Chapter 155: Slaying Solar, Destroying Sunflare (IV)

Li Meng’s third eye was long open. It wasn’t her first rodeo; she was ready ahead of time. They were much more prepared for this fight.

A special mysterious power emanated from her third eye. The fire supernatural suddenly felt like he’d entered a black hole, but just for a second. He snarled furiously and erupted with fire energy to shatter whatever he was caught in.

That created a fatal opening.

The golden longsword had disappeared without a trace. When the supernatural swept his energy through the void to look for it, he felt his scalp tingle. Hu Hao had brought Wang Ming into the sky at some point and was descending on his head!

Liu Yan roared with fury in the same moment and stabbed her two blades forward. Wu Chao and Chen Jian kept their distance, spraying the premises with bullets. Hot weapons, cold weapons, and supernatural abilities completed the besiegement of the fire supernatural.

Yun Yao deployed water energy behind the team, but not for offense. She created a defensive dome around her people to prevent them from being burned to a crisp by the immense fire energy.

Four Darkmoons, one Sunderer, and two near Sunderer made for seven Night Watchers who created a fatal trap for a Sunflare when they acted in unison.

“You court death!” snarled their target. Fire energy exploded as he sought to immolate heaven and earth.

The water defense shattered and Li Meng’s third eye closed. Blood trickled out of it. Liu Yan’s blades melted when they stabbed into the enemy. Fire swiftly traveled up the blades to her arms, wanting to reduce them to dust and take the entire person with them.

The fire supernatural tilted his head, evading the golden longsword with a cold look. Sunflares wouldn’t die so easily. Wang Ming posed the greatest threat out of those in front of him, but the young man moved like he was performing a drill. He only knew to jab and stab with his sword—adaptability seemed to have passed him by.

Just as the fire supernatural assessed the situation, Wang Ming smiled with delight from his position in the air. It was perfect that their opponent had tilted his head to evade his longsword!

The golden longsword didn’t fall straight down like a normal sword would. Instead, it flew apart into feathery pieces.

Rumble!!

Metal energy detonated, spraying countless golden feathers outward. Still caught by the notion that the sword would only move forward, the fire supernatural was caught off guard and hit by endless feathers. Bloody marks covered his head.

“He’s a rookie alright!” Wang Ming exulted. “How does he not know about supernatural techniques?”

Supernatural rookies only knew to whack each other with their power; that was a primitive way of fighting after twenty years of development. Among the Night Watchers, supernaturals could learn techniques like his Heavenly Maids Scattering Blossoms—a technique he’d named himself.

Rather than being a move to kill the opponent in a straightforward manner, it exploded like someone scattering flowers. He knew it was a direct hit the second their opponent dodged!

Director Liu was right, their opponent was a rookie who’d never even seen a supernatural technique before. A veteran of the three great organizations would never be hit so easily. This move was sometimes just as risky as it was useful because his opponent wouldn’t dodge like this if he was the slightest bit prepared.

One single move was sufficient to leave the enemy a bloody, pockmarked mess. The flying Hu Hao followed up with a thunderous kick and pulverized the supernatural’s head.

A pale Yun Yao grunted to summon more water energy. A water dragon covered Liu Yan’s hands, extinguishing the flames. However, scorch marks remained on the woman’s hands.

Liu Yan furrowed her brows and didn’t say a word, despite how painful it was. She stretched out her charred hands and stuck them in the other’s chest, brutally ripping it open.

Battle was over in a second. The remaining Sunflare jerked with dismay and wanted to run. The first Sunflare had died to a sudden ambush, the second died to a group of Sunderers and Darkmoons. Momentum was no longer on his side, so he didn’t dare remain to continue the fight.

“Kill!!” A wave of sound shook the forest on the mountain and rain drizzled from the sky. It was like a wave exploding upon the shore!

Indeed, exploding.

Countless water droplets and raindrops smashed apart in the air. Liu Long’s arms were a bloody color—a sign of the Nine Forged Force in full operation. He wielded an ax with both hands and brought it down with violence!

BAM

!

The scurrying Sunflare was hewn into two and his body exploded. Blood vessels exploded in Liu Long’s arms as well as blood shot everywhere. Off in the distance, Wang Ming and his comrades gaped at the scene.

“A Dominator!”

Another Dominator! The supernaturals were beside themselves. Silver City’s second Dominator!

They’d nursed some speculation when Liu Long killed the first Sunflare, but that battle had been too fast-paced and Liu Long hadn’t displayed the same wild fury. Therefore, those were only guesses that couldn’t be explored in deeper detail.

But after they killed their own target, they subconsciously looked toward the closest disturbance and witnessed this astounding scene. Liu Long hacked a Sunflare into two with one stroke!

