Targeting

"You... agh~" Yi Feng struggled to get up, but a burst of searing pain sent him crashing back down.

Those heartless, ruthless bastard sons of bitches...

He wanted to go up the mountain too. There were only so many Martial Ascension Gate slots on the Star-Climbing Platform. If others took them, he would lose his chance to advance.

Yi Feng opened his mouth, wanting to curse...

Suddenly, his body lifted into the air as someone grabbed him by the collar and sprinted up the mountain.

"Yi You?" Yi Feng no longer cared about the pain in his body.

"Shut the hell up..." Yi You snapped irritably.

"If it weren't for my cousin, I couldn't be bothered with whether you lived or died."

Halfway up the mountain, Liu Yue leaned against a tree and waited for a while. When he saw Yi You carrying someone up, he said nothing and turned to leave.

He was the only Celestial Human Race member on this Trial Star. The rest of his clansmen had scattered elsewhere.

The Celestial Human Race had severe reproduction issues. Within the Pan-Human Federation, they were only slightly better off than the Human-Dragon Race, with a pitifully small population.

So, there were no members of his race on this Trial Star.

Naturally, he had no need to look after his own clansmen and brothers as Yi You did.

As the three made their way up the mountain...

At the summit, the Star-Climbing Platform.

Su Bo had one foot on someone's head... Oh, oh, oh—the head was still attached to the body. He was not cruel enough to dismember someone.

So, to stop him from resisting, he could only keep his foot on him.

"So this is the Star-Climbing Platform and the Martial Ascension Gate?" Su Bo looked toward the platform towering dozens of meters above the mountaintop, as well as the enormous star gate.

Besides the person beneath his foot, the only woman who had not been planted upside down in the ground gave him a frightened look.

"Yes, this is..." The woman answered, her face filled with terror.

The strength of the man before her was simply horrifying. Their entire team had more than twenty people, all martial artists at the peak of the ninth body tempering.

Several of them could even rank among the second sequence.

And yet?

After provoking him, they had been beaten like dogs.

Their captain was currently under Su Bo's foot, trembling all over but unable to move or break free from Su Bo's strength.

The others had been planted like flowers and grass in a circle around the platform.

After glancing over the platform and the star gate, Su Bo saw that both were still absorbing the energy of heaven and earth. Clearly, it was not yet time for them to truly open.

He lowered his head to look at the guy beneath his foot. "Tell me, man, do me a favor?"

"Who sent you to target me?"

"The... the Martial Alliance..." the man beneath his foot said with difficulty.

"Oh?" Su Bo removed his foot. A large bovine head with a pair of horns raised itself. After shooting Su Bo a terrified look with its two eyes,

it quickly lowered its head again and hurriedly said, "I received a message from an elder in my family. They said Martial Alliance martial artists wanted my help targeting a prodigy from the Ancient Human Race."

"I really don't know much else."

"Oh, right, I don't think I was the only one who received the message..." Niu Gu raised his head slightly. Seeing that Su Bo did not seem intent on taking his anger out on him,

he hurriedly continued, "They said we were supposed to take the advancement slots and keep you from going up..."

Boom!!~~

The instant his words fell, Su Bo suddenly stomped his foot. The rock floor at the summit, hard as iron, shattered beneath that single stomp.

Cracks spread out densely, covering an area dozens of meters wide.

Niu Gu was dumbstruck by the sight. Secretly, he was immensely relieved that he had not stubbornly decided to take a beating rather than reveal the truth.

Otherwise, that stomp could have shattered his bull head.

"The Martial Alliance?... Heh heh~~!" Su Bo sneered.

"Take your people and get lost down the mountain!"

"Yes, yes, yes..." Ignoring his rather serious injuries, Niu Gu forced himself up and picked up the woman, who had nearly been scared out of her wits.

Then, with a sweep of his large hand, he grabbed his teammates who had been planted upside down and flung them all toward the mountain path.

He only had two hands and could not carry them all, so he could only throw them...

No sooner had Niu Gu left than more than a dozen figures came up the mountain from another side.

When they saw Su Bo, strange smiles appeared on their faces, and their eyes held a trace of gloating.

Clearly, just as Niu Gu had said, they had all received messages telling them not to let him advance...

