180: Shadow Blade Chaos

On the viewing stands.

Seeing three uninvited guests barge into the high platform area, everyone began to discuss among themselves.

Especially after hearing those arrogant words, the venue completely exploded.

Grand Preceptor Huang Chengche trembled with rage.

"In broad daylight, under the watchful eyes of two hundred million viewers on the live stream, they dare to publicly assassinate a university principal. They deserve to be executed!"

He turned his head and found that the people from the Aristocratic Families were also filled with righteous indignation. However, looking at their calm eyes, he knew they had known about this long ago—perhaps they were even involved.

Realizing this, he could no longer bear to watch Liu Rufeng's plight. He rushed out of the back door and found that outside the soundproof barrier, thirty-one teams were cleaning up the battlefield; the ground outside was covered with the corpses of Sharp Blade.

"Thirty-one, heh, exactly corresponding to the thirty-one Aristocratic Families. Great Zhou, is it truly the Great Zhou of humanity?"

Huang Chengche's eyes were filled with ashen despair as he slumped onto the ground.

His heart ached so much he nearly fainted. He wanted to flee, to escape to a place where there was no one, so perhaps he wouldn't die of guilt.

"Shansi, is he really still Shansi?"

"Forget it!"

"Throughout the ages, the hardest thing is but death."

Huang Chengche straightened his robes and walked directly toward the direction of the Imperial Palace.

As for the "assassins" handling the corpses, if they wanted to kill, let them kill... The Fallen Zone where Xu Le was located was only a bit over 100 kilometers from the Demon Slaying Academy. At the Thousand-Year Fish's speed, it would only take about 40 seconds.

But these 40 seconds might be a heavenly tribulation for Liu Rufeng.

"Actually, I can speed up."

The Thousand-Year Fish's body shifted, transforming into a Goshawk. It gripped Xu Le's body with its talons and cast a protective shield over him.

Whiz!

The scenery below blurred past. With just one glance, Xu Le felt dizzy and wanted to vomit.

When he arrived at the Ascension Platform, the three killers were tightly surrounding Liu Rufeng but had not yet made a move.

Xu Le's body descended from the sky, and the Goshawk transformed back into the form of Little Sparrow, tilting its small head to look around.

Whoosh!

Everyone at the venue stood up.

It had to be said that whether it was his entrance method or his appearance falling from the sky, Xu Le looked incredibly cool.

The cameraman even gave him a close-up. Xu Le's face was terrifyingly cold, his jaw clenched tight, looking as though he were desperately suppressing his rage.

Many fans of good looks began to swoon over the screen.

Li Yang even bragged to his roommates: "See that? That's my brother."

Immediately after saying it, he felt a bit of regret—not because he was Xu Le's brother, but because his roommates had no taste and would always coldly spit out a sentence: "I know, the national wanted criminal, right?"

But this time, no one spoke any ill words. Instead, they truly envied Li Yang for having such a good brother.

"Though thousands oppose me, I shall go."

It was easy to say, but few could actually do it.

Facing the three strongest killers in the world, even though they were the chosen ones of Ke Wu University, they didn't dare to make a sound.

They decided that even if Xu Le died today, he would be their idol.

Not just in the dorms of Ke Wu University, but most people watching the live stream were no longer jealous of Xu Le's youth or bitter about him being a wanted criminal; instead, they recognized him as their idol.

Xu Le endured for a while and finally controlled his urge to vomit. Otherwise, vomiting during a nationwide live stream would be the ultimate social death.

When Liu Rufeng saw the three of them, his eyes reddened, and he couldn't snap out of it for a long time.

He knew what this meant.

Right now, what he wanted most was to rush into the Imperial Palace, hold a blade to that person's neck, and ask why.

But he couldn't. If that person died, the world would fall into chaos, and even more commoners would die tragic deaths.

He needed to consider the bigger picture.

Looking at Xu Le descending from the sky, his eyes grew even redder, with tears faintly seeping out.

"You came."

"I came."

"You shouldn't have come."

"If I didn't come, could you win against these three?"

"...I could give it a try."

Liu Rufeng was currently in the process of Ascension. With his Divine Soul bolstered by the Power Of Faith from hundreds of millions of people, he instantly discovered the peculiarity of the three assassins—

They were clearly human, but they faintly emitted an extraordinary pressure.

This pressure wasn't just on the three of them; Xu Le had it as well, and no less than they did.

He immediately stopped being stubborn. "Be careful. Help me stall one of them. Just stall him. I'll quickly deal with the other two and then come help you."

"Deal!"

Xu Le looked at the three of them with a provocative gaze.

Heavens Punishment laughed, possessing absolute confidence in the trio's strength and snorting at Liu Rufeng's arrangement.

"Second brother, this youngster is yours. I'll give you ten seconds. If you can't make it back by then, don't blame me for not leaving a kill for you."

"Heh, ten seconds? If it takes more than three seconds, it can only mean I forgot to sharpen my blade before leaving home," Earths Punishment said with a grin.

He then looked at Xu Le and pointed to a nearby empty space: "Over here. Director, remember to give us a separate screen. Let them see how the world's top killer sanctions a wanted criminal for you."

Xu Le followed him to the side. Earths Punishment's smile suddenly twisted, and he charged directly at him like a warrior.

"One second!"

Xu Le saw Earths Punishment move from a distance, and in the blink of an eye, he had already pounced to his right rear. He could only see a flash of bright blade light.

That charge was naturally an illusion, a trick played by the visual senses on the brain.

The reality was that as soon as he took a step, he directly activated the "Shadow Meld" Skill, appearing directly in Xu Le's shadow and launching an attack from within.

"Mental Shock!"

Xu Le didn't immediately take out his yanyue saber to strike. Instead, he rapidly increased the distance between them. Today's protagonist was Liu Rufeng; he needed the Power Of Faith, and Xu Le was just the support.

Crack!

The god-protecting spirit jade made a soft sound. The jade pendant, capable of blocking three fatal strikes, had unexpectedly had one charge consumed silently.

This meant he had just encountered a lethal attack. Unforgivable!

Earths Punishment's expression immediately turned hideous. Previously, he had the mindset of playing with his prey and hadn't gone for a direct kill. Now that he had wasted a life-saving item, his composure shattered.

"Die!"

He coldly spat out a single word, and countless shadows appeared on the ground. All of them looked exactly like Earths Punishment, holding daggers and slashing at Xu Le in unison.

Swish swish swish... Though they were just shadows, every attack they unleashed could tear through space, revealing the black Void Realm.

Xu Le's spiritual sense screamed in warning, and his hair stood on end. He didn't dare to take it head-on. Just as he was about to hide in the Contract Space, he heard Little Sparrow's voice.

"This move is somewhat interesting. Let me play."

A bubble that seemed like both wind and water enveloped him. Then, he saw countless spatial waves pass by him, like a firework in reverse—countless flowers blooming and then collapsing back into a single point.

Boom!

The spot where Xu Le had originally been standing was struck by countless blade shadows.

Those forces converged at a single point, and a hole the size of a watermelon appeared there.

The director hurried to adjust the camera focus. In the screen showing the two of them, only one person and one hole remained.

The person was Earths Punishment, looking proud.

The hole was very deep. In the close-up, a bit of red was faintly visible; it seemed to have pierced all the way down to the magma.

"Hiss..."

The people watching the live stream couldn't help but gasp.

As expected of the second-ranked killer in the world; a single attack actually possessed such power.

As for Xu Le... in the eyes of the crowd, naturally, not even a speck of him remained.