Chapter 719: Chapter 719: As You Wish

Below the River Wave City, tens of thousands of Illuminating Soul Realm martial artists were sitting in a neat row and were releasing their life vitality as they maintained a meditative posture. They were all wearing the garbs of the Heavenly Evil Sect.

Many of them would occasionally take out low-grade life vitality crystals, crush them, absorb their life vitality, and then release it through their own bodies.

Above them, hundreds of Internal Elixir Realm martial artists were rapidly traveling back and forth. After being divided into groups, their life vitality would be gathered together and it would form several thick beams of life vitality that would then shoot upwards.

Above these Internal Elixir Realm martial artists, there were six Virtual Tribulation Realm martial artists in green who were setting up a giant rune using the beams of life vitality. In the middle of the rune, there was one person - Letitia.

No one in River Wave City could match Letitia.

If what happened had happened in the past, no sect would be able to bring Letitia down, even if they gathered all of their warriors to fight as a single unit. In that scenario, Letitia would be strong enough to slaughter all of the warriors in River Wave City all on her own.

But that was before. The Heavenly Evil Sect had developed an uncanny way to fight, and it had worked brilliantly for them. First, they would gather the life vitality of tens of thousands of Illuminating Soul Realm disciples in order to form a big array that could cover the sky. This big array would then be controlled by six Virtual Tribulation Realm warriors, and with that, they would trap their prey - Letitia, in this instance.

Despite being a warrior at the Life and Death Realm, Letitia couldn't break out of the bubble that was enclosing her. She continued to attack the rune, but she was already showing a trace of exhaustion on her face.

Every time she accumulated her life vitality, a horrifyingly cold energy would burst out of her body. Under the extreme cold, the rune that was trapping her would greatly dim.

Still, she would not be able to break through the rune. Despite that, no one from the Heavenly Evil Sect dared to underestimate her, and her strength as a Life and Death Realm warrior.

When the life vitality in the rune became depleted, the Illuminating Soul Realm martial artists below would take out life vitality crystals to supplement it. After that, they would continuously send life vitality upwards.

They didn't need to fight. All they needed to do was to sit, and spend their own life vitality.

This method of fighting was eerily similar to Zen's Small Circulation Killing Array. Its primary principle was to use over a thousand small runes to provide energy for a larger, much stronger rune. The division of labor was clear, and its efficiency was increased by tenfold.

The six Virtual Tribulation Realm martial artists continued to control the life vitality coming from below them. Then, using the rune, they would launch a counterattack at Letitia.

The space inside the rune was several thousand feet long and wide. Letitia was moving around, trying her best to avoid the attacks. Although she was enclosed in such a space, it was clear that it would not be easy for them to kill her.

And within a short period of time, the two sides were already starting to confront each other.

Zen rushed over. He had no idea how long Letitia and the Heavenly Evil Sect had been locked in a face-off, but seeing Letitia's miserable state broke his heart into pieces.

Deep in his heart, he still cared about Letitia a lot.

To be honest, Letitia held a much more important position in Zen's heart as compared with Margaret. When Zen got angry earlier, he had contradicted Letitia defiantly. He didn't expect that she would run away in anger.

More surprisingly, she actually went all the way to such a dangerous place by herself. River Wave City had been occupied by half of the forces of the Heavenly Evil Sect. Even the alliance had avoided the city. 'What were you thinking? Did you really intend to take the city by yourself? Is everything just a game to you now?' Zen thought as he looked on what was happening.

It didn't take Rocher, Lewis and Patrick long to arrive. As they saw the scene before them, the expressions on their faces drastically changed.

“Master Ning! Master Ning is trapped in the rune! Hurry back to Oracle City and call for reinforcements!” Lewis immediately cried out the moment he saw what was happening.

“It's too late for that,” replied Rocher with a cautious look on his face.

Patrick was also wearing a worried look on his face. As members of Cloud Hall, how could they just stand watching as their head was being attacked in front of them? And worse, she had a high possibility of perishing in front of them! ř𝔞Νȏ฿ЁṤ

At that moment, Zen said to Rocher and the others, “Guys, please, don't do anything now. Let's just wait for a moment.”

