Yet under the suppression of the grand formation, and while facing three red-robed cardinals of the same level, he was instantly forced into an absolute disadvantage!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The violent clashes reverated throughout the underground city.
Huo Zhenshan was driven back step by step, and before long, several wounds deep enough to expose bone had appeared across his body!
“Die!”
The leading red-robed cardinal seized an opening.
A gigantic blood-red blade, dozens of meters long, condensed in his hand. Carrying terrifying might capable of tearing space apart, it came crashing down toward Huo Zhenshan’s head!
There was no way to dodge this strike!
Huo Zhenshan’s pupils contracted sharply, and a trace of despair flashed through his eyes.
Could it be that this old man was going to meet his end here today?!
At this critical moment—
“Thunder Shadow Starfall Step.”
A calm voice suddenly rang beside Huo Zhenshan’s ear.
The next second—
A black afterimage appeared out of thin air in front of Huo Zhenshan, as if it had teleported there!
Without any flashy movements, the figure merely raised his right hand.
A dark-red spear, coiling with the phantom image of a gray-black dragon, instantly condensed into existence!
The Spear Intent of Soul Forging!
He thrust upward with tremendous force!
Clang—!!!
The deafening clash of metal against metal seemed capable of ripping apart one’s eardrums!
That blood-red blade, powerful enough to cleave Huo Zhenshan in two, shattered into a sky full of blood-colored motes of light the instant it came into contact with the spear’s edge—
as though it had struck an immovable primordial divine mountain!
The red-robed cardinal was sent flying backward hundreds of meters by the terrifying recoil. The web between his thumb and forefinger split open, and blood sprayed from his mouth!
The entire battlefield fell deathly silent.
Huo Zhenshan stared blankly at the black figure standing in front of him.
His mind instantly short-circuited.
That silhouette… that spear intent…
“Su Yuan?!”
Huo Zhenshan cried out in shock.
Su Yu turned his head. His cold, hard face—disguised by the Thousand Forms Concealment Technique—was devoid of expression.
“Elder Huo.” Su Yu gave a slight nod in greeting.
Huo Zhenshan was dumbfounded.
He widened his eyes and pointed at Su Yu.
“What are you doing here too?!”
“Wait!”
Huo Zhenshan suddenly reacted. He glanced at the number-one Heaven-grade private room from which Su Yu had just emerged.
“That magic core… was it you who put it up for auction?!”
“You sold the magic core?!”
Su Yu nodded as if it were only natural.
“It wasn’t of much use to me. I figured I’d exchange it for some spending money.”
Huo Zhenshan felt his vision go black, and he nearly spat out a mouthful of blood.
Not of much use?!
That damn thing was a Demon Saint-grade magic core—something powerful Martial Emperors would be envious of!
And you call it “not of much use”?!
But clearly, this was not the time to dwell on that.
Huo Zhenshan took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the shock and urge to complain surging in his heart.
He stared intently at the three red-robed cardinals regrouping across from them, his expression exceptionally solemn.
“Su Yuan!”
“These bastards came prepared!”
“You and I must join forces and kill them here as quickly as possible!”
“Otherwise, once the grand formation is fully activated, the consequences will be unimaginable!”
Su Yu said nothing. He merely tightened his grip around the spear in his hand.
However—
Before the two of them could make a move—
Crack!
The void at the center of the grand formation suddenly shattered with a thunderous crash, like a mirror breaking apart!
A deep-abyssal pressure ten or even a hundred times more terrifying than that of the three Demon Cardinals combined poured down instantly, like a black ocean bursting through a dam!
Three terrifying demonic shadows, each hundreds of meters tall, forcibly squeezed through the spatial rift!
Three Demon Saints!
Their true bodies had descended!
And above the heads of those three Demon Saints, a gigantic palm formed entirely from pure darkness, blotting out the sky and the sun, was slowly reaching through the rift!
The fatal strike empowered by the Demon Emperor—
had arrived with a thunderous roar!
At this moment, time itself seemed to stop throughout the entire underground city of the Dark Web.
The pressure of destruction caused the souls of everyone present to tremble!
Six Saint-level combatants!
And an attack from a Demon Emperor spanning across dimensions!
The situation had completely spiraled out of control!
