Shadow Hack

Chapter 834: The Start of a Good Show

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Li Yunmu calmly watched the battle underneath the platform, which had already reached the climax. Regardless of whether it was the combatant or beast, both had numerous wounds on their bodies. If any side dared to relax their vigilance, they would meet their death in the arena.

“Truly ferocious,” Li Yunmu mumbled.

After talking with Chen Xiu and seeing the battles in the colosseum, he gained more insight and finally understood why Asura had adopted the branch descendant as his son. According to Li Yunmu’s plan, Chen Xiu should have vigorously resisted arrest at the gate and rushed to the city lord’s mansion where he would place the responsibility of Ming Xiu’s death on a holy daughter and be acknowledged by Asura.

But who could have expected that Chen Xiu was a very competent person? For the city lord and four great clans, pure bloodline was the most important, but god father Asura of the entire Asura race did not care about them that much.

What Li Yunmu hadn’t expected was that Asura would adopt Chen Xiu as his son. Moreover, he even raised Chen Xiu’s cultivation to god level. After it just happened, Li Yunmu couldn’t understand what was going on, but now he did.

The ancestors of the four great clans had become ancient gods, which was clearly hidden from Asura. Because of that, the four ancestors hid in the clan residences and did not appear in front of anyone. However, while Asura stayed in the city lord’s mansion, the city lord naturally couldn’t advance his cultivation and become an ancient god.

The five sons were able to act like that because of the power of belief.

Li Yunmu, who had investigated the power of belief in Chen Xiu’s body, understood why the system called power of belief poison. Although it could instantly raise the cultivation of a mortal to that of a god, it wasn’t without any residual effects. If someone used the power of belief to increase their cultivation, they could only continue using the power of belief to advance their cultivation.

Asura city’s territory was divided, and the power of belief was a limited resource. It was produced inside the body of a mortal and then transferred to god father who would divide it among the city lord and the four great clans. The amount of power received by everyone was fixed, and was just right to raise their cultivation to late stage god realm but no further.

The four ancestors and the city lord were stuck in late stage god realm. They couldn’t advance, so they naturally began to make plans. After all, who didn’t want to become even more formidable?

The system had sensed the presence of the four ancient gods, which made it clear that the four great clans were moving their hands and feet or perhaps have stolen it. Regardless of whichever case it was, the four great clans and the city lord needed to hide it from Asura.

After all, the power of belief was extremely important. It was critical to the four ancestors and the city lord to advance their cultivation, but it was also critical to Asura to raise to a master god. If the matter of stealing was discovered, Asura would not show mercy because the others were his sons.

Naturally, Asura had sensed that something was wrong, which is why he took action and raised Chen Xiu’s strength directly to god realm from initial stage sage flux expert as well as adopted him as his son. By bringing Chen Xiu’s status and strength on par with the five ancestors, Asura intended to use him as an errand boy to deal with the five ancestors.

The end result would be a lot like Chen Xiu and the five ancestors fighting in the arena while Asura sat on the platform, watching them from above.

Such a move was really ferocious.

“Ha ha ha ha, he won, this mortal really won.”

“Fierce, really fierce. Unfortunately, the beast let its guard down at the end, letting this mortal find an opportunity to attack.”

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Li Yunmu focused back on the battle below and saw that it had already finished. The beast was lying on the ground with blood flowing out of its body.

Its opponent was brandishing his blade with blood covering his body. Regardless of whether it were the branch family descendants sitting on the second floor or direct descendants sitting on the third floor, all of them were howling, and the atmosphere in the colosseum was reaching its peak.

When Duo Ju standing by the side saw that, a hint of a self-satisfied smile appeared at the corner of his lips.

After accepting the position of manager of the colosseum, he had changed the rules in regards to the appearance of combatants. First would appear the weaker ones, who would be massacred by beasts. After the beast won a few battles, a somewhat more powerful combatant would appear. In this manner, the excitement of the audience would rise step by step.

Anyone who saw the proceedings could not fight back the excitement.

Duo Ju looked at the smile on Li Yunmu’s face and felt very happy in his heart. As long as the next few battles could drive up the atmosphere, the lord god would become even more immersed.

When Duo Ju saw that the arena was being tidied up, he guessed that the next battle should be between old bastard and a beast.

Old bastard was one of the main pillars of the colosseum. By relying on brute force, he had torn the the bodies of countless beasts. Every time he appeared, he attracted the attention of guests sitting on the high platform and made the atmosphere reach the peak.

After a short while, Duo Ju returned from his thoughts and noticed that the audience had stopped howling. Everyone seemed to be startled. Discomfort rose within Duo Ju after noticing that, and he followed everyone’s gaze to the people who had appeared in the arena. The moment he recognized them, his mind went numb and his legs went soft. He immediately knelt down on the ground.

“Three… three… three young masters… How did they appear on the stage? Who the hell dared to do such a thing?” Duo Ju furiously howled while crawling back up from the ground. Still trembling, he prepared to go down the stage to deal with the matter.

The three respectable young masters had surprisingly turned into lowly combatants. If this matter was not dealt with properly, his head might not stay in place in the aftermath.

“Did I let you go?” Li Yunmu turned around and looked at Duo Ju, who was just about to move, and said in a disinterested voice, “I did this. I want to see these three brats demonstrate how they flee for life when in desperate straits. If you go down, your head will go flying in the air.”

After hearing those words, Duo Ju who had his back toward Li Yunmu pinched his face too confirm that he wasn’t dreaming. He could not go on stage but could not stay where he was either. He was completely bewildered about what to do in such a situation.

Li Yunmu noticed that many other people had stood up in the spectator stands of the colosseum to jump across the fence and rescue their clan’s young masters, so he slowly stood up and released his divine presence.

It erupted from within him and spread in all directions, covering the entire colosseum.

Every person in the colosseum sensed his divine presence and turned to look at Li Yunmu with pale complexions while maintaining their stance without the slightest movement.

“Whoever goes down will die. This is a good show I prepared for you all, so you have to watch it. No one is allowed to rescue them. Everyone return to your seats.”

After saying that, Li Yunmu flung his sleeves, and waves of divine power shuttled across the colosseum, fluttering in front of the descendents who wanted to jump across the fence to rescue their clan masters and forcing them to retreat back to their seats. Everyone in the audience sat down with unsightly complexions, but no one uttered a single word.

The originally lively colosseum turned into a death zone, filled with absolute silence. Duo Ju remained rooted to his original location.

Li Yunmu looked at everyone with a hint of a smile on his face while standing on the high platform. After a moment, he clapped and said, “Alright, now the performance begins! Release the beasts!”