Freeze the entire population, activate my Superman system?

Ling Shuang turned off the walkie-talkie and focused all her attention back on the mother body.

The mother body began to retreat. Its tentacles moved silently in the water, and its massive body slowly moved away towards the opening.

As Ling Shuang passed through the narrow crevice, she could feel the energy of the barrier creating a fine layer of blue-white sparks on the surface of the mother's scales.

The mother let out a low, painful moan, but did not stop.

A few seconds later, it carried Ling Shuang back into the underground river.

Ling Shuang nestled inside the sucker pod of the mother's tentacle, observing the outside world through the gaps in the scales.

The owl stood at the exit of the underground river.

Its body, several meters tall, almost blocked the entire exit. A thick layer of frost had formed on the surface of its right arm, seemingly the price of attacking the barrier.

The mother body surfaced and let out a few muffled and weak hisses.

Its tentacles drooped listlessly on the water's surface, deliberately raising the most conspicuous severed tentacle so that the owl could clearly see the wound still oozing fluid.

"The weapons inside..." the Mother said haltingly in short ghoul language, pointing her tentacle toward the gap.

"Vana...I'm too weak, I dare not."

The owl lowered its head, its single eye shining like a sun in the darkness.

"waste."

The owl didn't even consider that the mother would betray him. He reached out and grabbed the root of the severed tentacle of the mother, pulling hard.

The mother let out a hiss, and her massive body was dragged forward several meters.

"I'll make sure you can't even have a proper baby."

"I don't know how weak the fire inside is, but it could force you, a third-tier cultivator, to retreat?"

The mother did not resist.

It allowed the owl to drag its tentacles along, only reluctantly pointing to the crack in the barrier with another tentacle when it was dragged near the gap.

"The breach... is collapsing." The Mother's voice sounded even weaker. "You... should be able to get in too."

The owl paused for a moment, looking excitedly at the weakened Night Demon Mother.

"That's great, we can go straight in and eat now."

He looked at the frost on his right arm and frowned.

"The cost of attacking this barrier is indeed too high."

It loosened its grip on the mother's tentacles, turned around, and walked toward the opening.

Its towering body, several meters tall, stirred up large splashes of water with every step it took in the shallow waters of the underground river.

It crouched down in front of the gap, its huge single eye close to the blue-white light crack, carefully examining the changes in the barrier.

"The barrier is indeed getting thinner."

The owl muttered to itself, its voice filled with barely suppressed excitement.

It reached its hand into the crack, and the moment its fingertips touched the blue-white light patterns, the barrier emitted a sharp buzzing sound.

The owl's finger was flicked back, and the skin on its fingertip was scorched black.

It frowned slightly, then pressed its entire palm down.

The barrier hummed again, and the blue-white light patterns flickered violently under its pressure.

The intense pain made Night Owl turn his head to look at the Night Demon Mother.

"You dare to play me?"

At that very moment, an immense sense of crisis exploded from the base of its spine.

The owl's one eye suddenly widened.

It sensed a terrifying energy fluctuation emanating from within the safe zone!

The feeling was different from the fear it felt when facing the rancher, but both were deadly sensations.

It instinctively tried to back away, but it was too late.

The mother's sixteen tentacles burst out from underwater at the same instant.

Four tentacles wrapped around the owl's neck, six around its right arm, and the rest around its head.

The suckers on the tentacles gripped the muscle fibers beneath the skin tightly, and the barbs pierced the blood vessels, causing grayish-green fluid mixed with blood to gush out from the lock.

The mother pressed her entire weight onto the owl's head, pinning it firmly to the front of the breached barrier.

"Vana, I'll kill you!"

"You beast!" The roar of the night owl echoed through the dark river.

It tried to grab the tentacles wrapped around its neck with its left hand, but the mother continued to exert force, and the owl's left hand was still flailing wildly in mid-air.

"Fire now!"

Once it was confirmed that Night Owl was secured, Ling Shuang's furious roar rang out over the walkie-talkie.

By the artificial lake, Zhang Mu's hand remained suspended on the lord panel.

The moment he heard Ling Shuang's voice, his fingers almost reflexively pressed the launch command.

The rails of the Fire Source Energy Cannon emitted a piercing shriek at that instant.

A nearly two-meter-thick crimson beam shot out from the cannon's muzzle, carrying a heat wave strong enough to distort the air, and pierced straight through the entire artificial lake.

The lake water was instantly evaporated in the path of the beam of light, leaving behind a vacuum vapor channel.

The moment the beam of light struck the gap in the barrier, the blue and white light patterns flickered violently.

Then the beam pierced through the crack and struck the owl's head precisely in the center.

The owl's single eye widened in the light for less than a second.

The light engulfed its head, then its neck, and then half of its chest!

Its struggle came to an abrupt end at the same instant.

A headless body, several meters tall, knelt before the breach, its hands still in a clawing posture, but the part above the shoulders had completely disappeared.

The flesh and blood evaporated by the beam of light condensed into a thick, dark red mist in the air, which, mixed with shattered bone fragments and charred scale fragments, fell from mid-air.

Its body stood frozen in place for a few seconds, then slowly tilted forward, crashing onto the water and creating a huge, dark gray wave.

The mother body was thrown backward more than ten meters by the shockwave, and most of its tentacles were evaporated, painfully detaching from the owl's remaining torso.

Ling Shuang flipped off the suction pod and leaped onto the floating pieces of corpse on the water's surface, rushing towards Night Owl's body.

The owl's head had completely disappeared.

Ling Shuang kicked something hard.

Looking down, there was a fist-sized, dark red source crystal, almost black in color, lying on the bottom of the water, scorched black by the beam of light.

The source crystal at the limit of the third-order mature body.

Thankfully, it was saved.

At this moment, the Night Demon Mother also wanted to snatch the Night Owl's Source Crystal.

He was frozen in place by Ling Shuang's fierce glare.

Without hesitation, Ling Shuang pressed the Source Crystal into the scale armor on her left arm.

The moment the high-level source crystal entered his body, an indescribable torrent of energy surged through his blood vessels and into his limbs and bones.

The scales unfolded automatically, revealing a faint reddish tinge to their silvery-black metallic surface.

Ling Shuang's pupils contracted violently in the darkness, and her left arm, right arm, legs, torso, and scales all over her body evolved at the same moment.

He's about to begin his third-stage evolution!

However, at that moment, the Night Demon Mother painfully tried to escape outside the ice crevice.

Ling Shuang, her body steaming with crimson vapor, looked like a demon that had just crawled out of lava, and grabbed the severed tentacle.

The moment they made contact, the tentacles began to curl up in pain.

It's too hot!

In the eyes of the Night Demon Mother, he was even more terrifying than the Cyclops Owl at this moment.

"Can I say you can leave now?"

……

Ten minutes later, Ling Shuang's slender body burst out of the lake, soaring into the air and exposing herself to everyone's view, still dragging something with one hand.

Then, they suddenly realized,

The thing Ling Shuang was dragging with her right arm

It's a giant tentacle!

The tentacle was thicker than an adult man's waist, and even more terrifying was the part of the tentacle underwater—a gigantic black shadow.

When the Night Demon Mother's enormous octopus body was dragged to the shore, the entire safe zone erupted in heart-wrenching cheers.

Humanity has won this battle again!