The owl's voice, like the howls of billions of vengeful spirits, echoed in the distorted space, each syllable carrying the malice of a bone-scraping steel knife: "Struggle, you insects! In this Shadow-Eroded God Kingdom, every bit of your strength will become nourishment for me!"
Before the words were even finished, the darkness suddenly contracted!
"Pfft!" An elite warrior from the Time-Space Legion, wearing the newly developed third-generation "Sky Rift" armor, had his energy core on his chest armor explode instantly under the pressure of the darkness. The dark blue energy fragments scattered everywhere and were then swallowed up by the even denser darkness.
Before he could even let out a scream, he was swallowed up like a sand sculpture by an invisible giant maw, silently turning into dust without leaving a trace of his existence.
"Old Wang!" another soldier roared, his voice filled with grief and despair.
He tried to swing the lightning-shining battle axe in his hand, but as soon as he raised his arm, it was clamped down by an invisible force. The lightning flickered like a candle in the wind, and eventually went out completely.
Immediately afterwards, his body began to twist uncontrollably, and the cracking sound of his bones breaking was particularly jarring in the deathly darkness.
"Damn it! This thing is absorbing our energy and life force!" Long Wu roared, his massive true dragon body churning violently in the darkness. His golden dragon scales were now dull and lifeless, and many places even revealed bloody and mangled wounds. Wisps of black energy crawled into his wounds like maggots, greedily sucking up his dragon essence.
"Dragon Flame—Break!"
Despite the excruciating pain and weakness coursing through his body, Long Wu suddenly opened his massive maw, unleashing a torrent of dark golden dragon flame, a condensation of his remaining power, attempting to burn a ray of light into the endless darkness.
However, the dragon flames that were powerful enough to burn mountains and boil seas were like mud oxen entering the sea the moment they touched the Shadow Erosion Domain. They merely caused the surrounding darkness to churn for a moment before being quickly assimilated and devoured, without even causing a ripple.
“It’s no use, Long Wu!” Lin Yi’s voice was frighteningly calm, but the slight tremor in his voice still betrayed his inner anxiety. “The core of the Shadow Erosion Domain is the erosion at the level of laws. Conventional energy attacks have little effect and may even be absorbed and transformed by it!”
His spacetime prism was now as hot as a branding iron, but he still held it tightly. The mysterious runes on the prism's surface were flashing and reorganizing at an extremely high frequency, trying to decipher the altered laws of space.
Each flash was accompanied by the bulging of veins on Lin Yi's forehead, clearly indicating that this analysis was also a huge burden for him.
"Spatial displacement!" Lin Yi shouted, attempting to transfer a member of the Reality Alliance who was about to be swallowed by darkness away.
The silvery-white spatial fluctuation flashed by, and the figure of the member blurred for a moment, but in just an instant, the surrounding darkness surged in like a living tide, completely engulfing the faint spatial fluctuation.
Replacement failed!
Lin Yi's heart sank.
Night Owl's Shadow Erosion Domain not only distorts space and isolates perception, but more terrifyingly, it also blocks the use of other spatial abilities to a certain extent, or rather, greatly raises the threshold for its use.
"Commander!" Su Qing's voice was choked with sobs. The golden seal in her palm was glowing so faintly that it seemed about to go out at any moment.
She could feel the mysterious power contained within the golden seal being frantically drained by this darkness, and the weakness originating from the depths of her soul almost made her faint.
But she still clung tightly to Lin Yi's wrist, as if it were her only support.
"Don't give up, Su Qing!" Lin Yi grasped her cold little hand in return, his voice firm. "Chu Yao, report on the analysis progress!"
"Commander... Shadow Erosion Domain... Energy density... Extremely uneven..." Chu Yao's voice was intermittent, filled with interfering electrical noises, clearly indicating that her computing core was also severely affected by Shadow Erosion. "I detected... an... abnormal... energy singularity... in... the... region of densest darkness... It might be... a... support node of the domain... or... a... projection of Night Owl's... true form..."
Her voice grew weaker and weaker, as if it might stop at any moment.
"Coordinates!" Lin Yi said succinctly.
“Sent…to your…spacetime…prism…” As soon as the words were spoken, the communication on Chu Yao’s end fell into complete silence, with only a chilling “hissing” sound remaining.
