Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
BOOM!
The System beep rang out suddenly.
With an explosive sound, Xu Que felt his body being pushed forward by an enormous force. His whole body had been suddenly thrust forward, and his feet had started taking mysterious steps. It was as if he were about to start a rampage in the void. His figure became ghostly and started moving around erratically. This was just his body reacting to the new Celestial Art that Xu Que had received from the System.
“D*mn, is this an automatic battle mode that the System has given me?” Xu Que was flabbergasted.
HMPH! “Are you trying to use gaslighting tactics on me?” Li Xuanqi narrowed his eyes and snorted coldly. He flourished the white sword once again in front of Xu Que as he was attempting to slice him.
WHOOSH!
The blade of the sword instantly slashed through the air, hurtling through the void. One became two, two became three, as the sword evolved into a group of densely packed swords, which then became a formation of swords that was directly locked in on Xu Que.
“Oh no, I gotta get back!” Xu Que was taken by surprise and decided that he wanted to avoid this formation of swords.
But the next moment, he realized that something had gone wrong. He was completely unable to control the power of this new suit of metal armor. His body continued to sprint forward.
“F*ck, System, are you stupid?! I can’t fight this formation of swords head on!” Xu Que immediately shouted at the System.
The sword illusion that the white sword had produced earlier was so powerful. Xu Que had seen for himself that if Li Xuanqi had succeeded in hitting him with his sword, he would have been seriously injured. Now, with this attack, he was facing an extremely large formation of swords. He simply was not going to be able to shake them all off.
DING! “The retaliatory mechanism has calculated all the outcomes of any battles you may fight. This formation can definitely be broken. There is no need for you to retreat!”
The System response sounded in his mind.
“The formation can be broken?”
Xu Que stared kind of blindly. Everything was happening so fast that he really didn’t have the time to react. Soon, the Tough-Acting King’s Purple-Gold Rod that was still in his hands started to vibrate.
CLING! CLANG! CLING! CLANG! CLING! CLANG!
Successive noises rang out that sounded like someone was assembling something out of heavy chunks of thick metal. The Tough-Acting King’s Purple-Gold Rod had already been wrapped all around with metal. Pieces of metal in different shapes had actually been produced that looked like building blocks. First, they would scatter, and then they would combine again. All these blocks swarmed toward the end of the Tough-Acting King’s Purple-Gold Rod, rapidly changing it into a giant metal umbrella. It pulled on Xu Que’s body, dragged it along with it, and quickly flew toward the sword formation.
‘WOW!” Buttface and Duan Jiude stood looking at Xu Que with dumbfounded expressions, and they finally found some words to say, “Ah…so powerful.”
Everyone else who was present also stared wide-eyed and open-mouthed, looking incredulous and as if they’d never seen anything like this ever in their lives before. Which, of course, was true, no one ever had seen anything like this before.
“This High-Grade Celestial Artifact can actually morph into other things?”
“How is it possible that it can change from a rod into an umbrella? How the h*ll did Xu Que do that?”
“Oh my God, this is too weird!”
“But do you really think he’ll be able to really break the Celestial King’s Celestial Art by depending on a High-Grade Celestial Artifact?”
“Nonsense, he definitely won’t be able to break it. Ancestor Li Xuanqi’s Celestial Artifact is of an extremely high grade.”
Many of the disciples of the Heaven Palace Academy were standing around, discussing all this among themselves.
Xu Que, sadly, also looked shocked and confused. He definitely didn’t expect the System to be as powerful as it was proving to be.
He was also shocked by the powerful effects brought about by these metals. Just looking at how the Tough-Acting King’s Purple-Gold Rod that he had been holding had turned into a Tough-Acting King’s Purple-Gold Umbrella was a particularly dazzling, cool, and mind-blowing element of the new upgrade to the System.
“Ha, ha, ha, Li Xuanqi, you’re a weakling. How dare you think you can defeat me with simply a mere sword formation?” Xu Que raised his voice, and then he laughed loudly. Since the System had said that it could break Li Xuanqi’s sword formation, he’d simply thrown caution to the winds.”Live or die, it is all the same to me. If you refuse to concede, then I’ll just kill you!”
WHOOSH!
Xu Que gave up any idea of having control of the situation and decided to leave it up to the System to control his body. The Tough-Acting King’s Purple-Gold Umbrella in his hands directly faced Li Xuanqi’s sword formation. Half of the umbrella opened up and turned into a conical shape. The metal on the umbrella’s surface sparkled in the sun, dazzling the onlookers.
BANG!
With a loud noise almost like a neutron bomb, the Tough-Acting King’s Purple-Gold Umbrella collided head-on with the sword formation!
All the swords in the sword formation collapsed in an instant and broke up into pieces of crystal-clear fragments, which then scattered and dispersed in the air.
The white sword, which was a High-Grade Celestial Artifact, also instantly dimmed and lost its luster. It fell from the air.
CLING! CLANG!
Suddenly, a metal rope sprang out of the tip of the Tough-Acting King’s Purple-Gold Umbrella in Xu Que’s hands. The tip of the rope even had a metal hook, which suddenly hooked onto the handle of the white sword and directly seized it.
At almost the same time, the System beep rang out!
DING! “Recycling a High-Grade Celestial Artifact level sharp sword. Congratulations to the host for obtaining 1 million points of Weapon-Refining Essence!”
The entire operation had been natural and easy. There was no lag time. From when the System grabbed the white sword to when it had refined it into Weapon-Refining Essence, everything had flowed smoothly.
In only an instant…
Li Xuanqi was dumbstruck!
