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The acid rain had turned into a torrential downpour, yet the six figures sped through the ruins.

The anti-corrosion armor worn by the six Suning players had strange light patterns flowing across its surface, leaving faint silver marks on the ground with each step they took...

That's a spatial marker; you can instantly teleport back to the marker point at any time.

"Chai Jing, high ground!" Su Ning whispered.

The woman in red leaped onto an abandoned building in a few bounds, her longbow fully drawn, three arrows nocked at the same time.

The rainwater evaporated mysteriously three inches from her body—this was the protective energy of the world of "When the Geese Return".

"Vision in place." Her voice came through the mental link.

Jiang Si had already disappeared into the rain, with only the occasional flash of a blade proving her presence.

Meanwhile, the instrument in Zhuang Hanyan's hand kept flashing: "Seventeen heat sources detected, one of which is... wait!"

Her eyes suddenly widened. "There are civilians in the Merchant Alliance's convoy!"

A holographic projection shot out from her wrist, showing several ragged children locked in cages in the last vehicle of the Business Alliance.

“A bait…” A cold glint flashed in Su Ning’s eyes. “They actually used a child to lure the Blood Wolf Gang.”

Hu Yue's sniper rifle was already set up, the newly installed scope piercing through the rain, clearly locking onto the target: "Su Ning, I can blow up Lone Wolf's mechanical eye, but the plasma cannon..."

"Leave it to me." Chen Xiaojun's Azure Frost Sword hummed, and ancient runes appeared on its blade. "A Foundation Establishment stage sword cultivator doesn't even consider a mere energy weapon a threat."

The lone wolf's robotic arm was fully charged, and blue and white light illuminated the entire street.

He is nearly 2.5 meters tall, 70% of his body has been mechanically modified, and his exposed artificial heart pumps fluorescent liquid.

"Traitors of the Merchant Alliance!" His voice was distorted and warped through the megaphone, "Hand over the key to the ruins!"

"What key?" Captain Tianping's face turned pale, but he quietly threw the cage key even further away. "We're just an ordinary patrol team from the Merchant Alliance!"

"Hahaha..." The lone wolf laughed wildly, its mechanical arm aimed at the cage: "Since that's the case, then let's go with these little brats—"

"call out!"

The sound of something cutting through the air tore through the rain curtain.

Chai Jing's arrow, though fired later, arrived first, hitting the mechanical arm's joint precisely.

The specially designed arrow explodes, and nanofibers instantly entangle the transmission device.

"Move!" Su Ning gave the order.

Hu Yue's sniper rifle spat fire.

The lone wolf's mechanical eye shattered, but he reacted extremely quickly, his remaining human eyes snapping towards the source of the bullet: "You're asking for it!"

He forcefully broke free of the nanofibers, and the robotic arm turned in the direction where Hu Yue was.

Just as the plasma cannon was about to fire, a beam of cyan sword light descended like a celestial river!

"Azure Frost - Severing the River!" Chen Xiaojun stood in mid-air, his sword energy surging.

The plasma beam collided with the sword energy, unleashing a dazzling light.

Lone Wolf was astonished to find that his indestructible plasma cannon was actually blocked by a sword aura!

Even more terrifying, the sword energy was now eroding his mechanical arm in the opposite direction!
“Now.” Su Ning’s voice suddenly rang out behind him.

The lone wolf turned around abruptly and saw a pair of eyes as deep as the starry sky.

Su Ning's right hand pierced directly into his mechanical chest cavity and grasped the fluorescent heart.

“You…” Lone Wolf’s mechanical vocal cords emitted a piercing noise.

“This is true space technology,” Su Ning said in a low voice, his face full of disdain.

His palm glowed silver, and Lone Wolf was horrified to discover that his mechanical body was disintegrating at the atomic level!

"Do not--"

The silver light surged, then contracted into a singularity.

The once invincible lone wolf was reduced to elementary particles without even uttering a scream.

The battlefield fell silent instantly.

The remaining Blood Wolf Clan members were stunned; they had never seen their leader so easily eliminated.

Even the members of the business alliance were completely dumbfounded, never expecting Suning's team to be so fierce.

