Chapter 1770: Moment of Heaven's Collapse 8

Scatter! Hold on!! Be careful he wants to kill and devour corpses!!

His expression changed drastically.

Sensing an apocalyptic power beyond judgment, Hei Di hastily gave orders, instantly realizing this should be Lin An's deathbed backlash!

The Devourer can devour corpses!

Although he didn't know whether Lin An could gain strength by eating people on the spot, having come this far, he would not allow any further mishap!

Retreat first, talk later! No need to take more risks!

As long as we drag it out, victory will be his!

At the same time, hardly any reminder from Hei Di was needed.

The remaining Star-Destroying Level experts, facing Lin An's sword that had swollen to ten thousand meters, nearly cleaving heaven and earth, even a fool would know how terrifying it is.

In the blink of an eye, all Star-Destroying Level experts exploded backward and scattered, not even bothering with attacks, as everyone hurriedly mobilized all rule power to boost their defenses.

Nobody wants to die! Especially when victory is imminent!

"Boom!!!!"

Grand, comparable to an apocalyptic strike, the sword flashed down in an instant.

Accompanied by a power surge far beyond Lin An's limits, this ultimate sword, mixed with vast rule and spiritual energy, seemed to cleave the entire battlefield, even tearing a huge rift in space.

The storm born from the rule eruption instantly swept across the land.

In the deafening explosion, the originally extremely hard Star Battlefield, capable of supporting Fifth Stage combat, was actually torn apart.

Under the unimaginable mass-energy impact, over a million tons of pulverized dust instantly shot straight up to the sky.

It was like the dust cloud raised by a nuclear blast, instantly enveloping the entire battlefield.

"Who died?! Who died?!"

At the edge of the battlefield, having blasted back several kilometers, Hei Di, his whole body wrapped in rule power, shouted urgently.

In the pre-linked mental communication, he instinctively wanted to know whom Lin An had actually killed!

The rule storm and the kicked-up huge amount of dust had not yet dissipated.

For a moment, he couldn't see clearly what was happening at the storm's center.

Although he didn't know why, Lin An's strike did not target him.

But for Hei Di, this was good; he only needed to stop Lin An from devouring the fallen Star-Destroyers!

As long as that monster doesn't have time to devour corpses to replenish rule power, Lin An, forced into his last trump card, is like a fish on a chopping board—no longer a threat!

However, this was beyond Hei Di's expectations.

As all the Shattered Stars participating in this encirclement hastily reported they were still alive, in an instant Hei Di froze, as if unable to believe it, and looked toward the battlefield center.

No.. not right!

Not a single one died!

Their people actually not a single one died!?

That monster seemed to fight to the death, a sword driven to desperation, yet it didn't slash at any of them!

Before Hei Di could realize what this meant,

The next second.

Only seen in the chaotic black-blue dust cloud, the originally huge Lin An, visible from any angle, now dissipated like foam.

0.1 second later.

The frozen Hei Di's expression suddenly changed, and he instantly realized what was going on.

"Fuck!!!"

They were tricked!

Lin An never intended to fight to the death; he merely swung a sword to scare them off, then fled directly!

"Boom!"

"Boom!!"

"Boom!!!"

A sharp sonic boom tore through the air and exploded.

Under the Black Lock, Lin An, fleeing at top speed, was like a sharp sword, wildly flying toward the fortress direction.

Relying on the last two seconds of the World-Destroyer form.

At this moment, Lin An, fully merged with the catastrophe, felt no resistance or pressure whatsoever.

Without the Black Lock's suppressive effect, his speed now even reached an astonishing 330 times the speed of sound!

"Faster.. even faster!!"

His whole body drenched in blood.

After the repulsion rule was lifted, Lin An's whole body felt as if his bones had been shattered, every pore oozing blood.

He didn't have time to worry about his miserable state.

Lin An didn't look back, merely exerting all means to accelerate, flying at extreme speed.

His body having shrunk back to normal size, he was like a black flash, instantly crossing hundreds of kilometers, continually shortening the distance.

Just as Hei Di had thought after reacting.

The sword he had just unleashed with all his strength was purely to force all Star-Destroyers to retreat and abandon their encirclement of him.

Thanks to everyone's deep-seated fear of the Shattered Stars, this sole chance to break out of the encirclement was actually seized by him!

"Time... still too short..!"

Feeling the World-Destroyer power rapidly waning within him, Lin An's eyes filled with regret; he could only make the most of it before it completely faded!

The World-Destroyer form was far stronger than he had imagined!

The apocalyptic power infused in an instant seemed like a higher-tier power. Although there was no time to study it, at the moment he obtained this power, Lin An suddenly realized what the apocalyptic form truly was!

It was a power born in the cataclysm.

A power beyond the rules!

Hei Di and the others' judgment was correct.

If he did not choose to flee but instead fought to the death, Lin An was confident he could, even under everyone's siege, forcibly take one down!

However, the duration was simply too short.

In the judgment of the omniscient domain, he could at most instantly crush a Star-Destroying Level, after which he would die under a massive barrage of rule attacks.

Unlike Hei Di, who mistakenly thought he was a devourer and hesitated to use rule-based characteristics to attack him.

When the moment of desperate combat truly arrived, facing the combined rules of fourteen Star-Destroying Levels, he simply had no chance to unleash a second sword!

If he were merely given a few more seconds, or if he reached the Fifth Stage.

Lin An was confident; he had absolute certainty he could kill everyone!

"I'm still... too weak..."

Using the little remaining points recovery effect, Lin An stared fixedly at the distant mountain peak.

Chasing a distant mountain wears out the horse.

From the exchange point, he still had about six hundred kilometers to go.

At his current speed, the apocalyptic warrior form of the last two seconds could close the distance to about four hundred kilometers, but even at hypersonic speed, those final four hundred kilometers after the apocalyptic form ended would still take about twelve seconds.

"Fourteen seconds of time... can we make it?"

Black light pierced the sky.

Constantly sensing the movements behind him, Lin An couldn't help but grip tightly the Cain's Blade in his hand, his heart heavy.

Under normal circumstances, these dozen-odd seconds would pass in a flash.

But now, it was as vast as the heavens and the abyss!

Even if Hei Di and the others reacted more slowly, they would at most delay by one second.

Including his stalling, at most another two seconds.

This meant that if he wanted to rush to the exchange point to trigger the cataclysm, he would still have to face the pursuit of fourteen Star-Destroying Levels for about ten seconds!

Could he possibly hold out?

At this very moment, Lin An could only hope that Hei Di and the others would not dare to pursue him alone, and that they might be delayed a little by internal strife.

However, before Lin An's thought even arose.

In an instant, a buzzing of space transmission suddenly sounded from ahead of him—no, from all directions.

All that could be seen was that on the path Lin An must take to charge toward the fortress, pitch-black teleportation gates had silently unfolded!

Hei Di's reaction speed far exceeded what Lin An had imagined!