Chapter 1148
Three Small fry
Chapter 1148 Three Small Fish (Some content was not included in the original release, but has now been added. Please refresh the page.)
Xia Xiu stood atop the [Lever of Heaven], a sacred weapon transformed into a towering silver pillar. Beneath him, the massive, island-like steel jaws of the admiral were being crushed between the shattered seas, their bodies embedded in the seabed, their flesh and armor shattered. The spirituality and majesty that once commanded the awe of billions of sea creatures crumbled inch by inch under the silver scepter.
The wind raged, the sunlight burned, and only the blond youth remained, looking down from above at the two crowned kings who were about to go berserk.
The two figures still suspended in the air, General Coldscale and General Roarer, were both frozen in the eye of the storm. Their originally massive bodies now appeared as heavy as trapped beasts, their souls and instincts simultaneously sounding an alarm.
General Hanlin's eyes were fixed on Xia Xiu. Chilling spiritual patterns appeared on his silver-blue skin, and he slowly exhaled freezing air, the coldness condensing into icicles that scattered in the air. But the tone of his voice carried an undisguised tremor and…fear.
"This is impossible... It shouldn't be human... How could it be human..."
Can you imagine an ant suddenly flipping a person over and then tearing that person to pieces?
General Hanlin was in this situation at that moment. He looked at Xia Xiu with disbelief in his eyes. He had once been regarded as an inferior species at the bottom of the ancient food chain, but now he stood at the top of the world's destruction.
He initially thought it was other Sea King nations attacking the Atlantos navy, preparing to ignite a lineage war...
but……
It's a human?
How could it be a human?
On the other side, the Roaring General's eyes were burning with rage and bloodlust. His muscles bulged, his scales stood on end, and the halo of his crown flickered wildly.
His deafening voice seemed to roar with hatred that shattered time and space:
"You demon...you slaughtered millions of my people, you..."
Faced with his accusations that were like a raging storm, Xia Xiu merely tilted his head slightly, his golden pupils like the embers of the sun, and directly interrupted the other's boring roar.
Why do you eat people?
The roaring general paused for a moment, then immediately adopted a double standard, replying to Xia Xiu:
"Are you talking about justice? What kind of judgment are you representing? Don't be ridiculous. Aren't you humans... also beings that devour countless intelligent beings? We eat you, it's just survival of the fittest, natural selection."
His tone was icy cold, as if he were reiterating some natural law that had long been ingrained in his genes.
"You once boasted of civilization, yet you slaughtered whales in the sea, tigers and leopards in the mountains, and birds in the sky. Now it's your turn; it's just the cycle of history."
"This answer is quite hypocritical."
Xia Xiu looked at General Han Lin and suddenly nodded slightly, approving of the other's frankness.
That's good, double standards are the way to go.
He is also a hypocrite, and an extreme hypocrite at that.
So he smiled and replied:
"Ah, so you knew the answer."
As he finished speaking, he leaned forward slightly, his blond hair fluttering in the wind. He turned his head slightly, his gaze falling on the ashes of Los Santos, a city that had been completely consumed by the flames of destruction.
The flames continued to spread, the iron bones were melting, the spirits were lamenting, and beneath the black smoke, the symbol of an entire Haisi civilization was coming to an end.
Xia Xiu, however, seemed to be watching a silent drama, elegant, quiet, and cruel.
"Then why are you questioning me?"
He admitted to his paranoia, cold-bloodedness, and endless favoritism toward humanity. He loathed these grotesque races, especially when they were cannibals; this loathing seemed to surge from his very soul.
"I simply cannot stand you weird aliens."
“You are different from us. I cannot tolerate your disrespect for the dead. You inferior creatures not only eat the corpses of your own comrades, but also feed humans as food.”
I simply cannot tolerate a life filled with creatures like you, no different from monsters from ancient legends. Our emotions are incompatible, and our logic is completely different.
I simply cannot tolerate you creatures living in this world. Your bizarre appearance disgusts me. You are scum who do not belong to human aesthetics or logic. I know you have your own civilization and your own logic.
But I'm sorry, our logic doesn't include the option of forgiving your kind of logic.
"Today you eat my comrades, tomorrow you will turn me into a feast. This is not a racial misunderstanding, but the nature of conflict under the laws of nature."
He paused, then suddenly spoke. In that moment, he seemed no longer merely a heavenly angel, but rather the agent of the will of all humanity:
“From the moment we first broke free from the branches and stepped onto the ground, from the moment we struck the first spark with flint, we were destined to be unable to coexist with other species. I believe that in this world, on this timeline, some people have given up everything that humans once thought was noble in an attempt to coexist with you, but what they ultimately received was your hunting rifles and recipes.”
