Chapter 569 - 463: The Overlord Sword Attains Kingship: Slaying a 9th-Tier with One Strike

Gao Xiaomeng had led the Cat Race in a battle against the Human Race at the South District City Gate of the City of Hope—a battle that shocked the world. How could the Eagle-eyed Man possibly not recognize her?

’The Cat King, here in Ice City?!’

’Could the appearance of the Fairy Dragon have drawn her here?’

As this thought crossed the Eagle-eyed Man’s mind, a smile crept onto his lips. Everyone knew the Fairy Dragon had let the Cat King go at the South District City Gate.

’So, is this a good opportunity to subdue the Cat King?’

The Eagle-eyed Man remembered clearly that Gao Neng had once said in the Underground City that one could only continue to absorb evolutionary energy by forming a ’conduit’ with the Cat King.

’If I can subdue the Cat King...’

’...doesn’t that mean I can indirectly control Gao Neng?’

"Cat King, on your knees—" With this in mind, the Eagle-eyed Man immediately controlled the Fairy Dragon and shouted at Gao Xiaomeng, who had just stepped forward.

But the Fairy Dragon never finished its sentence.

Because Gao Xiaomeng had already made her move.

BOOM!

She was like an incoming meteor.

Gao Xiaomeng slammed headfirst into the Fairy Dragon’s body.

"!!!" The Eagle-eyed Man was stunned.

This was the Fairy Dragon, a Strongest that even the White-faced King of the other races wouldn’t dare to question.

Moreover, this was the same Fairy Dragon that had saved the Cat King at the South District City Gate.

Yet now, the Cat King had...

...attacked the Fairy Dragon!

KABOOM!

Lightning flashed.

Streaks of purple lightning burst from the Fairy Dragon’s body.

Then, the Fairy Dragon’s body slowly broke apart, as if being torn to shreds by the purple lightning.

"Not good!" The Eagle-eyed Man’s face paled. He realized what Gao Xiaomeng had done—she had used lightning to directly destroy the ’holographic projection’ inside.

KABOOM!

KABOOM!

...

The lightning flickered in the air.

Gao Xiaomeng’s figure slowly emerged from the lightning.

Her silver-white hair danced behind her. Her two blue eyes scanned the surroundings before finally landing on Gao Neng.

Her meaning was obvious.

’So?’

’Aren’t I amazing!’

"..." Gao Neng.

He was, in fact, rather speechless right now.

This wasn’t what he and Gao Xiaomeng had agreed on. His plan didn’t include a scene where Gao Xiaomeng revealed her identity above Ice City.

Of course, that wasn’t the main issue at the moment.

The issue was...

...the Fairy Dragon was a fake!

It used holographic projection technology, a human invention.

Someone had intentionally created a fake Fairy Dragon using holographic projection to make the other races believe a Strongest had arrived and attacked the City Lord of Ice City.

"A fake?!"

"The Fairy Dragon... was a fake?!"

"What’s going on?"

The human army currently attacking the city was also stunned by the scene before them.

Of course, besides the Fairy Dragon being a fake, the sudden appearance of the Cat King in Ice City was just as shocking.

The Cat King, Gao Xiaomeng.

How did she know the Fairy Dragon was a fake?!

"..." The human army fell silent.

Meanwhile, the guards of the other races on Ice City’s walls glanced between the vanished Fairy Dragon and Gao Xiaomeng, then looked back at the ’White-faced King’ who was still playing dead on the ground.

"The Lord City Lord... was beaten until he coughed up blood by a fake Strongest?!"

"What is going on here?"

"Lord City Lord!"

The guards all stared intently at the ’White-faced King’.

...

The fake White-faced King, Blue Eyes, really wanted to kill someone right now.

’Goddammit!’

’My performance was flawless.’

’And my cover was blown?!’

"COUGH, COUGH..." Blue Eyes coughed forcefully. His chest was in agony. His act may have been fake, but his injuries were real.

After all, he hadn’t held back when he struck himself.

’What should I do?’

’The Strongest was a fake. Should I force myself to get up and stick to the original script—impersonate the Lord City Lord and defend the city from the walls?’

Just as he was thinking, a sharp cry rang out from the sky.

"White-faced King, you dare to deliberately create a fake projection? Are you trying to instigate a battle between the Strongest?!" The speaker was, without a doubt, Qin Jianfei.

"Me, deliberately create a fake projection? It was obviously you!" Blue Eyes instantly understood Qin Jianfei’s intention. He was trying to pin the blame on him.

"Us? Hmph. As a Tier Nine expert, how could a fake projection injure you? If I’m not mistaken, your injuries are fake as well, aren’t they?" Qin Jianfei spoke again.

How could he not know that holographic projection was human technology?

But at a critical moment like this, how could he possibly investigate which traitor from the Human Race was responsible?

The White-faced King had already sent the signal.

If all went as expected, the Strongest of the other races were already on their way.

The only thing he could do now was to force the blame onto the White-faced King’s head and paint the entire incident as a conspiracy by the other races.

"My injuries..." PTUI! Blue Eyes’s face flushed red. He shot to his feet in a rage, but the movement aggravated his wounds, and he couldn’t help but spit out another mouthful of blood.

"Still pretending to be injured? I’d like to see if you’re really injured or just faking it!" Qin Jianfei didn’t believe the ’fake Fairy Dragon’ was created by the other races, but he also didn’t believe that the White-faced King, a Tier Nine expert, could be genuinely wounded by a ’fake Fairy Dragon’.

