Yes, Madam Prime Minister

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“I’m sorry, I can’t let you pass.” Guo Xingye’s voice was low. “My job is to stop you so that you don’t get in their way, especially Aunt Zhao.”

Lu Jianling's expression changed drastically. "Don't tell me that Ah Mo also wants to turn Ronan into his clone."

“How could that be? What Brother Tempo wants is the Holy Son three-piece set. He needs more magic power and a stronger magic power output to be able to create a large number of clones at the same time,” Guo Xingye explained.

Madam Zhao pressed her hand to her chest. "Xingye, don't worry, we'll definitely think it through."

"We'll find a way to set you free, you bastard, you've gone too far."

No matter what, she couldn't accept that her son had turned his younger brother into this.

Guo Xingye shook his head. “Aunt Zhao, I’m practically a dead man, so I don’t have any freedom. Although I don’t agree with some of Brother Qian’s actions, to be honest, I want to push this corrupt and decadent regime down, just like my father did back then, to establish a new era. Not only that, but we also want to surpass my father and maintain a beautiful new world for a long time, instead of handing it over to a group of corrupt and decadent people.”

Guo Hanlu wiped away her tears and snot, glaring fiercely at her son, "Shut up, you have no right to speak now."

"Alas, just as I thought." Guo Xingye sighed deeply. "Mother, Aunt Lu, Aunt Zhao, I have no choice but to offend you."

On the other side, in Wuchang.

Isabelle and her two companions also encountered an opponent.

The difference is that this person is not Ronan's child, but Bai Wenbin, Lu Jianling's great-grandson. There's not much to say, and the two sides immediately started fighting. Bai Wenbin is a sixth-tier cultivator. In terms of tier alone, he is not higher than any of the three, including Isabel. However, he is an anomaly, with high defense and high mobility. Isabel cannot hit him, Ashley cannot break his defense, and Grand can only passively defend, unable to provide any restriction.

He successfully stalled the three of them.

"Three elders, how about a truce? This continued attrition can't go on."

Bai Wenbin, looking like a middle-aged, decadent man, spoke lazily.

"You've got some nerve, kid." Golan was already getting angry.

Bai Wenbin scratched his head. "Well, actually, I wanted to say that Boss Luo activated those devices a long time ago. There's no point in you taking them all now. He's not the kind of fool who would wait for someone to stop him."

At the same time, Luo Nan and Luo Chenghao had already flown to the top of Tiantai Mountain, a peak in the Dabie Mountains at the junction of Hubei, Henan and Anhui provinces.

Without any unnecessary words, the battle began after they released their auras to each other.

Two seconds later, Luo Chenghao collapsed to the ground.

"That's it?" Ronan looked at his son, somewhat disappointed.

Luo Chenghao pressed his chest, which was pierced and bleeding profusely, and said, "Father is really strong. I can't even imagine how powerful you and Aunt Di would become after you combine your powers. I really have no chance of winning against you on my own."

"So, you're going to merge too? A clone that carries the soul and consciousness of another person, merging is one of the most important functions, right? Your regular strength isn't even the best among the seventh rank." As Ronan spoke, his flying sword continued to attack, trying to pin Luo Chenghao down and prevent him from merging.

“My fusion needs time to complete, so it started while we were talking by the river.”

Chapter 1141 Father-Son Battle, Fusion? You've Already Lost

No sooner had Luo Chenghao finished speaking than Ronan kicked the old man away, sending him flying off the mountaintop platform. Before he even began to fall, Ronan had already risen above him, gripping his sword with both hands and thrusting it downwards, piercing Luo Chenghao's chest. The magic power exploded, causing the two to plummet into the valley like stars falling to earth. The next second, they were already on the ground. The violent impact caused exaggerated spiderweb-like cracks to spread across the hard rock of the valley for hundreds of meters in radius. The violent aftershocks directly blew away all the trees and weeds around them, turning dry branches and fallen leaves into fragments in the air.

Ronan dodged and jumped back, and then flying swords rained down from the sky, relentlessly bombarding Luo Chenghao, who was embedded in the rock and motionless. In just a few seconds, the rubble around his body was blasted into dust and debris, which rose dozens of meters high.

The next instant, Luo Chenghao burst out of the smoke, covered in blood. A hand, made of white bone and broken flesh, gripped Ronan's head and slammed it against the mountain wall, instantly creating a huge crater.

Then, Luo Chenghao's figure streaked forward like lightning, while Luo Nan's entire head and back scraped against the mountain wall as he moved forward, cutting through the mountain wall, breaking rocks, and carving out a 100-meter-long ravine. His entire head and back were no longer there.

