Chapter 1018: Assaulting the Eternal Chosen

The Hell Three-Headed Dragon Duo Erjiha roared, "Cursed One, hand over Xilian's Eye!"

When it saw the hunchbacked Demonkin, it beat its wings wildly a few times, forcibly halted the rapidly flying figure, and all six dragon eyes filled with apprehension, even a hint of unease.

Netifu Demonkin have long lives and are naturally brave and strong, but the Wei Liqi before it is born frail and sickly, underdeveloped, a head shorter than a normal Demonkin, with sparse, dry hair and an ugly face, as if a gust of wind could blow him to death.

However, whether the Hell Three-Headed Dragon or the Bloody Valkyrie, both halted before the seemingly feeble Demonkin.

Cursed One Wei Liqi!

The most powerful Purgatory Grand Mage among the Netifu Demonkin, said to have reached level thirty‑five, and is the Lord of Chaos's Chosen Champion.

He possesses his own tribe, territory and army, and has trained a great number of Purgatory mages.

More than half of the Purgatory mages are his apprentices, or apprentices of his apprentices.

Wei Liqi once swore loyalty to the Eternal Chosen and usually obeyed summons, but their relationship resembled rivals and enemies. All upper echelons of Demonkin knew that the Eternal Chosen and the Cursed One each wanted to eliminate the other, yet never got the chance.

Aiken plotted to obtain Xilian's Eye and worked hard to conceal the information.

As the Lord of Chaos's Chosen Champion, Wei Liqi could also wield this talisman, so Aiken specifically guarded against Wei Liqi and never considered letting him take part in the operation.

Unexpectedly, the Cursed One still appeared.

Wei Liqi seemed not to hear Wa Erjia and the Hell Three-Headed Dragon, stared at the talisman in his hand, and his ugly face showed obsession and madness.

"Xilian's Eye! Hehehe…"

He suddenly looked up, sneering, "This is my lord's holy relic; after I study it, I will naturally hand it to the Lord Master."

No one believed those words at all.

"Hand it over now!" Wa Erjia shouted angrily, only she knew in her heart whether it was for the Eternal Chosen or her own desire to possess the talisman; her figure flashed straight at Wei Liqi, raising a sharp spear that pierced the air, striking without mercy.

The Hell Three-Headed Dragon, in perfect coordination, sealed the space, preventing Wei Liqi from teleporting away.

"Overreaching."

Wei Liqi clutched the talisman with one hand, his eyes flashing with a strange light, as if he had already anticipated a man and a dragon would act, and he raised his staff before they could move.

His dark staff was taller than himself, yet slender, with a huge purple eyeball at its tip constantly burning with an unextinguishable eerie green flame; with a single swing, the eyeball emitted a conical beam that enveloped the Bloody Valkyrie.

Wa Erjia could not dodge and flew straight into the conical beam.

Her speed was extremely fast; normally a blink would bring her to Wei Liqi's side, but once shrouded by the light, she flew wildly for several seconds without closing the gap—only dozens of meters away, yet she could not cross it.

Wei Liqi seized the moment and cast a spell toward the Hell Three-Headed Dragon.

The dark staff erupted with energy, spewing clusters of eerie green fireballs that coalesced, each over a meter in diameter; these massive demonic fireballs each possessed power up to the ninth ring!

The demonic flames had no trajectory; once formed they leapt into the void and instantly exploded on the Hell Three-Headed Dragon's faces. Each of its three massive heads was surrounded by more than five fireballs, and the central Void Dragon endured double the assault.

Boom—

Dozens of demonic fireballs detonated simultaneously.

The Hell Three-Headed Dragon let out a wail; fortunately its magical resistance was extremely high and its reaction swift. The right Infernal Fire head promptly raised a flame barrier that blocked subsequent spell damage, while the left Plague Dragon frantically healed its wounds.

But the central Void Dragon head suffered severe injury, and the spatial seal was instantly broken.

Wei Liqi smiled smugly, immediately activated Greater Teleport with the Xilian's Eye and left, then his smile froze.

The spell failed; he remained where he was.

"What's happening?"

Wei Liqi shouted sharply; he didn't know how many times he had used Greater Teleport, and in the past several hundred years it never failed, yet today it malfunctioned.

He quickly recovered, looking at the Xilian's Eye in his hand.

"My lord..."

Wei Liqi's eyelids fluttered uncontrollably; as a devotee of the Lord of Ten Thousand Changes and a Chosen Champion, no one understood Naiyasin Lanqi better than he did.

It can grant hope to its followers at their most desperate, fulfill prayed wishes, bestow great power and profound knowledge, yet also deliver a fatal blow when you are most arrogant, at the peak of your life, or when you fall into a trough.

As for why It does so, no one knows except It.

The Lord of Chaos's rule is that there is no rule; in Its world there is no victory, no defeat, no goal, no ending, only endless chaos.

