Chapter 186: The Battle-Maniac's Weakness, Yan Di Poisoned by Lu Fa!

Beneath the sky-screen.

The abandoned industrial zone.

Yan Di slowly sheathed his blade; the Asura Purgatory Saber dissolved into purple motes of light.

He lowered his head, gazing down at the three Earth youths sprawled unconscious at his feet.

The breath of the myriad worlds seemed to have stalled.

Everyone was waiting, waiting for this peerless madman to claim the fruits of victory — those three precious Armor Summoners.

However,

Yan Di merely stood in place, the gaze behind his mask sweeping over the three.

In the end, he actually let out an utterly contemptuous cold snort.

"Trash."

He spoke, his voice carrying unconcealed disappointment.

"You possess decent Intent, yet you can't even achieve the most basic 'Human-Armor Unity'."

"Armor is an extension of your bodies, not some laughable iron shell!"

"When you can no longer feel the armor's existence, that is when you have truly entered the door!"

Yan Di's voice reverberated through the silent industrial zone, every word transmitted clearly into the ears of the myriad heavens and worlds.

"When you someday have the qualifications to make this Grandpa fight seriously, come challenge me again."

As his words fell,

He didn't even spare the three on the ground another glance.

He turned,

His purple figure rippled in space and vanished without a trace in an instant.

He... actually just left like that?

Not only did he not slaughter them all, he didn't seize the Summoners.

Instead, before leaving, he delivered a post-battle critique that could be called "earnest instruction"!

This scene left everyone dumbfounded.

In the distance.

Lu Fa clenched his fists tight, nails digging into his palms.

He had witnessed the whole process with his own eyes, his face written with uncontrollable rage and shock.

He let Yan Di out to be an executioner, to deal with those three pesky Earth monkeys!

Not to be an instructor!

"Foolish! Truly a foolish brute to the extreme!"

Lu Fa cursed explosively in his fury.

Spatial fluctuation.

Yan Di's figure appeared out of thin air before him.

"Why didn't you take their Summoners?!"

Lu Fa pointed at Yan Di, his voice sharp with anger.

Yan Di tilted his head, the gaze behind his mask like he was looking at a noisy insect.

"You're teaching me how to do things?"

He countered, tone flat yet carrying a contempt that could freeze the soul.

"Am I someone you can command?"

"Next time, if you dare buzz in my ear again, watch out that I don't clean you up along with them!"

Boom!

An invisible, overbearing aura erupted from Yan Di; Lu Fa was blasted back two steps by the pressure, his face instantly paling.

He looked at the solitary, proud back of this Asura before him, a bone-deep chill welling up from his depths. He finally thoroughly understood — he had made a fatal mistake.

What he released wasn't a knife at all.

It was a god who would burn everything, including himself!

The myriad heavens and worlds, after a brief dead silence, boiled over completely.

The Star Cluster World.

United Stars Marshal Headquarters.

Grand Marshal Sidney, watching Lu Fa's humiliated appearance on the sky-screen, couldn't help but burst into loud laughter.

"Hahahaha! Tried to steal a chicken only to lose the rice!"

"Wanted to kill with a borrowed knife, but the knife wouldn't listen and turned around to threaten its master!"

"Lu Fa, you schemer have today too!"

The Land of Light Universe.

Ultraman Sevens let out a long breath, his tense shoulders relaxing:

"Earth is safe for now."

Beside him, Zoffy nodded, eyes sharp as he analyzed:

"This Yan Di is fundamentally different from Lu Fa. There's no malice in his heart, only an ultimate yearning for battle."

"He is a pure battle-maniac; as long as no one provokes him, he seemingly has no intent to destroy."

Armored Warriors Part Three World.

In the Happy House, Duanmu Yan slapped her thigh, excitedly standing up.

"Powerful! This is what a strong warrior looks like! I admire this Flame Emperor! Lu Fa's kind of trash isn't even worthy to carry his shoes!"

Duanmu Yan's eyes burned with fighting spirit,

"I really want to fight him! I don't know if my Yatala's can withstand his Asura Hellblade!"

Armored Warriors Part One World.

ERP Research Institute.

Bei Miao held her coffee cup, shaking her head disdainfully.

"Women's kindness. Clearly having the chance to eliminate future troubles forever, yet letting it go for nothing. With such intelligence, one cannot achieve great things."

He took a sip of coffee, the corner of his mouth curling into an arrogant smile,

"Compared to my wise and martial Bei Miao, you fall far short."

"Just wait, he will sooner or later pay the price for his arrogance."

Cybertron Star.

Decepticon Base.

"What a Flame Emperor! Strong enough! Pure enough!"

Megatron sat on the throne, his crimson optical lenses flickering with appreciation,

"Such a warrior should not serve a coward like Lu Fa."

"If we could recruit him into the Decepticons..."

The red spider beside him immediately leaned in, smiling obsequiously:

"Brilliant, my leader! You think, in the future I will be the Decepticons' chief strategist, and the Flame Emperor will be our top enforcer!"

"Those Autobot scrap metal will never be our match again!"

……

The celestial screen accelerated its flow.

【The Flame Emperor's emergence from seclusion completely disrupted Lu Fa's plans.】

【He was like an uncontrolled star, rampaging across Earth, seeking only battles that would satisfy him.】

In the screen, the Flame Emperor and the upgraded Armored Squad erupted into several fierce battles.

