Chapter 1431 Checkmate

On the right, the Rage in Lin Nian's hand was already broken. Even the hardest material would deform and crack after colliding with the same material. It was incredible that it could hold on until now without breaking. On the other side, the Sword of Pride in Lu Mingze's hand was also full of cracks. I'm afraid it would break into pieces after another collision.

Just like the two swords, their users were also about to reach their limits. Even if their bodies were repaired by the terrifying dragon blood genes, they were not perpetual motion machines. The genes that were constantly squeezed and the cells that repeatedly divided always had a healing limit. Their scales had begun to appear and were repaired, but they began to tear and peel off before the collision because of the strong movement. The protruding dark gold bones also became slender and fragile. Countless performances proved that they were getting closer and closer to the limit.

The gushing misty blood condensed into a real red big wing behind Lin Nian. As the halo above his head reversed, the missing parts of his body quickly healed and grew. On his head, the illusory golden crown was about to take shape, and his self-consciousness began to drift. This was still the current situation where the blonde girl deliberately protected his self-consciousness. Otherwise, Lin Nian would have lost himself long ago, and the name of this body might be replaced by the newly enthroned king.

But the more this happened, the stronger Lin Nian became. Only now could Lin Nian truly feel the terror of the power that Yelena truly held. That was a power that was truly enough to shake the world. Now only a part of it was present on his body, which was enough to suppress the furious devil. This could be seen from the degree of damage to the two swords, Fury and Pride.

Lin Nian even vaguely realized that the power that Yelena had bestowed on him seemed incomplete, like a broken puzzle. He didn't know whether it was due to an incomplete fusion or some other reason. He didn't have the energy to think about it now. He could only put his consciousness into the frenzy of fighting and try to maintain himself. This was the only thing he could do.

"You are almost at your limit. Next is the last blow." Behind Lin Nian, or in his heart, Yelena's voice sounded, as if it was a conversation between him and himself, "Make up your mind."

Lin Nian certainly knew what she meant.

From the beginning to the end, he was holding back. Even though the fusion brought the terrible gain of the fourth degree of blood burst and brought unparalleled power and strength, he suppressed the heart of the dragon king that was pouring out the will to kill all the time during the fight with Lu Mingze. Whenever they collided and fought, he slightly shifted the aim of his rage to avoid really killing Lu Mingfei.

There is no such thing as hitting the opponent so hard that he is seriously injured or on the verge of death. In such a fierce battle, as long as you don't really hold the mentality of killing the opponent, there will always be the next roaring collision, the next time the sword will be inserted into the opponent's body, back and forth.

Now, Lin Nian is no longer qualified to repeat the countless next times. The crown is about to fall, and he will make his final choice in the next confrontation.

In the distance, Lu Mingze raised the arrogance that was on the verge of breaking. Dark golden chips fell from the sword. The swords that were difficult to cut by heavy machinery were about to be destroyed under their fierce attack. When they were destroyed, it must be the time when their users died together.

Lin Nian put his rage to his waist, and his molten eyes calmly looked at the face of Lu Mingfei in the distance. His mind was already quite blurred. Yelena's thousands of years of memory flooded his eyes, making him seem to be in the illusion of time. In the hazy fog of the mirage, he could still see the face of Lu Mingfei standing opposite him. Through the sad and angry pupils, he still saw the boy, the friend he knew.

He saw the crying and sad boy clearly, but could the other party see him? Or was he still immersed in hatred and anger?

He didn't know that in the frenzy after thousands of attacks and thousands of times of inserting swords into the other party's body, he had quietly made his choice.

The swords tore the air and distorted the trajectory of the elemental turbulence. They rushed towards each other at the same time.

There was no roar, no roar, death-like persistence, death-like silence.

In the sound of the wind, Pride stabbed at the several-meter-long second-form Rage blade. There was the biggest crack left on Rage after thousands of clashes. Whether it was Lu Mingfei or the devil, he was really smart to make this decision. This sword with all his strength might not stab Lin Nian, but it would definitely cut off the Rage in Lin Nian's hand!

