Gone Mad

And with that...

In the Skyvault Desert...

Of the twenty-two main bases, aside from Pu Country's Greenwood Base...

Every last one had been destroyed.

After Lingyue Pavilion's Xing Jun passed Greenwood Base for the seventh time and gave the martial artists inside a friendly greeting...

Xing Jun vanished without a trace.

At that moment...

Everyone in Greenwood Base stared at one another.

Whether they were senior officials from Pu Country or higher-ups from Lingyue Pavilion...

They were all starting to doubt themselves.

"I saw clearly... that really was Xing Jun just now!"

"It wasn't someone else disguising themselves with the imposter sequence..."

One of Lingyue Pavilion's higher-ups swallowed hard.

This time...

The operation in the Skyvault Desert...

Had been overseen in person by two of Lingyue Pavilion's supreme overlords.

The Mist Lord and Xing Jun.

The Mist Lord had gone missing and could not be reached for the time being.

As for Xing Jun...

Xing Jun had just said hello to them.

And had taken all the arrangements Lingyue Pavilion had made lately...

And smashed them to pieces.

While Pu Country and Lingyue Pavilion stared at one another in bewilderment...

The Bearded Pirates' Crouching Dragon Crew launched another round of operations.

All twenty-one main bases near the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone had been destroyed.

But beyond those...

In this region...

There were still sixty-five small bases!

During the earlier raids on the twenty-one main bases...

Quite a few countries had already evacuated in advance.

They had moved their bases' supplies and some core personnel...

Into the small bases for temporary shelter.

...Xia Country included.

And so...

Great-Grandma made the call.

Every Beard in the Bearded Pirates' Crouching Dragon Crew...

Turned invisible again.

And went to rob those small bases.

The entire Skyvault Desert...

Became the Crouching Dragon Crew's hunting ground.

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