Chapter 218: 117: The situation is unpredictable, lives are lost in moves and retreats (add more for the monthly ticket)_3 Chapter 218: 117: The situation is unpredictable, lives are lost in moves and retreats (add more for the monthly ticket)_3 “Hahahaha——”
Li Yue suddenly burst out laughing, his eyes shining with a mocking light, “Brother Chen, you think too highly of yourself.
Granted, you are strong, but, in my game of chess, you’re not the king.
It appears I’ve lost this game to Senior Brother Liang.
Unfortunately, Brother Liang must have paid a high price to break my game, didn’t he?”
As he spoke, his gaze squarely rested on Guan Le, whose Spiritual Might had become stable.
Chen Dengming’s eyebrows furrowed as a speculation suddenly sprung up in his heart, his eyes becoming serious.
Opposite him, Guan Le’s eyes darkened slightly, his voice becoming somewhat older and inflected with regret, he said,
“Junior Brother Li, you play your cards close to your chest and possess formidable strength.
In fact, both Sect Leader Qiu and I had considered you as a candidate for the future Sect Leader and trained you accordingly.
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Unfortunately, your every move and calculation were keenly perceived.
You thought you were playing chess, but in reality, you were just a pawn.
Throughout these years, you’ve been testing us and exploring the rules by inviting certain individuals into our sect.
We pretended to be oblivious, showing you the very rules you had hoped to discern.
Or did you honestly think the Changchun Sect is the kind of place that would allow you to simply swap identities and infiltrate us?”
You truly are clever.
You intentionally guided other senior and junior brothers to also arrange their disciples to enter our sect.
If not for their extreme depravity or tactical brilliance, we would have let things slide just to humor you.
The disciples that came in through such arrangements, unless they are extraordinarily wicked or cunning like you, don’t matter much.
As long as they don’t strive for dominance like Brother Chen here, they won’t be able to vie for many resources.”
When Chen Dengming realized this, a cold sweat trickled down his back.
Damn it.
The Cultivation World has truly been understood and manipulated by these old foxes, they indeed are crafty.
He had always prided himself on being smart, cautious and diligent, but in the end, he’d been just as clever, and just as foolish, as Li Yue.
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Just a moment ago, he’d been admiring Li Yue’s sharp intellect and shrewdness.
However, an even more ferocious crocodile was waiting under the water, coldly observing everyone.
Even himself, he probably had long been under its scrutiny.
Earlier, he had come to repay a favor, had overcome his deep-seated fear and dogged tenacity.
His past heroic spirit had prevailed, consequently earning trust and passing the test.
What if he’d chosen to hide and wait for safety before coming out?
He might’ve been relieve.
All his diligent efforts had shattered.
He seemed to accept his fate.
To completely crush a person’s pride and confidence, you need to target his proudest aspects.
Li Yue assumed he was playing a big game of chess and prided himself on his insight, but it was all a joke.
He had naively walked into a trap, a massive blow indeed.
Guan Le’s tone was smooth.
He gently chuckled and said,
“That’s it!
Fellow Daoist Li, and you three who have traveled from afar, allow my junior disciples and I to accompany you on your last journey!”
The moment he finished speaking.
Li Yue screamed abruptly, twirling around and darting towards Chen Dengming.
His mid-stage Foundation Establishment Spiritual Might rose dramatically, his fingers moving in a split second.
A lance radiating electricity abruptly appeared like a rising dragon.
Golden threads etched its surface, arcs of electricity danced around it.
The split-second it materialized, Chen Dengming was assailed by a ray of dazzling light…
“Brother Li, if you hadn’t told me about this today, I might have let you go!”
Chen Dengming’s eyes grew intense as his hands suddenly came together.
An intense golden Spiritual Energy emerged from the surrounding air, accumulating before him.
“Clang——”
“Clang——”
“Clang——”
In a split second, Chen Dengming’s body was washed with intense golden light, creating a barrier of copper and iron walls that blocked the lance.
“Crack——”
One of the golden walls was almost immediately breached and covered in web-like cracks.
However, in that instant, the golden light suddenly congealed into a large hand, grabbing the lance and quickly pulling it out.
“Brother Chen, I need to leave, and you cannot stop me!”
Li Yue’s roar shook the area as he launched towards another attack.
The lance sparked and transformed into a red-hot chain of lightning that wound around the large golden hand, constricting it.
Chen Dengming sensed a powerful threat and unhesitatingly activated his Plum Replaces Peach as Stiff Skill.
The entry-level Plum Replaces Peach as Stiff Skill requires less than a second to activate.
But even less than a second at this moment seemed so luxuriously long.
Because gold conducts electricity.
The lance turned into lightning and exploded into a dazzling golden electric arc, sending a wave of searing heat and electricity towards Chen Dengming’s body.
This Li Yue, whether due to his combat method or by chance, had been prepared to counteract Chen Dengming’s moves.
Boom!——
It was like a thunderstorm in the air.
He Yingyu’s cries of shock were drowned out by the noise.
A scorching bright ball of lightning burst into the air, transforming into radiating electric tendrils.
Among the flashes of lightning, a large part of their robes were reduced to ashes.
Li Yue’s face abruptly froze.
He watched as a piece of charcoal within the robes exploded into dust, yet found no trace of Chen Dengming.
How can a person be incinerated so quickly that only a piece of charcoal remains?
Just at this moment, fifty feet away from the entrance of the gorge, Chen Dengming appeared.
His body was smoking, his hair spiked up and the skin bubbled and charred.
He opened his mouth and belched out a ring of smoke.
“You can consider yourself lucky, kid!”
Li Yue’s eyes turned cold, and he instantly soared into the sky to escape.
Just at that instant, a haircomb suddenly appeared above and swiftly fell.
The air seemed to be combed into waves of chaos, swirling toward Li Yue…
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