Chapter 787: Did Not Take Me Seriously

That face was despairingly large, occupying the entirety of Zhou Huai's overhead field of vision.

It had no physical flesh and blood, being completely materialized from some ancient and obscure Law of Space.

The gullies all over its face resembled a riverbed dried up for tens of millions of years, and within a pair of pupil-less eyes carried the indifference of seeing through the vicissitudes of time, as well as the supreme coercion of riding above all living beings.

The moment this aged human face looked down, the surrounding space was frozen.

The indescribable high-dimensional sense of oppression, like a substantive mountain, weighed heavily upon the back of the Abyss Dragon Xiao Hei.

"Roar——!"

Facing this aged human face that blotted out the sky, Xiao Hei raised its head. It lifted that ferocious and huge dragon head, its dark golden slit pupils burning with raging abyss anger, letting out a violent roar towards the sky that shattered the clouds.

This roar, mixed with pure Quasi-God Level dragon might, directly whipped up a visible black sound wave in mid-air!

Xiao Hei didn't bother talking nonsense with the opponent at all, opening its abyssal giant mouth.

The surrounding temperature soared sharply, and the dark red destructive energy compressed and gathered wildly deep within its throat.

The next second, an Abyssal Dragon Breath with a diameter of over ten meters and containing the ultimate Law of Annihilation, like a beam of death cutting through the night, blasted fiercely towards the aged face in the night sky!

Zhou Huai had witnessed the power of this Dragon Breath with his own eyes.

Previously at the Ise Grand Shrine ruins, that high-defense and thick-HP Abyssal Profound Ice Alligator Turtle had its turtle shell forcefully blasted to pieces by Xiao Hei's ultimate Dragon Breath.

The scorching Dragon Breath accurately hit the aged face in the night sky.

However, a scalp-numbing scene occurred.

That destructive Dragon Breath, sufficient to vaporize a mountain range, unexpectedly did not erupt into any roaring or shockwaves when it contacted that aged face.

On the surface of that face, a ripple of space as delicate as water waves suddenly arose.

The Dragon Breath exhaled by Xiao Hei, like a clay ox entering the sea, directly penetrated that face and plunged into the unknown different-dimensional Void Realm, without harming the opponent in the slightest!

"Useless," Chun spoke from the side, "That isn't a physical entity, just a projection he cast into a high-dimensional dimension using the Law of Space. As long as you are on different spatial planes, even if this Little Black Dragon shouts until its throat breaks, it won't be able to touch a single hair of his."

Seeing that its attack was ineffective, Xiao Hei grew even more furious. With a flap of its wings, it prepared to rush straight into the high altitude and use its Physical Body to tear apart that bizarre space.

"Xiao Hei, stand down."

Zhou Huai raised his hand and gently patted the dragon's hard scales, stopping its meaningless riot.

He understood that dealing with a Space-type powerhouse of this level, purely brute force output would only be a futile consumption.

Right at this moment, the aged human face above the night sky spoke.

His voice rang out from all directions. The voice exuded a majesty that had gone through countless years.

"Don't be so anxious, young junior."

"Entering my territory yet greeting me in such a manner is not polite."

Zhou Huai calmly met that scrutinizing gaze, without the slightest evasion.

He slightly raised his chin, casually shoving his hands into his windbreaker pockets, his mind rapidly reviewing the intelligence he had previously collected regarding the world's eight major ruins.

This sea of yellow sand everywhere, the ancient and mysterious Law of Space, and this kind of high-dimensional projection that liked to act like a god or ghost.

Zhou Huai had his answer; this was the terrifying powerhouse who had awakened inside the Ancient Egyptian Ruins.

It was also one of the targets he had to resolve in the world-class quest Chaos of the Eight Directions issued by the System.

"Polite?"

Facing the questioning of this old-era powerhouse, Zhou Huai let out a light chuckle.

Without yielding in the slightest, he stared directly into that aged face. The Aura fused with the traits of multiple top-tier powerhouses was released without reservation at this moment, like a divine sword just unsheathed, forcefully carving out a Domain of his own in this night sky sealed by the Law of Space.

"You trapped us in this fake desert where even directions can't be distinguished and made us circle around for over half an hour."

Zhou Huai's voice carried mockery, "Old fellow, this sneaky way of welcoming guests by luring them into a trap isn't very courteous either, is it?"

"Hehe…"

Above the night sky, that aged human face condensed from the Law of Space suddenly twitched its shriveled mouth corners, emitting a bone-chilling low chuckle. That laughter sounded like two pieces of rough sandstone rubbing against each other, extremely grating to the ear, echoing back and forth throughout the dark space.

"Back in that world before, no one dared to speak to me like that," the old man's voice turned cold, carrying a high-and-mighty contempt, "Young junior, do you think that mastering a mere fur of the Law of Space allows you to act presumptuously in front of me?"

Standing on the wide back of the Abyss Dragon Xiao Hei, Zhou Huai still had his hands in his windbreaker pockets, with a calm expression, not intimidated in the slightest by this coercion riding above all living beings. He narrowed his eyes, locking onto the subtle changes in the surrounding space nodes through Victor's Void Omniscience passive within his body, in case the opponent launched a sudden attack.

The old man's pupil-less eyes rotated, like two bottomless dry wells, staring at Zhou Huai, sizing him up from top to bottom, and asked, "You are Duan's person, right?"

Zhou Huai's heart stirred slightly.

Mr. Duan?

This old monster really knew Mr. Duan. Judging from this tone, the two had already had some degree of contact or agreement before.

Seeing that Zhou Huai did not answer immediately, the old man's mountain-like face leaned forward slightly by a fraction, his voice like rolling muffled thunder: "Why didn't he come in person? When he awakened me back then, he talked endlessly with flowery descriptions. Now that I have completely awakened from my slumber, he sent an unweaned greenhorn like you to brush me off?"

Pausing for a moment, the old man's tone grew filled with doubt and disdain: "What? Did he run into some trouble and couldn't spare himself?"

Zhou Huai thought to himself that as expected.

The opponent not only treated this place as his own autocratic Domain, but also logically mistook him for an errand boy sent by Mr. Duan. Back when he encountered the ancient tree demon Chun at the Simon City Ruins, the other party also mistook him for Mr. Duan at first.

However, this was fine too.

Know yourself and know your enemy, a hundred battles without danger. Since the opponent actively imposed this identity on him, he might as well go with the flow and take the opportunity to extract some confidential information about Mr. Duan and these old-era monsters.

"So you, old sir, still remember Mr. Duan." Zhou Huai smiled, following along with the other's words, "Mr. Duan has indeed encountered trouble; he is currently busy handling the resurrection matters of several other ruins and truly cannot spare himself. Therefore, he specially sent me to pick you up, old sir, so we can conspire on a grand plan together."

Who would have thought that upon hearing Zhou Huai say this, the old man in the night sky suddenly let out a cold snort!

"Humph!"

This cold snort directly triggered a series of violent sonic booms in the Void Realm around Zhou Huai, startling the Abyss Dragon Xiao Hei into letting out a low, dissatisfied growl.

"He specially sent you to pick me up?" The wrinkles on the old man's face heavily squeezed together, and a trace of anger and brutality from being looked down upon instantly ignited in those hollow eyes: "That Duan fellow didn't come to find me in person at the first moment, and instead went to manage those pieces of Trash from other ruins? It seems he completely didn't take me seriously!"