As Ye Yang's body began to change,
everyone in Xiong Bing Lian opposite him grew tense.
Zhao Xin: "Cao?! This guy's using his superpower! What the hell is that golden effect floating off him?!"
Rui Mengmeng: "I can feel his life force—no, his biological level is undergoing multiple transformations in an instant! That vitality is as vast as the sea. It's terrifying!"
Qi Lin: "We have very limited records of Ye Yang's abilities. This state isn't in our database. Looks like he's developed another new skill over the past few days!"
Cheng Yaowen: "Captain Lena, give the order. We can't afford to lose the initiative!"
Lena heard Cheng Yaowen's words.
Her expression turned grave, and she thrust an arm forward to issue her orders:
"Cheng Yaowen, take control. Xiao Lun and Zhao Xin, cut off Ye Yang's routes to either side. Qiangwei and Mengmeng, form a triangle and protect Qi Lin while she provides support. I'll hold the sky with Goku."
Once the order was given,
Cheng Yaowen, clad in Dark Alloy Armor, rushed to the front.
He slammed one hand against the ground of the courtyard.
"Power of Earth! Palm World!"
Thud! Thud! Thud!!!
A huge, earth-colored stone hand burst out of the soil in the center of the courtyard.
Its palm lifted Ye Yang as
the rocky arm rose higher and higher.
When it reached around ten meters into the air,
its five fingers curled together.
Bang!
A terrifying grip, weighing tens of thousands of jin, closed around Ye Yang.
"He's trapped in my Palm World," Cheng Yaowen said.
Lena and the others didn't dare let their guard down.
After all, they knew Ye Yang's combat strength couldn't be overcome so easily.
Just then,
Suo Dun emerged from a patch of scorched ground outside the courtyard.
He happened to see Ye Yang being "crushed" by the giant stone hand.
"Big Brother! Quit pretending and hurry up and take them out!"
"Especially the one with the axe!"
"Damn it, I couldn't beat him, so he used some weird move to scare me! Cao!"
Suo Dun shouted indignantly.
The instant he finished shouting,
a deep voice came from inside the stone fist:
"You call that a Palm World?"
"I'll show you what a Palm! World! really is!"
As soon as Ye Yang's voice fell,
Vrrrmm! Vrrrmm! Vrrrmm! Vrrrmm!!!
The entire earth began to shake violently.
Everyone was stunned.
They looked all around.
"Everyone, be careful," Goku suddenly called from above.
Dark light swirled in his eyes.
His Fiery Golden Eyes were working at full speed.
Suddenly,
they heard the distant sound of cracking and rustling soil from all around the scorched wasteland.
"Cao! What's that?!"
The sniper, Qi Lin, pointed toward a scorched hillside to the left of the courtyard and shouted.
Everyone turned to look.
A golden flaming finger, three hundred meters long and fifty meters thick, curved around from beyond the hill.
"That's an index finger?!" Qiangwei cried in alarm.
"Holy crap! There's one over there, too!" Zhao Xin pointed in another direction.
Everyone hurriedly looked that way.
A giant golden flaming thumb, around two hundred meters long, had burst out of the scorched earth and soared into the sky.
Then,
the middle finger, ring finger, and little finger appeared as well.
All of them were made of golden flame energy, each several hundred meters long.
This was one of Shi Zhongtian, the Desolate Heaven Emperor's grandfather in Perfect World, and Great Demon God's divine abilities.
Only the most supreme experts could use it; it demanded an extremely high level of cultivation.
When activated, illusory sun, moon, and stars revolved within the palm.
It was mysterious and awe-inspiring!
Great Demon God had used it when he beat down Martial King Manor.
If Martial King hadn't intervened,
that single blow
would have crushed the entire Martial King Manor!
"Damn it, Big Brother! Miss Liang Bing is still in the room! Did you forget again?!"
Seeing this world-destroying move, Suo Dun shouted in alarm.
Ye Yang didn't react.
Seeing that, Suo Dun burrowed back underground.