’The Fairy Dragon was a fake!’

’The White-faced King’s injuries must be fake, too.’

’His goal must be to collude with a traitor among the humans, pass off a fake as the real thing, and frame the Human Race for a Strongest initiating a conflict. Then, he’d use that as a pretext to start a war between the Strongest.’

’If that wasn’t the case...’

’...how could the White-faced King, a perfectly fine Tier Nine expert, be beaten to the point of coughing up blood by a mere projection?’

’He must have had a blood pack in his mouth from the start!’

’I can see through such a petty trick at a glance.’

With this conviction, Qin Jianfei naturally wouldn’t hold back with his next sword strike.

A resplendent sword strike.

Descended from the heavens.

An expert at the Tier Nine Late Stage, infinitely close to becoming one of the Strongest.

As this sword fell.

It carried a domineering golden sword light, tearing a black fissure in the space behind it.

"Hmph. Block this or die!" Qin Jianfei’s tone was as sharp as his blade.

"!!!" Blue Eyes’s eyes went wide.

If he weren’t injured, he might not have been able to block this strike, but it wouldn’t have been life-threatening. After all, a Tier Eight Mid Stage expert fighting for their life still had a chance to block a single sword strike.

’But right now, all he wanted to say was, ’I fucking can’t block this.’’

’My injuries are real!’

’They’re not fake!’

A resplendent strike from a Tier Nine Late Stage expert versus a heavily injured Tier Eight Mid Stage expert...

The result was self-evident.

SWISH!

The golden sword light fell.

Before the shocked eyes of all the guards from the other races, Blue Eyes’s body was sliced in two by the sword, his head sent flying.

Slaying a ’Tier Nine’ in one strike!

It wasn’t just the guards of the other races who were stunned.

Even the attacking human army was dumbfounded.

Because in everyone’s mind, there had always been a gap between human Tier Nines and the Tier Nines of the other races.

Even a Tier Nine Late Stage genius like Qin Jianfei should have been absolutely incapable of killing a Tier Nine of the other races in a single strike.

But the fact was...

...the White-faced King was dead.

With just one strike, his head had gone flying.

"Holy shit... Elder Jian, did your disciple have a breakthrough?! He’s become a king with his domineering sword!!!" Li Tiannan’s eyes were about to pop out of their sockets.

He had only said it casually, that one could also become a king with a domineering sword.

But what was the result?

Qin Jianfei had put on a show for him, slaying a Tier Nine with a single strike.

If this wasn’t becoming a king with a domineering sword, what was?

"Become a king with a domineering sword?! No way! Could Jianfei have really had a breakthrough? Has he really become a king with his domineering sword? Slaying a Tier Nine in one strike... Even I would have trouble doing that!!!" Sword Elder was also stunned.

Slaying a Tier Nine in one strike.

And it was a City Lord from one of the other races, no less.

If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes...

...he wouldn’t have believed it even in death.

’So, a domineering sword really *can* make one a king, right?’

"The Human Race... will be victorious!" Suddenly, a voice rang out.

And then, the entire silent, shocked human army erupted.

Qin Jianfei had slain a Tier Nine with a single strike.

Regardless of whether Qin Jianfei had become one of the Strongest, that single strike was enough to boost the entire army’s morale to terrifying heights.

"Human Race, victory is ours!"

"Human Race, victory is ours!"

"Victory!"

"Charge!"

"Kill!"

At that moment, the entire human army, as if injected with stimulants, charged madly toward the breach in Ice City’s walls.

Meanwhile, the guards of the other races, whose morale had just recovered with the arrival of the White-faced King, saw their expressions change drastically.

Their City Lord had been slain by a single sword strike!

He was dead!

Right in front of them.

"Lord City Lord!"

"Lord City Lord!"

...

They couldn’t believe it.

How could their Lord City Lord possibly be slain in one strike by a mere human?

Even a Strongest from the Human Race would find it difficult to kill their Tier Nine Lord City Lord with a single strike. It simply defied all logic.

WHOOSH!

A Bird of the Soul flew out.

Whether the guards of the other races believed it or not, their ’Lord City Lord’ was dead. Only a soul was now bursting forth, fleeing desperately toward the sky.

"Hm? Why is it so slow?" Qin Jianfei stared at the Bird of the Soul flying into the sky, momentarily stunned.

He had slain a Tier Nine of the other races on the battlefield before.

But that time, he hadn’t been able to capture its soul. After all, the escape speed of a Tier Nine’s soul was simply too fast.

This time, however, he felt like he actually could.

Just as he was about to make a move.

A cat, as silver-white as snow, suddenly appeared in midair.

It was as if it had materialized out of thin air.

It appeared right in the escape path of the Bird of the Soul, and this snow-white cat had opened its mouth slightly.

"MROW!!!"

"CHIRP!"

A cat’s cry.

A bird’s cry.

The bird vanished.

Because it had been swallowed in one gulp by the cat.

Then, the snow-white cat flew down, landing on the city wall where it transformed back into a young girl with long, silver hair.

All of this happened in an instant.

After devouring the Bird of the Soul, the girl once again looked toward Gao Neng and blinked at him.

Her meaning was the same as before.

’So?’

’Aren’t I amazing!’