Chapter 245: Forbidden Secrets Unheeded! Mo Hu's Demise

Chapter 245: Forbidden Secrets Unheeded! Mo Hu's Demise



Mo Hu had no choice. If he tried to escape in another direction, with Li Yuan's displayed physical prowess, he would only meet his end faster.

"You want to rush into the Divine Palace Ruins?" Li Yuan unleashed his full battle prowess, his legs exerting tremendous force as he leaped towards Mo Hu, chasing after him.

Boom! An invisible wave of power swept through, and a mental shockwave surged forth, causing Mo Hu's figure to be affected once more.

"Hmm, my mental shockwave. Although it can't completely incapacitate him, it can repeatedly hinder his strength to some extent," Li Yuan's eyes turned icy cold.

Being able to hinder his strength, even slightly, could be crucial in critical moments.

The fact that Mo Hu could withstand his mental shockwave didn't surprise Li Yuan.

After all, he had already revealed his Sky Ascendant-level soul techniques. If Mo Hu didn't have the confidence to withstand it, why would he dare to come?

Moreover, Li Yuan clearly remembered that Teacher Li Yang had also withstood his mental shockwave when he was at the 29th level of Mental Energy. From that moment, Li Yuan understood that Mental Energy was never the key to a strong warrior's life-and-death battle.

The primary purpose of Mental Energy was always to assist in cultivation, sensing, and scanning.

Not for direct combat.

The stronger the Mental Energy, the faster the cultivation speed.

But in a real world, to command powerful physical strength, one needed an extremely strong soul and unwavering willpower. Pure soul and willpower had limited applications.

Manipulating reality with Mental Energy? Extremely difficult!

For this reason, Archons like White Mountain and Principal Fang Hai paid close attention to Li Yuan's skill level, Mental Energy, willpower, and more. They valued Li Yuan's innate Star Vein, but they would rarely ask him to cultivate secret Mental Arts.

Dean Fang Hai only required Li Yuan to cultivate 'defensive Mental Arts', and defense was enough.

This was because these powerful beings understood that in a true life-and-death battle, the role of Mental Arts was minimal.

For Li Yuan to use his mental shockwave to hinder his opponent's strength, even slightly, was already rare.

As for using Mental Arts to assist Alicia, Cross, and the others?

Their battlefield was too far for Li Yuan to sense. His Divine Perception only reached a hundred meters, far from their location.

Clang! Clang!

The weapons clashed repeatedly.

The two fought like lightning, but Li Yuan's spear technique had completely changed. He no longer sought absolute power through grand moves but instead, like a vortex, entangled Mo Hu's battle knife, reducing his escape speed.

"His spear technique, how can it be this troublesome?" Mo Hu's heart raced with each clash.

Once their weapons collided, Mo Hu felt an irresistible attraction from Li Yuan's spear, making it extremely difficult to escape.

Up until now, Mo Hu finally confirmed that Li Yuan was using a 'True Intention Ultimate Move'.

"He's only at the middle stage of the fifth level, and his true skill level should be lower than mine. How could he comprehend a True Intention Ultimate Move?" Mo Hu's heart trembled.

Even those he knew couldn't achieve this.

How could a Fourth Tier Civilization produce such a terrifying genius?

Boom!

With relentless pursuit, after only ten clashes, Li Yuan seized the opportunity. With his superior physical burst, he leaped ahead of Mo Hu.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!" Li Yuan's long spear whistled like a surging tide, instantly blooming and blocking Mo Hu's path.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" With a series of collisions, Mo Hu was like an insect caught in a spider's web, his speed reduced by over ninety percent, completely halted by Li Yuan.

"Kill!" Mo Hu gritted his teeth and roared, desperately summoning his Star Vein's power.

"Whoosh!"

Li Yuan didn't bother with his words, and the spear's glow surged, entangling him tightly, not allowing him to rush into the Relic Divine Palace.

The True Intention Ultimate Move 'Star River Cyclone' wasn't adept at killing, but its defensive and intercepting abilities were extremely formidable.

Combined with Li Yuan's superior physical prowess and his repeated mental shockwaves, Mo Hu's body continuously suffered.

As for Li Yuan, in such a clash, the terrifying impact would also inflict injuries. But he had already acted, taking out medicine from his storage treasure and consuming it.

His injuries were rapidly healing.

