47: Chapter 46 Do you eat beef?

"Hit him! Quickly, hit him!!"

Zhang Ling's voice had changed pitch.

He knew very clearly that the next person Lin Mo was going to kill was definitely him.

Although he didn't know why Lin Mo was demanding others hit him, he had to stall for as long as he could right now!

"Hurry! Everyone together! He's definitely bluffing, he must be struggling to hold on!"

Before he could finish speaking, the silvery-white afterimage had already vanished from its spot.

No, not vanished.

It was so fast that everyone's visual systems had failed completely.

"Bang!"

The magic array of the twelve Shadow Guards was triggered by the attack simultaneously.

Dark gold runic chains flowed crazily between the twelve, condensing into a thick energy barrier.

The platinum longsword stabbed into the barrier.

Three Spirits Symbiosis, one sword, three judgments.

"Boom!!"

The barrier exploded.

The twelve Shadow Guards all spat blood and retreated.

But the barrier had indeed blocked that strike.

Zhang Ling was still alive.

"Now!"

Zhang Ling bit the tip of his tongue and suddenly raised the pitch-black crystal ball in his right hand.

A Sealing Crystal Ball.

It could seal all of a target's skill levels for thirty seconds.

This was the ultimate trump card the Zhang family had given him.

No matter how high your Blocking level was, after being sealed to zero, you were just an ordinary level 30 Blank Slate Warrior!

Black light erupted from the crystal ball, accurately striking Lin Mo's chest.

[External sealing effect detected...]

[Skill levels being sealed...]

[Sealing successful, effective duration 0 seconds...]

The corners of Zhang Ling's mouth had just curled upward.

In his view, Lin Mo's strength was definitely far from what it used to be.

Yet he didn't know that under Lin Mo's overpowered resilience, everything was futile.

Zhang Ling's smile froze.

"How impressive, you actually controlled me for a whole 0 seconds."

Lin Mo's voice was close at hand.

The platinum longsword pierced through Zhang Ling's chest cavity.

The tip of the sword protruded from his back, carrying a spray of blood mist.

Three Spirits Symbiosis activated.

One sword, three judgments—Armor Break, Shield Pierce, Life Severing.

"Pfft—"

He looked down at the sword piercing his chest, blood spilling from the corners of his mouth.

His HP was dropping crazily.

Just at the moment before it hit zero—

"Snap."

An emerald-green jade talisman shattered in front of Zhang Ling's chest.

[Substitute Death Talisman triggered—Forcefully retain 1 HP, teleport to a random location 50 meters away.]

Zhang Ling's body turned into a beam of green light and vanished into thin air.

The next second, he appeared at the base of a rock pillar fifty meters away, kneeling on the ground, the wound on his chest still bleeding.

A substitute death item.

Another one.

"Lin Mo..."

Zhang Ling knelt on one knee, one hand clutching his chest, the other reaching forward in a gesture of surrender.

"We can talk."

"Talk about what?"

Lin Mo looked at Zhang Ling.

"My Zhang family has deep roots in the Core City."

Zhang Ling panted, trying to make his tone sound weighty enough,

"If you kill me, the Zhang family will never let this go."

"But if you let me go, the Zhang family can—"

"Stop."

Lin Mo interrupted him.

Zhang Ling was stunned.

"You sent death squads to hunt me down, sold my intelligence on the black market, and united hundreds of people in the dungeon to surround and Block me."

Lin Mo's voice was very flat, like he was reading a list.

"Every move was forcing me onto a path to death, and now you want to talk to me?"

"Fine, then let me ask you, do you eat beef?"

The surroundings went quiet.

Over three hundred prodigies stood on the rock walls, and not a single person dared to make a sound.

"I..."

Zhang Ling didn't know what the meaning of Lin Mo asking this question was for a moment.

"I occasionally eat... uh!"

Pfft!

A massive head flew up!

Blood splattered a full three feet high!

[Killed a job changer, inherited 3200 points.]

Everyone at the scene was dumbfounded!

Zhang Ling... the most talented person of this generation from the Zhang family, had just died like this!

Lin Mo only said indifferently: "I hate people who eat beef."

The scene was filled with the sounds of heavy breathing.

Until someone spoke up.

"That's enough, right?"

It was someone from the Thunder Chamber of Commerce speaking.

He stood on the western rock wall, arms crossed, his voice pressed very low.

"It was all the Zhang family's people looking for trouble with you; we were all tricked by him. The matter here has nothing to do with us."

"If you want to kill the Zhang family's people, go ahead, but don't implicate others."

"Right! Even if you kill all of us, it won't do you any good, and instead, it will be a huge amount of trouble!"

The bald, burly man from the Nine Nether Temple immediately followed up,

"We have no grudges against you! Before, we were just bewitched by Zhang Ling!"

"We are willing to withdraw from the competition and will never make things difficult for you again!"

"Yeah, we are all human, why kill each other? There are still aliens outside eyeing us covetously!"

One voice after another rose up.

Some used their faction background to threaten.

Some played the emotional card to reason.

Some used "humanity's great cause" for moral kidnapping.

Lin Mo listened for a few seconds.

He suddenly laughed.

"Well said."

Everyone's spirits lifted.

"But I said just now—"

Lin Mo placed the platinum longsword back on his shoulder, and six white wings slowly unfurled.

"If you stop, I will start killing."

His voice was very light,

but the blood of everyone on the rock walls turned cold.

A white light flashed.

The heads of the two team members from the Thunder Chamber of Commerce flew up simultaneously.

[Killed a job changer, inherited 2208 points]

[Killed a job changer, inherited 1980 points]

The heads landed, bounced twice on the rock, and rolled to the bottom of that highest independent rock pillar.

The entire cage was deathly silent.

"Quickly attack him! Otherwise, we'll all die!"

Someone shouted, and everyone instantly woke up!

Countless skills and methods surged toward Lin Mo instantly.

The sky was full of firelight, and the air waves were overwhelming.

The corners of Lin Mo's mouth curled slightly, revealing a satisfied smile.

Sorry, he didn't want to let a single one of them go.

Keeping them was just to squeeze out their value.

His eyes scanned through everyone.

The next second!

He suddenly appeared in front of someone who was dazed.

"Why aren't you attacking me?"

Lin Mo stretched out his right hand, tightly gripping his neck.

"Help... help..."

The person's face turned purple, breathing difficult.

He held a one-handed sword and slashed wildly at Lin Mo, but it had no effect at all.

It was like a weak toddler holding a toy knife and hacking at a 2.4-meter-tall muscular man.

"If you don't work hard, you'll have to be punished."

Lin Mo's voice had an indescribable eeriness.

Pfft—

The platinum longsword pierced through his body!

This scene stunned everyone.

"That guy is a madman! If you don't do as he wants, he'll kill you!"

"Everyone, attack him! Don't stop!"

Next, whether it was mages or priests, whether it was warriors or supports, everyone tried every method to run and attack Lin Mo.

Each was more hardworking than the last!

Everyone was afraid that the next one to die would be themselves!

Even Li Yueyue, who had been watching from the sidelines, wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and raised her staff to start attacking.

The Alien Crown Prince also swung the blade in his hand, unleashing dense blade energy, all cutting toward Lin Mo!

Blade light and sword shadows, arrows like a forest, starlight like a waterfall, ice spikes like rain!

Lin Mo had never experienced such a fast leveling speed!

In just 10 minutes!

The level of his Blocking Talent had already broken through the 9000 mark!

It was marching toward that outrageous level 10000!