166: Revenge

Casting the Reapers Scythe twice in a short period increased the probability of being noticed by Death, but to escape, he had no choice but to cast it.

The previous strike had already awakened the existence behind the scenes.

Staying in place would only mean being caught like a 'turtle in a jar'.

Confirming there were no other options, Xu Le no longer hesitated.

The black scythe appeared in the sky, and that feeling of controlling everything from before resurfaced in his heart.

The invisible barrier finally manifested in his senses.

It reached up 108,000 miles into the sky and down 36,000 miles to the Earth's core, connecting heaven and earth without leaving a single gap.

Slash!

The black scythe slashed down in front of him.

Endless wind and thunder gathered into a single strike.

Boom!

A terrifying wave of sound exploded.

A crack less than three centimeters wide was opened on the infinite barrier.

"Did it fail?"

Xu Le muttered to himself, then heard a hearty laugh in his ear.

"It succeeded, let's go!"

Xu Le's body swayed, and the scenery before him changed abruptly. Carried by the Thousand-Year Fish, his entire person was shrunk countless times, and they actually shuttled through the crack at nearly a thousand times the speed of sound.

Compared to this, any Zhen Tree was worse than a little brother's little brother.

The scenery flashed by like lightning; even with Xu Le's physical constitution, he could barely withstand it.

The silent Black Forest suddenly exploded.

All the black trees directly disintegrated into powder, dispersing into a sky-filling mist that spread in all directions.

From within the mist, one strange creature after another walked out.

A brown horse that had been leisurely grazing suddenly galloped toward the spreading mist, running faster and faster.

Its body also grew larger and larger until it turned into a towering mountain peak, at which point its body finally couldn't take it anymore.

It suddenly collapsed to the ground, turning into countless bead-sized ponies.

The ponies continued to run; some ran until they got smaller and smaller, dissolving into the air; others grew larger and larger, continuing the previous journey; even more merged with each other, turning into horse-bodied bulls, bull-headed horses, two-headed horses, three-headed horses, two-bodied horses along with the cattle... Besides horses, there were countless creatures in the Black Forest, all charging along with the white mist.

Some that charged fast directly rushed out of the white mist's range and vanished like bubbles. Even more became increasingly bizarre during the charge... The Xiaoyao Realm reflects reality.

Deep within the Imperial Palace, there were also guards in the Xiaoyao Realm.

But who would dare to risk universal condemnation to break into the Xiaoyao Realm's Imperial Palace, which offered no benefits?

Surely no one would actually think of assassinating the Emperor just to scout the map?

Zhao Chong was secretly hiding in the Hall of Longevity.

Ever since he calculated that he would die no matter where he hid, he chose to hide here.

If the opponent really dared to come here, they would inevitably be branded a regicide.

Furthermore, the people around him were different from him.

They all entered this place through equipment; they were just a wisp of a split soul, so it was impossible to silence them all.

"Hehe, I want to see if you dare to come."

Zhao Chong sneered in his heart, though his divination had already told him the answer.

He wanted to leave this world, but there was too little time.

He had been trapped in the Void Realm for too long and couldn't contact anyone at all.

He couldn't get out!

...The Imperial Guard Commander, Ma Zhongjun, guarded the Hall of Longevity meticulously.

On Blue Star, this was the place where Emperor Wu Sansi reviewed memorials.

Here, the guarding was almost purely symbolic.

Ma Zhongjun led two squads of Imperial Guards, staring forward with focus.

Suddenly, a black dot appeared.

"A mere fly dares to offend the Heavenly Countenance? Die!"

Ma Zhongjun shouted coldly and drew his blade to strike.

He suddenly felt a jolt; the Xiaoyao Realm didn't have creatures like flies, and besides, this was the Imperial Palace—who would dare to raise flies here?

What came was naturally not a fly, but the Thousand-Year Fish and Xu Le.

The Thousand-Year Fish was spotted by Ma Zhongjun because it slowed down upon reaching the destination, but its speed was still far beyond supersonic. With a flicker, it flew directly into the Hall of Longevity.

