Chapter 128: Endless Sky Thorns!

Ten thousand meters high in the sky.

The cold night wind howled wildly; Lin Qing's light wings spread behind him as he hovered in midair.

Just one or two seconds after throwing this spear, he heard Zhao Jiayi's telepathic transmission:

"Success! One shot, headshot. Dead beyond any possibility of revival."

【Current Order Level increased by 3.2 levels】

As this prompt appeared before his eyes, a faint smile curled Lin Qing's lips.

The Sky-Track Coordinate ability was essentially like precision-guidance technology, so it was also called 'Absolute Hit'.

As long as the coordinates were imprinted in advance, any item enhanced by his energy would accelerate toward the coordinate location, as if following an invisible sky-track.

The javelin thrown just now was aimed at the alloy card upon which the Sky-Track Coordinates had been imprinted.

But Carol was right on this trajectory, so she would naturally be pierced by the javelin.

In other words, three points in a straight line.

Under his own all-out throw, the javelin's speed reached twenty times the speed of sound; the influence of gravitational potential energy was negligible. It relied mainly on the Sky-Track Coordinates to correct the trajectory and on Sky-Track acceleration to resist air resistance.

At such a terrifying speed, the air resistance was truly astonishing.

This shot was essentially an ultra-high-specification armor-piercing round; the streamlined threading was also designed to better penetrate the incredibly viscous air wall under high-speed conditions while enhancing stability.

And Zhao Jiayi was responsible for using her telekinesis to control the alloy card, ensuring the three points aligned in a straight line.

"However, the metal piece you gave me was directly destroyed as well," Zhao Jiayi transmitted telepathically, helplessly.

"It's fine; the rest pose no threat."

To deal with the remaining five people, Lin Qing did not need to specially use the javelin. With a single flap of the wings on his back, he instantly became a cyan phantom, diving straight down from ten thousand meters high!

At the same time, he reached out, and a pure black long blade appeared.

The remaining five extraterrestrial prisoners were merely from the second layer of the Broken Tablet Prison, possessing only the strength of a two-star elite patrol level; for him at this moment, they posed absolutely no threat.

Without waiting for Lin Qing's command, Chen Guang had already cut off all signals in advance.

Zhao Jiayi also used her telekinesis to obstruct sound propagation nearby.

"Whoosh!"

Lin Qing, like a meteor plunging straight down, had his cyan wings on his back suddenly fully unfurl just before hitting the ground; each feather instantly transformed into pure black super-energy matter, shooting out in all directions!

Every single feather was incredibly sharp and exceeded fifteen times the speed of sound!

Thousands of feathers erupted like a rainstorm, instantly tearing the entire warehouse apart!

"Boom!"

The warehouse instantly collapsed and shattered, raising dust and debris into the sky, spreading through the night.

Amidst the dust, only roars and screams filled with shock and fear remained.

"Earthlings!"

"No!"

"Damn natives!"

After the cyan light flickered vaguely several times within the dust, the remaining few extraterrestrial fugitives, whose bodies had already been pierced by feathers and who barely survived, also lost their life force.

Lin Qing slapped his wings, and a violent energy flow surged outward, instantly scattering the dust.

Beneath the ruins lay buried corpses; above the ruins, only he stood suspended in midair.

【Current Order Level increased by 2.7 levels】

【Current Order Level increased by 2.8 levels】

【Current Order Level increased by...】

After five consecutive prompts, plus the 3.2 levels gained from initially killing Carol, the Order Level had increased by as much as 14.7 levels!

And before this, the Order Level had already reached 87.1 levels!

【Order Level broke through 100 levels; new advanceable items unlocked; can unlock again after 1000 levels】

At this moment, a line of golden prompts also appeared.

"The Jiangnan region with two hundred million people; the Order Level is roughly breaking one hundred."

Lin Qing revealed a faint smile. "With eight billion people globally, if peace and order were fully restored, breaking one thousand levels would be more than enough..."

