I thought that with Xiang Yu and that system eliminated, Liu Ji in this world would be invincible in achieving the throne, so it wouldn't matter if I invested more in him. At worst, these treasures could be given to the next host after he died.
As a result, Xiang Yu and that system suddenly appeared at this moment, and Xiang Yu was so powerful that he could go and explore the middle plane. Why did he have to fight for this broken plane?
At this moment, although the black dragon was still charging its shield, it was already having second thoughts. Even if Liu Ji could escape this calamity, he probably wouldn't be able to stay in this plane.
To fight to the death for a plane that is on the verge of extinction, must one's brain have been kicked by a donkey?
Finally, recharge the shield one last time. If Liu Ji can kill Xiang Yu again or stabilize the world, then take some of the good fortune from Liu Ji before leaving.
Conversely, it would be better to lose some energy and leave this plane as soon as possible, and find a mid-level plane instead.
Black Dragon's eyes widened suddenly at this thought. Xiang Yu... impossible! How did he know the weakness of the energy shield!
Despite the Black Dragon's elaborate plans, the actual time it took was only a fleeting moment.
This time, Xiang Yu did not smash Liu Ji from the air. Instead, he landed in front of Liu Ji, turned around, inserted his halberd into Liu Ji's feet, and then lifted it upwards with great force.
The shield gave the halberd a downward rebound force, but this force could not stop Xiang Yu from lifting Liu Ji up!
The whole process seemed complicated, but Xiang Yu acted quickly and completed it in the blink of an eye, leaving Liu Ji with no time to react.
"What do you want to do... Ah!" Liu Ji flailed his arms and kicked his limbs wildly in the air, and then he saw Xiang Yu plant his halberd on the ground right below him.
"Die!" Xiang Yu roared.
puff!
Blood splattered!
Liu Ji was stuck into the Overlord's Divine Halberd like a sausage!
"Old Black, save me..."
Chapter 154 Killed Again
Xiang Yu had used Liu Ji's energy shield himself, and he had also given it to Yu Ji. Hao Jiu was a system enthusiast who liked to research things, and he had already thoroughly explored the advantages and disadvantages of this shield.
To be fair, this energy shield is quite powerful. As long as the energy limit is not exceeded, it can withstand any external frontal attack and even reflect it. The magnitude of the reflection force depends on the attacker's strength and the remaining energy of the shield.
However, this shield is the only one that doesn't work against gravity; otherwise, it would keep bouncing off the ground until it runs out of energy.
In addition, this shield is not very effective against relatively flexible and slow forces because the rebound effect is too weak, so much so that it can be completely absorbed by the muscles alone, and it is impossible to be bounced off.
Of course, soft attacks are usually not very lethal. The real defense against this shield is gravity. For example, falling from a great height will definitely kill you instantly.
In addition, because it needs to be in contact with the ground, the weakest point of the entire energy shield is at the bottom. After all, the energy shield is only for defense and cannot make the wearer float in the air; the feet still need to touch the ground.
Although the energy shield appears to be seamlessly integrated with the ground, as if a portion of an energy eggshell were embedded beneath it, in reality, the shield cannot be embedded underground. Its bottom is flat on the surface, and the energy shield underfoot is very thin; even stepping on small pebbles can feel uncomfortable.
However, this does not mean that there is no defense underfoot. If there is something like an earth-style ninja or a mechanism that suddenly stabs upwards from underground, the shield can block the attack, but the rebound force is very small.
This is easy to understand. The rebound is like a spring, so there has to be a compression and deformation process. The part of the foot that is in contact with the ground is very thin, so there is not much room for compression.
Therefore, the biggest design flaw of this shield is at the bottom, not just at the feet. If a person is lying down, the thinner part is the part of the entire body that is in contact with the ground.
Another major drawback is that this shield can only withstand attacks from the outside of the shield; it cannot withstand attacks from inside the shell, such as if the enemy has pre-planted a time bomb on the shield wearer.
After all, the shield cannot distinguish between harmful and harmless things related to the wearer. If everything were to be expelled from the body, the wearer's clothes and everything else should have been torn apart the moment they put on the necklace.
