409: Chapter 408 Are you surprised?

Crack.

A faint sound, like ice cracking, erupted around Lin Qingyan.

A mysterious power of time bloomed around her.

The young girl's eyes flickered as she escaped the fate of being frozen in the river of time.

Everything before her was clearly reflected in her ice-blue eyes.

Shock, confusion, astonishment, fury...

In an instant.

She realized what had happened.

[Mask Alliance]

These insects, who had long been active in the shadows of human history, living by the creed that 'humanity must lose,' and who had defected to the Abyss early on, had actually made their move now!!

How dare they?!

Within Lin Qingyan's trembling eyes.

The white-masked man's plain and simple finger had already descended toward Chen Xi.

Pure physical strength, yet enough to easily crush a mountain into dust; even the most excellent A-grade alloy weapons would find it hard to withstand.

This was the might of a King!

The pillars of humanity's resistance against the Foreign Realms!

True nuclear weapons!

But now.

These powerhouses, nurtured with all of humanity's resources, had turned their killing intent toward their own people...

Lin Qingyan made no move, not even revealing a hint of anger; she was like an ice sculpture, no different from those around her.

Before a powerhouse of this level, any slight anomaly could be sensed.

Her eyes were icy and deep as she quickly thought of a countermeasure in her mind.

The current situation was no longer within the scope of the National War.

She could not change Chen Xi's fate.

But no matter what, she could not die here!

The best-case scenario would be to take a few more people and escape...

If she fully activated her third talent and broke this time freeze...

Although, before a true King, no matter how many of them there were, they would only be instantly annihilated.

But in the spectator stands, there were nearly ten Quasi-Kings.

And him...

All these thoughts occurred within a hundredth of a second.

"Bang!"

The white-masked King flicked a finger against Chen Xi's forehead. Terrifying power exploded, and Chen Xi instantly turned into a streak of light, flying backward and smashing through several mountains on the battlefield.

"Hmm?"

The white-masked King frowned.

The sensation felt a bit off.

How could an assassin brat who hadn't even reached the Grandmaster Realm have such a tough body?

After taking a hit from his finger, he hadn't even shattered into a bloody mist?!

Now!

Lin Qingyan's eyes flashed, and without the slightest hesitation, she immediately formed hand seals to fully activate her third talent.

Wheel of Space-Time...

The white-masked man's peripheral vision swept over; just a single glance instantly pierced through the Void Realm, like two Flying Swords shattering Lin Qingyan's protective equipment.

White lightning interlaced with black—that was the King's Martial Will, fully materialized. It bore down on Lin Qingyan like a massive mountain, making her face turn pale instantly, and the Wheel of Space-Time appearing behind her dissipated like a bubble.

"An SSS-grade Space-Time type talent, surprisingly."

The white-masked man spoke in a deep voice,

"It seems you are the darkest horse hidden in this session."

Lin Qingyan propped herself up with her ice sword, her body hunched as she desperately resisted that overwhelming pressure. Her bones made cracking sounds, yet her eyes held only anger and unyielding defiance.

The pride belonging to a Reborn Empress would not allow her to submit to anyone.

Especially when facing such scum of the Human Race!

There is only battle!

"Kill..."

Blood seeped from the corner of her mouth as a raspy voice squeezed out from the depths of her throat, her eyes burning like torches.

Boom, bang, bang, bang!!

The ground beneath the girl exploded, and countless ice lotuses bloomed in the Void Realm—the manifestation of her Martial Will.

But in the next second.

Bang!

All the ice lotuses shattered again, turning into billions of ice shards that drifted down.

"Even if your Martial Will is comparable to a Great Grandmaster's, it is as fragile as thin paper before me, unable to withstand a single blow."

The white-masked man raised his hand.

"Whether it's you, Sikong, or that Jiang Yuan, you're all too much of an eyesore."

"All of you, perish."

The entire National War space shook violently as scorching beams of light, hot enough to melt metal, transformed into billions of arrows falling from the sky. It was blindingly bright, as if a blazing sun had exploded in the air.

Within the brilliance lay ultimate destruction and despair.

Lin Qingyan sighed inwardly.

If she had attained the King Realm in her previous life, she wouldn't have spared a glance for such an attack; she would have been fully confident even facing three opponents of the same Realm.

But now, after all, she was only at the sixth rank...

This upheaval had come too quickly, too early.

It was completely beyond her expectations.

To be able to directly interfere with the National Destiny Battlefield, there was likely more than one fallen King involved behind the scenes...

She thought of Jiang Yuan.

But no matter how strong he was, even if he could kill a Quasi-King, what could he do against a true human King?

Today was a complete death trap.

"Eternal Night Kingdom."

Suddenly, an incredibly deep darkness bloomed in the sky, like a massive black lotus, enveloping the entire battlefield.

The collision between the billions of light raindrops and the black lotus made no great commotion; instead, like a clay ox entering the sea, the countless light arrows were silently swallowed by the darkness.

"Hmm?"

The white-masked man frowned and abruptly turned his head toward where 'Chen Xi' had been sent flying.

That mountain range collapsed and exploded; boulders as large as houses floated up, and streaks of golden vitality, as violent as the Yangtze River, spread outward from the center.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

A black-clothed, black-haired youth carrying a blade stepped out one pace at a time, his hair fluttering. A rich gold-and-red aura erupted around him, interlaced with black electric arcs. His heterochromatic eyes—one gold, one red—were calm and flat as he gazed at the human rebel King in the distance.

"Although I guessed you would stir up trouble, I didn't expect it to come so soon. Can't you even wait for the first day to pass?"

The youth rubbed his forehead. "A King's strength is indeed not small; it's been a long time since I felt pain."

At that moment just now.

Jiang Yuan used the [Star Shift] skill to swap positions with Chen Xi, taking that finger strike in his place.

The white-masked man stared at him, his gaze exceptionally cold.

"Jiang Yuan..."

"You actually weren't controlled."

Jiang Yuan smiled and said, "Are you surprised?"