National Fate: Eight Yin Generals Guard China from Their Sleeping Coffins

Bald Eagle Country's position.

David looked at his hands, and the surging fire energy gave him the illusion that he could tear everything apart.

"Phoenix Rebirth," this S-rank skill not only allowed him to regenerate his severed arm, but also doubled his supernatural power reserves.

He looked at the countdown on the blank screen, feeling a little impatient.

"The Chinese don't use superpowers; they rely entirely on those mystical tricks. Once I get through this wave, I'll crush them on the leaderboard."

David gritted his teeth, his face full of ambition.

The countdown has reached zero.

The system's mechanical sound exploded in everyone's mind.

[The fifth wave of the second round of sieges has officially begun!]

[Monsters in this siege: Spatial Rift Worms (100,000 in number), Zerg Queen (100 in number)]

[Monster Characteristics: Prismatic Carapace (reflects all energy attacks), Spatial Teleportation (ignores physical defense)]

David hadn't yet grasped the meaning of those lines.

Instead of the usual black fog billowing from the sky, the sound of shattering glass rang out directly.

Dozens of huge black cracks appeared out of nowhere.

swarms of insects poured out of the crack.

They are about the size of an adult human, and their entire bodies are covered with crystal-like prismatic shells that refract eerie colors in the dim light.

David snorted coldly.

"No matter how hard your shells are, you're nothing but trash before my hellfire!"

He thrust his hands out forcefully, and a raging ring of fire spread outwards from him.

Just then, a black crack appeared in the sand beneath his feet without warning.

A fissure worm crawled out of the fissure, its sharp forelimbs swinging like scythes toward David's neck.

David reacted extremely quickly, and the ring of fire instantly retracted, transforming into a fire shield in front of him.

A flame of several thousand degrees Celsius struck the insect's prismatic carapace.

It did not burn, it did not melt.

That carapace was like a perfect mirror, reflecting the energy of the flames back intact!

David only saw a blinding red light in front of him.

"ah--!"

He didn't even have time to retract his powers before he was instantly engulfed by the high-temperature flames he had released.

The flesh and skin instantly carbonized, and the bones burned to ashes.

Two seconds later, a red light shone from the ashes.

David reformed naked, lying on the ground, panting heavily, his heart pounding.

He glanced down at the skill panel.

Phoenix Rebirth: 2/3 attempts remaining

David's mind went blank.

In the blink of an eye, a third of their lives were gone?

His prized superpower became a death knell for his own life in the face of these insects.

He dared not set the fire any longer and could only scramble and crawl behind the cover.

The other newcomers around were terrified and didn't even know how to run. They were torn to pieces on the spot by the rift worms that darted out, and their blood splattered all over David's face.

"How the hell am I supposed to fight this! Physical defense is useless, and energy attacks are being reflected!"

David covered his head and huddled in the corner, trembling.

Japanese positions.

Tanaka crushed a stone with his alloy foot.

He was very satisfied with the powerful mechanical transmission.

The three newcomers in front were still trembling.

Tanaka planned that when the monster charged over, he would kick the teacher out to take the hits first, and then take the opportunity to figure out the monster's attack patterns.

"As long as I don't die, Japan can live."

Tanaka stroked his chin, a sinister grin spreading across his face.

The system announcement sounded.

Tanaka drew his newly acquired alloy longsword and stared intently at the city gate.

Ten minutes passed, and the city gate was deserted; not a single monster was in sight.

"What happened? Is the monster lost?"

Tanaka frowned.

A blood-curdling scream suddenly erupted from the city wall behind them.

Tanaka suddenly turned around.

Inside the position behind the city wall, more than a dozen spatial rifts silently opened up.

Dozens of fissure worms bypassed the frontal defenses and launched a massacre from within.

The middle-aged teacher's head was neatly severed by the insect's forelegs and rolled to the side of the alloy foot in the field, his eyes still staring wide-eyed.

The two high school girls were dragged into the spatial rift before they could even make a sound, leaving behind only a pool of blood and a few severed fingers.

