Chapter 185: Calamity

Inside the chemical plant, Li Mochen had entered the most difficult period.

At this moment, not only was the life essence extracted from the lord-tier beast crystal heart being infused into his body, but also the pure essence that had been compressed to the extreme by the Heaven-Devouring, Pulse-Refining, Essence-Returning, and Rebirth Array was repeatedly scouring and tempering his limbs and bones.

As time passed, even dragon scales faintly appeared on the surface of Li Mochen's skin, and his limbs and torso showed some abnormal swelling.

However, he quickly suppressed this. The powerful divine soul derived from Wenjian Taoran was redirecting these mutations caused by bloodline awakening back to the right track.

At this time, on the periphery of the Heaven-Devouring, Pulse-Refining, Essence-Returning, and Rebirth Array, four powerful magical energy reactions appeared in succession.

Li Mochen could vaguely discern that these were magical tides triggered by someone breaking through their current realm. He couldn't identify them one by one because at this moment, the bloodline power within him, the true essence and mana rapidly growing under the scouring of pure magical energy, and the three hundred and sixty 'Zhou Tian Xing Dou Divine Swords' were consuming every bit of his attention.

But at that instant, a tremendous force suddenly erupted in front of Li Mochen. It was a magical bullet, heading straight for his brow.

However, this special armor-piercing explosive incendiary bullet was slowed down by the magical storm abruptly stirred up within the array at a distance of ten steps from Li Mochen. Then, the intermediate force field spell permanently fixed in his 'God's Pocket Watch' automatically triggered upon encountering a fatal attack.

After that, the layers of protective arrays on Li Mochen's 'Black Rhino' armor rapidly activated, forming a source force armor comparable to that of an eleventh-level Outlaw.

Yet even so, it could not stop this bullet wrapped in powerful source force, until the 'Holy Guard' scroll on Li Mochen was also triggered, forming a phantom armor of holy power outside his body.

"Boom!"

With this violent explosion, the bullet finally detonated just outside Li Mochen's brow. Propelled by the explosive flames, some fine shrapnel still managed to penetrate the 'Holy Armor' and hit his brow.

Fortunately, the power of these shrapnel was exhausted; by the time they reached his brow, they were spent, only cutting his skin without penetrating further.

Throughout the process, Li Mochen was unable to move, forced to watch helplessly as this scene unfolded, along with the gaunt black man forty meters away, who was holding a gun and looking at him with a mocking smile.

Sampson Brute and Li Tailai and the others were also startled awake, but due to the distance, they could do nothing.

Li Mochen's mind and emotions remained calm as usual, without any fluctuation. Even when the gaunt black man pulled the trigger a second time, he did not flinch.

Although within his mind there was a tenfold amplified desire to escape using a teleportation scroll, and a similarly tenfold amplified desire to kill, under the suppression of 'Heavenly Mind Divine Illumination', these emotions could not stir up any trouble.

He knew this was the backlash from the 'Heaven-Devouring, Pulse-Refining, Essence-Returning, and Rebirth Technique', a calamity he had to face.

At this moment, a trace of blood seeped from the corner of Li Mochen's mouth. He had already prepared a secret method that might harm his body, ensuring he could avoid this life-threatening calamity without using the teleportation scroll.

But just as the black man was about to fire, another gunshot rang out from the side. Two bullets fired from different directions collided in midair twenty meters in front of Li Mochen, producing a loud sound and sparks.

The black man was clearly startled. Then the ruby ring on his finger flashed brightly, instantly summoning a powerful source force armor that shielded his entire body. Even when Li Tailai and the others opened fire simultaneously, they could not shake it.

At the same time, void energy gathered beneath his feet, gradually forming a spatial rift—a sign of teleportation being cast.

"What a pity! I thought I could kill with one shot today."

The gaunt black man holstered his gun and smiled regretfully: "But it doesn't matter. I've seen some very interesting things today. Are you planning to go to war with Antonio of the Blood Hand? I'll tell him everything I saw today."

But Li Mochen's eyes showed contempt. At that moment, the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Divine Swords inserted within thirty meters around him all trembled slightly.

Then the gaunt black man soon realized something was wrong. He had used a teleportation scroll three seconds ago, but still hadn't been teleported away. It was as if a suction force was firmly anchoring him in place, preventing escape. That was the effect of the spatial spell 'Anchoring Anchor', but he didn't know how Li Mochen had managed it.

The man had to continuously throw out three high-level force shield scrolls to resist the fire from the others. In that brief moment, dozens of bullets had struck him, riddling the source force armor, which rivaled the defense of an eighteenth-level magical creature, with holes.

Yet the ongoing teleportation spell still couldn't successfully transport him away. The gaunt black man understood the reason and tossed several magical grenades around him.

But just as these grenades were about to explode, the upper and lower 'millstones' within the array suddenly increased in power, crushing all the magical grenades to dust in an instant.

The gaunt black man himself also showed pain under the immense pressure. The crushing force of the two 'millstones' penetrated the layers of armor barriers around him, directly affecting his body, making him feel the agony of being ground by the 'millstones'.

The next moment, Li Mochen softly uttered the word 'rise', and all three hundred and sixty Zhou Tian Xing Dou Divine Swords flew into the air, each flashing with cold silver light.

With Li Mochen's next word, 'fall', all the flying swords plunged downward, like a waterfall of swords descending from the sky, striking the gaunt black man. The latter used two more scrolls in succession, a hint of panic in his eyes: "You can't kill me! That's impossible!"

He could feel the power interfering with the teleportation spell gradually weakening. If he could hold on for another three to five seconds, he could escape from this chemical plant.

But as the sword waterfall swept down, the blood-red aura tide around the gaunt black man collapsed and disintegrated in an instant. Then the high-level force field protection, high-level holy guard, high-level alloy armor, and so on, none could withstand the impact of the hundreds of Zhou Tian Xing Dou Divine Swords for even a second.

These tiny flying swords, thin as leaves, were like fish that penetrated every gap and crevice. They always found the flaws in the protective magic at the fastest speed, then broke and shattered them.

At the third second, the gaunt black man's entire body was 'dismembered' by the flying swords, reduced to a skeleton in an instant. Then the severed flesh and bones were crushed to powder under the grinding of the two 'millstones', leaving only pure life essence, forcibly absorbed by the 'Heaven-Devouring, Pulse-Refining, Essence-Returning, and Rebirth Array'.