A Fight to the Death

"Haha... very good." Mantu Divine General laughed loudly. "I'll send you an email. Set the cosmic coordinates to a void location extremely close to the Ancestral God Secret Region teleportation point."

"Okay." Lu Yan'an nodded.

"Time?" Lu Yan'an then asked.

"Since I chose the location, you can set the time. There's no point in dragging it out!" said the Mantu Divine General with great generosity.

"Alright, then it will be in one hour!" Lu Yan'an nodded.

"Hahaha..." The laughter of the Mantu Divine General grew louder and louder, and its smile became increasingly ferocious. After a long while, it looked at Lu Yan'an, "King Huanshi, I didn't expect you to have such courage, hahaha..."

"I hope you can still smile at the end of the battle," Lu Yan'an said with a smile.

"Quite unique! But he'll also die the fastest." Mantu Divine General smiled, rubbing his forehead with one hand. "Enjoy this last hour with your Supreme Treasure! After all, you'll never have Supreme Treasure this again!"

"Whoosh!"

The Mantu Divine General vanish into thin air.

Lu Yan'an glanced around and spotted an old acquaintance standing in the distance— the Zhu Chong Wang! Beside it stood a strange young man, a melancholy figure in semi-transparent purple armor, seemingly a boy yet also resembling a girl, his gender ambiguous!

Seeing this, Lu Yan'an did not go forward to greet him, but simply nodded and smiled slightly at the Zhu Chong Wang, and then disappeared into thin air.

"Zhu Chong Wang, what do you think the human's chances of winning are?" The melancholy young man chuckled softly, then turned to the Zhu Chong Wang beside him and said, "In my opinion, he's in trouble! This Mantu Divine General is a Candidate God General, and his strength isn't weak even among the Universe Overlord!"

"Venerable Ziyu, even if this Mantu Divine General strong, he can't be stronger than you, can he?" Zhu Chong Wang glanced at the purple-armored youth.

The purple-armored youth was named Venerable Ziyu.

It was also Special Lifeform defying the heavens, and its Life Gene Level was even higher than that of the Zhu Chong Wang! It was the most ferocious immortal on Zijing Island back then... Many Universe Venerable perished at its hands. Later, it entered the ranks of Universe Venerable and became a powerful force in the Ancestral God Religion.

"Enough of that. This human probably won't make it through this ordeal." The Zhu Chong Wang shook his head. "That Lu Yan'an is too arrogant, ridiculously arrogant! Who does he think he is? Even if he has achieved something almost unprecedented at the World Lord stage, Mantu Divine General still Special Lifeform, and he is even Venerable! The 2000-fold difference in Life Gene Level represents an incredibly huge gap."

"Hmm." Venerable Ziyu nodded.

As Special Lifeform, they possess their own confidence and pride. In their eyes, Lu Yan'an's move was indeed foolish, a gross underestimation of the heroes of the world. Little did they know that Lu Yan'an, during his World Lord era, had already thoroughly grasped the full strength of this Venerable Mantu. In fact, Lu Yan'an had now directly broken through to the realm of Universe Venerable, and dealing with a Mantu Divine General who had just stepped into the level of Top Universe Overlord would not require much effort at all.

A storm suddenly erupted, and the hundreds of millions of inheritors of the Ancestral God Religion were in an uproar. Even a battle between two true Universe Overlord wouldn't have excited everyone this much. But for a World Lord Level who possessed the combat power of Universe Venerable at the World Lord level to make his first move after breaking through to immortality to fight against a being who definitely possessed the combat power of Universe Overlord, this spectacle was impossible to ignore.

The Mantu Divine General is Special Lifeform with Life Gene Level 2000 times higher than the average. Upon breaking through to the Venerable, it possessed the combat power of an ordinary Universe Overlord, and after cultivating to this point, it has even barely reached the combat power of Top Universe Overlord! As for the King Huanshi, a renowned Human Race genius famous throughout the universe, he has already entered the Immortal realm. However, his overall combat power during his World Lord era was already comparable to High Venerable. Although he hasn't yet made a move after his breakthrough, he is likely to become another Overlord- level force.

A life-or-death battle between the two...

This news was so explosive that it was transmitted almost instantly to billions of races in the universe through countless inheritors! All the major super powers in the universe learned of it immediately, and the Human Race, for example, also quickly learned of this through Human Race inheritors.

"What? The Illusionary Slayer King Lu Yan'an and the Goddess Namantuo are going to have a life-or-death battle? A life-or-death battle in the Ancestral Mystic Realm?"

"Are you kidding me!"

