Chapter 154 - 134: Battle of the Extraordinary, Might of the Lighthouse

Chapter 154: Chapter 134: Battle of the Extraordinary, Might of the Lighthouse

Its voice was Shi Han’s voice. They were completely identical. It even perfectly mimicked his behavioral patterns and combat habits!

Luo Susu and Wu Feng were already outmatched. Seeing the familiar visage of their old friend, they instinctively hesitated. In just the blink of an eye, the two sustained multiple injuries.

At this moment, the glowing orb atop the distant Lighthouse burst with a brilliance more than ten times brighter than before. Previously, it had merely been in a daily maintenance state, but now, the Lighthouse had entered an alert, defensive mode.

As the blazing light bathed the earth, the Pseudo-Men who still maintained human forms let out agonizing shrieks. Under the dazzling illumination, their skin and muscles melted away, stripped inch by inch until only a humanoid silhouette remained, woven from countless intersecting black lines.

This was the true form of the Pseudo-Man!

Meanwhile, the Lost villagers collapsed on the ground continued to wail, but that was all. Their bodies showed no signs of melting. The survivors and the true ghosts were now starkly differentiated.

Even the Shi Han Pseudo-Man was forced to reveal its true form under the radiant glare. It howled in pain as thirty to forty percent of its Curse Power dissipated, leaving it weak and sluggish.

Luo Susu and Wu Feng launched an enraged counterattack. The members followed suit.

Under the Lighthouse’s light of Exorcism, the Pseudo-Man Ghosts wailed in sheer terror. Their Recovery Power and Life Force had been severely weakened. The members slew several of them right on the spot.

"Is the outcome already decided?" Shi An murmured, his expression still grave. He stared fixedly at a specific area of the battlefield. There, both the Pseudo-Men and the human Dream Descenders had consciously kept their distance.

It was where Chen Jianghuai stood.

Under the shining light, thick gray smoke continued to billow from Chen Jianghuai’s body. It was as if his physical form had absorbed an endless amount of corruption. His expression rapidly shifted—one moment furious, the next utterly ferocious. His arms trembled as if he were trying with all his might to suppress something.

"Could this Transcendent have already been replaced by a Pseudo-Man?" Shi An thought. "It doesn’t look like it yet, but the corruption seems to have seeped into his very marrow."

If Chen Jianghuai was already dead, they would be facing a Pseudo-Man Extraordinary!

"Me? Fight an Extraordinary?" Shi An had never even witnessed the true power of an Extraordinary before.

Chen Jianghuai had indeed been corrupted for a long time after being targeted by a Pseudo-Man Extraordinary. But he was still an Extraordinary after all—a battle-hardened Extraordinary!

"AHHH!" he roared. Using his hand as a blade, he ruthlessly plunged it into his own chest without a second of hesitation.

The next moment, his body shuddered. Wisps of smoke drifted from the open wound, materializing nearby into a "person" that looked exactly like Chen Jianghuai, save for a grayish, ashen complexion.

An Extraordinary Realm·Pseudo-Man!

It stood on high ground, looking down at Chen Jianghuai with a grim expression. "To think I’d fall short at the final hurdle!"

It glanced toward the distant Lighthouse, clearly aware that it was the main culprit. It immediately lunged toward the Lighthouse, but Chen Jianghuai anticipated its move.

"Die!" he bellowed, launching a furious strike.

The chest wound he had just inflicted on himself was slowly healing, mending itself with gray patches of earth. He didn’t have many external injuries, but his vitality had been severely drained from enduring the long-term corruption of the Pseudo-Man Ghost. However, this Pseudo-Man Extraordinary was not in its complete form either, and it was being suppressed by the Lighthouse.

Chen Jianghuai slammed his fist into the ground. The earth split open, the fissures rumbling and Spreading outward, catching up to the Pseudo-Man Extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

The next moment, the ground caved in as massive, ten-meter-tall boulders erupted around it, trapping the Pseudo-Man Extraordinary inside.

BOOM!

A second later, the Pseudo-Man Extraordinary shattered the massive boulders with its bare fists, bursting through the rocky prison and charging out amidst flying debris. Behind it, shattered rocks rained down, causing the earth to tremble incessantly with every impact.

The nearby Dream Descenders were gripped with shock and terror.

The "ten-meter-tall boulders" were actually about the height of a five- or six-story building. Chen Jianghuai had raised a skyscraper with a single punch, and the Pseudo-Man Extraordinary had demolished it with another. Many of the resulting jagged rock fragments were one or two meters wide, effortlessly gouging deep craters into the earth upon impact.

The Dream Descenders scattered in a desperate panic. Although they were powerful experts in the Refining Stage, getting hit by such massive falling boulders would mean certain death or severe injury. And this destruction was merely the aftershock of the initial clash between two Extraordinaries.

"Is this the terrifying might of an Extraordinary Being?!" Shi An marveled. This was also his first time witnessing the power of an Extraordinary. It was a pure tier of strength that completely eclipsed the Peak of Third Refinements Realm.

