Chapter 24: The Crisis Comes

“I can only guarantee five days of use time, you have to work hard for me!”

Zhang Heng watched Su Xuan gradually adapt and said silently in his heart.

Although with Zhang Heng’s face, letting Su Xuan use this machine for half a month would be no problem, but does his face not cost anything?

If he didn’t think Su Xuan was a talent worth molding, Zhang Heng wouldn’t have lowered his pride to beg for the usage rights.

He knew that fellow was not easy to deal with.

He’d better not lose face in front of him.

If it took half a month to master energon control, he couldn’t be considered a strong genius.

But if he could master energon control within five days, then this guy would be an out-and-out monster.

A monster, a talent even more talented than a genius, is called a monster.

Those who can be called monsters will not be too weak after they grow up.

Most of the big names in the army now were monsters and geniuses back in their day.

Those late bloomers were truly too few.

And this guy before him, this guy who came out of nowhere, his older brother was actually Su Chen.

The Light of Lingnan, Lieutenant General Chenxi, Su Chen.

He was the representative figure of the super-platinum era ten years ago, possessing unparalleled talent and combat awareness.

At the Second Form, he could already go head-to-head with veteran Third Form Gods of War.

Su Chen was one of the few monsters in recent years who might break through to the Third Form.

He wondered if his younger brother could be half as monstrous as his older brother.
If he had half of his brother’s talent, he would definitely be a monster too.

“Let me see just how strong Lieutenant General Su Chen’s younger brother can be!”

Zhang Heng stared at the figure slowly holding on, pushing the pressure adjustment knob upward.

And there was still a long way to go on it, waiting for Zhang Heng to move.

Inside the machine, Su Xuan struggled to adapt to the external pressure while doing his utmost to control the decomposition of energons.

The immense pressure forced the energons to become energy, forming strength to counteract the external pressure.
After a period of resistance, Su Xuan gradually adapted to this pressure, but he still couldn’t grasp the method of controlling energons.

His control over it was like an ethereal thread; he had to strain his eyes to find that thread, but this pressure wasn’t enough to make the line distinct.

So, Su Xuan’s current control over energons could only be described as faint and indistinct.

He could vaguely sense groups of cells releasing energy to counteract the external force.

Just as Su Xuan thought things would continue like this, the pressure suddenly increased.

If the previous pressure was one, then the current pressure became one point two, a direct twenty percent increase, shattering the delicate balance.

The extra force flooded into Su Xuan’s body like a tide.

His weak cells were shattered under the torrent of external pressure.

A small amount of red patches seeped through his fair white skin.

A large number of capillaries ruptured, causing blood to flow into his tissue fluid, making Su Xuan look incomparably bewitching.

Natural selection, survival of the fittest.
The weak are eliminated, the strong survive.

“Steady your breathing~~”

Su Xuan only felt a burning sensation in his lungs right now, and his whole body felt as if it had been plunged into boiling water.
A fiery sensation spread throughout his body.

Within this fiery feeling, Su Xuan felt his senses become increasingly clear.

That faint thread seemed to have solidified a lot, but he still couldn’t control it.

Every cell was operating frantically.
The energons in his meridians were all transported into the cells, and his Energon Chamber was constantly contracting.

The operation of this massive amount of energons allowed Su Xuan to clearly experience the changes in his body.
The large amount of nutrients he had ingested at noon now showed their effect.
Stimulated by the excess life source energy and under the high energon pressure, a large number of cells were born in Su Xuan’s body, filling the positions of the dead cells.

The external pressure was still increasing.
His brain was constantly experiencing the circulation of energons in his body, trying to gain control over a certain area, but unfortunately, he still couldn’t achieve his goal.

But compared to his confused and naive state in the morning, Su Xuan now appeared much more experienced.

He believed that it wouldn’t be long before he could analyze his body’s method of using energons and reach the level of energon control.

In the dark basement of a remote villa, an old man with graying hair was meditating with his eyes closed.

In front of him was an altar with a strange geometric beauty, carved with incomprehensible and mysterious patterns.
There were five grooves on the altar, four of which were filled with black metal blocks.

If Su Xuan saw it, he would be ecstatic, because those black metal blocks were the Black Energon Stones he had been dreaming of.

The old man caressed the walking stick in his hand with his rough fingers.

Behind him was a middle-aged man in a kneeling posture.

They were members of the Black Fall Cult.
In order to create a devastating disaster in this southern metropolis, they had been lurking here for more than twenty years.

For that evil plan, and for the so-called eternal life, after more than twenty years of lurking, they were about to be liberated.
Unfortunately, the failure to transport the last Black Energon Stone forced them to choose another plan.

On the other side of the basement, there was a huge machine connected to several pipes.

At the other end of the pipes were people lying down with weak breathing.

If one didn’t look closely at them, their still-youthful faces might be mistaken for old people due to their graying hair.

However, they were just a group of teenagers.

The evil machine was using energons to extract the life source energy from the teenagers’ bodies.

This life source energy would be channeled into that indescribable altar to take the place of the Black Energon Stone, summoning a Dark Abomination to plunge this prosperous city into panic.

“That guy named Su Xuan, when are you going to make a move?”

“We plan to act on the day of the big test. After all, he is a third-year high school student. Catching him could easily expose our whereabouts!”

The middle-aged man answered, trembling with fear, afraid of saying anything wrong.

“You b*stard! By the time we wait until then, can we still get anything of value from his mouth? In a month’s time, that Black Energon Stone will have long since disappeared without a trace!”

“The extraction machine is almost ready. We’re only short five or six people. I want to see him within a week!”

The old man said angrily.

The middle-aged man lowered his head even further and replied, “Yes.”