Heavenly Ranking

Chapter 127 Collapse
Without a true Corpse Demon King of high intelligence to command them, the remaining three Corpse Demon Kings were clearly less perceptive.

Using the same method as before, Ji Fuyou quickly lured one of them out with the Illusionary Shadowless Technique.

The Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique - Initial Disintegration, combined with the Overlord's True Form, quickly hunted down one of them.

Got nothing.

Having been mentally prepared, Ji Fuyou wasn't too disappointed.

The only loss was a white physique source crystal.

He returned to the collapsed area and lured out the second Corpse Demon King once again.

This time, at least we gained something.

Although it is not a heritage crystal, it is a blue spiritual source crystal whose value is no less than that of a heritage crystal.

After refining this source crystal, Ji Fuyou's mental strength value climbed to 22.4.

This degradation is nearing its limit.

At most, one more blue spirit can maintain a growth of 0.2 seconds. After that, it will probably drop to 0.1.

Once the value reaches 23 ticks, it will probably take two source crystals to increase it by 0.1 ticks.

In other words, we must use red spiritual crystals.

He wasn't surprised by the result.

The reason why high-level spiritual energy users have a status comparable to master-level martial artists is partly due to their unpredictable and difficult-to-defend methods, and partly due to the fact that their advancement is no less difficult than that of master-level martial artists.

After turning his gaze away from the Corpse Demon King, Ji Fuyou glanced at the last white Body Source Crystal in his hand...

There's no rush to use it.

Because he was becoming increasingly adept at slaying these Corpse Demon Kings who had not yet mastered sophisticated skills, this time, the burden on his physical body was not too heavy.

Fighting another Corpse Demon King would be a piece of cake.

Especially since this is the last one.

"The hunters have arrived. Kill this Corpse Demon King as soon as possible, destroy that area, and leave to avoid any further complications."

Ji Fuyou no longer had time to hunt down the Corpse Demons and obtain the White Physique Source Crystal.

He walked quickly and easily found his way to the not-so-spacious cave.

The Corpse Demon King was still diligently building the altar.

They remained completely unaffected by the fact that the monsters around them had been lured away and hunted down one by one.

"Undead creatures possess the innate advantage of strong mental resistance, but the cost is that their thinking and reactions become dulled. This was evident from the skeleton monsters earlier; these monsters' hunting instincts are even weaker than those of giant scorpions and blood bats..."

Ji Fuyou pondered for a moment: "But because of their slow thinking, they don't flee like strange beasts when they encounter an invincible opponent. This kind of fearlessness born from dying is far beyond what strange beasts can match."

He couldn't say whether the beast-type or the undead-type monsters were superior in terms of their talents.

They each have their own merits.

While he was pondering, he had already silently approached the Corpse Demon King.

Twenty meters, fifteen meters, ten meters...

Just as Ji Fuyou reached ten meters from the Corpse Demon King and stepped onto the unfinished altar, the Corpse Demon King seemed to suddenly notice something and abruptly looked in his direction.

"Roar!"

The next moment, the Corpse Demon King roared, and the iron chain in its hand was like a giant python tearing through the void, tearing straight towards Ji Fuyou's location.

"This……"

Ji Fuyou was startled, but his reaction was quick.

His experience from fighting numerous Corpse Demon Kings, combined with his keen mental perception, allowed him to instantly discern the attack trajectory of this Corpse Demon King's chains.

The Demonic Disintegration - Initial Stage!

Instead of yielding, he charged head-on at the biting chains, and the instant he reached the Corpse Demon King, his cold steel sword swung...

Amidst the burst of sparks, the iron chains were swung open!

Immediately following, he used this momentum to effortlessly unleash his true form as a hegemon and rampage across the world!

One trick is all you need to conquer the world.

"Oh!"

The Corpse Demon King's half-ton body was sent flying by this violent force.

As it was knocked away, Ji Fuyou swung the cold steel sword that had broken the chains in his hand and threw it out.

The cold sword light tore through the less than ten-meter distance between them, piercing through the head of the Corpse Demon King.

"Roar!"

Just as the Corpse Demon King's head was pierced by the cold steel sword, the iron chain in his hand slammed hard against the shimmering ground.

To be exact...

It was on that altar, which was made of some unknown material.

With a single blow, the altar, which had been painstakingly piled up to take shape, cracked open, revealing a fissure nearly half a meter wide. Five or six "white bricks" were smashed to dust by the iron chain.

Just as the white bricks used to build the altar crumbled, the glimmer of light flowing across the altar became disordered, flickering on and off.

At the same time, in this not-so-spacious open area, a strong wind suddenly arose, stirring up sand and dust.

Ji Fuyou, who was just stepping forward to pull out the cold steel sword that had pierced the head of the Corpse Demon King and searching his body for source crystals or gemstones, immediately noticed this anomaly.

He turned abruptly and looked toward the altar.

In a very short time, the wind grew stronger and stronger, eventually turning into a hurricane, constantly pulling at everything around it, spinning at high speed, and converging towards a certain center point.

