Absolute Disadvantage
"No need to waste words with him." Tu Tian casually flicked, and the long staff behind him tumbled and soared into the sky. His eyes stared fixedly at Chen Ling, speaking coldly, "Just a Fourth Order... just kill him."
The next moment, his figure stepped out!
Like an arrow leaving the bowstring, he instantly dragged out an afterimage in the air. When he reappeared, he had already arrived in front of Chen Ling. A slender palm tightly clenched into a fist, smashing towards Chen Ling's face!
Chen Ling originally wanted to also throw a fist and wrestle with him, but his pupils keenly caught that as Tu Tian's fist swung out, the surrounding space was actually slightly distorted. Following that, he dodged to the side like lightning!
Tu Tian's fist hammered into the void, as if smashing into an invisible wall. Under the spatial turbulence, dense spiderwebs instantly cracked in the air... After a half-second pause, the half-block directly facing him all instantly turned into fine dust, and an earth-shattering explosion resounded through the heavens and earth!
Boom—!!!
"What terrifying power." Chen Ling, clad in a blood-colored windbreaker, drew a long arc in the air like a butterfly, and finally landed gracefully on a building, his expression incredibly solemn.
If Chen Ling's reaction just now was half a beat slower, probably half of his body along with the block behind him would have all crumbled into pieces by now... Even if he had the [Blood Raiment] protecting his body and his power received a buff, he didn't possess the qualifications to confront this person's power head-on.
Just as Chen Ling steadied his figure, a sense of ultimate extreme pressure transmitted from the sky above. He only saw a long staff dancing under the night sky, and then rapidly starting to fall downward, tearing through the air and shrouded in flames like a shooting star, like a banner obscuring the canopy of the heavens!
This falling banner was like divine might descending from the sky, squeezing the several surrounding buildings until they were tottering.
A massive amount of smoke and dust drifted down from the floor slabs, and the old street lamps on both sides of the street were directly twisted and deformed, as if flattened by a giant invisible hand, compressed into a lump on the ground.
At the same time, Chen Ling's bones were also almost crushed into pieces, making it difficult to move even a fraction. In his pupils, that burning magnificent banner was exactly like a life-claiming shooting star, heading straight for his face!
"Is this the sense of oppression of the Fifth-Tier..."
Chen Ling didn't dare to have the slightest slackness anymore, directly reaching out to grip the handle of the gun!
A Domain instantly expanded!
...
Not far from the battlefield.
"The Qiankun Twins of the Dragon-Strangling Warriors, huh..." Referee 06, wearing a fluorescent robe, clicked his tongue. "Sure enough, in the end it still drew the S-rank monsters to take action, and drew two of them at once to boot."
He saw the radiance of judgment tear through the long sky. Chen Ling tore open a corner of Tu Tian's banner, not retreating but advancing, actually directly engaging in close combat with Tu Tian.
Chen Ling didn't dare to take Tu Tian's attacks head-on, and Tu Tian was also deliberately dodging [Judgment]. Even with a Fifth-Tier body, facing the number one single-target lethal Path of the Way of the Soldier God, he didn't dare to act rashly.
Coupled with the fact that Chen Ling possessed [Cloud Steps], his movement technique was faster than Tu Tian. For a time, the two of them actually fell into a stalemate.
Referee 06 nodded slightly:
"This Lin Yan indeed has some strength, being able to fight back and forth with Tu Tian as a Fourth Order."
"What a pity... Tu Tian's strength doesn't stop here."
"And he isn't the only enemy of this level..."
Just as Chen Ling and Tu Tian were slaughtering each other, Fudi carrying the rake beside them seemed to become somewhat impatient. He backhandedly gripped the rake in his hand, stomped on the ground, and also rapidly rushed towards the battlefield!
"Don't waste time with this guy, otherwise when other thorny guys hear the commotion and come over later, we will instead fall into passivity." Fudi said in a deep voice. "Finish him off together!"
With yet another Fifth-Tier joining the battlefield, Chen Ling's situation instantly took a sharp turn for the worse!
That rake swung on the ground, and the earth beneath Chen Ling's feet seemed to come alive, directly swallowing half of his body in one bite. Before he could struggle, Tu Tian charged in front of him with crushing momentum, the burning banner whistling as it swept horizontally!
Bang—!!
Most of the bones in Chen Ling's body shattered. His whole person flew backward like a kite with a broken string. After wildly skimming for nearly a hundred meters, he finally crashed headfirst into an abandoned building!
Seeing this from afar, Referee 06 murmured to himself, "It seems the next corpse to be collected will be him."
Rolling dust dispersed.
The blood-drenched Chen Ling fell among the rubble, coughing violently.
Chen Ling was ultimately only Fourth Order. Fighting a Fifth-Tier alone and being able to fight back and forth was already not easy, let alone facing the joint efforts of two of the very top young geniuses of the Path of Force...
Moreover, that referee had been observing from the side all along. Everything that happened in the battle would probably be reported by him to the higher-ups of the Five Great Realms. Exactly because of this, he didn't dare to use abilities like 'Sleeve-Hand Pushing Heaven' or 'Reshape' indiscriminately either. In case someone among these higher-ups had some understanding of the Red King and the Lord of Wuji, things would be troublesome.
The current Chen Ling was dancing with shackles on, naturally he wouldn't be a match for the Qiankun Twins.
"Is my only option still to find an opportunity to escape..."
Chen Ling wiped away the fresh blood at the corner of his mouth and began to look for the most likely direction to escape. As his peripheral vision swept across his surroundings, he saw a conspicuous fluorescent robe looking down at him from a distance, as if waiting for him to breathe his last.
At this instant, a thought welled up in Chen Ling's mind!
No...
Setting aside what the probability of escaping in front of the Qiankun Twins was, even if he ran away this time, the Audience Expectation Value would still be stuck in a bottleneck. At the current speed, I'm afraid it would be impossible to reach 70% within 48 hours...
Furthermore, when the final [Heaven-Reaching Star Position] appeared, he would ultimately still encounter the Qiankun Twins. At that time he still wouldn't be a match, and could only swallow his hatred and die in the end...
This was not the Script Chen Ling wanted.
He wanted an opportunity, an opportunity that could reverse everything, that could accumulate Audience Expectation Value in an extremely short time, that could avoid dancing with shackles on, that could purge dissidents, and that could finally lead straight to the [Heaven-Reaching Star Position]!
Chen Ling looked at the Qiankun Twins walking over like demon gods in the rolling dust, a brilliant gleam flashing in his eyes.
"Then let's... take a gamble!"
"To what extent this play can be performed all depends on this segment!"
Chen Ling dragged his riddled body and stood up from the ruins. Tightly gripping the handle of the Bone-Stripping Knife, he actually took the initiative to charge towards the Qiankun Twins!!
"Eh?" Fudi originally thought that after experiencing their joint crushing, Chen Ling had a high probability of being directly near death. Even if he still had the ability to move, it was estimated he wouldn't dare to fight with them, and would think about escaping as much as possible...
But he absolutely never expected that Chen Ling would actually choose to take the initiative to launch an attack.
"Commendable courage." Tu Tian held the banner in one hand, a flash of killing intent passing through his eyes. "What a pity... you don't have any chance of winning."
The next moment, like an unstoppable god of war, he whistled as he charged to meet Chen Ling!
In the abandoned building, two figures rapidly approached!