Qingchen also heard the footsteps, but he was not afraid.
The next moment, Duke Phoenix's figure suddenly disappeared from the spot. Because he was moving too fast, he disappeared from the naked eye. Only a faint red glimpse could be seen.
But then the Phoenix Duke charged in from eight hundred meters away. The road cracked inch by inch after he stepped on it, and the scraps of paper and garbage scattered on both sides of the street were swept away by the huge air currents!
Of the four dukes, the Phoenix Duke excels in speed; he can traverse 800 meters in just two breaths.
Despite the pain, Qing Chen turned his head listlessly toward where Duke Phoenix had come from, yet he remained unafraid.
As a flash of red approached at incredible speed, the sound of wind could be heard.
A white figure suddenly appeared, and the white collided with the red. The white figure, which was behind, arrived first and punched the onrushing Phoenix Duke hundreds of meters away!
Qingchen slowly raised his head, and Li Shutong turned around and smiled, "Are you alright?"
Qingchen suddenly realized that his master's sudden desire to learn English and his long disappearance were all just waiting for this moment.
That was a fate arranged by an old man on Ginkgo Mountain. So many people made sacrifices and choices, just to wait for the moment when Qingchen became a god.
Chapter 972, Forbidden Item ACE-003, The Serpent of Deception
The cannons suspended upside down on the base of the Storm were rapidly moving along the track, like a steel canopy ready to unleash a terrifying barrage of fire at any moment.
The soldiers on the Storm have taken back the weapon systems from Zero.
Qing Chen suddenly realized that the Spider Cage was not only prepared for him, but also a barrier created by the Storm Duke at the cost of losing eight Arbitrators, in order to kill all those who came to help him.
"Master, be careful of the electromagnetic cannons in the air fortress," Qingchen said, barely managing to stay conscious.
Li Shutong laughed and said, "Don't worry, even an aerial fortress isn't invincible."
Qingchen said, "It's too dangerous. You shouldn't have come."
Li Shutong responded with a smile, "I didn't come alone."
A wind has risen over the central capital.
The wind came so suddenly, it seemed it shouldn't have been there at all.
In the city, Li Dongze, dressed in a black trench coat, was holding up a pocket watch.
He held the watch face in his left hand and gently turned the index finger of his right hand on the watch face. The sun, moon and stars on the watch face moved and shifted, and the originally clear starry sky suddenly turned into a sandstorm.
A level 8 gale swept through the city, hurling dust and garbage from the ground into the sky. Sand and stones flew everywhere, and visibility was reduced to the point where people couldn't see each other within ten meters.
It was as if a sandstorm had struck the entire central royal city!
Under these visibility conditions, even the Storm Sky Fortress cannot confirm the target below. To aim at a demigod, you must first be able to see the demigod!
Ye Wan, standing to the side, looked at Li Dongze and said, "I thought this forbidden item of yours was only good for checking the weather forecast. In March, you gave me this forbidden item with a second-order form. Doesn't that violate the rules of the Forbidden Tribunal?"
Li Dongze calmly replied, "She doesn't believe I can check the weather every day for ten years, so she doesn't believe I can unlock the second-tier form either."
Just then, March's voice came from afar: "Is it appropriate for the two of you to discuss me so openly?"
This time, not only knights and messengers arrived, but even the Forbidden Inquisition came to the Western Continent.
Lin Xiaoxiao asked curiously, "Speaking of which, isn't your Forbidden Tribunal only fighting to preserve the human race? Why are you suddenly no longer neutral?"
March said earnestly, "What we need to preserve is the human race of the Eastern Continent."
The implication is that whether the people on the Western Continent still have any hope of survival is none of their business.
As they were talking, a swarm of cockroaches marched past them.
Lin Xiaoxiao: "Does your Taboo Tribunal handle this kind of biological pollution?"
March watched expressionlessly as the cockroaches disappeared into the sandstorm: "Leave them alone for now, but you also need to make it clear to your little boss that these cockroaches cannot return to the Eastern Continent. Biological pollution is the prototype of the forbidden land, and they could transform into a new forbidden land at any time, and it would be enormous."
Li Dongze said, "Let's stop chatting now, we have a lot to do today."
At that moment, March pulled a black cloth bag from her waist, and the next instant, a plump pangolin crawled out of the black bag and headed straight for the copper rivets securing the spider web barrier.
The forbidden substance ACE-050, pangolin, can break through any tough barrier and can open a hole in any barrier that allows one person to pass through.
Containment conditions: Before each opening of the cave, the pangolin must be given a forbidden food.
This pangolin has a natural ability to smell forbidden things. Its former owner liked to take it to forbidden places, and it always managed to find the lost forbidden items.
Gradually, no one used this forbidden object to dig holes anymore. Instead, its owners used it to search for forbidden objects and gave it the nickname "Gold-Seeking Beast".
In March, use it to directly devour all the copper rivets, and the barrier will naturally break.
After 512 years, the Forbidden Tribunal has finally abandoned its neutrality and intervened.
Forbidden objects and forbidden places have no national boundaries, but the Court of Taboos owns them.
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In the midst of the battlefield, Li Shutong looked at Qing Chen: "Can you still hold on?"
Qing Chen shook his head: "I can't hold on any longer."
The warm calls from the sky, like a lullaby, showed no sign of stopping.
The pain in his body gradually subsided, his muscles stopped trembling, and his brain secreted a massive amount of endorphins to soothe him.
