Chapter 132: The Masquerade

The surrounding silence was so profound it sent chills down the spine.

The man in the black jacket coughed a few times before regaining his usual composure.

But his legs weakened beneath him; after a few steps, he collapsed to his knees.

"Are you alright? Do you want to rest a while before continuing?"

After a long silence, I slowly exhaled a sentence, my eyes filled with concern.

...

Upon hearing Nizhang's words, Lin Yu finally relaxed. He knew that since she claimed to have a way to deal with those people, she would not be speaking nonsense.

"Spare me, Divine King! Spare me, Divine King!" Asazazel was the first to break, falling to his knees with repeated kowtows, begging for mercy.

"In that case, we shall have thoroughly offended the Chan Sect!" Yaochi was shocked beyond belief, unable to fathom that Haotian would harbor such a reckless notion.

Dark energy flowed into the once solid, massive hand of Yunqi, which had started to fade into an illusion. The once pure white palm turned a deep, unfathomable blue. A chilling aura erupted with the power to freeze celestial beings, turning all nearby into ice sculptures.

"Our master just encountered a fighting spirit surge; we must leave immediately. But I hope you can lend me a hand," said the tall youth, his voice choked with emotion, his expression sincere.

Fuxi looked puzzled and asked why he was always called the Human Sovereign of the human race, and what exactly that title meant.

Erqing nodded and finally said, "Wait a moment; there are still some treasures beneath this cold pool." Without hesitation, Erqing leapt into the water.

As for the advanced troops, their fourth and fifth-tier soldiers numbered only in the millions, sixth and seventh-tier troops were just in the hundreds of thousands, but the top-tier eighth-tier forces had all been brought—about ten thousand ghost dragons in total.

Long Yun also glanced over. Sure enough, Diao Chan was the first to step onto the stage, followed shortly by Xiao Zhan and his three companions, all trailing behind Diao Chan.

"I'm sorry... I didn't know she was on your side. Please, just bypass me," Ma Dong cried out desperately, no longer the calm figure he once was.

Even now, with the vast territory of the Great Xia at their disposal, the bonds to their homeland remained deeply ingrained, impossible to sever.

The simplest, most straightforward approach was to obtain surveillance footage from the Nanjiang Gang's mansion. Now that the Nanjiang Gang had been destroyed by the Qinghe Society, these materials could only be requested from Zhao Qinghe.

Li Xiang spoke while observing the old man's expression carefully, for Lin Yi knew he had taken this matter right under his nose and wondered if it might anger him.

"But..." Yang Yuxin tried to interrupt urgently. She hadn’t forgotten how Li Chengqian had nearly died when he left alone last time.

As a traitor, he naturally knew that any explanation was futile. He had once believed the other party would never deceive him, but now he realized how naïve that was. He had completely given up on trusting others.

Once the place fell into complete silence, the entire coastline became a lifeless wasteland. Countless marine creatures suffered an unwarranted disaster, now utterly vanished, wiped away by Yan Yu with not a trace remaining.

At first, I thought you wouldn’t mock me, but now that it’s come to this, how could success be possible?

"Hold on, Junior Brother Chen is here!" Gu Hao grabbed his spiritual academy junior, whose lower half had been torn away, shouting loudly.

Under Chen Xing’s instructions, Hei Zi finally stopped hiding and revealed his true form—a giant python.

Thinking of how Li Tai used to constantly hover around him, flattering him as "Father Emperor" this and "Father Emperor" that, yet now he was so busy that not even a shadow could be seen, Li Er felt a faint sense of loss.

Ordinary data still looked impressive among humans, but compared to that divine punisher named Chen Liu, it paled in comparison.