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Chapter 79 One Strike, Purple Lightning Piercing the Stars
Just when everyone's nerves were on edge.

"Boom!!!"

In the southern district, the roof of a six-story hotel building that was originally intact suddenly exploded as if hit by a giant bomb.

Bricks and cement splattered in all directions like a torrential rain, and billowing dust rose into the sky.

Amidst the billowing dust and smoke, a colossal, suffocating figure slowly straightened up.

It is the leader-level abyssal beast of the small nest, the Blackflame Abyssal Tiger.

Its massive body seemed to be forged from a mixture of obsidian and lava, covered with a thick, ferocious bony carapace, with scorching dark red light flowing between the gaps in the carapace, as if lava was surging within it.

Slightly behind and to the left of this terrifying behemoth, two more ferocious figures emerged from the smoke and dust.

On the left is a Shadowclaw Demon Hunter, which resembles a giant wolf standing upright, but its arms have been transformed into two huge bone blades that shimmer with dark energy and are powerful enough to cut through gold and jade. A faint black mist swirls around its body, making its figure appear and disappear, exuding an extremely dangerous aura.

On the right is a spiny ape, lying prone on the ground, resembling a combination of a giant scorpion and a violent ape. A row of sharp, spear-like spikes protrudes from its spine, gleaming with a deadly cold light. A terrifying tail covered with barbs and ending with a heavy bone hammer swings continuously, whipping the air with a crackling sound.

The combined pressure emanating from these three monsters was like a tangible tsunami, instantly sweeping across the entire battlefield, making many soldiers gasp for breath and almost unable to hold their weapons.

The Blackflame Abyss Tiger raised its terrifying head, its pupils burning with black flames sweeping across the human ranks below, which were on high alert, and let out a roar that shook the heavens.

"Roar!"

The roar created a sonic wave that shattered the remaining glass on the roof, and even the sandbags on the human positions in the distance trembled slightly.

Nie Chang gritted his teeth. He knew he couldn't hesitate any longer and had to make a decision immediately.

"Attention all units! Target: Hotel rooftop. Focus fire on the two elite Abyss Beasts on the left and right! As for the Black Flame Abyss Tiger in the middle..."

Nie Chang's voice, transmitted over the radio, carried a resolute tone of desperation: "Leave it to Major Lin Yi to handle!"

The order was clear and unambiguous, but almost all the officers and soldiers who heard it, including the tank crew, missile gunners, machine gunners who were aiming intently, and even the staff officer in the command vehicle, were momentarily stunned.

Major Lin resolved it?
Isn't he focused entirely on neutralizing the nest and unable to concentrate at all?
This question flashed through everyone's mind like an instinct.

Almost involuntarily, many people's gazes unconsciously shifted to the figure that remained standing in front of the nest.

At this moment that everyone was watching with bated breath.

Lin Yi's left hand remained firmly pressed in front of him, maintaining the azure energy pillar, but his right hand had already been raised.

All the onlookers saw was his arm outstretched, his movements fluid and steady, his index and middle fingers joined together, forming an ancient yet sharp finger-sword gesture, which pointed precisely at the Black Flame Abyss Tiger roaring to the sky on the rooftop of the hotel in the distance.

The captain of the Tianpeng Squad, who had been guarding Lin Yi like a rock, suddenly narrowed his eyes.

He was closest and saw it most clearly—between Lin Yi's index and middle fingers, something about the size of a little fingernail, with an incredibly smooth surface, was somehow held between them.
Small steel balls?
what is that?
A sense of extreme confusion flashed through Tianpeng's mind.

In a confrontation of this level, a small steel ball?

At the same time, Ren Yinuo, who was using a camera to focus on Lin Yi's close-up, also clearly captured the tiny metallic reflection through the telephoto lens.

She was taken aback at first, and then an even more absurd idea popped into her head.

"Aren't these the bicycle bearing balls that he asked me to ask Director Wang to find for him?!"

Yes, this is a genuine, ordinary bicycle bearing ball.

The kind that you absolutely couldn't find if you threw it into a pile of parts.

However, no matter how ordinary something is, it depends on who uses it and how they use it.

Lin Yi's mind was completely clear.

Now that he has broken through to the Stardust level, his soul essence has leaped forward, and he has truly comprehended and drawn upon a trace of the power of the fundamental rules of the universe. Combined with the profound mysteries of finger techniques he has recently studied, wouldn't it be a natural thing for him to create his own unique finger technique?

