Chapter 187
Chapter 187: The Fool's World
“Domain Activation, Fool's World.”
The moment those words fell, a pure white halo spread outward with the young man at its center...
Sweeping across the entirety of Bluestone Town.
The white light washed over everything—the rubble and ruins littering the ground.
And the tens of thousands of fully armed Ancient Moon Evil Dragon Clan soldiers.
All were engulfed by this Rule!
Clang!
A Dragon General charging at the very front suddenly lost his grip on the heavy dragon spear in his hand. It clattered to the ground.
He stared at his own hands in terror, trembling as he cried out.
“My... my strength—where did it go?!”
“My physical stats... how did they drop to Grade C?!”
“Same here! My Dragon Clan bloodline has been suppressed!”
“I can't use my ability anymore! What in the world is happening?!”
“He's clearly not of the Ancient Moon Evil Dragon Clan—how could he possibly force-activate a Domain using the Lady's【Moon Eye】?!”
“What kind of monster is this?!”
Gu Yue Hao Tian felt it too—the draining of power from within his own body.
Those bloodshot eyes of his fixed themselves on the young man.
“No wonder... no wonder!”
Gu Yue Hao Tian's eyes blazed red as he gnashed his teeth and roared.
“No wonder this bastard tanked Xu Yu's arrow head-on just now and didn't die!”
“So it was that legendary ability!”
“Sequence 000!【Fool】!”
‘Those who draw near to crimson are stained red; those who draw near to ink are stained black!’
“Whatever comes close to him—whether it be objects!”
“Living creatures!”
“Even attacks already launched!”
“All are forcibly dragged down to the exact same stat level as him!”
“At the same time, everything he comes into contact with will actively adapt to him under the【Fool】's aura!”
“Letting him wield any power not originally his own—perfectly and flawlessly!”
Gu Yue Hao Tian stared at the【Moon Eye】fitted into the young man's left socket and felt his liver and gall shatter with fury.
He wrenched his sword from its scabbard and barked his orders.
“All forces, hear my command! His baseline is the same as yours right now—Grade C!”
“Kill him! Take back the Lady's eye!”
“Whoever brings me his head—I'll make them a Ten-Thousand-Household Marquis and reward them ten thousand taels of gold!”
Heavy rewards bring forth brave men.
Even with their strength suppressed to Grade C, faced with the overwhelming advantage of sheer numbers and the lure of great reward—
Thousands of Ancient Moon soldiers erupted in battle cries and surged toward the young man.
Faced with an army crashing down on him like a tide, the young man's expression didn't change.
Boom!
Bloodline Surge!
Second trigger!
The young man's presence exploded in an instant!
The rules of【Fool's World】were indeed unreasonable—it forcibly locked every person's base stats down to the lowest value of 1.
But it said nothing about subsequent buffs!
When everyone was at 1, the young man stacked a Bloodline Surge buff on himself!
This became a one-sided dimensional strike!
Swish!
The young man charged into the enemy formation alone.
Every swing of the black spear in his hand carved through swaths of severed limbs and filled the air with screams of despair!
Splat! Splat! Splat!
One Ancient Moon Evil Dragon corpse after another collapsed into pools of blood.
Boom!
Bloodline Surge!
Third trigger!
Boom!
Bloodline Surge!
Fourth trigger!
The Ancient Moon Evil Dragon army was utterly broken!
These Dragon Clan elites who carried themselves with such lofty arrogance in their daily lives—
Now, staring at that young man radiating murderous intent, they looked upon him as an undefeatable enemy.
“This is impossible! Is he even human or some kind of monster?!”
One soldier broke down completely, threw down his weapon, and fled.
“The bloodline surge chance for Dragon Clan is only 3 in 100,000!”
“How does someone exist who eats this thing like it's a meal?!”
“He's cheating!!”
Watching his army get slaughtered one-sidedly, Gu Yue Hao Tian finally couldn't sit still.
‘Die!!!’
Gu Yue Hao Tian let out a furious roar. His entire right arm erupted in violet radiance.
Runes coursed across his skin!
【Moon Hand】!
Even with his physical stats suppressed, the essence of【Moon Hand】—its ability to convert all forms of energy—remained intact.
He closed in on the young man, right claw sweeping down!
Splat!
The young man couldn't dodge in time. His entire left arm was severed at the root by Gu Yue Hao Tian's【Moon Hand】!
Blood sprayed wildly!
“Got him!”
Gu Yue Hao Tian's heart surged with triumph as he prepared to press the advantage.
But the young man—missing an arm—didn't even furrow his brow.
Those mismatched eyes locked onto Gu Yue Hao Tian.
Boom!!!
Bloodline Surge!
Fifth trigger!!!
A violent torrent of force instantly sent the surrounding corpses flying!
“Again!”
Gu Yue Hao Tian's face went pale with shock, certain this monster was about to deliver a killing blow!
He hastily crossed his【Moon Hand】over his chest and braced into his most airtight defensive stance.
But he had guessed wrong.
The young man paid no attention to the fully-guarded Gu Yue Hao Tian.
Riding the terrifying speed of the fifth Bloodline Surge, he curved around him entirely!
