If I let you practice martial arts, you'll compress your vital energy ten thousand times?

The night was dark.

Several heavy attack helicopters, representing the highest level of military force, descended slowly onto the devastated ruins like black night hawks. The massive rotors whipped up gusts of wind, but could not dispel the thick, nauseating stench of blood in the air.

The cabin door opened, and an elderly man with white hair, dressed in a crisp military uniform and bearing two general's stars on his shoulders, strode off the helicopter, surrounded by several fully armed guards.

The old man was none other than Su Zhan, the commander-in-chief of the Seventh Security Zone military and Su Qinghan's biological grandfather!

"Commander!"

The head instructor of the special training camp, who had already led the team to cordon off the area, immediately stepped forward and gave a perfectly standard military salute, his forehead covered in a fine layer of cold sweat.

Su Zhan remained silent, his sharp, hawk-like eyes fixed on the horrifying piles of mangled flesh on the ground, and the towering ancient trees around him that had been flattened by the violent force.

There wasn't even the slightest trace of true energy remaining in the air!

Only those physical traces of destruction, so pure they seem to have been savagely trampled by ancient beasts!

"It's Blood Butcher, Ghost Blade, and Skeleton from the Dark Spirit Society."

Su Zhan walked up to the remains of Xue Tu, which had been torn in two, took a deep breath, and an unprecedented solemnity and shock appeared on his originally dignified face.

"These three heretical cultivators are all genuine early-stage Grandmaster level experts!"

"What?!"

The head instructor standing to the side gasped, his voice trembling uncontrollably: "Three...three Grandmasters?! How is this possible?!"

"In the path of martial arts, the further you go, the greater the gap becomes, like an insurmountable chasm."

Su Zhan slowly stood up, gazing at the endless night sky, his voice filled with deep awe and emotion as he murmured to himself.

"The Grandmaster realm is divided into four levels: early stage, middle stage, late stage, and peak stage. Although these three old ghosts are only in the early stage, their true qi dharma forms have already been formed. If the three of them join forces to set up a killing formation, even if I, a peak Grandmaster, face them, it won't be so easy to defeat them."

"And above the Grandmaster level are those who can truly guard a region and protect tens of millions of humans—the General level!"

General-level officer!

Upon hearing these three words, the surrounding military commanders all held their breath, their eyes filled with fervent reverence.

"Once they reach the Town General level, their internal energy will undergo a qualitative change, condensing into an indestructible 'True Energy Armor' and 'Absolute Domain.' At that level, conventional heavy firearms are like child's play in front of them."

Su Zhan pointed to the pool of flesh and blood on the ground, where even the bones had been crushed, and the shock in his eyes grew even stronger.

"To tear three Grandmasters apart in an instant, relying solely on brute force without using any internal energy..."

"This mysterious expert who happened to pass by is definitely at the peak of the Grandmaster level! Perhaps... even a peerless body cultivator who is halfway to the Town General level!"

The entire room fell silent.

A body cultivator at the level of a half-step town general! If someone of this level were willing to join the military, it would absolutely bring about a qualitative leap in the defense capabilities of the Seventh Security Zone!

"Commander, about Lin Yuan from Gaowu No.1 Middle School..." the chief instructor asked cautiously.

"That student who barely passed?"

Su Zhan shook his head, directly interrupting the head instructor's conjecture, his tone carrying a hint of relief.

"Qinghan has already reported to me that the kid was just lucky. He happened to be passing by the outer perimeter and ran into that senior cleaning up the battlefield."

"The senior expert had an eccentric temper. Perhaps he took a liking to that kid and casually gave him the scraps of those third or fourth-tier exotic beasts that he didn't even want."

In Su Zhan's mind, a student like Lin Yuan, who had no foundation in true qi, was already incredibly lucky to have survived and received a reward. It was impossible for him to have any deeper connection with that all-powerful senior.

"In any case, the fact that the expert didn't kill the student shows that he has no ill intentions towards our human race. This is a blessing for our Seventh Safe Zone."

Su Zhan frowned, but his tone suddenly changed, and his eyes became extremely sharp.

"But! With these three protectors dead, the Dark Spirit Society will absolutely not let this go!"

"The vice-leader of the seventh branch of the Dark Spirit Society, 'Ghost King,' is a genuine early-stage Town General level expert!"

