292: Chapter 292 The Three Prodigies Defeated!

"Batian! Did you see that! This is the real ultimate cheat!"

Gou Fugui had snot bubbles popping out of his nose. The frustration of being chased and hacked at by the Northern Border experts just moments ago had completely vanished into thin air at this moment!

What could be more reassuring than a Tier 5 Great Demon that is easy to coax and can be summoned with just snacks?

Gou Fugui pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses frame, which no longer had any lenses. With a "Tier 5 Great Demon" backing him up, his unscrupulous merchant-like face instantly transformed into that of an incredibly arrogant lackey commander:

"Brothers! Sisters!"

Gou Fugui pointed in the direction they had come from, his arrogance reaching its peak:

"Senior Ji Youyou and Senior Xie Fuyao are over there being bullied by that big guy from the Northern Border, Zhao Zhenlei!"

"Since our ultimate trump card is in place, why the hell are we still running!"

Gou Fugui waved his hand, exuding a wild arrogance as if to say, "With Brother Jiang away, I, Gou Fugui, am the number one person to borrow authority from others!"

"Let's go! We're heading back to the main battlefield! We're going to support Senior Ji Youyou and the others!"

"Today, we, Magic City Martial Arts University, are going to let the Northern Border Military Academy know that it's not just you who have Tier 5 combat power! Magic City Martial Arts University has it too!"

… Meanwhile.

Across the dense forest, in a local battlefield where the high-end combatants of Magic City Martial Arts University were locked in a desperate struggle with the Northern Border Military Academy.

"Boom—!!!" A terrifying, muffled sound, like a meteorite crashing into the ground, exploded across the ruined forest clearing!

Accompanying this loud noise, a visible earthy-yellow shockwave, mixed with extremely distorted gravity waves, swept wildly in all directions like autumn leaves being blown by the wind!

"Pfft!" Xie Fuyao groaned, his body flying backward like a kite with a broken string. He forced his waist to twist in mid-air, but the Ruoshui in his hand, originally touted as being able to "not let even a feather float and flow continuously," was instantly smashed into a mist of water by that terrifying Absolute Mass!

He stumbled as he landed, his Legs plowing two deep furrows into the ground until he crashed into a large tree and finally stopped, a trickle of blindingly bright blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

And beside him, one lens of Qiu Yunan's iconic insulating glasses had shattered. She was panting heavily; the originally violent thunderstorms were now suppressed by this mass capable of distorting space, forced to flicker within only a few meters of her body.

Senior Ji Youyou was even paler than paper. Her prized Gu poison couldn't even get close to the opponent before it was crushed into powder by that extremely heavy gale!

Defeated. The three of them had been defeated miserably while fighting together.

Late Stage Tier 4 and Early Stage Tier 5—although it sounded like only a thin line separated them, it was actually the ultimate qualitative change in "Qi" and "Momentum"!

What's more, they were facing Zhao Zhenlei, a "human nuclear bomb" who had awakened the SSS-rank [Absolute Mass] and was touted as having an invincible physical body within the same tier!

In the center of the battlefield, Zhao Zhenlei was shirtless, his muscles, which looked like they were cast from refined steel, didn't even have a single drop of sweat on them.

He stood like an invincible ancient demon god, standing proudly on the collapsed ground, looking down from a high vantage point at the three injured top prodigies of Magic City Martial Arts University.

"Is that all you've got?" Zhao Zhenlei squeezed his sandbag-sized fists, producing a teeth-grinding "crackle" sound, a sneer of extreme contempt flashing in his large, bell-like eyes:

"Is the main force of Magic City Martial Arts University only at this level? You can't even take sixty percent of my, Old Zhao's, strength!"

Xie Fuyao wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, forced himself to stand straight, and stared at him with cold, fierce eyes, saying nothing.

It was a fact that they couldn't win, but the pride of Magic City Martial Arts University would never allow them to retreat even half a step in their words.

However, what was extremely strange was that after Zhao Zhenlei had crushed the three of them with such ease, he not only didn't take the opportunity to step forward and crush their death-immunity jade tablets to eliminate them, but instead looked around the deep, dark forest with extreme vigilance.

His gaze swept over every shadow and every treetop like a hawk. His Tier 5 life force not only didn't recede but became even more violent, as if he were guarding against some terrifying prehistoric beast.

"Jiang You—!!!" Zhao Zhenlei took a deep breath, his chest swelling high, and directly utilized his powerful Tier 5 spiritual energy to amplify his voice to the extreme!

"Boom!" This shout, like a thunderclap, instantly transformed into an invisible, map-wide loudspeaker. The rolling sound waves, like a physical force, surged frantically toward every corner within a radius of dozens of miles!

"I know you, you coward, are hiding in the dark nearby watching!"

Zhao Zhenlei pointed at the injured Xie Fuyao, Qiu Yunan, and the others on the ground, his voice filled with extreme provocation and arrogance:

"You went through all that trouble to set up this grand scheme just to reap the rewards, didn't you?! Now your teammates have been completely defeated by me, Old Zhao!"

"If you're a man, get the hell out here! Have a fair and square fight with me, Old Zhao!"

"Otherwise, I'll crush all three of their death-immunity jade tablets with my own hands right now and send your entire Magic City Martial Arts University main force back home!!!"

The sound waves echoed for a long time over the vast Forbidden Zone No. 009. A breeze from another world blew by. The leaves rustled.

One second passed. Five seconds passed. Ten seconds passed...

Everything around was quiet. Apart from the occasional low growl of a demon beast, there was absolutely no one responding to him. Not even a ghost was in sight!

"…" Xie Fuyao, Qiu Yunan, and Senior Ji Youyou looked at Zhao Zhenlei, who was standing there as if pitting his wits against the air, their expressions becoming extremely strange.

The three of them exchanged a look with great tacit understanding, and in each other's eyes, they saw an extreme exhaustion called "mental fatigue."

Why the hell can't this big guy understand?! Xie Fuyao roared frantically in his heart:

"I've already said that the lunatic Jiang You didn't set up any scheme at all!"

"He's probably found a cave somewhere and is fast asleep right now! Even if you scream until your throat breaks, as long as it doesn't disturb his sleep, he won't even reply with a single punctuation mark!"

"Has your intelligence been absorbed by your muscles?!"

However, this long, absolute silence, in the eyes of a top prodigy like Zhao Zhenlei, who was "full of conspiracy theories," instantly took on a different meaning!

"What… what deep scheming! What terrifying composure!"

Zhao Zhenlei not only didn't feel embarrassed, but instead gasped, a trace of rare shock and awe appearing in his large eyes!

From his perspective, the logic of the situation was this: Facing the desperate situation where his teammates had been severely injured by a Tier 5 powerhouse, and facing his own unbridled provocation and coercion.

That man named Jiang You was actually able to forcibly suppress his killing intent, not even leaking a trace of his aura?! What did this mean?!

It meant that the opponent didn't care about the life or death of his teammates at all! The opponent's state of mind was already cold to the extreme, completely a cold machine operating only for the final victory!

He was waiting! He was waiting for the moment he showed a flaw, so he could deliver a fatal thunderous blow!

"No wonder Lu Xingye said he was consumed by sin… This guy is simply an emotionless ultimate demon king!"

Zhao Zhenlei completed the perfect ultimate self-brainwashing in his heart, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this opponent hidden in the dark was terrifying.

But who was Zhao Zhenlei? The war machine of the Northern Border Military Academy! He would never allow himself to fall behind in this psychological battle!

"Fine! Since you can endure, then I, Old Zhao, will see just how far you can endure!"