Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoard Billions of Supplies Chapter 1684: A Moment of Opportunity

He had been holding the iaido stance for a long time. Once this blade left its sheath, it would be impossibly fast!

“Shing!”

His blade truly left its sheath, a streak of snowy white light shooting straight toward the Gatekeeper of the Underworld. It aimed for the centerline of his body, intent on splitting him in two!

At that moment, the Gatekeeper of the Underworld finally sensed a trace of danger.

He found it utterly inconceivable. These frail humans could actually hurt him?

Yet the blade light closing in on him in an instant carried an aura capable of shattering everything!

Facing this strike, the Gatekeeper of the Underworld had just dealt with Zhang Yi and Alexei, and his body had not yet returned to its normal defensive posture.

So, at the instant the blade light reached him, he made a move.

Suspended in midair, he gently turned his body to the side.

Li Changgong’s blade was already fast enough, but the Gatekeeper’s movement seemed even faster. He moved so quickly that no one could make out his figure. The gleaming blade light merely grazed past him.

I Am the Decree of Heaven, an attack capable of cutting through anything, had missed just like that.

Zhang Yi and the others’ pupils suddenly contracted. Their eyes were filled with indescribable regret and unwillingness.

Alexei had risked everything in that strike and was already badly wounded, coughing up great mouthfuls of blood. Seeing this, he could only look on helplessly.

The gap in strength was simply too great!

The Gatekeeper of the Underworld’s abilities were plain and unadorned, without any flashy tricks. But the simplest things were often the hardest to deal with.

Because he was almost completely without weaknesses!

Whether in close-quarters combat or at long range, he was terrifying beyond anyone’s reach.

Even this sure-kill strike, he had managed to dodge perfectly by a hair’s breadth.

A desperate sense of helplessness weighed on everyone’s hearts.

How were they supposed to fight an opponent of this caliber?

Zhang Yi’s heart sank.

Did this mean he had to use his final move now?

But could that move really kill such a terrifying monster?

If even that failed, the entire Huaxu Nation would be finished.

Just then, a crisp sound drew everyone’s attention.

“Crack!”

Zhang Yi jerked his head up and saw that the Gatekeeper of the Underworld’s armor had split!

No, to be precise, the armor on his chest had been cleanly sliced off and was falling toward the ground.

“We... we haven’t failed! He didn’t dodge that strike completely!”

Shang Daowen said excitedly.

Li Changgong laughed with excitement, too. “I was this close, just this close to hitting him! We only need to make him bleed a single drop, and victory will be ours!”

The Gatekeeper of the Underworld lowered his head and looked at the breach in his breastplate.

A large section of the armor had been cut away cleanly. Its self-repair function could not be used without limit, after all, the materials were finite.

Not everyone was Zhang Yi, carrying a large supply of spare combat suits wherever he went.

In the sky, intense ultraviolet rays shone down on his chest, and his skin immediately began to change color.

It was like a human standing at the mouth of a volcano. No matter how physically strong a person was, they could not overcome the limits of their biology and remain unaffected by extreme heat.

So even the Gatekeeper of the Underworld, a top powerhouse of the Wuluan Tribe, could not fully adapt to an environment saturated with ultraviolet rays.

He flew into a rage in an instant. Raising his head, he fixed Zhang Yi and the others with naked killing intent!

Then he raised his right fist and threw a punch from a distance of one kilometer!

It was plain and unremarkable, utterly ordinary. Yet that fist, brimming with destructive force, carried unimaginable power and a howling storm as it slammed toward the Ghost Train where Zhang Yi and the others were.

In that instant, the enraged Gatekeeper of the Underworld enveloped them in the threat of death.

The four of them felt the air compress into a solid mass. Their throats grew unbearably constricted, and even breathing became difficult.

Inside the train, Houtu, seated in her chair, sharpened her gaze.

She set down the carving knife in her hand and murmured, “Asura Path!”

Centered on the Ghost Train, the domain of the Six Paths of Reincarnation fully opened. Two figures appeared in the dark void around them.

One was tall and one short, one fat and one thin.

They were the Asura puppets she had most recently acquired, [Youying] and [Destruction Hall].

Anyone she killed could be drawn into her cycle of reincarnation, where their abilities and even their combat strength would be perfectly replicated. She could then summon them for her own use.

As soon as Youying and Destruction Hall appeared, they immediately moved in front of the Ghost Train.

Youying raised both hands and summoned over a hundred Shadow Giants, while Destruction Hall gathered supernatural power in both hands and condensed it into a [Destruction] energy cannon to fight the Gatekeeper of the Underworld.

Boom!!!

After a dazzling flash of light, the two Asura were directly wiped out!

But their appearance had also blocked most of the attack for Zhang Yi and the others. Zhang Yi and Shang Daowen joined forces to neutralize all the remaining shockwaves.

Rumble!

The Ghost Train plunged into the void once more, traveling to another area.

...

The dangers of the main battlefield were beyond what anyone else could imagine. But right now, no one on the entire battlefield had the leisure to worry about whether anyone else would live or die.

The opponents each of them faced were also incredibly powerful and dangerous.

From the ocean all the way to the land, intense battles were breaking out everywhere.

Liang Yue and Huahua had remained on standby. They were at the edge of Tianshui City, and even though fighting had already erupted everywhere, neither of them showed any intention of joining in.

It was all because of the mission Zhang Yi had given them.

“Your strength isn’t enough to decide the outcome of a battle, especially when you’re facing Black Chariot-tier Transcendents.”

“So the best time to enter the fight is after it’s reached a certain stage. Then you can join in and sweep up the entire battlefield!”

When Zhang Yi said this, he subconsciously rubbed his nose. He looked a little crafty, but spoke with complete candor.

“If we win this battle, we’ll obtain a huge number of high-tier Transcendent Essences! We’d never have a chance to get this kind of thing under normal circumstances. There are only so many Epsilon-class Transcendents in the human world. Where are you supposed to find that many Essences?”

“So learn to spot opportunity in a crisis. Make good use of this chance. Not only will you avoid missing the battle, you’ll also be able to accelerate your own growth!”

That was Zhang Yi’s plan.

So, as a mobile unit, they had held back all along, conserving their strength and waiting for each battlefield to reach its most critical moment before entering the fight to reap the spoils.

At the other battlefields, the opponents were mostly old foes, and each side knew the other’s abilities inside out.

As a result, the fighting was deadlocked, and neither side could defeat the other in a short time.

With the full strength of the Huaxu Nation mobilized, and both space-based and Heaven-tier weaponry available, even if they lacked Black Chariot-tier Transcendents, they could still use their home-field advantage to fight the Wuluan Empire’s Transcendent forces to a standstill.

But the Wuluan Empire’s Transcendent forces did not care about that at all.

They were waiting for their Grand Marshal to slaughter the allied forces’ strongest Transcendents, then lead them in sweeping across the entire battlefield.