123: The show begins, who is the mantis?

After reaching that tempting secret agreement with the Black Dragon Tribe leader, a meticulously planned "good show" officially began in this vast and perilous ancient forest.

"Kill!"

"Don't let them escape! Capture that outsider with the ancestral Bloodline!"

Over a dozen Black Dragon Tribe warriors, clad in grotesque black bone armor, screamed hoarsely from a hundred meters behind, their battle-axes and bone spears continuously unleashing energy attacks that seemed powerful but were actually inaccurate and deliberately kept at their lowest potency.

In front of them, Lin Tian's team was putting on an "embarrassed escape" worthy of an S-rank Peak actor.

"Master! I can't go on! My injuries have flared up!" Dragon Snow Phoenix's face was "pale," her Qi "chaotic," and she "anxiously" called out to Lin Tian while "struggling" to dodge the attacks from behind.

"Damn it! Why are these natives like mad dogs, endlessly pursuing us!" Long Qingtian also looked "gasping for breath" and "lacking strength," his giant axe swinging with fierce momentum, yet he always "just right" let one or two attacks slip through, allowing them to graze the team members' bodies, creating a perilous scene.

Even Lin Tian himself shed his usual composure and indifference, a perfectly calibrated "solemnity" and "panic" on his face. While directing the team to flee "helplessly" forward, he still had the leisure to transmit a playful message to Elizabeth, who was also "performing diligently" beside him: "How was it? My acting isn't bad, right?"

Elizabeth rolled her eyes at him, but the uncontrollable smile on her lips betrayed her true feelings at the moment.

The act was incredibly realistic.

And the "audience" for this act was quickly drawn in by the "huge commotion"... In a secluded mountain hollow several kilometers from the battlefield.

The North America "Holy Mountain" twins, Adam and Kyle, were cautiously suppressing their Auras, lurking in the shadows like two of the most patient leopards, observing the "chase" unfolding in the distance.

When Kyle saw Lin Tian and his group looking "utterly disheveled," "with even team members injured and exhausted," an uncontrollable burst of excited light, filled with ecstasy and venom, instantly erupted from his eyes, which had turned fiery white due to his Seraphim Legacy Awakening!

"Brother! Our chance has come!" He lowered his voice, but the excitement and agitation in his tone were impossible to conceal. "Look! That bastard, he's been entangled by the natives here! And it looks like they're about to give out!"

"This is a heaven-sent opportunity! The best chance for revenge bestowed upon us by the Lord of Holy Light!"

Adam's brow furrowed slightly. He was much calmer than his brother, who was blinded by hatred. He always felt that things seemed a little too "coincidental." With the unfathomable strength and cunning Lin Tian displayed at The Peak of the Forbidden City, how could he so easily fall into this predicament of being hunted by local forces?

However, when his gaze fell upon the "pale-faced" and "chaotic-Qi" Dragon Snow Phoenix, the hint of doubt in his heart gradually dissipated.

The injuries were real.

The chaotic Qi was also real.

Perhaps... he was truly overthinking it? Perhaps Lin Tian was, after all, too young, too arrogant, and had inadvertently angered a powerful local tribe after entering this unknown Forbidden Ground, leading to his current predicament?

After all, according to the ancient secret scrolls of their "Holy Mountain," these tomb-guardian tribes within the Pangu Tomb were an existence that even the War Emperor of that era found troublesome!

"Brother! What are you still hesitating for?!" Kyle, seeing Adam's prolonged indecision, urged impatiently, "Opportunity knocks but once! If he gets rid of those natives, it will be difficult for us to find such a good chance again!"

Adam looked at the figure in the distance, still appearing incredibly tall and unyielding amidst the "encirclement and interception," a cold determination flashing in his eyes.

Regardless of whether there was a trick involved, this was indeed their only chance!

With the two of them working together, plus those equally strong natives forming a pincer attack, even if Lin Tian possessed heaven-defying abilities, he was destined to fall here today!

"Good!"

Adam finally made up his mind.

"Let's go! Remember, hold nothing back, go all out, and make sure... to kill him with one blow!"

...Just as Lin Tian and his group were about to "escape" into a more complex jumble of rocks and trees.

Two streaks of Holy Light, filled with divine and judgmental Aura, as brilliant as the sun, erupted without warning from their flank!

"Lin Tian! Die!"

