The slow-moving white clouds in the sky seemed as if they might descend at any moment.
Make haste!
The Central King's eyes were cold and stern.
▷No one can escape destiny, everyone is bound to be captured by death, only the wind and light are eternal.
"How do you sever the claws of the wind?" She gripped her weapon, "I shall be like the wind, forever chasing freedom; I will be like light, vowing never to extinguish!"
Her eyes burned like the sun.
The Mage cast a spell with great side effects, her power reaching its peak.
No one can escape destiny, everyone is bound to be captured by death, only the wind and light are eternal... Even so, the Central King still believed she would be the exception.
"We're in trouble," the young Martial Saint said with a solemn expression.
They could feel the Central King's powerful strength and her determination to face death.
Arman held dual guns, his eyes fixated on the Central King with confusion, "What is she looking at?"
The heart of the Fiery Fire Phoenix skipped a beat; looking up at the sky, she saw Soda Crackers with headphones on, eyes open, giving her a slight smile from the auspicious clouds.
Arman tightened his grip on his dual guns.
The young Martial Saint's entire "Ability" was pushed to the limit, hidden yet ready to strike with the force of thunder at any moment.
"Strike with the resolve to kill him," the Door Plate took a deep breath, "otherwise we can't survive."
The signal lights rapidly blinked red, green, yellow, yellow, green, red...
In the bustling area of Song City, twelve players from the Heaven Group were slain by Li Changzhou in one move; coincidentally, there were eight of them.
He wanted to say something, but his throat felt as though it was tightly grasped, rendering him speechless.
"Unlike the world of animals, human society has been comfortable for too long," Li Changzhou rose from the Cloud Platform, "matters of life and death are too far from us."
He stepped across the void, coming closer.
"The rules of the game are different, to live is to live, to die is to die, without a heart that's steadfast and willing to die for righteousness, one can only be the fish on the cutting board."
"You would break your promise?!" The Fiery Fire Phoenix roared, her flames morphing into a phoenix, its wings causing the air to warp and distort.
As soon as Li Changzhou's feet touched the ground, the Central King, connected with the earth, immediately felt his unparalleled strength and the murderous aura like mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
Her soul almost recoiled in fright.
The stone beasts on the earth seemed to turn to actual stone the moment his feet touched the ground.
Only the Central King, the Mage, and the Guard Captain could sense that the ground, which seemed calm but was once lively, now lay in absolute silence, as if barren of all life.
"I will help you take the crown," Li Changzhou walked past the Fiery Fire Phoenix.
He stood before the Central King, "I defeat you, you give me the crown, you can go rebuild your homeland, no one will bother you again."
The Central King positioned herself for a thrust, her right arm level with the ground, elbow pulled back, left shoulder slightly forward.
▷I hear the era opposing me. And so—I let the Morning Star burn, the dusk to halt, here I drop anchor.
She charged forth.
Life, flesh, strength all burned; her eyes shone like bright flames, Li Changzhou drew out the Emerald Bee Sword.
The Central King was pushed back, yet she still struggled, looking for that perhaps impossible chance of victory.
▷I see time disguised as wind, blowing from the direction of death.
The Emerald Bee Sword hacked into the Central King's left shoulder, almost piercing her heart, her longsword grazing past Li Changzhou's cheek.
▷I was born within wind and light, and to them I shall return.
The Central King felt her consciousness plummeting as she saw the lightbugs dancing; she saw her father, saw the dead warriors.
Li Changzhou sheathed the Emerald Bee Sword.
"Concede?"
The Central King's vision cleared of illusions, she heard the powerless roars of the Mage and Guard Captain.
She looked at the Earth God before her, laughed breathlessly, "The deity of Earth… do you bleed?"
Warmth on his face, Li Changzhou wiped it, finding crimson blood on his fingertip; the wound slowly healed.
"Faith can't fill your stomach, nor can it keep you and your people alive." He gave her one last chance.
"I will burn, becoming a line of light."
Li Changzhou looked into the distance, gazing towards the center, winter, autumn, spring; he saw cities in ruins, deathly ice, rotten fruit, shattered earth.
"In my later years," he withdrew his gaze, looking at the Central King, "when reflecting on the past, I will remember that I once slaughtered millions on this planet, and also bled... though just a drop."
The Emerald Bee Sword emitted a stream of emerald light.
"Stop!"
According to the "Black on White" treaty, during the New Year event, players are not allowed to harm each other.
The Emerald Bee Sword stopped in midair, Hou Feng standing in front of the Central King, blood streaming from his chest, the Central King's sword tip protruding from it.
Hou Feng raised his hand to stop the approaching players from the Special Warfare Bureau; he took a step forward, pulling the sword from his body.
He turned around, looking at the Central King: "We just want to return home, I hope the wounds and blood on my body will be the last harm between Earth and the Four Seasons Star."
The Central King was somewhat moved, but she quickly regained her resolute stance.
"Running through my body is the wind; you'll never have the crown." She raised her sword to her neck.
A surge of Radiant Light burst forth, knocking the Central King's sword away.
"Deity of the Earth, please accept the crown. We are willing to submit, hoping you will spare my daughter."
In the almost mournful, aged voice that carried a heavy sense of sorrow, a golden yellow crown, flowing with an odd luster, flew out from the Central King's daughter's body.
The Central King couldn't believe it.
The father who would rather die in battle than surrender the crown...