Chapter 446: The Mortal Realm Opens: Slaying a Monarch-Level Alien Race

Just as Chu Sheng was reveling in the joy of harvesting Life Essence.

BOOM!

There was no warning.

A dark red energy wave, coming from an extremely tricky angle, viciously bit at him from the side and rear.

The energy wave was absurdly fast and completely silent. Its destructive, scorching heat only erupted when it was within three meters of Chu Sheng’s body.

’A sneak attack?’

Chu Sheng reacted in a flash, almost instinctively activating his [Boundless Wings].

SWISH.

His figure vanished from the spot.

The next moment, the energy wave pierced through the afterimage he left behind, blasting a bottomless crater into the hard, frozen earth.

Several hundred meters away, Chu Sheng reappeared.

He wiggled his antennae and looked in the direction the attack had come from.

There, suspended amidst the swirling snow, was a figure.

It was an Alien Race member. It was tall and slender, taller than the average member of its race, standing nearly five meters tall!

It wore a dark red Magic Robe and held a scepter inlaid with animal bone. It had no facial features; its entire face was a mass of burning, dark red flames that radiated a heart-pounding pressure.

’A Monarch Level... It seems to be an Early Stage Monarch Level?’

This was the first Monarch Level Alien Race member Chu Sheng had ever faced head-on. ’And from the looks of it, a Mage? Is that similar to the sorcerers of the Human Race?’

BUZZ... (’You want to play? Then I’ll play with you.’)

Chu Sheng wasn’t the least bit afraid.

After returning from the Alien Race Base, his Qi Blood Spiritual Power had broken through to a new level. He was actually eager to see if he now had what it took to challenge a Monarch Level (Emperor Realm) being!

With a beat of his wings, several enormous, crimson Feather Blades materialized out of thin air and slashed down at the Alien Race member.

’Let’s test the mettle of this Monarch Level first!’

The Alien Race Mage didn’t even move. It just slightly raised the bone scepter in its hand.

HUM.

A faint, dark red shield of light appeared before it.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

The indestructible Feather Blades slammed violently against the shield, letting out a series of explosive cracks.

But that was all. Just explosive cracks.

The shield, which seemed as thin as a cicada’s wing, didn’t budge an inch. Not even a single crack appeared.

Chu Sheng now understood.

This was a Monarch Level’s control over the Power of Heaven and Earth. At this level, they could mobilize the power of their surroundings for their own use with a mere wave of their hand.

’My Feather Blades are sharp, but they’re still not enough to break through an energy Defense of this caliber.’

"SKREEE!"

The Alien Race Mage let out a strange cry and pointed its bone scepter.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

A dozen of those terrifying, dark red energy waves locked onto all of Chu Sheng’s escape routes like homing missiles and came howling toward him.

’Run!’

Chu Sheng turned and fled.

He bobbed up and down in the air, using Instant Teleportation to constantly change his position. He looked utterly wretched, nearly getting his wings grazed by the energy waves several times.

Seeing this, the Alien Race Mage transformed into a streak of red light and pursued Chu Sheng relentlessly.

It was like a patient hunter, savoring the thrill of chasing its prey.

However, it didn’t know that the supposedly "desperately fleeing" Chu Sheng had no trace of panic in his eyes.

’Heh heh.’

If Chu Sheng had truly wanted to run, a single long-range Instant Teleportation could have taken him several hundred kilometers away. The Alien Race Mage wouldn’t have even been able to eat his dust.

The only reason he was putting on this act was to find an opportunity, and then...

Kill!

He had never recycled the corpse of a Monarch Level Alien Race member before. This would be the first!

’A Monarch Level corpse...’

’How much Life Essence would that be?’

’Just thinking about it makes my mouth water.’

In the blink of an eye, the chase had covered several hundred kilometers, taking them far from the main battlefield.

Just as the Alien Race Mage fired another energy wave, a split second before it was about to hit Chu Sheng’s back...

Chu Sheng didn’t use Instant Teleportation to dodge this time.

The wings behind him suddenly tilted, and his body, as if having lost control, was violently struck by the aftershock of the energy wave, sending him spiraling toward the ground.

’It’s hit?’

The Alien Race Mage immediately accelerated, preparing to deal the final blow to the mosquito.

