Trembling At A High Altitude

When Bald Qiang learned that Li Bai had also entered this scenario, his first reaction was to hide as far away as possible as soon as the protective period was over.

He knew he could never be a match for Li Bai.

But what he never expected was that Li Bai, in order to conquer the Ten-Turned Ghost King, had actually exhausted himself completely.

This gave him an enormous advantage.

Impossible, right? There must be a catch!

Li Bai had been lying on the ground for nearly half a minute, and Bald Qiang hadn't approached; he had only observed from a distance.

Li Bai was indeed at the end of his strength.

He had just been seriously injured by the Sword Qi of the Ghost King, and although he had taken an Elixir, he didn't have enough time to assimilate it, nor could he condense Qi into Armor to protect himself.

So the simple smash to his chest by Bald Qiang's hammer had brought him to the brink of death.

Perhaps he still had some Magical Treasures or other valuables on him, but he knew it was meaningless to take them out.

Bald Qiang had barely any losses and wasn't seriously hurt; he was in his peak state.

This was indeed the best opportunity for Bald Qiang to kill Li Bai and collect the reward of over 5000 points.

To avoid any tricks from Li Bai, Bald Qiang took out a Hellfire Bomb, ready to blast Li Bai, who was lying on the ground, from a distance.

After thinking it over, he took out four more, holding a total of five Hellfire Bombs in his hand.

Although he felt one was enough, five were safer.

If all five exploded together, even Li Bai at his peak surrounded by the blast's center couldn't possibly survive.

"You cannot kill him."

Just when everyone thought Li Bai was doomed, Li Teng stepped forward and blocked the path in front of Li Bai.

"I don't want to kill you, move aside!" Bald Qiang frowned.

"I made a promise to him; in times of danger, I would save his life once."

"A man's promise is worth a thousand pieces of gold!"

"You want to kill him, you'll have to step over my dead body first."

Li Teng said this as he took the broken sword from his back and held it in his hands.

The entire hall was deadly quiet at this moment.

Everyone could see the large beads of sweat dripping down Li Teng's forehead.

Xiang Yu and Han Xin bowed their heads in shame.

At such a critical moment for Li Bai, they, his guild mates and supposed brothers, had walked away.

It was unexpected that Li Teng, an outsider, had stood up for him.

All because of the gratitude he felt for the broken sword Li Bai had once given him.

Bear Big, Bear Two, and Cui Hua weren't laughing this time.

They could see that Li Teng was serious.

"I! Don't! Want! To! Kill! You! Move! Aside!" Bald Qiang roared, his anger punctuating each word as he spoke to Li Teng.

"It's okay, you've repaid me, young man. Our debt of gratitude is settled. You have a long life ahead of you, let him kill me! This is my fate," Li Bai, lying on the ground, said to Li Teng.

"I have a promise to you as well."

"I promised that if I had the chance to kill you, I would spare you once before considering your life the next time."

"Don't push me."

Li Teng ignored Li Bai, gripping the broken sword tightly and saying a few more words to Bald Qiang.

"Hahahahahahaha…" Bald Qiang laughed wildly.

"Normally, I would appreciate someone like you. But today is different; you're forcing my hand!" Bald Qiang threw the five Hellfire Bombs in his hand toward Li Bai, behind Li Teng.

He was confident that with the speed of these Hellfire Bombs, Li Teng wouldn't be able to intercept them.

If Li Teng still didn't move away, the explosion's force would be enough to blow him to pieces as well.

But what Bald Qiang had not anticipated was that Li Teng reacted extremely fast, almost the moment he made his move, Li Teng had struck, surprisingly using the broken sword in his hand to smack away the five Hellfire Bombs!

The five Hellfire Bombs exploded violently in the air between the two, blasting both Bald Qiang and Li Teng back a few staggering steps.

"You've enraged me!" Bald Qiang said angrily as he steadied himself.

His appreciation for Li Teng was only that of an elder for a junior, admiring the kind of commitment that was foolish among the young, yet also rare—a promise worth a thousand pieces of gold.

But that didn't mean he wouldn't kill Li Teng.

Not killing Li Teng was simply because doing so would not bring him any benefit.

And Li Teng's recent actions had crossed his line.

They had obstructed his chance to gain those extremely precious points which could be obtained from hunting Li Bai—over five thousand of them!

A big hammer appeared in his hands.

He wanted to smash Li Teng into a pulp with a single blow of the hammer, and then move on to blast Li Bai into fragments.

However, nobody expected that a twist of fate would occur at this moment.

Li Teng, having just staggered back, had retreated close to the Ghost King's Mist Egg.

And the Mist Egg, just at that moment, had completed its ten-minute incubation period.

The Ghost King, clad in Dark Gold Battle Armor, wielding a War Blade, stood up from the hatching Mist Egg.

The Ghost King in its strongest form, the Ten-Turned Ghost King, had risen!

The resurrected Ten-Turned Ghost King saw Li Teng standing before him and, with a fierce roar, stepped forward and swung the War Blade at Li Teng.

"Don't bother me!"

Li Teng, who had been powering up for several hours in the app, unleashed the ultimate skill upgraded to LV10—the Gathered Ghost Blade Secret Technique - Transformation Realm, with Nether Icy Cold Transformation Attribute, Hellfire Transformation Attribute, and Nether Lightning Transformation Attribute—slashing fiercely at the oncoming Ten-Turned Ghost King.

An eye for an eye.

No one could withstand the full force of a Ghost King's ultimate skill when it was properly charged up.

Especially after hours of charging, under the edge of Hell's Roar.

Even the Ghost King himself.

Everyone present watched as the incredibly powerful Ten-Turned Ghost King, who had made Li Bai exhaust all his Magical Treasures, detonate his Spiritual Treasure, and struggle in a tough fight with Bald Qiang for five hours during his Ninth Revolution, was cleaved into two by a single slash from Li Teng.

Then, amidst various screams, his body shattered into pieces and ultimately dissipated into a cloud of black mist that spread in all directions.

Leaving behind only a War Blade and a complete set of Battle Armor on the floor of the great hall.

A one-slash kill of the Ten-Turned Ghost King.

A hush fell over the great hall.

No one spoke.

Because they dared not.

The overwhelming power of that slash had been too much for the broken sword in Li Teng's hand to withstand, and it turned to ash in an instant.

But in the next moment, Li Teng reached out his hand, and the Ghost King's War Blade spiritedly flew into his grasp.

The suit of Battle Armor also rose and unfolded itself, fitting onto his body automatically.

Li Teng's wrist trembled wildly, likely as the Ten-Turned Ghost King transferred all his skills onto him in his dying moment.

However, he didn't have time to check now.

Muttering under his breath, Li Teng summoned a Healing Orb above his head.

After a moment, ten Ghost Generals appeared on either side of his body.

"I made a promise to him, that I would save his life when he was in danger."

"I made a promise to you as well."

"I promised that if I had the chance to kill you, I would spare you once, and consider taking your life next time."

"A man's word is his bond!"

Dragging the War Blade, Li Teng stepped closer and closer towards Bald Qiang.