As soon as these words were spoken, the entire audience was in an uproar.

Inside the Imperial Capital defense line below, countless Great Xia soldiers seeing this scene through magic-conducting screens were so shocked their jaws nearly hit the ground.

Was this still the old monster who just now treated human lives like grass and called everyone "ants"? Why was he now wagging his tail and begging for mercy like a dog?!

Zhou Huai crossed his arms, a faint, ambiguous smile playing on his lips. He didn't speak, just quietly watched him perform.

Seeing that Zhou Huai didn't act immediately, the Grand Elder thought there was a turn for the better. He hurriedly swallowed and began to explain incoherently:

"Yes! It's a misunderstanding! A huge misunderstanding!"

"We... our Dawnbreaker Guild has absolutely no ill will toward the Great Xia Country! We were just passing through... yes, just passing through this airspace!"

The Grand Elder pointed at Zhao Qingcang and Lin Zhu not far away, waving his hands frantically. "We definitely didn't intend to kill anyone! What happened just now was just... just a spar! Yes, a friendly exchange of pointers!"

"Yes, yes, yes! The Grand Elder is right!"

To the side, the burly man Batu, who had just condensed a several-hundred-meter-tall earthen mountain and nearly smashed half of the Imperial Capital, was now deathly pale with fear.

The violent Earth Origin Law all over his body had long since retracted into his body, and he had thrown the blood-colored giant axe in his hand directly into the Void Realm.

Batu nodded frantically, his face covered in smiles. His originally ferocious and rugged face now squeezed out a smile ten times uglier than crying.

"Your Excellency, please see clearly!"

Batu patted his thick chest and chimed in loudly, "We were just joking with these two friends from Great Xia! Just lightening the mood, yes, lightening the mood!"

"We people from the old era just like this way of greeting. We really didn't mean anything else!"

"Joking?"

Zhou Huai finally spoke.

His voice wasn't loud, but with the enhancement of invisible Laws, it exploded in everyone's ears like a clap of thunder.

The mockery in the young man's eyes grew deeper. He looked down from above at this group of Ancient Remnant Clan members making fools of themselves and suddenly chuckled.

"Hehe... Hahahaha!"

Zhou Huai's laughter echoed through the clouds, making Batu, the Grand Elder, and the others feel uneasy, with chills running down their spines.

"What a coincidence."

Zhou Huai stopped laughing, his eyes instantly turning ice-cold to the extreme, like eternal ice, exuding a despairing killing intent.

"Actually, I—like joking the most too."

Zhou Huai slowly raised his right hand, pointing at the scarred super-metropolis below where countless people were crying in terror.

"You used the lives of tens of millions of Great Xia civilians to make a joke, so I'll make a joke with you as well, how about it?"

The Grand Elder's heart skipped a beat, and a strong sense of life-and-death crisis instantly enveloped his entire body.

"Your Excellency! What... what do you want to do?!" The Grand Elder screamed in terror. "We are Mr. Duan's people! Are you really going to go to war with the great Mr. Duan for the sake of these ants of the present world?!"

"Mr. Duan is a god who has already transcended the rules! If you touch us, he will definitely not let you off!"

At this point, the Grand Elder could only bring up Mr. Duan, trying to use this great figure—the only one who could hold down the fort—to save his life.

"Using that old bastard to pressure me?"

A flash of disdain and disgust crossed Zhou Huai's eyes.

"Your Excellency! You, you can't—"

The black-robed Grand Elder saw Zhou Huai pull out his weapon. His legs went weak, and he shrieked at the top of his lungs, "Mr. Duan is a Transcendent! If you kill us, you will be completely at war with a god—"

"Noisy."

Before he could finish shouting this threat, it was interrupted by the two words Zhou Huai spat out.

Demon Dragon Xiao Hei beneath Zhou Huai's feet opened its mouth.

"Roar—!"

Accompanied by a dragon's roar, Xiao Hei opened its bloody maw.

Black dragon breath blasted toward the Grand Elder below!

This was the Abyssal Wrath containing the demi-god level Destruction Origin!

"No!!!"

The Grand Elder's eyes widened. He formed seals with his hands, mobilizing all the remaining Origin within his body.

"Absolute Prison!"

"Great Imperial Heaven Array!"

"Shinra Shield!"

He propped up over a dozen SS-Rank defensive barriers in front of him in one breath.

However.

In the face of the demi-god level Abyssal Dragon Breath, these defenses were vulnerable.

"Crack! Crack crack—!"

The first defense, instantly shattered!

The fifth defense, instantly shattered!

The fifteenth defense still broke!

"Aaaaah—!"

A scream rang out as the black dragon breath hit the Dawnbreaker Guild's Grand Elder head-on.

His body was ignited by high-dimensional flames in mid-air and fell toward the ground.

"Whoosh—"

Accompanied by a trail of thick smoke, the Grand Elder's wails faded as he fell, finally crashing into a primitive jungle outside the Imperial Capital with a loud bang.

Flames flared up, and a large area of trees turned to scorched earth. There was no further movement from the Grand Elder.

Silence.

The high altitude of several thousand meters fell silent.

The remaining experts from the Dawnbreaker Guild all had their mouths wide open, their eyes nearly bulging out.

What just happened?!

Their Dawnbreaker Guild's Grand Elder, who was above ten thousand people and below only one, possessing unfathomable power, actually... actually couldn't even withstand a single breath from the opponent's mount and was instantly turned to dust?!

"Grand Elder!!"

Batu, the burly man who had previously condensed a several-hundred-meter earthen mountain, now had bloodshot copper-bell-like eyes.

Despair, extreme despair, spread wildly in the hearts of all the Ancient Remnant Clan members, but what followed was the hysteria of being pushed to a dead end!

"There's no way back!"

Batu suddenly turned his head, his facial muscles twisted together due to extreme fear and madness. He roared hysterically at his shivering companions behind him:

"Fight him!!!"

"The Grand Elder has been struck down. Even if we kneel and kowtow now, he won't let us go!"

"Right!" Another thin, tall SS-Rank in the team also had bloodshot eyes. He pulled out the twin blades at his waist and roared through gritted teeth, "It's death either way! With so many of us burning our Origin together, we might not be without the power to fight!"

"What's more—if we can't complete the reception mission and run back like this, you know Mr. Duan's methods! Going back is also a dead end!"

"Kill—!!"

"Go all out against him!"

The dozens of ancient experts, completely pushed to a dead end, erupted with unprecedented ferocity at this moment. They no longer hoped to survive, only wanting to tear a piece of meat off this demi-god level Demon Dragon before they died!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The sky was instantly lit up by colorful high-dimensional energy!

Violent Earth Origin, thunder Laws that tore through the Void Realm, an extreme cold storm enough to freeze the Soul... the desperate strike of dozens ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) of S-Rank and several SS-Rank Experts converged into a destructive torrent that could even wipe a small part of a country off the map!

"Go to hell!!!"