biu!

An arrow shot into the sky, followed by two figures in black armor soaring out of the bunker, rushing towards Li Cheng頤 at high speed. They were martial arts officers with true qi.

"It's the Shaoyin Yin Shen, retreat quickly!!" Suddenly, one of them shouted sharply, abruptly retreating halfway. Clearly, he recognized Li Cheng頤.

"Too late!" Li Cheng頤 laughed loudly, and a large expanse of white mist instantly exploded around his figure.

The white mist surged up, reaching a height of over thirty meters, enveloping a large area of the surrounding land.

Whoosh!!!

A huge gust of wind erupted.

A massive deer-man covered in grayish-white, heavy bone armor charged out of the white mist, lowered its head, and slammed heavily into the black fortress.

Ignoring the martial artists who had charged out, and ignoring the arrows hastily shot from the bunker.

Li Cheng頤 only made two movements.

Lowering his head.

Charging!

Boom!!!

At this moment, Li Cheng頤's body was already thirty meters tall, his entire body almost the same height as the bunker wall.

The huge antlers on his head crashed fiercely into the wall.

More than tens of thousands of tons of force were unleashed on the black wall. And this wasn't even his full strength.

Vibration.

Explosion.

The thick, grayish-white antlers were like two giant spikes, piercing fiercely into the wall, cutting it, tearing it apart, and smashing it into countless pieces of stone and earth.

Large pieces of rock sprayed inward like rain, knocking down the Tushan soldiers in black armor who had rushed up.

Dozens of soldiers were instantly reduced by more than half, and the remaining ones screamed in terror, turning to flee.

Amidst the rumbling, Li Cheng頤 raised his head, shook off the stones and black soil on his head, and roughly judged the location of the nearest county town of the Tushan Kingdom on the map.

"Try to stop me!" He laughed loudly, letting hundreds of Black Crows fly up in panic, scattering and fleeing in all directions.

Black feathers scattered and fell, instantly swept into the rolling white mist below, submerged and disappeared.

Then, with another charge, the bunker collapsed in a loud crash under the impact of the massive force, turning into a pile of ruins.

Li Cheng頤 once again aimed at the next direction, exerted force with his four hooves, and charged forward madly.

The muffled thunder of hooves shook the plain, splashing up large patches of black earth.

In just the blink of an eye, he had disappeared from the spot, charging towards the next county town of the Tushan Kingdom—Wu Xi County.

Shaoyin was in complete chaos, with the prefectural cities each governing themselves. His current range for absorbing malicious thoughts had also increased tenfold proportionally with his size, reaching a range of three hundred meters.

This increase in range was something he had noticed the last time he unleashed the Rong Ling True Imprint state.

The range wasn't this large last time; this time it had increased even more, which was perfect for replicating the method of collecting malicious thoughts from last time.

Before the thunderous sound of his hooves hitting the ground could spread, Li Cheng頤's figure had already left the sound waves far behind, charging even further ahead.

Dozens of seconds later, a huge city built within an oval-shaped wall appeared before his eyes.

The city wall was only twenty meters high, not even as tall as he was at this moment.

Without hesitation, without any hesitation.

Li Cheng頤 lowered his head, aiming his antlers at the city gate.

"This is a return gift to your Kingdom's governor."

His massive sound waves were like a storm, instantly spreading throughout the entire county town.

Martial artists soared into the sky, jumping onto the city walls, staring in shock at the grayish-white giant shadow that was much taller than their city walls.

"It's the Fifth Yin Shen of Qu Ling Prefecture!! Jv Lu (Giant Deer)!! Why would he come here!!"

"Impossible! We can't possibly win!! Run!!"

"Run ah!!"

"Quickly report to the County Governor!!"

At this time, County Governor Shangguan Che had already arrived at the city wall tower, staring at the giant deer-man that had begun to dig into the ground and aim. His whole person was dumbfounded.

Just a moment ago, he was still drinking and embracing beautiful women in the manor, and the next moment, he felt as if he had fallen into an abyss, his whole body ice-cold.

The strongest martial artists in the county had already scattered and fled without him even saying anything.

The Blood Origin martial artists, each with the speed of sound, were naturally the fastest to run, followed by the True Qi martial artists, each with a speed of one hundred meters per second.

Then there were the nobles and wealthy people with various exotic beast bloodline mounts.

The crowd was like madmen, squeezing and trampling on each other, rushing out from the other three city gates.

No one wanted to die, and for some reason, the Fifth Yin Shen, the Giant White Deer, didn't seem to have any intention of launching a massacre immediately.

Instead, he was quietly waiting for something.

What was Li Cheng頤 waiting for?

Naturally, he was waiting for people to run a little further away.

How could he absorb malicious thoughts if everyone was dead? Naturally, he had to wait for people to be safer so that he could threaten and intimidate them, extracting benefits from them.

Dead people had no value; only the living had a use.

From the beginning, he hadn't intended to slaughter the city; he had come here only to absorb malicious thoughts.

After waiting for a few minutes, finally, most of those who should have run had run away, leaving only the ordinary people who couldn't escape and were squeezed into the other city gates. Only then did he crash heavily into the city wall.

Boom!!!

The wall shattered, squeezed and broken, spraying large pieces of debris inward.

The houses within the city were smashed by hailstones and scattered rocks of various sizes.

Li Cheng頤 shook off the black soil on his body, calmly entered the city, and walked through the empty houses.

Whenever he encountered buildings blocking his path, he would smash them with his chest armor.

Malicious thoughts poured in from all directions, and as he continued to stroll, the malicious thoughts increased more and more.

