295: Chapter 295 Could it be Jiang You who has arrived?

That shout echoed for hundreds of miles, its tragic air practically drowning out the broadcast Zhao Zhenlei had just made.

Just as Lu Xingye was preparing to sprint, a flash of scarlet shadow moved from the side.

It was the captain of Imperial Capital Team 2, Captain Shen Xiuan.

He was currently in the berserk state of the Asura War Soul, his mind completely focused on finding Jiang You and tearing that punchable face of his to shreds.

Just as he was about to dash forward, he noticed a flash of black light before his eyes.

Lu Xingye's pitch-black silhouette had, without him even realizing it, blocked his path like a phantom.

Lu Xingye stood before Captain Shen Xiuan and announced expressionlessly: "You have all been temporarily recruited into the Xingye Coalition!"

Captain Shen Xiuan froze, his eyes filled with thick disbelief: "???"

Where the hell did this lunatic come from?

Is this kid's head filled with manure?

Captain Shen Xiuan's bloodthirsty nature was instantly provoked, and he was just about to raise his blade to strike this idiot blocking his way.

"Slap!!!"

An incredibly loud and heavy slap landed with pinpoint precision on Captain Shen Xiuan's face!

Lu Xingye had struck in anger, and his palm, wreathed in Black Flame, nearly knocked Captain Shen Xiuan's head into his chest cavity!

It felt as if hundreds of screaming chickens had been stuffed into Captain Shen Xiuan's head, causing a momentary ringing in his ears and a complete blanking of his thoughts.

"You..."

Captain Shen Xiuan saw stars and was just about to recover and counterattack.

But Lu Xingye gave him no such opportunity.

With an incredibly domineering posture, he grabbed Captain Shen Xiuan's head with both hands like iron pincers!

"Hum!"

"Since you refuse to repent, I shall bestow upon you the contract of the Black Flame!"

Black Flame surged in Lu Xingye's hands, and that pitch-black fire flowed directly through his fingertips and into Captain Shen Xiuan's body.

Amidst a teeth-grinding sizzling sound, Captain Shen Xiuan's original dark-red baleful aura was forcibly covered by this deeper Black Flame, and a layer of eerie black fire ignited on the surface of his body.

Subsequently, under the stunned gaze of everyone, Lu Xingye freed one hand and, with an incredibly flamboyant motion, slicked all the bangs from his forehead over the top of his head, combing them into a visually striking slicked-back hairstyle.

His eyes were now burning completely with endless Black Flame, and that oppressive feeling of "a glance spanning ten thousand years" swept across the entire scene.

Everyone who made eye contact with him felt their Heart skip a beat, and immediately after, a wisp of Black Flame aura eerily emerged around them, as if they had been instantly and forcibly connected to the will of some Demon King.

"I am the light of the human race, and I am also the King of Hell."

Lu Xingye straightened his tattered collar, his slicked-back hair motionless in the wind. He extended a finger and pointed in the direction where Zhao Zhenlei's voice had come from:

"Xingye Coalition... follow me, and crusade against the rebels!!!"

"Kill!!!"

More than twenty contestants, including Captain Shen Xiuan, whose eyes were gradually becoming fanatical and who was wrapped in Black Flame, now acted like an elite unit of a brainwashed demonic cult, roaring as they followed behind Lu Xingye.

For a moment, black smoke billowed, and the momentum was like a rainbow!

Just as the entire Forbidden Zone No. 009 was completely boiling over because of that shout from Zhao Zhenlei, and various prodigies were gathering crazily toward his direction with their own ulterior motives.

At the edge of the forbidden zone, in that incredibly hidden, cool, and pleasant cave halfway up the mountain.

"Snore... snore..."

Jiang You was lying very peacefully on a blue stone slab, covered by his black-gold team uniform, and in his dream, he was engaged in an arduous "battle" with a pile of giant roasted chicken legs.

Suddenly, a roar like rolling thunder pierced through the dense forest and rocks, drilling into his ears with extreme brutality.

"Jiang You! Come out and die!"

"Jiang You! I know you are nearby!"

"Plop."

The snot bubble on the tip of Jiang You's nose, which had been expanding and contracting with his breathing, was shattered instantly by this sudden wave of sound.