"Pursue!"

Ma Zhongjun's heart tightened as he desperately rushed inside.

The Emperor wasn't inside, so there was no talk of regicide, but the humiliation still made him feel ashamed enough to want to die.

Pushing open the door, he saw two people facing each other. One of the dark figures was even holding a tortoise shell, sitting on the dragon throne.

"Are you freaking insane?"

"I only cast a Slowness Spell on you, and you actually committed such a treasonous act by breaking into the Imperial Palace. Those who don't know would think I dug up your ancestral graves."

Even though Zhao Chong had calculated everything beforehand, he was still jumping with rage. He never thought such a person existed in this world.

Xu Le was so angry he laughed.

That Slowness Spell back then had almost gotten him killed. If it were an ordinary person, the grass on their grave would already be a meter high.

For the other party to speak so nonchalantly, he truly deserved to die!

"So it was you!"

"You escaped back then, so why did you suddenly attack me?"

Zhao Chong blurted out: "What status do you have to be worthy of competing with me?"

As soon as he said it, he regretted it.

However, the Star of Death hung high over his head.

A Mental Shock had already blasted toward him.

Boom!

He saw a colossal entity squeeze into his Sea of Consciousness, and with just one hit, it was completely destroyed.

Blood seeped from Zhao Chong's eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. With just one strike, he was blasted to death by Xu Le, who possessed divinity.

However, Xu Le had seriously overestimated his opponent. The Spells he had prepared all blasted out in a torrent.

Chain Lightning.

Hurricane Howl.

Earth Spike.

The intact corpse was electrocuted into charcoal, then sliced by the hurricane, and finally pierced through the roof by a massive Earth Spike, hanging from the ceiling.

"Audacious Xu Le, how dare you trespass into the Imperial Palace!"

"Publicly using Skills and causing death. Please report to the local security bureau after logging off, or your crime will be increased by one degree!"

Ma Zhongjun was trembling all over, but he summoned his courage to shout.

A man's reputation follows him like a shadow.

Few on Blue Star were unaware of Xu Le's fearsome name.

A glint of cunning flashed in the Thousand-Year Fish's eyes. With a flick of its tail, it directly slapped Ma Zhongjun into a white light, ejecting him from the Xiaoyao Realm.

The rest of the Imperial Guards were in a panic; the scene before them was completely beyond their imagination.

The palace had been at peace for a long time, and its military readiness was lax. Each of them acted like an ordinary person, neither daring to step forward to fight nor daring to retreat and flee, spinning around like ants on a hot pot.

The Thousand-Year Fish spat out a breath of frost, freezing everyone in place. In the next second, the two squads of Imperial Guards directly turned into white light and disappeared.

Before Xu Le could speak, it forestalled him: "No need to thank me. Consider this the payment for this Emperor staying at your place."

"No. How did you know my enemy was here?" Xu Le asked curiously.

"In this world, this Emperor is omniscient!"

The Thousand-Year Fish looked proud, but inwardly it felt lucky. It had only smelled a familiar scent on Xu Le and planned to help him bring along a friend.

It hadn't expected it to be such a deep grudge; now it could freeload for a while longer.

"Let's go! Otherwise, when that thing catches up, the scene won't be pretty."

The Thousand-Year Fish swept up Xu Le again and fled into the distance.

Xu Le looked back and could only faintly see the white mist spreading ten thousand miles away, rapidly approaching.

Moreover, the mist wasn't surging from just one direction but was closing in from all sides. The space they could escape to was getting smaller and smaller, and they would eventually be completely trapped.

"Let's go, let's go see your Blue Star!"

Xu Le felt the speed slow down. Opening his eyes, he saw a spatial node, but judging by the trend, it would take at least three to five months to open.

Before he could finish the thought that there was time, the Thousand-Year Fish flicked its tail. The spatial node shattered instantly, a black hole appeared, and he was wrapped up and thrust inside.

The mist seemed to sense something and immediately stopped its pursuit, shrinking back.

Only those strangely shaped creatures were left, vanishing into the world one by one like bubbles.