Chapter 499: Resurrection from the Dead?

The battle entered a white-hot stage in an instant.

Theoretically, Jie Ming's attack, defense, and movement ends had all reached the standard of Tier 6 wizards under the blessing of modified spells.

But after the actual battle, he found that with his current level, facing Tier 6 wizards was still too strenuous!

Jie Ming's figure was like lightning, the Grand Void Step was pushed to the limit, dragging out countless phantoms that were difficult to distinguish between real and fake in the sky.

The metal wings behind him were like a swarm of killing bees with independent will, the muzzles always locked on the figure in the grey-white mist, continuously spitting out torrents of destruction.

One after another, dark golden scorching light flows shot out from the tips of the floating cannons, crisscrossing in the air.

Because the connection speed between each shot and the next Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light was really too fast, the light beams that should have flashed and disappeared after firing turned into attacks like continuous irradiation.

Where these continuously irradiated light flows passed, space was burned with high-temperature distortion bands that could not be healed for a long time, and the thin air below suffered even more.

The dark golden light flow swept across the ground, rocks silently vaporized, and the grey-white land melted into a boiling glass-like lake.

The hillside further away was cut off at the waist, the upper half of the mountain body slid slowly in the dazzling light, smashing up dust that covered the sky and sun.

Jie Ming himself, under the cover of dense light flows, carried out crazy high-speed maneuvers.

He climbed vertically, turned at sharp angles, drifted like falling leaves, trying to shake off the locking that followed him like a shadow.

However, the attacks of that Tier 6 wizard followed like a maggot on the tarsal bone.

"Soul-Crying Fire Crow!" A cold low shout came from the grey-white mist.

Dozens of flying birds completely composed of pale white flames condensed out of thin air, they screamed silently, dragging tail flames that seemed to be able to burn the soul, and surrounded Jie Ming from all directions.

Where they passed, the air froze and burned, leaving strange ice-fire trajectories.

"Extinction Sound Ring!" The wizard closed his hands, and a pitch-black ring that kept vibrating at high frequency suddenly expanded!

That was not a physical object, but a mixture of pure sound waves and annihilation laws.

This sound wave even crossed the conventional speed of sound, expanded at an unimaginable ultra-high speed, and instantly enveloped the airspace of several kilometers around Jie Ming.

Where the sound ring reached, space made a groan that could not bear the burden, and all energy flows became sluggish and chaotic.

And the most numerous were those grey-white annihilation light beams that were simple and unadorned but most lethal.

They shot out from various angles in the mist, each precisely predicting Jie Ming's dodging trajectory, forcing him to continuously consume energy to perform extreme evasion.

Occasionally, light beams grazed the Gui Xu Armor, and a harsh "sizzling" sound would erupt; that was the sound of highly condensed annihilation energy fiercely confronting the Gui Xu Armor.

Jie Ming was completely at a disadvantage.

The capital he relied on to circle was the light flow suppression continuously provided by the floating cannons behind him, and the Gui Xu Armor on his body that could automatically extract spare units from the cave heaven and refresh almost without interruption.

But the Gui Xu Armor often couldn't carry two moves before shattering.

More often, he had to temporarily gather the light flows of several Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Lights to condense into a huge dark golden light shield in front of him, or dance into a brilliant light sword to slash the fire crow group, or forcibly split the local area of the sound ring.

But this was ultimately drinking poison to quench thirst.

The continuous firing of the floating cannons was a huge consumption of spiritual power and computing power, and the opponent's attack density didn't give him any room to breathe at all.

The disadvantage continued to accumulate like a snowball.

Finally, the moment he forcibly split three annihilation light beams and his figure appeared momentarily stiff...

"It's over."

In the grey-white mist, those two scarlet light points suddenly flourished!

A grey-white palm composed of an extremely condensed "Light-Dark Annihilation Origin Point" ignored the space distance, as if it "grew" directly out of the void in front of Jie Ming's chest.

Taking advantage of the tiny moment when Jie Ming's Gui Xu Armor shattered and hadn't had time to replenish, it printed firmly on his chest!

The matter touched by the palm evaporated instantly like dew under the sun.

The grey robe, flesh, bones... all existence constituting his body on Jie Ming's chest turned into the most basic nothingness under that extreme "annihilation" damage without a sound.

This annihilation even spread backward along the connection between energy and soul!

Jie Ming's chest and head disappeared like frame-skipping, like a pencil drawing erased by an invisible eraser, from the scalp to the skull, from the brain to the soul core... completely dissipated.

In those black eyes, the last thing reflected was the grey-white mist that seemed to have consumed a lot and fluctuated violently in the distance.

The headless corpse froze in the air for a moment, then lost all strength, falling toward the devastated land below like a broken puppet.

The metal floating cannons behind him lost their light instantly, like metal wrecks that had lost their lives, scattered with the corpse.

