488: Chapter 488 Close Combat

Actually, what everyone didn't know was...

ZERO's true specialty was swordsmanship and close-quarters combat!

For someone like Chen Yi who enjoyed flashy Moves, this was his only finishing Move!

Then he saw Chen Yi's expression.

Chen Yi looked at him, his eyes devoid of panic, fear, or being caught off guard.

There was only a look of speechlessness.

It was as if he were looking at a self-righteous clown!

Chen Yi was indeed speechless.

The speed that ZERO prided himself on was, in his eyes, actually... nothing at all!

At the Fourteenth Tier, Tenth Stage, his speed could already keep up with attacks at fifty times the speed of sound.

After his Breakthrough to Tier 15, his dynamic vision and reaction speed had already transcended the very concept of speed itself!

This sword strike that ZERO thought was a sure kill was, in his eyes, as slow as a snail crawling.

Chen Yi's original plan was very simple!

Both sides would trade big Moves; he would use flashy Moves to farm a wave of Power Of Faith, and ZERO could continue dreaming his daydreams.

Wasn't that perfectly fine?

Everyone got what they needed; how harmonious.

But ZERO insisted on close-quarters combat.

Chen Yi sighed inwardly.

To tell the truth, his proficiency with those flashy skills wasn't very high.

The Ice Dragon was stolen from Lin Mengxue, the fire manipulation was borrowed from Chu Feiyu and Yan Jiuyue; they were all skills learned from The girls through Affinity cultivation.

He had learned a whole bunch, but the number of times he had actually used them in real combat could be counted on one hand!

It was like playing a game, where the skill bar was filled with cool ultimate Moves, but he usually just cleared the level with basic attacks.

When it actually came time to use skills, he was really just pressing buttons blindly based on feeling.

That was why his previous flashy Moves had resulted in that situation!

They looked impressive, but their actual power relied entirely on the Power Of Faith to prop them up!

But the fact that he could fight ZERO to a draw also indirectly illustrated a problem—ZERO's current strength wasn't actually that strong!

What was truly strong was his main body—that existence that hadn't fully descended yet!

And this ZERO currently fighting Chen Yi was just an incomplete form with the main consciousness attached to a Clone vessel!

It was unclear what his true combat power was.

And what Chen Yi was truly good at had never been any flashy skills!

It was close-quarters combat!

It was the most primitive form of fighting, relying on his ultra-high Physique value, where every punch connected with flesh!

His trump card had always been this body, which had been strengthened to the extreme by the System!

So when ZERO thought he was being smart by choosing close-quarters combat, Chen Yi just wanted to laugh!

The tip of ZERO's sword was still one meter away from Chen Yi's throat.

In 0.001 seconds, it would pierce through!

ZERO had already foreseen the scene of the next second!

The black sword pierces in, the look of shock on Chen Yi's face freezes, blood splatters, and the successor of the world will falls right there...

Then Chen Yi moved!

It wasn't teleportation!

It wasn't dodging!

It was meeting it head-on!

He took a step forward!

The speed of this step was faster than ZERO's sword!

It was so fast that even before ZERO could react, his body had already appeared half a meter in front of ZERO!

And the moment he appeared, a sword had already condensed in his hand!

A Mirror Sword condensed from Hua Liuli's mirror power!

Chen Yi swung his sword to parry.

"Clang—"

The moment the two swords clashed, the world changed color!

With the two of them as the center, a visible shockwave spread wildly!

Wherever the shockwave passed, the air was directly annihilated, forming a brief vacuum zone.

The seawater was pressed into a hemispherical depression with a diameter of thirty kilometers; the water was pushed away in all directions, triggering a super tsunami three hundred meters high!

The clouds in the sky were swept away, revealing the deep purple background of space!

Even space itself developed fine cracks at the edge of the shockwave!

All the floating ice within a radius of one hundred kilometers turned into powder simultaneously in the aftermath of this blow!

In front of the global live broadcast, two billion people simultaneously gasped.

[Is... is this an attack a human can dish out?]

[Too outrageous, too outrageous! I feel like I'm going to be shaken to death even through the screen!]

[A tsunami! A several-hundred-meter-high tsunami, holy crap!]

[Coastal countries, hurry up and evacuate! Otherwise, you're done for!]

[Wait, look, that ZERO seems to have a backup plan?]

[---]

In the footage, ZERO sneered.

He indeed had a backup plan.

This sword strike was never meant to kill Chen Yi from the beginning.

It was just to get close to Chen Yi and simultaneously force Chen Yi to defend!

The real killing Move was the next strike!

At such a close distance, Chen Yi couldn't dodge at all!

ZERO gripped the air with his left hand, and a dark purple energy ball appeared in his palm.

That energy ball was only the size of a fist, but the energy it contained was enough to level the entire Asian continent!

"Die!"

He pushed with his left hand.

The energy ball left his hand and shot straight at Chen Yi's chest!

In 0.003 seconds, it would hit!

However, just at this moment, Chen Yi suddenly changed his Move.

He raised his right leg; he didn't kick at the energy ball, nor did he kick at ZERO's weapon, but instead delivered a roundhouse kick, kicking directly into ZERO's face!

That kick condensed seven-colored flames, with all the power concentrated at a single point on the sole of his foot, as fast as lightning!

"Bang—"

ZERO's face deformed the instant it made contact with the sole of Chen Yi's foot!

His bridge of the nose collapsed, his cheekbones shattered, his jaw dislocated, and a mouthful of pitch-black blood mixed with a few teeth sprayed out!

His body flew backward at a speed faster than it had come!

The energy ball that hadn't been fully pushed out slipped from his hand during his backward flight and fell into the sea.

"Boom—"

A mushroom cloud rose from the sea surface; the violent energy instantly evaporated the seawater for hundreds of kilometers around, exposing the rock layers at the deepest part of the seabed!

And ZERO himself had already been kicked flying thirty-seven kilometers!

His body streaked across the sky like a meteor, crashing through the first iceberg, crashing through the second iceberg, crashing through the third...

He crashed through thirteen eternal glaciers that hadn't melted for ten thousand years in a row!

When ZERO finally stopped, he was embedded deep in the heart of the fourteenth iceberg!

His entire body was embedded in the ice wall in a spread-eagled position, surrounded by spiderweb-like cracks spreading outward!

In front of the global live broadcast, two billion people collectively lost their voices.

[Holy crap!!!!!!]

[Chen Yi kicked ZERO flying with one kick?]

[Kicked in the face! It was a kick to the face! That was so damn satisfying!]

[ZERO's face is deformed! His teeth flew out!]

[Lord Chen Yi, you are my eternal idol!]

[So you were just acting before?]

[You acted too well! I thought you only knew how to set off fireworks!]

[Chen Yi: Didn't expect that, did you? I'm actually a close combat Great Master!]

[---]

Deep in the heart of the fourteenth iceberg.

ZERO was embedded in the ice wall, staring blankly at the sky, his mind completely blank.

That kick...

The power of that kick...

How could it be strong to this extent?

ZERO's pupils constricted violently.

Chen Yi's strength was definitely more than what he had just shown!