110. The White Ring and the Bck Sun (Part 2)

  "That’s what we said, but we’ve been gathering for so long, it’s about time to move out. I 't wait to beat up those ckeys of the Ring Kings."

  "The most important thing is to rescue Big Bro!"

  "Exactly. If we 't rescue Big Bro, the people won't trust our Akaban Squad. Only someone as pure and kind as him do it."

  The Akaban Squad members outside were getting impatient. On su important day, everyone was eagerly waiting, ready for battle.

  "No choice, I'll go and push things along—Big Sis, everyone’s ready."

  A closer adjutant stepped forward and knocked on the door:

  "Big Sis, we—"

  Creak!

  The door opened, Xia Jianjing lowered her head, her hood pulled down, walking slowly with ched fists, gripping her coat, her colorless eyes swept over the soldiers.

  Some were workers, some were teachers, others were housewives, and most were students.

  Now, despite their youth, they had all bee scarred warriors.

  Swoosh—

  Her short, ash-purple hair was lifted by the wind, revealing the bronze ring around her neck. Xia Jianjing touched this ring, which had beeo her by Teacher Aru.

  'This is the Ring of Order. It filters your Aether Blood, preventing your mind from being overtaken by that society, which would lead to insanity. However, because the power of Aether Blood is diluted, it will also greatly hinder your bat strength. But under no circumstances should you take this ring off. Otherwise, you will bee a monster more terrifying than an Anaerobe. Never, ever take it off.'

  "Madness... maybe, to the eyes of ordinary people, I've already been a madwoman for always opposing this fucked-up world."

  She smirked, took a step forward, and fidently shouted to everyone:

  "Hey! Cssmates, I’ve got bad news for yht now, the eianhuan nation has picked up arms against us!"

  The Akaban Squad soldiers looked at each other, unsure of what to do.

  "They say we’re pests, terrorists, demons disrupting order."

  Xia Jianjing paused and said:

  "They uimate us—We're none of those things. We're the gravediggers of the old order!"

  "We won’t stand still. The people have been blinded by kings and corporations. They’ve stolen children's textbooks, taken away women’s virtues, seized men’s lives, and occupied family grain stores. Now they want to ensve our entire world, forever!"

  "They say the Tianhuan people are brave and skilled in battle, but they don’t mention that it's just an evil invasion."

  Someoouched an unhealed wound and ughed.

  "They say millions of subjects would rather shatter like jade for the Ring King, but they don’t dare mention that the Ring King is just a mortal!"

  The students burst into mog ughter, filled with pt.

  "They say we shouldn't pin, we should be tent. Then why ’t Tianhuan farmers eat the rice they grow? Why does Tianhuan, as one of the four nations, o plunder and invade a cold, barren nd like the Outside world? Why do the rich brats, who cim they are han the oners, never dare to go to the battlefield?"

  The former farmers from the rice fields and the former workers from the assembly lines fell silent, their eyes filled with hatred and anger. Women who had lost their husbands wiped away their tears, their gazes being more determined. Warriors from the Outside world, with pale skin, gripped their steel spears, their eyes glistening.

  They came from different walks of life, of different genders, but now, they all shared one oy: the oppressed.

  "Let them say whatever they want. History will remember we were here! Let them suppress and massacre us. Pure ideals won't die to guns and ons, ahe brave and uianhuan people, will never bow to the brutality of the old kings."

  The Akaban Squad soldiers immediately raised their fg, waving in the wind.

  It itch-bck sun on a blood-red background, symbolizing the pain of being oppressed by Tianhuan and the corporations. The bck represented opposition to the white 'noble monarchy' of the Ring Kings.

  This was the people's banner.

  "Cssmates, I know most of you haven’t finished your studies. We're still young, but remember, everything we do is what this era has chosen, it's eople deep down desire but don't dare to do. The whole try is being suffocated, someone has to tear off the roof so we breathe freely."

  "We’re not great people, we’re just the rightful owners of this try."

  "Now, the gods and emperors should kneel before us! It's time t them down from their altars and thrones!"

  She raised her fist and puoward the sky, shouting loudly:

  "Forward! For the new world!"

  g!

  A pitch-bck katana cshed with a cross-shaped spear. Li Aozi's wrist was flipped on the spot, and then the Qi bst from the Dragon Sartial artist smmed into his chest, shattering and exposing his left ribs, revealing his beati. A sniper in the distance pulled the trigger, and a on shell exploded on the heart, slig it into four pieces, evenly scattered.

  Li Aozi staggered and fell, then quickly rolled and stood up. Flesh and blood wove together like threads, rapidly regeing. As soon as he lifted his head, a talisma him like a dagger, pierg straight into his skull.

  "Curse Talisman: Evil Spirit Possession!"

  The talisman exploded instantly, and a bck, slimy evil spirit ed around Li Aozi's body, its long toabbing into his brain, greedily sug his brain matter.

  g!

  The cross-shaped spear broke through a triple soni, pierg straight through Li Aozi, then quickly withdrawing. Lü Yuping San’s wrist flicked thrice, sending a tsunami of Qi surging, the spear tip rubbing against the air, tearing into a vacuum, viciously stabbing Li Aozi’s broken body repeatedly.

  e Style: White e Thousand Strikes!

  "Die already!"

  Lü Yuping San’s voice trembled slightly, unaware of the ge, while the grand onmyoji ahe evil spirit to rush forward, intending to tear Li Aozi apart and end him food. However, Li Aozi’s pierced eye swept slightly.

  【Death Link】

  s of death immediately lio every biologiode in his line of sight, binding their lives to his. The damage inflicted on Li Aozi instantly transferred to all the ining monsters.

