【Before long, Moss couldn’t laugh anymore.】

【You were seen weaving back and forth among the Dragon-Man soldiers and a massive horde of Water Demon Spirits, your size growing larger and your destructive power stronger with each passing moment.】

【By the end, merely skimming across the sea surface, the wind you kicked up was enough to split parts of the ocean apart!】

【Moss’s face couldn’t take it anymore.】

【“What the hell is going on?! This guy’s getting bigger the more he fights! Is he even human?! Oh... I get it! It’s one of those special human physiques!”】

【Moss wasn’t underestimating you at all, really.】

【He had his subordinates test the waters specifically to see what special traits you had.】

【After a bit of observation, he felt that if he kept watching, he might not be able to handle you.】

【He had to make a move!】

【“Goddamn flash!!”】

【Moss’s entire body suddenly erupted with sky-piercing green light, instantly scattering the clouds in the heavens. The terrifying air pressure distorted the sea surface thousands of meters below.】

【The Dragon-Man soldiers around him were all sent flying by the residual shockwave.】

【The green light converged into a beam, bending its path from the high sky, hurtling toward you.】

【Your surroundings lit up with a red warning field.】

【But you showed no fear!】

【“Return the Wang family’s lives!”】

【Your reason dropped again, and your strength and size surged further!】

【Qilin Arm leading the charge, you withstood the attack head-on and blasted upward!】

【“Boom!!!”】

【One punch sent Moss crashing into the seabed, throwing up waves a thousand meters high—mountains roaring, seas screaming, shaking heaven and earth!】

【You unleashed a similar technique.】

【“Shattering Star Ripple Finger!”】

【Calling this move a “finger” didn’t quite fit anymore.】

【You fired off all ten fingers simultaneously, the golden beams linking together into a single sheet. From afar, it looked like “a galaxy cascading from the heavens”—covering everything, leaving no path to survival.】

【Seawater was massively vaporized by your attack, turning into boundless white fog that rolled away in all directions.】

【Moss frantically fled across the seabed.】

【After your reason dropped, the accuracy of your techniques declined slightly.】

【No matter.】

【“Crow One is in position!”】

【You had the Immortal Artifact Nine Crows Divine Bow—something that didn’t need aiming, as it could track its enemies on its own!】

【Under your ferocious assault, a dignified Earth Venerable of the Dragon-Man Expeditionary Army was reduced to a dog with its tail between its legs, even resorting to burrowing into the ground.】

【But no matter how he fled through the skies or into the earth, you still chased him relentlessly.】

【You were like a human bulldozer, crushing every obstacle in your path, with only one target: Moss Earth Venerable!】

“Talk about a role reversal!”

Outside the simulation, Chen Yi watched this scene and sighed with endless emotion.

He recalled the finale of his Fourth Simulation.

Back then, he was hunted by a Dragon-Man of the same Earth Venerable status, and it was utterly miserable.

If it hadn’t been for Black Wind, he’d have been instantly killed on the spot.

In the end, he still died at the hands of that Earth Venerable.

Though these two weren’t the same person, he figured that as fellow Earth Venerables, the gap in strength wouldn’t be too huge.

Now, in this Fifth Simulation, the tables had turned—the hunter had become the hunted, and the Earth Venerable was the one being chased!

【Moss Earth Venerable was driven beyond frustration by your relentless pursuit. Parts of his body had been shattered several times by you.】

【But each time, he pulled out a bottle of thick, yellow-green liquid and chugged it down with a “glug glug.”】

【Then, his body would slowly begin to regrow.】

【It wasn’t fast, but as the fight dragged on, he recovered to about seventy or eighty percent.】

【“Enough! Do you take me for some lowly grunt just because an Earth Venerable hasn’t shown his true power?!”】

【Moss scattered beans to form soldiers, tossing out a huge pile of Spirit Pearls. Instantly, countless enormous Water Demon Spirits rose from the sea.】

