A Card In Hand

Chapter 47: Aren’t We Just Watching You Perform?

At this moment, Zhao Kong’s heart was in turmoil.

What’s happening?

Who did I provoke?

I never intended to fight with Li Ao, the formidable demon lord. Can’t I just quietly spectate from the sidelines?

If you want me to join the battle, at least give me a heads-up!

I’m completely unprepared.

In the next second, I was already in the hands of Li Ao, the formidable demon lord… What am I supposed to do?

If it were anyone else held by the neck by Li Ao, they would surely despair. However, Zhao Kong still had a way to escape, thanks to his talent, the “Flowing Form,” and his integrated combat beast, the Sticky Greenwater Beast.

Zhao Kong’s body began to squirm.

Countless dark green solutions crazily spread towards Li Ao’s arm.

As long as he could transfer his body onto Li Ao, he was sure that Li Ao wouldn’t be able to deal with him.

Could Li Ao possibly harm himself?

Even if Li Ao did harm himself, it wouldn’t hurt Zhao Kong.

Of course, the main goal was to dodge the attack. Whether he could completely seal Li Ao’s body, suffocate him, or drain all of Li Ao’s energy leaving him weak and collapsed on the ground…

Zhao Kong dared not think of such madness. As long as Li Ao couldn’t brutally overpower him, Zhao Kong would be content.

Yes.

That’s right.

Zhao Kong’s demands were that low.

With his talent and special combat beast, achieving this was not difficult.

Unfortunately, he encountered a demon lord named Li Ao, who cunningly set a trap.

At first, Li Ao completely ignored Zhao Kong’s body transfer.

When Zhao Kong had spread crazily to his arm…

Crack~!

An electric current suddenly appeared in Li Ao’s other hand.

Then countless sparks of electricity flared up, instantly causing Zhao Kong to tremble violently and scream in agony.

Zhao Kong was not afraid of regular attacks, nor was he deterred by poison, and he even showed little fear of fire. However, there were two elements he deeply feared: one was ice and the other was electricity.

No matter the talent of Flowing Form or the Sticky Greenwater Beast, when faced with powerful icy Source Energy, like during battles with Shuanghan, they would fall with just one move.

Electricity didn’t counter him as completely as ice did, but electric currents encountered no resistance in Zhao Kong’s body, coursing from his head to the soles of his feet, electrocuting him completely. Faced with strong electric currents, Zhao Kong’s life was equally in jeopardy.

“Ah, ah, ah, ah…”

Zhao Kong was electrocuted to the point of being charred, electricity wildly sparking and crackling on his body, igniting bursts of sparks. His cries of agony shot to the skies, and the sight was unbearably tragic.

“How tragic!”

Fuxi shook his head and sighed while taking a pickled plum from his pocket to eat, a habit he picked up from watching Li Ao eat cookies, thinking it was particularly cool.

Zhao Kong was indeed too tragic.

No, this wouldn’t do.

He had to eat another sour plum to calm his nerves!

Nearby, several new trainees saw Fuxi eating amidst such a fierce battle and couldn’t help but be astonished. How could he still think of eating at such a time?

Didn’t he feel any urgency? Where was his sympathy?

Of course, criticizing others and holding oneself to account were two different things.

Seeing the authentic sour taste of Fuxi’s plums, their mouths watered, and they playfully reached out to grab some.

Fuxi quickly guarded his little bag of sour plums, his face stern and righteous as he criticized them: “Where is your sympathy? Zhao Kong is being electrocuted so badly, his life hanging by a thread, and you don’t show any support but instead only care about satisfying your own cravings?”

He left them speechless with his words.

He had a point.

After a long while.

Finally, one of the newbies responded, pointing at Fuxi: “Then why are you eating sour plums? If you can eat, why can’t we?”

Fuxi, proudly combing his hair back from his forehead, struck a cool-guy pose, raised his eyebrows, and retorted: “I’m not like you. I’m Li Ao’s big shot. I’m here to support Li Ao!”

And with that, he left them speechless again.

Indeed!

It seems like this guy is really a major family member of Li Ao!

Wait a second, if you’re Li Ao’s close relative and you support Li Ao, doesn’t that make you the traitor lurking amongst us?

Traitors must be executed!

Die, you!

Once everyone realized this, they immediately surrounded Fuxi without any explanation and began to beat him mercilessly.

