Chapter 498 — Now That You're Here, You're Not Leaving

"What?" Shiying's words left Ralph and the Angel God utterly baffled.

They also took the guild masters of the various nations, and Leitung Shuo seated high above, somewhat by surprise.

What did that mean?

Give him a minute?

What was Shijin about to do?

The audience before the broadcast was likewise taken aback. Could it be that Shiyu had not recovered and needed one more minute—just like the cooldown of a game skill?

Obviously, though, they were overthinking it.

Watching the sky, Shi Jin said he would give him a minute before the next bout, yet even so he was already summoning a beast!

BOOM!!!

A black summoning array wreathed in orange flames appeared at Shi Shuo's side.

Shi Jin reached out, plunging his hand straight into the summoning array; then, drawing upward through the empty air, he pulled a crimson divine sword slowly out of the beast-taming space amid a surging blast of astonishing heat, and it came to rest in his grasp.

That single scene stunned the vast majority of the crowd.

Wait a moment?

That... wasn't that the Sword Spirit?

Within Donghuang, the uproar exploded instantly.

[Holy hell, who was it that said Shi Jin had dissolved his contract with the Sword Spirit? Who? Step forward, I promise I won't beat you to death. What kind of rhythm are you stirring up? It clearly wasn't dissolved at all!]

[No, that's not right. He contracted the Mechanical Illusion God and an abyssal demigod reincarnation, so the one he cut loose wasn't the Sword Spirit?? Could it be the other Mechanical Illusion God?]

[Impossible. This is driving me insane, I can't figure it out...]

You could say that moments ago people had been utterly certain Shi Jin had most likely replaced the Sword Spirit, but in this instant they were dumbfounded.

It made no sense. This Sword Spirit was the reincarnation of a titled legend's mixed bloodline; strong as it was, it did not even count as a demigod reincarnation, so how could it possibly not be the one replaced?

"What are you trying to do!!!" The viewers of the broadcast could not sense anything, but Ralph, standing very close to Shi Jin, and even the God of Angels, both detected the terrifying power contained within that Sword Spirit.

Within the arena and beyond it, countless gazes converged on Shi Jin.

In the alternate space, the Meteor Clan assassin who had seen Shi Zhuo glance faintly at the sky suddenly felt a jolt in his heart, and even Yun Han was seized by a bad premonition.

The next moment, Shi Ying's voice rang out, and at the same time, she entered the possession state.

A fiery red aura coiled around him, dyeing his black hair and black eyes red; as he shifted into red hair and crimson eyes, the voice fell as well, cold and emotionless.

"Nothing much. It's just that some otherworldly totems have invaded the League Island with ill intentions. To keep them from disturbing the match, we may as well dispose of them first."

The moment Shi Jin finished speaking, the whole hall erupted. The black phone jolted, and in an instant it too was staring at the empty sky; before the broadcast, countless viewers were struck blank.

What??

They had yet to react, but Yun Han had already turned ashen.

"Impossible!!!!" In the alternate space, Yun Han froze, then roared in uncomprehending fury.

Discovered? How could that be!

The next moment, Shi Jin, immortal sword in hand, swung it toward the heavens; and then a blade of light, blinding beyond measure, red and blue and white and black intertwined like a divine verdict breaking dawn out of darkness, with a sharp crack, cleaved the void to pieces!

An astonishing sword intent shrouded the entire League Island.

At that moment, with the crimson pupils of Ten Thousand Swords United in the Jade, within the death spirit space the several imprisoned totem death spirits bore a massive load and wailed in agony, while Shi Ying's aura climbed directly to the extreme edge of a true demigod; her instantaneous combat power might already surpass weak demigods of the likes of the Ancient Kingdom of Heavenly Sword.

This was the peak state attainable when a Sword Spirit evolved with two god-tier resources possessed a beast-tamer who had used three god-tier resources to strengthen himself.

Even amid a whole pack of monstrosities—the Chaos Panda, the Azure Dragon, the World Ginseng, the Vast Sea Spirit, the Beast of Fortune—it could still take first place within the team with absolute superiority, the most terrifying combat state of all.

While those around, even the God of Angels, looked on in utter shock, Shi Jin and the others, guided directly by Qi, succeeded in cleaving apart the alternate space where the Meteor Clan assassins were concealed; in that instant the vault of heaven tore open, and the world seemed split in two.

Before the viewers' eyes, in what felt like a single instant, space shattered into fragments, and then, in the sky, the otherworldly totems Shi Jin had spoken of appeared before the people!!

In the shattered sky, a pitch-black expanse, three venomous beasts radiating evil auras and oppressive radiation, their forms utterly horrifying, were fully revealed above the League Island.

The black phone stared at the sky in shock, with no idea when this pack of things had invaded; at this very moment, through the broadcast screen, people all over the world could see their terrifying visages.

A colossal centipede over a thousand meters long, with at least a thousand legs, its whole body like a black-and-gold statue forged of poured ink, writhed within the dark clouds, its crimson, blood-chilling pupils fixed upon the earth.

A scarlet-black scorpion-like creature, like a sky demon god, black mist coiling around its enormous tail stinger and giant pincers, a terrifying weapon sufficient to annihilate a city, swaying before its body.

Between them, a giant disaster spider, as though the incarnation of calamity and pestilence, its pupils as deep and bottomless as a pure black hole, had already assumed an attacking posture; in its mind, the will of Yun Han, King of the Meteor Clan, was being transmitted with frantic intensity.

Destroy! Annihilate!! Obliterate everything!!!

In a place unimaginably far away, Yun Han was so frightened by Shi Jin that his heart nearly leaped out of his chest. He truly could not fathom how Shi Jin had discovered them; after all, before this he had even tested other demigods, and had his subordinates enter the League Island to drill in advance.

And the result was that indeed no one had detected the traces of the Meteor Clan assassins aided by the power of the Void Concealment Divine Stone—not even demigods. Yet under such circumstances, just how had Shi Jin found them?

In that instant, Yun Han could not afford to care about anything else, and directly ordered the three assassins to launch suicide-bomb attacks; he could no longer concern himself with the effects, and gave the order on the spot!

"You hid well. Don't hide next time."

As Shi Jin tightened his grip on the immortal sword, those three enormous venomous creatures swelled to an even greater size in the span of a few short moments; astonishing black light and black mist bloomed from their bodies, sending their energy climbing higher and higher.

In almost a single instant, the aura of every one of them reached its absolute peak; an ominous fluctuation poured forth from them, as though drawn from the infinite malice at the bottom of sapient life's heart. That peerless aura made the presidents of every association shoot to their feet with a start, and left Lei Tang saying that in an instant he faced a mortal foe, his face etched with shock.

Invaders.

Just as Shi Che had said—there were totem invaders.

And judging from the current situation, they intended to do harm to the League Island!

Self-detonation!

They were preparing to self-detonate!

The energy fluctuations erupting from each of them were already no weaker than a single strike from a demigod.