PFC Chapter 7000 Even a horse can stumble.
Chapter 7000 Even a horse can stumble.
Chapter 7000 Even a horse can stumble.
"Brother Zhang, thanks! But you should run too. Those damn Romans have sent two squads to hunt me down. Although the most troublesome ones aren't here, the rest are still tough to deal with—there are just too many of them." Huang Tao said as he ran, trying to communicate with Zhang Yong remotely.
"No need. Two mere Roman teams. Not to mention they're not all here yet, even if they were, I'm not without a fighting chance," Zhang Yong replied arrogantly to Huang Tao.
"Huh?" Huang Tao, who was running forward, felt the arrow flying from behind. He quickly created a photo, stepped into the air, teleported, and waited still. After a series of actions, he successfully dodged the arrow. Then he quickly transmitted his voice to Zhang Yong, "Second Brother Zhang, I'm not kidding you. This group of people is very difficult to deal with when they work together. Their talents complement each other and they are very difficult to kill quickly."
Huang Tao is a man who can put aside his pride and call someone "brother." Even though he is slightly older than Zhang Yong, he doesn't stutter at all when he calls Zhang Yong "Second Brother Zhang."
"It's alright, leave it to me." Zhang Yong transformed Zhang Ping into a weapon again. The Twin-Winged Unicorn Nightmare Beast looked cool, but it wasn't very handy in a fight, especially in such a critical moment. This mount was indeed inconvenient to use.
"Zhang Yong, this is none of your business. Get out of the way and stop causing trouble." After the airburst blew everything around him away, Hernan walked out of the woods, frowned as he looked at Zhang Yong in the sky, and said. He came from the Ninth Eagle Banner Legion and had dealt with Zhang Yong many times. He knew that this man was powerful and did not want to cause any trouble, so he stepped forward and greeted Zhang Yong.
"Who are you?" Zhang Yong squinted at Hernan, not recognizing him. He immediately retorted while throwing a vacuum-spiraled light spear in Hernan's direction with a disgruntled tone.
Ever since Zhang Yong refined Zhang Ping and gained control over Zhang Ping's talent, he discovered that Zhang Ping's finishing move, which he had always mocked, was actually quite useful. Especially since he himself had enough stamina and could use the Miracle Enhancement, and didn't need Zhang Ping's troublesome pre-operation, after using it twice, Zhang Yong would just raise his hand and use it whenever he encountered an opponent.
Hernan was stunned for a moment when he heard Zhang Yong's words, and then his face showed obvious anger. However, before he could curse, Zhang Yong threw a finishing move at him.
Thanks to Erna's true elite status, even though he was provoked by Zhang Yong and reacted a moment too late, he managed to dodge the core area of the attack by charging without hesitation. He managed to withstand the remaining shockwaves with his sheer willpower and burst out from the roaring dust, only to be slightly disheveled.
"Damn it, Zhang Yong, you beast!" Hernan cursed as he retreated, facing Zhang Yong. Then he saw Zhang Yong raise his hand and throw five kinetic energy spears accelerated by his finishing move at him. Hernan's face turned green. Damn it, is Zhang Yong that strong?
"Zhang Er, don't use this thing like that! My talent can't take it anymore!" Zhang Ping shouted in Zhang Yong's mind as Zhang Yong raised his hand and fired five light spears accelerated by vacuum guns, each with a forward and reverse spiral.
"Practice more, Zhang San," Zhang Yong said mockingly, then chased after the light spear. At this moment, a blazing golden arrow shot towards Zhang Yong. Judging by its trajectory, if Zhang Yong continued to rush down, he would definitely be hit by the light arrow before he could kill Hernan.
However, Zhang Yong only glanced at this arrow, which was quite lethal to even a sixth-level fusion cultivator. He didn't even slow down, but instead formed a ring of purplish-red flames around himself and continued his downward swooping attack without paying any attention to it.