"The Mantu Divine General is a powerful Special Lifeform, a being with the true combat power of Top Universe Overlord. Even ordinary Universe Overlord could easily fall into his hands. The King Huanshi was far too reckless!"

"The King Huanshi has the talent to Clones; he won't die."

"He won't die, but if he's killed, won't his Supreme Treasure be taken away? His Supreme Treasure was bestowed upon him by our Human Race. If it's taken by the Northern Territory Alliance, it will be a loss for our Human Race."

"This was too reckless! This time, our Human Race is likely to suffer enormous losses!"

Many human Universe Venerable, who were already dissatisfied with Lu Yan'an's move to the top of Thunder Island, felt even more strongly that this peerless genius was overconfident! They had indeed seen many peerless geniuses who became "arrogant" due to excessive self-confidence, and only after truly suffering a severe setback would these super geniuses wake up.

"He will come to his senses after this battle."

"It's such a pity about those Supreme Treasure! I heard before that he obtained one of the top 20 treasures in the Ancestral God Religion Sect's treasure trove, but now it seems he's just been used as a stepping stone for the Northern Territory Alliance."

In a void within the Ancestral God Secret Region, fragments of mountain ranges floated. On one of these fragments floated a figure— the Mantu Divine General, who was currently meditating with his eyes closed. Seemingly sensing the spatial fluctuations, his largest horizontal eye suddenly opened, his gaze fixed intently on the source of the spatial disturbances.

"Stop!"

A white figure emerged from the fluctuations in the void and landed precisely on another fragment of a mountain range opposite the Mantu Divine General.

"Mantu Divine General, you've arrived so quickly." Lu Yan'an stood on the rocks, the hem of his white robe fluttering in the wind.

"You arrived just as quickly, but I didn't expect you to actually dare to come!" The Mantu Divine General in mid-air not far away said with a smile, "It seems this breakthrough has given you a lot of confidence! Of course, after all, you broke through from World Lord to Immortal, and in terms of basic strength alone, you're more than a thousand times stronger. But you should still watch, the strength of Universe Overlord is not as simple as you imagine."

"You talk too much nonsense! You need to change this habit in the future, oh no! You don't have a future anymore!" Lu Yan'an shook his head and smiled, calmly uttering the harshest words.

Glory World Open-Air Plaza.

Hundreds of millions of inheritors gathered in the open-air plaza, all seated, gazing at the figure of "Mantu Divine General" in the center of the plaza.

"I will broadcast this battle via virtual network simultaneously." The Mantu Divine General surveyed the surroundings. "Who wins and who loses will be clearly seen. And as for the Human Race, I will gladly accept your Supreme Treasure!"

Boom!

The Mantu Divine General pointed to the sky, and instantly beams of light shot out, forming a virtual projection in mid-air.

All the inheritors clearly saw Lu Yan'an and the Mantu Divine General standing on two floating fragments of a giant mountain range, facing each other from afar.

"Arrogant! This Mantu Divine General will likely face a frenzied hunt from our Human Race!"

"This Mantu Divine General truly insane and confident, actually taking the initiative to conduct synchronized playback across the Virtual Universe Network."

"He's Special Lifeform, how could he lack confidence? Only the Human Race, that great scourge, would dare to engage in a life-or-death battle with that heaven-defying special life form. That human Lu Yan'an has only just broken through to the Immortal realm, yet he dares to fight that heaven-defying Special Lifeform to the death! He's utterly stupid!"

This virtual network synchronous transmission and playback was also quickly relayed back to their respective communities by a large number of inheritors.

"Haha, let's see how horribly those humans will die."

"He's dead."

The Northern Territory Alliance was incredibly powerful.

The inheritors of the Hong Alliance watched with bated breath, and King Tianxuan even lowered his voice to ask King Tianyu beside him, "Tianyu, is this Huan Shi reliable or not?"

"Just watch," King Tianyu said slowly, his eyes fixed on the projection in mid-air. He knew perfectly well that the King Huanshi before him was no ordinary being. Whether it was helping him deliver goods to the Original Secret Realm or anything else, he had prepared several contingency plans! Given Lu Yan'an's cautious nature, why would he so recklessly engage in a life-or-death battle if he weren't absolutely certain of victory?

However, King Tianyu did not reveal his conjecture to anyone. He firmly believed that Lu Yan'an, who could handle such small details perfectly, would not lose his mind in such a life-or-death matter!

At this moment, not only are the hundreds of millions of inheritors of the Ancestral God Religion paying attention, but also the high-ranking members of some super powers in the universe are also following the news of this battle. For example, many Universe Masters of the Human Race are paying close attention.

(Reader group number: [number missing], feel free to join if interested)