Lin Yi took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.
The message Chu Yao sent at the last moment was undoubtedly a ray of light in the darkness!
The spacetime prism vibrated slightly, and a three-dimensional image was projected directly onto his retina.
Within this dark model representing the Shadow Erosion Domain, an extremely tiny red dot, far brighter than its surroundings, is flashing intensely—that is the energy singularity Chu Yao spoke of!
"Senior Shadow!" Lin Yi shouted in a deep voice, "Can you pinpoint those coordinates?"
A deathly silence.
The shadowy figure also seemed to be in trouble.
Just as Lin Yi was racing through his thoughts, preparing to gamble everything and use a trump card he hadn't fully grasped yet, a dark figure that had been silent at the edge of the battlefield, seemingly blending into the darkness, suddenly let out a low groan.
Immediately afterwards, a dark light, deeper than darkness yet carrying a sense of ultimate order and judgment, suddenly shone from the location of the shadow, like a sharp blade cleaving through chaos!
The light was not dazzling, but it carried a soul-stirring pressure. Wherever it passed, the darkness of the Shadow Corrosion Domain retreated and dissolved as if it had encountered its nemesis.
"Hmph, the enforcers of an advanced civilization do have some tricks up their sleeves." For the first time, a hint of seriousness crept into Night Owl's chilling voice. "However, before my true Shadow Erosion Divine Kingdom, they are nothing but a mantis trying to stop a chariot!"
As he spoke, the entire Shadow Eclipse Domain seemed to roar in anger, with even denser and thicker darkness pressing in from all directions toward the eerie light of the shadow, attempting to completely annihilate it.
"Lin Yi, I can't hold out much longer!" The shadowy figure's voice sounded strained. "That singularity is one of the core elements of the domain that Night Owl constructed using his own source power, and it's also a key node for his power projection! Destroy it, and the Shadow Erosion Domain will collapse on its own!"
"Understood!" Lin Yi's eyes flashed with a sharp light, the spacetime prism shone brightly, and the spacetime power within his body began to circulate wildly at an unprecedented speed.
Now that we've found the weakness, there's no need to hesitate any longer!
He suddenly looked up in the direction Chu Yao had marked, where the darkness was deepest and the owl's aura was strongest.
"Exile from time and space!"
Lin Yi's voice wasn't loud, but it carried an undeniable resolve.
The spacetime prism in his hand instantly burst forth with an extremely dazzling seven-colored light. This light no longer tried to dispel the darkness, but instead condensed into a single point, transforming into a singularity that was so subtle yet seemed to contain the weight of the entire universe. It shot towards the core of Night Owl's domain at a speed beyond the reach of thought!
This strike embodies his ultimate understanding of the laws of spacetime and is one of the strongest single-target attacks he can currently use!
However, just a moment before this seven-colored singularity, containing both destruction and hope, was about to strike its target—
A sudden change has occurred!
In the center of the battlefield, at the spot where Xuan Mingzi had disappeared, in that void that everyone had subconsciously ignored, a soft yet incomparably holy white-gold light suddenly shone without warning!
The light appeared so abruptly, and so incredibly.
It seems to belong to a different dimension, and to no known energy system.
Within the light, countless mysterious runes could be vaguely seen flowing, arising, and ceasing, emanating an ancient, vast, and yet somewhat compassionate strange fluctuation.
As this wave spread, everyone, including Lin Yi and his group, the arrogant Night Owl, and even the shadowy figure fiercely battling the Shadow Erosion Domain, felt a strange tremor deep within their souls the instant the wave swept over them. It was as if some ancient, great will was slowly awakening from its slumber.
The originally rampant Shadow Erosion Domain froze for a moment under the illumination of this platinum light, as if it had been suppressed by some higher-level power.
For the first time, Night Owl's face, shrouded in darkness, revealed an expression of disbelief and horror: "This...this is...impossible! This aura...why is it here?!"
Lin Yi also stared in astonishment at the ball of light. His "Time-Space Exile," which was about to hit, paused slightly in mid-air due to this sudden change.
The platinum-gold light grew stronger and stronger, as if something was about to descend from the source of the light onto this chaotic battlefield!
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