Certainly, there were those who scoffed, even slandered.
"Hmph, a powerful ambitious man, is he worthy of your praise?"
"I heard that most of the cities he owns were snatched from others. He is a thorough aggressor."
"Only relying on strength to rob cities from his own countrymen. If he's so capable, why doesn't he snatch territory from the bugs and zombies?"
"Our City Lord Ye has also advanced to the Golden realm. He is the true chosen one. You just wait, the one who will conquer the world must be Ye Li Tian!"
"Embrace Buddhism, only our Buddha's Son can save everyone!"
"The higher you stand, the harder you fall. The name Qin An Wang will become a joke in no time."
Watching Qin Shi Lei on the livestream, Ye Li Tian's anger was about to explode.
After a moment of thought, he left a message:
"I, Ye Li Tian, will challenge Qin Shi Lei in three months!"
"Leading for a moment does not mean being first forever. Who will be the number one person on Blue Star, please watch!"
"The Lord of Great Xia, who else but me!"
It wasn't that Ye Li Tian insisted on competing for this number one.
It was because he knew that a battle between him and Qin Shi Lei was inevitable.
Today, Qin Shi Lei had clearly and implicitly expressed his intention to dominate Great Xia.
As a city lord, Ye Li Tian also wished to conquer the world.
There was an unavoidable conflict between the two sides.
Since a battle was bound to happen, why not delay the time so he could have time to grow?
As long as the other party accepted the challenge, he would have three months to catch up and surpass the opponent.
Ye Li Tian's message immediately drew countless replies.
"Big Shot Ye, I support you! Beat Qin Shi Lei down and let our Ye family's prestige spread across the universe!"
"What are you waiting for in three months? Come over immediately and snatch the title of King of Qin'an."
"Let's decide the victor, and also the life and death! Ye Li Tian, if you have the guts, come now."
"I hate fighting and killing the most. With that energy, it's better to kill more bugs. I bet on Qin Shi Lei to win!"
"We are all people of Great Xia, why hurt harmony? I also bet on King Qin'an to win!"
Countless spectators in the livestream, who enjoyed the chaos, all shouted for Ye Li Tian to come over immediately and fight Qin Shi Lei to the death.
Ye Li Tian could only curse inwardly at the barrage of comments, but he dared not speak again.
At this moment, Qin Shi Lei, unaware of Ye Li Tian's challenge, once again mounted the back of a purple armored beetle with An Qian and the other two, and slowly flew towards the city.
Zhang Qiang, Xie Haimei, He Kaige, Lu Tiangang, and Ding Teng simultaneously flew up from the crowd, guarding the purple armored beetle as they flew forward.
Seeing this scene, the survivors of Hope City felt a surge of pride and peace of mind.
This was the foundation of our Hope City.
Among the billions of humans on Blue Star, even if only one in ten survived the apocalypse, there were still over ten billion. So far, only twenty evolvers had successfully advanced to the Golden realm.
Our Hope City possessed more than a third of the ultimate masters. How incredible was this fact?
Countless survivors now wished they were one of those flying in the air.
As Qin Shi Lei and his group flew further and further away, they all uniformly opened their chat channels and watched the group's movements via livestream.
"Nine ultimate masters of the Golden realm, what other force can withstand their might?"
"The Qin Wang Mansion is not powerful because of one person, but because of a group of people!"
"Ye Li Tian, seeing this scene, are you hiding in some corner trembling?"
"Haha, let alone challenging King Qin'an, I'll consider him a winner if he can defeat the beetle under King Qin'an's feet!"
"I think he's just afraid that King Qin'an will come and destroy him, which is why he proposed the three-month challenge, hoping to remain a city lord for another three months in peace."
Ye Li Tian, sitting in the City Lord's Mansion of Li Tian City, had an ashen face. With a bang, he smashed the table in front of him with a palm strike, but he was speechless against the mockery of the people in the livestream.
In less than half an hour, Qin Shi Lei led the group to hover over a small city.
Below was a well-prepared elite force of thirty thousand.
"Expedition!"
With a command, the thirty thousand strong army started their vehicles and drove forward.
Beyond the small city lay an endless plain.
On the plain, countless beetles roamed everywhere.
"Kill!"
Qin Shi Lei was the first to charge down at the beetles below.
King Kong was also released by him.
A counter-offensive by humanity officially began.
The several Golden realm evolvers, each unleashed their most powerful area-of-effect attacks.
Flames spread, winds howled, thunder roared, and countless bugs fell in swathes.
Qin Shi Lei and the others, as if they had activated a cheat code, wantonly reaped the lives of the bugs.
"Roar!"
With a roar from Chi Huo, the bugs within a radius of twelve kilometers were immediately controlled, becoming lambs awaiting slaughter.
The thirty thousand elite soldiers charged forward, vociferously harvesting the lives of the bugs.
Countless evolvers watched this scene through the livestream and were deeply shocked.
Were these bugs all stupid? Why weren't they resisting?
Recalling how many times they had been chased around like dogs by the bugs, and then seeing Qin An Wang easily slaughtering these hateful bugs with his subordinates.
These evolvers all left messages:
"Wife, come quickly, someone's cheating."
"System, I protest, someone is cheating!"
"I was wondering why Qin An Wang's cultivation was so far ahead of ours. It turns out he raised these bugs to be slaughtered by him."
"Big Shot Qin, are you still in need of a hanger-on? I want to be a tag-along."
"Who was it just now that was shouting that Qin Shi Lei only knew how to snatch territory from his own countrymen? Aren't the bugs Qin An Wang is killing now?"
"King Qin'an is terrifyingly powerful. The conquest of Great Xia is just around the corner!"
Even the evolvers from Bei'an City and Changzhou City were filled with excitement watching this.
Recalling how they once followed Qin Shi Lei in freely killing bugs, they felt how exhilarating it was, and how much they wished to fight alongside Big Shot Qin on the battlefield again.
The purple armored beetle controlling groups of beetles allowed the Qin Wang Mansion's elite to harvest them like cutting grass.
Qin Shi Lei and the other ultimate masters roamed the surroundings, hunting down scattered bugs.
In less than half a day, they had completely cleared all the bugs within a radius of several dozen kilometers. The bugs that had occupied this area were completely wiped out.
Qin Shi Lei reappeared on camera.
"Blue Star is our human's Blue Star. Those who dare to invade will be killed!"
Below, the thirty thousand elite soldiers shouted in unison: "Those who dare to invade will be killed!"
A cascade of comments simultaneously appeared on the livestream.
"Those who dare to invade will be killed!"
In the end, the entire screen was filled with only the word "kill," as if vowing to resolutely exterminate all the bugs.
Countless evolvers felt their blood boil. They tidied their equipment and menacingly charged out of the city.