"Madman!"
Gai Feng shouted, "Since you've uttered such outrageous words, do you dare fight me to the death on this central battlefield?!"
Beo smiled disdainfully. "Although you are very strong, far beyond other living beings, enough to be called the strongest creature in history besides me!"
Then his tone shifted. "But you have yet to break your shackles and transcend the mortal realm. The gap between us is as vast as heaven and earth! Still, since you found the Spear of Destiny, I'll give you an opportunity!"
Divine light surged in Gai Feng's eyes. The Ant Queen below said anxiously, "My king, you must not! Victory is already within our grasp. A man of great worth should not sit beneath a crumbling wall. You cannot risk yourself so lightly!"
Anger appeared on Beo's face. He waved a hand downward, and with a bang, suppressed the Ant Queen who had spoken out.
"Even if he has found a divine artifact, his strength is still as different from mine as clouds and mud. Forget threatening me—even injuring me would be difficult!"
Once Beo spoke, there was no taking his words back. The countless ant soldiers withdrew three miles, while the defending warriors also began falling back, clearing a battlefield for these two supreme experts.
Jiang Ping chewed potato chips with relish. "Was Gai Feng's speech just now a provocation? It would already be a great fortune if it could persuade the Devouring Ants to retreat. Even if the Ant King refused, forcing him into a duel would not be a loss.
"After all, the Devouring Ants held the winning hand. If the Ant King ordered the entire army to attack and drowned Gai Feng in sheer numbers, he would have no spare strength to fight the Ant King.
"The Ant Queen and Beo should know what he is thinking. Yet despite that, someone as proud as him still agreed to a king-versus-king duel, because he never imagined he would lose, even against someone wielding a divine artifact! This is an open scheme!"
At the center of the vast battlefield in the Primordial World, an enormous platform made of white jade was erected in just ten minutes. Standing at its two ends were the two strongest beings in the Primordial World!
One was the strongest Human Race expert in history, jointly acknowledged by the Myriad Races. The other was the greatest achievement of the Devouring Ants over a million years—the supreme Ant King who had surpassed the limits of the world. One wielded the Spear of Destiny, while the other had fused with the Tablet of Truth.
"Whether in the past or the future, there will only ever be one duel this powerful. This battle will decide the fate of the Myriad Races and the ownership of this world!" A scholar responsible for recording history gripped his brush pen tightly.
The peerless expert Gai Feng gripped the Spear of Destiny and murmured, "Spear of Destiny, a Supreme Divine Artifact that has run through all of human history. This time, you will once again decide the fate of the Human Race!"
Whoosh!
There was not the slightest probing between the two supreme experts. From the very beginning, it was their fiercest collision. Gai Feng knew that against a terrifying opponent like the Ant King, any probing would be nothing but courting death!
King Beo stood still as a mountain, his entire figure rooted in the center of the arena like a strange peak suppressing the entire continent. He inspired the same despair as one gazing up at an unattainable mountain.
Gai Feng pushed his lifelong skills to the limit, achieving Man-Sword Unity. His figures filled the entire massive platform as he continuously sought out the Ant King's flaws, preparing to unleash his most ferocious strike!
East, south, west, north.
Every corner overhead was surrounded by Gai Feng's afterimages, yet the sound of air being torn apart never came. His speed had long surpassed the speed of sound. Every time, he had already vanished before a sonic boom could erupt. Before these two strongest beings beneath heaven and earth, there were no strange noises at all.
Yet the Ant King surrounded at the center was too terrifying. His pair of blood-red eyes kept turning, seeing through Gai Feng's attack intentions at every moment.
Gai Feng even vaguely felt that if he paused for an instant, the Ant King's killing fist would strike without hesitation!
"Too fast, too fast."
A powerful Ant Tribe Hero gritted his teeth. He considered himself the strongest beneath the king and looked down on every other hero among the Myriad Races, yet he could not even keep up with the enemy's figure before him.
The vast battlefield was silent enough for a pin to drop. Countless eyes were fixed on the white-jade platform, watching this unprecedented Century Great Battle. Some even attempted to gain insight from it.
