Chapter 183: The martial maniac Flame Emperor appears—when will even a worm dare to speak?

The screen lights up again.

Li Haotian's willpower recovers, and he again dons his armor to go into battle.

Lu Fa reshapes his flesh, wielding the Thunderbolt Absolute Command Sword, his aura overwhelming everything.

But at his first provocation, he is easily crushed by the upgraded War God Xingtian, and is directly knocked back to his gene-code state.

This is the first defeat.

Afterward, the scene cuts to an abandoned underground pipe.

The environment is dim.

Water droplets strike the rust-covered pipe surface.

At the end of the passage, purple lightning suddenly explodes.

Space undergoes strong distortion.

Lu Fa walks slowly into the frame, wearing silver-purple interlaced Asura Armor.

The armor's surface is covered with sharp spikes, and the dark-purple energy core on its chest continuously emits destructive will-energy fluctuations.

This set of armor does not belong to the three basic models.

It represents the pinnacle of galactic technology and law.

Li Haotian merges with Xingtian Armor, standing at the opposite end of the passage.

There is no dialogue.

Li Haotian draws the Fire Punishment Sword, exerts force with his legs, and rushes straight at Lu Fa.

The red blade traces a crescent trajectory, slashing straight at the visor of the Asura Armor.

Lu Fa doesn't even draw a weapon.

He merely raises his left hand.

Boom!

The arm guard of the Asura Armor collides with the Fire Punishment Sword.

No sparks.

Lu Fa, relying on absolute power, clamps the blade of the Fire Punishment Sword with one hand.

Li Haotian immediately twists his wrist, trying to pull the sword free, while his right leg drives a knee strike straight at the opponent's abdomen.

Lu Fa sneers.

His right fist accumulates purple lightning in an extremely short time.

Boom!

A punch blasts out.

Space produces a visible shockwave.

The chest plate of the Xingtian Armor directly dents.

Li Haotian flies backward over thirty meters, consecutively breaking five thick concrete load-bearing pillars.

Debris flies.

Light flickers.

The Xingtian Armor disintegrates on the spot.

Li Haotian half-kneels on the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

His internal organs suffer severe shock.

The might of the Asura is fully displayed at this moment.

【When Li Haotian does not know that Lu Fa is beneath the Asura Armor, he is defeated by Lu Fa.】

The myriad realms audience feels that suffocating oppression.

The sky fast-forwards.

【And when Li Haotian knows that Lu Fa is beneath the Asura Armor, fear disappears.】

【In its place comes intense fighting spirit.】

The scene freezes at an abandoned power plant.

High-voltage power towers stand in the wilderness.

Li Haotian again battles Lu Fa's transformed Asura Armor.

The two engage in close combat on the open ground.

Red will-energy frenziedly burns around Li Haotian.

The surrounding air is ignited by the high temperature.

All distracting thoughts are completely discarded.

He does not consider how strong the opponent's armor is, nor the gap in their paper stats.

Only the determination to utterly annihilate it remains.

【Xingtian Armor, upgraded!】

War God Xingtian descends.

A red light pillar shoots straight to the heavens, dispersing the dark clouds above the power plant.

Li Haotian reverse-grips the Fire Punishment Heaven Blazing Sword.

The ground beneath his feet shatters with a boom.

He does not retreat but advances, charging straight at Lu Fa with a frenzied posture of mutual destruction.

The blade sweeps horizontally, vertically, and thrusts straight.

There are no defensive moves; all are lethal killing techniques aimed at the vital points of the Asura Armor.

Lu Fa was shocked and dismayed.

He never expected the opponent's willpower to surge to this extent in an instant.

The Flame-Punishing Heaven Fierce Sword, carrying endless fury, repeatedly struck the Asura Armor.

Lu Fa hastily raised his arm, summoning the Asura Splitting Wind Claw to block.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The collision of weapons generated a huge shockwave, flinging all the surrounding debris into the air.

Li Haotian fought faster and faster, harder and harder.

The red sword shadows merged into a curtain of light.

Lu Fa's hands went numb, and the light blade of the Asura Splitting Wind Claw was cleanly severed by the Flame-Punishing Heaven Fierce Sword.

The Asura Armor's absolute defense formation announced its collapse.