The Heavenly Evil Sect martial artists had used such a special tactic to unleash a power that could even trap Letitia. As Rocher and the rest weren't as strong as Letitia, it was almost sure that they would be killed if they acted on impulse. Thoughts swirled inside Zen's head. 'How would we deal with this situation?'

Rocher didn't say anything else. But soon enough, he took out his long sword, closed his eyes and then started to gather all his energy.

He was fully aware that his combat power was insufficient to deal with the disciples of the Heavenly Evil Sect. The only people he could match with in terms of strength were the warriors at the later stage of the Internal Elixir Realm. But even if he was no match for the warriors at the primary level of the Virtual Tribulation Realm, if he used his Sword Eye to gain momentum, he might have a chance.

Seeing this, Patrick and Lewis braced themselves. They were not any stronger than Rocher, and so all they could do was to stand on his sides with the sole purpose of protecting him. Such a battle was not something that warriors of their level could get involved in.

As all of these were happening, Zen started slowly approaching River Wave City. At that time, he was only five or six miles away from the city. Slowly, he raised the message token and said in a low voice, “Tia, I see you.”

While he was speaking, he was looking at Letitia who was still trapped by the rune. A burning attack was just launched against her and fortunately, she was able to dodge it. When she heard Zen's voice, her head jerked up, and she immediately looked towards his direction. Her face was pained, but she still did not say anything and just continued to attack the rune.

“I know you heard me,” Zen said.

Indeed, Letitia had heard him, but she was just unwilling to talk to him.

“You don't want to talk to me? Well then, I'm leaving,” Zen said half-jokingly.

But Letitia once again didn't reply. Instead, he saw that she was once again starting to attack the rune. Unfortunately, the rune looked very stable, and Letitia's attack did not harm it one bit. With an exasperated voice, Letitia suddenly replied, “Just leave. You're no longer a disciple of Cloud Hall. My life or death has nothing to do with you.”

Upon hearing Letitia's words, Zen couldn't help but sigh. 'This woman is really stubborn, ' he said to himself. His anger was slowly brewing inside him, but he thought for a while and calmed himself down. With a deep breath, he said, “I'm sorry, Tia.”

“Sorry for what?” Letitia replied emotionlessly.

“I shouldn't have spoken to you like that,” he replied back, his voice hush.

Letitia pursed her lips. The life vitality in her hand turned into a blue curtain of frost and ice, blocking her from the front. A raging inferno suddenly appeared in the rune and rushed towards her.

Despite the great power of the raging inferno, it was still unable to break through the wall of frost and ice that Letitia had created.

“There's nothing that you shouldn't have done. Don't men always do the right things?” Letitia said, her voice as cold as her powers.

A wry smile graced Zen's lips. It seemed that Letitia couldn't let go of what happened between Margaret and him.

At this critical juncture, Letitia brought up old scores again. Zen didn't know what to say.

“I admit that I was wrong. I'm so sorry,” Zen said apologetically.

“I'm sorry, Zen. It's too late,” Letitia replied coldly.

“Then how will you forgive me?” Zen asked.

“I'll forgive you if you die,” she answered flatly. The wall of frost and ice around Letitia began slowly melting, so she abruptly shot out a strand of life vitality and began to reinforce it once again.

“As you wish,” Zen replied as he smiled. Without saying anything else, he flew towards River Wave City.

“What? Wait! Oh no! Zen!”

Letitia cried as she saw Zen rush down the city like a madman. With her eyes as wide as plates, she screamed in her heart, 'Are you crazy?!'

Although Letitia was currently in a disadvantageous position, she would not die. Even without the help of others, she might still be able to escape the rune.

The method of combining the powers of tens of thousands of warriors for a single purpose was not without its own flaws, and Letitia was hell bent on finding its weakness. The life vitality that was gathered together itself was extremely complex, not to mention the life vitality of the tens of thousands of warriors that were contributing to it. Even the movements of the six Virtual Tribulation Realm martial artists were not the same. As long as Letitia had enough time, she believed that she could find this whole thing's flaw.

