16
Meanwhile.
Thousands of miles away, in Great Xia Nation, Modu.
The night wind howled through the steel jungle.
On the rooftop of a skyscraper, two figures stood, overlooking the city below.
One was Great Sage Li Er wearing a gray robe.
The other was Overlord Xiang Yu clad in dark gold battle armor!
Just a moment ago, far away in Donghai City, he had shattered the phantom of Li Er through the Merit sphere of light, forcibly rewritten the universal Law of the Abyss of Mist, and released the mist-dispelling skill.
Words Become Law.
But the price of rewriting the universal Law was high.
Because no Merit value was consumed to offset it, the backlash of the Heavenly Dao crossed the distance of space and descended!
"Rumble—!"
The night sky above Modu split open, and a heavenly tribulation thunderbolt directly struck down toward the crown of Li Er's head on the rooftop!
The thunder light illuminated the entire rooftop in a pale white.
However, facing this divine punishment from the Heavenly Dao, Li Er remained expressionless.
"Bang!"
The crimson thunder deflected the moment it touched the top of Li Er's head!
That destructive energy was transferred along a Law chain onto Xiang Yu by his side!
"Uh-hum—"
Xiang Yu let out a low grunt.
A dark red damage number floated above his head!
His health bar dropped by a small section!
His physical body was struck by the thunder until it smoked continuously, and scorched marks also appeared on the dark gold battle armor.
But that was all.
Li Er was completely unscathed!
Seeing this scene, Zhou Huai smiled.
This was also a loophole in the backlash he had just discovered through exploration over the past few days.
As long as Li Er was forcibly bound by Xiang Yu's 【Immortal Oath】, all damage targeting Li Er would be unconditionally borne by Overlord Xiang Yu!
The backlash of the Heavenly Dao was, in the final analysis, a type of energy damage!
Since it was damage, it could be shared by the contract!
Xiang Yu was his chief tank!
As long as it was not that kind of overly out-of-bounds Words Become Law, that level of backlash thunder was completely within a tolerable range for Xiang Yu!
Using Xiang Yu's physical body to forcefully resist the backlash in order to save Li Er's Merit value.
This deal was an absolute blood profit!
Zhou Huai cast his gaze toward the Modu urban area below.
Modu at this moment had long lost its past prosperity and radiance.
The shrill screeches of police sirens, the roaring sounds of collapsing high-rises, and the explosions of supernatural ability collisions were mixed together, with flames and thick smoke everywhere.
"This number of Awakenings is a bit exaggerated."
Zhou Huai was secretly alarmed.
Compared to the Awakened Ones of Sakura Country, the number of Ancient Awakened Ones on the Great Xia Nation side was extremely large!
In Modu alone, over the past few days, at least more than thirty Ancient Remnant Clan members had awakened successively!
Moreover, Zhou Huai discovered a commonality—the vast majority of these people whose bodies were occupied by ancient souls were college students with high Mental Strength in institutions of higher education!
This also made the Great Xia Military Department hesitate out of concern when suppressing them; not only did they have to control the scope of destruction, but they also had to capture them alive as much as possible to avoid harming the physical body of these future pillars of Great Xia.
The higher-ups of the military department had almost worried their hair white over the past two days, and several ace legions were running continuously, putting out fires everywhere and running about in exhaustion.
The reason Zhou Huai appeared in Modu with Xiang Yu was, on one hand, at the request of Marshal Zhao Qingcang, and on the other hand... he was also here to stock up.
These awakened Ancient Remnant Clan members were a disaster for ordinary people, but for Zhou Huai, they were walking super experience packs!
Thanks to these Ancient Remnant Clan members, after being captured alive by the military department, they were all secretly escorted to the Number Zero underground prison.
Insect Emperor Caesar, who was holding down the fort far away in Sakura Country, had carried out inhumane and crazy juice-extracting over the past few days through the Alien Parasites lurking inside their bodies.
