Supreme Star Card Master

Chapter 858: Chapter 665 Ming King

On a certain isolated island on the western coast of the East Continent, two individuals were playing chess.

One of them had sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, clad in a black robe with a golden-patterned Vermilion Bird cloak.

The other was wearing a white robe, equally male, yet possessing an extraordinary beauty like that of a celestial being from a painting.

These two were none other than the Vermilion Bird Throne Fang Qingxiao, and the Demon King Kong Zheng from the Demon Capital Ming King Mansion!

Fang Qingxiao placed a black piece on the chessboard, saying, ”Coming to the seaside today, the golden sand is gradually dispersing, the four lands are drawing closer, the speed of the Earth Tribulation is indeed more pressing than anticipated...”

Across from him, Kong Zheng casually replied, ”Whether we come early or late, we come nonetheless. Once the tribulation arises, you and I naturally become like the chess pieces in this game, unable to break free.”

Fang Qingxiao laughed, ”Ming King is quite carefree, huh.”

”No, it’s not carefree.” Kong Zheng picked up a white piece, slightly shook his head, ”Though we cannot escape the game, if we grow stronger ourselves, then... we might have a greater chance to survive until the end.”

Kong Zheng placed his piece, suddenly capturing several of Fang Qingxiao’s black pieces.

Fang Qingxiao’s expression slightly tensed, yet he saw an undeniable burst of confidence in Kong Zheng’s eyes!

”Speaking of which, he should be arriving soon, right?” Kong Zheng suddenly spoke.

Fang Qingxiao looked into the distance, ”Hmm, according to the department’s calculation, it should be about this time.”

In just a brief moment, a surge of blue-black energy boiled up from the edge of the sky, swiftly making its way toward the East Continent.

Seemingly aware of the presence of Fang Qingxiao and Kong Zheng, the blue-black energy, with a slight churn, attempted to bypass the two.

”Fellow Daoist, please stay.”

Fang Qingxiao’s bright voice immediately resonated across the entire sky; seeing this, the black cloud knew it couldn’t evade, with a twist, it rolled over and alighted near the two.

The blue-black cloud dissipated, eventually transforming into a skinny old man wrapped in an eccentric green robe.

The old man asked, ”Blocking my path here, what could be your gracious purpose?”

Fang Qingxiao flew forward to greet him, smiling, ”I suppose you must be the ’Curse King’ Wen Yun?”

The green-robed old man raised his brows, secretly remarking, indeed, these two came for him!

Correct, this old man was Wen Jiuhua’s king-level father, Curse King Wen Yun.

Sensing Wen Yun’s demise, Wen Yun was suddenly enraged, initially intending to cast a curse technique based on the mark but was hindered by the vast distance.

In his furious anger, Wen Yun unhesitatingly employed a secret technique to chase all the way from the Southern Continent!

Wen Yun coldly questioned, ”What if I am, what if I am not?”

Fang Qingxiao replied, ”Whether you are or not, I must ask you to return. Though the Earth Tribulation has begun, it’s still an internal struggle, not yet the time for king-level movements across the four continents.”

Upon hearing this, Wen Yun cackled, ”What’s this, has the East Continent become a forbidden zone for all other continents?”

Fang Qingxiao retorted, ”Not at all.”

”Or perhaps, does the current East Continent fall under someone’s jurisdiction?”

”That is not the case.”

Wen Yun sneered, ”Then what qualifications do you have to control my comings and goings?”

”Qualification? A fist, is qualification!”

Fang Qingxiao chuckled softly, his right hand blazing with fire, suddenly gathering a fierce flame and striking towards Wen Yun in the distance.

”Hmm?”

Wen Yun’s expression shifted slightly, surprised that Fang Qingxiao acted so suddenly, hurriedly forming a seal to summon a surge of netherworld energy to greet the attack.

”Boom!”

With a loud explosion, the netherworld energy and golden red flames violently detonated, causing the seawater within a hundred-mile radius to shatter and sink instantly, only the solitary island under Kong Xuan’s feet remained unmoved, unaffected.

”Damn it!”