But at the moment when Pride was about to hit the Rage blade, the Rage in Lin Nian's hand suddenly shrank. Yes, he took the initiative to control the form change of the alchemical sword, and Pride stabbed in the air! The dark gold blade shortened to a length of one meter, and slashed Lu Mingze's neck with one knife. The next knife slashed the arrogant devil away! Bones, flesh, nerves, were torn and cut off by Rage cleanly and neatly!

Absolute violence overwhelmed everything!

Lu Mingze flew backwards, hitting the ground and lifting up the stratum and dozens of meters of dust, with a deafening roar.

After making this slash, Lin Nian lost control and fell to the ground. The control of his whole body instantly slipped away from his consciousness, and he was overcome by cold darkness.

The crown suddenly stopped rotating just before it was formed. A hand touched the crown. Behind Lin Nian, Yelena held the crown so that it would not fall. Instead, she gently put it in the arms of Bai Yi and quietly disappeared into a light spot.

At the end of the crown disappearing, she sighed softly.

The signs of dragon transformation on Lin Nian's body began to fade rapidly. The dragon scales fell to the ground, and the skin on the entire body surface was cracked. The misty blood was lingering in those cracks, just like a newborn, naked and bathed in blood. He spasmed and convulsed all over and began to vomit blood and broken internal organs. He pressed his chest as if he wanted to vomit out everything in his chest. The heart-wrenching pain spread all over his body. Even the molten red golden pupils could no longer be maintained. Only a faint golden light remained in his eyes.

Yelena knelt in front of him, gently holding his hand, and spent this difficult time with him.

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"Exchange?"

In the corridor, the emperor suddenly looked at Su Xiaoqiang and asked.

"The battle is over! Lin Nian won!" Su Xiaoqiang looked at the emperor and growled. She was not happy about Lin Nian's victory at all. Her eyes were full of tears because she knew the pain and sadness when Lin Nian made that last cut.

"No," the emperor shook his head gently, "Lin Nian lost."

Su Xiaoqiang suddenly paused, followed the emperor's raised hand, and looked in the direction He pointed.

In the distance, the huge smoke and dust fell, and a figure gradually climbed up from the ground. It was Lu Mingze. His body was almost torn into two sections, from the right neck to the left hip. The exaggerated scars tore his entire body. The cross-section could clearly see the broken bones and the internal organs that were shaken into a bloody paste, but the heart in the chest was the only one that was intact - the knife missed Lu Mingfei's heart, and the heart would be cut in half by a millimeter.

Had it missed? Or did it miss it on purpose.

No one knew the answer, and no one cared, because Lin Nian had no more slashes, the fusion was over, and the fourth blood burst had returned to zero. Now the only one standing there was the nearly exhausted Lin Nian. After seeing Lu Mingfei stand up, he slowly raised his cracked blood burst and stood up, looking at him.

"Even so, you're not willing to get out of the way?" Lu Mingze looked at Lin Nian and asked in a low voice. After the dragon transformation was released, he was as fragile as a piece of white paper, but he still chose to raise his blood burst and blocked Lu Mingfei and the exit of the corridor.

This battle was clearly won by Lu Mingfei and Lu Mingze. After the fusion was released, Lin Nian was no longer his opponent. If they collided again, the result would be unimaginable.

Lin Nian put his blood burst back to his waist, still in the same complete Iai posture, with his lowered golden eyes ignoring everything.

Behind him, the blonde girl stood there quietly, symbolizing that they would rise and fall together, and no matter what the outcome was, she would accompany Lin Nian to the end.

Lu Mingze in the distance began to heal himself. Even if the knife tore his body apart, as long as his heart and the complex nerves hidden in the third vertebra were not damaged, he could repair his body again.