Therefore, the criteria for determining the shield is that anything that comes into contact with the user while wearing it, or anything inside the shell, is considered part of the user. In this way, there is no need to worry about the energy shield hindering the user from using weapons to attack enemies.
To put it bluntly, Hao Jiu and Xiang Yu knew the weaknesses of this shield better than Black Dragon did. Black Dragon only knew some publicly available information from the product description, which may not have included any detailed flaws.
In fact, the only drawback mentioned in the description of this treasure is that the foot defense is relatively weak; the rest are exaggerated descriptions of its various advantages.
Of course, Black Dragon wasn't stupid. Just by looking at the price and sales volume of this product, he could tell that there were definitely many problems. It was impossible for it to be of good quality and cheap. But Black Dragon really didn't expect that Xiang Yu would know the weakness of this energy shield.
It makes no sense at all. Xiang Yu attacked twice with powerful frontal strikes, but then suddenly changed tactics on the third attack, attacking from below!
If the weakness of this energy shield can be determined through a brief exchange, then the combination of Xiang Yu and that system is truly terrifying.
In contrast, Black Dragon is more inclined to believe that the system within Xiang Yu knew about this energy shield beforehand, deliberately using the first two frontal attacks as a prelude, and then unexpectedly turning to attack the lower body.
Even so, that system's knowledge is too extensive; it even knows the weaknesses of this unpopular, discounted, clearance shield that hasn't sold a single one in eight hundred years!
"Old Black, save me..." Liu Ji's consciousness gradually blurred, but he continued to pray to the Black Dragon in his heart, unwilling to take his last breath.
Black Dragon remained unmoved. Trying to save Liu Ji now would come at too high a price and would not be easy to succeed. It would be better to use some of his energy to make peace with the other party's system.
"Liu Ji, be more careful in your next life. You need to be strong yourself to succeed. If you had half the fighting power of Xiang Yu, and with my help, you wouldn't have suffered such a humiliating defeat." After saying that, the black dragon ignored Liu Ji completely.
Liu Ji was enraged, realizing that the Black Dragon was clearly abandoning him to his fate. "Regardless of my life or death, you won't have a good time either! I curse you to be torn to pieces!"
Just as Black Dragon was thinking about how to negotiate with the other system, Liu Ji, who had been pierced by the halberd and was convulsing, finally died completely.
Then, a red ball was thrown at Liu Ji.
Before the weakened black dragon could even open its mouth to negotiate, it was suddenly sliced into countless pieces by a burst of chaotic blades.
Hao Jiu was somewhat unhappy after collecting the energy dropped by the black dragon, because he only earned a little over 16,000 energy this time, which was almost half less than the energy he obtained in the fifth plane, but the things he got were about the same, namely dragon balls, shields and jade pendants.
If this continues, there may be even fewer third planes, and the possibility of a second plane is even less likely.
"God of Wine, quickly clean up the battlefield so we can proceed to the next plane." As Xiang Yu spoke, he took off the shield necklace and longevity jade pendant from Liu Ji and put them on himself.
Hao Jiu snapped out of her daze and said, "Okay."
At this moment, many more soldiers rushed to the rescue, and the leading general was Xiahou Ying.
"Hiss... Your Majesty!" Xiahou Ying immediately spotted Liu Ji stuck in the halberd. He was clearly dead beyond any doubt, and the surrounding corpses, even if not piled up into a mountain, were still covering the ground, which was quite horrifying.
Upon seeing this, the soldiers all stopped in their tracks. His Majesty had died suddenly; what could be done?
Guan Gao also mustered his courage and peeked out from behind the door, "Liu Ji was really killed? Who is this person?!"
"Who are you? Why did you attempt to assassinate His Majesty?!" Xiahou Ying shouted, drawing his sword.
"Oh? Shouldn't General Xiahou risk his life to avenge his master's death?" Xiang Yu said calmly.
"You audacious assassin! You are surrounded. I can kill you whenever I want. What's wrong with asking questions first?" Xiahou Ying roared.
"Does I need a reason to kill him?" Xiang Yu said, removing his mask. "Xiahou Ying, how have you been?"
"Hiss... Xiang Yu?!" Xiahou Ying's legs went weak and he almost knelt on the ground. "You, you, are you a human or a ghost?"
