"Charge! The time to make a name for ourselves has come!"
"Once we catch that brat, we'll earn Lord Heilai's favor!"
"Hahaha! You damn ants, prepare to be punished!"
Black Heilai Bandit underlings kept charging over, but not one member of the Blazing Squad showed the slightest trace of fear.
Instead, they looked at the underlings with disdain, and the two sides quickly clashed.
The Heilai Bandits greatly outnumbered them, with at least tens of thousands of people.
So Heilai wasn't worried that they would lose. Although the Blazing Squad was stronger overall, fighters of their caliber were quite common among the Heilai Bandits.
He wasn't worried that Jiang Yun and the others would escape, either. If they let so many people get away, they might as well go find a piece of tofu and bash their heads against it.
Hahaha!
Ahahaha!
Heilai laughed merrily, as if he could already see Jiang Yun weeping and begging him for mercy.
Faced with his overwhelming strength, he had no doubt that he would win, nor did he think Jiang Yun and the others stood a chance.
His underlings shot toward Jiang Yun and the others like meteors, but Heilai didn't join the fight. Clearly, he believed his men were more than enough to deal with the hundred or so people in Jiang Yun's group.
His gaze lingered on Jiang Yun for a moment. The young man before him had an extraordinary bearing, but Heilai sensed no danger from him. Instead, he sensed danger from Bu Chen.
As for Jiang Yun, Heilai merely thought that, as expected of someone from a great family, he certainly had the right bearing.
But before absolute power, everything else was meaningless!
Heilai's gaze remained fixed on Bu Chen. Clearly, he had taken him for the strongest fighter among them.
That made sense. Jiang Yun was far too powerful now for Heilai to sense his strength, especially with the vast gap between their levels.
Bu Chen's displayed fighting power was enough to make Heilai take him seriously, but not enough to worry him. According to the Scouter, Bu Chen's power was around 8,000.
And as for himself!
Heh!
Outsiders believed his combat power was around 8,500, but over the past two years, he had raised it to around 9,800, bringing him infinitely close to 10,000.
Heh! Once his combat power surpassed those people's, it would be time to make everyone who had once hunted him pay.
Even Xiusi, Xiuka's older brother, didn't know about this. Only Heilai himself knew.
When the charging enemies reached them, the others didn't panic. They all fought back. In their eyes, these people had far too little combat experience, and their training in ki was crude. They didn't even understand the concept of ki.
They could take on dozens of opponents of the same level by themselves. Their life-and-death training in the Virtual Universe hadn't been for nothing.
In that world, they didn't have to worry about dying, but the pain of death was too unforgettable. After dying too many times, they might even trigger the system's protection mechanism and be unable to enter matchmaking battles for a short time.
So most people didn't go that far. Usually, they only ended up badly wounded, or even stopped once a clear winner had emerged.
As the enemies' numbers gradually overwhelmed them, the Blazing Squad began using the Jiang Fist to fight back. For a time,
all kinds of Ki Blast techniques flew everywhere, striking the chaotic asteroid belt as explosions followed one after another.
In an instant, shock waves from the explosions burst through the cosmic darkness. There was no sound; they could only see the energy released.
The Blazing Squad's energy attacks all bore Jiang Yun's influence to one degree or another.
Fast, accurate, ruthless!
Jiang Yun had even developed a technique specifically for fighting groups.
Burst Shockwave!
It didn't increase combat power by much, but its key advantage was that it could be launched quickly. When it hit an enemy, it triggered an explosion, making it ideal for clearing out weak opponents, though it wasn't suited for one-on-one fights.
It left the user open to being caught off guard!
As the fight continued, Heilai gradually realized something was wrong. Why hadn't they taken down those hundred or so opponents yet?
He looked toward the site of an explosion and was instantly dumbstruck. What was going on?!
A group of his underlings had been blasted hundreds of meters away by a single Ki Blast from an opponent with roughly the same combat power. One blast had taken out a whole group. Who could withstand that?!
And what was with these people's combat power? Why had it suddenly surged?!
He didn't think the increase in these people's combat power amounted to much, but if this person's combat power could also increase...
His gaze shifted to Bu Chen, but he completely overlooked Jiang Yun beside him. A hint of wariness flashed in his eyes, and his face even showed signs of nervousness.
"You don't need to look around. I'm your opponent!"
Bu Chen had noticed Heilai's movement. He knew Heilai was probably bewildered by the situation, so he didn't give him time to think. Bu Chen was already preparing to attack him. Jiang Yun, meanwhile, had no intention of joining in.
Instead, he watched the two with interest, as if he were looking forward to an exciting fight!
Bu Chen rushed at Heilai, whose nerves were nearly frayed.
"Damn Xiuka! How could he leave out something this important? Once this is over, I'll tear you apart!"
Heilai knew that Xiuka might not have known about their opponents' strength either, but the thought of how badly he'd been set up still filled him with rage.
Heilai soon realized that Bu Chen's combat power wasn't as high as he'd imagined. What he didn't know was that Bu Chen was only in his normal state.
Still, the fight wasn't as easy as Heilai had expected. Bu Chen was holding his own against him with a combat power of around 8,000. Heilai had the upper hand, but Bu Chen was keeping pace with him.
Their fight was fierce. Several shock waves tore through the starry sky, and the force of their powerful attacks even spilled over into the battles around them.
"Great! Lord Heilai has the upper hand!"
"Hold on! As long as Lord Heilai wins, we're sure to win too!"
The squad leaders under Heilai had also noticed that he had the upper hand. Once Heilai won, he could quickly break away and help them, and then their problems would be solved.
The other Heilai Bandits cheered as well, and their morale rose.
Bu Chen was surprised that he could fight Heilai to this extent with a combat power of around 8,000. He hadn't expected Heilai to use ki so crudely, or to have such poor fighting skills. He made far too many unnecessary movements.
That was why Bu Chen had been able to hold his own against Heilai.
But Bu Chen didn't want to play around anymore, so he activated the twofold Jiang Fist.
His combat power instantly became points!
In an instant, Heilai felt immense pressure!
Boom!
When they clashed again, Bu Chen slammed Heilai into a floating boulder, stirring up a massive cloud of dust. Heilai's body was even buried deep in the rock.
Bu Chen stopped in the starry sky and looked toward the dust-filled area. He could clearly feel his opponent's ki weakening.
But then Bu Chen's pupils suddenly widened. Two huge hands shot out of the dust and clamped around his neck, hurling him through several floating rocks. He finally stopped when he crashed into a meteorite dozens of kilometers across.
"Damn little bug. What should I do with you? I'm going to tear off your limbs one by one!"
Heilai's voice was low now, but he was clearly a little deranged!
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