Chapter 1138: I Don

"Are you insane? Using World-Ending Lotus here?"

Emers's face turned pale.

With Lei Ding's Starlight Stage Two power, if this World-Ending Lotus were dropped…

Then the entire Xia Meng area within a ten-kilometer radius would be utterly consumed by flames!

"I'm not insane—I'm just making Xu Jingming pay the price for mocking me."

"Or if you don't want the Lotus's power to spread, why not catch it yourself?"

Lei Ding smirked at Emers.

He had always been selfish and self-serving.

The inheritance to break through to Starlight Stage Three was within reach—he could never abandon it.

Xu Jingming wasn't someone he couldn't kill.

As for too many human supreme beings falling, leading to beast invasions—it meant nothing to him.

Having witnessed the horrors of the Molten Fire Beasts in the Second Civilization Era, he had long decided to preserve himself.

Whether humanity lived or died had nothing to do with him.

"Lei Ding, you'll be despised by everyone in the Ember World!"

On Emers's fair, beautiful face, an unprecedented fury had already surfaced.

She had thought Lei Ding merely arrogant—but never imagined he had sunk to such madness!

Whoosh—

A vast amount of spiritual energy surged out, covering the entire Xia Meng Tower to prevent it from being destroyed by the World-Ending Lotus.

Fortunately, the Xia Meng headquarters was located in the wilderness, and within a twenty-kilometer radius, there was only this mountain peak.

Her spiritual energy could still protect it—otherwise, things would have become a real mess.

"Despised?"

Lei Ding suddenly grinned, revealing his stark white teeth.

His gaze slithered like a snake over Emers's slender figure, sneering with malicious suspicion:

"I think you've been getting too close to Xu Jingming."

"Grand Priestess—do you have improper designs on your own disciple? Why else would you go to such lengths to protect Great Xia?"

Emers, tall and stunningly beautiful, could be called the goddess of the entire Ember World.

While the people of the Ember World revered her, many also idolized her.

He had once entertained similar thoughts—after all, controlling Emers meant gaining her massive popularity base.

But when he slightly hinted at such intentions, she coldly rejected him.

Now, seeing her constantly visiting Great Xia, he couldn't help but suspect this.

Of course, there was another motive.

Provoking Emers into intense emotional turmoil would benefit his upcoming battle.

"Lei Ding, you—!!"

Emers's eyebrows shot up, her slender hand clenching lightly—already gripping a longsword.

Though her injuries had only just healed, she had no choice but to act.

As for Zhou Yuanwu, he had been transferred to Qingjing for treatment yesterday and was not at Xia Meng.

"Ha ha, come on, come on!"

Lei Ding's lips curled into a cruel grin, ready to strike.

Suddenly—

A portal of space appeared above Xia Meng.

Xu Jingming stepped out with Su Qingli and Ling Shuang.

"Jingming!" Emers exclaimed in delight.

"Xu Jingming, you've finally returned."

"Hand over the Embers' Embrace, and I'll spare your life!"

"Otherwise, you know what will happen."

Lei Ding's expression remained as domineering as when he first met Xu Jingming.

In fact, it was exactly like that.

To him, an eighth-rank ability user and a Starlight Stage One supreme being made no difference.

Whoever was weaker than him—he crushed with force!

The strong must humiliate the weak!

But Xu Jingming looked at Lei Ding with a coldness he had never shown before.

Originally, he had planned to board a warplane, hunt ocean beasts along the way, and slowly return to Great Xia with Su Qingli and Ling Shuang.

But unexpectedly, halfway, he received Emers's urgent message: Lei Ding had attacked.

So he had immediately ordered Ling Shuang to use her spatial ability to teleport back.

"Why aren't you speaking? Scared of me?"

Lei Ding laughed loudly.

Inside Xia Meng, many ability users wore expressions of alarm.

This supreme being from the Ember World was rumored to be even stronger than Evelyn.

"I don't like wasting words with the dead."

Xu Jingming looked at him with the gaze of one staring at a corpse.

According to his earlier thoughts, Lei Ding was arrogant, but his crimes did not warrant death.

At that time, just teaching him a lesson would have been enough.

But now, striking at Great Xia and targeting Teacher Emi, he had crossed his red line!

"Arrogant! Do you really think you can kill—"

A jet-black thunder pillar pierced heaven and earth, crashing down with a roar!

Lei Ding's threats cut off abruptly, before the stunned eyes of all Xia Meng's psychics—including Emi.

His entire body disintegrated grain by grain in the lightning glow!

"No… impossible…"

In his final moment of consciousness, he saw the starry river swirling in Xu Jingming's eyes—a destruction law a ten thousandfold more terrifying than the World-Ending Crimson Lotus.

If he had known Xu Jingming would be this strong, he would never have dared show such a face.

Too bad, there are no "what ifs."

Boom—boom—boom~~~

With Lei Ding's death, the half-formed World-Ending Crimson Lotus in the sky shattered violently, turning into a million sparks.

"Did Lei Ding just die?"

Emi's moist lips parted slightly, her fair face filled with disbelief.

He was a supreme force at Starlight Stage Two!

The peak combat power of Blue Planet was just instantly killed by Xu Jingming?

More importantly, Xu Jingming's level still remained at Starlight Stage One.

So how did he become this strong?

Both were SSS-rank psychics, and though lightning was a strong offensive type…

But this gap was too enormous!

"Lei Ding is nothing, Sister Emi.

Jingming this time killed three Starlight Stage Two Beast Gods, including the founder of the Tianming Sect at Starlight Stage Two."

Su Qingli floated over, suppressing her laughter, whispering in Emi's ear.

"What?"

Emi's almond eyes widened, doubting whether she had misheard.

Before leaving, wasn't Xu Jingming going to lead the EU and just bother the U. S.?

How come, upon returning, he wiped out the fierce beast's nest entirely?

"Three… Beast Gods? Including that Fenghuang?"

Her voice drifted like a sleepwalker's.

"Yes, and that octopus too.

That octopus died the worst—cut into countless sashimi slices by thunder blades.

Just now, Ling Shuang and I tasted some—it was quite good; you can try some too, Sister Emi."

Su Qingli licked her red lips.

Starlight Stage Two seafood really did taste extraordinary.

"Octopus? Starlight Stage Two sashimi?"

Emi was utterly stunned.

"Lei Di is mighty!"

"The Chairman is the strongest!"

"Lei Di is mighty!"

"…"

The others of Xia Meng didn't care about any of that.

They only saw Xu Jingming, like a celestial god descending, instantly slay a supreme force.

A thunderous cheer erupted across all of Xia Meng.

Even several ninth-rank councilors flushed red with excitement.

"Don't look at me like that—let's head back to the villa first. I'll explain everything in detail to you, Teacher, once we're there."

Meeting Emi's gaze, as if he were an alien, Xu Jingming couldn't help but smile.