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

Rumble—!

The heavy tracks crushed the bones and rubble on the wasteland. Dozens of heavily armored personnel carriers, painted in jet black, resembled a long steel dragon, frantically tearing through the night on the outskirts of Abandoned City 019.

At the very center of the convoy was a colossal machine over thirty meters long, pulled simultaneously by eight super-heavy tractors.

It was a colossal metal cannon barrel, its entire surface shimmering with cold blue array patterns.

Star Destroyer Energy Main Cannon!

Commander-in-Chief Su Zhan, clad in heavy command armor, stood like an iron tower atop the main gun's armored platform. A fierce wind whipped his pale beard and hair, and his bloodshot eyes were fixed intently on the direction of the abandoned city's center.

Just over ten minutes ago, Su Zhan witnessed a scene through satellite radar that he would never forget.

On the radar screen, the huge crimson light source representing the Ghost King at the Town General level was completely extinguished in an instant!

At that moment, Su Zhan's heart pounded wildly, and a guess that made him tremble with excitement suddenly rose in his mind: that senior has won!

"Reporting, sir! We have entered the core area of ​​the abandoned city!"

"Five hundred meters ahead is the abandoned steel furnace where the satellite last lost its signal!" the vanguard battalion commander reported loudly.

"All vehicles stop! Establish a defensive line! Turn on all searchlights!" Su Zhan suddenly drew his sword and roared fiercely, eager to verify his guess.

Swish swish!

Hundreds of high-intensity military searchlights instantly tore through the darkness ahead, illuminating the ruins of the abandoned steel furnace as bright as day.

however.

When you truly see the scene before you.

Including Su Zhan, all tens of thousands of fully armed elite soldiers in the army were frozen in place as if they had been frozen in place!

What appeared before them was a bloody scene resembling the end of the world!

The abandoned steel furnace, originally hundreds of meters high and constructed of countless heavy steel beams, has completely vanished. In its place lies a terrifying meteorite crater, over a kilometer in diameter and tens of meters deep!

At the edge of the giant crater, the alloy steel plates, several meters thick, were in a liquid solidified state, twisted and melted by the terrifying high temperature and pure brute force!

Limbs and torsos were everywhere, and blood was everywhere!

The corpses of dozens of elite evil cultivators from the Dark Spirit Society were scattered haphazardly among the ruins, like mud crushed by a heavy road roller.

And at the very center of the giant pit.

The beam of the searchlight was fixed on an incredibly imposing figure.

It was a dark gold demon god, two and a half meters tall, as if cast from black iron!

He was stepping on a headless, shriveled corpse.

Su Zhan's gaze lingered on the headless corpse for only half a second before his initial excitement instantly turned into endless terror, and he nearly fell off the armored platform!

That tattered, blood-red robe...

Even after death, the lingering aura of a general-level true energy still sent shivers down one's spine...

"As expected... it really is the Demon King!"

Su Zhan opened his mouth wide, and an unbelievable hoarse sound came from his throat, like a broken bellows.

The dignified Vice Leader of the Dark Spirit Society! A top-tier expert at the early stage of the Town General level, capable of unleashing an Absolute Domain and transforming true qi into armor! Yet he didn't even leave behind a complete corpse; his head was smashed open!

Speculating is one thing, but witnessing such a horrific scene firsthand is an absolute visual shock!

The entire military defense line was deathly silent.

All the soldiers looked at the headless corpse, and then at the demon god standing in the pool of blood. They felt an unprecedented chill run from the soles of their feet to the top of their heads, and even the hands holding their guns trembled violently.

Just then.

Lin Yuan, standing in the center of the giant pit, slowly turned around.

The instant he turned around, the six terrifying dark gold arms behind him, like molten metal, slowly sank into the muscles of his back, accompanied by a chilling sound of bones grinding together.

The wild, long hair quickly contracted, and the pair of dark, hole-like demonic eyes gradually returned to normal.

Lin Yuan forcibly suppressed his state from the second-tier Eight-Part Asura Body back to the first-tier Battle Body form.

A thought crossed my mind.

hum!

A surge of extremely pure blood and qi erupted from the pores of his face, instantly condensing into a blood-red mask radiating endless killing intent on his features!

Combined with his massive 2.5-meter-tall body in his first-tier state, and the ferocious dark gold battle patterns covering his body, he now resembled an abyssal demon god who could not be looked at directly.

Lin Yuan ignored the blinding searchlights.

He bent down and, with incredibly gentle movements, lifted the unconscious Lin Xiaoya from the ruins with his thick, battle-patterned arms.

The girl's petite body appeared so fragile in the arms of this demon god.

But the aura emanating from the demon god was like the most impregnable fortress in the world, protecting her within it.

"S-senpai..."

Su Zhan swallowed hard, suppressing the trembling in his legs, and scrambled off the armored platform.

He practically ran all the way to the edge of the giant pit.

"All troops, lay down your weapons! Turn off your searchlights! Anyone who dares to disrespect our predecessors, I will execute him!"

Su Zhan roared without turning his head.

Splash!

Tens of thousands of elite soldiers felt as if they had been granted a pardon and immediately threw their high-energy rifles to the ground, instantly extinguishing most of the blinding searchlights.

