"So what?"
The Monster-Taming Elder cackled wickedly, as if he had devoured many soul temple elders, and said grimly, "What help can rats who've been hiding for years offer you?"
"Their only bargaining chip is mutual destruction. Otherwise, why would you have lived in anonymity for so many years?"
Everyone listened intently to the dialogue between the two sides, their nerves relaxing briefly before tensing up again.
It seemed the Commune Operators were at a disadvantage...
That made sense - if it weren't the case, the mysterious organization would have already stepped in to resolve the San Zhu crisis, and the Stolen Operators wouldn't have repeatedly crossed the boundaries.
The Strong Man's raised smile froze for a few seconds before dropping, his expression becoming resolute. "You've been squatting in others' nests for too long. You seem to have forgotten that our leader is gradually awakening and regaining their former strength."
The Monster-Taming Elder fell silent, then suddenly his energy surged.
The marks on the monsters' foreheads brightened, their auras climbing steadily in resonance with the elder. More than a dozen monsters lunged at them.
"Punishment: Decapitation."
Facing the horde of monsters, another organization member spoke two words without changing expression, his aura also surging.
For a moment, everyone seemed to see executioner's blades rising behind the monsters, ready to behead them...
The ability that had instantly turned the Gumantong into meat paste earlier now hit a wall, only cutting halfway through their necks.
How could this be?
Everyone was shocked - how could there be such a huge gap between SS-Level Monsters?
With half their necks severed, the monsters' heads drooped forward, but no blood flowed...
When the Priest and others clearly saw the wounds, they finally understood the source of their unease.
These monsters were already dead - they were merely puppets and specimens... no, just moving corpses.
That terrifying being had impacted them so deeply that, like the High Priest, they had almost believed it was omnipotent.
Though they hadn't consciously thought so, their subconscious had believed the Monster-Taming Elder could truly control monsters, proving their thinking had changed.
With just a moment's reflection, they should have remembered that monsters could only be suppressed, not completely controlled.
Unless the elder had happened upon a monster nest, he would have had to control the monsters without rest to maintain such numbers.
Not crushing the monsters immediately, the organization member's second attack on the monsters failed to stop the Monster-Taming Elder.
Marginalized since its revival and hoping to be forgotten by opponents, the Gumantong's twelve eyes widened, its face turning ashen as an ominous feeling arose.
"Wait..."
Its body moved faster than its mind, reaching out with its right hand, only to see the High Priest leaving without looking back...
Everyone watched helplessly as the High Priest's group used spatial tools to make their escape, leaving them with nothing but regret.
What a wasted opportunity - if only they could have detained them. If the Commune Operators had followed suit, they could have significantly reduced the masked ones' power...
"Why didn't you act?"
They heard another organization member calmly questioning the Strong Man, their emotion lacking the same regret, instead carrying a hint of certainty.
"You're one to talk!"
The Strong Man regained his hearty laugh, his large hand slapping his companion's back. "You had the chance to stop them, why did you let them go?"
"If they hadn't been unwilling to gamble, your performance would have exposed us, and we'd have had to fight them to the death."
The hearty laugh sent chills down everyone else's spines - deceiving even teammates truly embodied the principle of abandoning humanity.
They recalled their earlier concern about the Strong Man shouting "I reject my humanity!" and their faces grew hot.
This guy admitted it so readily - he clearly had a clear self-awareness.
The Strong Man's large palm kept slapping his companion's back loudly. Everyone began to wonder if he was using this as an excuse to get revenge on his companion.
At this thought, they fell silent. With that deceptively straightforward face, it was hard to say what this cunning person was really thinking...
For some reason, an image flashed through their minds - the scene of Qi Yuan toying with them overlapped with the Strong Man's laughing figure.
Damn it!
Is this what the world of the strong is like?
Thinking this, their gazes toward Qi Yunzheng became complicated. He was from Dragon Country and not weak in power - he only lacked one thing: being a psychopath (crossed out)... mental enhancement, before falling in with their crowd.
It seemed mental enhancement played a bigger role.
But... why did Dragon Country produce so many men... mental enhancers?
Their nerves had gotten quite the workout today. Everyone had truly forgotten about the Gumantong's existence, focused only on sharing information with their team and quickly devising countermeasures.
Constantly relying on the mysterious organization wasn't necessarily good.
For instance...
Dragon slayers becoming evil dragons themselves - in a world with only Commune Operators, would they still maintain their principles?
It was all uncertain.
Thinking of this, they shook their heads and smiled wryly.
Placing hope in others' moral bottom lines wasn't advisable - it was just like others' view of them. They never thought they'd one day have such feelings.
The problem remained unsolved, yet somehow they'd made peace with others being wary of them.
Lost in thought, they didn't notice until the Strong Man caught the Gumantong from some corner, destroyed its domain, and completely extinguished its vitality.
The changing environment jolted them awake. They looked up, searching with their gaze for the two mysterious organization members, but they had vanished without a trace.
This really was...
Jeanna smoothed her messy hair, unable to ignore the devastation around them. Taking a deep breath, she summoned her army to search for survivors.
With her taking the lead, others no longer regretted failing to connect with the mysterious organization, and likewise used their abilities to search through the ruins.
"Hmm?"
Jeanna sensed two vibrant presences from a crevice, directing her army to move aside the stones.
Her eyes lowered, noticing a dust-covered camera lens stubbornly protruding from the gap...
No way...?
The Strong Man had been standing in this spot earlier - if fighting had broken out, there would have been no survivors.
That's why this area was left for last.
Her gaze wandered, discovering a recording device extending from another gap, leaving her feelings extremely complicated.
The war correspondents were even braver than her - Jeanna was momentarily speechless.
When the stones were completely removed, a man and woman were found curled up in the cramped space, their eyes half-open but consciousness hazy.
The army moved them up, and the woman sensitively furrowed her brows, struggling to rise, though her strength was barely there.
As she lay on the floor, Jeanna came to check on her. The woman called out in a weak voice: "Blaine! It's Jeanna! Quick, take the shot!"
The semi-unconscious man heard the voice, his arm twitching as he felt around.
Jeanna: "..."
She suddenly felt these two might have the makings of powerful individuals.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
villain is the number one simp for the book's leading female protagonist, Shen Wan'er. As expected, he later becomes a tool for the main character to show off and slap faces, ultimately meeting a tragic end with his family ruined and his life in shambles. Fortunately, he awakens the [Universal Pure Love System], which allows him to earn points by performing acts of pure love. To change his fate, Gu Yan makes a decisive choice to seek warmth and companionship with the book's biggest villain—Cold Qingqiu. ........... My name is Leng Qingqiu. To find the murderer who killed my parents years ago, I deliberately blinded myself so that everyone would lower their guard around me. Just as I was secretly accumulating power and capital according to my initial plan, a man walked into my world. "Lengleng, Qingqing, Qiuqiu, which nickname do you prefer?" I don't like any of them. You'd better leave quickly! "Why aren't you saying anything? How about I call you my baby wife?" Leng Qingqiu thinks to herself, this man is truly annoying! (Stubborn pure love warrior + single female lead + true pure love + 1v1)
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
