Brain storage area.
Three days until the main story of Legend of the Dragon King begins!
Shrek City.
"Hey, A-Qi, do you think Shrek's students can't understand human speech? Or do they have their own special Shrek language? We've been beating them black and blue for years, and they still haven't learned their lesson. Here they come again. What a pain..."
A black-haired young man lay prone on a rooftop. His features were handsome, and a faint smile played on his face.
Cradled in his arms was a heavy sniper rifle forged entirely from an unknown dark metal. Red magma flowed through the cracks in its barrel, filling them. Through a many-times-magnifying, fully transparent scope, he had a clear view of the entrance to the Spirit Pagoda.
At that moment, five top students from Shrek Academy had been subdued by his Sharp Bee Hunting clones, their faces pressed to the ground in utter humiliation. Yet they were still baring their teeth, clearly in need of another harsh lesson from society.
Leng Yaozhu rubbed her forehead helplessly. She looked in the direction of Shrek Academy as a long spear broke the sound barrier, sonic booms erupting one after another as it hurtled toward them!
"Su Jiu, are you sure you want to use Flame Demon Roar? Given your current physical condition, I recommend that you don't use it!"
A clear, hollow electronic voice, devoid of the slightest emotion, reached Su Jiu's ears. Even though he knew A-Qi would never harm him, Su Jiu gently stroked the rifle's ferocious demon ram's head, as if caressing his own sweetheart. The passion and tenderness in the sniper's eyes were impossible to hide.
"Heh heh, I just advanced to Titled Douluo. Let me fire one shot, will you?"
"Oh, and remember to use the void to conceal my presence. If that old codger Yun Ming catches us, neither of us will get off lightly."
"Yaozhu, for old times' sake, do me a favor and let them go..."
This had practically become something Yun Ming had to do every exam month in recent years. But as Sea God Pavilion Master, he had to take the five inner-court students back. It was a matter of Shrek's honor.
"Heh. Yun Ming, you've pulled this same stunt for years. Do you think a Sky Phoenix Douluo's dignity is like cabbages in a field, there for anyone to hand out?"
"I'll make this clear today: one hundred-thousand-year Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, or we'll let the Federation's laws take their course. Every last one of them can go sit in a cell!"
Su Jiu's clone—whose appearance resembled NoNo from Seer—spoke in a cold electronic voice, every word brimming with confidence and control.
"Pavilion Master Yun, that's a minimum of three years. I'm sure you wouldn't want these five to waste three precious years of their golden cultivation period over a single Immortal Herb, would you? Or does one measly Immortal Herb matter more to you than five future Titled Douluos?"
A jail cell? A threat?
He was Yun Ming!
A Limit Quasi-God, a Four-Word Battle Armor Master, the current Sea God Pavilion Master, the strongest man on the continent, and the bearer of a demigod position. He feared threats least of all!
Su Jiu's threat had undoubtedly stoked Yun Ming's fury. Eyes wide with rage, he glared at the unknown mechanical creature beside Leng Yaozhu. This little thing was the one that had defeated their five inner-court students!
"Want an Immortal Herb? Dream on! I'll make this clear too: today, I'm not only taking my students away, you won't get a single stalk of Immortal Herb either. My Sky-Propping Spear hasn't gone dull!"
Just then, an intense sense of danger stabbed into his crown. This was the innate danger-warning instinct shared by all living beings. As a peak Quasi-God, Yun Ming had developed this ability to the utmost limit of human potential!
Without hesitation, he released his formidable God Origin Realm spiritual power, blanketing Shrek City in an instant. But it gave him no feedback at all!
The sense of danger remained!
Meanwhile, with A-Qi's assistance, Su Jiu lined up Flame Demon Roar as if a lock had clicked into place. Its sights landed squarely on Yun Ming's brow. No matter how Yun Ming moved, he couldn't escape the sniper scope's crosshairs.
Su Jiu didn't know whether a Quasi-God, a being not far from divinity yet no longer quite human, could survive a shot from his weapon when all three of his Soul Spirits were Golden-Haired Lion Mastiffs!
That's right. Flame Demon Roar possessed both Ultimate Fire and Destruction. Soul Spirits with either of these two attributes were almost impossible to find anywhere in the world, so he'd had no choice but to go all-in on power and explosive force.
The result had surprised him a little. All eight of his Soul Rings' Soul Skills had affected his Martial Soul, rather than his own body.
His Martial Soul, Flame Demon Roar, had maxed out in power, penetration, explosive force, and range. Even the Coiling Dragon Staff, renowned for its explosive force and unique to the Qiangu Family, had been left far behind!
Flame Demon Roar had the stats to back it up—and even its mechanics were all about the stats. It embodied the brutal beauty of violence to perfection.
What's more, thanks to his weapon Martial Soul, Su Jiu wasn't subject to any bloodline or Martial Soul suppression!
Dragon King? Dragon might? Bloodline suppression?
Laughable!
Suddenly, a playful smile tugged at the corner of Su Jiu's mouth. It was time to repay some of the kindness the Spirit Pagoda had shown him over the years.
"Pavilion Master Yun, may I ask which hand Long Yeyue used to strike the former Pagoda Master, Qiangu Dieyan?"
Su Jiu's clone asked out of the blue. The tense scene fell silent once more. Everyone present except Leng Yaozhu had no idea what the mechanical creature meant by that question.
"Her right!"
Leng Yaozhu answered at once. She understood immediately, a breathtaking smile curling her lips. It seemed that some old hag was about to have a bad day.
This only left Yun Ming even more confused. Elder Long was probably sipping afternoon tea by Sea God Lake right now. What on earth were they asking that for?
The next moment, Yun Ming's biological danger warning abruptly vanished like the tide going out. The target of the danger had shifted to Long Yeyue, who was leisurely drinking tea tens of thousands of meters away.
Since Su Jiu was aiming at her hand, her danger warning was barely working. Her right eyelid only twitched a few times, and she paid it no mind.
Yun Ming instantly understood the meaning of their words, but it was already too late!
"Stop!"
As Su Jiu's first six black Soul Rings lit up, his Soul Power and Soul Skills surged into the specially made first-round bullet like rivers flowing into the sea. The eyes of the demon head at Flame Demon Roar's muzzle glowed red as Ultimate Fire and an ominous aura of Destruction gathered at the barrel.
A-Qi: Sniping distance: 32,578 meters; Wind speed: 0.5 m/s; Wind direction: northeast; Humidity: 55%; Air pressure: 104.3 kPa; Calibration complete. Fire?
The next instant, the trigger was pulled. The map-wide cannon fired!
"Boom!!!"
A deafening gunshot rang out. The barrel, like a breathing gill, belched clouds of molten ash from both sides. A crimson bullet shot from the muzzle at an unimaginable speed, tearing through the limits of the planar space. Space shattered wherever it passed, fragments drifting down like snowflakes as a star-colored trail slashed across the sky!
In less than half a second, the bullet pierced Long Yeyue's right hand, nearly thirty thousand meters away. The Ultimate Fire and Destruction on the bullet destroyed and carbonized every vein and nerve in it. By the time Long Yeyue realized what had happened, her right hand—and her teacup—were gone!!!
Excruciating pain followed, gnawing at Long Yeyue's nerves. A pig-like scream rang out on the spot, as if she had been subjected to some inhuman torture...
At the same time, Flame Demon Roar's terrifying recoil sent Su Jiu spitting blood. Blood and qi reversed course in his right arm, his Soul Power ran wild, and his shoulder bone trembled. When he stood, he staggered backward several steps.
Good thing I'd only lit up the first six...
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