# Chapter 1053: The Belief Held in the Heart
Li Mingshan coldly glanced at Igor!
"I'm just standing here, using a spiritual technique, doing nothing else. Even the Holy Star has to care about this?"
"Besides, I didn't leak the Heaven Slaughter Project!"
Igor's eyes blazed with murderous intent: "Bullshit! If not you, then who?"
"Doing nothing? Then why are you blocking the Void Sea's gate? Still planning to stand with Huaxia?"
"Without the Holy Star, you would have died in the Void Sea long ago, and never obtained those two Dragon Loach Spirit Beads!"
"Nor climbed to the height you're at now! You ingrate dog!"
Li Mingshan's forehead veins bulged, his fists clenched with cracking sounds!
And the Moment-Shifting Dragon Loach began trembling the moment it saw Igor, its face full of bitterness!
Igor roared angrily: "I command you! Remove the Spatial Barrier right now!"
Li Mingshan forced out two words through gritted teeth: "I won't!"
"As long as the Void Sea space gate remains open! I, Li Mingshan, will block it here forever. None of you will come out!"
Igor's eyes were full of cold light: "Are you defying the Holy Star's orders?"
"The Holy Star can let you reach today's heights, and can also make you fall into the abyss!"
"Disobeying orders time and again—the Holy Star's patience has its limits!"
Li Mingshan squinted: "You have no authority to command me, nor can you decide my life or death!"
Igor was furious: "Then let's try. I'll make you die right now!"
As he spoke, dark blue Bose particles bloomed in his hand, forming a blade with his fingers, slashing straight toward Li Mingshan's neck!
Li Mingshan also raised his hand and pressed toward Igor!
"Boom!"
In an instant, the ground for tens of thousands of meters behind Li Mingshan was instantly frozen, frost condensing in the air!
Under the absolute extreme cold, it seemed even atoms stopped moving, as if time itself had frozen!
And behind Igor, six Spatial Barriers directly sealed a large area of space!
Space cracks split open everywhere in the void, crisscrossing like torn cloth!
They devoured and cut the ground, making it look like the moon's surface!
Igor's hand blade stopped at Li Mingshan's neck, the nail piercing into flesh, with blood flowing out and freezing into ice crystals!
Meanwhile, Li Mingshan's hand pressed against Igor's chest, the space in his palm seeming ready to crack at any moment!
Time and space seemed to stand still as their gazes collided, both filled with rolling killing intent!
Igor's expression was ugly, his eyes full of deep wariness!
"Dao Heaven Ten Stars! Is this your reliance?"
Li Mingshan said coldly: "I just want you to know that Bose Bodies aren't that hard to kill either!"
The two held a stalemate for a long time, and eventually Igor withdrew his hand. The Heaven Slaughter Project was about to start, and he still had a mountain of things to do.
A head-on confrontation with Li Mingshan would only mess things up!
Igor sneered: "Since you've reached Ten Stars, you should know better than anyone the racial limits of humans! You can't leave the Holy Star!"
"To gain something, you have to lose something! If you don't abandon some things, you can't get what you want!"
"The Holy Star doesn't need disobedient dogs! I'll tolerate it this time, but next time... heh~ you won't have a next time!"
As he spoke, he was already walking toward the Void Sea, Li Mingshan's gaze extremely gloomy!
Igor laughed without looking back!
"Go ahead and block the Void Sea if you want. Other than that, if you interfere again, you die! If I can't deal with you, someone else will!"
"You have no idea of the Holy Star's power and foundation!"
"Watch closely, and see whether Huaxia can withstand the Holy Star's advance!"
"One day you'll know just how boring and fragile the beliefs you've held your whole life really are!"
"Heaven Slaughter? Hmph! This is just the beginning!"
With that, his body instantly jumped into the void, and soon appeared in the Void Sea!
Li Mingshan stood with his hands behind his back, looking up at the sky, an unhealed bloodstain on his neck!
"This... might be the last time, right?"
...
In the Void Sea, a group of space-type spirit beasts followed behind Igor, trembling—a fear that came from the depths of their souls!
"Those pioneers were useless, but at least they left behind some good stuff. Just right for me to use, tsk tsk~"
"The Star Hall ruins? I remember a Star Gate was placed there, right?"
As he spoke, he took off a necklace from his own neck—a crystal conch—and swung it around in his hand!
The Dragon Loach shuddered violently: "Th-the little one got it stolen!"
Igor's movements froze, the conch in his hand flying off!
"What the hell happened with you? Can't even keep an eye on a few things?"
"Who has the ability? Odin?"
The Moment-Shifting Dragon Loach said timidly: "It's a guy named Jiangnan. Let me tell you, he was super fierce. He wrecked my home!"
"And he stole an island. And with one roar, ten thousand beasts knelt down, scraping their knees. We... we were no match for him at all!"
Igor: !!!
"Bullshit! How fierce can a measly Platinum-level space-type be? Don't make excuses for your dereliction of duty!"
"You lost the gate too? Do you all want to become Spirit Beads and serve as the gate's power source?"
