118: Chapter 118: The Self-Inflicted Injury Scheme – Not bad acting, right?

With a thunderous roar, the teleportation array Li Shunyao had hidden was directly blasted to pieces by a single cannon shot.

On the side of the Floating Island, a small islet could be seen floating, equipped with a Floating Island Giant Cannon.

This cannon was a Floating Giant Cannon that Xu Xuan had spent 500 lower-grade spirit mines to manufacture.

The Floating Giant Cannon was supported by a small island fifty meters in diameter, upon which sat a massive cannon twenty meters long with a 1200mm caliber.

The giant cannon was fixed to the island, adjusting its angle as the island rotated.

This! This was the new building of the Floating Island—a giant cannon that could ignore physics and manipulate its floating angle at will.

Currently floating outside the Floating Island, besides the 500-meter diameter Satellite Island, was this 50-meter diameter small Floating Island carrying the giant cannon.

[Giant Cannon Floating Island]

[Range: 20 kilometers]

[Power: Utilizes lower-grade spirit mines; the power of one shot is equivalent to the full-strength strike of a Rank 9 unit from the early stages of the Spiritual Qi Recovery.]

[Effective Lethality Range: A 150-meter radius where nothing survives.]

[Can be upgraded by replacing with mid-grade spirit mines.]

As this shot fired, Li Shunyao's smile froze.

One second, the Necromancer God Lord was mobilizing a million-strong army; the next, the portal was severed, and they all vanished into the River Styx.

Li Shunyao couldn't smile at all now.

"Wh... Why?"

He had placed that teleportation array in a very hidden location, yet it was as if Xu Xuan had a wallhack, knowing its position in advance.

That's impossible, right?

He hadn't told anyone about the teleportation array before; even his girlfriend, Jin Zhixian, had only just found out.

Could it be that Lv Bu leaked the information?

That's impossible; Lv Bu had been by his side the whole time and was his divine general.

It couldn't be Lv Bu, right?

Li Shunyao began to suspect Lv Bu, but Lv Bu had been right next to him just now—how could he have leaked anything?

Lv Bu's faction was marked with his name; it should be impossible for him to defect, right?

While Li Shunyao was dazed, the Necromancer God Lord was absolutely fuming.

[Divine Transmission]

[Necromancer God Lord: What are you doing, Li Shunyao! You useless trash, what are you doing? My million-strong army was about to cross over—how could the teleportation array be exposed!]

The Necromancer God Lord's roar echoed in Li Shunyao's mind, the pain comparable to a tightening crown curse.

Li Shunyao replied with a tearful face, "God Lord, I don't know! I clearly set the ambush, and the portal was hidden deep in the rear. I have no idea how Xu Xuan found out."

He really felt like crying.

All that painstaking preparation, including that specialized unit meant to deal with Xu Xuan.

The Bone Dragons, Floating Bones, Gargoyles, and Bone Giants carrying siege ladders were all waiting for Xu Xuan to walk into the trap.

And yet...

From over ten kilometers away, Xu Xuan blew up his portal with a single cannon shot. Who could he even complain to?

Furthermore, Xu Xuan's Giant Cannon Floating Island seemed to have already locked onto this area. Li Shunyao began to feel afraid.

That previous shot had evaporated all the zombies near the teleportation array.

Literally evaporated—not even a scrap remained; the zombies' bodies had directly gasified and dissipated.

If the next shot was aimed at him...

Sure enough, the giant cannon aimed at Li Shunyao and began to glow.

On the Floating Island, standing atop a high tower, Xu Xuan pointed his sword at the distant Li Shunyao and Lv Bu.

Xu Xuan curled his lips: "Hu Zi Mei, fire!"

Floating before Xu Xuan was the small island carrying the giant cannon.

On that island, the one controlling the twenty-meter-long giant cannon was indeed Hu Zi Mei.

