Chapter 709: Buried Alive

The dragon breath that brushed away all "structure" not only destroyed the buildings on the surface but also affected the underground shelter... The structure supporting the shelter collapsed instantly, and this meant...

All the refugees hiding in the shelter were buried alive.

Those hiding in houses on the surface could rely on the power of the God Path to escape, but those ordinary people with no power to truss a chicken—facing the collapsing rock, soil, and bricks, where could they run??

Thump—

A Huang Consortium staff member’s legs went weak, and he knelt on the ground on the spot.

The scarlet blood was like rouge smeared on the earth, spreading to the surroundings. The smell of blood mixed with the dust of the rock and soil, drilling into their nostrils and frantically stimulating their nerves!

"How could this happen... how could it..."

Mumbled whispers spilled from their throats. They seemed to have been drained of all strength, staring blankly at the sinkhole before them.

Not long ago, they had sent batch after batch of bread into the underground shelter. Refugees from various towns in the Red Dust Domain had responded with enthusiasm and gratitude, grabbing their hands and saying thank you over and over... They had all obediently hidden in the shelter, hoping that after the war ended, they could return to their own homes.

But now...

A gust of wind brushed by, and everything was like a dream bubble, shattered and gone.

"Down there... there were tens of thousands of people hiding down there!!!" one figure said, nearly losing their voice. "All at once... they’re all gone???"

"No... not just tens of thousands."

Another person spoke with a deathly pale face, "This wind covered several areas around here. Besides this one, there are countless other small and medium-sized shelters elsewhere... If, if they are all like this one... the number of victims must be nearly a million."

There wasn't a trace of blood on anyone’s face.

Uncle Quan stared blankly at the sinkhole before him. After a long while, he gritted his teeth and rushed into it!

He ran onto the collapsed ruins, frantically moving heavy stones and digging through the soil, shouting loudly:

"Even if they’re buried alive, there must be survivors!! Save them now! It’s not too late!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the others snapped out of it, immediately swarming forward and looking for various tools, attempting to dig into the ruins of the underground shelter!

But between the underground shelter and the surface lay a thick layer of concrete and soil, which was simply not something that could be easily dug through by manpower or shovels. No matter how hard they tried, progress was slow...

At this moment, they couldn't see that in the depths of the blood-stained earth, one painful soul after another was slowly floating up into the sky.

……

A massive alchemy array rotated silently among the clouds. A disheveled figure was reborn from the blood mist, sitting unsteadily in the center of the array.

"So this is the pressure brought by the World-Ending Level... If I weren't proficient in human alchemy, I’d probably be visiting God right now."

Brand coughed violently, his mental energy, which had just recovered after a short rest, drained again. But he had no time for lingering fear. After scanning below, his eyes were full of surprise!

"Success! It worked!! Hahahahahaha!!"

Looking down from here, the Red Dust Main City, which had originally been filled with ruined buildings, had been sprayed by the dragon breath into a large area of flat ruins. Dozens of sinkholes were scattered throughout the ruins, and dense, painful souls were being drawn by the alchemy array, rising toward the sky!

Some of these souls were victims who had been crushed to death on the spot when the shelter collapsed, and some were survivors who had been buried alive underground and still had a breath left... But under the effect of the alchemy array, whether dead or dying, their souls were forcibly extracted. Looking around, there were a million of them!

A million souls, all returning to heaven in agony and pain at the same time. They filled every street, coming from every town;

Looking out, it was like a surging sea of souls!

"Hiding underground? Is it useful?" Brand sneered. "Now, haven't they become my nourishment?"

Brand was very happy. He pressed his hands on the alchemy array beneath him, pushing the power of gathering souls to the extreme. Blood-colored electric light roamed among the clouds, and the ninety-nine thousand souls gathered previously also quickly merged into the rising sea of souls!

One breath from the Calamity of Breath had harvested a million souls, which, added to the previous ninety-nine thousand, was enough for Brand to refine two more Philosopher's Stones.

Two Philosopher's Stones, even if they didn't restore Wuji Jun to his peak, would at least allow him to regain most of his power. Even if he couldn't beat the Red Dust Jun, he could retreat unscathed with him...

Moreover, Brand believed that since the Calamity of Breath had already appeared, destroying the entire Red Dust would be a matter of a flick of a hand. Refining all the Philosopher's Stones would only require a few more dragon breaths.

"Destroy Red Dust?" Brand raised his hands, bathing himself in the surging sea of souls.

With a hint of a smile, he said faintly,

"Easy as flipping a hand."

……

The Calamity of Breath released one dragon breath, but it didn't stop there.

But this time, it didn't go looking for that annoying human again. Instead, sniffing that familiar aura, it slowly turned toward the other side of the Red Dust Main City...

Those wind-tunnel-like void pupils locked onto the Calamities of the Ghost-Mocking Abyss in the middle of the chaotic battle!

It flapped its skeletal wings and opened its giant mouth again...

A second dragon breath began to brew!

"Is it coming for here?"

Standing on the back of the Shadow Toad, Chen Ling, who had witnessed the entire process just now, saw his expression turn ugly instantly.

As the gale swept frantically toward the Calamity of Breath, a life-and-death crisis surged in his heart. At the same time, dense scarlet pupils opened from the void behind it, as if provoked, staring angrily at the distant Dust Dragon!

The audience was restless!

Chen Ling had long guessed that there was some kind of grudge between the Calamity of Breath and the Calamity of Mockery, but he hadn't expected the Calamity of Breath to chase him all the way to the Red Dust Domain, and with such a look of not stopping until he was dead...

He could feel the audience inside him restless, seemingly frantically wanting to come out and teach this giant dragon a lesson. But after all, they were blocked in the auditorium by the Fourth Wall and couldn't intervene in the performance personally. In other words, if he were truly hit by this dragon breath, no one could save him!

"Damn it..."

Chen Ling’s brain raced, trying to find that glimmer of life, but under the pressure of the World-Ending Level, everything seemed so pale and powerless...

"Go!" Chen Ling stomped hard on the Shadow Toad beneath his feet. The latter immediately crouched to store power, then leaped out violently!

The gale swept by. Relying on the Shadow Toad’s speed, Chen Ling crossed a distance of several kilometers in a breath, and after smashing heavily into the earth with its massive body, it leaped up again!

Chen Ling’s movement speed was already extremely fast. He tried to use this method to avoid the lock of the dragon breath, but no matter how he twisted and turned, those wind-tunnel pupils were still staring at him fixedly in the sky, and the crisis of death had not diminished in the slightest!

The second dragon breath in the mouth of the Calamity of Breath became even more brilliant and surging!