Chapter 618 - 617: The Number One Under the Emperor Realm, Zhao Li
Chapter 618: Chapter 617: The Number One Under the Emperor Realm, Zhao Li
Xuanyuan Hong was knocked senseless. His head was ringing, and he was seeing stars.
After a long moment, he staggered out of the large crater. Half his face was swollen like a pig’s head, and blood trickled continuously from the corner of his mouth.
He jerked his head up, looking toward the spot where he had just been standing.
There, Chu Sheng was watching him with a look of utter contempt.
"Impossible!!"
Xuanyuan Hong shouted in shock.
"How can you be outside?!"
"The Barrier clearly sealed off the entire lake!"
Chu Sheng looked down at him, his tone full of mockery. "I, Lord Mosquito, am the forefather of using avatars. You, trying this on me? You’re just showing off your amateur skills to a master."
"Impossible!"
Xuanyuan Hong still couldn’t believe it.
"The Xuanyuan Family’s main gate is protected by a top-tier detection Barrier!"
"When an outsider enters, if it’s not their real body, the Barrier is sure to sound an alarm!"
"When you came in, the Barrier gave no warning at all. How could you be an avatar!"
Chu Sheng couldn’t be bothered to explain it all to him.
The one that entered the Xuanyuan Family’s gate was indeed its main body.
But after entering the gate, it had secretly released a Bloodthirsty Demon Bee and had it hide in a corner.
Upon reaching the lakeside, it had secretly summoned an Outer Body Avatar.
At the same time, its main body immediately used [Myriad Insect Clone] to perform an Instant Teleportation to the Bloodthirsty Demon Bee’s side, completing a traceless transfer.
Therefore, the one trapped in the middle of the lake by the Space Barrier just now was merely one of its Outer Body Avatars.
"When you were scheming against me, Lord Mosquito, I assume you were prepared to die."
Having said his piece, Chu Sheng wasted no more words. Its dark-gold compound eyes stared deadly at Xuanyuan Hong.
[Amaterasua’s Eye]!
There were no flashy special effects, not even a ripple of Energy.
But inside Xuanyuan Hong’s heart, alarm bells suddenly went off.
A sense of crisis originating from the depths of his soul made the hair on his entire body stand on end.
He only had time to shut his eyes before a flame, deeper and darker than black, ignited out of thin air on his eyelids.
Immediately after, the black flame began to travel to other parts of his body.
"AHHH!!!"
Xuanyuan Hong let out a horrifying scream.
He mobilized all his power, trying to extinguish the black flame.
But the black flame was like a maggot latched onto his very bones; no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t put it out.
Unable to bear it any longer, Xuanyuan Hong screamed himself hoarse.
"Elder Zhao! Save me!"
"You tiny mosquito, you dare act so insolently in my Xuanyuan Family’s home!!"
An old, furious roar suddenly echoed from the void.
It was none other than the Xuanyuan Family’s old servant, Zhao Li, known as the number one expert below the Emperor Realm.
Zhao Li had just stepped out of the void and waved his hand casually.
A thick column of blue water shot from his hand, slamming viciously onto the flames on Xuanyuan Hong’s body.
With his strength at the third level of the Life and Death Realm, it should have been a trivial matter to extinguish the flames released by an Early Stage Emperor Realm expert.
However, the moment the blue water column touched the black flames, it was instantly vaporized without a trace with a SIZZLE.
"Hm?" Zhao Li faltered for a second.
In the moment he hesitated, the black flames had already consumed nearly all of Xuanyuan Hong’s body.
"Elder Zhao... save... quickly, save me..."
Xuanyuan Hong’s voice had become extremely faint, and the flesh on his body was already burned black.
Zhao Li dared not be careless any longer. He immediately appeared by Xuanyuan Hong’s side and used his Domain Power.
However, it was useless!
Chu Sheng stood to the side, reminding him in a leisurely tone, "If you rip off all the skin that’s on fire right now, he can still be saved."
"Once the flames start burning his soul, it won’t matter even if Xuanyuan Changfeng himself shows up."
"What?!" Zhao Li’s eyes widened.
