# Chapter 948: Great Crisis! Has the Nightmare Come True?
The forest collapsed, ancient trees snapped, and chunks of earth flew up in rolling waves, pushing outward in all directions!
It was a scene straight out of the apocalypse!
[Grudge value from Jin Hao +1000!]
[From Chen Dao'er...]
For a moment, the grudge value list exploded with notifications. Jiangnan, descending from high above, felt the scorching heat rushing toward him and couldn't help but break into a brilliant smile.
(ૢ⁼̴◡⁼̴) "As expected, art is an explosion. The cartoons didn't lie to me!"
Even the shock-resistant bunker that Xiong Er built had been blown to pieces!
Liu Mang, Zhang San, and the others stared blankly at the scene, their scalps tingling.
No matter how many times they saw it, their hearts couldn't help but tremble in shock!
Jiangnan teleported over, looking expectantly into the area.
"How is it? Did the exorcism succeed?"
Wu Liang swallowed hard. "Exorcism? This is straight-up cremation. The ashes have been scattered—nothing left but dust, right?"
Was Boss Nan always this ruthless?
But as the flames died down, Jiangnan and the others' expressions froze!
The hydrogen bomb had blasted a giant pit three kilometers in diameter into the floating island!
And at the center of the blast, a spatial sphere three kilometers in diameter perfectly protected the relic underground chamber, leaving it completely intact!
It formed an island within the pit!
But the Yexu Dragon Loach outside the spatial sphere had been charred into a black mud loach, its body covered in white smoke, eyes bloodshot with extreme rage!
Two to three hundred poachers had been lucky enough to be protected inside the spatial sphere and were not exorcised!
As for those outside the sphere, not even ashes remained!
Outside the sphere, Chen Dao'er's ironwood barrier had been burned to charcoal. His entire body suffered severe burns. He knelt on the ground, coughing up blood, his face full of terror!
Jin Hao had survived thanks to his Fire Spirit form, but even his orange flames had dimmed!
The Ghostface Beast, however, had dodged the explosion by teleporting fast enough.
Now it pointed at Jiangnan and the others, loudly tattling!
ᕕ(ꐦʘ̆ൠʘ̆)☛ "Brother! He did it! He cut off both my arms! He's that human trickster!"
Jiangnan's forehead dripped with sweat. Yexu Dragon Loach? This relic was its home?
There was an underground chamber below?
Peering down the hole, Jiangnan saw thousands of scattered spirit beads on the ground!
There were even core fragments, and on a pedestal, a massive silver ring!
His eyes lit up. This underground chamber was the true value of the relic, wasn't it?
Jiangnan's heart began to race wildly, and his eyes turned fierce!
The Yexu Dragon Loach's gaze suddenly locked onto Jiangnan. Its scales bristled!
Oh? Other people at most tear off a roof tile, but you're trying to level my home?
Human! All of you, die!
Liu Mang swallowed hard. This loach was ferocious beyond belief! At the center of the blast, it had actually withstood the hydrogen bomb explosion?
"Nan Shen... we..."
Jiangnan's expression hardened. He knew full well how terrifying the Yexu Dragon Loach was.
"Its maximum teleportation distance is thirty thousand meters! If we run into it, there's no escape! Fight!"
Running meant certain death. Fighting at least gave them two Starlight-level powerhouses to hold the line!
They had to fight while looking for an opportunity!
But before Jiangnan and the others could make a move, the Yexu Dragon Loach shook its scales, raised its head, and roared!
Its spiritual energy surged violently. Its body, originally three meters in size, began to shrink again!
It became a miniature dragon loach the size of a forearm, and the glazed horn on its forehead grew longer!
With a "pop," the spatial sphere protecting the relic underground chamber shattered!
"Warp Bubble!"
Jiangnan sensed an extremely terrifying spatial fluctuation spreading from the Yexu Dragon Loach's body!
His scalp went numb!
"Everyone, be careful! It..."
The next moment, the Yexu Dragon Loach's body eerily elongated in everyone's sight!
Then it vanished instantly!
It reappeared several kilometers behind Jiangnan!
Still maintaining the same posture, but now wearing a playful smile on its face!
Jiangnan's face turned deathly pale. He looked down at his chest.
There was a bowl-sized bloody hole in his heart. His heart had been shattered. Blood stained a large part of his clothes!
He coughed up a mouthful of blood. All the strength seemed to drain from his body!
Everything happened too fast. By the time Zhong Yingxue, Xia Yao, and the others noticed, Jiangnan's chest had been blown open!
Their eyes instantly turned red!
"Xiao Nan! Your chest!"
Jiangnan fumbled for a Small Ginseng, about to shove it into his mouth!
But his vision suddenly went black, and his body fell forward weakly!
Mila gritted her teeth. "Restoration!"
The next instant, a golden pillar of light descended from the sky, slamming heavily onto Jiangnan!
The pierced chest wound frantically regenerated, and even his clothes returned to their previous state!
