"Rules... Judgment!" Chu Hang's icy voice rang out again, carrying a hint of imperceptible weakness and an unprecedented solemnity.
He forcefully suppressed the surging blood qi within him and the excruciating pain of the rule backlash, then raised his right hand again!
His five fingers spread open, pointing at Ling Chen!
"Erase..."
Boom—!!!
An invisible force of rules descended once more, attempting to lock onto Ling Chen's soul!
However!
"Hmph! Are you out of tricks?" A cold sneer flashed in Ling Chen's crimson pupils.
The Thunder Wings on his back violently flapped!
"Thunder Blink!"
Zzzzt—!!!
His figure instantly transformed into a twisted dark-purple lightning bolt, leaving an afterimage in place!
In an instant... he vanished from Chu Hang's rule-locking range!
When he reappeared, he was already behind Chu Hang!
His massive bone claw, covered in lightning, carried a tearing sharpness as it fiercely clawed towards Chu Hang's back!
"Die!"
Chu Hang's pupils under his mask abruptly constricted!
He spun around sharply, crossing his hands in front of his chest!
An invisible rule barrier instantly formed!
Bang—!!!
The Thunder Claw slammed heavily onto the rule barrier, emitting a dull thud!
The barrier fluctuated violently, flickering erratically!
Chu Hang grunted!
His body was shaken backward by the immense force, and blood once again spilled from the corner of his mouth!
The cracks on his mask... became more numerous!
"Blood Ripple... Devour!"
Ling Chen's icy voice was like a maggot clinging to bone!
A cold and domineering will instantly invaded Chu Hang's body, attempting to... forcibly control his blood and disrupt the operation of his abilities!
Chu Hang's body stiffened abruptly!
A tiny... fluctuation instantly appeared in the rule barrier!
"Thunder Burst!"
Ling Chen's eyes shot out a cold light!
The lightning concentrated on the Thunder Claw instantly erupted!
Boom—!!!
The violent lightning exploded fiercely!
The rule barrier... shattered with a crash!
Pfft—!!!
The bone claw, covered in lightning... fiercely pierced into Chu Hang's chest, bringing forth a gush of... dark-red... blood!
"Urghhh—!!!" Chu Hang let out an uncontrollable, painful groan!
His body was sent flying like a broken sack, slamming heavily into the ruins several hundred meters away!
His pure white mask completely shattered, revealing a pale, handsome face, yet filled with pain and disbelief!
A massive blood-hole was in his chest, its charred edges flickering with residual lightning!
His life force... instantly withered to an extreme!
The rule-type ability user, Chu Hang... was half-crippled! He lost his combat power!
"Kill—!!!"
Zhuang Han's roar was like a death knell!
The horde of ghouls rampaged wildly among The Boulder Fortress soldiers who had lost their command!
Like tigers entering a flock of sheep!
Screams!
Wails!
The sound of bones shattering!
The sound of flesh tearing... interwove into a mad and desperate symphony of death!
The elite troops of The Boulder Fortress... under the combined slaughter of Ling Chen and Zhuang Han... fell in swathes, like wheat being harvested!
Blood dyed every inch of the land!
Mangled limbs flew everywhere!
The entire Zoo... was completely transformed into... a Shura Blood Purgatory!
Li Mingyu knelt in a pool of blood, holding Sun Qiang's cold corpse, his eyes vacant, as if he had lost his soul.
Chen Xue slumped nearby, watching her comrades who had once fought alongside her fall one by one, watching that figure like a demon god...
Her faith... completely collapsed!
Her tears had long since dried, leaving only... numb despair.
The overall situation... was about to collapse!
The Boulder Fortress... was about to... be completely annihilated!
Just at this critical moment!
Buzz—!!!
An indescribable, cold and majestic spatial fluctuation, as if from another dimension, like a drop of water in boiling oil, instantly shattered the battlefield's bloodlust and madness!
A figure... slowly... stepped out... as if from the void!
He wore a meticulously tailored dark-green silk Tang suit, with dark-gold chi dragon patterns embroidered on the collar.
His skin was pale, and his narrow phoenix eyes were half-closed, carrying a lazy yet... superior scrutiny.
He toyed with a warm mutton-fat white jade pendant between his fingers, a faint... sneer hanging at the corner of his mouth.
Tang Zhao!
He... finally arrived!
His gaze, like the most precise probe, instantly swept across the entire battlefield.
It swept over the mountains of corpses and seas of blood!
It swept over the half-crippled, dying Chu Hang!
It swept over the ruins where Li Fan had fallen!
It swept over Ling Chen, who stood like a demon god in mid-air, his Thunder Wings flapping!
His brow... furrowed ever so slightly.
It seemed... he was a little... disappointed?
"Tsk..." Tang Zhao let out an extremely soft, sigh-like chuckle, "The Boulder... is this all you've got? Truly... disappointing."
His voice was clear and cold, with a metallic quality, clearly reaching everyone's ears, like ice water poured over their heads!
Ling Chen's crimson pupils instantly locked onto Tang Zhao!
An unprecedented... sense of danger! Like a cold venomous snake! Instantly coiled around his heart!
This person... was very strong! Stronger than Chu Hang...!
