“Warning, warning! This is private property. Please stop advancing immediately and withdraw from the restricted area!”

Huge electronic voices rang out, the automatic alarms from the floating security platforms surrounding the Wanshi Building.

*Ka.*

A long boot, golden and ferocious, formed from countless stacked blades, gently trod on the pristine plaza in front of the building.

Li Cheng颐, clad in the sword-orchid ultimate form of the Flowscale Armor, walked across the plaza under the focus of countless searchlights, his body radiating golden light from the many sword blades jutting outwards.

He was like the sun walking on the earth, radiant, magnificent, dazzling.

*Ka.*

Finally, he reached the center of the leisure plaza directly in front of the Wanshi Building. This was the commercial district where employees passed on their way home, and also the only way to the entrance of the Wanshi Conglomerate.

A hundred meters further was the main entrance of the building.

By now, dense ranks of black, heavily armed cyborg police officers had set up a temporary battle fortress here.

Countless drones armed with autocannons hovered in the air, taking aim.

Multiple dampening fields activated around him, trying to increase his burden and interfere with his mechanical energy operation.

Unfortunately, he was not a technological energy system in the traditional sense.

“Tianming.” Hundreds of meters away in mid-air, directly in front of him.

Behind layers of force fields, Zhao Lingzhi looked at him with icy eyes.

“Do you know what you’re doing?”

Li Cheng颐 stopped where he was, a ring of golden flames appearing around him.

“Then what about you?”

He said calmly.

“Do you know what you are doing right now?”

“You simply don’t understand what the true, powerful foundation of my Zhao family is!” Zhao Lingzhi continued, “There is a line in front of you. A red line, that is our final bottom line.”

“At this point, my family head no longer cares about applying for permission. As long as you step over the red line, Black Phoenix will definitely descend.”

“Ninth-ranked, Black Phoenix Zhao Chengxi, I have long admired him.” Li Cheng颐 laughed, “I have come today to experience the reputation of Black Phoenix.”

“You don’t think that being ninth-ranked is only one level stronger than the rest of us, do you?” Zhao Lingzhi said coldly. “Tianming, you are too arrogant. Do you know that blocking you are the official elite reaction forces of the National Security Agency! They represent the nation! If you dare to attack them, you are a traitor!”

Li Cheng颐 didn’t say anything more, but instead carefully looked at the people in front of him.

Although they were fully armed, their eyes showed tension and fear.

“Traitor?”

He laughed, walking step by step closer to them.

“In this world, someone always has to occupy the high position, so… why can’t that person be me?”

“Don’t let him get close! Kill him!!” Zhao Lingzhi had been paying close attention to the approaching circle of fire. Seeing Li Cheng颐 getting closer, he immediately roared sharply.

*Shua!*

But it was too late.

Li Cheng颐’s figure rapidly expanded and grew larger, his body under the armor quickly dragonizing, golden dragon eyes lighting up with dazzling fluorescence.

Shadow Flash.

His figure instantly crossed twenty meters forward, encompassing most of the reaction force blocking his path.

“What does your Zhao family amount to! Daring to represent the Yi Nation!?”

Purple light lit up on the back of his hand.

*Boom!*

Dozens of people simultaneously sank to their knees at that moment, their legs buried in the ground, unable to move.

*Da da da da!!*

Dense lasers, bullets, rockets, and shells instantly drowned out the sky in this area.

In an instant, the plaza became dim and lightless, completely obscured by the shells and rockets.

Hundreds of shells bombarded the position where Li Cheng颐 had originally been standing.

But unfortunately, he was no longer there.

Consecutive Shadow Flashes.

The one-second cooldown, coupled with full-speed movement, allowed him to cross the red line in an instant, rising into the air like a golden stream of light, and rushing toward Zhao Lingzhi directly in front of him.

Countless invisible Wisdom Swords rained down from beneath him, blasting apart the Fei Yi Masters hiding in armored vehicles below.

The Wisdom Swords, enhanced by the two Holy Infants, were now far more powerful than before.

The armor thickness of these hastily mobilized armored vehicles was far from the level of a space battleship. With a burst of Gentle Qi, a single thrust was enough to penetrate them.

“Resonance Harmony! Flying Rainbow Swallow Flock!!”

Just as he was dodging the artillery fire and rising into the air.

Among the two hundred floating Fei Yi, thirty of them simultaneously unleashed Harmony.

All thirty Fei Yi, each with a different shape, lit up with colored light.

They converged into one, flying out like a flock of flying swallows.

This was a strategic Harmony used only in war, a tactic used against White Star enhanced humans, but unexpectedly it was being used against one of their own in the city.

The thirty Fei Yi transformed into a flock of colored swallows, raining down on Li Cheng颐.

They attacked at three times the speed of sound from close range.

Before he could dodge, Li Cheng颐 was impacted head-on.

But it was meaningless. He was only impacted for a second, and his Flowscale Armor wasn’t even breached. The next second, with a flash of black light, he teleported away.

Using a flying Fei Yi in mid-air as a foothold, he leaped up.

*Chi!*

A red death ray descended from the sky, accurately hitting him. But before it could unleash its power, Li Cheng颐 disappeared again with a flicker, finally appearing outside the force field in front of Zhao Lingzhi.

The two faced each other, their eyes filled with killing intent even through the force field.

Zhao Lingzhi roared wildly, mentally commanding the Fei Yi to attack.

“Double Harmony: Jade Reflection Snow!!”

Countless blue-green light spots suddenly appeared around him.

