"Bang!" 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Fist and palm slammed together. Lu Tianxing only felt a vast, torrential force surge over; his True Qi was shattered in an instant, a sharp pain lanced through his palm, and his whole body staggered uncontrollably backward several steps. With each step, a deep footprint appeared in the ground, shockingly clear to the eye.

At the same time, Shiva’s attack was already right before them. Those Superpower Users strapped with bombs hadn’t even realized what was happening before they were pierced through by those countless tiny Spears of Destruction, turning into human sieves in an instant, slaughtered on the spot without even managing a scream.

Then those thin Spears of Destruction seemed to be manipulated by some invisible force, merging into a gigantic hand that directly crushed those corpses to pulp. Even the bombs on their bodies were ground to dust by that overwhelming power of destruction, completely reduced to nothingness.

"Angel, Judge, do you still have any cards left to play?"

After finishing all this, Shiva stood where he was, staring coldly at Lu Tianxing and Angel, a killing intent so icy it couldn’t be concealed pouring off his entire body.

Hearing Shiva’s words, Angel’s expression instantly turned incomparably grave. This was her last bargaining chip. Just as Hound had said, in fact only one of the bombs on those people was real, the rest were fakes, but she was confident it would be enough to scare Nelson into not daring to act rashly.

But for all her calculations, she never imagined Hound would strike regardless of the cost. Hound was only a Heavenly Peak Martial Artist; taking action was no different from seeking his own death. Yet Hound had still acted, completely and utterly ruining her plan.

Angel took a deep breath, ignored Shiva, and instead looked at Lu Tianxing, speaking softly: "My dear, I’m sorry, my plan failed."

Lu Tianxing lightly shook his head and said to Angel, "It’s fine, just a small matter. With just them, they can’t do anything to me."

As he finished speaking, Lu Tianxing looked at Angel and said very solemnly, "Angel, in a moment I’ll fight with everything I’ve got to open a path for you. Remember, you must leave here immediately and absolutely must not look back. Do you understa—"

Before Lu Tianxing could finish, Angel cut him off harshly: "I won’t leave."

Angel’s face was filled with resolve, full of unyielding stubbornness.

Hearing Angel’s words, Lu Tianxing’s brows furrowed at once, and his voice sank a bit: "Angel, this is not the time to be willful. I can’t protect you, do you understand?"

"I don’t need you to protect me."

In Angel’s eyes burned a determination that no one could shake.

"Angel..."

"Lu Tianxing, you are my man—Angel’s man—and the only man I will ever have in this life. I have no other request. I only hope that in heaven we’ll be two wings of the same bird, on earth two branches entwined; in life we share the same bed, in death the same grave."

Angel looked at Lu Tianxing and said, one word at a time, "No matter life or death, I’ll stay by your side through honor and disgrace."

If she lived, Angel would be with Lu Tianxing. If she died, Angel would accompany Lu Tianxing together into the netherworld, never abandoning, never forsaking him in this life.

Hearing Angel’s words, Lu Tianxing’s entire body trembled fiercely. From those unquestionable eyes of Angel, he could feel that this time, no matter what he said, Angel would not choose to leave. He could only let out a helpless sigh.

And just then, Shiva, who had been silent all this time, spoke again: "You two, are you done with your last words? If you’re finished, I can send you on your way now."

"Send us on our way, Shiva? That depends on whether you have the ability." Lu Tianxing turned his head to look at Shiva, completely unafraid as he spoke.

"Hmph, then I’ll let you experience it right now."

As the words fell, Shiva struck first.

"Smack!"

Shiva stomped off the ground, his whole body shooting toward Lu Tianxing like an arrow loosed from the string.

The instant he rushed at Lu Tianxing, the True Qi within Shiva roared out wildly, flooding into the air with a destructive aura, as if it meant to obliterate everything between heaven and earth.

"Judge, be destroyed!"

Shiva roared, his five fingers flaring open as he clawed at the air. True Qi surged like a mountain, churning with the momentum of overturning rivers and seas. That tidal wave of True Qi condensed into a dragon of several dozen meters, tearing through the air as it smashed down. In the blink of an eye it was before Lu Tianxing, its True Qi dragon maw gaping wide, expanding, swallowing, snapping down in one bite.

"Retreat!"

Lu Tianxing drove his True Qi, his body suddenly springing backward.

The True Qi dragon bit down where he had just been, on the concrete ground beneath his feet. The hard concrete was like tofu, instantly bitten into a massive crater.

Judging from that, if it had bitten a human body, it would have chewed a person to pieces on the spot.

"Judge. I didn’t expect you to dodge it. Unfortunately, how many times can you dodge?"

Seeing Lu Tianxing evade his strike, Shiva’s expression didn’t change at all. If Lu Tianxing could die so easily by his hand, he wouldn’t have escaped him earlier.

However, as he spoke, the ferocious grin on Shiva’s face only grew thicker. Rivers of True Qi rolled turbulently over his body, giving off a suffocating pressure.

"Swoosh!"

Shiva’s figure flickered, his speed ghostly to the extreme. In the blink of an eye he appeared above Lu Tianxing’s head. His palm moved, violent True Qi surging wildly as it pressed straight down toward Lu Tianxing.

In an instant Lu Tianxing felt the surrounding air suddenly roil into unseen undercurrents, turning into huge vortices that sucked his whole body in place, giving him the feeling of stepping into a quagmire, unable to move an inch.

The calamity that would drown him was about to descend.

With his strength, facing this strike of Shiva’s, he actually felt as if he couldn’t even breathe. It was clear Shiva was seriously going all out this time, and from the very first move intended to heavily injure or even kill him.

"Kill!"

Since he couldn’t escape today, then he’d fight to the death. At the very least, he’d drag Shiva with him down to the etherworld.

Lu Tianxing didn’t hesitate in the slightest. His whole body shuddered, muscles, bones, and flesh swelling as Creation True Qi roared through him like a mighty river, surging and rumbling, operating at full force. A majestic, domineering, ferocious, brutal aura erupted from Lu Tianxing’s body without reservation.

"Buzz..."

A long spear appeared in his hand. He actually didn’t dodge at all, choosing mutual destruction, thrusting out with a single spear. No flourish, just speed pushed to the absolute limit, like a bolt of lightning ripping across the sky, stabbing straight for Shiva’s throat.