His pair of dead fish eyes, which were usually in a semi-unfocused state, snapped open, revealing a sense of dullness and confusion from having his beautiful dream interrupted.

"What the f*ck..."

Jiang You rolled over and sat up abruptly, still feeling a bit dazed.

He dug at his ear with some suspicion and uncertainty, muttering to himself:

"Did I just... seem to hear someone calling my name?"

"And judging by the sound, they seemed quite urgent, like the gas tank at home just exploded."

Jiang You hurriedly climbed off the stone bed, stepped into the shoes he had kicked into the corner, and walked quickly to the cave entrance.

He lifted the vines covering the entrance and squinted as he gazed out into the primitive forest at the foot of the mountain.

He could see that in the direction of the basin battlefield in the distance, although it was still filled with roaring flames and quite a bit of commotion, because the distance was simply too far, in his eyes, it was just a bunch of moving mosaics.

Jiang You stood at the cave entrance, facing the breeze, and watched with a solemn expression for a long time.

One minute.

Two minutes.

Apart from the sound of the wind and a few unknown bird calls, there was no other sound.

"Strange..."

Jiang You scratched his messy hair, his originally tense shoulders instantly slumping, and he shook his head with a self-deprecating smile:

"It seems that I've been under too much mental stress recently dealing with the competition, leading to auditory hallucinations."

"That's true, I'm hiding so deeply that even the high-altitude cameras might not be able to capture me. Who could possibly know I'm here?"

"Sigh, I didn't expect that even though I'm not old, I've already started having hallucinations. Truly, my cultivation is still insufficient."

With that, our Captain Jiang, who had a Heart as big as the sky, yawned with extreme composure and turned back into the depths of the cave. He lay down on the stone bed with practiced ease and covered his head with his team uniform.

In just a few seconds, crisp and rhythmic snoring began to sound beautifully in the cave once again.

...

While Jiang You was happily catching up on sleep, the atmosphere outside had become scorching to the extreme.

"Whoosh!"

A crimson fire meteor streaked across the sky above the dense forest, the airwave it generated instantly carbonizing the dead leaves below.

Qin Zhuo stepped on the Divine Phoenix Fire, her face hidden behind a mask and sunglasses already turned deathly pale with anger.

All she could think about now was that line Zhao Zhenlei shouted: "Jiang You is nearby," as well as that most damned "keyboard warrior," Gou Fugui.

"That idiot Zhao Zhenlei, if he dares to damage my 'prey,' I'll burn everyone from the Northern Border Military Academy right along with him!"

Just as she was fuming with rage and preparing to accelerate, two sounds of air being torn apart came from behind her.

Yan Qinghuan stepped on a formation disk, his worn robes flapping loudly in the wind. Although he still looked graceful, that persistent, relentless attitude of his made Qin Zhuo annoyed to the extreme.

And further behind, yellow sand filled the sky like a sandstorm, sweeping toward them. Helan Que from Kuangsha Academy was also in hot pursuit, like a lone wolf that had caught the scent of blood.

"Qin Zhuo, you can't run! Today, this account must be settled!" Yan Qinghuan's voice was cold and clear.

"Get lost! All of you, get lost!" Qin Zhuo turned around and furiously whipped out a fire snake, only to find that she couldn't shake off these two clingy pests behind her.

Just as the three top leaders were competing against each other and the atmosphere was deadlocked.

Qin Zhuo's expression suddenly tightened, and her forward momentum came to an abrupt halt in mid-air, creating a violent shockwave.

At the same time, Helan Que and Yan Qinghuan, who were chasing from behind, also seemed to sense some extremely terrifying presence. The two of them slammed on the brakes in mid-air in perfect synchronization and looked back in shock!

There, the originally gray sky seemed to have been ripped open by someone.

A huge, pitch-black ball of fire was rushing toward this direction at a terrifying speed that defied logic, carrying with it a shrill whistle that tore through the atmosphere!

The aura emitted by that black fireball was extremely oppressive; even from hundreds of meters away, the three of them could feel a shudder coming from the depths of their souls.

"This kind of air pressure..." Yan Qinghuan's eyes, covered by a white silk band, stared fixedly at the horizon.

"A Peak Fourth-Order powerhouse... could it be that Jiang You himself has come to kill us?!" Helan Que's voice carried a hint of surprise.