303: Chapter 303 Facing Liu Mingcheng

Shen Xingchen said coldly, "You rats crawling in the dark are certainly well-informed."

"The news coming from Snowfield Dragon City says that the new Young Marshal of the Xue Family Army is named Lin Hu, and his Talent Divine Ability is the SS-level Destruction Killing Pupil."

Liu Mingcheng laughed and said, "I thought about it left and right and felt something was wrong. How could someone only awaken their Talent Divine Ability at the sixth rank? After all, without a Talent Divine Ability, it's completely impossible to condense Yuan Yang and step into the fifth rank!"

"Because of your SS-level Innate Divine Ability, my attention to you has always been very high. Yet I discovered that after that class reunion in Qiunan City, you never appeared again, right up until the second defending battle of Snowfield Dragon City."

The more Liu Mingcheng spoke, the more excited he became. "Snowfield Dragon City wouldn't suddenly produce a disconnected prodigy out of thin air. After you disappeared, the Snowfield Dragon City Young Marshal appeared, and after the Snowfield Dragon City Young Marshal returned to domestic territory, you also returned alongside him. Isn't this obvious enough?"

Shen Xingchen mocked, "At my level, experts could be stationed to guard me at any time. Aren't you afraid of getting baited instead?"

"Trying to bluff me?" Liu Mingcheng laughed loudly. "Weren't those experts from the Law Enforcement Bureau all lured away by me to the southern border? Otherwise, how would I dare to come looking for you?"

Shen Xingchen's expression sank completely.

This old bastard actually had such deep scheming!

Liu Mingcheng's eyes carried a yearning light: "Shen Xingchen, my dear SS-level adult, I am truly very curious why you can have so many SS-level Innate Divine Abilities. Can you give me a reasonable explanation?"

With a thought from Shen Xingchen, a silver armor draped over his body.

His aura soared all the way from the initial eighth-rank first-level, stopping only at the eighth-rank seventh-level.

Seeing Shen Xingchen's posture of fighting to the death, Liu Mingcheng chuckled: "Don't be anxious! If you tell me the method to awaken a Talent Divine Ability, maybe I won't want to kill you anymore?"

Shen Xingchen sneered: "Alright, my method is very simple. It requires cutting off the two liang of excess flesh between your legs. Try following the steps first."

Liu Mingcheng was not angry at being teased; he only continued licking his lips, revealing a perverted smile: "Possessing three SS-level Talent Divine Abilities at the same time, do you know that your existence to the likes of us is simply a piece of art that people like us need a lifetime to study!"

Shen Xingchen tilted his head slightly: "Qingyao, when the fight starts later, you leave first."

Jiang Qingyao looked at Shen Xingchen with apparent reluctance, her eyes pooling with a faint watery mist.

Shen Xingchen said earnestly: "Be obedient, staying behind will affect my subsequent battle!"

Only then did Jiang Qingyao gently nod her head.

No matter how much she deceived herself, she knew that staying behind could do nothing other than distract Shen Xingchen.

Her eyes concealed endless emotions, seemingly holding a thousand words, but in the end she only said: "I'll go find the nearest Law Enforcement branch bureau to come save you."

Shen Xingchen gave an "en" sound.

In truth, he didn't hold much expectation in his heart. Since Liu Mingcheng dared to manifest here, it was impossible for the surrounding Law Enforcement branch bureaus to have Xiang Realm experts stationed... For other law enforcement officers to come would only needlessly increase casualties.

Liu Mingcheng chuckled: "SS-level, let me witness your combat power."

"Go!" Shen Xingchen finally shouted in Jiang Qingyao's ear, then looked at Liu Mingcheng with a solemn expression.

The Xiang Realm experts he had fought were not few: there was Xuan Ze possessed by Xuan Xiang, the royal snake girl Youyue, and Cangming who ambushed on the battlefield. However, his previous few battles relied on special means to barely survive... Yet this time, he truly had nothing left.

After making her decision, Jiang Qingyao did not hesitate. After taking one last look at Shen Xingchen, she ran towards the direction of Shangjing City.

