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Chapter 277 Xia Pingzhou's Battle: A Near-Catastrophe Level Clash (Bonus Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)

A few minutes earlier, in another corner of the Hokkaido supernatural prison.

Under the blazing summer sun, the Bloodline looked up and stared directly at Julius, who was dressed in a German military uniform. She asked the troop member beside her, "Should I go by myself? It would seem very uncivilized for us to gang up on an old man."

“You seem to have misunderstood something. We are robbers,” said the Ripper. “Besides, you’re a hundred-year-old woman yourself, so don’t go around having menopausal madness.”

After saying that, she drew her sword, the dark red demon blade gleaming with an eerie light.

The battle between the three Calamity-level beings is about to erupt.

Meanwhile, on the snow-white dragon's back, Xia Pingzhou turned to Ayase Origami and said, "Then I'll go do some odd jobs. You go with them and take down that Cataclysmic-level one first. It shouldn't take long."

As he spoke, he turned half of his face and glanced behind him out of the corner of his eye. He saw that the crows in Qiyuan had already brought down large numbers of fully armed soldiers, but at this moment, there was still a figure standing there.

The man was dressed in a military uniform, had a buzz cut, and possessed a strong, muscular physique. He strode past the unconscious soldiers, approaching Xia Pingzhou and Ayase Origami step by step.

Xia Pingzhou remembered this person. The information provided by the hacker mentioned that the other party was a near-disaster-level superhuman—"Flame Ghost." Among the prison's security forces, he was the second strongest after the warden.

His special ability, as his name suggests, is the control of fire.

“I’ll take care of this person,” Xia Pingzhou said.

“I’ll do it,” Origami Ayase said immediately.

"Don't do everything yourself... Go help Ripper and the old woman deal with that warden. It's common sense to deal with the most threatening enemy first. This is just a quasi-disaster-level grunt. I can handle it."

Xia Pingzhou spoke expressionlessly as he stepped down from the paper dragon.

Origami Ayase remained silent for a while, thinking to herself, "Aren't you also a near-disaster level?" But in the end, she nodded, controlling the enormous paper dragon to fly up and carry her into the most dangerous battlefield.

Xia Ping watched Ayase Origami leave, then turned around to face Yan Gui.

Yan Gui lowered his military cap and casually waved his right hand, sending out a tentative burst of flames.

The raging flames, roaring as if to consume everything, transformed into a deep red curtain of fire, crashing down upon Xia Pingzhou! The ground instantly scorched and cracked, the pungent smell of sulfur and the heat almost suffocating.

Xia Pingzhou's eyes were as cold as ice, but his mind was racing from the perspective of the chessboard. In a flash, two stone soldier statues knelt down in front of him, shields raised, like a huge wall.

"Boom—!" With a deafening roar, the surging flames were forcefully deflected by the giant shield, turning into a sky full of scorching fire that distorted the surrounding air.

With swift hands and quick eyes, he selected the king's statue from among the chess pieces and placed the king behind him.

The instant the curtain of fire dissipated, the Flame Demon, a hundred meters away, vanished from its spot, leaving only a molten crater! Its figure blurred into a streak of afterimages, tearing through the air like a cannonball, and it was already upon him!
But he abruptly stopped ten meters in front of Xia Pingzhou—two rolling lava fireballs materialized out of thin air on the ground just two steps away!

"Bang! Bang!" Two crisp, cracking sounds rang out.

A fierce glint flashed in Yan Gui's eyes. Like a peerless player taking a penalty shot, he shot forward with both legs. Two blazing fireballs drew scarlet trajectories, tearing through the sky and instantly ripping apart the airflow. With terrifying shrieks, they crashed into the two soldier statues!

Xia Pingzhou's face was ashen. With a slight twitch of his fingertips, space suddenly cracked open, revealing a majestic bishop statue standing behind him, while an armored warhorse neighed and a knight statue strode forward with heavy steps.

"charge."

As soon as he finished speaking, the knight statue suddenly activated its power, its entire body enveloped in a dark aura. He lowered his body, cracked his whip, and the silver-white steed charged forward!

"Boom! Boom!" The knight's charging hooves smashed the two fireballs, and the scattered flames splashed across the sky like blood.

The knight's lance, without hesitation, tore through the surging waves of flame, aiming straight for the Flame Demon's throat! However, in that split second, a sudden change occurred!

Yan Gui's lips curled up slightly.

The sky—was dyed the color of purgatory. A colossal volcano of lava, large enough to blot out the sun, descended like divine punishment.

It burned silently, its surface flowing with deadly dark red light. The destructive heat it emitted made the ground in the distance groan and soften, and the terrifying pressure was suffocating.

Yan Gui suddenly performed a backflip, leaping upwards with lightness and agility.

He spun around with a low roar, twisting his waist in mid-air to gain momentum, and his right leg whipped up a powerful gust of wind, striking the huge, fiery red sphere.

The atmosphere was deathly still for a moment, followed by a deafening roar that exploded within a radius of 100 meters.

