Chapter 120: Codename [Indra]

The moment Lan Yi appeared, it wasn't just the ghosts on the surface that sensed his unmasked power and the iron will he forcefully thrust into the global psionic frequency; even the Obsessives dwelling in the subterranean city could smell the aura of this sudden, super-powered entity.

Not to mention what followed: his act of manipulating geomagnetic forces to summon raging thunder, clearing the field with violent strikes. It could be said that as long as a being possessed any level of intelligence, they would realize that the Thunder Tyrant who had suddenly descended was absolutely not someone to be trifled with. The Obsessives assumed that Lan Yi was a Great Ghost that had crawled out of an explosive emotional field, failing to connect him to the past. Especially after Lan Yi was completely enveloped by the Magnetic Fiend Walker, he truly looked more like a ghost than any phantom.

There were not many Obsessives in the subterranean city—only about a hundred or so. All were citizens of the Canglong Federation. Among them, the five strongest were known as the Five Emperors. Each was qualified to challenge a Demon King-level ghost and possessed unique abilities or incredibly powerful Obsessive Weapons. Their strength was unquestionable, and they held positions of leadership among the Obsessives.

Led by the Five Emperors and guided by a mysterious system, the Obsessives had used the subterranean city as their foundation, honing their skills through study and combat against ghosts. They grew strong, believing they could change the future. Their most glorious achievement was the slaying of the Great Ghost "Wuchang," which had entrenched itself in the ruins of the Magic Capital, a feat that prevented its awakening in the past.

They believed they could alter the future and reverse the apocalypse. Every time an Obsessive awakened and arrived in the future, the system would guide them to the surface for support and assimilation. This time, however, was an exception. The mysterious system provided no guidance regarding Lan Yi's arrival. Thus, the Obsessives categorized him as a ghost.

When the Obsessives stationed in the future for missions gathered together and used their Obsessive Weapons to probe the surface, they fell into a state of profound existential doubt.

"Buddy, aren't you just too damn strong?"

The Obsessive Weapon placed in the center of the grand square was a mirror. It was an antique, its back etched with tadpole-like ancient scripts and patterns of cloud-dragons and exotic birds. It manifested in golden mist, shifting and changing infinitely. Its name was unknown; it was said that before the Five Emperors arrived, this divine mirror had already existed in the square. Obsessives could operate its functions by inputting energy—such as probing the surface, suppressing ghosts, opening passages, or incinerating evil spirits.

Through the divine mirror, the Obsessives witnessed Lan Yi’s magnificent display. Grasping thunder and sword qi, he stood in the sky like an ancient demon god, brutally battering the Demon King-level ghost forces that dared to act presumptuously. Millions of ghosts wailed and evaporated in the wake of his power.

He was strong—unreasonably, obscenely, undeniably strong!

"If an entity of this level had appeared at the beginning of the ghost and monster outbreak, humanity would never have lasted this long, even with the subterranean city..." one Obsessive couldn't help but gasp.

His words met with agreement from the others.

"Codename: [Indra]. Power level floor: Demon King; ceiling: unknown. Ability: Thunder. Attack methods: Heavenly Thunder Ripple (Overcast Thunder Pool), Vajra Pestle (Geng Metal Sword Qi), Thunder God’s Breath (Palm Thunder). Possible existence of unknown skills..." Another Obsessive, using the divine mirror to list Indra's abilities in a manner similar to online game data, projected it onto the mirror's surface.

Looking at the data, which was so red it was practically black, the expressions of the Obsessives became even more complex.

"Could he already be a Demon God-level ghost?"

"Impossible. The Demon God level is only a theoretical realm. So far, no ghost has reached it."

"Perhaps [Indra] possesses the potential of a Demon God."

"Wait, what is he doing?"

In the divine mirror, Lan Yi maintained his image of thunder-clad majesty, like an ancient thunder angel from myth. He stopped after descending to about three hundred meters above the surface, then began to wander irregularly across the ruins of the Magic Capital. It looked as if he were searching for something.

To the Obsessives' eyes, Lan Yi—with his combat form fully deployed, absorbing geomagnetism and utilizing the Life Clusters [Earth Fiend] and [Flash Spirit] to reach four times the speed of sound—looked as if he were teleporting in a streak of rainbow light. His appearance was absolutely earth-shattering. Had [Indra] not been a ghost, he would surely have had no shortage of followers.

After about ten minutes, from the perspective of the Obsessives, [Indra] finally stopped. And the spot he stopped at... appeared to be directly above the entrance passage cluster of their subterranean city.

What? Was [Indra] intending to come down?

This was a depth of over three thousand meters underground; how could a ghost possibly descend?

However, the next moment, Lan Yi showed the Obsessives with his actions that there was no such thing as "impossible." As the energy crystals constructed by [Canghua] formed a giant, nine-layered nested floating structure in the sky—exceeding thirty meters in diameter, roughly the height of a ten-story building—a new line of data refreshed on the divine mirror.

"Attack method: Thunder God’s Fury (Steel-Armored Divine Thunder)."

What was most abundant in the ruins of the Magic Capital? Ruins!

The ruins contained countless, inexhaustible amounts of metal. Not just common copper and iron, but superior metals like tungsten and manganese were also present in great quantities. Under the repeated scanning of Lan Yi’s intense magnetic field, the spectral and resonance information being fed back allowed him to rapidly filter these materials, dragging them into mid-air through electromagnetic smelting.

Blobs of molten metal solidified rapidly under the intense magnetic field and vibrations. Dozens of tons of metal drill bits lined up neatly above his head like elite soldiers. Lan Yi had modeled these after the principles of bunker-busting bombs. He had manufactured these high-density, high-mass alloy warheads, and they were about to perform a visual feast.

They say the Gatling Bodhisattva fires thirty-six hundred rounds a minute, showing great mercy to the world. So, if [Indra] were to rotate ninety-nine warheads—each weighing an average of twenty-five tons—in a Ferris wheel formation within the seven-thousand-meter airspace above the Magic Capital, and then accelerate them to six thousand revolutions per second via the Thunder Soldier Domain, what a spectacular and breathtaking scene that would be?

Southern Saint Gate Taoist Art: Steel-Armored Divine Thunder! Continuous Drilling Barrage!!

At this moment, the sky was burning. And the source of that fire was the warheads themselves, glowing red from the intense friction against the atmosphere caused by their insane rotation.

"No! We must stop him!"

"If he carves open the surface..."

"He’ll be able to strike the subterranean city directly. Three thousand meters of geological strata won't withstand this level of violent output!"

"Everyone, output power together! Use the divine mirror!"