The destruction of the Bai Family Conglomerateās tactical drones left an eerie, ringing silence in the massive jade cavern of Mount Tai Sector 02. Fine, burning flakes of magnesium and shattered aluminum drifted through the air like metallic snow, settling into the coarse volcanic sand around Lin Fengās sneakers.
Bai Qingxiās hand remained frozen over her wrist-mounted interface. Her high-tier corporate visors were still flashing wildly, pouring a chaotic mess of scarlet data loops into her field of vision. The logic boards simply could not process how a single human container, completely unbacked by any known clan lineage or synthetic gene therapies, could ground a synchronized military-grade thermal strike without a single mark of friction.
Han Xue stood frozen on her fractured jade platform, her fingers tightly gripping her ancestral defense talisman. Her glacial gaze darted from the burning wreckage of the drone vanguard back to Lin Fengās profile. For the first time, she truly understood that the difference between her sanctuary's ancient scripts and this youth wasn't a matter of resourcesāit was an absolute barrier of evolutionary mass.
"Director Bai," Lin Feng said softly, his calm voice cutting through the thick, swirling white steam with an unhurried spatial resonance. "Your corporate assets inside the northern valley have spent the last twelve hours trying to automate the acquisition of this inheritance node. You assumed that by mapping out the micro-seismic shifts, you could own the ledger. You didn't realize that when a true
Qi Circulation
loop enters the room, your machinery is no more durable than dry clay."
Bai Qingxi took a long, sharp breath, her aristocratic composure reforming into a mask of cold corporate ruthlessness. She slowly dropped her wrist, looking directly into Lin Fengās vacant, bottomless eyes.
"An absolute grounding," she stated, her voice smooth and devoid of fear, carrying the polished delivery of a high-tier state broker. "The database logs you as a statistical nobody from the Jiangnan registry. But you didn't just bypass the Central Bureau's security perimeter tonight, Student Lināyou've completely disrupted the Capital's financial balance ahead of schedule. Do you honestly believe that liquidating a twelve-drone vanguard group gives you the authority to lock the Bai family out of Mount Tai?"
"The Bai family never had a seat at this table, Director," Lin Feng replied, not even turning his head to look at her as he walked past the smoking debris toward the central altar.
The floating orb of pure sapphire liquidāthe
Core Marrow Font of Mount Tai
āvibrated with a deep, primeval density, sending long, liquid ribbons of geocentric current through the atmosphere. The energy was so immense that ordinary mortals standing within this radius would have experienced instant cellular collapse, their unrefined lungs calcifying into solid ice.
Han Xueās pulse spiked as Lin Feng stepped onto the altar's baseline. "Lin Feng! The Core Font is currently unshielded from the geocentric root! If you attempt to manipulate the liquid matrix without a high-frequency containment capsule, the energetic backdraft will violently fry your secondary meridians!"
Lin Feng didn't answer her with a verbal explanation. He reached his bare right hand out, his porcelain-smooth palm positioning itself directly beneath the floating sapphire orb.
Within his lower abdomen, his
Dantian
violently accelerated, spinning on a dual-loop circuit at maximum velocity. His scoured
Ren Channel
and newly unlocked
Du Channel
hummed in perfect harmonic synchronization, generating a massive, invisible micro-gravitational pull that completely enveloped the floating liquid.
HUMMMM.
The three-meter perimeter surrounding the altar instantly experienced a total atmospheric vacuum baseline. The floating orb of sapphire liquid didn't explode or reject his touch; the moment the ancient matrix identified the flawless, absolute density of his
Stage 2 Meridian Loop
, its internal energetic cohesion unconditionally surrendered.
The liquid sapphire current poured cleanly from the air, drilling straight through the pores of Lin Fengās open palm and channeling directly into his scoured skeletal framework.
Candidate 45 Baseline Update:
Dorsal Channel Integration: 100% Core Cohesion Achieved.
Geocentric Root Stabilization: ACTIVE.
The sensation of the Core Marrow Font filtering through his marrow was an unmitigated surge of pure tectonic weight. It felt as if a river of liquid star-marrow and compressed mountain roots was being ruthlessly injected into his spine. Yet, Lin Fengās face remained a perfect mask of student-like simplicity, his breathing flat and rhythmic, completely absorbing and grounding the massive kinetic backlash into the volcanic sand beneath his heels.
High above their heads, the primeval violet sky violently shuddered, the thick columns of ash beginning to rapidly dissolve as the sanctuary's core energy was thoroughly digested.
Bai Qingxi watched the sapphire orb completely disappear into Lin Feng's palm, her knuckles turning a bloodless white against her crimson corporate suit. She realized that the independent variable they had sought to containerize had just scoured his framework using the primary ancestral fuel of the continent.
"The Mount Tai Sector 02 ledger is officially closed," Lin Feng murmured smoothly, turning his vacant, golden-flecked gaze back toward the two legacy heiresses.
The corporate vanguards were broken, the hidden sanctuaries were stripped of their monopoly, and the undefeated path toward the absolute apex of New Huaxia was already looking toward the next grand fault line.