Resistance

"Did the captain go out?" a person dressed in black asked.

"Yes, let's retreat quickly. The captain has already gone to stop them. He's Type-A Modified Human, and ordinary 'High Immortal' are no match for him, but we can't hold them back." Another woman in black got into an SUV and stepped on the gas.

The group consisted of about seven or eight people, both men and women. They were all agile and quickly dismantled the original artillery formation, put it back in the vehicle, and then drove away.

"Qing, this 'High Immortal' seems a bit different. Our artillery fire hasn't caused any damage; it's all been dodged or blocked," someone said, looking at the battlefield not far away through binoculars.

"According to the intelligence we received from above, there are two 'young masters' among the High Immortal who came this time. Could we have run into one of them?" another person guessed.

"I don't know who 'Young Master' is, but judging from the captain's appearance, she should be... Oh no, the captain is in danger! She's at a disadvantage!" the observer exclaimed.

"Turn around! Go rescue the captain!" another person who seemed to be in charge gave the order.

But then they saw three off-road jeeps quickly turn around and drive straight toward Li Qi and Bai Di.

At this very moment, Li Qi and Bai Di were besieging the 'captain'.

However, Bai Di seemed somewhat restrained.

The main problem is that this is a woman, and it seems difficult for the gentlemanly Bai Di to deal with her severely.

As for Li Qi, he didn't have this concern. He didn't care about the gender of his opponent. If the other party wanted to kill him, he would definitely retaliate.

That's how it is now.

Besides, to be honest, just looking at her appearance, it's really hard to tell that she's a woman.

Her entire body was covered in scars, as if she had undergone countless surgeries. Her muscles were bulging, and she was almost 2.5 meters tall, like a humanoid Tyrannosaurus Rex. She had no hair, was bald, and had no eyebrows, because her skin looked like it had been re-grafted and had lost the ability to grow hair.

Apart from still having breasts, which allows her to identify her gender, she has absolutely no other female characteristics.

It even has very few human characteristics.

For example, she has huge canines that are not human-like at all, and her ferocious muscles and vertical pupils make her look more like a raging lioness.

"Young Master, she seems to have no internal energy; she's fighting purely with her Qi and Blood ..." Bai Di suddenly said.

As he spoke, he easily twisted the ferocious lioness's straight punch and slapped the inside of her knee with the back of his sword.

With a thud, the woman was forced to kneel down, scraping a furrow in the ground.

If Bai Di wanted to, he could have easily cut off her leg right there.

Although the lioness could keep up with their speed and fight them, she could only be beaten when facing Bai Di, who was only a step away from the eighth rank.

"I know, so can we resolve this quickly?" Li Qi sighed, "Someone's coming from over there."

As he said this, he unleashed his Carp Flowing Intent and punched the lioness.

The force of tens of thousands of pounds sent her flying, and the sound of bones breaking echoed through her body.

"I'll handle that," Bai Di said, his body gliding forward as he sped toward the oncoming jeep.

But at this moment, the lioness who had been sent flying by Li Qi's punch suddenly struggled to her feet and, ignoring her bleeding wounds, charged toward Bai Di!

"They have a very good relationship; they're willing to help each other in times like this," Li Qi thought after seeing this.

He immediately put it into practice and rushed forward.

Although Li Qi's own fighting style was also very poor, basically relying on the progress bar to create a time difference, the lioness in front of him was even worse.

He basically only has brute force and no internal energy to help him, which means that in order to increase his strength, he has to increase his size, which is why he is now 2.5 meters tall and his hand muscles are as big as basketballs.

At the same speed and output, a larger volume will inevitably be more cumbersome.

Furthermore, even though Bai Di held back during the two-on-one attack, she was still seriously injured.

Li Qi immediately attacked, throwing two punches in quick succession, intending to capture the man alive.

However--

"Roar!" The lioness roared, pushing her already strong physique to its absolute limit. She disregarded the damage to herself, letting her muscles and bones break down and tear due to the excessive force she exerted, and threw a straight punch at Li Qi.

Moving forward relentlessly, without any distinguishing features, this is probably the most monotonous of all attack methods. It lacks skill and tricks; it's something any beginner can unleash—simply releasing energy in the simplest way.

The saying "one force can overcome ten techniques" does exist.

