Chapter 121: Resist

“The captain went out?” a person dressed in black asked.

“Yes, let’s retreat quickly. The captain has gone to stop them. He is an Alpha-type modified human; ordinary ‘Immortals’ are no match for him, but we can’t hold him back,” another woman in black said, getting into an off-road vehicle and stepping on the gas.

There were about seven or eight people in the group, both men and women, all agile. They quickly dismantled the original artillery positions, put them back on the vehicles, and then drove away.

“Qing, this ‘Immortal’ seems a bit different this time. Our artillery strike didn’t cause much damage; everything was either dodged or blocked,” someone said, looking at the battlefield not far away through binoculars.

“According to the intelligence the higher-ups gave us, there are two Young Masters among the Immortals who came this time. Could it be that we ran into a Young Master?” another person speculated.

“I don’t know what a Young Master is, but judging by the captain’s appearance, it should be… Oh no, the captain is in danger! She’s at a disadvantage!” the observer exclaimed.

“Turn around! Go save the captain!” someone who seemed to be in charge ordered.

Three off-road jeeps quickly turned around and headed straight towards Li Qi and Bai Di.

At this moment, Li Qi and Bai Di were besieging the ‘captain’.

However, Bai Di seemed somewhat constrained.

Mainly, this was a woman, and Bai Di, with his gentlemanly demeanor, seemed to find it difficult to strike hard.

As for Li Qi, he had no such qualms. He didn’t care about the opponent’s gender; if the opponent wanted to kill him, he would certainly return the favor.

And that’s how it was now.

Besides, to be honest, just by looking at her appearance, it was truly difficult to see this person as female.

She was covered in scars, as if she had undergone countless surgeries. Her muscles were bulging, and she was almost two and a half meters tall, like a humanoid Tyrannosaurus Rex. She had no hair on her entire body, was bald, and had no eyebrows, because her skin seemed to have been re-grafted, losing the ability to grow hair.

Except for still having breasts, which allowed her gender to be identified, there were no other feminine features whatsoever.

In fact, even ‘human’ features were scarce.

For example, she had huge canine teeth, completely unlike a human’s. Her ferocious muscles and vertical pupils made her look more like a raging Mother Lion.

“Young Master, she doesn’t seem to have internal Qi; she’s fighting purely with Qi and blood…” Bai Di suddenly said.

As he spoke, he effortlessly twisted the ferocious Mother Lion’s straight punch and tapped the inside of her knee with the flat of his sword.

With a bang, the woman was forced to her knees, scraping a gully in the ground.

If Bai Di had wanted to, he could have directly chopped off her leg with that strike.

Although the Mother Lion could keep up with their speed and fight them, facing Bai Di, who was only a hair’s breadth away from the eighth rank, she was only good for being beaten.

“I know, so can we finish this quickly?” Li Qi sighed. “Someone’s coming from over there.”

Saying this, he unleashed his Carp Current Intent and punched the Mother Lion.

Tens of thousands of pounds of force directly sent her flying, and the sound of bones breaking came from her body.

“I’ll go handle that side,” Bai Di said, his body gracefully moving forward, rushing towards the approaching jeep.

But at this moment, the Mother Lion, who had been sent flying by Li Qi’s punch, suddenly struggled to her feet and, disregarding her profusely bleeding injuries, charged towards Bai Di!

“They have a good relationship; they still want to rescue each other at a time like this,” Li Qi thought when he saw this.

He immediately put it into practice, rushing forward quickly.

Although Li Qi’s own fighting style was also very poor, basically only relying on the progress bar to create time differences, this Mother Lion’s fighting style was even worse.

She basically only had brute force, and without the help of internal Qi, she had to increase her size to increase her strength, making her two and a half meters tall with muscles on her hands like basketballs.

At the same speed and output, a larger volume would inevitably be more cumbersome.

In addition, with two people besieging her, even if Bai Di held back, she was still seriously injured.

Li Qi directly went in, throwing two consecutive punches, preparing to capture this person alive.

However—

“Roar!” The Mother Lion roared, and her already strong physique instantly soared to its limit—a true limit. She disregarded self-damage, allowing her muscles and bones to collapse and tear from the exertion of overloaded strength, not caring about the consequences, and threw a straight punch at Li Qi.

Constantly advancing, featureless, this was probably the most monotonous of all attack methods, without skill, without tricks, just the simplest way to release energy, something any beginner could do.

