Transparent energy threads shot through the air. Their speed and concealment were so extreme that even Ming Xin felt a faint trace of surprise.
These threads were not purely energy constructs. At their core were countless nanoscale mechanical units carrying out a coordinated swarm attack under the guidance of some field.
The tip of every thread flickered with a faint disintegration field designed to target energy defenses and biological tissue.
The clicking sounds from the passage behind them had also closed to within a hundred meters, accompanied by a teeth-grating low-frequency hiss. The newcomers clearly meant harm.
In that flash of lightning, Ming Xin had already made his response.
He did not move. The seemingly thin Dao Rhyme Field around him suddenly condensed!
Buzz— A spherical shield, nearly invisible to the naked eye and composed of countless tiny Reincarnation Runes, instantly appeared.
It enveloped him, Shadow Fiend beside him, and even the guide automaton.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—!
Dozens of transparent threads struck the shield almost simultaneously!
The expected penetration or explosion did not occur. The instant the thread tips touched the shield,
the disintegration fields they carried violently collided with the essence of "Life and Destruction Cycle" flowing across Ming Xin's shield. Blinding blue-white electrical light flared along the threads.
Then, like waves crashing against a reef, they snapped apart inch by inch and disintegrated!
Under the suppression of higher-level laws, those nanomachines instantly lost activity and drifted away as fine metallic dust.
However, this was only the first wave.
From the shadows on the walls, more and thicker energy chains shot out like awakened venomous snakes!
Purple-black corrosive energy flowed across the surface of those chains, highly similar to the energy signature of the Eye of Guixu. They were clearly defense mechanisms mutated after prolonged contamination.
"Hmph!" Ming