Chapter 864: Mutually Assured Destruction
An ordinary person is innocent, but possessing treasure is a crime. To dare snatch food from the tiger’s mouth with such low strength while holding a great treasure, without the power of a protective divine object, will eventually lead to losing one’s life. How ridiculous.
However, Jin Yangtian didn’t rush to pursue. Instead, he crushed a Level 2 Designated Exposure Card.
[With this card, you can designate any player by their number and expose their location information to all players. This can be nullified by Unbeatable.
Effective duration: 10 minutes (real-time target location display)]
[Designation: Player Number 9]
[If the target takes no action within 3 seconds, the effect will be successful—]
[3, 2, 1 Location of Player 9 has been revealed]
Information flooded into Jin Yangtian’s mind. Based on the coordinates, the fleeing figure was indeed Player 9, the Spade Person, not an incarnation. The Spade Person’s most troublesome traits were their hard-to-see incarnations and concealment methods, but if it wasn’t an incarnation, it would be easier to handle.
The clouds rippled again. Jin Yangtian transformed into a golden light and leaped through the rippling spatial distortion, catching up to the Spade Person at a leisurely pace.
Behind him, Zong Yue was forced to stop, hovering a thousand feet away. He frowned, gazing at the Heavenly Gate, and shook his head, speaking to someone unknown. He said in a deep voice, “It failed. The Spade Person initiated leaving the Heavenly Realm and was coincidentally encountered by Jin Yangtian.”
“Initiated leaving the Heavenly Realm?” Ms. Mi’s surprised voice echoed in Zong Yue’s ears. “Is this idiot tired of living? Wouldn’t it be better to hide in the Heavenly Realm?”
“So, why are we preserving his life?” Zong Yue asked with a deep voice, puzzled. Although he had tried to stop Jin Yangtian, he didn’t actually know the reason, merely following Ms. Mi’s orders.
“Did you forget what I said? Don’t ask what you shouldn’t,” Ms. Mi said in a low voice.
“Yes,” Zong Yue nodded, still puzzled. “With Jin Yangtian’s swift methods, the Spade Person wouldn’t last ten seconds. What should we do now? Should we continue to obstruct Jin Yangtian?”
Ms. Mi thought for a moment, then chuckled and shook her head. “No need. Let the Spade Person die. Although it deviates slightly from the plan, who told this kid to be so foolish? We can’t save him even if we wanted to.”
“Next, we need to think about how to deal with Jin Yangtian. This guy claims he only wants the Blazing Sun Divine Domain, but with the Sumeru Throne so close, why wouldn’t he covet it?”
“Swish—” A golden meteor streaked across the sky. The pressure of five A-class and S-class Dao Fruits dispersed, stirring up vast waves in the clouds. Arrows made of colorful clouds broke through the physical limits of space, rapidly closing in on the Spade Person.
The Spade Person in the distance was like a grasshopper trapped in a cage of heaven and earth, tightly locked by countless mirrored planes. With stiff limbs, they looked up, the spade mask on their face shaking unstably, their whole body trembling.
[A-class Space Dao Fruit – Dawn at Baidi]
*Shak—* An arrow, shimmering with ancient divine light, materialized in their chest.
Jin Yangtian stood high in the clouds, looking down at the ant in the cage, and shook his head, thinking, “Too weak.”
As his cupped hand suddenly clenched, within the center of the mirrored planes, the arrow in the Spade Person’s chest instantly transformed into boundless rosy light, annihilating them completely!
Instant kill!
Jin Yangtian walked slowly amidst the lingering spatial ripples. As his black brocade boots crunched over the floating mirror fragments, a faint, mournful sound of glass came from beneath his feet. He arrived at the place where the Spade Person had died, ready to claim the inheritance.
However… to his confusion, what dropped after the Spade Person turned to ashes was not a rose-gold Spirit Paper, but a pure white bandage. Twisted souls on the bandage instantly shattered. Jin Yangtian clearly remembered this bandage; it was one of Uphiel’s belongings transformed into a spirit artifact.
Thinking of this, Jin Yangtian was startled, his pupils suddenly contracting.
“Damn it!”
[You have killed Player 4. As Player 4 was carrying the ‘Level 2 Co-death Curse’, if no action is taken within 3 seconds, you will face Mutually Assured Destruction—]
“Damn it! How could it be Uphiel?!” Jin Yangtian’s mind became a mess at that instant. He was genuinely bewildered by this extremely insidious method.
However, his mental fortitude was strong. He immediately recovered and reacted, his sharp eagle eyes flashing with cold light as he crushed a purple card.
[You have used Level 2 Unbeatable, Target: Co-death Curse—]
Luckily, although he had given most of his prop cards to Jin Shiyin, he had kept one Unbeatable card just in case. It could be considered fortunate in misfortune.
[Player 9 used Level 2 Unbeatable on you, nullifying your Unbeatable.]
[If no action is taken within 3 seconds, the Co-death Curse will take effect—]
Jin Yangtian: “?”
“You want to play like this?!”
“Spade Person!!” He abruptly looked up, then turned around, scanning the sky in all directions, his gaze icy, trying to find that insidious mouse hiding in the shadows. He knew the Spade Person must be watching this place, silently mocking his stupidity with that disgusting, bizarre spade mask.
Utterly arrogant! He had to find this mouse within 3 seconds!
Unfortunately, no matter how hard he searched, even at the cost of consuming a large amount of mental power to activate his divine eyes, he couldn’t find any trace of the Spade Person’s main body. This made him even more frustrated. He, a dignified god-tier genius, was being eliminated in such a ridiculous manner?!
[21]
Time was up. Jin Yangtian instantly felt unable to move. Golden light circles lit up above and below him, from which countless rune chains emerged. This was the law of this Sumeru Realm, and with his current strength, he was powerless to resist.
At this point, Jin Yangtian fell into silent contemplation. His anger dissipated, replaced by a helpless sigh as he completely gave up struggling, shaking his head and chuckling. Fine, this time… he had lost.
Golden light engulfed his body. He adjusted the platinum eagle helmet on his forehead and gazed at the Heavenly Gate.
“Spade Person, we’ll meet again.”
*Swoosh—* As his majestic, indifferent voice faded, his face turned into golden light and dispersed.
Heavens.
Xia Feng, who had transformed back into his human form from the spiritual energy he had gathered through the Myriad Manifestations, was back. He had never left the Heavenly Realm. He had only given his seat marker, the dying bandage, and Uphiel’s soul imprisoned in the Spirit Beast Ring to his incarnation. Jin Yangtian’s method of distinguishing between his main body and incarnation was the ‘Designated Exposure Card’, which perfectly played into Xia Feng’s hands. He could choose to expose his main body or his incarnation’s seat marker as he pleased. Jin Yangtian, after all, had lost due to his limited knowledge; he was too naive.
When Xia Feng had thought of this plan, the only concern he had was that Jin Yangtian might possess three Unbeatable cards. Xia Feng only had two. If Jin Yangtian truly had three, then Xia Feng would have to admit Jin Yangtian was formidable. But fortunately, Jin Yangtian only had a meager one.
[Countdown: 3, 2—]
Just in time, the countdown ended.
[1]
Everything in the Sumeru Realm suddenly froze.
[Red King Exposure Phase ends, entering the fourth round of settlement—]
He had finally managed to drag this round to the settlement phase. The profits were expected to be considerable. However, Xia Feng was still puzzled. Nine-Tails and Evil Crow had also participated in the Sumeru War, but they had not appeared even in the late stage, which was truly strange.
