Chapter 575: "...Me?"

While Wang Jincheng and Chong Qi were confronting each other, Li Ruohong had already scrambled a hundred meters away.

He rushed into an unfinished building, climbed out a window with difficulty, and took many turns through narrow alleys, trying his best to distance himself from the battlefield behind so he wouldn't be caught.

"I’m dead, I’m dead..."

"That Chief, why does he have to come after me??"

"He wanted me to persuade them to surrender, I did, and now he turns around and says I’m some Heart 6??"

"What the hell is Heart 6 anyway!!"

“……”

Li Ruohong was also completely baffled. The situation had developed far beyond his imagination, but facing a life-and-death crisis, his already slow brain had completely shut down, his mind filled only with the words "run away."

Just as he was panting and preparing to stop for a rest, a figure flashed out from behind him!

Li Ruohong turned back in confusion, only to see a hand holding something thin and transparent, whistling as it slapped him across the face, sending him flying like a direct slap!

SLAP——!!

With a crisp sound, Li Ruohong was sent flying several meters by the slap, his head buzzing.

"No, who is that?!?"

Li Ruohong was dizzy from the slap. Just as he stumbled to his feet, the figure had already vanished, leaving Li Ruohong standing there with one hand covering his cheek, lost in the cold wind.

Before Li Ruohong could react, a giant shadow gradually obscured him.

Beneath the heavy clouds, hundreds of rocks were gathering from all directions. Under the control of a figure, they slowly formed a massive rock mountain, then compressed and reorganized bit by bit!

The mountain, which had just been piled up, visibly shrank, its color deep as an abyss, its edges smooth and contoured. From afar, it had already turned into a black pyramid blotting out the sky!

And at this moment, at the top of the pyramid, Wang Jincheng stared fixedly at Li Ruohong, who looked like an ant in the block, his murderous intent surging!

"Heart 6, if you have the ability to withstand this strike, then I, Wang, will be convinced!!"

Wang Jincheng was truly furious.

Heart 6 had played them like puppets time and again, fooling both him and the [Floating Life Painting]. If he still let Heart 6 escape, both he and the Red Dust Main City would lose all face.

It was time for this farce to end...

Wang Jincheng’s first move was his strongest killing blow, with no intention of giving Chen Ling the slightest chance of survival. Under this strike, almost no one below the Seventh Stage could survive, let alone Heart 6, whose own stage was not particularly high—he was simply too skilled at changing and trickery. To deal with such a troublesome character, one had to use a massive, indiscriminate area-of-effect attack, leaving him nowhere to run and killing him in one hit!

Li Ruohong: ???

Having just been slapped, Li Ruohong was completely dumbfounded. He stared at the black pyramid above the firmament, capable of crushing everything, his brain ceasing to function...

He stiffly raised his hand, his fingertip pointing at himself with uncertainty:

"...Me?"

Standing atop the black pyramid, Wang Jincheng was like a god ruling over the earth and its structures. He looked down at "Chen Ling," who seemed like an ant, and slowly raised both hands...

As his mental energy was consumed frantically, the black pyramid beneath him actually sent out ripples of invisible waves, as if the power contained within was vibrating and compressing the air. Even though the pyramid didn't move an inch, a hurricane swept out from its surface in all directions!

This terrifying pressure made Li Ruohong’s spirit tremble. He moved his feet tremblingly, instinctively wanting to flee the area covered by the pyramid, but the gale mixed with gravel made it impossible for him to take a step. He clung to the wall and managed to walk a few steps, but his legs went weak and lost all strength.

But even without these effects, if he were to run with all his might, he still wouldn't be able to escape the pyramid's range... because this pyramid was simply too large. Wang Jincheng used this trump card precisely to ensure there was nowhere for him to hide.

"Damn it... damn it!!"

Li Ruohong’s eyes turned red with anxiety. He didn't understand how everything had developed into this. The gale stirred the puddles at the corner of the wall, and his peripheral vision caught the reflection in the disturbed water, only to see a strange face.

Li Ruohong froze in place.

It was a delicate and handsome face, a young yet profound face. This face was on his own head, perfectly integrated with him; there was no sign of disharmony, as if he had been born looking like this.

This was the face of [Heart 6] Chen Ling!

"This..."

Li Ruohong’s pupils contracted slightly, but the next moment, a deafening roar came from the sky!

Wang Jincheng poured all his mental energy into the black pyramid. His clothes fluttered in the raging wind. He raised a finger and pointed it remotely at the ant-like figure, his voice low as if coming from the netherworld:

"Mountain-Crushing Roar."

Amidst a piercing shriek, that massive black pyramid was suddenly imbued with extreme kinetic energy, slamming into the earth at a speed faster than a falling meteor. The air around it was frantically compressed, the sound resembling the shrill cry of a mountain god!

A long black scar struck the earth.

In silence, all the buildings in the district were shaken into powder by the invisible ripples. The earth rippled violently like the surface of the sea, extending smoothly in all directions.

Boom—!!!

An earth-shattering explosion rang out the next moment. Blinding white light bloomed like a sun from the point where the pyramid fell. The dozen or so surrounding districts trembled, and an earthquake that swept through the main city erupted at that moment!

In that instant, an ink-wash mark quickly took shape in the sky, like a circle enveloping this district. The aftermath of the Mountain-Crushing Roar was completely sealed within the "circle," causing no destructive impact on the surrounding districts.

Beneath the clouds, Wang Jincheng looked into the distance and saw a figure in white, holding an eight-foot-long calligraphy brush, standing far away. After glancing at him casually, the figure turned and disappeared into the clouds.

Wang Jincheng naturally knew who that was—a person of such high status. He bowed respectfully in that direction, then descended straight toward the center of the shattered crater...

Dust and smoke swirled in the ruins. The district, once filled with buildings, had now been flattened into a plain. Wang Jincheng’s gaze fell on the center of the impact point, where a mass of blurred blood and mud lay as thin as a pancake, no longer in human shape.

Wang Jincheng did not lower his guard. He had heard that Heart 6 was extremely difficult to kill. He pulled a sharp stone blade from the stone, cut the pool of blood and mud, and forcibly sliced it into a dozen pieces, piling each one into a heap to ensure it could never recover into a human shape.

After doing all this, Wang Jincheng finally let out a long sigh of relief. This Mountain-Crushing Roar had drained all his mental energy; it could be said to be a desperate, peak Sixth-Stage strike. The facts proved that this strike had indeed not disappointed him...

He took out the new walkie-talkie he had just received from an officer and spoke calmly:

"[Heart 6], eliminated."