Chapter 1274: Breakthrough! Diamond Rank! (Bonus Chapter)
With Damon swinging his iron hammer wildly, the prison doors in the corridor were kicked open one after another!
Thousands of mermaid warriors roared as they charged out, swarming the guards and beating them mercilessly!
"Charge! For Lantis!"
A massive riot was unfolding inside the entire prison. Faced with thousands of mermaid warriors, the guards were completely powerless to resist!
Even the sponges scrubbing the walls were scared and hid away!
"Boom!"
With an explosion, the prison roof was blown clean off!
A hundred-meter-long seven-star electric eel dragged countless lightning bolts as it shot out!
Jiangnan and the others soared into the sky right behind it!
The moment they emerged, everyone was blinded by the dazzling blue light.
They all looked toward the center of the ancient city.
Jiangnan was completely bewildered!
(๐꒪⌔꒪) "Whoa? What's going on?"
Is that Ruiya? Wait, Ruiya? No—Ruiya is a Bose from the Holy Star, here to rob the Origin Stone?
Did she cause all this commotion outside?
Grandma Leixi gasped in shock: "Damn! The Sacrificial Heavenly Curse Array has already been activated! Shark actually sacrificed his own kin? That beast!"
"Stop him now!"
But the moment Jiangnan tried to move, his body froze in place!
Bathed in the radiance of the Origin Stone, Jiangnan felt as if he had been elevated to a higher plane!
An unprecedented sense of clarity flowed through his entire body!
Merlin urged urgently: (‧̣̥̇◞•̀益•́) "What do we do now? That woman looks really strong! Who is she?"
"We absolutely cannot let Shark succeed in summoning the Heavenly Wrath!"
Jiangnan's expression stiffened.
(٥･᷄ᗜ･᷅) "Wait… hold on!"
Qian Benying was frantic: "Bose light? That's a Bose body, isn't it? What's wrong with you? Don't drop the ball at a time like this!"
But before Jiangnan could speak, a "boom" echoed, and a boundless wild aura erupted from Jiangnan, spreading wildly!
The thin spiritual energy in the surroundings was frantically drawn in, even sucked dry completely!
Jiangnan's physical strength, total spiritual energy reserves, and skills all began a terrifying upgrade at this moment!
୧(´ﾟ～ﾟ) "Nothing much. Just feeling that Platinum isn't enough anymore. I'm gonna break through, let me go Diamond first."
Under the illumination of the Origin Light, Jiangnan could no longer hold back!
Straight to Diamond!
Yao Hong and Haiselin both stared wide-eyed!
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No way? Breaking through at a time like this? You sure picked a great moment!
Qian Benying scratched an itch and looked at Jiangnan in shock.
(*ﾟﾛﾟ) Damn!
Do you have to be so Versailles?
'Feel like Platinum isn't enough'—what the hell is that?
Breaking through so casually?
But the spiritual energy in the spirit ruin was too thin to support Jiangnan's breakthrough.
Jiangnan waved his hand, and thousands of Platinum and Diamond-grade spirit beads flew out!
Without needing to be told, Qian Benying pinched her hand, compressing space, and crushed all the spirit beads at once!
The surging spiritual energy formed a terrifying cloud, which Jiangnan absorbed completely.
Qian Benying's eyelids twitched.
You absorb way too much!
Jiangnan at Platinum was already this strong, and now he's going Diamond.
She didn't even dare to imagine.
In an instant, Jiangnan completed his full breakthrough, his level stabilizing at Diamond One.
The surging power in his body made his face flush red!
Jiangnan had never felt so powerful.
But there was no time to celebrate. If he didn't act now, disaster would strike!
He quickly asked: "How do we break the Sacrificial Heavenly Curse Array?"
Leixi panicked: "We need to take the Origin Stone out of the array core! But there's a protective shield—only pure blue blood activating the Origin Staff can break it!"
"But Alice has been drained, the Origin Staff isn't here, and Shark activated the Origin Stone!"
Jiangnan immediately spotted Alice in the curse array, dried out like a small fish.
His eyes flashed with cold light!
"Alice can't do it, but Hedi is still here! Where is the Origin Staff?"
"Right here!"
As soon as Jiangnan spoke, Lan appeared beside him, teleporting with the stall cloth draped over her!
She lifted the cloth, revealing her white little belly, and pulled the Origin Staff from her pants pocket, handing it to Jiangnan.
(∗❛ัヮ❛ั)っ━❂
Everyone's eyes bulged as they stared at Lan!
Σ(ଵдଵ۶)۶
Collective "Whoa!"
Lan? Lan came into the Lantis Spirit Ruin too?
How did the Origin Staff end up in Lan's hands?
Wasn't it heavily guarded and protected by curse arrays?
But Lan snagged it?
How did she manage that?
Lan's eyes darted away.
(๐◔‸◔ิ๐) "I… I didn't steal it. I traded them a toilet plunger for it. I…"
Jiangnan burst out laughing, scooping up Lan and giving her several big kisses on the cheek!
"Great trade! Could you be any more awesome? You helped a ton!"
Since Lan took the Origin Staff, Shark had no choice but to use the Origin Stone as the array core?
This was an unexpected blessing!
Lan was overjoyed—she had helped Jiangnan Gege!
✿୧(ૢ⁼̴ꇴ⁼̴)✿
And she got kisses too?
How nice was this?
