Chapter 173: Thunder God Finger! Sweeping Away the Decayed!

"Alright, then let's get ready and set out as soon as possible."

Cai Ju nodded, immediately taking his own squad members down to prepare.

If it had been yesterday, he, with his normally steady temperament, would absolutely not have agreed to the operation so readily.

But Xu Jingming had already proven himself with his strength—listening to him couldn't be wrong.

"Squad Leader, then you all just follow the Security Bureau to the hotel to rest for now."

Xu Jingming turned his head to look at Lin Qingyuan and her group, who stood prettily to one side.

Before the mission to destroy the Tianming Sect branch was complete, these related personnel could not leave and needed to be supervised by the Security Bureau.

Fortunately, there were several hotels right here in the Blue Sea Tech Park.

"Alright, I wish you all a smooth mission.

Also, remember to notify me when you leave Jin Ning City—when the time comes, I'll come see you off."

A faint smile appeared on Lin Qingyuan's fair, oval face; she wasn't too worried about Xu Jingming's safety.

After all, given the terrifying strength the other party had just displayed, she felt that the ones who ought to be worried should be the Tianming Sect people.

"Definitely." Xu Jingming nodded with a smile.

Cai Ju was still very efficient.

In just over ten minutes, he had assembled a team of 40 people.

Apart from Cai Ju's squad, the rest were uniformly second-tier ability users.

Everyone was fully armed, carrying firearms as well as weapons and shields.

Xu Jingming had also already changed into his own set of A-rank battle suit.

Just like that, 41 people including Xu Jingming boarded the Security Bureau's dedicated vehicles and sped toward the outskirts of Jin Ning City.

The outskirts of Jin Ning City were a mountainous jungle area.

Decades ago, fierce beasts had still roamed there.

But later they were all cleared out by the official army; now it was just an undeveloped, ordinary jungle area.

Over a dozen dedicated vehicles stopped on the last stretch of cement road before the outskirts.

Xu Jingming's group quickly got out of the vehicles and entered the jungle.

Pushing forward at speed, it took half an hour to reach the vicinity of the Tianming Sect branch address Leng Chang had given.

"That's where the Tianming Sect branch is?"

In the dense jungle,

Xu Jingming crouched and hid in the bushes, peering out through the gaps between them.

Outside, apart from a small hillock overgrown with weeds, there was nothing else unusual.

"According to Leng Chang's description, the Tianming Sect branch has always been using visual interference technology—nothing unusual can be seen with the naked eye."

Third-tier upper-rank psychic ability user Sun Yan said in a low voice, his surging psychic power billowing out:

"But for a psychic ability user like me, I can see right through it directly.

All of you relax your minds, I'll share my vision with you."

Under Sun Yan's shared vision, the scene before Xu Jingming's eyes instantly became entirely new.

The small hillock was still that small hillock, but the scene at its base was completely different.

The trees and weeds on the ground were gone, replaced by neat, flat cement pavement.

Two alloy doors, about four meters tall and eight meters wide, had also appeared on the hillock's wall.

Above the alloy doors were four or five pitch-black openings, with no telling what was hidden inside.

In front of the doors, four ability users in battle suits, second-tier, stood guard there at all times.

"This psychic ability user's ability is really handy—I wonder if our lightning-type ability users can achieve the same kind of perception."

Xu Jingming, whose view had been transformed, lit up and decided to look it up at the Combat Skills Library once he got back to school.

If he could learn a combat skill with a similar ability, it would make things much more convenient for him in the future.

"The Tianming Sect just hollowed out the hillock and built a base inside?!"

Squad Leader Cai Ju, who was also sharing the vision, was both shocked and furious.

Although ability users could purchase various alloy weapons, in reality, the Great Xia Kingdom had always maintained strict control over metal alloys.

It was just that the amount of alloy needed for ability user weapons was small, so there was no need to control it.

But the amount of alloy needed to forge those two giant alloy doors on the opposite hillock would absolutely far exceed the scope of forging individual weapons.

Once purchased, it would inevitably arouse the government's vigilance.

Yet even so, the Tianming Sect people had still quietly gotten it done.

"It seems we still have some termites inside Jin Ning City." Cai Ju's expression was very ugly.

With two giant alloy doors blocking the way like that, it would be very hard for their group to break through.

Even if they did break through, they would pay a terrible price.

After all, those pitch-black openings above the giant doors were no joke.