Do you even understand what it means to have the Miracle-enhanced Incineration and Sacrifice talents? A mere energy-based light arrow, even with enough willpower to condense it, would be considered excellent if it didn't disintegrate immediately after passing through this layer of defense, let alone being filtered out like this...
Zhang Yong directly opened his mouth and bit the light arrow that had pierced through his outer layer of Incineration Sacrifice defensive circle. Then, to Lichkinius's astonishment, he crushed the light arrow in one bite. Afterward, he opened his mouth as if to suck in a storm, absorbing the scattered golden light streams into his body.
Throughout history, the most powerful incineration and sacrifice have been this outrageous, directly obliterating and absorbing the essence, energy, and spirit used in Lichkinius's arrow, and then using it to replenish Zhang Ping's energy loss.
"That's all the energy we have, enough for just one spear throw." Zhang Ping felt the vital energy that Zhang Yong had shared through the sacrifice, and he took a deep breath while complaining.
This is what you call abnormal. The power of Lichkinius's arrow was about the same as the light spear that Zhang Yong casually threw out, but after Zhang Yong crushed and absorbed the energy on that arrow, he was able to create a light spear that might be even more powerful.
Do you understand what energy utilization rate is, or what talent control is? The power that a six-fold forged man needs to invest more energy to achieve, while a seven-fold immortal, a person of miraculous superiority, only needs less energy to reach or even surpass that level!
"It's alright, there's still more to pick up. Just rush down and refine that guy who called my name, and you'll be back to your peak." Zhang Yong chuckled as he continued his descent, using the acceleration of his dive to successfully approach Hernan.
Then came a vertical slash, which Hernan desperately parried. Relying on the supermodel defensive capabilities of the Ninth Eagle Legion, he only suffered minor injuries and successfully blocked the attack. But the next moment, Zhang Yong, whose feet had touched the ground, became truly serious. His unique combat intelligence gathering ability allowed him to directly identify Hernan's weakness and break the attack on the spot.
"Damn it!" Hernan never imagined that Zhang Yong, in his three-in-one state, would need to use cheat codes to defeat him. So when Zhang Yong's left hand passed through Hernan's opening and stabbed towards his throat, Hernan could only curse and instantly activate his negative talent, Steel Body Reversal of Fate!
Zhang Yong's left hand, carrying a blade of energy, pierced through the gap in Hernan's defensive circle and slashed towards his throat. With Zhang Yong's strength, speed, and control over his talent, this move should have been enough to sever the opponent's neck on the spot. However, in reality, Zhang Yong's strike on Hernan's neck only barely cut the opponent's neck open, and instead forced the opponent to retreat repeatedly.
This is a negative talent unique to Rome, a semi-finished talent developed by Severus after in-depth research into the Steel Body and Steel Body Impact talents.
Of course, at present, this talent is more like an overpowered defensive negative talent than a half-finished one. This talent can directly transform the Roman user into active metal and then poison them to death...
Okay, it's a bit tragic, but that's how it is with top-tier negative talents in various countries. The effects are powerful, and people die, or even death is considered a good outcome.
The talent "Steel Body Against Fate" grants the Roman elites who can use it superhuman strength during activation, even enabling them to withstand ordinary internal energy leaving their bodies with their bare hands, because this talent transforms the user into metal.
Hernan realized he couldn't get past Zhang Yong, so he decided to go all out. He used his super-strong defense to hold Zhang Yong, buying time for his teammates. No matter how strong Zhang Yong was, with his super-strong defense after using Steel Body Reversal, he could withstand many finishing moves head-on. Compared to the Roman guy who used Steel Body Reversal, the Shield Guard's defense was just so-so.
More importantly, once this talent is activated, the entire body is flawless from every angle, and the person can be considered as a solid steel pillar, making their defense extremely terrifying.
Therefore, theoretically speaking, if Hernan had taken advantage of the few seconds that Steel Body defied fate to hold Zhang Yong tightly, with the help of a group of Roman gods, he could have at least made Zhang Yong bleed, if not killed on the spot. But Zhang Yong was not alone at the moment!
