The Shining Star Above The Heaven-Chapter 1035: Crushed

Hearing Aldrian’s declaration, many were truly shocked, even Kuartin and Zordan. They looked at Aldrian in bewilderment. How could he be so sure that they were the spies?

From what they saw, Aldrian had only observed the troops for a moment before ordering them to take two steps forward. As they observed the troops, they finally understood why he ordered them to take two steps forward.

The other high-ranking commanders on the platform, who still did not understand the situation or who Aldrian was, began to look at him with various expressions. There were some who understood why Aldrian was here. There were some who looked at him with suspicion. There were even some who looked at him with sudden hostility.

They could sense that the ones who did not move were restricted by something that made them unable to move. They knew that this meant that Aldrian was trying to show them that they were spies.

The troops standing near the ones suspected to be the devil spies also looked shocked as they stared at those suspects. They were their comrades in arms, their brothers, their sisters, their friends. They had not shown any suspicious activity.

How was that possible?

"Impossible! There is no way that Martin is a spy!"

"No way! Alfred is not a spy, sir. Whoever you are, you cannot accuse someone of being a spy without any proof!"

"Yeah, don’t say something that is still not certain!"

"General Zordan, who is this man? Why are you bringing him here and letting him accuse some of the troops of being spies without proof?"

"Look, they cannot move. This man must have done something to them! Whoever he is, this kind of behavior is unacceptable!"

Many voices of protest echoed, all directed toward Aldrian or General Zordan. Zordan could not say anything, as he also did not understand how Aldrian’s ability worked.

He glanced at Kuartin and saw that he was also confused, which irritated him. If Aldrian could not say something convincing to these people, then he himself could also be affected. This would also affect the entire army, and in the end, it would affect future battles.

He looked at Aldrian, who still wore a calm expression as if everything was under control.

Still, although he was quite perplexed and even irritated because Aldrian had suddenly pulled off something like this, he was impressed that Aldrian seemed to have restricted the people suspected of being devil spies.

He could sense tens of suspected spies spread among the troops, all of them scattered in different directions. How was it possible for Aldrian to restrict them with such precision without showing any sign of using elemental laws?

Was this space law? It looked like it.

But even he, a peak pseudo immortal stage cultivator, could not sense any use of space law. It was as if the space itself had suddenly trapped those people naturally.

Aldrian, who was still hearing many doubtful and even cursing voices directed at him, finally opened his lips.

"Could you be silent for a moment, please?"

As he said this, a sudden pressure from the heavens pressed down upon the entire army, which shocked them. The pressure lasted only for a second, but that was enough to shake their souls and make their bodies tremble.

All the commanders, including Kuartin and General Zordan, were truly astonished. They had not expected such sudden pressure from the heavens and felt fear deep within their souls.

There was no doubt that this was pressure from the heavens itself, the kind usually unleashed when a being had triggered the heavens’ reaction.

Even though it lasted only for a second, it was enough to shatter their bravado. The pressure just now was truly terrifying, as if the heavens itself were truly angry.

No one showed the same protesting expressions as before. All of their faces were pale and filled with terror.

The only one who was not affected here was Aldrian as he swept his gaze across the troops. His expression was not disturbed, and he still wore that calm face. The people who saw him like this were truly shaken. Was the pressure from the heavens just now caused by him?

How was that possible? How could he unleash something like the heavens’ pressure? Could he control the heavens’ pressure or something?

The truth was that Aldrian had unleashed that pressure using his domain’s power, which was misunderstood as the heavens’ pressure. It was not strange for these people to mistake it for the heavens’ pressure, as they had felt the pressure of his entire domain’s power for that one second.

If it had been the real heavens’ pressure, almost everyone here would already be fainted. At this moment, he could sense the heavens’ fury toward them.

If the heavenly laws allowed it, then the heavens would undoubtedly send down heavenly punishment upon all of these people.

He understood why the heavens were angry, and he had no intention of using it for this matter. He only swept his gaze across the people who were looking at him in horror.

"I know all of you are doubting my judgment when I said that the people you consider your friends, your family, the ones close to you, are spies. However, you must already know that we are facing the problem of devils slipping among us," Aldrian said.

"I have an ability that allows me to differentiate them. I did not accuse someone without reason, and I can also prove it. You will see it yourself."

He then looked at the ones he had identified as spies.

"Now, for the ones who did not move earlier, I want you to release your energy continuously at maximum output for twenty-five seconds. Easy, right? With your current level, there is no way you would deplete your energy in that amount of time."

Aldrian then released his spatial lock on all the people he had pointed out as spies.

"If I am wrong in my judgment, then I will apologize, even kowtow to you one by one as you step onto this platform. Isn’t that enough to restore the name that I have already stained?"

The others then looked at the accused ones, and their acquaintances stared at them as if saying, "Do it."

The accused ones started to panic as all the attention was now on them. They truly did not expect the situation to develop like this. The fact that that unknown man could point out the spies so accurately meant that his ability was real, and that he was truly dangerous.

Moreover, he seemed to know about the weakness of their infiltration method, which depended on the artifacts inside their bodies.

What Aldrian asked them to do was easy for a normal cultivator.

However, for them, if they released their own energy, then they were finished. If they used their victims’ energy instead, the artifact could only store a limited amount. At most, the energy would be depleted if they continuously released it for twenty seconds or so.

Anything beyond that, and their devil energy would instantly be exposed.

They tried to think of a way to get out of the situation, but they found none.

"Come on, why are you staying still and silent? Release your energy continuously for twenty-five seconds," Aldrian said again.

At this point, the people started to realize that there was something wrong with the accused ones. They began to believe what Aldrian had said, and many showed suspicious expressions toward the accused.

They took some distance and looked at them with various expressions. Some were wary, others were in disbelief.

They were their acquaintances, yet they were actually devils? How?

For the commanders, their expressions turned serious. There was nothing left to confirm. They already believed Aldrian and had branded these people as spies. Their reactions alone were enough.

As the devils saw that there was no way out, it was as if they shared the same thought. They began to trigger their dantians so they could commit suicide by blowing themselves up. They suddenly grinned, which made the people near them feel goosebumps.

"Stop them! They are going to blow themselves up!" one of the commanders shouted as they sensed what the devils were about to do.

"Too late! For the devil go—"

Before one of the devils could finish shouting his last heroic roar, his body was suddenly crushed into a cube-shaped lump of flesh, as if something had compressed him into a small object.

All of the devils met the same fate, their bodies crushed into cube-shaped masses, causing the nearby people to gasp. The sight was truly brutal and horrifying, but they knew they would have been dead if these devils had succeeded.

Was this also that man’s doing?

Many saw that Aldrian was just standing there without doing anything. He was merely watching them with his calm gaze, yet those devils were instantly crushed to death, turned into lumps of flesh.

How did he do it?

After the devils’ bodies were destroyed, the troops finally sensed the remnants of devil energy.

There was no doubt anymore. The ones who had just been crushed to death were devils.

This caused those who had been acquainted with them to feel deep sadness.

Didn’t that mean the real ones they knew were already dead?

"Attention to all troops," Aldrian finally spoke again, which made all of them look in his direction.

"Are you angry?" he asked.