Chapter 381: Chapter 337: Sunlight Shatters Filth, Sun’s Glory Is Eternal
In the end, the group decided to follow Hu Qi’s plan and launch a preemptive purge against the Dream Masters of Yu Country.
Wuan Anning, however, had her reservations. She believed that if they were to proceed with a purge, it would be more prudent to start with weaker, smaller organizations.
This way, they could accumulate experience, avoid a premature direct conflict with powerful factions, and reduce unnecessary risks and losses.
However, when she recalled the shocking power Hu Qi had previously displayed, she ultimately chose not to voice her thoughts.
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「Chenxi City. Evening.」
The evening clouds looked as if they had been set ablaze, spreading wildly across the sky.
The city was bathed in a blood-red light.
The setting sun, red as blood, hung between the towering skyscrapers, like a giant Fireball slowly sinking in the west.
[Chenxi Security Bureau]
As the Sword Holder Headquarters, its entrance was normally guarded by heavily armed guards.
But now, they had all vanished.
Not only that, but the streets within a one-kilometer radius had been cordoned off, barring any civilians from approaching.
Inside the Security Bureau.
The fully armed soldiers and the Dream Masters who wielded Dream Eyes were all sprawled on the floor, as if an immense force was pinning them down. They struggled just to lift their heads, their faces filled with terror as they gazed at a figure in the center of the room clad in a pale, golden-white robe.
A pile of flattened bullets lay at his feet.
As did two figures.
One was a square-faced, stooped man.
The other was a graceful woman in a qipao.
They were none other than Qin Yizhou and Zhu Xiao, two ministers from the Security Bureau who had reached the Controller Level.
As for the last one, Minister Li Chengguang, he was being held aloft by the neck.
"You... Your Sun God Sect... What in the world are you trying to do? Are you trying to make an enemy of the entire Yu Country?"
Even with his neck in a vice grip, Li Chengguang showed little discomfort.
Dream Masters at the Controller Level wielded so many Dream Eyes that they were no longer truly human. One might even call them the living dead.
Suffocation was not an issue for them.
"What’s the matter, don’t you remember me? You’re the one who used a Yama’s Token to have me hunted, aren’t you?"
Hu Qi smiled.
"You... you’re... still alive..."
A jolt of terror shot through Li Chengguang as he instantly recalled who Hu Qi was.
Just as Hu Qi was about to say something, he seemed to sense an anomaly. His gaze shifted downward, as if piercing through the floors below to the very bottom of the building.
He frowned slightly.
"What a bunch of useless trash!"
As soon as he spoke, the coronal halo behind him erupted, unleashing a surging tide of light.
In an instant, the halo flared, becoming as brilliant as a second sun. The light was too blinding to look at, threatening to swallow the world whole.
As the light burst forth, piercing screams echoed throughout the room.
The sounds were filled with a bloodcurdling pain and despair.
A few seconds later, the light gradually receded, and everyone’s vision returned.
The ordinary soldiers merely felt dazed, noticing nothing else amiss.
The Dream Masters, however, discovered in horror that the Dream Eyes within their bodies had vanished without a trace.
It was one thing for those who wielded object-based Dream Eyes.
But the Dream Masters who wielded prosthetic-limb Dream Eyes were not so lucky.
When the Dream Eye disappeared, it meant that the organ or limb it had replaced also disappeared.
Furthermore, without the power of their Dream Eyes to sustain them, they were all reduced to ordinary humans.
They writhed on the ground, wailing in agony, missing arms and legs and bleeding profusely.
Everyone frantically scanned the room, only to realize that Hu Qi, who had been standing there just moments before, had vanished without a trace.
In his place lay only a few mangled body parts.
Upon closer inspection, they recognized them as the remains of the three ministers.
Unlike ordinary Dream Masters, their bodies, as Controllers, had been drastically altered. The majority of their physical tissues were composed of Dream Eyes.
While this unique composition granted them superhuman strength and a tenacious Life Force, its drawbacks were equally significant.
Once Hu Qi refined and absorbed their Dream Eyes, the very foundation of their being was destroyed, making death inevitable.
