Chapter 212: Being Zhang Yangqing’s Teammate is the Pride of His Life!
Viewers familiar with Zhang Yangqing know that from the moment he saw the clearance rules, he was already free to act recklessly.
Zhang Yangqing has a peculiar temper; he doesn’t like to push himself too hard.
Take Gregorio, for example; to complete hidden tasks, enduring a bit of frustration within his capabilities was acceptable.
After all, he is, so to speak, the highly anticipated successor to the Pope. Being able to secure more benefits for everyone, at the very least, the viewers in Lasagna Country would adore him. That was Gregorio’s plan.
But Zhang Yangqing just casually completes tasks while clearing levels. If these NPCs don’t cooperate, he’d rather not do it than put up with any nonsense.
When viewers saw Zhang Yangqing starting to demolish the map, they were exceptionally excited.
Because chosen ones from other countries, even supernatural beings, chose to crawl through holes, sneak into the Eternal Clan’s base, and infiltrate stealthily to avoid entanglement with these immortal beings.
But Zhang Tian Shi is just absurd. He doesn’t even use the main gate; wherever he goes becomes the main gate.
Since getting to the main gate would take a while, Zhang Yangqing simply blasted a new entrance through the wall.
The mountaineering teammates were slightly startled but quickly regained their composure. After all, this wasn’t the first time they’d witnessed Zhang Yangqing’s unparalleled power.
However, the Black Feather Clan Chieftain, who was there for the first time, stood frozen in place, dumbfounded. He built this wall for the Black Feather Clan; he knew exactly how sturdy it was!
Even against powerful beast attacks, it remained as solid as a mountain.
But this mountaineer just casually blew it open with a flick?
Captain Goatee nudged his dazed old friend awake.
The Black Feather Clan Chieftain pointed a trembling finger at the gaping hole. “Th-this…”
For a moment, he was at a loss for words.
The scene before him was beyond his comprehension.
If Zhang Yangqing had exerted great effort or used some treasure to smash it open, he could understand.
But with just a flick of the finger, it collapsed?
It felt like his entire worldview was crumbling along with it!
Captain Goatee, with a slight buzz from the alcohol, curled the corner of his mouth upward and said smugly, “What’s so strange about this? When our teammate here gets serious, he can split a mountain in half.”
Captain Goatee seemed to be saying, “Look at you, so easily impressed. This is nothing; you haven’t seen the truly amazing stuff.”
Though Captain Goatee had also been shocked before, as someone who encountered Zhang Yangqing earlier, he was indeed teasing the Black Feather Clan Chieftain for his lack of exposure.
And Captain Goatee’s bragging rights stemmed solely from having seen Zhang Yangqing’s power first.
The Black Feather Clan Chieftain glanced at the others; they all wore expressions of utter familiarity, as if this were commonplace. The shock within him took a long time to subside.
He truly wondered what kind of deity this mountaineer was.
But a question arose: Wouldn’t doing this alert the Eternal Clan?
In the understanding of people in this world, basically no one could defeat the Eternal Clan because they were immortal and numerous; they could simply wear you down through attrition.
Just as the Black Feather Clan Chieftain was pondering this, many figures began surrounding them.
These individuals were burly, standing two meters tall, exuding an imposing aura.
They wore red bone masks, with eyes as large as bronze bells, resembling gigantic beasts.
Any one of them could overpower anyone present except Zhang Yangqing.
Moreover, there were over a hundred of them here, like insurmountable mountains.
Their mere presence made many on-site feel immense pressure.
This was also why other chosen ones chose to be cautious and stealthy when facing this stage.
Once discovered by the Eternal Clan, death was the only outcome.
Even on this blizzard night, the collapse of the wall could still cause the earth to tremble, naturally alerting the guardians of this stage.
If not for having just witnessed Zhang Yangqing’s display of power, the Black Feather Clan Chieftain would have been ready to flee at this moment.
Meanwhile, deep within the castle.
A figure sat cross-legged on the throne in the great hall.
It was a man of robust and burly build, wearing half a dragon bone mask.
Black hair cascaded down his shoulders, and he had bronzed skin.
