Into the Body! Blood Pact Fusion

Its thick limbs stomped violently against the ground, and the black covering its body was abruptly replaced entirely by cyan. The next instant, the originally incomparably powerful Bloodthirsty Beta sprang sideways, attempting to flee like a streak of cyan lightning.

"Cai'er, don't!"

A sharp shout rang out as a towering figure suddenly burst from beneath the ground. Unfortunately, he was still too late.

Gold and blue spiraled into a cone, shooting forth with dazzling trails of flame.

Black and gray extinguished every color in their path.

No one saw how Cai'er made her move. They merely felt their vision suddenly darken, and in the next instant, the fleeing Bloodthirsty Beta in the distance had frozen in midair.

Pop.

Cai'er's attack struck after yet arrived first. The instant the Bloodthirsty Beta froze in midair, its body had already been dyed completely black, with only its eyes turning gray. The next moment, water's omnipresent infiltration and light's mighty penetration—delicate gold and blue—silently entered its body. Its body then rapidly began to swell.

That soft popping sound was the noise made when the Bloodthirsty Beta's enormous body burst in midair like a balloon. Flesh and blood flew everywhere in the air.

Light Rain Hibiscus Thrust combined with the Reincarnation Sword. The combined strongest strike of Long Haochen and Cai'er.

They were only Fifth Rank! Long Haochen and Cai'er were both only Fifth Rank! Yet, on the battlefield, they had slain a Seventh Rank Bloodthirsty Beta—the personal guard of the Thirty-Fifth Pillar Demon God Marchosias.

Gao Yingjie stood there, almost dumbstruck as he watched everything unfold before him. Looking at the young man and woman slowly descending to the ground, his heart convulsed violently.

The power of Long Haochen's Light Rain Hibiscus Thrust was completely different from when he had used it against Gao Yingjie before. With spiritual energy wings, he had briefly possessed the strength of a Radiant Knight. That strike had clearly carried the might of a Legendary-grade weapon.

Gao Yingjie had no idea what Cai'er's black-and-gray attack was, but he clearly understood that it was absolutely more terrifying than Light Rain Hibiscus Thrust. The nearly tangible killing intent that reached the heavens had left even his hands icy cold.

If it had been him, could he have blocked the combined strike of those two? Gao Yingjie's confidence could not give him an affirmative answer.

Unconscious. Unconscious. Unconscious.

The instant Long Haochen landed, Haoyue's enormous body separated from his body, and he reverted to his original fourteen-year-old appearance. He went limp directly onto Haoyue's back.

Haoyue's three large heads also drooped at the same time, collapsing onto the ground without moving.

On the other side, the instant Cai'er landed, she too went limp and fell unconscious.

Using power far beyond one's capacity came at a terrible price. There was no doubt that both Long Haochen and Cai'er were in that state now.

"Go protect Cai'er!" Gao Yingjie was ultimately the first to react. His body accelerated abruptly, and he arrived at Long Haochen's side. At the same time, a layer of dazzling golden light erupted from his body and shot into the sky.

This was the signal of the ten Mithril Base Knights. As their captain, Gao Yingjie was telling his companions to go all out and end this battle.

Just as Long Haochen had predicted, as the leaders, they naturally would not let these young people face danger alone. They had merely been hiding in the shadows all along.

What Long Haochen could not have guessed was that the ten powerful Seventh Rank knights had simply been concealed underground.

Gao Yingjie had closely monitored the situation on the battlefield the entire time. When Long Haochen's group faced the Emerald Twin Blade Demons and the Eight-Eyed Grade Magic Eye Warlocks, Gao Yingjie had secretly been startled and prepared to intervene.

However, Long Haochen's subsequent command and coordination, as well as the powerful combat strength the group unleashed, startled Gao Yingjie once more. They had only gained a slight degree of coordination, yet the attacks they unleashed were even more formidable. Long Haochen and Cai'er in particular had almost instantly killed two Emerald Twin Blade Demons.

What shocked Gao Yingjie even more was Haoyue's performance. That Chaotic Element Stripping had nearly made even Gao Yingjie flee.

Long Haochen's group might not yet have known about composite magic, but how could Gao Yingjie, a Seventh Rank powerhouse, not know? That was three-element composite magic! Even the Magic Temple probably did not have many records of such a thing. Moreover, it was not difficult for a mage to possess three attributes at once, but cultivating all three to the same level was far from easy.

Seeing that Long Haochen's group possessed such formidable collective strength, Gao Yingjie simply decided not to reveal himself. He wanted to see just how far these young people's overall strength could reach.

The appearance of the Bloodthirsty Beta had undoubtedly forced every last hidden trump card out of these young people.

The Bloodthirsty Beta was a Seventh Rank demon, but compared to Gao Yingjie, who stood at the peak of the Seventh Rank, it was clearly still far inferior. Not to mention that Gao Yingjie possessed a devastating weapon like the Mithril Base Battle Armor. However, one must not forget that when the Soldier Grade One Demon Hunt Squad had faced Gao Yingjie before, he had merely been testing their strength and had barely attacked at all. The Bloodthirsty Beta, on the other hand, was in a berserk rage and vowed to kill them all.

