Douluo: The Dragon King - I Planted the Divine Tree in Douluo.

"asshole!!!"

Upon hearing the news of the complete annihilation of the Tang Clan's reinforcements, Ling Zichen's breath hitched.

Anger surged to her head, her bloodshot eyes flashed with ferocity, and she resembled a furious lioness driven to the brink of despair.

"I'll fight you to the death!!"

Ling Zichen roared and slammed his hand heavily on the mecha's control panel, causing the entire mecha system to emit a low hum.

[Firepower restrictions have been lifted]

The next second, the entire mech seemed to be freed from some kind of shackles, and its firepower suddenly surged!

The mech's massive cannon spewed out scorching flames, and the dense attack completely engulfed the highway, sending huge flames soaring into the sky.

Ling Zichen's terrifying and dense attacks forced the Dark Hummingbird, which had just approached, to retreat.

Amidst the explosions and flames, Ling Zichen's fiery red hair danced wildly in the air, reflecting off the flames like a raging inferno.

However, Ling Zichen's relentless barrage soon ran out of steam.

Because the red-level mech she is currently piloting is made entirely of soul-forged metal.

It belongs to the worst tier of red-level mechs, and it is completely unable to maintain sustained output after the restrictions are lifted.

In no time, countless red warnings popped up on the mech's control panel.

[WARNING! WARNING! The machine is overheating! Please cease attack immediately!]

[WARNING! The body's energy core is about to become unbalanced!]

"warn!……"

Hearing the piercing alarm from the mecha, Ling Zichen turned it off without even looking at it.

"Xu Li, Song Yi, you two should run away first!"

Ling Zichen turned to look at Song Yi and Xu Li standing behind him and spoke in a calm tone.

"No……"

Xu Li and Song Yi opened their mouths to refuse at the same time, but then they heard Ling Zichen command in an unquestionable tone, "I'm not discussing this with you, this is my order."

"In my capacity as the director of the Tang Clan Soul-Guided Artillery Research Center, I order both of you to leave this place."

"If you disobey my orders, you will be treated as traitors to the Tang Clan."

Xu Li and Song Yi were frightened by what Ling Zichen said, but even so, they still did not want to give up.

As fellow disciples of the Tang Clan, they were not afraid of death.

"Enough, I know your intentions, but now..."

Before Ling Zichen could finish speaking, a splatter of warm blood landed on her face, blurring her vision.

After Ling Zichen wiped the blood off her face, what appeared before her eyes were two lifeless headless corpses lying on the cold ground.

The deaths of Xu Li and Song Yi were like the last straw that broke Ling Zichen's mental defenses, plunging him into complete madness.

"Bastard, I'm going to kill you, kill you!!!"

Ling Zichen roared with bloodshot eyes, unleashing all his firepower in the direction the dark hummingbird was moving.

However, the turrets on the mech soon overheated and broke down due to prolonged overload output.

After firing the last shell, Ling Zichen did not hesitate at all and immediately piloted his mech toward the Dark Hummingbird.

A hint of disdain flashed in the Dark Hummingbird's eyes as it watched Ling Zichen charging straight toward it.

If it weren't for his ignorance that Ling Zichen's mount was a modified Red-level mecha, and his carelessness in not striking hard enough, Ling Zichen and his group would have been dead long ago.

The Dark Hummingbird brought its right index and middle fingers together and gently hooked them.

With a "whoosh," the bee stinger he had previously flung out drew a strange arc in the air before accelerating rapidly, piercing through Ling Zichen's red-level mech's thigh with unparalleled precision, like a venomous snake hunting its prey!

"Snap!"

With a piercing metallic crack, the small mechs, each as tall as two or three adults, suddenly lost their balance and crashed heavily to the ground.

Driven by inertia, the mech slid uncontrollably toward the Dark Hummingbird.

Facing the mech sliding towards it, Dark Hummingbird calmly stretched out an arm and easily blocked the mech's impact.

The Dark Hummingbird looked down at Ling Zichen, who was covered in blood, a cruel smile curling at the corner of its lips. Its voice was hoarse and icy as it said, "Tang Sect's chief scientist, do you have any last words?"

"Maybe I can pass this message on to your companions in the future."

Panting heavily, Ling Zichen didn't answer immediately, but stared at the dark hummingbird with hatred.

The way the dark hummingbird looked at it was just like a dying beast making a final desperate attempt to tear open the hunter's throat.

"Pooh!"

Ling Zichen coughed up a mouthful of blood. "Have you ever heard the roar of the sun?"

"The roar of the sun? What is that?"

The dark hummingbird paused, its brow furrowing slightly.

He was somewhat bewildered by Ling Zichen's sudden words.

But soon, his eyes returned to their cold and cruel expression, since Ling Zichen would soon be a corpse anyway.

Just as the Dark Hummingbird raised its stinger, ready to strike, it heard Ling Zichen's face reveal a triumphant smile.

"Then come with me and listen to the roar of the sun!"

As Ling Zichen uttered those words, an unprecedented sense of unease suddenly surged into the Dark Hummingbird's heart, and without a second thought, the Dark Hummingbird retreated rapidly.

"Boom!"

A blinding white light burst forth from Ling Zichen's body, just like a real sun.

A tremendous roar shattered the air, and the ground was instantly engulfed by a terrifying white light.

The intense heat, enough to scorch the heavens, along with shockwaves capable of destroying everything, spread violently in all directions, engulfing everything in its path and turning it into dust.

"What is that???"

Zhao Song and the other Tang Clan experts who were rushing to provide support felt a sudden chill in their hearts as they watched the pillar of light shooting into the sky, and they increased their speed once again.

When the light from the explosion faded, only a bottomless crater remained at the center of the explosion. Ling Zichen's body, along with the wreckage of the red-level mech, was completely destroyed in the blast.

"..."

Looking at the half of his sleeve that had been blown off, Dark Hummingbird had a gloomy face and was very unhappy.

As the head of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Holy Spirit Cult, he was actually outsmarted by an ordinary person.

If he hadn't retreated quickly enough, it wouldn't have been as simple as having half his sleeve blown off.

After confirming that Ling Zichen was dead without a trace, the Dark Hummingbird turned and left without lingering.

"waste!"

Leng Yulai, who had been watching the battle from a distance, looked at the departing figure of the Dark Hummingbird and spoke with disdain.

If the Dark Hummingbird hadn't lingered here with Ling Zichen for so long, she would have already taken Ling Zichen's body tissue back to find Su Mo.

"In that case, I should go back and report."

Sensing the approaching presence rapidly approaching from afar, Leng Yulai stretched and muttered to herself.

Although Ling Zichen's body was completely destroyed in the explosion, leaving not a single hair behind.

But as a quasi-god, she already knew Ling Zichen's intentions before the Dark Hummingbird could even react.

Almost the instant Ling Zichen self-destructed, she used spatial power to sever one of Ling Zichen's fingers.