With half a game of chess, I vanquish all demons!

tick~

tick~

tick~

A light rain pattered, and the air was humid.

On the wilderness, rows of wooden houses stretched out, and torches flickered, illuminating this temporary village.

In the center of the village, on an open space, a group of shirtless, fiery-eyed, excited Black Iron Warriors, along with a few calm-looking martial artists, were all staring at the center of the arena.

bang bang bang~~

A young martial artist in the Remnant Martial Realm delivered a series of punches to the face, causing a stinging pain in the cheek of a strong man in the Black Iron Realm. The man stumbled and had to raise his hand to protect his face in defense.

Just as the Black Iron Warrior raised his hand, the young martial artist, who had anticipated this, ducked down and nimbly circled behind the Black Iron Warrior, delivering a powerful kick to the Warrior's groin, causing him to kneel on the ground.

Call ~

Before the kneeling Black Iron Warrior could react, the young martial artist moved swiftly, creating a whooshing sound, and threw a punch that landed squarely on the back of the Black Iron Warrior's head.

"Huffing and puffing~"

His chest heaved violently as he stood frozen behind the Iron Man in a punching stance.

The outcome is decided.

"The martial artist won again, how boring."

"Let's go, let's go. This is normal. Strongmen can't beat martial artists anyway."

"Eh..."

After the battle ended, the Black Iron Warriors and the Remnant Martial Realm warriors who had been watching all dispersed, leaving only the young warrior and the older Black Iron Warrior in the arena.

Raindrops fell on the young martial artist, soaking his clothes.

"Huffing and puffing~"

The young martial artist, panting heavily, slowly relaxed his tense body, forced a smile, and said to the black iron strongman in front of him:

"Brother Li, you lost."

But you're the first Iron Man to make me win this hard. You're really amazing.

The older, stronger man, enduring the discomfort in his knees, stood up and turned to look at the younger martial artist. Hearing his words, he felt a mixture of amusement and exasperation.

"Wu Jun, what you said... is really comforting."

Upon hearing this, Wu Jun's eyes lit up, and he excitedly exclaimed:

"Right?"

I told everyone that I have no problem speaking, but people insist that I don't know how to speak.

Brother Li has good judgment, just like my older brother.

The older Black Iron Warrior rolled his eyes at Wu Jun's words, cracked his knees, and asked curiously:

"You always say your brother is a Black Iron Warrior, but where is he?"

"Yes, my brother's name is Wu Wei, and he really is the Iron Man."

I didn't know where he went, so I came out of town to look for him.

Has Brother Li met my brother?

He was accompanied by two strongmen brothers.

After catching his breath, Wu Jun looked expectant and took the opportunity to ask the Black Iron Warrior in front of him about his brother's whereabouts.

The older Black Iron Warrior looked at Wu Jun's face, recalling the scene the five brothers had witnessed at the foot of the desolate rock mountain:

The body of a strongman, with a human head embedded in his heart.

That head belonged to Black Iron Warrior, and its face looked very much like Wu Jun's...

The older strongman guessed the truth.

He looked at Wu Jun, feeling a pang of pity, and changed the subject, saying:

I haven't seen him. Maybe he's already gone back to the city.

"Leaving that aside... I see everyone is incredibly persistent in finding Zhao Yao. People are searching the area every day, like they're possessed. I don't know why."

"Maybe it's because people can't go into the city, and since they're just idling around anyway, they're finding something to do to kill time?"

Wu Jun's thoughts were indeed diverted to the topic of Zhao Yao.

"Indeed, with the arrival of this distinguished guest, we have all become unstable factors. They won't even let us into the city, saying they're afraid of offending the distinguished guest."

"A distinguished person, a distinguished person? What kind of distinguished person could be offended by us little shrimps?"

The older strongman was half-jokingly indignant.

Just as Wu Jun was about to say a few words of advice, a commotion suddenly broke out at the entrance of the wooden village. The two exchanged a glance, then stepped forward together and headed towards the village gate.

After observing for a while, the two learned that a female Black Iron Warrior had fled to the wooden village, exhausted.

She wasn't a member of the charity, but she was wearing their clothes, which immediately alerted the people there.

While inquiring about the fate of the female Black Iron Warrior, the people in the charity immediately dispatched people to search for the five medicine people who had not yet returned.

With people who could track them down, the five drug-impregnated people were quickly found and dug out of the ground, but they remained asleep.

The people from the charity slapped the five medicine doctors all the way until they woke up at the gate of the wooden village. They then revealed a piece of news that shocked all the bounty hunters.

"My darling! My darling... Where is Zhao Yao's darling?"

Oh dear, it's all your fault!

Zhao Yao said that he would wake up tomorrow and find the divine weapon by then.

Why did you wake us up so early...?

"That's right~ That's right~"

"Sleepy~"

Hearing the five people's nonsensical remarks, the people at the charity office sighed in exasperation.

I knew it; I shouldn't have let those guys go out alone.

Not only was he tricked into being buried in the ground, but his disorderly bicycle, money, and clothes were also taken away!

Luckily, I didn't lose my life there.

After a while.

Thanks to the loud shouts of the medicine people, all the bounty hunters in the temporary stronghold knew that Zhao Yao himself was nearby.

They were looking for teammates, cleaning their weapons, and everyone was getting excited.

They want to find Zhao Yao, capture him, interrogate him, and take away his treasure!

……

Wow~

Wow~

Not far from the makeshift wooden stockade, Zhao Yao looked up, letting the heavy rain soak his body.

The starry sky was gradually obscured by dark clouds, and the drizzle grew heavier and heavier.

He judged in his mind that it must be late at night, and a new day had begun.

He turned his head and looked around, and found a shallow puddle about the size of a well opening. He walked over to it, squatted down in front of it.

"Glug glug~~"

He unscrewed the kettle, tilted it downwards, and poured the remaining half of the water into the slightly murky puddle.

In just a few breaths, the power of the laws within the ascending water spread out, and all the water transformed into ascending water! It appeared exceptionally clear and unfathomably deep.

Limited by the principle of dilution and the restriction that the power of the law will dissipate if the rootless ascending water is not used for a day, the ascending water in this shallow pit has a very short effective time.

Zhao Yao stood up, took out the two demon cores, Tailfire Tiger and Calamity, held the two beads in his hands, tiptoed, and lightly jumped forward.

puff~

He broke through the water's surface and fell straight into the Ascension Pool, continuing to plummet downwards.

Sizzle~

As soon as the two demon cores came into contact with the Ascension Water, they seemed to be corroded, with bubbles constantly rising from them. The laws they carried were being rapidly decomposed by the Ascension Water.

Zhao Yao had anticipated this, so he wasn't surprised. Even as his body plummeted, he had the leisure to refill his water bottle with deep ascension water before heading towards a bright spot below.

The lower realm of barren rocks.

It was late at night.

Boom!

High in the sky, a huge humanoid figure with a sun halo behind its head and wearing black jade armor was rapidly falling towards the Shanyang tribe with a thunderous roar.

In the Shanyang tribe, many people were awakened by a loud noise in the sky. They came out of their houses and looked up at the dark night sky, puzzled as to what had happened.

"Was it thundering?"

Someone muttered to themselves in confusion.

Call ~

As he fell, Zhao Yao slowly shrank his body, deliberately minimizing his movements.

Not long after.

In the Shanyang tribe, on a flat plaza, beside a severely weathered statue, his figure appeared.