“There are also cities and tribes here?” Ye Dui was slightly stunned upon hearing this information. They had stayed in the oasis during this time precisely to stockpile supplies. In Ye Dui’s view, preparing supplies was crucial for advancing through the barren desert, but the other princes clearly had experiences vastly different from Ye Dui’s. Even the tenth prince had already gained the support of this Blood Scorpion Tribe.
Ye Dui’s mind immediately thought of that cruel little brat, the tenth prince. Back in Furnace City, Ye Dui had slapped him hard several times… How blind were the people of the Blood Scorpion Tribe to support him?
Ye Dui’s silence seemed to make the guard misunderstand something. He sneered coldly, urged his mount forward a few more steps towards Ye Dui, and continued arrogantly: “After being teleported into the secret realm, every prince is sent to an oasis on the periphery of the secret realm. The native inhabitants of the secret realm, the tribal sand dwellers and the holy city divine people, will come into contact with the princes to choose supporters. This is the true nature of the Crown Battlefield. However, because it has not opened for several hundred years, these records have already disappeared from the outside world.”
This guard was not afraid to reveal this intelligence to Ye Dui because, in his view, no matter how powerful Ye Dui was, he was absolutely no match for the sand dwellers behind him. He had personally witnessed the power these sand dwellers possessed. Now, he was explaining the current situation to Ye Dui from the posture of a victor.
“Our oasis upon entering the secret realm was relatively close to the Blood Scorpion Tribe. The leader of the Blood Scorpion Tribe has already sworn allegiance to the tenth prince. And Ye Dui, your oasis is in a more remote location. I think these days you must have tried entering the desert but were forced to retreat helplessly. The desert is the domain of the sand dwellers; outsiders can hardly survive in it. These past few days, you must have had it very hard!”
The other princes, after being teleported into the secret realm, had already begun attempting to leave the oasis within the first two days. Unlike Ye Dui, who had lingered in the oasis for so long, the guard suspected that Ye Dui and his group must have been trapped in the oasis by the harsh environment. Since the storage spaces of all who entered the secret realm had become invalid, he believed his speculation was very reasonable.
However…
Ye Dui was speechless. Could he say that they had stayed here almost in the mood of a holiday?
The guard’s eyes had already turned to Jacob. He jumped down from his mount and walked straight over, a cold smile on his lips. He drew the long sword from his waist, looking as if he was about to kill Jacob.
Ye Dui’s subtle expression seemed to make the guard mistakenly think that he had already tacitly agreed to his proposal. After the tenth prince gained the support of the Blood Scorpion Tribe, the tenth prince immediately ordered his guards to lead teams of sand dwellers to sweep through the other oases and pursue the other princes. Being able to personally kill a prince would earn a reward from the tenth prince, so the guard’s mood now was one of eager impatience.
But just as he came to Ye Dui’s side, he suddenly saw Jacob reveal a mocking expression. Not only him, but the faces of the others also showed strange smiles…
The guard hurriedly turned his head to look at Ye Dui: “Mr. Ye Dui, please hand over the thirteenth prince to me. I can guarantee that those sand dwellers will not attack you…”
Ye Dui smiled and shook his head. He did not even need to communicate with his companions: Hand over Jacob and swear allegiance to the tenth prince? Hehe, how could that be possible? He ignored the guard and walked towards those sand dwellers.
For a tribe to choose to pledge allegiance to the tenth prince? Ye Dui felt there must be something strange about this. However, since these people had just actively attacked them, they were enemies.
“Ye Dui, you…” The guard realised Ye Dui’s true choice and roared in anger, waving his long sword to attack Ye Dui. But suddenly, he felt his body become incredibly heavy.
That was gravity magic from Jacob.
However, as a guard who could follow a prince into the Crown Battlefield, he was naturally no ordinary person. The moment he realised the magic had enveloped his body, he hurriedly executed a突袭 sword technique. His body seemed to turn into a shadow, scraping along the ground to escape to the side. His speed was like the wind, his figure like lightning, so… the brick that slapped towards him felt especially heavy.
With a bang, that brick brutally knocked him out of his high speed. His nasal bone shattered, several teeth knocked out, his head dizzy and eyes blurred, his body flung backwards.
In mid-air, he hurriedly stabilised his posture, gripped his long sword tightly to guard against anyone approaching him at this time. In his inverted field of vision, a petite figure appeared. But though that figure was petite, she was carrying an incredibly heavy greatsword.
Guni’s fire ant greatsword swept horizontally.
Bang,
He hurriedly used his long sword to block, but the long sword was like a child’s toy before the greatsword, utterly unable to withstand it, shattering into two pieces. The guard’s body was swept away even more, like a baseball struck with full force.
