Thud-thud-thud!!!
Thud-thud-thud!!!
The air rang with the distinctive metallic scrape of chains.
One golden chain after another suddenly shot out of the charred ground behind Ye Yang.
Though they were shaped like chains,
the countless swift, slender streaks of gold moved like dragons.
They formed a mighty, swirling torrent that surged toward Lena, intent on binding and crushing her.
Lena saw this.
She instantly fired two energy blasts.
Bang! Bang!
The blasts struck the golden Order Chains, but they couldn't budge them in the slightest.
Realizing something was wrong, Lena immediately sprang into the air.
Rumble!
The ground collapsed and surged in waves of black earth.
Relying on her tremendous physical strength, Lena shot straight toward the Sky Dome.
But the chains' thudding grew clearer and clearer in her ears.
She looked down.
Good grief.
The golden chains seemed to have some kind of tracking function. They pursued her through the air, and no matter how she changed her flight path, she couldn't shake them. The distance between them was visibly closing.
Seeing his chance, Ye Yang looked up from the ground.
The corners of his mouth lifted slightly.
He formed a Divine Technique Seal with his fingers.
"Seal!"
In midair,
the torrent of golden chains about to catch up with Lena opened a vast, netlike maw, like a man-eating flower.
Then it accelerated sharply,
enclosing Lena within.
At last,
Lena hung motionless in the air.
The golden chains had formed a sphere as solid as a fortress, spinning rapidly like ripples.
Lena felt immense pressure.
She picked a direction,
then fired a continuous barrage of high-speed energy blasts at one spot.
But these chains were formed from the power of rules.
Their level far surpassed that of her paltry Stellar Energy blasts.
After realizing that her attacks were useless,
Lena tried to use Micro-Wormhole Transport Technology to escape the encirclement formed by the strange golden chains.
At the very thought,
a bewildered look appeared on Lena's face.
The wormhole wouldn't open!
What was going on???
Lena immediately used the communications device built into her Dark Alloy Suit to contact Qiangwei, the wormhole expert outside:
"These chains are strange. They can actually stop me from opening a wormhole!"
"Qiangwei, Qiangwei! Can you hear me?"
As soon as she finished speaking,
the Order Chains contracted.
Layer upon layer of them wound tightly around Lena's body.
She hung in the air like a golden mummy,
slowly descending toward Ye Yang below.
Down below,
in front of Ye Yang,
the members of Xiong Bing Lian hurried over.
When they saw Lena wrapped up like a mummy,
they were all stunned.
In such a brief clash,
Ye Yang had already unleashed several terrifying killer moves.
And anyone with eyes could see
that Ye Yang's control and development of his Super Gene abilities
had far surpassed those of the so-called Super Soldiers of Xiong Bing Lian, who had supposedly undergone rigorous training!
"Captain Lena! Are you still alive?"
"Lena!"
Liu Chuang, Ge Xiaolun, and the others kept a safe distance from Ye Yang.
They cupped their hands around their mouths
and shouted toward the Order Chains as they slowly lowered Lena in front of Ye Yang.
"Ye Yang, let Lena go! We won't ask you to join us anymore!"
Qiangwei believed she understood Ye Yang fairly well.
Standing at the front of the group, she made her request earnestly, her gaze sincere.
"Now that you can't win, you're spouting this crap? I already gave you a chance."
Ye Yang stared coldly at them.
Because he was imitating the Great Demon God Shi Zhongtian,
his entire presence and manner had become as overbearing and unhinged as Shi Zhongtian himself.
Ye Yang pressed his right index and middle fingers together like a sword.
He pointed toward the Order Chains beside him.
"Crush them!"
Thud-thud-thud~!
The others stared in horror.
The tightly bound golden chains began to grind against each other again.
"Ah!!!"
Lena felt as if her body was about to be crushed apart inside.
She cried out in pain.
"Lena!"
The hotheaded Ge Xiaolun hefted his Great Sword and charged at the Order Chains.
His actions startled everyone.
Fortunately, Ye Yang didn't attack Ge Xiaolun.
Clang!
The Great Sword, said to be capable of cleaving through the Void Terror, collided with the Order Chains—and was knocked right out of Ge Xiaolun's hands.
