Chapter 464

17:06

Less than an hour remained before nightfall, yet Haiyan Island and Lidao had already been swallowed by churning ink-black clouds.

The black clouds, like oil-soaked cotton, pressed heavily against the sea; gales whipped up thirty-meter waves that shattered against rocks, filling every inch of air with salty, sulfurous vapor—steam from Mount Garan mixed with thick smoke, turning dozens of miles of ocean into a boiling hell, erasing the horizon between sea and sky.

Around Haiyan Island, the storm had become a gathering of sea monsters; shadowy forms of creatures triggering deep-sea phobias appeared intermittently—a mountain-sized, mottled serpent glided through the wave troughs beneath the black water, its dark-blue scales churning vortices, its full form unseen; farther out, a pale-white tentacle over thirty meters in diameter pierced the surface then crashed down, its tidal wall instantly swallowing half of Lidao’s lighthouse, while a low-frequency hum vibrated through the air—the breathing of an unspeakable deep-sea leviathan.

On Lidao, the entire island trembled slightly; dense waves of black creatures surged like a mountain flood toward the southwest shore where Haiyan Prison stood, as if targeting prey—even beneath the ground, strange entities tunneled forward, tearing the surface apart.

“It’s invisible—scan with shockwaves!”

Inside the geothermal well, Lin Xian shouted loudly; thousands of drones, under Viola’s control, rapidly converged toward Lin Xian’s position for defense, while Kiki shot through the gaps between the drones like a streak of light.

“Huh~”

In midair, Kiki exhaled softly, then clasped her hands in the void.

Hum!

A faint, nearly transparent spherical barrier contracted rapidly toward her chest, instantly transforming into a glowing white shockwave orb that radiated outward from her in an instant!

BOOM!!!!

An invisible shockwave expanded spherically in all directions, its immense force spreading over hundreds—even thousands—of meters in diameter!

The shockwave swept away the geothermal well’s erupting heat and steam, exploding outward in spherical waves; countless falling rocks, guardrails, and debris atop the geothermal core were all blasted aside.

【TARGET ACQUIRED!】

Under this 360-degree, no-blind-spot shockwave, Wei’ola’s thousands of “eyes” captured the target within milliseconds; instantly, all Lei Sun drones pivoted and fired toward an overhead, broken passage entrance.

A dense barrage of red pulse beams struck precisely; as the beams hit, the seemingly empty passage entrance flickered with a faint green biofield ripple, which spread and revealed the silhouette of a completely transparent, twisted giant insect.

Seeing this, Lin Xian immediately recognized it—the monster hiding in the flood channel. It had appeared and vanished without trace; Qian Dele and Ningjing’s squad had searched meticulously before sealing the upper passages, finding nothing. Who knew this thing could not only become invisible but also evade biological sensors—utterly bizarre!

“Found it! Catch it!”

“Got it!” Before Lin Xian finished speaking, Kiki unleashed a torrent of psychic force, clamping down on the creature while its biofield glow still lingered; the immense power twisted the broken passage entrance, gouging deep craters into the surrounding walls—Kiki had clearly gone all out.

With their current strength, a Special-Class monster was no match if they unleashed everything; hearing the ground-shaking chaos outside, Lin Xian knew they had to end this swiftly, so without hesitation, he raised a finger.

Gravitational Lens.

A black hole formed instantly across dimensions—perfect for dealing with all flashy tricks.

Hum!

A spatial hum resonated; the roaring magma currents in the geothermal well vanished instantly, even the blazing light swallowed—twisted space spontaneously formed within Kiki’s controlled area, like a vortex of black water in the air.

Instantly, the twisted dark region collapsed into a lightless black hole, emitting a grinding sound; the previously transparent area now revealed a continuous, contorted biological mass—a giant tunneling black worm, its entire body wrapped in countless transparent sea worms resembling snakes; after losing invisibility, the worm’s main trunk twisted and shifted color, its constituent worms sucked and shredded by the gravitational lens, even its biofield light unable to escape.