However, he also knew this was a wishful dream.

The root of the chaos lies in these extraterrestrial visitors; unless he has the strength to make these extraterrestrial civilizations behave themselves on Earth and receive sufficient respect, it will ultimately be difficult to achieve.

"Jiayi, help me clear the traces of this ruin," Lin Qing said.

Zhao Jiayi's telepathic transmission rang out: "What about these corpses?"

"Destroy them all," Lin Qing said.

He retracted his wings and, taking advantage of the night, left the warehouse ruins silently at only the speed of sound, maintaining his Free Body state.

At this moment, a beam of cyan light flew from behind and instantly merged into his body.

—This was the javelin thrown earlier; after drilling into the ground, since it could only be maintained for thirteen seconds, once the time was up, it reverted to compressed energy and was sucked back by him via the Sky-Track Coordinates.

This was also a combined usage method of Sky-Track Coordinates and super-energy matter.

"Chen Guang, the result of this shot is different from what I expected."

Lin Qing spoke: "I thought one shot would cause this warehouse building to collapse directly; I didn't expect such a level of kinetic energy to cause so little damage?"

A javelin weighing 1.2 tons at a speed of twenty Ma He possesses kinetic energy strong enough to reach hundreds of billions of joules!

Converted into TNT equivalent, that is the energy of several tons of TNT exploding!

Judging purely by energy, it should have been enough to blow down a whole building.

Yet it caused so little damage?

"This is very normal; your shot was like an armor-piercing round."

Chen Guang's voice echoed in Lin Qing's mind: "For sturdy structures like storehouses and granite ground, when facing penetrating attacks of this speed, their resistance properties turn fluid. Treat this spear as piercing through seawater. Moreover, the entire spear has a streamlined structure, so this immense kinetic energy is primarily focused on drilling depth."

Lin Qing understood.

However, this spear strike was a clever trick; without combining multiple abilities and combat methods, this could not be achieved.

Pure kinetic energy alone could not unleash destruction comparable to a tactical missile.

"However..."

Chen Guang suddenly said, "With a spear of this weight, you used the elastic potential energy of the Free Body to accelerate it to twenty Ma He. Your own body must be injured too, right?"

"Mm." Lin Qing nodded slightly.

With his current explosive power, a flying knife weighing a few kilograms could be thrown to dozens of times the speed of sound with ease.

But for a spear weighing 1.2 tons to reach such acceleration, the difficulty was naturally high; besides his own strength, it mainly relied on the elastic potential energy of the Free Body.

Yet, this overload of exertion and rebound would naturally injure his muscles.

However, with his current reconstructed and completed 'High-Speed Regeneration', he would recover quickly.

"This move can indeed only be used once," Chen Guang said. "The alloy piece you used to imprint the Sky Track coordinates will also inevitably withstand this spear strike."

Lin Qing nodded.

That metal sheet was merely a second-order alloy, while the spear was a super-material comparable to a third-order alloy. At such high-speed flight, it would naturally be destroyed instantly.

"Do you think that spear just now could kill Uriel?" Lin Qing asked.

"There's a chance, but it's hard to say."

Chen Guang said, "If he can react in time, then your spear definitely won't kill him, unless it's faster, exceeding his reaction time."

Lin Qing pondered thoughtfully.

Uriel's known fourth-level genetic abilities number at least two.

First is Energy Vision, useful for both reconnaissance and combat, belonging to auxiliary abilities.

Second is energy extraction within a certain range; specifically, it extracts heat to form freezing phenomena, even reducing molecular kinetic energy so that flying objects lose their kinetic energy and fall directly to the ground.

These two abilities can form an effective combination.

Fourth-level abilities almost all involve various miraculous changes. Not only are his abilities strong, but others are equally strong.

"However, the power and method of this move can continue to rise, and I can also advance draw from the 'Endless Sky Radiance'..."