It spun through the air and flew more than ten meters away,
then planted itself neatly in the ground.
Zhao Xin: "Cao! Even Xiao Lun's Great Sword can't cut through them. What the hell are those things? Didn't Super Seminary say that the God-Making Genes inside Xiao Lun, Chuangzi, and Lena were the strongest? How is Ye Yang so much stronger?"
Liu Chuang: "Uh, Monkey Brother, can you do something to save Captain Lena?"
Sun Wukong's fiery golden eyes were already at work.
In response to Liu Chuang's question,
Sun Wukong replied gravely:
"These chains are formed from the power of rules.
"They're an advanced application of Dark Energy."
After Goku delivered this highly technical explanation,
Liu Chuang, Zhao Xin, Cheng Yaowen, Rui Mengmeng, and Qiangwei all looked at him with a mixture of disbelief and confusion.
"I've been catching up on a lot of knowledge at Super Seminary lately. Don't make such a fuss."
After speaking,
Goku turned to Ge Xiaolun.
"Xiao Lun, I've studied your abilities. You can suppress Dark Energy. Try using your 'Silence.'"
Ge Xiaolun nodded firmly at the instruction.
He was filled with confidence again.
But just as he was about to open his mouth and shout "Silence,"
a vicious slap came flying at him.
Ye Yang's palm struck Ge Xiaolun squarely on one cheek.
His whole body turned into an arrow,
spiraling off to the right.
Along the way, he broke through several milky-white sound barriers in succession.
"Damn it, you're discussing tactics right in front of me? Do you take me for a blind man and a deaf man?"
Ye Yang stared coldly at the group before him.
"This is bad, this is bad, Xiao Lun!"
Zhao Xin, the fastest among them, lost his nerve.
He made a powerful running leap and chased after Ge Xiaolun.
"Can you stop going crazy?! We're all people of Earth. Do you really have to take things this far?"
At that moment,
Qiangwei couldn't take Ye Yang's behavior anymore.
She shouted at him angrily:
"If you don't want to protect Earth, then just hide away. We won't come looking for you again."
At that,
Ye Yang's expression darkened.
"This is how you ask me for help?"
"You want to fight, then you don't want to fight. You brought this on yourselves!"
"Let's all be buried here!"
"Hand of God!"
Ye Yang unleashed another mighty divine technique.
The others saw a white phantom hand
rise behind Ye Yang. It kept growing, and in the blink of an eye it was like an ancient immortal mountain, a hundred million zhang tall, its entire form radiating a hazy, pure-white Divine Radiance.
A sense of despair and insignificance welled up in them.
Sun Wukong and Liu Chuang gripped their weapons,
gritted their teeth, and steeled themselves for a last stand.
Cheng Yaowen used his Power of Earth to create an extremely thick stone shield wall to protect everyone.
The enormous Hand of God came crashing down toward the people on the ground.
Boom!
The palm struck the hard, pitch-black earth squarely.
There was no earth-shattering destruction across dozens of kilometers as he'd expected. Not even a cloud of dust rose into the air.
That strike
had left only a palm-shaped dent, one or two kilometers across, embedded three meters into the ground.
Huh?
Ye Yang stared at the scene, dumbfounded.
The Hand of God couldn't possibly be this weak.
Then,
a suffocating sensation and a bone-chilling cold swept over him from outside.
Ye Yang quickly looked around.
The surrounding starry sky was pitch-black and boundless.
Those useless fools had vanished, too.
The ground beneath his feet wasn't the Huang Village Ruins, but a vast island of solid metal.
Countless meteorites as large as mountains floated motionlessly around the island.
Where is this? Outer space?
How had he suddenly come here from Huang Village?
Had that bunch of good-for-nothings used some kind of spatial-transfer technique?
"Ding! The host's body is in mortal danger. The Blood-Locking Function will activate in ten seconds. Please simulate a character suited to the current environment as soon as possible."
In his mind,
the Complete Simulation System issued a notification.
"Looks like I was right. This really is somewhere in the universe. With Shi Zhongtian's strength at the Array Formation Realm, he still can't cross the universe with his body alone," Ye Yang murmured.
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