Battle Against a King

"Run! It's that human King!"

A black figure sped through the distance. The seven or eight Marquis Immortals who had been waiting in this area for prey immediately scattered and fled. The black figure suddenly accelerated, catching up to one Early Marquis alien!

Blade light like a Blood River instantly enveloped it.

A moment later—

"Boom!"

The alien Marquis roared and directly chose to self-destruct!

Once the explosion subsided, the Nine Li clone flew into its core and collected all the spoils. Only then did he look toward the other Marquis Immortals who had fled far away, a trace of gloom in his eyes. "These aliens run the moment they see me. Every time, I can only hunt down one! The killing efficiency is far too low!"

Including the Marquis Immortal alien he had just killed, he had slaughtered a full twelve Early Marquis and four High Marquis Immortals over the past few hours!

At first, he could easily massacre several alien Marquises gathered together. But gradually, because the commotion from his killings had grown too great, the other aliens naturally witnessed the slaughter.

As a result, the moment he approached, the alien Marquises immediately scattered in every direction, leaving him able to pursue only one of them!

"Too slow! Once the Star River riot ends, there won't be another opportunity like this!" Madness flashed through the Nine Li clone's eyes. "I'll go to the areas occupied by Kings and slaughter the Marquises under their protection!"

Naturally, he was not the only King within the hundreds of millions of kilometers around the vortex eye.

Some of those Kings were Lone Wanderers, while others led Marquises from the same faction and race, occupying large areas to gather treasures flung out of the vortex!

Where the treasures would be thrown from the vortex was completely random. The more people there were, the greater their chances of collecting treasures!

These Marquises were protected by Kings. If he had a choice, the Nine Li clone would not have gone to slaughter them!

Of course, if it had been the original Lian Luo or Lian Luo's Main Body now, then even if his killing efficiency dropped, he probably would not have entertained such a thought!

He would rather take things slowly than take risks!

But the Nine Li clone was different. He was the embodiment of Lian Luo's negative emotions. Bloodthirst, brutality, and madness were his nature. He dared to take risks.

Without hesitation, the Nine Li clone flew toward an area he had passed earlier. His blood-red eyes seemed ready to drip blood. "With my strength, even a peak King-level expert would find it difficult to harm my divine body without special means! There's nothing to worry about!"

Seeing the Nine Li clone approach, the nine Marquises of the demon race camp immediately warned one another. "Careful, that human King is coming! He may not dare attack us, but we need to guard against him snatching treasures flung from the Star River vortex!"

At the same time, just as the Nine Li clone neared the area where these demon race experts had gathered—

A massive beast appeared in midair. Its body was covered in golden scales, its head resembled a wolf's but bore a single horn, and the scales on its head were covered in incomparably intricate secret patterns.

A King expert of the demon race's royal Kuang Jin Hou clan!

Kuang Jin Hou's pale golden eyes fixed on the Nine Li clone as it growled, "Human, leave this place!"

"Fine! I'm just passing by!" The Nine Li clone revealed a sly smile as he shifted slightly toward the inside of the vortex, making it seem as though he really were merely passing through!

Hearing the Nine Li clone's words, Kuang Jin Hou's eyes revealed satisfaction. It was clearly quite pleased with having intimidated him into retreating!

But the very next second, it saw the Nine Li clone suddenly accelerate and shoot forward. Like a black line, he instantly streaked across the sky. Blade light like a Blood-Robed River cascaded down like a waterfall, enveloping the nine Marquis Immortals under its command in the blink of an eye and directly shredding them to pieces!

"Despicable humans! Roar~~" A heaven-shaking roar rang out. Kuang Jin Hou's enormous eyes were filled with shock and fury. It had never expected that, despite already being a King, that human would disregard an expert's dignity and use lies to deceive it before slaughtering the Marquises under its command!

Of course, if it knew what the Nine Li clone's nature was like, it would understand this: aside from good deeds, the Nine Li clone did everything.

"Whoosh~~"

The river of blood-colored blade light flowed on, shredding the eight demon race Marquises who had reformed their divine bodies into pieces once more.

The remaining peak Marquis demon was ignored. With his current strength, he could not damage the essence of a peak Marquis at all and simply could not kill it, so there was naturally no need to attack it!

"Roar~~"

At that moment, Kuang Jin Hou suddenly charged over from afar. It opened its mouth, and an incomparably terrifying devouring force immediately descended upon the Nine Li clone.

Direct devouring!

The world darkened as powerful spatial force directly acted upon the Nine Li clone.

Devouring was the innate secret technique of the Kuang Jin Hou clan, though it could only devour enemies weaker than itself!

This Kuang Jin Hou was merely Early King-level. Naturally, it could not devour the Nine Li clone with this move. Its goal was to bind him and reduce his speed so that those demon race Marquises could escape!

But in the face of this devouring move, terrifying flames erupted from the Nine Li clone's body. Then—

"Boom!"

The flames exploded, and the terrifying force instantly increased the Nine Li clone's speed severalfold, allowing him to break free of the devouring force!

When the Fire Beast God erupted in an instant, how could such a paltry demon race devouring secret technique possibly restrain him!

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

Blade light like a Blood-Robed River flashed repeatedly, like the most dazzling fireworks in the world, tearing apart the divine bodies of those demon race Marquises again and again and causing their divine bodies to rapidly disintegrate.

"Human, stop!" Kuang Jin Hou finally caught up.

"Roar~" A claw that tore through universe space slapped directly toward the Nine Li clone.

But the Nine Li clone's instantaneous burst of speed was terrifying. His figure flickered strangely, and he evaded the fearsome claw with a drifting motion while swinging his battle blade at the same time!

"Whoosh~"

Blood-colored blade light stretched across the sky like a surging river, instantly shredding the divine bodies of the eight demon race Marquises who were reforming their bodies into pieces!

How terrifying was the Nine Li clone's attack? Against an ordinary Early Marquis, a single strike could annihilate more than 10% of their divine body. After being struck repeatedly, the divine bodies of six Early Marquis demons could no longer reform. Their Immortal divine bodies completely dissolved into nothingness, and they fell utterly!

The two High Marquis demons were also filled with terror. Less than 50% of their divine bodies remained, and their remaining strength was likely less than one-tenth. If they were attacked two more times, they would certainly fall as well!

"Fall!" Bloodlust flashed through the Nine Li clone's eyes.

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"

In the blink of an eye, the blood-red battle blade struck the two High Marquises in succession, causing their divine bodies to collapse as they fell completely!

"Damnable human, he's far too cunning! He dodges far too quickly! Roar..." Kuang Jin Hou roared furiously, but it was too slow. It could neither strike the Nine Li clone nor stop him from massacring its subordinates.

After collecting the spoils, the Nine Li clone looked up. A gigantic claw like a mountain tore fiercely toward him. Its terrifying might ripped a massive hole through universe space, sending spatial fragments scattering like shattered glass!

"Hmph! Do you really think I'm afraid of you?" He snorted, a cold gleam flashing through his eyes.

In an instant, he swung his blade!

Blood-colored blade light tens of thousands of kilometers long tore through space and directly met the gigantic claw, which descended like a mountain collapsing from the heavens!