Lin Qing did not waste time, quickly leaving the scene, taking a large detour back to Lin'an City, casually finding a residential building, and leaping onto the rooftop.

After sitting on the rooftop, he said softly, "Chen Guang, have Zhao Jiayi help me investigate the locations of Uriel and Fei Yao; you watch as well."

"You still want to try killing him?" Chen Guang asked.

"Of course. Today, I instantly broke out of his Energy Vision range; he will definitely suspect I possess the 'Instant Light' ability."

Lin Qing said, "Even if it's just a suspicion, it's better to try to eliminate him."

Relying solely on the 【Trace】 bloodline to excavate a core genetic ability is simply harder than winning the lottery jackpot.

He did not want anyone to know about this trump card for now.

Today, he suddenly disappeared from Uriel's Energy Vision range; either he hid his energy, or he instantly broke out of that five-kilometer range.

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The opponent would naturally suspect this might be a combination of the 'Instant Light' and 'Sky Track Coordinates' abilities.

Used alone, the 'Instant Light' move can maintain an energy state for only 0.001 seconds.

But as long as it is used in conjunction with Sky Track Coordinates, guided by the coordinates, moving along the invisible Sky Track with the flow, the energy state formed by Instant Light will be more stable; as long as the distance does not exceed thirty kilometers, it can maintain Instant Light, traversing in one breath to the location of the Sky Track Coordinates.

This heaven-defying combination technique, 'Return to Coordinates', was mentioned in the data given to him by the Dawn Group, indicating it is not some secret.

"When my strength is sufficient, for instance, after becoming a Cosmic Citizen, I won't fear exposure."

Lin Qing pondered silently.

He also did not want to be targeted by the Wisdom Star Group and forced to sign a servitude contract; otherwise, exposure wouldn't matter, and this move wouldn't fear being countered.

"So... just kill Uriel and Fei Yao."

Sitting cross-legged on the rooftop in the night, Lin Qing immediately shifted his mind.

"Order."

"Advance draw, 'Endless Sky Radiance'!"

The next moment, as strange information flooded his mind, Lin Qing also understood how to cultivate this combat method to the instinct level.

The 'Endless Sky Radiance' combat method's bonus to the body can be ignored; it mainly lies in 'energy acceleration and guidance', so it is basically suitable for throwing attacks.

The special energy 'Sky Radiance' cultivated through the 'Endless Sky Radiance' combat method can be attached to thrown objects to increase their speed, or slightly adjust and change their forward direction, such as turning it into a harder-to-predict S-shaped trajectory, and so on.

Cultivating thirty-six Sky Radiances is enough to master this combat method; cultivating three hundred and eighty Sky Radiances reaches the instinct level.

As a large amount of memory surfaced, the mysterious energy within Lin Qing's body also began to change continuously, rapidly transforming into sharp Sky Radiances like cold light.

A while later.

"Done."

Lin Qing slowly opened his eyes.

With his reconstructed and completed genes, the difficulty of cultivating basic combat methods is already very low; plus the advance draw, it won't cause as much commotion as before.

"Chen Guang, where are Uriel and Fei Yao right now?" Lin Qing asked.

"They have already returned to the Jin Guang Building."

A wisp of flowing light flew out, transforming into Chen Guang. "They are contacting Carol; they will likely discover something is wrong very soon."

Lin Qing nodded slightly, taking a silver-white circular alloy sheet from the pocket of the clothes transformed from the Star Battle Suit.

This was made from second-order alloy ordered from headquarters; the edges were very sharp, and its sturdiness could withstand the power of a general three-star elite patrol, or it would require a weapon sharp and sturdy enough to destroy it.

The melting point was also extremely high; even the heat generated by air friction during flight at twenty times the speed of sound would not melt it.

"Sky Track Coordinates."

Lin Qing pressed his fingertip onto this circular alloy disc; as half the energy within his body surged out wildly, a brilliant cyan light constantly condensed upon the alloy disc.

