Flames spewed as machine guns and artillery on the Great Xia defense line unleashed a hail of bullets, slamming into the green storm.

When the shells came into contact with the mutated vines, they did not spark; they were absorbed and assimilated by the mutated vines.

"It's useless...it's completely useless..." Zhang He collapsed to the ground, his eyes staring blankly ahead. "Even artillery can't harm them in the slightest...that guy in the sky is doomed!"

The dragon is about to be swallowed by a green tsunami.

High above the sky, facing a vine meat grinder.

Zhou Huai did not give any instructions.

"hold head high--!!!"

The little black dragon's golden vertical pupils snapped upwards, and it opened its massive maw.

The chest cavity expands, the surrounding air is drawn out, forming an airflow vortex.

"Whoosh—!!!"

Black dragon breath shot out from Xiao Hei's mouth.

A black waterfall cascades down from the sky.

The moment the black dragon breath touched the green leaves and vines.

The green leaves and vines vanished silently.

The mutated vegetation vaporizes and dissipates upon contact with the abyssal demonic flames.

The black dragon's breath waterfall plunges into the Devil's Forest ahead.

"Rumble—!"

A black shockwave spread outwards from the point where the dragon's breath landed.

The earth cracked open, and the air currents churned.

In the blink of an eye.

As the black beams of light receded, the sky regained its brightness.

A gentle breeze was blowing.

The front line is now empty.

The Devil's Forest, which originally covered an area of ​​one or two kilometers.

It has been reduced to scorched earth.

The weeds and soil have vanished, leaving only a black sinkhole tens of meters deep, with black smoke rising from its bottom.

The soldiers of the Great Xia Dynasty present gaped in astonishment.

"Clatter".

A rifle fell from someone's hand to the ground.

"Gurgle...gurgle..."

The only sound on the entire position was the swallowing of saliva.

"Is this...is this a dream, or am I seeing things?!"

A company commander slapped himself, his cheek turning bright red. "One or two kilometers of the Devil's Forest... just... just like that, gone?!" 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

"This...this dragon's breath is incredibly powerful! It didn't even leave a trace!"

"Good heavens! Our Third Legion lost so many lives and couldn't even cut a single vine... and it only used a spit?!"

"What level of beast is this?! S-rank? SS-rank? Or... the legendary god-rank?!"

The soldiers looked up at the black dragon in the sky, their legs trembling.

Zhang He grabbed Li Zhenyuan's arm, trembling, tears streaming down his face: "Commander... Corps Commander... This dragon... no! It's the man who rides the dragon! If he wanted to kill us, it would only take him half a second!"

Li Zhenyuan's lips were pale.

"Don't panic... don't panic!" Li Zhenyuan straightened his back, his voice trembling.

He looked up at the bare-chested, blond-haired, blue-eyed figure in mid-air and shouted:

"May I ask... who exactly are you, sir?!"

The gale was tearing through the air without any obstruction.

Zhou Huai, controlling the blond, blue-eyed Arthur, looked down at the devastated and terrified Great Xia defense line below. Facing Li Zhenyuan's almost raspy questioning, his azure eyes remained unmoved; he simply smiled.

"I?"

Arthur's exotic, deep, and magnetic voice, amplified by the magic of a quasi-god-level dragon, echoed across the entire defensive line: "Naturally, I'm here to help you solve your problems."

Before the Great Xia soldiers below could recover from his words, Zhou Huai issued a ruthless order to expel them: "Take your men and withdraw from this area ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) as far as possible. The battles to come are not for you to participate in!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he didn't even bother to look at it again, and simply patted the obsidian scales of the dragon he was riding.

"hold head high--!"

With perfect coordination, Xiao Hei let out a high-pitched dragon roar, its huge wings flapping powerfully, creating a terrifying hurricane that almost uprooted the tent. Its massive body rose higher again, reducing the suffocating dragon aura somewhat, but it still pressed down on everyone's heads.

At the front of the defensive line, Li Zhenyuan was blown back two steps by the gale. He stared at the terrifying dragon in mid-air, then looked at the several kilometers of Devil Forest ahead that had been completely flattened and turned into scorched earth by a single breath of dragon's breath. His forehead was already covered in cold sweat.

"Commander...should we...retreat?" Chief of Staff Zhang He swallowed hard, his voice trembling.

"withdraw!"

Li Zhenyuan, being a seasoned veteran, made a decisive decision after only a brief moment of deliberation. He knew that regardless of the origin of the man with the Free Federation face in the sky, that attack had indeed saved the entire Third Legion.

Moreover, with that level of power, there's absolutely no point in them staying here except to be cannon fodder.

Li Zhenyuan turned his head and lowered his voice to urgently order Zhang He: "Immediately order the entire army to take turns providing cover and retreat fifty miles! At the same time, immediately connect to the military headquarters' highest-encryption channel and report the images and news here word for word!"

"A mysterious and powerful figure from the Free Federation has actually appeared in the heart of our country riding an epic-level dark dragon. This is no small matter!"

"Although they said they were there to help resolve the problem, we must always be wary and not let our guard down!"

"Yes!" Zhang He seemed to wake from a dream and scrambled towards the communications vehicle.

High in the sky, Zhou Huai, thanks to the dragon's extraordinary hearing, clearly heard Li Zhenyuan's whispers. Far from being angry, he secretly admired the Great Xia general's alertness and decisiveness. With such a commander in the Great Xia military, he could be spared many worries.

Seeing the main force below begin to retreat in an orderly manner, Zhou Huai finally regained his composure.

"Let's go, Blackie, let's go and meet the old monster in this forest."

"Whoosh—whoosh—"

The abyssal dragon, over sixty meters long, glided slowly under the overcast sky, flying towards the depths of the unfathomable dark green rainforest.

A bizarre scene unfolded.

Previously, those mutated plants that dared to fiercely retaliate against the Great Xia army's relentless bombardment and were bloodthirsty as to die, now retreated. Completely terrified by Xiao Hei's earth-shattering abyssal dragon breath, they not only ceased their frenzied attacks into the sky as before, but instead retreated to both sides like a tide.

Wherever the dragon's massive shadow passed, towering trees, some hundreds of meters tall, emitted a sickening cracking sound as their thick trunks bent sharply. The barbed, bloodthirsty vines swiftly retreated into the depths of the earth, trembling.