The electric net had just brushed his clothes. A wisp of scorched smoke rose, and the corner of his clothing it touched instantly turned to ash.
There was no time. He had no time left to test the other structures. In another second-no, perhaps just half a second-he would turn to ash just like that corner of his clothing.
Everything before his eyes seemed to slow all at once.
Spurred by danger, his perception began working furiously, at an unprecedented speed. Strangely, however, Chen Mu's mind was utterly calm, even calmer than when he trained his perception by holding his breath underwater.
He was like a spectator, coolly examining himself and everything happening to him. In reality, the danger he faced now was a hundred times greater than when he trained his perception dozens of meters underwater.
Boom! Something seemed to change in his perception, and his surroundings suddenly became much clearer.
He could even sense the fine, forked structure of the electric arcs almost touching his face. Every branch was perfectly clear.
Chen Mu could not help giving another bitter smile. Who could have imagined that his perception would break through in the final moment of his life? What made his smile even more bitter was that, at this moment, the breakthrough offered him no help whatsoever.
Suddenly, the bitter smile froze on his face.
The amber ring of light before him abruptly emitted an energy wave unlike any Chen Mu had ever encountered. It happened precisely as the flowing light on the disc completed a full circuit.
The electric net rapidly contracting toward the center suddenly stopped. The nearest electric arc was only a centimeter from Chen Mu.
The net seemed to freeze in midair. Before Chen Mu could even blink, its orderly pattern began twisting and warping,