Chapter 1286: The Second Shen Yan

Lin Dui! Something's off!

Chaos has broken out! Chaos has broken out!

On the city wall, Zhang Tie, who had intended to go back, clung desperately to the battlements, his eyes narrowed to slits.

Seeing him urgently urging Lin An, a sudden chill rose from behind him for no reason.

In his view, as those strange women rushed into the crowd, chaos immediately ensued. But that wasn't the worst; what truly baffled him was that the very core of several squads suddenly descended into chaos.

It was as if they had appeared out of nowhere; every Awakened One now had a woman appear beside him.

Some looked fairly normal; others were far from human in appearance.

At an extreme distance, far beyond hearing, he could only watch as each Awakened One, like seeing a ghost, panicked and tried to flee.

But the next second they froze in place, tormenting themselves in an utterly bizarre way.

They tore off their own limbs, emptied their innards, or stripped naked and writhed on the ground screaming...

In a short time they reduced themselves to near‑death; yet even to Zhang Tie's eyes, a lanky Awakened One terrifiedly folded his body over and over, his breastbone jutting out like a reversed fish‑bone, piercing his skin—still he did not die.

It was as if, before they could fully experience it, they couldn't even bring themselves to die.

Such a gruesome, perverse scene made him instantly think of those NPCs acting under orders.

"Lin Dui! Something's wrong! Come quick!!"

He couldn't fathom why this was happening.

He had thought it would be a leisure‑like heavenly dungeon, but in the blink of an eye it became more nauseating than a spiritual instance; the contrast was so stark it gave him the creeps.

Instinctively, he just wanted Lin An to come over quickly and see what was going on!

Especially seeing those strange humanoid monsters clinging to the Awakened Ones, he felt that once these people died, the monsters' next target would be them!

But while he stared intently at the strange happenings in the distance, tense and focused, Zhang Tie didn't notice a woman with unsteady steps, as if she could barely stand, arrive behind him.

That beautiful woman's diseased eyes stared at him silently.

Her head swayed back and forth, as if she were drunk.

"Boom!"

He shoved hard with his right foot; Lin An, unaccustomed to this speed, instantly prepared to charge out of the bedroom.

He had originally planned to test the solidifying effect of the Eternal Body, but as soon as he arrived, he heard Zhang Tie's startled shout.

The two were extremely familiar with each other.

Lin An knew that this Han Xiong, though somewhat unreliable and prone to shouting over nothing, wouldn't panic over a trivial matter after all they'd been through.

Outside, something must have happened that this Han Xiong couldn't comprehend.

Is it that the Awakened Ones sought death and came up with a new trick?

Or is there something…

Before Lin An could overthink, almost as he rushed out of the bedroom, a plaintive, dissatisfied voice suddenly sounded from behind him.

In an instant, Lin An felt as if a soft body had embraced him from behind, a pair of jade‑white hands locking around his front like a reverse grip; under the sudden burst of tremendous force, he felt his sternum sink slightly.

"What is this?!"

His pupils contracted sharply.

In virtually no time at all, Lin An sensed extreme danger!

His strength may have been suppressed, but his perception remained at the Fourth Stage!

No sound, no abnormality! That presence behind him seemed to block his perception instantly appearing. And under the protection of the rules, Lin An wondered that even a Third Stage Peak expert striking him could not possibly injure him in such a short time!

But…

Instinctively lowering his head, Lin An instantly recognized the owner of those hands in his constricted pupils.

Those arms, covered in fine wounds like knife cuts…

"Shen Yan?!"

"Lin An…"

"How can you leave me?"

"You said yesterday you would stay forever… forever with me, didn't you?!"

The first half of the voice was warm, as if entrancing, carrying a maiden's unique resentment; but the second half struck Lin An's ears like a piercing resentment!

Her arms, slender enough to break with a slight effort, became like steel rebar when Lin An exerted all his strength, gripping him tightly as if she wanted to knead his body into herself.

Meanwhile, perhaps sensing Lin An's resistance…

Embracing him from behind, the naked girl, at this moment seeming half‑abandoned, saw her exquisite face suddenly change expression.

As if her beloved were about to leave, she suddenly opened her mouth and fiercely bit Lin An's back.

"How can you leave me?!!"

"How can you even think of escaping?!!"

"Crack!"

"Rip!"

A large chunk of flesh, steaming with hot blood, was bitten off in one mouthful.

His sternum collapsed.

In an instant, Lin An felt a sweetness in his chest, a long‑lost pain instantly stimulating his nerves; without needing to examine the injury, he realized his ribs had been driven into his lungs.

Such power… seemed like another kind of rule, leaving him utterly unable to resist!

Even the Eternal Body flickered wildly at this moment, as if countering other attacks!

"Glug!"

Like the sweetest fruit flesh, the girl pressed against him from behind, their methods merging, now showed a look of utter satisfaction on her face.

On her fair face, the corners of her lips were vivid and dripping, like a sickly beauty.

"Boom!!!"

In the next second, before the girl could bite Lin An's shoulder again, Lin An's eyes suddenly flashed with a trace of madness.

Break it for me!!

Despite the restraint, his right hand forcibly bent backward behind his back.

Accompanied by a thunderous blast, a massive amount of compressed energy instantly exploded between them.

It was as if a small nuclear bomb had been detonated.

The arcane sphere, compressed to its limit and not yet fully controlled, now resembled an expanding black fireball, devouring everything.

The earth shook.

Under a violent Shockwave, the historic ancient castle collapsed instantly.