The undead have descended upon the world? I possess a sword that can cleave the heavens once more!

Lin Manteng sprinted with all her might, but the sound behind her not only didn't get further away, it got closer and closer to her.

"Damn it, how can this guy be so fast!" Lin Manteng cursed through gritted teeth, swinging the vines in her hands even more wildly.

Her arms were starting to ache, and the continuous high-intensity use of her abilities was rapidly depleting her stamina, but the pursuer's aura maintained a steady distance, and was even gradually closing in.

At this moment, Lin Manteng's assistant spoke.

His voice wasn't loud, and it was somewhat scattered by the wind.

"President, please put me down."

The assistant's eyes weren't on Lin Manteng, but on the rapidly receding ground and buildings below: "Otherwise, he'll catch up sooner or later. Then we'll both be dead."

He paused, as if organizing his thoughts.

"I just hope the chairman will keep his promise and save my family."

Lin Manteng's delicate eyebrows furrowed tightly, the two brow peaks almost colliding.

Without even glancing at her assistant, she said directly, "Shut up!"

But the assistant didn't shut up.

"I'm serious, President."

His voice gradually calmed down.

"Since I joined Xinye, I have always been very well taken care of by you. At that time, I was just an ordinary employee in the company, running errands and doing odd jobs. Anyone could order me around and anyone could look down on me."

"You were the one who lifted me up from that position and helped me rise to the position of assistant general manager, giving me dignity and hope."

His voice trembled slightly, but he spoke very quickly.

"I've kept this from you for so long, and I'm the one who has wronged you."

"You've helped me so much, now let me do something for you."

After saying that, he broke free from the vines that Lin Manteng was using to bind him.

His body slid free from the vines and then plummeted straight to the ground.

The wind whistled past his ears, and his clothes fluttered in the air.

Mid-air, the assistant shouted at the top of his lungs, "Li Liebiao, you bastard, look here!"

His voice was so loud that it could be heard almost the entire street.

Lin Manteng paused abruptly in mid-air, realizing what was happening.

Her body stopped at the edge of a tall building, with a dusty glass curtain wall in front of her.

Her long green hair was blown about by the wind and clung to her face, obscuring half of her expression.

She sighed.

"Damn it, I have such a bad temper."

She muttered a curse under her breath.

"I can't take it anymore!!!"

Before she finished speaking, Lin Manteng also stopped running away.

She used the edge of the tall building to spring back and landed steadily on a relatively wide platform.

Then, with a flick of her right hand, a thick vine shot out from her palm, accurately wrapping around the waist of her falling assistant, pulling him back from mid-air like a fishing rod, and throwing him to the ground beside her.

The assistant rolled halfway on the floor, his eyes wide with disbelief as he stared at Lin Manteng, his lips trembling slightly: "President..."

Lin Manteng took a cell phone out of her pocket and tossed it to her assistant.

"You only get a few energy stones a month, why are you risking your life?"

Her tone was somewhat disdainful.

"Stand aside obediently and call the third name in your contacts. See if you can get through."

After doing all that, she looked at the bald man who was chasing closely behind her.

Upon seeing this, Li Liebiao's face lit up with joy.

"Chance!"

He gave a low shout and quickened his pace.

The next moment, Lin Manteng's aura surged.

The energy of the seventh rank poured out of her body like a flood bursting its banks, sweeping across an area of ​​tens of meters around her.

Green vines suddenly sprouted from the ground, walls, and roof around her, as if a giant serpent sleeping underground had been awakened.

These vines were different from the ones she had casually tossed out before: they were several meters in diameter, and their skin was no longer smooth green, but covered with a thick layer of keratin, like tree bark, with a faint green fluorescent glow flowing across its surface.

They grew rapidly, getting bigger, thicker, and longer, spreading out in a matter of seconds at a speed that defied the laws of plant growth.

A few seconds later, hundreds of thick vines, several meters in diameter, swayed, grew, and twisted around the platform, like a primeval forest shrunk countless times.

Their tips were raised high, aimed at Li Liebiao who was approaching, like hundreds of venomous snakes poised to strike.

Lin Manteng stood in the center of the vines, her long green hair fluttering wildly in the shockwaves of energy.

She roared, "Li Liebiao—die!!!"

The next moment, all the vines moved at the same time.

Hundreds of thick vines, carrying immense force, lashed out at Li Liebiao from all directions, from top to bottom and left to right, relentlessly and without any blind spots.

For a moment, it seemed to block out the sky, even the sunlight was cut into countless tiny spots by the dense vines.

Li Liebiao remained calm upon seeing the thick vines that almost covered the sky.

He stopped and stood firmly on the ground, his hands hanging naturally at his sides, and even smiled slightly.

"Things are different now, Lin Manteng!"

His voice wasn't loud, but it reached Lin Manteng's ears clearly.

The next moment, a dark flame suddenly burst forth from his body.

Flames erupted from Li Liebiao's body, rapidly expanding in the air to form a completely enveloping, airtight semi-circular barrier, completely shrouding Li Liebiao inside.

The flames burned silently, without any crackling or popping sounds, only a dull, suffocating buzzing.

The heat it emits is extremely high, so high that Lin Manteng can feel the scorching heat wave faintly approaching her even from dozens of meters away.

The next second, the thick vines crashed into the barrier of flames.

There is no suspense.