In a short while, a cross-shaped cyan mark, faint and indistinct, formed on the alloy disc.

"Done." Lin Qing let out a breath and immediately took out the 'Second Source' to begin restoring his energy.

Once this Sky-Track coordinate is imprinted, it will not vanish unless the carrier is destroyed or the energy contained within the coordinate is exhausted.

Imprinting it directly on another person is not impossible, but it requires sufficient time.

Moreover, if the other party directly discards part of their body or consumes a vast amount of Fourth-Level energy, they can forcibly expel this coordinate.

Therefore, it is best to control the coordinate's position with mental power.

According to the data, that terrifying extraterrestrial life form, 'Sky-Track Monarch', possesses extremely powerful mental power.

"The injuries will recover in a moment."

Sensing the state of his body, Lin Qing sped toward Zhao Jiayi's direction. "Hand this coordinate to Jiayi, and then we can kill Uriel."

This time, he would unleash this move to its theoretical maximum limit, and...

This time, there is also the Endless Sky-Blade!

Top floor of the Jin Guang Building.

Uriel stood by the window, gazing at the distant night sky; at this moment, the sky was in its darkest phase before dawn, and the city's night view was shrouded in obscurity.

"Feiyao, has Carol replied yet?" Uriel asked with a frown.

"My lord, something seems amiss," Feiyao hesitated before saying, "Even if Carol is unwilling to reply, others should not have zero reaction at all, right?"

He shook his head and said, "Furthermore, you know how high-end the bio-chip implanted in Carol's body is. Although its intelligence level is not high, if it sends a signal, it is difficult to be blocked; it can only be that a more high-end intelligence directly prevented the information from being sent."

Uriel pondered for a moment and slowly said, "That Earth native named Lin Qing is also very problematic."

"How exactly did he escape?"

He murmured, "A method to hide energy? Or the even more incredible 'Return Coordinate'?"

"Return Coordinate?" Feiyao was stunned. "Flash of Instant Light plus a Sky-Track coordinate? Impossible... a mere Earth native, and one with only a trace of Sky-Track Monarch bloodline, wanting to excavate a core ability? That luck and talent are simply too heaven-defying, aren't they?"

Uriel fell silent for a short while, then shook his head. "Perhaps I am overthinking it; he should have just obtained some device capable of hiding energy."

He added, "Find him and control him as soon as possible. At that time, we will see what secrets he truly holds. If it really is Flash of Instant Light, hand him over to Lady Luxi; she loves enslaving such native geniuses the most. It seems she has been nearly driven mad by holding back these years."

"Lady Luxi?" Feiyao exclaimed in surprise. "You mean that lord who has already achieved a divine office on Earth?"

"Of course."

Uriel nodded. "Otherwise, how could she have been imprisoned by the Wisdom Star Group in the restricted zone of the Broken Tablet Prison?"

"I heard Lady Luxi was also attempting a rare divine office back then. Did she succeed?" Feiyao could not help but ask out of curiosity.

"She failed," Uriel shook his head. "Those rare divine offices are not that easy to succeed in."

"I only have a two or three in ten chance myself." He narrowed his eyes slightly. "But it is still better than these Earth natives who don't even have one percent hope. We must capture this Lin Qing as soon as possible; otherwise, finding a new target will be very difficult."

"Rest assured, my lord," Feiyao smiled. "With the River of Eternal Drowning and the methods of that Lady Luxi, this Earth native is destined to become a slave."

Just then—

A cold light, moving at a speed incomparably terrifying, suddenly pierced through the ceiling above. It exceeded the speed of sound by countless times; even the reinforced material of the ceiling did not have time to shatter, but was instantly pierced through as if it were water waves!

"Hmm?"

Uriel suddenly raised his head.

In that instant, his pupils clearly reflected this cold light.

Sorry, it was my birthday yesterday, and I drank a bit too much.

(End of this chapter)