Abundant Martial Arts Virtue
Chapter 218 - 197: Knowing Nothing

Chapter 218: Chapter 197: Knowing Nothing

Real world.

Imperial Palace.

Inside a certain room.

Li Qiankun suddenly opened his eyes.

The room was silent.

No one was around.

He took a deep breath, sat up from the bed, and whispered, "Finally, I’ve fooled you all."

"You helped me awaken and saved my life, for which I am grateful. However, with the power of ’Reality,’ I have already shown you enough of the future."

"Now I need to think about myself."

— All that talk about needing rest, needing to eat and drink, it’s all fake.

Of course, I do need these things.

But not that desperately.

None of that matters anymore.

Now I need to figure out how to escape from this headache-inducing Sin Prison World on my own and return to the nebula.

Those enslaved people are waiting for me to rescue them.

Those old subordinates are still waiting for me to give orders.

Those conquered lands are waiting for me to reclaim!

And in matters of escape, the fewer people involved, the safer it is, the higher the success rate.

I’m sorry.

My fellow prisoners, you continue to be confined here.

I’m leaving first!

Li Kunlun calmed his mind, reached out and gently pressed against the Void, and shouted low, "Reality!"

The Void revealed a vague shimmer of water, like another world.

Yes.

This was the future.

"Let me think, I’ve already used up the time coordinates ’this moment’ and ’one hour later,’ so I’ll start from ’two hours later.’ Let my journey into the future begin from that moment—"

"But I won’t come back."

Li Kunlun stepped into the world where the water gleamed, and disappeared.

All was quiet again.

One breath.

Two breaths.

Three breaths.

The world of shimmering water gradually shrank, seemingly about to vanish—

A figure covered in wounds rolled out of the shimmering water and crashed heavily onto the ground.

"Damn!"

"You can’t escape at all!" Li Kunlun lay on the ground and cursed loudly.

At that moment, a knock came from outside.

"What’s the matter?" Li Kunlun asked impatiently.

"There was some noise just now. Is everything all right in there?" The voice of a servant rose.

"Bring some midnight snacks, and plenty. I need to replenish my energy!" Li Kunlun said.

"Understood."

The footsteps receded.

Li Kunlun lay on the ground, gasping for a while, and when he had somewhat recovered, he struggled to pull out a piece of paper money from behind his buttocks.

He didn’t search for a pen but began writing directly with the blood from his finger.

"To have obtained such a Name Skill in the Sin Prison is indeed unique."

"...I might as well join you for now."

...

Let time move forward.

The Holy City.

The City Lord battle continues.

The first second.

Wu Xiaode assumed a boxing stance on the spot, deep in thought.

The Iron Wire Fist comprised six forms.

The fifth form, the Hammering Force, could just catch Xu Shihu’s "Fiery Flame" sixth form’s gap and strike his left shoulder.

A single move starts with dual forces, connects to Thousand Hands, and creates sparse shadows like the long moon.

But what’s the use?

Six Demon Gods stood watch outside the ring, their eyes filled with predatory intent.

Fancy moves would be ineffective and only expose all my skills.

Better not to—

"Die!" Xu Shihu roared.

His fists, covered in magma and Fiery Flame, brought a roaring hot wind as they hurtled towards Wu Xiaode’s chest.

— What does near-death feel like?

If there’s a path to take, who would want to feel near-death?

But there’s no other way now.

The strongest power I could muster with all my effort is this Name Skill.

Heavenly Ghost.

Don’t disappoint me!

Wu Xiaode crossed his hands in front of his chest to block the incoming fist.

Thud.

The fist mixed with Fiery Flame scattered his hands and slammed hard into his chest, sending him flying dozens of meters away before tumbling to the ground motionless.

Xu Shihu, as if venting, let out a long roar and raised his hands to signal the audience below.

His subordinates erupted into a thunderous ovation.

"Stand up! You’ve still got a breath in you! Let me enjoy this properly!" Xu Shihu shouted loudly.

Wu Xiaode silently got up from the ground, spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood.

Xu Shihu’s face showed a victorious smile as he shouted low, "One more punch, I—"

He was about to make a move when he suddenly sensed something amiss.

It was too quiet.

The entire world seemed to have fallen into dead silence.

He couldn’t hear anything.

What was going on?

He looked towards the audience outside the ring and saw the people below stirring, loudly cheering and celebrating, all waiting for his victory.

The old crone and Deng Hou looked worried.

Deng Hou was still cursing something.

The remaining members of the Skywalking Divine Bird looked pale as if they already knew defeat was imminent.

But why—

Why was there no sound?

Why couldn’t he hear what they were saying?

Who was meddling?

He suddenly looked towards Wu Xiaode.

He saw Wu Xiaode swaying on the other side of the ring, the corners of his mouth slightly lifted.

"What did you do?" Xu Shihu shouted.

Wu Xiaode was about to speak when suddenly a joss paper drifted down quietly in front of him.

"What’s this? The area just recently transformed into a Death World, and someone is already burning joss paper for me, how ominous."

He caught the joss paper reluctantly.

As the joss paper burned completely, a blood-written message was revealed:

"If you expand the range of the Death World beyond the arena, then the Demon Gods standing on the surrounding walls will die, but before their death, they will summon a creature slumbering in the deepest part of the demon’s lair."

"That creature is what the Sin Prison World truly intends to seal away."

