Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 616 - 18: Overwhelming

Chapter 616: Chapter 18: Overwhelming

Watching the Immoveable Ming King swell with rage, the Conquerors laughed heartily, while the newbies trembled in fear, deeply afraid that Tang Zheng would provoke him into a group attack. They didn’t have the confidence to survive under his assault.

"You..." The Immoveable Ming King was about to blow his top, but he decided to hold back, first let his subordinates kill a few people to weaken their strength, then crush them in one swoop. Only fight five rounds? Dream on, any humans who entered the Tianzhu Temple today wouldn’t live to see tomorrow.

"Get out here and die." A small Armed Police officer broke free from Dantai, rushing into the center of the Buddha group. Seeing that the Golden Mace Buddha statue had reconnected its arm, he was infuriated and seeking revenge.

"Hmph." The Golden Mace Buddha statue snorted coldly and stared coldly at him, lifting its hand to throw the golden mace at him and kill him.

"Wait." Dantai hollered, staring at the small Armed Police officer with an unfriendly tone, "Get back here, or I’ll kill you myself!"

"Which wave are you from?" The prisoners immediately questioned him. They were eager for someone to offer themselves up for death, especially if it was an irritating Armed Police officer.

"Shut up." Dantai swept them all with an emotionless gaze, finally landing on the small Armed Police officer, "Get back here. You’ve got three seconds!"

Dantai would not tolerate a waste of cannon fodder. If the small Armed Police officer had a bomb on him, he wouldn’t stop him, but not now.

The small Armed Police officer glared at Dantai, breathing heavily and refusing to back down. However, Lin Weiguo stepped out and dragged him back.

"We won the second round, but you can’t use self-destruction anymore." The Immoveable Ming King, watching their internal strife, was very pleased. In terms of individual strength, his side definitely held the upper hand. As long as he was careful of self-destruction, group fighting was the most reckless approach. What if someone rushed into the Buddha group and self-destructed?

"You say not to self-destruct, and we just lose face like that?" Chu Baichuan mimicked the yell of a hooligan from a movie. But he was pinched by Ai Yixin for that.

The Immoveable Ming King once again picked a three-meter-tall sword-carrying Buddha statue, which had the look of a mini-boss. He glanced at the Trojan Squad casually, and finally pointed at the high school student, Mei Jueye.

The newbies breathed a sigh of relief, glancing at the high school student. They originally thought he would be scared, but surprisingly, his face was flushed red, and he walked eagerly to Tang Zheng.

"Give me an extra belt to hold bombs, and twenty single-bullet rounds!" The high school student stared at the sword-carrying Buddha statue, examining it carefully for weaknesses, and asking Tang Zheng for bullets, knowing that the captain had them.

"Open your mouth." Dantai stuffed the detonator into his teeth, and handed him three belts filled with spiritual power bombs, "You know what to do if you lose, right?"

"Hmph, I’m not going to lose." The high school student declared before striding into the center of the area with his Benelli M4.

The Immoveable Ming King didn’t give him any time to prepare. He commanded the group of Buddha statues to scatter and immediately yelled "Start." He initially planned to trick him, but the high school student sprinted towards the sword-carrying Buddha statue the moment the word "start" was uttered.

Bang, bang, the shotgun rounds sped out of the barrel, shooting towards the Buddha statue.

The Buddha statue intended to close the distance immediately, and then use True Word to suppress him. However, upon seeing the small creature in front of him launching a strong attack, it hesitated, but it was too late to stop the half-spoken True Word.

Boom, boom, boom, within the less than five meters distance between them, the Buddha statue couldn’t avoid the bullets no matter how fast it was. Its shoulder was hit by five shotgun rounds, breaking apart, and its sword-holding arm fell off.

The high school student ran in a zigzag pattern and avoided the True Word, then shot again with the shotgun, but missed this time as the Buddha statue had jumped into the sky and was starting to fall towards him.

The newbies gasped, then sighed. If the weapon in the high school student’s hand had been Tang Zheng’s Demon Slaying Holy Flame, he would have won the round already.

The high school student stopped when the Buddha statue jumped into the air, his eyes wide open, staring at it. It wasn’t until the statue had plunged halfway down that he dodged to the side, his gun muzzle pointed once again.

The muzzle of the shotgun was almost a meter away from the Buddha statue’s head when it fired. The shotgun round, with its huge kinetic energy, whistled out, hit the Buddha statue’s head, ripped off its skull, smashed half of its face, and red-and-white liquids splattered.

If he was not yet able to control the recoil, the entire head of the Buddha statue would have been exploded. As it was, the statue fell to the ground with a thud and stopped moving.

"Did we win?" The newbies cheered instinctively, they did not expect a high school student to have gained the edge.

Tang Zheng immediately looked at the Immoveable Ming King. Seeing a hint of a treacherous smile flashing at the corner of his mouth, he felt something was wrong and quickly warned the high school student, "Watch out, it’s a trick."

"He’s already dead," replied the high school student, moving towards the Buddha statue to refill the magazine with single-bullet rounds. Just when everyone thought he was going to pick up the sword, he pointed his gun at the Buddha statue’s legs, pumping all the bullets into it. He also pulled off a bomb belt and threw it onto the Buddha statue. Then, while running away, he bit down on the detonator.

The Buddha statue was just sitting up for a counterattack when the explosion sent it flying. The fiery explosion rose into a column, and the shock wave rolled back, engulfing the Buddha statue in an instant.

The Immoveable Ming King’s face turned green in an instant. It knew that its subordinate could live without a head as long as his body was intact. It had been pretending to be dead, waiting to make a lethal strike when the opponent came to pick up the spoils, but had not expected the enemy to desecrate the body instead.

