The fire-elemental awakener's eyes widened. He discovered that before the supreme laws, the ancient divine power within him was frozen!

Not only that, he could no longer control even a single finger or a single muscle!

"Bang!"

Having lost all support, he fell straight down from mid-air, crashing heavily beside the lava crater, unable to move.

The three S-rank generals below, who were preparing to fight to the death, were completely dumbfounded.

"That...that sound was..."

"Never mind that! Someone's helping us in secret! Arrest them!"

The general wielding the heavy sword reacted the fastest; he lunged forward and fastened the magic-suppressing chains to the limbs of the fire-elemental awakener!

The generals slumped to the ground, panting heavily, their bodies drenched in cold sweat.

Meanwhile, on the rooftop of a tall building.

Zhou Huai's eye twitched.

As this forceful, transgressive control took effect, the backlash from Heaven erupted!

"Rumble rumble rumble—!!!"

The night sky split open, and seven or eight scarlet bolts of lightning intertwined to form a net, striking down towards Li Er!

"Bang bang bang bang!"

A series of sounds!

All the lightning struck Xiang Yu, who was standing nearby.

Xiang Yu's massive body was cleaved backward, each step leaving a deep footprint on the reinforced concrete rooftop.

His dark gold armor couldn't withstand the strain and shattered into pieces! His chest, back, and arms were all cleaved with charred wounds, and blood gushed out!

The health bar above his head was cleaved in half by this heavenly tribulation!

If it were any other SS-level powerhouse, even if they didn't die, they would be left barely breathing.

Zhou Huai looked at Xiang Yu.

Because it could happen in the next second.

A dark red aura erupted from Xiang Yu's battered body! The passive skill 【Fight to the Death】 was triggered, causing his health regeneration speed to skyrocket!

The horrific wound was rapidly healing, with granulation tissue forming, scabs forming, and the wound closing up!

For Xiang Yu, the Hegemon of Western Chu, as long as he wasn't instantly killed...

This lightning strike, this injury... it's nothing but the wear and tear of life!

Zhou Huai looked away and smiled.

Because as the ancient fire-elemental awakener was bound by the chains that forbid magic, he completely lost his ability to resist.

A system notification sounded in his mind.

【Ding! Successfully suppressed an ancient, extremely evil awakener!】

【Congratulations, host! The Great Sage Li Er has gained 100,000 merit points!】

Capturing an ancient awakened being actually rewarded with a full 100,000 merit points!

This is a pattern that Zhou Huai has only recently discovered.

It's important to know that normally, in various secret realms, killing a beast of a decent level only awards a paltry one to ten merit points from the system.

The merit points reward given by the system for assisting the Great Xia military in capturing or directly eliminating an ancient clan were increased by tens of thousands of times!

This is outrageous profiteering!

In just a few days, Zhou Huai, controlling the Great Sage Li Er, secretly cooperated with the Great Xia military, moving like a ghost among the battlefields where the Awakened Ones were causing unrest. As long as the military's experts had brought the Awakened Ones to the brink of death, Li Er would timely unleash a "Words Come True" skill to control the situation or suppress them.

After a series of coordinated actions, not only did he get the military's labor force for free, but Li Er's merit points also skyrocketed, now amounting to over a million!

Looking at the long string of numbers on the panel, Zhou Huai sat in his villa in Donghai City, stroking his chin thoughtfully.

He didn't really understand what the criteria for judging merit points were.

However, judging from the current situation, it is clear that there is an invisible hand at play, or perhaps the ethereal God of Heaven, who also perceives these suddenly awakened ancient races as a great threat.

This outrageous reward of 100,000 points was clearly intended to encourage Zhou Huai to deal with them.

“If there truly is a God in this world...” Zhou Huai smiled, “then am I doing what I’m doing now in accordance with the will of Heaven?”

"And Mr. Duan, who attempted to exploit these ancient remnants, and even wanted to restart the world and annihilate all living beings, was he going against the will of Heaven?"

Thinking about it this way, Zhou Huai himself found it quite amusing.

Who cares about the Heavenly Dao? As long as he can become stronger quickly and pull that high and mighty transcendent being down from his pedestal, Zhou Huai doesn't mind becoming a blade of the Heavenly Dao!

"call--"

Zhou Huai pulled himself out of his thoughts and focused his consciousness back on his clone.

Currently, the ancient remnant clan uprising that broke out in Shanghai has been largely contained by the military, thanks to Li Er's covert assistance. Those awakened individuals who have lost the ability to resist are being secretly transported, truckload by truck, to the Zero Underground Prison to become the exclusive experience packs for the Insect Emperor Caesar.

Time was of the essence, and he had to rush to other cities in Daxia to continue this sure-fire shopping spree.

On the rooftop of a high-rise building, the night wind was biting.

Zhou Huai, controlling Li Er in his grey robe, turned around expressionlessly, reached out, and grabbed the thick arm of Xiang Yu, the Overlord, who was still emitting blue smoke.

Then, Li Er looked into the distance and gently took a step into the air.

"Buzz—!" 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

There was no sound all around.

The space beneath their feet rippled.

The next second, Li Er and Xiang Yu's bodies became blurry on the spot and disappeared without a trace!

When they reappeared, they were already hundreds of meters away in the void. After only a pause, they took another step and crossed an even greater distance.

This is not Li Er using that extremely merit-consuming and lightning-inducing "words become law" technique again.

Rather, it was the new skill he learned when he reached level five—【Shrinking the Earth to an Inch】!

What's outrageous about this skill is that it doesn't require any merit points, only a negligible amount of mana, to easily overcome spatial obstacles, and there's no skill cooldown!

As long as he has enough mana, he can keep going!

"Truly worthy of being the SSS-level Great Sage Li Er, every single skill he casually pulls out is a legendary immortal technique."

As Zhou Huai experienced the wondrous sensation of space rapidly receding beneath his feet, he couldn't help but secretly marvel at it.

Previously, even if one took the most advanced helicopter from the Great Xia military to fly from Donghai City to the capital, it would still take at least a day.

Now, with the ability to shrink the earth to an inch, Li Er led Xiang Yu across the ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) vast territory of the Great Xia Dynasty in less than half a day!

That's what makes the one hidden profession so outrageous!

As the night deepened, no one noticed that above the ravaged city, two figures were walking leisurely through the air, disappearing completely into the darkness after a few flashes, heading to their next battlefield.