A Hundred Tons of River Water from the Sky! Even Newton Would Rise from the Grave at This Firefighting Method!

Over the next ten minutes.

Lin Bei rode that battered iron sword, its blade not even sharpened, back and forth seven times.

Only after seven full trips in and out did he haul out every last one of the hundred-plus people trapped above the thirtieth floor.

Medical teams raced toward the ambulances with stretchers.

Several middle-aged men who had just recovered scrambled to the cordon and desperately kowtowed to Lin Bei in midair, their foreheads banging against the asphalt. No one could stop them.

Hovering in midair, Lin Bei shook out his slightly aching right arm.

After repeatedly activating the levitation array disc while maintaining the Fire Avoidance Technique, even with his Qi Refining Second Layer cultivation, he had depleted most of the Spiritual Power in his dantian. A fine layer of sweat had formed on his forehead.

"Everyone's out, but this mess is only just beginning."

Ignoring the crowd below worshipping him like a living bodhisattva, Lin Bei looked up at the World Trade Center before him.

The situation had deteriorated to the extreme.

The ten floors from the thirtieth to the fortieth had completely merged into a sea of flames.

Scarlet tongues of fire furiously curled up the building's exterior, lighting the night as brightly as day.

Rumble-

A muffled boom came from inside the building, making even the asphalt road beneath their feet tremble.

A main load-bearing column on the thirty-fifth floor finally gave way under temperatures exceeding a thousand degrees and burst apart.

Huge chunks of concrete mixed with red-hot rebar sent sparks soaring as they slammed into a fire engine below, crushing a large section of its roof.

The entire World Trade Center building let out teeth-grating sounds of twisting metal and began tilting slightly, visibly to the naked eye.

"Fall back! Everyone, fall back!"

The fire commander's voice cracked completely.

He grabbed a firefighter beside him who was still standing in a daze and dragged him back with all his strength.

"The building's structure is compromised! It could collapse at any moment! Pull back all the ladder trucks! Now!"

Eyes red, the firefighters began reversing their vehicles.

The high-pressure hoses they had laid were disconnected one after another, and the jets of water stopped.

There was nothing they could do. The fire was too high up; the water pressure simply could not reach it.

If they did not retreat now, once the building collapsed, the thousands of rescue workers below would all be buried with it.

In the livestream, the barrage of comments that had flooded the screen in celebration of the successful rescue fell silent.

More than fifty million concurrent viewers watched the skyscraper through their screens, looking as though it could snap at any moment, their hearts choked with distress.

"This is awful. Jinghai City's landmark, destroyed just like that."

"That's tens of billions in economic losses, plus the surrounding commercial districts that might get caught up in it. No one can fill a hole that enormous."

"It's already a blessing that everyone's safe. A collapsed building can be rebuilt."

"Sword immortal, please get out of there! Forget the building! It's too dangerous!"

Just as everyone thought this disaster would end with the building's collapse.

In midair.

Lin Bei moved.

Instead of flying away on his sword as everyone hoped, he pressed down with his foot.

His entire body became a streak of azure light, shooting straight upward against the scorching updraft!

Fifty meters.

A hundred meters.

Two hundred meters.

He flew straight to the very top of the World Trade Center and hovered steadily about thirty meters directly above its rooftop.

Violent high-altitude air currents whipped his black hoodie, pulling the hood backward and exposing eyes that were cold and utterly unruffled in the night.

Below him lay billowing smoke and a sea of flames that seemed ready to devour everything.

"What's he doing?!"

The commander, who had only just withdrawn to a safe distance, whipped his head around and stared fixedly at the tiny black figure above the rooftop.

More than ten thousand onlookers also stopped retreating and raised their heads in unison.

In the livestream, tens of millions of pairs of eyes stared at the screen, their owners unconsciously holding their breath.

Standing on his flying sword, Lin Bei looked down at the inferno beneath his feet.

The light well at the top of the building and the enormous central air-conditioning ducts now resembled giant chimneys spewing black smoke.

