Free Web NovelChapter 484: Chapter 477: Death by a Thousand Cuts
This was Baiguang’s greatest strength.
With his powerful reflexes and unimaginable speed, he was confident he could entangle any opponent and seize the most fleeting opportunities in battle.
Now, he would use his abilities to stall Zhou Yuanjue’s advance, creating an opportunity for the four of them to surround him again.
’No matter how strong you are, if you can’t hit your opponent, it’s all useless!!’
’Wait!!’
However, in the next moment, the expression on his face froze.
His brain, supercharged by electricity to briefly surpass the limits of life, allowed him to see Zhou Yuanjue’s movements with perfect clarity.
In an instant, his opponent’s arms snapped back, then shot out in a continuous barrage at a frequency that defied imagination.
He could see the air ripple with every punch and could discern the direction and target of each one.
But.
Zhou Yuanjue’s attacks were too dense. His brain could track their speed, but his body couldn’t possibly dodge such a rapid, concentrated assault.
’This guy’s physical speed alone is even more terrifying than mine, and I’m enhanced by a Magnetic Field Ability!’
At that moment, for the first time in his life, Baiguang felt a powerful mix of envy, jealousy, and disbelief toward a human body.
’This man’s body... it’s like the world’s greatest miracle, its most precious treasure!’
SWISH SWISH SWISH SWISH!!
Faced with the sustained-burst Secret Technique—an evolution of the Hundred Falcons’ Cry—Baiguang dodged with all his might. But in the end, a single attack struck him head-on.
A savage Power surged through him. In that moment, Baiguang finally understood what Yude had felt when he was sent flying.
His body felt weightless, sent flying uncontrollably by that savage Power. He tore through the air and was thrown far into the distance.
’Those two useless bastards!! Couldn’t even take a single hit!!’
Yude was charging right behind Baiguang. When he saw his comrade sent flying by a single punch from Zhou Yuanjue, his face twitched, and he instinctively skidded to a halt.
Even though he had activated his "Final Furnace" and his physical abilities were at their absolute peak, the memory of that first, unstoppable collision with Zhou Yuanjue was now deeply branded into his subconscious, guiding his body’s actions.
The moment he involuntarily stopped, he realized what he had done.
’I am a direct Bloodline of the King of Hell! The reigning hegemon of the Earth Sea Region! Who could possibly make me halt my charge?!’
ROAR!!
Yude let out a deafening roar, about to force his body to continue charging forward.
However, in that brief moment of hesitation, a figure appeared before him. A fist gleaming with starlight shattered the air, growing larger and larger in Yude’s eyes. The shockwaves rippling around it looked like the rings of a giant planet.
’Dammit!!’
At the last second, all Yude could do was yank his arms back to block his chest.
The next moment, they collided violently. Yude once again felt what he had at the start of the fight, along with a double dose of humiliation he couldn’t shake.
With a single charge, he broke the four-man encirclement, shattering their formation. Then, he exploited the opening, using his immense Power and perfectly honed techniques to cleanly knock three of them out of the fight.
And so, for a brief moment, the battlefield was reduced to a one-on-one duel.
And the one remaining was Zhou Yuanjue’s true target.
He whipped his head around to face Sibi, who had halted his charge, his expression grave.
’So, his target wasn’t the weakest, Yuan Luàn. It was me.’
Sibi now completely understood Zhou Yuanjue’s plan.
’He wanted to defeat me, the strongest of the four, right from the start!’
Zhou Yuanjue transmitted his message via his magnetic field, "Now, our one-on-one, fair duel can officially begin." Simultaneously, wasting no time, his starlit body flickered and shot forward, leaving a long trail of light in the void.
Zhou Yuanjue’s target had always been Sibi. He was clearly the leader and the strongest of the four. His abilities were also the most troublesome; if he wasn’t dealt with first, the battle could drag into a war of attrition that even Zhou Yuanjue would struggle to handle.
Incapacitating Sibi, or killing him outright, was his best option.
’He wants to finish me off in such a short amount of time?!’
"You’ve made the worst possible decision!! You can’t defeat me!! Once the other three get back, the encirclement will close, and that will be the day you die!!"
"Kid, savor these last few moments of your life!!"
The lightning-fast battle didn’t allow for spoken dialogue; their movements already outpaced the speed of sound. freeweɓnøvel.com
But through their intertwined magnetic fields, messages of intent were conveyed in the blink of an eye.
HISS!!
Sensing the contempt and humiliation in Zhou Yuanjue’s plan, the Ouroboros circling in the sky let out a furious hiss, its gaze chillingly sinister.
The keratinous scales covering Sibi’s body bristled, becoming like hard armor plates and sharp, reversed barbs.
Scale Blades, Rift in the Sky!!
Sibi’s muscles and skin convulsed as the scale-blades covering his body opened and closed. Simultaneously, his seemingly boneless hands began to slash and swipe violently in front of him.
His superhuman Physical Strength, pushing him beyond the speed of sound, powered every slash. As the scales on his body opened and closed, he manipulated his magnetic field to violently compress the air between them. This formed a storm of sharp Qi Blades that spread out for tens of meters around him.
These Qi Blades were sharp enough to tear apart the heavy armor of a tank in an instant. The attack was incredibly dense, a powerful technique that integrated both offense and defense.
He planned to use this technique to stall Zhou Yuanjue’s assault. He just had to wait for the other three to return and re-form the encirclement. Then, Zhou Yuanjue would have no escape!
"Defeating you won’t take that long!!" freēwēbnovel.com
Faced with Sibi’s powerful, impenetrable attack, Zhou Yuanjue charged forward without fear, plunging into the storm of Qi Blades with unstoppable momentum.
Though a million men stand against me, I will go on!
SLASH!! SLASH!!
The terrifying Qi Blades, capable of dismembering a tank, exceeded the limits of Zhou Yuanjue’s current Physical Strength. Countless blades carved deep wounds into his body. Chunks of flesh were sliced off and pulverized, scattering into the air like a shower of Star Points.
This was a torture more terrifying than death by a thousand cuts!
However, while the attack could tear through his flesh, it couldn’t shatter his bones. And that was enough.
And so, Sibi watched, with perfect clarity, as a figure—flesh being continuously sheared away by the Qi Blades—charged resolutely toward him.
It was like his very conviction manifest: he would never stop his advance, no matter the thorns in his path.
Even as his enemy, Sibi couldn’t help but feel a tremor of awe as he met that gaze.
In less than a second, enduring an onslaught of countless Qi Blades akin to death by a thousand cuts, Zhou Yuanjue appeared before Sibi and raised his hands.
"I’ve reached you."
The calm, cold message entered his mind through their entangled magnetic fields.