"You are... Ling Chen?"
Tang Zhao's gaze fell on Ling Chen, and a hint of... playfulness and... an indescribable greed flashed in his narrow phoenix eyes?
He seemed to be admiring a rare treasure?
"Bone Eater Stage Peak? Thunder Wings? Soul Jade Physique? And... the reverse scale pendant?" Tang Zhao's voice carried a hint of admiration.
"Truly... astonishing... fortune. Unfortunately... a pearl cast before swine."
He slowly raised his hand, and the mutton-fat white jade pendant on his fingertip glowed faintly.
"Hand over the reverse scale pendant. I... can give you a... dignified death."
"Heh..." Ling Chen's lips curved into an icy arc, and the lightning on his Thunder Wings surged!
"Just you?"
"Stubborn." Tang Zhao shook his head, seemingly a little regretful.
He lightly flicked the white jade on his fingertip!
Buzz—!!!
An invisible spatial ripple instantly spread out!
The space around Ling Chen... instantly... solidified! As if poured into concrete!
A powerful spatial confinement force! Like invisible shackles! Fiercely enveloped Ling Chen!
"Spatial Confinement?!" Ling Chen's pupils constricted!
His Thunder Wings flapped wildly, trying to break free!
But... that spatial confinement force... was extremely powerful!
The violent lightning from his flapping Thunder Wings... was actually... forcibly suppressed!
His movements... instantly became... sluggish!
"Die."
Tang Zhao's voice was cold and merciless.
He lightly... tapped his fingertip towards Ling Chen...!
Buzz—!!!
A condensed, dark-gold beam of light, as if it could pierce through the void... like the gaze of death! Instantly tore through the solidified space! And shot directly towards Ling Chen's glabella!
Its speed was extreme! There was no avoiding it!
"Master—!!!"
Zhuang Han let out a heart-wrenching roar!
His massive body suddenly erupted with unprecedented speed!
He slammed fiercely into the dark-gold beam, attempting to... use his body... to block this fatal blow for his master!
Pfft—!!!
The dark-gold beam effortlessly... pierced through Zhuang Han's massive body, covered in dark jade bone armor!
Leaving a huge, front-to-back charred blood-hole in his chest!
Dark-gold blood gushed out like a waterfall!
"Urghhh—!!!"
Zhuang Han let out a distorted, mournful shriek!
His massive body seemed to have been drained of all its strength, and he slammed heavily to the ground!
His life force... rapidly drained away!
"Zhuang Han!" Ling Chen's pupils constricted!
An indescribable fury instantly ignited his soul!
The lightning on his Thunder Wings instantly became extremely violent, forcibly tearing apart part of the spatial confinement!
"You... are courting death!"
"Do you know how much I paid to enslave him?!"
Ling Chen roared!
His bone claw, covered in lightning, fiercely clawed towards Tang Zhao!
A hint of surprise flashed in Tang Zhao's eyes; he seemed not to have expected Zhuang Han to be so fearless of death.
Facing Ling Chen's enraged attack, his figure drifted backward like a phantom!
The white jade on his fingertip glowed again!
Buzz—!!!
Another spatial ripple spread out!
Ling Chen's Thunder Claw seemed to hit an invisible wall, covered in sticky colloid, its speed plummeting!
Its power was weakened layer by layer!
"A little interesting."
The sneer at the corner of Tang Zhao's mouth deepened.
"But... it's not enough."
He once again condensed a dark-gold beam at his fingertip!
However! Just as tensions were high!
Tang Zhao's gaze... abruptly... turned towards the depths of Linghui Academy, ten li away!
His brow... raised ever so slightly!
A hint of... indescribable... surprise and... an even more intense... interest flashed in his eyes?
"Spatial silver foil... fluctuations?" He muttered softly, his voice carrying a hint of playfulness, "So... it's there..."
The dark-gold beam he had condensed at his fingertip... slowly... dissipated.
He took a deep look at the enraged Ling Chen, then swept his gaze over the battlefield below, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and the half-crippled Chu Hang, a cold arc curving at the corner of his mouth.
"Never mind. It's pointless to contend with a creature destined for destruction."
He lightly swiped the white jade on his fingertip!
Buzz—!!!
A spatial rift silently opened before him!
Before he finished speaking, Tang Zhao's figure stepped into the spatial rift!
Instantly... he vanished!
Leaving only the slowly closing spatial rift! And... a dead silent... Shura Blood Purgatory!
Ling Chen floated in mid-air, his Thunder Wings flapping wildly!
His crimson pupils stared fixedly in the direction Tang Zhao had disappeared, his eyes filled with icy killing intent and... an indescribable... solemnity!
Tang Zhao... was more terrifying... than he had imagined!
So, how did Tang Buyu eliminate this strong competitor in the previous life?
And below...
The ghoul horde, amidst Zhuang Han's dying roars, plunged into their final frenzy!
The remaining soldiers of The Boulder Fortress... in despair... made their final struggles!
After experiencing the taste of failure, reason naturally gained the upper hand, keeping the hidden opportunity to completely destroy The Boulder, but Ling Chen clearly knew that Tang Zhao could not be allowed to get those things!