# 1986
Chapter 1973: Failure…
"You saw through the trap, so why did you still chase us here?!" Lu Baoyou roared.
"Because it's amusing!" 【Chaos】 spread open its palm, smiling. "You thought you could lure me into a trap, risking your lives to bring me here… so of course I had to cooperate and complete this tragic performance!
What do you think? Designing your teammates' deaths yourself, only to end up with nothing in the end? Must feel great, right? Hahaha…"
【Chaos】 looked at Lu Baoyou, whose eyes seemed ready to burst into flames, and couldn't help but burst into laughter again.
At this moment, Lu Baoyou felt his lungs were about to explode from rage…
All their preparations, all the sacrifices—they had been completely destroyed by 【Chaos】's mockery. Their last sliver of hope had been utterly shattered.
Only now did he understand why Great Xia had always ranked 【Chaos】 as the most terrifying of the Three Pillars. Beyond its overwhelming power, its变态 nature and its manipulation of the human heart were truly detestable!
Lu Baoyou's chest heaved violently, and his blood-red eyes erupted with a shocking killing intent!!
"You bastard!!"
Clang—!!
The dark red wings behind Lu Baoyou suddenly flapped, and a blade edge shot toward 【Chaos】's body!
Extreme fury caused a crack to burst open from within Lu Baoyou's body, as if some kind of bottleneck had been forcibly broken through. A vigorous, savage aura surged outward!
Mind Gate Shattered!
Witnessing three teammates die right before his eyes, only to receive 【Chaos】's merciless mockery in the end—something deep within him erupted like a volcano. Unprecedented rage and killing intent filled his mind, becoming the final push to step beyond the barrier of human limits…
A Human Apex-level aura erupted!
As a dark red massive blade edge slashed toward 【Chaos】's body, the latter's eyes narrowed slightly. It coldly snorted, catching that blade edge bare-handed and crushing it mid-air!
Before 【Chaos】, even a Supreme God like Vishnu had almost no power to fight back, let alone a Human Apex…
Lu Baoyou's blade edge failed to even scratch 【Chaos】. Instead, he was knocked to the ground by the shockwave, his face instantly paling. He spat a mouthful of blood and his figure swayed precariously in mid-air…
Damn it…
Damn it!!
Lu Baoyou raised his head, and upon seeing 【Chaos】's leisurely, grinning face once more, his grip on the Straight Blade's hilt tightened again. With a grimacing expression, he struck out once more!
Bang—Bang—Bang!
Several dark red blade edges slashed out desperately from Lu Baoyou's hand. Having just stepped into the Human Apex realm, he forcefully conjured a Chief God-level aura, but before these blade edges could even touch 【Chaos】's body, they all shattered in mid-air.
【Chaos】 casually raised its hand, two fingers precisely pinching the Straight Blade's blade body. It spoke unhurriedly:
"Thinking of goading me into the 【Primordial Ancestral Formation】 this way? You're still far from enough… I won't kill you. From now on, you'll live forever in helplessness and pain…"
Dang—!
【Chaos】 flicked its fingers, and Lu Baoyou's Straight Blade snapped with a sound!
Lu Baoyou spat another mouthful of blood, his body flying backward like a cannonball and crashing into the churning sea!
Although Lu Baoyou had continuously attacked 【Chaos】, he had always kept his body within the range of the 【Primordial Ancestral Formation】, trying to lure 【Chaos】 inside this way… but in the end, he had failed.
Before 【Chaos】, the 【Demon】 Squad, once invincible and unstoppable, had been defeated—utterly and completely defeated…
【Chaos】 glanced at the blood-colored sea and the dying Su Yuan, then raised its head to look at the emptiness above. A brilliant smile spread across its face, as if greeting someone, its mood quite pleasant.
"Alright, this little sideshow should come to an end… Though your performance was quite entertaining, the truly exciting story is over there…"
【Chaos】 looked down at its phone. In the livestream, one could vaguely make out eight figures soaring around that mass of writhing flesh in the distant sky.
Then, 【Chaos】 stepped north without looking back, its form vanishing on the spot.
Compared to this clumsy, uninteresting trap, the developments on the battlefield where Lin Qiye was located clearly intrigued it far more…
With 【Chaos】's disappearance, the blood-colored sea fell into deathly silence.
"Lu Baoyou…"
Su Yuan dragged her broken body, barely managing to fly above the sea's surface. Gushing blood poured from her grotesque wounds, flowing into that churning crimson expanse.
Her face grew paler by the moment.
"Lu Baoyou!!" Su Yuan called out again. Just as she was about to fish Lu Baoyou out, a figure burst from the seawater.
"Cough cough cough…"
The dark red wings behind Lu Baoyou seemed somewhat shattered, barely able to stabilize his form. He coughed violently, and with each cough, a piece of bloody organ tissue would fall from his throat, accompanied by a spray of blood.
Having taken the direct hits from 【Chaos】's attacks multiple times, Lu Baoyou's internal organs had long been turned to mush. Even if he could survive in this state, the hidden injuries would torment him for the rest of his life.
"…Where did It go?" Lu Baoyou's crimson eyes scanned the surroundings, seemingly wanting to fight again.
Su Yuan spoke bitterly: "It's already left… We've failed."
Lu Baoyou's pupils slightly contracted. His figure froze like a stone sculpture, utterly motionless.
Failed…
Even though Lu Baoyou had already anticipated the outcome when 【Chaos】 hadn't stepped into the trap, now that this moment had truly arrived, he finally understood what coldness and despair felt like.
He gripped the broken half of the Straight Blade. That heart that had once been filled with pride and confidence now sank slowly into the abyss along with the other fragment of the Straight Blade…
Even that stubborn resolve he'd been clinging to seemed to have been shattered by 【Chaos】's few casual palms.
He stood there dazedly, staring at the distant patches of blood-colored sea. He was like a soulless husk.
Right then, a groan came from beside him.
The dark red wings behind Su Yuan withered and scattered. Her broken body fell powerlessly toward the sea's surface. Lu Baoyou's pupils contracted sharply as he dove beneath to catch her!
"Su Yuan!" Lu Baoyou shouted.
Su Yuan's wounds were simply too severe. Though she had briefly escaped from 【Chaos】's grasp, the terrifying amount of blood loss alone could take her life in a short time…
On this vast sea, the moment 【Chaos】's palm had grazed her, her death had in truth already been sealed.
"…I'm not going to make it." Su Yuan smiled bitterly. "Looks like I still couldn't escape this fate… When I go down and see Zhenzhen-jie, she might be disappointed?"
Lu Baoyou watched Su Yuan's increasingly pale face. In his daze, the images of Han Chuang, Liu Jun, and Li Zhenzhen dying in battle flashed before his eyes once more…
Now, the fourth teammate was about to die in his arms.