Chapter 574: The Red Armor General Appears

Pfft!

The light shuttle radiating a sacred aura pierced through the brow of the Blood-Tailed Other at an unimaginable speed, leaving a hole right between its brows. If an ordinary person had suffered such a grievous wound, they would have undoubtedly perished on the spot. Yet this Blood-Tailed Other displayed an extremely tenacious vitality—its face twisted and venomous, it let out a pained shriek.

It had not been directly obliterated.

Still, it was clear that Jiang Jiang Qinge's well-timed strike had inflicted extremely severe damage upon the Blood-Tailed Other.

After all, the Blood-Tailed Other had already been pushed to its absolute limit by the eight captains. Jiang Jiang Qinge choosing to strike at this moment undoubtedly broke the balance between the two sides, thereby grievously wounding the Blood-Tailed Other.

Suffering this heavy blow, the bloody tail behind the Blood-Tailed Other rapidly shrank, and the malevolent power surging around its body also grew feeble.

"Jiang Qinge, beautifully done!"

The Princess, her pretty face somewhat pale, could not help but cry out in pleasant surprise, her phoenix eyes brimming with joy. Jiang Jiang Qinge's previous strike had been devastating in power, and combined with the restraining effect of her light resonance, it had inflicted upon the Blood-Tailed Other the most severe wound since its appearance.

The situation instantly tilted in their favor.

Boom, boom!

At this moment, the remaining resplendent energy orbs in the sky whistled downward, seizing the chance to strike while the enemy was weakened, bombarding the Blood-Tailed Other one after another.

Instantly, the Blood-Tailed Other was forced into a steady retreat, its body torn with crack after crack. In the brief span of moments, it transformed from that enchanting beauty into a mangled, bloody mess, looking utterly savage and terrifying.

Lan Lan's face was pale, cold sweat continuously sliding down his forehead. His gaze was fixed dead on the gravely wounded Blood-Tailed Other, and behind him, the mysterious shadow began to gradually grow indistinct.

He too had reached his limit.

The resonance power within his body had been nearly drained completely.

However, he had already done everything within his power. Although the Blood-Tailed Other had been gravely wounded by Jiang Jiang Qinge, anyone could see that if not for his "Ming Wang Three Bows" pushing the Blood-Tailed Other to its absolute limit, even though Jiang Jiang Qinge possessed a ninth-grade light resonance, it would have been impossible for her to harm the Blood-Tailed Other's origin with merely the strength of the Extreme Sha realm.

So when it came to contributions, Lan Lan was undoubtedly the foremost person present.

"We've won!"

Amid some ruins, Lu Ming stared at the gravely wounded Blood-Tailed Other and cried out in pleasant surprise.

Sun Sun Dasheng and Jing Jing Taixu also revealed looks of joy.

At last, a glimmer of dawn had appeared in this great battle.

Li Luo gazed at the battlefield in the sky, yet did

not show much relaxation. Instead, an inexplicable worry welled up within him, and the source of this worry was precisely the Red Armor General who had never once appeared.

That Red Armor General seemed to be the mastermind behind the mysterious force within Red Sand County, his strength unfathomable. If this fiend had truly fled, that would be for the best—they could then safely conclude this mixed-grade competition. But what if this fiend had not left, and was merely lurking within the city?

"We can't drag this out. We must slay this Blood-Tailed Other as quickly as possible," Li Luo murmured.

And just as he was muttering to himself, Lan Lan above also suddenly spoke, his voice hoarse: "Everyone, use your last remaining strength and slay it quickly, lest the night bring further complications!"

The other captains, upon hearing this, all nodded in agreement. Then they each circulated their final reserves of power, forming a resonance power torrent that pierced the heavens, and hurled it directly at the gravely wounded and utterly weakened Blood-Tailed Other.

Shriek!

The Blood-Tailed Other let out an eerie shriek. It had evidently sensed the crisis of being obliterated, so the bloody tail behind it, which had already shrunk to several zhang, began to swing wildly as it tried to resist the attacks of the captains whose resonance power was also about to be exhausted.

Boom, boom!

