Apocalypse Gachapon

Chapter 2258: Able to take a hit

The massive mental shockwave spread rapidly outward from the giantʼs mouth toward the surroundings. Through Mountain Fury, this mental shockwave had already turned into a tangible force, sweeping outward like a gale.

Ye Zhongming, in his peak condition, unleashed his first mental shockwave after his Furelai had skyrocketed, setting the tone for this battle.

After his rebirth, his state was perfect, and his control over the mental shockwave had also reached perfection.

Because he had appeared between Kunzuo and the Huoʼer Star forces, when the mental shockwave erupted, he did not control it on one side at all, letting it spread directly over there. On the other side, however, he precisely directed it at Kunzuo, preventing his attack from affecting the Su Clan and the small-race alliance.

At the same time, the blue-skinned man beside Ye Zhongming also moved.

He had been created using Ye Zhongmingʼs phantom and the energy of the Ocean King Crown, yet he looked no different from a real living being.

In his hand, a sparkling staff materialized. As he raised it, a bolt of lightning struck Kunzuo. This lightning descended without warning and was extremely thick, hitting Kunzuo, who was now in poor condition and had just been hit by the violent mental shockwave.

Kunzuo was very unlucky. Had he been in good condition, even with Ye Zhongmingʼs vast and ocean-like mental power unleashing the shockwave, he could have withstood it. After all, a peak expert was a peak expert, two full realms above Ye Zhongming, and such a gap in strength could compensate for many things.

Even if Kunzuo were stunned, it would only have been for an instant.

But now Kunzuoʼs condition was far too poor. He had been repeatedly injured, and Ye Zhongming had used himself as bait while the surrounding great experts launched their main attacks, leaving him with wounds that would be difficult to recover from in a short time. For someone of Kunzuoʼs level, these injuries were not severe, but they were extremely troublesome, as both his eye injury and his hand injuries had greatly affected his functions and senses.
So when Ye Zhongmingʼs unavoidable mental shockwave struck, Kunzuo fell completely into a daze.

It was precisely at that moment that the massive lightning bolt struck him.

The remaining intact armor on Kunzuoʼs body shattered into pieces and scattered around him. His entire body seemed to be inflated by a gust of air, swelling up, and blood sprayed from every wound on his body, turning him into a fountain of blood.

The blue-skinned man showed no expression. He drew a pattern with his staff in the air, and after the lightning vanished, three rings of energy appeared around Kunzuo. Before the peak expert could react, the three rings tightened, binding his arms, his waist, and his knees.

Perhaps afraid that he would break free, the blue-skinned man kept his staff raised, with streams of energy connecting his body to the three rings to maintain control.

Kunzuo quickly recovered from the electric shock, and the bleeding from his wounds stopped. He glared at Ye Zhongming and the blue-skinned man with a murderous look, and pale yellow symbols began to emerge on his body.

As soon as these symbols appeared, the rings began to fade and become unstable, and the blue-skinned man shifted from calm to cautious.

Kunzuoʼs expression was frenzied with a hint of mockery, as if saying, ”Overreaching.”

But that expression did not last long before he was smacked away by a claw.

White Dragon Horse flew past Kunzuo and left a resounding slap on his face.

The rings even steadied considerably because of it.

This seemed like a signal; a signal for battle to begin. The Su Clan and the small-race alliance moved, charging toward the Huoʼer Star side. Energy formations appeared above the heads and beneath the feet of many Su Clan members.

At this moment when life and death had to be decided, the Su Clan revealed their greatest secret!

Naturally, they avoided the battlefield around Kunzuo and Ye Zhongming.

After leaving that slap, White Dragon Horse flew past Ye Zhongming and charged toward the Huoʼer Star side. As for attacking Kunzuo, that was not its turn yet. Alongside White Dragon Horse was Leilei Bird, who was even more straightforward; it did not even bother with Kunzuo and had already rushed into the stunned Huoʼer Star forces, slaughtering wildly.

White Dragon Horse had left for another reason: it was afraid of being caught in the crossfire, because an enormous stone spike was descending from the sky, its tip already pressing down toward Kunzuoʼs head.

The peak expert shook the blood from his face, and at least a quarter of the symbols on his body rose into the sky, holding back the stone spike that fell like an inverted mountain peak, while the ground beneath his feet also began to crack!

The Stone Dragonʼs attack had been blocked by Kunzuo!

But this stone beast summoned by Ye Zhongming was the most powerful among all the great-expert-level beings present. With one ability blocked, it showed no surprise. Its massive dragon claw swung out, and its phantom crossed the distance, imprinting itself on Kunzuoʼs back.

The peak expert was bent forward by the blow, and even more blood flowed from his body.

This was what made Kunzuo terrifying: even though he was now in disarray, his formidable body and immense strength meant that no attack seemed able to deal him a fatal blow.

Had it been anyone else, struck like that by the giant dragon, they would either be dead or severely injured and down.

The giant dragon seemed to know how troublesome this opponent was. It opened its mouth and began spewing countless stone balls, which rained down on Kunzuo like cannonballs.

Kunzuo sensed the danger. Although he could not yet break free from the rings constraining him, he leaped with all his might, trying to jump away and dodge as much as possible.

But after exerting his strength, he did not move. He looked down and saw an earth elemental hand gripping his lower body. Although it had already cracked from his force and was about to collapse, it had still blocked this one movement.

Then, the hail of stone balls arrived.

The giant dragonʼs attack continued for more than ten seconds, and by the end, Kunzuo was buried under the rubble of the stone balls.

But... neither the giant dragon nor any of the other beings showed any sign of stopping.

After unleashing the mental shockwave, Ye Zhongming summoned the giant ape, the massive mountain shadow, and over a hundred small peaks toward the Huoʼer Star side, then stopped paying attention to that front, focusing entirely on Kunzuo. He had just used Life-Seizing Grip to ensure that the giant dragonʼs attacks landed fully. Now that the giant dragonʼs attack had ceased and it had begun chanting draconic incantations, Ye Zhongming immediately pulled an elemental staff from the ground and activated Heavy Earth Judgmentʼs special mode again, smashing three consecutive strikes into the pile of stone fragments.

One thing to note: his resurrection was thanks to the Earth Spiritʼs ability. The little spirit, which had already entered its growth phase, sacrificed its own level, returning to its infant stage to give Ye Zhongming a second life.

The thumping sounds were unceasing; the stone balls furiously battered Kunzuoʼs body, and the sheer impact of the blows sounded painful just to hear.

But its acquired abilities remained, only with their power greatly diminished. However, when used by Ye Zhongming in his transformed state, that decline was compensated for, making the Cloud Peak Kingʼs attacks roughly as powerful as before.