Indestructible Diamond!

The signal flare exploded in mid-air, its firelight painting half the sky red. The silent Yuhang City was instantly awakened, erupting into chaos.

On the streets, dense throngs of Brocade Guard poured out from every alleyway. The clatter of scabbards colliding rang out in a continuous stream as they rushed toward the tavern. The rooftops were even more bustling; over a dozen figures tapped lightly on the tiles, sweeping across the streets at high speed and leaving only afterimages in the moonlight.

The main gate of the Zhejiang Regional Military Commission was pushed open with a loud bang. A Brocade Guard flag officer sprinted out, leaped onto his horse with crisp, efficient movements, and cracked his whip. The horse's hooves shattered the moonlight on the bluestone path as it galloped toward the garrison outside the city.

In the rear hall of the Regional Military Commission, there was none of the atmosphere one would expect from a military office.

There were no weapon racks, no sand tables, and no maps. Instead, there were carved beams and painted rafters, rockeries and strange stones, rare birds and exotic beasts fluttering in cages, and ancient trees and exotic flowers competing in beauty. This provincial military headquarters was actually more opulent and magnificent than an imperial villa.

The servants and maids held their breath, moving cautiously along the corridors.

In the center of the rear hall, Chu Lingtian lay reclining on a soft couch, draped in snow-white fox fur.

He toyed with a jade ruyi in his hand, his eyes cold and unfocused as he stared ahead. Before him, a dozen dancers in sheer gauze twisted their waists, while musicians played and sang with trembling fear.

He watched for a moment, then the corners of his mouth twitched; the arc was not a smile, but rather a look of disdain.

With a casual wave, a surge of majestic internal energy erupted from his palm, condensing into a massive golden hand of energy. Carrying an imposing and righteous pressure, it slammed into the group of dancers with a thunderous crash.

The dozen dancers didn't even have time to scream before they were blasted away, falling to the ground lifeless.

The servants and maids in the distance lowered their heads even further, their bodies trembling slightly. Several handymen ran up with practiced ease, dragging the corpses away in pairs. A maid knelt on the ground, carefully cleaning the remaining bloodstains until not a trace remained.

Chu Lingtian withdrew his hand as if he had just swatted a fly.

"This plot world is still too backward..."

He muttered, his tone filled with weariness.

These dancers were all mediocre, and the fine wine and delicacies were merely common trifles; nothing caught his eye.

It had been a year. Aside from the fleeting pleasure he derived from abusing his power, extorting the people, and trampling on lives during the initial period, he had been merely enduring every day since.

He wanted to return to the Origin Earth Star every waking moment, and then back to the life-bearing planet where his family resided.

He remembered that before he was sent to the waste disposal facility, he had owned an entire high-tech city on his family's planet, where both the population and the technology functioned solely for him.

The Emperor?

What kind of bumpkin nonsense was that? How could it even be mentioned in the same breath as him?

Therefore, whenever news of a suspected player arrived, he would go all out. Regardless of whether it was the target or another player, he adopted the attitude of a lion hunting a rabbit, crushing them all the same.

Just like now, the signal flare had gone off, a suspected target had appeared, and he had made his usual deployments: all his master-level subordinates were dispatched, the Brocade Guard was searching the city, and the garrison was preparing to break camp.

And he only needed to wait—wait for the person to be dragged before him, and then deliver a light prick with the Soul-Splitting Thorn.

"Hurry up," Chu Lingtian gazed at the carved beams, his eyes hollow. "I can't stay in this godforsaken place for another day."

On the second floor of the tavern.

Wang Xuan stood where he was, feeling the vast, surging internal energy within his body.

All the internal energy of a ninth-tier master, combined with the massive essence of blood and energy refined by the Indestructible Diamond Divine Skill, was currently crammed into his body. He felt like a powder keg on the verge of exploding; the vast blood energy turned into a furnace, causing the air around him to distort.

If it were anyone else, their meridians would have shattered and their body would have exploded by now.

Wang Xuan ignored the feeling of being about to burst and opened the panel, his gaze falling on the newly appeared line of text.

[Indestructible Diamond Divine Skill (Not Initiated)]

"One-Click Max."

As the words fell, a massive warm current exploded from the depths of his body.

The internal energy that had been swelling and threatening to tear his meridians apart seemed to find an exit. Guided by that warm current, it dissipated rapidly—or rather, it transformed.

His cultivation realm began to leap frantically, surging from the fifth tier all the way up: sixth, seventh, eighth... it smashed straight through the threshold of the ninth tier and continued to climb.

At the same time, that massive surge of blood energy began to be pressed into his flesh inch by inch. Under the scouring of this blood energy, his previously "lesser" Indestructible Diamond Body saw its skin become denser, its muscle fibers torn and reorganized, and its bones tempered repeatedly, rapidly evolving toward a true Indestructible Diamond Body.

Initiated, Minor Success, Major Success, Perfection...

Then, it gently stepped past a limit.

It was a realm that even the founder of this divine skill, the Strange Hero of Heavenly Pool, had never reached.

Unprecedented.

Wang Xuan opened his eyes and let out a long breath. That breath was as hot as fire, condensing into a white streak in the air that lingered for a long time.

At this moment, he felt incomparably powerful.

His essence, energy, and spirit were once again tempered frantically by the internal energy of the Indestructible Diamond Divine Skill. The extremely rigid and yang-aligned Diamond Energy replaced the Divine Illumination Scripture and the Energy Absorption Technique, becoming the dominant internal energy in his meridians. That energy was heavy and refined, carrying an indestructible will as it flowed majestically through his meridians.

The information on the panel also changed.

[Cultivation Method: Indestructible Diamond Divine Skill (Limit)]

[Trait 1: Extremely Rigid and Yang-Aligned (Diamond Energy)] The internal energy is extremely rigid and yang-aligned; it can suppress and transform all cold and evil internal power, forming a marvelous relationship of mutual generation and restraint with the Energy Absorption Technique.

[Trait 2: Indestructible Diamond] Combines physical defense and internal energy defense into one. When attacked, it can generate a counter-shock force and can comprehensively amplify physical strength; power and agility are significantly increased.

The Indestructible Diamond Divine Skill only had these two traits. But each of these words carried the weight of a thousand jun. The extremely rigid and yang-aligned Diamond Energy and the Energy Absorption Technique formed a perfect pair of offense and defense, mutual generation and restraint. Meanwhile, the Indestructible Diamond trait integrated physical and energy defense, providing counter-shocks, amplification, and strengthening his body, power, and agility by a significant margin.

Besides this, the master-level player had also left behind two ultimate skills: Dragon Claw Hand and Reed Crossing River.