"Human civilization is weeping, human will is raging. Can you hear it? They are roaring, they are shouting in the horns."
"All their roars boil down to just one word..."
Xia Xiu slowly raised his right hand and clenched it in the air:
"revenge!"
"Heaven has heard their cries, so I bring you Heaven's request here—may all aliens, non-humans, cannibalistic monsters... be exterminated here."
"This is the order of extermination from Heaven—go to hell with fear and despair."
"Arrogant!!!"
The furious roars echoed through the sky, the voices of the two Atlantean admirals seemed to tear the heavens apart, their anger transforming into an invisible pressure that swept across the entire airspace.
—They no longer suppress their great power.
Their crowns were truly unveiled at this moment.
【Crown Realm: Ice Prison】
Enraged, General Hanlin transformed into a radiant azure aurora, his scale-like skin revealing rings of crystalline, frosty patterns. The sky suddenly cooled, and concentric circles of icy domains expanded outwards.
His unfolded crown resembled an inverted snow king's throne, crystal clear yet concealing a murderous intent that could freeze everything to death.
This is the wrath of the Snow Country, infinitely close to absolute zero; within its domain, the chosen have nowhere to escape.
【Crown Domain - Electric God's Extreme Domain】
The Roaring General presented a completely different and shocking sight.
He roared, and the entire crown shattered, transforming into a blazing white-yellow lightning bolt that shot straight into the sky.
Behind him emerged a colossal metallic statue, resembling a shark or the embodiment of Thor, its body covered in splitting light streams and ion orbits rotating like singularities.
The entire area transformed into a maze of beams in that instant.
Extreme cold freezes space and time, and bursts of light cleave everything in two.
The two realms overlapped, forming a calamity that swept down upon Chao Xiaxiu.
Faced with these attacks, Xia Xiu simply shook his head slightly, his expression unwavering, as if he were dealing with nothing more than two naive children putting on a one-man show on stage.
The difference between a miracle and a crown is as vast as the difference between Mr. Night and a child.
This time, Lao Xia didn't belittle Mr. Night. If Mr. Night can win the revival match, he will probably be moved to tears.
Unfortunately, he couldn't win the revival match at night, but it doesn't matter. He'll soon send those two small fry in front of him down to keep Mr. Night company.
Three halos, as white as mutton fat, appeared behind Xia Xiu, like the sun disc of angelic judgment, silently rotating.
"Buzz—"
The next moment, time stood still.
The icy mist lingered in the air, like a frozen roar; the lightning bolts were frozen into billions of still silver needles, suspended above an invisible line.
General Hanlin's Snow Country Fury had not yet subsided, nor had the Roarers appeared; the expressions on their faces and the roars from their mouths were all frozen in this time capsule like an oil painting. [Vasak], Time Stop!
Immediately afterwards, [Sisyphus] stepped out of the void, his purple-gold body like a sculpted god, and suddenly appeared behind General Hanlin—without any extra movements, he simply put his five fingers together and gently punched down the opponent's spine.
On the other side, Metatron descended from the blazing light, his six wings outstretched, a flaming sword in hand, and with a single slash, he struck!
He was like a fiery angel of judgment from an ancient divine revelation, his gaze merciless, his sword flashing silently as he pierced the heart core of the howler.
Just one sword strike.
The Hall of Radiance collapsed with a deafening roar. The structure of quantum leaps seemed to be judged by time, stripped from its fundamental logic. The realm fractured, melted away, and ultimately returned to nothingness.
"Buzz—"
As time stopped, the world began to flow again.
In that instant, the two Admirals Hai Si, who had just regained consciousness from the time freeze—Han Lin and Roarer—didn't even have time to catch their breath.
They had barely opened their mouths, not even uttering a single word, when their bodies suddenly exploded in the next second.
The Roaring General had barely turned around, his eyes not yet focused, when he was ignited from the inside.
The two strongest members of the Atlantos Navy were simply kicked to death by Lao Xia, who treated them like two stray dogs on the roadside.
The two small fish, now like two unsealed bags of blood, were slammed down from mid-air, the blood mist staining the sky red, and the pieces of flesh falling to the ground, splashing up scalding steam.
Beneath the towering pillar, General Steeljaw, pinned down and unable to move, roared in fury, his eyes bloodshot with rage:
"No!!!!!"
