Realizing the strength of the Nine Li clone, the Gray Tiger Race Marquis Immortal flew into the distance without hesitation.
At the same time, he swiftly sent out a distress signal to the surrounding allies through the Mechanical Race's communication system.
"Help! Help! I've encountered a human King expert!"
Like the humans, once the Mechanical Race's combatants sent out a distress call, it would rapidly be relayed through the communications system to all comrades and allies within 10 billion kilometers. That was an extremely vast distance. At light speed—300,000 kilometers per second—it would still take most of a day to cross 10 billion kilometers. It was a spherical region spreading outward with a radius equal to most of a day's travel at light speed.
There were many allies and comrades.
"I've encountered a human King expert!" This message swiftly reached the powerful warriors of the Mechanical Race and the many races within the Mechanical Race Alliance.
Yet none of them intended to provide rescue.
"A human King expert? Going there would just be suicide!"
"Poor fellow. Who would go die for him?"
"This guy is terribly unlucky! He actually ran into a human King Level!"
"A human King Level is active nearby. Looks like I need to get farther away from here!"
There were very few King Level experts in the Purple Splendor Star River. Among those on the Mechanical Race's side who happened to be within this 10-billion-kilometer range, there were only two.
But after giving it some thought, these two King experts unhesitatingly gave up on the rescue.
After all, the King Level experts fighting in the Purple Splendor Star River all had an accurate understanding of their own strength. Never mind whether they could arrive in time—even if they did, they definitely would not be able to keep the human King expert there!
To save someone, they would make a wasted trip and might even have to fight, damaging their divine bodies in the process.
If the one who had sent the distress signal had been a Mechanical Race Marquis Immortal or an expert from their own race, they would certainly have come to help.
But someone from another race? If he died, he died. What did that have to do with them?
Run! Run! Run! The Gray Tiger Race Marquis Immortal was terrified. At that moment, he wished he could grow a pair of wings.
But as a rock-type lifeform, he excelled at defense and recovery, not speed. How could he possibly compare in speed to the King Level Nine Li clone?
Rumble~~
In the blink of an eye, blood-river-like saber light had already torn through the river water and the void, viciously lunging toward him.
"Ah! Ah! Ah! I can't escape!" Watching the saber light slash at him as if it had teleported, the Gray Tiger Race Marquis Immortal roared inwardly.
Yet he did not dare let that slash land on him. The opponent's casual strike earlier had first shattered a star, then, even after being weakened by his twin hammers, had still annihilated 2% of his divine body.
If he did not block it, a single slash might annihilate more than 10% of his divine body.
Bang!
The Gray Tiger Race Marquis Immortal swung his twin hammers and smashed them fiercely into the Blood River. His divine body shook violently, rapidly being annihilated.
"This slash cost me 5% of my divine body!" the Gray Tiger Race Marquis Immortal howled in pain.
After just two slashes, only 93% of his divine body remained.
One more slash, and he would lose more than 10% of his divine body. Losing over 10% of his divine body would greatly affect his strength.
Then he would be even less capable of resisting the human's attacks!
"Spare me, human King expert. Let me go. Otherwise, I'll self-destruct, and you'll be injured too!" the Gray Tiger Race Marquis Immortal urgently transmitted.
He was slower than his opponent. Even if he burned divine power, his opponent could burn divine power as well. A King Level expert burning divine power was far more terrifying than him. By then, his divine body would be annihilated even faster!
"Self-destruct? You're threatening me?" The Nine Li clone snorted. "What can the self-destruction of a mere Early Marquis do to me? End this quickly. Kill him!"
"Die!" The Nine Li clone's body abruptly changed, and his aura rose several degrees once more.
Divine body amplitude secret technique—Star Prison Demonic Body!
Rumble rumble~
He swung his saber. An eerie river of blood-colored saber light swept across the area, lingering for a long time before fading. It instantly tore through the river water and void. The Gray Tiger Race Marquis Immortal had no time to raise his hammers to block; the saber light had already struck his armor.
This slash!
Buzz~~
The armor on the Gray Tiger Race Marquis Immortal's body shattered directly. His body, as though piled from sand, collapsed into powder in an instant, while his divine body was annihilated at a horrifying rate.
The powder instantly gathered in the distance, forming the shape of a rock giant.
His face was filled with terror. "That slash just now cost me 20% of my divine body!"
Previously, he had used his twin hammers to block the Nine Li clone's war saber. The force had passed through his weapons into his body, then been weakened by his battle armor before attacking his divine body.
But that slash had directly torn through his battle armor and attacked his divine body. Moreover, the Nine Li clone had used Star Prison Demonic Body, doubling his strength!
It was hardly surprising that one slash had directly annihilated 20% of his divine body!
After losing so much of his divine body, the Gray Tiger Race Marquis Immortal had only half his strength left!
"One more slash, and I'll definitely fall!" The Gray Tiger Race Marquis Immortal roared through a transmission, "Human King expert, don't push me! Don't push me!!!"
The Nine Li clone did not take the other party's threat seriously at all. A bloodthirsty gleam flashed through his crimson eyes. "Alien race... die!"
Standing in the river water over a thousand kilometers away from the Gray Tiger Race Marquis Immortal, he was like a demon god as he instantly swung his saber.
"No!"
"No!"
Seeing the blood-river-like saber light sweep toward him once again, the Gray Tiger Race Marquis Immortal despaired.
"Even if I can't kill you, I'll make sure you're injured! And I absolutely won't leave any of the treasures on me for you!" He let out a furious roar just as the blood-river-like saber light was about to strike him again.
Boom!!! He instantly detonated the Immortal divine body he had accumulated over countless ages.
Self-destruction!
Rumble rumble rumble~~~ Within the Purple Splendor Star River, the heavy river water was vaporized over a vast area by the terrifying explosion, turning into a flow of basic particles. Universe space collapsed. Centered on the Gray Tiger Race Marquis Immortal, everything within tens of thousands of kilometers turned into nothingness.
Meanwhile, the Nine Li clone, over a thousand kilometers away, immediately retreated at high speed in the face of the explosion. At the same time, he continuously swung his war saber, colliding with the explosive energy to weaken its attack on himself. He even used the recoil to escape the center of the explosion faster.
Rumble~~
Amid the collapsed universe, the Nine Li clone in a Blood-Colored Battle Robe was blasted back tens of thousands of kilometers. His blood-red eyes coldly watched that place.
He had deliberately maintained a distance of over a thousand kilometers from the opponent all along. The self-destruction of a mere Early Marquis, especially one with only around 70% of his divine body remaining, could not injure him at that distance.
Only after the explosion subsided did he fly into its center and collect all the spoils left behind by the blast.
For killing an Early Marquis, the Merit System notified him that he had gained 10 billion merit points! That was equivalent to 100,000 Chaos Units!
Of course, that was only part of the harvest. The true gains were the spoils from the kill.
The wealth of a Marquis Immortal was at least worth more than 10 million Chaos Units. Even if some had been destroyed in the explosion, the true treasures could not be destroyed by an Early Marquis's self-destruction.
Inside the saucer-shaped spaceship, the Nine Li clone smiled. "Not bad. The spoils are probably worth around 6 million Chaos Units!"
"Let's continue!"
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