Start with the hidden role of the Great Emperor of Fengdu, and immediately unleash 100,000 Yin Soldi

The explosions on the eastern defense line of the city came one after another, with the intervals getting shorter and shorter.

Chu Jiang walked eastward for four hundred meters, hugging the iron frame of the abandoned power transmission tower.

As the military's defense training course explained, the eastern defense line of Jiangcheng adopts a standard "three-line overlapping array" structure—a spiritual energy search network, a high-frequency detection array, and patrol mobile sentries, with three layers of overlapping coverage, theoretically leaving no blind spots.

But theory is theory.

During actual construction, there was a natural depression in the eastern wing terrain. The coverage radius of the two sets of detection arrays created a fan-shaped blind spot in the depression, about 80 meters wide, extending 300 meters into the wilderness.

The bonus question in the final exam for "Urban Defense Engineering" was to have students calculate the precise coordinates of this blind spot.

Chu Jiang got a perfect score on the test.

He crouched down at the bottom of the depression, and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that no spiritual energy probes swept over his head.

It was quiet all around.

The energy explosions from the main battlefield in the distance traveled several kilometers away, sounding muffled like drums being beaten through a thick wall.

-

Almost at the same time.

The temporary military command post in Jiangcheng has three underground floors.

Pei Hu stood in front of the holographic sand table, his eyes bloodshot, the iron cup lying untouched on the corner of the table.

The sand table was covered with countless dots of light; red represented monsters, and blue represented military personnel.

The blue dots are shrinking, while the red dots are expanding; the trend is clear.

An advisor reported in a low voice: "The rift energy index continues to climb, and the concentration of dark red death energy exceeds the C-level threshold by 37 percent, and it is still rising..."

Pei Hu did not respond.

The death aura concentration turned a dark red. It's similar to the Bone Wasteland.

His fingers tapped unconsciously on the edge of the sand table, at a rapid pace.

The door was pushed open from the outside and slammed against the wall.

The adjutant rushed in, his voice trembling: "General! A breach has been torn in the outer buffer zone! Three silver-rank leader-level monsters have broken out from the depths of the fissure, and the 7th and 9th assault teams have been scattered! A large number of low- to mid-rank monsters are pouring into the eastern flank through the breach!"

Pei Hu stopped.

East Wing.

That east wing has blind spots in surveillance.

A thought flashed through his mind, but he didn't have time to think about it in detail.

The current situation allows no room for distraction.

"Contact the superior war zone and request emergency reinforcements."

Pei Hu's voice deepened, his knuckles gripping the rim of the iron cup, the metal making a faint, creaking sound. "Until reinforcements arrive, all reserves are to be deployed to the main defensive line. Not a single step is to be retreated."

......

The eastern flank of the defense line is a blind spot.

The ground started to shake.

Chu Jiang sensed it.

It wasn't the tremor caused by just one or two monsters; it was the resonance produced by hundreds of heavy objects running on the ground simultaneously.

The weeds were trampled down from a distance, as if an invisible harvester was rolling over them in his direction.

Within thirty seconds, the wilderness was filled.

The rampaging Razortooth Beasts led the charge, some reaching up to two meters in size, with protruding fangs that sent pebbles flying as they stomped on them.

The shadow wolves darted among them, crouching low, their green eyes flashing.

Behind them were hordes of abyssal lizards and mutated ironback wolves, layer upon layer, surging forward together.

At least four or five hundred.

Among them are many bronze elites who are level 15 or higher.

The crimson beast eyes lit up densely in the darkness, filling the field of vision from left to right.

The front, flanks, and rear are all blocked.

Chu Jiang's breathing rate remained unchanged.

Fourteen times per minute, just like standing in the school corridor waiting for the class bell.

He spread his five fingers wide.

"The Gate of Hell—opens."

Black mist surged beneath their feet, and the massive bronze gate of the second-tier Ghost Gate silently rose from the shadows.

The two large doors were wide open, and black mist poured in like a tidal wave.

Two thousand fully-equipped ghost soldiers filed out.

The long spears that hooked souls formed a forest, and two thousand ghostly blue ethereal bodies stepped on the barren grass without leaving a trace. Within three seconds, they formed a cone-shaped battle formation, surrounding Chu Jiang at the center of the formation.

The cold blue light transformed the wilderness within a 200-meter radius into the color of another world.

The momentum of the beast horde's charge faltered for a moment.

The leading few Fissuretooth beasts exhaled heavy breaths from their nostrils, their front paws scratching at the rubble, a layer of instinctive hesitation appearing in their scarlet beast eyes.

But the momentum of the beast tide will not stop.

The monsters behind pushed those in front, and hundreds of wild beasts, carrying dust and a foul wind, roared and crashed forward.

Chu Jiang pressed down with his right hand.

"Bear Soul".

A three-meter-tall rocky shell rose from the shadows and crashed heavily to the front of the formation.

The ground was cracked in a spiderweb pattern from being trampled.

"Iron Wall of Rock".

A pale blue soul shield opened up between Xiong Po's arms, forming a semi-circle, four meters high and more than ten meters wide.

The first wave of attacks crashed into the shield.

boom.

The three-headed fangs of the Razortooth beast were driven into the blue light barrier, sparks flew, and the shield trembled violently but did not crack.

The monsters then crashed in, one after another, their roars making the air buzz.

The bear's feet dug two shallow furrows in the mud, but the rocky carapace remained motionless.

The full attribute bonuses from the second-tier Ghost Gate Pass were fully demonstrated at this moment.

The enhanced Silver Demon General withstood the frontal assault of hundreds of demons.

Chu Jiang did not look at the front.