Wen Yun looked at the flames igniting his sleeve, flipping his hand to extinguish it, yet he sensed the severity of the opponent ahead.

The opponent’s Star Power was above his own!

However, in king-level battles, Star Power was not that crucial anymore.

Wen Yun’s eyes narrowed, his hands rapidly forming seals, and in a moment, a twisting, eerie black light suddenly flew towards Fang Qingxiao.

Fang Qingxiao’s expression remained unchanged, as the golden-red flame surged again, striking with another punch.

”Heh... courting death!”

A trace of coldness emerged in Wen Yun’s eyes, this curse looked simple, seemingly a regular Star Power attack.

But in reality, this curse was named the Nine Yin Netherworld Curse, formed with yin energy from the Nine Netherworld domain, capable of easily penetrating physical and energy barriers, and once it hit the target, it could corrode the opponent’s body rapidly like a venomous poison, insidiously vicious!

Anyone who underestimated it during battle, with just a momentary negligence, might fall prey to this curse!

The two engaged in battle, Kong Zheng never lifted his gaze, quietly studying the chessboard on the island.

Wen Yun smirked, watching Fang Qingxiao’s fist crashing into the curse seal.

At the intersection of fist and seal, the black curse seal twisted slightly and suddenly exploded into a sky full of hideous netherworld black clouds.

But before Wen Yun could rejoice, countless golden-red flames burned forth from within the black clouds, consuming all the black clouds.

”Hmm? Why can he burn out my Nine Yin Netherworld Curse!” Wen Yun’s expression shifted slightly, his gaze landing on those golden-red flames, suddenly realizing, ”Jun Tian True Fire!”

Jun Tian True Fire, ranked seventh on the Divine Fire List, the treasured legacy of the Sky Patrol Department’s Vermilion Bird Imperial Generation!

”Dammit!” Wen Yun’s expression changed dramatically, his left hand touching the part of his sleeve just scorched by the flame, while his right hand rapidly casting seals, eventually pointing at Fang Qingxiao, ”Five Poison Curse!”

In an instant, centipedes, geckos, venomous snakes, scorpions, toads, five different forms of black and red cursed objects bizarrely appeared around Fang Qingxiao.

In Fang Qingxiao’s eyes, the fierce flames leaped, murmuring, ”Extreme Yang!”

Fang Qingxiao seemed to transform into the sun, and in an instant, the five curses surrounding him dissipated into nothingness under the terrifyingly extreme high temperature!

However, it only lasted for 0.1s, and this state vanished, like an illusion.

”Oh? Impressive...” Kong Zheng, who was studying the chessboard, raised his head and glanced at Fang Qingxiao, ”Manipulating Divine Fire, instantly unleashing a high temperature that incinerates everything outside the body? Such explosive power and control, truly worthy of the Vermilion Bird Throne.”

Wen Yun, watching the Five Poison Curse disappear in an instant, his expression changed slightly: ”Damn it! This guy’s Jun Tian True Fire counters my curse techniques too well... Hmph, I don’t believe it!”

Wen Yun’s expression turned fierce, and he raised his hand to point at his chest, causing countless dark green lights to whirl around his body!

As the lights dispersed, Wen Yun’s body suddenly became slender, his entire physique turning into a virus-like black, with a ring of strangely shaped magic rings growing on his back.

In an instant, the waves surged backward, the sea trembled, and an extremely terrifying aura filled the sea!

”Oh? Have you revealed your true form already?” Fang Qingxiao’s expression turned slightly solemn.

Wen Yun clasped his hands together, the black light on the magic ring behind him spinning rapidly. Soon, a four-foot-long black thorn, crawling with bizarre viruses, grew out from the magic ring and landed in his hand.

”Poison Seeing Curse Divine Needle!”

With Wen Yun’s loud shout, the black thorn immediately shot out, heading straight for Fang Qingxiao.

Fang Qingxiao squinted his eyes slightly, about to urge Jun Tian True Fire to incinerate it.

However, at this moment, a Five-Colored Divine Light suddenly flew from behind, sweeping over the Poison Seeing Black Thorn in an instant.

