Chapter 691 - 529: Dragon’s Roar in the Nine Heavens: Believe It or Not?

All the Strongest in the command center had left.

Only Qin Jianfei, Shen Changsheng, and the others remained, staring at each other blankly...

"Those people just now, could they be...?!" In an instant, Qin Jianfei seemed to understand.

"Yes. That was Gao Xiaomeng and the fourteen Strongest from the Northern District Battlefield!" Shen Ning’Er’s gaze fell on the figures gradually appearing on the screen before her.

Led by Gao Neng, fifteen masked figures, including Gao Xiaomeng, hovered in the sky above the Eastern District Fortress, calmly watching the approaching Beast Race Sword Saint and the Six-winged Great Angels.

Then, Qin Lei and his group appeared.

A fervent battle lust burned in everyone’s eyes.

The war began with the final, decisive battle!

"A defensive counter-attack... So that’s what he meant. Gao Neng... He actually pulled it off!" Qin Jianfei was also watching the screen.

It was just as Gao Neng had said.

Thirty thousand defending against three hundred thousand—no matter how you looked at it, holding the line was impossible.

That was why Gao Neng had acted so recklessly.

He started by hitting the Alien Race’s fifty-thousand-strong Vanguard Army with an atomic bomb, then raised his blade in provocation, shouting, "I, Gao Neng, am invincible!" and successfully infuriated the twelve Strongest of the Alien Races.

This plan...

It sounded incredibly simple.

Moreover, it was just a common goading tactic that anyone with a bit of military knowledge would use.

Under normal circumstances, who would fall for such a ploy?

But Gao Neng had succeeded!

He had successfully lured out all twelve of the Alien Race’s Strongest.

"The first battle is the final battle; one fight to decide life and death!" Wu Qingjing, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up, walking over to Qin Jianfei and the others with a look of realization.

"Hmm? Speaker Wu, what... what do you mean by that?" Qin Jianfei wasn’t asking about the literal meaning of the phrase, but rather why Wu Qingjing had suddenly said it.

"Before coming to the Eastern District Fortress, Gao Neng once said this to me. At the time, I thought it was just a slogan, but now it seems he had a plan in mind all along!"

"A plan all along? The first battle is the final battle... one fight to decide life and death?! I see... I see! He had already anticipated the situation on the Eastern District Battlefield and guessed the resolve of the Eastern District’s Alien Races. So he set up the board in advance, just waiting for the Alien Race’s Strongest to walk into his trap!" Qin Jianfei realized abruptly.

"That’s right. From the moment he stepped into the Eastern District Fortress... no, from the moment he went to retrieve Sword Elder’s body, his ’first battle is the final battle’ plan had already begun!" Wu Qingjing nodded.

"Exactly. Without the groundwork laid at the Beast Race Camp, it’s unlikely all twelve of the Alien Race’s Strongest would have been mobilized! He was fishing the entire time..."

"That guy... he’s a true monster!"

"..."

Wu Qingjing and Qin Jianfei marveled inwardly.

Meanwhile, Shen Ning’Er’s eyes remained fixed on the image on the screen.

The twelve Strongest from the Alien Races had arrived!

But Gao Neng’s face was as calm as still water.

That composure...

It sparked a sudden thought in Shen Ning’Er’s mind.

’The first battle is the final battle; one fight to decide life and death... Does that really just refer to this one battle before us?’ As this thought crossed her mind, Shen Ning’Er suddenly shook her head quickly. ’If this is truly to decide life and death, then they must deliver a fatal blow to the Eastern District’s Alien Races!’

...

「In the skies above the Eastern District Fortress.」

A flash of sword light seemed to tear the sky apart.

In movies, on TV, in comics, in anime... before a big fight, there’s always a round of trash talk.

For example, "You brat, you dare show your face?" "That’s right, I’m here. What about it?" "Do you think you can defeat me?" "We’ll see about that once we try!" "Damn you, die!"...

And so on, a whole series of opening lines.

But in reality, problems can often be solved with a single strike.

How deep was the Beast Race Sword Saint’s hatred for Gao Neng?

He couldn’t even be bothered to speak to him.

In truth, there was no need to speak...

It wasn’t like the two had never met.

Their feud was irreconcilable.

So what was the point of all the trash talk? They might as well get right to it and fight for real. Whoever won would get to do the talking.

SWISH!

On Gao Neng’s side, there were no opening lines either.

A figure standing behind him instantly made a move.

There were no fancy theatrics.

The figure met the attack with a single punch.

BOOM!

In mid-air, fist and sword collided, unleashing a massive shockwave of energy that rippled outward in waves.

"Blocking a sword with a fist? And he blocked Brother Jian’s sword, at that?" A soft cry of surprise finally came from among the Alien Race’s Strongest.

The Beast Race Sword Saint!

The number one sword in the Alien Race Alliance Army.

His strike connected his aura with the heavens and the earth.

But a strike like that had been stopped by an iron fist.

Although the figure had to retreat a full five steps to steady himself after blocking the sword, the strike ultimately never landed on Gao Neng’s head.

"Who is that?!" one of the Strongest demanded.

"Not a person..." Yuan Liu’s lips moved, and at the same time, a faint light flashed through his eyes.

"Not a person?"

"Correct. It’s a wolf... the Northwest Wolf!" Yuan Liu nodded.

"!!!" The eyes of the Alien Race’s Strongest went wide.

Then, the figure who had blocked the Beast Race Sword Saint’s longsword tilted his head back, and the mask on his face split right down the middle.

From within, a wolf’s head was revealed.

That’s right!

A wolf from the north, the Northwest Wolf!

The number one Strongest on the Northern District Battlefield in terms of physical power and constitution!

"Northwest Wolf, have you lost your mind?!" one of the Strongest exclaimed, his eyes filled with disbelief as he saw the face of the Northwest Wolf.