【He mixed in among them, using the Water Demon Spirits to interfere with your pursuit while seizing the chance to unleash a secret technique.】

【“Today, I’ll show you the unique Super Soul Combat Art of us Earth Venerables!”】

【Hu Chacha fed you intel.】

【“Be careful, my lord! The so-called Super Soul Combat Art involves burning Soul Power and lifespan for a temporary realm boost! Only a very few Dragon-Man can master this technique!”】

【Now you understood.】

【In other words, only Dragon-Man Martial Saints who mastered the Super Soul Combat Art—those able to temporarily enter the Martial God Realm—could be titled Earth Venerables.】

【To put it differently, in a single Dragon-Man Expeditionary Army, with Three Grand Venerables and Ten Earth Venerables, that meant three baseline Martial Gods and ten wartime Martial Gods!】

【“I have to take down one here, or the pressure will be too much…”】

【Up ahead, a semi-transparent soul body—essentially Moss himself—rose from him.】

【This soul body began to burn, radiating blinding light.】

【A green halo also appeared around Moss’s physical form, sometimes expanding, sometimes contracting.】

【“Like you’re the only one who can transform!”】

【The enemy had entered Phase Two, so you did too—Three Heads and Six Arms!】

【Moss let out a furious roar.】

【“Come on! Today, you and me! We goddamn settle who’s better! And decide life and death! Invincible Demon Roar Wave!!”】

【You braced yourself, ready to take a strike from a Martial God.】

【But the next second, Moss vanished on the spot.】

【He flew away at an unbelievable speed.】

【The Dragon-Man soldiers still holding their “shower heads” and spewing black smoke were utterly dumbfounded.】

【You turned to look at a nearby Dragon-Man soldier.】

【“Did he just run away?”】

【“Uh... looks like it…”】

【“So, ‘Invincible Demon Roar Wave’ is a running-away move?”】

【“Th-there’s no such move at all…”】

【You: “…”】

【Other bosses enter Phase Two to put pressure on the players.】

【Moss entered Phase Two to make a clean getaway.】

【He left you standing there in the wind, thoroughly bewildered, even laughing out of sheer anger.】

【Moss had run, but his hundred-odd “engineer” underlings were about to get the short end of the stick.】

【“Die!!”】

【All those Dragon-Man were finished off by you.】

【The Dragon Pearls were thrown to Black Wind to eat.】

【All the souls were collected into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner for reformation.】

【“Black Wind, how are you?”】

【“I’m fine, boss. I can still use Shadow of the Sun.”】

【After eating some Dragon Pearls, Black Wind recovered quickly, but you could tell he still had some internal injuries.】

【“Forget it, I’ll travel on my own. If there are more traps like that ahead, you’ll get hurt again.”】

【Soon, you learned from the reformed souls of these Dragon-Man that there were indeed more Demon Sealing Nets ahead.】

【“What’s the purpose of the nets you guys make?”】

【“Reporting to my lord! They’re to seal off Mundane Qi, preventing it from flowing, so you can’t recover energy in battle.”】

【Your pupils constricted.】

【The Dragon-Man tribe’s technology was way too advanced.】

【“Then how do you recover?”】

【“We can absorb the energy from Spirit Pearls.”】

【“So, can we absorb the Essence of Heaven and Earth from Spirit Crystals?”】

【“Yes, which is why those damned Dragon-Man first attacked the Wang Clan of the Chaotic Crystal Sea—to take out the biggest warehouse of Spirit Crystals!

Hmph, but they didn’t expect that our lord, wise and mighty, had already sent the Spirit Crystals to all parts of the human world in advance!

So the Dragon-Man army abandoned the plan to use the Chaotic Crystal Sea as their first stronghold, instead splitting into two forces: one to attack the mainland, and the other to attack the Starry Domains.

They intend to wipe out our main resistance as fast as possible, giving us no chance to catch our breath!”】