The Poison Seeing Black Thorn immediately halted, trembled slightly, and then shattered and disappeared!

Wen Yun’s expression changed drastically: ”What!”

In the next moment, the Five-Colored Divine Light had already rushed to Wen Yun and collided with him.

”Puff!”

A mouthful of blood spurted out as Wen Yun’s entire body was engulfed in a burst of netherworld green energy, instantly being knocked flying!

In that spot, the Five-Colored Divine Light converged, forming into a stunningly handsome man surrounded by radiant colors.

Kong Zheng said blandly, ”Fang Yu, your method is too slow. Hit him hard, and he’ll know to run~”

At the forefront, the netherworld green energy churned, and Wen Yun quickly stabilized his form, looking at Kong Zheng with a mixture of shock and anger.

”Damn it! Rebound Curse!”

The magic ring behind Wen Yun rotated, and with both hands forming seals, he shouted, causing a force to fall upon Kong Zheng from thin air.

Kong Zheng was immediately engulfed in a large area of inky black poison curse light, which attempted to erode his protective spiritual light and seep inside!

The Rebound Poison Curse was one of the myriad curse techniques mastered by Wen Yun, a profound curse technique using causality as a medium.

As long as one is injured, it can trace the effect back to the cause, directly imposing an unavoidable curse technique on the enemy!

”Truly a nauseating curse technique.” A few traces of disgust and coldness flashed in Kong Zheng’s eyes, ”Neither this ability nor the one who casts it align with this throne’s aesthetics at all...”

Kong Zheng’s eyes turned cold, and suddenly, his body emitted a great surge of Five-Colored Divine Light.

In an instant, as if melting the first snow, all the black curses were crushed and disappeared without any resistance!

Wen Yun looked in disbelief at Kong Zheng in the center of the Divine Light, gasping in astonishment: ”What kind of divine skill is this!”

However, as Kong Zheng’s figure shimmered, he once again appeared before Wen Yun.

”Clown.”

Kong Zheng’s expression was indifferent, and he raised his right fist to throw a punch.

”Boom!”

Wen Yun was startled and hurriedly burst out a large swell of netherworld green energy to defend.

However, as the Five-Colored Divine Light on Kong Zheng’s body flashed, all the netherworld green energy disappeared in an instant!

Then, amidst Wen Yun’s terrified expression, Kong Zheng’s punch landed on him.

Wen Yun’s chest caved in, his face twisted, and his body cracked with large fissures before exploding on the spot with a ”boom”!

”Filthy thing...” Kong Zheng wiped his hands, his slender eyes sweeping over the exploded remains, ”I’ll give you three breaths. If you don’t disappear from my sight, you’ll stay here forever.”

As soon as he finished, Wen Yun’s exploded body turned into a surge of netherworld green energy.

Kong Zheng spoke indifferently, ”One...”

The gathering netherworld green energy rapidly convened in one place.

”Two...”

The green energy surged away into the distance, vanishing at the sky’s edge before Kong Zheng could utter the word three.

Kong Xuan looked towards the distance without expression: ”Ran quite fast, but alas, it seems there’s no killing to be done today.”

Fang Qingxiao watched Kong Zheng ahead, his eyes slightly narrowed, then voiced his admiration, ”To scare away a King Level with one strike, the Ming King’s might truly surpasses the rumors...”

”Even those inside the game can survive, only those who are stronger.” Kong Zheng chuckled, turned, bowed towards Qingxiao, ”The chess game is over, Fang Yu, see you next time.”

With that, Kong Zheng flew swiftly, transforming into a peerlessly mighty giant peacock, returning towards the East Continent, disappearing from Fang Qingxiao’s sight in an instant.

Fang Qingxiao witnessed this, descended back onto the isolated island, only to see the white pieces on the chessboard like dragons, fiercely aggressive, pushing black pieces into a desperate situation!

”This Peacock Ming King, seemingly refined and gentle, yet extremely domineering.

More importantly, over all these years, his strength is unfathomably deep...”

Fang Qingxiao turned the chessboard over, thoughtful.

”So, did the Red Emperor arrange for him to accompany me just to let me see his strength?”

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