Divine Emperor of Heavenly Destiny

As the Eagle Flame Commander spoke, a Transformation Realm expert who had fallen but was lucky not to have died, regained consciousness.

”Commanders,” he said in a hoarse voice, ”I’ve encountered the real Lu Chao... I feel this Fake Lu Chao’s slaughter is even more terrifying than the real one.”

The hoarse voice hammered into the ears of the commanders of the Three Great Flame Countries, causing their expressions to change drastically.

But Guan Zanyi immediately retorted coldly, ”Impossible. Don’t be alarmist.”

’How could a fake possibly surpass the real thing?’

Guan Zanyi simply didn’t believe it. After all, he had managed to escape from the real one’s grasp before.

The real Lu Chao was his nightmare.

But Guan Zanyi didn’t know that the one on Sword Thinking Peak was the real Lu Chao.

And while his current realm wasn’t as high as before, he had surpassed his old self in every other aspect. For slaughter, he had the Slaughter Sword Bone; for leading troops, he had the Dragon General Bone; and for a powerful, direct attack, he had the Star Fire Sparrow Bone Meridian Map.

All three were Divine Bones, whereas the old Lu Chao only had three Heavenly Destiny Saint Bones.

For healing, he had the Moon Spring Bone, and for vision, he had the Bright Eyes Bone...

As for the Primordial Yang Bone, that was just the icing on the cake. And all of these were Saint Bones... On top of that, he had six external Heavenly Bones, which were also just a bonus. He was far stronger than he used to be.

The Life-taking Star-devouring Bone only seemed to be at the Heavenly Bone Level, but in reality, it was stronger than even a Divine Bone.

Similarly, the Three Flames Commander and the Eagle Flame Commander didn’t believe that the Fake Lu Chao was more terrifying. The Three Flames Commander, who was from Wolf Flame, shouted, ”No matter what, we cannot afford any more losses! All Postnatal Realm elites... charge the peak!”

”General Guan, General Ying...”

”You two, mount your Flying Bird Demon Beasts and charge! The other Flying Bird Knights will provide covering fire with their arrows! All other Transformation Realm experts... follow me up the cliff!”

”We’ll coordinate our attack from above and below to take Sword Thinking Peak!”

And so, with their tasks assigned, they began their assault.

Guan Zanyi and the Eagle Flame Commander led a squadron of over a hundred Flying Bird Demon Beasts, soaring into the sky and raining arrows down on Sword Thinking Peak.

The Three Flames Commander personally led a group of Transformation Realm experts, rapidly scaling the cliff face.

Meanwhile, the Innate and Postnatal junior commanders and elites followed behind the Three Flames Commander, swarming madly up the cliff in ever-increasing numbers.

On Sword Thinking Peak...

Lu Chao looked up at the hundred-plus Flying Bird Demon Beasts in the sky, then down at the approaching Three Flames Commander and the others...

His eyes narrowed slightly.

He issued a sharp command, ”One thousand men, fire at the Flying Bird Demon Beasts! The other thousand, wait for the Three Flames Commander to appear!”

As soon as he spoke, a thousand new Dragon Flame Students unleashed a wild volley of arrows at the Flying Bird Demon Beasts in the sky. A sky-darkening cloud of arrows soared upward, forcing the Flying Bird Demon Beasts to climb higher and higher.

They returned fire, but many of their arrows were blocked by the volley soaring up from below.

At the same time, Lu Chao flashed back into the ranks of his soldiers, raising a bow as well...

He loosed arrow after arrow... WHIZ! WHIZ! WHIZ!

He knocked aside the stream of arrows heading for the new Dragon Flame Students, protecting their lives. But as he was no longer picking off the climbers, they began to surge up one after another.

The Three Flames Commander followed... and crested the peak!

But... THWANG!

The moment the Three Flames Commander reached the top, the remaining thousand new Dragon Flame Students loosed a volley, just as Lu Chao had commanded.

They instantly knocked the Three Flames Commander right back down the cliff...

At that very moment, Lu Chao suddenly aimed his bow at the sky. With a sharp THWANG, an arrow shot forth.