Zhang Yong was slightly taken aback when he saw a lead-gray liquid with a metallic luster flowing from the neck he had cut open. Moreover, the liquid was showing signs of solidifying. But he wasn't shocked. Zhang Yong was a man of great experience!
Moreover, regardless of any strange or unusual things, Zhang Yong's Miracle Transformation and Slavnis's Incineration and Sacrifice are both excellent at breaking these mechanisms and characteristics.
So when Hernan lunged at him, Zhang Yong didn't dodge. He reached out and grabbed Hernan's neck, which was already slightly stiff. Then, a purplish-red flame completely enveloped Hernan. With the Miracle Limit buff, Zhang Yong had already drained Hernan dry before her teammates arrived.
Zhang Yong completely refined Hernan, extracting a massive amount of essence and spirit, which he then sacrificed to the three of them. The essence and spirit extracted from a living, six-fold refining process was extremely extravagant for recovery! The three of them, who had been somewhat weakened by their battle with Zena and Anada, were instantly restored to their peak condition.
Zhang Yong also praised Slavnis without reservation, "Awesome! You're much more useful than Wu Xi. Your recovery ability is truly incredible!"
Slavnis, in the consciousness space, wore an awkward yet polite smile, then became even more eager to master the ability of Miracle Transformation. There was no way around it; his talents of Incineration and Sacrifice had been developed to an astonishing level, but compared to the state enhanced by Zhang Yong's Miracle Transformation, his performance was at least eight streets behind. How efficient was Slavnis in forging a demon god? How efficient was Zhang Yong now!
Based on the efficiency with which Hernan was just burned to ashes, Slavnis estimated that even a demon god forged through sevenfold melting wouldn't last more than a few breaths under Zhang Yong's miraculous enhancement, incineration, and sacrifice! This is simply too powerful, ridiculously powerful!
Therefore, after witnessing how Zhang Yong exploited Zena and Ananda's core talents, Slavnis, who knew he was now dealing with a tiger for its skin, still did not run away. A very important reason is that the Incinerate and Sacrifice, enhanced by Miracle, were simply too powerful.
This refining efficiency, this level of refinement... well, let's just go with the flow. If we miss this opportunity, we might not get another chance. Besides, we're already on Zhang Yong's pirate ship. Slavnis isn't even sure if his Incineration and Sacrifice talents are still his own.
Similarly, there's Zhang Ping. When Zhang Ping discovered that Zhang Yong had stolen Zena and Anada's core talents, he was a little scared, but he didn't have any intention of running away. He just wanted to seize this opportunity to learn hard. Zhang Yong's fighting style, which was like throwing out finishing moves like a normal attack, was really too cool!
As for talent or not, forget it, does it matter? Zhang Ping felt that with Zhang Yong's shameless behavior, he had probably already figured out his talent thoroughly. Since that was the case, why not continue?
"Damn it!" Komnin, a Scythian archer from the Fourth Eagle Legion who had caught up, stared in disbelief at the scene of Zhang Yong refining Hernan. As the front-line guard of the archers, Komnin knew very well how tough Hernan was, and yet in just a short while, Hernan had been refined into points by Zhang Yong. This was too outrageous!
"Now it's your turn." Zhang Yong, now fully recovered to his peak, turned his head and looked at Komnenos and Lichnius with a wicked smile. The two exchanged a glance and then raised their bows to shoot in Zhang Yong's direction. As members of the Fourth Scythian Legion, their archery skills were among the best in the world, but their opponent was Zhang Yong.
The opposing team shot arrows, while Zhang Yong threw spears. Both sides manipulated the essence of heaven and earth to directly form arrows and spears. However, in terms of both formation speed and power, Zhang Yong's spears were much faster than the two unfortunate boys on the other side. If Actaeon hadn't arrived at the last moment and used his arrows to help block the aftershocks of Zhang Yong's attack, Komnenos and Lichkinius would have lost most of their fighting ability, even if they hadn't died.