Lu Fa was shaken and kept stumbling backward, his steps unsteady.

This inconceivable scene overturned everyone's understanding.

The Milky Way's strongest armor was actually being beaten down by an upgraded basic-model armor!

Lu Fa was filled with shock and anger.

This was a great disgrace.

He forcibly mobilized the Asura's willpower, and purple lightning gathered at his chest.

He attempted to unleash his ultimate skill, using the armor's hardware advantage to forcefully end the battle.

Li Haotian gave him no time to charge up.

The Flame-Punishing Heaven Fierce Sword was raised high above his head.

The red willpower aura rapidly spread through midair.

There were no extra movements.

The purest power poured forth.

The red sword blade, over ten meters long, tore the air with an extremely piercing sonic boom, fiercely slashing onto the Asura Armor's purple lightning protective aura.

Two tremendous forces collided, deadlocking for only half a second.

Boom!

The purple lightning aura shattered completely.

Lu Fa let out a shrill, miserable scream.

His massive body was toppled by the immense force.

His knees went weak.

Lu Fa dropped to one knee.

The surface of the Asura Armor was covered in high-temperature burn scorch marks.

The phone's battery indicator light flashed rapidly.

Li Haotian raised his sword and strode toward Lu Fa.

His steps were extremely steady, killing intent locked onto the target. He was ready to carry out summary execution on the spot.

At the moment the sword blade was about to fall.

A black shadow shot out at extreme speed.

Underworld Demon Kura

Purple-red light blazed forth.

The light flashed, and Kura took Lu Fa, his eyes full of terror, disappearing into the wreckage of the power plant.

On the open ground, only the lone, ferocious figure of War God Xingtian remained.

The myriad heavens and worlds were completely in an uproar.

Death God World

Thirteenth Division, Eleventh Squad Barracks

Gengmu Jianba gripped his Soul-Cutter Sword and laughed wildly:

"Excellent! This is the real slaughter! No matter what rotten copper and iron you wear, as long as your will is strong enough, I'll still cleave you in two!"

Battle Breaker World

Jinan Academy

Xiao Yan crossed his arms, a sneer on his face:

"This is way too weak. Max-level god gear given to a dog! Wearing the strongest armor and still getting beaten up by someone higher level!"

"From start to finish, being beaten down, Li Haotian calling him 'dad'—Lu Fa really had it coming."

One Person Under the World

Dragon Tiger Mountain

Zhang Chulan gave a thumbs-up:

"Big Brother Tian is a ruthless person. I thought he was steady, but I didn't expect that when he gets ruthless, he doesn't even care about his life."

"On the contrary, Lu Fa, wearing the best god-tier gear, took the most vicious hit and lost the most points."

Ba Wang Group Underground Secret Room

The space was extremely dim, with only a few gloomy blue energy lamps providing illumination.

Purple light flashed. The severely wounded Kura and Lu Fa collapsed onto the cold floor.

The Asura Armor automatically disintegrated due to energy depletion and the user's mental breakdown.

Lu Fa collapsed to the ground. He completely ignored Kura coughing blood beside him, merely staring dead-eyed at the ceiling as his chest heaved violently.

His whole body was drenched in cold sweat.

The scene from the power plant a few minutes ago kept replaying in his mind.

Li Haotian's utterly reckless fighting style, which completely disregarded life and death and consequences, left him with an extremely severe psychological scar.

That was a genuine threat of death.

Lu Fa pounded the ground with his fists.

He realized a cruel fact.

He simply could not unleash the true power of the Shura Armor.

The core operating principle of the Shura Armor requires the summoner to possess "the strongest qi".

It can be righteous qi, or it can be evil qi.

As long as it is pure enough.

But Lu Fa's heart now is filled with fear of failure, filled with cowardice and wavering. His qi is in disorder.

If he takes the Shura Armor to fight Li Haotian, he will surely die.

The narrator's voice sounded at the right moment, carrying a low, contemplative tone about history.

【Desperate Lu Fa decides to use an extremely dangerous trump card.】

【It is the strongest spoil he captured a thousand years ago when conquering Flame Star, and also the true original owner of the Shura Armor.】

The heavenly screen flashed past the vast starry sky of a thousand years ago.

Flame Star battlefield.

Gunpowder smoke filled the entire plain.

