Chinese Superman

"Senior sister, that's enough."

Xia Xinghan told Gu Zhiqi to retrieve his flying sword and then looked at an ordinary mound four kilometers away.

"call out"

The Spring and Autumn Period gold-hilted iron sword and jade-hilted iron sword that pierced the throats of the last two people suddenly braked, changed direction, and flew back as sharp sword light.

Gu Zhi Qiu did as instructed, recalling his twin swords and hovering them beside him, asking, "What? Did they notice?"

"Um."

Xia Xinghan nodded.

"It's faster than I expected, but it doesn't matter. The other strongholds have been completely wiped out, leaving only the last one. It's not a place where a flying sword sneak attack can easily succeed."

Having just finished his unparalleled mowing-down-enemies experience, Gu Zhi Qiu was still somewhat unsatisfied, but he didn't let his guard down. On the contrary, he became even more cautious at this crucial moment: "Junior Brother, do you have any plans?"

Xia Xinghan tilted his head in thought, then gave a bright smile and asked, "Senior sister, have you ever seen a mushroom cloud?"

Gu Zhi Qiu was taken aback, then shook her head: "I've only seen it in movies."

She didn't understand why Xia Xinghan suddenly asked this question.

"Then you're in for a treat today."

As Xia Xinghan spoke, his small body continued to rise into the air.

"I'll treat you to a free... fireworks show."

He extended his right index finger.

There were no obscure incantations or complicated hand seals; only a pure, dazzling golden light quietly appeared at his fingertips.

As soon as the light spot appeared, it quickly grew larger. New tiny light spots kept appearing around the index finger and continued to condense, expanding from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a fist, and then to the size of a watermelon.

Finally, the light spot turned into a fireball, its light growing ever more intense, the intense heat even causing severe distortion of the surrounding air.

The whole process was like... a miniature sun being born!

"What...what is this?"

Standing on the ground, Gu Zhi Qiu felt the terrifying energy contained in the fireball. Even from a distance, her innate spiritual sense was still frantically warning her, making her scalp tingle.

"Improved version of Fireball".

Xia Xinghan answered seriously, then gently flicked his finger forward.

"call out"

The golden fireball, the size of a watermelon, detached from his finger, traced an almost straight trajectory, silent yet as fast as a shooting star, and hurtled towards the hills four or five kilometers away.

Where it flew, it left a faint trace of thermal distortion in the air.

Just as the hook-nosed man stepped out of the cave, stood still, and habitually looked around—

In the distance, a golden dot of light was growing larger at an alarming speed, hurtling towards the mountain peak where he was.

"What is that...?"

"The sun fell down? No, it's... a fireball?"

Yamada was taken aback at first, and subconsciously rubbed his eyes, thinking he was seeing things.

Inside the cave, Prince Renhui, who was about to taste the tea prepared by the woman in the kimono, suddenly froze!

This was a sense of crisis so intense it made his soul tremble, like a cold steel needle piercing his senses without warning.

It's like playing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, where a large, blood-red "Danger" sign suddenly appears in your mind without warning, as if you're about to die any second!

"puff--"

Prince Renhui spat out the tea he had just taken a sip of; the exquisite teacup slipped from his hand and shattered on the rocky ground.

"Your Highness!"

The woman in the kimono who was serving the tea was startled, thinking that she had scalded the prince with the wrong temperature of the tea.

"Danger... Danger!!"

Prince Renhui disregarded his image and suddenly stood up. His voice became sharp and distorted with shock. At the same time, he mobilized the spiritual power of the Lesser Innate Realm within his body and frantically poured it into the relic in his arms.

However, everything happened in the blink of an eye.

Yamada stood at the cave entrance, having just rubbed his eyes. When he opened them again, the golden fireball was right in front of him.

He could even see the flames churning on the surface of the fireball like solar wind, the blinding flares, and the corona that enveloped the surrounding area.

"..."

Before he could even let out a desperate roar, his entire body, along with his elongated shadow and the cave entrance behind him, was completely swallowed up and evaporated by the sudden, boundless, blazing golden light!

Immediately afterwards—

"boom!!!!"

A terrifying explosion, comparable to a nuclear explosion, has occurred!

The first thing to sweep across everything was an extremely intense light, a million times more intense than the midday sun.

The speed of light is the fastest, instantly swallowing everything within a radius of tens of thousands of meters, as if dragging the entire area into a pure white hell!

Even in Wangjia'ao, more than ten kilometers away, with its endless barren mountains blocking the way, the sun still disappeared, and the world was inexplicably covered in white.

Immediately following was a devastating shockwave.

With temperatures reaching tens of thousands of degrees, it slammed into the earth like an invisible, world-destroying hammer!

At the epicenter of the explosion, the nearly 100-meter-high hill, containing tens of millions of tons of soil and rock, melted away instantly upon contact.

The shockwave expanded outward at high speed in a perfect sphere. Wherever it passed, the earth was as if it had been repeatedly plowed by an invisible giant plow. Hard rocks collapsed and shattered like sandcastles. Shorter trees and grasses were instantly carbonized and then torn into the finest dust!

A massive, charred crater, over a kilometer in diameter and hundreds of meters deep, was born amidst a deafening, continuous roar, like a scar on the earth.

Finally, the mushroom cloud makes its appearance.

It was a mixture of flames, thick smoke, dust and ionized gas, churning and expanding, rising into the sky with unstoppable force!

The scorching heatwave transformed into a gale, sweeping across more distant areas, causing sand and stones to fly everywhere. The barren mountains stretched out like sand dunes in a sandstorm, as if they could be swept away at any moment.

Even Gu Zhi Qiu, several kilometers away, felt the shockwave; the scorching wind rushed towards him, and his hair flew wildly.

Gu Zhi Qiu stood there, staring blankly at the apocalyptic scene in the distance—

The mushroom cloud that rose into the sky, the scorching air in the air, seemed to carry a burnt and strange ionized smell.

Did the Japanese witness this kind of nuclear peace back then?

Even with her naturally calm and collected mind, she couldn't help but feel a sense of disorientation and profound shock.

Gu Zhi Qiu had seen many grand occasions and witnessed Zhenguo Zhi take action, but the scenes and impact of the two events were completely different.

She turned her head stiffly to look at Xia Xinghan, who was descending from mid-air, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Junior brother... you call this... a fireball spell?"

Xia Xinghan remained calm, as if he had merely tossed a firecracker, blinked, and nodded matter-of-factly: "Yes, a nuclear fireball spell is also a fireball spell."

He gazed into the distance, quite pleased with the power of the fireball spell.

"This fireball spell is no less powerful than a full-force attack unleashed by a Grade A relic. It's even more powerful than a regular nuclear bomb, and it doesn't have any radiation hazards."

"Very good, use it as an area-of-effect skill from now on, suitable for clearing large areas."

More importantly...

What seemed like a devastating attack was no different from a normal attack for Xia Xinghan; it wasn't really a special move.

If you switch to a different weapon, the price you pay is burning away your entire life!

However, his relaxed expression quickly vanished, his brows furrowed slightly, and his gaze sharpened as he looked at the center of the still churning and expanding mushroom cloud. He said in a deep voice, "However... they did send some experts; even so, they haven't all died."