Overpowering with sheer force existed.

Unfortunately, if there wasn’t a cliff-like difference in power, then skill was useful.

Li Qi caught the punch and twisted his body.

Like water.

Carp Current Intent was good at going against the current in waves, very good at dissolving direct force.

This Mother Lion was too weak.

She could only be said to have reached the Ninth Rank standard, but without internal Qi or skill, she was ridiculously weak.

After twisting, he locked the arm joint, Carp Current Intent erupted, and he twisted it.

With a snap, the entire arm was twisted backward.

Then, he kicked her in the abdomen, pressed one hand on her head, and with a bang, slammed the Mother Lion into the ground.

The ground cracked, and vibrations continued.

The current Li Qi was already quite strong among those of the Ninth Rank, and up to now, he hadn’t used any of the Invoker’s power, which was his trump card and couldn’t be used lightly.

At this moment, the jeep in the distance, seeing the situation, immediately turned around.

“Run! Run quickly! Even the captain is no match, we’ve definitely encountered a Young Master!” someone shouted loudly.

“What do we do! Are we not saving the captain!?” another person said, clenching his fists until his knuckles turned white.

“How many seconds can you hold off the captain? She couldn’t even hold up; if we go to save her, we’ll bury everyone here. Have you forgotten why we gathered together?!”

“The Immortals control our world. To liberate it, we must preserve our living forces. Sacrifices should be made where they are useful,” another person, who seemed to be giving orders, made the final decision.

With the leader speaking, the others no longer spoke much and quickly turned the car around.

However, it was too late.

Bai Di’s speed was much faster than the jeep’s.

Seeing this, the man who had been giving orders earlier frowned: “I’ll go back and stop him, you guys run, don’t come to save us.”

The others wanted to say something, but he directly said: “This is an order!”

After speaking, he jumped directly out of the car window, rolled agilely on the ground, pulled out a grenade launcher, and fired a shot at Bai Di.

Bai Di had no choice but to dodge backward.

At this point, the advantage of firearms came into play, because the energy itself was stored within the firearm, so there was no need to exert one’s own strength; pulling the trigger could unleash immense destructive power.

Just like pre-made Talismans.

The grenade launcher forced Bai Di back.

The man in black who had jumped down immediately reloaded.

It was clear that he was not a Mortal either; jumping from a vehicle moving at over a hundred kilometers per hour, he immediately stabilized his body without his hand even shaking.

Bai Di frowned and immediately began to move in a serpentine pattern to prevent himself from being targeted.

The grenade launcher could only fire one shot at a time before reloading. The opponent was just an unranked person, so dealing with him wasn’t troublesome.

However, he needed to be dealt with quickly, and then they had to chase those people.

Just then, Li Qi’s voice suddenly came from behind: “No need to chase them, let them go. Just capture these two.”

“Yes, Young Master,” Bai Di nodded.

Young Master!

It really was a ‘Young Master’!

The man’s heart tightened; he and his companions had indeed run into a tough opponent!

He saw that the white-robed man not far away had stopped fighting.

Was he planning to capture him alive?

Impossible!

He could…

It was…

Before the word ‘was’ could even fully form in his mind, he felt a moment of dizziness.

His vision was filled with golden stars, and his mind was blank.

When he regained consciousness, he found that he had already been restrained, his hands and feet bound, his weapons removed, and he was being dragged on the ground by the white-robed man, having already been dragged for a distance.

“What… what is that?” He was utterly horrified and couldn’t help but ask in a panic.

Unexpectedly, the white-robed man actually replied to him.

He said seriously: “It’s a Shaman Dao curse. It can’t affect a group of people and requires stopping to charge, but it’s very effective against a single person.”

“Shaman Dao… what is that?”

“It’s hard to explain to you in a short time, so don’t ask. Let’s see how the Young Master intends to deal with you,” the white-robed man shook his head, seemingly finding it troublesome to explain.

Only Li Qi knew what was going on.

As the nephew of the White Snake Prefecture Prefect, the path he would take in the future was, of course, Shaman Dao; martial arts were merely a secondary pursuit.

However, the difficulty of entering Shaman Dao was ridiculously high, so even though his martial arts were close to breaking through to the Eighth Rank, his Shaman Dao remained unranked.

That’s why he genuinely felt that Li Qi was a Genius.

