Suiyang.

"Yesterday's vicious attack on the Security Agency at the coastal border has been confirmed to be the work of overseas smugglers.

Under pursuit by the Jiuyi and the Security Headquarters' investigation team, the suspect's whereabouts have been completely exposed.

The police have arrested one of them and are pursuing the remaining criminals based on their confession.

Ou Qin, Director of the Provincial Security Headquarters, stated that the criminals have now been driven to an uninhabited area in the suburbs. Citizens planning outings in the suburbs should postpone their trips."

On the projection TV, a news anchor from another local station was reporting the latest national roundup of vicious incidents.

Xiao Zong, one arm bandaged, sat shirtless on the sofa, manipulating a small device in his hand.

"What happened out there to get you like this?"

Cai Hongtang emerged from the bedroom nearby, frowning as she glanced at him.

"With your abilities, how could you be injured so badly?"

Xiao Zong didn't answer, simply tilting his head back to drink some apple juice from the table.

After a long silence, he finally spoke.

"I ran into a tricky guy. He spotted me early, didn't let me get close, and used a feiyi (flying device) to injure me from a distance."

"What about the energy core I aggregated for you? That core was forcibly aggregated from two sixth-level cores. It took me a full four days to recover afterward. Don't tell me it was useless?" Cai Hongtang asked, puzzled.

Previously, to help Xiao Zong deal with a new local family force the group encountered, she had forcibly used her Aggregation Heart ability to fuse a super-standard energy core for Xiao Zong's force field generator.

Two sixth-level energy cores were fused into a military-grade core of at least the eighth level, which was banned from sale.

But the price was that Cai Hongtang herself had overspent her mental energy and dared not go anywhere from Yongan Yuan, recuperating for a full four days.

"If it weren't for the core you helped me with, I'd be dead by now," Xiao Zong said blandly.

"Then what about that guy?"

"Since I'm alive, he's naturally dead," Xiao Zong said.

".You're becoming more and more reliable." Cai Hongtang nodded. "But Da Xiong has been getting crazier and crazier lately. Large creatures are already being transported into her lab. I'm always worried she'll create something uncontrollable."

"She's very capable, and she's taken it to the extreme, but she herself is too weak," Xiao Zong shook his head.

"Yes, Da Xiong can't even beat a third-level fighter herself, but the mutated creatures under her command are very strong and there are many of them," Cai Hongtang nodded.

She paused, then continued, "The last time I saw her, she was even more insecure. She's now implanting strange things into her body, and she's also using the group's money to acquire nuclear power plants..."

"Is the higher-ups allowing this?"

"It's being done under the guise of the Li family. I checked the group's recent financial flows and the engineering department's plans. She seems to want to build a completely safe fortress for herself. Or rather, an airborne fortress," Cai Hongtang replied.

"Does Lao Da (Boss) know?" Xiao Zong frowned.

"Lao Da has entered a Dead Zone and hasn't come out yet. It's the City of Death Angels, extremely difficult. We discussed it. If he doesn't come out in two more days, we'll ask Pann to go in and rescue him," Cai Hongtang said.

"Mm. Lao Da will be fine. Even if he can't get out for a while, he'll never die." Xiao Zong lowered his head and stopped speaking.

Now, the members of the Garden of Fate team, with their increasing strength, have begun to build their own individual teams and forces.

With the help of Hua Yu's (Flower Language) ability, everyone's development is extremely rapid.

Da Xiong has built her own biochemical research force, and Cai Hongtang is also building her own network hacker team.

Even he himself has built a mercenary killer squad dedicated to serving him.

Everyone cooperates and develops together.

They use the group's reputation to attract top-notch elite talents.

Except for Longmendiao (Gantry Crane).

That guy...

Xiao Zong breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that he would probably be the first to be taken care of in the team.

"Don't think too much, this is inevitable development." Cai Hongtang walked closer and patted him on the shoulder.

"As long as Lao Da is still around, we're still a team," she said seriously.

"Mm," Xiao Zong responded. "I just feel like I've killed too many people."

He couldn't remember how many people's shadows he had ignited so far.

Three thousand? Five thousand?

Perhaps more.

As long as he was willing, he could ignite everyone around him as he walked.

Moreover, the current Mingyuan Group has been expanded to an exaggerated extent in a short period by the crazy Dead Zone people.

The support of the great nobles, the alliance of the local aristocratic families, and the Dead Zone people's unscrupulous actions to obtain benefits in order to survive.

All of this has allowed the Mingyuan Group to soar all the way, surpassing the original Tiefeng Group and other forces in a very short period of time, becoming the undisputed behemoth of Fengnan Province.

The addition of Hai Sha and Chen Jiahan has made the group even more powerful.

Especially Hai Sha, after combining the full set of equipment and weapons purchased by the group for him, plus his own rapid improvement, easily defeated the team of thirteen Feiliu (Flying Stream) experts who came to attack a few days ago.

That team averaged fourth-level, and the strongest one was sixth-level leading the team, but under Hai Sha's attack, they were easily defeated and seriously injured.

"Why don't you become the group's Minister of Discipline Supervision?" Cai Hongtang suddenly said.

"No, Mr. Sindela already has arrangements," Xiao Zong refused. "His Hua Yu ability seems to be able to grasp a lot of things."

"He went to see a junior from a family who came from Bai Xing yesterday, and seems to have found some clues about Lien. When Lao Da comes out, let's get together," Cai Hongtang said.

