Chapter 174: Chapter 119: Amidst Laughter, the Immortal Emperor Kneels, Hehuan’s Legs Go Weak, the River Flows Endlessly...
He carefully protected it.
This was his lifeline now...
"You!"
"You!"
"YOU!"
After checking that his Immortal Sword was completely unharmed, Zhao Li finally turned to look at the young man who had landed on the battlefield. Then, he realized the man looked familiar. When he heard what the young man said next, the color drained from Zhao Li’s face...
「One minute earlier.」
Holy shit! An Immortal Sword!
Seeing the Immortal Emperor Zhao Li’s Immortal Sword flying straight at him, Shen Fei had been startled too. Even he was afraid of something so sharp it seemed unstoppable.
SWISH!
The moment the Immortal Sword was about to strike, Shen Fei had intended to summon a Teleportation Gate Tower to divert it. But then he remembered the range of Zhao Li’s Divine Sense was far greater than the effective range of the Teleportation Gate Tower. No matter how he tried to divert it, the man would just use his Divine Sense to control it back on course.
In his urgency, Shen Fei had ultimately deployed the Forbidden Immortal Domain Defense Tower.
WHOOSH!
Because he was high in the air and not on the battlefield below, the Forbidden Immortal Domain deployed successfully.
CLUNK!
Immortal Yuan was nullified within the Forbidden Immortal Domain. The lightning-fast Immortal Sword instantly lost power and plummeted toward the ground. The Defense Tower that Shen Fei had summoned from thin air also began to fall rapidly.
CRASH!
Three seconds later, the Defense Tower fell to within one hundred meters of the ground.
SWISH!
Upon entering the siege battle zone, the domain-type Forbidden Immortal Domain Defense Tower instantly deactivated. At that moment, the out-of-control Immortal Sword came to life again.
When will I get to be like the Pagoda-Bearing King and hold a Defense Tower in my palm? Shen Fei muttered to himself as he watched the tower fall. He had just tried shrinking it to the size of his palm, but he still couldn’t get it to rest there.
WHOOSH!
Once he sensed a Divine Sense probing the area around him, Shen Fei immediately put on a cool front and sent back a message, "Stop flinging your Flying Swords around. Don’t let it happen again!"
The first use of the Forbidden Immortal Towers was quite effective. He had four of them, all upgraded early on specifically to deal with Cultivators. But since domain-type items can’t be used in a siege zone, all I can do for now is try to bluff the Immortal Emperor.
"What? You know me?" Hearing the wave of shock coming from the Immortal Emperor through the Divine Sense connection, Shen Fei suddenly smiled.
"Brother Chongtian!"
"You’re Brother Chongtian!"
Amidst Shen Fei’s teasing, Zhao Li finally realized who was standing before him. The moment he determined that this was Shen Fei—the very same Brother Chongtian who had spoken to him over voice chat in *Tower Defense of Ten Thousand Realms* before the game became reality—the color drained from Zhao Li’s face.
Zhao Li had already figured it out. The only reason he had inherited the Immortal Emperor’s Cultivation was entirely because of Brother Chongtian. Moreover, he had quit playing *Tower Defense of Ten Thousand Realms* because he could never outspend Brother Chongtian.
Now, Brother Chongtian had appeared before him in the real world and had made his Immortal Sword lose control in an instant. Zhao Li was immediately overwhelmed.
"Just what kind of ability did you inherit?!" Zhao Li was overwhelmed with emotion.
Having played *Tower Defense of Ten Thousand Realms* and carefully studied the battles of the second-ranked player, Taiyi Zhenren, Zhao Li understood something clearly. Shen Fei, who had poured two billion into Krypton Gold and had all Tenth Tier Defense Towers, was powerful beyond comparison. Taiyi Zhenren, who could single-handedly hold off the monster tide of a medium-sized city, had only possessed seven or eight Tenth Tier Defense Towers in the game. But Shen Fei? He had over six hundred Tenth Tier Defense Towers alone!
The more he thought about the details and his experience playing the game, the more nervous the Immortal Emperor became. On top of that, Shen Fei’s ability to instantly make his Immortal Sword lose control had thoroughly terrified him. A situation like this was something he had never even heard of.
"What other ability do you think I could have inherited?" Landing on the battlefield and seeing the dense, churning tide of hundreds of millions of Ghosts all around, Shen Fei waved a hand and deployed his Zhongkui Tower.
SWISH!
SWISH!
SWISH!
Without activating its ultimate ability, Shen Fei had Zhong Kui stand atop the tower, picking off the attacking ghosts with normal attacks.
The Immortal Emperor’s tone just now... he sounds surprisingly respectful...
"Big Bro!"
"Help me!"
Shen Fei had not expected Zhao Li’s next words. For the man to ask for help so directly left Shen Fei stunned.
Before the apocalypse, Zhao Li had been a super-rich second-generation heir. Shen Fei was well aware of the arrogant, untamable, and disdainful personalities of people like that. After the apocalypse, the man had inherited the powerful Cultivation of an Immortal Emperor. Whether before or after the apocalypse, Zhao Li was without a doubt an incredibly proud person. Yet now, after confirming Shen Fei’s identity, he was actually begging for help. Shen Fei hadn’t expected this at all.
Shen Fei didn’t know just how strong Zhao Li’s desire to capture a large city was. He didn’t know about the deep-seated obsession in Zhao Li’s heart that forbade failure. And he certainly didn’t know that Zhao Li had hired an army of online shills to hype up the Immortal Emperor and the Immortal Court on the forums. If Zhao Li failed, his reputation would be in ruins.
With his inherited abilities and Combat Power, he would still live well even if his reputation was ruined. However, building a faction and continuing to grow his power would become absolutely impossible.
Therefore, after confirming that Shen Fei was Brother Chongtian and witnessing his ability to make the Immortal Sword lose control with a single action, a desperate Zhao Li had immediately begun to beg for help.
In that brief moment when his Immortal Sword was out of control, the Heart of the City he was guarding lost another 10% of its health. Zhao Li didn’t dare hesitate for a second.
He was filled with immense regret. Why did I have to show off? Why did I have to attack a large city directly? And why did I have to create so many shill posts on the Forum?
But there was no medicine for regret in this world—at least, not among the game items he had inherited.
All Zhao Li could do was ask for help.
As for why Shen Fei had shown up here, Zhao Li no longer had time to think about it.
