Late at night—
In the darkness, a cold wind suddenly rushed in.
Relying on his senses far beyond ordinary humans, Zhang Yue quickly detected the abnormality.
He turned swiftly, and saw not far from the patch of forest beneath his feet, in the darkness, a faintly standing scarlet silhouette.
Even from hundreds of meters away, Zhang Yue could clearly sense a powerful intimidating aura emanating from that figure.
Obviously, that guy was no ordinary person.
At this moment, Chen Zijin also noticed that fiery shadow.
"Zhang Yue, tell me, if one of the Ten Ferocious Beasts really can't hold back and bursts out of the Death Territory into the national Territory, what will happen to us?"
Zhang Yue: "One outcome."
"Death."
Before the words fell—
RUMBLE!
From that distant fiery shadow, an earth-shattering, sky-destroying blaze suddenly erupted.
The powerful flame force instantly swallowed all the Death Servants in the forest.
The astonishing killing power immediately crippled five thousand Death Servants.
A small portion who were already weakened from previous fights were outright one-shot killed!
["Ding~ Sorry, 248 of your Death Servants died in battle!"]
"Damn!"
Zhang Yue couldn't help but curse, "You killed so many of mine at once."
Frightened, Zhang Yue hurriedly used his divine soul and recalled the remaining four thousand-plus Death Servants.
Because it was obvious: with just that group of Death Servants, they could not withstand the damage of the opponent before them.
If he didn't retract them now, the next moment they might be gone for good.
Once all the Death Servants in the forest were withdrawn, they watched that fiery figure steadily approach Zhang Yue and Chen Zijin.
As it drew nearer, it became increasingly clear: it was a familiar servitor clad in armor burning with raging flames.
In its hand a long spear radiated scorching fire, seeming ready to set the whole land ablaze.
Wherever it passed, waves of fire spread outward.
That overwhelmingly powerful aura forced Chen Zijin to feel an extreme sense of oppression!
"It's… Ash!"
One of the Ten Ferocious Beasts!
Emperor-class BOSS, Ash!
After recognizing the enemy, Chen Zijin immediately grew alert.
She gripped her twin blades tightly, ready to fight at any moment.
And at this moment, she wasn't very confident they could team up with Zhang Yue to kill Ash.
The facts had proven: the Ten Ferocious Beasts were indeed targeting Zhang Yue.
Originally, Ash had been in the Death Territory of World 47.
Seeing Zhang Yue not enter the Death Territory of World 47, it pursued Zhang Yue from World 47 and arrived in World 49.
Zhang Yue hadn't expected that.
He hid in the national Territory and avoided the Death Territory, yet they actually dared to break out from the Death Territory.
This showed how desperate the Ten Ferocious Beasts were to kill Zhang Yue.
Watching Ash draw closer, Chen Zijin said to Zhang Yue, "Yue, let's run!"
"Where are your wings? Come on, we'll just fly away!"
"Run where?", Zhang Yue said, "I'm not running."
"You won't run? Waiting to die?", Chen Zijin couldn't understand, "We didn't go into the Death Territory to avoid them, right? Now they chase us into the national Territory. Besides, you just said yourself, if they come out, we only have one outcome: death."
But no matter what Chen Zijin said, Zhang Yue was determined not to run.
The next second, Ash had already closed in fast.
Whoosh!
A tide of world-consuming flames rolled out as Ash charged with its blazing spear toward the two of them.
The flame power was so great it could devastate heaven and earth; in an instant, it nearly leveled the entire forest.
Seeing this display, Chen Zijin almost gave up resisting, "This isn't even the same tier. We're done, waiting to die!"
Just as Chen Zijin had prepared to sacrifice herself,
Zhang Yue stood unmoved, rooted in place.
At the next moment, just as Ash spread a pair of fiery wings from its back and lunged at Zhang Yue with its blazing spear—
RUMBLE!
Suddenly, a surge of frigid ice power fell from the sky, freezing the ground.
In an instant, Ash's entire body was encased in ice, frozen mid-air.
Immediately after, with a swish, a silver mechanical longbow flew down from the distant sky; once in range it rapidly evolved into a mechanical disc.
Whirr! Whirr! Whirr! Whirr!
As the mechanical disc spun at high speed, countless mechanical blades shot out from it at extreme velocity.
After all, it was a Emperor-class BOSS.
Ash was not as fragile as imagined.
Relying on its tremendous flame power, it quickly broke free from the ice's restraint.
The next second, it summoned a flame shield, attempting to block the flying blades.
However, those blades hit with such ferocious killing power that they shattered Ash's flame shield in one blow and pierced through Ash's body with overwhelming force.
Clearly, the attacker had underestimated the enemy's attack power.
Ash could not withstand this wave of strikes and was struck down to the ground.
It had barely risen when—
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Three streams of aurora penetrated up from the earth to the sky, forming a magic formation that bound Ash inside.
At the same time—
RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
Countless magic beams fell from the heavens, continuously striking Ash's body.
In the blink of an eye, When all the skill lights finally faded and disappeared, Ash's flames gradually extinguished.
What remained was an armored warrior who suddenly collapsed to his knees with a "plop."
The health bar above his head showed emptiness.
The scene before them made Chen Zijin's eyes widen in utter astonishment.
"Instant kill?", she gasped.
"This is a Emperor-class BOSS!"
Chen Zijin clearly couldn't believe a Emperor-class BOSS had been one-shot.
She also realized it wasn't Zhang Yue who had done it.
First, the skills that had just killed Ash didn't look like Zhang Yue's style at all.
From what Chen Zijin knew of Zhang Yue, he simply wouldn't use those flashy skills.
Secondly, Zhang Yue's damage output could not possibly one-shot a same-rank Emperor-class BOSS.
Realizing this, Chen Zijin looked toward the edge of the forest.
Several figures were strolling in.
When she made out who they were, Chen Zijin was struck by surprise again.
Approaching at a leisurely pace were six people, clearly:
500-level Nine-Transcendence Heavenly-Earth Mage · Wolong!
500-level Nine-Transcendence Arrow Sovereign · Yinlong!
500-level Nine-Transcendence Shaman Ancestor · Xuan Empress!
500-level Nine-Transcendence Ice-Snow Great Emperor · Ice Emperor!
500-level Nine-Transcendence Moon-Slaying Envoy · Moon Scar!
500-level Nine-Transcendence Heaven-Priest · Seraph!
'Good grief!'
'They Are all top elders of the Dragon Nation!'
Chen Zijin wondered incredulously, "How did they arrive so coincidentally, right at this moment? This timing is too perfect, it's like they planned it."
Zhang Yue looked at the group calmly.
He said, "It's not a coincidence."
"But rather, they've been here all along."