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58: Chapter 58 Skill: Heavenly Dao - Mirror of RetributionInside the meeting room.

The scalp-numbing sense of shock had not completely faded; the lingering echoes of the three thousand heroic spirits roaring in unison seemed to still remain in the air.

Dragon One was already seated back in his chair, but the large hand resting on his knee was unconsciously rubbing his thigh.

He was calming his emotions.

As the helmsman, he should not have experienced such a violent emotional fluctuation, but Su Yun’s repeated miracles had completely made him lose his composure.

”Comrade Su Yun.”

Dragon One finally spoke, his voice hoarse, showing the exhaustion after extreme sorrow and joy, but his eyes were brighter than ever. ”The person is back; this is a huge piece of good news. But just as you said, this matter is not over.”

He paused and reached out to swipe the holographic sandbox display.

The sandbox, which had originally shown the domestic scene, quickly shrank to display a panoramic view of the blue globe. Except for the area of Dragon Summer, which was protected by a golden light shield, most of the other continental plates were marked with a disturbing dark red—the indicator for high-risk fallen zones.

”However, since the Ark Alliance dared to use such a desperate measure, they wouldn’t be foolish enough to wait for us to come knocking.”

Dragon One pointed to the vast Atlantic Ocean. ”According to the fragmented information pieced together by the intelligence department, this group’s core command post is a nuclear submarine modified with doomsday technology, codenamed ’Zeus.’”

The Minister of Intelligence on the screen frowned deeply, linking his words: ”That’s right. This submarine is extremely cunning. Not only does it possess the world’s most advanced silent propulsion System, but it has also merged with some kind of ’Water Magic’ used by Western Awakened ones. Once it dives into the deep sea, it achieves true invisibility. Our satellites and sonar are almost incapable of finding them in the current environment ravaged by electromagnetic storms.”

Saying this, the Minister of Intelligence sighed, ”If we can’t find the coordinates, even our east wind Express won’t be able to touch them. These people are like rats hiding in a sewer; they bite you and then run away. It’s utterly disgusting.”

Indeed.

Revenge presupposes that you know where your enemy is.

The boundless ocean covers 71% of the Earth, with an average depth of over three thousand meters. Trying to find a deliberately cloaked submarine with a magic shield within it is a difficulty even greater than finding a needle in a haystack.

”Can’t find them?”

Su Yun raised an eyebrow, but no disappointment showed on his face.

He gently turned the thermos cup in his hand; a few goji berries inside bobbed with the water.

Dragon One keenly sensed Su Yun’s stable emotions and felt a slight easing of the anxiety he had held. He asked with hope, ”Comrade Su Yun, do you have a way?”

Su Yun slowly nodded, his words resounding with power: ”In the rules inherited by Dragon Summer for a thousand years, repaying debts with money and paying for murder with life is the way of Heaven, the great Dao. Any deed committed on this land, any blood spilled from a Dragon Summer person, this ’Karma’ has already been established.”

”As long as the Karma is established, never mind if he hides in the deep sea, or even under the oil pot in the eighteenth layer of Hell—that debt must be settled!”

As his voice fell, Su Yun stood up.

With a thought, the deep blue System panel, visible only to him, rapidly expanded across his retina.

Su Yun locked his gaze onto the dusty icon in the skill list—[Tracing Totem].

This was originally an extremely useless skill. Its original effect was at best helping the next-door Auntie Wang find her lost tabby cat, or helping a police officer track down a small-time electric bike thief. Its effective range did not exceed five kilometers, and it required a personal item from the target as a medium.

But under the blessing of his talent, a quantitative change was enough to cause a qualitative change.

He slowly raised his hand, and a faint radiance began to converge in his palm.

”Buzz—”

The air vibrated.

A dark red light burst open in his palm.

There were no flashy special effects, nor any earth-shattering sounds. A bronze ancient mirror, archaic in design and covered in verdigris, materialized abruptly from the Void Realm, hovering directly above the sandbox.

The mirror looked quite old. Its frame was carved with complex cloud and thunder patterns, and it was entwined with several reliefs of ferocious-looking monsters. The mirror surface was not glass, nor was it polished copper, but a deep, turbid vortex that seemed to devour light itself.

Inside Su Yun’s mind, the System panel flashed wildly.

[Detecting Host’s Will...]

[Skill ’Tracing Totem’ is being released...]

[Retrieving target energy residue... Retrieval failed. Target is too far away and under a high-level magic shield.]

[Warning: Skill judgment invalid.]

[Talent ’Territory is Domain’ forcibly intervenes!]

[Judgment logic reconstructing...]

[Confirmed ’Blood Debt’ fact: Death record of a Dragon Summer citizen at Boundary Marker No. 77 confirmed.]

