The supersonic execution spear of pure, compressed crimson plasma sliced through the sulfurous white steam, moving with a terminal, calculated velocity that completely ignored the standard drag parameters of the physical world. The air in its trajectory didn't just heat upāit violently decomposed into a localized plasma vacuum aimed directly at the center of Lin Fengās throat.
Han Xue and Bai Qingxi watched from the baseline of the frozen sand, their hearts completely stopping. To their respective tracking visors and ancestral senses, the incoming kinetic values were an absolute death sentence. The passive thermal footprint of a Tier-3 guardian entity was explicitly designed to liquidate a mortalās marrow structure before the material edge ever made contact.
But Lin Feng stood perfectly loose, his bare sneakers anchoring his physical container flawlessly against the sub-zero draft.
As the screaming crimson plasma edge came within a millimeter of his skin, Lin Feng didn't draw an archaic weapon or invoke a traditional defensive barrier. He simply let out a flat, steady exhalation through his teeth, activating the maximum, synchronized output of his
Qi Circulation ChannelingāStage 2
engine.
BOOM!
The four-meter-long linear execution spear struck Lin Feng squarely at the absolute intersection of his throat and clavicle line.
A colossal, bone-shattering shockwave of displaced thermal energy detonated outward from the point of impact, violently clearing the entire crater floor of its centuries-old ash accumulation. The sheer displacement of air pressure threw a blinding, multi-directional wall of white steam across the sanctuary, violently shattering the nearest skyscraper-sized white jade obelisks into millions of flying crystal shards.
The massive black-ops stealth transport vessel parked fifty meters away groaned as the residual back-draft cleanly sheared off its primary twin-rotor propulsion masts, sending the titanium scrap crashing into the volcanic mud.
But beneath the smoke, Lin Feng hadn't shifted a fraction of a millimeter. His posture remained straight, blade-like, and completely unyielding. The immense, world-breaking force thrown into the guardianās strike hadn't penetrated his cells; instead, the moment the plasma met his pearlescent, flawlessly scoured
Du Channel
, the energy experienced an unconditional, total structural reversal.
CRACKāBANG!
The four-meter plasma spear violently imploded from the tip down, its crimson light loops fracturing into a chaotic, pressurized spray of stray electrical sparks. The immense kinetic and energetic feedback traveled straight back up the weapon's shaft, completely pulverizing the obsidian armor plating covering the sentinelās massive right forearm and tearing its internal energetic lines into a smoky, mangled shred.
The ten-meter-tall Abyssal Sentinel staggered backward three massive paces, its colossal horizontal eye line violently flickering from crimson to a dull, unstable violet hue as its internal processing framework suffered a sudden, total pressure state drop.
"The container is absolute..." Han Xue whispered from the mud, her crisp, ringing voice trembling with a primitive psychological terror as she watched the monsterās core engine destabilize. "He didn't use a siphon token... He grounded a Tier-3 vanguard strike using nothing but the unmitigated density of his bare skin..."
Lin Feng calmly pulled his right hand from his utility jacket pocket. His hand looked entirely ordinaryāsmooth, white, and completely free of any calluses or thermal burnsābut as he made a loose fist, a dense, circulating current of sapphire Qi violently surged straight down from his
Dantian
, guiding his dual-loop circuit at absolute maximum velocity.
"Your energetic blueprint is obsolete, Sentinel," Lin Feng said softly, his smooth voice carrying an unhurried, mountain-like resonance that caused the golden platform beneath their boots to hum in perfect geometric hertz. "You are relying entirely on the primitive heat of the rift to maintain your cellular cohesion. Once your core is grounded by a true Unbroken Foundation, your evolutionary shell is no more stable than common river silt."
He stepped forward, his silhouette completely disappearing from the visual and electronic baseline of the sanctuary.
Thump.
He appeared directly above the sentinelās chest matrix, his body weightlessly suspended mid-air against the blood-red sky. He didn't execute a complex sequence of martial forms; he simply delivered a short, compact, three-inch straight punch directly into the absolute center of the creatureās faceless obsidian head.
BOOM!
The explosion was entirely self-contained. The liquid current of his Stage 2 Qi Circulation traveled through the obsidian bone blocks like a high-voltage hydraulic press, completely neutralizing the sentinel's core abyssal engine in less than a millisecond.
The sentinel's colossal horizontal eye line instantly went dark, its massive ten-meter frame violently shuddering before dissolving into a massive, harmless cloud of fine gray ash that was instantly swept out into the dark valleys by the sub-zero mountain wind.
The Mount Tai Core Sanctuary fell into a dead, suffocating silence once more.
Lin Feng dropped back down onto the frozen sand with absolute, feather-like lightness. He casually walked toward the center of the massive golden platform, where a pristine, fist-sized crystal of pure, solid golden light was hovering above a stone pedestalāthe
Absolute Continental Geocentric Root Key
.
He reached out his bare right hand, his porcelain-smooth fingers calmly closing around the golden crystal without a single trace of hesitation.
HUMMMM.
A magnificent, blinding wave of uncorrupted golden luminescence erupted from his palm, completely drowning out the blood-red glare of the sky and filling the entire subterranean cavern with rows of prehistoric geometric script. The automated systemic firewalls of the world didn't trigger an alert; the moment the geocentric root identified the flawless, absolute density of his
Stage 2 Meridian Loop
, the ancient inheritance unconditionally surrendered, welding its layout directly into his
Dao Blueprint
.
[SYSTEMIC CLEARANCE: ABSOLUTE CORE REGISTERED]
[DATASTREAM INTEGRATION: THE FIRST TRUE CROWN OF HUAXIA ā SECURED]
[CURRENT MATRIX RE-ALIGNMENT: 100% SUCCESSFUL]
Lin Feng slowly let his hand drop back into his gray jacket pocket, a cold, undefeated smile curling the absolute corners of his lips as the blood-red sky above them began to rapidly fracture, revealing the first clean, unpolluted blue horizon the capital stage had seen in a decade.
The corporate vanguards were broken, the hidden sanctuaries were thoroughly stripped of their monopolies, and the institutional chessboard of the country had been completely scoured according to his explicit commands. The grueling ascent through the capital's classrooms was thoroughly finalized, and the undefeated regressor of modern Huaxia was officially stepping onto the global stage.
[VOLUME 3: THE MOUNT TAI INHERITANCES ā END]