Chapter 1123 Pay-to-Win and Cheating_3

Si Tianyun stumbled out of the shell-shaped Magical Treasure in a sorry state, immediately channeled his Escape Light, and was about to keep fleeing.

Suddenly.

He seemed to have just "noticed" Lin Zheyu, his eyes suddenly lighting up as he hurriedly sent a voice transmission:

"Mr. Xiao!"

"Please help me stall that Six-Stripe Peak Demon Fiend behind me for just a few breaths, only a few breaths, and I’ll have full confidence to behead it!"

Si Tianyun’s voice came through, carrying a hint of anxiety.

"Heh~~"

Lin Zheyu shot him a sidelong glance and said blandly, "No."

"You!"

"Since you’re being heartless, don’t blame me for being cruel. If someone has to die, then we all die together!"

A flash of madness flickered in Si Tianyun’s eyes. He let out a vicious grin and charged straight toward Lin Zheyu.

Inside, he sneered coldly. His right hand clutched a Divine Movement Talisman, ready to teleport away at any moment.

"You!"

Lin Zheyu feigned panic, scrambling away into the distance.

The corner of his mouth curled up slightly. These guys had finally taken the bait!

Roar, roar!

Bang!

The Demon Fiend tightly tailing Si Tianyun suddenly let out a furious roar, its massive tail once again slamming into Si Tianyun’s shell Magical Treasure.

"Now!"

A cold light flashed through Lin Zheyu’s eyes as his right hand clenched the Sky-Splitting Blade in an instant, exaggerating the opening he showed.

As expected.

The burly man lurking in the shadows also revealed a cold smile and launched a killing strike in that instant.

"Kekeke, go to hell!"

The burly man cackled viciously as he turned into a streak of black shadow, merging into the darkness. The shadow flickered and, in a blink, appeared at Lin Zheyu’s side.

The razor-sharp claws on his right hand extended, stabbing fiercely toward Lin Zheyu’s temple.

A cruel smile tugged at his lips. His eyes were full of anticipation—looking forward to seeing shock, despair, and unwillingness in this Martial Alliance genius’s gaze.

However, he was disappointed.

The familiar sensation never came. The burly man’s right hand passed straight through Lin Zheyu’s head.

Lin Zheyu turned out to be nothing but an insubstantial phantom, which instantly dissolved into an illusion and faded into the darkness.

"Impossible, just now he clearly..."

"No, something’s wrong!"

The burly man snapped his head around, looking toward where Si Tianyun was.

He saw Si Tianyun pretending to clamber out of the shell Magical Treasure in a sorry state, just about to activate his Escape Light and run.

However, his body froze in place.

Si Tianyun’s eyes were filled with terror and disbelief as, under the Barbarian Race man’s gaze—

His head slid obliquely to the ground, exposing a smooth cross-section and his white, gleaming brains.

Immediately after, Si Tianyun’s arms, legs, and torso were hacked apart, shattered into a pile of grotesque chunks of bloody flesh.

At that moment, the arm gripping the Divine Movement Talisman suddenly flared with light and vanished on the spot.

The rest of his body parts, however, remained where they were.

"Fuck, to hell with that ’Early Stage of Shackles Realm’ bullshit!"

"This guy’s strength is at least Nascent Soul level—he’s a Nascent Soul old monster!" The burly man was shocked and furious.

Without hesitation, he spun around and instantly activated his life-saving method.

A surging tide of Energy burst from within the Barbarian Race man, enveloping him in an instant.

Yet—

Just as he activated his life-saving method, the void behind the burly man suddenly tore open with two pitch-black cracks.

From within those rifts, two world-annihilating blade lights slashed out in a flash.

Under the unwilling gaze of the Barbarian Race man, they cleaved into his body, hacking him into several pieces in an instant.

Aaahhh!!!

His unwilling, shrill scream echoed through the demonic cavern and vanished in a heartbeat.

"Hm??"

"That works too?"

Lin Zheyu stared, a bit speechless, as the Barbarian Race man—who’d already been chopped to death by his two strikes—was still transmitted away by his life-saving method.

The cooked duck that had already reached his mouth still managed to fly off. Truly speechless.

Si Tianyun had been the same just now.

If Lin Zheyu hadn’t preemptively chopped off the right hand clutching the Divine Movement Talisman, and if he hadn’t moved fast enough—

The part that got teleported away for Si Tianyun might not have been just his right arm; his entire body could’ve been transmitted out.

These guys with deep backgrounds have pay-to-win life-saving kits that are way too strong. If you want to hunt them, you really have to plan carefully.

"I need to find a way to master some space-sealing ability..."

"Otherwise, every time I run into someone with a Divine Movement Talisman-style life-saving trick, it’s going to be this damned troublesome."

Lin Zheyu mused silently.

Back when he killed Wu Yiyi from the Wu Family, it’d been the same deal.

Wu Yiyi didn’t have a Divine Movement Talisman back then, but a Great Transposition Talisman.

At the time, in the Witch Race inheritance Secret Realm, that Great Transposition Talisman could only teleport randomly and couldn’t break through the Secret Realm Space.

Otherwise, Lin Zheyu would never have had enough confidence to trap and kill him back then.

This wasn’t an issue of raw strength.

It’s just that the pay-to-win players had swiped so much gold that even a cheat-enabled player like Lin Zheyu was finding them a bit hard to handle.

"Or I could push the power of the Seven Extremes Blade up another tier and extend the attack range of God and Demon Extinction."

Lin Zheyu thought.

With his Cultivation improving, God and Demon Extinction had gained a trace of Nascent Soul characteristics, acquiring something akin to short-range Instant Teleportation.

But the distance was very short, with a maximum range of just over four hundred meters.

Rooaar!

The roar of that Six-Stripe Peak Demon Fiend yanked Lin Zheyu’s thoughts back.

He glanced over, his body flickering slightly as he vanished on the spot.

Just a Six-Stripe Peak Demon Fiend, yet it dared to act all high and mighty in front of him—truly didn’t know how to write the word "death."

Chi-chi-chi——

Boom, boom, boom!

Silver blade light flared in the darkness. The Demon Fiend’s roar cut off abruptly, its massive body splitting into six pieces and crashing heavily to the ground.

With a thought, Lin Zheyu collected the still-not-completely-dead Demon Fiend into the Primordial Pool.

After dealing with the Demon Fiend, he stepped forward with his right foot and appeared next to Si Tianyun’s corpse.

After taking all the useful items off Si Tianyun’s body, Lin Zheyu looked to where the right arm had been.

An eerie ice-blue flame tattoo had appeared on the back of his hand.

This was a unique Curse mark of the Si Family. As long as you killed an important member of the Si Family, you’d be branded with this kind of Curse.

"Get rid of this Curse first, then keep hunting Demon Fiends."

"Once I’ve hunted enough Demon Fiends, I’ll head to the East Sea and help Xi Chi resolve his grandfather’s problem."

Lin Zheyu thought to himself.

The stronghold the Martial Alliance had needed to guard was gone, so his mission had ended as well. Going back later wouldn’t make much of a difference.

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