Wasteland's Only King-Chapter 158 - 138: The Descent of the Divine! Yu Jin Returns! Purifying Light! (3/3)
Izhou Survivor Base.
Boom—
Boom boom—!
Cao Fang’s figure flickered, shuttling through the mutant beast tide.
Her whole body was wrapped in silver metal armor, wielding a two-meter-long giant spatula.
She had zero experience in fighting.
But cooking? She’d done it for decades!
Flip, stir, fry!
Mix, slap, scrape!
After her thirty-meter diameter super-sized frying pan, this was her new ability test.
[Tier Two Metal Attribute Ability: Steel Body]
[Active Effect: Metalizes body surface, greatly increases defense]
...
[Tier Three Metal Attribute Ability: Liquid Metal]
[Active Effect: Liquefies and shapes metal; can form weapons or armor]
...
Until now, Cao Fang had only used her Tier One ability ’Metal Manipulation’.
These two abilities were ones she’d just mastered after her recent ’power-up’.
The effect...
Surprisingly good.
Cao Fang infused her twenty years restaurant experience and forty years of stir-frying into combat.
Compared to her old ’remote slapping’, she was in total control now.
With every flip, mutant beasts flew everywhere.
During this—
Some mutant beasts attacked her, biting and clawing, but couldn’t even scratch her Steel Body!
Even...
A mutant dog chomped down hard on her arm, but Cao Fang was fine—its teeth shattered instantly.
Swish—
Swish swish—
Cao Fang moved fast and smooth.
From afar, all you saw was a silver flash weaving through the beast tide.
Even—
She soon was no longer satisfied with just ’stir-frying’ beasts. She charged right toward the infected bodies trailing black mist behind the tide!
Compared to mutant beasts, infected bodies had far higher intelligence.
This tide was set off exactly by them.
"Uuuu—"
Seeing this terrifying biped charging in, the infected bodies whimpered in fright.
Then—
Boom—!
Cao Fang brought down her spatula, slapping one from 1.8 meters tall down to just 1.8 centimeters.
The other infected body moved fast, already fleeing in the distance.
But—
"Don’t you run!"
Cao Fang shouted, pushed off with her foot, and landed right in its path.
Then—
Crack—!
This spatula, forty years of power behind it.
Even a Tier Three infected body was cut clean in half, right at the waist.
"Uuu..."
The infected body’s eyes went wide, glaring fiercely at Cao Fang.
With its last gasp before dying, it let out one final whimper.
Izhou Survivor Base.
Tens of thousands watched, brains blank.
"Holy sh—..."
"Steel Mom + Mother of Magnetism?"
...
...
Time slowly passed.
Cao Fang was still fighting in the beast tide.
But—
Her energy and stamina were limited.
Especially after expending herself to smash those black-handed infected bodies.
Outside Izhou Base, tens of thousands of mutant beasts lost control and went berserk.
"ROAR—!"
They roared.
Some swarmed around the exhausted Cao Fang.
The rest charged the gates of Izhou Base!
They could smell—
The thick scent of human flesh coming from inside the base!
Eat the humans, gain more energy, a chance to level up!
"This is bad!"
Ah Zhen watched it all, finally snapping out of shock.
"Hold them off!"
She rallied her team and the Survivor Base Organization’s guards, gripping iron rods and pipes, rushing to the gate.
No matter what, the base couldn’t fall.
Or else—
Tens of thousands of ordinary people would be slaughtered!
But...
Right at this critical moment—
Woom—
An invisible wave spread out, suddenly.
Not from inside the base, and not from Cao Fang surrounded by the beast tide.
But—
Outside Gunzhou University, a deserted alley.
Swish—
In the alley, a figure appeared out of thin air.
No one else—it was Yu Jin, just returned from A3 Planet via Coordinate Imprint.
Because Naiya’s prophecy messed up the Langlang Mountain coordinate, teleportation landed Yu Jin at his old Gunzhou imprint.
He had just returned when he sensed the heavy presence of mutant beasts nearby.
Tier Fourteen perception allowed him to instantly see everything clearly, even without Light Touch.
So—
Yu Jin activated Spatial Imprisonment.
Swish—
He moved, shooting up to the celestial vault.
Looking down from the sky, he saw Gunzhou University surrounded totally by the mutant tide.
The gate Ah Zhen’s team saw was only the tip of the iceberg.
Elsewhere on campus, mutant beasts were already breaking through the barricades, charging toward unsuspecting survivors.
"Looks like Blue Star’s situation is even worse than I thought,"
Yu Jin sighed, reaching out and tapping lightly ahead.
Woom—
A sesame-sized black hole appeared.
[Fifth-tier Spatial Attribute Ability: Space Black Hole Lv9]
[Active Effect: Dismantle space in area, generate black hole, absorb and annihilate all material and energy within]
[Full-Level Effect: Can designate black hole absorption targets]
Swish—
In an instant—
The black hole expanded to fist-size.
It could grow larger, but even with chosen targets, its attraction was always present.
Woom—!
Yu Jin’s thought shifted.
Horrific gravity poured out, blanketing tens of thousands of mutant beasts and infected bodies below.
Then—
Whoosh—!
Whoosh whoosh—!
