LIGHTNOVELSTORY Chapter 52 - The Great Demon King Li Ao!
Chapter 52: The Great Demon King Li Ao!
Li Ao was like a ruthless Great Demon King.
Man Huang had just fallen.
Another Rock Shockwave blasted forth.
Qian Nian, wielding the Flaming Long Sword, burst forth past the severely injured and struggling Lie Feng. In the next second, the Flaming Long Sword shattered, turning into a sky full of flames.
Qian Nian, along with Cang Yue who reached out to catch him, smashed into the Stone Isles.
For a long time, neither of them could climb out from the rubble…
Li Ao’s Rock Shockwave mercilessly struck again.
This is deadly!
Is it finally my turn to die here?
Grinding his teeth, Lie Feng charged forward, only to find that Feiyu and Liuxing had gotten ahead of him, spilling their blood to block this heavy blow.
“Move aside, the next one is mine!”
Zhao Kong burst out from the side, blocking another strike.
“You guys…”
Lie Feng couldn’t help but have tears streaming down his face.
Are you guys really not afraid of dying?
“I have thick skin and won’t die!”
Zao Chi, with a face swollen like a pig, also charged forward.
With a loud boom.
Zao Chi was smashed into the preparation area, his body charred black.
Lie Feng clenched his fists tightly. You guys are not afraid of dying, how could I, Lie Feng, be afraid?
It’s just a Rock Shockwave, isn’t it? If I can take one, I can take another!
Come on!
Come on!
I must defeat you, Li Ao, I won’t give up…
Lie Feng roared towards the sky, his Windstorm Armor shattered and in tatters, he strode towards Li Ao, unstoppable.
“Hold on, let us help you take this shockwave. That’s all we can do!”
Those new trainees, who had always been resentful for not making it to the Newcomer’s Challenge List, suddenly appeared on the Obsidian Platform, standing in front of Lie Feng.
“Is it you guys? Are you out of your minds?”
Lie Feng never expected these people to step up to the platform at this moment and sacrifice themselves to create an opportunity for Shuanghan to attack.
“We may not make it onto the leaderboards, but we can still withstand a Rock Shockwave!”
Among the newcomers, the leader was a man whose belly was as huge as a toad’s.
He patted his large belly and slowly exhaled a puff of black smoke, saying, “Lie Feng, don’t get too cocky now. It’s true that you’re in the lead, but we’ll catch up soon. When that time comes, I, Chi Ming, will have you sitting on the Stone Isles, watching my competition!”
An orange card flickered through the dense smoke.
A giant Void Toad was summoned.
Facing the Rock Shockwave hurled at high speed by Li Ao, the Void Toad opened its massive mouth.
It swallowed the Rock Shockwave in one gulp.
Lie Feng was shocked.
So bold?
You actually dared to swallow it?
But in the next second, the Void Toad hastily spat the Rock Shockwave back out.
The other newcomers were already prepared, and they struck the Rock Shockwave with their strongest war beasts or maximum combat power, resulting in a massive explosion…
Boom!
When Lie Feng’s vision cleared.
The newcomers had vanished from the arena; they lay sprawled out behind the three old men of the Pantheon of Myriad Realms, battered and bruised to the point of their life’s limits, but were instantly saved by the elders at the last moment.
“Shall we also take on a Rock Shockwave for Shuanghan and Lie Feng?”
The watching newcomers snapped out of Ling Long’s Soul Song due to the shock of the powerful blast, as they were not the targets of Ling Long’s attack but had succumbed due to low mental defenses. Now sober, upon seeing such a fierce battle scene, some felt their blood boiling with excitement.
“But, that’s Li Ao the Great Devil’s Rock Shockwave!”
Some were scared; would one not die if hit by such a blast? Could their own combat power really withstand it?
“Are we just going to stand by and watch?”
Some felt that if they did not fight against Li Ao, they would regret it for life.
“Let’s die then!”
Some of the newcomers were impulsive and rushed forward immediately after speaking.
“Are you all rushing in without discussing a strategy first?”
Some of the more rational ones were almost moved to tears by this scene. Are they all pigs?
“Charge!”
Many of the newcomers were followers; when everyone rushed, they followed suit, not thinking about anything else.
They didn’t consider if they might get injured, disabled, or even die—let alone the possibility of being blasted into nothingness by a rock shockwave.
“Really, being in the same batch as you bunch of pig-headed fools is the biggest regret of my life!”
Some were reluctant to charge, but didn’t know what came over them.
Seeing everyone else rushing, their bodies involuntarily jumped down from the Stone Isles, charging towards the platform.
Despite their unwillingness, their bodies betrayed a startling honesty.
“What’s going on?”
The weakest newcomers were just waking up to reality.
“Those guys seem insane, charging to challenge the great demon king, Li Ao!”
More were in a state of confusion.
“Aren’t they going to get beaten to death?”
“Are they out of their minds?”
“I, for one, am not going to rush in and die…”
At this, everyone turned around to see that the speaker was Fuxi.
They immediately dragged him out for a beating.
After that, watching the newcomers getting blasted into the air by Li Ao’s rock shockwave, the grim scene of battle ignited their spirits thoroughly.
