“Big Brother, do you think I do not know you?” Thunder God laughed. “Do you remember back during the Great Nirvana Period? We were both young then. We faced crisis after crisis, situations that seemed completely hopeless, yet you always managed to turn the impossible into possible!”
“Stop flattering me,” Hong replied.
“Let it all out, Big Brother. Let them see the combat techniques of us Earthlings.” Thunder God continued urging him on, while Luo Feng also looked at Hong expectantly.
Hong glanced at Thunder God, then turned to look at Luo Feng.
“We can only fight it out.” A faint smile appeared on Hong’s face.
Three people from the Black Dragon Mountain Empire had passed the preliminaries, but during the arena battle, Nabini was defeated and eliminated! One had to know that these arena battles were being broadcast live. Hundreds of millions of people throughout the Black Dragon Mountain Star Region had witnessed this battle. Countless people angrily smashed their wine bottles, while countless others shouted curses in frustration.
“That guy from the Puluo Star Region is too despicable. He actually ambushed Nabini!”
“That bastard!”
“Nabini lost so unfairly!”
“He should have made it into the top ten thousand.”
“In today’s arena battle, we still have ‘Hong’ from the Black Dragon Mountain Empire. Hong will definitely win. He will definitely make it into the top ten thousand of the Ganwu Universe Country.”
“Brother, Hong’s ranking after passing the preliminaries was only ***. It will be very difficult for him to survive on the arena. I think… Luo Feng has a better chance.”
“Luo Feng will definitely pass! Hong can pass too! Perhaps this ‘Hong’ deliberately held back his strength during the preliminaries.”
Virtual Universe, Fighting Arena Number 10389.
About three hours after watching Nabini’s arena battle, the arena battle for Group 161 was about to begin in Fighting Arena Number 10389. Cheers rang throughout the entire fighting arena as a beautiful female commentator introduced the basic information of the one hundred geniuses participating in this battle.
“Number 93, Hong, from the Black Dragon Mountain Empire. During the preliminaries, he ranked 982nd in World District 72.” It was the same beautiful female commentator.
“Hong!”
“Hong!”
“Hong!”
In one section of the audience, more than a million spectators from the Black Dragon Mountain Star Region shouted loudly, as if announcing that genius ‘Hong’ belonged to their Black Dragon Mountain Empire!
Yet Luo Feng and Thunder God, who were among the cheering crowd, both frowned deeply.
“This is troublesome,” Thunder God said quietly. “I did not expect that savage to be here too.”
“Yeah.” Luo Feng also held his breath as he waited, feeling worried for his Big Brother. Every person capable of making it into the arena battle was extraordinary. In particular, Hong’s group actually contained the ‘savage’ who had once killed his Second Brother.
Very soon.
As the countdown began, the fighting arena shook with a roar, and one hundred absolute elites appeared inside the arena.
“Big Brother.” Luo Feng spotted Hong at a glance.
Inside the fighting arena.
Hong held a silver long spear in his hand, his gaze cautiously sweeping across his surroundings. The combat space for this melee had a radius of thirty kilometres. During the battle, the combat space would continuously shrink, forcing those who were fast at flying to be unable to escape. After about fifteen minutes, the combat space would shrink until it was only one metre in diameter!
Therefore…
An arena melee could last at most fifteen minutes.
“Among these one hundred people, the strongest should be the savage.” As Hong swept his gaze over the other ninety-nine people, information he had seen before rapidly surfaced in his mind. “There are three others who are also very strong.”
“First, I will join the melee and fight with the weaker ones, preserving my life for now.”
“Then I will fight it out.”
Hong quickly analysed the information. He knew very well that if he immediately fled far away at the beginning, he would definitely become a ‘target’ for some of the extremely powerful geniuses. It would be better to charge directly into the crowd at the beginning and engage in close combat. When it came to staying alive in a melee, Hong was still very confident.
“Begin the battle!”
A deep and majestic voice echoed through the minds of everyone in the entire fighting arena.
The thirty kilometre radius combat space began to slowly shrink. In just fifteen minutes, it would shrink to a diameter of one metre.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
Violent currents of air exploded outwards as the one hundred genius experts in the fighting arena rapidly began attacking and fighting one another!
“Take my blade!”
The burly young man with messy hair shouted loudly. He stepped forward barefoot, and his body strangely shot out a hundred metres. His fierce blade slashed directly towards a spiritual force master. The spiritual force master seemed not to have expected his opponent to be so fast. He was startled and hurriedly tried to dodge while controlling his spiritual force weapon to block.
Clang!
The short blade came crashing down with unstoppable force!
It was like a mountain collapsing down upon him!
The spiritual force weapon was directly knocked flying, and the short blade then struck the spiritual force master’s head, splitting it cleanly down the middle.
“Hahaha… hahaha…” The burly man laughed loudly. Taking steps with his bare feet, every step sent him surging a great distance. His acceleration was astonishingly fast, far exceeding that of many spiritual force masters in flight.
“Surround and kill him!”
“Everyone, join forces and kill him first!” someone shouted.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Two spiritual force weapons shot towards him.
Clang! Clang!
With a casual sweeping motion around his body, the short blade easily blocked the two spiritual force weapons, even sending both weapons flying backwards.
“Surround me?”
The burly young man’s movements were as elusive as a ghost. He actually moved through the chaotic crowd, making it impossible for the more than ten opponents who wanted to surround him to launch a coordinated attack. Instead, the burly young man quickly eliminated half of them. Wherever this savage went, it was simply a path of slaughter. Although all one hundred people were peerless geniuses, nobody could actually stand against this savage.
