The Cairo wilderness.
The Undead, the Serpent Scorpion Medusa, the Flame Witch, and other top-tier Monarch-level powerhouses were clashing. At times, nether radiance shot into the heavens, plunging the sky into darkness; at others, raging flames swept across the land, blazing suns illuminating the firmament, covering a radius of hundreds of miles.
On the battlefield, Euryale was drenched in cold sweat, seized by a sense of impending catastrophe.
Lu Jun's rate of progress was far too fast. After the National Government Tournament, it was almost one threshold per day, charging wildly toward Forbidden Curse.
He heard the Harpy Medusa's attempt at reconciliation, and with his own mission in Africa already perfectly completed, he should have left.
But Lu Jun let out a cold laugh. Knowing that Euryale possessed an extremely vengeful nature, he was unwilling to leave behind too many future troubles. Thus, without saying a word, he raised the black-gold divine sword, and a heavy, razor-sharp aura surged skyward.
Euryale understood the other party's intent. Her expression abruptly turned ugly as she hissed, "Don't think I'm truly afraid of you."
Buzz buzz buzz!
The next moment, Lu Jun struck directly. Terrifying spiritual power reverberated from between his brows. With a single thought, a constellation formed as high-tier Metal magic was released. Behind him, a vast, invisible, formless ocean of primordial magnetic force surged upward, transforming into boundless platinum radiance.
In an instant, endless Taibai Venus Primordial Magnetic Qi slashed downward. Every strand of white brilliance contained peerless sharpness, capable of cutting down all things, engulfing the towering Harpy Giant Serpent on the ground.
Puchi!
Euryale suffered a heavy blow, letting out an earth-shaking scream. The hard serpent scales covering her body were forcibly shaved off by an entire layer. Countless sword-mark wounds emerged, as if subjected to a thousand cuts.
She turned into a blood-drenched, emaciated crimson giant serpent, with even bone and flesh severed in parts.
It wasn't that the Harpy Medusa hadn't tried her utmost to resist. Her golden-pink vertical pupils bloomed with radiance at every moment.
Yet who would have thought that when the brown-gray petrification curse collided head-on with the invisible, formless platinum primordial magnetic qi, it not only failed to block the Metal element, but instead acted like a whetstone. The countless threads of platinum radiance easily sliced and tore through, emerging even sharper, their power greatly increased.
Earth gives birth to Metal. The surging baptism of earth elements instead caused the Metal qi to rise steadily.
Lu Jun was surprised. He hadn't expected the Metal element to counter Medusas so strongly. Thus, he showed no mercy, raising his hand to slash again and again. Hundreds and thousands of sharp sword lights fell, each like a startled rainbow, streaking across the sky.
In addition, the Nether Serpent Undead Monarch, the Medusa Undead Monarch, and Heaven and Earth Ghost—four Monarch-level subordinates, pressed the attack while victory was at hand, jointly besieging Euryale.
Rumble rumble!
Euryale could no longer reverse the decline. The massive feathered serpent struggled on the ground, flesh mangled, its body broken into several segments, on its last breath. Vast patches of dark red blood flowed over its surface as the Cursed Nail—Seven Arrows fully erupted.
Previously, she had already been heavily wounded a second time by the Transcendent Power · Nether- Gaze, causing her cultivation to drop to Mid Monarch level. Conversely, the Curse element's Heaven-Earth Ghost Fiends advanced further when Lu Jun's spiritual realm broke through to the Eighth Realm, narrowing the gap.
The Medusa Mother's second daughter was on the verge of falling.
At this moment, all those secretly paying attention across Africa, hearing the giant serpent's mournful wail from hundreds of miles away, felt their minds violently shaken. Euryale, a being equivalent to a natural calamity to any nation, was she truly about to be destroyed?
Many people couldn't help but develop a sense of fear toward Lu Jun, listing him among the human powerhouses not to be provoked.
Moreover, once news of this battle spread, the entire Western world was thrown into an uproar. The Holy City, the Parthenon, and the Saint Paul Magic Association all cast close attention.
The Parthenon aside—preoccupied with its own troubles—simply remembered this National Government member and paid no further heed.
The Holy City, however, retrieved Lu Jun's records, found nothing amiss, and likewise let matters run their course.
The seven Archangels only concerned themselves with beings and matters at the Forbidden Curse level. No matter how strong a Super-tier mage was, even if they could slay a Great Monarch, it was still not worth placing in their eyes.
