The job change is a bizarre and calamity; the nation begs me to tone it down.

As a veteran sage, Xu Yunshan understood instantly.

The eerie power inside the secret realm was surging outwards at a speed he couldn't comprehend at all, and those ghost heads were the strange creatures within the secret realm—they were using this power to rush outwards!

Once they are fully unleashed, the entire Yunban City area will suffer, with hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land being completely and eerily eroded within hours.

At that point, let alone stationing troops, their mysterious westward advance will directly threaten the northeastern waters of Shenxia.

"Damn it! This is really going to be a disaster!"

Xu Yunshan did not hesitate.

As a ninth-order saint, he had to step forward at this crucial moment.

Even if it's just to buy some time, we have to go ahead with it.

"Old Liu! You take everyone and evacuate immediately! I'll go stop them!"

After saying that, Xu Yunshan shoved the thermos into his assistant's hand and then flew out of the command room window in a flash.

He didn't go through the door because it would be too slow.

The full power of a ninth-order saint circulated wildly within his body, and the boundless energy exploded around him, transforming into a layer of golden light shield.

This is his Saintly Domain—the Invincible Domain.

As the name suggests, the core capability in this field is defense.

Centered on itself, it constructs a near-invincible defensive barrier within a certain range to resist all external damage.

This field has saved his life countless times over the past few decades.

From the eighth-tier Quasi-Saint all the way to the ninth tier, from the deepest abyss rifts in the country to the wild and untamed secret realms of the southeast back then, the Vajra Unbreakable Domain was like his personal bodyguard and life-saving air cushion, never letting him down.

Xu Yunshan hovered in mid-air and suddenly pushed his hands to the sides.

The golden light shield expanded rapidly, like an inflating balloon, growing to a radius of several hundred meters in just one second, forcefully blocking the path of the spreading dark red ripples.

"bring it on!"

Xu Yunshan gritted his teeth, and the muscles in his arms bulged with veins from exerting all his strength.

next second.

The dark red ripples collided with the golden light shield.

That moment.

Xu Yunshan heard an extremely crisp sound.

"Click."

It's like stepping on a thin sheet of ice.

It sounded like someone had flicked the eggshell.

Crisp, clean, without any fuss.

Then his Vajra Indestructible Domain—the Saintly Domain that had followed him for decades and withstood countless life-or-death crises—crashed.

It's not that there's a crack.

It wasn't gradually eroded.

Instead, it was like a piece of glass being smashed by a hammer; from the point of contact, spiderweb-like cracks spread throughout the entire area within a fraction of a second.

Then, it shattered.

It's completely shattered.

The golden light transformed into countless tiny sparks that scattered and flew everywhere, like a magnificent but fleeting firework display.

As the domain shattered, an indescribable force pierced through Xu Yunshan's body.

"puff--!"

A mouthful of blood gushed out of Xu Yunshan's mouth.

The arc of the blood spurting out was absolutely perfect.

If this were shown on television, the director would definitely give it a slow-motion close-up.

But this isn't about making a movie.

Xu Yunshan was like a fly swatted away by a giant, flying backwards from mid-air.

Having lost the protection of the domain, he tumbled several times in the air before crashing heavily onto an open area behind the defensive line.

It smashed a large, human-shaped crater.

"Sir!!"

The adjutant turned green with fright and scrambled over.

Xu Yunshan lay in the pit, his bones creaking all over.

He could feel his internal organs churning violently, and the strong taste of blood in his mouth was almost choking him.

But more than the physical pain, what truly chilled him was the feeling he had just experienced.

His field.

The domain of a ninth-order saint.

Faced with that force, it was as fragile as paper.

It's not that we can't beat them, it's that we're not even on the same level.

It felt like you were trying to stop a train with a water gun.

It wasn't because the train was too heavy, nor because the train was particularly powerful.

Rather, there is no concept of "confrontation" between the water gun and the train.

Going up there would only humiliate you.

"Cough cough cough—"

Xu Yunshan struggled to sit up, supporting himself on the ground, blood still dripping from the corner of his mouth.

His eyes were fixed on the increasingly intense red light in the distance, and the huge blood-red leech slowly writhing within it.

The worm seemed completely unaffected by his earlier resistance.

It's like an elephant not caring if an ant throws a grain of sand at it.

It didn't even glance in Xu Yunshan's direction.

Of course, it didn't have eyes to begin with.

But the feeling of being completely ignored is more despairing than being defeated head-on.

"This is beyond our control..."

Xu Yunshan wiped the bloodstains from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, clearly realizing the seriousness of the situation.

He turned his head and grabbed the adjutant's collar. His hand was trembling slightly from the pain, but the grip was so strong that he almost tore the adjutant's collar off.

"Hurry! Immediately! Right now!"

Xu Yunshan's every word seemed to be spat out from between his teeth.

"Notify the Supreme Command!!"

He took a deep breath, a piercing pain shooting through his chest, but he couldn't care less.

"Tell Minister Li that the Cloud Realm is completely out of control! What came out of it wasn't a normal riot within a secret realm! Its level is at least ninth rank or higher!"

"My domain didn't even last one round!"

Upon hearing the words "couldn't even last one round," the adjutant's expression changed drastically.

Having followed Xu Yunshan for so many years, he knew all too well what level of formidable opponent his superior's Vajra Indestructible Domain was.

Back then, in the Northwest Abyss Rift, that domain withstood the combined attack of two Quasi-Saint-level Abyss Beasts for a full half hour.

Now tell him he didn't even last one round?

What level are the things that emerged from this secret realm?

Demigod?

Even higher?

The adjutant dared not think about it anymore.

He nodded mechanically, then staggered and turned to run.

"etc!"

Xu Yunshan called out again from behind.

The adjutant slammed on the brakes and looked back.

Xu Yunshan was still sitting in the human-shaped pit, covered in blood and looking utterly disheveled.

But in his eyes, besides pain and anxiety, there was something else that was hard to describe.

That look in his eyes was like someone trapped in a quagmire, desperately reaching out to grab the only rope.

"in addition……"

Xu Yunshan gritted his teeth, and a young face flashed through his mind.

"Send another urgent telegram."

Xu Yunshan took a deep breath and said, word by word.

"Send this to Commander Gu."

"I'm telling you, he might need to make a trip to the Izumo Ghost Realm in Yunban City in person."

The adjutant paused for a moment, but only for a fraction of a second.

Gu Xu.

Commander of the Calamity Army.

That legendary monster that one person single-handedly defeated four demigods and a source-level projection.

If it's that person, perhaps...