Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 89 Earth Fire (Part 4)

Luo Qing strolled along the central highway of the coal city, holding an ice-blue longsword in his hand, one of the few magical artifacts he possessed.

Logically, this sword should also have been destroyed by macro-fusion, but Luo Qing could collapse into a quantum state at any time.

Therefore, Quantum Luo Qing was also able to grasp this Quantum Mystic Ice Sword.

With the infusion of spiritual power, Luo Qing could forcibly pull the Quantum Ice Sword back to the mortal world.

Once used, simply toss it aside, and the Xuanbing Sword will automatically collapse into its destroyed state.

Very convenient.

But now, Luo Qing felt no excitement at all from holding the Xuanbing Sword; his expression was very serious.

As a pure Nascent Soul stage sword cultivator, he is actually more skilled at destruction than creation and protection.

The latter is the specialty of those who specialize in agricultural cultivation, alchemy cultivation, array cultivation, spiritual cultivation, artifact cultivation, and civil engineering.

If this fire had broken out in the wilderness, Luo Qing could have easily overcome all obstacles by wielding his power and striking Mother Earth hundreds of times, breaking open all the burning coal seams. Then, he could have simply used a water-drawing technique to divert water from the Pacific Ocean to irrigate the area and resolve the problem.

But that won't work here.

Human cities are delicate and fragile, just like human lives.

The evacuation work is not yet over, but the ground temperature in the coal city has soared to over 50 degrees Celsius, almost reaching the limit of human endurance, especially in the dead of winter!

The asphalt on the highway reached temperatures of 80 to 90 degrees Celsius, and large areas of it melted.

Luo Qing leaped to his feet, looking down at the vast human city, his shouts undiminished:

"The mystical ice returns to nothingness, and from the extreme of Yin comes the birth of Yang. The sword draws forth the frosty energy, and all laws are solidified!"

A beam of icy blue sword light slashed down, and the Xuanbing Sword expanded ten thousand times, anchoring itself like a sea-suppressing needle in May 1st Square in the heart of the coal city. A chilling aura rapidly expanded, spreading throughout the entire city along the highways.

Wherever it went, the asphalt hardened again, and layers of ice crystals appeared in the city.

When roads are icy, vehicles may slip, but it's better than getting stuck in melting roads. Before Luo Qing froze these roads, many vehicles with tires were already stuck and unable to move. Only tank tracks could still move normally.

The road, which had almost turned into scalding black mud, solidified again.

The restoration of the highway system gave hope to the human rescue forces outside the city, and more and more transport vehicles returned to the city, including a large number of bulldozers—bulldozers were responsible for pushing abandoned vehicles blocking the roads off the roadside.

But this is clearly not a long-term solution. Although the Xuanbing Sword is a good magic weapon, it has not yet developed its own spirit and cannot possibly withstand this super earth fire with just a sword.

Although the frost was spreading rampantly, it was also melting rapidly, and the city was switching back and forth between being wet and frozen.

The fact that this sword could lower the surface temperature of a coal-producing city to around minus ten degrees Celsius already shows its skill. Although Luo Qing possessed immense magical power, the Xuanbing Sword's input and output power were unfortunately quite limited.

The underground coal seams are not yet fully burned. Once they are fully burned, the thin layer of ice covering the surface of the coal city will melt quickly, and the coal city will have to burn again.

This city, which prospered because of coal, will ultimately be destroyed by the coal industry's counterattack.

After all, that was carbonized lignin accumulated over hundreds of millions of years. The energy released in one go was enough to make even Luo Qing tremble with fear. If he hadn't been there to suppress it, the entire coal city would have been blown to bits.

Luo Qing was racking his brains trying to figure out how to deal with the subterranean fire.

The half-ocean in the sky is Luo Qing's last resort. If the raging fire is inevitable, Luo Qing will take full action after all the residents of the coal city have been evacuated.