"Impressive, how did you know it was playing dead?" Tu Jinxin gave him a thumbs-up, asking with a smiling face.

"I didn’t know, I just wanted to desecrate the body." The high school student licked the corner of his mouth, no longer paying attention to him. After a triumphant sweep of his surroundings, he sat down to rest with his eyes closed.

"Tang Zheng, how did you tell it was a trick?" Xu Biyun asked puzzledly.

"The expression of Immovable Ming King." Tang Zheng didn’t hide anything, and the newbies nodded in admiration after hearing his explanation, praising his incredible observational skills.

Having lost the game, Immovable Ming King wasted no time in summoning a three-meter-tall Buddha statue. The statue held two Vajra Circles, pointing them towards Tang Zheng.

"Ha, it doesn’t know the meaning of death!" Lu Fan laughed scornfully, "This insignificant thing is courting death!"

"What? Afraid to fight?" The statue spoke human language, brandished its Vajra Circles, and caused a wave of piercing, shrill sounds to ring out.

"Switch places, it’s your turn!" Tang Zheng ignored the statue and challenged Immovable Ming King again.

"Benefactor, if you want to fight me, you have to beat them first." Immovable Ming King’s gaze flitted about, indicating his reluctance to act rashly.

"Fine, bring it on." Tang Zheng did not even bother to draw his Snow Representative Tablet. To him, these Buddha statues were just on the level of high school sophomore girls in the punishment squad, only with a few more skills at their disposal.

"Begin."

The Buddha statue had earlier anticipated Tang Zheng’s strong attack. As soon as the battle began, it jumped into the air and unleashed a True Word at Tang Zheng, while simultaneously waving its left hand to increase the number of Vajra Circles around it. This transformed the statue into a silver ball that descended with great force.

The newbies exclaimed in surprise; this statue was obviously trying to replicate the earlier strong competitors.

Tang Zheng, however, remained completely unfazed. He drew out two Terminators and launched a barrage of bullets to break the golden ’卍’ word above him. Within two seconds, twelve green-colored flares, resembling fireflies, shattered the True Word. These flares struck the silver ball, resulting in a shower of sparks amidst the huge clanging noise.

The silver ball’s momentum did not falter. Tang Zheng propelled himself to the right with a strong push off his left foot, and boom - the silver ball hit the ground and started rolling towards Tang Zheng like a war chariot.

Tang Zheng was still unsure why Sun Monkey had not appeared on the square despite this commotion. Thus, he decided to preserve his abilities as a trump card.

Like a bouncing ball, the silver ball struck a stone, bounced into the air, and fell again, this time like a meteor.

Tang Zheng was indifferent. He switched to the Gauss Sniper Rifle, aimed it at the sky and pulled the trigger. A blue light beam shot out and struck the silver ball, vaporizing a part of it. Due to the impact, the silver ball was once again lifted into the sky, as if knocked away by a baseball bat.

Tang Zheng shot three consecutive times. The Silver Ball vanished, and the Buddha statue, dizzy and disoriented, dropped from the sky, its distorted Vajra Circles still in its hands.

Tang Zheng took out his Terminator again and aimed a barrage of shots at it.

Bullets constantly blasted the statue, not letting it fall to the ground. They were like sharks that bit off chunks of flesh, albeit small ones. Add in their number, and the Buddha statue was left in a state of disorder in everyone’s line of sight. It tried to counterattack with a desperate True Word, but it was instantly shattered.

Clang, clang, bang, bang! Broken pieces of the Buddha statue fell and scattered on the Big Blue Stone Square.

Seeing Tang Zheng unharmed and continuously defeating his subordinates, Immovable Ming King felt his mouth twitch in anger. But there was more infuriating news to come.

Tang Zheng glanced at the crowd of Buddha statues watching from the side, and suddenly stopped firing. He switched back to the Gauss Sniper Rifle. As soon as the decimated body of the Vajra Circle Buddha statue fell from the sky, he began firing again.

A blue beam of light shot out, grazing the statue’s body and hitting the crowd of Buddha statues. Five unfortunate Buddha statues were like skewered locusts, pierced clean through. Although they didn’t die instantly, they were left with no energy to fight.

Tang Zheng quickly reloaded, and impatiently shot another round towards the Buddha statues. Those still recoiling from the shock were hit again, causing four more statues to fall injured.

"What are you doing?" Demanded Immovable Ming King, pointing his Wisdom Sword, ready to kill. Lu Fan and Chu Baichuan also glared at Tang Zheng, ready to fight at any moment.

"What? You are trying to stop the duel? Don’t Buddha statues have any credibility?" Tang Zheng argued while shooting, aiming to hit as many as possible. However, the results were not great, after all, the Buddha statues had started to brace themselves and were not easy to deal with anymore.

"But you’re attacking others!" Immovable Ming King shouted angrily.

Dantai sneered. This fellow was obviously a demon, yet it insisted on acting high and mighty. If not it, who else deserved to be massacred?

"Who asked you to spectate? Of course, if you injure someone behind me, they’re just unlucky." Tang Zheng’s reply was even more audacious and righteous, causing Immovable Ming King to cough up blood.

"You clearly know that it’s close to death, but why are you leaving its life hanging?" Immovable Ming King continued to argue.

"I do want to kill it, but my shooting skills are too poor."

Immovable Ming King spat blood. Can that be considered poor? Isn’t every shot of yours injuring two to three Buddha statues?

"Elder Ming King, he’s making a fool of you, buying time." Among the Buddha statues, some were smart enough to see through Tang Zheng’s plan. (To be continued. If you like this work, please vote and support us on qidian.com, your support is our greatest motivation.)