The Spell's Range Covers the Entire Territory of China? Hand It Over to the Nation

5: Chapter 5: The Divine Illumination of Heavenly Candle! The Unveiling of the S-Class ”Rat” Who Had Been Lying in the Shadows for Ten YearsAs Su Yun’s fingertips descended, the command representing confirmation, like a stone cast into a deep pool, sent ripple after ripple across the Sea of Consciousness vast enough to cover the entire map shaped like a rooster.

On the living room floor, a totem pole with the texture of cheap plastic, worth two yuan, materialized out of thin air.

Before Su Yun could observe it closely, this inconspicuous totem pole underwent a sudden, drastic change.

The crudely drawn eyeball-shaped runes on it seemed to come alive like wriggling tadpoles, twisting, tearing, and reassembling. The bronze-colored shell peeled away layer by layer, revealing a core as crimson as blood within, as if some ancient divine object was hatching.

A deafening roar exploded in Su Yun’s mind, and an Aura of vast antiquity forcefully intervened in reality through his palm.

The data stream on the System panel jumped rapidly. The green icon, which originally depicted a dull eye, seemed to be thrown into a steel furnace, melting and reforging quickly. Countless complex seal scripts emerged and vanished in the torrent of data, finally condensing into the phantom image of an ancient Divine Beast, entirely crimson, holding a candle in its mouth.

[Scout Ward (LV1)]

[Judging... Talent ’Territory is Domain’ intervening.]

[Judgment passed. Current coverage area: 9.6 million square kilometers.]

[Detected skill energy level too low to match current area... Extracting historical foundation... Reshaping concept...]

[Skill mutation complete.]

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[Heavenly Candle Divine Illumination (LV1)]

[Description: Consider it day, closing the eyes as night, blowing as winter, exhaling as summer. The God of Mount Zhong, whose name is Zhuyin.]

[Effect 1: Insight into the Nine Hells. Removes the invisibility, camouflage, and stealth status of all hostile targets within the coverage area, ignoring Rank and spatial concealment.]

[Effect 2: Red Lotus Karmic Fire. Hostile targets marked will suffer continuous true burning damage, and their movement speed will be reduced by 50%. Damage taken from the ’Longxia Faction’ will be increased by 100%.]

[Effect 3: Heavenly Might. Hostile targets within the illumination range have all attributes forcibly reduced by 20%.]

[Current cost: 10 Mana (Deducted), Maintenance cost: 0 (Compensated by ambient energy of Heaven and Earth due to the ’all under heaven is the kings land’ trait).]

Su Yun stared at the gorgeously transformed skill panel. Before he could complain about the name, which was overflowing with chuunibyou energy, the night sky outside his window underwent a dramatic change.

If the previous Purple Qi Coming From the East was like draping the sky with a layer of luxurious silk, then at this moment, that silk was violently torn apart by an invisible torch.

High above the firmament, the clouds frantically receded to both sides, revealing the dark, deep expanse of the heavens. And right in the center of that expanse, an ’eye’ so immense it could cause instant shock in those with megalophobia slowly opened.

It was not the eye of a living creature, but a cold sun, crimson and suspended high above the Nine Heavens.

It looked down upon the nine million six hundred thousand square kilometers below, its gaze indifferent and just, much like a dorm mother checking rooms who pushes open the door to the boys’ dormitory—every smelly sock, cigarette butt, and even prohibited electrical appliance hidden under the bed would be exposed.

Su Yun stood by the window, looking at the giant eye reflected in the glass, his gaze sharp: ”It’s dawn, you rats.”

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West Suburbs of the Capital City, Research Institute 704. This was one of the units with the highest classified level in Longxia Country, and even its perimeter security measures were extremely tight.

In the guardhouse at the entrance, Old Man Wang was resting with one leg crossed over the other, humming the Peking Opera ’The Empty Fort Strategy’ while using the lid of his thermos to skim the tea dregs.

He looked to be over sixty, slightly stooped, his face crisscrossed with wrinkles—an utterly ordinary old gatekeeper. Having guarded this gate for ten years, everyone knew Old Man Wang was a kind-hearted person who often helped the younger staff receive packages and left the door open for researchers working overtime; he was extremely well-liked.