Chapter 226: Beast God Realm

For some reason, after that gentle voice entered their ears, the boundless fear in their hearts vanished miraculously.

In its place came overwhelming peace, as if nothing needed worrying so long as this person stood before them.

A warm current surged in from the crown of their heads, flowing through limbs and bones, filling their weary bodies.

Numb, aching flesh seemed to unfurl at once; their searingly painful lungs eased; even their weakening heartbeat grew strong and steady again.

All of this happened in an instant!

When their blurred vision cleared, they felt a lightness above their heads—and the man had already risen.

"Is this the power of the inheritor?"

Both of them thought the same thought simultaneously.

"You shouldn't have..." the man began to say something.

"Do you feel better now?"

At that moment, the woman beside him suddenly scrambled to her feet and said earnestly.

"You are the inheritor, burdened with the great task of humanity's revival—you shouldn't have shown yourself for us two."

"Don't worry."

The man stepped past her and looked toward the strange figures chasing them, riding flying devices.

Boom!

A blazing fireball, dozens of meters wide, suddenly appeared nearby without warning, the searing heat warping the air.

The blinding light made them instinctively shut their eyes.

Yet the expected wave of heat never came.

When they forced open their eyes, suppressing their fear, they saw the fireball had not struck—it hung motionless before the inheritor, unable to advance an inch.

The fireball's radiance seemed to gild him in holy light, making his silhouette tower impossibly tall.

They stared, dumbfounded, unable to recover their wits.

The next instant, with a light gesture from the man, the blazing fireball vanished into thin air, as if a doodle on paper had been casually erased.

"Rebels! Immediately cease resistance and surrender, or we will take forceful measures!"

A rolling wave of sound surged forth, twisting the air; ancient trees swayed violently.

Boom—!

The ground shuddered violently; trees snapped, dust erupted in all directions.

Through the dust waves rising several meters high, a ten-meter-tall, dark-colored, grotesque mech descended, its slate-gray armor covered in intricate patterns.

Blue energy glowed at its joints, a low hum vibrating the earth.

Seeing this terrifying war machine stop before them, their faces paled; the fear they had just overcome surged back into their hearts.

One of the mech pilots in their pursuers was from the Beast God Clan!

"Let me introduce myself properly—I am Xu Xing."

His clear voice cut through the mech's low hum, reaching their ears with perfect clarity.

Xu Xing?

"Rebel, kill the two human beings behind you, surrender, and I will spare your life."

A voice, strained with excitement, came from the mech.

It was the captain of the pursuit team.

A rebel!

How many laboratories had dreamed of such an experimental subject—and now he had encountered one!

Inside the cockpit, the captain mentally rehearsed every possible method to capture the man with the sword on his back.

Best not to damage him—the more intact the rebel, the higher the price he could fetch.

"That's enough."

A voice, like a sigh, echoed in their ears.

【WARNING! HIGHLY DANGEROUS INDIVIDUAL DETECTED!】

【WARNING! TARGET ENERGY RESPONSE EXCEEDS MECH'S MAXIMUM ENERGY PEAK!】

【WARNING! TARGET ENERGY RESPONSE EXCEEDS MECH'S MAXIMUM ENERGY PEAK BY THREE TIMES! EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY!】 Red warning lights flashed incessantly; urgent alarms rang through the cockpit.

And the energy reading detected by the mech continued to climb.

Four times, five times, six times... until nine point nine times, the increase finally halted.

It wasn't that the energy response had stopped rising—it was that the mech's reconnaissance module could detect no higher than this.

Instantly, the captain's expression changed drastically.

A highly dangerous individual?!

Impossible!

How could such a high-level rebel appear outside the city for two ordinary humans?

【PROMPT: HIGH-RISK ENERGY RESPONSE HAS DISAPPEARED. CONTINUE MISSION.】

Disappeared?

The pursuit team's captain stared at the screen, where the figure had not moved a single step, his face dark with fury; he cursed inwardly.

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Damn it!

You damn merchants, you idiots!

He wanted to rip out the detection module and slam it against the screen, make it look and see whether it had truly vanished.

"Cut."

A soft sound suddenly echoed in his ears, just like that earlier voice saying, "Almost there."

Hum~

His mind suddenly went utterly blank, as if everything had been erased, all perception halting in that instant.

Before his eyes, only a single blade of light remained!

Soundless and silent, yet vast and overwhelming, it was like a thread, yet filled heaven and earth, beginning at the primordial, slicing toward the final end.

Countless contradictory concepts seemed visible upon it.

Crack!

A faint sound—he felt his body, his consciousness, even his very existence dissolving away.

And that bizarre, supremely contradictory blade of light had already swept past him, or rather passed through him, slicing toward something farther away.

No!

A boundless terror surged abruptly in his heart.

That sword strike—that sword strike must not be allowed to fall!

As soon as this thought arose, he could no longer continue; his thoughts and awareness froze forever in that instant.

……

……

"It's stricter than I anticipated," Xu Xing said calmly, gazing ahead.

The eighteen-meter-tall mecha dissolved into countless tiny specks of light, drifting away like purple sand carried by the wind.

In the distance, the members of the pursuit squad stood frozen like statues, also dissolving as the mecha had.

His earlier showiness was never for the sake of empty grandstanding—it was to test something.

After that sword strike fell, he had tested something indeed.

"The law's net is vast, yet leaves nothing uncaught…" he murmured softly.

Xu Xing turned to look at the two.

Their gazes were vacant; clearly, they had not yet recovered from the strange scene.

From their perspective, they had merely seen the mecha descend, spoken one sentence, then stand motionless before crumbling into fine sand.

They had not noticed the oddness farther away, but what had just occurred before their eyes was enough to shake them to their core.

Xu Xing made no haste, waiting quietly for them to regain their wits.

That sword strike had already cleared away some hidden troubles; for now, this place was safe.

After a long while, the two finally reacted—but immediately another wave of panic surged within them.

They had wasted so much time staring blankly!

"My lord, let's go quickly! Once this pursuit squad is down, more hunters will arrive soon!"

Though this man before them was a powerful inheritor, the nearby city housed a full mechanized battalion—let alone its commander, the infamous Executioner, who had killed countless inheritors. (End of Chapter)