At this moment, he felt as if he were soaking in warm seawater, and drowsiness kept creeping over him.
As soon as Qing Chen finished speaking, he fainted while holding the Black Eye of True Sight.
Li Shutong was somewhat taken aback when he saw the unconscious Qingchen. This disciple was truly honest; if he said he couldn't hold on, he really couldn't.
He shouted, "Qing Ji! Qing Ji, where are you, you old bastard?"
Qing Ji emerged from the shadows: "I'm here."
"Take Qingchen away and keep watch over him until he wakes up so that no one disturbs him," Li Shutong instructed. "This is the head of your Qing family. Protect him well. Once this damned spider web is broken in March, immediately use the Shadow Gate to send him away... The Eastern Continent may not need you and me, but it definitely needs him."
After Li Shutong retrieved the forbidden ACE-002 chessboard from Prison No. 18, the old man on Ginkgo Mountain asked him to predict his fate.
At that moment, Li Shutong abandoned his former principles and ideals. This master gave up everything to fulfill Qingchen's wishes. He was like Qingchen's shadow, silently waiting for the moment when he was needed.
The rat swarm in City 10.
The battle for the central royal city.
This demigod willingly became a pawn crossing the river, submitting to the arrangements of fate.
No one knows what he actually saw.
At this moment, the Fate Master must have foreseen his battle with Duke Phoenix, so he had to have Qing Ji take Qing Chen away first.
Without a word, Qing Ji picked up Qing Chen and turned to leave. In the distance, Duke Phoenix had already stood up and was walking calmly out of the sandstorm, seemingly not paying much attention to this knight demigod: "The Silver City Black Knights are also the legacy of your knights, right? I have fought with Duke Silver, and knights are nothing special."
The red silhouette of the Phoenix Duke emerged from the sandstorm. He calmly put on two fiery red earrings, and intense flames ignited on his body.
The temperature in the air suddenly rose, but the Phoenix Duke remained completely unaffected by the flames.
Li Shutong watched calmly without refuting. The other party used a forbidden item he had hidden away, which seemed to be specifically designed to counter the knight's close combat ability.
The next moment, Duke Phoenix vanished from his spot, leaving a fiery red afterimage as he rushed toward Qing Chen behind Qing Ji.
The goal is extremely clear!
Li Shutong casually picked up a leaf from the sandstorm and hurled it at the afterimage.
None of those autumn leaf blades could catch up with Duke Phoenix's afterimage; they merely pierced the opposite wall through the afterimage.
The opponent's speed was extremely fast; no wonder people say even a knight is nothing special.
Duke Phoenix passed by Li Shutong with ease and headed straight for Qing Chen!
However, just as the normal Phoenix Duke was about to arrive at Qing Chen's side, Li Shutong also disappeared from the spot.
In an instant, a violent explosion rang out in the air. The sudden release of compressed air created a terrifying sound that made Qing Ji's eardrums ache and even bleed.
Just as the red afterimage of Duke Phoenix was about to reach Qing Chen, Li Shutong, who was behind, struck first and kicked him far away.
Caught off guard, Duke Phoenix was sent flying like a kite with its string detached, crashing into the outer wall of a house.
Li Shutong said with a smile, "Are you talking about... a knight like me?"
Duke Phoenix stood up in surprise and doubt; this was unlike any knight he had ever fought.
When he was still at Rank A, he had a fight with the Eleventh Prince over a girl. The two fought fiercely in the Central Royal City, and the Eleventh Prince was beaten black and blue.
Later, he advanced to demigod status and sparred with the Silver Duke. Although he didn't win at that time, he knew that as long as he risked his life, he couldn't possibly lose.
But when the Duke of Phoenix faced Li Shutong, he even felt a sense of powerlessness.
He had already pushed his speed to the limit, but he was still accurately found by the other party.
If it weren't for the forbidden object protecting him, that kick would probably have broken him in the waist.
What he didn't know was that even at his peak, the Silver Duke was only about 80% of Li Shutong's speed, and the Black Knights' legacy was incomplete to begin with!
Knights of the Eastern Continent have always won by speed and numbers.
Li Shutong was also a little surprised. He exclaimed, "Is it the effect of some forbidden object? You should have died from that kick just now."
Duke Phoenix did not answer; he simply dusted himself off and disappeared again.
This time, he no longer targeted Qing Chen, but instead relentlessly pursued Li Shutong.
But then, one after another, fiery red afterimages appeared around Li Shutong, probing and trying to find the knight demigod's weakness.
But Li Shutong stood calmly in place and casually threw a punch at the void in front of him.
With a loud bang, Duke Phoenix was sent flying backward once again!
Li Shutong also disappeared from the spot. The white and red figures were fighting wildly in the sandstorm, like two orbiting electrons constantly colliding and separating, and then colliding again.
The white and red figures kept jumping, jumping, jumping.
Buildings collapsed one after another in the battle, demonstrating the terrifying nature of the demigod war. The surrounding buildings were as fragile as paper in their hands, tearing apart with the slightest touch.
The truth is that Duke Phoenix disappeared time and time again, turning into afterimages, only to be repeatedly beaten out of those afterimages by Li Shutong.
From beginning to end, Duke Phoenix didn't even manage to touch Uncle Li.
The intense heat around him was so great that it only caused Li Shutong's hair to become brittle and dry. Before it could even burn Li Shutong's body, he was already being beaten away.