A long and narrow lake appeared in the dense forest ahead, with a flat grassland by the lake.

  Xin Jia stood on the grassland like a small hill, holding an iron chain in his hand. At his feet lay two fierce tigers that had tried to attack him but were killed by him instead.

  Gu Xie dust was like a wisp of light smoke shooting out from the dense forest, Xin Jia pushed the Golden Mountain and Jade Pillar to Gu Xie dust and knelt down: "Your Excellency!"

  "Hmm!" Gu Xie dust stretched out his hand and gestured for Xin Jia to get up.

  Sain and Aridiya stared blankly at Xin Jia, who was over three meters tall, and their instincts sensed the extraordinary aura within him. Xin Jia's large ring eyes were fiercely staring at Sain, and in his hand, a fist-sized object had appeared out of nowhere, slowly tossing it back and forth in his palm. The ferocity on Xin Jia's face, as well as his agile eyes, was something that Sain and Aridiya's puppet could never possess.

  "This is!" Sai Yin walked over to Xin Jia in surprise, reaching out to touch the abdominal muscles of Xin Jia. "This..."

  "How dare you, a wicked and evil creature, to profane the body of this deity?" Xīn Jiǎ was enraged. This androgynous demon, Sài Zǐ, who looked like a woman but wasn't one, actually dared to touch him? He opened his big mouth and loudly scolded Sài Zǐ. If it weren't for Gǔ Xié Chén reminding him not to take action on the side, Xīn Jiǎ would have kicked Sài Zǐ in the abdomen long ago.

  A deafening roar shook the air before Sai Ren, a flurry of golden stars flashing before his eyes, and his eardrums throbbing in pain. Sai Ren took several steps back in terror, pointing at Xin Jia and roaring: "This boundary puppet, does it have its own consciousness? How is this possible?! This...this...this is absolutely impossible!"

  Xin Jia raised an eyebrow, turned around and stopped looking at Sai Ren. Xin Jia found that this demon's IQ seemed to be a bit low, since he had already become a subordinate of Shang Zun Gu Xuan Dust, there was no need to pay attention to him anymore. Humph! Divine wisdom? As the guardian of the Yellow Emperor Tian Huang, he naturally had divine wisdom, wasn't that a given? "A stupid demon, brought in as a gatekeeper for the cave, is still passable, at least his appearance is not bad, and won't embarrass Shang Zun!" Xin Jia's thoughts were very simple.

  Guxiaocheng was sizing up the surroundings when he heard Saijin's exclamation. Guxiaocheng turned back impatiently and shouted: "I merged with a black Cristo crystal ball, you should know its origin, what are you surprised about? A black Cristo crystal ball, if you can still find another one that is exactly the same, you can perform a second Cristo merge!"

  Saren and Aridia exchanged a shocked glance, the black Cristo crystal ball? Unheard of, unseen, no wonder Sin'jin and their puppeteer were so different! "No wonder the Holstrom family would stop at nothing to avenge themselves against the Hell's Angel mercenaries, the black Cristo crystal ball! Belphegor was really heartbroken!" Saren suddenly understood some cause and effect.

  Aradiya was using her petite body to curse the ancient evil dust. Kristo's second fusion? Someone had tried that before, but without exception, they all ended up exploding and dying, which was even faster than taking poison! The suggestion of the ancient evil dust was clearly not good-natured! Aradiya's gaze at the ancient evil dust became increasingly malicious.

  Outside the atmosphere of Heaven's Star, two high-speed assault boats from Hell Angel Mercenary Corps collided head-on with a conical warship of the Romans.

  Across a distance of five hundred kilometers, the high-speed assault boat launched four high-speed missiles. The Roman warship shot out dense laser beams that destroyed three missiles, and another missile accurately hit the bow of this warship. The energy shield outside the warship, which was as thick as a meter, weakened by a foot in the explosion's firelight. The Roman warship, enraged, immediately charged towards the two high-speed assault boats.

  Two assault boats turned around and fled without saying a word, the Roman warship with its characteristic arrogance pursued relentlessly, completely forgetting that their mission was to secretly infiltrate and gather intelligence on the movements of Heaven Star. The provocation of the two assault boats enraged the Romans on this warship, who felt confident in destroying the two assault boats before continuing their mission.

