The Supreme Soldier King of the Lady CEO

The force of Ye Huan’s palm wind was extremely fierce. He was now in the activated Eight Gates Escape Armor state, his whole body shrouded in golden light, and the shockwaves he blasted out were golden as well!

Every time Shangguan Shenzhou swung his sword, his attack collided with the force from Ye Huan’s twin palms, triggering small-scale explosions and sending pale golden sparks spraying everywhere!

The two sides battled like this for several minutes without being able to determine a winner. In the end, they each landed a kick on the other’s body, both of them sent flying back more than ten meters, opening up the distance between them!

Ultimately, Ye Huan was the faster to get back on his feet. He let out a loud, piercing roar, both fists shooting out like wandering dragons. Two golden fist imprints tore across the sky, smashing toward Shangguan Shenzhou’s skull!

Shangguan Shenzhou’s strength was no joke. With a fierce shout, he slashed out a sword ray brimming with the aura of destruction, cutting apart the golden fist imprints whose power was off the charts. At the same time, his right hand heavily slapped the ground again, and in the blink of an eye he instant-shifted to Ye Huan’s back!

While Ye Huan was dealing with the sword ray, exhausted from responding to the barrage of attacks, Shangguan Shenzhou suddenly shouted, "Destructive Iron Fist!"

The next second, black light burst from Shangguan Shenzhou’s left hand as he slammed it viciously toward Ye Huan!

The power of this iron fist was indescribably strong. Before it even struck Ye Huan, just traveling through the air it blasted out countless shockwaves, tearing cracks into the air itself!

Ye Huan executed Tai Chi Soft Fist, and with the defensive power of the Jingmen Acupoint he completely dissolved the vast majority of the sword ray’s damage. Then he suddenly spun and struck out with a palm, meeting the Destructive Iron Fist fifty centimeters from his body—palm and fist collided, and he forcibly intercepted that iron fist!

"Urgh—ah—"

"Geh—ah—"

"Ah—"

Their eyes bulged and bloodshot as both unleashed all their strength, driving their fists and killing palms toward one another!

But their power was clearly almost equal. Every time one forced his attack up to the other’s body, the other would suddenly erupt with strength and shove the attack back in turn.

From a certain perspective, the clash of their strength formed a strange equilibrium!

In the end, while Shangguan Shenzhou wasn’t paying attention, Ye Huan revealed a harmless-looking smile, then suddenly roared, "Eight Gates Escape Armor—Rest Gate, open!"

"Boom—"

Suddenly, a massive golden radiance enveloped Ye Huan’s entire body!

Ye Huan’s own power received a Heaven-defying Level amplification. Borrowing this surge of strength, his right palm violently shoved aside Shangguan Shenzhou’s Destructive Iron Fist, then he swung out another palm and slammed it hard into Shangguan Shenzhou’s chest!

"Crack—"

The sound of chest bones shattering rang out directly. Shangguan Shenzhou spewed a mouthful of blood and was sent flying like a kite with its string cut!

"Impossible! How can you possess such terrifying power!" Shangguan Shenzhou lay on the ground clutching his chest, his eyes wide with rage, his face twisted. He simply couldn’t comprehend how Ye Huan, merely a high-rank Divine King, could wield strength even more overwhelming than an Extreme Divine King!

It wasn’t just him who couldn’t understand; the spectators, long since stunned by Ye Huan’s strength and techniques, couldn’t understand either. They all stared, mouths agape, utterly baffled in the wind!

Ye Huan, however, ignored Shangguan Shenzhou. In an instant he burst forward, his figure snapping out like an arrow from a bow, rapidly shooting to a stop right in front of Shangguan Shenzhou. Then he unleashed a fully-charged sweeping kick, aiming straight at Shangguan Shenzhou’s Celestial Spirit!

Shangguan Shenzhou’s expression changed drastically. He used every bit of his speed to scramble up from the ground, retreating in a violent rush for more than ten steps to narrowly dodge the kick. Even so, the force wind whipped up by Ye Huan’s sweep still carved bloody marks across his Celestial Spirit. It hurt like hell and looked downright miserable!

"This brat must be killed, at any cost, he must be eliminated!!!" That mysterious male voice once again resounded in Shangguan Shenzhou’s mind.

