"He is—the Ever-changing Star Lord!!!"

Chen Huaishu's voice echoed in the underground supreme command center.

Everyone in the command center looked at the red-eyed old man, then turned their heads to stare at the blond youth standing proudly on the dragon's head on the holographic screen, their mouths agape.

What?!

You're saying this youth, who looks barely in his early twenties, is the guardian deity of our Great Xia?

That God of War, the Ever-changing Star Lord?

"How can this be..." An officer with a general's star on his shoulder widened his eyes.

But when he saw the demi-god level Abyssal Demon Dragon on the screen, he swallowed his words and changed his tune, "This... how can he be so young?"

"Yeah! This is way too young; he looks like a college student!"

"The Ever-changing Star Lord's strength is immense. After all, he is a peerless existence who personally killed Sakura Country's SSS-Rank Experts..."

Another chief of staff swallowed hard and wiped the sweat from his forehead: "But... but I never expected him to be strong to this extent!"

He arrived directly riding a demi-god level Abyssal Demon Dragon!

Batu, the SS-Rank Earth-type expert who could create a hundred-meter-high mountain out of thin air just now, was a terrifying existence who even forced Marshal Zhao to cough up blood.

And the result?

In the hands of the Ever-changing Star Lord, he couldn't even last a single round!

That kind of crushing defeat was simply not on the same level!

"Good heavens... if we had known the Ever-changing Star Lord was this strong, why would we have fought the war to destroy Sakura Country so hard?" General Wang Zhenbei, who had only one arm, shook his head with a bitter smile, his eyes turning red. "With him presiding over us, why should our Great Xia fear this bullshit Dawnbreaker Guild?"

Meanwhile, thousands of meters above the Imperial Capital.

The violent energy storm had dissipated, leaving only scorched earth and severed limbs.

With just one round of confrontation, and just one area-of-effect skill from Demon Dragon Xiao Hei, these Ancient Remnant Clan members, who considered themselves descendants of gods, stopped their movements one after another.

Seeing their companions falling as a rain of blood, the remaining dozen or so Dawnbreaker Guild experts dropped their weapons.

Thud!

Thud! Thud!

They deactivated their shields and descended toward the ruins below. Then, stabilizing themselves dozens of meters above the ground, they knelt in the Void Realm, kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"Spare us! Spare us, My Lord!"

"We surrender! Please, show mercy!"

Just then, from deep within the forest that had been turned into scorched earth by the Dragon Breath, the sound of something breaking through the air was heard.

A battered figure was flying wobblily toward them.

It was the Grand Elder, who had been hit head-on by Xiao Hei's Abyssal Dragon Breath earlier!

When everyone saw his appearance, Zhao Qingcang took half a step back.

The Grand Elder was scorched black all over, and more than half of his body had been turned to charcoal. As he flew, the carbonized flesh continued to fall off, revealing the wriggling dark red granulation underneath.

Half of his head had been melted away by High-dimensional Flames, leaving even his pale white skull exposed to the air. He was hanging on to his last breath only by the life Origin of an SS-Rank ancient expert.

This once high-and-mighty Grand Elder no longer had a shred of arrogance when he flew beneath the massive Abyssal Demon Dragon.

With a "thud," he knelt in mid-air, his one remaining eye wide open.

"I beg of you... please let us go!"

The Grand Elder panted heavily: "I admit defeat... we admit defeat!"

Standing atop the dragon's head, Zhou Huai looked down at the group from above.

He grinned.

"Oh? Let you go?"

Zhou Huai crossed his arms, his golden hair dancing wildly in the wind as ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) he stared at the Grand Elder.

"Where is that arrogant attitude you had just now, treating the civilians of Great Xia like ants and threatening to slaughter the city at every turn?"

"Weren't you just clamoring to take my life in exchange for a reward from that Mr. Duan of yours?"

"I thought you remnants of the old era were truly unafraid of death."

In the face of Zhou Huai's words, the Grand Elder buried his remaining half-shattered head even lower, his whole body groveling as if he wanted to press his face against the soles of Zhou Huai's shoes.

"No, no, no! My Lord! You misunderstand; this is truly a huge misunderstanding!"

The Grand Elder trembled. To save his life, he couldn't care less about Mr. Duan's prestige and began pouring out his grievances.

"Actually... actually, we were also forced by that man named Duan!"

"My Lord, please see clearly! We old fellows have been dead for many years, quietly sleeping in the ruins, but we were forcibly resurrected by that man named Duan!"

"He planted a High-dimensional Imprint in our Divine Souls, forcing us to work for him! If we don't obey, he makes us wish we were dead!"

Hearing the Grand Elder's words, the surrounding members of the Ancient Remnant Clan kneeling in mid-air nodded repeatedly.

"Exactly! The Grand Elder is right! We aren't on the same side as that Mr. Duan at all!"

"We were also forced! We were dead and at peace, but he had to resurrect us to do this kind of heartless work!"

"My Lord, every debt has its debtor. If you want to settle accounts, go find that Mr. Duan! We are truly just a group of poor, coerced people!"

Zhou Huai burst into laughter.

"Hahahaha..."

Zhou Huai's laughter echoed thousands of meters in the air.

"I thought you were once big shots who called the shots in your era."

"I didn't expect that once you shed that skin of so-called descendants of gods, you'd be nothing but a bunch of spineless cowards to the core."

"Truly pathetic."

The Grand Elder's lips twitched, revealing a hideous smile.

"My Lord is right to lecture us... big shots? That's all ancient history."

He tremblingly raised his remaining left hand and wiped the blood from the corner of his eye.

"SS-Rank Professionals like us might seem unattainable in the eyes of those ignorant Mortals. But in front of a true Peak expert like you, we are nothing but ants."

"At most... just slightly larger ants."

"How could we possibly have the qualifications to challenge you?"

At this point, the Grand Elder asked tentatively in a low voice: "My Lord, what do you think of this?"

"As long as you show mercy today and spare our dog lives."

"I swear to you! I will take the remaining people and get out of Great Xia's territory right now, and I guarantee that from now on, for generations to come, we will never set foot in Great Xia again!"

"Just treat us like a fart and let us go, okay?"

"Leave?"

Zhou Huai stopped smiling and looked at him expressionlessly.

He cold-laughed.

"If you leave empty-handed like this, and the task Mr. Duan gave you to receive your fellow clansmen is not completed..."

"Do you think he will let you off easily?"

"Won't your result still be death?"