Hao Jiu had been keeping a close eye on Xiang Yu's heart. Seeing that things were not going well, he quickly removed the Whitebeard card and replaced it with Bruno's. He fed Xiang Yu all kinds of good food, including healing potions, wound-healing medicine, stamina potions, and jujubes.
At the same time, Xiang Yu gritted his teeth and opened a door on the ground, entering the green alien space from underground.
For ordinary people, if their heart stops beating and they are rescued in time, there are no major problems. Let alone a strong body like Xiang Yu's. Without the side effects of the Whitebeard card, his heart would still be that strong and powerful young heart.
However, when using the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's power, the damage to the internal organs, especially the heart, caused by the vibrations will not disappear with the change of cards. This part of the injury must be healed as soon as possible, otherwise even if there is no danger to life, it may leave sequelae.
Hao Jiu understood why Liu Xiu didn't use the Whitebeard card; it was because the card required extremely high physical strength, demanding a strong heart to withstand the damage from the vibrations.
The Whitebeard card not only doesn't strengthen the user's heart, but it also adds a deterioration attribute to the heart. Ordinary people, let alone unleash a burst of skills, are likely to shatter their hearts after the first punch.
Even if Liu Xiu were equipped with Whitebeard's cards, he probably wouldn't dare use the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's power. Besides, he wouldn't need to use Whitebeard's cards, as Fujitora and Dragon's cards are no worse than Whitebeard's in his later years.
The full name of this dragon should be Monkey D. Dragon, who is the father of Luffy, the protagonist of One Piece, and the leader of the Revolutionary Army who intends to overthrow the World Government. He is a super mysterious and powerful character. His original identity was a Marine Vice Admiral, so he is very skilled in using the Six Powers.
Dragon appears almost every time accompanied by wind and rain, suggesting he might be a user of the Wind-Wind Fruit. Liu Xiu used this card to summon wind and rain back then.
Coincidentally, besides the fact that the eyebrows will gradually fall out, this card also has a hidden attribute: it can be suppressed by the dragon bloodline, and the purer the bloodline, the stronger the suppression.
In his battle with Xiang Yu, Liu Xiu only used his ability to summon wind and rain at the beginning, and didn't use any of the Wind-Wind Fruit's power later on.
Looking back now, it was probably because I was suppressed by the dragon that truly commands the wind and rain – the dragon bloodline is just too pure.
As for why the Friends system helped Xiang Yu, the main reason was the influence of Xiang Yu's luck. At the same time, the Beast System and the Friends system did not want Xiang Yu to lose too quickly.
Of course, even without the Wind-Wind Fruit ability, the Navy's Six Powers and the three types of Haki Dragon alone are extremely powerful, but they cannot be fully utilized due to Liu Xiu's physical limitations.
Indeed, everything happens for a reason.
Hao Jiu breathed a sigh of relief. "Is Xiang Yu happy now? It was so dangerous just now. He risked his life just to kill a few more, uh, billions of locusts?"
Besides, so what if the locusts run away? Once we've solved the problem of making friends, we can ride our black horse around the world and wipe them all out. Why would I risk Xiang Yu's life just to save a few tens of thousands of energy points?
What if other enemies take the opportunity to launch a sneak attack? Wouldn't that be dangerous? Don't play those heart-pounding games again; my heart isn't strong!
Xiang Yu's lips twitched violently. The system doesn't seem to have a heart... Even if it does, its heart is probably as small as a pinhead. It's usually very calculating, and it's so stingy that it would divide a single healing medicine into eight pieces to eat. It would feel bad if it wasted even a little bit. It would be strange if it didn't feel bad if it had to spend tens of thousands of energy points to exchange for cards!
If I had used Whitebeard's cards repeatedly to kill the locusts, Dionysus would probably be the one suffering cardiac arrest and needing emergency care right now.
However, as much as he felt heartbroken at the thought of dying, if tens of thousands of energy points could save his life, the God of Wine would still be willing to part with it, a decision Xiang Yu was quite confident about.
"Please don't be offended, God of Wine. I only dared to take the risk because I believed in your abilities. I will be more careful in the future."
"Alright, I'm relieved to hear that. Who's that person outside? He looks familiar, and he's really bold," Hao Jiu said, pointing to the person outside.