Before he even landed, Luo Chenghao kicked Ronan, sending him flying like a cannonball. After crashing through dozens of tree trunks and breaking them, Ronan slammed into a mountainside like a lump of minced meat before sliding to the ground.

Luo Chenghao was half-squatting and half-kneeling on the ground, panting. Half of his face was still rotten, completely covered in plaster. Brain matter was still seeping out from the cracks in his skull. His body had not yet fully regenerated and was still a mess. In many places, there was no flesh left, only a skeleton full of cracks, as if it was about to break at any moment. Through the skeleton, one could see a heart beating wildly and constantly spitting blood. His intestines had long since spilled out of his stomach.

One hand, one leg, and nothing but bones with bits of flesh hanging from them.

However, everything continued to progress rapidly at a visible speed. Luo Chenghao was relieved, thinking, "Fortunately, the fusion was completed. If it weren't for Xiaobai's super-fast regeneration ability and super-strong defense, we wouldn't have been able to fight back at all."

His fusion did not significantly enhance his overall physical attributes, magic power, or strength, unlike the exaggerated boost from Ronan and Dinia's fusion, which was greater than the sum of their powers. His fusion was not even an addition; it was a subtraction followed by an addition.

Luo Chenghao's pure physical abilities are only comparable to Ronan's, but he possesses both the active and passive skills of the "clone".

With two level 6 passive abilities and four level 5 passive abilities, his melee combat ability now surpasses Ronan's.

As for active skills, the sixth-tier instant-cast lock-on spells are barely usable, but spells below the sixth tier are all fancy but useless moves for Ronan, because Ronan's defense and resistance are too high, and his speed is too fast.

"The only way to deal with you is through head-on confrontation, and I am currently in a superior position to you."

Luo Chenghao looked into the distance and said.

On the other side, Ronan also stood up, his full-body magic armor instantly activated.

The original species' power quickly stitched together the shattered body, which had its internal organs broken and bones shattered, allowing it to continue moving.

Ronan gripped his twin swords and entered melee mode, a brutal attack mode. "Looks like I wasn't wrong. This kid's combination isn't something he achieved solely through his own extraordinary power."

More than a hundred years ago, when Ronan was asleep, Luo Chenghao was still at the fourth level. At that time, he could create one fourth-level clone and two third-level clones... But his clones only possessed the comprehensive qualities of a superhuman of the same level. Simply put, they were blank slates and could only execute some simple commands. In the following hundred years, he actually reached the seventh level, which was truly unexpected.

Upon reaching the seventh level, a qualitative change naturally occurred, but such a qualitative change would never have the effect it has now.

Ronan was pretty sure he had used a soul transfer technique to incorporate someone else's soul into the blank avatar.

When he retracts his clones, he is in a combined state, possessing the extraordinary power of multiple people.

It sounds simple, but it's actually not that simple, because the combination of multiple "souls" into one body is theoretically impossible. Since a soul is more accurately described as a demonic entity, it inevitably leads to the physical body becoming similar. A body with multiple souls can only result in one thing: self-destruction.

But the fact is that he accomplished something theoretically impossible.

Luo Chenghao himself was "mediocre" in all aspects, especially in the area of ​​extraordinary theories.

It's impossible for him to have researched such a special technique that combines superhuman power with soul transfer and other methods to achieve this effect; it must have been an unknown person who brought him this power.

"Again!" Luo Chenghao's voice drew closer.

The two clashed again in the next instant.

A thousand blows in one moment.

Ronan flew out again, carving a long furrow in the hard stone ground.

"Father, you're too arrogant. Do you still think I'm someone who, no matter how hard I try, can only ever stay behind others?" Luo Chenghao clenched his fists, muttering to himself as he looked at Ronan's armor shattering in the distance. "Now, do you acknowledge me?"

In the distance, Ronan slowly got up, somewhat helplessly, "I've accepted you from the very beginning, son."

"What I want is not your approval, Father, but proof that I am worthy of your approval." Luo Chenghao suddenly raised his voice. "A hundred years, I have used a hundred years to prove that I can also stand on the shoulders of a giant like you, do you understand?" The previously calm Luo Chenghao began to rage.

Ronan once again wrapped himself in his armor to secure himself. This time, the body inside the armor was almost entirely a pile of minced flesh and bone fragments. "One of the merged entities is at the sixth rank, it's Xingye. I don't recognize the other one, also at the sixth rank, but I feel like I've seen it somewhere before. And what about the seventh rank? If you can use it, you won't refuse, so it seems to be vacant. Are you afraid or unable? I think it's impossible. That means an involuntary soul, if it merges with you, will either bring negative rejection or it will fight with you for dominance."