And at this very moment, the earth beneath the city suddenly began to tremble violently. One could see crack after crack spreading through the ruined city, and the ground rapidly caving inward.

As the ground collapsed, everyone watched in shock as a jet-black, altar-like structure slowly rose from beneath the earth.

The sudden calamity caused Li Luo's expression to change as well. Staring at the changes below, his heart instantly chilled—the worst scenario he had anticipated had finally come to pass.

"It's the Red Armor General!" Li Luo roared, warning the captains.

Hearing Li Luo's shout, Lan Lan and the others were all shaken to the core.

Regarding the intelligence on the Red Armor General, they were naturally all well aware, and they all understood that this fiend was an enormous hidden threat. However, they had previously had no spare energy or strength to deal with the Red Armor General, because the Blood-Tailed Other was the most troublesome problem at hand.

After all, if the Red Armor General was also at the Tian Xiang Jing level of strength, with their power it would have been utterly impossible to deal with both him and the Blood-Tailed Other simultaneously.

Previously, the Red Armor General had never shown himself, and they had all clung to some faint hope that this fiend had already fled. But looking at it now, their hope had not paid off. This Red Armor General had been hiding in the shadows all along, waiting for them to fight the Blood-Tailed Other to the bitter end.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

And the instant the black altar appeared from underground, numerous black chains suddenly shot out from within it. These chains were inscribed all over with mysterious runes, which inhaled and exhaled the world's energy. Like black pythons, they pierced through the sky, and then, under the gazes of the many captains filled with shock and suspicion,

directly wrapped layer upon layer around the weakened, gravely wounded Blood-Tailed Other.

Its limbs and bloody tail were bound especially tightly.

The Blood-Tailed Other struggled violently, letting out a venomous roar, yet could not break free.

"What's going on? The Red Armor General is attacking the Blood-Tailed Other?!" The heavily wounded Qin Yin Yue found it somewhat unbelievable—weren't the two of them on the same side?

The Princess, upon seeing this, felt something was amiss. Her jade-like countenance shifted several times before she decisively said: "Something's wrong. That Red Armor General seems to want to capture the Blood-Tailed Other. Although I don't know what his true purpose is, I feel we absolutely cannot let him succeed!"

Lan Lan immediately agreed, saying in a deep voice: "Everyone attack—slay the Blood-Tailed Other!"

The captains present were all elites of the academies. Although they did not know the Red Armor General's purpose, they could all keenly sense that whatever the other party was doing must be detrimental to them. They had poured out everything they had to gravely wound this Blood-Tailed Other; no matter what the other party wanted to do, they could not let him take the Blood-Tailed Other away.

In the next instant, they struck once more.

But their attacks achieved no effect, because as a surge of astonishing resonance power rose from the black altar, a figure clad in red armor appeared above the altar. He stood with his hands behind his back, and struck out with a palm.

"The All-Purpose Soldier King of the Female CEO"

Instantly, a palm print several hundred zhang in size pierced through the air, easily shattering the attacks of the many captains.

"It really is the Red Armor General!"

"Such pressure—this guy really is at the Tian Xiang Jing level of strength!"

With the appearance of that red-armored figure, the hearts of everyone present instantly sank.

"Pride of the various academies."

The Red Armor General stood atop the altar, and a hoarse voice came from beneath his faceplate. He said with a faint smile: "Your objective is to slay the Blood-Tailed Other, and now that objective has been achieved. Hand it over to me to handle. If you all withdraw at this moment, I can let you leave safely."

The expressions of the crowd shifted, their gazes darkening.

How could they not understand now? While they and the Blood-Tailed Other fought like the clam and the snipe, this Red Armor General had played the role of the fisherman in the shadows.

This guy coveted the Blood-Tailed Other—he must have some scheme in mind.

But with the Blood-Tailed Other not yet eliminated, could this mixed-grade competition truly be considered a success?

The crowd's gazes intertwined for a moment, a cold glint flowing in every eye, yet their bodies did not stir in the slightest.

The Red Armor General saw this, sighed with a hint of regret, and a glacial killing intent seeped out from his indifferent voice.

"Since you don't know what's good for you, this General will have to make the elite disciples of this generation from the various great academies of the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou vanish from here."