Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoard Billions of Supplies

Watching his golden arrow get crushed by Zhang Yi’s hand, golden light cascading down from the sky, a hint of maniacal glee twisted across Ruan Ping’s face instead.

”If you have to go through that much trouble for a single arrow, then what happens when I send a few more your way?”

His right hand clenched at empty air, and five massive golden arrows materialized simultaneously. He drew his longbow to full crescent and loosed them all at Zhang Yi in an instant!

”What a pain! This is my turf, and I’d rather not turn it into a complete wreck!”

Zhang Yi’s fingers came together like a sword blade, aiming directly at Ruan Ping.

”I was just waiting for my skill cooldown. What exactly were you waiting for?”

During that idle stretch of time, the power of the void had already finished condensing.

Five golden arrows screamed toward Zhang Yi, but at his fingertip, an orb of absolute darkness no bigger than a marble swelled with unstable energy before erupting outward in a flash!

One strike, and a black line pierced through the space between them!

The golden arrows and the Star-Piercing Cannon collided head-on. Terrifying energies smashed against each other, and the blinding radiance cleaved heaven and earth into two distinct domains. One half was a blaze of dazzling gold; the other was an abyss of profound darkness as if plunging straight into night.

”BZZZZZ-”

The shockwave detonated outward from ground zero, sweeping past the Manifold Phenomena that Ruan Ping and Zhang Yi had deployed, roaring toward Tianshui City!

Everything within a dozen kilometers was utterly annihilated, every trace of human activity erased completely.

Thankfully, this was uninhabited wasteland. No one lived out here, because if they had, that blast just now would have left no survivors!

Ruan Ping could already tell his attacks weren’t dealing anywhere near enough damage to Zhang Yi. At this point, he understood deep down that merely defeating Zhang Yi was going to be brutally difficult, let alone killing him.

So he drew a deep breath, gathering every shred of his supernatural power into his right hand.

Golden energy surged like rolling ocean waves, and an eerie howl of golden tides echoed from behind him!

From that golden sea of power, he pulled out thirteen arrows and fired them in rapid succession at speeds too fast for the naked eye to track, thirteen shots all converging on Zhang Yi!

Thirteen golden arrows, one right after another, each subsequent shot storing just a fraction more power than the one before it.

”BOOM!”

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Every arrow that slammed into the one ahead of it shattered instantly, scattering into a sky-filling golden rain, but that force transferred forward into the arrow in front. In this manner, the thirteen arrows converged all their power into a single point, forging one supreme arrow that flew straight into Zhang Yi’s Dimensional Gate!

Zhang Yi’s gaze turned serious. This strike carried truly terrifying power, the kind that demanded his full attention even with his capabilities.

”Shield!”

The Dimensional Gate materialized in front of him.

The golden arrow struck, tearing through seven layers of Dimensional Gates in a heartbeat before finally sinking into the eighth.

For a Black Chariot-tier Transcendent unleashing their absolute strongest attack with every ounce of power they possessed, this was the absolute ceiling of what they could accomplish.

But after that single strike, Ruan Ping showed no hesitation whatsoever. He chose instead to transform into a streak of golden light, beelining straight for Zhang Yi’s shelter!

His purpose had been crystal clear from start to finish: defeat Zhang Yi by any means necessary!

Since this was Zhang Yi’s home ground, then the best play was to wreck everything. Ideally, he’d slaughter everyone Zhang Yi held most dear, shatter his psyche, and then move in for the kill!

Yet when Zhang Yi saw where Ruan Ping was heading, his expression betrayed no particular concern at all.

Because directly in Ruan Ping’s path, the shelter’s spherical structure atop its European-style castle peak suddenly unfurled. A massive pitch-black cannon barrel had already extended outward, locking onto the direction Ruan Ping was coming from.

Lu Keran sat inside the control room, eyes locked on the screen, tracking that golden light blazing toward her.

Thanks to Zhang Yi’s stalling, she’d already finished calculating the enemy’s trajectory.

Ruan Ping had just burned his strongest attack, which meant he was at his most vulnerable, his power reserves running on empty.

Her eyes fixed on the display, she slammed the firing button without a moment’s hesitation!

The black cannon barrel immediately glowed red-hot. Even the Heaven’s Dimensional Weapon that Lu Keran had painstakingly crafted was overheating from the sheer magnitude of force it was channeling.

There was no earth-shattering roar, just a single red beam, a full fifty centimeters in diameter, piercing through the space between heaven and earth, streaking straight at Ruan Ping!

Ruan Ping’s focus had been entirely on guarding against Zhang Yi’s pursuit from behind. It never even crossed his mind that those fragile ordinary humans could pose any threat to him.

Not until that crimson light was right in his face, its dreadful power engulfing his body, did terror flash through his eyes for the very first time!

BOOM!!

In the face of mortal peril, he detonated every ounce of power he had left. Both arms crossed in front of his chest in a defensive guard. Blinding golden energy surged forth like a storm, making him look like a blazing golden sun from a distance.

The two forces collided, and the raw destructive output of the Heaven’s Dimensional Weapon actually exceeded Zhang Yi’s Star-Piercing Cannon!

With his energy reserves completely drained, Ruan Ping took that hit head-on and was sent flying by the sheer force of the blast!

His body rocketed dozens of kilometers through the air, slammed all the way out to the coastal waters off Tianshui City!

Zhang Yi pursued without a second’s hesitation, calling back to Lu Keran: ”Start charging. Get the second shot ready! Fire the moment the timing is right!”

This was Tianshui City.

His territory.

The advantage of home turf was absolutely enormous for boosting a Transcendent’s combat power.

Just like Ultimate Evil Boy in Edo City, or Wandering Phantom in Ice Flower Swamp.

And Zhang Yi in Tianshui City? He would only be even more formidable!

Over a year ago, when he fought against the Sky Dragon King, he’d already unveiled the [Tianshui Cannon].

And his upgrades on the weapons front had never stopped since.

Overly massive weapons were impractical to carry into battle because their charging times were simply too long, so Zhang Yi never kept them on his person.

But stationing them in Tianshui City as part of his foundational arsenal? No problem whatsoever.

Transcendents kept evolving, and the world’s weapons kept evolving right alongside them.

Ever since acquiring the material known as [Primordial Source], conventional weaponry had been catapulted into an entirely new era. And Lu Keran, as one of the world’s top-tier mechanics, was hardly going to let an opportunity like that slip by.

Right now, Lu Keran was absolutely buzzing with excitement. As a Transcendent whose combat ability was practically negligible once removed from her mechanical domain, she had just critically wounded a Black Chariot-tier Transcendent using the Heaven’s Dimensional Weapon she’d built with her own two hands!

The overwhelming sense of achievement had her trembling with exhilaration.

”Yes, big brother!”

Lu Keran sucked in a deep breath and immediately began charging up, ready to unleash the second strike at any moment.

That said, this weapon’s cannon barrel only had a thirty-second lifespan, and every single shot consumed up to two tons of spirit stones. But one look at its destructive power made it perfectly clear that every ounce of that cost was worth it!