"Cough cough... Don't young people these days know how to respect the elderly and care for the young?" Zhao Li wiped the black blood from the corner of his mouth, revealing skin covered in incantations beneath his tattered leather coat.

He suddenly revealed a sinister smile, and his left hand formed a strange hand seal: "Let me show you the true secret art of the underworld—the Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts!"

The surroundings suddenly turned scarlet.

Countless translucent ghosts surged from the ground, forming a tornado accompanied by a biting, eerie wind.

The surrounding glass shattered with a crash, and streetlights exploded one after another amidst eerie howls. Zhao Xuan's waveguide shield collided with the undead storm, producing a piercing sound like metal scraping against metal.

"Now!" Zhao Xuan suddenly leaped onto the back of the Röntgen cat.

Golden and blue energy ripples flowed between them, creating a vacuum at the heart of the undead storm. The boy clasped his hands together, and his aura transformed into countless arrows that pierced through the ghostly figures: "Aura Blast - Starfall!"

A pale blue orb exploded in the eye of the storm, and the shockwave tore the night sky into a ring of air currents.

Zhao Li's Blood-Weeping Blade suddenly flew out of his hand and transformed into a three-headed giant python in mid-air, pouncing towards Zhao Xuan.

Without Zhao Xuan's command,

"Roar!!" Roentgen the Cat roared, and the lightning he spewed from his mouth condensed into a solidified lightning spear.

"boom!"

The hurricane generated by the energy collision tore off the entire section of the guardrail. Zhao Li knelt on one knee, his eyes blazing with fury as he stared at the cracking blade: "My ancient artifact! Do you know how many years this blade has been with me?!"

His answer was the powerful buzzing of the Roentgenel. Zhao Xuan stood at the center of the force field where lightning intertwined, his hair moving without wind: "Tell me how you came to our world, or how you turned into charcoal."

"Keep dreaming!" Zhao Li suddenly ripped open his shirt, revealing a pulsating Netherworld talisman on his chest. He plunged his hands into his chest and pulled out a strange longbow made of white bones: "Guide to the Yellow Springs, one arrow to snatch the soul!"

The moment the bowstring trembled, time seemed to stand still on the entire street. Zhao Xuan's pupils contracted; he clearly saw countless struggling vengeful spirits wrapped around the bone arrow.

The waveguide shield began to disintegrate layer by layer the instant it made contact with the arrow tip.

"Now!" Zhao Xuan suddenly spoke.

The accumulated lightning was channeled back into his body through waveguide power, and the boy's eyes emitted a dazzling golden light like the sun. He stretched out his palm to meet the bone arrow, and ancient waveguide inscriptions appeared on his palm.

"boom--!"

A golden beam of light shot into the sky, blasting a hole a hundred meters in diameter into the clouds.

Moonlight streamed through the clouds, illuminating the street and casting a shadow of Zhao Li's disheveled figure, leaning on a broken bow. He stared at Zhao Xuan, who was suspended in mid-air, surrounded by golden runes, and suddenly wore a look of utter disbelief: "You're not human, you son of a bitch?!"

Chapter 219 Hades

The asphalt road under the moonlight twisted and cracked in the aftershocks of energy. Zhao Xuan hovered in the golden runes and looked down, the waveguide patterns flowing in his pupils like a galaxy pouring in.

The thunderclouds surrounding the X-Rayet Cat had not yet dissipated, and the arcs of electricity leaping from its claws plated the boy's silhouette with a cold silver edge.

Zhao Li's broken bow lay embedded in the ruins five meters away, continuously oozing a dark green liquid. He wiped the blood from his face, and the Netherworld runes beneath his tattered leather coat flickered: "Even the Soul-Hooking Bow bestowed by the King of the Underworld is broken... Kid, what exactly are you?"

But what responded to him was a suddenly contracting golden force field.

"Crack!"

Zhao Li's left shoulder caved in instantly, the sound of bones shattering clearly audible in the quiet street. He staggered and crashed into a lamppost, swallowing back the metallic taste rising in his throat.

When he looked up, he saw that the boy had already teleported to within three inches of him, a light blade formed from the power of waveguide pressed against his throat.

"You have seven seconds left." The eerie blue arcs of electricity at Zhao Xuan's fingertips crackled and pierced into the other's skin, instantly leaving charred marks on Zhao Li's neck. "Six."

"Damn! Are all the people in this world this crazy?" Zhao Li cursed inwardly. He hadn't expected this brat to completely ignore him, suddenly snapping off the pendant around his neck. The jade shards cut a deep, bone-revealing wound in his palm. "Blood Sacrifice to the Nine Netherworlds—"

"five."

Before the blood mist, carrying a foul wind, could even take shape, Zhao Xuan's left hand had already gripped the top of his head.

The power of the waveguide transformed into thousands of steel needles that pierced Zhao Li's mind. Zhao Li convulsed and let out a non-human scream, his seven orifices simultaneously emitting blue light. Car alarms parked on the street went off one after another, and all glass objects within a radius of 100 meters were reduced to dust.

