Chapter 351: A Villain Among Villains

Amidst the hissing and roaring, the blood-red light shook violently.

As the Colonel rose once more, a long spear coiled with blood and bone was spat from his mouth. With a casual swing, shrill wails emerged from the wind.

In an instant, across the boundless sea mist, those amber vertical pupils locked onto Ji Jue's position.

Immediately after, the hull of the fishing boat suddenly buckled, cracking open a gruesome fissure, and he had already torn through the hull and catapulted out!

He was like a blood-red meteor traveling between sea and sky, piercing through the fog.

——【Wind-Swept Clouds】!

The blessing after its second qualitative leap had already ignored all obstacles of terrain; even the deathly silent seawater turned into solid ground beneath his feet, allowing him to gallop at will.

At full sprint, the whistling blood-red light crossed nearly half the distance at a terrifying speed that the naked eye could barely track.

From beginning to end, Ji Jue simply sat in his chair, chin resting on his hand.

Watching quietly.

Until the moment that streak of blood-red light finally crossed a certain boundary, the *Prosperity* roared—under the command and transformation of the Mechanical God, the deck bloomed like a lotus, and then, in the darkness, ship-mounted cannons of astonishing caliber rose from the ground like towers.

And then, row after row of missile launchers emerged, glowing with scorching flames.

In a flash, the cargo ship transformed, revealing its ferocious nature—countless bullets turned into lines of fire, weaving together, locking onto the target; a relentless tide of lead whistled out.

And then, the ejected steel stars descended from the sky.

Missiles incoming!

If it weren't for the fact that the Swarm was far too agile and difficult to lock onto, Ji Jue would have made him taste the main cannon he'd just installed a few days ago...

Just like that, through extravagant squandering, the machine gun bullets and short-range missiles produced by the cattle and horses in the underground factories illuminated the Colonel's eyes, filling the sky.

A moment of stagnation.

You motherf...

On that ferocious face, his lips seemed to open and close subconsciously, cursing some obscenity, but even the sound could not be carried out.

Only mocking laughter, like a hallucination, echoed in the wind.

Charging a warship's firepower single-handedly?

Big brother, you're so brave!

In an instant, amidst the fire trajectories revealed by the tracer rounds, that straight-charging blood-red meteor began to slam on the brakes. He didn't know how many violent waves he stirred up, stumbling and leaping like a monkey, dodging left and right by relying on the near-overloaded "Enemy-Defeating Preemption" and the Swarm's stats, moving in a wretched manner.

The firepower of six twin-mounted ship cannons actually couldn't catch him.

Even when he couldn't dodge in time, the blood-bone spear in his hand swept and whirled, actually fending off that terrifying firepower. Even if a stray bullet occasionally slipped through, it only left cracks on the scales on his body, unable to pierce through.

He was a Swarm, after all; his stats were maxed out.

It was just a pity that unless he suddenly transformed into a Transcendent, expanded his Encircled Realm, and fended off all firepower, no matter how beautiful his stats were, it would be difficult to withstand this violent barrage.

Amidst the cold, mocking, and ravaging strafing, the Colonel roared, his blood-flames shaking again. He slammed his spear into the 'ground,' suddenly kicking up a violent airwave, deflecting the torrents of metal that were like maggots on bone.

A moment of escape.

Immediately after, the missiles descending from the sky exploded with a bang. Amidst the firelight, a figure had already been pushed out again by the shockwave.

No matter how he twisted and turned to dodge, those missiles were like living creatures, chasing closely behind. Their trajectories twisted provocatively, changing direction as nimbly as wild dogs, biting down and refusing to let go!

Until he suddenly turned back, stepping through the air like a meteor, trampling on the missiles. With his spear piercing and slashing, in a short instant, dozens of pursuing missiles were shattered and exploded by him.

Nothing more than this!

The Colonel in mid-air didn't even have time to grin before he saw the missiles, which were originally close at hand, suddenly change. They grew wings, and amidst the friction of steel, they turned into eerie silhouettes like flying birds, pouncing over.

Animation!

Boom!

Fortunately, before the explosion, the blood-bone spear had already pierced out, and the erupting blood-flames shattered it first.

Regrettably, at this moment, the missiles whistling over again had also completely transformed under Ji Jue's manipulation.

Increasingly agile, attacking without end.

The Colonel was furious, then angrier, then angrier still. The tyrannical spiritual quality fluctuations climbed higher and higher, but he couldn't shake off those monsters that were clinging to him so tightly. Instead, amidst the successive explosions, his scales shattered one after another.

And just during another eruption, he felt a chill down his back. When he turned his head abruptly, he saw... under the cover of the other missile monsters, one he hadn't paid attention to suddenly burst open!

Beneath the scattered shell, iron wings unfolded. Immediately after, a mechanical arm emerged from the flowing silver light and clenched tight.

Beneath the palm, the shackles were undone.

The blockade of Solid Alchemy fell apart, and a weird, scarlet blade erupted with hair-raising light and flame.

In the dash, the blade whistled and left his hand.

——Slash!

"You motherf—"

Suddenly, the Colonel's eyes widened, his eyelids splitting.

He couldn't make a sound other than profanity.

