Strangely, no matter how many punches the Phoenix Duke took, his body remained resilient and unaffected, as if he himself were a forbidden object, indestructible!
Gradually, Li Shutong's speed also slowed down. No one's peak condition can last forever. Just like track and field athletes, you can't finish a marathon if you start running at full speed.
Duke Phoenix noticed all this and immediately sneered: "I am already invincible, but your speed is not eternal."
Li Shutong stood there and glanced at his watch. The twenty minutes that the Fate Master could see had already passed. He laughed and said, "You admit that you are not as fast as me, right? But you are not the only one with taboos."
At that moment, he took out a thin, silver snake from his pocket.
But then Li Shutong cut open his palm, and the silver snake attached itself to the wound, greedily sucking the blood. It was as if the snake sucked up too much blood at once, causing the knight demigod's face to turn pale.
After the silver snake had absorbed enough, it coiled itself around Li Shutong's little finger, becoming a pinky ring.
Forbidden substance ACE-003, the Serpent of Deception!
This forbidden item has always belonged to knights, and now it has finally been passed down to Li Shutong. Previously, when Qing Chen went to ask for the forbidden item on behalf of his disciples, the old guys did not hand over the Serpent of Deception to him.
It wasn't that the old folks didn't want to give it to them, but rather that Li Shutong dug it out of the forbidden area and took it away...
Duke Phoenix watched helplessly as Uncle Li split into three, all three of them smiling at him.
His scalp tingled instantly!
Duke Phoenix's figure disappeared from the spot again, running towards the edge of the spider web barrier. Li Shutong blocked his way. He swung his hand and chopped down, but the hand blade passed through the layers of light and shadow without any hindrance, passing right through Li Shutong in front of him.
It's an illusion!
There weren't actually three knight demigods!
Duke Phoenix was overjoyed. He passed right through Li Shutong and continued running into the distance.
However, as he passed through the phantom in the blink of an eye, Li Shutong, who was supposed to be a phantom, actually materialized and blasted him into the building next door with a whip kick!
As the Phoenix Duke flew backward, he was surprised to discover that Li Shutong's illusion was not real; it seemed that he could switch between the three illusions!
The other party can appear instantly in whichever illusion they want!
This is equivalent to giving the knight demigod the ability to teleport!
A Li Shutong rushed in, and the Phoenix Duke rose up to deliver a knee strike, but his knee passed right through the afterimage again, completely unable to cause any damage to Li Shutong!
As the phantom of Duke Phoenix passed by Li Shutong, he thought Li Shutong was going to use the same trick again, so he immediately kicked backward with a whip kick. But Li Shutong did not appear in the phantom. Instead, another phantom floated over and punched him in the abdomen, sending him flying into the sky!
These three phantoms of Li Shutong are a mix of reality and illusion. Even if you can distinguish which one is real and which one is fake, your judgment is useless because what you thought was a 'real' phantom a second ago may become a fake one the next.
It's utterly unreasonable to let a knight demigod obtain such a forbidden item!
In just half a minute, Duke Phoenix was hit by hundreds of punches from the three Li Shutongs. Under the infusion of knightly cloud energy, his body seemed to really feel a burning sensation.
For some reason, he even had the illusion that none of the three Li Shutongs were fake, but all of them were real.
Because every punch is real!
Gradually, cracks appeared on Duke Phoenix's body, just like cracks appearing on a piece of porcelain after being hammered.
Even with the protection of a top-tier forbidden item, he was still going to die!
Even the demigod's most treasured life-saving item is useless now!
Duke Phoenix roared, "Storm, why aren't you making a move?!"
However, no one around him responded; it seemed that Duke Storm had never intended to fight Uncle Li in the first place.
Li Shutong calmly said, "Have you all considered the consequences of using such a large force to hunt down my disciple?"
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Qing Ji carried Qing Chen towards the edge of the spider web barrier. Along the way, Yi and the Black Spider came to meet them.
But their speed gradually slowed down, and Yi asked curiously, "What's wrong?"
Black Spider and Qing Ji both looked ahead with apprehension, where a tall figure stood silhouetted against the gloom of the sandstorm.
Duke Storm asked coldly, "Black Spider, do you know the consequences of betraying me?"
Black Spider pursed her lips. He was the one who had cast a shadow over her entire life, and for a moment she didn't dare to answer the Storm Duke's question.
At this moment, Qing Ji suddenly looked at her and asked, "Can I trust you?"
Black Spider paused for a moment, then said, "Okay."
"I'm entrusting Qingchen to you. You must find a way to take him away, as far as possible, until he wakes up," Qing Ji said.
Black Spider hesitated for a moment: "I can stay and hold off Duke Storm."
Qing Ji shook his head: "You can't stop him. If you could, I would leave you here without hesitation."
With that, he actually placed Qing Chen on the black spider's back: "Run!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the great demon Qing Ji calmly walked towards Duke Storm.
Chapter 973, Forbidden Item ACE-015, Wooden Fish
Outside the battlefield, Li Dongze watched the sandstorm gradually subside: "Qing Ji hasn't appeared yet, our time is running out."
Once the sandstorm in the city stops, the aerial fortress in the sky will be visible again, and everyone will be in danger.
March responded, "The Gold-Seeking Beast is still searching for the array's core. It has already found one and swallowed it, but the array itself has not been affected. It seems that it needs to devour all the array's cores before it can be destroyed."
