Kowloon Walled City was Kowloon's headquarters, home to over a million official Kowloon employees and their families numbering in the hundreds of millions.
In Fang Zheng's memory, he had spent nearly twenty years to set foot in every corner of this city.
Therefore, Fang Zheng knew very well that as a Dragon Rider General, he could go to many places.
But there was one place he absolutely could not approach, and that was the tall tower at the center of Kowloon Walled City!
Kowloon Walled City was a thousand times the size of a regular new city, and the central tower, if placed on the surface, would be large enough to fill an entire city.
This central tower was the true core of Kowloon, and only those of True Guard rank were qualified to enter it.
However, despite only holding the rank of Dragon Rider General, Fang Zheng had managed to discover the secret beneath the central tower through his own active investigation.
That secret was precisely what had caused Fang Zheng's mind to collapse, leading him to hide his consciousness deep within.
Walking on the atmospheric staircase, Chen Luo pondered the information he had obtained from Fang Zheng.
The central tower grew larger and larger in Chen Luo's vision.
Chen Luo, of normal human size, appeared as insignificant as an ant before this towering structure.
But as Chen Luo advanced, he seemed to become the only presence in this world.
His true sight continuously scanned the mysterious central tower before him, and Chen Luo was surprised to find that
a darkness, similar to the previous remnant soul and dark spirit, but more refined, enveloped the entire tower.
Chen Luo could probe a hundred meters into the darkness formed by the remnant soul and dark spirit.
But the darkness before him firmly blocked Chen Luo's perception:
"It seems the darkness that enveloped those previous remnant souls was merely residue from here."
"Having devoured billions of your subordinates, even the world feels the crisis of destruction."
"Long Jiu! What exactly do you want to do?"
The complete annihilation of Kowloon's lower-level personnel made Chen Luo's plan to counter the burning of the soul fire much more difficult.
In fact, Fang Zheng's memory contained no recollection of the dangers of the soul fire.
It seemed that in their understanding, the path of the soul had no side effects.
For this, Chen Luo could only assume that the method Kowloon Generals used to counter the side effects of soul fire burning was hidden within the daily lives of their combat personnel.
Thinking this way, such a method was likely a top-secret within Kowloon, and Chen Luo didn't even believe Kowloon Generals would record the method in ordinary documents.
Likely only a select few knew the method.
Therefore, all problems ultimately converged into a single solution.
Find Kowloon's supreme commander, Long Jiu, and beat him until he reveals everything, even peeking at his neighbor bathing when he was a child!
The atmospheric staircase stopped outside the central tower. Silver-gray combat boots landed heavily on the transparent steps.
Chen Luo's true pupils were blocked by the darkness enveloping the tower, but his sixth sense clearly told him that something special was being nurtured within the tower before him.
"Heh, an embryo? What good offspring could be gestured after devouring billions of living beings?!"
Under Chen Luo's will, the silver-gray combat robe slowly gathered towards his right fist.
The special combat robe, forged entirely from soul steel, now transformed into countless shimmering silver threads originating from Chen Luo's right hand, weaving towards the sky!
Moments later, a silver-gray metal battle saber nearly a thousand meters long hovered in mid-air.
And at the base of the saber, the youth wielding it, though physically as small as an ant, possessed strength enough to cleave mountains!
On his right arm, the glow of vitality and starlight spread upwards towards the thousand-meter-long blade!
Vitality as the blade, soul steel as the base, starlight as the spine!
In his dark pupils, the demonic patterns shone as brightly as stars!
The next moment!
The long saber tore through the void!
"Break for me!!!"
The battle saber, flashing with gold, silver, and red, descended like the sky collapsing!
The space along its path was sliced into nothingness!
Nothing could resist it!!
Hum!!!
In the dead silent underground space, a piercing hum suddenly erupted!
Where the long saber struck, waves of pitch-black emanated from the tower at the center of the city.
Water-like black ripples spread even in the space that had been sliced into nothingness.
The black ripples tenaciously resisted the battle saber descending from the sky, and numerous void cracks continuously spread throughout the entire underground space!
The underground space, reinforced with special metal, began to tremble violently, as if it would collapse at any moment!
But the humming sound continued to intensify!
From beneath the tower, a blackness as vast as an abyss surged out, tenaciously resisting the increasingly sharp long saber.
Chen Luo gazed at the surging black tide that resembled an opposing wave, a hint of mockery flashing in his eyes:
"You know nothing of power!"
"Fusion Combat Skill! Blazing Saber Sunders the Firmament!!"
As his voice fell, the power of vitality and starlight instantly surged several levels!
Under the fierce clash of these two forces!
The soul steel at the base of the long saber, located at the center of the two forces, suddenly melted!
The liquid soul steel, at this moment, completely fused with the vitality and starlight!
The originally solidified long saber, at this moment, completely transformed into a blade of burning sun!
A brilliant golden stream of light instantly cut through this world of death!
The black tide that had been surging upwards from the tower instantly solidified in mid-air!
The next moment!
Boom!!!
The solidified black tide collapsed with a roar, and boundless black energy scattered throughout the dead city like torrential rain from a breached sky.
But before this black energy could land, a golden saber glow lit up within each strand of black energy.
With a single strike, all things were slain!
Hum!!
With a crisp humming sound, the scattered black energy instantly vanished.
Chen Luo waved his hand casually, the long saber dissipated, and the liquefied soul steel flowed back into the combat robe on his body.
And before Chen Luo, the pitch-black central tower had turned silver-white.
Chen Luo slowly extended an index finger, gently touching the silver-white tower, and murmured:
"Bang!"
The next moment, a golden-red burning saber mark flashed across the tower, the atmosphere, and the metal walls at the city's edge!
Boom!!!
The central tower slowly tilted and fell from the saber mark,
And as if in a chain reaction, the metal behemoth walls at the city's edge, which had been marked by the residual force of Chen Luo's blade, also began to tilt!
The collapsing central tower crashed heavily into the city, and before Chen Luo, a cross-section of the tower, cut in half, appeared.
In Chen Luo's eyes, the demonic patterns flickered slightly:
"So, it's there? The nightmare place that even old Fang didn't want to recall."
"Heh, unwelcome guest, I hope you don't mind, Long Jiu!"
Chen Luo leaped forward, directly plunging into the severed tower.
And as Chen Luo severed the black tide that served as the tower's protective layer,
Deep beneath the tower,
A pair of blood-red giant eyes slowly opened....