Chapter 323 - Total Domination

Chapter 323: Chapter 78: Total Domination"Kid, did you offend Piao Miao?" After the referee had left, Katula didn’t hide anything and directly said, "When I came here, Piao Miao sent me a message through someone."

"Oh? What did she say?"

Katula leaned in close to Lu Hong with a sinister smile, "She told me to kill you."

"Great. They tried to ambush and kill me last night and failed; now they’ve sent you to clean me up." Lu Hong nodded, "Two waves of ’gifts’, how generous!"

"Last night?" Clearly, Katula was not unfamiliar with the events on the Grand Avenue during the third realm; an incident of this magnitude happening during a controlled period had long been the talk of the upper echelons of the Alliance.

"No wonder Piao Miao asked me to kill you, daring to oppose the Xin Lei family, you certainly deserve to die."

"Don’t worry, I won’t die before you," Lu Hong continued, "I hear your Caposi family is a well-known hound for Duke Xin Lei. I wonder if Piao Miao would grieve for a while after I kill you."

"Just at the second-transition level five, what makes you think you can talk tough?" Katula was somewhat annoyed. Did the man in front of him not know the infamous reputation he had in the Alliance? And still, he dared to provoke him repeatedly?

"It’s just the title of a dead dog; I never remember the names of the dead." Lu Hong was ready to kill Katula before he even entered the arena. With someone sabotaging the selection competition, it wasn’t hard to guess who was behind it. Since the other party was unreasonable, he would fight his way through. He wanted to see how many people the Xin Lei family would send to their deaths!

"Looking for death!" Katula was fuming, flipping his hand into a claw and slashing out five bloody marks, heading straight for Lu Hong’s face.

"I’m going to tear your mouth apart!"

"You can try." Lu Hong stepped back, dodging the attack, and kicked out.

Katula pressed down with his right elbow, blocking Lu Hong’s strike, as a flash of bloodlight turned into a blade flying towards its target.

"Extinct!" Lu Hong let out a low shout, his Blood Qi power erupted like a tidal wave, instantly crushing Katula’s attack.

Katula was shocked and staggered back, creating distance between him and Lu Hong: "Aren’t you just a Great War Master?!"

"It seems Piao Miao didn’t tell you, last night I used my Blood Qi power."

"How is that possible?!" Katula guessed, "Are you dual-class?"

"Not bad, you’re somewhat insightful."

Seeing Lu Hong admitting it, Katula actually laughed, "Great, I’ve killed many professionals, but this will be my first time facing a dual-classer, fantastic! Fantastic!"

"Hope you don’t celebrate too early." Lu Hong sneered coldly, stepping forward quickly with a punch powered by a roaring wave of blood, unstoppable.

"Blood Shield, defend!" Katula concentrated his blood traces into a shield.

Regrettably, Lu Hong’s Blood Qi was incredibly vast, and with a light touch, he shattered Katula’s skill.

Even so, Katula had an astonishingly quick reaction, retreating explosively to avoid the attack.

"How can you possess such formidable blood power?" Katula was sweating cold sweat. As a blood master, a hereditary profession passed down in his family, he had an unusual control over blood.

The defense he had just put up was real, but he had also been secretly using a skill.

"You think you can shake me?" Lu Hong asked, "Contend with me for the sovereignty of blood power?"

Indeed, the skill Katula had been using in secret was called Blood Power Domination, a peak second-transition skill. He had invested a lot of effort to learn it in advance. In life-and-death fights, this move had laid the foundation for his victory. Most of the time, he could even steal his opponent’s blood, delivering an unexpected, fatal strike.

As the skill activated and touched Lu Hong, it was as if he saw a mountain piercing the sky, feeling like an ant before it, utterly incapable of causing any disturbance. Not only that, but his mind and spirit were also injured.

"Who are you, exactly?" Katula was not a fool. The level of his opponent’s blood power, the control over blood, and the total Blood Qi all exceeded his own by more than a little. In such a crushing situation, he had never lost before, but this time it was him being crushed, and it seemed the outcome was already determined.

"I told you, Piao Miao didn’t seem to have much hope for you, not even bothering to inform you about my basic information."

"I...," Katula was speechless. The information had been provided, but his arrogance had meant he didn’t read it, having thrown it in the trash. Damn it, he had doomed himself!

"Since Piao Miao sent you to kill me, you can’t blame me for being heartless." Lu Hong launched another attack, his fists like the wind, his Blood Qi like tidal waves.

