"Good riddance! You've come at the perfect time!"
Zhou Xiaopeng was not surprised but delighted, his face filled with excitement and cruelty:
"Now that they're all gathered together, we can solve them all at once, saving me the trouble of searching for them one by one!"
He was worried that if the group of people ran away separately, it would be too troublesome to chase them one by one, but who knew that Xiao Zhan would actually gather them together, which was really effortless.
Zhou Xiaopeng raised the warm jade token again, and powerful energy surged out and gathered around him.
Now, with just a tap, he can unleash Zhou Zhenbei's full power once again and annihilate all the remaining enemies before him!
"Go to hell!"
Zhou Xiaopeng roared excitedly, raising his hand and pointing towards Xiao Zhan and the remaining soldiers who were charging forward:
"Suppress—the mountain—..."
Jiang Feng closed his eyes in grief and indignation, unable to bear witnessing this cruel scene, and could only face death alongside the soldiers.
Just as Zhou Xiaopeng raised his hand to point, at the critical moment—
High in the sky, a beam of light streaked across the sky.
Like an arrow of judgment tearing through the sky, it shot down fiercely from the clouds at an indescribable speed!
A blinding golden-red light shot out first.
The light was so intense that it instantly stung the eyes of everyone on the battlefield, causing the general's personal guards and Zhou Xiaopeng to instinctively raise their hands to shield their eyes.
Zhou Xiaopeng's excited roar came to an abrupt halt.
Xiao Zhan, who was charging forward, was suddenly jolted. From the golden-red light, he felt an extremely familiar aura!
Xiao Zhan forced himself to look up despite the blinding light.
The infant spirit rode atop a golden-red energy arrow, swooping down at an incredible speed!
His little face was filled with anger, and he let out a sharp cry of "Aba aba!"
Sensing the same aura below as itself, the little infant spirit instantly remembered that it was that person below who had taken its life!
Its gaze instantly locked onto the figure below that exuded an aura that it would never forget—Zhou Xiaopeng!
"Aba!!!"
With a flick of its tiny finger, the little infant spirit caused the arrow beneath it to instantly change direction, shooting straight at Zhou Xiaopeng like a burning meteor!
The speed is already at its maximum!
"Oh no! Enemy attack!!" The high-level awakened ones in the formation finally reacted, utterly horrified!
He tried to shout a warning, but it was too late to make a sound!
The golden-red arrow had already torn through the sky, instantly piercing through the sturdy array barrier, and easily passing through several high-level awakened individuals blocking the array's path.
Its momentum remained undiminished, heading straight for Zhou Xiaopeng.
The terror in Zhou Xiaopeng's eyes froze instantly, his consciousness completely engulfed by the destructive golden-red light—
Boom!
A deafening roar, countless times more terrifying than the explosion of a star-trajectory cannon, suddenly erupted!
The golden-red destructive energy exploded like a supernova, bursting forth at the core of the array and tearing the entire array apart into countless tiny energy fragments.
Those high-level awakened beings in the formation didn't even have time to utter a scream before they were reduced to ashes and completely annihilated by the extreme flames and energy impact!
Faced with this absolute power, all resistance was as fragile as paper, instantly vaporized by the high temperature!
Even with all the personal guards exerting their full strength, they still couldn't resist the terrifying power of this arrow.
However, just as this powerful arrow was about to pierce Zhou Xiaopeng's body completely—
The warm jade token in Zhou Xiaopeng's hand seemed to have its final mechanism triggered, and it suddenly exploded!
A powerful ninth-order energy suddenly erupted out of nowhere, forcefully blocking the arrow tip!
The two terrifying energies clashed violently, which ultimately caused the arrow to explode prematurely!
Otherwise, Zhou Xiaopeng would have been the first person to die from that arrow.
This warm jade token was the final trump card that General Zhou Zhenbei of Zhongzhou painstakingly crafted for his son, almost exhausting his efforts. He would never allow Zhou Xiaopeng to die again!
For this reason, Zhou Zhenbei even placed several layers of protection around Zhou Xiaopeng, including this general's personal guard.
It was precisely because of the desperate protection of the General of Zhongzhou that Zhou Xiaopeng was able to escape with his life!
Even though the arrow ridden by the infant spirit had been infused with Li Yu's full-force attack containing the energy of a Star Lord, Zhou Xiaopeng still survived under the complete protection of Zhou Zhenbei's 'Suppressing Mountains and Rivers'.
"Whoosh—"
The terrifying shockwave from the explosion swept across the area, blowing Xiao Zhan and the remaining soldiers of the Third Legion away like fallen leaves.
Even after everyone was blown down, the heatwave pressed them firmly to the ground, preventing them from getting up for a long time.
Only when the devastating light and shockwave finally dissipated did everyone manage to look up, utterly shocked by the sight before them.
The general's personal guards, who were just moments ago so arrogant and domineering, have all vanished.
Along with that sturdy formation, it was reduced to charred remains and scattered ashes.
Beneath the iceberg, heat waves surged, flames lingered for a long time, and even the air smelled of burning.
A miraculous scene of contrasting extremes, ice and fire, had emerged on the northern battlefield.
The remaining high-ranking Awakened from the Third Legion rose from the ground, stunned by the sight before them, unable to breathe:
"This...is also a national treasure?"
"My God!" A wounded young soldier swallowed hard.
"I didn't believe it when the veterans told me that powerful Awakened Ones could move mountains and fill seas, but now I've finally seen it for myself!"
"It's more than just moving mountains and filling seas!" Another veteran, who had lost an arm, supported himself with his other hand, his voice filled with the relief of surviving a near-death experience.
"If that energy explosion had been any closer, none of us would have been left with even ashes! It was incredibly powerful!"
Not only the soldiers of the Third Legion, but also the remaining Northern Iron Cavalry were so shocked that they were speechless.
The despair brought by the previous explosion of the orbital cannon seemed to fade somewhat in the face of the residual power of this arrow.
As Xiao Zhan sensed the familiar energy slowly dissipating from the epicenter of the explosion, the arrow, and the powerful aura of a Star Lord, he murmured to himself:
"Li Yu...is this your true strength?"
Perhaps only someone with Li Yu's strength has a chance to bring down that traitor Zhou Zhenbei!
Suddenly sensing the ninth-order energy emanating from the charred ruins, Xiao Zhan's expression changed drastically, and he abruptly looked up.
Without a second thought, he quickly mounted the Uya horse beside him and hurried off.
At the epicenter of the explosion, Wen Yu's token deployed a protective shield, firmly protecting the unconscious Zhou Xiaopeng inside.
At this moment, the little infant spirit was angrily pounding the light barrier with its tiny fists, but the warm jade token remained unmoved.
"I'll do it!" Xiao Zhan shouted, picking up the ice spear.
Upon hearing this, the infant spirit immediately dodged away.
Xiao Zhan thrust his spear at Zhou Xiaopeng with all his might.
Just as the spear tip was about to touch the light shield, the warm jade light flashed and transformed into a giant energy hand, which gripped the ice spear tightly!
A cold, authoritative voice, filled with boundless killing intent, boomed from the warm jade token:
"Anyone who dares to touch him—dies!"
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