The Ant King responded to all changes with constancy. His aura contained not the slightest flaw, and his entire body resembled an invincible golden form. Meanwhile, in this short period, Gai Feng had already expended a tremendous amount of stamina. He could no longer hold back!
Clang!
Gai Feng's rapidly circulating aura changed completely. He shot toward the Ant King like an arrow loosed from its bow. This thrust made silver light illuminate the entire sky above the vast battlefield, while the killing intent that pierced the heavens caused countless spectators to erupt in bloody tears.
A massive spiral airflow appeared on the battlefield, and at its foremost center was the Spear of Destiny. Its spear tip targeted the Ant King's brow.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!
Like the hardest diamond drill striking a diamond, the rapidly spinning Spear of Destiny stopped five centimeters from the Ant King's brow. The Ant King's hands clamped around the battle spear like pincers, preventing it from advancing even half an inch!
Even with his divine body fused with the Tablet of Truth, King Beo also dare not rashly test the spear's edge. Though it had not yet touched him, he felt a faint pain in his brow, as if it had already been pierced by that incomparably sharp spear tip.
This was pain he had never felt before! The arrogantly supreme Ant King's expression became incomparably grave. For the first time, he felt his life threatened.
Gai Feng merged with his spear, pouring all the energy in his body into the Spear of Destiny. Behind him, the phantom of Wuma, the first Human King, faintly emerged!
Bang!
King Beo was actually forced back a step. His rear foot gripped the ground, crushing the hard white jade beneath his feet into powder. The splintered stones had not even flown into the air before turning into wisps of ash midway.
Huff, huff!
A colossal hurricane swept across the battlefield. The onlookers could not help retreating dozens of steps, while those with weaker cultivation were blown into disorder through the air.
This was merely the aftermath of the battle, yet it left these elite experts of the world unable even to stand steadily.
At this moment, everyone deeply realized the enormous gap between themselves and the two supreme experts. The remaining top experts gritted their teeth and activated all their energy to resist, unwilling to miss even the slightest moment of this battle.
If the aftermath was already so terrifying, one could imagine what the Ant King endured head-on against the full sharpness of the strike. Gai Feng had become a conical drill, continuously breaking through the Ant King's defenses.
Black energy surged throughout the Ant King's body. His hands, wrapped in dense black-red energy, clamped down on the spinning spear tip.
"Back!"
The Ant King roared, and the energy throughout his body surged again as his hands rapidly twisted in reverse.
He took a step forward, reversing the hurricane's impact. Bang, bang, bang! Gai Feng's strongest strike was blocked by the Ant King. With a swing of his spear, blood violently sprayed from every opening in his body, instantly staining him red and turning him into a bloody man.
With just one strike, every opening in Gai Feng's body had been ruptured. Faint cracking sounds came from between his bones, yet he completely ignored his injuries and kept his eyes locked on the Ant King ahead, refusing to miss even the slightest flaw. Blood flowed over the silver spear.
"Not bad!"
The Ant King spread his hands. White smoke continuously rose from his indestructible palms, while the tiny scales within them, engraved with countless profound truths, had nearly been worn away completely.
"To unleash such a strike and force me back one step, you can be proud for the rest of your life!"
The Ant King pointed at the continuously bleeding Gai Feng. That strike had exceeded his expectations.
Though the other party had used his life as fuel, it was still astonishing enough that even someone as proud as him could not help but praise it.
Gai Feng's blood-red eyes stared unblinking at the Ant King. He did not reply. He feared that the moment he opened his mouth, blood mixed with fragments of his internal organs would erupt, and he would never be able to stand again!
"Just now, I allowed you to attack. You have already lost your only hope, though that hope was nearly nonexistent to begin with."
The Ant King continued on his own. "Then next, it is your turn to receive one move from me!"
In a flash, what appeared in Gai Feng's eyes was a gigantic fist covering the entire sky. This strike occupied his entire mind. Death—the word surfaced in Gai Feng's heart immediately.
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