In the blink of an eye,

The two fought fiercely, covering over a thousand meters, exchanging hundreds of moves, drawing closer to the Divine Palace Ruins.

But Mo Hu felt death approaching, his injuries worsening, and defending against Li Yuan's attacks became increasingly difficult.

Mo Hu's heart was filled with unwillingness.

He had come with the thought of an 'easy victory and reward', but his opponent's strength far exceeded the intelligence.

Incorrect intelligence had cost lives.

"Seven-star Civilization, let me go! Let me go!" Mo Hu struggled to defend, shouting, "Otherwise, we'll both perish!"

What awaited him,

Boom!

Was another fierce spear shadow, and Li Yuan had no intention of further conversation. But he remained vigilant.

Perish together?

Could this Immortal Ruin Civilization's Half-God rank genius have hidden abilities?

Puchi~

With a spear thrust, it completely pierced through Mo Hu's knife defense, tearing through his source power armor, and his left arm flew away.

With just two more spears, Li Yuan was confident he could kill his opponent.

Just at this moment,

"Hmm? What's that?" Li Yuan's pupils constricted as Mo Hu's left arm flew away. In that instant, his right hand released the battle knife, and source power armor surged, sending a technological product into his palm.

This technology was black, resembling a pistol but larger, with a longer barrel!

A gunpowder weapon?

No! Li Yuan's powerful Mental Energy instantly sensed the 'source power fluctuation' from this pistol-like weapon, an extremely intense fluctuation.

A source power weapon!

And it was an extremely rare single-body source power weapon in the Seven-Star Human Civilization, a region beyond the reach of their technological capabilities.

In an instant,

Looking at the black hole of the gun barrel, Li Yuan's hairs stood on end.

It was as if, in the next moment, he would face death.

For Mo Hu to abandon his battle knife and use this, it must be an extremely formidable source power weapon.

Li Yuan had limited knowledge of source power technological weapons... He couldn't determine its exact level.

If it were a gunpowder weapon, like a pistol, firing at Li Yuan, protected by source power armor, it would merely tickle him.

But the Essence Power Weapon? Its might was completely different.

"Retreat?"

"No! Kill him!" In the moment between life and death, Li Yuan did not back down; instead, he thrust his spear directly towards his opponent's head.

Even if he retreated, it would be difficult to dodge this strike.

Desperately, even if he died, he could take his opponent down with him. This was Li Yuan's instinctive choice in the face of life and death.

"Hua!" The Black Heaven Spear tore through the sky, its might unending.

"Peng~"

Prince Mo Hu had already pulled the trigger in a flash, and madness shone in his eyes as he stared intently at Li Yuan... Even in death, he was determined to take Li Yuan down with him.

In this instant, these two top-tier geniuses shared the same thought!

Li Yuan's spear was fast.

But the Essence Power Weapon's eruption was even faster.

"Boom!" A dazzling purple light burst out from the gun barrel in an instant, its speed far surpassing the electromagnetic cannons of the Seven-Star Civilization... So fast that Li Yuan didn't even have time to react.

That beam of light was about to strike Li Yuan's arm, and he could even sense the terrifying might contained within that beam of Essence Power.

Death was approaching.

"Am I going to die here?" A thought suddenly flashed through Li Yuan's mind.

"Die! Die!" Prince Mo Hu stared at Li Yuan with unwavering intensity.

But!

Just as the beam was about to make contact with Li Yuan's body, suddenly, everything around the two of them became quiet.

The wind stopped!

The countless sand particles that had been thrown up due to the intense battle froze in midair.

The beam that was about to touch Li Yuan's arm halted.

Li Yuan's spear stopped.

The smile on Prince Mo Hu's face froze.

Even the vibrations in the air completely ceased... Everything within a hundred meters of their intense battle became utterly quiet.

At this moment, it was as if time and space had come to a standstill.

However, Li Yuan and Prince Mo Hu's consciousness remained crystal clear, and they could still think, realizing that time had not stopped... It was the space that had been imprisoned.

"What?" Li Yuan was shocked, and his Sky Ascendant soul could clearly sense it.

In that instant, an invisible force had enveloped everything, an unbeatable power.

It didn't just surpass him; it was—control! Absolute control! It controlled this space, rendering both Li Yuan and Prince Mo Hu unable to move even a hair's breadth.

Even the Essence Power surging within their bodies seemed to freeze in that moment.