  One by ohe feroonsters dropped dead in mid-charge, dissipating into bck smoke. The distant grand onmyoji’s face turned pale with rage—these were his evil spirits, created by exging his own ans.

  "Push harder, he’s almost dead—"

  His encing words were cut off as Li Aozi’s neck was struck by a powerful punch fron Sartial artist Chu Wei, shattering his throat with an explosive burst of Qi, blowing Li Aozi’s head apart.

  "With your heart and brairoyed, you 't revive anymore, you?"

  Chu Wei said this, but didn’t let his guard down. Sure enough, in the moment, Li Aozi's headless corpse remaianding. He reversed his grip, yanked his own body, and hurled it into Chu Wei’s embrace, igniting in fmes.

  Phoenix Bomb.

  Boom!

  The fmes instantly ed Chu Wei. The cle explosion didn’t pletely defeat Chu Wei; the dignity of a near-Jama level warrior couldn’t be so easily broken, especially one protected by Qi energy. His energy resistance wasn’t low at all.

  Chu Wei was bsted back three steps, his Qi barrier shattered, but he was unharmed. His clothes were set abze, but he gently brushed off the ashes, then reached out and, with an invisible Qi-infused hand, swept away the fmes obsg his view.

  Then, he saing mouth.

  ch!

  The mouth of Li Aozi’s Dominator Form bit down hard on Chu Wei’s neck, and immediately, a katana and a greatsword stabbed into Chu Wei’s ribs. While this kind of physical damage meant nothing to a 【Warrior】, the real threat was the pertage-based magical damage from 【Severed Life】.

  "Gah!"

  Chu Wei was severely injured, his health dropping by twenty pert. He immediately smmed his elbow into Li Aozi’s spine, sending Qi energy through Li Aozi’s back, bursting out in a brilliant spray of blood.

  "Get off me, you wild dog!"

  Lü Yuping San was startled by the ferocity of this fighting style. He quickly thrust his cross-shaped spear into Li Aozi's regeing abdomen and twisted it with all his might. Using the hook of the scythe bde, he tore Li Aozi’s kidneys and iines into pieces.

  The pain from a kidtack is almost on par with childbirth. If it were a human, they wouldn’t be able to withstand it. Even a massive creature like a blue whale would die if its internal ans were pierced 30 timeters deep.

  However, Li Aozi didn’t relent. His health rapidly recovered thanks to the lifesteal effect of 【Severed Life】. He hesitated no lohis opportunity was too rare.

  "Hoon’t you die?! Just die already!"

  The radiation energy of his on, Tsu ? Shadow Edge, gradually increased. He turhe hilt of his greatsword, and the runes on the Dust-Sealed Sanctuary lit up. This magical on from beyond the stars was ented with the purest holy magic, designed for a simple and brutal effect: increased thrust power.

  Acc to the a magical tech civilization of Gaxxi, ons of this caliber were designed for forced b of enemy fgships to carry out decapitatioions.

  Therefore, Li Aozi khat this on had a true form.

  He reversed the hilt of the greatsword, tinuously drawing Omega Energy, iing it into the bde. In the moment, Chu Wei’s face ged.

  Buzz… buzz…

  The sound was like a power drill starting up.

  "Hey, you—"

  The hilt instantly extehe flesh being quickly ed and the internal ans shattered in succession. Chu Wei’s spine was pletely pierced by the bde. The moment, his feet left the ground as Li Aozi, with the strength of a pegasus pulling a meteor, mercilessly lifted him into the air, pointing straight at the sky.

  "Chu Wei! You bastard! How dare you!"

  Although Lü Yuping San had always looked down on Chu Wei for walking a different path as a 【Warrior】, he was still his most cherished rade. Seeing Li Aozi’s cruelty, he hurriedly drew his spear and lu the on in Li Aozi's hand.

  "Die, you piece of shit!"

  "(Gaxxi Language) Dust-Sealed Sanctuary—Shipbreaker Mode!"

  Boom!

  Shards of light exploded instantly. Powerful holy particles gathered like a storm, raising a violeh spiral on the spot. The whirlwind flung Lü Yuping San, the e Style martial artist, several meters away, rolling on the ground before he mao get up.

  Lü Yuping San was shocked, staring in disbelief at the golden storm:

  "Dragon God, what is that?!"

  The sword bde started spinning.

  Chu Wei’s body was instantly shredded, his flesh dissolving and burning in the high-speed spinning light drill, turning into particles of light and scattering away.

  "Chu Wei!"

  "That bastard!"

  "Tch, I ’t believe this happened."

  The three near-Jama level experts took a step back, their faces filled with fear and anger.

  How could this be? How is this possible?

  Chu Wei was a 【Warrior】—normally, even a small nuclear bomb shouldn’t be able to kill him. How did he die so miserably?

  "Buddha, what terrifying power is this? How could Blue Star have such a on?"

  The grand onmyoji’s face turned pale with shock.

  "Don’t hold baymore. Everyotack with everything you’ve got and pletely destroy him!"

  Buzz!

  Li Aozi flicked the Dust-Sealed Sanctuary ? Shipbreaker. The sword’s bde had transformed once again, the rune-encrusted shell around the Lightfed bde now opening like an impact drill. It became a long pike fround bat, with the bde at the tip still rotating slowly, enveloped in radiant light.

  "Demon... you’re a demon."

  "Stop with the bullshit."

  Li Aozi spun the long pike, his wounds rapidly healing, covered in a graceful stardust aura. His voice roared like a meteor cutting through the night sky, hoarse and thunderous:

  "Demons usually call me—'King of the Stars.'"

  【Pegasus Power】

  Li Aozi raised the long pike.

  In the moment, a pair of stardust wings, spanning 300 meters, stretched across the street and buildings behind him.

  FAL