"If he finds out, he'll be furious and personally descend upon this forest. If that triggers a high-level beast tide, the entire training camp will be wiped out!"

The head instructor's face turned deathly pale instantly.

The wrath of a town general is something that these few thousand students and instructors absolutely cannot withstand!

"Pass on my orders!"

Su Zhan turned around abruptly, his voice booming like a bell.

"The Starry Sky Training Camp is closed indefinitely, effective immediately!"

"Arrange all military buses overnight to safely evacuate all students back to the Seventh Security Zone, dispersing them and returning them to their respective city high schools!"

"Within the city, protected by air-raid shelters and heavy firepower, even if that Ghost King is incredibly arrogant, he wouldn't dare to easily wreak havoc in the urban area!"

"Yes, sir!" The head instructor immediately accepted the order.

An emergency evacuation that swept through the entire training camp was launched under the cover of night, under the iron-fisted orders of the military high command.

……

at the same time.

Hundreds of kilometers away from the Seventh Security Zone, deep within a dark underground palace where the sun never shines.

This is the core headquarters of the Seventh Division of the Dark Spirit Society.

A dark underground river flows ceaselessly, and a huge altar of white bones stands in the center of the underground palace.

On the altar, countless soul jade slips were laid out.

Click! Click! Click!

Three unusually piercing cracking sounds followed.

The jade slips placed in the second row of the altar, representing the three Grandmasters Blood Butcher, Ghost Blade, and Dry Bone, exploded into dust without warning!

Om-! ! !

A terrifying pressure, as deep as an abyss, instantly erupted from the boiling blood pool at the deepest part of the underground palace!

The massive stone pillars throughout the underground palace began to shake violently, and countless low-level evil cultivators who were practicing were forced to the ground by this sudden pressure.

"puff!"

"ah--!"

Large numbers of evil cultivators coughed up blood, their internal organs feeling as if they were about to be crushed by the oppressive force, their eyes filled with extreme terror and despair.

"Who did this...?"

A harsh sound, like two pieces of rusty iron rubbing together, slowly emanated from the blood pool.

Whoosh!

The thick blood churned.

A disheveled, emaciated man slowly rose from the pool of blood.

The Vice Leader of the Dark Spirit Society, a powerful expert at the early stage of the Town General level, the Ghost King!

As he appeared, the surrounding air exploded under immense pressure. The incredibly dense, materialized crimson true energy actually condensed on his body, faintly forming a dark red, ferocious armor-like phantom!

True Qi Transforms into Armor!

The might of the garrison commander!

"Three Grandmasters at the early stage, the pillars of my Dark Spirit Society branch..."

The Ghost King's scarlet eyes burned with a ferocious killing intent that sent shivers down one's spine.

"They all perished at the same time, without even a chance to escape with their blood burning!"

"The Seventh Security Zone—those old codgers in the military could never achieve this!"

The Ghost King took a step forward.

boom!

The incredibly hard basalt ground beneath their feet instantly turned into a fine dust, and terrifying fluctuations of true energy raged wildly in all directions.

"Peak Grandmaster? Or even a half-step General?!"

The Ghost King raised his head and let out a piercing roar like a vengeful ghost unleashed from its cage, causing rocks to fall from the entire underground palace walls.

"No matter who you are!"

"You dare kill members of my Dark Spirit Society, ruining my grand plan!"

"I will tear your flesh and blood off piece by piece, extract your soul and burn it like a lantern in the heavens, so that you may never be reincarnated!"

The Ghost King suddenly swung his withered arm, and dark red true energy condensed into lines of blood-red characters filled with murderous intent within the hall.

"Issue my decree!"

"Activate all spies lurking within the Seventh Safe Zone!"

"Even if you have to dig three feet into the ground, you must find out who this mysterious killing god who cleared out the forest is!"

"I will go and meet him myself!"

With the Ghost King's roar, countless black shadows emerged from every corner of the underground palace like bats, carrying a fierce aura, and frantically crept towards the Seventh Safe Zone.

An unprecedented and terrifying storm is stealthily sweeping across the skies above the bustling city.

Meanwhile, at the special training camp...

As the main force withdrew, a black bulletproof SUV with special military license plates was also heading towards the city center of the Seventh Security Zone.

Lin Yuan, sitting in the back row, carrying his faded and worn-out backpack, quietly looked out the window.

His destination was the heavily guarded, top-level energy pool located underground in the military region.