Chapter 146: Confrontation Among the Mighty

Lu Mingyu led the way in front, while Zhang Ze and Li Sanqing followed him for a full day and night!

Even now, however, Lu Mingyu remained unwilling to reveal the exact location and details of their destination, claiming he was afraid Zhang Ze and Li Sanqing would ditch him.

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The crystal stone in hand turned from white to black once more.

Although the sky had not darkened significantly, this marked the arrival of night within the stellar realm space.

Zhang Ze was losing his patience. He spoke in a cold voice, "Can you finally tell us now? Where is the destination of this operation of ours—"

Lu Mingyu was about to refuse when he heard Li Sanqing scold him from the side, "Spit it out! Why are you acting so timid and squeamish? If we really wanted to ditch you, even when we get there, you—a mere third-rank martial artist—might not be able to outfight the two of us!"

He was being looked down upon!

And the one looking down on him was none other than Li Sanqing!

Lu Mingyu's expression turned ugly, and he honestly conceded, "Don't you two chicken out once I tell you!"

The two of them shot him a blank stare.

Lu Mingyu immediately continued, "That place is about a hundred miles west of Wulan City. I can confirm it's at least the estate of a seventh-rank powerhouse!"

Hearing this, the corners of Li Sanqing's eyes twitched. "You really have a death wish, setting your sights on Wulan City?"

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The two of them exchanged remarks back and forth, but this was the first time Zhang Ze had ever heard of Wulan City!

In response, Li Sanqing and his companion offered an explanation.

As it turned out, this Wulan City was also a city within the Anqing Third Stellar Realm.

However, unlike Blood Moon City, Wulan City belonged to the Pisces lineage of the Star Beast clan.

Humans had been entering this stellar realm space for decades, yet they had never engaged in direct friction with Wulan City.

As for other details, Li Sanqing and Lu Mingyu actually knew very little.

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After a moment of thought, Zhang Ze furrowed his brow and asked, "Do the two of you know why these stellar realm alien races are invading us?"

Li Sanqing's brows were also tightly knit as he said, "As far as I know, it seems they are looking for something on Earth. As for anything more specific, I'm not clear!"

"Looking for my foot!"

Lu Mingyu rebuked sharply, "Once these beasts enter Earth, they only slaughter ordinary humans. How many similar incidents have there been?"

Seeing Lu Mingyu so agitated, Zhang Ze could roughly guess the reason in his heart.

Li Sanqing explained instead, "There were martial artists in his family as well. You can probably guess what happened later—"

Zhang Ze nodded slightly.

In truth, wasn't the situation in his fellow disciple Zhang Yue's family quite similar?

By now, what these stellar realm alien races ultimately wanted no longer mattered to them.

For people like Zhang Yue and Lu Mingyu, they only knew that the stellar realm aliens were invaders—enemies who had slaughtered countless ordinary humans, including their own family members!

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Mentioning this, the atmosphere among the three grew somewhat oppressive.

Boom, boom—

At that moment, all three of them simultaneously sensed several terrifying auras rising from the northwest!

The auras were so powerful that even separated by such a great distance, the three of them still felt a chill run through their hearts!

Li Sanqing snapped to his senses and let out a low roar, "Not good! That's the direction of Blood Moon City. They're about to launch an attack on Anqing City!"

Before his voice had even faded, and without waiting for Zhang Ze and the other to speak, he hurriedly urged, "The three of us must return to Anqing City as soon as possible!"

Slap—

Li Sanqing turned to leave, but his arm was grabbed by Lu Mingyu.

The latter asked in a low voice, "What use is it for the three of us to go back? You're a fourth-rank powerhouse, but can you stop their eighth-rank powerhouse, or can you stop a seventh-rank one?"

Li Sanqing fell silent.

Zhang Ze agreed with Lu Mingyu's assessment. "He's right. It's useless for the three of us to go back. Besides, we aren't as fast as them. If we get intercepted by Blood Moon City powerhouses along the way..."

Hearing what the two of them said, Li Sanqing calmed down.