"So, exchange? You can change everything, and only you can change everything. As the trump card that Mandy Gonzalez hoped for, their fusion has been declared defeated. Until the end, he did not really kill Lu Mingfei. Then the ending will only be that he will be killed by Lu Mingfei."

The emperor looked at Su Xiaoqiang and said in a low voice, "Time is running out. This is our last chance."

Su Xiaoqiang looked at Mandy Gonzalez, hoping that she had something else to say, but she suddenly found that Mandy's attention was not on the victory or defeat of the Great Void. Her energy was completely focused on the Blade of the Broken Contract, patiently waiting for the dragon blood of Jörmungandr to stain the entire blade, waiting for the complex alchemical field to be completed.

Maybe it was just like what He said, this was really the last chance. Now Lin Nian's opponent was no longer Lu Mingfei, but the devil named Lu Mingze. The opponent was after Lin Nian's life. He and the emperor used the lives of Lin Nian and Lu Mingfei as a bet. Now, if he won, he would naturally take Lin Nian's life as promised.

So, exchange?

The emperor's voice was like a bell, solemn and holy. He reached out to Su Xiaoqiang, waiting for the completion of the contract.

Lu Mingze completed his self-repair, and his dragon body was complete again. Even though there were still cracks in many places, it was enough to just charge again.

He raised his arrogance and aimed at Lin Nian's heart in the distance. The black membrane wings behind him gathered and overlapped behind him. The invisible airflow and the "wind" part of the elemental turbulence were stripped out and wrapped around him. Even when facing an enemy who was running out of energy, he still responded with the highest threat.

"Su Xiaoqiang, exchange?" The emperor asked three times, his voice full of dullness, and a hint of difficulty appeared in his beautiful red eyes.

He didn't understand why Su Xiaoqiang hadn't made up his mind to exchange until now. He once valued this girl as the candidate to stay with Lin Nian because she was too easy to control. Her love was like a moth to a flame, but her figure was as light as a feather. She was too suitable to be the object of the contract. For Lin Nian, she should naturally give everything, regardless of the consequences.

But now, the girl was silent. After the silence, she raised her head and looked at the emperor. Her eyes had already written her answer.

She refused to exchange.

She made her own choice.

In the pool of blood, Mandy Gonzalez showed a happy smile on her face, and without hesitation, she sent the shell blade of the centipede in her hand into Fenrir's chest!

The blade pierced the heart, and the boy named Xia Wang did not dodge or stop it. He just lay there quietly, with blood spurting from his chest splashing on his cheeks. It was so quiet, like looking up at the light of heaven from the bottom of the abyss of hell.

The dragon's heart was broken, and the powerful and complex alchemical field suddenly unfolded in Fenrir's body. The contract that had been engraved long ago began to be stripped away, and in the process it encountered strong resistance. The spirit body symbolizing the "soul" was bound in the dragon's body and kept struggling!

In the big hole, Lu Mingze, who had completed self-healing, finally moved. The moment the membrane wings opened, he pounced out! The speed was still so fast, with violent killing intent, arrogantly pointing directly at Lin Nian's heart, who was still holding the knife!

Everything was irreversible.

At the critical moment, the emperor looked up, his molten red pupils were terrifying, and a trace of rage and hideousness that had never been seen before flashed across his eyes!

When Su Xiaoqiang turned his head to look at the big hole, his body turned into light and dissipated in the passage. Then, a huge shadow descended, completely occupying the girl's entire body and mind! Her pupils instantly turned red!

After completing the descent, a trace of pain and distortion flashed across the emperor's face. He forcibly violated the contract and sent the power that had been prepared to the other side along the chain!

Mandy Gonzalez, who pierced Fenrir's heart, turned around and saw this scene, and a strange smile appeared on her face as if the plan had succeeded.

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"Click."

In the depths of the big hole, the crisp sound of chess pieces falling on the chessboard echoed.

"Checkmate." The woman sitting in the dark said softly.