"Ahhhhhhh——!!"

In despair, Edward Kelly attempted to use the Essence Secret Technique to readjust the alchemy array below, but it was too late.

Because destruction is always the fastest, and the easiest!

Opposite, the devil manipulated the body of the robed member, casually crushing the spirits of a few enemies who harbored thoughts of retreat, and then effortlessly pointed a finger underground!

The eyes of the black-robed member under manipulation revealed such fear and despair, the suppressed consciousness could do nothing.

Yet their actions were so smooth, calm, as if rehearsed countless times before, effortless and adept.

At the point of the finger, the mountain split, the ground shattered, and the land instantly crumbled, fracturing into pieces, opened by an invisible spell, layer by layer, like a sharp scalpel cutting open the skin, flesh, and fat on a surgical table, flipping them layer by layer.

Various sand and gravel flowed like water, rushing towards all directions!

It was so easy to tear the surface apart, shatter the layers, exposing the rocks and sand below, turning the once flat ground into a fragmented, pitted mess in an instant!

Thunderous booms rang out as the key nodes of the alchemy array were severed and completely shattered!

"...!!"

The scene suddenly froze, and Edward Kelly's vision went dark, realizing all was lost.

He couldn't understand why this was happening, why this devil had such terrifying power at this moment in time, even though history seemed to record nothing about this, was it because they seldom acted, or had they hidden historical secrets?

But no matter what, no matter how much he couldn't understand or was unwilling, he could only endure the heart-wrenching pain of remorse, turning to flee desperately.

If he didn't escape, he would die here!

They had been so confident about using the power of "time" to kill the threat of the future at its nascent stage, cruelly, and excitedly enjoying the thrill of changing history, toying with the world, and ruthlessly slaughtering future supremes, never expecting such a terrifying reversal ending.

It seemed relatively smooth before, but after destroying the other's body, it was as if they truly released a devil without physical form...

It seemed that after abandoning its original constraints, the other party became even more terrifying!!

The remaining people no longer had any will to resist, turning madly and shouting as they frantically darted in a direction, burning essence, heedlessly using their last-resort survival secret techniques just to escape this dreadful slaughterhouse!

They felt an extremely dangerous aura pervading the air, the unstoppable power ready to turn into a death descending from the skies at any moment! Indeed, stimulated by the threat of death into losing rationality, someone shouted, abruptly transforming into a red light under the effect of a secret technique, diving into the fractured ground below.

Using a spell similar to Earth Escape, they frantically fell downward, trying to escape their fate in this way.

"Die!"

However, the devil controlled the puppet, extending another finger without bothering to see the results, striding forward with attention locked onto the remaining targets.

As it passed, the ground that had just been plowed into a fragmented mess, resembling the aftermath of a storm, became incomparably flat and solid.

The entire area a few miles around became smooth on the surface, as if the land within this region was actually a single block of painstakingly refined steel ingot, cast from iron, naturally formed.

Turning the earth into steel with a gesture!

There was no sound from underground, nor did that person reappear, their once-vibrant life force vanishing directly beneath the depths of the earth, a truly tragic death.

......

...

Under the night sky.

In a secret cave somewhere unknown, hidden within the vast mountains, rarely reached by human presence.

Within a giant glass jar, a robust naked clone suddenly opened its eyes, a light of Spirit Stone essence flashing in them.

Forcibly breaking the glass, allowing the cultivation liquid to gush out, Edward Kelly stumbled out weakly, gasping for air with both hands on the ground, trembling as if from some fear-related traumatic event, but his face twisted into a smile, a harsh and deep laughter faintly echoing in the cave.

He had survived.

After decisively creating distance and with his companions distracting the devil, he chose to end himself.

In retrospect, it was the right choice; if he had waited to be killed by that devil's evil power before activating the Substitute Death Secret Technique, there wouldn't have been time to transfer his consciousness... Only with his exceptionally keen decisiveness, through preemptive suicide to trigger the secret technique, transferring his consciousness into a backup body in a safe place.

"Timing is everything..."

A voice like a nightmare sounded, the plain tone nonetheless conveying the most terrifying matters, as a young man in a green robe entered the cave.

"You... how is it possible..."

Edward Kelly's expression instantly froze, his eyes wildly shifting.

Across such a distance, how could the other party immediately find this place, wasn't he supposed to be pursuing his companions? And how could his body have recovered instantly, reappearing here effortlessly to trap him?

"I'm not the me from just now, I merely calculated and discovered you are slippery like an eel, highly likely to escape from over there... so I came here early to block you."

The green-robed cultivator smiled slightly, explaining with a gentle tone.

"The timing seems perfect, I just arrived here as you committed suicide back to the city..."

He said while smiling, at the same time effortlessly swinging a sword qi with two fingers.

Severing the head of the bald alchemist, whose face was frozen with disbelief, hysteria, madness, and other complex emotions.

At the same time, easily invoking the technique of soul extraction, preventing the opponent's soul body from transferring again.

At the moment of completing the kill, some particles of light surfaced from the bald alchemist's body.

Immediately after, a giant red snake appeared, followed by an elf with a shape similar to a mermaid, possessing bird wings and a fish tail, but they quickly dissipated into the air...

"Eh?"

Gu Mo was slightly taken aback, the appearance of the Ouroboros was expected, but the second one... this seemed to be the Guardian Spirit of a protagonist from another generation, Sesha who granted Undying Power...?

......

(PS: Happy Children's Day everyone... By the way, do you still celebrate this holiday? I'm so young yet already seventeen... (pushes glasses))