With a light tap of Su Yaoyao’s toes, the row of seemingly ordinary blue bricks along the edge of the wall flipped and slid apart to both sides.
The next moment, a scalp-prickling “bzzzz” suddenly rang out.
It was the low-frequency vibration of ultra-high-voltage current racing through metal conductors.
In this cold-weapon era of swords, spears, sabers, and halberds, the sound was like a death knell from hell.
A gigantic hidden metal net suddenly shot out from a concealed groove along the wall!
This was no ordinary animal trap. To prevent ancient masters of lightness kung fu from vaulting over the wall, Su Yaoyao had specially fashioned it from leftover materials into an anti-aircraft, anti-bird net!
The entire net was woven from high-strength titanium alloy wire, making it incredibly tough and impervious to blades and spears.
Most terrifying of all, it carried an ultra-high-voltage static charge powerful enough to electrocute a dinosaur!
Two thick mechanical telescoping arms crossed in midair.
The giant net spread open completely outside the city wall, resembling an enormous insect-catching scoop.
On its surface, bluish arcs of high voltage slithered and leaped across the fine metal wires like starving venomous snakes, crackling with explosive pops.
The blue glow illuminated the area beneath the wall, making it look like the gloomy depths of the underworld.
Meanwhile, the airborne General Lin Zhenxiong still had his eyes tightly shut. They had been blinded by the flash bomb and were streaming bloody tears.
He desperately squeezed out the last trace of true qi from his dantian, forcibly maintaining his protective gale.
In the darkness, he listened to the wind howling past his ears, judging his speed and distance as he fell.
Almost there!
As long as the tips of his feet touched the ground, he could use the impact to launch himself back up!
Even with his eyes blinded, relying on a Grandmaster’s ability to locate his opponent by sound, he could still slaughter all these ants!
Lin Zhenxiong frantically calculated in his mind. His instinct for survival drove him to adjust his posture into a perfect landing position.
He prepared to strike the instant he touched down.
However…
What awaited him was not hard, level paving stones.
It was a fiery, electrically charged embrace from a high-voltage insect-catching net.
The blinded general could not see the deadly trap ahead.
Like a cannonball, carrying the tremendous inertia of his fall, he flew straight into it without the slightest deviation.
“Bam!”
He plunged headfirst into the opened giant electric net.
Like a gigantic moth that had gone blind, confidently throwing itself into a bug zapper.
The instant he touched the titanium alloy mesh, the protective force he had always been so proud of as a Grandmaster melted away like snow beneath a blazing sun.
Before tens of thousands of volts of ultra-high voltage static electricity, all internal energy and true qi were nothing more than useless decorations outside an insulator!
“Bzzzt—crackle!”
A deafening roar of electric current exploded in midair!
Dazzling blue arcs of electricity, like hundreds of raging thunder dragons, wrapped themselves tightly around Lin Zhenxiong’s massive body.
“Ahhhhhhh!”
His agonized scream, ten times more horrific than when his eyes had been blinded by the flash, rang across the sky above the imperial palace.
The Grandmaster’s supposedly impervious body became the perfect conductor.
The high-voltage current entered through the crown of his head, tore through his internal organs, and traveled down in a blaze of sparks and lightning until it reached the soles of his feet.
His already tattered brocade robes turned to ash the moment they touched the electric arcs.
Even the few pieces of protective armor still clinging to his body melted from the heat, releasing a pungent smell of scorched metal.
Only moments ago, the Great Abyss Kingdom’s foremost power minister had been wildly brandishing his hair, radiating domineering power like a demon god descending upon the world.
Now, his gray-white hair stood straight up under the intense static charge, each strand pointing into the night sky!
The bizarre hairstyle made him look like a gigantic black sea urchin that had gained sentience—absurdly comical.
The violent current stimulated every muscle and nerve in his body.
The Grandmaster convulsed uncontrollably on the high-voltage net in midair.
A jerk to the left, then a twitch to the right.
Every inch of his body shook violently at an extremely high frequency.
The invincible Grandmaster, the legendary figure at the pinnacle of martial arts…
Had not even managed to complete a single move before being electrocuted into a twitching sieve whose only remaining ability was to roll his eyes.
Before long, the air filled with an unmistakable smell.
