171: Their formidable strength needs no disguise!

The momentum on Morning Dew's side was also good.

Lu Chen looked over while yawning.

He saw Morning Dew's silver official robes fluttering without wind amidst the hymns, and the cross hanging on her chest suddenly erupted with dazzling light.

The Cardinal of the Western Knight Academy's expression changed drastically—the Little Priestess who should have been suppressed by his Holy Light was now chanting the "Dead Sea Scrolls — Ode to God-Slaying" recorded on the forbidden stone tablets!

"In the name of the Eternal Night." The pure gold holy codex in Shelley's hands automatically flipped to a blank white page, and eighteen beams of light pierced the clouds, "—depriving you... of the right to baptism."

Lu Chen felt he needed to up the ante!

Mainly because that Cardinal opposite him came from the Vatican X.

He definitely couldn't let him off.

He had just offended him earlier!

Lu Chen directly detached the bone of his left hand and tossed it onto the battlefield, where the skeleton transformed in mid-air into a statue of a fallen demon wrapped in chains.

When Morning Dew's Holy Light resonated with the statue, the Holy Light Barrier of the Western Knight Academy peeled away layer by layer like a fragile eggshell.

The live stream suddenly experienced a thirty-second signal interruption!

Because the barrage was scrolling too fast.

It froze all of a sudden.

It couldn't load, and it crashed.

When the screen recovered, the barrage had been flooded with exclamations like "Undead Holy Light Combo!!!" and "This is the blood-pumping combo technique between Brother Lu and the Little Priestess"... and so on.

Lu Chen picked up the fine West Lake Longjing tea beside him and took a slow, unhurried sip.

Only then did he cast his gaze to the other side.

Sun Feifei's arena.

The Daoist girl's ancient bronze sword was swiftly unsheathed.

Sun Feifei, this Eastern mystic cultivator girl, stepped on the Seven-Star pace, and where her sword tip pointed, an Innate Bagua Formation Diagram appeared, covering the entire arena.

When the morning light from the Peak of Kunlun Academy pierced through the clouds, what appeared behind her was not a Daoist dharma image, but three hundred underworld soldiers clad in bone armor.

"Borrowing the power of Heaven and Earth!" The sword tip suddenly turned to point at Lu Chen, "Please, Little Skull—no, Senior Lu... grant me the Evil Qi of the Nine Netherworlds!"

Lu Chen waved his hand casually, and a wisp of Soul Fire flew out, transforming in mid-air into a war drum burning with ghost fire.

As the drumbeat resonated with the sword's hum, the roar of a million vengeful Souls mixed into Sun Feifei's Sword Qi, shattering the arena's protective barrier with seven hundred cracks.

At this moment, the number of online viewers in the global live stream exceeded nine hundred million, and a paid barrage sent by an anonymous user caused an uproar:

[Donated 10,000 USD] I beg to ask!

"Has the Skeleton Elder's true combat power already broken through the Ninth Rank? Entered the Emperor Realm? His method of modifying his teammates' energy is clearly the 'Soul Endowment' secret art of the Undead Monarch! Wait... has his strength recovered so quickly? How are other countries supposed to play?"

When the protective barrier of the Kunlun arena shattered with a boom!

The live stream's popularity had already reached its Peak.

The servers of seven hundred and twenty-three live streaming platforms worldwide overloaded simultaneously.

The Undead war drum summoned by Lu Chen hovered above Sun Feifei's head, and the undead runes appearing on the drum surface intertwined with the Bagua Formation Diagram to form a blood-colored Taiji, perfectly fusing the Eastern mystic cultivator's righteous aura with the Evil Qi of the Nine Netherworlds.

Tens of thousands of golden paid messages suddenly flashed through the barrage pool—!

They were all different words expressing the same meaning: — — Awesome!

At this moment, the various academies that had come to watch the battle stared at their respective high-tech analysis instruments, all with looks of shock!

Dumbfounded faces everywhere.

So strong?

The Indian Academy, one of the competing parties, was using their latest "Shiva" data analyzer to parse the data at a speed of three hundred frames per second.