The mutant beasts were lifted uncontrollably, one after another.
They couldn’t scream, couldn’t fight.
All they could do was watch as they drew closer and closer to the black hole...
Until, inches from its maw, they were ripped apart into bloody mist.
The blood mist barely lasted, too quick to see, instantly devoured wholly by the black hole.
The process sounded complex, but really all took place in barely a second or two.
Woom—!
When Yu Jin released Spatial Imprisonment, things returned to normal.
Ah Zhen and tens of thousands in the base watched—the huge tide of mutant beasts was now gone.
And up in the sky—
The figure standing on air just waved his hand casually, the annihilating black hole gone, and disappeared.
Swish—
Yu Jin stepped down from the sky.
It was just a small step, yet he appeared right in front of Cao Fang.
"Mom."
"I’m back."
Yu Jin said quietly, pulling Cao Fang, whose eyes instantly reddened, into a tight embrace.
...
...
Izhou Survivor Base.
Yu Jin didn’t linger for long.
In his view, the system panel displayed a clear countdown timer.
In ten minutes, he’d be forcibly teleported back to A3 Planet.
And in those ten minutes, there was so much Yu Jin needed to do.
So—
After assuring Cao Fang and telling her Old Yu and his brother Yu Chen were safe—
Yu Jin left behind heaps of crystals and mutated beast meat.
These crystals were enough for every person in the base to become an evolver.
Even the lowest Tier Three mutant beast meat, packed with energy, was immensely valuable in this resource-starved apocalypse.
After that—
Yu Jin soared upward, straight to the heavens.
This return trip—he had one true goal: to purify Blue Star!
The remaining 11% pollution from Oumuamua had kept spreading after landing on Blue Star.
To this day—
Yu Jin could even sense—
Blue Star’s current pollution was nearly more than half of A3 Planet’s!
This meant the pollution wasn’t static.
Once it descended, it increased in ways Yu Jin couldn’t yet fathom.
An extremely dangerous finding.
Know this—
On A3 Planet, without Refuge City’s shelter, even a few hours outside turned people into infected bodies!
In other words—
If Yu Jin hadn’t rushed back to Blue Star to purify the remaining pollution—
With time passing, even Oumuamua’s purified 89% would’ve meant the leftover 11% could eventually turn Blue Star into a Wasteland Planet.
And to purify all pollution in just ten minutes, there was only one way—
Swish—!
Yu Jin’s Light Wings unfolded behind him.
Just like before crossing over, he went all out, shooting toward space!
He was about to hit Blue Star with a blast of Purifying Light!
It was a bold plan, no doubt.
But also the best method Yu Jin could think of.
"Back on Blue Star, Value gets suppressed by 99%..."
Roaring through the sky, Yu Jin felt the change in himself.
His original Value was thirty million, suppressed to fifteen and a half million on A3 Planet.
Back on Blue Star—it gets cut down by 99% from thirty million.
Yu Jin’s current real Value: exactly three hundred thousand.
The Tier Nine Evolver Value range: between one hundred thousand and one million.
In other words—
Yu Jin, even with a 99% suppression, still matched a full Tier Nine Evolver.
But—
That wasn’t what Yu Jin focused on now.
Instead—
According to Eureka’s memory, in Level II Civilization Celsa, even in beta where everyone was Tier Nine, no one could bring a Tier Nine ability back to Celsa Star.
Blue Star’s suppression on evolvers is 99%.
But Celsa Star’s method is not suppression—it’s really ’sealing’.
Before Oumuamua arrived, Blue Star’s beta testers were also ’sealed’.
So—
"Extraordinary power comes from pollution itself?"
This conclusion made Yu Jin frown deeply.
The only exception was himself, with the bound system.
"Purifying pollution means Blue Star’s evolvers will lose their powers in reality?"
This idea flashed in Yu Jin’s mind.
But he quickly reinforced his determination.
Powers or not—they only mattered for fighting beasts and infected bodies.
But Purifying Light itself could wipe beasts and infected bodies out fundamentally.
Hit Blue Star with Purifying Light, and not only clean Oumuamua’s lingering pollution, but also wipe out infected bodies/mutant beasts globally!
But—
For some reason—
Yu Jin thought of Yu Fei’s old two predictions.
"Pollution cannot be stopped."
"Blue Star will eventually perish."
Swish—
Yu Jin’s figure shot away from Blue Star, into space.
He gazed down at Blue Star, turned to look at the now utterly blackened moon, and the sun in the distance, far dimmer than before.
"Is pollution truly unstoppable?"
Yu Jin didn’t know the answer.
His gut told him purifying the planet might not be so simple.
But—
Man makes fate, not Heaven.
Yu Jin pushed all the energy in himself!
Woom—!
Three hundred thousand Value lit up.
Compared to his past self, now Yu Jin was not just purifying a Tier Ten Oumuamua split, but the whole Blue Star!
Yu Jin took one last deep look at the gray planet below.
He stretched out his hand, pointing from afar.
BOOM—!
Light burst from his fingertip, roaring toward Blue Star!
One gesture.
Three hundred thousand Value, Level 8 Purifying Light!
This gesture—
He wanted this planet to become blue again, just like before!