Jiangnan's falling body staggered but somehow held steady. His forehead was covered in sweat!
"Did I just die once? My heart got shattered?"
At that moment, all team members' faces turned pale! What was happening?
How could someone as strong as Jiangnan be one-shot?
No one had even seen what happened, and his chest had been blown open!
And Jiangnan wasn't the only one with this treatment!
Among the two hundred-plus people present, at least fifty or sixty had their chests blasted open!
Their bodies fell limply to the ground. After spitting two mouthfuls of blood, they stopped moving!
They died without knowing how. And all of this happened in an instant!
Jin Hao, thanks to his Fire Spirit form, also recovered quickly after his chest was blasted open!
But Chen Dao'er was not so lucky. The bloody hole in his chest was horrifying!
Even though he was also a Starlight-level powerhouse, he had been one-shot by the Yexu Dragon Loach!
Yet he held on with sheer vitality, refusing to die!
Jiangnan gritted his teeth. Blood Incineration, all seven gates open! Spiritual energy poured out like it was free, forming a thick layer of Glazed Armor!
Heavy armor clad his body. He was going all out!
The Yexu Dragon Loach glanced at Mila, seeming a bit surprised.
"Warp Bubble!"
In everyone's line of sight, the Yexu Dragon Loach's body elongated infinitely again!
Then it appeared above the underground chamber!
Jiangnan let out a "wow" and coughed up a large mouthful of blood. Blood Incineration was extinguished!
Glazed Armor had been pierced through. All his defensive measures were nothing to the Yexu Dragon Loach!
Liu Mang and the others were splattered with blood!
Little Mila's shoulder had been blown half off, blood splattering!
But Mila didn't even look at her own wound. Her big eyes were fixed on Jiangnan, full of anxiety!
"Restoration!"
The golden pillar of light descended. Jiangnan was pulled back from the brink of death again!
Under the horrified gazes of the crowd, Little Mila's half-destroyed shoulder frantically regenerated. In a moment, it was back to its original state!
Jiangnan's eyes turned bloodshot. "Mila... I'm sorry about this. This time, I'm afraid I'll need you to keep everyone alive..."
"The Yexu Dragon Loach has the ability to kill everyone present in an instant. I don't think one life will be enough to get through this!"
Mila nodded heavily, tightly holding Jiangnan's big hand!
"Jiangnan Gege! I'm here. Everything I have is yours!"
Jiangnan took a deep breath. How could he bear to have Mila use Time Reversal too many times?
That would consume telomerase! Fortunately, injuries like chest wounds could be saved with Restoration in time!
No need for Time Reversal!
But if the head was blown off, Restoration might not be enough!
At that moment, the shadow of death hung over everyone!
If not for Mila, Jiangnan would have died twice already!
After using Warp Bubble twice in a row, the Yexu Dragon Loach's spiritual energy was nearly depleted!
Now it casually grabbed a dozen spirit beads from the underground chamber and absorbed them to restore its spiritual energy!
It looked relaxed, with no sense of urgency!
Because in its eyes, no matter how hard these humans struggled, they couldn't escape the fate of being killed by it!
Two Warp Bubbles had already killed over a hundred people!
Chen Dao'er's chest now had two holes blasted through it. As for Jin Hao, he was so scared he didn't dare return to human form!
He just wanted to grab the crystal tablet and run, but after looking around, he shuddered!
Damn it! Where's my tablet?
Chen Dao'er felt his body temperature rapidly draining away. He never expected the Yexu Dragon Loach to be this strong!
I cannot die here!
"Sorry about this! Parasitic Spores!"
A yellow fungus grew out of Chen Dao'er's chest and bloomed!
A yellow mist drifted out from within, landing on the people and trees nearby!
Those contaminated immediately grew fungi on their bodies, accompanied by screams!
Their flesh rotted and withered, as if all life essence had been drained away. They eventually fell to the ground as mummies!
The ancient trees that received the spore powder suffered the same fate. Meanwhile, Chen Dao'er's face flushed strangely red!
The blood holes in his chest healed, and even the empty bird's nest now had little birds again!
But a dozen people had lost their lives because of this, including Chen family guards!
The situation was extremely grim. Jiangnan's palms were sweating!
This was a real crisis—one wrong move and it's total annihilation!
"Sister Zi Yuan! In your dream, I didn't die here, right?"
Zi Yuan observed the dense forest around her. The scene felt vaguely familiar!
It was as if she had been here before! Until Zi Yuan saw a large banyan tree. Her face suddenly turned pale!
In her dream, she had also seen this banyan tree!
This meant they were not far from the scene in her dream!
All she could do now was pray in her heart!
Praying that the nightmare would not come true!
"No... no! According to your theory, we haven't reached that point yet, so nothing will happen!"
Jiangnan rubbed his nose and grinned.
Zi Yuan really was a lousy liar, wasn't she?
Saying that made it easy for him to guess that this was the place from her dream!