In this melee, the most dazzling figure was undoubtedly the savage.
However, besides the savage, there was also a woman who displayed astonishing strength. She was an extremely formidable woman wearing armour! One could only judge from her figure that she was a beautiful woman with a stunningly attractive body. Yet the murderous aura surrounding her, the ferocity contained within her eyes, and the clean efficiency with which she killed made it impossible to associate her with a woman.
“Shhh!”
Holding a silver long spear, Hong fought among the group of genius experts. One genius after another fell to the ground and died.
Yet Hong strangely remained alive throughout!
“Roar!”
The long spear flashed like lightning!
It rapidly attacked from behind and directly pierced the head of a genius expert, killing him. After killing one person, ‘Hong’s’ expression did not change in the slightest. He continued to remain within the chaotic crowd, his long spear dancing in his hands. It looked ordinary, yet even many spiritual force weapons were unable to break through his defence.
Time passed, and the number of deaths accumulated to sixty, sixty-one, sixty-two…
As the number of people decreased, there were far fewer people fighting in the melee.
“Hmm?” The formidable female warrior immediately fixed her eyes on ‘Hong’. In the universe, there were quite a few people who used long spears as weapons.
However, those who normally used long spears would choose spears with extremely high hardness.
Yet the long spear Hong used was exceptionally flexible. When swung, it seemed like a giant snake, strange and unpredictable.
“Interesting.” The female warrior held two curved blades and flew directly towards Hong.
“Not good.” Hong’s expression changed.
While fighting in the melee, he had already secretly observed and judged that this formidable female warrior was definitely among the top three in this group. Only the savage was slightly stronger than her. He had not expected this female warrior to charge towards him. However, since she had already attacked and he could not avoid her, he could only fight!
“Roar!”
As the long spear spun, it was like a loach swimming through water, fast and agile as it directly stabbed towards the female warrior flying towards him!
“Interesting, interesting.” Excitement flashed through the female warrior’s eyes. Green streams of air filled the area around her body, flowing around her two curved blades. She directly swung the curved blades, striking the edge of the spearhead. An invisible and strange rotating force was transmitted into the long spear.
“Hmm?”
Hong’s expression changed. He immediately retracted the long spear, then shouted loudly and raised it high above his head. Like wielding an axe, he smashed it down fiercely towards the female warrior.
Bang!
The entire female warrior transformed into a surging stream of water. One of her curved blades merely made contact with the long spear before completely deflecting the powerful impact. The female warrior then frantically attacked Hong from all directions. For a moment, Hong seemed to be trapped in a raging whirlpool of water, completely unable to escape.
“This female warrior has already comprehended a trace of the Origin Law of Water. This is troublesome.” Hong was anxious.
As for metal, wood, water, fire and earth, ancient Chinese culture placed great importance on the Five Elements. Although Hong followed the path of the ‘Light Domain’, he clearly understood how formidable this female warrior was. Understanding it was one thing, but whether he could actually defeat her was another.
“She is like water, so I will become a rock!”
Hong had no choice. He gritted his teeth, and immediately the light around him distorted. His entire body suddenly became dazzlingly bright.
The speed of his long spear immediately increased by another level.
As the long spear was unleashed, it was like a tortoise shell, leaving his opponent nowhere to strike.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Every slash from the female warrior, infused with the Origin Law of Water, was incredibly heavy and surging, making Hong feel as though he was about to collapse under the pressure.
“Without stepping across the threshold of the Laws, everything is ultimately useless.” Hong instantly understood this principle.
“Hong!”
“Hong!”
Among the one billion spectators present in the fighting arena, many people from the Black Dragon Mountain Star Region were watching expectantly.
However, even more people were watching the battle through the broadcast.
Virtual Universe, above Black Dragon Mountain Island, there was a floating island. The minimum requirement for living on this floating island was to be at the Universe Level. On the floating island stood an enormous yet seemingly simple and unadorned manor.
In one of the manor’s reception rooms.
A man wearing a dark red robe was sitting to one side. There was also a lightning-shaped mark between his eyebrows. This person was none other than one of the top experts among the World Lords of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, Jiang Tianchen. Beside Jiang Tianchen sat an old man with white hair who looked kind and benevolent.
“This little black-clothed fellow is from our Black Dragon Mountain Empire?” the old man asked with interest. “From what I can see, his Light Domain is only at around the sixth level. Yet he is truly a combat genius. With a highly flexible long spear, he has actually displayed the Light Domain to such a degree. He is already comparable to those little fellows with eighth-level Domains.”
An eighth-level Domain was not necessarily stronger than a seventh-level Domain.
It also depended on one’s ability to use it.
The same principle applied here.
Perhaps someone had comprehended a trace of a Law, but how that comprehension was applied in battle also determined one’s combat strength! Take Luo Feng, for example. His strength was completely different when he used the Cloud Shuttle compared with when he used the Yan Shen Armament. This was precisely because the Yan Shen Armament allowed him to unleash his comprehension of the Laws to its fullest extent.
“Yes, Army Master, he is from our empire,” Jiang Tianchen said respectfully.
“Oh.” The old man smiled.
Army Master…
If the other World Lords of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire heard this title, they would be stunned.
Within the Three Axe Mountain Organisation, all World Lords were addressed as ‘Generals’.
The Three Axe Mountain Organisation had three founders, and only those three founders had the qualifications to be addressed as ‘Army Masters’.