the matching of different materials and specific needs, full of expectations.

Once again immersed in work.

And the storm was still raging on Haizhou. In just half a day, it had swept across most of Haizhou, causing unknown chaos.

Such a huge battle and shocking scale was simply a disaster!

It’s a pity that whether it was settlements, small towns, or central cities, I don't know how many people almost blew up the Security Bureau’s phone, but there was no response at all.

All the reports sent up sank into the sea.

After a while, as if realizing that this couldn't go on, an announcement stamped with the seal and signature of Town Guardian Lu was released.

Anyway, it was just the breeding of plague in the wilderness in late autumn. For the health of the citizens and the stability of the wilderness, to avoid forming a scale and causing damage, routine disinfection was carried out. Please stay calm, it will be done immediately, etc...

In short, it’s a routine operation, don't be surprised.

Seeing the thin notice sent to his face at this moment, I don't know how many people were almost laughed at by anger. Look up at the storm galloping in the distance, family members! Look at the silver brilliance that covered the sky and the sun, and look at the Disaster Beast that was just thrown into the juicer and ground into paste with a "zer" sound. You tell me this is routine disinfection?

Why don't you say this is the Federation’s human elimination plan...

Even if I were blind, I wouldn't confuse disinfectant spray and gas chambers...

Where is the Heavenly Governor!

With such a big battle and such a big scale, it’s almost becoming a man-made natural disaster. Heavenly Governor, come and save us!

Unfortunately, the Heavenly Governor had no reaction.

Touched.

Just like he didn't see it.

No, to be precise, he took a look...

For a moment, Ji Jue felt the suppression from Tianyuan through Isis’s Crown, as if overlooking from the highest point of the dome.

One look.

But then, the line of sight dissipated without a trace, and he didn't care at all.

Instead, he even faintly lifted the restrictions and fanned the flames...

If the Heavenly Governor’s Law’s control over the Federation still existed, how could it be so easy to set off such a massive spiritual essence tide?

Thus, the unscrupulous big cleanup began.

It’s just...

"Really interesting."

In the dead silence, a hallucinatory chuckle rang out, without warning.

From behind Ji Jue.

Ji Jue’s writing stopped abruptly, he put down his pen, and turned back indifferently.

The white-skirted girl who appeared in the workshop at some point was carrying her hands on her back, curiously looking around, and finally, her eyes fell on him, as if curious, only smiling, gradually mocking:

"Didn't expect that there would be such a person in the world..."

"I never thought there would still be such people in this world..."