Su Dingshan's voice came through the communicator, slightly hoarse. "Miss Qianxue, the nail in the north of the city is spreading faster. A third of my energy barrier has been eroded. Have you found the controllers?"
"Not yet," Su Qianxue said gravely. "They may be hiding in the deepest part of the Weird Domain. I need more time."
"I'm afraid we don't have much time left." Su Dingshan's voice had lost some of its usual composure and grown graver. "If we can't break this Weird Domain before nightfall, those unconscious citizens may never wake up."
Su Qianxue was about to answer when her spatial perception suddenly picked up a violent spatial disturbance.
The disturbance came not from inside the Weird Domain, but from its edge. An extremely brief fissure appeared in the dark purple barrier, as though something had entered from outside.
On the outskirts of Jiangcheng.
Several hundred meters from the Weird Domain's barrier, two old men in the Demon Suppression Bureau's dark teal uniforms stood side by side, with a five-member S-Rank squad behind them.
The man on the left was tall and thin, with a gaunt face and half-closed eyes. His aura was barely perceptible. He was Tie Wuya, deputy director of the Demon Suppression Bureau headquarters, a late-stage Transcendent Stage Realm expert ranked sixteenth in the Heavenly Rankings, known as "Iron Sword."
The man on the right was burly, with thick eyebrows, fierce eyes, and a full beard. His aura was wild and domineering. He was Lei Zhenxiao, chief of the Demon Suppression Bureau's East China Branch, a mid-stage Transcendent Stage Realm lightning superpower user.
All five squad members behind them were in the Domain Realm.
They had originally been on their way to reinforce Linyuan City, but suddenly sensed a dense Weird Domain aura. When