“You’ve already lost, son,” Ronan declared.

"A bluff," Luo Chenghao said dismissively, and started again. However, his body suddenly froze midway, as if stuck.

Ronan remained calm and composed. "You've changed bodies and used the Soul Transfer Technique. There are multiple souls in your body now. Although these other souls don't directly exist in your body, they are still connected. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to possess other people's extraordinary powers. As long as I use the Soul Transfer Technique on you, this connection will become unstable."

"Didn't the person who enabled you to develop this skill mention such a weakness to you?"

Luo Chenghao gritted his teeth, "You will not have another chance to use the soul transfer spell on me."

Ronan shook his head. "The first principle of mages is that a mage's battle takes place before the battle begins. That initial sword strike already instilled a fragment of the blade, imbued with the power of the Primal, into your body. Have you forgotten that your Aunt Di can cast spells using mycelium born from the power of the Primal? I can do that too." "You..." Luo Chenghao's eyes widened in anger.

“You have lost,” Ronan said.

Luo Chenghao let out a long breath, his smile still confident. "It's not over yet." He activated his demonic transformation.

Chapter 1142 isn't over yet; whoever falls first still loses.

For lower-level superhumans, Demonic Transformation is a means of healing injuries and strengthening the body, facilitating high-intensity close combat with enemies. For higher-level and even top-tier superhumans, Demonic Transformation is a means of removing control magic and various negative statuses imposed on them by their opponents.

"It's useless. The prelude to the Soul Transfer spell is neither control nor a negative state, but rather a buff."

Ronan said.

But the next second, Luo Cheng was already in front of Luo Nan.

For a moment, Ronan was stunned. Although he was under the influence of the traction technique, his movements were not affected by his emotions.

However, the traction technique cannot evade the opponent's attack.

Luo Chenghao's movements were flawless; his lightning-fast jabs struck Ronan's armor in the blink of an eye. The armor shattered and flew away like a caramel shell hit by a hail of bullets. Ronan's body was instantly torn apart, like a piece of liquid standing upright being attacked by a storm. Rather than being struck, it was more like being washed away, turning into a scattered mass of flesh and blood that flew through the air, leaving a long, exaggerated trail of blood on the ground. Finally, when he landed on the ground, he was no longer human.

This is Guo Xingye's extraordinary rule-based spell attack, "General's Strike," which possesses the abilities of "Pushing Forward with Certain Advance" and "Piercing the Void." "Pushing Forward with Certain Advance" means that no matter what state he is in or how he attacks, the punch he delivers will always be the one with the maximum output efficiency under his peak condition. "Piercing the Void" means that the opponent can only block to the "void," meaning they cannot block, and his attack will definitely hit. Moreover, no matter where it hits, it is considered to have hit the enemy's weakest point, and then spreads to the enemy's entire body.

It was precisely because of Guo Xingye's rule-based power that Luo Chenghao was able to continuously break through Luo Nan's defenses. His injuries did not affect his output, and although his fists seemed to be raining down on Luo Nan's entire body, the attacks were actually calculated on the areas where the defense was constantly decreasing, while the damage was applied to Luo Nan's entire body.

After finishing his attack, Luo Chenghao began to pant.

In the distance, Ronan stood up again. "Your attack has weakened. With Xingye's abilities, this is theoretically impossible. It seems that your demonic transformation has not eliminated the interference of the Soul Transfer Technique on you. Your demonic transformation can enhance the connection between you and other souls, but the degree of this connection is ultimately weakened compared to the beginning. Although you are not stuck, the strength of other people's supernatural abilities has weakened, and your regeneration is also slowing down."

"Father was indeed very perceptive, but you were the one who fell first."

Luo Chenghao was confident and determined.

Ronan sighed softly, "Perhaps."

The battle resumed, but in this brief exchange, Luo Chenghao failed to land a blow on Luo Nan. He had been too overconfident and was instead slashed across by Luo Nan's sword, which sliced ​​off a third of his head.

The two turned around, their eyes meeting once more. Luo Chenghao looked incredulous. Ronan had gotten faster? No, Ronan was actually much slower than before. He himself had slowed down too much. After the soul connection was no longer so close, his overall abilities also began to decline, to the point where he could no longer get close enough to hit the target.

"Want to come again?" Ronan asked.

Luo Chenghao responded by once again flashing close and unleashing a barrage of straight punches.

This time, he managed to graz Ronan's punch, but was also pierced in the back by a flying sword.

The battle between father and son has entered a phase of exchanging injuries for injuries.

