God Burial Protocol

The icy electronic voice still echoed over the ruins: "Request... to activate the 'God Burial' Protocol..."

At Fang Gang's chest, the strange dark-gold markings pulsed faintly. Every beat brought bone-deep cold and a tearing sensation, as if countless tiny ice picks were churning through his blood vessels.

High above, within the depths of the thick leaden clouds, azure data streams surged and reassembled wildly. An aura of destruction so chilling it seemed to freeze the soul pressed down tangibly, locking firmly onto the figure at the center of the ruins.

"You want to eat me?" Fang Gang licked the blood from the corner of his mouth, savage light blazing in his eyes like a ferocious beast driven into a corner.

His bloodied left hand slammed onto the violently pulsing dark-gold markings on his chest. Golden-red and dark-gold light clashed fiercely beneath his skin. "Watch me refine you into scraps of qi and blood first!"

Bzzzt—!

As though sensing Fang Gang's violent will and the ultimate threat descending from the heavens, the pitch-black Broken Horn clenched in his hand suddenly trembled!

That cold, chaotic, greed-filled higher will, like an enraged venomous serpent, invaded even more frantically upward through the mark on his left arm!

The pain intensified instantly!

Fang Gang let out a muffled groan, his body shaking violently. Beads of sweat instantly seeped from his smooth scalp, only to be vaporized by the golden-red qi and blood steaming around him.

The dark-gold markings on his chest suddenly spread a little farther upward, nearly reaching his collarbone! Cold, chaotic whispers poured into his mind like demonic voices:

"Destruction... descends... resistance... means death..."

"Submit... embrace... eternity..."

"Get lost!" Fang Gang roared, his eyes nearly splitting apart!

All the Nine Yang Qi and Blood in his body surged toward his chest without reservation, turning into a blazing golden-red barrier that desperately held back the ice-pick-like invasion!

At the same time, he roared inwardly without hesitation, System! Add points! Mental attribute! All of it!

30 Evolution Points consumed! Mental attribute increased! Current Mental: 380 (Heart Like Glazed Glass)!

A cool yet resilient force instantly poured into his sea of consciousness. His violently wavering Heart Like Glazed Glass realm was like a sea-calming needle had been driven into it, stabilizing in an instant!

The chaotic whispers were forcibly shut out. Though they still remained, their impact was greatly weakened!

With his mental barrier stabilized, Fang Gang immediately focused all his will on the silent war raging inside his body!

Nine Yang Qi and Blood surged like a torrent of magma, repeatedly washing over the mark on his left arm and the spreading dark-gold markings on his chest.

Every wash brought searing pain, but it also forcibly suppressed and wore away a trace of that cold alien energy!

He was like a burning furnace, using his own supremely yang and unyielding qi and blood as fuel to forcibly refine the strange contamination that had invaded his body!

However, just as the struggle within his body had barely stabilized, the destruction brewing above had reached its final stage!

The azure data torrent condensed within the clouds into a massive, precise, slowly rotating geometric structure. At its center, an incomparably deep black glint lit up, radiating an annihilating aura that warped space itself!

"God Burial Protocol... activation confirmed..." The Faceless Cult Master's cold electronic voice pronounced the final verdict without a trace of emotion.

BOOM!!!

A pitch-black beam of light, ten times thicker than the previous cleansing beam and composed entirely of destructive energy, tore through the clouds!

It made no sound. Wherever it passed, space seemed to be erased by an eraser, leaving behind a twisted vacuum trail!

It was faster than the limits of vision, descending in an instant!

Its target was Fang Gang—or rather, the Broken Horn in his hand that radiated intense waves of contamination!

This strike was more than ten times more terrifying than the cleansing beam from before! A peak Grade A destructive attack! It was enough to wipe this entire area off the map!

Never had the shadow of death been so overwhelming!

Every hair on Fang Gang's body stood on end! The two forces within him were still clashing violently, leaving him unable to defend at full strength! Taking it head-on? Certain death!

"Roar—!" At the brink of life and death, the savagery lurking within Fang Gang erupted completely! At that critical instant, he made an almost insane move!

He did not try to block that black beam of destruction!

Instead, he poured every last trace of qi and blood in his body, along with the dark-gold contaminating energy that was frantically invading him from the mark on his left arm, into his right fist without regard for the consequences!

Nine Yang True Fire, dragon-elephant strength, Eight Extremes shock force, even that chaotic and cold dark-gold contamination... every power was forcibly kneaded together and compressed into a single point in his right fist!

Golden-red dominated, dark gold coiled around it! Fine black cracks appeared in the space around his fist, unable to withstand the violent, chaotic energy!

"Break for me—!!!"

Fang Gang's eyes glowed crimson-gold. Facing the pitch-black beam that would destroy everything, he savagely threw his right fist, which carried all his strength and the "tumor" within his body!

The punch flew out without a sound.

Only the ultimate collision of energies annihilated every sound!

The pitch-black beam collided brutally with the golden-red fist force wrapped in dark-gold blood patterns!

There was no earth-shattering explosion!

Only a patch of pure "nothingness" that instantly spread outward!

Centered on the point of impact, everything within a hundred-meter radius—air, dust, rubble, severed limbs, even light—vanished in an instant!

As though devoured by an invisible giant maw!

The ground silently caved downward, forming a massive hemispherical crater as smooth as a mirror!

At the crater's edge, the aftermath of the energy annihilation spread with a roar like an invisible tsunami! Wherever it passed, the earth rolled and tore apart like waves!

The ruins farther away, like building blocks swept by a hurricane, instantly turned to dust!

At the center of the crater.