Tanaka felt a chill run down his spine, and cold sweat instantly soaked his back.

The physical defenses have failed!

These monsters never use the door!

What is his prized alloy skeleton compared to spatial cutting?

A pile of scrap metal!

A fissure worm emerged from the air beside him, swinging its sickle-like forelegs at him.

"Baka!"

Tanaka roared and swung his sword at the insect.

The blade struck the prism shell, slid off, and the recoil tore his hand.

The insect flashed and disappeared from the spot.

The next second, Tanaka's left shoulder was pierced, and blood gushed out.

"Help...help me!"

Tanaka dropped his sword and dragged his heavy alloy legs toward a corner of the city wall, his previous arrogance long gone.

Global live stream.

The comments section went completely crazy, with feelings of despair spreading across channels in dozens of countries.

How are we supposed to fight this?! Our defenses are practically nonexistent; monsters are just spawning from our base!

David's fire was reflected back! All the superhumans are now useless!

[Tanaka's alloy skeleton couldn't even cut through an insect's shell, and he still got flanked!]

[Space travel combined with energy reflection—this is pushing humanity to its doom!]

[Damn it, if we can't stop this wave, 100,000 teleporting bugs will descend upon reality. Who can survive?]

Look at those giant insects! They're fifty meters tall, and they're still constantly laying eggs for smaller ones; their numbers are growing!

[What about China? Guan Shan's sword can cut through space, but insects can teleport; there's no way to defend against them!]

[Can our spiritual energy shield stop spatial travel? I'm so scared!]

Look! Someone has stood up on the front lines of China!

[It's that blind old man and that schoolteacher with the mahogany box!]

Can those two handle it? These are 100,000 monsters that can teleport!

【..........】

The Chinese front.

Yellow sand filled the sky, and the wind carried a pungent, fishy stench.

Chen Xiao sat down beside the black wooden coffin, his carving knife stopped moving.

He frowned slightly as he looked at the countless spatial rifts in the sky.

"This thing is a bit unfair; it doesn't follow the rules."

Chen Xiao patted the sand off his trousers.

Guan Shan pressed his hand on the hilt of the sword, flicked it with his thumb, and revealed a section of the sharp edge of the blood-patterned iron sword.

"Senior brother, you should rest."

Old Luo slowly stood up, his blind right eye rolling back the whites of his eyes.

He hung the tattered erhu on his waist and took out the bronze compass with one hand.

"Ninth Brother, your knife isn't good enough for this job. There are too many spatial rifts. You can't cut them all down in one strike. If a few slip through, the city wall will break."

Guan Shan didn't speak, and silently put the knife away.

Liu Bai, carrying the dark red wooden box engraved with the character "仵", also stood up.

His face, which rarely saw sunlight, had a sickly pallor.

"Senior Brother Luo, this insect has a hard shell and it reflects light."

Liu Bai coughed twice.

Old Luo grinned, revealing a few yellow teeth.

"When there are too many insects, you have to set up a net. Same old rule, I'll block the road, you find the door."

Liu Bai nodded.

He raised his head, and his originally dark pupils instantly lost their color, turning into a pure white.

"The Eye of the Corpse" is now activated.

Liu Bai's gaze pierced through the swirling sand and dust, and through the prismatic carapaces of the fissure worms.

The internal structure of 100,000 fissure worms was clearly visible to him.

The trajectory of energy flow, the nodes of muscle tissue, and the gaps connecting the shells.

In his eyes, all living things were nothing more than corpses about to be dissected.

"I saw it."

Liu Bai's voice was completely flat, as if they were discussing what to have for dinner.

He raised his hand and pointed to the hundred enormous Zerg queens in the sky.

"Ignore the small insects, kill the Queen. The Queen's ovipositor is their only weakness. The gap on the seventh plastron, inside the carapace, is two centimeters wide."

After listening, Old Luo chuckled.

"Two centimeters? That's wide enough."