Thus, the pressure Long Haochen's group endured was incomparably immense. And the scene that shocked Gao Yingjie occurred at the very moment he was ready to act.

Watching the Bloodthirsty Beta pounce toward Long Haochen, who had no possibility of blocking the attack, Gao Yingjie had already prepared his Accumulating Power skill. Yet before he could make his move, the Bloodthirsty Beta was blasted down from the air by the purple light Haoyue roared out. Then came the scene that left Gao Yingjie dumbstruck: the Bloodthirsty Beta actually tried to run.

In Gao Yingjie's view, since the Bloodthirsty Beta was already fleeing, Long Haochen and Cai'er would certainly stop attacking. Yet he had not expected that Long Haochen had already lost consciousness at that point. Having suddenly received such immense power, Long Haochen's mind had become a blur, leaving only his combat instincts. How could he still make any judgments? Cai'er, meanwhile, had been drawn along by the aura emanating from Long Haochen. Since Long Haochen had not stopped, naturally neither would she.

Therefore, by the time Gao Yingjie shouted for Cai'er to stop, her attack was already like an arrow nocked on the bow, with no choice but to fly.

Wang Yuanyuan, Sima Xian, and Han Yu quickly rushed to Cai'er's side, protecting her within their midst. Lin Xin stayed with Chen Yinger, ready to defend her. In truth, though, at this point, no demon dared attack them anymore.

Even the dim-witted Twin Blade Demons felt fear upon sensing the aura emanating from Long Haochen and Cai'er.

The few Eight-Eyed Grade Magic Eye Warlocks that had still been alive were already severely injured. Stimulated by the fierce baleful aura on Cai'er's body, the grave wounds on their heads abruptly worsened, and they were clearly not going to survive. As their life auras vanished, the Merit Points instead went to Haoyue, and naturally, to Long Haochen.

Gao Yingjie had seen this battle clearly, but the other Demon Hunt Squads had not. They had only witnessed the most shocking scene.

Long Haochen rose into the sky with a purple aura around him, while the eruption of Cai'er's heaven-piercing killing intent drew their gazes. The next instant, they saw an enormous demon reduced to nothing under the alternating bombardment of Long Haochen and Cai'er.

They might not have known just how powerful Long Haochen and Cai'er had become at that moment, but they could still sense the energy fluctuations.

The mission had been completed perfectly. The toughest bone had already been gnawed through by the Soldier Grade One Demon Hunt Squad, while the other nine Demon Hunt Squads only had to slaughter their enemies to their hearts' content.

Five minutes after the Mithril Base Knights joined the battle under Gao Yingjie's command, not a single living demon remained in sight.

Gao Yingjie held Long Haochen in one arm and dragged Haoyue with the other as he shouted, "Let's get out of here first."

The commotion here had not been small. Demons had their own methods of detection, and a demon army would surely arrive before long. After setting all the provisions ablaze, everyone retreated swiftly. Before leaving, when Lin Xin went to collect the Bloodthirsty Beta's corpse, he also casually took the box hanging around its neck.

Being few in number had its advantages; at the very least, retreating was extremely fast. Though Haoyue was enormous, there were mounts even larger than it. Duan Yi's Golden Horn Mammoth bore Haoyue's weight, and under the leadership of the ten captains, everyone set all the carts ablaze before retreating into the distance at top speed.

They did not return by the original route. Instead, they first withdrew into the distance, then entered the Demon Subduing Mountain Range directly from another location.

The Demon Subduing Mountain Range was entirely under the control of the Temple Alliance's Demon Subduing Military District. Demon Expelling Pass was the mountain range's only entrance; from every other direction, one had to enter the mountains directly, where the terrain was even more complicated. The Temple Alliance also stationed heavy forces there. To the demons, it was an insurmountable Natural Chasm, but to the ten newly promoted Demon Hunt Squads, it was their route of retreat.

Gao Yingjie carefully examined Long Haochen and Cai'er. Neither was seriously injured; they were merely both in a weakened state.

After entering the Demon Subduing Mountain Range, the troops that had long been waiting there to receive them quickly led them deeper into the mountains. By then, no matter how the demons reacted, it was already too late.

This had been a complete victory. Although many members of the ten Demon Hunt Squads had been injured, none of the injuries were serious, and they quickly recovered under the priests' treatment. Not only had they burned the demons' provisions, they had wiped out the enemy completely. Some Demon Hunt Squad members even complained that the captains should not have intervened, claiming they had stolen quite a few Merit Points.

Under Gao Yingjie's treatment, Cai'er was the first to awaken. She appeared to be in decent condition, merely extremely weak, but she still insisted on remaining at Long Haochen's side.

Yang Wenzhao offered up his Radiant Unicorn to carry the unconscious Long Haochen and the awakened Cai'er. Two hours later, they finally returned to Demon Expelling Pass.

Even without the captains' intervention, they could have completed this mission perfectly. Therefore, when reporting to the military, Gao Yingjie directly concealed the fact that they had acted. When rewards were distributed according to merit, every Demon Hunt Squad received a full two hundred Merit Points, to be allocated collectively by each squad's captain.