Then, with an “ah woo” sound, a massive man-eating flower suddenly drilled out from the ground, its terrifying disk mouth cracking open, swallowing the guard into its mouth in one bite…
“Ah, so disgusting!” Dani, who had summoned the man-eating flower, immediately showed a nauseated expression upon seeing the closed disk constantly wriggling like a chewing mouth, full of disgust. The fantasy creatures of Harley Quinn really got more and more heavy-tasting one after another…
This guard was quite good, worth seventy-five points, but to Ye Dui and his group of companions, each with cheats more ferocious than the last, it was no problem at all. So Ye Dui did not even turn his head; he walked towards those few sand dwellers. He noticed that after the guard was killed, these sand dwellers showed no reaction, completely indifferent to the guard’s life or death.
The strange mount that the guard had ridden earlier now let out a sharp cry and opened its mouth to tear towards Ye Dui.
This animal covered all over in scale armour like sand and stone was clearly a magical beast, a species not found outside. It could serve as a mount or engage in combat, extremely ferocious. Ye Dui extended his right hand, which instantly enlarged, clenched into a fist. Boom! One punch smashed into the sand beast’s head.
The sand beast’s head was embedded in the ground, instantly bursting apart. Its rear half-body involuntarily lifted up, crashing to the ground with a muffled thud.
Ye Dui continued walking towards those sand dwellers.
It seemed that Ye Dui’s decisive killing of that sand beast finally caused some wavering among these sand dwellers. The person standing at the forefront of the sand dwellers extended a somewhat dry and withered old palm, lifting the white cloth wrapped around his face to reveal an old and gloomy face. He shouted something to the person beside him in a strange voice. That voice and tone sounded very odd in Ye Dui’s ears, but he could barely understand it.
He said: “Let the sand people attack!”
Sand people?
Several sand dwellers jumped down from those sand beast mounts. They all lifted the rags wrapped around their bodies, exposing their faces to Ye Dui’s view. Their appearances were all very strange: skin with an incredibly rough texture as if composed of sand grains, no hair or beauty, eyes deeply sunken like black dots in sand pits.
They let out a few beast-like roars towards Ye Dui, then suddenly dropped to all fours and charged towards Ye Dui.
Said to be people, now they seemed more like ferocious beasts.
Ye Dui extended both arms, one gun barrel after another emerging. [Full Firepower]! Accompanied by the “da da da da,” sounds, the Gatling heavy machine gun’s bombardment erupted continuously. The firelight formed a straight line. The sand person charging at the front was immediately swept by the firepower, but it did not turn into blood and flesh; instead, it became a pile of loose sand. Following that, the second, third, fourth…
A total of seven sand people soon turned into piles of sand under Ye Dui’s gun barrels.
But before Ye Dui could even relax, he noticed that the face of that sand dweller elder still showed no expression, as if without the slightest worry.
Something was off… Immediately after, Ye Dui noticed that the sand people who had been beaten into loose sand rapidly recongealed, reforming into the shape of sand people, continuing to launch attacks at Ye Dui.
Attack immunity? Ye Dui was shocked in his heart. What exactly were these sand people? Some earth-based magics could achieve this kind of instant sandification, but these sand people were clearly not magisters. How were they doing this? Ye Dui abandoned [Full Firepower] and directly used fire magic instead. A fire serpent instantly enveloped two sand people. The other sand people bypassed Ye Dui’s body and charged towards Debbie and the others.
The sand people in the flames let out angry roars, but flames hot enough to melt sand and stone into magma could not halt their actions. They soon rushed through the flames, their bodies covered in streaks of red molten marks, pouncing towards Ye Dui.
Ye Dui swiftly turned into a swarm of bats and flew to the side.
The two sand people now seemed to have lost most of their intelligence. They gave up on Ye Dui and charged towards Debbie and the others.
“Be careful of them; they can sandify and are immune to attacks!” Ye Dui hurriedly shouted to them. He himself soared into the sky, using the wind magic [Wind God Legs] to swiftly fly towards the remaining few sand dwellers. He noticed that while the sand people were launching their attack, that sand dweller elder had his hands raised high, constantly chanting some words in his mouth, as if performing some kind of ritual.
The sand people were troublesome, but leaving them to his companions was no issue. Ye Dui planned to take out these few sand dwellers first!
But just as Ye Dui arrived in front of these sand dwellers, the ground suddenly began to shake violently. Ye Dui instinctively looked down at the ground. The forest ground overgrown with serrated grass suddenly cracked open, several black sharp teeth clearly visible. Almost in the instant Ye Dui reacted, that massive mouth had already risen towards the sky, biting Ye Dui’s figure in its mouth, not even waiting for Ye Dui to complete his bat transformation!