And the best way to stop Su Bo from advancing...

was to eliminate Su Bo directly!

Above the starry sky, beyond the rules.

Boom boom... Boom crack crack... Crackle crackle...

The domain formed of violent lightning was collapsing. Countless bolts blasted deep into the starry sky, scattering apart and turning into pure energy.

Within that lightning, a figure drifted like a lone boat tossed amid raging waves.

"Situ Ting... Aah~" Kong Ao screamed miserably.

"You dare kill me?"

"Why don't you see whether I dare?" Situ Ting threw a domineering punch.

Bang~

Exploding flesh and blood burst apart, scattering into lightning that filled the sky. Then, the countless bolts gathered together and reformed Kong Ao's body.

However, after having his physical body blown apart, his face was now deathly pale, and even his spirit seemed somewhat listless.

The enormous fist appeared again. Having just reformed his body and still recovering, he could not even react before his physical body was blown apart once more.

This time, the scattered lightning could not reform Kong Ao's body for a long while.

The domain formed by his lightning divine ability had already collapsed beyond recognition. Kong Ao's power of blood and qi, along with his divine ability power, was nearly exhausted.

After having his body blown apart again and again, even as a Divine Ability Realm martial artist, he could no longer sustain the recovery.

A wisp of illusory divine form emerged. Kong Ao's face was deathly pale, and he was extremely weak. "I was only the messenger. I'm not the one making things difficult for him..."

"Then I'll kill you first, and then go kill the people behind you."

Situ Ting stood atop a meteorite in the starry sky, strands of True Solar Fire rising from his body.

"I knew you were trying to fool me just now..."

"As expected, you lowlife trash couldn't beat me, so you went after my student instead?"

Surging True Solar Fire ignited, burning one region of the starry sky white. Even Lin Chen in the distance, merely sensing the might of those flames,

did not dare approach carelessly.

A martial artist at the quasi-Dharma Idol Realm was not someone a weak Divine Ability Realm martial artist like him could afford to provoke.

"Idiot Kong Ao, why did you have to provoke him?" Lin Chen cursed inwardly.

He was in a difficult position as well. If Kong Ao died and he, as his teammate, stood by without doing anything, he would still face punishment when he returned.

The enforcement team might not dare deal with a terrifying fiend like Situ Ting.

But dealing with him would take no effort at all.

From far away, seeing Situ Ting closing in on Kong Ao and preparing to kill that bastard outright, Lin Chen immediately shouted, "Situ Ting..."

"His crimes don't warrant death... If you kill him, it won't do you or your student any good..."

"You might as well extort him for a hefty sum. Kong Ao has quite a fortune..."

Situ Ting paused mid-step.

Seeing this, Lin Chen hurriedly added to his bargaining chips. "Red River Star..."

"No matter what, Red River Star is still under the Martial Alliance's management. There are several Dharma Idol Realm martial artists standing behind the people behind Kong Ao..."

"You're threatening me?" Situ Ting glared with tiger-like eyes.

"No!" Lin Chen flew a little closer and glanced at Kong Ao's condition. Damn it, he's really about to die!

"I'm only hoping you'll think this through. Red River Star is already having a hard enough time. Even if you kill Kong Ao today, you'll only be venting your anger."

"But the people behind him can make things difficult for Red River Star."

"Within the limits allowed by the rules!"

"Heh..." Situ Ting sneered, but he did indeed stop attacking.

Lin Chen was right. Killing Kong Ao would be easy.

But dealing with the people behind him would not be so simple.

"Heh, rules?" A ferocious, scorching aura erupted from Situ Ting's body. The Golden Crow Dharma Idol of the sun manifested brilliantly in the starry sky.

True Solar Fire stretched across the starfield, burning the space in one region of the starry sky until it seemed on the verge of collapsing.

The flame-red and gold eyes of the Golden Crow shot out streaks of golden light, piercing through the starfield's space and instantly landing within Kong Ao's ruined lightning domain.

At once, Kong Ao screamed repeatedly as he was burned. His divine form was on the verge of collapsing and dissipating.

"Situ Ting..." Lin Chen panicked.

"Don't worry, he won't die. If he dies..." Situ Ting gave him an indifferent glance.

"How am I supposed to settle accounts with the people behind him?"