Chapter 897: Ming Ze

The violent backlash force rolled back in reverse.

Leize's purple lightning was forcibly extinguished, the bones in his arms were shattered inch by inch, and he was sent flying backwards.

Honglian's proud scarlet battle armor was directly torn apart, and blood spewed wildly.

Fentian, Yan Sui, and Bo Ning were similarly sent flying backwards, and the five of them crashed heavily onto the ruined ground below.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Five giant craters were smashed into the ground, and smoke and dust soared into the sky.

Inside the bottom of the craters, the five of them struggled to get up, only to find that the Law Origin inside their bodies had been tightly locked by a black force.

Their mana values stagnated, making it difficult to even move a single finger.

Their vital energy surged, and their auras withered to the extreme.

Leize stared fixedly at the dark figure in mid-air, a sense of powerlessness rising from the bottom of his heart.

The five of them joining forces, even holding the determination for their Divine Souls to be completely destroyed, hadn't even managed to touch a corner of the opponent's clothing.

Mr. Duan's strength had now reached such a terrifying degree. This was not a gap that quantity could make up for, but an absolute suppression on a dimensional level.

In mid-air, Mr. Duan didn't even look at the five heavily injured people below; he just lowered his head and gently patted his cuffs with his white-gloved hand.

Afterwards, he stopped his movements, slowly raised his head, and his gaze crossed the ruins and clouds, looking towards a certain direction at an extreme height.

Mr. Duan held his black cane and slowly said,

"You two, aren't you considering making a move yet?"

Far away in the high sky, behind the clouds, two figures were suspended in the Void Realm.

One of them, a youth with yellow hair and casual attire, was sweating profusely as he looked at the battlefield below.

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said to the person beside him,

"Mr. Duan's strength is truly getting stronger and stronger."

The yellow-haired youth Qi Xing wiped away cold sweat: "This is stronger than when he fought us back then by I don't know how many tiers."

He turned his head to look at the expressionless youth beside him wearing a crisp trench coat.

"Ming Ze, what percentage of certainty do you have if you face him now?"

Ming Ze locked onto Mr. Duan below and replied expressionlessly,

"Ninety-nine percent."

Hearing this number, Qi Xing was stunned.

"No way? Such a high win rate? What peerless divine skill did you secretly practice behind my back these past few years? Even those five veteran SSS-ranks down there were instantly killed, and you actually have a ninety-nine percent win rate?"

Ming Ze didn't even blink his eyes and replied,

"This is the probability of failure."

Qi Xing's expression instantly stiffened.

He slumped his shoulders in discouragement:

"Damn it, isn't that a hundred percent chance of losing! With a ninety-nine percent failure rate, what the hell are we fighting for, let's just run away!"

Ming Ze shook his head, his gaze resolute.

"Even if there is only a 0.1 percent win rate, we still have to fight."

As his voice fell, ripples appeared in the space around Ming Ze, and the two of them directly disappeared from behind the clouds.

Soon, the two of them appeared above the battlefield, suspended a hundred meters away from Mr. Duan.

Honglian at the bottom of the crater below lifted her head with difficulty, and when she saw clearly who had come, her face was full of disbelief.

"Ming Ze?! Qi Xing?!" Honglian cried out in shock: "You… you guys hurry and leave!"

Facing the arrival of the two, Mr. Duan was not surprised.

He unhurriedly wiped his cuffs, without even looking at the two of them:

"I thought the two of you had changed your personalities and chosen to be turtles hiding their heads."

Ming Ze ignored the exclamation below and looked at Mr. Duan with a complex expression.

This man had once led them out of desperate straits, bestowed them with power, but ultimately destroyed their homeland with his own hands.

"Teacher, as your student." Ming Ze's voice echoed over the ruins.

"I have never feared battle."

Mr. Duan looked as if he had heard something funny.

He stopped his movements and suddenly burst out laughing, his laughter sounding exceptionally harsh in the ruins.

"Hahaha…" Mr. Duan shook his head and pointed his cane at Ming Ze:

"In that case, wasn't it you who betrayed me first back then and colluded with the Heavenly Dao?"

As soon as these words came out, the entire battlefield fell into a dead silence.

Mr. Duan looked at Ming Ze, his gaze sharp:

"You think the Heavenly Dao helped you reach the half-step transcendence."

"And you think you have the qualification to go against me?"

Except for Qi Xing who knew about it on the side, the five people at the bottom of the crater below were full of shock, clearly knowing about this matter for the first time.

"What?!" Disregarding the excruciating pain all over his body, Leize abruptly propped up his body and stared fiercely at Ming Ze: "Ming Ze… was it you who colluded with the Heavenly Dao?!"

Honglian's brain went completely blank.

They had always thought that it was because Mr. Duan wanted to devour them in pursuit of a higher Realm, actively bringing down the world-destroying heavenly punishment of the Heavenly Dao, and thus they focused all their hatred on Mr. Duan.

But now Mr. Duan actually said that back then Ming Ze was the first to betray and colluded with the Heavenly Dao?! Ming Ze actually turned out to be a traitor of The Eighth World back then!

Facing the shocked and incomprehending gazes of his former comrades, Ming Ze still remained expressionless.

"At that time, I only did what I thought was right."

Ming Ze looked straight into Mr. Duan's eyes.

"Me, Qi Xing, all of us, including everyone of the Human Race in The Eighth World, should not be stepping stones on your path to success."

Ming Ze's tone intensified:

"Teacher, why do you think the world is constantly being destroyed and constantly reorganized?"

"From the First World, all the way to the current Ninth World."

"Even the Ninth World has already reached the verge of destruction."

Ming Ze reached out and pointed at this patch of ruins, questioning aloud:

"Is the Heavenly Dao trying to eliminate all humans?"

"From beginning to end, the only one it wants to get rid of is you alone."

Hearing these words, the five people below were completely stunned.

The Heavenly Dao constantly rebooted the world, actually just to wipe out Mr. Duan alone?

All of them were merely sacrifices in this game?

Qi Xing on the side chimed in, pointing at Mr. Duan and saying loudly:

"That's right, Teacher, you are the virus born from the First World."

"You infected world after world, making every era a complete mess."

Qi Xing spread his hands:

"The Heavenly Dao is like an antivirus software."

"In order to get rid of you, this super virus that cannot be cleared by conventional means."

"It can only format over and over again, clearing the entire world along with us!"

Hearing the accusations of the two, Mr. Duan laughed even louder.

"I am a virus?"

"Hahaha…"

Mr. Duan tapped the Void Realm with his cane, making a crisp sound.

"Truly an interesting metaphor."

He abruptly restrained his smile, his eyes bursting with murderous intent as he looked at Ming Ze and Qi Xing before him, as well as the five heavily injured people below.

"Since I am a virus, then today I will devour all of you!"

Finishing his sentence, Mr. Duan directly made a move.

The black cane in his hand suddenly struck downwards.

"Boom!"

A terrifying gravitational force instantly erupted with Mr. Duan at the center.

A black whirlpool directly condensed in the palm of his hand.

That was the pure Law of Devouring!

Leize and the other four at the bottom of the crater were already heavily injured, and in front of this suction force, they simply had no room to resist.

"No—!" Honglian let out a scream.