# Chapter 973: A Thunderclap from a Clear Sky
Xia Yao's face was practically burning red!
What the hell was this about involuntarily kneeling in front of Xiao Nan?
How shameful was that?
[From Xia Yao: Resentment Value +1000!]
Zhong Yingxue had her face covered the whole time, her cheeks red enough to roast sausages!
(ﾉ)﹏(ヾ)
But her legs were so weak from the tiger's roar she couldn't even stand up!
Liu Mang lowered his head, looking through his crotch at the two blood trails scraped out on the ground by his kneecaps, his face even darker!
"I've heard of winning by standing, winning by lying down, but I've never heard of winning by kneeling?"
Wu Liang: (̿▀̿㉨▀̿̿)̄ "The ancients said, 'A man's knees have gold beneath them!' He was wrong! A man's knees have Mars beneath them!"
Zi Yuan burst into tears: "How infuriating! I'm a dignified Starlight-level powerhouse! All my face is lost!"
Jiangnan didn't even look back, snickering to himself: "What face do you have? You useless Starlight trash!"
"Being able to kneel before me, King Jiang, is your honor!"
Zi Yuan: ⁽⁽٩(☍⌂⁰)۶⁾⁾ "I'll fight you to the death!"
[From Zi Yuan: Resentment Value +1000!]
Jiangnan teleported away, and the Yexu Longqiu and its group teleported after him!
Whenever a cannonball was about to land at a critical moment, Jiangnan would turn around and let out a tiger roar, and the bad beasts would all kneel in unison, performing a sliding kneel!
Each of them was so furious they started cursing, with the Soaring Sky Parrot opening its mouth wide to spray insults!
Wu Liang, Liu Mang, and the others simply didn't bother standing up anymore—they'd just have to kneel again anyway!
So they just stayed kneeling on the ground, dragged along by Jiangnan's Void Chains!
Everything else was fine, but it was tough on the knees!
At that moment, the entire Combat Command Room, which had been monitoring the battlefield movements via the Tianshu Satellite, was completely dumbfounded!
Nan Shen turned around and let out a shout, and all the space-type spirit beasts knelt at once?
What kind of presence was this? Did it have to be so arrogant?
They got up and kept chasing? This scene was just too bizarre!
Just then, a dazzling bolt of lightning streaked across the sky!
A loud shout came from within!
"A thunderclap from a clear sky! I, Wang Dalei, make my dazzling entrance!"
"Uncle Jiang, no worries! Your nephew's here to help!"
Jiangnan's eyes lit up, his face full of excitement, and he slammed on the brakes!
Holy crap, he finally came?
The lightning bolt shot straight from the clouds toward the ground!
The Yexu Longqiu was furious. Damn it, a human Dao Heaven-level? Never mind!
Its body instantly elongated, preparing to use a Warp Bubble!
Jiangnan's fur stood on end—there was no way he'd let the Yexu Longqiu pull that off!
He opened his mouth and let out a tiger roar!
"Boom!"
Wang Dalei, covered in rolling thunder, plummeted from the sky—and his legs went weak!
Both knees slammed heavily into the ground, shattering the shale!
With a crack, he knelt right in front of Jiangnan!
Wang Dalei: ???
This sudden scene startled Jiangnan so much he jumped, and the air fell into absolute silence!
(٥･᷄ㅂ･᷅) "You... your entrance sure is flashy enough!"
"Why such a grand gesture? Even though you came a bit late, I wasn't mad at you, okay?"
"This is a bit awkward? Rise quickly!"
Liu Mang burst out laughing right then—forgive me, I couldn't hold it in!
噗ꉂꉂ(꒪ͦε꒪ͦO)
Who could handle that?
Xia Yao was about to lose her mind! Only Zi Yuan looked satisfied!
Even a Dao Heaven knelt? Then kneeling myself didn't seem like such a bad deal!
Wang Dalei: (̿▀̿﹏▀̿̿)̄
I didn't mean to kneel either!
I don't know what happened, but my legs went weak, I lost my footing, and I ended up on the ground!
This is so embarrassing! After all, I'm a Dao Heaven-level powerhouse!
But just as he was about to get up—
Jiangnan saw the Longqiu that had gotten up from the ground disappear!
"Careful, sweetie!"
Wang Dalei was stunned: "What, we haven't seen each other for half a month, no need to be this clingy, okay? 'Careful, sweetie'? What's next, 'baby'? Pfft—"
A mouthful of old blood sprayed out. Wang Dalei's chest had a bowl-sized bloody hole punched through it!
(๐´ཀ`๐) Heh~
(づ●ど)
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Along with Jiangnan and Zi Yuan behind him—
A single Warp Bubble pierced through three hearts!
All three fell to the ground!
Zi Yuan's life force drained rapidly. She glared viciously at Wang Dalei!
"You useless Dao Heaven! How dare you talk about me? Did you come here to feed the enemy?"
Wang Dalei coughed up another mouthful of old blood, his eyes dim!
Forgive me for letting my guard down! That thing struck too fast!
But the Longqiu that had passed through them didn't stop. It raised a hand and shot a Space Sphere toward Mila!
It clearly intended to trap Mila and not give Jiangnan's group a chance to recover!
Jiangnan forced himself to stay conscious, raised his hand, and threw out a pair of Space Wormholes, reaching out to pat Mila!
"Spatial Displacement!"
Mila's position and Jiangnan's were swapped instantly. Jiangnan was trapped inside the Space Sphere!
He passed out immediately!
Mila, now free, clenched her teeth: "Restoration!"