From the visible half of his face, his features were rough, but his eyes held a gaze that seemed capable of overturning heaven and earth, making stars fall.
Just sitting there, he exuded an unconcealable aura of wild dominance.
The tremor outside caused his half-asleep eyes to open.
This slight movement was like a sharp sword, its edge revealed.
It made some of the fierce beasts subservient to him in the hall begin to tremble.
This burly man’s aura was terrifyingly strong, possessing a grand, imposing manner that could make the eight directions collapse.
The power condensed within his body even caused the surrounding space to warp slightly.
He was the Eternal Clan Chieftain, a monster whose age was unknown.
He once had a name, but over the endless years, he seemed to have forgotten it.
He only knew that people in this world called him the ‘Eternal King’.
The Eternal King was a boss that the vast majority of chosen ones in this strange tale world couldn’t even dream of encountering.
They weren’t even willing to provoke ordinary Eternal Clan members.
The Eternal King spent most of his time in a dormant state; he loved this place, it was perfect for sleeping.
But today, the Eternal King was disturbed for the second time. As someone with a temper upon waking, the noise and tremors outside annoyed him somewhat.
This was also why the fierce beasts in the hall trembled.
“What’s happening in the middle of the night?” the Eternal King’s voice was deep and resonant, possessing the composure of someone unfazed even if Mount Tai collapsed before him.
He was a man who practically had ‘Invincible’ written on his face.
A subordinate ran over to report that intruders had invaded and others were already handling it.
Hearing this, the Eternal King closed his eyes again and returned to sleep.
Few could make him take action personally.
But not long after, the door opened again. Seeing his subordinate’s panicked expression displeased him.
“Can’t you handle a trivial matter?”
Hearing this, sweat poured down the subordinate’s face.
But he mustered his courage and said, “Leader, it’s not that we can’t handle it; it’s that most of our people have been handled!”
By the wall, the Black Feather Clan Chieftain watched the Eternal Clan members gathering one after another. He was puzzled why Zhang Yangqing wasn’t taking action. Was he intimidated by their powerful aura?
He was overthinking it. Given Zhang Yangqing’s personality, everything was within his expectations.
The reason for making such a big commotion was precisely to attract the attention of the entire Eternal Clan, to make everyone focus on him.
In gaming terms, it’s like using a taunt to gather monsters.
Now, with a mighty crowd of over a hundred people gathered before him, this was the effect Zhang Yangqing wanted.
When these people saw Zhang Yangqing, they didn’t dare act rashly.
Anyone who could destroy the wall was considered a top-tier powerhouse.
But they had absolute confidence; after all, they couldn’t die.
“Who are you? Why are you tearing down our wall and intruding into our base for no reason?”
“Why waste words with him? Just kill me quickly so I can go back to sleep. My new wife is waiting for me.”
“An insolent fool, daring to attack the Eternal Clan’s base. I think you have a death wish.”
The Eternal Clan members began courting death frantically, as they still didn’t know how to write the word ‘death’.
Zhang Yangqing and the other mountaineering team members weren’t particularly fazed, but the Black Feather Clan Chieftain was furious.
You seized our territory, occupied our base, and still have the nerve to say others are intruding on your turf?
Although he didn’t know how strong Zhang Yangqing was, he hoped Zhang Yangqing would win.
The Black Feather Clan Chieftain cheered for Zhang Yangqing in his heart because that’s all he could do; if you asked him to fight, he really couldn’t win.
“Finished talking? If you’re done, then goodbye!”
Zhang Yangqing directly thrust out his palm horizontally, unleashing the vast might of heaven and earth.
Those seemingly immortal, undefeatable Eternal Clan members at the front turned into mincemeat, scattering into the air with the blizzard.
Limb fragments flew everywhere behind them; for one body, you could find its parts in dozens of places.
In just one encounter, over a hundred Eternal Clan members died instantly.
Not even a cry of agony was uttered before they entered the long countdown to death and revival.
Witnessing this scene, even the mountaineering team members who had somewhat grown accustomed were stunned, speechless.
Last time, when Zhang Yangqing killed the other mountaineering team, it was just beheadings.
