988 New Rules and Sudden Changes! (1/2)

Each soul had one shadow. Five shadows meant that there were five souls.

Fang Zhengzhi thought that he couldn't see straight. However, after rubbing his eyes, he realized that the five shadows of souls above Chou Qi's body were still clearly visible.

What was going on?

'Are you telling me that Chou Qi has five souls?'

'What on earth!'

Fang Zhengzhi couldn't believe it, but that wouldn't alter the reality. He had never seen anything as freaky as this ever since he mastered Ghost Dao. He couldn't help but be astonished.

However, he didn't take a look at Chou Qi's soul with his Ghost Eye in the previous fight, so he didn't notice it.

'Five souls…'

'Is it possible that I've only wounded one of Chou Qi's souls earlier?'

'The other souls were unharmed, and that's why Chou Qi followed me into the Black Stone Palace.'

Fang Zhengzhi wasn't sure if he was right. However, since his opponent was at Godly State, he wasn't overly concerned about his strange abilities.

Five souls and five lives.

He decided to kill all of them at once.

It was simple and straightforward.

”Is that your last question? Hmm, it took me two moves to kill Qin Xian.” Chou Qi didn't expect Fang Zhengzhi's question, but he still answered it truthfully.

”Two moves?” Fang Zhengzhi was a little stunned.

According to his memories, Chou Qi could be considered a powerful God, but there wasn't much difference between him and Qin Xian.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that… Chou Qi was slightly weaker than Qin Xian.

'Killing Qin Xian with two moves?!'

'Was it a sneak attack?'

It was unlikely even if it was a sneak attack. Most importantly, both Qin Xian and Chou Qi were freaks amongst the Gods.

The biggest problem with freaks like them was that they wouldn't trust anyone.

Under such circumstances, it was extremely difficult to carry out a successful sneak attack, unless one party was significantly stronger than the other.

That was the only way to end a God's life in merely two moves.

'Something's wrong!'

'Something's definite wrong!'

Fang Zhengzhi wasn't sure what was wrong, but he could sense that the Chou Qi standing before him seemed to be fundamentally different from the Chou Qi that he had fought against.

'His aura is the same but his strength is different?'

It was too abnormal.

However, there wasn't any point in thinking about this right now. He would find out how strong this Chou Qi was during the fight.

Fang Zhengzhi was fairly confident in his current strength.

Although he wasn't capable of taking on five Gods at the same time, he could easily manage one or two of them.

In that case, why would he need to give it so much thought?

Instead of overthinking, Fang Zhengzhi asked directly, ”Are we still following the rules of the Heaven Alliance Meeting? Best of three?”

”Yes. However, in order to differentiate this from the Heaven Alliance Meeting, I believe that we could make some changes to the rules.” Chou Qi nodded and replied.

”How?”

”It's very simple. Under the premise that it's the best of three, each of us could add a new rule. That would make things relatively fair.” Chou Qi responded.

”What's yours?” Fang Zhengzhi understood what he meant.

It would still be best of three.

However, other rules could be changed.

After some consideration, Chou Qi said, ”My rule is simple - no matter who the participant is, each person could only participate once.”

'Each person could only participate once?' Fang Zhengzhi frowned again.

This modification was checkmate for them because there were five Gods amongst the Monster Race and Demon Race. However, he was the only one amongst the humans that was capable of fighting a God.

If each person could only participate once… It meant that only Fang Zhengzhi could win his round.

The disciples of the Human Alliance also realized the situation they were in, and they all turned grim.

”How could we fight under such restrictions?!”

”That's right, we can't put up any fight.”

”Since it's best of three and Fang Zhengzhi could only participate once, the other two of our participants would be fighting against experts at the Godly State. There's no hope of winning for us.”

The disciples of the Human Alliance started protesting.

”Have you given up so easily? Haha…” Chou Qi sneered when he heard the Human Alliance's disciples protests.

”Shameless brat, we don't need to waste time chit-chatting with him. Let's go to war!”

”Yeah, let's fight them!”

Wu Yuer and Ping Yang stood up with indignation written all over their faces. After all, there wasn't any point in the competition if such a restriction was imposed.

There might be a faint chance of winning if they simply went to war.

Fang Zhengzhi didn't respond to Ping Yang and Wu Yuer, but he clenched his fists tightly. He could fight back against them, but what about Ping Yang and Yan Xiu?

Chou Qi was right that he could keep Fang Zhengzhi occupied for a while once they went to war. However, Ping Yang and Yan Xiu couldn't possibly last 15 minutes against four Gods.

”Let's first decide what the winner would gain.” Fang Zhengzhi didn't mention his restriction immediately because he wanted to verify Chou Qi's real goal.

”It's simple. Based on the rules of the Heaven Alliance Meeting, the winning sect would command the Human Race, the Monster Race, and the Demon Race. If we win, we'd decide the fate of mankind. On the contrary, if we lose, the Human Alliance can decide the fate of both Monsters and Demons.” Chou Qi replied flatly.

”Command the Human Race, the Monster Race, and the Demon Race?!” Fang Zhengzhi was actually taken aback.

He thought that Chou Qi merely wanted Yun Qingwu back, but he didn't expect him to be even more aggressive than Yun Qingwu. He wanted to bring the Human Alliance down in one fell swoop.

His aspirations were great.

Fang Zhengzhi, Mu Qingfeng, Mo Shanshi, and the rest of the Human Alliance all fell silent.

The stakes were too high.

Although Chou Qi said that the winner would simply command all three races. However, if the humans lost, the only possible outcome for them was becoming enslaved by the Monsters and Demons.

The reverse… Was also true.

If the Human Alliance won, how could they possibly be willing to share the world with the Monsters and Demons, which could pose a huge potential threat in the future?

This was a fight that had lasted thousands of years.

There was only winning or losing.

There would never be true peace.

”What's wrong, are you afraid of losing?” Chou Qi asked.