Chapter 433: Giant Ocean God

Lin Xian was now utterly certain that the creature he saw within the clouds, by Phoenix Society standards, was unquestionably a world-class disaster.

Yet he never imagined such a world-ending entity would suddenly appear above Haiyan Island on a clear afternoon.

Without warning, it filled the heart with despair.

"Watch out—hide!"

Wuuu!

Gales howled, tsunamis churned; Lin Xian and the other two felt as if both the air and the island itself were trembling.

At that moment, strange noises echoed from the island's ridges, the coastline, and the distant urban zones—this sensation made Lin Xian feel as if he had returned to the oppressive depths of Star Abyss No. 5.

"What is that thing trying to do?!"

Kiki's eyes widened as she stared at the oppressive black silhouette flickering through the storm clouds far above, her voice trembling with disbelief: "Could it be coming for us?"

Shizhi beside her released a green glow that enveloped both of them, resisting the violent stench and radiation, and said anxiously:

"I feel it hasn't noticed us."

Lin Xian immediately growled, clenching his fist: "That area is the orbital station—damn it…"

"What do we do?!" Kiki turned back, face pale: "Chen Sister and the others are all there!"

Boom!

A thunderous roar echoed from the sky, carrying crushing pressure and ionization—making it feel as if the entire island were trembling in the ocean waves. Under the terrifying storm, ordinary people lacked even the courage to look up. Lin Xian's heart raced like lightning—he gritted his teeth: "Rescue them, then evacuate via the Skytrain!"

"Lin Xian!"

Before the words were out, Kiki suddenly screamed. Lin Xian looked up—flames blazed across the heavens, the dome crushed by storm clouds, and a massive tsunami hundreds of meters high surged directly toward the western coastal ridge. Above the thunderclouds, a colossal shadow, like a sovereign beyond the atmosphere, appeared instantly atop their mountain peak!

For an instant, Lin Xian felt all sound in heaven and earth vanish—then Shizhi's cry pierced his headphones.

"It's coming for us!"

Kung!

In the blink of an eye, Lin Xian's nanodynamic armor activated all thrusters; reflexively, he grabbed Kiki and Shizhi and blasted them backward into the valley.

"Ah!" Kiki cried out simultaneously, unleashing a violent psychic wave that instantly flattened half the hill they'd just left, propelling them forward with immense kinetic force.

In that instant, the combined speed of Lin Xian and Kiki overloaded the armor's load limit beyond 12g. Shizhi saw darkness flash before her eyes, blood gushed from her nose and mouth, and she was flung over a thousand meters in place.

When she opened her eyes again, she saw a massive wave cresting over the peak—beneath the black clouds, two colossal tentacles loomed like they would blot out the sky, sweeping down!

Boom!

The next moment, the entire ridge collapsed. Waves and debris, propelled by colossal energy, erupted into the sky as if the earth itself had overturned.

The sudden destruction occurred in an instant. Even with Lin Xian and Kiki's flawless coordination and maximum-speed retreat, they were blasted apart by the shockwave and hurled into a forest.

Kiki's psychic barrier, like a burning shell, carried all three of them into the forest floor, carving a crater over a hundred meters long.

Beep-beep-beep!

【Energy overload! Energy overload!】

Lin Xian's armor system kept blaring alarms.

"Damn it—why does this thing seem to be after me?!"

The Giant Ocean God moved like a meteor striking earth, instantly obliterating half the western mountain range. Before it, Lin Xian and the others were like mosquitoes and flies fleeing desperately—even the shockwaves it kicked up overloaded their armor.

Hss!

Before the tsunami and collapsing mountains had ceased, Lin Xian launched again. All three armors unleashed powerful thrusts, breaking the sound barrier in seconds and shooting out from the dust of collapsing peaks.

"We weren't marked, were we?"

Kiki, flying beside Lin Xian, said.

"Who knows!"

Lin Xian had no time to ponder this—he turned to observe the monstrous shadow looming from the sky—when suddenly, a deafening roar erupted above, like thunder splitting open. In the next instant, a black tentacle pierced vertically down from the rain like a skyscraper.

"Watch out!"

Kiki reacted first, thrusting a powerful shockwave toward Lin Xian and Shizhi, flinging them away. The next moment, the colossal tentacle slammed down, its surface shimmering with dark red ionization fields. Even wrapped in her psychic barrier, Kiki was blasted backward—before that massive tentacle, all three were like mayflies instantly swallowed by the violent air current.

Boom!

The tentacle plunged directly into the mountain ridge, like divine punishment—instantly causing hundreds of meters of peak to collapse in landslides, as if the end of the world had come.

"Damn it!"

Lin Xian, flung clear, felt blood surging in his skull. He remotely guided Shizhi's armor away while thrusting his right hand toward the black tentacle descending from the sky—he gripped the void, and three superstring reactor phase rings ignited behind him in sequence. He roared: "Little girl, get out of the way!"

Voom!

Instantly, a massive mechanical gate opened high in the sky. From within it, a mechanical arm wielding the Vermilion Phoenix Plasma Diffusion Sword materialized. Hundreds of engines on the arm roared; rocket boosters at the elbow erupted into high-Mach rings, accelerating the heavy mechanical limb. The modified Black Tortoise armor's right residual arm gripped the crimson divine sword, its edge glowing faintly red from air friction, and slashed horizontally through the air toward the black tentacle!

Kung-kung-kung!

The Plasma Diffusion Sword's cataclysmic slash struck the tentacle's dark red ionization field, unleashing countless arcs of electricity and superheated plasma, briefly illuminating the entire coastline beneath the rain. Lin Xian remotely guided the slash—forcing the tentacle to split open a massive one-third gash, instantly extinguishing the lightning and ionization along its surface.

Just as Lin Xian sensed a glimmer of opportunity and prepared to retreat, a thunderous energy explosion echoed from the sky. Instantly, a violent wave of dark energy surged down the tentacle like lightning, pouring into the ground and condensing into dark energy.

Lin Xian's gaze sharpened—he realized something was terribly wrong.

The next moment, the tentacle plunged into the mountain's core and erupted in blinding white light—a visible, tangible explosion wave, laced with destructive lightning radiation, blasted outward!

Massive explosion!

Kiki, preparing to assist Lin Xian, was instantly flung through the air.

"Lin Xian…"

Watching the annihilating lightning approach, Kiki's face turned ashen, her breath frozen.

In Lin Xian's eyes, time slowed for an instant. He saw Kiki flung away, bit his lip hard toward the dark sea—and the next moment, both were swallowed by destruction.

Shizhi, far away, tried to command her armor to return and assist—but the armor was locked in autonomous mode; she couldn't override it.

Shizhi turned her head and watched helplessly as Lin Xian and Kiki vanished into the massive explosion—her face instantly turned deathly pale.

"Lin Xian!"

"Quick… disable the autonomous control!"

【Tertiary crisis remote mode activated. Manual override impossible.】

"This… how could this happen?"

At that moment, the armor suddenly transmitted: 【Remote connection severed. Switching to autonomous mode.】

Shizhi snapped back to awareness—the armor had stopped flying without remote input. She realized Lin Xian's control had been severed and prepared to call out—when the next explosion struck, hurling her into darkness.