Li Dongze frowned: "The people inside the spider web barrier probably won't last that long."
March raised an eyebrow: "Do you have so little confidence in your boss?"
“No,” Li Dongze shook his head: “If it were a one-on-one fight between demigods, the boss would of course win, but this is the Fate Master’s home turf, and the opponent is already prepared.”
Just then, as the smog from the sandstorm dissipated slightly, everyone saw hundreds of elite soldiers from the Roosevelt Kingdom infiltrating into the edge of the spiderweb barrier. They moved quickly, and some of them had already shown beast-like characteristics, clearly high-level genetic warriors!
“These people are all going in to hunt down Qing Chen,” Ye Wan said. “There are definitely more in other directions, and the total number may exceed one thousand.”
March said calmly, "The gifts for them are ready."
It was at this moment that the elite force that had infiltrated the spiderweb barrier suddenly saw a steel box placed in front of them on the street. In the distance, Sanyue pressed a switch, and the steel box suddenly opened up, revealing the strange wooden puppet inside.
The forbidden substance ACE-016 kills witnesses; it will kill everyone who has seen it at the most opportune moment.
This eerie puppet possesses C-level strength and is immortal. When facing a group of gene warriors below B-level, it will determine the best time to kill them.
Right now.
The eerie puppet nimbly turned its head on the base of the steel box, rotating 360 degrees to survey its surroundings. Its previously pursed red lips suddenly stretched to its earlobes, giving a terrifying laugh.
Without warning, it leaped up and flew dozens of meters towards the group of gene warriors!
No one expected that the Taboo Tribunal would use a forbidden item marked as "dangerous" for this battle, which completely violated the organization's internal rules!
Li Dongze looked at the dissipating sandstorm and said, "It's not enough. We need to end this battle as soon as possible."
As he spoke, he took off his black trench coat and threw it on the ground. Wearing a black suit, he walked into the spider web barrier, tying his half-long hair back as he went: "You guys wait here for backup. I'm going in to take a look."
March calmly said, "Don't die, I don't want to take you in myself."
Li Dongze laughed and said, "Then let April come."
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Could Qing Ji defeat Duke Storm? He couldn't, and he knew very well that he couldn't.
On one side is a demigod, and on the other is an A-level being. This gap cannot be bridged by simply shouting slogans or expressing determination.
Black Spider turned and left with Qing Chen on his back. Duke Storm wanted to give chase, but Qing Ji blocked his way.
"Get out of the way," Duke Storm forcibly accelerated, preparing to first kill Qing Chen, and then return to kill Qing Ji.
But as soon as he moved, Qing Ji, like a shadow, predicted his path and unleashed dozens of punches in quick succession along his inevitable route, shaking the entire space.
The Qing Clan's martial arts lineage was strange, and Duke Storm was unwilling to withstand the spatial tremors, so he was forced to retreat.
He calmly sized up Qing Ji: "An A-level blocking a demigod, commendable courage."
Qing Ji said earnestly, "My duty is to protect him."
Although Qing Chen is already a demigod, he is only an A-level, but his duty is to protect Qing Chen.
Even if Qing Chen becomes a god one day, Qing Ji will still earnestly protect Qing Chen from the wind and rain; this is the meaning of his cultivation.
Only in this way can his epitaph be worthy of those six words.
In the long street, Duke Storm slowly put on a pair of black knuckle dusters. The deep black seemed to devour light, so much so that the area around his hands was plunged into darkness for a moment.
Duke Storm vanished from the spot and reappeared in front of Qing Ji.
Qing Ji only had time to raise his arms to block in front of his chest before being sent flying with a loud bang.
Everyone underestimated the power of the Storm Duke.
Arbitrators are not good at close combat because, like the Chen family painters and Yin-Yang masters, they are synonymous with mages. Although they can curse invisibly, their physical bodies are extremely weak.
If it were an ordinary A-level adjudicator, Qing Ji might be able to take on three opponents at once.
But this Duke of Storms is different. He is a hybrid of giant and human, lacking the giant's height and clumsiness, but possessing agility and speed, and can also grow by eating.
This is also why King Roosevelt believed that the new humans were the future of the kingdom: the future world does not belong to the old humans of today, nor to the giants, but to the new humans.
So when Duke Storm fought with Qingji, he, as an adjudicator, displayed speed almost comparable to a knight, and his body was naturally stronger and more resilient than a knight's!
Qing Ji coughed up a mouthful of blood. He was considered one of the top experts in the Eastern Continent. Even when facing a demigod, he was confident that he could hold his own for a while or even escape.
However, he was at a disadvantage in just one round against the Duke of Storms.
Moreover, the moment the black knuckle duster struck Qing Ji, black mist seeped into his body, like a nerve-numbing toxin, gradually slowing his movements.
Forbidden item: the black magician's gauntlets.
The two figures were shrouded in the shadows of the building. Qing Ji opened the Shadow Gate and came behind Duke Storm. The Key Gate and the Shadow Gate could no longer leave this spider web barrier, but they could still be used inside the barrier.
Qing Ji threw a punch, but Duke Storm seemed to have foreseen the future and was waiting there in advance. He grabbed Qing Ji's fist and kicked him in the waist!
Qing Ji heard a cracking sound from his pelvis; he had broken a bone!
The Fate Weaver!