Chapter 1782

Xu Kong Chong Mu!!

「Hei Di! You mean that person had already teamed up with her!? The void power that was sent away is...!? 」

His expression changed drastically, his reaction incredibly swift.

Unlike other Star Destroyers who merely felt incredulous and hadn't yet fully understood what Hei Di was saying.

At this very moment, the Chimera Emperor's pupils suddenly contracted.

「That's right! 」

Hei Di gave a bitter laugh, without further words.

「Why do I say we were deceived!? Why do I say I was deceived!? 」

「I admit, I earlier wanted to team up with Xu Kong Chong Mu to monopolize the reward, have that despicable woman give me the coordinates, and send Lin Emperor away right under your noses! 」

「But I never imagined I, too, would be played! 」

「That person wasn't sent here! Instead, Xu Kong Chong Mu sent them to other coordinates! 」

「You mean...!? 」

The Chimera Emperor suddenly stiffened in place, his green dragon eyes filled with the same astonishment he had shown before the Black Emperor.

Only now did she understand why the Black Emperor was so shocked!

「Corpses! Those corpses!? 」

「The Void Insect Clan I sent back are the coordinates!? 」

His whole body trembled.

The Chimera Emperor suddenly recalled the miserable screams he had heard, and before his eyes appeared the sight of Lin An, upon seeing that batch of Fifth Stage she had sent, giving a 'satisfied' look.

That was a nightmare-like approval.

It took a full ten or so seconds to digest the information Hei Di gave.

Beneath the gradually dissipating regulation storm, the thirteen Star Destroyers were deathly silent, each with pallid faces looking at one another.

Feigning weakness, clearing relations, letting Hei Di actively set up with the insect mother, and finally letting Hei Di act as a sacrificial pawn to buy time!

If Hei Di is telling the truth, then they really were all deceived!

The Hei Di they had been chasing all along was also a pitiful insect duped!

「Lin An really isn't in your hands!? He's together with Xu Kong Chong Mu, right in the fortress!? 」

Under the thousand incredulous eyes of the Thousand-Eyed Lord, Hei Di, as if aged ten years, indifferently nodded.

「Do I still need to prove anything? 」

「From beginning to end, that monster had already set up all the schemes, buying time. 」

Not wanting to say more nonsense and details, Hei Di recalled his various speculations all along, realizing why he had proactively helped Lin An complete the plan.

For a moment, he felt utterly ridiculous.

Their eyes met, Hei Di gave a bitter laugh as he looked at the Chimera Emperor:

「Kandis, saying that is also a coincidence. 」

「If you don't betray me, then after I escape, you will surely be besieged by others. After all, I had indeed planned from the start to let you be the scapegoat. 」

「After the melee ends, you will mistakenly think I fled with that person, and will keep chasing me in the wrong direction. 」

「And if I fail to understand all of Lin Emperor's arrangements, I will inevitably keep fleeing, even fighting you again! 」

Too lazy to conceal his former thoughts, Hei Di strained to lift his gaze toward the fortress, feeling both fear and admiration.

「Two melees, wasting a great deal of time, killing a batch of Star Destroyers. 」

「As the battlefield contracts, the pressure and regulatory suppression on us only grow greater. 」

「Everyone, do I need to say more? You should be able to imagine the final outcome...! 」

「By the time you react, everything will already be too late! 」

In a deathly silence, the thirteen Star Destroyers felt like they had plunged into an ice cellar. Only now did they realize how vicious this conspiracy was.

Hei Di, Chimera Emperor, Xu Kong Chong Mu, Human-Insect Clan Fifth Stage.

Each person was a pawn in that one's hand, each person's judgment was misled!

「So, Hei Di! What exactly do you mean by Black Lock and that person!? 」

「What is that monster hiding there for, and what is it doing!? 」

As the faint-hearted Lord of Light, he could no longer bear to look away, turning his gaze toward the fortress.

However, Hei Di seemingly couldn't be bothered to pay him any attention, merely turning his head to calmly look at the Chimera Emperor:

「Kandis, you should remember what that person has been staring at. 」

「I don't know what he intends to do, but I only know that it must be something terrifying... 」

「The lock, one of its strands has already snapped. 」

Pointing afar, the black lock hanging down from the sky, upon its broken section, indeed a distorted regulation spanning ten thousand meters had been cast.

At a glance, it looked like a patch of death, eroding the entire battlefield.

Almost as Hei Di's last words fell.

In that instant, the Chimera Emperor drew a deep breath and suddenly rushed toward the fortress.

「Then let's go!! 」

「Boom!! 」

「Boom!!! 」

Under the Black Lock, space itself seemed to be twisted.

Wielding twin swords, Lin An chopped at the Black Lock like felling a tree, one strike after another.

Even though his body had swollen to a hundredfold enormous size, at this moment he also resembled a ant trying to shake the heavens, appearing tiny and absurd.

He could see that the form of the rule power he was using together could no longer be maintained.

Lin An drew a deep breath and could only stare as the unimaginable huge pressure approached the sky again.

Crackle—

Flesh and bones let out a teeth‑aching wail under the crushing pressure.

Bearing a pressure of over four hundred times gravity, Lin An's face turned pale, and he desperately channeled the repulsive‑force rule to drag himself upward in a frenzy.

But as he neared the Black Lock, his internal repulsive‑force rule seemed to fail, leaving him only able to rely on his powerful flesh to withstand the pressure.

Blood mist continually erupted around his body, making him look from afar like a towering blood‑red figure crushed by heaven and earth.

Damn it..

This thing is basically a structure made of rules!

He strained to lift his twin swords.

Lin An stared fixedly at the Black Lock, striking with one sword after another.

One after another, air shockwaves sparked by myriad attributes, like a kilometer‑long sword hiss, slammed into the Black Lock with a thunderous crash.

Bang! Bang!!

The violent booming sounded like a silent bell.

Despite facing a sword strike capable of cleaving a continent, the Black Lock hanging above Lin An's head remained unmoving, as if an eternal fixture.

Yet it seemed he was wasting effort, his stamina draining rapidly.

But Lin An showed no sign of giving up, simply swinging his sword over and over.

There was no way.

After vaguely realizing he had been transported by the corpse of the Void Insect Clan, Lin An's heart surged with intense vigilance.

He now seemed safe, able to stay at the exchange point and continue detonating the Black Lock.

But it was too slow! He couldn't gamble on when he'd be discovered, so he had to push every possible means to accelerate the destruction.

Even Lin An suspected that Hei Di, who had sent him here, or someone else, was already on the way to kill him.

There was both joy and worry.

The encouraging part was that as the Black Lock was continually broken, Lin An could clearly feel that the rules in this region were beginning to face stronger suppression.

Just break two more… no, one more will do! Then he could wait at the exchange point for the rules to fall into chaos, for heaven and earth to collapse!

For someone who fights with his flesh, this was still a good thing!

The worry, though, was...

He still hadn't seen his mission progress budge at all!

No Star‑Destroyer had died, which meant those Star‑Destroying Level...

He had little time left!

Four minutes later.

Boom!!!

On one side he unleashed cataclysmic power to shatter the Black Lock; on the other he used the most violent means to break the structure.

Just as Lin An's expression shifted, he saw a crack appear on the second chain; in an instant, intense spatial undulations surged around the fortress.

Thirteen Star‑Destroying Level auras descended all at once!