The Post Sky Tipping Era
Chapter 556 - 396: Terrifying Thread

Chapter 556: Chapter 396: Terrifying Thread

"The Thunder Fighter’s fully charged shot couldn’t even destroy that line dangling from the sky? What on earth is that thing? Merely drifting by, it can tear through the city. It’s a good thing the residents evacuated early; otherwise, how many would have died or been injured? And this isn’t a natural disaster; it must be deliberate action by some creature."

At this moment, above Tianchang City, at least five or six glowing lines are falling from the other side of the sky. These thin lines drift capriciously through the city like tentacles, nothing can stop them, and wherever they pass, there is nothing but ruins.

Lin Yue, Zhao Lingfu, Lv Jue, Zhao Xiaoxiao, and others are standing outside the building, watching this scene unfold.

Like Li Yi, they all feel a sense of powerlessness, as if Sky Tipping is imminent.

Under such an extraordinary phenomenon, humans seem too insignificant, and even Cultivators feel overwhelmingly powerless.

And it seems to be just the beginning.

"No good, there’s a line drifting towards us," suddenly, someone loudly warned.

Li Yi’s silvery pupils flickered as he looked in that direction. In his line of sight, a glowing line was swaying in the wind, drifting towards them aimlessly. As the line slid through the city, it kicked up a cloud of dust in an instant, like a heavy-duty bulldozer, charging straight this way.

At this time, an alarm suddenly lit up inside the building, and at the same time, three high-energy beam cannons on top of the building continuously fired at the glowing line, but such attacks were still futile. The unknown line was invincible, and even the most concentrated fire couldn’t stop it.

"Lan Ji, calculate its trajectory, is there a risk it will hit the building?" Lin Yue shouted anxiously.

Although the glowing line was coming this way, it might not necessarily touch the building behind them. With good luck, it could brush past, and only with the precise calculations of an AI brain could it be determined whether it would actually hit or not.

Such trajectories are easy for the fourth-generation artificial intelligence Lan Ji to calculate.

Very quickly.

A holographic projection appeared next to everyone, displaying Lan Ji’s calculated results. In the simulation, the drifting line struck the building, cutting the originally intact building in two and turning the vicinity into ruins.

Seeing the calculation results from Lan Ji, everyone’s complexion changed instantly.

Can’t be.

Are we really that unlucky to be hit?

"Should we evacuate the people in the building?" Lv Jue asked urgently.

Lin Yue gritted her teeth and said, "Evacuate now? Just have them stay on the second basement floor; they won’t die. At worst, the building gets split in half and is buried in rubble. When the time comes, I will forcefully create a path straight to the second basement floor and lead people out. Right now, with the Sky Tipping incident underway, the entire city is in crisis, and it’s suicide for anyone without strength to come out."

"Prepare for the impact, everyone spread out a bit. Don’t worry about anything else; ensuring your own safety is the most important," Zhao Lingfu directed. "Li Yi, is there anything important left inside the building? You’d better move it fast, the Thunder Fighter can still make it in time."

There is a life cradle on the top floor, incubating Li Yi’s new body.

Li Yi glanced and immediately instructed Lan Ji, "Lan Ji, direct the Thunder Fighter to retrieve the life cradle, ensure the machine’s safety, halt the incubation. Additionally, I will try to stop that thing."

"Don’t go, we can’t stop this thing with our abilities, it’s not worth the risk," Lin Yue quickly tried to persuade him.

"Let’s give it a try, and besides, I’m curious about what exactly this is. Don’t worry, I won’t try to stop it forcefully; I just want to observe it up close," Li Yi said, then with silver Gang Qi surging through his body, he soared up into the air, rising ten feet off the ground in one leap.

Then he sped towards the glowing line that descended from the sky.

He weaved through the streets of the city, leaping several times, and soon landed on the roof of a residential building.

"Here it comes."

Soon, the glowing thin line drifted towards him.

"Such a rich cosmic energy." Li Yi’s eyes flickered. He felt it; the closer he got to the line, the stronger the cosmic energy became. Even the cells in his body were tingling with a burn.

Incredible.

Could this line be comparable to a bizarre object, carrying its own powerful cosmic energy field?

But what exactly is it?

Crystal clear, unrelated to a line and completely indestructible, with abundant energy.

It’s neither a product of technology nor a natural phenomenon.

After a brief observation, the glowing line had already destroyed the road, flattening a swath of the urban area, and eventually passed by in front of Li Yi.

"How can this heaven-reaching, earth-penetrating line be stopped?" He pondered a method as he chased after it.

After some thought.

Li Yi realized that the most likely effective means at his disposal was the Fei Mu Needle.

This was an extremely sharp treasure, born from the eyes of mythical creatures. If even the Fei Mu Needle had no effect, then he would truly be powerless.

"Let’s try."

With a thought from Li Yi, a radiant beam of golden light instantly flew out, wrapping around him as it gathered energy, then it shot out fiercely.

In the midst of the dazzling golden light, an incredibly sharp divine needle struck the glowing filament as thick as a person.

It was expected that the Fei Mu Needle would be ineffective, but unexpectedly, after the divine light shattered, the divine needle actually stuck into the thick filament like a pinprick, but that was all it did; it didn’t pierce through, showing just how astonishingly defensible this thing was.