But by now, the flames had already spread across Xuanyuan Hong’s entire body.
Any more hesitation and Xuanyuan Hong would truly die!
Zhao Li gritted his teeth. "Young Master, forgive me!"
Then, he reached out with both hands, grabbed the skin on Xuanyuan Hong’s shoulders, and tore with all his might.
RIIIP!!!
A tearing sound that set one’s teeth on edge rang out.
Zhao Li had brutally torn off all of Xuanyuan Hong’s skin in one single piece.
"AHHH!!!"
Xuanyuan Hong let out a heart-wrenching scream, nearly fainting from the pain.
His life, at least, was saved.
But this was worse than death.
He had been born into a top noble family in the Great Xia, living a life of pampered luxury. When had he ever suffered such a great shame?
To be skinned alive and left lying on the ground as a bloody mess—this was the greatest torture imaginable for him.
Xuanyuan Hong glared venomously at Chu Sheng and roared with all his remaining strength, "Zhao Li! Kill him for me!!! Tear him to shreds!!!"
"Rest assured, Young Master. This old servant will grind this mosquito to dust and avenge you!"
Zhao Li acknowledged him and slowly turned to face Chu Sheng, his gaze as cold as ice.
"Today, I will show you the consequences of offending the Xuanyuan Family!"
A terrifying pressure suddenly erupted from Zhao Li. Like Mount Tai Pressing Down, it instantly enveloped Chu Sheng.
Following that, the Powers of Law for water and fire, two forces that should have been in conflict, fused perfectly around him.
One yin, one yang; one cold, one hot, they formed a unique field of Power that covered a hundred-meter radius.
Chu Sheng narrowed its eyes slightly.
’No wonder Zhao Li is called the number one person below the Emperor Realm.’
’He can actually perfectly fuse the conflicting Laws of water and fire to form an immensely powerful Ice and Fire Two Realms Half-Step Emperor Domain!’
Under the suppression of the Half-Step Emperor Domain, Chu Sheng’s [Boundless Wings] were nullified, and it could no longer use Instant Teleportation.
However, Chu Sheng had no intention of running in the first place.
[Silent Annihilation Battle Armor!]
[Tenth Gear!]
With a thought from Chu Sheng, a menacing Battle Armor formed from black Energy particles instantly covered its entire body!
Seeing that Chu Sheng not only didn’t flee but even took the initiative to activate its Defense, Zhao Li grew even more incensed.
"You insolent mosquito, you don’t know your place!"
He snorted coldly and raised his right hand. A massive, several-hundred-meter-long fire dragon roared as it charged toward Chu Sheng, carrying a terrifying heat capable of incinerating mountains and boiling seas.
"Playing with fire? This Lord Mosquito will be happy to play along!"
Unafraid, Chu Sheng’s sharp proboscis spat out a stream of [Silent Annihilation Nether Flame].
BOOM!!!
The two flames collided violently in mid-air.
A ferocious shockwave of Energy radiated in all directions, cracking the surrounding ground with countless fissures.
In the end, both flames dissipated into the air at the same time, neither gaining an advantage.
Zhao Li frowned slightly, a grave expression appearing on his face for the first time.
Although that last attack was just a casual strike from him, it was definitely not something an ordinary Early Stage Emperor Realm expert could withstand!
This mosquito’s strength far exceeded his expectations.
He no longer dared to underestimate it in the slightest.
As the publicly acknowledged number one expert below the Emperor Realm, Zhao Li’s foundation was far beyond what ordinary people could imagine.
He had long ago perfectly fused the two Laws of water and fire with his own physical body, transforming it into a true Emperor’s Body.
At the same time, his Power of Law had also merged with his Soul Power, giving him the rudiments of Divine Thought.
He was only a single step away from the true Emperor Realm.
Although Chu Sheng had not reached the Life and Death Realm.
But it also possessed a Power of its own, and a Divine Thought even more refined than Zhao Li’s.
And after donning the [Silent Annihilation Battle Armor], the strength of Chu Sheng’s body was even greater than Zhao Li’s Emperor’s Body!