Fang Gang knelt on one knee, his right fist buried deeply in the "mirror" beneath his feet.

The sleeve on his right arm had long since turned to ash. His entire arm was split open and drenched in blood, while his muscles and bones bore strange, glazed cracks, as though they had been scorched by intense heat and then instantly cooled.

Dark-gold markings flickered deep within the wounds, writhing like living things.

Before him, a deep trench stretched across the ground, carved by the remaining force of his fist. At the trench's end, that destructive pitch-black beam... had vanished!

His desperate punch, containing both his own qi and blood and the contaminating energy, had forcibly scattered most of it!

Though the remaining energy impact had severely wounded him, it had failed to annihilate him completely!

"Cough... cough, cough..." Fang Gang coughed violently, spraying mouthfuls of blood mixed with fragments of his internal organs onto the mirror-smooth ground. The sight was horrifying.

He felt as though every bone in his body had fallen apart. His right arm had completely lost feeling, while the cold pulse from the dark-gold markings on his chest remained stubbornly persistent.

Above the heavens, that massive geometric structure seemed to stall for an instant because of this unexpected outcome.

The cold electronic voice carried an almost imperceptible "stutter":

"Target... survived... contamination energy fluctuations... temporary fusion... annihilation effect... below expectations..."

"Target individual threat... reassessment... exceeds database limit..."

"Request... protocol level increase... invoke 'Nether Abyss'..."

The azure data streams surged madly once more, seemingly attempting to connect to some deeper, more terrifying existence.

Fang Gang struggled to raise his head, his bloodied gaze fixed on the azure structure deep within the clouds as it began condensing again, its aura growing even heavier and more terrifying.

He bared his bloodstained teeth in a savage, crazed smile.

"Heh... hehehe... not done yet?"

He tried moving his agonizing right arm. The piercing pain made the veins on his forehead bulge, but an even fiercer rage churned in his chest.

He lowered his head to look at his chest. The dark-gold markings seemed to have dimmed slightly after forcibly drawing out energy to resist the God Burial Protocol, but that cold will had become clearer and greedier.

"You want to use my hand to ward off disaster... and you still want to eat me?" Fang Gang's gaze turned vicious as a mad thought grew in his heart. Then let's see... whose teeth are harder!

He no longer tried to forcibly suppress the dark-gold markings on his chest with Nine Yang Qi and Blood. Instead... he attempted to guide a thread of his violent qi and blood toward them, actively touching and enveloping that cold alien energy!

Like pouring oil onto a blazing fire!

Sizzle—!

An instant of pain erupted from his chest, like red-hot iron searing flesh!

Golden-red qi and blood clashed and annihilated violently with the dark-gold contamination! Fang Gang's body jolted, and he nearly blacked out!

But amid that violent clash and annihilation, an extraordinarily faint yet incomparably pure strange energy, far surpassing ordinary qi and blood, was forcibly refined and merged into his own Nine Yang Qi and Blood!

Though it was only an insignificant trace, Fang Gang clearly felt that his nearly depleted qi and blood had... grown a little stronger because of it?

Even his grievous injuries seemed to tingle with an incredibly faint itch!

Warning! Actively guiding contamination energy! Contamination level rising! Current: 13%!

Trace residual higher energy annihilation detected... attempting absorption... absorption successful!

Constitution slightly increased! Injury recovery speed slightly increased!

The system prompt appeared coldly.

A terrifying gleam instantly burst from Fang Gang's eyes! It was as if he had seen, in the depths of despair, a path covered in thorns that led toward unknown strength!

Refine it! Use this damned source of contamination as a whetstone to temper himself! Use it as... a miraculous tonic!

"Again!" Fang Gang growled, enduring the heart-rending pain as he once more attempted to guide his qi and blood to "cook and refine" the contamination in his chest!

Above the heavens, at the center of the azure geometric structure that had briefly "stuttered," a black point even deeper than before, as though capable of swallowing all light, was slowly taking shape.

An aura of destruction older and deader than God Burial, as though it came from the abyss of the netherworld, began to spread.

"Nether Abyss Protocol... authorization confirmed... charging... 1%..."

The cold electronic voice was like a funeral bell tolling for the end of the world.

Host: Fang Gang

Realm: Tendon Transformation Realm (Complete) → Marrow Cleansing Realm (Early Stage)! (Rebuilding after destruction! Qi and blood transformed!)

Strength: 210000! (Fist shakes God Burial)

Constitution: 25000! (Wounded yet unfallen)

Agility: 13500! (Life-and-death speed)

Mental: 380 (Heart Like Glazed Glass)! (Forcibly stabilized)

Cultivation Techniques:

True-Elephant Prajna Art (Complete): Vast strength shakes the heavens!

True Indestructible Body (Complete): Golden body withstands tribulations!

True Yang Divine Skill (Complete): Furnace refines evil!

Mirror Still Water Heart Sutra (Major Accomplishment): Heart mirror resists corrosion!

Martial Skills:

Eight Extremes Suppressing Prison Force (Grade C): Major Accomplishment! Shock force breaks techniques!

Great Sun Incinerating Demon Palm (Grade A): Minor Accomplishment! True fire burns demons!

Left Arm Mark: Vessel Origin Fusion Rate (50%)! Contamination Level (13%)! (Higher will's invasion intensifying!)*

Available Evolution Points: 0!

Special Status:

Higher Contamination Invasion (Intensifying): Active guidance and refinement underway, risk greatly increased!

Severe Injury (Right Arm): Bones and meridians severely damaged!

Faceless Cult Master Ultimate Lock-On: "Nether Abyss Protocol" charging, destruction countdown!