In the past, Letitia would have warned Zen not to come over. Although she could not break through Heavenly Evil Sect's tactic for the time being, it would not be difficult for her to escape unscathed, especially if she used her trump card.

With Zen's sudden involvement, however, things had become much more complicated. As Letitia was sure that Zen didn't know how terrifying this battle technique was, she started becoming nervous.

Darius, who was the most important person in River Wave City, sneered when he saw a warrior at the middle stage of the Virtual Tribulation Realm rushing into the city. “Interesting. Another brainless fly enters the Birdcage.”

The Birdcage was a method of fighting.

It was a technique that handed down from the York Divine Kingdom. Mainly, it was a technique where the strength of thousands of warriors was gathered. However, Eddie and Simon didn't seem to be good at commanding. On the contrary, Darius was a natural commander, and under his command, the movements of tens of thousands of warriors were highly unified.

This tactic had its own name, but Darius liked to call it Birdcage. He arranged a cage and waited for the birds outside to rush in. It truly was an appropriate name for what they were doing.

'What is that guy thinking? I'm able to trap the head of Cloud Hall successfully, and she's at Life and Death Realm! I'll be able to kill him in an instant, ' Darius thought inwardly, chuckling softly. Slowly, he extended his hand and took out a black banner. Then, he waved it in the air, creating a special shape.

The Illuminating Soul Realm warriors below still continued to send their life vitality upwards, and the Internal Elixir Realm warriors at the middle level were still traveling back and forth. They changed the direction of some life vitality and shot it towards one of the Virtual Tribulation Realm warriors.

Originally, six Virtual Tribulation Realm warriors had set up the giant rune together to trap Letitia inside. But now, three of them changed to use the life vitality sent from below to attack Zen.

So basically, half of the strength of those tens of thousands of warriors had been shifted towards Zen's direction, with the sole purpose of killing him.

As a result, Letitia felt that the pressure lessened. Even if a ray of life vitality was basically after him, Zen's face didn't show the slightest trace of fear.

If Darius knew that the warrior he was trying to get killed was Zen, he definitely wouldn't have only used half of his power to attack Zen. But since he didn't know, he thought that it was already enough to kill some unimportant yet exceptionally brave warrior who had the audacity to enter River Wave City.

As she saw this scene unfolding, Letitia increasingly became anxious. Although she could still protect herself from the rune, she wouldn't be able to break through it in a short period of time.

“Go to perdition!” Darius laughed coldly as he waved the black banner in his hand again. Then, a yellow banner appeared, circling around his other hand.

“Sizzle...”

The life vitality of tens of thousands of Illuminating Soul Realm warriors turned into a huge blue electric net that suddenly wrapped Zen inside. At the same time, the electric net began to contract violently, releasing power that was far stronger than the attacks of ordinary Virtual Tribulation Realm warriors.

Rocher's eyes were tightly shut. He knew that Zen was facing great danger, which was why he was quick in gathering his strength. The power of the Sword Eye was terrifying, but it took a very long time to activate it.

On his sides, Patrick and Lewis were standing guard.

Despite wanting to do anything else, they couldn't as their strength was below his.

Boom!

When the electric net reached its limit, it suddenly erupted, leaving a ball of incandescent light in its wake. As the light completely condensed, its momentum and might became comparable to the full force of a Life and Death Realm warrior.

Letitia's heart trembled, and a strong feeling of regret sprouted in her heart.

“Zen!”

Even if Letitia was hit by this attack, she wouldn't be able to escape without any kind of defense.

While she knew that Zen had an extraordinary physique and had already broken through to the Virtual Tribulation Realm, she wasn't sure if he could block such an attack.

“Do you really want to die because of a single sentence? Don't be so silly!” Letitia stared at the light, her face full of worry.

Not long after, the blazing white light slowly disappeared. Many of the martial artists' eyes were focused on it. Darius had a cold smile on his lips. He thought the man should have already turned to ash.

However, his expression immediately darkened the moment he saw that the warrior he tried to kill was still alive, unharmed.