Each time, the Armored Squad was easily crushed.

Yet each time, the Flame Emperor held back from delivering a killing blow.

He would, in battle, use his most arrogant words to point out their shortcomings.

"Li Haotian! Your psychic power is strongest, but your killing intent is excessive, your meditation insufficient! War God Xingtian, 'War' is the shell, 'God' is the core! Your heart is still not calm enough!"

"Xu Tengfei! Your speed is fast, but merely pure speed! Shadow Armor, you must 'sweep like fire'—your attacks lack the will to burn everything!"

"Wu Gang! Your defense is thickest, but you're just a punching bag! Diamond Armor, you must 'stand unmoving like a mountain'—your heart is too easily shaken!"

He had thus become the Armored Squad's strictest, and also strongest, "instructor."

And all this made Lu Fa, hiding in the shadows, nearly explode with rage.

【Finally, the last straw that broke the camel's back appeared.】

The narration on the celestial screen turned icy.

The scene shifted to a rainy night.

The Flame Emperor was battling an extremely powerful Netherworld Demon.

【That was Lu Fa's son, Anmixiu.】

Anmixiu happened to block the Flame Emperor's necessary path.

"Get out of the way!"

The Flame Emperor let out a explosive shout, casually sweeping out a blade light.

Pfft!

Anmixiu didn't even have time to let out a scream before his body dissolved into countless points of light within the purple blade light, completely vanishing.

Until death, the Flame Emperor never knew he had casually killed Lu Fa's only son.

This scene ultimately still let Lu Fa know.

Lu Fa stared dead-eyed at the dissipating points of light, the muscles on his face twitching wildly.

He did not roar, did not bellow.

Only a deathly silence remained.

But what burned in those eyes was enough to scorch the entire galaxy with resentment and killing intent.

The last trace of reason in his heart completely shattered.

He wants the Flame Emperor dead.

At any cost!

……

The celestial screen shifted.

Deepest part of the Demon-Suppressing Tower, a dusty secret chamber.

Lu Fa opened an ancient metal box.

Inside the box lay a tube of crystal-clear liquid.

【The forbidden deadly poison of Ares Star—"Tears of Extinction."】

【Colorless, odorless, one drop enough to extinguish a god.】

Lu Fa picked up that tube of poison, his eyes no longer holding a trace of hesitation, only cold resolution remaining.

He handed the poison to Kula, who was trembling beside him.

"Go, think of a way, make him drink it down."

Trisolaran universe.

Inside Luo Ji's manor.

Seeing this scene, Shi Qiang let out a "heh":

"Right, sure enough it came. Since ancient times those most capable of fighting, all easily fall on these schemes and tricks."

"This Yan Di looks pretty fierce, but his brain's probably not too bright."

Luo Ji shook his head, his gaze deep:

"Not entirely. The fuse was An Mixiu's death."

"For a heroic figure like Lu Fa, a pawn going out of control can be tolerated, but the enmity of killing one's son, that is a death feud."

"He's flipping the table."

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure world.

DIO sat in a luxurious mansion in Cairo, looking at the sky screen, the corner of his mouth revealing a cruel smile.

"Hmph, truly a boring battle. However, this guy called Lu Fa, he's a bit interesting. For victory, unscrupulous means... that is the resolve a true strongman ought to have! WRRRYYYYY!"

One Piece world.

Hive Island.

Blackbeard Teach laughed loudly while eating cherry pie in big mouthfuls.

"Ze hahahaha! Interesting, truly interesting!"

"Powerful strength, running into despicable schemes! That's the pirate style! I bet that guy called Lu Fa can win!"

One Person Under the Sun world.

Wherever-Connect Company headquarters.

Zhao Fangxu looked at the sky screen, pushed up his glasses:

"Typical internal collapse caused by power imbalance."

"As a leader, Lu Fa introduced martial force beyond his own control range, yet lacked effective checks and balances, in the end he could only choose physical elimination."

"Textbook failure case."

The sky screen's scene arrived at the Ba Wang Group's underground secret chamber.

Yan Di sat cross-legged, meditating.

Kula carried a cup of tea, walked over carefully, his face piled with a fawning smile.

"Lord Yan Di, you are truly too powerful!"

"Just now you casually struck once and could defeat those three Earth monkeys, simply divine might covering the ages, this little one admires you to the utmost!"

Kula's flattery resounded shaking the heavens, praising Yan Di into the number one war god of all time.

Yan Di slowly opened his eyes.

This kind of pure warrior, what he took most pride in all his life was his own strength.

Hearing such straightforward praise, although he disdained it, his heart couldn't help but feel a few parts of gratification.

He looked at Kula, the wariness in his eyes unknowingly slackening a little.

Seeing this, Kula rejoiced in his heart, immediately seized the timing, raised the tea cup in his hand high.

"My lord, this is the hometown tea this little one specially brewed for you, to express my admiration for you like the endless flowing river! Please do taste it!"

Yan Di looked at that cup of clear tea water, then looked at Kula's face written full of "admiration", the corner of his mouth rarely floating up a trace of an extremely faint smile.

He didn't think much, reached out and took the tea cup.

Then, tilted his head back, drank it all in one gulp.

The tea water went down his belly.

Kula lowered his head even more, but that face hidden in the shadows, the corner of its mouth was crazily, soundlessly curling upward.

Done.