Chapter 694: 693. Shakyamuni
Lu Yao landed on the ground, staring at his two opponents, a man and a woman, and said slowly, "Angels, huh? Why only two of you?"
Even with his clothes torn and hair disheveled, Alpha's gentle and refined demeanor didn't diminish. He said unhurriedly,
"This lady is the Third Apostle, Mother of the Wilderness, and I am the Fourth Apostle, Alpha. The First Apostle will arrive within 60 seconds. Meanwhile, let us entertain you."
This person had an air of "elegance never goes out of style."
However, what made Lu Yao more curious was what the other had just shouted… Just as he thought this, Alpha made his move!
He solemnly shouted out his soul's command: "Law: Confinement!"
Suddenly, everything went black before Lu Yao's eyes, and he couldn't hear any sounds; his sense of smell and touch also completely failed, as if a mysterious force had stripped him of his five senses.
However, it wasn't a big problem, as his Divine Thought could still sense everything outside, and it firmly locked onto the enemy.
Alpha spoke again: "Pain! Despair!"
The effects of the skills were just like their names, causing both physical and mental suffering to the opponent.
Lu Yao became somewhat curious, "Is this Word Spirit? It does have some essence of Law Elemental Spirit. Plus, the power is not small either. Ordinary people at the Golden Body Realm would lose the ability to resist in an instant."
After feeling it for a bit, he gathered his Martial Path True Intent and roared! The psychic force wrapped around him was instantly dispersed.
Alpha could only give a wry smile, "A strong man whose body and spirit have been tempered to the extreme."
Just then, Lu Yao's body became blurry and elongated like a television program with a poor signal.
This was the afterimage that appeared with extreme speed. In the next instant, he suddenly appeared behind Alpha, his fist thundering out!
"So fast!"
Alpha could only manage to turn half of his body and threw out a punch to meet the attack head-on.
Luckily, the "Mother of the Wilderness," although extraordinarily large, had impressive speed and reflexes. She managed to support in time, her claws directly tearing towards Lu Yao!
Lu Yao launched another punch, clashing hard with the woman.
Thereby, the attacks of the three collided like meteorites, unleashing a terrifying energy that swept up vast white shockwaves!
In front of the shockwaves, the hard island rocks shattered like decayed wood, blending with the seawater to form a giant wave of dirt and stone that exploded into the sky!
Right under their feet, a crater as large as a stadium appeared instantly, with enormous cracks slowly spreading out.
The apocalyptic commotion took a while before slowly subsiding. Lu Yao stood calmly in his original spot, while the two opponents were blasted flying hundreds of meters away.
"The Mother of the Wilderness" shook her smoking arm, her face stern, but inside she was astonished at the enemy's strength. To think he had the upper hand against two!
At this moment, the woman's eyes flickered rapidly as if calculating something.
Alpha became even more ragged, but still maintained his poise and chuckled, "Every time the apocalypse comes, the world always breeds strong individuals like you, but without exception, they all fail."
Lu Yao said slowly, "Is that so? I actually want to try."
In his body, the 360 Nuclear Fusion Acupoints ran at 90% power, and a horrifying energy surged within!
Alpha instantly sensed the danger and urgently shouted, "Shield!"
A translucent film of light appeared on both of the Primordial Ancestors as a form of protection.
"What use is a turtle shell?"
Lu Yao exerted force in his legs, making the hard island rock beneath his feet directly vanish into a pit as big as a swimming pool.
The surging energy transformed into speed beyond its limit, his figure once again stretching into a blurry shadow, only even faster this time.
In the blink of an eye, he flittered past Alpha and "Mother of the Wilderness" ten times like a butterfly piercing through flowers, each pass accompanied by a thunderous boom.
The booming sounds were so dense, so rapid, and merged into one that they seemed like a single sound.
The two Primordial Ancestors' bodies consecutively burst open with large pits, their flesh and bones turning inside out, a terrifying sight to behold.
"Accelerated to 7 times the speed of sound within the atmosphere! And still this agile!"
Alpha exclaimed in amazement, protecting his head with one hand and his chest with the other as he triggered the Soul Voice: "Slowdown!"
Lu Yao's speed instantly slowed, and only then did his figure become visible.
It was also the first time he had converted all his energy into speed, unleashing a fearsome godspeed. Under this velocity, even the air became as hard as cement.
To outsiders, Lu Yao had disappeared for just an instant when the two enemies consecutively suffered terrible heavy blows.
After igniting 360 Nuclear Fusion Acupoints, both strength and speed had obtained terrifying enhancement.
However, the consumption had also increased manifold, and even though Lu Yao's True Qi surged like an ocean, barely sustaining the 360 "Mini Suns."
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The "Mother of the Wilderness" forcibly closed the wound on her left chest and said indifferently, "If you have any other trump cards, better use them. If you don't want to die, stop holding back."
While speaking, she glanced at Lu Yao, though her eyes lacked hostility.
Alpha, with a hole punched through his chest and abdomen, shook his head and chuckled bitterly:
"This is the gap in raw strength, and there's nothing I can do about it. Let's leave it to The First Apostle."
The two exchanged words, hardly resembling individuals engaged in a life-or-death struggle on the verge of being killed.
Lu Yao was also puzzled—his two opponents seemed to lack the will to fight.
Though "buying time to wait for reinforcements" was not wrong, such low desire for combat was more akin to wage workers waiting for their pay.
There was a sense of helplessness, as if saying, "The boss's company is about to go bankrupt, and there is nothing I can do about it."
It was at this time that a female voice suddenly transmitted from his own Star Key:
[Primitive powerhouse, I am the "Mother of the Wilderness." I am willing to join forces with you! To escape our respective fates!]
Lu Yao's expression remained unchanged, while the other party rapidly spoke like a machine gun:
[I know you don't trust me, but The First Apostle is about to arrive! He is much more powerful than us. He can foresee the future! And he can summon himself from past timelines! Show your capabilities, to survive his grasp, then we can consider further cooperation.]
At this moment, only 50 seconds had passed since the two sides met.
Alpha, making a visor with his hand, looked off into the distance and said, "Ah, here he comes finally."
In the sky, a meteor-like human silhouette approached at high speed, reaching the scene in the next second.
The newcomer was a young man, wearing a white robe and seated cross-legged in the void.
He had a square face and large ears, a majestic presence about him, with a bit of a Buddha's temperament.
Alpha let out a slight breath of relief: "Shakyamuni, you finally came."
Shakyamuni's voice was grand: "I was busy repairing the damage caused by that bastard Ying Zheng and arrived a step late. From now on, I will deal with this person."
After speaking, he narrowed his phoenix eyes, looking towards Lu Yao.
Lu Yao felt a slight numbness at the back of his head, the first premonition of danger since he had reached the Primordial Realm with Divine Sense Perception!
However, his whole being was also excited! Life-and-death combat was the best catalyst for evolution.
At that moment, Shakyamuni sneered contemptuously: "A man who does not exist in the past or the future? It seems today is the day of your death."
As soon as he opened his eyes, it seemed as if a vast amount of black paint was thrown upon the world, space twisted, and the scenery blurred.
In an instant, he pulled Lu Yao into a different dimension!
"Sun God techniques!?"