Unfortunately, there isn't a precipitous difference in strength, so technique becomes useful.

Li Qi caught the fist and twisted his body.

Like water.

Carp Flowing Intent are adept at navigating against the current in the waves and are very skilled at neutralizing direct, forceful attacks.

This lioness is too weak.

It can only be said that it has reached the level of the ninth grade, but it has no internal energy, no skills, and is ridiculously weak.

After twisting, he locked his arm joint, unleashed his Carp Flowing Intent, and snapped it open.

With a snap, the entire hand was twisted backwards.

Then, with a kick to the abdomen and a hand pressing down on the top of her head, he slammed the lioness to the ground with a thud.

The ground was cracked and the tremors were incessant.

Li Qi is already considered very strong among the ninth-rank officials, and so far, he has not used any of Shaman's power. That is his Trump Card, and he cannot use it casually.

At that moment, the jeep in the distance saw this and immediately turned around.

"Run! Run! Even the captain is no match for us, we've definitely run into 'Young Master'!" someone shouted.

"What do we do! Aren't we going to save the captain?!" another person said, his knuckles white as he clenched his fists.

"How many seconds can you hold off the captain? She can't even last that long. If we go to rescue her, we'll all die here. Have you forgotten why we came together in the first place?!"

"The High Immortal controls our world. To liberate him, we must preserve our strength. Sacrifices should be made where they are useful." Another person, who seemed to be giving orders, made the final decision.

Once the leader spoke, the others stopped talking and quickly turned the car around.

But it was too late.

The Bai Di was much faster than the jeep.

Seeing this, the man who had previously given the orders frowned. "I'll go back and stop him. You guys run, don't come to save us."

Before anyone could say anything, he simply said, "This is an order!"

After saying that, he jumped out of the car window, nimbly rolled on the ground, pulled out a grenade launcher, and fired a shot at Bai Di.

Bai Di had no choice but to dodge backward.

This is where the advantage of guns comes into play, because the energy is stored in the gun itself, so you don't need to exert any force; just pulling the trigger of your index finger can unleash tremendous destructive power.

Just like a talisman made in advance.

The howitzers forced the Bai Di to retreat.

The man in the tight-fitting clothes who jumped down immediately loaded his weapon.

It's clear he's no ordinary person; he jumped off a vehicle traveling at hundreds of kilometers per hour and immediately regained his balance without even wobbling.

Bai Di frowned and immediately began to weave in a serpentine pattern to avoid being targeted.

A grenade launcher can only fire one shot at a time, and then it has to be reloaded. The opponent is just an unranked enemy, so dealing with him is not too troublesome.

However, we need to resolve this quickly and then go after those people.

Just then, Li Qi's voice suddenly came from behind. "No need to chase them, let them go, just capture these two."

"Yes, young master." Bai Di nodded.

Young master!

As expected of a 'young master'!

The man's heart tightened; they had indeed run into a tough opponent!

He saw that the man in white robes had stopped fighting not far away.

Are they planning to capture me alive?

Impossible!

I can...

Yes...

Before the word "yes" could even form in his mind, he felt a wave of dizziness.

All I could see were stars, and my mind went completely blank.

When he regained consciousness, he found himself under control, his hands and feet were bound, his weapons had been removed, and he was being dragged along the ground by the white-robed man for quite some distance.

"What... what is that?" He was utterly horrified and couldn't help but ask in a panic.

Unexpectedly, the man in white actually replied to him.

He said seriously, "The Curse of Shaman Path cannot be effective against a group of people, and it requires stopping to recharge, but they are still very useful against one person."

"Shaman Path... what is that?"

"It's too complicated to explain to you all in a short time, so let's not ask anymore. Let's see how the young master plans to deal with you." The man in white shook his head, seemingly finding it difficult to explain.

Only Li Qi knew what was going on.

As the nephew of the governor of White Snake Prefecture, the path he will take in the future is naturally the Shaman Path, with martial arts being merely a secondary pursuit.

However, the entry difficulty of the Shaman Path is ridiculously high, so although he is about to break through to the eighth rank in martial arts, he still has not entered the Shaman Path.

That's why he genuinely believed that Li Qi was a genius.

"Young master, I've brought him back." Bai Di dragged the man and placed him in front of Li Qi.