Xiang Yu was also curious, so he opened the air portal and came up behind the man. "Who are you? What are you doing here?"
Liu Yan quickly turned around, saw Xiang Yu, knelt on one knee, clasped his hands and bowed, "Reporting to the High God, I am Liu Yan from Chunling, and I have come to find my brother Liu Xiu. I wonder if the High God is aware of this?"
Xiang Yu raised an eyebrow. So it was Liu Yan. He did have some courage, and he hadn't even died from the mutated locusts. He could be called both wise and brave. "Why do you call me a god?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, I have just witnessed Your Majesty's earth-shattering divine power, and thus I have come to recognize Your Majesty's identity," Liu Yan said respectfully.
"Get up. Now that you have seen what I just did, if Liu Xiu were really here, he would be buried underneath. Isn't he west of Kunyang?"
Xiang Yu originally wanted to hand over Liu Xiu's body directly to him, but Hao Jiu stopped him. The body was placed in the storage space, where it might be resurrected one day. If it were given to Liu Yan, it would only be buried.
"My brother... it's all my fault for not going to the Yin family to propose marriage sooner. Now the marriage is settled, but you... alas!" Although Liu Yan was mentally prepared, he was still in unbearable pain. It seemed that Liu Xiu was most likely dead.
The Gengshi army they encountered west of Kunyang all said that Liu Xiu was extremely brave, leading them from east of Kunyang to west of Kunyang, and even cutting down Wang Yi's banner. After that, they felt something extremely terrifying and all fainted. But when they woke up, no one saw Liu Xiu again.
"You can search further around Kunyang. Before the insect cloud arrived, many people were scared away by the meteorite fire rain. Perhaps he is not dead. I will also help you search. As for you, you must be more careful after this battle. Wang Mang's defeat is inevitable. Liu Xuan probably will not tolerate you. Don't let Liu Xiu return and you be dead. That's all I have to say. Take care of yourself."
After Xiang Yu finished speaking, he entered the alternate dimension again and asked impatiently, "Is the God of Wine really confident in resurrecting Liu Xiu?"
“A corpse alone is definitely not enough, but as long as there’s a soul, there’s no problem. Shou-jun, how is that guy?” Hao Jiu’s words were startling.
Chapter 301 Unexpected Events
"Shoujun, how is that guy?" Hao Jiu asked, surprising everyone.
Xiang Yu suddenly looked at the Emperor's Sword, and found that Liu Xiu's soul was inside!
"Uh, he seems to have suffered a great blow. He said that even if he could be resurrected, he wouldn't want to go back to being a mortal." After witnessing Liu Xiu's power to summon wind and rain, Shoujun dared not show his face again. While the gods were fighting outside, he was just an injured, thousand-year-old ghost. What else could he do but hide?
It wasn't until Liu Xiu and the White Snake perished together that Shou Jun secretly used the Emperor's Sword to collect Liu Xiu's soul. He then continued to lie low. When he opened the Emperor's Sword's spatial barrier again to observe the situation outside, he happened to see Xiang Yu unleashing his divine power to destroy the heavens and the earth. He decisively told Hao Jiu about Liu Xiu's soul, thus making his presence known.
At the time, Hao Jiu had no energy to care about Shou Jun and Liu Xiu. It wasn't until Liu Yan came looking for him that he remembered this matter.
"Then let Liu Xiu cultivate inside for now. Anyway, he'll have to go through the lightning blockade to get out of the Emperor's Sword. Let him know that his brother Liu Yan came to see him and even went to the Yin family to propose marriage. Yin Lihua is now his betrothed. Let him handle it himself."
"Yes." Shoujun is very obedient now, secretly vowing to cling to the two powerful figures, the God of Wine and Xiang Yu. Being a ghost is so boring; maybe he'll have a chance to be resurrected someday.
It's laughable that Liu Xiu had the chance to be resurrected but refused. So what if he was a mortal? With a powerful figure like the God of Wine, even a mortal can become an immortal. That kid is too young. Tch.
Xiang Yu felt much better upon learning that Liu Xiu's soul was in the Emperor's Sword. "That's good. If all else fails, I can send my clone to counsel him."
