107. The Chase

  "Haha, that's all you've got? Just some radiation. How could that pare to my perfect body?"

  All that talk of qi cultivation and firearms—none of it mattered in the face of absolute physical strength.

  "Wielding this cross-shaped spear, a warrior should envy my glory even in the underworld, with winter's breeze brushing his face."

  Lü Yuping San was filled with pride as he effortlessly absorbed the radiation ssh that barely reached 300 roentgens. The e fa focused on body reinfort—this was the true path famma-tier 【Warriors】.

  Li Aozi’s assault slowed slightly after the strike, an unfortable sting as qi pierced his blood vessels, disrupting his body’s systems.

  Maybe I got a bit too cocky—but even so, that idiot monk still chose to tank my radiation ssh head-on.

  Li Aozi patted his chest, and 【Sever Vitality】 and 【Death Link】 instantly ected to his oppo. Now, the ongoing radiation damage would heal Li Aozi, keeping him alive longer and saving him from using 【Immortal Blood】.

  He o keep that as a st resort, especially sihe qi erosion in his chest was still causing him to lose health. By linking Chu Wei and Lü Yuping San, he could drain their health too.

  The thick-skinned monk, Lü Yuping San, paid no mind to Li Aozi’s little tricks. He tapped his pressure points, assumed a stance, and charged forward with his spear. The bination of invincibility and long ons was the e fa’s edge in duels, and Li Aozi activated 【Pegasus Strength】, swinging his sword at the spearhead.

  However, with a slight twist of his hands, Lü Yuping San expertly redirected the spear, stabbing Li Aozi’s foot and halting his advance. He quickly withdrew the spear and blocked Li Aozi’s katana with the shaft. Using his immerength, he leveraged the long pole like a seesaw and flipped Li Aozi over.

  "Fool! True sword masters always bring polearms to the battlefield!"

  Lü Yuping San ughed heartily, though his fighting style was cautious and treacherous. With his spear in hand, he relentlessly pursued Li Aozi.

  The cross-shaped spear, simir to a trident, easily caught and trapped swords. Li Aozi khat in bat, the longer ohe advantage. After being knocked into the air, he quickly adjusted his trajectory areated.

  Unfortunately, the 【Ranger】 had been waiting. Though Li Aozi’s movements were erratima-tiers, his speed wasn’t fast enough.

  In Shuya swiftly loaded a fearsome bullet into her 55mm anti-armor sniper rifle. In her view, time slowed to a crawl.

  【Cold Focus】

  【Explosive Reload】

  【Death Mark】

  【Hunting Trigger】

  In Shuya’s smart targeting system locked onto Li Aozi like a mag. As a Gamma-tier with numerous impnts far beyond what mortals could imagine, her eyes glowed with dark blue qi. The rifle barrel hummed with qi energy, and her AI calcuted dozens of possible trajectories for Li Aozi. The trigger was ected to her qi, ready to fire the moment she willed it.

  Many believed Gamma-tier fighters didn’t eological assistahis was pletely wrong. Those with powerful nations behind them could wield teology mortals couldn’t even prehend.

  Boom!

  The trigger ulled, and Li Aozi, mid-movement, was directly hit, his upper body bloart. But he remained unfazed—【Death Link】 transferred the damage to Chu Wei and Lü Yuping San, while 【Sever Vitality】 drained more life, regeing his body in moments.

  "What the hell?! What kind of monster is this?!"

  In Shuya cursed in disbelief.

  Li Aozi nded on the ground, standing atop his greatsword’s massive sheath, sliding the bde bato its case. Before the meism could reset, he heard growls and the sound of something rushing through the air behind him.

  He tilted his head, narrowly avoiding the white fox’s paw. The enormous spirit fox leaped high into the air, spiraling mid-flight. Just when Li Aozi thought it was about to desd, it reared its paw, h in mid-air.

  The moment Li Aozi rexed, the pale fox’s paw suddenly struck down. Li Aozi dodged, but the fox slyly flicked its gaze, glowing with the same eerie blue as its master, the 【Medium】.

  In an instant, the white fox dropped, rolling like a bulldozer straight toward Li Aozi.

  "Shit—cssic 【Medium】 mind-reading."

  Li Aozi cursed under his breath.

  pared to the 【Shaman】, pyers always hated the 【Medium】 css more, because of their mind-reading ability. Sihe 【Medium】 shared thoughts with their summoned spirits, it was like reading a pyer’s ands and scripts—they dodged every attack, while you couldn’t escape any of theirs.

  With o run, Li Aozi couldn’t accelerate in time. The fox’s massive body collided with him, sending him flying over 200 meters, crashing into a building. The white fox, in hot pursuit, blinked forward with the help of the 【Medium】, stepping on tates and sinking its teeth into Li Aozi again, flinging him into ay square cleared of civilians. Li Aozi took the opportunity to adjust his position in mid-air, speeding toward a residential area.

  "Chase him, Spirit Fox!"

  Suzuka noticed Li Aozi deliberately heading toward the crowd and clicked her tongue. She ehe spirit realm, instantly crossing two kilometers. A talisman shot from her hand, nding in Li Aozi’s path.

  "Cursed Talisman: Wall of Evil Spirits!"

  The yellow talismaed into blue-green ghostly fmes, summoning vengeful spirits and malevolent ghosts, f an impassable wall right in Li Aozi’s way.

  Li Aozi wasted no time, diving into a nearby office building. crete walls crumbled as he crashed through them, with the fox hot on his heels. It spit a spirit fireball, and the chase tinued between desks and puter rooms. The 300-meter skyscraper, weakened by their destru, teetered and began to colpse.

  Li Aozi rolled to his feet, sshing open the elevator shaft and diving in to escape the fox’s jaws. The fox quickly followed into the shaft, but Li Aozi cut the elevator cables, grabbing hold of the top elevator as it shot upward. The massive fox lost its footing on the elevator car, plummeting to the bottom and crushing the shaft into a heap of twisted metal.

  "Raaawrr!"

  The white fox roared in frustration. Its 【Medium】 hadn’t caught up yet and couldn’t read Li Aozi’s thoughts. The fox was stu the elevator shaft, its body trapped by exposed rebar, and it lost sight of Li Aozi.

  But in the moment, the fox’s ears perked up, and it suddenly raised its head.

  【Immortal Blood】—Stacked.

  【Natural Ignition】—Stacked.

  Boom!

  "Dual Teique—Phoenix Bomb!"

  Raging fmes erupted, engulfing everything in a sea of fire. The spirit fox’s form was scorched and dried out by the intense heat, its spiritual essence evaporating in the bze. It howled in agony, rolling and stumbling as if g for help from the dimming world.

  But the only a received was the radiant sword that sshed down on its head.

  Li Aozi’s beed rapidly within the fmes. He raised Dust-Sealed Sanctuary and brought it down on the fallen fox’s head!

  Squelch—

  The fox’s screams were abruptly silenced. Its body disied into spiritual ash within the fire, and with a loud crash, the skyscraper could no longer withstand the destru. The top 63 floors came tumbling down to the ground.

  Li Aozi turned, ung himself into the sky. His chest still throbbed with pain—Chu Wei’s previous wound had left aire se of his muscle rotting from qi damage, and after everything, his health bar was dangerously low.

  Just then, the sound of spiritual energy moving through the air echoed from above.

  The Grand Onmyoji of Tianhuan, uo remain idle any longer, had finally ehe battlefield.

  FAL