Beginning with the Ubume Bird-Chapter 590 - 22 Sky Bomb

Li Yan sped along the dirty highway on his Dodge Tomahawk, and within a short while, he had escaped from the district entangled by Ju Mang’s branches.

His gaze was calm like still water, showing no signs that he had just escaped from a Proxy Traveler at least two ranks above him.

The undulating buildings around him seemed familiar, and the towering abandoned industrial equipment jutting out from the walls, occasionally marked by wind-eroded paint slogans, were visible from time to time.

Instead of a small Yan Fu Fruit, to Li Yan, this felt more like the ruins of a Chinese industrial city from the 90s.

"It makes no sense to keep the likes of Ju Mang in this city, the way out shouldn’t be hard to find..."

As Li Yan was pondering to himself, suddenly a cobblestone path over a meter wide appeared on the highway ahead, faint and possibly disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Li Yan stopped his Dodge Tomahawk, retracted the vehicle, and then set foot on the cobblestone path. The path that was intermittently visible in his sight immediately became much clearer.

"Six Ministries Walker, please take note, you have discovered a pathway leading to the venue. When a Six Ministries Walker reaches the end, this path will disappear forever."

Such a voice reached Li Yan’s ears.

Looking distantly, the serpentine cobblestone path wound across the highway with an S-shaped curve, even magically passing over a building. The direction led exactly to where the azure flames and thunderous light erupted.

"So that’s how it is."

Li Yan suddenly realized.

"Huh!"

Paths leading to the venue would appear irregularly throughout the city, attracting nearby Six Ministries Walkers to compete for. Theoretically, this was not direct competition but more akin to a race; intense, forceful conflicts could be entirely avoided.

At the same time, there was also an element of luck involved.

Suddenly, like an earthquake, a brown colossal wall over a hundred meters tall rose in the distance, covered with red and white craters arranged in some pattern. Then came the second wall, the third... dozens of giant walls formed a massive dueling arena, isolating the inside from the outside.

When the dust settled a little, it was not hard to notice that these connected giant walls were clearly over-sized Tianjiu Dominoes.

That wasn’t all, consecutive sounds of air blasts rose and fell, and over a dozen iron-gray smoke trails cut across the sky, with unidentifiable modern missiles embedding like steel nails into the domino arena one by one, causing violent explosions.

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Zheng Jinghong’s plaid shirt had several burned holes the size of fists, and dozens of Tianjiu Dominoes whirred around him, emitting a bright shine.

"I thought you really only had thirty-two dominoes to use."

Lady Dan surveyed the siege created by the colossal dominoes. She stood on thin air, below her were the varying sizes of explosion pits and billowing smoke, along with the shells of a dozen missiles, and one that weighed tens of tons, resembling the wreckage of a "man-made satellite."

"That was a long time ago."

The man in the plaid shirt smiled.

A Red Head Tianjiu Domino slowly rotated by his shoulder, each side surprisingly bearing dice pips.

Zheng Jinghong, representative of the second seat of the Yan Zhao Club, Proxy Traveler "Guan Yiwu."

Six Ministries Walker.

He looked at the "satellite" wreckage on the ground with a bit of distress: "After all, it’s a small Yan Fu Fruit, it nearly went orbital just by flying a bit; otherwise, launching an attack from several thousand kilometers in the air would not have resulted in such a loss."

"What about the other person?"

Lady Dan stared at him.

Zheng Jinghong shrugged his shoulders: "Some folks just push a button and get the job done. Not suffering like me."

While they talked, at least dozens more missiles flew into the arena, targeting Lady Dan, but none managed to touch her as they bizarrely veered towards the ground.

The missiles that hit the ground didn’t have a specific model, their killing radius approached a hundred meters. Their accuracy was extremely high, shooting into the round field of bone cards from different directions, making it impossible to determine their origins.

"If I’m not wrong, you want to run next, right?"

Lady Dan asked.

Zheng Jinghong didn’t deny it but whispered softly, "Good luck to you, Mountain Spirit."

After speaking, two bone cards flew under his feet. Zheng Jinghong shot into the sky.

Lady Dan also tried to rise into the air, but she had only flown dozens of meters high when the red and white dice on the giant Tianjiu Dominoes around her poured out from the cards.

A double bench, double red dots, sky-high nine, earth-high nine... Various Pai Gow patterns surrounded Lady Dan’s body, forcing her to descend.

Zheng Jinghong, who was about to fly out of the Pai Gow circle, breathed a sigh of relief. He took out a black walkie-talkie from his personal mark: "Job’s done."

A cold female voice came from the walkie-talkie: "Understood, I’ll fire in thirty seconds. Get far away."

"Don’t worry, my bone wall can take it."

After speaking, Zheng Jinghong put away the walkie-talkie, looking down at the beautiful Mountain Spirit below in the round field, who was closing her eyes in silence, allowing the dominoes to carry him away from the field.

"She seems to have gone through a lot of effort to give herself a new body of flesh and blood. Why go through the trouble? There are indeed many Proxy Travelers who covet an untouched body nourished by the essence of heaven and earth."

Zheng Jinghong felt a twinge of guilt, "Sorry, we don’t mean to take your life, just to make you leave this place."

"Hm?"

He looked up to see countless black paper cranes converging into a pair of mountainous giant hands. The hands were beautifully shaped, with five slender fingers each spreading apart, slapping down over the round field as if swatting a fly, knocking Zheng Jinghong back to the ground!

Zheng Jinghong, struck as if by lightning, tumbled in midair, vomiting large mouthfuls of blood.

Countless black paper cranes flapped their wings, tightly blocking the entire airspace above the round field, not even sunlight could penetrate a fraction of it.

"Looks like you’ll have to keep me company here..."

Lady Dan said faintly.

Two black paper cranes landed on Lady Dan’s shoulders, one on each side.

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Zheng Jinghong’s expression was extremely ugly. He couldn’t afford to strike back, forcing himself to take out the walkie-talkie and said weakly: "Stop the launch, I’m trapped inside!"

Hundreds of kilometers away, in a rundown coffee shop, a short-haired woman wearing a headset had an ugly expression. In front of her was a radar display with a blue icon, the center showed a black circle, and a red skull symbol was rapidly approaching it.

She picked up the walkie-talkie, devoid of any emotion: "It’s already been launched, you figure it out."

"Shit."

Zheng Jinghong cursed with an ugly expression.

Lady Dan loosened her neck, smiling as she asked, "Your friend couldn’t stop in time, could she?"

"She launched a giant bomb with an explosive yield of over five million tons of TNT, capable of turning everything within five kilometers to ash. My bone cards can further concentrate the power of the explosion; I can’t run, and neither can you."

"Maybe I can take it better than you?"

As the two verbally sparred, an eerie stone path cut through the Tianjiu bone wall, the end of the path right between them!

A position a little closer to Lady Dan...