Boom!

The corpse smashed heavily on the glazed ground that had melted and cooled, splashing a piece of crystal debris.

Between heaven and earth, it seemed to be suddenly quiet.

Only the rocks ignited by the aftermath of the battle were still crackling and burning, and the sobbing sound made when the wind blew through the gullies on the ground.

In the air, the grey-white mist slowly converged and condensed, re-transforming into the figure of that Tower of Extinction wizard.

Only at this moment, his state could not be called good at all.

The completely elementalized body was obviously much thinner, and even the energy core flowing uncertainly inside could be vaguely seen.

That pair of iconic scarlet pupils also dimmed by several points, revealing deep fatigue.

In order to ensure a one-hit kill, that "Hand of Extinction" just now almost drained 90% of his remaining spiritual power.

He landed slowly not far from Jie Ming's corpse, his scarlet gaze swept over the headless remnant, and the floating cannon wrecks scattered around without any energy reaction.

Finally, he relaxed a bit from the tense state.

"In the end... just Tier 5." The hoarse voice carried the indifference after victory, and a trace of relief that was not easy to detect.

However...

Just in this flash of lightning when his mind relaxed!

Those few floating cannon wrecks that seemed to be scattered at will, with muzzles facing different directions, actually quietly adjusted their angles imperceptibly during the fall, and were now vaguely pointing at his position!

Hum!!!

The dim metal surface burst into dazzling dark golden light without any warning!

These Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Lights were further compressed, even compressed to less than the width of a finger.

Following this was sufficiently powerful destructive power.

The timing of the attack was tricky to the extreme, exactly the moment when he relaxed his mind and his body appeared a subtle gap in defense due to fatigue!

"What?!" The scarlet in the Tier 6 wizard's pupils suddenly shrank to needle points!

Facing the light-speed strike at close range, he couldn't make a complete defensive action at all.

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

Three dark golden rays condensed to the extreme, like a hot knife cutting through butter, easily pierced through the grey-white mist barrier that was already crumbling, and fiercely stabbed into his elementalized body!

"Uh ah ah!!!"

The inhuman shrill scream erupted from the mist!

Where the rays hit, the grey-white mist boiled frantically, revealing the violently turbulent energy core inside.

The terrifying annihilation energy eroded inward from the wound, fiercely conflicting with his own annihilation power, causing secondary damage!

Just one strike, his body, which was already in a bad state, was severely injured instantly!

The elementalized body became uncertain, as if it could collapse and dissipate at any time, and the aura withered to the extreme.

He staggered backward, his scarlet pupils staring dead at the three floating cannons that were slowly losing their last luster and completely becoming scrap iron, eyes full of shock, resentment, and... a trace of fear that finally rose.

These cannons... were intentional?!

Was it the last trap set by that wizard before he died?!

And at this moment, an even more soul-shaking scene happened to him.

In the distance, that headless corpse that should have been completely dead, with brain and heart annihilated, and even the soul stirred to pieces, suddenly... moved.

Then, under the near-dull gaze of the Tier 6 wizard, that corpse swayed, used its hands to support the ground, and stood up slowly.

The granulation at the scorched break of the chest wriggled frantically as if it had life.

Bones, blood vessels, nerves, muscles, skin... regenerated rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just two or three seconds, a head identical to the previous one grew out again.

Jie Ming raised his newborn palm, touched his cheek and neck uncomfortably, as if confirming something.

Then, he turned his head and looked at the Tier 6 wizard who was seriously injured and dying, almost self-collapsing, with those pitch-black calm eyes.

"How could it be..." The figure in the mist made a hoarse and trembling voice, full of incomprehension and horror deep into the bone marrow, "Your heart and brain clearly disappeared... your soul was also stirred to pieces! You should be dead! Why... why can you still stand up?!"

Jie Ming didn't answer immediately.

He lightly moved his newborn neck, making a subtle clicking sound, and then spoke slowly, his voice carrying a weakness of surviving a disaster:

"Yeah... why am I still alive?"

He seemed to be asking the opponent, and seemed to be asking himself.

The next second, that doubtful gaze suddenly turned cold.

"Die!"

The remaining floating cannons lit up again, aiming at that grey-white figure that was on the verge of collapse.

The seriously injured Tier 6 wizard let out a desperate and unwilling roar, trying to gather the last strength...

But Jie Ming didn't give him this chance.

All remaining floating cannons, together with the right index finger he raised himself, burst into the last light at the same time.

Several dark golden rays completely submerged that grey-white figure.

This Tier 6 wizard finally let out a short and shrill wail, and then stopped abruptly.

The grey-white mist dissipated rapidly like residual snow under the sun.

Finally, only a small pinch of elemental ashes that had lost all spirituality remained, drifting and falling on the scorched and broken ground.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 500 =====