Star Gate

Chapter 825: Killing the Replica, Coalescing Arcanus (III)

Chapter 825: Killing the Replica, Coalescing Arcanus (III)

The coconut tree then saw the little tree; the latter erupted with violent mental ripples the second they encountered each other and rushed its opponent.

“Kill!” Li Hao growled as well.

BOOM!

Everyone acted in the same instant, bringing blade, spear, sword, and halberd to bear!

The coconut tree froze with incomprehension for a split second, finding the scene incredulous. It snapped back to its senses—they... want to kill me!

“Bastard!” It flew into a towering rage. What did this represent if Li Hao wanted to kill it? That meant that the human had been lying about everything before!

The coconut tree ignored the Black Armor and immediately transformed into a towering tree. It even showed hints of becoming humanoid with its branches forming the limbs. It was much stronger than the group of replicas that Li Hao had faced last time.

“You court death!”

Bam!

A massive explosion sounded with an eruption of mental strength. The ensuing ripples churned through the area. Although the little tree shook, it didn’t summon the imperial palace. This was just a test of their skills against the coconut tree. If they needed to utilize the imperial palace projection for even this, how were they to face the primary body?

The powerhouses present jerked backward with dismay as they felt their heads spin and awareness turn groggy. All of them immediately summoned their supernatural characters to withstand the mental invasion.

Chen Zhongtian looked curiously at them out of the corner of his eyes, baffled by the sight. What was that?

There was no time to ponder further as he shouted ferociously and manifested a set of armor glittering with golden light. Countless tree branches churned toward them.

BOOM!

The void seemed to shatter as another ‘sword’ character manifested, transforming into a sword mountain and reflecting the Earthturner Sword out of it! But even so, the potent technique and defensive mountain formed out of the supernatural character was instantly pierced through by numerous branches!

Hong Yitang grunted, blood leaking out of the corner of his lips. He was taken aback by the sight. Was this what was meant by the Apex level?

A desperate wail sounded as Master Iron Shirt transformed into something akin to a golden Buddha and solidly planted himself in front of the group. A massive character hovered in front of him—defend!

KABOOM!

Countless branches whipped through the air and shredded it to pieces.

Chen Zhongtian’s reaction had been a second too slow—not because he was weak, but because he was thrown off balance by the group’s methods. What were those things?

But soon enough, he was shaken out of his reverie. Having reserved a bit of his strength, he punched with a shout. A weapon erupted from his fist and pierced through two layers of branches, snapping some of them.

That wasn’t out of the question as Martial Uncle Eternal was very close to these exalted emperors. It was very possible.

Rumble!

A ray of golden light flashed through the air—Deputy Zhou charging the enemy! Li Hao watched raptly, the old man had such strong defensive capabilities and his offensive power was quite up to speed as well! He absolutely possessed the strength of six elements, maybe even peak six elements! There was nothing wrong with the ranking that the Wind and Cloud Pavilion had given this one. He had the right to be part of the top ten and looked to be even stronger than number nine, Chen Zhongtian!

Chen Zhongtian was likewise surprised and stunned at this moment. How was this guy so strong?

“Show me your strength, Minister Chen!” Li Hao shouted. “This is just a replica. If this is all the strength that you have to your name, then you’re not worth such a high price!”

Chen Zhongtian cursed to himself and also streaked into a ray of golden light. He vanished on the spot and reappeared next to Deputy Zhou. As he thrust a palm strike forward, the coconut tree whipped several branches through the air and swept the premises with enormous mental strength.

Chen Zhongtian shouted and grabbed one of the branches with his bare hands, erupting with formidable internal force. The branch split apart!

This was the second person to independently break one of the branches after Deputy Zhou demonstrated his abilities. The rest needed to work together to break any of the branches. Li Hao’s eyes widened, the old minister was very strong!

Mental ripples surged from the coconut tree and its furious voice echoed in everyone’s minds, “How dare a bunch of ants attack this seat! You desire death!”

BOOM!

The sky darkened as a towering tree manifested from another locale. It split into countless replicas in the blink of an eye and appeared in everyone’s mind!

The little tree also erupted with energy and its mental ripples undulated violently, “This is a core origin method. Be careful, everyone! Protect your mind and use the aura to defend against it!”

Everyone’s mind intent flared and they retracted their supernatural character into their bodies. The auras of martial masters burst forth! The towering tree in their minds exploded. It should’ve obliterated their minds, but it failed catastrophically in this moment. The impact caused many to vomit blood and their characters to fracture, but they’d held on!

Li Hao was also attacked by the tree’s mental strength. He instantly summoned his ‘sword’ character and slashed through the shadow!

“Impossible!” The big tree shook, dimming from its failure. “How can this be... What are these characters of yours...”

They contained mental strength and aura! It’d wanted to obliterate their minds—without their minds, these people would be the walking dead. They were all so much lower level than it that they couldn’t possibly have withstood the attack.

And yet, the humans still stood! All of them, not just one or two! What kind of freaks were they?

The Black Armor was likewise surprised; he was truly intrigued by the supernatural characters now. They could hide the marks of life and contain everything within them. The cultivators were undying so long as the characters were not destroyed.

They were a clear counter to core origin dao. Or rather, their negation of those who practiced mental strength dao were very clear to see. Attacks of mental strength were terrifying in New Martial, but in this age... the mental strength of an Apex was held back by a group of weaklings!

They should’ve died in large swathes in the past!

The Black Armor was taken aback, to say nothing of how dumbfounded the coconut tree was. How could this be? It’d expended a great deal of effort to kill these people, but none of them had died!