"If he truly can't let go of his pride, looks down on the lives of ordinary people, and remains unmoved even by his beloved Yin Lihua, then there's no use in trying to persuade him. He's lost the system and his godlike power; this is a significant blow. The Beast System is dead, and even if the Elf King had a clone system, he probably wouldn't bother to bind to Liu Xiu again," Hao Jiu sighed.
But this is for the best. Who knows if Liu Xiu knows any secrets he shouldn't know within the Emperor's Sword? If that powerful spirit system finds out what happened after the clone self-destructed, it would be a huge problem.
If Xiang Yu had listened to Hao Jiu's advice, killing him directly would have saved a lot of trouble. Of course, if he hadn't killed the other witness, Jiao You, then killing Liu Xiu alone wouldn't have been very useful.
And that Lord Shou is really scheming. He didn't come out to help during the life-or-death battle, but now he's jumping out to make his presence known. Xiang Yu might be grateful to him, but I'm not so easily fooled. When I fight my friend later, if that old ghost still doesn't risk his life to help, I'll find a way to kill him!
Shoujun shuddered inexplicably in the space of the Emperor's Sword, and relayed the words of the God of Wine to Liu Xiu without missing a single one.
A dejected Liu Xiu raised his head, then slowly lowered it again...
Xiang Yu knew that Hao Jiu was telling the truth. There were some things that no one else could help with. Where could he find another powerful system like the Goddess of Wine for Liu Xiu? If he gave him the Shadow System of the God of Wine, he would definitely be rejected.
If anything, it will only be given to Liu Xiu after he accepts his identity as a mortal. Only then can the shadow system, which is better than nothing, give Liu Xiu an unexpected surprise and be accepted by him.
"In that case, let's go and get rid of the remaining locusts first, otherwise I won't be at ease."
"Alright, locusts swarm in groups, so they shouldn't have flown too far. They should have circled around Kunyang by now. Take this opportunity to let Xiang Yu practice his combat skills. The next battle will be the decisive one, and his injuries should have healed by then. It's bound to be a tough fight."
Although Hao Jiu had great confidence in Xiang Yu, this time his opponent was a dragon, which would definitely be extremely difficult to kill.
Xiang Yu did not leave the alternate dimension, but instead traveled within it. He could move fifty meters with a single thought, a speed comparable to his speed after eating the Dragon Ball.
Soon, Xiang Yu discovered the first swarm of locusts that had managed to escape. He didn't know how many there were, but the entire farmland was covered with them.
Some people tried to smoke it out, beat it with thorns, scratch it with their hands, and bite it with their teeth, but all to little avail. Everyone's face was filled with despair.
Fortunately, there weren't any particularly strong mutated locusts here, otherwise these people would have been in great danger.
Xiang Yu stepped out of the alternate dimension and then dispersed his Haki energy in particle form. After experiencing the Observation Haki of a strong person, he had a deeper understanding of the application of Haki externalization.
The sign of breaking through from the Majestic Realm to the Earth Realm is the ability to spread Majestic energy over a wide area, thereby perceiving the environment and the actions of enemies within range, and then attacking enemies from an extremely long distance.
Therefore, the main direction of cultivating Xuanjing Overlord Aura is to increase the distance of its outward projection and become familiar with the ability to perceive Overlord Aura, at least to be able to perceive it within a small range.
He could cultivate while exterminating the locusts. Even if he could only sense a range of one zhang, Xiang Yu would close his eyes and rely on his senses to attack the target safely.
The attack method is also very simple: gather the scattered powerful particles into needle tips from a distance, and then crush the locusts' brains to kill them instantly.
Of course, even within a radius of ten feet, there are still quite a few locusts. It's unlikely that they can be killed instantly at the same time. Xiang Yu started training by killing two or three at a time, gradually increasing to five, then ten, then twenty...
Xiang Yu became increasingly adept at his task, and finally all the locusts in the entire area were wiped out.
Several civilians had already noticed Xiang Yu's strange behavior, but the locust corpses falling around them had already explained the problem.
"Thank you, righteous people, for helping us kill these pests!"
Ding dong! Congratulations to Xiang Yu for gaining 100 chivalry points!
