Demon Cultivator in Abyssal Era

Chapter 364: Chapter 196: King Tier Whose Worldview Collapses (Part 3)

In reality, as a top-tier King Tier with hopes of ascending to the Heroic Spirit rank, Qin Xiang held an extremely high position even in the Investigation Bureau. If not, he wouldn’t have been entrusted with the significant duty of looking after the Civilization Envoy.

If it weren’t for the severe poison, even together, Wen Feiyan and Li Zhan wouldn’t be his match!

But battles among the Awakened are full of restraint and information gaps; there are countless examples of the weak overcoming the strong. Although Qin Xiang was powerful, his perception wasn’t top-notch. Wen Feiyan exploited this weakness to successfully launch a sneak attack.

Yet, even with poison weakening him, with his Skill’s Power reduced to less than seventy percent of his peak state, he still managed to form layer upon layer of chain cages. Wen Feiyan’s shadow tried to bypass them but was controlled by the chains’ restraint.

As for Wen Feiyan’s body, it was now merely five meters from the Buddha Statue! This distance was within reach for an Awakened of King Tier, yet Qin Xiang’s chains kept her firmly in place, preventing any further advancement.

But before Qin Xiang could show a hint of joy, he suddenly changed his expression as if sensing something!

Because the surrounding Corrupted Buddhist Disciples started to quickly shrink, hastily filling the wounds on the Golden Buddha Statue, while the statue itself curled up as if preparing to withstand some impact!

Even without thinking, it was clear that Calamity was planning to abandon his comrades and directly detonate the nuke.

Wen Feiyan screamed in shock and anger, desperately struggling against the chains holding her, but remained trapped by them, and Qin Xiang himself was unable to make any more moves to maintain the seal.

This left Wen Feiyan shocked and angry, screaming, ”Qin Xiang! Are you fucking insane? Why capture me instead of running?!”

She also used Sound Transmission, delivering this sentence to Qin Xiang’s ears within 0.1 seconds.

Yet Qin Xiang merely smirked coldly, completely unmoved.

Indeed, as the distance from the nuclear explosion center increased, the nuclear blast’s power quickly diminished. As long as one could run a thousand meters away, even a 100-kiloton nuclear bomb could be resisted by King Tier Awakened.

But Qin Xiang wouldn’t be foolish enough to believe the opponent would give him a chance to escape.

The mechanism of detonating a nuclear bomb compresses the fissile material through impact, triggering a chain reaction to release massive Energy.

The most common detonation method involves installing a ring of fast explosives around the bomb and using its impact to compress the fissile material.

Though unaware of the exact detonating device, from the transmission of the electrical signal to the fast explosives’ detonation, triggering the chain reaction, and to the nuclear bomb exploding to release massive Energy, these steps are completed in a very short time. The time from the start of the explosion to impacting everyone won’t exceed a second! No, it likely won’t even reach half a second!

This brief time, even for King Tier Awakened, only allows them to release their Defense Skills, being absolutely impossible to escape.

Without the protection from Defense Skills, even escaping hundreds of meters would see them instantly engulfed by tens of thousands of degrees of high temperatures.

In fact, Qin Xiang had long accepted his death wish. The instant he became poisoned and realized there was a nuclear bomb here, he no longer believed he could survive, focusing on detoxifying was merely to drag another down with him before dying.

”The thing I’ve hated most in my life is you selfish, self-serving egoists. You can’t understand heroes with great character, but you lie on the fruits of victory won by their lives and ridicule them.”

”You think you can outsmart me?”

”Even if I die, I’ll drag a traitor to humanity like you down to Hell with me!”

Qin Xiang’s eyes turned blood-red, mobilizing his entire Energy to the maximum, completely binding Wen Feiyan!

The latter, fully aware of the overwhelming sea-like energy, fell into total despair, cursing in anger and fear, saying, ”Madman, fucking madman!”

Simultaneously frantically mobilizing her own energy, not to escape Qin Xiang’s binds, but to use all her cards, setting up layer upon layer of defenses around her.

Although aware her defenses were paper-thin against the nuclear blast’s impact, at this moment she could do nothing else, finding some solace in desperately constructing defensive Shields in despair.

The Golden Buddha Statue kept rapidly contracting without stopping, soon filling every gap on its Golden Body. Everyone knew once it hid its wounds perfectly, the nuclear explosion would occur—also marking the end of everyone’s Life.

Wen Feiyan frantically cast Mana outward, swiftly setting up more than a dozen Shields and numerous Defense Talismans around her.

But Qin Xiang knew these were just the struggles of a dying person refusing to accept their fate.

Seeing her break in rationality before death, a stark contrast to her previous demeanor, Qin Xiang couldn’t help but laugh heartily.

He glanced at the direction of the cave entrance, silently thinking to himself, ”My warning was so timely, with Chen Ce’s wit, he should have turned and fled.”

”As long as he keeps his distance, protecting himself under the nuke should be no problem.”

”I wrongly blamed him before; turns out he’s not reckless but has absolute strength to dare ignore instructions and come underground first.”

”With such a monstrous Talent and bold yet meticulous actions, no wonder his strength grows so fast. Having such a genius is truly Huaxia’s fortune.”

”Originally only dragging down a scum felt unsatisfactory, but if my Life can save such a talent, it’s not wasted.”

Thinking of this, in the face of impending death, a faint smile appeared on his face, calmly waiting to meet his end.

Just then, as if sensing something, the smile froze on his face.

He suddenly turned his head, his previous tranquil smile instantly transformed into shock and anger!

Because Qin Xiang’s vision caught a familiar silhouette.

Having received his warning, Chu Xiu should have retreated immediately but instead sped up, inexplicably accelerating towards him, now rushing near the cave, less than a hundred meters from him!

At that moment, accompanied by a heavy ”click” sound, the Buddha Statue behind Qin Xiang completed its closing motion!