His shark-like face was contorted in agony, his mouth filled with thick, bloody bubbles, as he let out a heart-wrenching roar.
The red light on his crown exploded, and the halo made a cracking sound as it shattered under the strain, before finally collapsing completely.
He chose to blast open his crown and unleash his power to resist the angels' suppression.
[Crown Unfolds, Deadfire Erupts—!!!]
The next second, a fiery domain, like a volcanic eruption, suddenly rose up.
A crimson domain erupted from his body, like magma bursting through a mountain wall, expanding, twisting, burning, and roaring in all directions. His body swelled, his fin-like arms spread into the wings of a giant beast, and the power of his domain fluctuated violently, causing the [Lever of Heaven] beneath Xia Xiu's feet to tremble incessantly, and the entire silver pillar to shake violently, as if the pillar of heaven was about to collapse.
Xia Xiu glanced down and said calmly:
"Tsk, I almost forgot, there's still a small fish at my feet."
He reached up and rubbed his temples, as if he were annoyed by a fly buzzing around his ear.
"You're really putting on a passionate show... and you even have a power surge."
He paused, then smiled gently, his tone as warm as if he were inviting someone to dinner:
"Don't worry. We're a family, we should all be together. I'll take you downstairs to see them now."
He raised his right hand, and great spirituality poured into the [Lever of Heaven] like a waterfall. In an instant, a pitch-black sun appeared in the void, slowly rising from the depths of the seventh level of the ether.
[Low Orbit World Cannon - Heavenly Lever -]
boom--!!!
The colossal pillar pressed down violently!
Before the Steel Jaw General's domain could be fully deployed, it was forcibly pressed back to the ground by the entire giant pillar.
The hot-blooded, explosively powerful steel jaw admiral was directly crushed into a pulp by the lever.
Of the three generals, none survived.
The silvery-white pillar stood silently, its blood and bones vaporizing in the intense heat. The fourth swordsman of Heaven stood atop it, his golden hair moving without wind, his golden eyes sweeping across the vast sea, as if he had long foreseen the end of all this.
However, he slowly raised his gaze and looked higher.
The supreme commanders of Atlantos, their faces ashen, frantically pressed the nuclear authorization button.
They knew they couldn't stop Xia Xiu, but they still activated the long-sealed armory deep underground.
This is the last legacy of human civilization.
The nuclear warheads, which were originally intended to destroy the Haisi civilization, fell into Haisi's hands, all because of those human traitors.
Those who betrayed humanity and voluntarily transformed into Hai Si were once giants of the human world, presidents of nations, pioneers of military industry, and masterminds of extraordinary military and political systems.
However, they betrayed humanity and became the most loyal cynical executors of the Azure Abyss race.
They have no faith, nor do they worship any religion that preys on others; they only believe in continuity—the continuity of themselves.
shhhhh--
shhhhh--
shhhhh--
Nuclear bombs, one after another, were launched from the depths of the western inland, from high-altitude strategic bombers, and from deep-sea submarine-launched devices, roaring in like a tidal wave.
They came for the Sword of Damocles, and also for the blond human standing atop the silver pillar.
"You actually used technology from human civilization against me?"
Xia Xiu looked at the hundreds of nuclear bombs that were falling like meteors, trailing flames, and felt a wave of sorrow.
"Without the weapons of the Mother and the black box technology, purely physical means of attack... are simply no match for an information integration entity. You know nothing about miracles."
As his words fell, the surrounding space seemed to be dissected by an invisible scalpel; the temperature did not rise, gravity did not move, but all physical components that entered the realm of his great spirituality lost their function.
【Crown Unfolds - World Modulation Mode——】
[Modulation parameters: physical parameters!]
That is a higher-dimensional conceptual authority that transcends comprehension.
The trajectories of all the nuclear warheads came to a sudden halt the moment they approached the Sword of Damocles, as if time had been paused.
The plutonium and uranium inside the warhead lost their linkage, the electromagnetic pulse could not be released, and the chemical detonation link was annihilated by information entropy.
They were crushed into duds by an invisible hand, and finally fell silently into the sea, like hundreds of soulless meteorites, sinking into the earth and creating craters.
After it landed, there was no explosion, only the booming sound of the metal bullet hitting the ground.
Xia Xiu shrugged, as if watching a low-quality special effects performance.
"Next, it's my turn..."
He accessed the launch platforms surrounding the space-based weapon platform, which carried nuclear warheads manufactured by the Heavenly Kingdom's arsenal using black box technology. These nuclear warheads all shared one characteristic—they were all entwined with Eden's "Path of Destiny."