"Run...run!" someone shouted, and the raiders scattered like birds and beasts.

But Jiang had already blocked all escape routes.

Her twin blades flashed with an eerie green light in the rain, each strike precisely severing the enemy's Achilles tendon without taking their life...

This is a living specimen left for Zhuang Hanyan.

Three minutes later, the battle ended.

Of the seventeen members of the Blood Wolf Gang, six were killed and eleven were captured.

The five-man patrol team from the Business Alliance huddled behind the vehicle, Captain Tianping's mechanical eyes flashing wildly: "Su Ning, who... exactly are you people?"

Suning did not answer and walked straight towards the cage.

The children huddled in a corner, the oldest no more than ten years old.

He swung his hand and severed the chains, and the youngest girl suddenly grabbed his finger: "Brother...save Mommy..."

"Where is your mother?" Su Ning asked softly.

The girl pointed to the second car in the merchant convoy.

Zhuang Hanyan immediately rushed over and pried open the car trunk...

Inside were more than a dozen women chained together, each wearing an electronic collar around their neck.

"Human body battery..." Zhuang Hanyan's instrument emitted a sharp alarm, "They are extracting the bioelectric energy from these people!"

Captain Tianping's expression changed drastically: "This is a necessary energy supply! The wasteland doesn't have—"

"Shut up." Chen Xiaojun pressed the tip of her sword against his throat. "If you say another word, I'll let you taste the feeling of sword energy entering your body."

Hu Yue had already untied all the prisoners, and when she saw the needle marks and festering skin on the women's wrists, tears welled up in her eyes: "Beasts..."

Chai Jing's longbow suddenly turned southeast: "Someone's coming, a lot of them."

The holographic map unfolds, showing dozens of points of light rapidly approaching...

They are reinforcements from the Merchant Alliance, equipped with heavy armored vehicles and energy weapons.

“It seems we’ve been set up,” Su Ning sneered. “They deliberately lured the Blood Wolf Gang to attack, then used civilians as bait to draw our attention.”

Zhuang Hanyan quickly analyzed the data: "The other side has anti-psychic weapons, which is very disadvantageous for Sister Xiaojun."

"Do you want to be teleported to the shelter?" Jiang Si asked.

Su Ning shook his head, his eyes gleaming with silver light: "If you're going to establish your authority, then do it thoroughly."

He formed a hand seal, and the space around him began to distort.

Three hundred red dots lit up simultaneously in the direction of the shelter...

That was an AI legion hidden in the spatial interlayer.

"Initiate 'Operation Divine Punishment'," Su Ning ordered.

The next second, a scene that terrified the Merchant Alliance reinforcements unfolded: amidst the torrential rain, three hundred pure silver combat robots appeared out of thin air.

They wielded pulse weapons and had space gems embedded in their chests, identical to those of Suning.

"Space...Space Legion?!" The Merchant Alliance commander's voice trembled through the loudspeaker. "Retreat! Retreat immediately!"

But it's too late.

Suning snapped his fingers, and all the robots' gems lit up simultaneously.

The area within a radius of 500 meters was completely sealed off, not even an ant could crawl out.

"Listen up." Su Ning's voice resonated across the battlefield through spatial resonance, "Ningyuan Shelter will take over Sector C-127 from today. Anyone who harms civilians will be killed without mercy."

He raised his hand and pointed, and a beam of silver light shot into the sky, exploding in the clouds.

In an instant, the torrential rain stopped, the dark clouds dispersed, and the long-awaited sunlight shone on this wasteland...

This is a temporary correction of local weather conditions by space capabilities.

The soldiers of the merchant alliance knelt down as if witnessing a miracle.

Captain Libra's mechanical eye emitted blue smoke due to overload, and he finally realized what kind of being he had provoked.

When the spatial blockade was lifted, the Merchant Alliance forces fled in disarray.

Hu Yue held the rescued girl and asked softly, "Su Ning, what about these women and children?"

Su Ning gazed into the distance: "Bring shelters. From today onward, we are not just survivors..." "That's right! We will rebuild order." Chen Xiaojun finished his sentence, and the Azure Frost Sword emitted a clear and melodious sound.

