274: Chapter 268 Trump Card

The sky over Tieyan City was as gloomy as a piece of rusted iron.

Song Yang's figure turned into an Afterimage, speeding over the densely packed black buildings.

He had miscalculated.

He had assumed this city was no different from the ones he had passed before, with at most one or two deities stationed there.

Who could have expected that the moment he stepped in, pursuers would be right on his heels.

"Don't even think about escaping Tieyan City!"

Behind him, Kui Shan's thunderous voice exploded.

"Kui Shan, if you beat him to death, how will you answer to the City Lord?"

You Ji's unhurried voice came through, "Or is it that your brain can only think about 'smashing him into a pulp'?"

"Shut up, you bitch! Once I catch him, you're next!" Kui Shan roared, his speed increasing even further.

At the rear of the group, Third Master Jin sat in a luxurious flying carriage pulled by four monsters, his face as gloomy as water.

He watched the Outsider ahead, who kept changing directions and was as slippery as an eel, and the agitation in his heart grew stronger.

The encirclement was shrinking, and the city's boundary was right before his eyes.

In just a few more moments, he would be completely trapped!

Song Yang could feel that pursuers were arriving from all directions, blocking all his paths of retreat.

But he didn't care.

As long as he rushed out of this city, the world would be his oyster; these so-called "deities," who were fighting each other, couldn't stop him at all.

The edge of the city was already in sight.

Song Yang increased his speed again, his entire body almost turning into a stream of light, rushing straight towards the sky!

Just then, a sudden change occurred.

At the edge of the sky in front of Song Yang, a tiny black dot appeared without warning.

That black dot rapidly enlarged at an unreasonable speed, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a behemoth, blocking out the daylight.

It was a ship.

A spaceship cast entirely from an unknown metal.

The spaceship's hatch opened slowly.

More than thirty figures filed out, wearing uniform black combat armor, their faces expressionless.

The path ahead was blocked, and there were pursuers behind.

A dozen deities chased from the city, and more than thirty Black Armored Guards descended from the sky.

"It's the Black Armored Guard! The City Lord's Black Armored Guard!"

Kui Shan's wild laughter almost shattered the foundation of Tieyan City; he carried his mace, his copper-bell-sized eyes filled with bloodthirsty pleasure:

"Hahahaha! Kid, your death day has arrived! This is the City Lord's most elite guard, every one of them..."

"Every one of them could easily crush us to death."

You Ji interrupted Kui Shan.

She stood on the spire of a building, her figure alluring, but her eyes were unprecedentedly grave.

Kui Shan's laughter stopped abruptly.

That's right, the appearance of the Black Armored Guard meant that the Outsider would surely die.

But it also meant that in the City Lord's eyes, they, these so-called "deities," didn't even have the ability to deal with one Outsider, and were just a group of incompetent trash.

Third Master Jin stepped down from his luxurious flying carriage; he looked at the Black Armored Guards hovering in mid-air, their aura as silent as an abyss, and the last bit of luck in his heart vanished.

The City Lord had run out of patience.

More than fifty enemies.

The dozen deities chasing from the city had mixed auras, varying in strength, but each wore a ferocious expression.

The more than thirty Black Armored Guards who descended from the sky were as silent as iron, their killing intent solidified, like a cold sea of death.

Song Yang felt the auras locking onto him from all directions.

Fight, and there was still a sliver of hope.

Don't fight, and death was certain.

Take a gamble.

He slowly raised his hand, palm forward.

The space in front of him seemed to be gripped tightly by an invisible hand, starting to twist and vibrate violently, emitting an unbearable hum.

"What is he trying to do? Self-destruct?" a deity shouted, suspicious and uncertain.

"Stop him!" Third Master Jin shouted sharply.

But it was too late.

A huge black crack tore open in front of Song Yang without warning!

The next moment, a blood-colored plant root, thick beyond description, suddenly protruded from the crack!

Just this single root was over five meters thick, covered in hideous patterns.

Boom—!

The crack was pried open again, like a scar on the sky.

A tree, a giant tree so huge it subverted everyone's perception, squeezed out of the crack and descended into this world!

The three-hundred-meter-tall trunk pierced the clouds, making the spaceship look like a toy.

Countless blood-colored vines hung down like giant pythons, blotting out the sky.

The daylight was blocked for the second time.

If the appearance of the spaceship earlier was the oppression of technology, then at this moment, what this Blood Vine Tree brought was the most primitive, most savage, and most insane shock of life!

Everyone was stunned.

Kui Shan opened his mouth, forgetting to laugh wildly.

The gloom on Third Master Jin's face was replaced by shock for the first time.

Even those expressionless Black Armored Guards raised their heads.

In front of this giant tree that seemed to have walked out of ancient mythology, whether it was the deities or the Black Armored Guards, they were all as small as ants.

Song Yang looked up at this masterpiece he had created with his own hands.

From that few-meter-tall tree on Earth to the terrifying existence that now covered the sky of this alien world.

In order to feed it, Song Yang had invested almost all his spoils—the enemies that fell at his feet eventually turned into nutrients for the Blood Vine Tree's root system.

Coupled with the catalysis of high-quality plant evolution fluid, he had achieved this scene today where even gods and demons would flee.

This was his deepest and strongest trump card.

Dead silence shrouded the sky over Tieyan City.

The previous cold death intent from the Black Armored Guards was now as fragile as a sheet of window paper in the face of this giant tree's overbearing life aura.

"Run!"

Someone shouted, instantly igniting the whole scene!

The first to turn and run was Kui Shan.

His wild laughter had long since frozen, and now only terror remained, enough to make his soul fly away.

"Madman! You madman!!"

Third Master Jin's face was pale, his lips trembling, and he no longer showed any of the demeanor of an overlord.

He turned abruptly and roared: "Back to the flying carriage! Hurry!"

However, it was too late.

The Blood Vine Tree felt the will of its creator.

Hum—!

The air emitted a muffled tremor, and countless blood-colored vines hanging from the sky seemed to come alive.

They were no longer static weeping willows, but thousands of awakened giant pythons!

Swish! Swish! Swish!

The sound of breaking through the air was sharp and piercing, and dozens of the thickest vines shot toward the fleeing "deities" like arrows off a string.

A deity wielding dual blades reacted the fastest; he turned and swung his blades, the blade light sharp, slashing at the incoming blood vine.

Clang!

Sparks flew everywhere.

Only a wound was left on the blood vine, while the deity's dual blades were knocked out of his hands by the immense force.

The next instant, the blood vine wrapped around him layer by layer like a spirit snake and tightened!

"Ah—!"

Amidst the shrill screams, the "crack" of bones breaking was clearly audible.

In the blink of an eye, the deity was squeezed into a mass of blurred flesh and blood, hoisted high by the vines, with blood dripping down the patterns of the vines.

This scene completely broke everyone's psychological defense.

And those Black Armored Guards showed qualities completely different from the deities.

"Form up! Energy shield!"

The captain of the Black Armored Guards gave the order.

More than thirty Black Armored Guards instantly tightened their formation, circling back-to-back, their armor's energy cores lighting up simultaneously, and a deep blue hexagonal energy shield suddenly opened, protecting them firmly inside.