Her figure instantly solidified from an illusory shimmer of light!
A head of glossy black hair drifted without wind. On her exquisitely perfect face, the madness and coldness in those phoenix eyes seemed capable of freezing one's soul.
Barefoot, she floated three inches above the ground. She wore nothing but a simple white tracksuit, yet she exuded pressure a thousand, ten thousand times more terrifying than that of the Abyss Demon Dragon!
Space and time twisted at that moment.
The entire world lost its sound.
Everyone's minds crashed in that instant, turning completely blank.
She... she came out of the image?
What was this?
What the hell was going on?
This completely defied every law of physics and principle of energy conservation they knew!
"You... do you know?"
Yang Yan tilted her head, studying the completely frozen thugs before her with evident interest. There was a trace of something sickly in her voice.
"Do you know... that a one-use, ultra-long-range Dimensional Teleportation Terminal capable of precisely locking onto life signs... is very expensive?"
"Gulp."
The burly man wielding the giant axe swallowed wildly. He wanted to speak, but he found that an invisible hand seemed to be strangling his vocal cords, leaving him unable to make a sound.
His entire body, from his soul down to every cell, trembled madly.
Everything was telling him to run.
But he could not move.
It was not just him. At that moment, every Professional harboring ill intent toward Yang Yu was nailed firmly in place by an invisible force field. They could not even move a finger.
"Looks like you can't afford to compensate me."
Yang Yan shook her head, seemingly disappointed.
She raised one jade-white finger and lightly pointed at the muscular man with the giant axe.
There was no earth-shattering explosion, nor any dazzling display of light.
Pop.
A soft sound, like a bubble being punctured.
Under everyone's terrified gazes, their eyes nearly popping from their sockets, the giant-axe wielder—nearly two meters tall and built like a bear—began to silently... undergo Annihilation from the center of his brow.
He did not turn into Flesh, nor did he become ashes.
It was as though an eraser had wiped him out of this world. He went from existence to Non-Existence, vanishing completely without leaving even the slightest trace behind.
"Ah..."
One thug finally failed to bear that extreme terror. His mental Defense Line completely collapsed, and he let out half of a shrill scream.
Yang Yan's gaze swept lightly toward him.
Pop.
Another soft sound.
The screaming thug followed in the other man's footsteps and disappeared into thin air.
Silence.
Deathly silence.
The dozen or so remaining thugs had even stopped breathing. Their eyes were bloodshot with terror, while tears and snot streamed uncontrollably down their faces, mixing with dust and leaving them utterly wretched.
Only now did they finally understand what kind of terrifying existence they had provoked.
This was not a god.
This was a demon!
A demon goddess who had crossed worlds from the Abyss Dimension!
Yang Yan seemed to have lost interest in tormenting ants. Somewhat impatiently, she snapped her fingers.
Snap.
The crisp sound was like the swing of Death God's scythe.
Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop...
After a series of faint sounds, the remaining dozen or so thugs, along with the weapons in their hands, were completely erased from this world.
From beginning to end, she had not even taken a single step.
After doing all that, as though she had merely brushed away a few specks of irritating dust, her gaze finally slowly fell upon the charred, barely breathing youth on the ground.
The coldness and madness in her eyes, enough to freeze eternity, melted away in an instant.
They became an almost overflowing ache of heartache.
She slowly descended to the ground, carefully walked to Yang Yu's side, and crouched down.
In the distance, Leng Yuan and Lu Fei did not even dare breathe loudly as they watched the stunningly beautiful woman.
They felt that the shock they had experienced tonight surpassed everything they had encountered in the past twenty years combined.
"Thank you for saving my little brother."
Yang Yan extended her slender fingers and gently brushed across the dried blood on Yang Yu's face. Without raising her head, she spoke to Leng Yuan.
Her voice had returned to its cool calmness, but the innate sense of detachment—as though she stood above All Beings—still made Leng Yuan feel inexplicably pressured.
"It was my duty. I'm from the Professionals Association. Protecting citizens is my responsibility."
Leng Yuan endured the searing pain in her chest and tried her best to keep her voice steady.
As she looked at Yang Yan, towering waves surged through her heart.
Dimensional teleportation? Erasure as though Words Manifested as Law?
This kind of power had completely surpassed the scope of her understanding.
Was her older brother this powerful?
Even a legendary S-Rank spatial Professional could never accomplish something like this so effortlessly!
"The Professionals Association?" A nearly imperceptible curve rose at the corner of Yang Yan's lips, seemingly tinged with disdain. "What use could an association in some tiny place like Linhai City possibly be?"
Her words were harsh, but Leng Yuan could not refute them.
The facts were right before her. Had Yang Yan not arrived in time, she and Lu Fei, along with this youth who had created a miracle, would likely have already become cold corpses.
Yang Yan no longer paid her any attention and focused on examining Yang Yu's body.
"This fool actually dared to use it."
She murmured softly, her tone full of heartache.
"Sixty percent of the blood in his body was burned away. His sanity was nearly completely eroded by that King's Will that did not belong to him... What a troublesome idiot."
"Good thing you helped him use Life Essence, or this would have been troublesome!"
"You... are this student's older sister?" Leng Yuan hesitated, but still could not stop herself from asking.
"Mm." Yang Yan responded indifferently.
After seeing Yang Yan nod, Leng Yuan took out everything she had been keeping for Yang Yu.
"You should keep these for him first."
Yang Yan's gaze shifted to Yang Yu's Wild Boar King Four-Piece Set.
Her brows furrowed slightly.
"So that's how it is. This is quite a good set of equipment. If I'd known equipment like this existed back then, I would have risked challenging the Nightmare grade of Wild Boar Cave too. What a pity—I didn't have any teammates at the time."
She then put away all the Legendary quality equipment and materials Yang Yu had obtained.
Then she directly stated her name.
"Let me introduce myself again."
"Yang Yan, third-year student at Imperial Capital University's War Academy."
"You did well." Yang Yan rose to her feet and looked calmly at Leng Yuan. "I'll remember this favor. If you encounter any trouble in Linhai City that you can't resolve in the future, you can give them my name."
At the same time, she took out an entire bottle of Life Essence and handed it over.
This was not Leng Yuan's single drop, but an entire bottle.
"Thank you!" Leng Yuan said respectfully as she accepted Yang Yan's medicine.
"Mm."
Yang Yan picked up the now-recovered Yang Yu and turned to leave.
"Ms. Yang Yan, wait!" Lu Fei gathered his courage and asked loudly, "How... should we report what happened with Yang Yu? He soloed a World BOSS. I'm afraid this can't be kept hidden!"
Yang Yan paused.
She turned back. A frigid glint flashed through her beautiful phoenix eyes, as though it were both a warning and a declaration.
"Report it truthfully."
"My little brother, Yang Yan's brother, killed a World BOSS. Is there a problem with that?"
After saying that, her figure, along with Yang Yu in her arms, slowly faded where she stood before vanishing completely.
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