  Two assault boats burst into the atmosphere, hurtling towards the ground at nearly a ninety-degree angle at speeds exceeding ten times the speed of sound. The air friction against the hulls of the assault boats caused their special alloy exteriors to slowly turn red, and a blinding tail of flames gradually erupted from behind them. The two assault boats desperately plunged towards the ground, only making a sharp turn into a glide when they were less than three kilometers away from the surface. The rapid change in direction caused the hulls of the two assault boats to emit anguished creaking sounds, as large chunks of armor plating fell off their twisted bodies, plummeting towards the ground with sparks flying everywhere. The two assault boats barely managed to level out into a horizontal flight path just as they were about to clip the treetops of the dense forest, creating powerful gusts that instantly pulverized over a dozen towering trees.

  The deafening roar of the explosion continued to echo, the storm stirred up by the two assault boats blew splinters everywhere, and the Roman warships that were hot on their heels crashed into the large and small pieces of wood, causing sparks to splash across their energy shields.

  Dozens of laser beams ripped through the void, and two assault boats narrowly avoided the Roman warship's barrage, hugging the treetops as they fled in disarray.

  The Roman warship was gradually closing in on the two assault boats, firing continuously, but the two assault boats seemed to have divine assistance, narrowly avoiding a fatal laser beam every time.

  Inside the Independent Army Command Center, Bao Ruo and Mo He brothers were already sweating profusely as they remotely controlled two assault boats in perfect sync, flying forward at high speed. Only a pair of brothers with a deep understanding could barely manage this feat. The Roman warship closely pursuing the two assault boats had not noticed that although their firepower seemed dense, every time they fired several laser beams at one boat, they were distracted by the other boat suddenly appearing in front of them and started wildly firing at it again.

  Thus, one road pursued, one road escaped, the two assault boats stuck to the ground and attracted this Roman warship to the lake where Gu Xiechen and others were located. Moreover, Banruo and Mohai brothers not only attracted the Roman warship to pursue them all the way but also unknowingly reduced their flying speed to below the speed of sound. The Roman warship that had been chasing them relentlessly was attacking the tail engines of the two assault boats, and they too unknowingly slowed down their speed.

  "Attack! Take action!" Gu Xiechen gave the order as he watched the two speedboats whizzing by overhead.

  Almost at the same time as Gu Xie's dust order, Xin Jia patted the iron chain on his waist, and the iron chain, like a giant python, had already whizzed away.

  A small iron chain instantly stretched to over 2,000 meters, with a loud "clang" sound, the iron chain tightly bound the Roman warship that was flying by.

  A loud "boom" sound, every iron ring of the chain suddenly stretched out a few points. The muscles on Xin Jia's body bulged up one by one, and a stream of yellow gas burst out from the ground, constantly pouring into Xin Jia's body. The warship's huge kinetic energy dragged Xin Jia forward in a mad dash, leaving deep footprints on the ground with every step. Xin Jia let out a low roar, his eyes flashing with yellow light as he quickly formed a seal, his body suddenly shooting up over a meter high.

  The iron ring of the chain was stretched again, and Xing Jia's skin burst open inch by inch. A faint golden blood spurted out of Xing Jia's mouth.

  "Your powers are not restored! Otherwise!" Xin Jia's low roar said: "Otherwise, how dare you be so presumptuous? Ah... The heavens and earth share one breath, humans obtain the essence of all things, one spirit calls out, and the heavens and earth respond. Wu Tu shocks with thunder, breaking through!"

  A loud "Boom" echoed through the clear sky, followed by a deafening thunderclap. The terrifying sound was like hundreds of heavy artillery shells exploding right next to their ears, sending Gu Xianchen, Sai Jin, and Ardiya tumbling to the ground. A yellow lightning bolt, no thicker than a child's wrist, shot straight down from the sky and struck the Roman warship that was speeding forward with its engines roaring.

  A loud crackling sound, and a thick, finger-sized electric current swirled around the Roman warship in a chaotic surge. The thick blue light shield, several meters thick, was split by the lightning and on the verge of shattering.

  Guxiao Dust's ears were in extreme pain, and his eyes saw a flash of golden light. He let out a loud howl and charged forward, his feet moving rapidly as he rushed to the side of Xin Jia, who was covered in blood. Guxiao Dust followed the iron chain that Xin Jia held tightly in both hands, sprinting forward with all his might. The Taoist robes and crane cloak on his body emitted a series of faint, invisible air currents in all directions, making Guxiao Dust feel as light as a cloud. In just one breath, he reached the end of the iron chain. With a flash of movement, Guxiao Dust leapt onto the warship of the Roman people, his feet firmly planted on the outer shell of the ship, which still had not dissipated its energy shield.