The two Celestial Kings of the Sage Sect were stunned!
All the onlookers were shocked!
Even supposing the Tough-Acting King’s Purple-Gold Rod had morphed into the Tough-Acting King’s Purple-Gold Umbrella, where did it get the power to actually fling out a hook?
And how was it possible that the hook could know exactly how to steal a Celestial King’s High-Grade Celestial Artifact?
“How…how can this be?”
“That Celestial Artifact is part of Ancestor Li Xuanqi’s Mind Sense. How could it be snatched so easily?” Many people shouted in horror.
Actually, at the present moment, Xu Que also seemed to look confused.
“That was an authentic High-Grade Celestial Artifact. And it had been directly recycled by the System? 1 million points of Weapon-Refining Essence?”
“I’ll give you 2 million points if you give me the fairy.”
“F*ck, System, you’re unscrupulous. You scumbag, spit out the High-Grade Celestial Artifact now!” Xu Que immediately yelled at the System. He himself only had one High-Grade Celestial Artifact. Now that he had found a new one, it had been recycled right away before he could even take one look at it. It simply made his heart bleed!
What a massive loss!
DING! “The retaliatory mechanism is mainly for revenge purposes. Can the host please not pay attention to petty profits!” The System answered indifferently.
Xu Que was immediately confused again.
Sure enough! The old sayings are proving to be true!
This System is getting more and more crafty as it upgrades. In the past, it was unscrupulous at most. Now, not only was it unscrupulous, it was also utterly shameless!
I don’t know who it learned this shameless, unscrupulous behavior from, but it makes me, the Act-Tough Saint, so hopping mad.
“How dare you! You animal, quickly return my Celestial Artifact to me!” At this time, Li Xuanqi’s face looked extremely furious as he roared. His body shook in anger.
He had never expected that his Celestial Artifact would be taken from him forever. His Mind Sense could not interact with it at all. It was as if the Celestial Artifact had completely disappeared from the face of the world.
BOOM!
Li Xuanqi brandished his hand and suddenly pushed toward Xu Que with a giant palm.
“Return? Hee, hee, hee, I’m returning you nothing. You can quickly bring out all your Celestial Artifacts, however many there are.” Xu Que sneered and the Tough-Acting King’s Purple-Gold Umbrella in his hands automatically opened up and started to spin around.
BANG!
There was another loud sound and the giant palm that Li Xuanqi had materialized was instantly crushed by the high-speed rotating Tough-Acting King’s Purple-Gold Umbrella.
CLING! CLANG!
Immediately after this, the metal pieces on the Tough-Acting King’s Purple-Gold Umbrella changed again. Like building blocks, one piece after another piece rapidly combined to morph again to forcibly change the rod into a halberd. The pointed tip was surrounded by a black Qi. It was actually terrifying Spiritual Qi that was contained within the Tough-Acting King’s Purple-Gold Umbrella.
SWISH!
Xu Que’s figure had also never stopped once. The metal armor on his body manipulated his body throughout this entire process. His feet stepped on a strange plane in the void. His whole body was pushed forward, constantly leaving a series of afterimages.
At the moment when the Tough-Acting King’s Purple-Gold Umbrella morphed into the Tough-Acting King’s Purple-Gold Battle Halberd, Xu Que also happened to appear in front of Li Xuanqi. He smiled slightly and the halberd in his hands directly stabbed Li Xuanqi in the chest.
“Humph, you’re asking for death.” Li Xuanqi snorted and stepped back effortlessly. He easily dodged Xu Que’s halberd!
However, suddenly, Xu Que’s face revealed a roguish smile.
Although the System’s metal armor was directing him, all the Celestial Arts that had been unleashed were new Celestial Arts that he had optimized and merged before.
Thus, at the moment when Li Xuanqi had decided to retreat, two grain-sized light points were already waiting behind Li Xuanqi, as they had been for a long time.
When Li Xuanqi retreated to the rear, the two light points suddenly blossomed and instantly changed into two Kylin Flames of black and white colors. A yin and a yang, wandering in the void, instantly rushed in back of of Li Xuanqi!
“What?” Li Xuanqi somehow felt it, and his face changed. Shocked, he changed positions and tried to avoid the two Kylin Flames behind him.
He was extremely shocked. Those two Kylin Flames made him feel very uneasy. He even felt afraid.
His intuition told him not to get too close to those two Kylin Flames.
“This isn’t going to work. I’d better slow down a little!” Xu Que saw that Li Xuanqi would soon be beyond the range of the Kylin Flames. He could not help but frown and give a cry of regret.
CLING CLANG!
But suddenly the halberd in his hands vibrated again and issued forth a sound of the heavy clunk of metal assembly.
The metal had actually evolved again into a liquid metal and disappeared into the void like a rivulet of a river. But, in an instant, it trickled behind Li Xuanqi and quickly consolidated into the square tip of a halberd. And…it was also bent!
SWISH!
Suddenly, the entire halberd pierced through Li Xuanqi from behind and burst out of his chest, bringing with it a large amount of blood. It then quickly returned to the tip of the Tough-Acting King’s Purple-Gold Rod in Xu Que’s hands. The halberd became one again.
The whole scene with all its many onlookers was plunged into a dead silence.
Li Xuanqi looked deathly pale and in a daze as he looked at the bloody cavity that was apparent in his chest.
The two Celestial Kings of the Sage Sect also looked aghast and incredulous.
Many of the Heaven Palace Academy disciples present, together with Jiang Hongyan, Zixia Fairy, and the others, were also astounded one and all.
The one thought in everyone’s mind was: What kind of operating system is this?
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