Chapter 290: Chapter 289: Defeating Shi Wushuang
As the Golden Celestial Lion violently shattered, Shi Wushuang coughed up a mouthful of blood. His very spirit was wounded, shaken to its core.
With a loud THUD, his body was sent flying backward.
ROAR!
Just then, a terrifying dragon’s roar erupted, powerful enough to shake one’s very soul.
A ferocious Red Dragon charged out from where the Golden Celestial Lion had been annihilated. An earth-shattering power converged, and a deep chill gripped Shi Wushuang’s heart. An overwhelming sense of danger washed over him, as if the Red Dragon’s impact would reduce him to cinders in the very next instant.
A resolute glint flashed in his eyes. Gritting his teeth, Shi Wushuang activated a Secret Technique, desperately squeezing his own Qi and Blood and converting it into one last surge of Golden True Power, which he channeled into the vertical pupils of his eyes.
"Eye of Taboo, open!"
He was going to force this eye open.
A trace of fury appeared in Shi Wushuang’s eyes. Although his Emperor’s Blood had awakened, it had not yet fused with his core self, and using the Eye of Taboo came at a cost.
Every time he used the Eye of Taboo, a sliver of his Emperor’s Blood was incinerated. In other words, his Emperor’s Bloodline would grow thinner.
If his Emperor’s Blood were ever fully depleted, he would lose his status as a member of the Imperial Race for good.
The price was unimaginably steep.
This was already the third time he had opened the Eye of Taboo in the past month.
Nearly a tenth of his Emperor’s Blood had already been burned away!
And yet, this only fueled Shi Wushuang’s rage.
A terrifying aura swirled around Shi Wushuang as his third eye began to open, and a strange atmospheric phenomenon started to manifest.
Sand and stones flew through the air, creating an apocalyptic scene. Throughout Gourd Valley, innumerable Gourd Vines withered and died, turning to dust.
An invisible ripple began to pulse through the Void.
In the distance, the moment Shi Wushuang prepared to open his third eye, Xuelian, Ye Qinghua, and the others had already retreated another several hundred feet.
A terrifying aura of death filled their hearts.
It was irresistible.
"It’s the third eye of the Celestial Lion Royal Family!"
"Hurry, fall back!"
"We can’t block it!"
...
When they looked back, they were shocked to see that Qin Feng seemed not to have noticed at all.
"Oh no! It looks like Senior Brother Qin Feng doesn’t know the origin of that eye!" a hint of anxiety flickered in Jiang Bing’Er’s beautiful eyes.
Ye Qinghua shook her head. "It’s too late. He can’t get away!"
A complicated look crossed Xuelian’s face. "It’s hopeless. That Celestial Lion royal’s third eye has opened. He’s doomed!"
On the ground, a complicated emotion flickered in Shi Tong’s beautiful eyes. For some reason, as she watched Qin Feng face life and death, she felt no sense of joy whatsoever.
...
Elsewhere, the remaining members of the Celestial Lion Royal Family glared at the black-robed youth with bone-deep hatred. But upon seeing Shi Wushuang open his third eye, the faces of the Celestial Lion Clan experts relaxed one by one.
"It’s over. That Two-legged Sheep from the Human Race is a dead man!"
"That’s right. Our Celestial Lion Royal Family’s third eye is the legendary Eye of Taboo. Its Forbidden Power can gravely injure an expert even a full major Realm above!"
"Indeed! Back when the Young Master had just broken through to the Condensing Vein Realm, he used this third eye to annihilate a Tier Three Ancient Beast—one that was comparable to a grand figure at the Sea of Reincarnation Realm!"
Shi Han watched this scene with a calm gaze, the corners of her lips curling slightly. Her holy, flawless, and utterly beautiful face seemed to gain an extra hint of radiance.
...
The moment Shi Wushuang prepared to open his third eye, Qin Feng felt an immense threat manifest, and his heart began to pound violently in his chest.
A warning.
’The third eye of a Three-eyed Lion!’
