Chapter 54: Bombing the Island Nation (02)

Led by this B-minus-grade mutated creature, countless C-grade mutated creatures rushed out from every corner of the city.

These mutated creatures did not belong to the same species. Some were fish-like creatures with two legs, webbed toes, and mouths full of sharp teeth, crawling out from the sewers. Others were insect-like creatures with a pair of brownish tentacles a full meter long, twelve legs covered in fine fuzz, and massive mouthparts.

Some creatures looked as though they had been gnawed on by something unknown; muddy sludge clung to their exposed white bones, and rotting skin still dripped with pus and blood. Yet, like desperate gamblers, they brandished their slippery tentacles, rolled their mismatched eyes, and wailed wildly as they charged about blindly.

Luo Yuqing flicked her right wrist to deploy a light sword, while her left hand instantly formed an energy shield, raising it to block the sticky liquid spat out by the mutated creature.

On the other side, the six tentacles of the mutated wild boar instantly elongated, twisting together in mid-air to shoot straight toward Su Bai.

Su Bai sidestepped to dodge the attack, the tentacles whistling past her very ear. With a flick of her fingers, the sword blade curved, and bringing her wrist down, she severed the twisted, rope-like tentacles with a single strike.

Dark green, viscous blood gushed from the broken vessels, splashing everywhere.

Su Bai clicked her tongue.

A pale blue flame flared up on the Suzhao Sword, burning away the murky green liquid that had splashed near her to nothingness.

A few droplets splattered with a soft smack against the building behind Su Bai, making a sound like water hitting boiling oil and instantly corroding straight through the wall.

The Heaven-Swallowing Ice Flame looked on in astonishment, exclaiming, "Such highly corrosive liquid is actually the blood of this creature?"

When a probationary god enters a novel world, they borrow the shell and identity of someone else. According to convention, everything they acquire belongs to the identity they hold within that novel world and cannot be casually taken away.

Furthermore, the greatest difference between a novel world and the real world lies in the existence of a primary plotline that runs consistently through the novel world, with the development of the world line already meticulously designed within established rules. In the real world, however, the trajectory of all events is uncontrollable—for instance, no one could have predicted that an island nation would suddenly discharge nuclear wastewater, nor could anyone have foreseen that the release of nuclear wastewater would bring an apocalyptic disaster to the entire world.

According to the official explanation provided by 888, a novel world is like a test server for the real world. A test server can be rebooted countless times for debugging until one day it reaches perfection, breaks free from the so-called plotline, and operates normally, at which point it can evolve into a real world.

Because of this, data within the test server cannot be compatible with the live server.

However, in the previous novel world, Su Bai had mistakenly borrowed the Heaven-Swallowing Ice Flame to reshape her physical shell, slaying the Zhulong to become the new Dao Lord. Therefore, in this world, she was simply Su Bai. Everything she possessed did not belong to her identity in this novel world, but truly belonged to herself.

Coupled with the fact that the Heaven-Swallowing Ice Flame was originally born from the rules operating at the dawn of the world's creation, when Su Bai broke away from the previous world, Suzhao Sword No. 2 and the Heaven-Swallowing Ice Flame unexpectedly followed her out as well.

The black mane on the mutated wild boar's face bristled backward, and a hoarse roar erupted from its nasal cavity. The sound contained the shock of having its offensive strategy seen through, the anger and contempt of being humiliated by mere ants, yet no trace of pain could be heard within it.

Its six severed tentacles instantly regenerated, the newly grown pale pink muscles squeezing against the flesh walls to ooze transparent mucus, and with a squelch, two brand-new tentacles burst forth from the cross-section of each former tentacle.

Warning sounds rang out once again inside Luo Yuqing's protective suit.

[Nuclear radiation equivalent in the current area detected to have risen to B-minus grade. Preliminary judgment indicates this is a B-grade mutated creature.]

Su Bai's expression turned grave.

This world was getting a bit too bizarre.

Just now, she had driven the water-type elements in the environment using spiritual Qi, only to find that all these water-type elements were attached with the "gray" elements she had observed in the surroundings earlier using her divine sense.

All the elements had been polluted by these gray elements, and even the gentlest water-type elements had become exceptionally violent and untamable, requiring hundreds of times more spiritual Qi than usual to drive these water-type elements in the air. Moreover, although the spiritual Qi here was abundant, hindered by the gray elements in the air, the circulation of spiritual Qi had become extremely sluggish, reaching almost a standstill.

Had she not descended into the realm in her complete form, she might not have been able to handle such a thorny situation.

Su Bai closed her eyes and activated the "Tianshu Wanxiang" technique, observing all things through her divine sense.

A cultivator who had reached the Mahayana realm not only possessed extremely sharp five senses but could also observe things invisible to ordinary people through divine sense. Back then, Su Bai had found her hiding place within the domain of the Heaven-Swallowing Ice Flame precisely by using this "Tianshu Wanxiang" technique.

Tianshu Wanxiang worked by sensing the laws of energy flow between heaven and earth, thereby reaching an insight into the essence of all things. Unlike the Abyss-Observing Fire technique practiced by Yinxu Bai in the previous world, which perceived the divine soul, Tianshu Wanxiang perceived the operating laws of all things and the trends of spiritual Qi generation and annihilation between heaven and earth.