How dare you support Li Ao, that arch-demon, be stingy enough not to share even a single sour plum with us, and still try to act cool with your ugly freak appearance!

On the platform.

Zhao Kong was electrocuted into a dark green spherical shape.

Li Ao’s left hand stirred up a flurry of snowflakes again, as the cold aura sizzled, freezing the dark green sphere solid.

“My source energy!”

Shuanghan realized that his own cold aura was also being converted by Li Ao.

Unlike Qian Nian’s entire Flaming Long Sword being converted, he noticed that only a small amount of his cold aura was transformed.

It seems that his own cold aura still somewhat counters Li Ao, which is the only good news so far.

The dark green Zhao Kong was frozen stiff into an ice ball.

Li Ao lifted it with one hand.

Bang!

Li Ao harshly smashed the ice-ball-shaped Zhao Kong onto the platform.

With a loud crash, Zhao Kong was brutally smashed into an indistinguishable pile of shattered ice.

“Is he dead?”

The new spectators exchanged glances.

Was Zhao Kong killed by Li Ao?

It seems like killing isn’t allowed in the Unlimited Challenge, right? Did Li Ao intentionally break the rules?

Looking at Supervisor Lei Bao, there was no reaction.

The other two supervisors, Dou Guang and Chang Chi, also showed no intention of pursuing responsibility.

As for the three elders from the Pantheon of Myriad Realms, they were completely calm and relaxed, as if they enjoyed watching the excitement.

Everyone felt somewhat reassured. Zhao Kong probably wasn’t dead; otherwise, the supervisors and the three venerable elders of the Pantheon wouldn’t have remained so unreactive.

Sure enough.

On the platform, no one could tell what the heap of fragments was. It slowly melted and gradually turned into a puddle of rotten jelly.

The dark green rotten jelly slowly began to flow.

Merging into one another.

In a short while, it reformed into a human-like shape.

A bit later, Zhao Kong’s face slowly emerged from within, his expression frozen and shivering as if he had been immersed in cold water for a day and a night, in unbearable agony.

“You… you bunch of bastards! Huh huh… no, huh, ganging up to fight Li Ao? What are you doing? Huh huh… just standing there watching? That’s too much!”

Zhao Kong’s teeth chattered from the cold, but he couldn’t suppress the rage erupting from within.

Qiu Ye spread his hands: “Aren’t we just watching your performance?”

Qiqu agreed: “After all, you’re fine!”

Hearing this, Zhao Kong grew even angrier: “I almost died, huh huh, just by a tiny bit!”

Cang Yue pursed her lips: “Almost doesn’t count! Who was it that stood there doing nothing and enjoyed the show while we were fighting?”

Meanwhile, on the other side of the platform.

Feiyu and Liuxing were teaming up to attack Li Ao.

Disregarding their physique, both Feiyu and Liuxing were agile summoners, incredibly fast, especially the plump Liuxing, who moved with a speed that was hard to believe.

An energy eagle and an energy leopard gradually took shape amidst their circling attack.

Once formed.

They immediately pounced towards Li Ao, who stood motionless, striking him from front and back in a perfectly synchronized attack.

Tie Zheng and Man Huang also thundered into the battlefield, knowing that the attack from Feiyu and Liuxing alone wouldn’t be enough against Li Ao.

They didn’t expect to defeat Li Ao by joining the fight.

Their goal was only to entangle him.

Allowing Shuanghan and Qian Nian more time to prepare and find a better opportunity to strike.

Hiss!

Li Ao’s afterimage disappeared again.

Feiyu, Liuxing, Tie Zheng, and Man Huang’s attacks all missed.

At that moment, Li Ao stealthily appeared behind Ling Long. His right hand swiftly extended from the shadows, grasping towards Ling Long’s throat.

As if Ling Long had anticipated Li Ao’s targeting of her as the next victim, her cherry lips perfectly uttered a secret phrase at the moment of Li Ao’s appearance: “Switch!”

Her slender body turned transparent under the command of the secret phrase.

Vanished.

In the next second, just like Wu Ying before.

She also appeared under the protective silver wings above Yue Sha’s head.

And now, taking her place.

The person whose throat was grasped in Li Ao’s right hand was a fearfully screaming Youjin.

“Help!”

Youjin’s terrified scream sounded like a pitiful chick being pinched by a giant hand, and with a forceful squeeze from Li Ao’s hand, he was silenced…