At the same time, at a military camp twenty kilometers away,
"Old Li! Something's happened! Xiong Bing Lian and the target have started fighting!" Political Commissar Zhao rushed into the tent and shouted.
Commander Old Li was standing in front of a computer.
"I've already seen the drone footage. What a terrifying ability!" Commander Old Li said, pointing at the screen.
Political Commissar Zhao saw an aerial view on the computer.
On-screen,
in the pitch-black basin, ten kilometers across,
a golden flaming arm, two or three kilometers long, stretched out of the earth.
Its palm lifted the farmhouse courtyard where Ye Yang lived, along with a kilometer-wide patch of surrounding soil, high into the air.
Five energy fingers, each hundreds of meters long, were curling into a fist.
They were about to crush the scorched earth held in the palm, which spanned an entire kilometer.
"My God! Is this what a battle between Super Soldiers looks like? Of all the modern weapons we have, only a few weapons of mass destruction could stand against this, right?"
Political Commissar Zhao exclaimed.
Commander Old Li's expression grew grave.
"Damn it, I wish I had a soldier like that."
Inside Palm World,
"Cao! Monkey Brother! Isn't this the Five-Finger Mountain Buddha used to suppress you back then?!"
Liu Chuang and the others craned their necks, turning in place as they stared in shock at the five enormous fingers closing around them.
Seeing this, Sun Wukong
lost his easygoing expression.
"It does look a little similar. You run. I'll hold it off." After saying that,
he opened one hand, and a Dark Alloy staff appeared from a Micro Wormhole.
Then he flew straight at the middle finger curling inward.
"Qiangwei, get everyone to retreat to a safe area,"
Lena ordered.
Then,
she formed two solar-flare energy bombs in her hands.
With an excited expression, she stared at the stone arm in the center of the courtyard and said:
"Your Palm World is terrifying, sure. But all we have to do is interrupt the one casting it, right?"
As soon as she finished speaking,
two energy blasts shot toward the stone fist in the courtyard.
Boom! Boom!
The explosions kicked up clouds of dust and smoke, along with flying rocks.
Meanwhile,
Sun Wukong charged at the hundreds-of-meters-long middle finger, tiny by comparison.
He swung his staff with all his might and struck the finger at the joint.
All he managed to do was produce visible ripples of energy.
Sun Wukong felt his strength vanish like a stone dropped into the sea, having no effect at all.
Then,
the five enormous fingers blotted out the sky as they closed in.
Sun Wukong and Lena below both used Wormhole Technology to escape the range of Palm World.
On a scorched slope in the safe zone,
the members of Xiong Bing Lian regrouped.
They stared in shock at the enormous golden energy arm before them.
With a bang,
it crushed the farmhouse courtyard and the vast stretch of soil held up in its palm.
Then,
a golden ring of explosive force swept outward in all directions, carrying winds that reached level eighteen.
A black tide of scorched dust surged forth, just like the line from an ancient poem:
The storm gathers, and towers sway; black clouds press down, threatening to crush the city.
Lena raised an energy shield at the front of the group, enveloping everyone and blocking the dark dust storm.
Zhao Xin slumped to the ground.
"Cao, how are we supposed to fight that? The damage from his Palm World is hundreds of times greater than Cheng Yaowen's!"
Cheng Yaowen fell silent.
Qiangwei, Qi Lin, and Rui Mengmeng, the team's fragile and lightly armored members, were silent as well.
"He went straight for a devastating attack, and showed no mercy to his own kind. If he stays on Earth and is controlled by an alien civilization, he'll become a major threat," Sun Wukong said gravely.
"Come on, come on. You've all lost your nerve. Let this goddess lift your spirits."
Lena put her hands on her hips and spoke with confidence.
Rumble!!!
Suddenly,
a deep, thunderous boom erupted in the atmosphere.
The black dust storm and the dark clouds in the sky vanished in an instant.
Everyone in Xiong Bing Lian stared in shock at the stars and the moon filling the sky.
Then,
Ye Yang's deep voice rang out from the dark sky in the distance:
"Gold! Bi'an Fist!"
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