All-out: Starting with the Awakening Special Operations Unit, search, attack, and withdrawal.

[Gold Pocket Watch] Display case effect, activated!

Time stops for three seconds!

In the next instant, Chu Hong rushed past the roaring flames gathering in mid-air and pulled Song Jiao'er, who was about to be attacked by the [Ju-on Paper Doll - Shadow Clown], into his arms.

When his eyes looked at the [Ju-on Paper Doll - Shadow Clown], a sinister smile almost identical to the other's appeared on his face.

A golden apple appeared and he stuffed it directly into the clown's mouth.

"Free samples!"

Just as Chu Hong carried Song Jiao'er out from the center of the battle, the three-second time stop ended.

"Boom—!"

A terrifying explosion instantly pulverized the [Ju-on Paper Doll - Shadow Clown].

Compared to the clown's inexplicable blast to death, the entire Luochuan team stared in shock and disbelief at the sudden, seemingly effortless attack.

Chu Hong suddenly rescued the person from the core area of ​​the battle.

The bluebird was even more shocked.

She possesses a certain talent for perception. If teammates who control flying birds to provide high-altitude vision are information points during non-combat periods, then she is the information point during combat.

however.

She could clearly perceive and describe everything that had just happened, even the situation in the core area of ​​the battle.

But Chu Hong's move seemed to instantly pull people out of the center.

But it was something she just couldn't understand.

Song Jiao'er was nestled in Chu Hong's arms, beads of sweat still clinging to her forehead.

"Is it alright?"

Chu Hong asked in a low voice, and Song Jiao'er nodded breathlessly and got off Chu Hong.

He took a deep breath, grabbed his wand again, and charged forward.

Densely packed paper figures, guided by puppet strings, flew out from the ancient ancestral hall stage, skimming over the courtyard wall.

The Boss used this to revive those three special paper puppets.

Chu Hong raised his eyes, a flash of red light appeared in his hand, and he raised the muzzle of the gun [Biochemical Suppression 93R].

"Da da da! Da da da..."

His right eye was flashing red, which was the effect of the "Crimson Eye of Cliff Young" display case, activating "bullet time".

One after another, scorching bullets accurately shattered all the paper effigies right before the eyes of the Luochuan Squad behind them.

There was no longer a supply of paper effigies.

The paper puppet destroyed by Song Jiao'er could never be repaired.

"Snap!"

[Ju-on Paper Doll - Guan Dao Martial Artist] wielded his Green Dragon Crescent Blade and slashed fiercely at the icy wall in front of Song Jiao'er. The sharp blade energy pierced through the shattered ice and continued to slash at Song Jiao'er behind him.

Chu Hong frowned slightly, just as he was about to "intervene" again.

Suddenly, a dark red, fierce flame burst forth from Song Jiao'er's body.

A gasp came from one of the members of the Luochuan squad behind them.

"It's actually [Forbidden Flame Spell: Fiery Martyrdom]! She even knows such an expensive and rare spell? No... using this spell will forcibly lower the maximum energy level, and it won't be able to recover even after leaving the secret realm!"

"Wasn't she here to break through to the Energy Gathering Realm? Has she gone mad?!"

"Boom—!"

Amidst the terrifying explosion, the dark red flames seemed to have a more powerful damage effect on these monsters from the supernatural side than ordinary flames.

Fragments of the "Ju-on Paper Doll: Guan Dao Martial Artist" turned black and gray in the firelight.

Only the puppet string was connected to something that looked like shadow puppet figures.

Boss [Su Wan Niang, the Playful Master] has lost another key member, and a hint of anger can be clearly seen on her alluring yet sinister face.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

Puppets, each with powerful cutting force, swarmed towards Song Jiao'er like a spider web.

Flames seem to have lost their additional restraining effect on these puppet strings.

Song Jiao'er moved nimbly, dodging and weaving.

The magic unleashed by the wand in his hand had transformed into fireballs and ice spikes, which consumed very little energy.

She's reached her limit...

The members of Luochuan Squad seemed to have forgotten that they were the ones who had received the benchmark mission. They all watched with shock and seriousness as Song Jiao'er repeatedly faced danger and pushed herself to the limit under the boss's attacks.

suddenly.

A blur of motion suddenly swept past Song Jiao'er from an angle she couldn't see.

A green water sleeve suddenly wrapped around her neck like a green snake, and then tightened abruptly.

Everyone's hearts were in their throats.

But the next second.

The familiar dark red flames surged up from Song Jiao'er's body once again. This was yet another false flame clone. The [Forbidden Flame Spell - Fiery Martyrdom] erupted with a roar.