However, by the time Lu Jun's experiences in Africa were transmitted back to Jiuzhou, they had already become completely distorted.
At one moment, it was said that Lu Jun slaughtered his way seven times in and out of the Serpent Scorpion Clan, the cause being that the Medusa Mother had taken a fancy to this extraordinary man and sought to obtain him by any means. At another, it was said that Khufu personally took action, attempting to make Lu Jun fall into undeath.
Many acquaintances, upon hearing these accounts, were left utterly stunned.
Especially Mo Fan, who was still recuperating. After the Parthenon battle and his demonic transformation, he had returned to his old training grounds at Mount Hua to cultivate bitterly, striving to restore his cultivation as soon as possible.
Hearing that Lu Jun's opponents were casually Monarch-level beings, his face twitched.
Damn it, during the National Government period, although there was quite a gap between the two, they were at least still within the high-tier range, students after all. Looking at the forest of world powerhouses, they still bore the label of "just starting out," appearing quite immature.
Yet only a few months later, Lu Jun's reputation skyrocketed. Riding on the titles of National Government Champion and the first to slay a Red-Clothed Cardinal, he soared straight into prominence, gaining widespread recognition and becoming a great figure that Mo Fan could only look up to.
Lu Jun's confrontation with Euryale in Africa was truly a single battle that deified him.
At this moment, in the Cairo wilderness, Lu Jun hovered high in the sky. Countless threads of platinum radiance gathered around him, covering his entire body like a resplendent divine garment. He held the Tai'a Sword upright at his brow, a supreme and peerless sharpness surging straight into the heavens.
High-Tier Third Level · Taibai Primordial Magnetic Qi!
Mid-Tier Fifth Level · Human and Weapon as One!
Whoosh!
In an instant, Lu Jun moved. His wide sleeves fluttered as killing intent filled his expression. His body merged with the sword, and on the spot, a resplendent Flying Immortal sword light surged upward. Golden fragments scattered across the sky, the scene dreamlike and exquisitely beautiful.
At the brink of death, the Harpy Medusa sensed a fatal danger. Her golden-pink vertical pupils snapped open as she threw back her head and let out a piercing howl, intending to fight to the death.
Unexpectedly, her movements froze. The demonic power surging through her entire body was abruptly interrupted, and within her terrified serpent pupils was reflected a sinister, grinning shadow.
High-tier Psychic Magic — Soul-Seizing Mind Control · Mortal World!
With Eighth Realm spiritual power as reinforcement, Lu Jun had been subtly exerting influence throughout the battle. Coupled with Euryale's severely weakened state, her strength having plummeted, he finally broke through the Medusa's mental defenses and planted a latent psychic shadow.
Now that it erupted, it was more than enough to be fatal.
Puchi!
A faint sound of flesh being pierced rang out. A streak of sword light cleaved across the void, transforming into a sword-wielding figure that drifted down gracefully behind the colossal serpent.
The two passed by each other in a single crossing. The next second, the massive blood-colored serpent towering to the heavens had its enormous head explode violently, a vicious bloody hole appearing between the beast's brows.
Boom! Shortly after, the Harpy Winged Serpent's eyes dimmed, and its colossal body crashed heavily onto the ground, shaking the earth with a thunderous tremor.
Lu Jun took a deep breath. The battlefield atmosphere was brutal, thick blood-fiendish aura raging wildly as it all converged toward him like a sky-filling crimson storm.
He held the Tai'a Sword, now shrouded in dense bloodlight. Against the backdrop, he looked like a great demon king incarnate. The Sword Sacrifice effect was triggered!
Seeing this, Lu Jun sensed a vast power brewing deep within the Tai'a Sword, feeding back into the Platinum Star River within his spiritual world.
Metal Element power doubled!
"Huh?" Lu Jun felt that something was off. The Sword Sacrifice layers covering the Tai'a Sword were only the most basic ones, obtained from slaying a Lesser Monarch, not the solidified layer corresponding to a Greater Monarch.
He suddenly turned around, staring intently at that towering serpent corpse. The Death Element clearly told him that this creature was already dead—so what was going on?
Moreover, the platinum pendant showed no reaction. No essence soul power dissipated from the Medusa's corpse.
As Lu Jun's battle concluded, the battlefield where Apas was located on the other side began to collapse as well. The five mixed-blood Medusa Monarchs were utterly unable to resist the pure-blood lineage. They immediately crumbled, fleeing in panic one after another.
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