"It’s somewhat effective, but that’s about it."

Li Yi fell silent for a moment. Even such an extremely sharp Fei Mu Needle only managed to prick a hole. Against a line as thick as a person, how many attacks would it take to sever it?

To prevent the Fei Mu Needle from damage, he quickly controlled it to fly back to him.

Despite being just a tiny puncture.

But when the Fei Mu Needle was retracted, a crystal-clear substance sprayed out from the puncture, resembling a stream of energy that had been condensed to the utmost. This energy was extraordinary; its mere appearance instantaneously burned everything around it, shining as blindingly as the sun, making people halt in their tracks.

However, the tiny puncture that had opened up was soon repaired, the wound vanished, and everything was restored to its original state.

The burst of splendid energy that surged out did not dissipate but instead formed into a Seven-Colored Stone, falling from mid-air.

Then the energy quickly retracted, as if divinity had turned into the mundane, significantly reducing its mystical aura, including the energy that could scorch everything.

Seeing this, Li Yi immediately rushed over, reaching out and grabbing the Seven-Colored Stone.

But the moment he touched it, his face changed dramatically.

Every cell in his body seemed to boil instantly, and his entire palm turned black at an alarming rate, followed by disintegration, while his skin instantly turned red, as if being roasted by fire.

Li Yi had experienced this sensation before.

It was when he first went to the Cross-border Base and felt the complete Magic Artifact, the Luanyang Feather, from a close distance.

The energy field of the Luanyang Feather was extremely terrifying; just approaching it would cause burns from the energy, and even breathing in its presence felt like one’s lungs were on fire. Ordinary Cultivators could not get close at all.

By comparison, this Seven-Colored Stone seemed rather gentle; after all, Li Yi had touched it with his own hands. He had never actually touched the Luanyang Feather before.

Without further thought.

He immediately stored the object in a separate storage Magic Artifact to prevent it from damaging the other items inside.

With the disappearance of the Seven-Colored Stone, Li Yi’s burns also healed considerably.

"Luckily, my physique is extraordinary; otherwise, with the energy just now, if it had been an ordinary Cultivator at the Soul Realm, their body might have been ignited by the overflowing energy and could even have exploded on the spot."

Li Yi, looking at the scorched black on his palm, couldn’t help but feel a chill in his heart.

It was hard to imagine.

That a mere puncture made by the Fei Mu Needle could spew out such vast cosmic energy, even forming a Seven-Colored Energy Stone.

No wonder this object is so indestructible.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Accompanied by the collapse of buildings and the thunderous ground, Li Yi was powerless to stop it and could only watch helplessly as his Peace Finance Building was struck by the glowing line and collapsed, breaking into two pieces, turning into a halved and hazardous structure.

It had just been renovated not long ago, and Li Yi had barely even lived there.

Damn it.

Li Yi, who had always been accustomed to being poor, suddenly felt a pang in his heart.

He vowed that once he became powerful, he would definitely find the mastermind behind this and take his revenge for the destruction of his home.

Fortunately, Lan Ji had calculated in advance, which gave Lin Yue and the others time to retreat.

Although the Peace Finance Building collapsed, there were no casualties, and the life cradle machine placed on the top floor was successfully retrieved by Lan Ji piloting the Thunderbolt fighter jet, which meant the collision did not cause significant loss. Everything was within a manageable range, especially since the important items had been stored by Li Yi and Lin Yue in the storage Magic Artifacts.

"Are you all okay?"

Li Yi quickly returned, his hands creating a maelstrom of Gang Qi, breaking through the debris, and clearing a path.

"We’re fine, we took cover in advance, and there were no casualties." Lin Yue, Zhao Lingfu, Lv Jue, Zhao Xiaoxiao, and other Cultivators gathered again from all directions.

Looking at the building that had become ruins, their faces showed helplessness.

This kind of disaster, even if you saw it coming, you could do nothing to prevent it.

"That’s good, as long as the people are okay, the building can be rebuilt," Li Yi said. "We still need to be cautious. Five or six of such threads drifting through the city could sweep through again at any moment."

He felt heavy-hearted.

This was just the beginning, and the city had already suffered severe damage, and this was still only the start.

"By the way, where’s Niu Niu? Where did it go?" Suddenly, Li Yi realized his ox was missing.

"It’s buried under that rubble. It didn’t move just now, it was heavily smashed by the falling building. But it seems fine; mutant beasts have extraordinary physiques, it probably didn’t feel much pain from the building’s collapse," Lin Yue pointed to the debris and explained.

Soon, the rubble stirred.

Niu Niu poked its head out, its eyes clear yet perplexed, as though it didn’t understand what had happened.

It was engrossed in the ocean of mathematical problems and had no time to pay attention to anything else.

Seeing that it was all right, Li Yi couldn’t be bothered with it and turned his gaze to another direction of the city. He had not been able to stop that glowing thread, and it seemed neither had Yang Wei.

Or was it that he simply didn’t want to use his mystical powers?

But now there was no need.

Five or six threads of light ravaged through the city, and by this time, the city was almost completely ruined, with not many buildings left intact.

This situation continued until the break of day.