Zhuang Hanyan's instruments suddenly issued a notification: "High-concentration energy reaction detected... It's an S-class relic! It activated prematurely due to the spatial fluctuations just now!"

The crowd looked in the direction of the sound and saw the ground in the distance collapsing, with an ancient pyramid-shaped structure slowly rising.

A crystal emitting seven-colored light floats atop the tower, and its immense energy can be felt even from several kilometers away.

"What is that?" Hu Yue squinted.

Suning's spatial awareness system issued a frantic warning: "It's not a relic at all... it's a spatial anchor! Someone is trying to connect two worlds!"

He suddenly remembered the scales' warning: "The most dangerous people in the wasteland are those who still harbor the ambitions of the old world..."

At the top of the pyramid, a beam of light suddenly shot out from the seven-colored crystal, pointing directly at Suning!

……

The moment the seven-colored beam of light tore through the rain curtain, time seemed to freeze.

Hu Yue's pupils reflected the beam of death, and her throat tightened; Chen Xiaojun's Azure Frost Sword automatically protected its master, but trembled under that immense pressure; before Chai Jing could even raise his longbow, the arrows in his quiver shattered on their own.

Only Suning stood quietly in place, his eyes reflecting the fading light and shadow of the starry river.

"I see," he said softly, a hint of relief in his voice. "Is this what gives you the confidence to provoke us?"

The moment the beam of light struck him, the space around Su Ning suddenly distorted.

He made a grasping motion with his right hand, and a long, completely transparent sword emerged from nothingness...

The blade is as deep as the cosmos, with tiny black holes constantly being created and annihilated at the edge.

The moment the Void Blade appeared, the entire spatial structure of the wasteland groaned under its strain.

"Master! No—" Jiang's scream came to an abrupt halt.

However, Suning waved his knife lightly with a blank expression.

There were no earth-shattering explosions, no dazzling light and shadow effects.

The seven-colored beam of light disappeared silently into the void, like a pencil mark erased by an eraser.

The blade's momentum remained undiminished, piercing through the spatial rift and striking precisely the golden-armored figure atop the pyramid.

The golden-armored man didn't even have time to show a look of astonishment.

His body began to disintegrate at the molecular level, with armor, flesh, and bones all turning into the most basic energy particles.

The blade's momentum hadn't subsided when it cleaved the entire pyramid in two, leaving a smooth, mirror-like cut.

"boom--"

The belated roar shook heaven and earth.

The severed upper half of the pyramid slowly slid down, crashing to the ground and triggering a violent earthquake.

The balance of the world passage was broken, and countless spatial rifts spread out like a spider web, only to be rapidly repaired under the pressure of the Void Blade.

Throughout the wasteland, the energy readings at all monitoring stations simultaneously spiked.

In Monitoring Tower No. 7, the chief analyst of the "Watchers" organization slumped in his chair, a blood-red warning flashing on the holographic screen: [Energy Level: ∞ Identification Code: Immortal Emperor Level]

"This is impossible..." he trembled as he pulled up the battle replay, "How could there be immortals in the wasteland..."

Before he finished speaking, Suning on the screen suddenly turned his head and looked at him as if they were separated by countless light-years.

The analyst screamed, blood spurted from his eyes, and he fainted.

The same scene unfolded at the headquarters of various factions.

At the Blood Wolf Clan's main base, the screen in front of the clan leader, "Blood Moon," suddenly flickered with static, then displayed the entire footage of the branch's annihilation.

When he saw the lone wolf being disintegrated by space, the infamous King of Raiders actually took two steps back.

"Immediately cancel all actions against the Ningyuan refugee camp!" he roared at his men. "No! Prepare a generous gift! I want to go there in person to apologize!"

At the headquarters of the Business Alliance, the twelve councilors remained completely silent.

In the projection, the image of Suning swinging his knife was slowed down millions of times, but the trajectory of the knife was still unclear.

"Activate the highest level of contingency plan." The chief councilor's voice was dry. "Designate area C-127, where Ningyuan Refugee Center is located, as an absolute restricted zone. No member may approach it."