At those words, the Dragon Loach and the others became even more afraid. The big white goose even tucked its head under its wings, trembling nonstop!
"Holy Envoy, it... it was our fault! Just spare us this time!"
Igor's expression shifted between dark and bright. That Jiangnan guy again?
Wherever he goes, there he is?
He stole even the Star Gate left by the Ancient Holy Star?
He's really carrying a lantern into the outhouse—looking for death!
"Tch! A wasted trip!"
Murderous intent burst from Igor's eyes. He hadn't taken Jiangnan seriously before.
But since you're asking for death, don't blame me!
However, just as he took two steps, Igor's steps stiffened.
Jiangnan is currently in Qing City. If I go there and attack him, my disguise will be ruined, and I'll inevitably expose my Bose Body identity.
Besides, that Star Gate was reportedly broken—even if I got it, I might not be able to fix it.
"Tsk~ I'll have to take a risk and go to the Eternal Tundra. I remember there's one there too? And it's in good condition..."
Muttering, Igor vanished from the Void Sea in an instant.
The Moment-Shifting Dragon Loach and the other bad beasts breathed a sigh of relief. They had escaped disaster?
But just after charging into the void and flying out a short distance, the more Igor thought about it, the angrier he got.
"Qing City? Hmph! Hold? Hold your ♡!"
With a snap of his fingers, he flew straight toward the Eternal Tundra Plains of Goose Country!
...
In the center of Qing City, beast corpses lay everywhere on the ground like small hills.
Jiangnan yanked the Blood-Drinking Halberd out of a Fission Gold Leopard, his steps a bit unsteady.
The halberd in his hand pointed straight at the two Platinum-level spirit ruins, his eyes glowing with a crimson light as he roared:
(#‾᷄口‾᷅)ψ "Come on! Anyone else who's not convinced, bring it on!"
At the moment, inside the two Platinum-level spirit ruins, spirit beasts stood at the space gates, their eyes full of fear.
Ten nuclear bombs, plus Jiangnan and the others' nonstop nuclear explosions—they had scared them to death.
Those who charged forward just died. What beast would still dare to charge?
Jiangnan walked forward, blood trailing behind him, and the spirit beasts kept retreating, letting out low growls.
Jiangnan grinned, revealing a mouthful of bloody white teeth.
Holding his halberd, he stood there like a spear.
The beast tide that had lasted nearly half an hour finally quieted down.
All that remained was to wait for reinforcements to arrive, and Qing City would be saved!
Xia Yao half-leaned on Jiangnan's arm, her big eyes curving into crescent moons, her eyes full of the joy of victory.
She elbowed Jiangnan in the waist!
(#ಡ.̮ಡ(#･᷅～･᷄)ψ
"I'm so sore all over~ I feel only some *slap slap* could soothe my exhausted body!"
Jiangnan grinned: "I'll arrange it! The kind with scrubbing or without?"
Xia Yao paused at this, startled. Without scrubbing? Then a blush flew to her pretty face!
(#◔ก◔ิ#) "Ahem~ I don't understand. Could you explain in more detail?"
At that moment, earth-shattering cheers erupted from the shelter!
"Haha! We held! Boss Nan is awesome! I knew he could do it!"
"So cool! One man forcing the spirit beasts of two spirit ruins not to dare to charge out? Even cartoons don't dare to write that!"
"I love him! I want to have Boss Nan's babies! Nine of them!"
The cheers rose wave after wave. Li Muyan and the others also breathed a long sigh of relief, looking at Jiangnan's back with dazzling brilliance in their eyes!
"Boom!"
Suddenly, the entire underground shelter shook violently, and the lights went out!
In the dark space, only the glow of various phone screens remained!
The next moment, emergency lights came on, dust fell from the ceiling, walls cracked, and cracks spread like spiderwebs!
The creaking sound of twisted, broken steel bars was incessant!
On the left side of Hope Square, under a highway overpass, surging space energy burst forth, tearing a building into shreds!
A space gate a hundred meters in diameter ripped open in the void!
A Bone Elephant over fifty meters in size crashed out of the gate, its level at Diamond III!
The massive elephant foot slammed into a bridge pillar, and the highway overpass collapsed directly!
Vehicles stuck on top crashed down, accompanied by people's panicked screams!
Behind the space gate, rows of bloodshot eyes lit up, filled with unparalleled brutality!
It was a Diamond-level spirit ruin!
Jiangnan hadn't even had time to reply to Xia Yao. The moment the space fluctuation appeared, he teleported north!
That area hadn't been evacuated yet!
How did another Diamond-level spirit ruin appear? Couldn't the damn pigeon even manage half a dream?
Looking at the surging beast tide, Jiangnan's heart sank!
So far away, with only seven people in the team, they couldn't possibly cover everything!
"Wu Liang! Xuexue! Xiong Er! Hold here!"
"Lang Mie! Mi La! Xiao Jiuwo! Follow me!"
As he spoke, Jiangnan had already pulled out the Forgiveness Duck-billed Hat!
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