"What kind of power is this? Is it the power hidden within this Realm within a Realm?" Li Yuan's mind raced, and countless thoughts flashed through his head.

The next instant.

"Hmm?" A scene that could make Li Yuan's heart tremble in awe appeared.

"Hua la~"

Without a sound, the 'Prince Mo Hu', who had been smiling, suddenly shattered from his head to his ankles, his body crumbling into ashes inch by inch.

Death!

At the same time, Li Yuan also saw that the Essence Power Weapon that had been fired shot out an 'Essence Power Beam', which also disintegrated into ashes layer by layer, just like Prince Mo Hu's body.

"You're not allowed to use technological weapons, why won't you listen?" A faint thought wave passed through this space.

It was as if someone was talking to themselves.

But Li Yuan's powerful mental energy instantly captured it, and he had a feeling... It was as if someone mysterious had been observing them from above.

It was that person who had intervened, directly killing Prince Mo Hu and eliminating Li Yuan's crisis.

Combining this with the intelligence provided by the Flame Clan, Li Yuan instantly recalled a repeatedly mentioned piece of information: It was forbidden to use technological weapons, a taboo.

Therefore, neither Li Yuan nor Alicia had brought any technological weapons.

They all fought using cold weapons.

But it was only at this moment that Li Yuan truly understood the meaning of those words, feeling a mix of fear and relief.

"As expected, this Realm within a Realm contains an invisible rule in operation." Li Yuan's mind raced with this thought.

It seemed slow, but in reality, from the moment Prince Mo Hu pulled the trigger to the arrival of that invisible force sweeping everything away... It had all happened in less than 0.3 seconds!

Hum~ That mysterious force silently dissipated.

Hua!

Li Yuan's spear whistled through the air, but it only slashed empty space, merely brushing past the Essence Power Armor left behind by Prince Mo Hu.

Bang~ The flying stones that had been shaken loose by the battle's aftermath continued along their original path, shooting towards the distance.

Whoosh! The Essence Power Weapon, resembling a handgun, dropped towards the ground.

...

"Is Prince Mo Hu dead?"

"This!" Tie Mu Er and Lei Wu had actually started fleeing for their lives some time ago, and some had already escaped quite a distance, but they had been keeping an eye on Li Yuan and Prince Mo Hu.

But the next instant.

They watched helplessly as Prince Mo Hu's body crumbled into ashes inch by inch, and they were all stunned, though most of them had sensed the presence of an invisible force, but it didn't change the outcome of the battle.

The result was—Li Yuan won! Prince Mo Hu died!

"Dead?"

"Li Yuan won! He didn't let him escape."

"Li Yuan killed Prince Mo Hu." Kros and Alicia also witnessed this scene, and their hearts instantly filled with excitement.

Victory!

The formidable enemy from the Moonward Divine Kingdom, in his battle against Li Yuan, was dead! Although Prince Mo Hu's death seemed strange, it didn't affect their perception that Li Yuan had killed him.

...

"Whoosh!"

Li Yuan, after missing with his spear, immediately swept his palm, collecting all of Prince Mo Hu's remains before they fully landed on the ground.

"A loss."

"I didn't get the spiritual nutrients." Li Yuan's figure moved, and he pounced like lightning towards a group of over ten Origin Martial Artists from the Moonward Divine Kingdom who were still fleeing in the distance: "You'll do."

...

Time passed.

With Li Yuan's full power unleashed, Lei Wu, Tie Mu Er, and over ten other Origin Martial Artists from the Moonward Divine Kingdom... Not one of them could last even a single exchange! With Kros, Si Feng, and Alicia's continuous entanglement, it took only a few minutes for Li Yuan to defeat them all.

Seeing the dire situation, Lei Wu, who had fled the fastest and farthest, was the first to break free from Alicia. But this time, Li Yuan didn't give up. After chasing him for over ten kilometers, Li Yuan caught up and killed him.

By this time, Alicia and the others hadn't even caught up.

"You guys clean up the battlefield, don't worry about me, and don't come near me." Li Yuan quickly collected the remaining spoils of war and sent a message to Alicia.

Whoosh! Li Yuan darted away like lightning towards the distance.

Because, after this intense slaughter of Origin Martial Artists, Li Yuan's spiritual awakening degree finally reached 40%!! He had received a prompt from the Divine Palace, and the fourth Essence Power infusion was about to arrive.

(End of Chapter)

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