Published: February 12, 2025
As long as there is a battle, there will always be a moment known as the moment of life and death.
Just like now, when two daggers were thrust toward Ye Zhongming's body, both the King of Cloud Summit and the city guard captain knew that the moment of life and death in this battle had arrived.
The guard captain's previous fierceness had turned into a final frenzy. He stared intently at Ye Zhongming, his face covered in blood. He wanted to convey with his gaze to this Commander Qing Tong of the Star-Eye Clan that even though he had the assistance of the Su Clan formation, even though this formation was one of the top ten formations, the final result would not change.
I am still the one who will emerge victorious, and you are destined to die!
However, the guard captain also saw the look in Ye Zhongming's eyes, which lacked the anticipated resentment, anger, fear, or even pleas for mercy.
What he saw was calm indifference, tinged with a distinct mockery.
This was definitely not the gaze of someone who was about to die in the next second.
A bad premonition rose in the guard captain's heart. He mustered the little strength left in his body, wanting the blood giant to move faster, even faster.
Everyone's energy is limited, even for a great master. When you put more energy into offense, the energy used for defense naturally decreases. The attacks of the Golden Armored Halberd Soldiers began to penetrate the energy lines that overflowed from the guard captain's body, truly piercing the great master.
The excellent Crimson Condensation Equipment began to sustain damage against these attacks. In some unprotected areas, like his hands, deep wounds that reached the bone were inflicted, yet the guard captain seemed oblivious. He remained focused on the two daggers that had already penetrated Ye Zhongming's body, perhaps just a centimeter away from piercing his heart.
The guard captain could tell that Ye Zhongming's equipment was exceptional, to the point that it made him a little envious. But what difference did that make?
Even if these two daggers were also Crimson Condensation Equipment, even if they were of the Steel-Breaking level or even the Ordinary level, under the enhancement of the blood giant and himself, they could penetrate Ye Zhongming's armor and take him from this world.
But at that moment, the two daggers suddenly stopped. The guard captain's eyes widened, and the expression on his face was replaced by astonishment. He could not understand why the daggers had halted.
The only explanation for this situation was that the remaining energy of the blood giant could not propel the daggers forward.
Ye Zhongming suddenly chuckled, “Have you noticed that your energy is depleting faster than usual?”
The guard captain was taken aback. He had not perceived this aspect before, but when Ye Zhongming pointed it out, he suddenly realized that his energy did seem to be depleting faster than usual. Even when facing the Golden Soldier Killing Array, the time he maintained the Forehead Blood Technique Form and the current blood giant was noticeably shorter.
To put it another way, he was controlling these avatars to fight, which had significantly increased his energy consumption. Now, there was little energy left in his body, and he could no longer transfer it to the blood giant, whose energy had already been exhausted. This was why the two daggers, which had initially pierced into Ye Zhongming's armor, now stopped just a centimeter away from his heart.
The guard captain suddenly felt that he might be only a centimeter away from victory as well.
“If I told you that the modifications to the Golden Soldier Killing Array were made by me, would you believe it?”
One of Ye Zhongming's hands lifted as he spoke, gripping one of the daggers embedded in his body and slowly pushing it out. The gesture was somewhat casual, but in the eyes of the guard captain, it felt like a heavy hammer striking his heart.
Before, he was only a centimeter away from victory, but now he was getting farther away from it.