It was clear now that even the strongest powerhouses of the whole world couldn't stand against the enemy before them.
The great nations, Dragon Nation, Bear Nation, and others, had seen their elites defeated one after another.
The heaven-defying strength shown by the Flowing Gold Warrior made countless people fall into despair.
["This guy's power is far beyond the three great Main Gods."]
["Even the three senior professionals of Dragon Nation have been beaten. In this world, there's no one left who can be his match."]
["It must be because he devoured too many professionals' powers before, which made his strength skyrocket. Now he's reached an unmatched height! Damn it, and he pulled it off right in front of us."]
["Then what do we do? Are we just going to wait here to die?"]
Just as the whole world was gradually sinking into despair, suddenly, a figure flashed and appeared before the Flowing Gold Warrior.
"Who told you that Asura is gone?"
All eyes instantly locked onto that suddenly appearing figure.
Including the Flowing Gold Warrior's.
His gaze even showed a trace of surprise.
But when he saw that the other party was merely a woman, the Flowing Gold Warrior's expression at once returned to its calm state of one second earlier. [T/N: False alarm guys.]
"Blind confidence, stupid, and deadly."
The Flowing Gold Warrior looked at Chen Zijin and said, "You can't replace Asura."
"Sorry, but that's not for you to decide," Chen Zijin's gaze burned as she locked eyes with the Flowing Gold Warrior and said, "Besides, I never once thought of replacing Asura."
"Asura is forever the god no one can replace."
"Of course, the Asura I'm talking about isn't you, this ugly thing occupying Asura's body."
The Flowing Gold Warrior chuckled "keke", "I hope your strength matches that mouth of yours."
With that, he raised his longsword and slowly approached Chen Zijin.
In an instant, the whole world's focus turned onto Chen Zijin.
["A little girl like her, can she really be his opponent?"]
["Her power has reached the point where she can go head-to-head with the Ghostsword Elfa. Maybe, just maybe, she really can!"]
["There's no choice. The human powerhouses have all fallen, Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun are fighting the Hell Familiar, so here, it all depends on this Shadow Dancer!"]
["Hope she can hold out!"]
Under the eyes of all, Chen Zijin gripped her dual blades, and a surge of powerful battle intent erupted from within her.
The next moment—
WHOOSH!
Her figure turned into lightning, darting forward.
Unexpectedly, the Flowing Gold Warrior's awareness was astonishing.
With superhuman reflexes, he swiftly swung his sword, slashing Chen Zijin, who had just approached, and sent her crashing to the ground.
The Shadow Dancer is famed for speed, moving like a shadow.
In nearly the same instant she appeared, Chen Zijin slipped into stealth again, vanishing before the Flowing Gold Warrior's eyes.
In the blink of an eye, she reappeared behind him.
But all her actions were still fully seen through by the Flowing Gold Warrior.
Just as she emerged, before she could even touch him, a burst of sword aura exploded from within the Flowing Gold Warrior, forcing Chen Zijin back and immediately surging toward her.
Chen Zijin leapt aside with lightning speed.
Though she avoided the Flowing Gold Warrior's direct strike, she was still wounded by the sword aura.
Her HP bar above her head instantly dropped by 80%.
It was clear, if that earlier sword had landed, Chen Zijin would already be dead.
But even now, the situation was grim.
Chen Zijin tried to retreat from his attack range, looking for a chance to recover and strike again.
However, the Flowing Gold Warrior clearly saw through her intent.
Crash!
He unleashed a sword formation, severely limiting Chen Zijin's movement.
Using the immense pressure of the sword array, he forced Chen Zijin into losing all ability to act, trapping her in place.
Then, the Flowing Gold Warrior, longsword in hand, step by step approached Chen Zijin.
This scene made all the onlookers outside choke with suffocation.
Even those not personally inside, just watching through Chen Zijin's live-stream perspective, felt fear as they saw the Flowing Gold Warrior looming closer.
Yet in Chen Zijin's eyes, there was only firm determination, with not a trace of fear that should have been there.
Unbeknownst to all, Chen Zijin was actually luring the enemy in, step by step, the Flowing Gold Warrior, blade in hand, walked up before her.
But in Chen Zijin's eyes, he didn't see the helplessness or fear he wanted most, he couldn't help but feel disappointed, "You're not afraid of death?"
"Winners are kings, losers are prey," Chen Zijin said, "If I lose, then I'll accept the end that failure brings me."
"Go ahead. Do it."
The Flowing Gold Warrior hesitated for a moment. Then suddenly lowered his longsword.
Seeing this, Chen Zijin grew anxious instead, "What's wrong? Don't dare to do it? Or can't bear to kill me?"
Turning his back, the Flowing Gold Warrior glanced at her from the corner of his eye, "Taunts don't work on me."
Chen Zijin froze for a moment.
Just then, the God of Desire, Wu En, suddenly spread his dark-golden wings, rose into the air, opened his gaping maw, and roared at Chen Zijin.
"ROAR!"
In the deafening roar, a dark-golden crack gradually tore open the space before Chen Zijin, manifesting into being.
Seeing this, Wolong and Xuan Lan outside were struck with shock.
"Not good, that's the Demon Realm!"
"The God of Desire is pulling the same trick again!"
The rift of the Demon Realm rapidly formed before Chen Zijin.
Before she could react, her whole body was sucked in, vanishing into it along with the crack.
At the same time, the live-stream was cut off.
The tens of billions of viewers gathered in Chen Zijin's stream watched in disbelief as the feed turned into snowflakes, their eyes wide.
["What happened? Where's the streamer? Why did the stream suddenly cut off?"]
["Was she sucked into that vortex just now? What skill was that?"]
Wolong frowned, "Why didn't he just kill her, but instead use the Demon Realm to trap her?"
Beside him, Xuan Lan mused, "Maybe… he sensed something…"
———
Meanwhile, elsewhere—
Chen Zijin felt darkness before her eyes.
When her vision returned to brightness, she realized she had been transported to some unknown place.
"What the hell?"
Chen Zijin couldn't help but complain, "Why didn't he just kill me? What's the point of sending me here?"
"Could it be… did he find out? That makes no sense, I didn't even take it out, how could he have noticed?"
Saying so, Chen Zijin opened her storage space and took out a golden item she carried with her, [Medal of Death].
This golden item, obtained in the Ultimate Arena, had the effect: when the holder dies, it inflicts the same death effect upon their killer.
So just now, knowing she couldn't possibly be the Flowing Gold Warrior's opponent, Chen Zijin still struck. Her aim was to lure the Flowing Gold Warrior into killing her.
Thus triggering the effect of the Medal of Death, perishing together with him.
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