And that central point...

Right above that altar that was never built.

It's as if there's an invisible, intangible black hole there, pulling at all the matter in this cavern, making it move in a circular motion like a planet orbiting a star in a hurricane.

"What is that?!" Ji Fuyou was startled.

After quickly glancing at the Corpse Demon King, who was clearly a counterfeit and contained no source crystals or gemstones, he dared not linger there and swiftly moved to leave the area.

But in that brief moment of delay, the strong wind turned into a hurricane, and the hurricane into a storm visible to the naked eye.

Throughout the cave, not only the surrounding sand and gravel, but even the huge stones originally used to build the altar were pulled up by an invisible gap, flying into the air and constantly rotating, forming a huge vortex of sand and dust.

The force was so great that it pulled at Ji Fuyou's body, as if trying to drag him into it.

"This is... a spatial rift!?"

The seasonal floaters brave the storm and move forward at full speed.

Based on the scenes he had seen in his dream, the current situation was very similar to a spatial rift that had not yet formed and was about to collapse.

These spatial rifts contain an incredible amount of energy; even a tiny fraction of it escaping could cause a destructive force comparable to a nuclear explosion!

At present, it seems too early for this altar to open a spatial rift.

Even if it only creates a ripple in space and forms a spatial coordinate, the energy required to release it is still unimaginable.

"We must leave!"

Ji Fuyou unleashed his unparalleled secret technique without hesitation!

Suddenly, he broke free from the storm vortex, shooting out of the void like an arrow released from a bow.

Even after breaking out of the storm vortex, he dared not hesitate for a moment, running at full speed, just to get out of there as quickly as possible!

"That altar... it can actually open a spatial rift!? At the very least, it can transmit a spatial coordinate!"

He didn't know whether it was normal for this kind of thing to appear at this time.

But he knew that even if the altar that sent spatial coordinates was destroyed, the resulting energy release would still exceed the limits he could resist at this moment.

In fact it does.

Inside the cave, the storm grew stronger, sweeping all the rocks and gravel into its vortex.

Just as the storm had disrupted all the white stones used to build the altar, and the light was about to dim, the vortex suddenly solidified.

Immediately afterwards, all matter collapsed toward the very center point at an incredible speed.

The collapsed objects appeared to be just ordinary rocks, even gravel, but...

The collapse happened too fast!

It was so fast it defies description.

This ultimately resulted in an energy release that exceeded everyone's expectations!
Having sprinted at least a kilometer forward, Ji Fuyou felt a pulling force exceeding 20G instantly on his body, before his body could be torn apart...

A terrifying energy surged from behind.

"Boom!"

Just as Ji Fuyou was being pulled, he felt a terrifying force almost throw him away.

He sprinted forward for more than ten meters before regaining his balance and continuing his mad dash.

However, the shockwave generated by that thrust continued to propagate through the mine shaft.

The entire red gold mining area began to tremble violently.

The transmission of this vibration even surpasses that of sound!
Ji Fuyou could even clearly see a huge crack spreading from behind at an incredible speed, surpassing his running figure and spreading directly to a more distant point in front.

Immediately afterwards...

The mine ahead is starting to collapse!
Collapsed from top to bottom!

This collapse is on a completely different scale compared to the collapse caused by the Corpse Demon King crashing into the mountainside!

Observe the speed and extent of the spread of those cracks...

If things go wrong, the entire Chigui mining area could completely collapse!
"The nearest safe zone... too late! Escape shaft! Too late!"

Ji Fuyou's thoughts raced.

The mental perception was also closely monitoring the rocks falling from the top of all the autonomous tunnels...

Collapse!

Collapse!

Within the range of mental perception, all areas are being torn apart and collapsed.

At that moment, all he could do was run!
Sprint at full speed!
Sometimes, they don't even bother with falling rocks, just crashing into them and smashing them to pieces, afraid of wasting even half a second of their time changing direction.

He even used the last Body Source Crystal on the spot while running wildly.

but……

He ventured deep into the mines to hunt down the undead.

However, the area affected by the collapse was far too large.

Even if he pushed his speed to the limit, it still seemed he couldn't keep up with the speed at which the cave collapsed.

Faced with such a devastating catastrophe, what about a high-level martial artist? A high-level mental energy user? A master-level martial artist?
Meaningless!

10 seconds, 15 seconds, maybe 20 seconds!
at last……

The planktonic creature maintained this near-limit state for more than 30 seconds, and then the crack could no longer be seen ahead!
"Boom!"

After a terrifying collapse and roar, all sound and vibration gradually ceased.

Ji Fuyou went to investigate with his spirit...

Less than 50 meters behind him, the alleyway was blocked by the mountain, and everything collapsed.

The mining area was destroyed.

He had a premonition that a huge void had definitely appeared in that collapsed area, and all the matter inside, including the mountain itself, would be swallowed up as the altar crumbled.

(End of this chapter)