The mountaineering team members were, after all, capable individuals who had seen the world and could handle such scenes.
But this time was too shocking, right? Without even using a weapon, just a horizontal palm thrust, and the opponents couldn’t even find complete corpses. How could one not be shocked?
They thought it was shocking enough, but the Black Feather Clan Chieftain was scared to the point of almost forgetting to breathe.
He felt as if he were drunk, hallucinating.
Was he so desperate for someone to deal with the Eternal Clan that this scene was a product of his imagination?
Thinking this, he slapped himself hard across the face. Feeling the stinging pain, he finally realized the scene before him was real.
The one who performed this terrifying feat, Zhang Yangqing, didn’t show much expression; for him, it was routine.
In the real world, he couldn’t act so recklessly.
But this was the strange tale world; don’t blame him for taking direct action.
“You all go find where the White Feather Clan’s sacred artifact is hidden. I’ll handle the rest.”
This statement was Zhang Yangqing’s order to his mountaineering teammates.
After all, in Zhang Yangqing’s view, these people were only capable of such tasks.
Trivial matters naturally didn’t require his personal intervention.
The reason for saying this was also to give the hidden entity within the team some time and space to devour the Eternal Clan members.
In this team, Zhang Yangqing’s word was divine, an unbreakable command.
None of them were Eternal Clan; they didn’t have a second life to argue with Zhang Yangqing. When faced with an order, they just needed to execute it.
After all, Zhang Yangqing was already handling the most dangerous work; they only had simple tasks. What more could they complain about?
With that, the teammates in the team began to split up and act.
The reason for splitting up was that the relationships among his teammates were not good.
Unlike other teams with Captain Goatee’s unified command.
The teammates in Zhang Yangqing’s team only listened to him; they didn’t listen to anyone else.
In the strange tale world, a being more terrifying than Zhang Yangqing is Zhang Yangqing who knows the clearance rules.
At this point, he had already started playing according to his own approach.
Normally, many viewers thought Zhang Yangqing needed to find information about the Director and then locate the Angel’s whereabouts through the Director.
Only by relying on the ‘Human’ to kill the Angel could the chosen one resolve this world’s crisis and complete the hidden task.
Killing the Angel wasn’t difficult for supernatural beings like Zhang Yangqing and Gregorio, but finding the Angel was the real challenge.
Gregorio had already found the Director and was heading towards the Angel’s location.
Viewers thought Zhang Yangqing finding the Director was also a matter of time, but he had his own understanding.
Because he knew a lot of intel. The intel said the Angel was suppressed by the Eternal Clan, so he figured he might as well just ask the strongest person within the Eternal Clan directly. Why bother looking for the Director?
The Director only knew the general location; the Eternal Clan knew the exact spot.
So when the other teammates scattered, he headed straight for the castle.
He had already sensed a relatively not-so-weak aura within the castle.
When Zhang Yangqing sensed the Eternal King, the Eternal King also seemed to sense him.
In the great hall, the Eternal King’s subordinate was about to explain something, but the Eternal King waved his hand, signaling him to stop.
“An opponent of this level is indeed not someone you can handle.”
After saying this, the Eternal King stood up.
Just this act of standing up, the powerful force from his legs caused the solid stone steps to crack.
His body contained incredibly fierce power, making the surrounding cold air retreat.
The beasts in the hall had already prostrated themselves on the ground.
“That guy is simply my destined rival!”
A cold gleam flashed in the Eternal King’s eyes. Having lived so long, few could truly ignite his so-called fighting spirit.
As a member of the Eternal Clan, when encountering danger, one just fights; there’s no need for fear.
He seemed to regard that unknown, powerful presence as his mortal enemy.
He looked forward to a direct confrontation with Zhang Yangqing.
Of course, that was just his perception.
Not long after, the great hall’s door opened.
In the Eternal King’s eyes, this person seemed like a hero who had braved countless trials, earning the qualification to challenge him.
And he, as the great BOSS, would give this hero a chance—this was the awareness of a major BOSS: I’ll let you have the first move!
But before he could speak, the other party, who acted even more like a BOSS than him, said, “Hurry up and make your move. I’m in a rush.”