The moment he noticed it, it was already close at hand. If it weren't for the warning from "Enemy-Defeating Preemption," he probably wouldn't even have known his neck had been cut!

From the beginning until now, every move and every style, it was all so damn dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty...

Too dirty!

Even if the life-and-death struggles between the Qiandao were despicable and low, and poisoning and backstabbing had become daily operations, and ganging up and kicking were considered fair and square, there had never been such a dirty opponent!

It was simply a villain among villains, one dirtier than the next!

Which one of us is actually the pirate?

The Colonel was so angry that his vision went black, filled with grief and indignation. He wanted to look up and roar: Do you dare to stand out and fight me one-on-one! Unfortunately, it was already too late.

In this intersection of less than a snap of the fingers, he only had time to turn his blood-spear and slash backward, wanting to block it for a moment, but he couldn't even succeed for a single moment.

As the saying goes, heroes check heroes, good men check good men, and peers kill peers.

Panying's effect when hacking at a Swarm was simply outstanding.

Especially after Ji Jue's tempering and refining these past few days, the blood-red color on the blade had been washed away. At this moment, as it swung, it actually revealed a dreamlike, illusory ripple.

The collision in an instant cut a notch into the Colonel's spear. Whirling around, the remaining momentum unabated, it moved forward, slashing through that layer of thick scales like a hot knife through wax. With just one intersection, it chiseled a penetrating fissure diagonally from his left shoulder.

If he hadn't instinctively dodged a little before that, a head should have flown into the sky by now!

Unable to care about the intense pain and shock currently wracking his body, the Colonel had not even recovered from the horrific aftermath of his head being displaced before he felt it once again... a bone-chilling, malicious cold.

——Emerging from behind him!

He almost wanted to cry out.

!

Again?

Slap!

Panying, which had whirled away, hadn't even gone far before it fell into an open mechanical hand. Clenched tight, and then, the blood tide surged, light and flame sprayed!

The turbulent sea surface suddenly opened from the center, and the behemoth that had sneaked under the sea at some unknown time leaped up!

By diffusing his own spiritual quality through the blessing of "Spring Pulse Transfer" and merging into the sea tide, the blessing of "Human-Heaven Isomorphism" allowed him to connect with this piece of sea area as one.

Finally, he reinforced himself with "Solid Rock Firmness."

At this moment, behind the Colonel, amidst the sea tide that had opened like an abyss, the Longshan Armor appeared.

It had been waiting for a long time!

Amidst the humid sea breeze and fog, spiritual quality circuits that had long been laid out emerged from the mercury mist, extending and expanding in thousands of threads, entangling the Colonel.

Entangling and pulling, locking and stagnating.

And then, the sound of bubbles shattering rang out.

Panying pierced through!

The blade was like a nail, piercing the heart and matrix, severing the resonance between blessings, and then, it violently began to extract the life and power belonging to the Swarm.

"Don't, don't... don't... no... ahhhhhhh!!!!!"

An unexpected, shrill scream rang out, crying and begging.

The Colonel's body began to wither and shrivel rapidly, the horns on his head shattered, and his scales fell off. He could no longer maintain his rebirth form, and even the Inherited Burnt Offering lost its response.

The Sacrifice Master was indifferent, unmoved.

If the Supreme Good had a spirit, it might have given him a big slap—what a disgraceful thing, if you can't afford to lose, don't play! I gave you so many chances, and you still lost? And you dare to bark like a dog after losing?!

The moment the Sacrifice of Shame failed, all the injuries that had been taken away by the Scar Sacrifice Master were thrown back.

In an instant, he was severely wounded again, on the verge of death.

But at this moment, what made the Colonel feel fear and despair was not death.

It was that the enemy didn't seem to want to kill him...

On the contrary, those thousands of silver threads began to penetrate his body, maintaining his life. Then, in a leisurely manner, they began to strip away his matrix and blessings.

Taking away all his power!

Losing life would only lead to death.

But if he lost his power, then even death might become a luxury... For so many years, he had seen too many such ends in the slaughter and looting between the Qiandao!

Meat pigs, spiritual pools, embryos, vesicles...

Thinking that he would fall into such a result, the Colonel no longer had any restraint or courage. Tears and snot flowed, he shouted and begged, struggling and howling, promising everything he had or didn't have, and even bringing out his worthless afterlife and present life.

Finally, amidst his tear-blurred prayers and pleas, he heard the sound of footsteps approaching.

So low.

Like the judgment of fate.

On the water surface hardened and shaped by material interference, Ji Jue lowered his eyes, overlooking the material beneath his feet. In the scorching light of the searchlight, he cast a ferocious shadow.

Just like that, he slowly bent down, staring at that terrified, twitching face, choked with tears.

After a long while, he suddenly smiled.

He said, "Could you please do me a favor?"

Subconsciously, the Colonel held his breath, twitching in fear, yet still holding onto a glimmer of hope, nodding like a pestle pounding garlic.

Slap!

A bloody human head fell before him, rolling, with a face twisted in mortal terror...

Tu Sihai!

"Besides that, then please do me the favor of bringing a message to that 'General'."

Ji Jue reached out and pressed down on his face.

Before the darkness struck, the Colonel only heard the final, contemptuous words:

"——My things, don't you dare touch them!"

(End of chapter)