Chapter 276 - 273: 100,000 Tsar Bombas and the Inventory Stream

Chapter 276: Chapter 273: 100,000 Tsar Bombas and the Inventory Stream

That day, for the first time, the people of the Martial World felt the terror of being dominated by the sun.

Every citizen of the various nations who was outdoors could feel it clearly.

The refreshing morning sunlight had intensified in an instant.

When they looked up in confusion, they saw a massive, brilliantly glowing pillar of light in the distance!

Immediately, information corresponding to that pillar of light appeared in the minds of the citizens of every nation.

[THE AFTERGLOW OF AN ANTIMATTER WEAPON’S DETONATION!!!]

The Tsar Bomba, the crystallization of humanity’s scientific wisdom.

Before the Great Cataclysm, it was the most powerful technological weapon in human history.

Its explosive yield was equivalent to 50 million tons of TNT, approximately 3,300 times that of the Little Boy atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima!

At the moment of detonation, the fireball had a radius of 8 kilometers, and the mushroom cloud reached 64 kilometers high.

The shockwave was powerful enough to instantly flatten all buildings within a 55-kilometer radius and burn pedestrians over 170 kilometers away.

This was a terrifying weapon capable of annihilating an entire city, the culmination of humanity’s achievements in destruction for the sake of eliminating its own kind.

A single one was enough to wipe out the entire 8 million permanent residents of New York City.

Even the strongest combined attack from the nineteen Fourth Turn Martial Artists on Guiyun Peak, unleashing their full power, could at most match the destructive force of five or six Tsar Bombas.

The reason for mentioning the Tsar Bomba was merely to use it as a stepping stone to introduce the concept of antimatter weapons.

Antimatter weapons!

Through mass-energy conversion, the annihilation effect produced upon contact with matter allows one kilogram of antimatter to rival the effect of 43 million tons of TNT.

A mere one-kilogram antimatter bomb could unleash a terrifying destructive force nearly on par with the Tsar Bomba.

Yet even in the New Country, where technology advanced by the day, the long-term reserves of antimatter bombs amounted to only 30 kilograms.

This was an energy release roughly five to six times that of a peak Fourth Turn expert’s strongest attack.

But now!

After receiving technological support from their business partner, the Interstellar Federation.

The New Country’s technology began to leap forward in great strides!

To put it simply, the New Country’s antimatter production had increased by ↑200,000%↑!

In just over a month, with the full-on construction assistance of super-powered individuals.

Antimatter production capacity had surged from the original 50 kilograms to 100 tons!!!

In other words!

Ji Donglai’s side now!

Wielded the terrifying power of 100,000 Tsar Bombas detonating simultaneously.

What a world-shaking power, so terrifying, so horrifying!

Relying on this power, designed purely for destruction, they could instantly unleash a terrifying might capable of wiping out humanity.

The initial destructive shockwave alone was enough to pulverize a nation occupying 500,000 square kilometers.

The subsequent shockwaves and secondary disasters could cause the immediate death of the entire global human population within a single day.

The energy released by this strike was comparable to a full-power blow from a peak Fifth Turn expert.

And his enemies were merely 19 Fourth Turn practitioners.

The citizens of the Martial World’s various nations: ?????????

They watched the massive pillar of fire soaring into the sky, their eyes filled with unease and terror!

What’s happening?

What’s with the male voice in my head?

Is it a ghost speaking?

And what that voice is saying is terrifying, absolutely terrifying!

It said that after the explosion at the border of the nations, if it wasn’t stopped, one-tenth of the territories of Great Derivation, Great Chu, and Great Zhou would be turned to dust.

Does that mean they’re all going to die?

Ever since that pillar of light ascended into the sky.

A voice had been continuously popping up in the minds of everyone in the various nations, explaining what an antimatter weapon was in a way they could understand.

To the commoners, the voice told them:

If the Fireball reaches you, you will die!

To the Martial Artists, the voice told them:

That Fireball is equivalent to a peak strike from a Fifth Turn expert!

To the commoners or players who had transmigrated from the modern world, the voice told them:

This antimatter bomb is equivalent to an explosive of X-megaton yield!

Even Ji Donglai and Fang Can, who was in his internal space.

Could now hear the familiar voice muttering incessantly!

’Why is the echo in my head that of Baixiaosheng, that debate-loving bastard!’ Fang Can shook his head as information about Baixiaosheng surfaced in his mind.

Have you heard the story of the first-generation Baixiaosheng, a Fifth Turn expert?

Countless years ago, legend says that the first Baixiaosheng, who loved to discuss martial arts, reported on a terrifying battle between two Fifth Turn experts as he was ascending to the Fifth Turn himself!

Using the Heavenly-Human Induction that occurs during the Fifth Turn ascension, Baixiaosheng successfully allowed every single person within a fifty-thousand-kilometer radius to clearly observe every detail of the battle.

And based on the different neural reactions of individuals, high-level Martial Artists viewed the battle as a real-time live broadcast.

But for ordinary people, it was a frame-by-frame slow-motion replay. A single second of a Fifth Turn expert’s exchange became at least a few minutes of time-stopped commentary in their eyes!

Subsequently, later generations named that type of live broadcast—the Ranking Stream!

And now, hearing the voice-over explanation in his head, Fang Can finally understood.

’No wonder I felt like that Baixiaosheng was hiding something. So he wanted to use our battle to live-broadcast his breakthrough to the Fifth Turn.’

Baixiaosheng! You despicable bastard!

Within the King of Willpower’s psychic link, the Meme King exclaimed, "Whoa, it’s the legendary Ranking Stream!"

"If you added some hype battle clips from *Naruto*, *One Piece*, *Dragon Ball*, *One-Punch Man*, and *Gurren Lagann*, wouldn’t it be invincible!"