"Four."

The Röntgen cat's lightning claws pressed against Zhao Li's back, golden lightning patterns spreading along his spine. Zhao Li could clearly feel his body disintegrating, experiencing the fear of his soul being scattered for the first time in thousands of years.

"Wait...wait!" he hissed, forcing the words out between his teeth. "It's a rift in the underworld! Last month, a spacetime turbulence appeared in the Yellow Springs! That's how I came to this world."

"three."

Zhao Xuan's pupils remained unmoved as the waveguide blade advanced another half inch. A sizzling sound of burning flesh emanated from Zhao Li's neck, and the specially crafted body of the Underworld Envoy began to carbonize and crumble away.

"116°23′E, 39°54′N!" Zhao Li suddenly roared like a dying beast, "The passage will open at three o'clock in the morning when Yin and Yang meet!"

The light blade suddenly stopped.

Zhao Xuan tilted his head slightly, and the chains formed by his wave power had already pinned his opponent to the void.

He ignited a ghostly blue flame at his fingertips and pressed it against Zhao Li's brow. This was the power of the Sheep Talisman, which could read other people's memories.

Soon, images from Zhao Li's memory flooded in like a tidal wave—the burning River of Oblivion, the shattered Three Lives Stone, and the blood-stained skirt of Hades Acha.

"boom!"

Suddenly, Röntgen unleashed a bolt of lightning towards the southeast. A crimson rift opened in the void, and hundreds of chained ghostly hands swarmed out. Without turning his head, Zhao Xuan casually clenched his fist, his aura forming a giant sword that cleaved the ghostly horde in two.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Zhao Li bit his tongue, spitting out a jet of blood that shattered the Netherworld talisman on his chest: "I respectfully request the decree of the King of the Underworld!"

The world suddenly darkened.

Nine blood-red vertical pupils opened from within the dark clouds, their terrifying pressure crushing all the streetlights within a ten-mile radius. Deep, bottomless ravines cracked open in the asphalt road, and countless pale arms clung to the edges of the fissures, trying to crawl out. Zhao Xuan's waveguide shield emitted a cracking sound under the strain, yet a cold smile curled at the corner of his lips.

"This is what we've been waiting for."

He clasped his hands together and struck the ground, causing the waveguide runes buried underground during the previous battle to light up simultaneously. A blue beam of light shot into the sky, weaving into a six-pointed star array that covered the entire block in the night sky.

"Roar!!" The Röntgen cat roared to the sky, and the thunderclouds that had been gathering for a long time transformed into a giant purple-gold dragon that crashed into the blood-red pupils.

"boom!"

The crackling sound of space shattering shattered all the building's glass. Black blood seeped from the crimson vertical pupils, and the phantom of Hades emitted a resentful cry amidst the turbulent energy currents.

Zhao Li stared at his hands, which were gradually turning transparent, and suddenly burst into maniacal laughter: "Acha won't let you get away with this! When the army of the underworld crosses over..."

The words stopped abruptly.

Zhao Xuan grabbed him by the neck and lifted him above his head, chains formed from his aura forcibly peeling away the Hades mark. Countless vengeful spirits wailed as they surged from the mark, only to vanish into nothingness upon touching the golden light surrounding the boy.

“Tell your master—” The starry sky in Zhao Xuan’s eyes suddenly froze, and an ancient and majestic aura enveloped the battlefield, “If you dare to extend your claws, I will tear down the Senluo Palace.”

"You...you are..." Zhao Li's incomplete pupils contracted sharply, and at the last moment he finally saw the twelve talisman array plate that pierced through heaven and earth deep in the boy's soul.

Thunder roared down.

When the lightning subsided, all that remained of the street were charred, circular craters. Zhao Xuan stood in the middle of the ruins, adjusting his cuffs, while his cat, Röntgen, purred against his trouser leg.

The moonlight stretched his shadow long, and it was vaguely visible that the shadow was actually a ferocious dragon.

Three kilometers away in the subway tunnel, Zhao Li's remnant soul fell through a ventilation duct. He stared bitterly at his nearly transparent hands, the Hades mark on his chest reduced to a faint red mark: "This time I've really bitten off more than I can chew..."

"Luckily, Hades left a backup plan, otherwise I would really be dead here. This world is too terrifying, even a child is so terrifying."

"Forget it, let's go back. I'll never come here again, no matter what."

Zhao Li's harsh words were just empty threats.

He knew his own situation; the underworld wouldn't send a large army, and even if they did, they probably wouldn't be a match for the humans here.

Even a random teenager is this terrifying. If it weren't for Hades's methods, his memories would probably have been completely read.

Suddenly, Zhao Li's expression changed: "Oh no, that brat is really persistent, we have to get out of here quickly."

Then, Zhao Li's figure disappeared.

