Forced Containment, a Tier 4 Big Boss Is Born

Hum-!!!

The instant Su Bai snapped his fingers, the air in the entire Eye of the Abyss basin seemed to be sucked dry in an instant.

A terrifying aura, colder and ten thousand times more despair-inducing than the Mist Lord's purple poisonous fog, erupted from the Divine Kingdom rift behind Su Bai!

A flash of dazzling crimson appeared in midair like lightning tearing through the night.

Hongdou!

After absorbing all the resentment and Divine Kingdom origin power of Blood Wolf, an expert half a step into Tier 4, Hongdou had completely shattered the shackles of Tier 2 and successfully advanced to a Tier 3 rule horror!

Her scarlet wedding dress fluttered without wind, flames of solidified black resentment burning along its hem. Her long black hair, reaching her waist, danced wildly in the air as though alive.

Although she still had no facial features, when she tilted her deathly pale face slightly and "looked" straight at the Mist Lord,

The entire world seemed to fall silent.

[Tier 3 core rule one: Death Gaze, judgment triggered!]

The Mist Lord's enormous body went rigid in midair. Its dozens of tentacles, which had been lashing fiercely toward Su Bai, froze in place, unable to advance even another millimeter!

"Th-this... what kind of power is this?!"

The soul fire inside the Mist Lord's skull trembled violently. It could feel an irresistible power of causality locking firmly onto its soul core.

"It hurts so much..."

Hongdou's ethereal, piercing murmur, filled with endless despair, exploded deep inside the Mist Lord's mind.

Crack!!!

An earthshaking sound of splintering bone echoed through the basin.

Under the crushing force of Hongdou's invisible rule, the Mist Lord's enormous human skull began twisting backward beyond its control!

"Roar!!!" The Mist Lord let out an agonized scream. It desperately channeled the origin power within its body, trying to resist the rule.

It was half a step into Tier 4, and a colossal companion Anomaly whose vitality far surpassed a human's. Although Hongdou had advanced to Tier 3, snapping its neck outright as she would when instantly killing an ordinary person still required a brief stalemate.

"Trying to hold out?" Su Bai sneered as he watched the Mist Lord struggle wildly in midair.

"I love nothing more than beating a dog while it's down."

With a thought, Su Bai issued another command.

"School bus, ram it!"

"Screech-!!!"

With a piercing squeal of brakes, the Midnight School Bus, which had remained parked at the edge of the Divine Kingdom rift, let out a wild roar of its engine. Its two headlights, burning with ghostly green flames, locked onto the Mist Lord in an instant.

Rumble!

The enormous black bus soared into the air like a wild horse breaking free of its reins, charging forward with unstoppable momentum and slamming into the mountain of flesh formed by the Mist Lord's countless tentacles!

Bang!!!

A tremendous crash rang out. The Mist Lord's massive body was sent flying backward.

The instant it flew back, the Midnight School Bus's doors slid open. The fourteen high-level evil spirits inside turned into fourteen black arrows, frantically burrowing into the Mist Lord's body and tearing at its flesh and origin power from within!

"Aaaah! Get out! Get out of me!"

The Mist Lord went completely mad. Outside, Hongdou's rule was twisting its neck; inside, fourteen evil spirits were devouring its organs. A mighty overlord half a step into Tier 4 had been driven to the end of its rope!

"I'll... destroy... all of you!"

The Mist Lord knew it was probably doomed today. The soul fire in its skull suddenly began expanding rapidly, emitting a blinding purple light. It was preparing to detonate the dark matter core inside its body and drag Su Bai and the Anomalies down with it!

"Trying to self-destruct? Did you ask whether I agreed?"

Su Bai had been on guard against that move all along. He thrust both hands forward.

"The Thirteen Steps, receive our guest!"

Rumble!!!

The ground beneath the Mist Lord suddenly churned violently. A broken staircase covered in moss and stained with blood erupted from the earth like the gates of hell!

The Mist Lord's massive body landed squarely on the thirteenth step!

Hum-!

The surrounding space folded in an instant. The Mist Lord found itself forcibly dragged into an enclosed, gray-white stairwell!

In this enclosed space, an invisible spatial pressure forced its expanding soul fire back down. Its self-destruction was forcibly interrupted!

"Mist Lord..."

An elusive call rang out in the stairwell.

The Mist Lord was in a state of extreme confusion and fury. Hearing the voice, it instinctively roared, "Who's calling me?!"

[The Thirteen Steps core rule two: Roll-Call Response, judgment successful!]

[New Tier 3 rule: Hallucination Deprivation, triggered!]

Hum!

The Mist Lord discovered in horror that its body had begun to disappear beyond its control!