"That would just be completely cringe, like some low-budget fanfiction! Did this Baixiaosheng take a master class on some trashy webnovel site?"

Fang Can was utterly speechless, feeling an inexplicable sense of helplessness.

’I can’t believe I’ve become the main character of a Ranking Stream one day!’

’This Baixiaosheng could probably team up with the Meme King and debut as a Cringey-Meme Duo Act!’

It wasn’t just audio commentary. As Baixiaosheng entered his breakthrough state, the Heavenly-Human Induction deepened.

The next moment, a swastika-shaped Buddhist seal formed beneath him.

The highest Profound Secret of the Buddhist Path, Brahma Sound Temple’s Fifth Turn Telepathy—[Under the Watchful Eyes of All]

A screen materialized directly in the vision of every person in the various nations.

「Great Chu」

Xiang Ziyu, slumped over her desk, lifted her head and widened her brilliant purple eyes in surprise.

In her line of sight, her imperial father, Xiang Hongtu, was in a world made of pure light.

Meanwhile, in the rear palace, a flash of malicious glee at the prospect of revenge crossed Xiang Longtao’s eyes as he watched Xiang Hongtu.

Through Baixiaosheng’s explanation, he also clearly understood that his father was currently trapped in a kill-box, surrounded by antimatter bombs.

「Suxin Pavilion」

Xi Xing and the other female cultivators were in a state of empty loneliness after Fang Can’s departure, experiencing withdrawal symptoms.

But the next moment, seeing the image that appeared before their eyes, they said with utter astonishment, "The Pavilion Master was attacked on Guiyun Peak? With a Fifth Turn-level technique? Then where is my Master Fang Can?"

「Dayan Royal Mansion」

Prince Qing stared at the sight of a hundred suns in the same sky, created by the antimatter explosion, too stunned to speak.

「Within Jiejian Mountain」

Jiang Ning’an stopped her cultivation.

Having just exited a state of invincible cultivation that lasted for three days and three nights, she stared at the image appearing in her vision with a shocked expression.

After observing the situation on Guiyun Peak and seeing that neither her master nor Fang Can were there, she subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

「Within the deserted Ancient City of Great Chu」

Fang Can’s harem and followers watched the scene of the Fourth Turn experts trapped in a deadly predicament.

Recalling Fang Can’s recent words that he would kill a dozen or so Fourth Turn experts, their hearts surged, and one by one, they began to chant Fang Can’s name.

「Great Zhou」

On the road back to the Brahma Sound Temple, Luo Yanmo watched the scene rocketing into the sky with a shaken expression, chanting a Buddhist phrase.

At this moment!

Great Derivation, Great Chu, Great Zhou, the Nation of Buddha, the Nation of Blaze...

Jiejian Mountain, Suxin Pavilion, Heaven-Refining Sect, Chess Pavilion, Reversal Sect, Tiger Slaughter Sect...

Those with no cultivation, Transcendent Body, First Turn, Second Turn, Third Turn, Fourth Turn...

The citizens of the various nations within a fifty-thousand-kilometer radius centered on Baixiaosheng.

Within the effect of [Under the Watchful Eyes of All], through the eyes of all living beings, they were about to witness the ultimate battle—a collision between two worlds, between superpowers and the Martial Dao!

And at this very moment.

It wasn’t just in the minds of the people outside.

The Fourth Turn experts on the scene were also linked into it all.

Hearing Baixiaosheng’s explanation that this was equivalent to a full-power strike from a peak Fifth Turn expert, the Fourth Turn experts were so terrified their hair stood on end, the resolve to die appearing in their eyes!

In the darkest moment of matter-antimatter annihilation, the summit of Guiyun Peak transformed into a purgatory of light.

The figures of the nineteen Fourth Turn Martial Artists were compressed into distorted silhouettes as terrifying pressure and heat became a world-ending red lotus, enveloping them.

The First Turn Martial Artists were crushed in an instant by the Mach stem formed by the explosion, with no chance to even react.

Although the antimatter weapon’s destruction only needed an instant to blot out the sky and annihilate everything.

The neural reflexes of the Fourth Turn experts present were measured in hundreds or thousands of times the speed of sound.

An instant for a normal person could be extended by at least ten thousand times for them.

But trapped within this antimatter containment, watching as their space to survive shrank bit by bit, surrounded by turbulent energy, they felt an even greater terror.

For a moment, they had even prepared their final words in their minds! ’This is a Fifth Turn-level attack, can we possibly survive?’

"We will live!"

In the next instant, a Fourth Turn expert transmitted a message at supersonic speed via their Heart Image, making a solemn declaration to everyone present.

"Think carefully, how crude is this attack that’s supposedly equivalent to a peak Fifth Turn strike!"

"It’s just a pure stacking of power, with no spatial lockdown."

"The energy isn’t focused on a single point; it has quantity but no quality! Any random Fifth Turn’s physical body could roam freely within this space."

"Even though we are only at the Fourth Turn Realm, we can still hold on for a single breath while exposed to this energy turbulence."

"If we weren’t completely enveloped by so many bombs and taking the full brunt of the damage, any single one would at most have only heavily injured us."

"But now, the time of a single breath... is enough for us to do a lot."

"I’ve said my piece. Whether you live or die next depends on your own fortunes."

Xiang Hongtu looked coldly at the world around him, saturated with light pollution.

He clenched his right fist! His muscles suddenly bulged and knotted!

His eyes held an overwhelmingly tyrannical conviction.

’If it’s only this level of power, I can survive!’

In the next instant, no one saw how he made his move.

By the time they realized it, a straight punch that seemed to split the heavens and earth had already been thrown.