“Zhang Yong, how about we stop here?” Aktaion stood still and looked at Zhang Yong.
In terms of strength, Actaeon is not as good as Zhang Yong, but he has the ability to threaten Zhang Yong. Top archers all have a negative talent that can kill. Arrows are something that are attached to one's own essence, energy and spirit, then draw on the essence of heaven and earth, and finally become one with it.
Therefore, every archer who reaches the point of merging their own essence, energy, and spirit with the essence of heaven and earth will realize that there is a talent, or skill, in which they can release everything they have as an arrow. In the Central Plains, this move is called the Sacrifice Arrow.
"Brother Zhang, don't waste time, Actaeon is waiting for his teammates." Huang Tao, who had recovered some health, quickly refreshed and called out to Zhang Yong.
"I actually saw it, I just wanted to see what tricks this guy was up to," Zhang Yong said with a smile. With his divine insight, Zhang Yong had already sensed that Actaeon was up to no good. Using Zena's light and shadow manipulation, he scanned the surroundings and discovered several Roman elites rushing towards them. Under these circumstances, would Zhang Yong believe Actaeon when he said it was over?
“This is really bad.” Actaeon aimed his arrow at Huang Tao. He wasn’t really afraid of Zhang Yong. Although Zhang Yong had killed Hernan in a few moves, which had surprised Actaeon, there were always unexpected events in battle. Zhang Yong was a reckless fighter who could be dealt with by the Romans once they all arrived, with a few people sacrificed. But Huang Tao was different.
Without a mirror image to pursue him, none of the contestants from Rome could catch up with Huang Tao. Theoretically, the only one who could interfere with Huang Tao's mobility, Degel, was not here. Therefore, after severely injuring Huang Tao, Actaeon had been trying to hunt him down, just to prevent Huang Tao from having any chance.
After all, given Huang Tao's mobility, if Rome were to let him run rampant, it wouldn't be long before all the veterans except for a few with strong defenses like the Sixth Rank would die.
Although Huang Tao is often ridiculed for vying with Su Zong for the weakest position in the Sevenfold Melting Technique, Huang Tao's advantages in mobility and scouting are simply too great.
To put it bluntly, if Huang Tao were to act like a comedian like Qi Xiu, all veterans below the sixth level would probably be retired by now. Moreover, among the sixth level, all non-defensive units, except for a few whose reaction speed could match Huang Tao's, would probably have been eliminated.
This is why Actaeon, after failing to kill Huang Tao the first time, kept hunting him down, not giving him a chance to catch his breath. To put it bluntly, he was afraid that Huang Tao would recover and take revenge on the Roman veterans. Among the Roman contestants, only a few could withstand Huang Tao's revenge.
"Brother Huang, how about we make a temporary oath?" Zhang Yong asked tentatively.
"What are we doing?" Huang Tao glanced at Aktaion with some apprehension, then looked at Zhang Yong and asked, "What kind of oath are we making?"
"That means from now on, under the witness of the Empire's will, we are teammates." Zhang Yong said to Huang Tao in a very unscrupulous way, "If you unfortunately capsize in the future, I will carry your beliefs, your will, and everything you have to keep going."
"Um, I'm from Xuzhou," Huang Tao said, raising his hand.
"What's wrong with that?" Zhang Yong asked, puzzled.
"Now that the battle with the Xiongnu is over, I have time to go find Zhao Zhen and the others," Huang Tao said succinctly, implying that Zhang Yong should not get involved in this matter.
"So what? The Iron Cavalry and Danyang have a pretty good relationship," Zhang Yong said casually. "Besides, what about Zhao Zhen? With my goal of sweeping through the small worlds, would I worry about Zhao Zhen?"