This was not a spur-of-the-moment decision, but one of his prepared trump cards.

In the blink of an eye, Lin Yi's soul power had already locked onto the Black Flame Abyss Tiger in the distance, which was radiating pressure.

At the same time, the abundant source energy that he had just replenished through intermittent use of recovery fluid surged wildly toward his right index and middle fingers at an unprecedented speed and with a ferocious pace.

This is not a simple infusion of energy, but rather a resonance and activation with the fundamental rules of the metal-based universe under the precise guidance of the soul's power.

"Buzz!!" An invisible yet heavy pressure suddenly spread out from Lin Yi's fingertips.

The air suddenly seemed to become thick and sticky.

Fine purple arcs of electricity began to leap and coil between his fingers, crackling and popping.

The ordinary steel ball was branded and strengthened with countless lightning patterns, instantly becoming incredibly bright, like a miniature lightning star!
The Black Flame Abyss Tiger, which was originally full of imposing momentum and was about to pounce, suddenly froze.

The beast's dangerous instincts, far exceeding those of humans, sent it the most frantic warning.

Its pupils, burning with black flames, suddenly contracted, staring intently at the extremely concentrated, terrifying energy core at the fingertip of that tiny human in the distance, a core that made its very soul tremble.

It let out a roar that was a mixture of shock, anger, and violence.

Immediately, the muscles in its limbs tensed up, and dark red energy rapidly gathered under the black flames, ready to pounce on this deadly threat at all costs.

"late!"

A cold glint flashed in Lin Yi's eyes, and at that moment, his index and middle fingers parted slightly, creating an extremely tiny gap.

This action is not for launching, but for releasing.

Release the destructive torrent that he forcibly restrained!

"Go away!"

He silently recited the command, and the steel bead at his fingertips, which had triggered the rules of metal and was imbued with countless bolts of lightning, disappeared.

No, not disappear.

It burst forth at a speed that surpassed the visual perception limits of everyone present, and even exceeded their mental processing speed.

There was no deafening explosion, only an extremely brief and piercing "whoosh!!"

It was as if space itself had been pierced in an instant, emitting a mournful cry.

A thin, straight, blazing white beam of light, like a thunderbolt hurled by a god, instantly traversed the sky!

Around the light trail, the air was ionized, rippling with concentric blue-white ionized waves, emitting a scorching heat and a strong ozone smell.

The light trail struck the very center of the Black Flame Abyss Tiger's head with perfect precision, as the tiger had just taken to the air and its black flames were burning at their most intense.

There was no stalemate, and no explosion.

There are only results.

At the moment of contact, the seemingly tiny steel ball generates an unimaginable amount of energy at the point of impact.

The Black Flame Abyss Tiger's hard skull, which could withstand heavy artillery bombardment, and its carapace, which possessed strong energy resistance, were as fragile as butter under a hot knife at this moment, and were silently pierced through.

Immediately afterwards, the thunderous power contained within the small steel ball, forcibly bound by the metal element rules, erupted with a deafening roar.

"boom!!!!"

This time, it was a truly earth-shattering roar.

A dazzling, almost pure white ball of destructive energy suddenly expanded from inside the Black Flame Abyss Tiger's head, instantly engulfing its massive body.

The once despairing black flames were instantly purified, dispelled, and annihilated by the pure white lightning, as if they had met their nemesis.

At the same time, the terrifying energy shockwave spread rapidly in all directions in a perfect sphere.

The two Stardust-level elite Abyss Beasts that had just been targeted by the heavy firepower of humans didn't even have time to scream before they were easily torn apart and vaporized at the edge of the spreading shockwave, as if they were just two insignificant shadows under the sunlight.

The six-story hotel building below them was as if its upper half had been violently wiped away by an invisible giant hand. The top three floors disappeared without a trace in an instant, and the broken edge was as smooth as a mirror, even showing a glassy state of being melted at high temperature and then instantly cooled.

The intense light turned the entire battlefield into daylight for a moment. Everyone who saw this scene involuntarily closed their eyes or had tears streaming down their faces from the intense light. The deafening roar made the earth tremble violently, and countless pieces of rubble and tiles fell from the surrounding buildings.

As the bright light and loud noise finally slowly dissipated...
In the sky, the once invincible Black Flame Abyss Tiger, along with its two elite guards, had completely vanished.

Only the slowly dissipating afterimage of the blazing white light trail, and the strong ozone and peculiar smell of annihilated energy permeating the air, still testify to the terrifying power of that attack.

(End of this chapter)