"Mm, we'll handle it together then."

Xiao Zong stood up and walked towards his bedroom.

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City of Death Angels.

End of the second floor.

Li Cheng Yi and the Balancing Angel stood facing each other, more than ten meters apart.

He was wearing Jie Mao Feilian (Knot Hair Flying Curtain) scale armor, its ferocious dark purple appearance making him look like a humanoid shadow dragon.

Behind him, metal wings fluttered slightly.

Standing on the cold stone floor, he slowly activated dragonification.

His entire body began to grow rapidly, black dragon scales appeared on his skin, his eyes turned into pure golden dragon eyes, and the breath from his mouth and nose became hot, sulfurous air with sparks.

‘The evolved Shadow Dragon bloodline is significantly stronger than before.’ Li Cheng Yi carefully felt the changes in his body at this time. After upgrading the weak Shadow Dragon bloodline to the ordinary Shadow Dragon bloodline, he could feel that his entire body had obviously become heavier and heavier, and a layer of translucent keratin had begun to appear on the surface of his skin.

His strength had also increased by a notch compared to before.

If expressed in data, he estimated that his current basic strength had increased by at least three to four tons from the previous limit of 19 tons.

After being amplified by the Hua Lin Yi (Flower Scale Armor), the concentrated doubling burst of Rou Qi (Supple Qi), the strengthening of Hua Yu, the enhanced assistance of Hui Shan (Glittering Flash), and the improvement of the Dragon Realm itself, the basic strength can explode with a terrifying impact of approximately 350 to 400 tons.

This is a very terrifying number.

Because the unit area is too small.

Li Cheng Yi held a golden long sword in his hand, and the strengthening of the Hua Yu Fortress had already been added to his body.

A full of massive Death Energy lingered around his left forearm, forming a special translucent flame that was gray and black.

‘This time, try using Death Energy in combination with fighting techniques.’

Death Energy, this kind of inert energy, is extremely inactive. As long as it doesn't touch completely opposite energy attributes, this energy mostly exhibits an inertness that doesn't react with most energies and substances.

In fact, looking at those wandering skeleton people, you can see that the essence of this energy is that it is too mixed, resulting in very weak mutual interference with most material energies.

Think about it, if Death Energy was easy to react, then those skeleton people running around would have messed everything up long ago.

Clatter.

The Balancing Angel on the opposite side raised its sword, the bones on its skeleton rubbing against each other, making slight noises, also pulling Li Cheng Yi back from his wandering thoughts.

"This time, try... Death Energy."

White dots densely packed on the angel's greatsword began to converge.

Suddenly, it waved it down.

Boom!

A large mass of translucent, huge, twisted wind pressure instantly separated from the blade, filling the entire corridor and crushing towards Li Cheng Yi.

Li Cheng Yi had already taken a deep breath, Rou Qi rapidly gathering from his body and condensing on his arm.

He smeared his left hand on the golden sword.

Death Energy adhered to the golden sword like sludge.

This was his own Death Energy, so it would naturally not cause damage to his own Hua Lin Yi.

Deng deng deng deng.

Li Cheng Yi took a step forward and rushed forward.

Rou Qi burst out.

Long Sha (Dragon Kill)!

The moves of the Dragon Beard Sect suddenly surged out. With him as the center and the golden sword as the tip, Long Sha instantly erupted with the power of two Rou Qi, forcibly breaking through the wind pressure cloud that the angel had swung out.

Shua!

The golden sword pierced straight towards the Balancing Angel's chest with a terrifying scream, exceeding twice the speed of sound.

Clang!!

The golden sword and the angel's greatsword made contact at the same time.

The golden sword shattered, exploding into countless fragments that spread around.

Li Cheng Yi simply let go of the hilt, sidestepped, and avoided the angel's second slash.

His speed far exceeded that of the angel, and he lightly绕 (rao - circled) to its back from the side.

Poof.

The Death Energy flame ignited in his left hand was like a powerful glue, and he slapped it hard on the bone wings on the angel's back.

Suddenly, the Balancing Angel's wings paused slightly, and a mass of gray Death Energy like glue was forcibly pulled down by Li Cheng Yi.

‘It's useful!’

Li Cheng Yi was overjoyed.

The Balancing Angel's Death Energy could also be snatched, which undoubtedly added to his confidence in solving the Silent Angel.

Next, he kept dodging left and right, just not confronting the Balancing Angel head-on.

He was too lazy to use the sword, and just used his left hand to ignite the Death Energy flame and constantly摸 (mo - feel/touch) a handful of Death Energy from the angel.

Time passed slowly, with the continuous plundering of Death Energy.

The excess Death Energy was constantly emitted from Li Cheng Yi's body. His Death Energy absorption had already reached its limit, so the Death Energy absorbed at this time could only be released into the air.

And the Balancing Angel moved more and more slowly.

Its body seemed like a rusty machine, its speed getting slower and slower.

Shua!

With the last strike of the greatsword, the Balancing Angel missed again, the blade deeply piercing the wall, half its length gone.

Then, it stood there, motionless.

"It seems that this is the correct solution for this Dead Zone."

Li Cheng Yi breathed a sigh of relief and walked forward.

"You lost." His voice was clear and at the same time, the Evil Flower on the back of his hand activated Hua Yu, lighting up with purple light.

(End of this chapter)