"Bang——!!!"

The giant lava ball, like a raging beast, spun at high speed, tearing through the air and emitting a sharp, piercing roar! It crushed the earth, leaving terrifying ravines several feet deep, filled with flowing flames.

The knight statue shattered as soon as it touched the sphere during its forward charge, like fragile pottery, and was completely engulfed by the world-destroying fireball!

The sphere's speed increased instead of decreasing, hurtling straight toward the seemingly insignificant Xia Pingzhou with the force of a star swallowing it.

After landing, Yan Gui chuckled, thinking to himself that the previous few childhood friends were just a smokescreen to make Xia Pingzhou lower his guard, while this kick was his real killing move.

"Can you stop them?" he asked.

"Playing soccer?"

Xia Pingzhou spoke calmly, his gaze fixed on the enormous sphere.

What Yan Gui didn't expect was that the charging knight statue was also just a smokescreen by Xia Pingzhou.

Two seconds earlier, the two soldier statues at the back of the formation, as well as the unassuming bishop statue, were sacrificed at the same time.

A cold glint flashed in Xia Pingzhou's eyes. The two soldier statues and the silent bishop statue shattered simultaneously under his will, transforming into three extremely refined streams of black and white light, all of which poured into the king's scepter!
At the same time, two eerie, blood-red lights suddenly ignited deep within the dark eye sockets of the king's statue. It was as if they had made a pact with the devil, gaining power from purgatory in this instant.

[The conditions for the release of powers have been met by sacrificing the "colossal statue of the bishop" and two "colossal statues of soldiers."]

[WARNING: Ultimate power – “King's Flash” has finished loading!]

Black and white warning boxes popped up one after another in front of my eyes, and dangerous red text caught my eye.

"Black and White King Flash".

Xia Pingzhou spoke coldly, a fingertip-sized orb of light pulsating and compressing wildly at the tip of his scepter, distorting space as if containing a universe about to collapse and explode! The next second—

"laugh----!!!!!"

A terrifying black and white beam of light, several meters in diameter, roared out from the top of the scepter. There was no sound, only the deafening roar of energy tearing through the void!
Wherever the beam of light passed, time seemed to freeze, and space shattered inch by inch.

Devastating! The giant lava sphere silently crumbled after being in contact with the black and white beam of light for less than half a second.

There was no explosion, no embers. The fireball, powerful enough to incinerate a tall building, was like a phantom sucked into a black hole, instantly dissolved and swallowed by the pure black and white, without even a ripple of resistance.

However, the black and white beams of light continued to surge forward relentlessly, seemingly extending to the ends of the earth.

Yan Gui's face was filled with horror.

"what?"

According to the trajectory of the Black and White King's Flash, it shouldn't have touched the Flame Demon's body. But the next moment, another change occurred. A deep, cold light flashed in the eye sockets of the King's statue, and the scepter in his hand was suddenly swung horizontally.

Immediately afterwards, the beam of light, which had been rushing straight forward, inexplicably drew an arc that stretched across the sky and earth. It swept across. The world lost its color.

A deadly arc of light struck the Flame Demon in an instant. His pupils constricted, and his very soul seemed to tremble. Driven by instinct, he lunged to the right with all his might to dodge, as fast as lightning!
"laugh--!"

The black and white beam of light merely grazed the right side of his body before his right arm and half of his shoulder disappeared.

Blood spurted from his severed shoulder, leaving a blinding trail in the air before splashing onto the scorched earth, creating a cloud of blood mist that smelled of burnt blood.

The excruciating pain penetrated to the bone marrow, every nerve screaming! The Flame Demon was knocked to the ground by the force of the impact.

He looked down at his bare right shoulder, startled and horrified.

At that moment, an indescribable chill and fear swept over him. If he hadn't dodged quickly, he would have been dead.

“You have some strength…” Yan Gui’s military uniform was tattered and bloodied, with only one arm supporting his body, yet a smile still lingered on his face.

He hunched over and stomped his left foot on the ground.

The scorched earth beneath their feet cracked violently.

With a deep, muffled bang, the intensely compressed wave of heat erupted from beneath his feet, generating a rocket-like propulsive force.

His blood-soaked body transformed into a shooting star, roaring as it tore through the air, leaving a long trail of flames as it recklessly crashed into Xia Pingzhou!
"Boom!!!" A dull thud, like the beating of a drum, and a blazing white fist slammed into Xia Pingzhou's face.

However, at this moment, Xia Pingzhou's body was being protected by a black and white barrier.

The barrier rippled violently, sending out solid black waves! Violent streams of fire scattered and crashed, crackling the surrounding air, but the invisible wall remained unbreakable.

The scorching flames subsided. Xia Pingzhou remained motionless, his face still indifferent in the flickering firelight.

"What is this?" Yan Gui frowned.

However, he had no time to think!

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of an elegant and ghostly white figure. She held a long dagger and a short dagger, appearing silently during a gap in his attack!
In the blink of an eye, the gleaming dagger, moving up and down with a deadly trajectory, tore through space and aimed directly at the Flame Demon's throat and heart.

