Chapter 697: Lackey of Heavenly Dao

The great reckoning has begun.

At the bottom of this gloomy Abyss of Mist, an extremely eerie scene appeared.

The ruins that should have been cautiously explored by intruders had now turned into a one-sided hunt.

Li Er had his hands behind his back, his steps steady, walking as if strolling leisurely in a courtyard.

And with every step he took, he would casually spit out a single word from his mouth.

"Disperse!"

Every time he spoke, it was accompanied by the roaring power of Law!

Large swathes of skeleton warriors were ruthlessly obliterated by the hundreds and thousands without even being able to scream, turning into bone ash flying all over the sky.

Ding ding ding ding—!

The crisp reward prompt tone of the System became the most wonderful symphony in Zhou Huai's ears.

One million!

Three million!

Five million!

The numbers of the Karma value were frantically jumping on the panel at a maddening speed.

Xiang Yu closely followed behind Li Er, silently enduring wave after wave of insignificant backlash force, acting just like a dutiful bodyguard.

Just like that, Li Er was like a humanoid bulldozer, crushing all the way through with unstoppable momentum.

From the outer square of the ruins, he killed his way all the way to the deepest part of the ruins.

When that grand and ancient underground imperial palace finally appeared in his line of sight, Zhou Huai glanced at the panel.

"I've gained a full ten million more Karma value!"

Zhou Huai sighed with satisfaction, "This wave of harvesting is an absolute bloody profit!"

At this moment.

Li Er's footsteps finally stopped in front of the Eternal Hall filled with grand Aura in the imperial palace.

The atmosphere here was distinctly different from the outer perimeter.

On the square, there were no trash-like skeleton soldiers, only dozens of huge skeleton generals exuding terrifying coercion.

Their strength during their lifetime was at least top-tier SS-Rank Expert and above!

Behind them, several Hell-class ancient Dragons burning with nether ghost fire were even entrenched!

"The resting place of our Emperor, those who trespass—die!!!"

The leading skeleton general held a huge black battle axe, and terrifying red light burst from its hollow eye sockets.

It roared, its whole body boiling with Death Qi, leading the generals and ancient Dragons behind it to transform into dozens of black streaks of light, attempting to block Li Er's steps.

The coercion erupted by multiple SS-Rank Experts joining forces was enough to annihilate any large army in the outside world.

However.

Zhou Huai's consciousness coldly watched all of this.

He didn't even have the interest to let Xiang Yu make a move.

Facing the black Death Qi soaring into the sky, Li Er lifted his eyelids slightly.

Just a few words.

"All of you, disperse!"

The cold words fell.

The overbearing rule of Word of Law, which ignored Rank defense, erupted on the square in front of Eternal Hall!

"Roar—!"

Urgh ah—!

Those Hell-class ancient Dragons that were preparing to spew Dragon Breath, along with those arrogant SS-Rank Expert skeleton generals, froze mid-air during their charge!

Their indestructible dark gold bones, under the obliteration of the Law, were like undergoing tens of millions of years of weathering!

The screams abruptly stopped.

Without even getting the chance to approach within ten meters of Li Er, they disintegrated inch by inch in mid-air, turning into gray powder drifting all over the sky!

Seeing this scene, the remaining surviving generals had their Soul fires tremble violently.

But the instinct of loyalty still drove them forward.

Yet the result was no different.

Li Er didn't even raise his hand, just a single glance, a single incantation.

The remaining generals fell one by one on the cold jade steps in front of Eternal Hall, dissipating completely and turning into nothingness.

The entire square returned to silence once again.

Only a thick layer of bone ash remained, recounting the undisputed, one-sided massacre just now.

"The nuisances have all been cleaned up."

Controlling Li Er, Zhou Huai stepped onto the stairs and stood in front of the dozens of meters tall bronze giant door of Eternal Hall.

Creak—

As if sensing the Aura of the newcomer, or perhaps the master inside the door had already made a certain decision.

The bronze doors of Eternal Hall emitted a dull and teeth-gritting friction sound, slowly opening to both sides.

An Aura mixed with ancient decay and imperial majesty rushed toward them from inside the hall.

Zhou Huai raised his eyes to look.

At the end of the empty and gloomy main hall.

That Human Emperor was still sitting upright on that bone throne.

Yet at this moment, he no longer possessed the arrogance and invincibility he had earlier when stubbornly resisting the Heavenly lightning outside.

His dark gold bones were covered with dense cracks like spiderwebs, full of holes, with scorched black marks everywhere struck by the purple lightning.

But even so.

He still sat straight.

His hands rested flat on the armrests of the throne, slightly raising his broken skull.

Even at his wits' end, even when his lamp was dried up and oil exhausted, it was still hard to conceal that peerless demeanor of ruling the world that he possessed!

The gates stood wide open.

The Human Emperor's weak gaze crossed the main hall, quietly looking at Li Er outside the door.

He had just watched with his own eyes as his last generals and subordinates turned into powder outside the door, dissipating completely.

Yet on his bone face, there was no superfluous emotion.

There was no anger, no malice, and no despair.

What remained was only a kind of calmness of seeing through life and death, where winners are kings and losers are villains.

The interior of the main hall was dead silent.

For a long time.

Controlling Li Er, Zhou Huai stood quietly outside the hall doors, not rushing to step in.

His gaze pierced through the gloomy and deep main hall, landing on the solitary bone throne at the end.

The Human Emperor.

What an arrogant yet fitting title.

Zhou Huai's heart was surprisingly calm at this moment.

There was no joy of avenging a great enmity, nor any excitement of slaying a formidable enemy.

He was merely thinking.

Thinking about what kind of obsession was burning in the eyes of this ruler of the old era when facing the Heavenly Dao lightning punishment that was enough to obliterate everything.

Thinking about what kind of determination and unwillingness were contained in his sentence "Dare to contend with the heavens".

"Who… exactly are you?"

The Human Emperor's voice was hoarse and weak, yet it still carried an unquestionable majesty, echoing in the empty main hall.

Zhou Huai did not reply.

He simply raised his footsteps, step by step, walking across the square full of ashes, stepping onto the cold stairs, and slowly walking into this hall belonging to the monarch of bygone days.

As he approached, the restrained Karma golden light on Li Er's body seemed to be inspired by some sort of summons, growing increasingly bright.

The brilliance intertwined with the righteous Aura and the ultimate principles of heaven and earth illuminated the gloomy main hall brightly, driving away the Death Qi and haze accumulated over tens of millions of years.

Above the throne, the Human Emperor's eye sockets burning with residual purple fire stared fixedly at Li Er.

From that golden light, he smelled an Aura that was incomparably familiar yet made him extremely disgusted.

That was… the taste of Heavenly Dao.

It was the taste of Law.

It was the taste of that set of shackles that imprisoned all things in the world and made him rebel throughout his life!

"Hehe…"

The Human Emperor's lower jawbone opened and closed up and down, emitting a dry, harsh laughter, resembling two rotten bones rubbing against each other.

Within the laughter, it was full of mockery and disdain.

"So that's how it is… So that's how it is…"

"I actually thought it was some fellow practitioner who had jumped out of the cage."

"Never did I expect… in the end, it's just a lackey wagging its tail and begging for pity under the feet of Heavenly Dao."

His broken skull raised slightly, and within the hollow eye sockets, those two purple Soul flames that were about to extinguish actually burst forth with terrifying light once again!

"Why must you act as a lackey of this Heavenly Dao?!"