That's right—

With him, Li Sanqing, being just a minor fourth-rank fledgling, could he possibly be more perceptive than that old master?

If not for the fact that they had left without reporting, they surely would have received intelligence that war was imminent.

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After pondering for a moment, Li Sanqing said, "Let's quicken our pace. Once we ransack that place, perhaps we can go and take a look around Blood Moon City!"

Perhaps Li Sanqing had made that remark unintentionally, but it planted a seed in Zhang Ze's heart!

Since Blood Moon City had launched a war, its rear must undoubtedly be poorly defended.

Take that satellite city from last time, for instance—wasn't the seventh-rank powerhouse guarding it called away to participate in the battle?

If so, wouldn't he be able to pull off a second intrusion?

Thinking of this, Zhang Ze couldn't help but feel amused.

As the thought faded, Zhang Ze sensed the terrifying auras in the distant west once more, and he still couldn't help but tremble inwardly.

"Teacher, please don't die—"

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Anqing City.

If Wu Di were to hear Zhang Ze's ominous premonition, she would surely teach him a harsh lesson, wouldn't she?

However, she clearly lacked the mood for that at the moment.

On the upper floor of the administrative building, the figure of the old man was gone, replaced by the middle-aged Han Yanxin.

Han Yanxin had shed his previous stern demeanor; whenever he faced Wu Di, he wore an expression of deep anxiety, and his voice carried profound guilt. "How have you been lately?"

Wu Di did not look at him. Sitting in the old man's treasured chair with her eyes tightly closed, she replied, "Thanks to you, my mental state has stabilized much more now that you aren't swaying back and forth in front of my eyes."

Han Yanxin knew Wu Di was still blaming herself for the deaths of those nine students.

For a moment, he didn't know what else to say.

The husband and wife fell into an awkward silence.

After a long while, Wu Di opened her eyes to see him still standing nearby, and she scoffed mockingly, "What are you doing following me around, an eighth-rank powerhouse? Do you have nothing else to do? If you have nothing to do, go kill a few more stellar realm aliens!"

With that, Wu Di walked away on her own.

Han Yanxin watched her retreating figure and let out a long sigh.

The next instant, however, sensing something, his eighth-rank aura instantly erupted, turning into a stream of light as he rushed outside the city.

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Wu Di wandered aimlessly, feeling utterly exhausted in both body and mind.

It was then that Zhang Yue hurried over to her, calling out anxiously, "Teacher, Zhang Ze has disappeared. The garrison personnel say he left Anqing City with Li Sanqing and Lu Mingyu."

"What?"

"Didn't he know a war was about to break out?"

Wu Di was extremely shocked.

Zhang Yue wore a guilty expression and said in a deep voice, "I didn't manage to notify him in time..."

Hearing this, Wu Di said no more. Although a sixth-rank martial artist's perception was not as acute as an eighth-rank powerhouse's, she too could now sense that heart-palpitating aura.

She murmured softly, "I hope they're still alive—"

Then her figure vanished before Zhang Yue's eyes.

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Scarcely two or three breaths later.

About fifty miles north of Anqing City, several figures stood proudly in mid-air, exuding extraordinarily terrifying auras.

In less than three seconds, the figures of Wu Shishen, Fu Wu, Han Yanxin, and others also arrived in this patch of sky.

"Heh—"

Blood Moon's long red hair fluttered in the wind as she smiled and said, "Is the old man not dead yet?"

"Don't be scared. This time I've come simply to demand ten or twenty thousand lives from you people—"

"Of course, if three or five of you happen to die here, I might consider settling for just a thousand lives—"

Blood Moon's voice was soft, but Wu Shishen and the others heard every word clearly.

As high-rank powerhouses who had dealt with the enemy for decades, they naturally understood the language of the stellar realm aliens.

Wu Shishen, standing at the very front, had turbulent waves of energy surging around his body, his aura matching Blood Moon's step for step.

He spoke in a chilling tone, "It seems your skin has started itching again after a year without a beating. Today, I'll tighten it up for you!"

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Though both sides were at daggers drawn, neither side showed any intention of striking just yet.

They were all waiting—