The terrifying fiery energy instantly shattered the [Ju-on Paper Doll - Water Sleeves and Green Robe], which was already extremely close to the body and had no way to avoid it, into pieces.

Song Jiao'er staggered and fell to the ground not far away. Her face was deathly pale. Just now, in order to lure the last paper figure closer to her, she had deliberately left some source energy, enough to trigger the forbidden spell, unused.

Now, it has truly reached the limit of its limits.

The source energy within the body can no longer be squeezed out even a trace...

With a sharp whooshing sound, the puppet strings, dense and numerous like sharp steel needles, pierced towards her.

"Click..."

It felt as if something inside my body shattered in an instant.

Energy Convergence Realm, Breakthrough!

however.

The sharp puppet strings, which seemed to still gleam with a metallic sheen, were already close at hand.

Just then.

"Bang"!

A pitch-black energy black hole suddenly exploded beside the boss, and the puppet strings that were about to riddle Song Jiao'er with holes instantly became like an old man's hair.

The boss, Su Wanniang, the "Playful Master of the Play," floats in mid-air as if in weightlessness in space.

Several golden apples were instantly pressed against my face.

"Red team makes a substitution, and the even redder referee enters the field!"

Chu Hong's relaxed voice, always tinged with a hint of teasing and joking, reached Song Jiao'er's ears.

It immediately relaxed her tense nerves.

"boom--!"

Four Golden Apples, each equivalent to 100% of Chu Hong's energy input, exploded simultaneously on the boss, Su Wanniang, who was playing the role of a courtesan.

The immense power instantly ravaged the large banyan tree behind it, as well as the numerous [aggregates of resentment - hanged ghosts] hanging from it.

The terrifying power made the fat on Sun Luoshan's cheeks tremble violently.

This is the second stage of the Energy Gathering Realm?!

And that control skill just now, even the boss was suspended in the air for so long.

What level of skill is this?

Are all young people these days so scary?

however.

This is not finished.

The moment I saw Chu Hong pull out a red-quality sniper rifle, a flash of red light appeared in his hand again.

Sun Luoshan felt only relief that they hadn't targeted him earlier.

Including the red-quality pistol from earlier, this young man actually possesses two red-quality weapons, and... they're perfectly fused together!

These two are definitely not ordinary people.

"Bang!"

As the boss, Su Wanniang, struggled to stand up again, a golden pill pierced her forehead.

She was supposed to help the Luochuan team clear the map in the "story" and then leave them a "single-player Ghost Town" boss that they could eat however they wanted, along with her underlings.

They were all wiped out.

"Thank you, seniors. If it weren't for you taking on the benchmark mission, my girlfriend would have had a really hard time making a breakthrough..." Chu Hong put away his gun, a satisfied smile on his face, and looked at Sun Luoshan and the others.

however.

His response was met with shocked looks from Sun Luoshan and the others, as if they were looking at some kind of cheat code.

Song Jiao'er, who was eating a [Kali Fruit] in one hand and recovering her internal energy, also came over.

"Thanks for your help. We killed the boss, so it shouldn't affect your quest completion, right?"

That's not entirely wrong; the fact that the others didn't intervene already counts as helping.

After all... this is a secret realm!

Only then did Sun Luoshan and the others finally come to their senses, hurriedly waving their hands and shaking their heads.

"No, no, no, our mission has already been completed... These young people these days are really scary. After breaking through to the Energy Gathering Realm, they can't even handle ordinary Secret Realm bosses anymore; they have to go for the enhanced version."

Sun Luoshan smiled wryly, then seemed to have thought of something.

Pointing to the "corpses" of the boss and several paper figures.

"You killed that boss, so you can keep her reward."

Chu Hong and Song Jiao'er thanked them. They had thought there would still be some conflict with the pioneers, but they didn't expect this team to be so rational.

Having achieved their goal, Chu Hong and Song Jiao'er had no intention of staying in the secret realm any longer.

I plan to collect all the boss's rewards and then leave immediately.

After the boss disappeared, Song Jiao'er picked up the hemp rope that had fallen to the ground, walked to the roots of the banyan tree, and lashed it hard at the ground, then pulled it back.

A lacquerware dressing box appears.

Song Jiao'er reached out and touched it.

Searching for "Su Wanniang's Private Collection Box": ...

Suddenly, Song Jiao'er's pretty face froze. In a flash of red light, a weapon abruptly appeared in her hand...

PS: Today's bonus chapter rule: If the number of requests for more chapters reaches 2900, or if the number of new five-star reviews reaches 15, an extra chapter will be added.

The next chapter will feature a new sword skin. Can you guess what it is? Hint: it's for the female lead, Song Jiao'er... (#^.^#)