Qin Dynasty: They've all turned into zombies, what's there to fear about a rebellion?

"My turn?"

Xiang Yu, enraged, laughed—a laugh like rolling thunder squeezed from his chest, causing rubble to fall from the city wall. He stood there unarmed, yet gave the impression of a volcano about to erupt.

"Su Ming, you are too arrogant."

Xiang Yu slowly raised his head, and the crimson in his double pupils began to turn pitch black. Not a deathly black, but a black hole that seemed to devour light, filled with a destructive will.

"You think you can trap me, the Hegemon-King of Western Chu, with these demons and monsters?"

"boom--!!!"

Before he finished speaking, a suffocating black wave of energy suddenly exploded outwards from Xiang Yu without warning!

The force of this shockwave was so great that it even caused space itself to distort for a moment.

Honglian and Shaosiming, who were just about to make their move, felt as if they had been hit head-on by a rampaging, savage beast. The Crimson Fire Serpent in Honglian's hand was instantly extinguished, and she let out a muffled groan, staggering back several steps; Shaosiming's face turned pale, and the leaves fluttering in the air were all reduced to dust the moment they came into contact with the black shockwave.

Conqueror's Haki!

This is not an adjective, but a real physical attack!

"Holy crap?"

Su Ming had to raise his arm to block the strong wind rushing towards him, and the data jumping wildly on his goggles made him gasp.

[Alert! High-energy reaction! Target biofield strength has exceeded all limits!]

[Energy density: Nuclear fusion level! High-dimensional energy called 'Luck' has been detected burning!]

"Is this some kind of cheat?"

Su Ming stared at Xiang Yu, who was enveloped in black flames and looked like a demon god descending to earth, his eyes practically overflowing with fanaticism. "The energy utilization rate is outrageously low, but the total amount... it's practically a human nuclear reactor!"

"Don't just stand there! Do it!"

Su Ming roared, "He's going all out! He can't hold on like this for long, don't let him escape!"

"Run? I never intended to run today!"

The moment Xiang Yu stepped off the solid city wall, the ground cracked instantly. He transformed into a black lightning bolt, ignoring the two beauties flanking him, and charged straight at Su Ming.

The large hand spread its five fingers like hooks, carrying a destructive force that seemed intent on crushing Su Ming's head like a watermelon.

"when!"

A dull, loud bang.

Xiang Yu's hand stopped three inches in front of Su Ming, because a huge ghost claw covered with bluish-black scales blocked his way.

The sky darkened.

Wang Jian's massive body fell like a meteorite, his huge bone wings folding up to firmly protect Su Ming behind him.

"Young man of the Xiang family, your opponent is this old man!"

Wang Jian grinned maliciously, and with his other claw, accompanied by a sharp whistling sound, he viciously dug towards Xiang Yu's heart.

"Get out of my way, you old scoundrel!"

Xiang Yu roared, neither dodging nor avoiding the claw, and instead took the blow headfirst into Wang Jian's face with his chest.

"Bang!"

Sparks flew everywhere.

Wang Jian's iron-hard scales were cracked in several places, and his massive body staggered backward. But Xiang Yu was not far behind; five deep, bone-revealing blood grooves were torn into his chest, and his black aura dimmed slightly.

"What a hard bone!"

Wang Jian shook his head, his eyes flashing even more fiercely. "Men! Forget about martial ethics! Charge at me shoulder to shoulder!"

As soon as the words were spoken, Honglian and Shaosiming, who had been waiting for their turn, attacked simultaneously.

"Crimson Flame Poison - Burning the Heavens!"

"Ten Thousand Leaves Flying Flowers, Thousand Blades Kill!"

Two torrents, one red and one green, coiled around Xiang Yu's limbs like two venomous snakes. At the same time, a beam of dark blue mental energy pierced through the air from the distant Youdu Tower.

That's Li Si's [Mental Piercing and Brainwave Interference]!

"Well--!"

Xiang Yu froze abruptly, feeling as if a red-hot steel needle had been plunged into his brain. The excruciating pain caused him to let out a beast-like roar.

It's now!

"Chance!"

Su Ming's eyes lit up. Instead of backing down, he acted like a housewife who had spotted a discounted item, sneaking out from behind Wang Jian with an extra-large syringe in his hand.

Taking advantage of the moment when Xiang Yu was stunned by the mental attack, he slid in and rushed to Xiang Yu's side.

"You tyrant, lend me some blood! It's a waste to let it flow!"

"Pfft!"

The thick needle pierced precisely into the bulging veins on Xiang Yu's arm.

"roll!!!"

Xiang Yu's eyes widened in fury, and his muscles trembled violently, sending Su Ming flying.

But Su Ming, still in mid-air, wore a satisfied smile. He held up the vial of blood, now fully drawn and gleaming with a dark gold hue, and waved it at Xiang Yu:

"Thanks, Overlord! This is S-rank material!"

"I'm going to kill you—!"

Xiang Yu went completely mad.

He felt utterly humiliated. This wasn't a fight; it was a pack of robbers hunting a lone lion! They weren't in a hurry to kill him, but were slowly draining his blood, exhausting him, treating him like a mobile buffet!

However, anger could not save him.

Under the combined onslaught of Wang Jian's direct confrontation, Honglian's poisonous fire, Shao Siming's magical control, and Li Si's long-range underhanded tactics, Xiang Yu's godlike and demonic aura finally began to decline.

His Conqueror's Haki was fading, and he was getting more and more wounds.

Those wounds weren't fatal, but they were constantly draining his life force and strength.

"Huff huff..."

Xiang Yu's breathing became heavy and labored, each breath sounding like a broken bellows. His movements slowed, and the force of his punches was no longer as invincible as before.

"That's about it."

Su Ming carefully put away the blood sample and glanced at the data panel: "Energy response decreased by 60%, muscle fiber rupture by 30%. If this can still turn the tide, I'll eat the syringe."

In the center of the battlefield.

Xiang Yu knelt on the ground, his body covered in blood.

He wanted to stand up, wanted to fight again, but his legs felt as heavy as lead. He instinctively reached for the Heavenly Dragon City-Breaking Halberd that had fallen to the side, trying to use it to get up.

"Click."

Just as he gripped the halberd shaft and tried to exert force...

The divine weapon that had accompanied him on the battlefield and drunk countless lives actually broke in the middle because it couldn't withstand the intense burst of power and was corroded by the corpse energy.

It broke in two.

Xiang Yu was stunned.

Looking at the remaining half of the halberd shaft in his hand, the light in his once arrogant double pupils finally went out completely, leaving only a deathly despair.

The weapon broke.

My brother is gone.

The woman... betrayed us (although it was a misunderstanding).

Even his prized martial prowess became a laughingstock in the face of this group of unreasonable monsters.

Wang Jian, Hong Lian, Shao Siming, and Su Ming, who held a syringe and grinned wickedly, were all closing in on him. Their eyes held no respect for a hero, only greed for prey.

"Is this...fate?"

Xiang Yu slowly raised his head and looked at the pitch-black night sky, devoid of any starlight.

Two lines of bloody tears slid down his dusty face.

He wanted to roar, to shout out the heroic words "My strength can uproot mountains and my spirit can cover the world" as he used to, but the metallic taste rising in his throat prevented him from making a sound.

Finally, this Hegemon-King of Western Chu, with the last ounce of strength in his body, let out a mournful cry that was utterly desolate:

"Heaven has forsaken me! It is not my fault in battle!!!"