Chapter 176 – A Collision with Energy

Naturally, Su Lifeng also did not know that the reason he had not foreseen the cause of Wang Chuan’s death was because of this bizarre situation.

“You can understand the Spatial Gap as a buffer zone created after space is torn open. In this region, nothing is balanced, and anything can happen,” Liu Yue said. “But this situation only appears when the torn surface is not large. If the torn surface is large enough…”

“To put it simply, imagine Earth as a sealed room. When the force outside pushes the door open just a crack, a little light comes in and a faint breeze blows through. But both the covered area and the degree of influence are very limited. At that time, this small patch of ground touched by the light can be called a Spatial Gap.”

“But what if the door is pushed fully open? The wind outside will carry sand and dust straight into the entire room, and the light will cover a much larger area. At that point, the gap no longer exists, because it has been covered,” Su Lifeng said.

Liu Yue looked at Su Lifeng with some surprise. After thinking for a moment, she smiled and nodded. “That’s a very fresh way to put it. Why didn’t I think of that? If you understand it this way, then you can understand the reason I said the Spatial Gap is unstable. When the air currents inside and outside the door are different, the door is always trembling slightly, so the Spatial Gap is constantly strengthening and weakening. A place like this, for example, could very possibly collapse all of a sudden.”

“What happens if it collapses?” Su Lifeng’s expression changed at once. He raised his head to look up. Above him was nothing but darkness.

“How should I explain it… If it collapses, it would be like being sealed inside a human-made bomb and going through an explosion. At the very least, leaving no corpse behind would be the basic outcome.” Liu Yue smiled as she spoke, then brought her hands together. Clap. “Like this. Caught in the crack of a door, and then the door suddenly closes.”

“…That really is vivid.” Su Lifeng’s eye twitched as he watched.

Still, the situation here was very different from the island. Perhaps Spatial Gates opening in different places would produce different situations?

To some extent, this place was like a desert beneath a pitch-black night sky.

But unlike a desert, this place was deathly silent. He could not sense the presence of any life.

“What that Xenospecies meant is that only High-class Xenospecies or Wisdom Species can tear space apart and open a Spatial Gate…” Su Lifeng glanced at Liu Yue again, guessing at the identity of this strange girl while secretly remaining on guard.

By now, the two of them had already gone deep into the dunes. Liu Yue led him swiftly through them as if she knew their destination. Suddenly, a Black Thread shot over from the side.

This Black Thread seemed to have been hiding for a long time, waiting for this one moment. It came extremely fast, and it deliberately chose a blind angle, making it very difficult to dodge. What surprised Su Lifeng was that Liu Yue not only did not dodge, she instead reached out her hand to meet the Black Thread.

“Pffft!”

A muffled sound rang out. This time, Su Lifeng saw clearly. A faint sheen of light suddenly appeared on Liu Yue’s skin, and that Black Thread writhed desperately, trying to drill into Liu Yue’s body, but it was never able to break through that layer of light…

“He’s behind it!” Liu Yue shouted.

Su Lifeng reacted immediately. With a beat of his Bone Wings, his entire body pounced behind the dune.

The Xenospecies had also heard Liu Yue’s shout. Seeing Su Lifeng arrive, he had no choice but to give up attacking Liu Yue. Instead, he swept his tail out, swinging it flexibly and powerfully at Su Lifeng. Just from the whoosh of wind it made, it was clear that if Su Lifeng were struck, his body would probably end up like the floor earlier, shattering apart.

Su Lifeng dodged with a flash, but just as he was about to close in on the Xenospecies, he suddenly saw a Shadowy Figure sweep toward his face. He hurriedly retreated, raising his Bone Wings in front of him, and barely avoided it.

This Xenospecies’ arms had actually mutated into long tails as well. More long tails were continuously drilling out from every part of his body.

“Are you a damn sea anemone?” Su Lifeng could not help cursing inwardly.

But the instant he dodged, he immediately lunged forward again.

Time stop!

Everything in Su Lifeng’s eyes instantly slowed. He rapidly sidestepped around several tails, then stabbed out fiercely with a bone spear.

The Xenospecies’ reaction was not slow either. A tail immediately whipped over.

Pffft! The bone spear that had originally been aimed at his throat pierced into his shoulder instead. Although Su Lifeng failed to kill him in one strike, his movements did not slow in the slightest. As if he had already calculated it, the other bone spear followed and stabbed over too.

That bone spear was blocked by the Xenospecies as well. Su Lifeng’s gaze did not change. With a flick of his wrist, he gripped two scalpels and stabbed toward the Xenospecies’ eyes.

Let’s see you block this too!

As for the tail stabbing toward him, he did not even glance at it.

This entire series of movements flowed like water. The Xenospecies’ pupils shrank, and in the next instant, both of his eyes burst with bloody light.

Before that tail could touch Su Lifeng, it drooped down.

“Hah…” Movements without any stagnation placed a considerable burden on Su Lifeng’s body as well. He pulled the scalpels out and let out a soft breath. As a Black Thread drilled into his body, Su Lifeng thought with some confusion that no matter what creature it was, as long as it was touched by a Black Thread, it would definitely drill in instantly. How exactly had Liu Yue managed to keep the Black Thread from entering her body?

“What are you doing?” Su Lifeng circled around the dune and discovered that Liu Yue had already arrived at one of the dunes. She was slowly spreading her hands open, her eyes slightly closed, as if sensing something.

“Shh. Give me a moment.” As Liu Yue spoke, specks of Light Motes suddenly emerged from the surroundings, then slowly drifted toward Liu Yue’s palms. Looking at those Light Motes, Su Lifeng felt a faint pain in his eyes.

He carefully reached out and touched one of the Light Motes. A violent force immediately exploded across his hand. Su Lifeng gave a muffled groan and looked at the Exoskeleton cracking apart inch by inch, his eyes filled with disbelief.

These Light Motes were energy visible to the naked eye, like lightning…

Su Lifeng raised his hand and looked at it. As the Exoskeleton shattered, light was still flickering between the fragments. It was the residual energy from that Light Mote.

“So this is what touching energy feels like…” Su Lifeng thought, then looked toward Liu Yue.

Such violent energy looked extremely harmonious in her palms. Suddenly, she clasped that mass of energy in both hands.

An invisible storm instantly burst outward with her at its center. Su Lifeng instinctively raised his Bone Wings to protect himself, but he still struggled to keep his eyes open, looking toward Liu Yue inside the storm. Then his expression filled with extreme shock…