Its target: a Flying Bird Demon Beast that was seizing the opportunity to dive. And the person on that beast was, of course, Guan Zanyi.

THWACK...

Lu Chao’s arrow pierced straight through Guan Zanyi’s Flying Bird Demon Beast...

A pained shriek rang out as it plummeted from the sky.

Guan Zanyi was stunned on the beast’s back. Then he screamed, ”Dammit, why is it always me?!”

He was a Martial Artist, a True Fate Realm master, but he couldn’t fly.

With his Flying Bird Demon Beast shot dead, he was, of course, falling once again. He and the beast’s corpse crashed heavily onto Sword Thinking Peak, landing flat on his back for the second time.

Before he could even curse, Guan Zanyi felt the hair on his body stand on end.

He scrambled behind the corpse of the Flying Bird Demon Beast just in time to hear... THWAP! THWAP! THWAP!

A hail of arrows peppered the corpse, while others landed right where he had just been. Cold sweat drenched Guan Zanyi... If he’d been a second slower, he would have been turned into a pincushion.

Just then, the terrifying voice of Lu Chao echoed from behind his mask, reaching Guan Zanyi’s ears: ”Everyone, cover me! Kill!”

As Lu Chao’s voice fell... AAAAAAH!

Screams of agony once again echoed across Sword Thinking Peak...

Guan Zanyi subconsciously peeked out and witnessed a sight he would never forget. Just moments before, a group of Transformation and Innate Realm experts had made it to the peak along with the Three Flames Commander.

The Three Flames Commander had been knocked off the peak by a volley of arrows, but the Transformation and Innate Realm experts were still there.

So the Fake Lu Chao had begun to slaughter them. Guan Zanyi watched, clear as day, as the Fake Lu Chao, with a single sword and with the Dragon Flame Academy students providing cover, began a frantic massacre of all the Three Flames soldiers on the peak.

The Fake Lu Chao, one sword, one kill.

Whether they were from the Transformation Realm, the Innate Realm, or the Postnatal Realm warriors charging up, all fell to a single strike of his sword.

Guan Zanyi couldn’t help but recall the words he had previously dismissed as ”alarmist.”

It was the phrase: ”The Fake Lu Chao... is more terrifying than the real Lu Chao.”

And Guan Zanyi couldn’t help but recall the time he had faced the real Lu Chao...

’It seems... it really seems like the Fake Lu Chao is more terrifying.’

Just then, the Eagle Flame Commander’s voice rained down from the sky: ”Guan Zanyi, what are you standing there gawking for? Kill the Fake Lu Chao!”

Guan Zanyi subconsciously looked up, thinking, ’Kill my ass! I’ve already fallen twice! My meridians are all out of whack!’

Just then, Guan Zanyi had another thought. ’This is bad. I can’t stay on Sword Thinking Peak, or the Fake Lu Chao will come to kill me. I have to fall for a third time...’

With this in mind, Guan Zanyi burst out from behind the beast’s corpse and roared, ”Fake Lu Chao... Aaargh!”

He deliberately let an arrow from a Dragon Flame Student strike his shoulder, let out an exaggerated scream of pain, and then promptly tumbled off Sword Thinking Peak. His voice drifted up, ”I can’t go on! I’ve been hit by an arrow!”

This scene even made Lu Chao, who was in the middle of his slaughter, pause in bewilderment.

He shook his head and paid it no mind. He continued to narrow his eyes and slaughter the enemies ascending Sword Thinking Peak. His mind was on the Martial Arts Illusion Realm, the way out of the 6th Floor. He had improved a great deal in that so-called Martial Arts Illusion Realm.

At this moment, he was like a terrifying god of slaughter on the battlefield, continuing to sweep across every corner of Sword Thinking Peak.

He constantly dodged the arrows from the sky. The aura of his Slaughter Sword Bone grew denser, and his sword became faster and faster.

In the sky above...

The Eagle Flame Commander, facing the frenzied barrage from the new Dragon Flame Students, dared not descend.

Below Sword Thinking Peak...

The Three Flames Commander was shouting madly, ”Go! All of you, go! I don’t believe that Fake Lu Chao won’t get tired...!”