489: Chapter 489 The True Form Descends

Chen Yi had been hiding it all along!

From the start of the battle until now, all his flashy Moves, all his wasted spiritual energy, all his performances—it was all an act!

An act for him to see!

To make him mistakenly believe that Chen Yi was just a show-off relying on the Power Of Faith to hold his ground!

To make him mistakenly believe that close-quarters combat was Chen Yi's weakness!

To make him take the initiative to close in!

And then kick him flying!

This was simply rubbing his dignity into the dirt!

"This damn thing—it's as despicable as it gets!"

He hated this kind of sneaky bastard who hid their strength the most!

Clearly having the strength, yet putting on an act there, enjoying the thrill of pretend to be a pig to eat the tiger!

Yet, he had actually fallen for it!

ZERO broke free from the ice wall and touched his face.

His nasal bridge was completely collapsed, his cheekbones were shattered, and his entire face was deformed.

Such injuries were not fatal to a Tier 15 existence; recovering would only take a few seconds.

But it was a humiliation!

This was naked humiliation!

He, ZERO, a world malice that had lived for over ten thousand years, was actually kicked in the face by a human kid in his twenties!

Simply unbelievable!

In front of the global live broadcast, two billion people were silent for a full three seconds.

[Hahahaha, I'm dying of laughter! ZERO's face is crooked!]

[Chen Yi's kick was so cool! A roundhouse kick! A perfect hit!]

[Didn't ZERO say he wanted a fight to the death? Is that it? Is that all he's got?]

[Hilarious, he was acting all high and mighty before, but ended up getting kicked flying dozens of kilometers!]

[Chen Yi: Come over here! ZERO: Okay, I'm coming over! Chen Yi: Slap!]

[I can't do it anymore, I'm going to die laughing, the contrast is just too huge!]

[ZERO was so smug before, saying things like "I'm best at close-quarters combat," but what happened? What happened?]

[Chen Yi says: What a coincidence, I'm also good at close-quarters combat!]

[Chen Yi: Thanks, brother ZERO, for delivering your face; one kick and you're flying!]

[...]

While the live stream comments went wild, the trending lists on major social media platforms were instantly dominated.

#Chen Yi kicks ZERO away#

#ZERO's face is crooked#

#Chen Yi hides his strength#

#King of close-quarters combat#

#Where did ZERO's teeth go#

The view count for every topic exceeded one hundred million within minutes, and the number of comments grew explosively.

Meanwhile, in the Antarctic ice sheet—no, that's not right, there is no ice sheet anymore!

Above the boiling sea, ZERO's figure shot back from the distance!

His face had recovered to its original state; his Tier 15 regenerative ability had healed those injuries within seconds.

But his expression was as dark as the bottom of a pot.

He hovered three hundred meters opposite Chen Yi, his aura fluctuating violently.

"Chen Yi—"

"You are very good!"

"Really very good!"

Chen Yi looked at him with a calm expression: "Thanks for the compliment!"

ZERO was practically exploding with rage.

He took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down.

Calm down!

Calm down and analyze!

The power of Chen Yi's kick just now was definitely above Tier 15, stage three.

This meant his true combat strength was not much inferior to his own incomplete form.

Furthermore, he had been hiding, acting, and baiting him into making a mistake all along.

It could simply be said that he was despicable to the extreme!

He could no longer deal with this using his current Physical Body!

ZERO closed his eyes.

A few breaths later, when he opened them again, a flash of determination flickered in his eyes!

"Chen Yi!"

"Do you think this is my full strength?"

"Originally, I thought I could win against you without my true form intervening!"

"But I was wrong; you have successfully enraged me!"

"Next, I will let you know what true despair is!"

Chen Yi frowned slightly.

He sensed it; a bizarre aura was frantically surging out from within ZERO's body!

That was not spiritual energy!

It was not magic power!

It was something more primitive, darker, and more twisted.

"Boom—"

A pillar of purple light erupted from ZERO's body, shooting into the sky!

The light pillar pierced through the clouds, shot straight into space, and dyed the sky of the entire Antarctic continent a bizarre dark purple!

Within the light pillar, ZERO's body began to twist, expand, and deform.

Countless dark purple veins emerged on the surface of his skin.

His eyes had now completely turned deep purple, his hair began to fall out, replaced by dense tentacles, and the corners of his mouth split open all the way to his ears, revealing a mouthful of interlocking sharp teeth!

Two huge wounds tore open on his back, and a pair of wings condensed from pure shadow energy spread out from the wounds.

Those wings were not feathered, nor were they fleshy wings!

They were countless twisted human faces, struggling arms, and wailing skeletons—forcibly merged together to form the shape of wings, looking extremely bizarre!

ZERO hovered in mid-air, looking down at Chen Yi.

He spoke.

The voice was no longer human.

It was the wailing of countless vengeful spirits mixed together, forming a bizarre screech!

"Chen Yi—"

He roared.

A terrifying sound wave instantly spread outwards!

With him as the center, the air within a ten-kilometer radius was instantly shaken into a vacuum!

On the sea surface, the floating ice that hadn't managed to escape far enough was directly shattered into powder by this sound wave!

In the distance, a group of Tier 7 and 8 Demonic Beasts and Beast Kings had been attracted by the battle.

They had originally just followed their instinct to watch the spectacle, wanting to watch this battle of the century from afar, but the moment the sound wave touched them, their bodies simultaneously stiffened.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang, bang, bang!"

One after another, like balloons being crushed, they exploded directly into blood mists!

Those blood mists instantly evaporated in the sound wave, leaving not even a residue!

ZERO stood proudly above the Void Realm, surrounded by a deep purple twisted halo, the human-faced wings on his back flapping slowly.

He lowered his head, looking at Chen Yi.

His killing intent instantly surged.

"Chen Yi, you are very strong, but I am stronger than you!"

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

[Th-this, what kind of monster is this?!]

[ZERO?? Is this ZERO?]

[Where is the middle-aged man from before? How did he become like this?]

[Damn, those wings are full of human faces! My trypophobia is about to trigger!]

[Too disgusting! Too terrifying! Is this really human?]

[I actually thought what he said made sense before, and I even wanted to support him—I want to vomit now!]

[Let this kind of thing rule the world? Are you sure it won't eat us all?]

[Chen Yi! Kill him! I beg you, kill him!]

[Damn it, I was so scared just now that I peed myself! A thing like this tells me it will bring us a beautiful future? Bring us what, exactly? It's lucky if it doesn't eat us as food!]

[...]

At this moment, countless people who had once held illusions about ZERO, who had once thought that maybe it wouldn't be so bad if ZERO ruled the world, had their mentalities completely collapse!

Although it wasn't a matter of values following looks.

But how could this appearance, which makes people have nightmares just by looking at it, be a savior?

How could it be an object they should submit to?