Chapter 1390: Failed Encirclement

Honkka!!

At some unknown point, a first drop of corrosive acid rain the size of a soybean suddenly smashed onto the ground.

A fleeting bolt of lightning, tinged with an eerie red, propped up a winding, lantern‑like red serpent in the surrounding clouds.

Feeling the slight prickling sensation as raindrops slid across his face.

Lin An jolted back to his senses and instinctively looked toward the direction from which a mass of black clouds was approaching.

The next second, his pupils suddenly contracted.

He saw it—he saw the ionized atmosphere that had been triggered first.

He heard it, he heard a series of piercing sonic booms.

Without needing to see the enemy, realizing that a large number of Fourth Stage beings were surrounding him, he reacted instantly.

The Alien Species hunting him would only be faster than sound.

When he heard these things, it meant that within a radius of several hundred kilometers, a large number of Fourth Stage beings that had triggered nature had already appeared!

His expression changed slightly; upon realizing he had spaced out and frozen in place for a few seconds, Lin An's heart jolted, but his movement remained swift.

Seeing him quickly compress his body, the next second he burst with a boom into the bottom of the Shen Yuan that had been sliced open, like a fish swimming through the seabed, fleeing at top speed toward the weakest point in the celestial phenomena.

"What the hell is affecting me?!"

"Three seconds or four seconds?!"

He extravagantly exchanged for a "Wall‑Passing" scroll, and while moving horizontally at high speed yet soundlessly through the entire mountain range, Lin An's face turned grim.

He was certain that his condition just now was definitely problematic!

Perhaps he would indeed feel exhilarated at having the power to slay an Overlord, but knowing he faced an entire civilization's system, he would not be so arrogant as to deem himself invincible!

But after slaying that Dominion-level Alien Species, he actually fell into an extremely abnormal state, causing him to waste a lot of time waiting in place.

It was as if he were waiting there, then to kill every "person".

Obviously, this state of extreme madness, composed purely of killing intent and frenzy, is certainly not him!

Of course, it could not possibly be the Second Will!

But right now he had no time to think further.

Even deep underground, where a tremendous pressure was still raging wildly, Lin An's eyes sank and he simply charged toward the core!

He needs time now! Needs time to digest his power, needs time to exchange points!

With both great rules and the Causal Sequence completely exhausted, his strength, aside from physical force, has dropped to its lowest point.

"Too bad…"

"If those wasted seconds could be used to draw souls…"

"A Dominion-level Alien Species could at least restore half of my rule power, right?"

Suppressing his inner agitation, Lin An kept accelerating his descent.

Under the Alien Species' dragnet search, neither the surface nor high altitude could be a refuge—not even low Earth orbit!

As these Fourth Stage beings constantly used pressure to hunt him like whack‑a‑mole, the only place he could hide was the core!

"Bore through the core region to another continent!"

"Go there, find the holy land, and slaughter another batch! Or else, hunt down a lone Overlord!"

After quickly formulating a plan, Lin An plunged headfirst into the bedrock layer, now as hard as metal.

According to his spiritual sense perception, the entire waste‑legacy planet resembled a multi‑layered fireball, its geological structure extremely complex.

The surface consists of shattered continents covering sixty percent of the area, with forty percent ocean.

But this ocean is no longer pure water; it is a high‑temperature metal broth mixed with various heavy metals, akin to a corrosive solution! With constant bubbling and circulation, the ocean region is nothing short of a gigantic steel furnace!

Beneath the shattered continents lie vast piles of lava, as well as corroded cavities of various sizes.

Further down is a layer cracked with numerous giant fissures encircling the globe, like a super‑dense protective "rock" membrane, wrapping a larger sea of liquid metal.

Inside the liquid‑metal sea lies an unknown core of extremely high density.

His goal is to pierce through this continent from within the liquid metal!

"Under super‑high pressure... seven‑thousand‑degree heat… I can endure it!"

"Hiss‑hiss‑hiss‑hiss"

His flesh kept burning and regenerating; even with Lin An's current physique, this temperature already inflicted noticeable harm on him.

Especially since he must constantly endure immense pressure and compression, if he still needed to breathe at this moment, his lungs would instantly be flooded with large amounts of liquid metal, "cooling" into a metallic model of pulmonary lobes.

Unlike the instantaneous extreme heat of a nuclear explosion, which lasts only a moment, Lin An felt as if he were in hell, every inch of skin and every pore bearing tremendous heat.

Gritting his teeth against the relentless burning sensation, he simply descended madly with a cold expression.

Still not enough!

Go deeper!

Only by hiding in the depths of the metal sea could he possibly avoid detection!

He knew these Alien Species would not hesitate to detonate volcanoes, even destroy entire continents, to find him—but he didn't believe they would dare blow up the core to blast him out!

In ruthlessness, no one could surpass him!

"Boom!!"

"Boom!!"

Wave after wave of high‑speed auras halted in the air above the Shen Yuan cleaved by a single sword.

Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled; the immense pressure from a great number of Fourth Stage beings and Overlords concentrated together seemed to solidify the air—even if not released on the surrounding third‑stage Alien Species, the overflowing pressure made every low‑stage Alien Species gasp as if unable to breathe, straining to stay in place.

A deathly silence.

Looking within the Shen Yuan at the buried, ash‑covered remains, one could still see the massive scales of the Overlord's corpse; all the Fourth Stage and Overlord present had grim faces, as if water were dripping from them.

But compared to the Overlords' fury, the lower‑grade Alien Species felt only tremendous shock and fear.

Dominion-level Alien Species, they have already become the top combat power in their world.

But it's right before their eyes, right now.

The Overlord, who was nearly god-like powerful in their eyes, has died. How could they not be shocked?

You should know, the Overlord that just died is likely the only Dominion-level powerhouse to have died outside the Land of Death's Battleground in nearly twenty years!

"Approximately... how much time..."

Voice hoarse, he stood above the Shen Yuan.

A Dominion-level Alien Species with a body as dark as black gold spoke in a low voice, awaiting the feedback from the Fourth Stage Alien Species that had dove into the Shen Yuan to retrieve the corpse.

In less than a second, the Fourth Stage Alien Species that had flown up with half a snake head spoke in a similarly shocked, low voice:

"Overlord.."

"Time of death, approximately forty-seven to fifty-six seconds ago..."

"From the last message, the time of his battle with Lin An... approximately..."

Seemingly unable and unwilling to draw that conclusion.

The Fourth Stage Alien Species versed in the rules of life repeatedly examined the time of death of that half snake head; under immense pressure, he dared not speak that conclusion.

"Speak!!"

His voice boomed like thunder.

Under the gaze of the Overlords and peers of the same rank, this Fourth Stage Alien Species had no choice but to take a deep breath, his voice trembling as he quickly replied:

"Based on the degree of rule remnants and the battle situation, the total combat time should be within four point six to six seconds!"

"But there is only one fatal wound!"

"So the actual combat time..."

"Approximately... approximately..."

With difficulty swallowing saliva, this Fourth Stage Alien Species versed in the rules of life spat out the exact number as if seeing a ghost.

"Actual combat time, seconds!"

"The Overlord he... was killed in a second!"

As his words fell, even many Fourth Stage Alien Species who had anticipated this drew a sharp breath; many Alien Species instinctively trembled.

"One sword... instant kill..."

In their world, such a monster has actually appeared!