Tang Buyu was dressed in an inconspicuous black combat suit, with no expression on his face, only a pair of eyes as deep and cold as a frigid pond!
In his hand, he held no conspicuous weapons, only a few... seemingly ordinary, smoothly polished black pebbles.
He quietly watched Lai Junchen, who was like a demon god on the altar, and his fellow disciples below, who were like lambs to the slaughter. There was no ripple in his eyes, as if... this bloody slaughterhouse had nothing to do with him.
"Hmm?"
Lai Junchen seemed to sense something, and his eerie green gaze swept like a viper towards the shadows where Tang Buyu was hiding!
"Another... little mouse?"
His withered finger pointed lightly in Tang Buyu's direction!
Buzz---!!!
The space around Tang Buyu instantly solidified! As if it had been poured into concrete!
An invisible, terrifying force, carrying strong mental pollution and spatial confinement, descended like a giant net, fiercely covering him!
Attempting to completely crush and assimilate him!
However!
Tang Buyu moved! His movements... were faster than the limit of visual capture! Like a teleportation!
His body pulled out blurred afterimages in the solidified space!
The power of space, enough to confine steel, seemed to lose its effect in front of him... Or rather... he 'slipped' past it in an extremely bizarre way!
"Oh?"
Lai Junchen let out a soft gasp, and a hint of surprise and... a hint of interest flashed in his eerie green eyes.
"Space affinity? Interesting little fellow!"
Tang Buyu ignored his words. His figure shuttled like a ghost through the cracks in the solidified space!
Each flash precisely avoided the core nodes of the spatial confinement! At the same time! His wrist moved slightly!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Three black pebbles shot out silently! There was no sound of breaking air! No energy fluctuations! Like ghosts merging into the night! The pebbles drew three extremely tricky arcs in the air, defying the laws of physics!
Bypassing the solidified spatial barrier! Precisely... shooting towards the three thickest dark red energy threads connecting Elder Tang Qianji's body!
Puff! Puff! Puff!
Three extremely faint muffled thuds! Like a needle piercing a balloon!
The three dark red threads snapped in response! Like piano strings cut by a red-hot steel needle!
"Urgh ah---!!!"
Below the altar, Elder Tang Qianji, who was like a puppet on strings, suddenly let out a mournful scream! His body twitched violently! Thick black blood gushed from his seven orifices! His connection with the altar and with Lai Junchen... was forcibly severed in part!
"You're courting death!"
Lai Junchen's eyes erupted with monstrous rage!
He didn't expect this 'little mouse' to be so troublesome! And he even hurt his 'vessel'! His withered palm suddenly opened! He clenched it fiercely in Tang Buyu's direction!
"Punishment · Iron Thorn Cage!"
Buzz---!!!
The space around Tang Buyu instantly collapsed and twisted!
Countless sharp iron thorns, condensed and shimmering with eerie blue cold light!
Like wildly growing vines! They instantly surged from all directions!
Forming a huge, impenetrable thorn cage! It fiercely contracted inward! To crush Tang Buyu... into a pulp!
Spatial strangulation! Inescapable!
Tang Buyu's figure was instantly submerged by countless eerie blue iron thorns! As if... he had been torn into pieces!
The survivors below the altar let out desperate cries of alarm!
However!
Just as the eerie blue iron thorn cage contracted to its extreme!
Buzz---!!!
A more dazzling, more condensed, silver-white light, as if it could cut through the void... Like the first ray of light at dawn! Suddenly burst forth from inside the cage!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
A teeth-grinding sound of shattering rang out! The indestructible eerie blue iron thorns, condensed from the power of space! Like fragile glass... shattered inch by inch! Disintegrated! Turning into a sky full of flying energy light points, like fireflies.
The light dissipated! Tang Buyu's figure... stood in place, unharmed!
In his hand... at some point, there was an additional... strange metal flake, only the size of a fingernail, with a hazy silver light flowing throughout!
The edge of the flake shimmered with spatial ripples flowing like water! The silver-white light that tore through the cage just now... was emitted from this flake!
"Space... fragment?!" Lai Junchen's eerie green eyes suddenly constricted! His voice carried an incredible horror! "You... how could you... control such a thing?!"
Tang Buyu's face showed a trace of nostalgia:
"Once... an old friend gave it to me."
He slowly raised his hand and gently pressed the silver space fragment to his glabella!
Buzz---!!! An indescribable, terrifying spatial fluctuation, as if it could tear the void, erupted like a storm, centered around him!