Flame Demon's pupils constricted sharply. In this life-or-death moment, he unleashed an astonishing fighting instinct, raising his arm and throwing a punch!
"Clang!" The ear-piercing clang ended.

His left fist, wreathed in white flames, slammed into the dagger aimed at his heart. At the same time, his remaining left leg shot up sharply, razor-sharp, and swept precisely across the barrier, using the momentum to forcefully twist his body in mid-air.

Despite losing his balance, he used the last bit of fire in his heel to kick upwards with great difficulty, attempting to deflect the cold glint aimed at his throat!
"Clang!" Another loud explosion rang out, sparks flying everywhere.

Flame Demon successfully blocked the Queen's attack, but the fierce impact sent him flying backward.

The queen's stone statue clung to her like a maggot, while the two daggers transformed into countless afterimages, relentlessly pursuing her like a storm! The slashes left by the daggers were as cold as ice.

With a roar, Yan Gui, relying on his years of experience in battle and pushing his body to its limits, managed to parry more than ten assassination attempts that came like a storm, using only one arm and one leg and being engulfed in flames!

Each clash of dagger and fist exploded into a blinding burst of light.

However, due to excessive blood loss and a rapid loss of strength, Yan Gui's eyelids began to feel heavy.

He was in dire straits. He knew that continuing this protracted fight would be hopeless, so he decided to fight to the death!
"Get out of here!" Yan Gui roared, burning with his last breath. The blood spurting from the severed wound on his right shoulder became fuel for the fire, and his left arm lashed out wildly!
hum!
A massive, deep, molten wall of fire, resembling a sea of ​​lava, erupted and expanded from his center! The Queen statue was forced back by this terrifying wave of fiery energy!

At the same time, a huge sphere reappeared above the Flame Demon's head.

Like the sun suspended in mid-air.

Every pore on Yan Gui's body was spewing out its last flames, which kept converging upwards, like rivers flowing into the sea.

A super-hot fireball, more condensed than before and emitting a pale white light, appeared under the sky like a missile about to detonate.

"Go to hell——"

With a final madness burning in his eyes, Yan Gui twisted his body in mid-air, gathering all the remaining strength in his body, and carrying all his resentment, like a moth drawn to a flame, he kicked the retreating Queen statue with all his might!
The pale, miniature "sun" crashed down with a deafening roar, crushing the space around it!

Xia Pingzhou's eyes finally showed a subtle change. He directly picked up the Flame Demon on the Möbius Track.

With a sharp, clear sound like shattering glass, a hideous demon composed of dark and blazing white flames bared its fangs in mid-air.

"The Bridge Between Humans and Demons," Xia Pingzhou ordered.

As soon as the words were spoken, a bridge that was both real and illusory appeared, connecting the Flame Demon and the Queen Statue. Their figures twisted and merged within the illusory image of the bridge.

The queen's statue disappeared. But where she stood, a new and even more terrifying presence appeared.

She is a longsword forged in flames. The blade ripples with flickering firelight, like the ebb and flow of waves. Behind her unfolds a pair of enormous wings formed from converging flames.

The Flame Queen possesses the powers of "Flame Transformation" and "Pillars of Flame."

"Transform into flames," Xia Pingzhou commanded, word by word.

The Empress disintegrated, transforming completely into a surging, roaring crimson torrent of fire, like a reawakened fire dragon, violently charging towards the pale "miniature sun."

But an unbelievable scene unfolded: the moment the flames touched the ball, it was as if a subject were paying homage to his king; the flames were silently swallowed up, and the two merged into one.

"She absorbed my flames?" Yan Gui was stunned.

In his shocked, contracting pupils, the Queen transformed into a pillar of fire, like the Spear of Longinus from mythology shooting straight at him. The Flame Demon was as if it had crashed into a fiery red train, and was crushed in the blink of an eye.

The flames engulfed him.

There were no screams, no resistance. All that remained was a huge, molten crater and a wisp of smoke that quickly dissipated in the extreme heat.

Xia Pingzhou watched this scene and muttered to himself, "It's easier than I imagined. I really don't have any problem fighting against opponents of the same level now." He still had the Shadow Demon left. If the Queen failed to block the Flame Demon's final attack, he would pull the King into the shadows.

The Flame Demon had no chance of winning; it couldn't even harm a hair on his head from beginning to end.

The next moment, a series of prompt boxes finally popped up in front of Xia Pingzhou's eyes.

[The superhuman race "Flame Demon"—annihilated, confirmed.]

[The second unit has been detected to have killed a "near-Cataclysmic" level character. The mission progress of the "Winter of the Wild Hunt" system has been updated.]

Killing characters of near-catastrophic level or higher will grant bonus progress.

[Progress of Training Mission 5: 48/70 Superhuman kills (Reward: 1 attribute point)]

Xia Pingzhou turned his head to look at another corner, where a fierce battle was taking place, almost tearing down half of the prison. Fortunately, the battle had already been decided.

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