Starting with SSS-rank talent, I contracted the Forbidden Ferocity.

Yingluo moved.

With a swift movement, it transformed into hundreds of shadows, simultaneously approaching Shen Ye along the shadows of the city walls, corpses, and battle flags.

Normal attacks can't lock it down at all.

The captain of the Seventh Line roared:

"Night King, watch out!"

Shen Ye stood still, his expression unchanged.

"Candle Nine".

The Nine Netherworlds unfold once more.

All the shadows within a hundred meters of Shen Ye simultaneously emitted a ghostly blue light.

Hundreds of shadowy phantoms were forced to reveal themselves.

But only one of them is the true form.

Yingluo sneered:

"Can you find it?"

Shen Ye looked up.

Jie Chen perched on his shoulder, gray-gold vertical lines lighting up in his black and white pupils.

[Eye Robbery]

In an instant, all the phantoms turned gray.

There was only a shadowy figure with a purplish-black core pulsating in its chest.

Shen Ye stomped his foot.

Shadow Escape.

The next instant, he appeared in front of Ying Luozhen.

The myriad beasts sword pattern slashed down.

Yingluo's expression changed slightly, and his four shadow arms transformed into sharp blades to block.

clang!

The sword light clashed with the shadow blade.

Shen Ye took half a step back.

Yingluo was forced back three steps by the blow.

A look of surprise finally appeared in its eyes.

"A mid-stage fourth-tier cultivator can actually challenge my mid-stage fifth-tier cultivation?"

Shen Ye did not answer.

Night Feather Phoenix Purgatory descended from the sky, sealing off Shadow Luo's retreat.

Zhu Jiu's Nine Netherworld Candle Dragon Breath spewed out from beneath his feet.

Long Yuan looked up from the enemy ranks, grinned, and leaped back onto the city wall.

With the power of the Fighting King, it hurtled towards Yingluo like a golden meteorite.

Yingluo roared angrily.

"Shadow Blade Storm!"

Thousands of black shadow blades exploded in all directions.

The Demon Suppression Army's formation lit up immediately.

Shen Ye stood at the center of the storm, his Myriad Beasts Divine Rune awakening for the second time.

The Body of the King of Beasts.

Wings formed from ghostly fire.

The shadow becomes the pupil.

Battle blood forms armor.

The tribulation lightning formed a seal.

He cleaved through the Shadow Blade Storm with a single sword strike.

Long Yuan punched Ying Luo in the chest.

Night Feather's Nether Phoenix Purgatory poured into its shadow body.

Candle Nine locked its four shadow arms.

The dust of calamity raised its claws.

The Eternal Seal descended.

The Shadow Demon Core within Yingluo's body suddenly stopped.

It finally panicked.

"impossible!"

"How could you possibly seal the Shadow Fiend's core?"

Shen Ye plunged his sword into its chest.

"Didn't your mother tell you?"

Yingluo's pupils contracted.

Shen Ye's voice was cold:

"Her eyes, that's all."

The sword's edge shifted.

The Shadow Fiend's core shattered.

Shadow Luo let out a shrill shriek, its massive shadow body crumbling inch by inch amidst the Netherfire and tribulation lightning.

[Slay Shadow Demon general Shadow Luo.]

[Gained Evolution Points: 9000.]

[Obtained Shadow Fiend Core 1.]

[Extract Talent Shard: Shadow Army Commander Shard 1.]

With Yingluo dead, the Shadow Demon Clan army, which was launching a surprise attack on Zhenmo Pass, was thrown into chaos.

Qin Wuji seized the opportunity, and his Thunder Prison covered the battlefield.

Li Xuance's sword energy annihilated the flanks.

Chu Jinglan's tidal wave pushed aside the Blood Demon's charge.

Meng Qianqiu severed the Bone Demon Clan's battle flag with a single sword strike.

The morale of the demon-suppressing army was greatly boosted.

"The Night King slays the general!"

"Shadow Fiend is going to die!"

"kill!"

The seventh line of defense sounded the call for a counterattack.

The Demon Suppression Army charged out from the city walls, directly driving back the probing army of all races for ten miles.

Half an hour later.

All races sounded the gong.

The remnants of the Blood Demon Clan, Bone Demon Clan, and Shadow Demon Clan began to retreat.

At Zhenmo Pass, everyone was looking at Shen Ye.

My first battle since arriving.

He slew a fifth-tier Shadow Demon General beneath the city walls.

The Shadow Demon launched a stealthy attack.

They repelled the probing army of the myriad races at the seventh line of defense.

This Night King isn't here to gain prestige.

It really can kill.

The captain of the Seventh Defense Line walked up to Shen Ye and solemnly saluted.

"Seventh line of defense, thanks to King Xie Ye for his assistance."

Shen Ye sheathed the black gold short sword.

How are military merits calculated?

The captain was taken aback.

Qin Wuji, who had just landed back on the city wall, almost laughed in anger when he heard this.

"Shen Ye, you just finished beheading a general, and your first question is about military achievements?"

Shen Ye looked at him.

"Otherwise, why ask?"

Meng Qianqiu wiped his sword and laughed:

"I do appreciate that."

"Killing the enemy and gaining merit is a matter of course."

The captain finally realized what was happening and quickly said:

"Slaying a fifth-tier Shadow Demon General and breaking through a stealth attack, according to the regulations of the Demon Suppression Army, one should earn at least 10,000 military merits."

Shen Ye nodded.

A system notification then sounded.

[Completed the first battle of Demon Suppression Pass.]

[Slayed a fifth-tier Shadow Demon General.]

[Military merits earned: 12000.]

[Military merit redemption function updated.]

[Available for redemption: Shadow Fiend Core Enhancement Scheme.]

[Exchangeable for: Nightfeather Tier 5 Evolution Material Clues.]

[Exchangeable for: Clues to the fifth-tier evolution material of Candlelight Nine.]

[Exchangeable for: Clues to Dragon Abyss Tier 5 Evolution Materials.]

[Exchangeable for: Clues to Tier 5 Evolution Materials for the Calamity Dust]

Shen Ye's eyes lit up.

The front line is indeed a good place.

Many were killed.

Resources come quickly.

In the distance, the armies of all races retreated into the blood-red clouds.

Deep within the blood-red clouds, a pair of enormous purple eyes flashed by.

Shen Ye looked up.

Even the dust of the calamity looked up.

That was the gaze of the Shadow Queen.

Shen Ye didn't speak, but simply raised his hand and gently traced a line across his neck.

Deep within the blood-red clouds, the purple eyes suddenly contracted.

The Shadow Demons retreated even faster in the next moment.

On the summit of Zhenmo Pass, an old soldier witnessed this scene and couldn't help but murmur:

"This new Night King..."

"Even more ferocious than the rumors suggest."