Soon, half a minute later, the malicious thoughts of Jie Mao Fei Lian (Bristle Hair Flying Wild Boar) quickly filled to 100.

'Completed.'

Li Cheng頤 was satisfied; this move was really too useful.

On Di Yue (Earth-Moon), he had worried about modern weapons of mass destruction, worried about top-level experts like Dong Jun suppressing him.

But here, in a war between enemy countries, it was justified. He could completely unscrupulously intimidate others, threaten others, and quickly obtain the large amount of malicious thoughts he needed.

After the malicious thoughts were fulfilled, Li Cheng頤 immediately withdrew, his figure absorbed the white mist, suddenly shrinking, and transformed into a black shadow, flying in the direction he had come from.

From his appearance to his departure, there was no sign, and it only lasted three minutes and fifteen seconds.

County Governor Shangguan Che had already prepared to coexist with the city, and the knife was already on his neck, ready to commit suicide, but when he looked up, the giant deer was gone!?

"What's going on!?"

He stared blankly at the empty county town. If not for the broken city wall still there, he would have thought that everything that had just happened was an illusion.

"Lord!! Lord, we survived!! We survived ah!!"

The deputy county governor next to him hugged him and laughed wildly, tears streaming down his face.

The large group of nobles who hadn't run far at this time also discovered the situation. They looked at each other hesitantly for a while. They didn't return immediately but stopped to observe.

But the civilians who couldn't escape from the city began to revel. The nobles and wealthy people had fled in a hurry, and the large amount of wealth and resources they hadn't taken away were now cheaper for them.

Anyway, there was no one guarding them, so everyone rushed into the mansions and robbed them.

The entire Wu Xi County fell into a frenzy of joy.

Amidst the great sorrow and great joy, two black lines in the distance arrived in an instant, rapidly approaching Wu Xi County. They were the Ming Marshals of Tian Jing Prefecture coming to support!

But their support was destined to be in vain.

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Di Yue (Earth-Moon).

Outside the Jade Cauldron Fortress.

In space orbit, teams of fighter jets were lined up in the distance, replenishing ammunition and energy, waiting to take off.

Black automatic mechanical vehicles transporting energy blocks moved along the main track at high speed, passing back and forth beside Ding Meng.

She was alone on the platform at the edge of the main track, slowly walking, pondering her mistakes just now.

'I didn't tamper with Fane's main body, but only attacked the Dragonborn under their control, and they were detected so quickly. It seems there are two problems.'

'First, their control over the Dragonborn is tighter than I imagined.'

'Second, their own brainwaves are likely different from ours. If we can have relevant samples for research, perhaps we can target the Shadow Dragons and complete a new Mind-Bewilderment module upgrade.'

Different brainwave structures result in different reactions when invading. She had encountered this before, but never as quickly as this time.

Creak.

Just as she was pondering, a soft sound suddenly came from behind her.

There were isolation force fields on the tracks connecting the fortress. There was air here, simulated gravity, and the environment was not much different from Di Yue (Earth-Moon).

So there was also sound wave transmission.

"Who's there!?" Ding Meng suddenly turned her head, turning around, and looking behind her.

If it were an ordinary person, they might think it was just a noise they heard, environmental noise, and just happened to be near them.

But she was different.

As one of the Nine Instruments, and one of the relatively highly ranked Nine Instruments, her alert range and perception range, even if weakened and reduced here, was still over fifty meters.

In other words, any individual, any living thing within fifty meters was clearly visible in her mind.

Even the slightest changes in the metal track under her feet could not escape her grasp.

She could feel that the sound didn't come from under her feet.

So...

'No! Not behind me, it's...' Ding Meng suddenly realized, looking at her shadow.

But it was already too late.

A dragon shadow silently pounced out of the shadow, rushing towards her face at high speed.

'Maze Fortress!!'

Buzz!!

The protective force field automatically activated, but with a crisp sound in the dragon shadow.

Fane's face flashed by, and Ding Meng seemed to see him crushing something in his hand.

That thing seemed to be a sphere, a silver sphere that shone with white light.

At the moment it was crushed, a large area of invisible distortion suddenly erupted around it, freezing the colored light bands unfolded by the Maze Fortress for an instant.

Just for that instant.

The Shadow Dragon suddenly closed in, entering the protective force field.

Immediately afterward, there was a complete darkness, enveloping the surroundings.

The silver-gray track disappeared.

Replaced by a dark space with no boundaries and no distinction between up and down.

"Welcome to the shadow space we have prepared for the ritual." Fane's figure condensed out from behind Ding Meng, speaking softly.

"Shadow space...?" Ding Meng's heart sank. At this point, how could she not know that her previous actions had gone wrong and she had been ambushed by the other party.

But thinking about this was useless at this moment. She had to find a way to break through here and warn Dong Jun!

"General Fane, what do you mean by this?"

Her beautiful eyes were gloomy, staring at the other party with a hint of coldness.

"To lift the Dragon King and achieve the ritual, we need to build a throne here. The three of us have put in a lot of effort to use a large number of living shadows to create such a pure shadow space." Fane sneered.

"Through this space, we can use it as a transfer point at any time to meet here and complete resource and information exchange."

"You mean!?" The silver light in Ding Meng's eyes shrank, instantly understanding the other party's meaning.

"Just as you think."

On the other side, Sal's figure slowly condensed out of the shadows.

Then, the third direction was Ying.

The three Shadow Dragons, at this moment, crossed a large distance in an instant, gathering here.

"What you need to face is not just me."

"But us." Sal showed a mocking expression.

(End of this chapter)