Those vines, several meters in diameter and as thick as ancient trees, turned to ashes the moment they touched the dark barrier of flames.

The grayish-white powder drifted in the air like a silent snowfall.

Lin Manteng looked at this scene with a very serious expression.

"Damn it—" she squeezed out through clenched teeth, "My ability has been suppressed!"

But having exhausted a great deal of energy, she had no way out.

She gritted her teeth, clenched her fists, and more vines sprouted from the ground.

This time it's not the thick type, but the fine type.

Countless vines, as thick as fingers, surged out like a tide, attempting to bypass the flame barrier and attack Li Liebiao from below, from behind, and from angles unprotected by the flames.

However, the delicate vines didn't even get within three meters of the flame barrier before they were scorched by the intense heat.

Li Liebiao stood motionless within the barrier of flames, without even making a move.

Lin Manteng's attacks posed no threat to him whatsoever.

His abilities completely countered Lin Manteng's, which is why he dared to keep chasing after her.

"Lin Manteng, your era has passed."

Li Liebiao's voice came from behind the flames, carrying an arrogant tone that made one's teeth itch.

"After all these years at Shin Yeh, what else can you do besides being a couch potato? You can't manage, you can't socialize, and you can't even suck up to headquarters."

"Do you really think that if you treat your employees and subordinates well, they will stay with you for life?"

He shook his head.

"childish."

Lin Manteng ignored his nonsense.

Fine beads of sweat had formed on her forehead, not from the heat, but from the combined exhaustion of her physical and mental strength.

Releasing large-scale vines continuously takes a huge toll on her.

She gritted her teeth and activated her power once more.

This time, instead of attacking Li Liebiao's physical body, she wrapped the vines around the steel structures of the surrounding buildings, lampposts, and signal towers, and then used the pull of the vines to tear them down.

Since vines won't work, let's use the terrain!

Building debris, lampposts, and signal towers all hurtled towards Li Liebiao.

"Still not giving up?"

Li Liebiao finally made a move.

He raised his right hand, and a ball of dark red flame condensed, compressed, and spun in his palm, finally transforming into a pillar of fire that shot straight toward the building debris.

Building debris, lampposts, and signal towers were blasted away without causing him any harm.

Without pausing, Li Liebiao condensed another ball of dark red flame in his palm and then blasted it towards Lin Manteng with lightning speed.

Lin Manteng saw it, but by this time her physical and mental strength were already exhausted.

She knew she had no time to dodge, so she could only use vines to weave a thick shield in front of her.

The moment the flames struck the vine shield, a hole was instantly burned through it.

Lin Manteng was also thrown out, crashing heavily into several walls before falling to the ground, a trace of blood spilling from the corner of her mouth.

She struggled to her feet, knelt on one knee, supported herself with one hand on the ground, and clutched her chest with the other, gasping for breath.

"President!"

The assistant's voice, trembling with tears, came from the side.

He was still holding his phone, repeatedly pressing the third name in his contacts, but all he heard from the receiver was a long "beep-beep-beep" sound, followed by a notification that no one was answering.

He was sweating profusely and his fingers were trembling, but he kept dialing again and again.

Lin Manteng got up from the ground and wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth. Her left arm was burned by the high temperature of the flames, and a large area of ​​the exposed skin was charred, but she didn't even frown.

She discovered a fact that made her somewhat despairing—Li Liebiao was now stronger than her, his senior.

Taking into account the restraint of his abilities, he had truly and comprehensively crushed him.

After breaking through to the seventh rank, his strength had firmly surpassed hers.

"Let's go." Li Liebiao's voice came from the side, as if announcing a predetermined ending.

He raised his right hand, and a dark red flame, much larger than before, condensed in his palm.

Lin Manteng knew just by looking at it that she couldn't withstand this move.

Her abilities had been completely neutralized, and her physical and mental strength were exhausted. She closed her eyes and gave a bitter smile.

"Damn it, I shouldn't have taken on this unlucky assistant just to save myself the trouble."

She said it softly.

Just as Li Liebiao was about to unleash the flames in his hand—

He gave up making a move.

He abruptly withdrew the flames he was about to unleash and leaped to the side.

next moment.

A huge, transparent wind blade crashed down from the sky, accompanied by a sharp whistling sound that tore through the air, and struck heavily where Li Liebiao had been standing.

"boom--"

Dust filled the air, and gravel flew everywhere.

The edges of the ravines were as neat as tofu cut with a knife.

If Li Liebiao hadn't dodged in time, he would have been split in two by now.

A cold, authoritative voice came from afar.

"Li Liebiao—how dare you!!!"

As soon as the words were spoken, a black SUV came into view of Lin Manteng and her assistant.

The car had a black body and a matte finish. It drove very fast but very steadily, and the engine roared deep and powerfully, like a beast accelerating forward.

It executed a beautiful drift at the end of the street, its tires drawing a black arc on the ground, before coming to a steady stop next to where Lin Manteng was standing.

The car door opened.

A man wearing a black trench coat and a small gold torch badge pinned to his chest stepped out of the car.

He raised his head, his sharp gaze piercing through the swirling dust, accurately locking onto Li Liebiao's location.

Lin Manteng looked at the black SUV and the torchbearer wearing the gold emblem, and finally relaxed her body that had been leaning against the wall.

She let out a long breath.

"It's finally here..."