Anyway, all of this is within Its plan.

Although Wei Liqi is Its Chosen Champion, gaining power and magical knowledge, he knows he could be abandoned at any moment; because It only seeks amusement, he treads cautiously, avoids contact when possible, and minimizes prayers.

At this moment, infinite fear rose in his heart; he had erred.

Clearly the Lord of Chaos believes he should not obtain Xilian's Eye, at least not now.

Wei Liqi, after a moment of daze realizing he was unharmed, breathed a sigh of relief, then greed resurfaced, unwilling to discard the talisman in his hand.

Now!

Wa Erjia finally burst out of the conical beam, the spear struck Wei Liqi hard, triggering the magical shield on his body.

Wei Liqi, momentarily unaware, was knocked back, and the Xilian's Eye slipped from his hand.

The Bloody Valkyrie immediately ceased her attack on Wei Liqi, reached for the talisman, but a flash made her realize her position had shifted kilometers away, replaced by a Mirror Image of a human wizard in a black robe.

"It's you!"

Wa Erjia's eyes instantly reddened.

She rushed desperately toward Reslin's Mirror Image, and midway saw the image cast Arcane to create a translucent giant hand that seized the Xilian's Eye, hurled it forcefully, then was struck by Wei Liqi's Greater Dispel Magic and turned to foam.

The talisman sped toward another Reslin Mirror Image, which also formed a giant hand ready to catch it.

The Hell Three-Headed Dragon, without waiting for its wounds to heal, slipped through the void to intercept the talisman.

"Roar..."

A thunderous dragon roar rang out.

Immediately, a colossal dragon silhouette over a hundred meters long blocked the Hell Three-Headed Dragon's path; it was an ancient great dragon, its body covered in radiant golden scales as dazzling as the sun, also bearing three heads—the Golden Dragon, the Red Dragon, and the Black Dragon!

The Hell Three-Headed Dragon was instantly stunned; the giant dragon before it was essentially its mirror image, only at the opposite extreme.

"Get lost, reptile!"

Duo Erjiha roared, and the three dragon faces showed contempt.

Bo Erqi flew into a rage, opened his mouth and spewed three long‑planned dragon breaths, blasting the opponent's dragon head, and simultaneously hurled spells of Holy, Flame, and Shadow, the three‑element energies flooding the enemy like a torrent.

The hellish three‑headed dragon was caught off guard, but having undergone a Soul Transformation, its size and strength were slightly greater than Bo Erqi's, and it quickly launched a counterattack.

The two great dragons tangled together in the high sky.

Roars, bites, claw strikes, dragon breaths, spells, insults… everything was used to the extreme, just to defeat or even kill the opponent.

On the other side, the cursed one Wei Liqi flashed in, casting another Greater Dispel Magic, attempting to break Reslin's Mirror Image; sensing a change in the image's aura, he instantly realized the true body had arrived.

The world suddenly fell silent.

Reslin swapped places with his Mirror Image and immediately used Time Stop.

Wei Liqi's thoughts slowed as he watched Reslin hurl a series of Nine-ring Techniques at him, first three Greater Disintegrates and an Anti-Magic Ray, causing his scalp to tingle and the area between his eyebrows to split, revealing a bizarre, terrifying vertical eye.

It was a blessing from the Lord of Chaos, or one could call it a curse.

When Time Stop reached its third second, Reslin's spells were still in flight, and Wei Liqi broke free of the temporal bind, his figure slipping away.

Reslin's spells all missed, but those three seconds bought time for A Xi Na.

A bolt of lightning shot forth.

A Xi Na manifested a massive body dozens of meters tall, simultaneously enlarging her decapitation sword to thirty meters long and slashing it forcefully toward the Hylian Eye.

Spells cannot destroy the talisman, so let's try physical means.

Clang!

The Bloody Valkyrie appeared beneath the decapitation sword, her body swelling several times over, and raised a twisted great shield to catch the sword's blow. The Titan Giant's full‑force sword struck the Valkyrie, wounding her, and the twisted shield rebounded, slamming into her, causing her to open her mouth and spew blood.

Wa Er Ji Ya, ignoring her wounds, used the momentum to pursue downward.

The great sword failed to hit the Hylian Eye; the collision's aftershock knocked the talisman away, sending it falling downward.

Just as she was about to catch up to the talisman, a blue lightning streaked up, revealing the Sea King A Ke Man, who raised his golden trident high with his right hand, using the thrust of flight to strike directly at the Hylian Eye.

Ding!

The golden trident pierced the talisman first, its momentum unrelenting; the tip drove into the Bloody Valkyrie who was pursuing from above, embedding in her chest, while the talisman, having passed through her body, flew out from behind, appearing still intact.

A Ke Man's gaze was fierce, and the trident erupted with countless bolts of lightning and streams of water.