Cai Ju was certain that once they launched a surprise attack, what greeted them would absolutely be a baptism of machine gun bullets.

Bullets posed a very limited threat to third-tier ability users like them.

But the other second-tier ability users would absolutely go down in droves, or even face total annihilation.

"Xiaotong, with your elemental fire-type ability, is there any way to blast open this alloy door, or shatter the hillock's wall?"

Cai Ju turned his head to look at Zhang Tong.

Although they had brought man-portable rockets with them.

But no need to think about it—rockets absolutely couldn't blast open the alloy door, and would easily alert the enemy.

Only Zhang Tong, who possessed a B-rank fire-element ability at the upper tier of third rank, had any hope of succeeding.

"It's very difficult..."

Zhang Tong shook her head hesitantly.

This alloy gate, at a glance, was made of at least D-rank alloy.

Her flame ability could at most melt E-rank alloy.

An ordinary Shanfeng wall she could easily destroy, but the Tianming Sect had surely reinforced the interior of the mountain peak.

Her flame ability might not be effective.

Besides, the Tianming Sect was clever.

They had cleared all the jungle and shrubs within roughly a hundred meters around the mountain peak, leaving an extremely open field of view.

Her longest-range fire combat technique only reached 100 meters, just barely at the limit.

Any farther, and she couldn't even hit it......

"Is that so..."

Cai Ju's brows knitted into a frown, and he could only place his last hope on Xu Jingming:

"Brother Xu, do you have a way to force your way in?"

"I can give it a try."

Xu Jingming didn't speak too confidently.

But with the power of the top-tier S-rank combat technique Lei Shen Zhi, it probably wouldn't be a big problem.

"Then I'll have to trouble Brother Xu."

Cai Ju nodded with a bitter smile.

They hadn't been able to help with the capture of Leng Chang, and had originally planned to put in more effort here.

But unexpectedly, the very first problem they ran into still required Xu Jingming to solve.

This made him feel that his third-rank elite ability user squad couldn't seem to be of much help in front of this Magic University S-rank......

"No trouble at all — our goal is the same, to smash the Tianming Sect branch."

Xu Jingming waved his hand casually.

He took out a third-grade ability recovery pill from his spatial ring and swallowed it in advance.

Immediately after, he directly activated Lei Jitai!

Crackle-crackle—

A fierce burst of golden Lei Ting erupted, and Xu Jingming's entire body seemed to transform into a golden thunder orb!

Then, under the shocked gazes of Cai Ju and the others, Xu Jingming's body rapidly swelled to two meters and two centimeters!

"Who's there! Come out!"

This conspicuous fluctuation of Lei Ting immediately drew the attention of the personnel stationed outside the Tianming Sect gate, who rushed over with weapons.

Yet Xu Jingming's pair of brilliant golden dragon pupils paid no attention to these few people.

He merely stared at the distant mountain peak, his gaze sharpening, and a voice as majestic as a god's rang out:

"Lei Shen Zhi!"

Boom-boom-boom!!

As his words fell, rolling thunder suddenly roared across the clear noon sky at 12 o'clock.

The next moment,

A thick golden finger of Lei Ting, with lightning arcs flickering across its surface, thrust out from the heavens!

Boosted by Lei Jitai, this Lei Shen Zhi was actually a fraction thicker than the first time Xu Jingming had unleashed it!

This thick Lei Shen Zhi pressed down slowly with an unstoppable momentum.

It quickly shattered the surrounding clouds, and then, under the shocked gazes of Cai Ju and the others, slammed into the mountain peak!

Boom!!

A deafening crash rang out, and terrifying energy ripples swept out from the impact point.

A golden Lei Ting radiance as dazzling as the sun bloomed forth!

The ground itself shook violently, forcing Cai Ju and the others to hastily grab onto nearby trees.

And the alloy gate they had just deemed nearly impossible to breach twisted and warped in an instant!

No — not just the alloy gate!

Even the entire small mountain peak, under the ravages of the violent golden Lei Ting,

was devastated like rotten wood being torn apart, with nearly half of it destroyed and the internal fortifications exposed!

"Heavens?! Am I dreaming?"

Cai Ju's eyes went wide, his face full of disbelief.

In his view, if Xu Jingming could destroy the alloy gate, that would already be quite impressive.

But the other man had, with just a single combat technique, nearly completed the bulk of their objective of smashing the Tianming Sect branch......