Sensing the threat, the giant black worm thrashed wildly; its snake-like components began disassembling in multiple directions, scrambling up the geothermal well walls like melting ink, spreading out in a dense, writhing tide.

Seeing this, Lin Xian and Kiki directly witnessed what “unspeakable” meant—this was no true creature, neither insect nor serpent; its entire body could seep and escape in any shape. After Lin Xian’s gravitational lens consumed a hollowed-out zone, the remaining worms and snakes broke free, spreading across the wall in a hundreds-meter-wide “snake wall.”

Meanwhile, countless black worms and snakes continued pouring from the passage, gradually covering a larger area; in the blink of an eye, the geothermal well wall ahead of Lin Xian and Kiki turned a gray-black mass; as the worms writhed, the wall itself seemed to come alive, sending chills down every spine.

“So disgusting,” Kiki exclaimed. “How could these things even be rated Level 4?”

“Whether it’s one or a swarm, its scale has reached Special-Class standards—and it can turn invisible. This won’t be easy,” Lin Xian muttered, sweat beading on his forehead as he retracted the gravitational lens, his expression grim.

If it were just one, he’d be certain he could eliminate it quickly—he’d tested his supercritical diffraction sword before; with precise aim, it could slay any monster below S-Class.

But now, staring at the dense, writhing “worm wall,” Lin Xian realized things were dire.

The black worms had nearly covered half the geothermal well’s ceiling, turning the magma-scorched rock into black-gray; then, all the worms and snakes turned their eyeless heads simultaneously toward Lin Xian and Kiki—as if preparing to unleash something.

【DETECTED SPIRIT RIPPLE INCREASE—ATTACK ALERT!】

“Kid, get back!” Lin Xian shouted, sensing the danger.

Wei’ola immediately gathered all drones; the Iron Curtain drones deployed defensive shields, assembling into a massive metallic hemisphere above Lin Xian and Kiki; at the same moment Kiki flew back, Lin Xian activated his AT field shield and opened the superstring reactor phase ring, expanding the shield’s coverage.

At that instant, hundreds of thousands of black worms and snakes on the ceiling erupted with high-energy dark energy; countless silver-green filaments—nearly invisible to the naked eye—shot toward Lin Xian’s position. These filaments resembled liquid swords fired in thread-form, extremely hard to detect; as they neared the center, their density surged, forming a silver-green mist-like wave that slammed into the Iron Curtain drones’ shields.

A deafening hiss rang out—the high-strength metal Iron Curtain shields, along with the drones, instantly vaporized as if erased by high-energy beams, vanishing in an instant; when the dense filaments struck Lin Xian’s AT field shield, a deafening sonic boom exploded through the silent space, nearly shattering eardrums.

BOOM!

Silver light erupted; Lin Xian’s AT field shield flickered violently—he felt his power nearly drained; instinctively, he activated three phase rings of the superstring reactor, barely holding back the massive impact.

The instantly vaporized Iron Curtain drones rained down as countless metal shards.

“That’s a brutal spray!”

Lin Xian’s heart pounded; Special-Class attacks were no joke. This unprecedented attack style had caught him off guard—had he been inside the Infinite without an AT shield, he’d have been obliterated. He regretted not calling Huo Ge or Long Zhijie, but it was too late now.

“Whoa, your drones…”

Kiki’s eyes widened in panic; she hadn’t brought her VK electric knife. In this emergency, she glanced down at the searing magma below, then sharply commanded, raising her hand to summon psychic force and snatch a massive, glowing-red magma chunk from the churning well, hurling it skyward. The magma sphere, like a miniature sun, bathed the geothermal well in blinding light and searing heat; Kiki gritted her teeth, raised her right fist, and swung with psychic force.

THUD!

The psychic punch, wielding ten-thousand-ton force, struck the magma sphere like a firework—sending superheated magma spraying wildly across the ceiling and walls!

WHOOSH!

Next instant, magma rained down like a storm, drenching most of the worms clinging to the walls and ceiling; green biofield shields flickered frantically across the entire rock face, igniting the surface; countless worms burned and fell like rain, twisting and curling midair before plunging into the magma below.