Chapter 1036: Chapter 1038: The Gap in Strength

Hosta had no idea what Wen Wen was planning, but it certainly wasn’t anything good, so with a wave of his large hand, the Cicada Ancestor sprang into action.

It didn’t charge directly but instead started to slowly ascend into the sky. Despite its massive size, it wasn’t the kind for close combat.

During its ascent, Wen Wen’s more than ten smoke clones began to dart back and forth, making it impossible to pinpoint Wen Wen’s actual location.

And Wen Wen’s true body flashed to appear beside Hosta, gripping his sword hilt with both hands, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.

This move was the Sword of Intent, Wen Wen intended to deliver a kill shot to Hosta!

Neither the Cicada Ancestor in the sky nor Hosta on the ground noticed this strike from Wen Wen, but before Wen Wen could swing his sword, he blurted out a curse.

“Damn it, this is going insane!”

Then he aimed his condensed Sword Intent at the sky and slashed.

On the Cicada Ancestor’s enormous body, hundreds of small white light spheres suddenly appeared, each emitting a pure white light beam that caused huge explosions upon hitting the ground.

Wen Wen’s Sword of Intent collided with the white light beam, both dissolving each other, but more beams exploded around Wen Wen.

The ground was covered in blinding bright explosion marks, with Hosta, who had been beside Wen Wen, quietly disappearing.

After all the explosive energy dissipated, Wen Wen stood at the original spot, covered in dust and dirt, standing on a one-meter diameter, ten-meter high dirt pillar.

It wasn’t that Wen Wen had suddenly grown taller, but the surrounding ground was blasted down by ten meters!

Wen Wen already looked pretty battered, but Xue Jiuyi and Landas Ghost Shadow looked even worse, with Xue Jiuyi scorched brutally by holy power and Landas Ghost Shadow’s black suit torn to shreds.

The Cicada Ancestor had ascended to the sky to unleash an indiscriminate large-scale attack!

After this attack, the entire park along with the surrounding streets and some scattered buildings were all wiped off the map.

The only living things left in the area, besides the Cicada Ancestor, were Wen Wen, Xue Jiuyi, and Landas Ghost Shadow.

The Cicada Ancestor no longer needed to carefully identify enemies. It could simply eliminate all nearby lifeforms.

Hosta, much weaker than Wen Wen and the others, didn’t perish in the indiscriminate attack. His presence could be sensed right on top of the Cicada Ancestor.

Hosta was embedded in the Cicada Ancestor’s shell, revealing only a face full of madness.

He could feel all of the Cicada Ancestor’s actions, as if he had merged with it. The Cicada Ancestor’s moves against Wen Wen and his allies were, to him, his own actions against them, and he could enjoy the thrill of the hunt without any hindrance.

The Cicada Ancestor also seemed influenced by Hosta, its moves becoming a bit deranged.

By merging Hosta into its body, the Cicada Ancestor was protecting him, indicating that for now, Hosta was important to the Cicada Ancestor.

But now, Wen Wen had no chance to kill Hosta. Hosta was now atop the Cicada Ancestor’s head, killing him would be as difficult as defeating the Cicada Ancestor itself.

From a distance, Lin Zheyuan and Ye Wen suddenly halted their steps, both shaken by the massive indiscriminate attack.

“I think watching from here is enough, there’s no need to get too close, don’t you think?” Lin Zheyuan, who had intended to get closer, said with a strange expression, looking at Ye Wen.

Ye Wen nodded woodenly, a bit scared by the scene.

Had they moved a little quicker, they might have been wiped out by the attack; even surviving would have left them barely alive.

Sifumo leisurely walked up behind them, lightly coughing, almost making them jump.

“I finally found you, I thought we wouldn’t meet until this was all over.” Finding acquaintances was a joyous thing for the directionally challenged Sifumo.

Frightened by the sudden appearance, Ye Wen and Lin Zheyuan had no nice expressions for Sifumo.

If Sifumo hadn’t dodged and hidden all this time, they might not have needed to join this Cup of Divine Blood battle at all.

As the three stood there for a while, they saw the light spheres around the Cicada Ancestor, like floating cannons, incessantly launching powerful attacks downward.

The three of Wen Wen scrambled in embarrassment, showing no trace of a true-order master’s demeanor.

As a true order level monster, the Cicada Ancestor was an above-spec existence, and just evading its attacks left Wen Wen and his allies exhausted.

The Cicada Ancestor’s energy seemed endless, and these energy cannons continuously caused the park’s ground to sink, even triggering a mild earthquake throughout the Xizhu District.

If the battle dragged on too long, the area might become a basin in the future!

This level of battle was far beyond what an ordinary Assimilation Supernatural Being could interfere with. For Lin Zheyuan and the others, even approaching posed a deadly risk.

Lin Zheyuan clenched his fist, recalling when Wen Wen was just a small thug under his command. Now, he had become someone he had to look up to.

Then he relaxed his fist, telling himself he would take the Ranger exam after returning, striving to become strong enough to stand on such a battlefield one day.

Watching for a while, Sifumo sighed, adjusting his hat, and walked toward the center of the battlefield.

Ye Wen grabbed Sifumo: “Are you insane! Even if you’re stronger than us, such a battle isn’t something you can meddle in.”

Sifumo pushed her hand away, a gleam in his eyes: “I’m the one in charge of the Cup of Divine Blood case, everyone else can avoid it, but I can’t, and I’m not as fragile as you think.”

With that, Sifumo confidently walked toward the park but made a strange detour before reaching the sunken area, starting to walk around the park.

Lin Zheyuan and Ye Wen exchanged incredulous looks: “Even on such a short path, he got lost?”

…

Mysterious Swordmanship Dao. Sword Qi Burst Stream!

Countless Sword Qi cleaved apart the beams heading towards Wen Wen, dispersing the beams’ power and leaving large craters all around.

After some time of battle, the soil here had become incredibly dense; what once would create a giant pit over ten meters deep with one shot now only blew a pit four or five meters deep.

Wen Wen held the Blood River Sword with his arm slightly twitching, looking at the sky where the majestic giant cicada flaunted its power, mixed feelings of defeat filled his heart.

He had anticipated the Cicada Ancestor would be powerful, but never expected it to be this overwhelmingly strong!

Just floating in the sky like an artillery platform, it was enough to have them running for their lives.