A Card In Hand

Chapter 35: I Will Mercifully Fulfill Your Wish

The Light-Feathered Golden Eagle was faster than lightning.

With a flap of its wings, it swiftly caught up to Prince Jinxi.

Cleverly, it used the power of light energy to form a series of golden shields, gently neutralizing the massive impact Prince Jinxi was currently enduring with the same light energy that originated from its master, simultaneously using it to heal the severe internal injuries Prince Jinxi sustained from the assault.

Each time Prince Jinxi passed through a golden shield, the speed of his flight decreased by one level, gradually slowing down.

Despite this, the flying Prince Jinxi still continuously smashed through ten golden shields formed by light energy before his momentum was weak enough to stop, finally landing back on the platform.

By the time he completely stopped, the place where he lay was less than twenty meters from the edge of the Obsidian Platform.

Groaning, Prince Jinxi’s body was bent like a shrimp.

His mouth crazily vomited fresh blood mixed with many black, bizarre objects, pouring out from his throat.

“What is that?”

Cang Yue couldn’t identify what Prince Jinxi was vomiting.

Tie Zheng shook his head, indicating he had no research on these matters.

“It must be some kind of eggs!”

Huo Mei could tell they were eggs, but couldn’t determine which creature they belonged to.

“Spider eggs, those are Blood Spider eggs! Blood Spiders like to feed on human blood. During their feeding, they release a secretion that causes extreme pleasure in humans. Humans being fed upon not only feel no pain but experience a blissful, ecstatic sensation. If Blood Spider eggs are soaked in human blood, they have the same effect. Prince Jinxi, said to be under some curse, likely used these eggs for pain relief and, to enhance the effect, he must have consumed a large amount of human blood previously, which is truly disgusting!”

Ling Long immediately saw through the truth, her face full of disdain.

“Drinking, drinking human blood?”

Fuxi shuddered violently, his voice trembling, “Could it be that Prince Jinxi has made a pact with the demons?”

“You don’t understand, so don’t talk nonsense!”

Cang Yue kicked Fuxi away with one foot.

On the platform, the battle still raged on.

The enraged Flaming Gold Lion pounced towards Li Ao.

The massive maw split wide open.

Ferociously, it snapped downward.

“Is it you again? Your combat power isn’t particularly high, but your loyalty to Prince Jinxi is remarkable!”

“In that case, let me accommodate you!”

Li Ao arched an eyebrow and casually gestured with his right hand on the Obsidian Platform, summoning an endless flow of rock-source energy to his arm, forming an immense stone arm over ten meters long.

This stone arm grew even larger towards the end, with a dark, obsidian-like palm unfolding, practically blotting out the sky.

Despite the intimidating size of this stone arm, its agility was nearly identical to Li Ao’s original arm.

Li Ao reached out swiftly.

As quick as lightning.

He captured the Flaming Gold Lion, which was about to bite his forehead, entirely within the palm of his hand.

Then, like a child throwing a frog, he lifted the stone arm high and slammed the Flaming Gold Lion onto the Obsidian Platform with force.

The platform ‘boomed’ loudly.

The surface cracked like a spiderweb.

Roar~!

The Flaming Gold Lion, bleeding from its nose and mouth, let out a painful cry as it struggled to rise.

Li Ao raised his rock arm, clenched it into a fist, and smashed it down hard on the Flaming Gold Lion, embedding it deep into the hard Obsidian Platform with a thunderous crash, silencing its cries immediately.

The Mammoth charged with a thunderous rumble, its trunk swinging wildly trying to strike Li Ao. Li Ao spun around, his massive stone arm sweeping across, and as his obsidian fist swept over the platform, it continued to grow, finally forming a fist over twenty meters in diameter and smashing heavily onto the Mammoth.

Rock fragments flew everywhere as the massive body of the Mammoth fell heavily to the ground.

It was helpless.

Sliding across the platform.

It only came to a slow stop after sliding back a hundred meters.

Li Ao’s obsidian giant hand furiously dug into the platform, forcibly grabbing a large chunk of the platform’s stone, weighing thousands of tons.

He spun his body and flung it, the stone arm whirling round to hurl the massive stone fragment at the charging Four-armed Silver Golem…

The rookies from the same cohort felt their brains were inadequate as they watched Li Ao’s variety of combat techniques dazzle them.

They never expected that the seemingly insurmountable spider web capture could be broken in such a way.

The Nightmare Spider’s thought was urged, and the transparent spider web accelerated its descent.

It miraculously penetrated the Obsidian Platform.

Continuing deeper.

The hard Obsidian Platform could not stop the tracking and capture of this transparent spider web.

“Was the capture successful?”

Dou Guang and Chang Chi could not see what was happening beneath the platform and exchanged puzzled glances.

Snap!

Lei Bao, suppressing his irritation, remained expressionless, but he crushed the armrest of his stone chair into powder.

The assistant referees looked at each other, bewildered.

Had he escaped?

Or was he caught?

At that moment, Li Ao rose slowly from the Obsidian Platform like a diver surfacing for air.

But now, he was no longer within the range of the transparent spider web.

He appeared behind Prince Jinxi, who was still vomiting uncontrollably.

The Light-Feathered Golden Eagle swiftly grabbed Prince Jinxi and darted towards the edge of the platform.

Just as Prince Jinxi was about to exit the platform, Li Ao’s wrist flicked out a dark chain that wound around Prince Jinxi’s waist.

The Light-Feathered Golden Eagle reacted quickly, spitting a soft light wave at Prince Jinxi’s Silver Moon boots, instantly activating the Void Jump capability of the boots.

Prince Jinxi was instantly transported a hundred meters away by the Void Jumping Silver Moon boots.

The Light-Feathered Golden Eagle, to prevent Li Ao from pursuing Prince Jinxi,

spewed hundreds of light arrows at him.

Li Ao did not dodge.

Ignoring the light arrows.

The dense rain of light arrows that struck in front of him were blocked by the Stone Body Protection, sending stone chips flying, but it did not affect Li Ao’s control of the dark chain in his hand.

The dark chain extended rapidly, even reaching the final destination of the Void Jump before Prince Jinxi.

As soon as the Void Jump ended and Prince Jinxi appeared,

the dark chain instantly activated, firmly wrapping around his right ankle.

The Silver Moon boots twisted and deformed under its wrap, snapping and losing the ability to Void Jump again.

The next second, the twisted and deformed Silver Moon boots, along with their owner Prince Jinxi, were forcibly dragged back in front of Li Ao…

“Why must you insist on me hitting you?”

“I’m also quite helpless!”

“Alright then!”

“Considering we were classmates.”

Li Ao sighed lightly: “Since you earnestly requested it, I shall kindly fulfill your wish!”

“You bunch of traitorous subjects dare to invert right and wrong, slandering me as a tyrant, and even maligning me as weak and ineffective… the former is my ideal, the latter I absolutely cannot tolerate!”