After Zhao Li disappeared, Zhao Xuan arrived here with the Roentgen Cat. Sensing the lingering aura of Zhao Li, he shook his head helplessly, realizing that the guy had managed to escape.

In fact, Zhao Xuan was somewhat disappointed with Zhao Li's performance.

However, considering that the power system in "The Ferryman" isn't very strong either, I'm relieved.

That world was like a low-level fantasy world. Although it had an underworld, the ghost messengers and judges there were all incredibly weak.

In the entire underworld, only Hades Acha has some power.

Therefore, it's not that Zhao Xuan is too strong, but that Zhao Li is too weak.

Chapter 220 A Chance Encounter with Deng Xiaoqi

"Whoosh!!" Just then, a shadow swept over Zhao Xuan's head.

Immediately afterwards, a dashing and elegant woman with a single ponytail and a slender figure descended from the sky and landed straight on the ground.

"Little brother, what happened here again?"

Upon hearing the words "little brother," Zhao Xuan couldn't help but roll his eyes, secretly thinking to himself, "I'll show you later whether I'm a little brother or not."

Of course, although he was complaining in his heart, he wouldn't say it out loud, otherwise Xu Hongdou would find an excuse to beat him up, and he wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

After all, Xu Hongdou's strength is much greater than his. She has at least six Pokémon that are at least at the Elite Four level. The Dragonite, Ninetales, and Gengar that he saw last time were all at the late Elite Four level.

With Dragonite's Mega Evolution, it's no less powerful than a near-Elite Four member at their peak.

"Sister Hongdou," Zhao Xuan called out first, and then recounted what had just happened.

"A ferryman of the underworld?" After hearing Zhao Xuan's words, Xu Hongdou squinted at the subway tunnel as her military boots rubbed against the scorched ground. "In the last three months, there have been seventeen similar spatial rift events in North China."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Xuan frowned slightly, and light fragments formed from the power of waveguide fell softly from between his fingers.

The Röntgen cat suddenly pricked up its ears, and golden lightning crackled through its mane—three kilometers to the southeast, on the top floor of a shopping mall, three tempered glass panes shattered into ice crystals without warning.

"The eighteenth," they both said in unison.

Xu Hongdou tossed the Poké Ball, and Ninetales' tail, burning with blue flames, swept across the night sky. As she flipped and leaped onto the fox's back, the League emblem on the hem of her battle suit flashed by in the moonlight.

"You can go back now. I'll have someone handle the mess here."

As Xu Hongdou spoke, she prepared to let the Nine-Tailed Fox leave.

But as Nine-Tails moved its limbs, Xu Hongdou's voice rang out again: "By the way, judging from your situation, you should be able to take the dojo-level certification exam."

At the same time, she glanced at the Röntgen cat, which was even larger than her nine-tailed fox, and a look of shock flashed in her beautiful eyes.

With her discerning eye, how could she not see Xeno's strength? That aura of hers was far beyond what one would expect from someone who had just broken through to the Gym Leader level.

It's at least at the level of a dojo in its later stages.

"Okay, I understand. I'll take the exam tomorrow," Zhao Xuan nodded.

He had already planned for this, after all, becoming a Gym Leader would bring him many benefits.

Xu Hongdou nodded and went to deal with the spatial rift.

Zhao Xuan then climbed onto Röntgen Cat: "Röntgen Cat, let's go home."

"Roar~" The Röntgen cat growled and then moved its strong limbs, running swiftly across the road like lightning.

Because it was already late at night and there were few people around, the Roentgen cat moved with lightning speed, without needing to avoid pedestrians or vehicles.

They quickly disappeared at the end of the street.

After Zhao Xuanli and Xu Hongdou left, the people cleaning up the mess arrived.

.........

"Boom!! Boom!!"

Suddenly, thunder rumbled across the sky, deafening and making the whole world tremble. The faint moonlight was quickly obscured by thick, dark clouds, and darkness enveloped the earth.

Zhao Xuan was riding on the back of the Roentgen Cat when he suddenly raised his head and stared at the sky. Countless bolts of lightning, like thunder serpents, were wildly moving and crisscrossing in the dark clouds, a sight that sent chills down one's spine.

"Boom!"

Just as Zhao Xuan was gazing at the sky, another earth-shattering roar resounded through the heavens. This roar was like the end of the world, filling everyone with dread.

call!

A cool breeze swept by, swirling up the withered leaves on the ground. These leaves seemed to come alive, twirling in the air and drifting gently upwards, as if fleeing the approaching storm.

Rumble…

The thunder grew more frequent and closer, like the roar of a ferocious beast, foreshadowing an impending downpour.

"It's going to rain," Zhao Xuan muttered to himself, his voice barely audible amidst the deafening thunder. Before he finished speaking, the Röntgen cat seemed to sense the approaching rain; its speed suddenly increased, and it sped away like a bolt of lightning.

"Splash!!! Splash!!"

With a deafening roar, torrential rain poured down like a waterfall.

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