162: Chapter 164: Can we notify the people on the leaderboard to join us?

Seeing Lu Chen standing still,

Jiu Luo thought the opponent was intimidated by his Aura.

A cold sneer couldn't help but curl his lips.

His eyes were smug.

“Lowly ant, go to hell!”

Jiu Luo shouted loudly.

He swung his longsword down.

This strike poured in all his strength.

Like a rainbow descending from the sky.

But at the same time as the certain-to-hit strike fell,

Jiu Luo suddenly felt a suffocating chill.

As if some ancient and terrifying prehistoric behemoth had awakened,

Opened its eyes,

And locked onto him.

At this moment,

He was like prey encountering a natural predator in the wilderness.

His entire body froze.

Every muscle turned to stone.

The longsword in his hand stopped abruptly an inch away from Lu Chen's throat.

It trembled violently.

His lung function completely shut down.

His body couldn't inhale even a bit of air.

Sensory perceptions across his whole body began to wither,

Turning into a form of fear,

That drowned him.

In this instant,

He felt as if he were no longer on the Arena stage.

As if he were in the middle of a boundless black ocean.

Endless darkness enveloped him,

As if he were about to be strangled by the darkness itself.

Then, amidst this suffocating death,

Two giant eyes opened,

Like the infinite sky.

The gaze was indifferent and cold.

In the outside world,

Lu Chen watched him quietly.

At this moment, time seemed to freeze.

He felt like an insect suspended in amber.

His movements were so slow he almost couldn't move.

Even the sound of his own heartbeat had vanished.

On the opposite side,

Lu Chen moved.

Slowly,

Almost incredibly gently,

He raised his pinky finger.

Jiu Luo looked at that finger.

That little finger was incredibly small.

But it just poked over so casually.

At this moment,

It seemed to become the center of his world.

The whole world was collapsing around it,

Then it overturned and pressed down.

As if the force of the entire world collapsing slammed into him.

His consciousness immediately shattered like a glass bottle run over by a heavy truck.

In an instant,

Jiu Luo's body exploded into countless particles,

Turning into a pale light,

And disappeared.

He was directly expelled from the Arena.

—And his death was recorded by the Virtual Universe, forcing him offline.

However,

In that thousandth of a second,

He still felt the power of that force.

If this were reality,

He would undoubtedly have been evaporated instantly.

The entire Arena suddenly fell into an eerie silence.

Everyone gaped in shock.

Even the most powerful spectators were completely bewildered.

Lu Chen's movements were too subtle and fast.

Everyone only saw Jiu Luo just about to strike,

Rush in front of the opponent,

And then, with a boom,

He exploded into a beam of white light.

A famous Genius from Origin Star,

Without doing anything,

Just disappeared.

No one could even understand what exactly had happened in between.

The robot hosting the match crackled,

Making the sound of a static short circuit.

As if something were stuck in its throat.

Only after a long while did it laugh.

“Hehe... Everyone probably didn't see clearly what happened just now. Shall we do a slow-motion replay?”

“Yes!”

The crowd suddenly erupted with mountain-shaking cheers.

Their faces were pale,

Their eyes full of curiosity and even fear.

They desperately wanted to know,

What exactly happened just now?

The previous scenes began to replay on the big screen.

Jiu Luo's longsword was suspended in front of Lu Chen's neck,

Then his body dissolved into light and shadow.

Then it was slowed down to 3x speed.

The image was still blurry.

Slowed down by six times,

Still, nothing was seen.

Slowed down by twelve times,

Jiu Luo disappeared again,

As if erased by an invisible hand.

The robot was very annoyed.

This time, it slowed the footage down by 120 times.

Finally,

In that snail-paced slow motion,

The spectators saw it.

Lu Chen's pinky finger,

Descending like a sword of judgment from the heavens.

Even with the screen slowed down so many times,

Its speed was still so fast,

That it only left an afterimage on the screen.

When they saw Jiu Luo's body shatter like slow-motion fireworks,

The spectators' bodies shuddered one after another.

A heavy silence fell around the Arena.

Sheng Lini gulped hard,

Feeling his throat dry,

And his teeth chattering.

“Was my behavior toward this monster friendly enough before...?”

“He didn't blame me?”

“He even treated me like a brother?”

Immediately after,

An indescribable sense of pride

Welled up in Sheng Lini's heart.

He unconsciously puffed out his chest,

His eyes shining.

On the Arena stage,

The robot's voice loudly announced the result of the match.

“Congratulations to our winner—Lu Chen!”

Waves of deafening applause swept through the area.

Shouts of excitement and awe surged like waves.

Xiao Wanlong couldn't help but smile bitterly,

Rubbing his temples.

“The Chairman surpasses us by far too much in every aspect. We can't even see his shadow anymore.”

In the VIP box,

Freya stood motionless,

With her eyes wide open.

Her thoughts were racing.

“This person... perhaps... could help me...”

Her heart was pounding.

She wasn't sure.

“Don't rush to a decision yet.”

“Observe a bit more...”

However,

The person responsible for all this didn't react much.

He looked up,

His gaze turned toward the hosting robot,

Like the unruffled waters of a lake in autumn.

His voice was as calm as ever.

“I want to go straight to the top of the rankings. May I ask, is it possible to challenge the person ranked first on the Leaderboard?”