  "He's crazy!" shouted Saren and Arydia, the Roman's energy shield was incredibly powerful, even ordinary alloys would melt instantly, how could Gu Xie dust jump up directly?

  A soft halo of light spread out from the Taoist robe, enveloping Gu Xie Chen in an egg-shaped aura. The blue energy shield and the halo touched, sparking a burst of electricity where they met, but nowhere could penetrate the halo. Gu Xie Chen let out a strange howl, raising his claws to slash viciously at the warship below.

  "Hiss, hiss" sounds echoed continuously for dozens of times, a faint halo swirled on the glove, Gu Xiechen's claws were like sharp knives cutting tofu, the hull of the Roman warship was torn off by him with ease, one claw tore off a large piece, another claw tore off a large piece, and in just a blink of an eye, a hole with a diameter of about three meters was opened. The wires and pipes under the hull were torn apart by Gu Xiechen's unstoppable hands, a blinding flash of electricity flashed by, and the plasma flames spewing out from the Roman warship's engine suddenly dimmed down.

  Xin Jia was dragged for nearly a thousand kilometers on the ground, and at this time he had stabilized his body shape. As the Roman's engine power weakened, Xin Jia immediately felt that the pressure in his hands had decreased too much.

  With a loud laugh, Xin Jia roared: "You demon, roll down under the power of this god!" His sturdy arms swung, and the Roman warship, which had lost its momentum, was pulled straight down by Xin Jia like a stone.

  "Hoo-ah!" Xing Jia's body returned to its three-meter size, and with a wave of his hands, a gigantic boulder the size of a millstone appeared in his grasp. Hefting this massive stone, Xing Jia let out a mad laugh as he leapt onto the top of the warship, wildly smashing it into the gaping hole that Gu Xie had hacked open.

  Several Lingshan soldiers were about to shoot Gu Xiechen from the cave, but a large stone suddenly fell down, and several Lingshan soldiers cried out in surprise, dropped their guns and turned around to escape.

  With a dull thud, the warship was battered by the Xin Jia and shook violently, with half of its hull buried in the muddy lake shore.

  Sai Ren and Arediya both took a cold breath, exchanged a glance, and simultaneously made their move.

  These past few days, they had absorbed a sufficient amount of Zakula crystals, and their boundaries stored a massive amount of energy. Saren summoned seven Silver Wing Angels, while Ardiel even violently summoned twelve Lava Rhinoceroses. The two of them summoned so many boundary puppets, yet there was no sign of exhaustion, and compared to when Ardiel had only summoned one Lava Rhinoceros and was half-dead from exhaustion, it was simply worlds apart.

  The Silver Winged Angel wielded a large silver sword to slash at the Roman warship, while the twelve Lava Rhinoceroses were fiercely bellowing, they raised their sharp horns on their heads and heavily charged at the warship.

  A loud crash, a warship weighing over 500 tons was knocked flying 30 meters away by twelve furious rhinos. Gu Xiechen and Xin Jia who were standing on the warship cursed loudly as they jumped off in disarray. The warship wasn't blown away with them. A shrill cutting sound came, seven Silver Winged Angels' two-meter-long silver light swords pierced into the warship. After a flurry of chaotic chopping, a perfectly good small warship was hacked into a pile of scrap metal.

  Three pale-faced Romans, accompanied by twelve shivering Specter soldiers, cautiously exited the intact cockpit. Before Gu Xuan and the others could even speak, the three Romans began shouting in unison: "We surrender! We'll pay a hefty ransom to have our families bail us out! Don't kill us!"

  Kuxia Chen, Sai Ren, and Aridiya simultaneously let out a mouthful of bad air. They looked at each other, gaining a new understanding of their companions' combat strength.

  A Roman warrior with a keen eye stared blankly at the three Gu Xie Dust, suddenly letting out a mournful howl: "Three Jie Shi! You Earthlings are too bullying! Waaah, three Jie Shi, why don't you go attack our Roman Wan Shen Temple? Why come to bully our one reconnaissance ship?"

  Koxia Dust, Sai Ren and Aridiya stared at each other blankly for a moment before bursting out laughing simultaneously.

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