"This spot is just right."

The corner of Lin Bei's mouth twitched as he slowly raised his right hand.

His black sleeve slid down, revealing the plain, antiquated black iron ring on his index finger.

It was a storage ring.

Inside it were a full hundred cubic meters of river water!

"Damn system, those ten million Sensation Points are mine today."

Lin Bei took a deep breath and poured every last bit of Spiritual Power remaining in his dantian into the ring on his right hand without reservation.

His divine sense locked onto the building's light well below.

"Extinguish!"

A low shout cracked through the air.

The next second.

A miracle unfolded before fifty million people's eyes.

The black iron ring on Lin Bei's right finger suddenly erupted with dazzling azure light.

Then, under everyone's utterly horrified gazes.

The sky sprang a leak.

It was not rain.

An enormous column of water more than five meters in diameter, so thick it made their scalps crawl, surged out of thin air beneath Lin Bei's palm!

The instant it lost the confines of the storage space, a full hundred tons of river water materialized two hundred meters above the ground!

That was no column of water. It was a genuine waterfall!

A water dragon formed from a hundred tons of river water!

Under the furious pull of Earth's gravitational acceleration, those hundred tons of river water slammed straight toward the building below with unstoppable ferocity!

At that moment, the sight was staggering beyond measure.

A scarlet sea of flames, an azure sword immortal, and a silvery-white river of stars several meters wide that had appeared out of thin air!

Bang!!!

The hundred tons of river water struck the building's light well and ventilation ducts with perfect accuracy.

Carrying terrifying force, the water surged furiously downward through the elevator shafts, stairwells, and vents inside the building.

This was not putting out a fire. This was washing the building!

Flames burning at a thousand degrees met a hundred tons of cold water falling from the sky.

Tens of thousands of cubic meters of white steam expanded rapidly within a fraction of a second!

The remaining glass curtain walls on the building's exterior were shattered outright by the high-pressure steam instantly expanding inside.

Countless shards of glass rained down toward the ground.

Then an indescribably enormous white mushroom cloud blasted out through every window, light well, and gap in the World Trade Center, wrapping the entire building tightly within it.

Under the physical deliverance of this hundred-ton deluge's crushing blow to the head, the previously overbearing fire dragon did not last even a minute.

It was doused outright!

Dead silence.

Deathly silence.

Below the entire World Trade Center, there was no sound except the crisp tinkle of broken glass hitting the ground.

As the wind blew, the white steam enveloping the building gradually dispersed.

The structure that had been glowing red was now pitch-black, muddy water dripping down it.

A few unwilling wisps of black smoke rose from the windows, only to be scattered by the wind in an instant.

The fire was really out.

Just like that... out?

The commander stood stiffly in place, unconsciously pinching his thighs hard with both hands.

It hurt.

He was not dreaming.

Several firefighters beside him holding high-pressure hoses looked as though they had been struck by an immobilization spell. They did not even react when the hoses slipped from their hands and landed on their insteps, simply staring blankly at the dripping building.

Somewhere in the crowd, someone swallowed loudly.

That gulp was like pressing a switch.

In the livestream, the comments, which had remained frozen for a full two minutes, erupted as never before!

The server lagged for three whole seconds. Densely packed words overlapped on the screen until no one could make out who had posted what; all they could see were exclamation marks scrolling wildly across the entire screen.

"Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit, holy shit!!!"

"The heavenly river pouring down! That's the actual heavenly river pouring down!"

"Where's Newton?! His coffin lid won't stay shut! Newton bought a standing ticket and fled overnight!"

"The law of conservation of mass is a joke before Huaxia's immortals!"

"What sword immortal? That's the goddamn Dragon King manifesting!!!"

"The Dragon King has descended! Please bless me so I pass this year's postgraduate entrance exam!"

Madness.

The entire internet went completely mad.

Tens of millions of people's emotions reached their peak at that moment. All kinds of outrageous comments flooded the screens, even causing the servers of several livestreaming platforms to crash outright and start smoking.