Chapter 173: Chapter 119: With a Laugh and a Smile, the Immortal Emperor Kneels, His Lovers’ Legs Go Soft, and the Waters Flow Endlessly...
"Brother Li!"
"We have to retreat!"
"Brother Li!! We have to retreat!"
"Brother Li!!"
In the west of Songhai City, within the Neutral City of [Ye City]. In a ghastly, shadow-filled grand hall, four skimpily dressed women surrounded a man, fighting desperately to slay the ox-headed Demon Fiends and Ghosts attacking from all sides. As they fought, they shouted at the man in the center. These people were Zhao Li and his girlfriends.
Zhao Li, who had set his sights on a large-scale city, never expected that the second phase of the defense, facing siege NPCs that outnumbered his defenders more than tenfold, would be so difficult to hold. Now, the city walls were shattered, and 99% of the city had been overrun. He and his four girlfriends were just barely holding on, guarding the last room that housed the Heart of the City.
The members of his [Immortal Court] organization and the personnel from the Songhai City Tourism Management Office had long since retreated. At this moment, only the five of them remained to defend the crumbling Heart of the City.
His four girlfriends wanted to retreat with him, but Zhao Li couldn’t accept it. He had spent fifty million to fully inherit the Immortal Emperor’s Cultivation, even if it had been "corrected" into a shadow of its former self. But the Immortal Yuan within his body was still a boundless, inexhaustible torrent. After inheriting his first Immortal Artifact, a Flying Sword, just last night, Zhao Li had felt he was Invincible.
And so, with great fanfare, he had chosen to conquer the most powerful large-scale city in all of Songhai City. Moreover, his exploits had been deliberately hyped up until everyone knew about them.
Zhao Li had completed the first phase of the siege with ease, thanks to his Immortal Sword, which had a range of four to five thousand kilometers. However, when it came to the second phase, he was failing. It required him to stand still while facing more than ten times the number of enemies. Unable to reposition, reverse course, or kite his opponents, the Immortal Emperor couldn’t hold them back.
He had struggled to hold them off for nearly ten hours, but of the thousand-plus Great Ghost Emperor bosses, he had only managed to kill a little over five hundred. The Immortal Emperor and his girlfriends all knew they couldn’t hold out any longer.
But he couldn’t accept it! He absolutely couldn’t accept it! He had set his expectations way too high before, and if he failed now, the Immortal Emperor understood that his reputation would be in tatters. For someone as obsessed with his image as he was, this was completely unacceptable.
To prevent anyone from seeing his current "embarrassing" predicament from above, he had even unleashed his boundless Divine Sense to establish a no-fly zone over the entire siege battlefield.
I can’t let anyone film me in such an ungraceful state!
Zhao Li didn’t want to give up! He couldn’t fail! Ignoring the pleas of his girlfriends—who had inherited Cultivation at the Nascent Soul, Fusion, and even Mahayana Stages—Zhao Li continued to fight with all his might.
Not until the very last moment. I will never give up! I am Zhao Li! I am the Immortal Emperor! I will be the one and only king in Xia Country to conquer a large-scale city!
He had already inherited his full Cultivation, and with the buff from his Immortal Sword, Zhao Li felt he no longer needed to keep a low profile.
I can do this! I can definitely do this!
If he failed this time, forget how the riled-up netizens on the Forum would flame him; Zhao Li felt that many members might even quit the [Immortal Court]. He even felt that if this passionate battle of his ended in failure, the blow to his own confidence would be unparalleled.
Seeing his girlfriends were about to speak again, Zhao Li roared furiously, "Say no more! Just fight!"
SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH!
Guided by his Divine Sense, the Immortal Sword circled around them as fast as lightning, shredding every Demon Fiend and Ghost that charged in its path...
"Hm?"
Suddenly, Zhao Li’s expression froze. His Divine Sense detected someone appearing high in the sky above the battlefield.
Someone actually dared to show up in the no-fly zone I established.
"Looks like I haven’t killed enough of them!"
Earlier, some people had ignored his warnings and flown into the sky to livestream the Immortal Emperor’s battle. After his first warning went unheeded, he had slaughtered them all, sweeping them from the sky like fallen leaves. The Immortal Emperor never thought that someone would still dare to come.
"Since you’re willing to die for a livestream, I’ll be happy to oblige!"
Furious, Zhao Li instantly changed the Immortal Sword’s direction, sending it stabbing toward the person who dared to appear in the sky.
"Huh?!"
"This is bad!!!"
"The Magical Treasures! Give me your Magical Treasures!"
But in that instant, Zhao Li shrieked in shock.
I’ve lost control!
He realized that the moment his Immortal Sword, guided by his Divine Sense, shot out, he had lost control of it.
His Immortal Sword was gone! Just... gone! It had vanished without a trace!
SWISH!
His Divine Sense swept rapidly over a 5,000-kilometer radius, but Zhao Li couldn’t find a single trace of his Immortal Sword. He had only inherited one Immortal Sword so far. Ninety percent of his Combat Power came from that sword. The sudden loss of his Immortal Sword made Zhao Li’s face drain of all color.
Seeing the endless tide of monsters instantly swarm them after the Immortal Sword disappeared, the Immortal Emperor could only order his girlfriends to once again deploy the Magical Treasures they had inherited. He had inherited the Immortal Sword last night, while his girlfriends had inherited several Magical Treasures. It was only by using his Immortal Emperor Cultivation to control these few Magical Treasures, which his girlfriends had inherited from the same game, that Zhao Li had managed to hold on until now...
"Who are you!"
While controlling the Magical Treasures to continue resisting the tide of monsters, the Immortal Emperor split his focus, using his Divine Sense to contact the person in the sky. Unfortunately, the highest-Rank Magical Treasure was only at the Mahayana Stage; it couldn’t possibly hold out for long...
"Ah!"
Not long after sending his Divine Sense to communicate, Zhao Li cried out in alarm again.
His Immortal Sword had returned! And not only that, he also heard a voice from the other side:
"Don’t go flinging your Flying Sword around. This is your only warning."
Amidst that faint voice, Zhao Li felt the connection to his Immortal Sword once more. Anxiously, he immediately recalled the Immortal Sword to his side...