He intended to kill the Bloody Valkyrie.

"Ah…"

Wa Er Ji Ya let out a painful scream, yet showed no sign of retreat; ignoring the trident lodged in her body, she thrust a spear backward at A Ke Man's head. A Ke Man neither dodged nor evaded, prepared to risk severe injury to kill the Eternal Chosen's mightiest henchman.

The two seemed about to wound each other mutually, when they were suddenly separated.

Wa Er Ji Ya was teleported beside Wei Liqi, and a Greater Restoration spell descended, rapidly healing her wounds.

The cursed one dared not let her die, lest he have to face the Sea King and Reslin alone.

Reslin and A Ke Man, Wa Er Ji Ya and Wei Liqi, the four peak warriors glanced at each other's formations and immediately resumed fighting, because A Xi Na once again caught up with the Hylian Eye, brandishing the decapitation sword to strike at the talisman.

One side aimed to destroy, the other to seize.

Suddenly the melee erupted again.

The sky over Albert Bay was divided into three battlefields: one side a melee among five Saint Rank elites, another side two ancient giant dragons locked in a bloodied bite, but almost all Albert Bay's residents focused their attention on the third battlefield.

The Eternal Chosen and the Empire Consul are locked in a massive battle.

To be precise, Lei En and his Mirror Image are beating Ai Ke Ang.

When Ai Ke Ang surged forward in front of Lei En, he immediately collided with eleven Lei En, each over five meters tall, wielding flame‑soul great swords, with massive metallic wings sprouting from their backs; within a radius of a kilometer, golden serpents danced wildly, thunder roared, resembling the Storm Plane.

Clang!

Ai Ke Ang brandished the Regicide Sword and struck a Lei En head‑on.

The power emanating from the great sword made his palm tingle; although he repelled that Lei En and left a deep wound on the opponent, he had no time to adjust, and five more Lei En attacked from the left, right, above, below, and behind.

Each Lei En's great sword contained terrifying power, triggering the legendary Element "Destruction Strike".

Outside, two Lei En who had created distance gathered lightning spears in their hands, channeling massive thunder energy into them, preparing to forge the God's Staff.

Another two Lei En were casting spells.

They released a rapid succession of Electric Blast Orbs, each a Nine-ring Technique, linking together in a flash and whistling across the sky.

Actually, the five Lei En besieging Ai Ke Ang were also casting, each opening a mind-force field, a massive invisible mental force that crazily compressed, pulled, bound, and bombarded the Eternal Chosen, as if countless hands attacked simultaneously, making each of his movements extremely difficult, requiring over ten times the effort and slowing his speed.

Just a glimpse was enough for Ai Ke Ang to sense great danger.

Lei En's power was far greater than in those days; if there were only a single Lei En, he would be fearless and confident he could win.

But eleven Lei En…

Ai Ke Ang could not comprehend why the opponent's Mirror Image technique was so outrageous; he could not even distinguish the image from the true body, unable to identify which Lei En was the real one.

He immediately activated the Crown of Dominion, freezing the surrounding space.

The Thousand-Throat Demon Shield also emitted a low murmur, attempting to disrupt the enemy's Willpower and slow their assault.

However, it had no effect on Lei En.

Ai Ke Ang was not fighting Lei En for the first time, and placed no hope in this; his body erupted with chaotic energy, the Regicide Sword's blade blazing with fierce flames, conjuring a phantom of an ancient Baro Flame Demon, which he swung powerfully as he turned.

Clang clang!

Three consecutive collisions showed Ai Ke Ang's swordsmanship was superb, using force against force; the Regicide Sword cut two Lei En Mirror Images.

One image was nearly gutted open, the other was beheaded and vanished outright.

But they clearly intended this, completely abandoning defense to create openings for the other images.

At the same time Ai Ke Ang cut the two images, four flame‑soul great swords struck him, hitting his central back, waist, right knee, and rear neck. Each great sword unleashed terrifying lethality, instantly destroying the Eternal Chosen's Moka Armor.

One flame‑soul great sword pierced his back, puncturing his heart and exiting through his chest.

His waist was also sliced open, and his right leg broken.

The worst injury was his rear neck, nearly beheading him!

Within a few breaths of the frontal clash, the Eternal Chosen's body flew back like a torn rag, crashing heavily onto the Gothon Bridge, shaking the entire bridge. Over a dozen Electric Blast Orbs pursued, exploding on him, and two hundred‑meter lightning bolts descended from the sky, striking the Eternal Chosen on the bridge in rapid succession.

The Ge Dun Bridge, which had stood for hundreds of years, snapped.

But at that moment, nobody cared about the bridge at all; everyone fell silent, stunned by a fact:

The invincible Eternal Chosen, whose ferocious might had terrified the apocalyptic lord of the New Continent for centuries, was defeated at a glance by an Empire Consul!

(End of chapter)