However, at that very moment, the falling Chu Sheng’s body suddenly shattered like a bubble.

’A clone?’

The Alien Race Mage’s flame-like face twitched violently.

The next second, an extremely dangerous aura pressed right up against its face!

Chu Sheng’s real body had used Instant Teleportation to appear without warning right in front of it, less than half a meter away!

At such a close distance, those cold compound eyes stared it down.

The Alien Race Mage was both shocked and enraged.

’Courting death!’

’A mere mosquito, not even at the Eighth-Grade, dares to get this close to a Monarch Level?’

The Energy within its body erupted instantly, intending to obliterate this insolent bug that didn’t know its place.

But... it was too late.

BUZZ... (’Now!’)

Chu Sheng’s will flared.

’[Mortal Realm, activate!]’

BOOM!

An invisible yet utterly domineering force of order instantly spread out with Chu Sheng at its center.

Although its radius was a pitiful ten meters.

But those ten meters were an absolute forbidden zone!

The effect of the nascent Mortal Realm was to deliberately strip all beings below the Emperor Realm of their Extraordinary Power. Even an Emperor Realm’s power would be weakened.

The terrifying Energy the Alien Race Mage had just summoned was instantly suppressed by this force of order, as if shoved back down by a great, invisible hand!

It felt its connection to the surrounding Power of Heaven and Earth being forcibly severed.

Even the flow of Energy within its body became extremely sluggish and dull, as if it had been plunged into a mire.

’What is happening?!’

For the first time, genuine terror appeared on its flame-like face.

It wanted to retreat, to pull away.

But within the Mortal Realm, its Speed was also slowed. Though it was only by a little, a fatal opening lay within that difference!

BUZZ... (’Die!’)

Chu Sheng gave it no chance to breathe.

His Mental Power burned wildly at this moment.

Five hundred!

A full five hundred Flaming Feather Blades instantly materialized in front of him, then furiously compressed and fused together!

The originally crimson flames turned a strange, deep purple due to the extreme compression.

A five-hundred-Fusion Feather Blade was the new limit of his [Soul-Bursting Flame Feather]!

"Go!"

The palm-sized purple Feather Blade, which radiated a world-ending aura, easily tore through the Alien Race Mage’s now-fragile protective Energy as if it were cutting tofu.

SWISH!

With a flash of purple light, the burning, flaming head flew high into the air.

The Alien Race Mage’s body stiffened for a moment before falling lifelessly to the ground.

The Mortal Realm dissipated.

Chu Sheng floated in the air, gasping for breath, his head throbbing as if being pierced by needles.

’This Mortal Realm may be overpowered, but the consumption is insane.’

’Coupled with the five-hundred-in-one Feather Blade, it nearly drained my Mental Power dry.’

Still... it was worth it!

Chu Sheng’s eyes lit up as he looked at the Monarch Level Alien Race corpse below.

He swooped down and landed directly on the corpse.

’Divine True Flame, burn!’

The corpse was instantly reduced to ashes.

[DING! Monarch Level Alien Race corpse recycled. Life Essence +10,000,000!]

’Holy crap! How much?!’

’Ten million!’

’I’ll be damned... As expected of a Monarch Level. It really is... so juicy!’

[Current Nether Flame Insect Nest - Remaining Life Essence: 51,500,000]

...

Just as Chu Sheng was happily gazing at his status panel, a sudden, instinctual sense of crisis welled up!

Chu Sheng looked all around!

No attack was coming.

No ripples of Energy erupted either.

But the environment around him had changed.

The once-dim sky had suddenly turned pitch-black.

It was as if a giant black curtain had fallen, completely enveloping the Space for several hundred meters around.

Within this darkness, countless extremely thin, extremely tough black threads appeared out of nowhere.

They were densely packed and crisscrossed, resembling a giant three-dimensional maze, or an intricately woven death trap.

Chu Sheng felt his body grow heavy.

The black threads had, at some point, already wrapped around his wings and legs.

Though incredibly thin, they were terrifyingly resilient and possessed a strange stickiness.

’A Power?’

’An Alien Race’s Power?’

Chu Sheng tried to struggle but couldn’t move an inch.

BUZZ... (’Damn, I got careless. Didn’t dodge.’)