A tall and burly newcomer stepped forward, suggesting, “Personally, I don’t agree with charging at the platform, since our combat power is too low to withstand even a single hit from the great demon king, Li Ao! Listen to me, I haven’t finished speaking… I am not a coward! What I mean is, we should push this traitor forward, let this fatso be killed by a punch from the great demon king, Li Ao. You all… I haven’t finished yet, stop cheering, that’s not what I meant… Oh well, charge then, never mind, I, Fang Yan, am going anyway, don’t blame me if you die!”
A skinny man burst into hearty laughter, his gaunt face seemingly shining: “I, Wu Ding, am a loyal follower of the War God Emperor, and death does not frighten me! If I die, I’ll be received by my Lord’s divine messengers into the eternal kingdom. Brothers, see you in the kingdom of God!”
“I am also a follower of the War God Emperor, see you in the kingdom!”
“See you in the kingdom!”
Newcomers who believed in the War God responded in kind.
The skinny man laughed heartily.
He was the first to jump down from the Stone Isles.
Following him, the newcomers rushed forward, regardless of whose divine follower they were, their eyes red with fervor as they shouted and charged.
Caught up in the charged atmosphere, Fuxi inexplicably jumped down as well, and it wasn’t until he charged onto the Obsidian Platform and saw Li Ao emotionlessly hurling a Rock Shockwave at him that he realized what had happened.
“Ah!”
“No way!”
“I’m actually Li Ao’s boss, I’m supposed to be on his side, why did I charge with these fools? It’s all over now!”
Li Ao saw Fuxi and seemed to freeze for a moment.
The Rock Shockwave shifted.
“Kill!”
Having waited too long, Shuanghan, seeing Li Ao finally showing a reaction, erupted.
He let out a roar that shook heaven and earth, while the Ice Dragon above his head responded with a world-destroying dragon roar, instantly shaking the cosmos. On the other side, Huo Mei, boosted by the Flame Thorn Giantess, burst into flames that soared into the sky.
She darted towards Li Ao, her delicate fingers poised at the swirling golden fireball that the Little Red Dragon Feier had been gathering…
Li Ao snapped back to reality, but unfortunately, Shuanghan and Huo Mei had already seized the opportunity to attack from both sides.
Shuanghan was on the left, his fist carrying a dragon breath colder than millennium-old profound ice, thundering towards his target.
Huo Mei and the Flame Thorn Giantess appeared on Li Ao’s right.
The golden fireball spun rapidly at her fingertips.
“Get lost!”
Li Ao threw his fists like meteors, striking at Shuanghan and Huo Mei head-on, choosing to face the attack without flinching.
“Quick, save them!”
The three old men from the Pantheon of Myriad Realms saw this and hurriedly cooperated.
The strongest among them.
Also the driest and skinniest, resembling a withered old man, continued to support the energy barrier.
The other two, a goat-bearded old man and a bald, tall old man, appeared like lightning on the Obsidian Platform, instantly whisking away half of the newcomers each and returning behind the energy barrier.
The small world of Unlimited Challenge seemed on the brink of destruction.
Apart from the raging flames and frost.
Nothing else existed.
Even with the assistance of Supervisors Dou Guang and Chang Chi, the assistant referees could no longer linger in the prep area. One by one, they were blown skyward, seemingly about to be devoured by the icy and fiery vortex that consumed everything… Suddenly, Supervisor Lei Bao appeared, descending like a deity, his giant hand pressed down, and all the assistant referees blown into the sky were instantly immobilized.
On the Stone Isles, where the secret surveillance families’ elders tested their descendants, they could no longer maintain their composed, elder demeanor.
They were forced to use their strongest defenses.
Otherwise, even with their power, they could not withstand the annihilating vortex of dragon flame and dragon breath that threatened to devour everything.
The ground shattered, and the sky roared…
Sand flew, and stones scattered as if signaling the apocalypse.
A chaotic energy storm furiously mixed every corner of the Unlimited Challenge space.
The newcomers, who were saved and hiding behind the energy barrier, nearly suffocated.
They struggled to breathe freely under this terrifying pressure.
Without the unbreakable energy barrier’s protection, they believed they would have turned to dust in this destructive storm.
The destructive storm drilled a black hole over the arena, then furiously vented until all the chaotic source energy calmed down.
Time passed, unmeasured.
When everything returned to its former calm, and the dust settled.
The newcomers timidly peeked out from their sheltered huddle, their eyes wide as they looked towards the battlefield.
The Obsidian Platform had disappeared.
It was completely destroyed by the devastating attack, leaving only a huge, broken pit as proof of its existence.
Shuanghan lay in the deep pit of the arena, lifeless or alive unknown, with the Ice Dragon guarding beside him.
On the other side, Huo Mei was protected mid-air by dozens of Flaming Thorn Giantesses.
She lay unconscious.
The Little Red Dragon anxiously flew around her.
Ling Long was no longer dancing; she tiredly embraced Yue Sha.
What about Li Ao?
The newcomers were most concerned about whether Li Ao, the great demon lord, had been defeated. If such an attack couldn’t bring down Li Ao, they really didn’t know what else to say!
The Obsidian Platform was long gone.
In the deepest part of the pit.
There was a shadow.
Under everyone’s watchful eyes, it gradually became clear…