Chapter 196: Youre Cheating! I Call Foul!

Chapter 196: You're Cheating! I Call Foul!

Three short days passed in the blink of an eye. The enormous black tree suddenly contracted, and Yu Xian emerged into outer space. As sunlight fell on him, he yawned, looking as though he had only just awakened.

"What a pity! There were too many low-grade bloodlines. Even though I refined them to their limits, my Power is still quite a bit lower than Edward's."

Yu Xian glanced at his Power and sighed inwardly. His Power had now reached 88, while Edward's was 100. A gap of 12 points still separated them.

Although he was confident that he could fight Edward in his current state, victory was not guaranteed. And he could not afford to fail. The fate of everyone in Huaxia rested upon his shoulders. If he lost to Edward or even died at Edward's hands, Huaxia would be in grave danger.

This time, Huaxia had supplied him with vast quantities of supernatural bloodlines without restriction, allowing him to raise his Power to its current value. Were he to lose, he had no idea what other means Huaxia would have to counter Edward's threat.

After all, reaching Star rank was simply too difficult. Even after he had consumed so many resources and absorbed such an enormous amount of energy, his Power had only reached 88. He had not even met the minimum threshold for Star rank. For safety's sake, he needed to play this cautiously.

Yu Xian's thoughts turned, and a new target immediately came to mind. He closed his eyes, and the next second, the fawning voice of Zhou Tai No. 2 sounded inside his mind.

—O great master, your humble Bloodkin No. 2 is here to pay his respects! No. 2 shall serve you wholeheartedly. Your greatness surpasses even the radiance of the sun and moon. I wish I could fly to your side this very instant, attend to your every need, and devote myself completely to your service.

—My heavens, Master! You have finally turned your gaze upon this humble No. 2 once again. No. 2 is overwhelmed with happiness. No. 2—

Unable to bear it any longer, Yu Xian cut off Zhou Tai No. 2's performance. "Shut up."

He sensed Zhou Tai No. 2's location and used it to determine the spatial coordinates. The next instant, he teleported to the Blue Planet and appeared inside the Ancient Sage Society's base.

He made no attempt to conceal his intrusion. The moment he appeared, alarms blared throughout the entire base.

Zhou Tai No. 2 exclaimed, "Oh no, Master! You've triggered the base's defense system. You need to leave quickly, or the Ancient Sage Society's guards will be here soon!"

Yu Xian calmly replied, "It doesn't matter. Let them come. We're going to look for those brothers of yours."

He walked up to the door and gave it a light push, and the door exploded with a thunderous crash. Zhou Tai No. 2 stared dumbfounded as Yu Xian walked out. A moment later, he recovered and hurried after him. However, as he stepped through the doorway, he instinctively glanced down and swallowed hard. These rooms were not merely used as living quarters. They were also prison cells. The doors were made of superalloy and were anything but fragile.

Zhou Tai No. 2's mind had clearly been completely enslaved. He gazed at Yu Xian with tears in his eyes. "O great master, this is truly wonderful! With such tremendous power at your command, no one here can stand against you!"

As they walked, a group of guards dressed in the Ancient Sage Society's uniform appeared in the corridor ahead. When the guards saw Yu Xian and Zhou Tai No. 2 approaching, they shouted over one another.

"Stop right there!"

"Raise your hands!"

One of the guards quickly reacted and charged at Yu Xian with a glowing weapon. "They're intruders! Don't just stand there—kill them!"

Yu Xian completely ignored them. Once they came close, he exhaled lightly, blasting every guard into the wall with a thunderous boom and leaving them impossible to distinguish from one another.

Yu Xian glanced at the wall and sneered inwardly. A bunch of weaklings who don't even have 0.001 Power. Where did they get the confidence to stand in my way?

He continued toward the laboratory where Zhou Tai No. 3 and the others were being kept. Whenever someone tried to stop him, he followed the instructions they shouted in his own way. If they ordered him to kneel or raise his hands, he would break their legs and make them kneel instead, or bind them so their arms remained raised. If they ordered him to be killed on sight, then he likewise killed them on sight.

Yu Xian could easily distinguish good people from bad through his Super Smell, so there was no possibility of him killing anyone innocent by mistake. None of the guards who died to his attacks were good people.

By the time he reached the laboratory where the prisoners were being kept, no guards dared approach him. What they had witnessed along the way was far too terrifying.

Being killed by a breath was already the least painful fate. Some of them had been burned by flames, struck by lightning, or frozen solid. The methods varied endlessly, and anyone with even a little sense could tell that this intruder was extremely dangerous and that approaching him would be suicidal.

Yu Xian was also adapting to his newfound power. He had to restrain himself with every attack. Otherwise, the base itself would be unable to withstand his strength. He pushed open the laboratory door and strode inside.

When Zhou Tai No. 3 saw Yu Xian, he exclaimed in surprise, "Little Brother? No. 2, it looks like we've been exposed."

Zhou Tai No. 2 smugly replied, "We haven't been exposed. You have. I've belonged to Master from the very beginning!"

Zhou Tai No. 3 immediately turned to Zhou Tai No. 5. "We're done for. No. 2 has lost control of himself."

Zhou Tai No. 5 let out a roar. "Kill him!"

He smashed headfirst through the glass of his tank and charged straight at Yu Xian. The body he controlled belonged to Fenrir and resembled an enormous black wolf. However, the moment he approached Yu Xian, an invisible force seized him in midair.

Meanwhile, Zhou Tai No. 3, who had been preparing a sneak attack, was slapped to the floor by telekinesis. Rather than a phoenix, he looked more like a drenched chicken.

The other Zhou Tais also attacked one after another. Zhou Tai No. 9, in particular, transformed into an enormous white serpent and tried to swallow Yu Xian whole. Yu Xian merely exhaled, and compressed air shot through the serpent's mouth like a cannon shell, piercing straight through it.

The battle ended in a single second. The monsters controlled by the other personalities of Zhou Tai lay motionless on the floor like corpses.

Zhou Tai No. 3 stared with wide eyes and exclaimed in disbelief, "How is this possible? It hasn't even been that long! How did the gap become so enormous?"

He could not understand it. Only four or five months had passed since their battle. At first, he had been able to suppress Yu Xian, and even later, they had been fairly evenly matched. Yet now, Yu Xian had effortlessly crushed every last one of them.

What made it even more terrifying was how easy it had been. It was as though Yu Xian had merely stepped on a few ants, casually trampling all of them beneath his feet. Their efforts, their suffering, and everything they had endured to awaken their bloodlines now seemed like nothing more than a joke before Yu Xian.

Zhou Tai No. 3 looked like a gamer who had encountered a cheater. "You're cheating! I call foul! I call foul! I call foul! AAAAAAAAHHH! Phoenix, burn!!!"

His eyes turned red as he struggled wildly and roared, while blazing flames erupted across the phoenix's body.

Yu Xian merely glanced at him, stepped forward, and gave him a light, gentle slap. "Quiet!"

The phoenix's head struck the floor with a thunderous boom, leaving a deep depression. Zhou Tai No. 3's eyes rolled back, and the flames that had just ignited across his body went out. He slipped into a sleep as peaceful as a baby's.