No time to hesitate, Jiangnan grabbed Hedi!
"Use your blue blood to activate the Origin Staff and open the array core shield!"
Hedi gripped the staff nervously.
(☍﹏⁰) "I'll try!"
Jiangnan roared!
٩(ᵒ̌皿ᵒ̌O)و "Charge with me!"
With that, he teleported straight toward the Sacrificial Heavenly Curse Array!
At that moment, outside the array, Shark and Ruiya were locked in fierce combat!
Ruiya had tried several times to break the shield but failed!
Then came a blast from the prison direction—Jiangnan led a group of elites and thousands of mermaid warriors charging over!
Shark immediately spotted the Origin Staff in Jiangnan's hand!
Damn!
Wasn't it with that god? How did Jiangnan get it?
Did Jiangnan do that?
Weren't they locked in the air prison? How did they escape?
What the hell was Azhen doing?
[From Shark's Resentment Value +1000!]
Then he saw Azhen being swung around by Damon as a hammer!
Shark: …
Ruiya also noticed Jiangnan and the blue gem on the Origin Staff. Her eyes blazed with fury!
"Big liar! Origin Stone marrow? Fine, none of you are living!"
Jiangnan teleported directly in front of the array core shield!
Hedi held the staff with both hands, her body glowing deep blue!
The Origin Staff fully activated, and she thrust it hard against the shield!
In an instant, the shield dissipated into nothing!
The Origin Stone's blue light blazed even brighter. Jiangnan shoved the Origin Staff into his alternate dimension!
He reached out to grab the Origin Stone!
But Ruiya and Shark both attacked Jiangnan at the same time!
"Stop!"
"You dare!"
A bolt of blue Bose light and a lance of seawater both shot toward Jiangnan!
Qian Benying rushed to help but was blasted away by Ruiya's Bose light, her body covered in frost!
Caught in the pincer, Jiangnan didn't even glance back, still reaching for the Origin Stone!
"Space Wormhole!"
In an instant, two pairs of space wormholes opened on either side of his body!
Each was thirty meters in diameter!
The Bose light was redirected and blasted straight into Shark!
Similarly, the seawater lance was sent through the wormhole toward Ruiya!
Since Jiangnan rose to Diamond, it wasn't just his level, physical stats, and spiritual energy that improved—his skills evolved too!
Now he could open two pairs of wormholes!
Maximum wormhole diameter: 30 meters. Skill range: 3,000 meters!
But the seawater lance didn't hit Ruiya—she dodged by phasing into the void!
The moment Jiangnan touched the Origin Stone, Ruiya snatched it away!
She vanished from the array core and reappeared ten thousand meters away!
(˵ಡ.̫ಡ˵) "Hehehe~ Thanks, that shield was tough to break!"
Jiangnan grimaced but had no time to bicker with Ruiya!
He teleported to Alice's side. Most of her blood had been drained!
She was like a dried fish. If he didn't save her soon, she'd be beyond help!
"Don't die! You're supposed to be king of Lantis!"
He shoved a handful of little ginsengs into her mouth and ate a few himself. His little whip extended and pierced into her body!
"Blood Drain!"
Jiangnan drained his own blood, injecting rich life essence into Alice's body!
Her dried fish-like form slowly swelled back to fullness!
She opened her eyes faintly, and the first thing she saw was Jiangnan!
Hot tears turned into pearls, falling in strings!
Alice buried her face deep into Jiangnan's chest!
˚‧º·(˚˃̣̣̥᷄﹏˂̣̣̥᷅)‧º·˚ "Please save Lantis! I beg you!"
Jiangnan patted her back gently. "Leave the rest to me!"
By now, Shark's eyes were bloodshot!
The Origin Stone was taken by that god, but the Origin Staff was still on Jiangnan!
With that staff, the Sacrificial Heavenly Curse Array could still continue!
"Give me the Origin Staff! Sharp Tooth!"
Hundreds of sharp shark fin swords shot toward Jiangnan at extreme speed!
"Space Shatter!"
In an instant, the space behind Jiangnan tore apart!
The hundred flying teeth were blocked, and Merlin charged in!
"Electric Surge!"
Thick blue lightning crackled, lashing like a whip and striking Shark hard!
Leaving scorched marks across his skin!
Jiangnan handed Hedi to Alice to take care of, his eyes scanning for spatial fluctuations!
Ruiya held the Origin Stone, overjoyed!
She raised her hand to inject Bose particles and destroy it!
Jiangnan sneered: "You want the Origin Stone just to destroy it? I won't let you!"
"Space Displacement!"
That one touch earlier didn't take the stone, but he left a spatial mark!
The hundred-meter Origin Stone vanished from Ruiya's hand!
In its place, Jiangnan appeared!
Ruiya's eyes turned bloodshot: "Then die!"
Jiangnan's scalp tingled as he tried to teleport away!
But he was horrified to find that the entire ten thousand meters of space around him was sealed by Ruiya!
Teleportation failed!
Ruiya's hand was about to strike Jiangnan's crown!
"Who do you think you are, touching my little brother?"
"Boom!"
A translucent hand emerged from the void and met Ruiya's palm directly!
A wave of blue Bose light exploded outward, freezing ten thousand meters of seawater into an ice ring that crashed to the ground heavily!
Jiangnan felt someone grab him by the waist and pull him into an embrace!
It was cold and jelly-like, yet strangely warm.