However, he paid more attention to the "traits" of the Extraordinary Realm. Chen Jianghuai’s Ability was related to earth.

The Pseudo-Man Extraordinary wielded a large broadsword. Whenever Chen Jianghuai was slashed by the blade, the injured flesh transformed into crumbling dirt. He was substituting his physical injuries with soil.

However, this substitution seemed to have a limit, and Chen Jianghuai gradually began accumulating multiple wounds. Yet, he paid them no mind, opting to trade injury for injury in a desperate fight to the death against the Pseudo-Man Extraordinary.

BOOM!

The two figures crashed into the outskirts of the mining area. Rows of prefabricated houses collapsed one after another. Thick dust billowed into the air, yet the two combatants charged out as if nothing had happened, continuing to exchange a flurry of blows. The impact of their colliding fists produced a muffled, thunderous roar. The earth constantly fractured beneath them, revealing massive, spiderweb-like craters.

However, Chen Jianghuai was only human. His Extraordinary trait allowed him to transform parts of his body into earth to evade damage, but it couldn’t protect everything. He would bleed.

The Pseudo-Man Extraordinary was taking damage too—even more than Chen Jianghuai. But the Pseudo-Man Extraordinary was a ghost! Even at the same Extraordinary tier, a ghost’s Life Force was vastly superior to a human’s!

"Furthermore, this Pseudo-Man Ghost also possesses the Ability of ’Shattered Earth bodily transformation,’ though not on par with Chen Jianghuai’s. The Pseudo-Man’s replacement trait allows it to steal a Transcendent’s Ability!" Shi An thought to himself.

He finally made his move. Through sheer willpower, he manipulated the Lighthouse’s light, refining it over and over again. The pale yellow light condensed, deepening into dark yellow, and then into a brilliant orange.

Meanwhile—

BOOM!

Already in poor condition, Chen Jianghuai finally buckled under the immense pressure, coughing up two mouthfuls of blood.

The Pseudo-Man Extraordinary no longer cared about the distant Lighthouse. It spun around, lunging forward to grab Chen Jianghuai’s arm. Its arm transformed into an Earth Block. Chen Jianghuai’s arm also turned into an Earth Block. But the brownish-yellow soil, representing the Pseudo-Man Extraordinary, was creeping up Chen Jianghuai’s arm inch by inch.

It was attempting to reclaim this human Extraordinary’s body! Its eyes glowed a sinister crimson.

A terrifying aura of black Curse Power swirled around its body. Surging rings of Curse Pressure expanded in all directions, whipping up a violent gale that sent shattered rocks flying. Even someone at the Peak of Third Refinements Realm like Luo Susu was unable to approach.

Right at that moment—

BUZZ!

A concentrated beam of orange light shot out from the Lighthouse.

For a split second, the light was blindingly radiant, like a rising sun intent on eradicating all evil.

SQUELCH!

With a soft piercing sound, the beam shredded the Pseudo-Man Extraordinary’s Earth Block arm before effortlessly Piercing straight through its torso without a shred of resistance.

What an incredible beam of light it was!

"Is it a human Extraordinary? An Extraordinary of a higher Tier?" the Pseudo-Man Extraordinary wondered, profoundly shaken and overcome with intense dread.

It had only caught a vague glimpse of the beam shooting from the Lighthouse. It focused its mind, surging Curse Power throughout its body and pushing its strength to the absolute limit.

It finally perceived the beam of light! But this was the speed of light itself.

The Pseudo-Man Extraordinary had barely raised its hand. The targeted area had only just begun its Earth Block Transformation. Yet, it was entirely pierced through.

Raging flames ignited around the gaping hole in its body. This was the fire of Exorcism, a purifying blaze of absolute destruction!

The Pseudo-Man Extraordinary unleashed a wretched howl as its aura and Life Force plummeted rapidly.

It was critically wounded and thoroughly terrified. Reverting its physical form back to its purest, primordial mist state, it fled outward, crossing dozens—then hundreds—of meters in the blink of an eye.

However—

SWISH!

Another beam of orange light tore across the sky, thoroughly purging that final wisp of smoke from existence. Only a small, gray bead remained, dropping from the air with a soft THUD.

A Ghost Extraordinary, under the barrage of these three beams... was entirely obliterated!

Arrows of light continued to rain down from the Lighthouse, annihilating the remaining Pseudo-Man Ghosts on the battlefield.

"It’s over!" the Safe Zone members exhaled in immense relief. Several experts from Elk Camp collapsed onto the ground, thoroughly exhausted.

However, they all stared blankly in the direction the beams had originated from, somewhat dazed.

Just moments ago... a terrifying Ghost Extraordinary, one that even their camp leader, the veteran Extraordinary Realm Lord Chen, couldn’t defeat... was turned to ash in the blink of an eye.

"Is this... the power of the Safe Zone camp?"