This sentence left the Eternal King frozen in place, as if many boastful lines were left unsaid, blocked in his throat.
For a moment, he had an illusion: Who is the BOSS of this stage, you or me?
Zhang Yangqing letting him attack first was actually a way to gauge the power level of each major BOSS in the strange tale world.
In other words, the limit this world could withstand.
Then he could use appropriate force to destroy the enemy.
Otherwise, causing this Land of Eternal Winter to collapse wouldn’t do.
After all, he only knew the clearance rules; he hadn’t obtained the clearance items yet.
Zhang Yangqing stood within the great hall, his demeanor transcendent.
The surging spiritual energy around him was no longer concealed, bursting forth directly.
It made the nearby ferocious beasts that were baring their fangs and brandishing claws immediately cower, kneeling with their heads in their hands, huddling in corners.
Even the beasts raised by the Eternal King knew that this person before them was not to be trifled with.
The Eternal King’s subordinate turned as pale as paper.
He had just seen Zhang Yangqing slaughter his clansmen indiscriminately.
But at that time, Zhang Yangqing hadn’t released his aura; he was only scared, not particularly fearful.
Now it was different. He personally felt this vast, ocean-like power and knew that even with his immortality, he couldn’t contend against it.
The word ‘fear’ wasn’t in the Eternal Clan’s dictionary.
But today, it truly learned how to write the word ‘fear’.
And Zhang Yangqing was the man specifically here to teach these ‘invincible’ beings what fear meant.
All creatures in the great hall retreated to the side because they knew only the Eternal King could deal with this powerful intruder.
At this moment, the Eternal King had lost his earlier composure. Frowning, he looked ahead. He could already sense danger and understood why the other party could be so arrogant.
Those who dared to say such things indeed possessed some skill.
The Eternal King’s body began to tremble slightly. He hadn’t felt this sensation in a long time.
His mind instantly traveled back thousands of years when he was just an ordinary, novice Eternal Clan member. He too had challenged countless strong opponents, faced numerous fierce beasts, and only then grew to his current state.
Never did he expect that after so many years, the feeling of facing a powerful adversary would return.
For a moment, he was filled with endless emotions.
Zhang Yangqing looked at the dazed Eternal King, puzzled. Is this guy an idiot?
Don’t think playing dumb will stop me from killing you. If you don’t make a move soon, I’m going to attack!
After indulging in a wave of nostalgic memories, the Eternal King suddenly opened his eyes, erupting with tremendous energy.
The muscles all over his body grew wildly, bulging with veins, presenting an extremely terrifying visual impact.
The power in each of his muscles seemed capable of smashing a small hill.
Following that, magical energy churned around the Eternal King. Just the erupting energy waves were enough to crack the earth.
Having lived for so many years, the Eternal King naturally cultivated both martial and magical arts.
Facing Zhang Yangqing, he dared not be careless.
He opened with an ultimate move.
Based on his centuries of experience, he believed Zhang Yangqing was young, only possessing immense energy.
Such a person must have a weak physical body, so he decisively chose to attack Zhang Yangqing’s ‘weakness’.
Boom!
In an instant, the Eternal King appeared before Zhang Yangqing.
A fist as formidable as an iron mountain was thrown with seemingly immense force, capable of toppling all living beings between heaven and earth.
The terrifying sound of the punch cutting through the air carried a momentum that could shatter a thousand-meter snow-capped mountain.
This move was called ‘Dragon-Shattering God Fist’.
It was a killing technique he developed when he slew a dragon.
It was a terrifying move that could even kill a dragon.
And the mask on his face was made from the skull of the divine dragon he had slain.
The Eternal Clan tradition was to make masks from the remains of their most powerful slain enemies.
And with this punch thrown, he was even considering how to make a mask from Zhang Yangqing’s skull.
At such close range, he believed Zhang Yangqing couldn’t possibly evade his lethal strike.
Seeing this, Zhang Yangqing remained expressionless.
He channeled the golden divine power within his body. Surging energy wildly gushed forth, pierced through the great hall’s roof, and ascended into the void.