“Cough cough cough...” While blood seeped out the corner of his mouth, Liu Long smiled and turned to Wang Ming and the rest in the distance. “It’s done!”

He’d killed two Sunflares tonight! Although he’d gotten lucky with the first one given that it was an ambush, the second had been on the basis of pure strength. He’d overwhelmed the enemy! He, Liu Long, was not a supernatural, but could still kill Sunflares!

Dominator!

The team’s hearts soared and Wang Ming’s trio looked around in a daze. Silver City was uncanny! Two Dominators had appeared in quick succession and they were both extremely ruthless. They’d thought that the team was going against one Sunflare... but no, it was three!

Thankfully, all three were dead.

“We killed three Sunflares...” Wang Ming murmured. When did Sunflares become so worthless? They died three at a time and he’d been instrumental in the death of one. This was incredible!

Liu Long’s next words shocked Wang Ming senseless.

“Elder Yuan has come quick... Is that Solar dead?”

A Solar?!

Wang Ming, Hu Hao, and Li Meng’s eyeballs almost popped out of their heads. They’d thought that the professor hadn’t been able to rush to the scene in time, but it turned out that he’d gone to hunt a Solar??

Liu Long did not conceal this from the trio because since they’d just gone through life and death together, he did not wish to hide anything from them.

Yuan Shuo frowned slightly when he landed, but didn’t say anything. “He is.” The professor inclined his head. Such a calm response raised further waves of emotion.

“Dominators easily dispatching Solars and Sunflares... Are martial masters truly obsolete and decrepit institutions of the past?” Li Meng murmured. She somehow found herself losing confidence in the supernatural! Why did it seem so easy for Dominators to kill Solars and Sunflares here?

......

The Qiao mountains.

Yuan Shuo nodded to see the Sunflare corpses when he rushed to the mines. Liu Long had done well for himself. It was a very good showing for an initial Dominator to kill two Sunflares in his first battle.

It didn’t hold a candle to his own accomplishments, but there was no need to do so. Yuan Shuo was almost forty years older than Liu Long and vastly more experienced. Liu Long didn’t measure up to him because they were from different generations. There was no point comparing the two.

The others rushed over. Liu Yan was the most heavily injured out of the group, then Li Meng. The two women were more wounded than all of the men. Yuan Shuo flicked a glance at Wang Ming and the rest.

“You guys are a disgrace to men!”

“......” The men flushed hot with humiliation.

Is there a need for such talk? It’s not like this is our desired outcome either, it was just a lack of being able to take care of everyone when battle broke out.

Of course, Yuan Shuo didn’t really mean anything by it. He was focused on the pit in front of him and walked over to find it in the process of caving in. “Wait here and don’t let anyone enter!”

Liu Long nodded. He knew what Yuan Shuo wanted to take a look at.

The professor quickly vanished on the spot, leaving behind a team that glanced quizzically at each other. No one knew what to say.

Three Sunflares and one Solar! What secrets had the Qiaos been hiding?

Incredible secrets, more like!

Even Li Meng realized something was amiss at this stage. Nothing today had been an accident. Liu Long and Yuan Shuo had known about the situation beforehand and what kind of opponents they’d run into. Sunflares and Solars had never been seen in the field before, so the team subconsciously thought of something else—ancient ruins!

“Director Liu...” Wang Ming looked at Liu Long.

“Do you have something on your mind?” Liu Long asked evenly.

“Are... are these... are these ancient ruins?” Wang Ming blurted out. The trio from White Moon was more frank on a whole—someone who’d been around the block like Mu Sen would never speak his mind like this. It was a question that easily led to one’s demise.

Blood was often spilled over ruins that could be entered and plundered.

“I don’t know.” Liu Long shook his head.

Don’t know?

That answer was unexpected.

“I really don’t,” Liu Long explained. “And we have an agreement beforehand, so none of this has anything to do with us! According to our discussion, the mysterious power and treasures of the three Sunflares will go to us.

“I don’t want any of it since my greatest gain was Professor Yuan helping me progress to Dominator. My part was received in advance. Therefore, you guys can split everything from this operation!

“The three Sunflares will net at least five hundred cubes, maybe even nine hundred. But considering how these guys weren’t that strong, it might be five to six hundred at most.”

Most Sunflares yielded two to three hundred cubes of mysterious power. It depended on their strength; peak Sunflare should grant them more. The team had never killed one at that level before, so they didn’t know.

Of the three dead Sunflares, extracting roughly six hundred cubes seemed greatly doable.

Liu Long didn’t want a share, Li Hao didn’t want a share. That left seven to divvy up their gains, which meant everyone would receive nearly one hundred cubes. It was many times greater than their previous harvest. Not even Wang Ming had obtained so many cubes at once before, but he was slightly conflicted at the moment.