The result was just one—energy off the charts. At least Emperor Realm!

Some people watching the live stream were also shocked by this powerful force.

"It has completely reached the third quadrant of the energy spectrum!" A European wearing virtual reality equipment screamed in the live stream chat, "That skeleton is rewriting the Laws of physics!"

Lu Chen's finger bone pointed slightly towards the sky, piercing into the Void Realm!

Eighteen Netherworld fissures instantly cracked open above the arena.

Morning Dew's light and Ning Xiwei's undead tide merged within the fissures into a purple-gold torrent, washing the Western Knight Academy's Holy Light Barrier until it was riddled with holes.

Nine Netherworld bones open the heavenly gates,

Ten thousand Souls come to worship the Emperor.

The Yellow Springs hang upside down for three thousand feet,

Seeing only dust, not the blue sky!

Too strong!

The Chinese citizens in the live stream were incredibly proud.

This is our skeleton and his harem!

Awesome!

The void froze into ice, and with a point of Lu Chen's finger, a dazzling nether light was emitted.

The ice crystal shattered in response, turning into sky-filling powder that condensed into nine Bone Dragons.

The real-time combat power monitor emitted a piercing alarm—:

—Energy readings have broken through the Ninth Rank Peak, approaching the demigod realm!

—Stop, this is no longer Emperor Realm!

"Quick, look at Ignis's flames!" A certain barrage comment suddenly turned red, "The fire seed core has turned into a skeleton shape!"

The Flame Demon Girl's lava wings were now completely pitch black, each feather a wailing vengeful spirit.

When she wielded the long blade made from Lu Chen's rib to cleave through space, it left behind never-extinguishing Netherworld Fire marks in the void.

Before the Indian Academy's Indra's Thunder could fall, it was frozen into a purple crystal sculpture by the frost dragon breath spewed by the Bone Dragon.

Weaklings!

The loser eats dust.

When Shelley's ice crystal Valkyrie and Sun Feifei's Bagua Formation Diagram were simultaneously embedded into the void, a strange double image appeared in the global live stream.

The snowy Peaks of the Kunlun Mountains twisted in the lens into a deep, cold world, and the viewing platform where Lu Chen sat completely overlapped with the Undead Monarch from one hundred thousand years ago.

No, he is!

Returning after one hundred thousand years, he is still a king.

The State Preceptor of the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty!

"Spatial coordinates abnormal!"

A top expert from North America said to the Disciple beside him: "This arena is being dragged into the void plane!"

Lu Chen cast the Soul Fire into the arena, which gradually split into twelve Netherworld lotus flowers, each lotus reflecting scenes from different time and space:

The image of Arthas wielding Frostmourne intertwined and flickered with the image of the ancient king riding the Corpse of the Mountain, finally freezing into the action of a void hand gently caressing Morning Dew's cross.

"Gentlemen." Lu Chen's skull whispered for the first time, a sound that shook the Soul, and the thirty thousand spectators in the arena were simultaneously dragged into an illusory imagery!

It was as if they all saw the moment of their own death in their past lives!

Lu Chen's abyssal whisper came to their ears, "Do you know what is eternal?"

Lu Chen flicked his finger joints, and the nine Bone Dragons disintegrated into a million burning bone runes.

These runes penetrated the teleportation arrays of various continents set up by Kunlun Academy.

They directly crossed the spatial barrier and appeared simultaneously on all seven continents.

The dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican X, the giant screens of Times Square in New York, the Tokyo Skytree observation deck... and so on, all appeared simultaneously!

A thousand years of frost and snow on the throne,

Ten thousand years of war forged my Soul.

Today, let me test my sword on the human world,

Slaying all in the heavens who refuse to submit!

Since I want to show my strength, then let you take a good look.

I, Lu Chen, am not just Emperor Realm.

—Already entered the Emperor Realm!

—Approaching demigod!

When the academy delegations simultaneously revealed their forbidden artifacts, preparing to fight to the death, Lu Chen suddenly withdrew all his Netherworld aura.

Withdrawing and releasing at will.

It was as if he had let everyone present personally experience an apocalyptic dream!