"My lord, I want to get rid of him too, but you know... if we eliminate him, someone won’t be happy! Keeping him alive is useful to that lord!" Shangguan Shenzhou did not, like before, immediately acquiesce to the order to kill Ye Huan. Instead, he gritted his teeth and argued back in his heart.

In truth, it wasn’t that he didn’t want to eliminate Ye Huan. It was that, having witnessed Ye Huan’s heaven-defying strength, he understood very clearly that if he didn’t use his full power, there was simply no way to deal with Ye Huan.

And using his full strength and techniques would inevitably expose many things, perhaps even directly reveal his identity!

By then, not only he himself, but every member of his squad would die under the wrath of Divine Traceless!

Even if the eight of them attacked together, they did not have the power to fight the Ultimate Guardian of the deep mountains; they were sure to be suppressed and killed on the spot!

In short, Shangguan Shenzhou was objecting because he was afraid of death, not because he was truly thinking for that other lord. After all, that lord wasn’t his direct superior, while the one speaking to him now was his true master!

"Hmph! ’He’ is merely a Marquis. I am a Duke!"

"Even if Ye Huan is useful to him, even if keeping Ye Huan could bolster his strength in the future, this brat Ye Huan is simply too great a threat to us. He must be eradicated as soon as possible!"

"Ye Huan is a super freak. This massive danger must be strangled in the cradle by us!"

"Do it! Afterward, I’ll take care of your corpses!"

This time, the mysterious man spoke in a tone that brooked no refusal!

His voice echoed directly within Shangguan Shenzhou’s skull!

Shangguan Shenzhou and Shangguan Shenlong were plunged into despair in an instant. They understood that the lord intended to use the public exposure of Ye Huan’s strength and talent to openly sever the promotion path that the other lord had painstakingly built over more than twenty years.

And they themselves had already been abandoned!

There was no way they would be walking out of the Tian Family’s battle arena alive!

But if they disobeyed the order, they would still be suppressed and killed by the lord afterward!

In that case, they might as well offer up one last bit of effort for the great plan!

"Ye Huan, die for me!!" Shangguan Shenzhou suddenly jerked his head up, his eyes unleashing pure venom!

Suddenly, as his right hand clenched in midair, a burst of black light flared out. He formed a strange hand seal, and a massive ghastly green skeletal phantom, a full ten meters tall, appeared out of thin air behind him!

This colossal phantom was even taller than the nine-story judges’ platform, looming like a skyscraper piercing the clouds. It brought an overwhelming sense of oppression and visual shock. At the moment it appeared, the sky was already covered by thick clouds and gloom!

Next, the Darknight Dragon Sword slowly rose up, to be gripped in the hand of that skeletal figure!

A wave of annihilating aura surged through the entire arena!

This aura left almost everyone gasping for breath!

Someone recognized the technique Shangguan Shenzhou had used: "This... this is the Endless Deep Mountains’ third Evil Martial Forbidden Technique—Illusion Rebirth!"

Illusion Rebirth, a notorious Evil Martial Forbidden Technique from the Endless Deep Mountains!

An Evil Martial Artist who masters this Forbidden Technique can, through slaughter, harvest the souls of the dead, then absorb all of the resentment and unwillingness of those souls into his body. When needed, he can draw out that unwillingness and pain, condensing it into a substantive remnant shadow!

The remnant shadow’s power is immense, and it is bloodthirsty and kill-crazed!

Once, an Evil Martial Artist used this move—he himself stood still doing nothing, and the skeletal remnant shadow single-handedly massacred an entire ancient Ancient Martial Arts sect. It was brutally savage.

No one had imagined that Shangguan Shenzhou would actually use this Evil Martial Forbidden Technique!

Who the hell is he?!!

This question floated up in everyone’s hearts, and they all felt something was very off!

Shangguan Shenzhou had always had a great reputation; he really didn’t seem like someone who would cultivate Evil Martial Forbidden Techniques!

"Go, kill him!" Shangguan Shenzhou ignored the gazes of the crowd. He pointed at Ye Huan and bellowed viciously, then sat cross-legged on the ground, closing his eyes as he remotely poured his Ancient Martial Arts power and strength into the skeletal remnant shadow, simultaneously controlling the phantom to raise the sword and strike at Ye Huan!