[Judgment Rule: Those who offend the mighty Han, though far away, shall be punished. Repay debts with money, pay for murder with life.]

[Rule compatibility: 100%.]

[Extracting concept... Correcting underlying skill logic...]

[Skill mutation complete.]

[Heavenly Dao · Mirror of Karmic Retribution]

[Description: The bright mirror of the Underworld hangs high; right and wrong are hard to conceal. All the injustices committed in life become shackles that claim your life on your return journey. No one is innocent before the Mirror of Karmic Retribution; the evil you have done will become the rope that strangles you.]

[Effect: Ignores physical distance, ignores spatial shielding, ignores magical interference. Forcibly locks onto the source of Karma.]

[Note: Hide? Where can you hide?]

Su Yun commanded:

”Open the mirror.”

The suspended bronze ancient mirror suddenly shook.

...

At this very moment, thousands of kilometers away at the Southwest border, Boundary Marker Line No. 77.

The shock and elation had not yet subsided. Li Two Ox was staring blankly upward at Company Commander Zhao Tiezhu, who was floating in mid-air. He wanted to reach out and touch the Company Commander’s ’spiritual body’ to confirm this wasn’t a dream, yet he feared his hand would pass right through, desecrating this miracle.

Just as he was hesitating, he suddenly felt a scorching heat emanating from the pocket of his camouflage uniform.

It was a piece of black debris he had accidentally picked up near a pile of corpses that looked like rotten meat.

It was a fragment of biological armor from the enemy squad leader, ’Black Mamba.’ It was only the size of a fingernail, still smeared with blackened blood and dirt.

”Whoosh—!”

Without giving Li Two Ox any time to react, the fragment seemed to be pulled by some irresistible summons and shot out of his pocket without any warning!

It transformed into a streak of pitch-black light in the air, instantly tearing through the atmosphere and disappearing into the Void Realm.

The next second.

Kunlun Palace, Meeting Room No. 1.

Space rippled, and the blood-stained fragment appeared out of thin air, carrying the lingering scent of gunpowder smoke, and flew directly toward the bronze ancient mirror.

There was no sound of impact, nor any sound of shattering. The moment the fragment touched the mirror surface, it was like snowflakes falling into boiling water, instantly ’swallowed’ by the mirror’s strange vortex.

Immediately following that, a heart-pounding dark red light converged frantically in the center of the mirror, as if a bloodshot eye was slowly opening.

”Zheng!”

A thread as fine as silk, yet glaringly red, shot out from the center of the mirror!

It then pierced straight through the ceiling, ignoring all physical obstructions, and shot toward the clouds.

Everyone present subconsciously held their breath.

Under the tracking perspective of the holographic screen, this red thread was like an arrow piercing the clouds. At an altitude of ten thousand meters, it abruptly changed direction, sweeping rapidly toward the west.

Its speed was extreme, yet strangely, it caused no sonic boom.

This was because it was not flying within the ”three-dimensional space”; it was flowing backward along the trajectory of ”Karma.”

The red thread swept past the western border of Dragon Summer.

It swept past the majestic Great Wall light curtain.

Inside the light curtain, order reigned, and smoke curled up from chimneys.

But the moment the red thread passed through the light curtain, the scene suddenly turned ferocious and terrifying.

It was the jungle of Southeast Asia. Once a tourist destination, it had now become a green Hell.

Banyan trees reaching hundreds of meters high looked as if they had gone mad, their twisted roots strangling all living things, their vines hung with dried human skeletons, like the wind chimes of Hell. Amidst the ruins of the city, several giant mutated lizards, the size of heavy trucks, were tearing apart a half-corpse, blood dripping everywhere, a truly gruesome sight.

The red thread did not stop, instantly sweeping past this human purgatory.

Next was the Indian Ocean.

On the turbulent sea surface floated countless wreckage of broken ships. The seawater showed an ominous black-purple color.

Through the red thread’s perspective, Dragon One and the others in front of the mirror even saw a huge, suffocating shadow slowly moving beneath the sea surface. The shadow’s volume was several times larger than the largest active aircraft carrier. Just one casual turn caused towering waves tens of meters high.

That was definitely an S-Rank, or perhaps even a near-SS-Rank, overlord of the deep-sea behemoths!

But the moment the seemingly fragile red thread of Karma swept over the sea surface, this deep-sea behemoth, capable of destroying a fleet, actually flinched instinctively like a small fish encountering its natural predator, then dove frantically toward the ten-thousand-meter depths in terror.

It sensed the power of the Rules.

A scrutiny from a higher dimension, a ’Heavenly Might’ that made living beings instinctively tremble.

The red thread ignored the storms, ignored the thunder, and stabbed straight toward the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.

Nothing could stop it.