Near the World Passage, Chen Xiaojun's Green Frost Sword clattered to the ground.

Those in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage are like ants before an Immortal Emperor; even a fleeting glimpse of his aura can touch their very soul.

She stared at that familiar yet unfamiliar figure, her lips trembling. This was the first time she had ever seen Su Ning truly make a move. "Su... Ning?"

The Void Blade had vanished, and Su Ning turned around, reverting to his usual gentle demeanor.

But everyone could clearly see the lingering galaxy illusion in his eyes.

"I'm sorry, I startled you," he said softly, reaching out to wipe the rain off Hu Yue's face. "There are some things I haven't told you yet."

Zhuang Hanyan's instruments suddenly emitted a sharp alarm: "Spatial anomaly detected! The world portal is...reorganizing?"

On the ruins of the severed pyramid, the colorful crystals, though shattered, emitted an even more intense light.

Countless rays of light extended from the fragments, weaving together in the air to form a star map.

“This is…” Jiang’s vertical pupils contracted, “Spatial coordinates! Someone is locating our world!”

Suning's eyes narrowed, and he instantly appeared in front of the star map.

He stared at the pattern formed by the filaments of light, his expression growing increasingly solemn.

"Master?" Chai Jing asked worriedly.

“It’s more serious than I thought,” Su Ning said in a deep voice. “This is not an ordinary spatial passage; it’s the mark of the ‘Devourer.’”

"The Devourer?" everyone exclaimed in unison.

"A type of interdimensional predator that specializes in devouring smaller worlds to grow stronger," Su Ning explained simply. "It seems the decline of the wasteland world isn't a natural phenomenon..."

His words were interrupted by a burst of crisp applause.

Everyone turned around alertly and saw a young man in a white lab coat standing not far away, smiling and clapping.

“Excellent analysis, Immortal Emperor.” The man adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses. “However, you are wrong about one thing—it’s not ‘devourer,’ we prefer to call it ‘purifier.’”

Su Ning narrowed his eyes: "You're the PhD that 'Scales' mentioned?"

“That’s right! Lin Xiao, chief scientist of the Business Alliance Ark Project.” The man bowed elegantly. “Of course, in your eyes, I may just be an ant.”

Chen Xiaojun's Frost Sword was already hovering over the man's throat: "Lin Xiao, why is your Merchant Alliance using living people for experiments?"

Lin Ye remained unfazed: "A necessary sacrifice. Just like the one beside you..."

He looked at Jiang Si, "Isn't the half-demon bloodline also a product of the laboratory?"

Jiang seemed to be enraged, and instantly drew his twin swords.

But her attack pierced through Lin Ye's body—it was just a holographic projection.

"Don't get excited, I'm here to give you a gift." Lin Ye smiled and opened his palm, projecting a crystal key. "This is the control core of an S-class relic, and it now belongs to you, Your Majesty, the Immortal Emperor."

Su Ning didn't answer: "What do you want?"

"Join Project Ark." Lin Ye's eyes gleamed with fervor. "With your strength, we can create a new world together!"

His response was a spatial blade.

Lin Ye's projection was cut in half, but he was still smiling: "What a pity... Well then, let the game continue."

Before the projection disappeared, his last words echoed among the ruins: "By the way, the Devourer has locked onto these coordinates. Guess where its next target will be?"

Silence enveloped everyone.

Hu Yue suddenly grabbed Su Ning's arm: "Su Ning, is your spatial world... also in danger?"

Suning did not deny it.

He gazed at the slowly dissipating star map and whispered, "Don't worry! My spatial world is somewhat special!"

That night, the lights at the Ningyuan shelter remained on all night.

The rescued civilians were resettled in newly built residential areas, and the AI ​​robot patrol team was expanded to cover an area of ​​ten kilometers.

In the core conference room, a conversation concerning the fate of two worlds is underway…

Meanwhile, on the dark web of the wasteland, a blurry image is going viral: the blade that sliced ​​through the pyramid, the figure that seemed to descend like a god.

The title is just a few simple words:

[The Immortal Emperor descends to the mortal realm, and the wasteland changes hands]

...(End of chapter)