"It will destroy everything."

"Only you, hiding in the Death World, would avoid the entire process of destruction, while others and many parallel worlds would be destroyed by it."

"Big brother, be careful, I don’t want to die, please."

"——Li Kunlun."

Wu Xiaode twitched his lips slightly as he read these words.

A blood-written message.

A bloody lesson?

"What are you looking at? Answer my question!" Xu Shihu shouted sternly.

The fiery flames on his body grew even more intense, and he was about to rush at Wu Xiaode.

But the next moment.

The flames on his body quickly faded.

Even his own hair, skin, and muscles were visibly changing at a rapid pace.

His long hair turned completely white.

His skin started to wither and turn gray; his muscles also quickly became flaccid and shrank.

Wu Xiaode apologized, "Sorry, let’s continue."

He suddenly floated in mid-air, countless black lights emerging from his body, all covering his exterior and transforming into a long black robe.

Outside the arena.

The middle-aged uncle on the wall tensed up, confused, "That is a monster from legends; I’ve only seen it once in extremely ancient documents. It should only belong to the Death World. Why did he become such an existence?"

"What do we do now?" whispered the tall male student.

"To save Xu Shihu’s life, we need to buy time as much as possible, to gather more intelligence, and by the way, I can learn a bit more and gain a better understanding of the Death World," said the middle-aged uncle.

"I have an extremely rare Life-extending Soul Jade, should we use it?" the cold beauty suggested.

"That won’t work, the arena seems to have turned into another world," said the big man with the black eye-patch.

"Give it here, I have a way," said the middle-aged uncle.

"Huh? It’s gone," the cold beauty frowned.

"Hand it over, Ulysses," said the cute girl in the maid outfit.

The handsome man with golden curls immediately took out the soul jade.

The middle-aged uncle took the soul jade, casually summoned a leaf, and wrapped the soul jade with it.

"Just now, that kid caught the joss paper—it seems that burning joss paper can ignore arena rules and send things inside—"

He wrote a line of spell on the leaf, uttered "Soul Sacrifice" and set it on fire.

A burning leaf immediately fell in front of Xu Shihu.

He unwrapped it to look.

It was that piece of soul jade!

Xu Shihu immediately popped the soul jade in his mouth, laughing loudly, "Good, good, I can feel that this place is filled with powers I don’t understand, drawing life from me, but now I have endless Life Force!"

Wu Xiaode, donning the black robe, said softly, "Well done, but it’s a pity you know nothing of death."

What?

Rage ignited inside Xu Shihu.

This young man, beaten to the brink of death by him, barely clinging to life, dared to speak so boldly in front of everyone?

Has he gone mad with shock?

Even if your power to drawn life is strong, I won’t be in trouble for now.

Once I kill you, everything will end!

Xu Shihu roared and charged at Wu Xiaode.

He had barely covered half the distance when he immediately realized that the surroundings had changed.

On the stage, massive trees began to appear one after another, all exhibiting a hue of gray desolation.

The ground had turned into a dry, gray wasteland.

The sky was ashen.

——The entire stage had transformed into another world!

As for Wu Xiaode——

Behind him was a mysterious fog spreading out.

As he charged towards him, Wu Xiaode placed his index finger to his lips in a mute gesture.

Then, he retreated into the fog.

In an instant, he and the fog vanished together.

Xu Shihu stopped in his tracks, sneered, and said:

"Hiding? Do you think you can hide?"

His fists, blazing with fiery flames, were raised high, ready to smash down on the ground.

——Flame Earthquake!

This boxing technique was an attack of wide range; no matter how well you hide, you’d still have to take this hit!

Xu Shihu’s face twisted ferociously, ready to strike, when he suddenly sensed something was amiss.

A very familiar subordinate stood at the edge of the stage not far away.

From beginning to end, he had been shouting loudly, cheering him on, but at this moment, he suddenly covered his mouth, his face contorting.

Xu Shihu looked towards him.

Only to see the eyes of his subordinate filled with terror.

Terror...

Why the fear?

Xu Shihu had a sense of foreboding and followed the direction of his subordinate’s gaze.

Unbeknownst to him, a monster had appeared behind him.

If one had to be precise, this couldn’t even be called a monster.

Because it was a person.

It was roughly three meters tall, its long hair dragging on the ground like a cape, wearing no clothes, revealing a skeleton of skin and bones.

"Human."

The creature looked at Xu Shihu and spoke.

"What are you?"

Xu Shihu asked warily.

The monster didn’t answer but staggered towards Xu Shihu.

"Stop! Come any closer and I’ll kill you!" Xu Shihu shouted.

The monster seemed not to notice and kept advancing step by step towards Xu Shihu.

"Seeking death!"

Xu Shihu threw a punch.

In the blink of an eye, the three-meter-tall figure’s body split open layer by layer, transforming into a mass of spiny flesh that immediately ensnared Xu Shihu.

"Ahhh——"

Xu Shihu let out a scream filled with agony, struggling desperately.

But in the next instant.

The ground gave way.

The spiny flesh, like a tongue, wrapped around Xu Shihu and burrowed underground, disappearing from sight.

Chilling chewing sounds ensued.

After a short while.

The ground shifted slightly.

The lengthy tongue reached out once more, slowly merging back together, and transformed back into the three-meter-tall creature.

It stood still and unmoving.

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