"Qianji's Guidance · Shattered Space!"
Tang Buyu's lips moved slightly, uttering four cold words!
He suddenly spread his hands! His ten fingers danced rapidly in the void, as if playing an invisible string instrument! With every pulsation of his fingertips! The space fragment embedded in his glabella burst forth with dazzling silver light!
Countless hair-thin spatial cracks, yet containing terrifying cutting power! Like a spider web! Centered around him! They frantically spread and expanded in all directions!
Chii chii chii---!!!
Wherever the spatial cracks passed! All matter! Whether it was hard rock! Twisted metal! Or... invisible spatial power! Was silently... cut! Torn! Annihilated!
The grotesque torture instruments on the altar! Like paper fed into a shredder! Were instantly cut into countless tiny fragments! And then... swallowed by the spatial cracks! Disappearing without a trace!
The dark red energy threads connecting Lai Junchen and Tang Qianji! Like spider webs touched by a red-hot branding iron! Snapped and dissolved one after another!
"No---!!!" Lai Junchen let out a terrified shriek!
His translucent body twisted and fluctuated violently under the cutting of countless spatial cracks! Like a candle in the wind! He tried to control the power of space to resist!
But... in front of those cracks containing the primordial power of the space fragment! His spatial control... was like child's play!
Pffft---!!!
A silver spatial crack, like the most precise surgical knife, instantly severed the last and thickest energy thread connecting Lai Junchen and Elder Tang Qianji!
"Urgh ah---!!!" Elder Tang Qianji let out an even more mournful scream! His body, as if all strength had been drained, collapsed limply to the ground! Completely losing all vitality!
And Lai Junchen...
"Bastard! I am... Ah---!!!"
Lai Junchen's roar abruptly ceased! His body, having lost its energy source and the support of spatial power, violently twisted and swelled like a punctured balloon!
Finally... it exploded with a bang! Turning into black smoke, filled with strong resentment, scattering across the sky! Dissipating into the air!
And the fragment of the Luo Zhi Jing also shattered without a trace.
Qianji Tomb... was utterly silent! Only the faint hum of spatial cracks annihilating, and... the lingering, nauseating smell of blood and the scorched scent after space was torn.
Tang Buyu slowly lowered his hands. The silver space fragment on his glabella dimmed, disappearing again. His face was as pale as paper, and his body swayed slightly, clearly having expended a great deal of energy in that last strike.
He didn't even look at Tang Qianji's corpse on the ground or the dissipated Lai Junchen. His gaze calmly swept over the messy battlefield and the terrified eyes of the survivors, then turned... and disappeared into the shadows.
In that battle... Tang Buyu... became famous throughout Shu! With a mysterious space fragment, he tore apart the penal space of the former dynasty's cruel official! He saved the Tang Sect's forbidden ground, which was on the verge of destruction! And... he planted a deep fear of him... in everyone's hearts!
Memory fragments receded like a tide!
Zhuang Han's massive bone body trembled violently! His crimson beast eyes were filled with horror and... an indescribable... lingering fear!
Space! The power of space! Next to that skinny boy who controlled metal... there was a girl with spatial teleportation ability! Although her ability was still very weak, far from as terrifying as that guy named Tang Buyu in the memory!
But... what if?! What if she also had some space fragments hidden on her?!
Master was right! They were bait! They were traps! They were... for catching big fish!
If he had really rushed into the Sports Hall just now and killed those three people... he might have ruined Master's plan!
A cold chill instantly shot up Zhuang Han's spine to the top of his head! Making his bone-armored body feel numb!
In his crimson beast eyes, that last trace of unwillingness and ferocity was completely replaced by fear and... reverence for Master's foresight!
He slowly retracted his bone feet, which had been suspended in mid-air, and his massive body hunched slightly, like a deflated balloon.
The stark white bone spurs covering his entire body retracted their sharpness, and the crimson blood pattern on his right cheek also dimmed. He let out a low, submissive whimper in his throat, like a defeated beast.
"Master... is wise..."
An extremely faint mental fluctuation, carrying an absolute sense of submission, traveled along the blood pattern connection to a distant, unknown place.
He no longer looked at the entrance of the Sports Hall. His crimson beast eyes turned towards the deeper parts of Linghui Academy, the area shrouded in even denser darkness.
There... was the true hunting ground... Master had pointed him to!
His massive body slowly turned, and his bone-spurred giant feet stepped on the ruins, emitting a dull "thud" sound, step by step, disappearing into the depths of the darkness shrouded by the blood moon.
