Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoard Billions of Supplies Chapter 1676: The Destruction of Chaoyu Base

Black Armor descended directly upon Tianshui City. Looking down from high above, he could clearly sense countless gazes fixed on him.

Yet Black Armor paid no mind whatsoever to the gazes of these ants.

Zhang Yi and Shang Daowen stood cautiously atop Tianshui TV Tower, their sharp gazes like blades. The two had reached the height of their vigilance, waiting only for the enemy before them to make his move.

Without a word, Black Armor extended his right fist toward the ground below and slammed it down with all his might!

A nearly transparent black light blossomed from his fist, transforming into a gigantic sphere that crashed into the earth in an instant!

The immense energy struck the ground of Tianshui City.

Pop!

At first, there was no reaction. The force simply sank deep into the earth, like a clay ox disappearing into the sea.

But the next instant, an immensely vast force, a terrifying impact that made it hard to breathe, surged up from beneath the earth and shot into the sky!

Along Tianshui City's southeastern coast, the ground was overturned. The thick earth was blown into the air like dust, as this force rushed from the sea toward the city's entire northwestern region!

Zhang Yi's pupils contracted sharply, and his breathing grew more rapid.

The Gatekeeper of the Underworld's punch had actually blasted Chaoyu Base, buried deep along the East Sea coast, right out of the ground!

The enormous base was shaken up from more than a hundred meters underground. It was a gigantic structure built of reinforced concrete.

Of the three major bases remaining in Tianshui City, Chaoyu Base was situated by the sea.

Who could have imagined that the Gatekeeper of the Underworld could detect activity deep beneath the earth and dig them out?

Zhang Yi took several deep breaths. He understood that Chaoyu Base was finished.

Tens of thousands of people were still alive inside Chaoyu Base. Chen Jingguan had led a group of Transcendents there to await the end of the war.

But now, their only fate was death.

Zhang Yi felt a pang of sorrow, but quickly suppressed the emotion in his heart.

People were bound to die in war. If grief affected him, then he and everyone left would die in the battle to come, and the entire Huaxu Nation might fall!

Terrified screams rang out throughout Chaoyu Base, which had been shaken up from deep beneath the earth.

The Gatekeeper of the Underworld merely glanced at it, then extended a finger on his right hand and fired a streak of piercing black light that punched through its thick defensive layer!

Immediately, a torrent of seawater surged in. In less than five seconds, Chaoyu Base was submerged.

Just like that, tens of thousands of people inside Chaoyu Base died.

Everyone saw this, but no one said a word. Not a single person spoke up to go rescue them.

They had to endure it. Otherwise, all the preparations they had made over such a long time would be ruined!

Zhang Yi drew a deep breath, then raised his heavy sniper rifle, Thunderstrike, and aimed it at the Gatekeeper of the Underworld, unleashing another powerful attack!

Boom!

A streak of black light pierced through space, locking onto the Gatekeeper of the Underworld's head.

But an attack like that meant nothing to the Gatekeeper of the Underworld, whose power was terrifying.

A thick black mask covered his face, making his expression impossible to see, but his eyes plainly revealed deep scorn.

Whoosh!

When faced with Zhang Yi's attack, he not only made no effort to dodge, but charged straight toward it!

Black light enveloped his entire body. He smashed into Zhang Yi's attack and shattered it by sheer force!

He was moving too fast. Zhang Yi could barely catch sight of him, and could only use the predictive ability of Tracking of All Things to anticipate his next move.

“So fast!”

The speed was so astonishing that even Zhang Yi's expression turned grave. He instantly activated his own hundredfold acceleration!

Two seconds later, the Gatekeeper of the Underworld appeared in front of Zhang Yi and Shang Daowen.

Facing the two of them, he launched a simple, unadorned punch with an utterly domineering air!

It was the simplest attack, but also the most violent. A fierce, unstoppable black light burst from his fist, forming a gigantic black star in the sky that plummeted down at incredible speed!

Zhang Yi and Shang Daowen had already witnessed his attack just moments ago. It was powerful enough to destroy everything within a radius of a hundred miles in a single blow!

Even the two of them, now both at Black Chariot-tier, could not hope to match its attack power.

And it was not just its power. Its speed was unimaginable, too.

If Zhang Yi did not possess time-based supernatural powers, he would not even have had the chance to open a Dimensional Gate and flee!

“Stop him!!!”

Zhang Yi shouted, his gaze sharp.

He raised both hands. The three thousand Dimensional Gates created by Manifold Phenomena no longer formed an inherent barrier around him. Instead, they were all placed in front of him!

White light surged skyward from Shang Daowen. It was his immensely powerful telekinetic ability, “My Will Endures Forever.”

A powerful telekinetic barrier formed alongside Zhang Yi's Dimensional Gates, blocking the enormous black star!

The gigantic black star descended in an instant with unstoppable force, crushing more than a hundred of Zhang Yi's Dimensional Gates!

Zhang Yi's expression changed.

He knew the Gatekeeper of the Underworld was powerful and had prepared thoroughly. Yet only when they clashed again did he realize that he had vastly underestimated this terrifying being!

During the battle at Mist Valley on Star Island two years ago, when the Gatekeeper of the Underworld had made his move, he had not even used a tenth of his strength!

“Hold on!”

Shang Daowen said to Zhang Yi in a grave voice. The two of them were the main defensive force in this battle.

If their defenses were breached so easily, the entire plan would be over!

“I know!”

Zhang Yi growled. As the black star continued to fall, chaotic light began to shine from his eyes, spiraling in opposite directions.

The source of a Transcendent's power was the Transcendent themself. The human body was a vast treasure, and the power of the human heart was boundless.

So rather than seek even greater power from the outside world, it was better to first uncover the potential within oneself.

That was what Zhang Yi had learned from Wang Shouren's Philosophy of the Mind.

“Time may reign supreme, and space may be king. But when I unite the powers of time and space, just how powerful can the force I unleash become?”

Zhang Yi had awakened the powers of time and space one after the other, but in the past, he had always used them separately and had never considered combining them.

Only after reaching Black Chariot-tier and obtaining Philosophy of the Mind did he begin to slowly develop this combination technique.

“If I can see through the course of time, can I also trace all things back to their origin? If I can, wouldn't I be able to return everything to its starting point?”

“Even an enemy's attack!”