Chapter 1700: One Step Ahead

Liang Yue made no effort to hide her intention to collect Giant Blade’s Essence.

Han Shanzuo’s eyes widened. “Hey, hey, hey, big sis! That’s not right!”

He pointed at Huahua, whose mouth was covered in blood. “Your cat’s already eaten one of them. Are you seriously not going to leave any of this Essence for us?”

Remembering Zhang Yi’s instructions, Liang Yue said, “We’re only holding onto it for the time being. Once the war is over, you can talk to Chaos about how to divide it.”

Liang Yue wasn’t good at arguing with people, and Zhang Yi had considered that. That was why he’d told her to pin everything on him.

Besides, a major battle had just ended. Neither Han Shanzuo nor Chen Xuanba had the strength to argue with Liang Yue any further.

What’s more, the crisis had not yet been completely resolved, and they still needed to work together. So Chen Xuanba gave Han Shanzuo a look, and the two of them let the matter drop.

Liang Yue and Huahua also pressed on without pause, heading for the next battlefield.

Soon, they arrived where the Burial Master and Zong Yue were.

But when they got there, they saw only the Burial Master treating Zong Yue’s wounds.

Seeing this, Liang Yue bowed to the Burial Master. “Sir Burial Master, have you already dealt with the enemy here? I didn’t expect your strength to have improved again after all this time!”

Now that the Burial Master had left the Southwest Region, he no longer had the support of that seemingly inexhaustible telekinetic power.

They had thought he was only coming to lend a hand, but unexpectedly, he had achieved the most impressive results.

The Burial Master smiled and shook his head.

“You’ve got it wrong. We didn’t defeat the enemy. Someone appeared at the last moment and helped us eliminate them.”

Liang Yue’s brow furrowed slightly, her eyes full of surprise.

“Someone got here ahead of us?”

“But… I remember the allied forces had no other Epsilon-class Transcendents to spare!”

Zong Yue looked at Liang Yue and said in a low voice, “There was one. There’s still one more!”

“Who is it?” Liang Yue asked suspiciously.

Zong Yue was seriously injured. Although he had been injected with medicine, he was still so weak that his lips had turned pale.

He spoke slowly. “I don’t know her, but she was a young woman with long hair, no older than eighteen.”

“Right when our decisive battle reached its most critical moment, I thought I was about to be killed. Then she suddenly stormed onto the battlefield and killed the Wuluan Empire’s Transcendent in a way I couldn’t even begin to imagine.”

“Impossible to imagine?” Liang Yue was more confused the longer she listened.

“And you said she was a young woman? Was she from Huaxu Nation?”

“Definitely!”

Zong Yue nodded with certainty.

“Her abilities were incredibly strange. I’d never heard of anything like them. She took advantage of the fact that we were fighting the Wuluan Empire’s Transcendents and won by launching a surprise attack. But in just a few seconds, she displayed four completely different types of abilities!”

Even now, as Zong Yue thought back on what had just happened, his eyes filled with complicated emotions.

“She used an illusion to stun Smoke, then sealed him inside an ice coffin. After that, she used Thunder to shatter Storm’s barrier!”

“In the blink of an eye, she defeated them with abilities that countered their own.”

“It was terrifying!”

The more Liang Yue heard, the more alarmed she became. She exchanged a glance with Huahua, and human and cat alike thought of the same person.

The leader of the Snow Worship Cult, Yuan Kongye!

But Yuan Kongye had died long ago.

They still remembered that the Jiangnan Region had used Yuan Kongye’s remaining cells to clone her.

That clone was Zhu Zheng’s goddaughter, Zhu Yu.

Thinking about it now, the Epsilon-class Transcendent who had suddenly appeared could only be her!

“She… she had already reached Epsilon-class!”

Liang Yue was deeply shaken.

Zhu Zheng really was a cunning old fox. He had kept a trump card like this hidden in his hands, only using it now.

So the reason Zhu Yu had never shown herself, and had insisted on waiting until today to reap the rewards, was clearly that he wanted to take the opportunity to harvest the Essences of a large number of top Transcendents and help Zhu Yu grow stronger!

Liang Yue suddenly felt a chill run down her spine.

There were quite a few Black Chariot-tier Transcendents on the battlefield.

If Zhu Yu took their Essences, a dramatic increase in her strength would be only one part of it.

The most terrifying part was that these Transcendents were peerless geniuses, each possessing the most powerful supernatural abilities!

By devouring their power, Zhu Yu might also be able to devour their abilities!

Although, on the surface, their relationship with the Jiangnan Region seemed good for now, the shadow Yuan Kongye had left behind still lingered.

“Come on, we need to hurry and check the other battlefields!”

Liang Yue immediately climbed onto Huahua and rode toward another battlefield.

In the ocean, Xuanwu and Cadillus were fighting Sea Beast and the Strengthening-type Black-White Commander together.

Of the five battlefields, theirs was going the worst.

Although Cadillus had also reached Black Chariot-tier, his strength was clearly inferior to Sea Beast’s.

If Newton hadn’t left the Nautilus to him, giving them the support of its powerful Heaven-tier weaponry, Cadillus and Xuanwu would probably have been killed long ago.

Clearly, Newton had anticipated all of this.

Even so, they were struggling badly.

Sea Beast was far too powerful. He was practically an enhanced version of Xuanwu.

His size and destructive power were both far greater than Xuanwu’s, and even his defense was about the same as Xuanwu’s.

In this battle, he had practically managed to suppress both Cadillus and Xuanwu by himself.

The Strengthening-type Black-White Commander’s presence was the final straw that broke the camel’s back, and a very heavy straw at that.

At this moment, the Nautilus was deep underwater, able to support the two of them only with its long-range weapons.

If it came any closer, it risked being destroyed outright.

The Lizardfolk couldn’t dive too deep, so there was nothing they could do about this top deep-sea fortress in the world.

But Cadillus and Xuanwu were in dire straits.

Xuanwu’s shell had been beaten into pieces, and his blood had turned the entire stretch of sea crimson.

One of Cadillus’s arms had been torn off, exposing the complex structure inside.

His body had long since been altered beyond recognition. Though he still looked human on the outside, most of his skin had been reconstructed with super-spider fibers, and his body was even filled with microscopic robots.

In a wretched state, he knelt on Xuanwu’s shell. Though he had always been arrogant, he was now gasping for breath, yet the hostility in his eyes never faded.

“F**K! I should’ve just abandoned this place and run earlier!”

He cursed viciously.

Xuanwu rolled his eyes. His voice rang beside Xuanwu’s ear.

“Actually, you could’ve left a long time ago. After all, you Transcendents from Colombia were only here to help. Even if anyone died, that would be our problem.”

Newton had told Cadillus long ago that if the situation turned dangerous, he could leave on his own.

The words “fight to the death” had never appeared in the dictionary of Colombia’s soldiers.