"Divine Fire Palace's Divine Lady!"
Seeing the flaming lady, the American troopers were shocked and they aimed their guns on her.
A dense bullet storm flew towards the young lady. The flames reversed direction in the air and vaporized the bullets before they reached her.
The flames swept downwards and incinerated the American troopers until they fled in terror.
"Where are our apostles?"
"Call our apostle unit for reinforcements!"
The young lady flapped her flaming wings and they grew to a length of over a hundred meters. Countless flaming arrows rained down on the soldiers and turned into an inferno. Even the accompanying apostles were burnt to ash.
"Surrender or die."
The American troopers knelt down to surrender.
The young lady said to the rebel leader, "Tie them up and bring them back."
Zhao Yao looked amused at the war-torn town and thought that this place was indeed chaotic. Within an hour, there were several gunfights and dramatic change of events.
A few rebels walked towards Zhao Yao but the Divine Lady said, "What are you doing? Besides the Americans, don't harass the commoners."
The rebel leader said, "Your Highness, he's the apostle that wrecked our strongholds."
The Divine Lady turned to glare at Zhao Yao as though she was going to kill him and said, "Take him away." She pointed her finger and a stream of white flames formed a ring that surrounded Zhao Yao.
The Divine Lady looked sternly at Zhao Yao and said, "You better behave yourself, otherwise I could reduce you to ash with my thoughts."
Zhao Yao looked astonished at the flaming ring around him. "This ring's pretty impressive. Why don't I feel hot? Did you suppress the temperature? That requires strong control of fire."
The Divine Lady frowned at Zhao Yao, who was strangely composed and ordered, "Take him away."
The American soldiers and Zhao Yao were put on trucks and driven to the rebel base.
On the truck, Zhao Yao looked pleasantly surprised at the twenty odd American troopers, whose heads were flashing the golden exclamation mark above.
Zhao Yao looked excitedly at a soldier and said, "Hi, you don't look good. Do you need my help?"
The American leader, Mike, looked at Zhao Yao, whose body was surrounded by the flaming ring, rolled his eyes and ignored him.
Zhao Yao patted Mike's shoulders and said, "I can help you escape."
Mike sighed and said, "You better help yourself first." He looked sympathetically at Zhao Yao and said, "We expect them to blackmail the American government. Once they've received the ransom, we will be released. As for you…"
He shook his head and said, "I expect them to decapitate you on their internet video platform."
Zhao Yao said confidently, "Don't you worry, I'm a powerful apostle. I let them capture me so that I could sneak into their lair."
The American troopers did not believe Zhao Yao and ignored him.
Zhao Yao sighed and stopped arguing with them as he would use his actions to prove himself. Then he could complete their missions.
He sat inside the truck, smiling happily.
With the protection of the Divine Lady, the rebels arrived at a nearby rebel base.
Zhao Yao was in the truck when his ears quivered and he frowned.
Within moments, he heard conversations within a radius of a few hundred meters. He discerned that this was not the headquarters of the rebel soldiers and the Divine Fire Palace.
"It's alright. This base's huge so they are not small fries. If I can find their mid-level leaders and discuss with them, they will understand and bring me to their headquarters."
Zhao Yao looked at the American troopers and said, "I'm ready to go, would you like to follow me?"
He smiled when the Americans ignored him. Then he tested his superpowers and found that he was forbidden from using them. He discovered that a Forbidden Devil apostle was sitting at the truck's front seat.
"I can't use my superpowers. I can only resort to violence." Zhao Yao thought for a while and stomped his right foot.
Boom! Zhao Yao burst the truck's tires with his Taikoo Dragon strength. His heel penetrated the truck's floor plate and landed on the ground.
The entire truck shook violently but Zhao Yao's foot was like a strong pillar that pinned the truck to its position.
The truck driver smashed headlong into the windshield while the American troopers behind fell inside the truck.
Zhao Yao squirmed and he came out from underneath the truck. He flashed and left the Forbidden Devil Zone.
The rebels panicked as they did not know what happened. The Divine Lady was the first to discover that something was amiss. She flew into the sky and surveyed the commotion.
She noticed a figure with a flaming ring running out of the base.
"It's him?" The Divine Lady's face was filled with murderous intent. She focused and the flaming ring shrunk. She wanted to burn Zhao Yao to ash.
Zhao Yao was able to use his superpowers after leaving the Forbidden Devil Zone. His Deflective Field destroyed the flaming ring with its low temperature of -60°C.
"He's powerful." The Divine Lady became grim and gave orders through her microphone. Every rebel and apostle got ready their guns and gear to prepare for combat.
Zhao Yao used Cheese's cloak to fly in the sky and surveyed the ant-like activities of the rebels in the base.
All the guns were aimed at Zhao Yao as the Divine Lady looked at him and grew tens of meters of flaming wings. She prepared to take off and engage Zhao in a fight.
She saw Zhao Yao raise his hand and shout, "Incoming feces!"
"What did he say?"
"Sounded like… incoming feces?"
"Are you joking? You must have heard wrong!"
As the rebels were shocked by Zhao Yao's words, sound waves of Zhao Yao's illusion engulfed them and they saw the sky crack behind him. Mud-like objects fell from the sky like a waterfall, burying the entire rebel base.