“Young Master, I’ve brought him back,” Bai Di said, dragging the man and placing him in front of Li Qi.

“Good, you’ve worked hard. Go help me call Shen Guniang over!” Li Qi replied through gritted teeth.

He was using all his strength to hold the muscular woman, who was two and a half meters tall, down on the ground.

Even though she was severely injured, she was still struggling non-stop, making it impossible for Li Qi to let go for a moment.

“I’ll go call Shen Guniang,” Bai Di immediately said.

For restraining, Daoist Art was more proficient.

Soon, one man and one woman… barely a woman, were controlled.

On the desert, beside the dilapidated convoy.

“You two, didn’t you say you were going to chase everyone back? Just these two, you couldn’t stop them, could you?” Shen Shuibi asked the two men behind her while drawing Talismans.

Her Talismans emitted a light blue glow, and thin threads, like silkworms winding cocoons, bound the Mother Lion and the man in black, rendering them immobile.

“The Young Master said these two are enough, no need to chase the others,” Bai Di honestly replied.

Li Qi, on the other hand, smiled and replied: “Yes, these two are enough.”

Then, Li Qi looked at the cautious, shrinking robed man next to him, who was there to pick them up: “This… how should I address you?”

“This humble one, Zhang Deming, Young Master can just call me by my name,” the man immediately replied fearfully.

“Alright then, Brother Zhang, you should know who these people are, right? Why don’t you tell me?” Li Qi asked with a smile.

“I dare not conceal anything from the Young Master. These people are rebels. They commit acts of violence with evil aims, disrupting public order, destroying production, and often causing the common people to lack food and clothing. They are all heinous criminals.”

Zhang Deming pointed at the Mother Lion and said: “Moreover, they also abduct children, brainwash and modify them. Young Master, please look, does this even look human anymore? Her entire body doesn’t even have a single piece of good skin!”

But at this moment, the man in black loudly refuted: “Nonsense! It’s clearly you who are servile and submissive, handing over this world and allowing these Immortals to plunder at will!”

The Mother Lion, however, pulled him, signaling him to shut up, and only then did he grudgingly comply.

Bai Di was somewhat puzzled; what exactly did the Young Master want to do?

Li Qi, on the other hand, was intrigued: “You, are you the resistance? Whose orders are you following in your resistance?”

The Mother Lion and the man in black remained silent.

“I started suspecting this from the beginning. According to the descriptions and narratives along the way, the Great Deer Kingdom and these industrial companies should have formed absolute control over this world, grasping everything from education to knowledge channels.”

“How could anyone develop a resistance organization? Unless the high-ranking officials of the original industrial companies had rebellious intentions; only they would have the ability to cultivate such people, right? Look, this is someone with Ninth Rank combat power,” Li Qi said, pointing to the Mother Lion.

“Young Master! Our company absolutely has no rebellious intentions whatsoever!” Zhang Deming was terrified, immediately kneeling and kowtowing repeatedly, then defending himself.

“I know, and I believe you have no rebellious intentions. This world can at most produce Eighth Rank powerhouses, and this must be backed by a stronger powerhouse. And a world that can only produce Eighth Rank powerhouses and is constantly being exploited cannot have rebellious intentions. I know powerhouses; for them, a glance can easily see through people’s hearts.”

“In such a situation, how can there be a resistance organization? Aren’t you curious?” Li Qi asked the people around him.

Bai Di was thoughtful, but his thoughts were like a tangled mess; he couldn’t find a thread to untangle them.

Shen Shuibi, however, quickly said: “Li Qi, stop being mysterious, just tell us directly, what did you feel? What Grand Invoker gave you?”

She was a Fifth Rank, knowing many things, so she guessed the answer.

At this moment, Li Qi smiled and said: “Yes, I felt it.”

“The four wisps of Divine Qi bestowed upon me by my teacher—the Qi of the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Constellations—felt an inexplicable tremor when I first faced them.”

“The Qi of the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Constellations are moving? Doesn’t that mean this world is about to end?” Shen Shuibi was astonished.

“Yes, I felt it. The Heavenly Dao of this world is in pain. Its blood is being drained, its flesh is being devoured. This world is groaning in agony as it heads towards death, and the children it nourished and nurtured are aiding the oppressor, helping outsiders exploit the little remaining foundation,” Li Qi said with certainty.

(Double update today)