Ten minutes ago, at Su City High School, on the playground.
The morning run had just ended, and students gathered in twos and threes, stretching or chatting, full of youthful energy.
The sky was originally a clean, azure blue, with the morning glow not yet completely fading.
"Look, what's that?"
A sharp scream shattered the tranquility of the playground.
Everyone instinctively looked up, and then gasps of astonishment and disbelief echoed across the entire playground.
After a brief silence came immense panic and chaos.
The students screamed, some instinctively pulling out their phones to frantically take pictures of the sky, while many more were bewildered or instinctively fled towards the teaching building at the teachers' urging.
The piercing air raid sirens blared throughout the city at that moment, adding to the apocalyptic atmosphere.
Qin Meng also stood in the crowd, looking up at the terrifying scene in the sky, her Small Face pale and her heart pounding.
Her classmates were already in complete chaos, and the teacher's shouts sounded faint amidst the noise.
In this extremely chaotic moment.
"The missiles are our missiles."
A boy who knew about military affairs shouted excitedly.
A glimmer of hope ignited in the hearts of some teachers and students.
Perhaps... perhaps the army can defeat them?
However, this hope was soon replaced by greater despair.
Before the teachers and students could recover from this huge contrast and shock, something even more terrifying happened.
"Roar--!!!"
A deafening roar, filled with savagery and destructive desire, resounded like thunder over Su City High School.
Immediately afterwards, a huge shadow loomed over half of the playground.
A colossal creature plummeted from a crack in the sky, crashing heavily onto the basketball court at the edge of the playground, creating a deep crater in the solid concrete surface, from which cracks spread.
Amidst the billowing Smoke and Dust, a ferocious figure gradually came into focus.
It was a monster nearly ten meters tall, resembling a two-legged dragon from Western legends, but covered in dark red scales and with tattered fleshy wings on its back.
It has a lizard-like head, with fangs protruding from its mouth, dripping with saliva that smells of sulfur.
Most terrifyingly, it opened its enormous mouth, and a blinding red light shone from deep within its throat, and then—
Boom!!!
A blazing, orange-red flame, over a meter in diameter, spewed from its mouth like a fire dragon, sweeping towards the nearest school building.
Flames instantly engulfed the walls, glass shattered and melted under the intense heat, concrete and steel reinforcement groaned under the strain, and thick smoke billowed into the sky!
"A monster... a monster!!"
"Run!!"
"Help--!"
The teachers and students on the playground were utterly terrified.
Everyone cried out and screamed, scattering and running away like headless flies, pushing, shoving, falling, and trampling, and the scene instantly spiraled out of control.
"Students, don't panic! Run to the basement, quick!"
A physical education teacher shouted at the top of his lungs, trying to maintain order, but his voice was quickly drowned out by the more terrifying explosions and the roars of monsters.
Qin Meng was also swept up by the chaotic crowd and helplessly fled towards the teaching building.
Fear, like cold vines, coiled around her heart.
The fire-breathing monster was nearby, each breath bringing explosions and death, and the heatwave could even scorch her skin.
She could smell the acrid smell and blood in the air, and hear screams and the loud crash of collapsing buildings nearby.
"Am I going to die?"
A thought uncontrollably surfaced.
In the midst of this extreme fear and despair, in the instant she felt she was about to be pushed over and trampled by the chaotic crowd—
Buzz!
A strange feeling rose up from her Dantian without warning.
It started as a gentle warmth, but instantly transformed into a torrent, flowing through her entire body along some mysterious path.
An endless sense of power, like a volcano dormant for millions of years, suddenly erupted within her.
At the same time, her mind felt as if it had been drenched in cool spring water, or as if it had been instantly connected to the torrent of wisdom in the universe.
Countless pieces of knowledge, insights, and principles that were originally vague, profound, and obscure flooded into her consciousness like a tide.
It's about understanding the primordial energy of heaven and earth, yin and yang, the five elements, Dao Emulates Own Inherent Spontaneity; it's about cultivation, the application of Divine Ability and Law Technique; it's about profound insights into life, the universe, and the Great Dao...
The feeling was so abrupt, yet so natural.
It was as if these things had always been dormant deep within her soul, and were now simply being gently unlocked by a key.
It's that Pills.
Qin Meng instantly understood.
Qin Hao gave her that pill three years ago, telling her to eat it like Pills!
She had always thought it was just a tonic to improve health, maybe it just tasted better.
Little did she know, it was a peerless elixir capable of transforming a Mortal into an immortal.
However, the Origin of Earth was previously sealed by some powerful force, causing the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to dry up and the Great Dao to be obscured.
Most of the elixir's medicinal power was suppressed and could not be exerted; it could only subtly improve her constitution, making her immune to all diseases and full of energy.
And just now, at the very instant that earth-shattering event of alien warships descending and global nuclear missiles being launched occurred.
The seal that imprisoned the Earth's Origin and suppressed all extraordinary powers... seems to have been quietly broken by an even greater and more incredible force!
Thus, the suppressed medicinal power of the elixir surged through her body like a flood bursting its banks.
It wasn't just the vast, ocean-like Law Power that was being generated; it was also the Supreme Daoist essence contained within the Pills, emanating from Qin Hao, a Daluo Golden Immortal, that was forcibly building her Dao foundation and enlightening her to the Dao.
The world in Qin Meng's eyes has changed.
She no longer saw just a fire-breathing monster and a chaotic, fleeing crowd.
She saw faint, yet real, glimmers of light beginning to appear in the Liao Kong.
She heard a faint yet vibrant pulse (the Earth Vein) emanating from the depths of the earth beneath her feet.
She could even vaguely sense the destructive and malicious energy emanating from the cold warship beyond the oppressive sky above her.
Within her body, a cool yet powerful current (Law Power) circulated autonomously, and wherever it flowed, fatigue and fear instantly dissipated.
The body becomes light and full of power, the five senses become incredibly sharp, and the mind becomes as clear as crystal.
"What am I doing...?"
Qin Meng looked down at her hands.
A faint halo seemed to flow across her fair palm.
She could feel that as long as she had a thought, she could mobilize that new, incredible power within her body.
Boom!
Another burst of fiery breath exploded nearby, engulfing a basketball hoop and several students who couldn't dodge in time, and the screams abruptly ceased.
Qin Meng suddenly looked up at the fire-breathing monster that was still rampaging, constantly spewing flames and causing death and destruction.
The confusion and fear in her eyes quickly faded, replaced by an unprecedented clarity, and... a trace of cold anger that she herself was unaware of.
A surge of power coursed through my body, and countless Daoist principles flowed through my mind.
Escape?
It seems that she, Qin Meng, no longer needs to run away.