...
The next day, in a cave in Ziyun Mountain.
Jiaoyou, who had transformed back into human form while sitting cross-legged, suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood. "Damn humans! I never imagined that meteorite would be so powerful!"
Even now, when he thinks back on it, he still feels lingering fear. He had fought many human cultivators before, but none of their moves or magical treasures were as powerful as this.
The key point is that he had already broken out of his comfort zone and didn't need to take this hit, but that guy managed to knock him back down again...
Originally, I thought that after eliminating the law enforcement system, the remaining one could be manipulated at will, but now it seems that the human system has absorbed all the abilities of the law enforcement system.
Moreover, his host, Wang Xiang, possessed the terrifying power to shatter the void, making him even more formidable than Liu Xiu, who summoned meteorites!
"Should we unlock the dimensional lock and let them leave?" Jiaoyou muttered to himself. "No! With such a good opportunity to obtain the system, how can I give it up because I'm afraid of a mortal? It's time to fight for it! Luckily, I'm prepared. So what if the spiritual energy is thin? I have..."
When he got to this point, his expression suddenly changed drastically, and he opened his mouth wide and began to vomit incessantly. However, apart from the undigested flesh and bones of a strong, hungry wolf that he had swallowed not long ago, there was nothing else of note.
"How could there be none? There really isn't!" Jiaoyou's expression grew increasingly grim. "Could it be that you accidentally... peed it out?"
How could that be!
With a grim face, he arrived at a secluded valley and casually broke off a branch...
Chapter 302 Nominal Disciple
Ding dong! Congratulations to Xiang Yu for gaining 100 chivalry points!
Hao Jiu was practically grinning from ear to ear. Earning chivalry points for killing locusts was both unexpected and perfectly reasonable!
He couldn't understand why he hadn't gained any chivalry points when he killed so many locusts with Liu Xiu, and why he hadn't gained any chivalry points when Xiang Yu killed hundreds of billions of locusts, but he had gained them when he was sweeping away the remaining locust swarms.
At first, Hao Jiu thought it was related to the people's gratitude, but it turned out that after that, there were places where no one thanked him but he still had chivalry points, so it seemed that the focus was not on gratitude.
Later, Hao Jiu got too lazy to think about it anymore. As long as he had chivalry points, that was fine. Even though killing a group only gave him 100 chivalry points, there were many villages around Kunyang, and each village had a piece of farmland. In addition, with Dingling, Yancheng, Xiangcheng and other places, he had already dealt with more than a hundred insect swarms. Hao Jiu could make 10 more shadow systems.
Xiang Yu's domineering aura and various skills are becoming more and more proficient, and the range of his domineering aura has expanded to 100 meters, but it seems that he has encountered a bottleneck and can hardly improve it no matter how hard he tries.
However, the number of targets Xiang Yu could attack simultaneously was constantly increasing. Although it couldn't compare to the Conqueror's Haki that could stun tens of thousands of people with a single blow, he could kill thousands of locusts with a single thought.
Otherwise, Xiang Yu would not have been able to kill so many locusts in two days.
In addition, the clone Ju Wuba also sent troops to investigate where there were still locust plagues, and Xiang Yu accepted them all, chasing after them in droves.
During this period, Liu Xiu, having experienced something unknown, resolutely decided to become Shou Jun's disciple and entrusted Shou Jun to convey a message to Xiang Yu, requesting him to find Liu Yan and inform him to temporarily take care of Yin Lihua. He promised that Liu Xiu would return after completing his studies, in a period ranging from one to ten years.
In fact, Liu Xiu wanted to come out of the Emperor's Sword space right now, but his soul's ability to withstand lightning was too poor, so he was working hard to cultivate it.
Xiang Yu readily agreed and soon found Liu Yan, telling him that Liu Xiu had become a disciple of a master, and also inquired about the locust swarms.
Liu Yan knew Xiang Yu's abilities, so he believed Xiang Yu's words without a doubt. At the same time, he did his best to find locust swarms for Xiang Yu and agreed to use smoke signals as a warning.
The people of Nanyang, who were suffering from a locust plague, spread the word far and wide, and everyone knew that lighting a signal fire could kill the locusts.