Katula hastily countered, dodging Lu Hong’s attacks with agile movements, but unfortunately, he found no chance to strike back.

"Blood Qi Shockwave!" A red explosion detonated within the arena as Lu Hong shouted, the fierce blast almost bursting the protective barrier.

Under this unavoidable skill, Katula was hit hard, crashing to the ground, coughing up blood.

Lu Hong stepped on him and laughed, "You don’t seem as tough as you sound, quite weak actually!"

"You!" Outraged and humiliated, Katula summoned his blood power in a desperate gambit, "Secret Technique! Blood Ignition!"

"A fight to the death?" The oppressive surge of power slowly overflowed from Katula’s body. Lu Hong retreated a hundred steps and silently watched the other man.

"You forced my hand—I didn’t want to use this move since even if I kill you, I’d be weakened for half a year," Katula floated midair, emitting burst after burst of red ripples, each one shattering the ground and causing the protective barrier to emit cries of imminent fracture.

"It looks powerful," Lu Hong acknowledged the might of the secret technique.

"Of course, with this move, I have killed Third Transition Early Stage warriors when I was at the Second Transition ninth level. No matter how strong you are, you’re going to pay for your actions!"

"Is that so?" Lu Hong softly called out, and the Blood Holy Sword fell into his hands.

At the sight of the blade, Katula felt a shiver go through him, struck with fear and panic: "Baron Yitian? You’re Baron Yitian!"

The one known to wield this Holy Sword and possess incredible blood power, in the Star Sea today, Katula could only think of the empire’s Baron capable of standing against a million soldiers.

"Very astute," Lu Hong confirmed the other’s guess.

Escape! Even with the power to rival the Third Transition, Katula had no desire to fight and launched an attack against the protective shield, his only chance for survival.

Of course, the moment Lu Hong drew the Holy Sword, he wouldn’t give Katula the opportunity.

"Blood Return to Origin!" The skill of the Holy Sword activated, and the Blood Qi around Katula uncontrollably flowed back toward the blade.

"No! Not my power! My power!" Katula’s momentum rapidly dwindled.

Under Blood Return to Origin, within a given domain, all blood would fall under Lu Hong’s command. Naturally, if one’s level was high and magic power strong enough, they could resist it.

Clearly, Katula lacked this ability. In a breath’s time, the stockpile of his blood power was completely absorbed by the Holy Sword.

A weakened Katula fell to the ground, unable to move even a finger.

Lu Hong put away the Holy Sword and stepped forward.

He picked up Katula: "Didn’t you say earlier you wanted to tear my mouth apart?"

Katula lacked the strength even to speak, and naturally, Lu Hong didn’t care to listen to his whining. A couple of slaps later, all of his teeth were knocked out.

"Whimper!" Katula let out a terrified cry, but alas, what greeted him were several more slaps.

After a round of beatings, all Katula could hear was Lu Hong’s parting words, before he breathed no more.

As the adversary died and the contract was fulfilled, the protective barrier, struggling to hold on, finally completed its mission and descended.

Discarding Katula’s corpse, Lu Hong said to the Holy King, "Burn the body for me."

"Why bother? What’s the point of that trouble?"

"I’m afraid they’ll deduce something from the corpse."

"Oh." The Holy King nodded, now merely a lackey to Lu Hong, drawn irresistibly to the power of Blood Qi, as if addicted to drugs, unable to let go once experienced.

A Holy Flame emerged from the Space Ring and instantly charred Katula’s body to a blackened skeleton: "Now, aside from recognizing that he died under the Holy Light, they’ll gain no further information."

"Dinner’s on me tonight." Lu Hong left the arena satisfied, pushing the door open.

The moment the door opened, Anna had to admit she was nervous.

Upon seeing Lu Hong emerge, her emotions overflowed; Anna rushed forward and threw herself into his arms, "You scared me to death!"

"Don’t worry, these were just small scenes; your man is no weakling."

"Hmph!" Seeing Lu Hong safe, Anna’s heart finally settled, and she voiced her discontent: "Next time, you can’t do these frightening things. You have no idea how worried I was."

"Alright, but if someone is targeting me, I can’t just cater to their wishes. If I don’t kill a few, this kind of thing will happen again. It never ends."

"Mm..." Anna nodded, seeing the reason in Lu Hong’s words.

Curious, the referee glanced into the arena and exclaimed in shock, "You killed Katula?!"

"Of course, how else would I have gotten out?" Lu Hong turned and patted the referee’s shoulder, "I told you, four sixes—it’s double the luck, isn’t it?"