“It’s over…”
Huo Zhenshan stared at the enormous black hand blotting out the sky, his face instantly paling to the color of paper.
Despair.
An unprecedented despair.
He had never imagined that the Abyssal Cult would prepare so many contingencies just to kill a single Su Yuan!
This was no longer a matter of facing grave danger.
This was certain death!
Su Yu raised his head and looked at the slowly descending hand of the Demon Emperor.
There was not the slightest trace of fear in his deep eyes.
Instead, they began to blaze with astonishing battle intent!
An attack from a Demon Emperor?
Perfect.
It would be just the thing to test how overbearing the Great Desolate Starfall Dharma Aspect was after he had completed his deductions and brought it to perfection!
Within Su Yu’s body, the billion points of dark-gold divine blood began to boil furiously!
He was just about to draw his spear and unleash his full power—
when, at that moment—
a broad, callused hand, warm and stained with fresh blood, suddenly pressed down on Su Yu’s shoulder!
Huo Zhenshan grabbed Su Yu and pulled him behind himself!
“Get back!”
Huo Zhenshan’s eyes were bloodshot. Like a crazed lion driven into a desperate corner, he roared furiously at Su Yu.
“You’re only a Martial Spirit! What are you trying to prove?!”
“Do you really think that killing a severely wounded Demon Saint makes you invincible under heaven?!”
“That is an attack from a Demon Emperor! Anyone it touches will die!”
Huo Zhenshan clenched his teeth hard as the hundreds of billions of units of qi and blood within him began to burn recklessly, without regard for the consequences.
His hair instantly turned snow-white, and his vitality began to drain away at an alarming rate!
“Listen carefully!”
“I’ll hold them off!”
“Use your concealment technique and do whatever it takes to break out of here alive!”
Huo Zhenshan roughly shoved the magic core he had purchased earlier, along with his storage ring, into Su Yu’s hands.
A tragic, resolute determination filled his eyes.
“You are the future of humanity!”
“You’re only eighteen years old, yet you possess the potential to become a Martial Emperor!”
“As long as you survive, Great Xia will still have hope!”
“Go!”
Accompanied by a roar that shook the heavens—
Huo Zhenshan gave Su Yu no chance to explain.
He burned away his entire origin and transformed into a dazzling meteor, charging fearlessly toward the world-destroying hand of the Demon Emperor!
Boom—!!!!!
An explosion of unimaginable terror erupted in midair!
The blinding light temporarily robbed everyone of their sight.
However—
the disparity in strength was ultimately an impassable chasm.
Even after burning away all his vitality, Huo Zhenshan remained as fragile as an insect trying to stop a chariot before that fatal strike empowered by the Demon Emperor.
One second!
He did not even last a full second!
Crack!
Huo Zhenshan’s indestructible Martial Saint body instantly rang with the dense sound of breaking bones.
His chest collapsed over a wide area!
He vomited a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of his organs. His entire body was sent flying like a kite with its string cut, blasted away at ten times the speed at which he had charged forward!
He slammed heavily into the ruins, creating a bottomless crater!
The Martial Saint Huo Zhenshan had been crippled, his strength reduced by more than half!
And although the Demon Emperor’s hand had dimmed considerably after defeating Huo Zhenshan, it still carried terrifying aftershocks powerful enough to annihilate any Martial Venerable.
It came crashing down toward Su Yu’s position!
“Su Yuan!!!”
Lying amid the ruins, Huo Zhenshan—unable to move even a single finger—let out a shrill, despairing howl.
It’s over!
That attack was far too terrifying!
Even after blocking most of its power himself, the remaining shockwave was still absolutely beyond what a Martial Spirit could withstand!
The peerless prodigy of the human race…
Was he really going to perish here after all?!
Huo Zhenshan shut his eyes in agony, two murky trails of bloody tears sliding from their corners.
And yet—
The scene he had expected, of Su Yu being blasted into a mist of blood, never came.
Boom!
The violent shockwave slammed into Su Yu!
Dust and smoke billowed in every direction!
But—
When the dust finally settled,
Su Yu was still standing quietly in the same spot.
He had not even altered his grip on the spear in the slightest.
That terrifying shockwave, powerful enough to annihilate a Martial Venerable, had not even managed to ruffle the hem of his black windbreaker!
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
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to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
