Chapter 510: Reaping the Fisherman’s Profit
Li Wei watched the great battle erupting deep within the icy fog through the miniature bird Illusory Body he had left on Gu Sewei’s collar.
Eight-winged Bright Angel Russell and the Demon God’s Apostle Basam fought with all their might. The aftershocks of their battle could be seen from a thousand miles away.
Both had far surpassed the combat power of the Legendary Level.
Even Legendary Level Holy Knights could not intervene in their fight.
Eight-winged Bright Angel Russell had the home-field advantage, using a slight edge to force the Demon God’s Apostle Basam to use his ultimate move.
The Ice Emperor let out a world-shaking roar, nearly shattering the Illusory Body Li Wei had left behind.
His Spiritual Power almost lost its connection to the Illusory Body.
It took a long time for him to recover and re-establish the link.
After the Spiritual Power link was restored, the first thing he saw was the Demon God’s Apostle Basam, who had already fused with the Ice Emperor.
After fusing his lower body with the Ice Emperor, Basam obtained the Ice Power that the Ice Emperor had accumulated for ten thousand years.
In an instant, he reversed his disadvantageous position.
Although the Ice Power couldn’t compare to his own power, possessing the Ice Emperor’s power solved his one weakness: a lack of stamina.
He could now use all kinds of powerful abilities without restraint.
The Ice Power the Ice Emperor had accumulated over ten thousand years was nearly inexhaustible.
"Rapid Freeze Death Light!"
A super-powerful attack combining his own power with Ice Power erupted, striking the Eight-winged Bright Angel Russell.
A layer of white frost covered Russell’s Wings of Light, as if they had been frozen solid.
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!
Russell vibrated his wings, shaking off the frost.
He raised the Angel’s Holy Sword high, and a beam of Holy Light shot into the sky, transforming into a blade of light that cleaved through the heavens and descended upon the world.
Facing Russell’s attack, Basam did not dodge or evade. He controlled the Ice Emperor to spew a frigid breath that pierced through heaven and earth.
The Holy Sword sundered the heavens and earth, slicing through the frigid breath that could freeze all creation.
It left a gash hundreds of meters deep on the Ice Emperor’s body.
The Ice Emperor let out a wail of agony.
Basam paid it no mind and immediately summoned even greater power to counterattack.
The intensity of their battle escalated, and the spreading shockwaves could now easily inflict heavy damage on a Legendary Professional.
The two sides deadlocked on the ground were also forced to retreat further away due to the expanding shockwaves.
The few people following Basam managed to get a moment’s respite.
The four Holy Knights were also unable to pursue them due to the shockwaves falling from the sky, and could only watch helplessly as they fled.
Basam, possessing nearly infinite Power, freely used all kinds of powerful attacks and quickly gained the upper hand.
Under Basam’s relentless assault, Russell’s counterattacks grew fewer and fewer. He gradually shifted from offense to passive defense, falling into a disadvantage.
The Legendary Paladin saw this and thought, ’This is bad.’ He wanted to help, but was powerless to do so.
Basam’s attacks were too powerful. Even he could only withstand one hit at most.
If he were hit multiple times, death would be certain.
Seeing the Eight-winged Bright Angel Russell at a disadvantage, Gu Sewei anxiously tightened her grip on her Frost Staff.
’If Russell loses, will the Ice Emperor destroy the Ice and Snow City?’
Gu Sewei had to consider this possibility.
Although she felt deeply conflicted, she didn’t want Russell to lose to Basam.
Basam manipulated the Ice Emperor’s Ice Power, and countless Godslaying Spears forged from Ice Crystals materialized above his head.
The Godslaying Spears took aim at the Eight-winged Bright Angel Russell and shot out explosively.
Faced with the barrage of countless Godslaying Spears, the only thing Russell could do was spread his eight Wings of Light to envelop his entire body in a full-power defense.
Although the Godslaying Spears were only constructed from Ice Power, they contained a trace of the Power of the Demon God, enough to pose a threat to him.
Gu Sewei raised her Frost Staff, the tip of which began to radiate a dazzling light.
The countless icy Godslaying Spears shooting toward Russell shifted their direction.
With the power of the Frost Staff, Gu Sewei could control the Ice Elements in this part of the world.
By applying a slight interference to the icy Godslaying Spears, she made them deviate from their original trajectories, causing them to streak past Russell and miss their target.
Basam was stunned for a moment. Russell’s eyes narrowed, a sharp glint of light flashing within them.
’Now’s my chance... Holy Sword of Light! World-Cleaver!’
Without hesitation, Russell unleashed his strongest attack. Golden light poured from his eyes, nose, and mouth. He raised the golden Holy Sword of Light with both hands, his eight wings spread wide as all the Power of Light between heaven and earth converged upon the blade.
For an instant, the entire world seemed to plunge into darkness, with the Holy Sword of Light in Russell’s hands becoming the only light left in existence.
World-Cleaver!
The light became a sharp sword that split the night, split the world.
Basam raised his hands and roared, his entire power erupting. A pitch-black Energy Ball appeared between his hands.
"Death Roar Wave! Annihilation of All Things!"
The golden Power of Light and the pitch-black Power of the Demon God collided, locked in a stalemate, splitting the world into two parts: one gold, one dark.
