Chapter 733: Two versus Two
Wu Tianxiang felt he was not inferior to Zang Tianguan, at most just a little behind, but being able to secure the treasure more reliably was the best outcome.
“Before it was divided among the three of us, now it’s between two people. My share goes from thirty percent to fifty percent!” Wu Tianxiang said.
Zang Tianguan’s eyes narrowed slightly as he fell into thought.
Wu Tianxiang grew very nervous, afraid that Zang Tianguan might have other ideas about him.
Leaving aside whether they could win the fight, the real danger was the unpredictable variables their plan would cause. If they were careless, it would be easy to draw Qixin back into the matter.
“If we cooperate, I want sixty percent!” Zang Tianguan said slowly.
Wu Tianxiang frowned; he felt this demand was excessive.
“No way. At most I’ll give you fifty-five percent!” Wu Tianxiang replied.
Zang Tianguan pondered for a moment, then said, “Fine, fifty-five percent.”
Wu Tianxiang relaxed.
What he did not know was that Zang Tianguan actually didn’t have any extra stock, because in Zang Tianguan’s view, the cultivators within his force were his stock. Who would have expected that when it came down to it, they were just a little short—unexpected to Zang Tianguan.
This result diverged completely from his own calculations; some unknown factor upended his deductions, and that was the variable.
Therefore, the quicker they could obtain the treasure, the more satisfied Zang Tianguan was.
Just as the two agreed, Su Yuan was displeased.
If they both entered the interior, wouldn’t his Chaos Great Dao Dao mark be wasted by the two of them?
So Su Yuan borrowed a bit of Qixin’s power across space, shifting his appearance to Qixin’s likeness.
In the next instant, Su Yuan appeared at the entrance, wearing a half-smile as he looked at the two of them.
“So you planned to leave me out and hog it all for yourselves!” Su Yuan sneered coldly.
Wu Tianxiang had just taken out a Life Pearl, and he froze on the spot.
He looked toward Qixin in surprise.
Even Zang Tianguan raised an eyebrow.
“You didn’t go capture the life form?” Wu Tianxiang asked with a frown.
Su Yuan pointed at the pearl in his hand. “You’ve already gathered enough. Why would I still go capture one?”
Wu Tianxiang forced a smile. “I only just discovered I had stock too. It wasn’t on purpose!”
After speaking, he looked at Zang Tianguan and transmitted his voice: “Let’s take out Qixin. Since we’re already cooperating, there’s no need to let Qixin meddle! The two of us together are more than a match—if we can’t kill him, at least we can drive him out of the ruins!”
Zang Tianguan replied calmly, “Agreed!”
Their exchange happened in an instant.
The next moment, the two struck at the same time, unleashing their peerless killing moves toward Su Yuan.
Su Yuan’s eyes went cold. He immediately borrowed Qixin’s strength, using the Power of Fame at the 98th rank as his core to resist the two attacks!
Before him, a chessboard with nineteen rows and columns formed. The attacks from Wu Tianxiang and Zang Tianguan fell onto the board and instantly transformed into pieces, some black, some blue.
The pieces appeared and began devouring the territory of the chessboard.
Su Yuan’s power likewise manifested as white pieces, blocking the two-man assault!
To Su Yuan’s own surprise, the intensity of his Power of Fame was ridiculously exaggerated. At only the 98th rank, it could withstand the Fundamental Great Daos of two hundred-rank experts.
Although it seemed a bit of a stretch, this was already enough to prove how formidable the Fame Great Dao was.
The gap between the 98th rank and the hundredth rank—how many millions of times was it?
A hundred-rank killing a 99th rank was as simple as crushing an ant!
Su Yuan held off the duo’s combined attack, steadily retreating, and the situation looked extremely disadvantageous.
At that moment, another Qixin walked in at the entrance of the building cluster.
The instant he entered, everyone except Su Yuan was stunned.
Qixin had just felt a portion of his power being siphoned away, which puzzled him. The source of that siphoned power was inside the ruins, which made him uneasy.
He hurried back and then saw his two friends attacking “him”!
In that instant Qixin understood: someone had imitated his appearance to enter the ruins.
But this imitation was so perfect that even he could not see through it. It was not enough to have provoked Wu Tianxiang and Zang Tianguan’s attack unless those two had already allied.
“Is this your avatar?” Wu Tianxiang asked in surprise.
At this time, Su Yuan spoke: “You and I should team up. They’ve allied; we should ally too and split the treasure evenly!”
Qixin didn’t waste words and agreed directly: “Fine!”
The two immediately stood together, driven by vested interest—nothing surprising.
Su Yuan’s appearance shifted again, from Qixin’s guise back to Su Yuan himself.
Qixin was surprised. “So you’re that mysterious Alliance Leader?”
Su Yuan said lightly, “We are both alliance leaders. We should support each other.”
Qixin’s mouth twitched. He was indeed the leader of the Chaos Immortal Alliance once, but that alliance was gone now.
Still, there was some connection between them, enough to serve as a bond for cooperation.
Qixin formally joined the battle. Once Qixin struck, the previous disadvantage instantly flipped into an advantage.
Because Su Yuan kept fighting in Qixin’s combat style, the two of them together coordinated perfectly.
Qixin’s attacks became green pieces, which quickly eroded the black and blue pieces, and then the chessboard expanded, enveloping Wu Tianxiang and Zang Tianguan within it.
Only then did Wu Tianxiang and Zang Tianguan realize that the Qixin they had faced earlier was an impostor!
The situation suddenly became two versus two!
Wu Tianxiang shouted, “Zang Tianguan, now we fight for real!”
“Then fight!” Zang Tianguan nodded.
At this point neither of them cared about draining the golden Dao mark; the most important thing was to jointly attack Su Yuan and Qixin.
However, Su Yuan kept a constant eye on that golden Dao mark, which was regenerating at an astonishing rate.
What had been a single thread of Dao mark was rapidly turning into two threads.
The recovery speed of that golden Dao mark was equivalent to the combined efforts of three hundred-rank experts. That showed how fast it was; rough calculations suggested it could fully recover in only a thousand years!
For hundred-rank experts, dragging a battle out a thousand years was trivial.
Thus, a great battle erupted within the ruins.
This ruin truly bore the legacy of the Void Emperor; the spatial suppression was incomparably strong and could easily withstand the combat of hundred-rank experts.
Su Yuan and Qixin initially could suppress Wu Tianxiang and Zang Tianguan, but as the latter two unleashed their genuine power, the battle quickly reached equilibrium!
From then on, it devolved into a protracted tug-of-war.
During this process Su Yuan continuously familiarized himself with the combat strength of hundred-rank experts, and his Power of Fame, aided by the three hundred-rank masters, gradually advanced to the 99th rank.