In an instant, a gas mass the exact same size as the mutated wild boar manifested in Su Bai's sea of consciousness.

This gas mass was riddled with gray elements. At the end where the tentacles were regenerating, the gray elements were so dense they appeared almost pitch black, puffing out gray smoke like the top of a smoking chimney.

At that moment, the thousands of eyes on the mutated wild boar's belly suddenly stirred, as if sensing Su Bai's gaze.

Those eyes spontaneously turned toward Su Bai, their grayish-white eyeballs bulging to an enormous size, the thin corneas stretched to their absolute limit like balloons about to burst at the slightest poke, making one wonder whether such an exaggerated protrusion was even reasonable.

Luo Yuqing turned her head and shouted anxiously, "Xiaobai, watch out for those eyes!"

Though those gazes were not looking at her, they still made Luo Yuqing's blood run cold.

Under the observation of Tianshu Wanxiang, the gray elements gathered in those thousands of dark holes multiplied, and then, accompanied by a succession of popping sounds, countless streams of concentrated yellow liquid were jetted out from the eyeballs.

The twelve regenerated tentacles twisted into a rope, striking out once again like fully tensioned springs amidst the liquid that virtually obscured all of Su Bai's vision.

Su Bai opened her eyes and gathered sword Qi. She no longer attempted to communicate with any element using spiritual Qi; instead, she attached her divine soul to the sword, leveraging the power of the Heaven-Swallowing Ice Flame to guide the gray elements scattered in the air.

The gray elements were exceptionally scorching. Even Su Bai, who had always prided herself on the strength of her divine sense, could feel a trace of heat contained within these vast elements.

These elements inherently carried a high degree of corrosiveness. Su Bai could be certain that if an ordinary cultivator in the Division of Spirit realm directly controlled these gray elements, their divine sense would most likely be invaded, reducing them to the same frantic end as the mutated wild boar standing before her.

Devoid of pain, not even knowing why it was standing here, it relied purely on instincts to attack unpolluted life forms.

Because this B-grade mutated wild boar was polluted to a higher degree, it was more sensitive to unpolluted life forms. However, those mutated creatures below the B-minus grade probably could not even tell who their own kind were, and might even end up killing each other.

Highly corrosive, highly mutating gray elements—it was precisely these gray nuclear elements that had caused large-scale nuclear pollution.

And these nuclear elements had actually been artificially manufactured.

So what kind of deranged madmen could possibly turn the entire world into such a smoky mess, covering the whole world with these gray elements that even cultivators in the Division of Spirit realm could not withstand?

A pale blue flame condensed from the tip of the Suzhao Sword, flying swiftly toward Luo Yuqing to encase her entirely within a semi-circular protective barrier, stopping Luo Yuqing from attempting to rush over.

A streak of gray sword Qi was slashed out from the young woman's sword tip, intertwining with a faint blue hue as it charged overwhelmingly toward the thick, foul-smelling liquid spat out by the mutated wild boar.

Two forces of equal ferocity and dominance collided in mid-air.

In a split second, fire-red sparks like magma exploded from the air, and then the energy wave broke through the encirclement like a tidal wave, blowing away all mutated creatures within a radius of ten kilometers.

Houses made of reinforced concrete were crushed into powder under the intense heat.

Accompanied by the white light and the sharp roaring sound squeezed out by the airwaves—a roar so high and thin, magnified hundreds of times like the screeching whistle of a boiling kettle, that it drowned out all surrounding sounds, making Luo Yuqing feel as though she had fallen into some terrifying silence.

[Warning! Warning! The nuclear radiation equivalent in the current area has been detected to rise to B-plus grade. Preliminary judgment indicates that another A-grade mutated creature still exists here.]

[Suspected energy of a small nuclear artillery reaction explosion detected! Please pay attention to protection and concealment!]

Luo Yuqing widened her eyes.

Where were there any other mutated creatures?

The so-called other A-grade mutated creature automatically judged by the optical brain was clearly—

Simply that young woman wielding a sword.

Condensing the nuclear elements into sword Qi, Su Bai thrust her sword straight through the mutated wild boar.

Although the strength of her divine sense was more than enough to support her in channeling the nuclear elements, coming into contact with such aggressively high-concentration corrosive elements for the first time, Su Bai still felt a pinprick-like pain emanating from deep within her sea of consciousness.

The Heaven-Swallowing Ice Flame also perceived the uniqueness of the nuclear elements, first politely greeting the entire family of the sinner who released the nuclear elements, and then cursing, "The person who created this element is simply a beast! They deserve a thousand deaths!"

The energy wave just now had wiped out every single mutated creature in this area.

Su Bai dismissed the protective barrier covering Luo Yuqing and gently helped her up.

The protective barrier had dissolved ninety-nine percent of the force, yet even with just one percent remaining, Luo Yuqing felt as though all her internal organs had been violently displaced by this shockwave.

"Who on earth is it?"

Su Bai asked through gritted teeth while slowly helping Luo Yuqing to her feet, "Who on earth turned this place into what it is?"

Even the Zhulong, perhaps, had not yet had time to commit such monstrous evil.