Every day, a massive amount of Divine Power and experience points poured in endlessly.
In less than a week, Caesar's Level rose rapidly, approaching the major milestone of Level 40!
"Since I'm already here, I might as well help the military department relieve a bit of pressure."
Zhou Huai's gaze pierced through the night and locked onto the south gate plaza of Modu University a few kilometers away.
An encirclement battle was erupting there!
Gloomy blue firelight illuminated more than half of the night sky.
"Hahahaha—! Ignorant ants! You actually think you can stop the descendants of Zhurong with just you guys?!"
"Turn to ashes in the divine fire of the primordial era!"
A young male college student wrapped in gloomy blue flames floated in mid-air.
His expression was frantic, his eyes spat out flames, and his hands waved as pillars of fire bombarded in all directions.
Below, the originally flat asphalt road had long turned into a rolling magma pool, and several surrounding teaching buildings were also on the verge of collapsing amidst the raging fire.
At the edge of the magma, three S-Level Advanced generals of the Great Xia Military Department were struggling left and right, barely holding on.
"Dammit! What on earth is this brat's flame?! The temperature is too high!"
A heavily armored ice-attribute general gritted his teeth as he braced a giant frost shield with both hands.
But under the baking of that gloomy blue flame, the surface of the frigid shield was rapidly melting, and white water vapor filled the surroundings.
"Old Zhang! Is your control Formation going to work or not?! I can't hold on much longer!"
Veins bulged on the ice-attribute general's forehead as he shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Why are you roaring?! This monster's mental resistance is outrageously high!"
The Formation Master called Old Zhang was covered in blood.
He pinched incantation gestures with both hands, his fingers convulsing.
"The mental shackles I forcibly applied just now didn't even last three seconds before they were burned apart along with my Mental Strength by his weird flame! My head feels like it's about to split open right now!"
"We cannot use large-scale weapons of mass destruction!
Marshal Zhao gave a strict order: we must ensure the completeness of this student's physical body!
Even more so, we cannot affect the distant shelters!"
Another general holding a heavy sword slashed out Sword Qi while trying to cleave open the falling fireballs, roaring: "Find an opportunity to close in! As long as I can clasp the demon-forbidding chain onto him, I can seal off his Divine Power!"
"Bullshit! Are you crazy?!"
The Formation Master Old Zhang cursed angrily, "If that blue fire touches even a little bit, it can burn straight through SS-Level battle armor. What are you going to use to close in—your head?!"
The three battle-hardened S-Level generals, facing this fully powered Ancient Awakened Ones who had to be captured alive, completely fell into a stalemate where they had to worry about what they might damage.
And Zhurong in mid-air had also lost patience.
"I've played with you enough, ants. It's time to end this!"
He brought his hands together upward, and the surrounding gloomy blue flames began to gather above his head as a huge fire lotus was taking shape!
Once this fire lotus smashed down, not only would these three S-Level generals meet their end here, but the blocks within a radius of several kilometers would also be reduced to a barren wasteland!
"Oh no! He's going to use his ultimate move!"
"Fall back! Fall back quickly!"
Despair appeared on the faces of the three generals.
However, at this critical juncture.
On the rooftop of the high-rise a few kilometers away.
Zhou Huai watched all of this and manipulated Great Sage Li Er to take a step forward.
The gray robe fluttered and snapped in the wind.
Across the night, Li Er locked onto the fire-attribute Awakened One in mid-air.
Afterwards, he opened his lips.
He did not rely on mana.
But that voice pierced through the distance of space and resounded directly in the minds of everyone above Modu University!
"Surrender!"
Four words.
Words Become Law!
"Hum!!!"
The fire-attribute Awakened One, who was laughing wildly in mid-air the second before, stopped laughing abruptly upon hearing these four words!
The gloomy blue fire lotus above his head lost its energy and annihilated in mid-air with a "puff" sound!
Not even a spark was left behind!
"Th-This... What is going on?! My body... No!!!"