Above the dividing line was a golden world filled with light.
Below the dividing line was a Dark World filled with desolate silence.
The two powers relentlessly ground against each other, trying to crush one another.
"AAAAAHHHH!"
"HAHAHAHA!"
Russell roared, pouring all of his power into the Holy Sword of Light, determined to slice his enemy in half.
Basam roared, unleashing his full output. The Ice Emperor beneath him wailed, resisting desperately and counterattacking with all its might. With the resolve to kill, he held nothing back, giving it his absolute all.
RUMBLE!
The sky trembled. Where the two powers intertwined, space itself began to shatter.
Countless pitch-black cracks spread out like a spiderweb into the distance, then vanished as quickly as they appeared, fleeting like an illusion.
Only the deep scars left on the earth where the spatial fissures had passed proved the terror of that power.
The ground also shook continuously, as if the very earth were about to be overturned by this force.
The surrounding clouds of mist turned into monstrous waves, surging away in all directions.
It was as if the entire world was on the brink of destruction.
Gu Sewei clung tightly to her Frost Staff with one hand. The staff erupted with a blue Magic Shield to block the aftershocks of the attack.
She put her other hand up to shield her eyes from the blinding light, her body uncontrollably pushed back by the gale-force winds.
The delicate little bird hiding in Gu Sewei’s collar had a nervous look in its eyes, its gaze fixed on the two combatants, unwilling to look away for even a second.
Even though it was impossible to see clearly what was happening at the center of the battlefield.
Far away on the horizon, Li Wei was rushing toward the battlefield.
He could no longer afford to worry about revealing his presence.
BUZZ!
The low hum of vibrating space reached everyone’s ears.
Immediately after, a large-scale collapse of space suddenly occurred at the center of the battlefield.
The spatial collapse was like an avalanche, unstoppable once it began.
The pitch-black spatial fissure expanded at an extreme speed, swallowing the two figures at the heart of the battlefield in an instant.
Neither Russell nor Basam had time to dodge before they were devoured by the black-hole-like spatial fissure and vanished.
The spatial fissure created by the collapse was like a whirlpool in water, constantly pulling in and devouring the surrounding space.
Gu Sewei, who was nearby, kept retreating, but the space around her was being devoured faster than she could move back.
She was being pulled ever closer to the center of the collapsing spatial fissure.
Three of the four Holy Knights had already been swallowed by the spatial fissure. Only the Legendary Paladin was left, desperately trying to escape.
No one knew where they would end up after being swallowed by a spatial fissure.
They might never get out, trapped to die in the turbulent currents of space.
Even Russell and Basam couldn’t be one hundred percent certain they could escape the spatial turbulence safely.
To say nothing of the weaker Holy Knights.
They fled for their lives, but ultimately could not escape the devouring space, falling one by one into the collapsing spatial fissure.
Gu Sewei struggled to resist the immense pulling force from ahead, inching closer and closer to the spatial fissure.
A look of despair crossed her face. Even with all her might, she couldn’t resist the Power of Space around her.
The nearest spatial fissure had already spread to less than ten meters in front of her.
To fall inside was to face almost certain death.
RATTLE!
Suddenly, the sound of a chain came from behind her.
A translucent chain glowing with purple-black light broke through space and wrapped around her waist.
Gu Sewei froze for a second, not comprehending what had happened.
An immense force came from the other end of the Void Chain, pulling her body rapidly backward, away from the incredibly dangerous spatial fissure.
WHOOSH!
Li Wei caught Gu Sewei as she flew backward. He looked at the space that had stopped collapsing, remaining in place to observe the situation.
After the space stopped collapsing, it was quickly repaired by the Rules of the world.
The pitch-black spatial fissure was erased by the world’s great power, disappearing completely like a chalk drawing wiped from a blackboard, as if it had never been there at all.
After the spatial fissure vanished, only a bottomless pit remained.
That was the earth that had been swallowed by the fissure.
Russell, Basam, and the Ice Emperor had also disappeared.
The only one left at the scene was the Legendary Paladin, who had barely managed to escape the spatial collapse.
In the distance, there was another figure. Judging by the Demonic Qi emanating from him, he must have been one of the Professionals who had sided with Basam.
The other side was also down to just one person.
Now things were evenly matched.
The Legendary Paladin had just escaped with his life when he immediately fixed his gaze on Li Wei in mid-air.
He recognized him at a glance; this was the person he had been searching for.
The Legendary Paladin had no time to grieve for his three comrades who had fallen into the spatial fissure; the Cardinal’s orders took precedence in his mind.
Without hesitation, he leaped up, jumping toward Li Wei.
At the peak of his jump, just as he was about to fall, a Holy Unicorn appeared beneath the Legendary Paladin.
The Legendary Paladin pointed his sword at Li Wei, and the Holy Unicorn flapped its wings, charging toward him.
The dark figure in the distance glanced at Li Wei, then spread a pair of black wings similar to Basam’s and flew away.
Li Wei glanced at the other enemy flying away, then turned his head to face the charging Legendary Paladin.
"Then there’s only one enemy left."
Li Wei released Gu Sewei from his arms and gave her a gentle push, sending her away from him and away from the battlefield.
This was a struggle between him and the Light Divine Sect.
Gu Sewei shouldn’t be involved.
"Holy Charge!"