The light spots were like snowflakes, flying and blowing towards Li Cheng颐 with extreme speed and quantity.

In just an instant, tens of thousands of blue-green light spots passed through the force field and reached Li Cheng颐.

Before they even got close, they emitted an extremely hot and dangerous aura, ready to explode at any moment.

‘Tianming.’

Li Cheng颐 finally drew the two golden swords from his waist.

The golden flame circle had already enveloped the two in the center.

Time seemed to slow down drastically at this moment.

The death rays falling from the sky again, the flock of Fei Yi swallows flying from behind, the supersonic missiles and armor-piercing sniper cannons bombarding from both sides, and the dense hail of bullets.

Everything at this moment was like a flowing vortex, drawn in by the golden blades that Li Cheng颐 had drawn.

‘Blade of Absolute Certainty!’

*Wu…!*

Countless bullets, light beams, missiles, and cannons were all, under some incomprehensible force, rapidly crashing onto the golden sword that Li Cheng颐 had drawn a fraction of an inch.

They lost their original target, and even the death ray beams were forcibly distorted and shone on the golden sword.

The golden sword melted instantly, but under the effect of Flower Speech, it transformed into two streams of light, still ignoring everything, gathering everything, and transforming into two dazzling, white-gold light swords.

Under the effect of Li Cheng颐’s dragonized state combined with the Giant Force Imprint, and with Flower Speech halving all speeds.

The two light swords were forcibly swung forward.

Flower Speech effect: Certain Hit activated.

“I have thirteen layers of large force field protection, and the protection is ten times that of an eighth-rank! What are you going to use to hurt me?!!!”

Zhao Lingzhi’s face was ferocious, roaring in his heart.

Looking at the incomprehensible scene before him, he still didn’t believe that a single person could have the power to break through everything.

He didn’t believe even more that under such fully prepared protection, the other party could still cause him any harm.

Time returned to normal in an instant.

*Boom!!!!*

Finally.

Li Cheng颐’s two white-gold blades violently pierced through the force field, as if the force field didn’t exist at all.

Then, ignoring the Fei Yi’s Double Harmony Jade Reflection Snow, they hit the floating Zhao Lingzhi like two beams of light.

At that instant, the terrifying impact force of over three thousand tons forcibly distorted all the surrounding shells, bullets, and death rays, and under the effect of Flower Speech, changed direction and swung forward.

*Shua!!!*

The white-gold beam flashed across Zhao Lingzhi, and the dazzling sword light swept past more than a dozen floating Fei Yi Masters behind him, causing a chain reaction of explosions as if swatting mosquitoes.

A gust of wind blew, and explosions echoed continuously behind him.

Zhao Lingzhi floated in the air in a daze.

Raising his hand, he wanted to touch the force field that had been in front of him.

Unfortunately, the force field had already been forcibly pierced and shattered by the sword blade during the previous burst of power, no longer existing.

“I don’t believe it!!!”

His entire body suddenly split into four pieces, falling down and crashing heavily onto the plaza ground.

With a loud crash.

At this moment, the large force field protecting the entire Wanshi Building was completely shattered.

Around him in the air, all the Fei Yi Masters were terrified, and stopped attacking.

Zhao Lingguang had already retreated a distance earlier, avoiding the brunt of the attack when he saw the situation was bad. Now, seeing that Zhao Lingzhi had been instantly killed, the expression under his helmet was as white as snow.

“While he’s weakened, kill him!!” He roared suddenly.

*Hiss!*

The flock of Fei Yi that had formed caught up with Li Cheng颐 at this time, and attempted to drown him again.

But in less than half a second.

With a loud boom.

Li Cheng颐, holding a golden sword, its blade wrapped in countless semi-transparent small swords, slashed head-on at the flock of swallows.

The flock of swallows formed by thirty Fei Yi were met head-on with the enormous impact force of three thousand tons, shattering on the spot and scattering like countless streams of light.

The shattered Fei Yi fragments rained down, creating ripples in the surrounding force fields.

Some force fields with poor protection were blown apart on the spot.

A few of the onlookers' aircraft were also pierced, emitting thick smoke as they quickly fled away.

Amidst exclamations, all the onlookers had to expand their viewing range again.

The Fei Yi Masters were defeated, and the remaining besieging forces scattered and fled.

Many of them had been forced to come because of the Zhao family’s power. Now that they saw an opportunity, they naturally hurried to escape as soon as possible.

*Ta.*

Li Cheng颐 landed gently, the golden sword in his hand dissipating, turning into countless sword orchid petals.

His single foot was standing right in front of that red line.

Then, he stretched out a foot and rubbed against the red line, erasing a piece of it.

“Now, I’ve stepped on your Zhao family’s red line, and trampled on your bottom line.”

“So, hurry up and let Black Phoenix come and kill me.”

He looked up at Zhao Lingguang, who was trembling all over, and stepped forward, walking towards the Wanshi Building.

“Since someone is destined to stand at a higher place, then why can’t it be me?”

*Boom!!*

In an instant, in front of the Wanshi Building.

A black beam, as thick as a bucket, descended from the sky and crashed down on the large silver plaque at the bottom of the building.

The black light dissipated, revealing a middle-aged man in a long black robe with golden phoenix patterns, his long hair disheveled, his eyes silver-white, and his black pupils staring fixedly at Li Cheng颐.

“Want to stand at a high place? Who do you think you are!?” The man’s voice was icy cold.

“Tianming.”

Li Cheng颐 paused, and smiled slightly at the other party.

“You can call me, Tianming!”

(End of this chapter)