With several ear-piercing metallic screeches, Great Xia soldiers pulled open the heavy rear doors of over a dozen heavy military trucks simultaneously.

Sunlight flooded into the originally dim truck beds, and the figures curled up in the corners instinctively let out low, pained growls.

"Get down! Behave yourselves!"

Several soldiers armed with live ammunition shouted coldly, their Magic-guided Rifles aimed at the interior of the trucks.

Following that, heavy and sluggish footsteps accompanied by the clatter of iron chains came from inside the trucks.

Those members of the Ancient Remnant Clan, who had caused such a headache for the high-level officials of Great Xia Country and even triggered a nationwide red alert, hobbled off the trucks, supporting each other.

After the full-scale search and capture by the Great Xia Military Department during this period, over a hundred members of the Ancient Remnant Clan had been captured alive within the borders of Great Xia.

But now, where was there even a hint of their posture as descendants of gods from the ancient era?

Locked around everyone's wrists and ankles were Mana-Suppression Bracelets shimmering with a faint dark blue light; these special torture devices, crafted by the top blacksmiths of Great Xia, completely sealed the flow of high-dimensional Laws within their bodies.

They were in rags and looked extremely haggard. Their eyes were sunken, their faces sallow, and their skin shriveled; they wobbled as they walked, looking as if a gust of wind could blow these former top-tier powerhouses over.

This extremely weakened state was, of course, thanks to Zhou Huai's Insect Emperor Caesar Clone.

During their imprisonment in the No. 0 Underground Prison, Caesar had planted extremely domineering Alien Parasites inside all of these Ancient Remnant Clan members. Those invisible insects gnawed at their Life Origin and high-dimensional mana day and night, absorbing most of their power and turning it into nourishment for Zhou Huai's Clone to level up.

Despite this, their miserable state was still much better than that of their kinsmen who had been parasitized in Sakura Country.

At least they still had a breath left, and their limbs were intact, not having been completely drained into mummies by the Parasites.

If it weren't for the fact that the shells possessed by these Ancient Remnant Clan members were the Physical Bodies of innocent Great Xia Professionals, and Zhou Huai had intentionally suppressed the speed at which Caesar's Parasites gnawed to preserve his compatriots' bodies, these old monsters would have turned into piles of ash in the underground prison long ago.

"Everyone is here."

Standing atop the massive head of a Magic Dragon, Zhou Huai crossed his arms and looked down at the kneeling Grand Elder of the Dawnbreaker Guild, smiling. "Old man, do a headcount."

The Grand Elder's remaining eye stared at his kinsmen stepping off the trucks, tears mixing with the blood and soot on his face as they fell.

It really was them! All of them!

They looked so weak they seemed ready to keel over, but at least they were alive!

As long as he brought them back to the guild alive, Mr. Duan's anger would be mostly appeased, and his old life would be saved!

"Thank you, My Lord! Thank you, My Lord, for keeping your promise!" Ignoring the pain in his body, the Grand Elder kowtowed several times in the Void Realm with loud thuds.

Zhou Huai raised his chin slightly and looked at him. "Alright, take them and go. However, let me put the ugly words first—"

He paused, his golden hair fluttering in the gale, his voice dropping several octaves. "On the way, take good care of them for me."

"Huh?"

The Grand Elder's kowtowing motion froze, and he raised his battered face, completely bewildered.

Take good care of them?

Has this death god taken the wrong medicine?!

One moment he treated them like grass, killing half of their experts with a single Dragon Breath, and now he was specifically instructing him to take good care of these prisoners?

The Grand Elder's heart pounded wildly, and his spine felt cold; he even wondered if Zhou Huai had installed some kind of explosive magic bomb on these kinsmen, intending to wipe them all out midway.

But facing that demi-god level Magic Dragon that was huffing right at him and emitting a pressure of death, how could the Grand Elder dare to ask a single question!

"Yes, yes, yes! Rest assured, My Lord!" The Grand Elder nodded like a chicken pecking at grain, promising while patting his scorched chest, "We will definitely bring them back safely! We won't let anything happen to them!"

Even if they were a bunch of cripples, he had to escort them back to their lair like honored guests!

"Scram." Zhou Huai waved his hand impatiently.

As if granted a grand amnesty, the Grand Elder turned and roared at the dozen or so surviving subordinates behind him, "What are you standing there for?! Take the people and retreat! Retreat now!" 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

In the team, a surviving S-rank Earth-element Professional endured the pain of his severed arm, bit the tip of his tongue, and desperately squeezed out the last of his mana.

"Earth Profound Truth—Leyline Flowing Boat!"

Along with his roar, the open ground ⊛ Nоvеlιght ⊛ (Read the full story) in the outskirts began to vibrate violently.

Then, the earth churned, and soil and rocks quickly gathered under the feet of those weak Ancient Remnant Clan members, forming a hundred-meter-long rock flying boat in the blink of an eye.

Over a hundred haggard prisoners were gently lifted by the power of the rock and landed steadily inside the boat.

"Go!"

The Grand Elder gave a sharp whistle. The Earth-element Professional raised his hands, and the rock flying boat rose from the ground, turning into a streak of dim yellow light, fleeing madly in the direction away from the Great Xia Imperial Capital.

Not until the flying boat had completely disappeared into the clouds on the horizon did the Grand Elder's heart, which had been hanging in his throat, finally drop back into his stomach. He collapsed onto the deck of the flying boat like he was exhausted, gasping for breath.

Seeing those monsters from the Dawnbreaker Guild had completely left and the sky had returned to tranquility, Zhao Qingcang, whose nerves had been tightly strung, finally let out a long sigh of relief.

A pair of Wind Wings condensed from mana unfolded behind his back, and he quickly flew to Zhou Huai's side.

"Zhou Huai..." Zhao Qingcang looked at the receding yellow dot, frowned, and finally couldn't help but ask, "We spent so much manpower and resources, and even sacrificed many soldiers to capture these Ancient Remnant Clan members. How could we just let them take the people away so easily?"

"Those are the fresh forces of the Dawnbreaker Guild! Once they return to Mr. Duan's side and recover their Origin Qi, they will surely be formidable enemies for our Great Xia in the future! This is simply letting the tiger return to the mountain!"

Zhou Huai turned his head slightly, and seeing the Great Xia commander's anxious look, he couldn't help but let out a soft chuckle.

"Letting the tiger return to the mountain?"

Zhou Huai extended a finger and lightly tapped the hard scales of the Magic Dragon. "Marshal, you are mistaken. What I let back is a group of high-level tracking devices they carry with them."

"Tracking devices?" Zhao Qingcang was stunned.

"That's right." Zhou Huai looked at him. "The whereabouts of those remnants of the Dawnbreaker Guild are too mysterious. Especially that so-called Transcendent, Mr. Duan, who possesses high-dimensional space Laws and has been hiding in the shadows. The enemy being in the dark while we are in the light is the most fatal threat to our Great Xia."