More than a dozen tentacles on its left side evaporated into thin air in an instant, turning into writhing flesh on the stairwell wall. Immediately afterward, it felt as though its soul had been torn into countless pieces, plunging it into endless hallucinations. In the hallucinations, countless youths in school uniforms hacked it to pieces with machetes, and fear engulfed it like a tide.

Outside.

Su Bai stood before the rift to the Wasteland Divine Kingdom, looking at the Mist Lord, which had been tortured to within an inch of its life and could no longer even scream. Satisfied, he clapped his hands.

"That's about done."

Su Bai took a deep breath, unprecedented fervor blazing in his eyes.

"System! Forbidden Hospital, activate containment mode at full capacity!"

"Drag this big guy in and remodel it!"

Boom-!!!

At Su Bai's command, the enormous, sinister [Forbidden Hospital] deep within the Divine Kingdom suddenly erupted with a burst of blinding blood-red light.

The hospital's massive emergency entrance swung open with a crash. A passage paved with countless white bones and mangled flesh stretched straight out of the doorway, pierced the maze barrier of the Thirteen Steps, and wrapped tightly around the Mist Lord's battered body.

"No... don't..."

The Mist Lord let out one last faint wail.

Under a terrifying, irresistible suction, its mountainous body of flesh was forcibly dragged, bit by bit, into the pitch-black doorway of the Forbidden Hospital.

Bang!

The emergency doors slammed shut.

Immediately afterward, deafening chainsaw roars, clashing metal, and a spine-chilling sound of wild laughter erupted throughout the Forbidden Hospital.

In Su Bai's mind, the system notifications rang out furiously like a string of firecrackers.

[Ding! Successfully devoured half-step Tier 4 companion Anomaly "Mist Lord"!]

[Ding! Absorbed a vast amount of high-purity dark matter contamination and fragments of spatial laws!]

[Forbidden Hospital has absorbed top-grade materials. Main building fully activated! Hospital Domain expanded!]

[Flesh Reorganization assembly line operating beyond capacity... ultimate remodeling in progress...]

[Remodeling complete!]

[Congratulations, host! You have obtained an early Tier 4 exclusive horror BOSS: Forbidden Hospital · Specially Appointed Attending Physician (remodeled from the Mist Lord)!]

[Divine Kingdom area increased dramatically... current area: sixty square kilometers!]

[Dark matter contamination index has passed the critical threshold and stabilized at 99.9%!]

Listening to the string of notifications, Su Bai let out a long, satisfied breath.

Sixty square kilometers! A contamination index of 99.9%!

More importantly, he finally had a Tier 4 big boss of his own! Although this "Specially Appointed Attending Physician" could only unleash its full power within the Forbidden Hospital's Domain, anyone who dared enter his Divine Kingdom would definitely be dealt with thoroughly by this big guy.

"A perfect finish."

With a thought, Su Bai recalled Hongdou, the school bus, and the Thirteen Steps into his Divine Kingdom.

The Divine Kingdom rift slowly closed.

With the Mist Lord gone, the miasma that had shrouded the Eye of the Abyss basin began to dissipate rapidly. Cold moonlight once again spilled across the devastated land.

Lin Que and Shen Yueli poked their heads out from behind a rock in the distance. Looking at the empty basin, they exchanged glances, each seeing profound shock and numbness in the other's eyes.

The Mist Lord, half a step into Tier 4, had just... been packed up and taken away?

How the hell was he here to take a secret realm assessment? He was clearly here to stock up!

Just then.

A deafening rumble suddenly came from the sky above the basin.

The once-solid spatial barrier of the secret realm shattered inch by inch like glass. Streaks of light radiating terrifying pressure forced their way through the broken spatial passage like meteors chasing the moon!

At their head was a man wearing a washed-out Zhongshan suit and leaning on an ordinary wooden cane. Yet he radiated a True God Level pressure powerful enough to make heaven and earth change color!

Chen Tianxing, principal of Linhai No. 3 Middle School!

Behind him followed Qin Wan and dozens of Demigod-level teachers.

"Su Bai! Lin Que! Shen Yueli!" Chen Tianxing's anxious voice echoed over the basin.

They had forcibly broken into the secret realm, expecting to find corpses strewn across the ground and the Mist Lord running rampant.

However.

When Chen Tianxing and the teachers landed in the center of the basin, the sight before them collectively turned them to stone.

There was no Mist Lord.

No rivers of blood.

Instead, Su Bai, whom they had thought was almost certain to die, had somehow gotten hold of a barbecue grill. Several skewers of succulent exotic beast meat sizzled on top, dripping with oil.

Holding a bottle of cumin, Su Bai sprinkled it over the meat while waving at the dumbstruck Chen Tianxing.

"Principal, you got here at just the right time. This berserk black bear meat just came off the grill-crisp outside and tender inside. Would you like a skewer?"