This Is What the Great Xia Owes the Heroes

Wang Hao, now reduced to a soul, looked at Su Yuanshan’s grim-faced subordinates.

He laughed smugly.

“Of course I knew you wouldn’t go after the money!”

“But I also knew that even if you didn’t take it, you’d instinctively look at it—and you wouldn’t be able to stop yourselves from looking down on me, from mocking me.”

“You thought I was an idiot, didn’t you? Only to realize in the end that you were the real clowns!”

“Hahahaha…”

Wang Hao’s laughter echoed through the cave.

The people who had stormed into the cave alongside him could not help but laugh as well.

Before his soul faded away completely,

Wang Hao shouted at the comrades who were about to die fighting in the cave:

“Brothers!”

“Our mission is complete!”

The remaining fighters watched as Wang Hao slowly disappeared.

At that moment, they knew that even if they died, their deaths would not be in vain.

At the very least, before dying, they had managed to make fools of the officers of the Ghost Mound.

The survivors’ morale surged.

They fought on until every last one of them fell.

…

Elsewhere,

Zhao Bing, with the vital-energy cultivation of a Grandmaster, was fighting a Martial Saint on even terms.

His Crimson Heaven Sword was already covered in more than a dozen chips and cracks.

The Martial Saint facing him was utterly stunned by Zhao Bing’s swordsmanship.

Zhao Bing clearly possessed only Grandmaster-level cultivation.

Yet every sword aura he unleashed was incomparably sharp, sending chills through the Martial Saint’s entire body.

He had no doubt that if even one strike landed on him, he would either die or suffer grievous injuries.

In his eyes, Chen Feng had already been monstrous enough. He had never expected Chen Feng’s disciple to be even more of a monster.

Not far away, Angelina and her two junior brothers, who were fighting in another battle, were equally shocked by their senior brother Zhao Bing.

As she fought, Angelina listened to the news reports playing through her earpiece.

She knew that the situation had reached its final stage.

The Martial God named Wei Tianjun had self-destructed, leaving Su Yuanshan severely wounded.

At the skyscraper, the newly advanced Martial God, Wang Zun, had ultimately been defeated.

And finally, their master, Chen Feng, had been forced back to Kunlun City by Su Yuanshan’s Meteor Descends technique.

He had been badly injured by the impact and was now being hunted down by the Heaven-Devouring Club.

Meanwhile, Su Yuanshan had begun personally eliminating the remnants of their forces.

Watching the figure in the sky draw ever closer,

everyone still standing knew that their lives had entered their final countdown.

Suddenly, a shout rang out several hundred meters away.

“A Ghost Mound stone coffin has appeared here!”

Anthony and Amir, who had been coordinating their attacks, immediately fought their way toward that direction.

Amir launched a relentless barrage with the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms.

Anthony, meanwhile, would appear at Amir’s side from time to time, raising his Indestructible Vajra Body to block some of the fatal attacks aimed at Amir.

The roar of dragons rang out without end.

Every time Amir struck with his palm, a phantom golden dragon appeared.

Long ago, he had learned the first seventeen moves by following Xiao Ruohan’s martial arts videos.

He simply had not been able to bring out their true power.

But after becoming Chen Feng’s disciple,

his strength began advancing by leaps and bounds.

From the first palm strike to the eighteenth, he soon mastered every technique completely.

Now, he had reached a level where he could execute them with meticulous precision.

Combined with his broad, powerful build, he displayed the fierce and tyrannical force of the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms to the fullest.

Every strike was wide-ranging and forceful,

making it difficult for Su Yuanshan’s ordinary subordinates to cope for the moment.

Anthony had once been Aiden's disciple and had trained in battle aura.

Later, he learned the Indestructible Golden Body from Chen Feng.

He eventually discovered that using battle aura to reinforce the Indestructible Golden Body made its defenses even stronger.

Unfortunately, his strength was still too weak.

Even with the blood and vital energy pouring into him from the Kunlun blood sacrifice during this period, he had only barely reached the level of a top-tier martial artist.

Moreover, he lacked offensive power.

At this moment, he could only fight alongside Amir, who had already reached the Grandmaster level.

As for the other experts, Angelina had held them all back.

She cultivated the Northern Darkness Divine Art, so she had no need to worry about her energy and blood being depleted.

What was more, her technique countered the Devouring Heaven Club's Star-Absorbing Art.

The three of them worked together, leading the volunteers as they fought their way toward the Ghost Mound stone coffin a hundred meters away.

By the time they reached the stone coffin, nearly everyone around them had fallen.

Only the three of them remained.

Su Yuanshan's subordinates were in no better shape.

The experts below the Martial Venerable level were simply incapable of defeating the three of them.

They were especially wary of the Northern Darkness Divine Art.

After fighting their way to the stone coffin, the three of them faced another dilemma.

Who would open the coffin?

Who would go to their death?

And this would not be an ordinary death.

According to what their master, Chen Feng, had told them, when an ordinary person died, their soul would enter the Netherworld.

But whoever opened the stone coffin would have their body forcibly possessed, while their soul would be scattered into oblivion.

They would disappear completely.

In other words, that was true death.

“I’ll open this stone coffin first!” Anthony said.

Amir hurriedly stopped him.

“No! As your senior brother, I should be the one to open it.”

Angelina spoke up as well.

“I’m the senior sister to both of you. I can’t just stand by and watch my junior brothers go to their deaths.”

Anthony shook his head.

He said calmly, “Of the three of us, I’m the weakest.”

“I’ll open this Ghost Mound stone coffin first.”

“With your strength, the two of you can hold out a little longer. If we encounter another stone coffin later, you can open it then.”

“That will give us the best chance of ensuring that Master’s plan succeeds.”

There was no denying that Anthony’s words made perfect sense.

For a moment, Angelina and Amir did not know how to refute him.

But they both understood that they might fight until the very end and still never encounter a second Ghost Mound stone coffin.

Golden battle aura erupted from Anthony’s entire body.

He leaped high into the air and sent a punch crashing into the coffin lid, knocking it open.

Afterward, he did not forget to comfort the other two.

“Keep fighting!”

“I believe Master will definitely succeed.”

Angelina wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her sleeve and nodded softly.

Amir, meanwhile, unleashed dozens of palm strikes in succession at the enemies around them.

He used the attacks to vent the grief in his heart.

Anthony gazed into the stone coffin with a look of loss.

He had originally wanted to avenge his master, Aiden.

But his enemies were simply too powerful.

And given the current state of the world, he did not have enough time to grow stronger.

The only thing he could do now was assist Master Chen Feng.

He hoped that this new master would succeed.

That he would avenge the people of the Southern Continent.

That he would avenge Mr. Aiden.

Kunlun City.

A golden palm print descended from the sky.

The members of the Heaven-Defying Club who had tried to surround and kill Chen Feng were instantly crushed into bloody pulp.

Jin Youxi's arrival was immediately met with countless excited cheers.

“The hero of Great Xia’s disciple is here!”

“She’s the Chosen Grand Senior Sister!”

“Wonderful! We protected Da Xia’s hero!”

“This is what we owed Da Xia’s hero. What Da Xia owed Chen Feng.”

…

Jin Youxi descended from the sky.

The moment she saw the scene below,

tears instantly welled up in her eyes.

Countless corpses lay arranged in a circle.

And at the very center of that circle

was her master.