Seeing this in his eyes, Shen Xingchen felt somewhat gratified; this was the most reasonable choice.

Liu Mingcheng's target had always been himself; the probability of pursuing Jiang Qingyao was not very high, and he could completely rely on Time Authority to parley with Liu Mingcheng.

Before the great battle, he stretched lazily and loosened his body, as if wanting to expel all the laziness of these past days out of his body.

Liu Mingcheng snorted: "Quite sentimental, huh? Are you ready for your final struggle?"

Shen Xingchen did not reply; raising his hand was a Heaven-Extinguishing God-Slaying Slash charged under Yuheng.

The Heaven-Extinguishing God-Slaying Slash, which could kill an eighth-rank when he was at the fifth rank, was unleashed when Shen Xingchen was at the eighth rank.

After mastering the Law of Thunder, this martial skill became increasingly handy.

That once-unfailing blazing white thunder blade, baptized by the Law of Thunder at this moment, turned into dazzling golden lightning.

Resembling divine punishment sent down by deities, it slashed vertically downward, as if wanting to cut apart all mountains and rivers.

Liu Mingcheng raised a single hand, and a black giant hand emerged out of thin air, fiercely grabbing that dazzling golden thunder blade.

Boom——

The frenzied lightning was bound by someone, struggling and crashing about everywhere like a trapped dragon.

In the end, the golden thunder blade still couldn't bear the load and was crushed to pieces by Liu Mingcheng with a single grasp, the golden radiance dissipating bit by bit.

Liu Mingcheng praised: "Truly very good. That strike just now, even if encountered by a peak ninth-rank martial artist, would result in a heavy loss."

Shen Xingchen once again felt a sense of powerlessness under the suppression of a Xiang Realm expert.

Even having mastered the power of the law, and even using a starry-sky-tier martial skill at the grand completion level, it was still difficult to cross that realm barrier.

Before he could make his next attack,

Liu Mingcheng had already closed in right in front of Shen Xingchen. To Shen Xingchen, an eighth-rank martial artist, that speed was still like teleportation—too fast, completely impossible to see clearly.

Swoosh——

A pitch-black claw thrust out, about to grab hold of Shen Xingchen's internal organs.

Cyan-blue clock patterns lit up at the tips of Shen Xingchen's toes; time stopped, and the world became dead silent.

Looking at the pitch-black claw just centimeters away from him, he only then belatedly realized that icy cold murderous intent.

Within the silent stillness domain,

Shen Xingchen retreated backward at high speed.

After becoming an eighth-rank martial artist, his mastery of Time Authority became even more effortless. The time he could now stop reached eight seconds, and the number of time stops his body could endure also increased to nearly ten times.

One second.

Two seconds.

...

Five seconds!

Time resumed flowing, and Shen Xingchen's figure stopped at a location two li away.

From Liu Mingcheng's perspective, he was just about to strike to churn Shen Xingchen's heart to pieces. Before he could succeed, the opponent had "teleported" to a very distant position.

Such a speed was impossible even for martial artists at the Xiang Realm level to capture.

Immediately, his eyes showed surprise: "The legend that the new Young Marshal of Snowfield Dragon City obtained Time Authority is truly real. Magical, truly too magical! Your body is simply a mobile treasure trove!"

Shen Xingchen raised his wrist, and countless threads drilled out from his cuffs, rapidly spreading out like a spiderweb.

Within the area where Liu Mingcheng was located, it was instantly enveloped by threads, appearing extremely tiny as if he had fallen into a spiderweb like a fly.

This was Shen Xingchen's newly acquired Taboo Item—Heavenly Web Interweaving.

The golden lightning of the Law of Thunder attached itself to the spiderweb, and every single spider silk seemed as if it had been ignited, lighting up with thick golden electric light.

Viewed from afar, it was just like a massive golden net crushing downward.

Looking at this scene, Liu Mingcheng laughed: "Another completely unreasonable killer move. If a ninth-rank martial artist encountered this, I'm afraid they would perish on the spot."