The job change is a bizarre and calamity; the nation begs me to tone it down.

The spread of the calamity was not a gradual one.

Instead, it covered an area of ​​hundreds of meters in just a few seconds at a speed that defies the laws of physics.

And it continues to expand at a visible rate.

With Gu Xu at the center, a complete and independent space is being forcibly expanded.

In this space, the sky has changed.

The night sky, originally stained with blood, was completely swallowed up by the black mist, replaced by a pitch blackness even purer than the abyss.

That kind of darkness has no stars, no moon, and not even the concept of light.

All that remained was a heavy, suffocating sense of oppression.

The air has changed. The temperature has changed.

Gravity has changed too.

Within the realm of calamity, all physical rules are being rewritten, or rather, the existing rules are being replaced by a higher-dimensional will.

That will belongs to Gu Xu.

The people inside the barrier below first felt the overwhelming darkness.

Then they heard a sound.

It wasn't thunder, nor was it an explosion; rather, it was a deep, almost infrasound-like hum, a hum that seemed to come from the deepest part of the earth, capable of making one's internal organs tingle.

It was as if the entire earth was resonating, trembling in anticipation of the arrival of some ancient being.

"boom--!!"

That was a real, loud bang.

When the edge of the Calamity Domain slammed down on the surface of the Kyoto Great Barrier like a giant black hand.

The sound rang out.

How big is it?

Every window within a radius of tens of kilometers emitted a piercing buzzing sound at that moment.

Three layers of the glass curtain wall of several buildings in the distance were shattered.

The water on the ground was shaken into mist.

The alarm on a bread truck parked on the side of the road went off for half a second before going completely silent—because the horn had been damaged by the vibration.

Above the barrier.

The blue light barrier, which was said to be able to withstand attacks from demigods, emitted an extremely piercing "crack" the moment it came into contact with the Domain of Calamity.

It's like the sound you hear under your feet when you step on a frozen lake in winter.

Crisp, crisp, it makes your heart skip a beat.

Then everyone saw it.

crack.

Starting from the point where the Domain of Calamity touched the barrier, a crack as thin as a spider's thread spread rapidly in all directions.

One becomes two, two become four, four become eight.

It's as if someone is frantically hammering at the glass with an invisible hammer, creating a dozen new cracks with each strike.

Within just a dozen seconds, the upper half of the blue light screen was already covered with dense cracks.

From a distance, it looks like a classroom window that has been hit by hundreds of pebbles with a child's slingshot.

It was shattered into pieces, but barely managed to stay intact.

Yes, barely.

It was barely acceptable.

The people of Japan below who are watching the cherry blossoms have completely erupted in anger.

If they were merely uneasy before, now they are filled with pure fear.

Because they discovered that the Kyoto Great Barrier, which they had been taught from childhood to be "absolutely safe," "indestructible," and "unbreakable even by the gods"—

It is cracking.

Before their eyes.

By someone.

A person sitting in a ghost sedan chair.

With a snap of the fingers.

It knocked a crack into it.

"The barrier is cracking! The barrier is cracking!!"

"What happened?! Where is Lord Yamamoto?!"

"Wasn't it said that even demigods couldn't break through it? Why did it shatter?!"

The chaos on the streets reached its peak in an instant.

Some people were running, some were shouting, and some collapsed to the ground.

The convenience store's roller shutter door was pulled down from the inside, making a clanging metallic sound.

Above the chaotic crowd, the cracks in the barrier continued to expand.

There's an even more chilling detail—the edges of those cracks are being slowly eroded by black mist.

It's like a piece of white cloth being soaked in ink, with the ink seeping into the cloth's fibers little by little.

The blue light flickered and struggled at the point where it met the black mist.

It looks like a drowning person struggling desperately on the surface of the water.

But its flapping became slower and slower.

In Gu Xu's perception, the scene before him was much clearer than what he could see with his naked eye.

Under the shroud of the Calamity Domain, he could "see" the internal structure of the barrier.

That blue light screen is not as simple as it looks on the surface; it has an extremely sophisticated energy circulation system inside.

Countless fine energy threads, as thin as hair, intertwined together.

This forms a three-dimensional network with extremely wide coverage.

Each node continuously outputs energy, maintaining the stability of the entire barrier.

To be honest, this thing is really ingenious.

From its design concept to its energy efficiency, it is a top-notch masterpiece.

Under normal circumstances, let alone a demigod, even a typical source-level attack would be devastating.

It will most likely only leave a few white marks on it.

But the problem is-

It encountered an abnormal attack.

The Domain of Calamity is not an energy attack, not a physical attack, and certainly not a mental attack.

It is a rule overwrite.

It's like two computers connected to the same network cable; one is desperately trying to keep running by outputting its own operating system, while the other is directly installing viruses into the other's hard drive.

It's not a question of whether I can win or not, but that your system is not even a firewall in the face of my virus.

Gu Xu could clearly sense that the energy cycle inside the Kyoto Great Barrier was being gradually eroded by the rules of the Calamity Domain.

The moment those intricate energy threads came into contact with the power of calamity, they were like cotton threads encountering strong acid, hissing and smoking, before breaking, dissolving, and turning into nothingness.

When one of them broke, the other three loosened as well.

Three strands loosened, and the surrounding ten strands began to tremble.

The energy network of the entire barrier is disintegrating at a chain reaction rate, starting from the point of contact.

Can it withstand an attack from a demigod?

Yes, it is possible.

Because the attack of a demigod is ultimately at the level of "force".

No matter how strong you are, if you punch a piece of highly elastic tempered glass, it will just bounce back.

But what Gu Xu did wasn't boxing.

What he did was directly alter the molecular structure of that glass.

It went from being tempered glass to a fragile biscuit.

How can you block it now?

Gu Xu sat in the Styx Ghost Carriage, looking at the cracks and black erosion marks spreading across the blue light screen beneath his feet, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

"Snap!"

Another crisp cracking sound rang out.

This time it was even louder, like someone had thrown a stack of plates off the tenth floor.

The cracks above the barrier were so dense that they resembled the shell of a hard-boiled egg that had been squeezed dozens of times.

"Since you enjoy watching a show, then I'll let you see it clearly!"