bioinnovel Chapter 227 The Opening of the Spirit Void
Chapter 227 The Opening of the Spirit Void
Lin'an City.
Central urban area.
This place should have been the most bustling heart of this third-tier city.
Towering skyscrapers stand tall, holographic GG signs flash between buildings, maglev trains shuttle silently on tracks in mid-air, and the crowds on the ground should be bustling with activity and traffic.
At this moment, however, this most central commercial thoroughfare is completely deserted.
Dead silence.
A suffocating, deathly silence.
All the shops were closed, and the holographic GG sign had long since gone out, leaving only cold buildings, like silent steel tombs.
On the streets, there wasn't a single civilian or civilian vehicle in sight.
Only a few hundred soldiers, dressed in black standard combat uniforms and fully armed, stood ready here.
In front of these soldiers were Jiang Wen and his dozen or so fifth-tier powerhouses, whose expressions were extremely solemn.
They are the strongest fighting force in Lin'an City, and the city's last line of defense.
Jiang Wen glanced at the time displayed on the tactical terminal on his wrist. There were only ten minutes left before the terrifying "Level 7 Spirit Void" was activated.
His back was already soaked with cold sweat.
After sending the highest-level distress signal to the headquarters of the Great Xia Pioneer Army, he immediately led all the elite troops in the base to rush here and evacuate all the people within a ten-mile radius as quickly as possible.
He ultimately did not reveal the terrifying truth about the "Seventh Level Spirit Void".
What he publicly announced was merely that a high-intensity "Level 5 Spiritual Void" fluctuation was detected in the city center.
After all, the arrival of a seventh-level spiritual being was truly astonishing.
A level seven spiritual void means that a terrifying being at the seventh-order king realm could very well emerge from within.
Those terrifying beings possess their own "cave world" within their bodies and have an ability called "world projection."
Once they fully project their world, they can forcibly pull all living beings within a million miles into their inner world.
In that situation, let alone a small city like Lin'an.
Even in the other cities surrounding Lin'an, there wouldn't be a single living person.
Faced with such terrifying power that is almost godlike, revealing the truth about the "Level 7 Spirit Void" would only cause immense panic throughout the city in an instant, leading to the complete collapse of social order.
He could only gamble, gamble on that one in ten thousand chance that the creature that emerged from it would be friendly or neutral.
Or they could gamble that the headquarters' pioneering support forces would arrive in time before the seventh-tier spiritual cultivator descends.
"Director Jiang..."
A fifth-level cultivator approached Jiang Wen, his voice trembling slightly.
"Any news from headquarters?"
Jiang Wen slowly shook his head.
"The Seventh Army Group, the most recent pioneering force, is stationed in Shanghai."
"Even if they use spatial teleportation to get here, it will take at least thirty minutes."
"And we only have less than ten minutes left."
Upon hearing this almost desperate answer, the deputy's face turned deathly pale.
"Then...then we..."
There is no way out.
Jiang Wen interrupted him.
He took a deep breath, and his eyes, which had been filled with fear and unease, were gradually replaced by a belief called "resolute determination".
"Our wives, children, elderly parents, relatives, and friends are all in this city!"
"We must hold this place!"
……
In this suffocatingly tense atmosphere, the last moments quietly slipped away.
"Buzz—!"
An invisible spatial fluctuation suddenly spread out from the wide road in front of them.
"They're here! Everyone, give it your all!"
Jiang Wen roared, reminding everyone present.
Just a few dozen meters in front of them, the once flat and solid road began to distort violently, like ripples in water.
A tiny blue dot, no bigger than a pinhead, appeared out of thin air.
Immediately, this dot expanded wildly in all directions at a terrifying speed that defied all the laws of physics.
"Sizzle—!"
In less than a minute, a bright blue portal suddenly appeared on the road.
Everyone's heart was in their throat at that moment.
They stared intently at the portal, which resembled the gaping maw of an abyss.
However, the portal was completely silent, with no living creature emerging.
one second...
Two seconds...
ten seconds...
Just when everyone thought it was just a false alarm.
"Thump."
A heavy footstep came from inside the portal.
Then, from the deep blue vortex, a terrifyingly tall figure slowly emerged.
It has dark skin, a pair of dark purple horns on its head, and a thick, long tail covered with bone spurs.
It just stood there quietly.
A pair of scarlet eyes, burning with ferocity, curiously examined the world before it, a world that was incredibly new to it.
Then came the second, the third, the fourth...
Six figures, all with similar appearances, slowly emerged from the teleportation portal.
When Jiang Wen saw the ferocious-looking creature, he immediately recognized its origin.
"Demons!"
"They're... demons?!"
His already anxious heart sank to the bottom in an instant.
But he was still unwilling to give up, and roared at the technician beside him who was holding a high-precision testing instrument:
"What race is this? Is it even in the cosmic biological database?!"
The technician quickly reported the results of the instrument's detection.
"Director Jiang, these creatures not only resemble the demons in appearance, but their biological structure is also 99% similar."
"Confirmed to be a demon!"
Upon hearing this, the last shred of hope in Jiang Wen's heart vanished completely.
He gave orders to the fully armed soldiers behind him.
"Fire!"
Clearly, it is utterly impossible for demons, terrifying creatures known throughout the universe for their brutality and bloodshed, to communicate with them.
They see all other races as prey, so why would they be willing to talk?
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
As Jiang Wen gave the order, the soldiers, who had been preparing for a long time, instantly unleashed dazzling light from their psionic weapons.
Hundreds of energy beams erupted simultaneously.
In an instant, he riddled the demons in front of him, whose cultivation level was at most the fourth rank, with holes in them.
This was a massacre with no suspense whatsoever.
But there was not a trace of joy on Jiang Wen's face.
He knew that these third- and fourth-tier demons were merely cannon fodder sent to scout ahead.
Behind them, inside that deep blue portal, there must be even more terrifying high-ranking demons.
Now he only hopes that those seventh-level demon kings can descend more slowly.
You are a noble seventh-tier being, how could you possibly descend in person?
Send out more low-level demons to test the waters, preferably those whose cultivation levels are gradually increasing.