Su Zhan stood alone at the edge of the giant pit, watching the Blood-Faced Demon God slowly approaching with the girl in his arms.

This powerful Grandmaster-level commander, who was renowned throughout the region, suddenly knelt heavily on the ruins filled with rubble!

"Commander-in-Chief of the Seventh Security Zone Military, Su Zhan!"

"The city defense arrived late! We caused alarm to our predecessors' families; we deserve to die!"

Su Zhan's voice was filled with grief and awe, his forehead pressed firmly against the cold ground, not daring to lift his head even slightly.

At this moment, a tidal wave of emotions was surging within Su Zhan's heart.

The little girl is Lin Yuan's younger sister, and Lin Yuan is the senior's disciple.

Now that the little girl has been kidnapped, the senior actually went so far as to personally come and crush the Ghost King, who was at the level of a town general, in a crushing manner!

What does this mean?!

This shows that the senior's status in the eyes of his disciple, Lin Yuan, is even closer than that of his own son! Because of this affection, even the disciple's sister has become the senior's absolute Achilles' heel!

"Our military failed to protect such an important figure; we are utterly deserving of death!" Su Zhan thought to himself, filled with self-reproach.

Lin Yuan, holding Lin Xiaoya, stopped in front of Su Zhan.

A massive shadow, as large as a mountain, completely enveloped Su Zhan.

The extreme physical density, resulting from 200,000 compressions of Qi and blood, was so immense that even without Lin Yuan deliberately releasing his pressure, the mere natural outflow of his aura caused the space around Su Zhan to creak under the strain.

Su Zhan felt as if an ancient divine mountain was pressing down on his back, and even the bones of a Grandmaster were creaking slightly.

"military."

Lin Yuan's hoarse, deep, and icy voice, seemingly emanating from behind a blood-red mask, slowly rose above Su Zhan's head.

"I left her in the city because I trust the security capabilities of you bunch of useless idiots."

Such merciless insults, under normal circumstances, would have been enough to enrage the entire Seventh District military.

But at this moment, Su Zhan could only grit his teeth, cold sweat pouring down his face, without even the courage to utter a single word in rebuttal.

"I have cleaned up the scum of the Dark Spirit Society."

Lin Yuan's cold eyes, hidden beneath the blood-red mask, glanced indifferently at Su Zhan.

"Go back and tell your superiors."

"Protect my family."

"There will be a next time..."

Lin Yuan's voice suddenly turned incredibly cold, instantly freezing the air within a hundred meters.

"I leveled the Seventh Safe Zone."

boom!

These calm yet overwhelmingly domineering words struck Su Zhan's heart like a massive hammer blow!

There was no probing, no threats, only a declaration of absolute strength!

Su Zhan had no doubt that if this monster, who could blow up the town general with his bare hands, really went berserk, the military's defensive fortifications, and even that energy cannon, would be nothing more than fragile toys in front of him!

"This junior...will humbly obey the senior's instructions!"

Su Zhan banged his head against the ground repeatedly, roaring hoarsely:

"From this day forward, Miss Lin Xiaoya and your beloved disciple Lin Yuan will be the highest-level top-secret protected targets of the Seventh Security Zone military!"

"Anyone who dares to lay a finger on them must first step over my dead body!"

Listening to Su Zhan's desperate statement.

Lin Yuan didn't say another word.

He held Lin Xiaoya in his arms, his legs slightly bent.

Boom!

The ground was instantly blown open, creating a deep crater.

Lin Yuan's massive dark gold body, like a black missile flying against the current, tore through the night sky.

With a deafening sonic boom, he transformed into a shooting star and vanished instantly in the direction of the Seventh Safe Zone, leaving behind only a desolate wasteland and a ground littered with terrified military elites.

Until that terrifying physical pressure completely dissipated between heaven and earth.

Su Zhancai collapsed onto the ground, feeling utterly exhausted.

He was panting heavily, his military uniform completely soaked with cold sweat, as if he had just been pulled out of the water.

"Commander... Commander..."

The intelligence chief, accompanied by several generals, ran forward, trembling, and helped Su Zhan up.

Looking at the headless corpse of the Ghost King, they still felt as if they were having an absurd nightmare.

"quick……"

Su Zhan gripped the intelligence chief's arm tightly, so tightly that his fingernails pierced the chief's skin.

"Immediately activate the highest-level red alert communication! Contact the absolute zero isolation chamber underground!"

"Tell Feng Wuhen to cancel the plan to awaken the old commander! The crisis... is over!"

Su Zhan turned his head and looked at the devastated, abandoned city. The extreme awe in his eyes was completely etched into the depths of his soul.

"Issue my supreme commander's order!"

"Block all news tonight! The news of the senior's appearance and the Ghost King's fall is classified as SSS-level top secret!"

"besides!"

Su Zhan took a deep breath, his tone becoming more solemn and serious than ever before:

"Immediately mobilize the military region's most elite 'Shadow Dragon' squad to secretly protect Lin Yuan and his sister in the civilian area 24/7!"

"Remember, it's about protecting them covertly! We must never disturb their peaceful lives, and we absolutely cannot let the seniors think we're spying on them!"

"From this day forward, those brother and sister are the true ancestors of our Seventh Security Zone!"