281: Chapter 281 The Black Flame Dragon's Choice! Alliance Leader, it's time to climb the ranks!

"Holy crap! Such terrifying energy! There's definitely a Peak Fourth-Order expert fighting over there!"

The underlings of the Xingye Coalition turned pale with fear and stopped in their tracks, looking at Lu Xingye with terrified eyes: "Alliance Leader Lu... should we take a detour? If we get dragged into a battle of that level, we probably won't even have ash left!"

Hearing his underlings' advice, the chuunibyou-deep-in-his-bones blood in Lu Xingye's veins began to boil crazily at this moment!

"A detour? As the commander of the dignified Xingye Coalition, how could I retreat when encountering an uprising of evil forces?"

This was an excellent opportunity to show off... *cough*, an excellent opportunity to scout the enemy situation and demonstrate the demeanor of a leader!

"What are you panicking about? It's just a few slightly larger ants fighting over carrion."

Lu Xingye instantly adopted the absolute posture of "Alliance Leader Lu," flicked his tattered cape with extreme coolness, and cold light exploded from his single eye: "All of you, form a formation and wait here! I will fly forward myself to scout out the truth. If there are evil spirits causing chaos, I will slay them with a single strike!"

After speaking, Lu Xingye didn't give anyone a chance to react, his figure rising from the ground, taking a few incredibly elegant leaps, like a black night owl, quickly sneaking toward the central area of the energy fluctuations.

"Alliance Leader Lu is so brave!" The underlings behind him were full of admiration.

Three minutes later.

Lu Xingye lay extremely stealthily on the edge of a towering cliff.

He carefully poked out his eye, which had a dark, bruised panda circle around it, and looked down at the super basin battlefield below, where sand and stones were flying and sword qi was crisscrossing.

"Heh, let me see which ignorant fellows are..."

Lu Xingye's extremely disdainful sneer hadn't even finished in his mind.

The moment his gaze landed.

His whole body was like being struck by lightning, instantly stiffening into an extremely abstract sculpture on the spot.

"Holy crap?!"

Lu Xingye's single eye instantly widened larger than a copper bell, and his eyeball was almost popping out of its socket! What did he see?!

At the very front of that terrifying, apocalyptic-like battlefield, there were two extremely familiar figures, running even more wretchedly than dogs, one of them even having lost a shoe!

That skinny guy wearing crooked gold-rimmed glasses, scattering business cards as he ran!

That muscular man whose muscles were shiny and oily, howling miserably as he ran!

"Gou Fugui? Xiang Batian?"

Lu Xingye sucked in a huge breath of cold otherworldly air, his scalp instantly exploding.

How did these two "top-tier losers" roommates of his, who knew nothing but working out and scamming money, end up in this core battlefield?

And when Lu Xingye's gaze passed over those two and saw the group of people chasing them.

His pride and joy, the "Black Flame Dragon," almost extinguished in fear on the spot!

A sky full of pure golden Divine Phoenix Fire—Captain of the Imperial Capital Team One, Qin Zhuo!

An overwhelming, eerie formation—Captain of Shushan Team One, Yan Qinghuan!

Deep Sea Sword Qi that seemed capable of crushing everything—Captain of the South Sea Team One, Chu Tiankuo!

A violent desert sandstorm that blotted out the sky—Captain of the Wild Sand Team One, Helan Que!

Four major favorites to win the championship!

Four team leaders standing at the absolute peak of the younger generation of the Great Xia!

At this moment, they were actually conducting an unreserved, world-destroying, ultimate joint extermination against his two loser roommates!!!

"This... what the hell is happening?!" Lu Xingye lay on the edge of the cliff, his worldview completely shattered, his whole person crazily messy in the wind:

"Did these two steal the ancestral graves of their four major universities, or did they go streaking in front of all four of them?!"

"Why would the top experts of all Great Xia join forces to hunt down these two noobs!!!"

Feeling the world-destroying high temperature, sword qi, and sandstorm below, the pupil in Lu Xingye's single eye trembled violently.

No matter how chuunibyou he usually was, or how much he felt he was the best in the world, in the face of an absolute gap in hard power, the instinct for survival very honestly took the high ground.

"Gulp."

Lu Xingye swallowed hard, his Legs beginning to shake uncontrollably.

"No... this karma is too heavy! This isn't a fight between mortals at all, this is four prehistoric tyrannosaurs crushing two helpless ants!"

"Fugui, Batian, it's not that I, your brother, am not loyal, it's just that the enemy's firepower is too fierce. Rest in peace, I will definitely burn a few more incense sticks for you later and silently chant for your salvation in my heart..."

Lu Xingye made his decision very cowardly; he pressed himself against the ground, looking extremely sleazy like a large gecko, preparing to retreat silently and slip away.

However.

Just as his knees had moved back less than half a meter.

"Alliance Leader Lu! What did you see? Is there an evil force causing trouble?!"

Below the cliff, those twenty or so "Xingye Coalition" underlings who admired him extremely were looking up at him with eager eyes, in an extremely fanatical way, as if they were watching the arrival of a savior!

One of the contestants even raised the iron rod in his hand, his face full of righteous spirit:

"Alliance Leader Lu! As long as you say the word, whether it's a mountain of blades or a sea of fire, we, the Xingye Coalition, will never retreat! You are the only light we have in the restricted area!"

"..."

Lu Xingye's retreating movement stiffened abruptly.

He looked at the twenty-plus pairs of eyes full of light below, and listened to the deafening shouts of "Alliance Leader Lu" and "Light of Humanity."

"Boom!"

An extremely numbing, extremely intoxicating current of electricity instantly shot from Lu Xingye's tailbone straight to his crown!

His heart, which had already planned to retreat, under the crazy bombardment of these free, top-tier ass-kissing, actually uncontrollably... expanded again!

"Retreat?!"

"I am the supreme commander of the Xingye Coalition! I am the god in the eyes of these lost lambs!"

Lu Xingye clenched his fists tightly, and red blood threads instantly covered the whites of his exposed single eye.

If he ran away with his tail between his Legs now, wouldn't the "savior" persona he had painstakingly built completely collapse?

Besides!

Those being hunted below were his dearest friends and family who lived under the same roof and shared the same pack of instant noodles with him!

If he couldn't even protect his own bonds, what qualification did he have to suppress the world-destroying Black Flame Dragon?!

"Ahhhhhhh!!!" Lu Xingye let out a soul-stirring roar from the bottom of his heart that was extremely shameful, yet extremely passionate:

"My Black Flame Dragon... it is angry! It is refusing this cowardly escape!!!"

"Swish!"

Lu Xingye stood up abruptly, his tattered black trench coat flapping loudly in the strong wind.

He didn't take another half-step back, but instead, with an extremely tragic and resolute posture, leaped off the cliff, landing heavily in front of those twenty-plus underlings!

"Alliance Leader Lu!" The underlings hurried over, their expressions nervous, "What exactly happened up ahead?"

Lu Xingye lowered his head, the messy hair on his forehead covering his eyes, making it impossible to see his expression.

He took a deep breath, then slowly raised his head, and in that bruised single eye, a fearless light of having seen through life and death actually flickered!