"Whoa!" Upon hearing that it was Xiang Yu, the soldiers were immediately terrified. Some of them who recognized Xiang Yu threw down their weapons and ran away.
"Hahaha..." Xiang Yu laughed wildly. After a while, he picked up the Overlord Halberd and casually threw Liu Ji's corpse to the ground. "We'll know after one battle!"
"Fire arrows! Fire arrows immediately!" Xiahou Ying roared. He had never seen a ghost, but the person in front of him did look very similar to Xiang Yu. Could it be that the one who was dismembered was not Xiang Yu himself?
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
Arrows flew like locusts, ding ding ding...
"Hiss..." The gasps of the crowd were instantly synchronized.
Because all the arrows that had just been fired were deflected! And Xiang Yu was completely unharmed!
Xiahou Ying felt a wave of dizziness, rubbed his eyes hard, and then suddenly remembered something, so he slapped himself hard across the face.
Snap!
pain!
Chapter 155 I'm Having a Hard Time (Bonus Chapter for Protector Yan!)
After Hao Jiu finished collecting the module fragments of the Black Dragon, Xiang Yu summoned his black horse, Wuzhui, and soared into the sky amidst the shocked and worshipful gazes of the crowd.
He left only one sentence for Guan Gao and Xiahou Ying: 'The world has reached a point where peace is due. Anyone who dares to instigate war will be slain by this god!'
As for whether the various forces in this plane will obey, Xiang Yu doesn't care. He'll come back and see after a while, and kill anyone who dares to disobey.
Ruling a plane is a trivial matter and doesn't take much time. The reason for sparing Xiahou Ying's life is to let him spread the word about Xiang Yu's invincible divine power.
To be honest, Xiang Yu didn't really feel a sense of belonging to the fourth, fifth, and sixth branch planes where time flowed faster, because most of the people he knew were dead, and those who weren't had all surrendered to Liu Ji.
The only remaining connection is probably the Xiang family, who have gone into seclusion. Once the black dragons in the other planes are completely dealt with, we will definitely try to find them, but there is no need to do so right now.
On the way to the time tunnel, Hao Jiu obtained another throwing knife from the black dragon fragments, making him suspect that this red instant-kill item might be even more advanced than he had imagined.
...
The third plane, Xiapi, the capital of the Chu Kingdom.
Han Xin frowned, glanced at the invitation in his hand, and let out a long sigh.
"Your Majesty's hunting trip to Yunmeng at this time, could it be related to someone accusing me of treason? What should we do..." Han Xin murmured.
Liu Ji went hunting in the Yunmeng region and then held a banquet for the various lords in Chen. In Han Xin's view, this was exactly the same as the Feast at Hongmen, except that this time it was he, the King of Chu, who was risking attending the banquet.
If Han Xin did not go, it would confirm the crime of treason, and Liu Ji would have solid evidence to command all the feudal lords in the land to rise up and attack him.
Even a powerful figure like Xiang Yu couldn't withstand a pack of wolves, let alone Han Xin, who only controlled half of the Chu kingdom?
Back then, when Han Xin lost his military power in Qi, he also lost his most capable strategist, Li Zuoche. Another great strategist, Kuai Che, left Han Xin after his plan to divide the world into three parts was not adopted.
Therefore, at this critical moment, Han Xin no longer had any wise advisors to offer him advice.
Of course, there were many capable people, even if there were no geniuses. However, Han Xin always felt that those ministers were not truly loyal to him and were likely spies sent by Liu Ji and Chen Ping.
Even so, Han Xin still summoned several ministers who seemed quite loyal to him to discuss the matter.
"Your Majesty, Lords Wu, Mei, and Jia are requesting an audience outside the palace," a guard reported.
Han Xin's eyes lit up. "Quickly, invite them in!"
"Yes, sir." The guard responded and was about to turn around.
"Wait! Uh, you take men and guard the entrance. No one is allowed to enter, not even General Zhong," Han Xin added.
"Here you go."
Soon, three ministers arrived at the main hall.
"Greetings, Your Majesty!" the three said in unison.
"Gentlemen, please excuse the formalities. To be honest, I have summoned you here to discuss an important matter." Han Xin knew that he was invincible in battle, but he was not very good at court affairs.
"We will do our utmost to share the King's burdens!" the three replied in unison.