Chapter 1361: Find Lin An!

An incessantly erupting volcanic vent.

Feeling the surrounding heat, Lin An calmly walked into the magma without even raising the most basic shield.

In the intense heat capable of melting metal and the rolling lava, to him it felt no different from warm water.

With a Fourth Stage physique, a thousand-degree heat was meaningless.

He continually descended deeper into the volcano; before him stretched an orange‑red expanse, the churning magma within holding immense pressure, as if it might erupt again at any moment.

"Blazing Fire" scorched his body.

Yet within the volcano, Lin An inexplicably felt a faint chill.

It was a chill rising from deep within his heart, indescribable.

In just seven seconds, he wiped out every Alien Species in the gathering area.

From elderly Alien Species to wailing Alien Species hatchlings, any creature that might expose his trail was mercilessly slaughtered in this massacre.

Recalling the last one, an Alien Species hatchling hiding under the bed, Lin An seemed to see his family again—even in death they clung to his ankles, trying to stop him.

Unfortunately, even a Fourth Stage might not evade his detection; how could a mere First Level Alien Species hatchling, only capable of holding its breath, possibly escape?

Out of respect for life, Lin An instantly killed that final Alien Species hatchling and gathered their corpses together.

Merely so they could be reunited in death.

"Detonate the volcano.."

"Detonate the volcano to destroy corpses and erase traces.."

"This way I can maximally conceal my tracks; even if Lin Yan's brother suddenly contacts Lin Yan, I'll have ample excuse to dispel suspicion.."

His gaze flickered.

After swiftly sinking to the volcano's core, Lin An silently gazed at the dark‑red subterranean lava; the flowing magma resembled the earth's blood, and within it he even saw droplets of liquefied metal.

Here the temperature had reached four thousand degrees Celsius—essentially no longer magma but akin to the molten metal layer of a planetary core.

Under a pressure of two terapascal, it was already enough to inflict slight harm on his flesh.

"Almost there.."

"Go deeper, and perhaps we'll hit a tectonic plate?"

Having locked onto a stratum of liquid metal squeezed from all sides by pressure, Lin An slowly extended his right hand; in an instant, the Cataclysm power he had only tested before erupted.

A black light spread like the hue of Judgment, then, under an effect Lin An barely grasped, it suddenly diffused throughout the entire volcano.

"10% Spiritual Energy! Cataclysm!"

His mental power and Spiritual Energy reserves plummeted; since acquiring the Death Calamity skill, this was the first time he'd used it in such a special environment.

He was also curious about the power boost described for Death Calamity.

He wondered both what his current Spiritual Energy strength could achieve and what the so‑called Heavenly Calamity trigger actually did.

"Rolling, swaying… it looks like nothing unusual…"

Yet, seeing the high‑temperature "liquid" about to surge forth, Lin An eyed the dissipating black light with some doubt.

In his perception, the Cataclysm power had already permeated the whole volcano, yet it seemed to have produced no effect.

With such Spiritual Energy expenditure, even a casual punch from him would cause a greater disturbance.

Was it because he'd used too little Spiritual Energy?

Instinctively, Lin An mistakenly thought he'd expended too little Spiritual Energy and was about to channel more when, the next second, a howl like a earth‑wailing moan burst from beneath his feet.

What…!?

In that instant, even Lin An felt a sudden wave of mental pressure sweep over his entire body.

This sensation was like being in the deep sea when the seabed suddenly splits, releasing a magnitude‑ten seismic tsunami that surges forth!

Almost instantly, the solution within a hundred‑kilometer radius of the volcano's center went berserk; in the subterranean crust kilometers down, the Cataclysm power seeping in seemed to shatter its fragile balance.

Like a detonated nuclear bomb, tens of millions of tons of magma were set in motion simultaneously.

"Boom!!!!"

Unable to bear the pressure any longer, the once‑vast volcanic crater, like the engine of a starship, blasted massive amounts of magma upward several kilometers under tremendous pressure—spectacular as an inverted torrent—while the magma and molten metal flung to thousands of meters fell back under gravity, ultimately forming a devastating fire‑rain that blanketed over a thousand kilometers!

"Whoosh! Whoosh! whoosh"

Clumps of high‑temperature fluid, split by gravity, scattered like exploding meteors, shooting outward in all directions.

The earth trembled as the sky‑obscuring fire‑rain instantly turned the basin's upper air into an ocean of flame, orange‑red light engulfing the whole world.

With temperatures soaring, the entire gathering zone's radius of a kilometer nearly instantaneously spiked to a thousand degrees!

The atmosphere seemed to burn; each grain of molten lava flame slammed into the ground like a missile barrage, erupting in a tremendous roar.

Heaven collapsed, earth sank, and the fire‑rain hid the sky.

Driven by the blast's shockwave, Lin An stared blankly at the scene unfolding high above the volcano.

In his eyes, the whole world seemed to have fallen into ruin. Of course he knew it was an illusion, yet amid this colossal eruption that swallowed the limits of vision, a primal terror made him grasp the horror of the disaster.

Covering over a thousand kilometers! With this disaster unleashed, could it not annihilate all surrounding lifeforms of Third Stage and below!?

What terrifying power..

Even if he went all out he could produce such an effect, but the affected area would surely not be this vast!

For some reason, a thought flashed through Lin An's mind in an instant.

This world is far too suited to unleash a Cataclysm!

Fire‑rain streaked past his back; watching the colossal jet of magma still shooting skyward, Lin An drew a deep breath, a flicker of strange color flashing in his eyes.

He only wanted to destroy corpses and erase traces, but it seemed… this whole region was destined for annihilation.

In his mental perception, this eruption would likely persist for a long time.

Perhaps it would continue until the entire basin was submerged, becoming a new volcanic crater..

Never mind destroying corpses and erasing traces—even if a Fourth Stage Peak expert arrived, they'd never find any hint that life once existed here!

After confirming the cleanup, Lin An's hand flashed white light; after glancing at the fortress's rough direction, he swiftly flew away.

The next target, hoping it would give him enough points.

He's already been here, wasting half an hour...

Notify the rear gate with all strength!

The Emperor's order! Find Lin An at any cost!

Inside the capital's underground city, over sixty returned Fourth Stage Alien Species looked grimly at the red light of the rear gate; to them, that place seemed to be breeding a disaster.