Chapter 1475: Instant Defeat of Tarro! Shocked Chi Huang and Others!

Xu Jingming's eyes flickered with surprise.

That young man, over three meters tall, with a pair of glistening black horns growing from his head.

Wasn't he Tarro, the Eta prince who had been pestering Yueying on the Star Mother Ship?

He never expected to meet him here—and that he'd joined Chi Huang's team.

It seems the brutal competition in the mid-stage of the Beast Hunt Tournament.

Forced this proud prince to seek refuge under a stronger power.

As Xu Jingming surveyed the ground below, Chi Huang had already clearly seen the situation in the air.

When his gaze landed on Yueying, standing gracefully beside Xu Jingming, his crimson-gold alien pupils flickered with unmasked mockery.

"Xu Jingming."

Chi Huang's voice rang out—not loud, but crystal-clear across several kilometers.

Laden with condescending scrutiny and heavy sarcasm:

"On a battlefield where human prodigies compete in the Beast Hunt Tournament,

you're flying around clutching a woman? How comfortable you are.

Did you turn Blood Refining Star into a tourist destination?

Or do you think your petty, sneaky, opportunistic skills are enough to let you run rampant here?"

As his words fell,

several of his teammates cast looks of disdain toward Xu Jingming.

Like women? Fine.

Plenty of Eternal Star Alliance prodigies are like that.

Some even brought entire life-planets' worth of females for their pleasure.

But they know their limits.

Cultivation is cultivation; pleasure is pleasure.

When it's time to cultivate, they never drown themselves in indulgence.

The Beast Hunt Tournament is jointly hosted by the three greatest human factions in the universe—and broadcast live across all human space.

Under these circumstances, Xu Jingming bringing a woman along naturally earned their contempt.

Yet, no sooner had Chi Huang finished his sarcasm than Tarro could no longer hold himself back.

His eyes, moments ago calm, now locked fiercely onto Yueying beside Xu Jingming.

Especially recalling the moment just now when Xu Jingming had swept Yueying in his arms and descended from the sky.

And now, Yueying standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Xu Jingming, her demeanor natural.

A nameless rage and jealousy surged violently from his heart.

The elf princess he had longed for.

That cold, proud woman who had always kept him at arm's length despite his endless efforts...

Had she just been so docile in Xu Jingming's arms?

And now acted as if it were perfectly natural?

What in the world is going on?!

Tarro's face darkened visibly.

He forced himself to look away, turning to Chi Huang, his voice strained and hoarse:

"Chi Huang, let me handle Xu Jingming.

He doesn't warrant your personal attention.

Besides, I have some old scores to settle with him."

"Oh?"

Chi Huang glanced sideways at Tarro, then nodded.

"Fine. Xu Jingming isn't your match."

Though he wanted to strike him himself.

But letting his subordinate defeat Xu Jingming would carry greater humiliation.

"Good. I won't disappoint you."

With Chi Huang's permission, Tarro took a deep breath and slowly rose into the air.

His gaze passed over Xu Jingming and settled directly on Yueying, his voice low and tangled:

"Princess Yueying, I never thought you'd make this choice.

I came first.

And our Eta and Elf clans have been allies for generations.

But this isn't a big deal.

If you're willing to come to me now, I'll pretend none of this just happened."

Yueying was the elf princess.

And the most gifted elf princess in nearly a million years!

Winning her over would bring nothing but advantages to this Eta prince.

Not to mention her peerless beauty and figure, which had long made him covetous.

As Tarro finished speaking, Yueying's exquisite face instantly froze over with ice.

Her gray-stone eyes blazed with clear fury.

Her silver hair stirred without wind, her body radiating a sharp, icy silver glow.

She stepped half a pace forward and replied coldly:

"Talro, watch your words.

My choices have nothing to do with you, and I need no mercy from you.

The ties between the Elf Clan and the Eta Clan are not an excuse for you to manipulate selfish motives!

If you speak another insolent word, don't blame me for showing no mercy!"

Her voice was utterly icy, clearly filled with genuine rage.

Xu Jingming's gaze also turned suddenly cold.

Fine, fine, fine—you're trying to steal my woman right in front of me, is that it?

I'll reward you with a blast of Doushen Shenlei!

Sssssssssss—!!

A faint yet hair-raising crackle of lightning tore through the air!

In the next instant, a jet-black lightning bolt, as if piercing heaven and earth, slammed down toward Talro!

"Just a mere ant! How dare you strike at me?"

Hearing Yueying's reply, Talro was already furious.

Now that Xu Jingming had moved, he would show no restraint.

The pair of crystalline black horns on his head blazed with blinding black light.

His Yuan energy exploded outward like a volcanic eruption!

The terrifying aura of a Star Peak cultivator was unleashed without restraint.

It churned the crimson air around him, forming visible rings of energy ripples.

His entire body was sheathed in a thick, solid-looking black energy armor.

Subtle ripples of Earth and Life Laws intertwined within it.

It was the Eta Clan royal family's T4-level inherited battle technique.

He had refined it to Advanced Proficiency—its defensive power was immense!

BOOM!!

The jet-black Doushen Shenlei struck Talro full on.

The thick energy armor, woven from dual Laws, melted away like snow under sunlight beneath the black lightning!

Not shattered, not destroyed—erased outright!

Talro's sneer froze on his face; his pupils reflected the rapidly approaching black lightning, a chilling, unprecedented dread surging in his heart.

"No… this is impossible!"

He frantically pushed his Yuan energy, trying to repair the armor and resist this wild, lethal lightning.

But all resistance was futile against a T2-level Doushen Shenlei.

In less than a thousandth of a second, the armor—strong enough to withstand a full-force Star Peak strike—was utterly erased!

The remaining black lightning brushed lightly against Talro's chest.

No flesh flew, no blood sprayed—only a blank space, as if erased by an eraser.

His battle robe and skin were directly erased by the lightning's erosion!

Beneath it, his charred bones were exposed, and the bone surfaces were rapidly turning to ash!

"Ughhh—!!!"

Talro barely managed to let out a short, piercing scream.

His internal Yuan energy spiraled into chaos; his life force plummeted rapidly.

Wuuuuum—!!

A milky-white emergency shield activated automatically, instantly enveloping his entire body.

Only then did it block out the terrifying black lightning.

Inside the shield, Talro's eyes bulged wide, his face etched with incomprehensible shock and daze.

Below, all members of the Chihuang Squad.

Including Chihuang himself, all froze in place.

The sneers and mockery on their faces vanished, replaced by deep shock and horror.

One strike!

Merely a casually cast lightning bolt.

It had directly erased Talro's inherited armor and triggered the emergency shield!

What… what level of attack is this?!