Chapter 308 Lan Jingyi Confronts The Zheng (Part-2)
Lan Ju turned serious and sharply stared at the incoming ice spear. All of a sudden, an additional eye appeared on his forehead before conjuring a powerful beam of concentrated energy from his three eyes in the form of a prism.
The beam of concentrated energy and the ice spear collided to create a giant explosion, flattening everything within the 8-kilometer radius. Because it occurred at midnight, the soldiers at the Imperial City were naturally alerted.
After destroying the opponent's attack, the zheng raised his head to look at the woman from far away. "This unreasonable woman appeared to be quite protective of Lu Zhen. At the same time, it appears that he doesn't have any idea of her strength. He was certainly surprised when I revealed that Lan Jingyi is in the Demigod realm. Whatever… I don't need to care about their personal problems anyway. It was theirs to solve, not mine.
On the other hand, I need to resolve this current situation. What will be better? Making her realize that she isn't a match for me or Teaching her a lesson so that she won't dare to do such foolish acts? But, she isn't just the daughter of my master. She is also Lu Zhen's mother. What if he decides to go back on his promise for hurting his mother? Ugh… these humans and their complex emotions…"
Lan Ju, the zheng was weighing his options on defending himself and going on the offensive.
Meanwhile, Lan Jingyi, the Queen Consort who stabilized herself, also stared down at the scarlet leopard. She was frustrated by facing failure once again.
"I guess I really have no other choice…"
A determined Lan Jingyi raised her hand, summoning an exquisite recurve bow. It is made of Adamantium with slightly luminescent blue-green markings and thin strips of dark blue metal (mithril) lacing through its limbs.
It appeared that Lan Ju also recognized it at first glance. Staring at the majestic bow, he mumbled, "She finally took it out, the Apocalypse. But, did she master it?"
"I'll give you one last chance, Lan Ju. Return to your undying lands and never return." Lan Jingyi warned him as she pulled the string. A scarlet ether energy arrow was conjured between her fingertips.
"Such level of arrogance from an inherited power? How impudent you are, Lan Jingyi?" The zheng roared in response to her provocation.
In the very next second, his body expanded to a hundred times bigger, becoming a 230-foot monster with five giant tails. Glaring at the tiny woman floating in the sky, the zheng further said, "You really need some beating to get you back to your senses."
As the zheng imbued ether energy into its tails, they displayed the characteristics of their attributes. One was burning in flames, one turned into flexible water, one was nothing in thick lightning sparks, one has a tornado swirling around it, and the last one turned into flexible but turned into rocky form.
"Since you wanted to go all out, let's finish this battle in one move."
Looking at the giant leopard, Lan Jingyi dismissed the ether energy arrow and conjured another arrow.
However, it was neither ether energy nor attribute energy. It was something else. This special arrow was made entirely of energy and colored the same shade of blue-green as its markings.
The zheng sensed the power of an advanced stage immortal in the arrow, far stronger than the merged ice spear she fired earlier.
"Arrow of the Jade Emperor, One of the three ultimate skills Lan Jingyi inherited from her father along with the cultivation." The zheng mumbled in seriousness as he poured ether energy into the tails once again.
But, this time, the transformed tails started releasing attribute energy at the same time, creating some sort of giant sphere filled with the power of all five attributes. The power appeared to be in the same realm as the blue-green arrow of the Queen Consort.
Because of the enormous magic power inside each of their skill attacks, people from even a hundred and fifty kilometers away, i.e. the patrolling soldiers of the Imperial City and the people living in the outer sect, were able to feel it. Of course, as the Imperial City is too far away, it didn't disturb anyone's sleep.
It's just that the earlier explosion alerted the soldiers and they didn't feel like the matter is simple as they hoped it to be. The higher-ups, all the way to the Empress got reported on the matter.
With the Emperor and the Supreme Commander away from the Imperial City, for the past few days, the Grand Secretariat took care of the affairs of the Empire. As the interim Emperor, he decided to deploy the soldiers, specifically the mages at midnight along with the Northern General, Ye Yin.
The mages were ordered to spread all over the city to create a giant barrier all over the inner sector.
Unfortunately, the poor commoners living in the outer sector weren't given such protection. It might be biased but that is how it is with the Imperial palace.
As for Mark, his consciousness was in his factory's testing grounds. He was unaware of the developments in the outside world.
Back to the location where the battle is taking place, the zheng was ready to fire its five-elemental sphere and Lan Jingyi was pulling the string as much as she can while aiming the 'Arrow of the Jade Emperor' at her opponent.
Upon sensing the power behind the five-elemental sphere, Lan Jingyi figured out that her attack won't be able to beat it. However, she had two more ultimate skills as backup and she planned on unleashing them as soon as she released the arrow.
"Die" *Roar*
Both of them unleashed their skill attacks. Following the plan, Lan Jingyi proceeded to conjure another arrow, which is made of translucent energy.
"Sorry but it's my… Huh!"
*Boom*
In one second, both of the attacks collided, releasing more than a trillion joules or 1 terajoule of energy. It exceeded Lan Jingyi's expectations by a lot and her eyes widened as she was about to hit by a wave of energy, "F**k."
Lan Jingyi realized that she messed up big time. In her life, she never had fought against a demigod-level opponent and neither had she thought that the collision would release so much amount of energy.
Her guess was in the two or three hundred billion range based on the last collision of their skill attacks that released fifty billion joules of energy. Realizing that she was so wrong in her calculations, Lan Jingyi hurriedly dismissed the arrow and proceeded on using all of her ether energy to create a defensive barrier.
But, before she created the barrier and the wave of energy almost reached her, her vision was suddenly blocked by the giant scarlet leopard.
She was grabbed tightly by the zheng while the latter's back was hit by a wave of energy. Meanwhile, fifty kilometers of the surroundings were razed to the ground, destroying everything and killing everyone in the radius.
Unfortunately, more than ten villages and their combined four thousand innocent villagers were wiped out of existence.