He cleaved the coal city into pizza shapes with a single sword stroke, then poured seawater in to extinguish the subterranean fire.

But there is no other way.

Luo Qing still wanted to save this megacity.

The road was icy cold, the asphalt surface melting and then solidifying. Liu Xin's shoes were gone, and the skin on his feet was obviously burned away, exposing obvious flesh and bones. However, due to the extreme iciness of the ground, his feet were completely frozen.

Liu Xin seemed oblivious, staggering forward.

Surrounding Liu Xin were countless refugees and vehicles. At that moment, a policeman used a fire axe to smash down the iron door of a nearby detention cell and rescued the homeless man inside.

"You're released! Get in the car and run for your life! The ice is melting, we can't hold out here for long!" the policeman yelled.

The homeless man thanked them profusely, tears streaming down his face, and scrambled onto the nearest truck bed.

Container trailers, tractors, dump trucks—every vehicle that could fit people was now crammed with passengers, while ordinary cars were abandoned on the roadside like garbage. Large numbers of traffic police remained stationed at various intersections, directing the rescue convoys along the correct evacuation routes.

In the sky, the Wallfacer had already shared his spiritual perspective with the disaster relief command center.

At least several million people are still trapped in residential buildings and have not yet evacuated. Large numbers of military personnel and civilian self-rescue workers, based on the spiritual perspective shared by Luo Qing, are rushing into various buildings to break down doors and rescue people.

Despite the chaos, Liu Xin walked aimlessly down the street. Some refugees tried to pull him into a car, but he refused.

After sharing his spiritual perspective, Luo Qing had no choice but to cast a second spell in the face of the collapsing ice layer.

Ice Cloud Sword Formation!

Directly above May 1st Square, Luo Qing hovered a thousand meters in the air, using himself as the center of the formation. An ice cloud sword formation covering the coal city was slowly unfolding. This skill, which he originally used as a map-wide area-of-effect bombardment in his previous life, was now being used by Luo Qing as a means of disaster relief.

Vast ice clouds appeared high in the sky, rolling endlessly in extreme cold.
"The water in Kan freezes into ice, the two polarities are the proof, go!"

Tens of thousands of extremely cold beams of light erupted from the icy clouds, shooting down towards the uninhabited area and embedding themselves into the earth's veins.

As tens of thousands of Xuanbing sword intents were pierced into the coal seam, thousands of ice-blue light spots representing low temperatures quickly appeared in the thermal remote sensing satellite image of the temporary command center.

These icy blue specks of light pierced into the dazzling red.

The icy blue light spots intertwined with the coal thermal layer, quickly forming a large number of temperature transitions in shades of cyan, warm yellow, light red, and deep red.

As a result, the average temperature across the entire Northwest Province dropped by a few degrees.

The thin ice layer in the coal city, which was originally on the verge of collapse, was once again stabilized with these freezing points as its core.

However, this is only a temporary solution. Thermal imaging remote sensing satellites can clearly see that those icy blue areas are being continuously swallowed up.

This is, after all, a super coal seam of up to 300 billion cubic meters, with nearly 60 million years of lignin accumulation. It is definitely not something that can be contained by a sword formation with ice attributes.

Luo Qing wouldn't be foolish enough to compete with these 300 billion cubic meters of coal seams in terms of total energy. He subconsciously believed that he could never win in terms of total energy output.

The Ice Cloud Sword Formation was activated time and time again, with nearly 100,000 extremely cold sword lights piercing into the earth's veins, but all of this only slowed down the destruction of the coal city.

The city has too many residents, making it difficult for him to manage. The next step can only be taken after all residents have been relocated.

Before that, we need to come up with a new approach.

As Luo Qing disappeared, the residents of the coal city, who were still taking pictures of the sky with their phones even while fleeing, and even those who were live-streaming the event, regretfully put down their phones.

"Stop taking pictures, get out of here!" The traffic police at the intersection wanted nothing more than to rush up and smash their phones.

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