Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 230 - 216 Divine Spear End_2

Chapter 230: 216 Divine Spear End_2

Second, he probably didn’t expect that the Divine Spear would attack right away—this optimistic thinking certainly did not match Lu Youxun’s cautious mindset, but at that time he also couldn’t think too deeply with the assumption that he was my enemy. These are all my speculations, I don’t know how accurate they are.

"Tell me, Lu Youxun, who is manipulating you behind the scenes?" I asked.

"...I cannot answer."

Clearly in a situation where he must respond, Lu Youxun said this.

"Do you indeed have a way to resist the Black Rope Heart-locking Ring?" I asked.

"As long as there exists a spell that forcibly extracts answers, there must also exist a spell that prevents it. I have placed a prohibition on myself that prevents me from willingly speaking any information about the mastermind behind this. Even if you force me to reveal the details, or use spells like the Mind Reading Technique to dig out information, it would only trigger the prohibition effect and fry my brain."

Saying this, he glanced at the other demon hunters, "Additionally, they were subjected to similar methods before undertaking their mission, so using the Black Rope Heart-locking Ring on them is futile."

The feedback from the Black Rope Heart-locking Ring told me that he was telling the truth, but I didn’t fully believe it. I glanced at the other three demon hunters, each caught by a huge Flame Palm, and then looked toward him.

"Is that so? Since the prohibition is something you placed on yourself, you can also lift it yourself," I said. "If you don’t, your friends here won’t be safe."

"...Don’t involve them, they are merely tools..."

Before he finished speaking, one of the huge Flame Palms gripping a person suddenly clenched tightly, bursting out with blazing, hot light. After the light faded, that person had disappeared, leaving only ashes flowing through the gaps of the Flame Palm’s fingers, carried away by the wind. Seeing this, the faces of the two still alive turned even more fearfully pale.

"That’s not what I want to hear," I said.

"I will not reveal any information related to the person behind the scenes," he gritted his teeth, "just kill me, Zhuang Cheng. They are also helpless, just acting on orders, otherwise, they might lose their heads."

"They are helpless, acting on orders, afraid of losing their heads, so they can only kidnap Mazao—I’ll just believe that for now, but didn’t they think about losing their heads when they opposed me? How come they aren’t helpless then?" I said, "You said they are merely tools, then I am merely breaking a tool. Could it be that they only become tools when opposing me, and when I take action against them, they all collectively turn back into living beings with flesh and blood?"

"You don’t want to say, that’s fine, I have my own thought."

After saying that, I withdrew my right arm and then reached out towards the other two.

At the same time, I also sent several "fireflies" towards the direction of the Teleportation Door, wanting to see what’s beyond the Teleportation Door and where they intended to transport Mazao. Perhaps the mastermind is right on the other side.

Unfortunately, these "fireflies," upon passing through the Teleportation Door, did not reach another space but came right out the other side of the door frame, as if this Teleportation Door was just an illusion. I speculate that this Teleportation Door likely has a whitelist mechanism, and those who aren’t permitted can’t pass through.

Further, my interrogation of the other two also ended in failure. Just as Lu Yu said, it seemed like they really couldn’t speak the information they knew about the person behind the scenes; they could only remain silent or plainly state that they can’t disclose the information. Both were stiff, seemingly understanding that escape was impossible.

It didn’t matter if I couldn’t get the information from those still alive; bringing their heads back for Mazao to investigate would suffice. However, compared to them, obviously, Lu Youxun’s head would be much more significant. I turned my head to look at Lu Youxun. And at that moment, from a distance came strong and familiar mana fluctuations.

No need to closely examine to know, this is Divine Spear’s mana fluctuations. Through the heat from the old stronghold, I sensed a space suddenly became as murky and twisted as syrup, and then a figure like thunder burst forth from it. It was indeed Divine Spear holding a silver long spear.

As his mana fluctuations swept across this place, it felt as if his gaze swept over as well—he suddenly turned his head in this direction.

No need for any verbal explanation, he seemed to instantly understand everything, then transformed into a silver flash, and charged towards here.

In just a moment, Divine Spear covered a full three miles, racing to my location.

I was about to raise my hand to counterattack, but I saw him, in the instant he was about to collide, sharply turned two acute angles like lightning in his trajectory, and then unexpectedly reached out with his empty left hand to grab Mazao’s enclosed crystalline coffin, and rushed towards the Teleportation Door!

It seems that compared to settling the victory with me, the mission target was still more important in his heart. If I let him enter the Teleportation Door, I might not be able to track him and Mazao. Given the whitelist mechanism of the Teleportation Door, it’s possible that even the heat I left in Mazao’s body couldn’t be brought over to the other side, and the result could likely be him and Mazao passing through the Teleportation Door, while I couldn’t use the heat to teleport myself over. This was absolutely not permissible.

At the critical moment, I ignited the frame of the Teleportation Door device with my gaze. Immense heat emerged out of nowhere, causing the frame to explode on the spot, and the Teleportation Door itself also crumbled. Divine Spear grasped the crystalline coffin and fruitlessly swept past where the Teleportation Door originally stood. Meanwhile, I prepared to teleport in front of him.

However, he seemed to realize that he must defeat me first, so he threw the crystalline coffin on the spot, his racing trajectory turned one hundred eighty degrees, charging back towards me with the momentum of a back-to-horse spear.

The tip of his long spear emitted incredibly surging mana fluctuations, I could feel that there was a terrifying force concentrated there, capable of tearing apart the space itself. Undoubtedly, that was the super move he originally intended to forcefully breach the Dream Chen Long’s "Teleportation Door Armor". And now, he aimed that super move at me.

I had no intention of directly facing this move, however, just as the thought of teleporting to evade crossed my mind, it was as if the space itself had frozen, and my body, like an insect in amber, was rigidly fixed in place. Unable to move, unable to defend, even unable to use Flame Transmission, I could only watch Divine Spear’s attack come near.

This force, I was all too familiar with, I had also been locked by the same force before. The so-called spatial freeze was just a shallow appearance, even if I shattered the space itself, I couldn’t dodge the ensuing hit. Because the essence of this phenomenon had ordained that I must take this hit directly.

Guaranteed Hit, Guaranteed Penetration—

The silver long spear pierced through my Fire Element body, and also pierced through my soul. If Divine Spear symbolized the ultimate attack, then Chen Long symbolized the ultimate defense. The power of this strike, even surpassing Yinyue’s final Killing Move, annihilated more than half the volume of my soul.

Truly an impressive killing power, perhaps even the current me might not be able to execute such a powerful attack. Such a powerful Killing Move should also carry a significant burden for him. He braked and stopped a dozen meters behind me, then his body wobbled, supporting himself with his long spear, panting heavily.

But this degree of killing power still couldn’t kill me.

He quickly pulled the long spear from the ground, glanced at the damaged Teleportation Door device, then walked over to where Lu Youxun was, seemingly wanting to say something. Meanwhile, Lu Youxun turned towards me, then his face showed an incredulous expression, and he quickly shouted out loud: "Divine Spear, behind—"

Too late, it’s over.

I summoned a massive amount of flames within my own body, quickly restoring myself to full condition, and then appeared behind Divine Spear, reaching out with my right hand, my fingers grasping the top of his head.

He stiffly turned his head, looking at me in disbelief.