Accompanied by Kyle's roar, filled with endless malice and glee, the Holy Mountain twins, like two scorching meteors falling from the sky, instantly cut off all escape routes for Lin Tian's team, one in front and one behind!

Adam was in front, his expression cold and stern. In his hand appeared a lance made entirely of Holy Light, imbued with a sense of judgment. Its tip locked onto Lin Tian, blocking all his forward paths.

Kyle was behind, a twisted and sinister smile on his face. His twelve Seraphim wings fully unfurled behind him, emitting terrifying light and heat capable of purifying everything, completely sealing off their retreat.

And further away, the Black Dragon Tribe warriors who had been "chasing" them also "sensibly" stopped, dispersed, and, together with the twins, formed an even larger and more desperate encirclement.

The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

A perfect, seamless "interception" trap had formed!

"Heh heh... Lin Tian, didn't expect this, did you?" Kyle looked at his archenemy, whom he had forced into a "dead end," a morbidly gleeful smile of revenge on his face. "You have your day too?! Today, this place will be your burial ground!"

Adam also spoke coldly, as if pronouncing the final death sentence: "It's over, Lin Tian. Hand over everything you obtained in the War Emperor's Mausoleum and Forbidden City, then, commit suicide. I can leave you a complete corpse."

They were certain of victory.

They were smug.

They seemed to have already seen Lin Tian's panicked, desperate, and terrified face under their perfect scheme.

However... what they saw was a face that had shed all "dishevelment" and "panic," becoming indifferent, calm, and even... bearing a playful smile, as if looking at two idiots.

"Good performance, wasn't it?" Lin Tian ignored them, instead turning his head to Elizabeth beside him, asking with a soft laugh.

Elizabeth also shed the "anxiety" from her face, giving him a breathtaking, beautiful smile full of tacit understanding.

This scene instantly stunned Adam and Kyle.

An extremely ominous premonition, enough to freeze their very Souls, surged wildly in their hearts!

Just as they were momentarily stunned by this sudden turn of events.

Lin Tian moved.

"The game, it's time to end."

Boom—!!!

An Aura ten times, no, even more terrifying than what he had displayed at The Peak of the Forbidden City, as vast and boundless as the primordial Universe, erupted from his body!

He didn't even use any Move!

He simply, with one against two, took a step forward and threw two punches!

Fast!

Extremely fast!

The first punch slammed towards Adam in front!

Adam's pupils contracted sharply. Without thinking, he brought the Holy Light lance in his hand across his chest, pushing his S-rank Peak strength to its limit!

Crack!

That Holy Light lance, capable of piercing the armor of interstellar battleships, shattered inch by inch like rotten wood before Lin Tian's seemingly ordinary punch!

The golden fist print, its momentum undiminished, fiercely imprinted itself on his disbelieving chest!

The second punch slammed towards Kyle behind!

Kyle let out a terrified shriek. His twelve Seraphim wings instantly folded, forming a seemingly indestructible "Shield of Holy Light"!

However, Lin Tian's punch completely ignored that light shield, easily piercing through it as if it were a paper window, and likewise, fiercely imprinted itself on his chest!

Pfft! Pfft!

Two mouthfuls of hot blood, like two tragically beautiful crimson roses, bloomed simultaneously in mid-air!

Adam and Kyle, these self-important "twins," these hunters who thought they were the oriole, couldn't even withstand a single Move in the face of Lin Tian's absolute, utterly overwhelming strength!

The two of them, like two fallen meteors, slammed heavily onto the ground, creating two massive, human-shaped craters in the hard earth.

Lin Tian slowly stepped forward, as if surveying his spoils of war.

He stepped on them one by one, crushing these once arrogant brothers underfoot as if they were two actual beetles.

He bent down, looking into their eyes filled with horror, fear, and disbelief, a playful smile, like that of a demon god, appearing on his face.

"Now..."

"...Tell me, where are the others from your 'Holy Mountain' hiding?"

Further away, the Black Dragon Tribe leader, who had been completely stunned by this scene, received new instructions from Lin Tian via a mental imprint. He trembled violently, then respectfully bowed his head in the direction of Lin Tian.

"Yes, Master."

He turned around and issued new, murderous commands to his tribesmen behind him.

"The second act of the play has begun."

"Go, and... lure Marquis Champion and those from War God Academy over to me!"