Hu Zi Mei was stunned at that moment: "But Great King, Lv Bu is also there. Are we blasting him too?"

Su Daji, standing beside Xu Xuan, rolled her eyes: "If the Great King tells you to shoot, then shoot. No need for more words."

"Oh..."

The simple-minded Hu Zi Mei couldn't understand why the Great King wanted to bomb Lv Bu as well.

Hu Zi Mei began to manipulate the island's levitation devices, aiming the muzzle at Li Shunyao and Lv Bu.

She pressed the rune charging button, and this giant cannon, cast entirely from cyan-blue spirit mines, began to absorb the surrounding spiritual qi.

As the giant cannon's muzzle lit up with a blue glow, the starlight from the barrel could be seen even from over ten kilometers away.

"Fire!"

With a deafening boom, the airflow generated by the spiritual qi projectile nearly knocked Hu Zi Mei off her feet. The sound seemed to tear the heavens and earth apart, and the entire fifty-meter diameter island shook.

A blue projectile flew toward Lv Bu's direction.

Li Shunyao screamed: "It's over, it's all over..."

"I don't want to die yet..." Jin Zhixian hugged Lv Bu tightly in terror.

They wanted to run, but there wasn't enough time, and their legs were weak and powerless.

In that moment of impending death, their lives began to flash before their eyes.

Memories flooded back like a tide—childhood, kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, high school, university...

The images flickered like a slideshow; Li Shunyao and Jin Zhixian truly believed they were doomed.

Before death, they thought of many things.

But just as the shell was about to hit, Lv Bu suddenly gave a low growl, his muscles bulging as he swept his fangtian painted halberd!

Under everyone's incredulous gazes, Lv Bu lightly parried the incoming shell, forcing the projectile to veer off behind them.

It happened fast, in the blink of an eye.

Everyone saw Lv Bu sweep it away with his weapon; the projectile bounced to the side and landed on a small hill behind them.

The summit of that tree-covered hill was instantly leveled by the explosion, its trees pulverized into ash. It stood out in the forest like a bald spot on a head.

At this, Li Shunyao's legs gave out, and he slumped onto the ground.

He saw that a third of the hill behind them had been sheared off. He couldn't imagine what would have happened if that projectile had landed on them; they really would have evaporated.

"Father Lv! Father Lv, you are mighty!!!"

Li Shunyao finally realized that Lv Bu had just saved them.

He really deserved to die!

He had actually suspected Lv Bu of being an undercover agent. It seemed Father Lv definitely wasn't one; he was truly like a biological father.

Lv Bu sneered: "Hmph, such petty tricks think they can harm my son?"

Li Shunyao scrambled over to hug Lv Bu's leg: "Father Lv! You are my true father! If not for you, I, Li Shunyao, would be dead. I really deserve to die, Father; I even doubted you. I truly deserve to die."

Li Shunyao slapped himself several times.

Looking at Li Shunyao's tearfully grateful appearance, Lv Bu secretly sneered.

My Lord was right; we had to play out a Self-Injury Ruse. Letting Li Shunyao experience the feeling of death before being saved would definitely make him trust me even more.

After all, my Lord said there are still many lurking Necromancer Lords who are difficult to find on the vast Lord Continent.

In this situation, by using Li Shunyao, we can find those other lurking Necromancer Lords and pull them all out by the roots!

There is an old saying in Great Xia: 'When cutting grass, one must remove the roots!'

At this moment, Lv Bu continued his act: "My son, stay here and don't move. I shall go and slay that Xu Xuan!"

Seeing Lv Bu about to head into a losing battle, Li Shunyao immediately pulled him back: "Father Lv! Let's make a strategic retreat first. I have other allies. We can find more spirit mines and make a comeback! Endure for now, and we'll return for revenge against Xu Xuan later."

Hearing this, Lv Bu revealed an imperceptible, dark smile.

[Lv Bu: My Lord, how was this Lv's acting?]