Both of them possess super-fast regeneration abilities, and while they appear to be getting better as the fight progresses, their magical power is actually constantly decreasing.

Luo Chenghao possesses a great deal of magic power. He can use the abilities of others and a portion of their magic power, but his total magic power is still less than Ronan's. Ronan, who possesses the three-piece set of the Holy Son, has a total magic power that is only slightly less than that of Dinia, who possesses the original species. Even if Luo Chenghao himself and his many clones are combined, they still do not have as much magic power as Ronan.

If things continue like this, it's only a matter of time before Luo Chenghao fails.

Is it because they are unwilling to accept defeat, or are they brewing other trump cards?

Ronan didn't know, and he didn't want to know. He was willing to play his trump card if needed. Although he had been badly beaten before, he hadn't actually been that serious until now.

After another collision, creating a distance of several hundred meters, Luo Chenghao suddenly burst forth, leaping up from the ground and attacking Luo Nan.

Almost simultaneously, Ronan completed the spell, and a layer of armor was placed on Luo Chenghao's body. As soon as he broke free from one layer, two more layers were put on him in an instant. Layer after layer of armor was put on, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds of layers of armor were placed on top of each other, forming a transparent golden giant tens of meters tall that sealed Luo Chenghao in layers. Luo Chenghao was like a small mosquito trapped in a huge transparent amber.

"Phew, almost there."

Ronan looked like he had just escaped a disaster.

Although it doesn't seem very realistic, I was just a little short of being able to seal Luo Chenghao, allowing him to get close with his explosive power.

Ronan raised his left hand and activated his magic absorption ability.

It wouldn't be difficult for Luo Chenghao, who was trapped in hundreds of layers of armor, to get out. He could just break through each layer one by one. However, in the process, he would need to continuously consume magic power, and at the same time, his magic power would be constantly drained.

Ronan wouldn't just stand by and watch him destroy things; instead, he would constantly replenish what he had lost.

With the power that Luo Chenghao has suddenly unleashed and is still growing, it's only a matter of time before he breaks through everything. But during this time, he will undoubtedly have more magic power drained from him.

This was also Ronan's goal: to wear them down.

Seeing that the rate at which the armor was being replenished could no longer keep up with the rate at which Luo Chenghao was destroying it, and that Luo Chenghao's face, which was originally only white-haired, was beginning to look increasingly weathered, he thought, "It's still getting stronger? This stupid son."

Ronan frowned, not because the situation was starting to turn against him, but because the enhancement method Luo Chenghao used was clearly an overdraft spell.

At this moment, Isabel and Ashley, who possessed the ability to move at high speed, arrived first, while Golan remained in Hanyang to continue removing the objects that had been placed there.

Similarly, after the roadblocks disappeared, Guo Hanlu and Madam Zhao flew forward with all their might, barely managing to catch up and arrive at the scene. They looked exhausted at this point, while Lu Jianling stayed in Wuchang to deal with the placement of the items.

As soon as Guo Hanlu and Madam Zhao arrived, they saw Luo Chenghao break through the last layer of armor and rush towards Luo Nan from the mountain peak.

However, halfway there, Luo Chenghao suddenly fell to the ground and collapsed.

Ronan looked astonished, and without hesitation, he rushed over to check the situation.

"Ha, Father, aren't you afraid this is my trick?" Luo Chenghao lay on the ground with a smile on his face, showing no sign of frustration, but rather an expression of relief.

"You're still laughing!" Ronan was furious. "What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you...?"

"Didn't Father see it? This is the state that artificial superhumans who have had magical devices implanted will experience after overusing their power," Luo Chenghao said.

Ronan couldn't believe it, but the facts were undeniable: "You are a genuine seventh-tier cultivator."

This means that, theoretically, Luo Chenghao is already at the seventh level and has no room left to transplant magical artifacts.

"Didn't I say I'm special?" Luo Chenghao said with a smile.

"Enough, this farce is over."

Chapter 1143 The End, Burial, Last Will and Testament

Luo Chenghao did not respond to Luo Nan immediately. He lay on his back on the ground, his once white hair now resembling withered, grayish-white weeds that had been drained of moisture, as if it would fall apart with a gust of wind. His face was like cracked, dry tree bark, with only his eyes remaining bright and his gaze serene and peaceful.

His eyes were fixed on the night sky, which could only be seen in the mountains and fields, where the stars seemed within reach. He slowly raised one hand. At this moment, his posture was like that of a child who had come from the city to play in the mountains and was tired. He was lying on the ground with ease and comfort, raising his hand as if to wipe a star.