"Okay, thank you for your trouble. Go and call Miss Shen over for me!" Li Qi replied through gritted teeth.

He was using all his strength to pin the burly woman, who was at least 2.5 meters tall, to the ground.

Even though the other party was already severely injured, he kept struggling, making it impossible for Li Qi to let go for even a moment.

"I'll go and call Miss Shen," Bai Di said immediately.

When it comes to things like restraint, Daoist arts are better at it.

Soon, a man and a woman... who could barely be considered a woman, were brought under control.

In the desert, beside a dilapidated convoy.

"You two, didn't you say you were going to bring them all back? These two can't stop them, can they?" Shen Shuibi asked the two men behind her while inscribing talismans.

Her talisman emitted a light blue glow, and fine threads, like silken threads coiling around a cocoon, bound the lioness and the man in the tight-fitting clothes, rendering them unable to move.

"Young Master said these two are enough, there's no need to pursue the others," Bai Di replied honestly.

Li Qi replied with a smile, "Yes, these two are enough."

Then, Li Qi looked at the cautious, timid man in a long robe beside him, who was the one who had come to pick them up. "This gentleman... what is your name?"

"I Zhang Deming, young master. Just call me by my name." The man replied immediately, flustered.

"Alright, Brother Zhang, you should know who these people are, right? Why don't you tell me?" Li Qi asked with a smile.

"I dare not conceal this from you, young master. These people are rebels who commit violence with evil intentions, disrupt public order, and destroy production. They often leave the people without food or clothing. They are all heinous criminals."

Zhang Deming pointed at the lioness and said, "Moreover, they also abduct children, brainwash them, and reform them. Young master, look at this. Is she even human anymore? She's covered in a swamp!"

But at this moment, the man in the tight-fitting clothes shouted back, "Bullshit! It's clearly you who are servile and have handed over this world to these High Immortal to plunder at will!"

The lioness tugged at him, signaling him to shut up, and he reluctantly stopped talking.

Bai Di was puzzled. What exactly did the young master want to do?

Li Qi asked with great interest, "You are the rebels? Whose orders are you taking to rebel?"

Neither the lioness nor the man in the tight-fitting clothes spoke.

"I've had my suspicions since the beginning. Based on the descriptions and accounts I've heard along the way, the Great Deer Kingdom and these industrial companies should have absolute control over this world, from education to knowledge channels, they have it all under their control."

"How could anyone develop a resistance organization? Unless the original high-ranking executives of the industrial company have rebellious intentions, only they would have the ability to cultivate such people, right? Look, this is someone with the combat strength of a ninth-rank." Li Qi pointed to the lioness.

"Young Master! Our company has absolutely no intention of rebelling!" Zhang Deming was terrified and immediately knelt down, kowtowing repeatedly, and tried to defend himself.

"I know, and I believe you have no rebellious intentions whatsoever. This world can only produce a maximum of eighth-rank experts, which must be backed by even stronger individuals. And a world that can only produce eighth-rank experts and is constantly being exploited cannot possibly have any rebellious intentions. I know the strong; for them, a single glance is enough to see through people's hearts."

"Given this situation, why would there be a resistance organization? Aren't you curious?" Li Qi said to the people around him.

Bai Di seemed to be deep in thought, but his thoughts were like a tangled mess, and he couldn't untangle them no matter what he did.

Shen Shuibi quickly said, "Li Qi, stop being so mysterious and just tell me, what did you feel? What did Great Shaman give you?"

She was a fifth-rank official and knew a lot, so she guessed the answer.

At this moment, Li Qi said with a smile, "Yes, I can feel it."

"The four divine energies bestowed upon me by my teacher—the energies of the sun, moon, stars, and celestial bodies—made me feel a strange tremor when I faced them just now."

"The Sun, Moon, Stars Qi is moving? Doesn't that mean this world is about to end?" Shen Shuibi was stunned.

"Yes, I can feel it. The Heavenly Dao of this world is in pain. Its blood is being drained, its flesh is being devoured, and this world is wailing in agony as it marches toward death. Meanwhile, the children it has nurtured and raised are aiding and abetting evil, helping outsiders to exploit the little remaining resources." Li Qi said with certainty.

(There will be two updates today)