"Uh, okay, two of my teammates were killed in the third round, the battle against the Xiongnu. I observed Zhao Zhen's teammates, and none of them were killed. So after thinking about it carefully, I really need you to hold the line." Huang Tao looked up and thought about it, and felt that Zhang Yong's suggestion to form a temporary team was indeed a good one.
“Okay, I’ll take care of Zhao Zhen for you then,” Zhang Yong said very seriously.
"No, not at all..." Huang Tao said with a smile, then received a hard blow to the back of his head. Zhang Yong, who was very experienced in hitting the back of the head, knocked him unconscious on the spot.
At that moment, Actaeon, Komnen, and Lichnius on the opposite side were utterly astonished. What kind of crazy move was this? Then they witnessed an even more outrageous move.
Zhang Yong placed his hand on Huang Tao's back, harmonizing their energy and spirits. He then used the Miracle Transformation technique to transform Huang Tao, quickly forming a pair of enormous wings on the back of his armor.
At this moment, with just a slight flap of his wings, Zhang Yong clearly realized what it meant to be as light as a swallow. Even he, a Xiliang Iron Cavalryman whose soul was bound by the earth, could easily ignore the constraints of his talent and run at supersonic speed with the help of these wings transformed from Huang Tao!
Zhang Ping was transformed into a mount again. As I said before, the purpose of the Twin-Winged Unicorn Nightmare Beast was simply to look cool. As for other skills such as throwing spears and the Sky-Piercing Spear, just as Zhang Ping estimated, Zhang Yong had already mastered 99% of them.
"Did he refine Huang Tao?" Komnin asked in disbelief. The other two were also stunned when they heard this, but because of this momentary delay, Zhang Yong directly closed in.
Realizing they were in trouble, Aktaion and the other two tried to retreat as far as possible after realizing it was Zhang Yong. However, Zhang Yong, who had already absorbed and fused with Huang Tao, was moving at top speed. Right in front of the three who were dodging, he threw a powerful spear at their feet.
Light, roar, and impact appeared in an instant, completely engulfing the four people. However, compared to the extremely disheveled Aktaeon and his two companions, Zhang Yong, who caused all of this, accelerated along with the light, and then, when the explosion was formed, accelerated a second time by stepping on the sound waves, easily running out of the blast radius, and having time to watch the three who were trying to escape.
"Archers are so fragile!" Zhang Yong watched as Actaeon, who had been chasing Huang Tao, was struck by the golden-white bombardment amidst curses and torn into several pieces. He then watched as Lichkinius, the illusionary warrior who had struggled to carve a bloody path for himself with his bow and arrow, was kicked back by Zhang Yong. He laughed heartily.
"Huh, did I forget someone..." Zhang Yong shook his head, laughing heartily. Then he activated Divine Enlightenment and prepared to continue searching for the other Romans along the best route. After all, he had finally acquired Divine Enlightenment and supermodel mobility. If he didn't make others feel despair, how could he live up to this incredible configuration?
However, the moment Zhang Yong activated the Divine Enlightenment with Miracle Transformation again, he suddenly sensed danger and forcibly dodged in mid-air. Unfortunately, even with Huang Tao's agility, he could not dodge the arrow that was as fast as a meteor.
The golden-white arrow pierced through the impact of the explosion and struck the somewhat careless Zhang Yong. In the instant of impact, a disheveled Komnin emerged from the crater. The starlight left behind where the golden-white arrow had passed also leaped out with Komnin, transforming into rings of gleaming metallic chains. One end of the chains was tightly bound to Zhang Yong, while the other end was being pulled by Komnin.
"Capture successful." Komnin looked at Zhang Yong, who was bound by chains, and breathed a sigh of relief. Several people had been sacrificed, but at least he was tied up. The talent that Komnin used was an upgraded version of the Heaven and Earth Essence Separation of the Fourth Xenogear. It was less of an attack and more of a seal based on self-awareness.
Time really flies, another year has passed, it feels like it's almost over.