“Am I stupid?” Zen asked, as he floated unharmed, with a smile on his face. He looked back and turned to where Letitia was.

As Zen was safe and sound, Letitia's anxious heart became fully at ease. However, her face darkened as she coldly said, “Well, you can go to perdition!”

The life vitality of over ten thousand Illuminating Soul Realm warriors, when gathered together, would be exceedingly terrifying. Even if Zen had the body similar to a high-grade fairy weapon, he still wouldn't be able to resist such magnitude of power. If he had resisted the blow physically, he would have been seriously injured, if he didn't die.

However, before that power erupted, Zen had already circulated the power of the Space Law to float outside the space.

This was what made the Space Law invulnerable. The Space Law and the Time Law were the two most mysterious of all laws. It was true that controlling this type of law was difficult, but once one was able to control it, he or she would have unlimited edge over his or her opponents.

Now that Zen had mastered the second layer of the Space Law, he was like a fish swimming in space. No matter what storm might come, he would be as good as a fish in water. It was very difficult to hurt him unless his opponent was also proficient in the Space Law.

Facing this man who suddenly appeared out of nowhere, Darius realized that he was probably in big trouble.

Previously, with the Birdcage, he could guard River Wave City without any worries. Occasionally, he would lead thousands of warriors to go out and train. Those ordinary Virtual Tribulation Realm martial artists weren't matches for him. As long as he waved his banner, he could easily kill them.

The moment he returned to River Wave City, the head of Cloud Hall had already launched crazy attacks on his city.

As they were caught off guard, thousands of people were killed. Even Darius himself had almost lost his life. Fortunately, he was able to run away fast enough. In a moment of desperation, he quickly gathered all of the warriors in the city and quickly arranged his Birdcage.

When he realized that he had captured a huge bird, a Life and Death Realm warrior, and he had the liberty to kill her, he was overjoyed.

It was only a matter of time before he succeeded. If Letitia wouldn't be able to break through the Birdcage soon, her life vitality would be exhausted at last. By then, she would be too weak to fight back.

Also, Darius had so many plans with her.

That woman was the head of Cloud Hall. She was probably the strongest woman in the Central Region. Moreover, she was shockingly young and had not yet married. If he could capture this woman alive... Darius had already been lost in reverie.

He was very confident that he would be able to turn his illusions into reality. As long as he exhausted Letitia's life vitality, he would have a lot of methods at his disposal that would make her lose her ability to resist. Moreover, he would change her into a dissolute woman.

That was why Darius had been extremely patient in this battle. Under that patience, he had hidden a burning desire that would do everything to get satiated.

Never would he have thought that a Virtual Tribulation Realm martial artist would appear at this time, and ruin everything!

River Wave City was the outpost position of the Heavenly Evil Sect. For the time being, Oracle City would not send out any troops to attack them, but why did Zen suddenly attack them?

When Darius saw Zen, he immediately gathered the power of the Birdcage in order to get rid of him.

He never expected that Zen's strength was far beyond his imagination. Darius was experienced, but he wasn't sure what method Zen used to avoid his attack.

He only knew that he was in danger now.

However, at this critical juncture, he would not easily retreat, much less flee. River Wave City was a sturdy fortress, so he wouldn't leave it behind. Moreover, he knew that he couldn't outrun the head of Cloud Hall.

Right now, he could only fight as his life was on the line.

Whirl!

Darius quickly waved his banner, and the six Virtual Tribulation Realm elders also quickly changed their positions. While drawing life vitality to support the rune in the air, they were setting up another giant rune. The rune flashed and immediately shrouded in Zen's direction.

No matter what happened, Zen would not let Darius get what he wanted. He didn't stop at all but flew straight towards the Illuminating Soul Realm warriors at the bottom of the group. If they kept supporting those Virtual Tribulation Realm warriors above, this array would never be broken.

Zen knew how to break the array with a glance, and a sneer appeared on his face as he turned towards the Illuminating Soul Realm warriors. Since these independent warriors had chosen to join the Heavenly Evil Sect, then they must be ready to die at any time.