The Eternal King discovered his all-out strike couldn’t penetrate the other’s defense?
No matter how hard he tried, even gritting his teeth until they bled, his fist seemed stuck in a raging torrent of energy, unable to advance further.
The Eternal King was shocked. What kind of terrifying defensive skill is this?
But he was overthinking it.
To deal with him, why would Zhang Yangqing need a defensive skill?
This was merely the initial stance of the Golden Light Curse, yet it already made him feel immovable.
Through the collapsed roof, one could see a golden divine light gathering in the nine heavens above.
Zhang Yangqing only needed to wiggle his finger. A golden energy pillar descended from the sky above.
The Eternal King suddenly looked up and saw an invincible energy coming straight for him.
A trace of fear finally appeared in his fearless eyes.
The Eternal King wanted to flee, but the immense pressure prevented him from moving a single step.
Crack!
The golden light pillar instantly pierced through his dragon bone mask and simultaneously penetrated his forehead.
The moment his body was pierced, the immense energy within him collided with the golden light.
The wave of energy unleashed by the golden light ravaged in all directions, causing tremors and roars for tens of miles around!
Even the distant Feather Clan village felt the impact.
Amidst such a powerful energy collision, the Eternal King’s body, cultivated for millennia, was directly blasted to pieces.
His head exploded to the point where not a single intact piece of skull could be found.
The entire castle shook violently, with most of the great hall reduced to ruins.
The fierce beasts raised by the Eternal King were directly killed on the spot by the shockwave.
This was already Zhang Yangqing holding back; otherwise, the entire Eternal Clan base would have been destroyed.
After all, his other teammates were still searching for the White Feather Clan’s sacred artifact to complete the stage’s bonus task.
Witnessing this earth-shattering scene, the viewers simply couldn’t stay calm.
:No matter how many times I see it, I still find Zhang Tian Shi too shocking.
:Zhang Tian Shi is really playing chess at the South Pole—beyond cool!
:Remember, this is only the limit the strange tale world can withstand, not Zhang Tian Shi’s limit!
:Creatures of the strange tale world, keep pushing. I hope you can force Zhang Tian Shi to go all out.
:Zhang Tian Shi always gives me the feeling that he seems to have messed up, yet it’s still within his control.
:I feel like if I were nearby, I might die on the spot.
:Be more confident; remove the ‘might’!
Viewers could see many screens. On other screens, not to mention ordinary chosen ones, even supernatural beings didn’t want to provoke ordinary Eternal Clan members.
Here, Zhang Tian Shi was practically using the Eternal Clan’s leader as a plaything, simply too arrogant.
Probably even on Longhu Mountain, Zhang Tian Shi wasn’t this unrestrained.
Inside the strange tale world, the surrounding teammates were truly shocked by this—shocked right where they stood, as the earth-shaking tremors made it impossible not to be.
They could sense it was energy released by Zhang Yangqing.
Judging by the scale, he must have clashed with the Eternal King.
The other teammates didn’t know how strong the Eternal King was, but they didn’t think Zhang Yangqing would lose, so they continued with their tasks.
“My god, just how strong is your teammate? Looking at this commotion, even the Eternal King isn’t a match, right?”
In the eyes of the Black Feather Clan Chieftain, the Eternal King was already an invincible existence.
Back when the Feather Clan territory was seized, he didn’t dare argue with the Eternal King.
He knew that if he said one more word, the entire Feather Clan would be annihilated.
Because the Eternal King’s strength simply defied reason.
It seemed today, an even more unreasonable person had arrived.
Now, the Eternal King should also learn what ‘unreasonable’ meant.
“I don’t know how strong he is. I only know that no matter who stands before him, they can’t survive a single move.”
Having a teammate like Zhang Yangqing was the pride of Captain Goatee’s life.
Perhaps until the day he died, he would be recounting the legend of Zhang Yangqing in this strange tale world.
Later, countless mountaineers in this region would hear a ‘mythical’ story.
A tale they believed was fabricated by people in the Land of Eternal Winter.
Those who never truly witnessed Zhang Yangqing in action could never imagine how powerful he was.