That was a terrifying insect, legless, with skin in earthy brown covered in cracks like dried ground patterns. It was truly enormous, at least two or three metres in diameter, and the part emerging from the ground, its head end, was almost entirely a massive mouth.
“Sand God!!!” The sand dweller elder shouted loudly in that dry and strange voice, isolated from the outside for several hundred years.
The reason the tenth prince’s guard believed the sand dwellers were extremely powerful was precisely because of this: they could control the most terrifying magical beasts in this desert, this insect they revered as the sand god!
Ye Dui was instantly swallowed into the sand god’s belly. Apart from the circles of knife-like sharp teeth in its mouth, the inside of this massive sand worm was also covered in sharp protrusions. When Ye Dui was swallowed in, he immediately transformed into a swarm of bats to avoid being pierced by those sharp teeth, preparing to fly out. But the sand worm’s mouth had already closed tightly. The bat swarm quickly recongealed into Ye Dui’s main body, and the armoured swordsman was also summoned. However, his attacks were utterly useless against the gastric wall inside the sand worm (if that could even be called a stomach…). He could barely tear some flesh but could not fully penetrate its body.
Ye Dui had already activated [Savage Hulk], transforming himself into the Green Giant’s form to resist the crushing of the sand worm’s inner walls. At the same time, he tried to blast open the sand worm’s body, but though the Green Giant was incredibly powerful, he could not exert his strength in the sand worm’s twisting interior.
In desperation, Ye Dui immediately took out that VIP knife, now long since upgraded again. From the “knife of mysterious origin” a few days ago, it had become the “legendary knife”. The blade had also undergone some changes: besides becoming even sharper, strange patterns had appeared on the blade, making it more exquisite.
And at this point, if used ten million more times, it would evolve into the “knife forged by the gods”.
When Ye Dui took out this knife, he was still somewhat worried about losing it, because this knife was crafted to the hand size of an ordinary person. With Ye Dui in Green Giant form, his palm enlarged who knows how many times, the knife in his hand would probably feel like a fruit knife, right?
After transforming into the knife of mysterious origin, this knife had become incredibly sharp. Ye Dui wanted to use it to try breaking open the sand worm’s body. But what Ye Dui completely did not expect was that, just after he took out this knife, it suddenly enlarged, adjusting to Ye Dui’s palm size, lengthening and widening by three or four times.
“This knife can change according to the user’s hand size!?” Ye Dui was stunned.
This was a phenomenon he had never seen before, mainly because although Ye Dui and Debbie and the others had all used the knife, their hand sizes were basically similar. Even if the knife changed size accordingly, the change would probably be negligible.
This knife actually had this effect; he did not know if it was originally like this or if it gained this ability after upgrading to its current level.
And if it could change with Ye Dui’s palm size…
Ye Dui suddenly thought of something interesting.
Outside, after the sand worm swallowed Ye Dui in one bite, that sand dweller elder let out a piercing shrill laugh. When the tenth prince and his guards introduced the other princes, they had emphasised this Ye Dui, calling him the most dangerous among all who entered the secret realm. But it turned out to be nothing more; that little brat tenth prince really had no insight!
Then…
His shrill laughter suddenly froze, because he saw that the sand worm, originally preparing to retract underground, suddenly began to writhe. It could not emit a roar, but from its appearance, it was clear it was now in immense pain. Its body twisted constantly, and at the middle section, it began to swell continuously, as if something was about to burst its body open.
Then, a terrifying blade suddenly extended from below its head. What kind of massive knife was that!
The sand dweller elder stared dumbfounded at this scene.
The blade protruding from the sand worm’s body seemed to continue enlarging,顺势 tearing a huge gash in the sand worm’s body. The knife flashed with cold, eerie light. A strange music sound entered the sand dweller elder’s ears; of course, he did not know it was a song called “Red Lotus Arrow”. The blade slowly extended, gripped by a massive palm.
That palm, along with the blade, seemed to continue enlarging. Finally, a terrifying giant completely crawled out from inside the sand worm!
His body size was actually slightly larger than the sand worm’s, and in his hand, he gripped an utterly terrifying greatknife!
The giant held the greatknife, looking down condescendingly at the dumbfounded sand dweller elder.
The sand worm’s body was broken and tattered, but this ferocious desert worm had not died yet. It suddenly twisted its body, its terrifying massive mouth attempting to bite towards the giant’s thigh.
The giant swung the greatknife in his hand, instantly cleaving the incredibly hard sand worm in two. The giant foot lifted and stomped down on the writhing worm head. The entire oasis seemed to tremble.
Then the giant raised the greatknife in his hand again, aiming at the sand dweller elder and the others. A hoarse voice rang out: “Behold my forty-metre-long blade…”