Two beams of light struck Zi Yuan and Wang Dalei. The wounds on their chests healed in an instant!
"Hurry! Pull the Longqiu 30,000 meters away! Jiangnan Gege is trapped in the sphere! Without a heart, he can't hold on much longer!"
Wang Dalei didn't dare be careless anymore. He stopped using his physical body!
"Thunder God Body!"
In that moment, Wang Dalei's body completely transformed into a humanoid bolt of lightning, his eyes blazing with infinite light!
"Thunder Pool!"
Countless electric currents exploded from his body. The lightning, like liquid, covered an area ten thousand meters in radius!
Scorching the ground black!
The Yexu Longqiu used a Space Sphere to protect itself, blocking the lightning strikes from all directions!
The bolts slammed into the Space Sphere with earth-shaking crashes!
"Hmph! Human Dao Heaven isn't that impressive! I've fought them before!"
Xiong Er translated as such!
Wang Dalei squinted: "Don't underestimate humans, you bastard! Rolling Thunder!"
Dark clouds gathered in the sky. Terrifying lightning bolts as thick as rivers fell like heavenly swords!
They blasted black craters into the ground, hammering violently against the Space Sphere!
The Space Sphere began to crack. The Yexu Longqiu didn't dare be overconfident!
Instead, it teleported within the lightning, dodging strikes!
Refusing to leave!
Wang Dalei roared: "Thunder Spear!"
In an instant, infinite lightning gathered in his hand, and he hurled it fiercely at the Yexu Longqiu!
The Yexu Longqiu flicked its tail!
"World Severing!"
The Thunder Pool was split in two in an instant! The Thunder Spear stabbed into the dimensional wall, leaving cracks spreading across it!
"Heh~ Can you get through? I—"
Before the Longqiu could finish, the humanoid lightning outside the severed space suddenly dissipated!
Behind the Space Sphere, a lightning silhouette condensed instantly! The Thunder Spear in its hand stabbed out wildly!
It pierced straight through the Space Sphere and stabbed into the Yexu Longqiu's body!
The Longqiu was electrocuted into convulsions. It didn't dare stay in the Thunder Pool any longer. Two teleports later, it retreated back into the beast group!
Its tail dripped blood!
"Damn it! Give me the Spirit Beads now!"
The Big White Goose quickly stuffed the Spirit Beads from the beasts they'd killed along the way into the Yexu Longqiu's hands, letting it recover its spirit power!
Wang Dalei sneered: "Think only you can teleport? In my Thunder Pool, every bolt of lightning is me!"
The Longqiu was forced back, and the Space Sphere trapping Jiangnan dissipated as well!
Little Mila quickly pressed a single-target Time Reversal!
Jiangnan jolted upright from the ground, his face full of anger!
"You crushed my heart again? Roar!"
The Yexu Longqiu and all the bad beasts knelt again!
Even Wang Dalei, who had been so imposing just moments ago, fell to his knees again!
Looking at Jiangnan standing with his hands on his hips, he trembled!
"Uncle~ Can we talk this over? Do we have to do this? The satellites are recording!"
"At least leave me some face, okay?"
Now Wang Dalei finally understood why Zhong Yingxue and the others had been kneeling on the ground the whole time and hadn't gotten up...
The Yexu Longqiu ground its teeth in fury: "I only want the Silver Ring! Don't regret it if you don't give it to me!"
"Believe me, I'll take my men and cause you endless trouble! I'll kill anyone I see! I'll tear apart this no-man's-land of yours!"
"We're all space-type! Don't think you can keep up! Let's see who ends up with the headache!"
Jiangnan's eyes widened: "Oh? You think you're tough? Try causing trouble!"
"If you cause trouble, I'll go into the Void Sea, take all the cores from every Floating Island, and dismantle your home!"
"Who's afraid of who? Mutual destruction! Also! From now on, don't talk to me standing up! It annoys me!"
"Roar!"
Another tiger roar, and everyone knelt again!
The Yexu Longqiu was absolutely furious—the kind where smoke came out of its nostrils!
Wang Dalei knelt and asked: "Uncle~ What Silver Ring? Didn't you just bring out an island?"
Jiangnan waved his hand: "I didn't bring much. Just about a thousand Space Spirit Pearls."
"Over eight hundred Pocket Rabbit spirit pets with storage spaces, an island, a Star Chart, and a Star Gate that can go to the Centaurus Galaxy!"
"I just picked up a few things in the Void Sea! How stingy! And you say it's yours? Pfft! Is your name written on it? Roar!"
Yexu Longqiu: !!!
Can you not add a roar at the end of every sentence? Kneeling and getting up is exhausting!
"You're talking crap! Is your name written on it?"
Jiangnan pulled out the Silver Ring. Sure enough, on the base, two large characters were carved—"Jiangnan"!
"It's written, so it's mine!"
The Yexu Longqiu almost vomited blood. You actually wrote it?
As for Wang Dalei, kneeling on the ground, he was completely stunned!
What the hell? What did you pick up? Forgive me for not having seen the world!
Forget about the thousand or so Space Spirit Pearls, but what kind of divine treasure was that Star Gate?
And space-type spirit pets? You sure can "pick up" things!
"Right, right! It's my uncle's! Whoever dares to snatch my uncle's stuff, I'll strike them dead!"
The scene was deadlocked!
Meanwhile, in Kyoto, Li Mingshan, who had been eating dinner in the living room, suddenly stood up and looked toward the west!
"So many spatial fluctuations? Such a special fluctuation... is it a Warp Bubble?"
Li Mingshan's expression suddenly became extremely excited. With a teleport, he vanished from the living room!