It was the acrid stench of singed hair, mixed with the strange meaty aroma of protein being roasted by electricity.
“Bzzzt, crackle…”
Blue sparks leaped mercilessly across his body, illuminating the night in alternating flashes of light and darkness.
For a full ten seconds!
He convulsed on the high-voltage net like a fish on a chopping board for ten whole seconds!
To Lin Zhenxiong, those ten seconds lasted longer than being dismembered by demons in the deepest level of hell.
The electricity fried his brain until it completely shut down, draining even the strength to think or scream from him.
Only after Su Yaoyao had leisurely watched enough of this cybernetic electrotherapy show from atop the tower did she slowly extend her foot and tap the switch on the blue brick again.
Click.
The power was cut off.
The ghostly blue arcs on the titanium alloy anti-aircraft net vanished without a trace.
With the electric net’s magnetic force no longer supporting and holding him in place, Lin Zhenxiong’s completely rigid body dropped straight down from midair.
With a muffled thud—
The general who had once shaken the world, wielded absolute power, and driven the Great Abyss imperial family to the brink of despair fell at Su Yaoyao’s feet, where she sat in a grand chair.
He looked like a blackened roast chicken fresh from the oven, charred on the outside and tender on the inside.
His entire body was pitch-black, trailing pungent black smoke.
His limbs remained twisted and rigid in the bizarre posture caused by the electric shock, curled up like chicken claws.
He struggled to part his lips, swollen and blackened like sausages after being electrocuted.
“Pfft…”
A thick cloud of black smoke emerged from his mouth and dissipated into the air.
Then this once-arrogant Grandmaster at the pinnacle of martial arts rolled his eyes back and passed out.
What should have been a world-shaking, heaven-rending battle between martial arts experts had ended in such an absurd fashion.
The general’s dignity had been smashed to pieces, scattered all over the ground.
On the imperial palace tower, the howling wind gradually subsided, and the sand and stones that had filled the sky settled back onto the ground.
Su Zhen yanked off the heavy welding goggles covering his face.
He stared blankly at the smoking, unidentified object at his feet.
The Grandmaster at the pinnacle who had just been capable of destroying heaven and earth, pressing down on him so completely that he could barely breathe…
The peerless fiend who had nearly claimed the lives of his entire family of three…
Had now become a chunk of black charcoal giving off the smell of roasted meat?
The corners of Su Zhen’s eyes twitched violently, and the muscles on his face kept spasming.
For a moment, the Tyrant had no idea what expression he should make.
Should he laugh, or should he be shocked?
“Dad, what are you standing around for? Take the prisoner!”
Su Yaoyao removed her pig-nose gas mask and waved her little hand in front of her nose, trying to dispel the smell of burnt meat.
Her daughter’s clear, crisp voice brought Su Zhen back to his senses.
He hurriedly sheathed his Longquan sword and waved at the subordinates still standing around in a daze.
“Quick! Seize him! Bind him tightly with the thickest black-iron chains. Wrap them around him several times!”
Several loyal Imperial Guardsmen snapped out of their shock and rushed forward like wolves and tigers.
They carried the thick iron chains used for dealing with dangerous criminals.
In three swift moves, they…
And turned the still-smoking “roast chicken” on the ground into a tightly bound human dumpling.
Just as two Imperial Guards roughly hauled Lin Zhenxiong to his feet, preparing to take him away—
“Click.”
A faint sound rang out.
From between the cracks in the Great General’s shattered, charred armor, a small object suddenly fell free, landing crisply on the white jade tiles.
Su Jin was quick to react. He stepped forward, bent down, and picked it up.
It was a tightly sealed encrypted letter.
The material of the envelope was highly unusual; no one could tell what kind of beast hide it had been made from.
It was impervious to both water and fire, and even the terrifying high-voltage current from moments ago had failed to damage it in the slightest.
Su Jin turned the letter over, his gaze going still.
Su Zhen and Su Yaoyao also came closer, seeing the mark on the envelope.
The most eye-catching feature was the seal at the flap.
It was not sealed with the sealing wax commonly used in the Great Abyss Kingdom.
Instead, an unknown dark-red dye had been used to stamp it with an exceedingly eerie, blood-red totem...
