Chapter 373 - 59: You Know, Pretending to Be Weak Is Really Tiring

WHOOSH!!

The sound of tearing wind filled the air as the hovercar rapidly approached the valley.

Thick beams from its searchlights swept across the ground, revealing Superpower Members, all bound and restrained.

Sun Jiayuan lay prone, his head covered in blood. His face was pressed into the dirt, a black military boot grinding down on his head in a display of brazen, outrageous arrogance.

"Damn it..."

Seeing this, Gao Hu and the others inside the hovercar clenched their weapons, their faces contorted with fury and alarm.

The atmosphere froze. Everything under the night sky fell into a dead silence.

’They’re finally here...’

Di Xiong paused, a disdainful smirk playing on his lips.

It was as if he had been waiting for this moment. His first reaction wasn’t to flee; instead, he waved his hand sharply.

CLICK! CLACK! CLICK!

The warlord soldiers pivoted, aiming their guns at the heads of the captive Superpower Members in a silent threat.

At the same time, tarps were thrown aside, revealing massive, blinding white spotlights that locked onto the hovercar.

Warlord soldiers shouldering rocket launchers wore ecstatic expressions. Heavy-caliber machine guns mounted on pickup trucks were already loaded and aimed at the hovercar as well.

"Fire!"

RATATATATA!!

The battle erupted in an instant. Countless bullets, fired without restraint, streaked toward the hovercar.

It was as if he had noticed the people in the hovercar preparing to fight back, glimpsing the weapon turrets deploying from its sides.

"You sons of bitches from the Superpower Bureau, do you dare to shoot?!"

Di Xiong’s tone was vicious as he sneered the threat.

His raised foot had come back down on Sun Jiayuan’s head at some point.

The intimidating scene forced the hovercar’s turrets to halt before they could even finish rotating. The vehicle could only pull up sharply, gaining altitude to try and escape the hailstorm of bullets from below.

BOOM!!

As if expecting this, a soldier with a rocket launcher pulled the trigger.

A grenade, trailing a fiery tail, rocketed through the air straight for the hovercar.

Every warlord soldier wore an ecstatic expression, as if they were about to witness the hovercar explode and fall from the sky.

The next instant.

KA-BOOM!!

Just as they’d expected, a fiery explosion erupted mid-air, blindingly bright and consuming all the surrounding air.

Watching this, the faces of the Superpower Members filled with shock and rage.

Hearing the blast, Sun Jiayuan’s heart jolted. His head, still buried in the sand, trembled slightly as an inexplicable sorrow welled up inside him.

"Hahahaha!"

The warlord soldiers laughed arrogantly, thinking it was all over.

Di Xiong, too, sneered, about to make a sarcastic remark.

"Hm?"

WHOOSH!!

The fireball from the explosion was blasted away by a shockwave, revealing the hovercar, completely unscathed, its hatch open as it swooped over the valley.

Faintly, a dark figure could be seen dropping toward the ground.

The warlord soldiers’ faces stiffened. Di Xiong’s brow furrowed slightly.

The next instant, his gaze sharpened and he looked toward the valley entrance, where the dark figure had landed.

A stocky, short-haired figure had appeared at some point, standing at the edge of the dirt and gravel.

His entire form seemed to melt into the darkness, with only his silver metal gauntlets and one half of his masculine face catching the moonlight, revealing their sharp angles.

"Bas..."

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Streaks of brown light shot through the air like a volley of bullets, piercing the night in an instant.

The roar Di Xiong was about to let out was cut short as seven or eight warlord soldiers fell one after another, like wheat cut by a scythe.

THWAP! THWAP! THWAP! THWAP!

Splattering blood filled the air. Bloody holes appeared in the center of each corpse’s forehead, the blood slowly soaking into the dirt and staining the ground red.

In a single moment, every warlord soldier guarding the Superpower Members had been killed.

"Damn it!"

His face turned cold, tinged with a savage fury.

Di Xiong blasted out with his palm, batting away an incoming dark orb of Qi Flame. At the same time, he unleashed his power, intending to stomp down and kill Sun Jiayuan.

But.

WHIZ!

THUD!!

A dull impact exploded in front of him.

Streaks of brown Qi Flame swirled around Lu Chao, covering his body.

Having used the stone-like dark orbs to buy time, he had finally arrived, forcing Di Xiong back with a single, hard punch.

CRASH!!

A blast of wind washed over them. The exceptionally obese Di Xiong plowed two furrows in the ground with his feet as he slid backward.

Two gashes several meters long were left in his wake.

His arm visibly trembled, and a cold glint appeared in his eyes, which were squeezed into slits by his fleshy face.

"Not bad, kid..."

He stared intently at the man opposite him.

The Fist Seal from the punch hung in the air like a pillar of rock.

The manganese steel alloy gauntlets were exceptionally sturdy.

The brown Qi Flame swirling around Lu Chao’s body was incredibly deep in color and seemed to possess some sort of heavy, oppressive property that caused the surrounding air to twist and distort.

’He actually forced me back in a single move.’

’Is his power a level higher than the intel suggested?’

As their eyes met, Di Xiong’s killing intent intensified the longer he stared at Lu Chao’s youthful face.

BOOM!!

He stomped his foot, and the earth exploded beneath it.

He unleashed the Genetic Spring within him, appearing before Lu Chao in an instant, ready for the kill.

BANG!!

A shockwave erupted, and a ring of white vapor bloomed outward from the two of them.

Having activated his Frenzy State, Lu Chao’s aura flared. He stood his ground without moving an inch, his feet sinking half an inch into the dirt, creating two deep impressions.

"Go."

he said in a low voice, his eyes locked on the murderous Di Xiong before him.

Understanding his meaning, Sun Jiayuan gritted his teeth against his injuries, immediately getting up and rushing toward the bound Superpower Members.

RAT-A-TAT-TAT-TAT!

Bullets flew—the seven or eight warlord soldiers hiding by the pickup trucks were opening fire.

Sun Jiayuan managed to roll several times, using the terrain as cover to get closer to the other members.

Meanwhile, a series of PINGs rang out from Lu Chao’s body—sparks flying where bullets ricocheted off his skin.

"Your men don’t seem very capable."

Lu Chao said coldly, looking at Di Xiong.

BOOM!

His left fist, coiled at his waist, shot out violently as he activated his Thunder Extreme Secret Skill.