And charged straight for the 3 Dragon Generals still directing the battle from the rear!
Because of the massive gap in base speed created by【Fool's World】, those 3 Dragon Generals didn't even have time to react.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
The spear thrust out like a dragon, cold light flashing in rapid succession!
3 heads soared skyward—3 Dragon Generals, renowned throughout Dragon-Summer Imperial City.
Cut down by the young man as easily as slicing through cabbage.
Then the young man held his spear in one hand and began a one-sided massacre of the remaining Ancient Moon soldiers.
“Stop! Stop right there!!!”
Gu Yue Hao Tian chased after him with scarlet eyes.
But suppressed by【Fool's World】, his speed was nothing.
He was like a helplessly raging husband, capable only of watching that young man riding five stacked Bloodline Surges—
Slaughtering his proud army, piece by piece, right before his eyes.
He couldn't close the gap at all.
In just half an hour.
The entire plaza of Bluestone Town was a mountain of corpses and a river of blood.
The tens of thousands of Ancient Moon Evil Dragon soldiers—annihilated to the last.
On the vast battlefield, the only ones still standing and breathing were Gu Yue Hao Tian.
And that bloodsoaked, one-armed young man.
“Aaahhh!!!”
Gu Yue Hao Tian fell to his knees amid the sea of blood and corpses, tears of blood streaming from his eyes.
He—a Dragon King of his generation—had been brought low by an unknown nameless soldier!
But...
Staring at the young man before him, whose methods were ruthless and decisive, Gu Yue Hao Tian found that he felt no great shame in his heart.
Because he understood. A monster who could continuously surge his bloodline and possessed the Fool's ability—his future...
Was absolutely without limit.
“Cough... haha.”
Gu Yue Hao Tian let out a bitter laugh, the weight lifting from him.
At least he wasn't dying in a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Ancestral Dragon Emperor.
He watched as the young man slowly raised the war blade, preparing to take his head in exchange for military merit.
Gu Yue Hao Tian turned his head and cast his final gaze upon his daughter lying unconscious in the ruins in the distance.
“Wait... wait a moment.”
Gu Yue Hao Tian spat out a mouthful of blood.
“This King wishes to... trade one piece of intelligence.”
“Intelligence that can make you stronger in this world...”
“An ultimate secret of the Ancient Moon Evil Dragon Clan—to exchange for my daughter's life.”
“And... do not take away her Moon Eye.”
The young man's raised war blade hung suspended in midair.
Those mismatched eyes looked down at Gu Yue Hao Tian.
“What makes you think that after I receive the intelligence, I'd be kind enough to give up the【Moon Eye】?”
Gu Yue Hao Tian smiled weakly. “Heh... intuition.”
“Based on the fact that just now, in that near-certain-death desperate situation.”
“You were willing to step forward alone for a little girl with no connection to you whatsoever.”
“But I understand... it wasn't for her sake.”
“It was to fulfill the duty you carry as a soldier.”
The young man fell silent.
Wind swept across the battlefield, stirring his jet-black, disheveled hair.
After a long moment, he lowered his blade.
“Fine. I accept.”
The young man's voice was cold and certain. “I'll spare her life.”
“If your intelligence truly satisfies me, the【Moon Eye】...”
“I'll return that to her as well.”
“Good!”
Gu Yue Hao Tian rallied his last breath. He spoke the secret hidden for a thousand years.
“【Moon Hand】... can evolve without limit.”
“Within the Ancient Moon Evil Dragon Clan, only I know this.”
“And its sole path to evolution...”
“You should be able to guess why this King fought to keep it secret—why I even intended to take it to my grave!”
The young man paused slightly, his gaze sweeping over Gu Yue Hao Tian's violet right arm.
Then down to the low-grade arm he had just reattached to himself.
He understood in an instant.
Swish!
Without a moment's hesitation, the young man raised the blade and swung.
He severed Gu Yue Hao Tian's【Moon Hand】clean at the shoulder!
Then the young man extended the newly reattached arm on his left shoulder and seized Gu Yue Hao Tian's severed limb.
Gu Yue Hao Tian's arm—once blazing with brilliant radiance—was fading now, losing its luster.
While the violet light on the young man's left arm grew stronger and stronger!
His presence became increasingly terrifying!
‘Devour one's own kin to feed... taking kin as sustenance.’
The young man narrowed his eyes, feeling the power multiplying within him, murmuring to himself.
“No wonder you kept it secret.”
“If this secret were made public, the Ancient Moon Evil Dragon Clan would tear itself apart through mutual devouring and be destroyed in an instant.”
He lowered his head and looked at Gu Yue Hao Tian, whose life force was draining rapidly, and made his final promise.
“Your intelligence was worth it.”
“I will keep my word and return the Moon Eye to her.”
Gu Yue Hao Tian nodded with satisfaction, the obsession on his face finally dissolving completely.
He drew a deep breath, watching the war blade that had been raised once more, and used his last strength to ask.
“One last thing... can you tell me your name?”
Cold light flickered.
The young man's voice rang out alongside the merciless falling blade.
“Jiang Nan.”
Bunny