The warships of the Netherworld Legion blotted out the sky and covered the sun.

Tens of thousands of Netherworld demons charged on the ground.

And at the center of this massive army.

A man clad in wild battle armor, holding an exaggeratedly huge blade.

He had no formations whatsoever, relying purely on terrifying physical strength, sweeping left and right in the army formation.

Wherever he passed, high-level Netherworld demons were cleaved in half, weapons and all.

Limbs flew. No one could stop his stride. He alone suppressed an army.

Subtitles appeared.

【The strongest of Flame Star, a martial maniac—Flame Emperor.】

The screen snapped back to reality at extreme speed.

The lowest level of the Demon-Sealing Tower. The most secret prison.

Lu Fa dragged his weak body to a seal crystal pillar emitting a blinding light.

He pressed the button on the control panel.

The beam quickly faded.

The cage doors slid open to both sides.

A man slowly walked out.

He was tall and sturdy.

Although imprisoned for a thousand years, his muscles remained as hard as rock.

Flame Emperor lifted his head.

His eyes showed extreme defiance and unruliness—a arrogance that placed no worldly rules in his sight.

Lu Fa stepped forward and handed over the Shura Armor summoner.

"Flame brother, as long as you help me kill

settle a few humans." Lu Fa's tone carried an undisguisable urgency,

"That earthling named Li Haotian, wielding the Punishing Heaven Armor, keeps messing with my affairs."

Flame Emperor did not reach out to take it.

He tilted his head, sized up the disheveled Lu Fa from head to toe, then let out an extremely contemptuous cold snort.

"On what basis?"

Flame Emperor crossed his arms, looking down at Lu Fa,

"What are you, that you dare to command me?"

"Am I someone you can control?"

Lu Fa's face turned ashen, his fists clenched.

In the entire galaxy, only Flame Emperor dares to speak to him in that tone.

But now he has a request, so he can only forcibly suppress his anger.

Beside him, the Netherworld demon Baru saw his master humiliated and stepped forward.

Baru spoke in a weird, sarcastic tone:

"Flame Emperor, stop putting on airs here. If you're told to go, just go. All your hemming and hawing—you won't have gone soft from being locked up too long, scared of those earthlings, have you?"

Flame Emperor's gaze slowly shifted to Baru.

His eyes turned extremely cold in an instant.

The temperature of the entire Demon-Sealing Tower dropped with it.

Flame Emperor said nothing.

He reached out and snatched the Shura summoner from Lu Fa's hand.

Click.

The key was pressed.

Purple lightning exploded without warning in the secret chamber.

It wasn't even necessary to hear the signature phrase 'Shura Armor, unite.'

The light flashed for only 0.1 second.

When Lu Fa's retina re-captured the image,

Yandi had already vanished from the spot.

Yandi, wearing the Shura Armor, appeared out of thin air behind Balu.

Balu had no time to react at all.

His nerve conduction didn't even have time to send a dodge command.

Yandi lifted his leg.

A heavy, powerful kick struck Balu's spine precisely.

Crack!

The sound of bones breaking was exceptionally crisp.

Balu let out a miserable cry and his body lurched forward.

Yandi didn't stop; his fists turned into afterimages, blasting straight through Balu's chest energy armor.

The consecutive heavy blows caused Balu's internal genetic structure to collapse instantly.

Purple light flashed.

Balu was forcibly disintegrated, fell to the ground, and became a cripple.

The whole process took less than three seconds.

This is the speed and power of the genuine Shura Armor.

This is the absolute dominance that Lu Fa had not even shown one percent of just now.

Yandi walked forward slowly.

He lifted his right foot and stepped directly on Balu's face, pressing it hard against the floor.

Yandi turned his head and coldly stared at Lu Fa.

"When did your underlings dare to jump in and interrupt?"

The heavenly screen froze on Yandi's mask illuminated by purple lightning.

Oppressive feeling.

An unmatched oppressive feeling transmitted through the screen, striking the hearts of all viewers across the myriad worlds.

The myriad worlds fell silent.

The true peerless madman has emerged from the mountains; the fate of Li Haotian and others seems to be heading toward an utterly unfathomable abyss.

Lu Fa released this monster—was it self-rescue, or was he inviting disaster upon himself?