Shen Yue looked at her: "Where is our captain! I have something to ask him!"
Coffin Lady covered her mouth and smiled: "Don't ask. The boss said you just need to surrender." She thought for a moment, "The boss also said, if you don't surrender, beating you until you do is also acceptable."
"That's too much," Zhao Lei said, directly squatting down with his hands clasping his head. He looked at his shocked teammates, "You guys didn't actually think we could win, did you?"
Baoli City was just a small city, and its forces were weak across the board, only managing to produce Fang Zhiyi's team.
Its fall was only to be expected.
When he heard the news, Gu Heng's face was full of excitement. Those annoying guys were all dead, and they died at the hands of their former good captain, Fang Zhiyi. This news brought him great inner satisfaction.
Also, because the anomalies launched an all-out war, the headquarters was short of manpower. He finally returned to the ranks of the Guardians. Although he was only a reserve, it gave Gu Heng some hope.
In just a few days, news came that the anomaly army had conquered two more cities. From the high-ranking officials down to the ordinary residents, everyone fell into panic.
However, humanity did not know that the anomalies entrenched in various places were just as panicked as they were.
After sending his subordinates to attack the cities, Fang Zhiyi led the other anomalies to begin sweeping the outskirts. This sweep targeted the anomalies that had not joined them.
As for the low-level anomalies whose minds were only filled with killing, they killed them directly. The high-level anomalies with thinking capabilities were the targets to be recruited, although the recruitment method was somewhat special.
Crimson Makeup sat in front of an ancient bronze mirror, applying a bright red color to her lips just like any other day. She had heard that a group of anomalies was making a lot of noise recently, but she didn't want to know more. Staying here quietly was enough; humans would provide her with spiritual food anyway.
However, as the door was violently smashed open, Crimson Makeup's slender, pale fingers trembled, and the rouge smeared onto her forehead.
Her face instantly twisted, and her entire figure elongated, transforming from a slender woman into a terrifying demon. But after turning her head, she froze. Several anomalies of the same level appeared before her, looking her up and down.
Crimson Makeup also saw that the damn fat guy licking his lips at the very back was carrying a branch as thick as an arm on his shoulder. A row of air-dried skulls hung on the branch, seemingly all belonging to those low-level anomalies!
"Hey, you, coming with us?" Nuo-masked Wuchang asked.
Crimson Makeup's eyes remained fierce; what she hated the most was people disturbing her makeup routine.
"You are courting death!"
Nuo-masked Wuchang exchanged a glance, and the anomalies behind him silently closed the door.
Outside the door, several anomalies were squatting on the ground with their hands over their heads, listening to the sounds coming from inside. Some anomalies even showed gloating expressions. Fang Zhiyi sat lazily on a stone bench until Crimson Makeup, having been beaten back into the form of a slender woman, smashed through the door and flew out.
The fat anomaly was still shouting: "Of all people, you had to provoke them? You think our top enforcers are just playing around with you?"
Smiling Wuchang waved his hand: "Keep a low profile, keep a low profile. The boss is still here."
Crimson Makeup looked at Fang Zhiyi, who had a human aura in front of her, blinked twice, her face full of defiance.
At the same time, a shadow was thrown over. Crimson Makeup looked at her bruised and swollen neighbor in a daze. This old guy rarely interacted with her, but his strength was still very formidable. Why...
"Boss, he agreed to join!" A young man with an ashen face strode over.
"Don't force him..." Fang Zhiyi sighed.
"You, you're using numbers to bully the few!" That anomaly struggled to get up.
"Right, so what?"
"So..." The old anomaly suddenly sprang up and lunged at Fang Zhiyi. Crimson Makeup was startled, but she noticed that the anomalies who had broken into her home all wore expressions of watching a good show.
Screams echoed throughout the entire area, and the anomalies squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands shrank their necks.
It was their first time seeing a guy with a human aura torture an almost immortal anomaly until it wished for death.
As Fang Zhiyi's gaze swept over them, they all expressed their submission. The world of anomalies was very simple: if you are badass, you are the boss.
Even if they were reluctant, they could only join this faction.
However, this actually allowed these anomalies to find some amusement, a kind of fun they had never experienced before. They used to think humans were quite stupid, insisting on staying together to wait for death. Now they realized that when bored, staying together with other anomalies was actually quite interesting.
If there was really nothing to do, they could easily pluck off a fellow anomaly's head and toss it around for fun.
Moreover, the anomalies also realized one thing. When humans hunted them, it was usually a team of Guardians besieging a single anomaly. Humans thought it was normal, and the anomalies thought it was normal too. But ever since Fang Zhiyi started the war, this situation had changed. A human squad now had to face an equal number of high-level anomalies. This single factor alone caused the Guardians to suffer consecutive defeats.
However, human resistance did not stop. But facing the assembled high-level anomalies, the lethality they could inflict was extremely limited. And just when they thought the anomalies would only advance step by step, thereby stacking a large number of troops on a single route, the anomalies suddenly split their forces. Originally one army, it turned into five.
"Luyang City, Luyang City has been attacked by a red-clothed anomaly sitting on a branch! The garrison is completely wiped out! Repeat! The garrison is completely wiped out! The Guardian squad has surrendered! Bzz..."
"Yanshi, this is Yanshi! The anomaly on stilts has broken through the defense line. Our firepower can't hold them off at all. Requesting backup... Repeat..."
"Canglang City requesting backup! Requesting backup! Two flying anomalies suddenly attacked our stronghold! High-level anomalies have also appeared outside the city now!"
In just one morning, the calls for help never ceased, and those sending the distress signals were all top-tier squads from headquarters. These members were hailed as the pinnacle of humanity; they had fought against many high-level anomalies... But now, facing the assembled high-level anomalies, they seemed to have become meat on the chopping block.
Everyone at headquarters looked at a loss. How did things change so quickly? Clearly, these anomalies were still very easy to suppress before!
"Are they really going to exterminate humanity? Oh my god..."
"Urgent report! Reconnaissance battalion reporting!"
"The anomalies have started massing again, heading towards... our capital! But before they reach us, there are still Xixi and Yuehui City!"
"It seems we need to send people to face them head-on!" An old man slammed his hand hard on the table. "Right! What about Yumen City, which was heavily guarded before?"
"I... I don't know, we've lost contact."
"Bastards!"
Gu Heng, who was pouring water, knew his opportunity had arrived. He stepped right forward: "Former elite Guardian Gu Heng, requesting to be deployed!"
His volunteering had paid off. The elders tested his abilities and decided to let him join the assault team. They assigned him to a squad armed with an ample supply of new weapons. Faced with this opportunity to turn his life around, Gu Heng was incredibly excited.
Little did he know, these people merely intended for his team to slow down the advancing anomalies, buying themselves more time to flee.
Everything went exactly as he had envisioned. He marched with the assault team along the inevitable path of the anomalies, witnessing fleeing residents all along the way. As expected, they soon encountered the anomalies, and in no small numbers.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
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."
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