Qin Feng’s expression shifted. ’The Three-eyed Golden Lion is an Ancient True Spirit, and a tyrannical one ranked near the very top of their kind. Its third eye, in particular, is a taboo. Not even a Demon God could withstand such a power!’
’I absolutely cannot take this head-on!’ Qin Feng’s gaze grew solemn. With a thought, he recalled the Red Dragon into his body and turned to evade. But at that exact moment, an invisible light flared deep within his soul.
A hazy, gray book stirred for the very first time.
It was the Cosmic Book. This was the very Divine Artifact, rumored to have belonged to the Space-Time God, that had swept Qin Feng’s soul into the chaotic currents of Space-Time.
However, ever since his rebirth, the Cosmic Book had remained dormant in the depths of his soul like a king on his throne, completely immovable no matter what he did.
But this time, it had actually stirred.
The Cosmic Book was radiating a feeling of intense hunger. Qin Feng felt it as if it were his own, and a sudden, gnawing hunger rose within him.
Then, something happened that made everyone’s jaws drop.
Shi Wushuang’s vertical pupil snapped open, unleashing a boundless golden power that caused the Void within a three-foot radius of him to shatter. Yet, when the attack reached Qin Feng, he simply opened his mouth and swallowed the golden radiance in a single gulp.
That’s right. He swallowed it!
Everyone stared in utter disbelief, their jaws practically on the floor.
Qin Feng remained expressionless, but he was inwardly reeling. ’In truth, it wasn’t so much that I swallowed the golden light,’ he thought, ’as it was the Cosmic Book that devoured it.’
The *Yu* was one of two books, the *Yu* and the *Zhou*, that made up the legendary Divine Artifact of the Space-Time God: the Time-Space Two Phase Scripture.
Legend had it that the *Yu* book represented Space, and the *Zhou* book represented Time.
Combined, the *Yu* and *Zhou* books formed Space-Time itself.
Anyone who could comprehend Space-Time Power could inherit the mantle of the Space-Time Dominator and become the new Space-Time God.
However, the powers of Space and Time were profoundly mysterious and exceptionally difficult to comprehend.
The reason the Three-eyed Golden Lion ranked so highly among the Ancient True Spirits was precisely because its third eye contained a trace of Space-Time Power.
Qin Feng had just realized that the trace of Space-Time Power erupting from Shi Wushuang’s third eye had been completely siphoned away by the *Yu* book.
Shi Wushuang’s face had gone pale, his eyes filled with a look of utter bewilderment.
’A perfect chance!’
Qin Feng seized the opportunity. Taking advantage of Shi Wushuang’s momentary daze, his figure flashed like Li Xuan’s Arrow, appearing before his opponent in the next instant. He coated his leg in an incredibly violent surge of Star True Power and slammed it into Shi Wushuang’s body.
BANG!
A spray of fresh blood erupted from his mouth!
As if struck by a cannonball, Shi Wushuang’s body was launched high into the air, soaring toward the heavens.
’Good. This next blow will be your last!’ A savage glint flashed in Qin Feng’s eyes. He stomped his foot, and with a thunderous BOOM, a massive crater formed beneath him. Using the recoil, Qin Feng shot straight into the sky, tailing Shi Wushuang’s ascending body like a shadow. He quickly caught up to the nearly unconscious man. Fiery Pure Yang Condensing Veins power gathered in Qin Feng’s hand. If this strike landed, Shi Wushuang would be vaporized into ash.
In the next instant, the unexpected happened.
Shi Wushuang abruptly vanished, disappearing without a sound or trace!
At the same time, thousands of feet up in the Firmament, within the cloud layers, the Giants of the All Stars Academy were casting hostile glares at a majestic and exceptionally imposing middle-aged man in the distance.
The man looked to be in his thirties, his face covered in a wiry beard, and he exuded an aura that could dominate the heavens and the earth. Just then, the unconscious Shi Wushuang appeared in his arms.
"Lion Emperor, for you to secretly rescue one of your own elites... I’m afraid that violates our agreement, does it not?"