His gaze fell on the monsters at the back of the herd, who were squeezed and unable to move, and his lips twitched slightly.

"Dragonbone Guard".

A dark golden light burst forth from the depths of the shadows.

A two-and-a-half-meter-tall humanoid skeleton stepped onto the battlefield, its dragon-bone heavy spear planted firmly on the ground, its butt end smashing into rubble.

The eerie blue bone fire shining through the gaps in the mask was dazzlingly bright in the night.

The Dragon Bone Guard opened its dragon mouth.

silent.

But all the creatures present "heard" it.

The golden-tier pressure of "Dragon's Roar" swept out in a fan shape, piercing through the air, through the roar, through the fur, muscles and bones of every monster, and directly crushing into their souls.

The effect is immediate.

The charging beasts froze in place.

Limbs locked, pupils dilated, and all muscles in the body spasming uncontrollably.

The front row of cleaving beasts that was gnawing on the shield loosened its fangs, its four legs went weak, and it lay on the ground trembling.

Fear.

Five seconds.

The two thousand ghost soldiers moved.

A dark blue torrent emerged from the wings of the shield, passed through the stiffened horde of beasts, and the Soul-Hooking Spear was raised high and then swung down.

The additional effect of Dragon's Roar is Defense Shatter.

Without the protection of physical resistance and magical shields, the blade of the long spear directly touched the monster's soul layer.

White soul orbs were pulled out in batches.

The Rifttooth Beast fell to the ground, the Shadow Wolf fell to the ground, and the Abyssal Poison Lizard fell to the ground.

Each body was intact, with no cracks in the skin or broken bones.

They lay on the ground in various positions, but they had one thing in common: their eyes were wide open, their pupils empty, as if someone had turned off the lights from the inside.

The numbers on the panel started jumping.

[White Soul Points +8!]

[White Soul Points +143!]

[Blue Soul Points +3!]

Chu Jiang stood at the center of the formation, his hands resting on his knees, watching the two thousand Yin soldiers move through the beast horde as if it were nothing.

Dragon's Roar has a 30-second cooldown.

By the end of the first round of fear, most of the monsters in the first half of the battle had fallen.

The remaining beasts tried to turn and flee, but were surrounded from behind by the ghostly soldiers. With a sweep of their long spears, their souls were separated from their bodies.

Four minutes.

The wilderness returned to its deathly silence.

More than four hundred corpses lay scattered on the ground, and Chu Jiang stood in the middle, not a single drop of blood splattered on his shoes.

The panel numbers are frozen.

Current white soul points: 2,614

Current blue soul points: 127

The gap between us and the five thousand white soul points needed to reach the third-tier Ghost Gate has been reduced to less than half.

Chu Jiang closed the panel.

"receive."

Two thousand ghostly soldiers transformed into dark blue specks of light, surging into the shadows beneath their feet like a receding tide.

Dragonbone Guard and Bear Soul were the last to leave, and the dark golden light and rocky shell sank into the ground one after the other.

The gates of hell have sunk, and the black soil has closed up.

Chu Jiang crouched down, placed his right hand on the ground, and a wisp of extremely fine Netherworld power seeped from his fingertips, spreading along the ground and erasing the remaining Netherworld aura on the battlefield one by one.

Three minutes later, he pulled his hood up and quickly retreated along the shadow of the dent.

Behind them were only silent corpses scattered on the ground and a clean wasteland devoid of any remaining energy.

......

Seventeen minutes later.

Two dark figures slid silently along the edge of the bushes and into the eastern wilderness.

The Shadow Group.

Pei Hu personally deployed a top-level guard team to secretly track Chu Jiang's movements 24 hours a day.

The team leader, codenamed "Shadow Four," is a Level 20 B-rank Shadow Assassin who has served in the military for twelve years and has carried out thirty-seven high-risk infiltration missions.

He thought this was just a simple guard job.

What could possibly happen if I followed an eighteen-year-old F-class student?

When Shadow Four stepped on the first corpse, he stopped.

He squatted down.

The night vision module on the tactical helmet illuminates the ground in crystal detail.

A ferocious Razortooth lay on the rubble, its two-meter-long body intact, its fangs closed, its limbs curled up, and its fur without a single tear.

Shadow Four removed his gloves and placed two fingers on the neck of the Razortooth.

There is no pulse.

The body still retained some warmth, and the time of death was no more than twenty minutes.

He opened the beast's eyelids, and its pupils dilated to their limit, the color of its irises fading to grayish-white.

There were no external injuries, no burns, and no signs of icing, toxins, or internal bleeding.

Shadow Four stood up and scanned the area in front of him.

His breath hitched.

More than four hundred bodies.

They were everywhere.

Rifttooth Beasts, Shadow Wolves, Abyssal Poison Lizards, and Mutant Ironback Wolves covered the entire wilderness.

Every single one was intact, and every single one was completely dead.

A teammate leaned closer, his voice tense: "Boss, what's going on? What kind of attack can kill... over four hundred enemies with zero external damage?"

Shadow Four did not answer.

He swallowed hard, pressed the communicator in his ear, and connected to the command center's encrypted frequency.

"General, a large number of monster corpses that died abnormally have been discovered on the eastern flank of the defensive line, with no external injuries whatsoever."

He paused for a moment, then lowered his voice even further.

"They seem to have had their souls forcibly ripped out."

There was a three-second silence on the other end of the encrypted frequency band.

Inside the command post, Pei Hu's hand, which was holding an iron cup to his lips, froze in mid-air.

The steam from the tea rose up, blurring half of his face.

Those bloodshot eyes slowly narrowed.

Another fingerprint appeared on the rim of the cup.