Whose Defense Is Higher-Yours or My Hammer?

The puppets controlled by the Corpse King are essentially ordinary people possessed by evil spirits. Not only have their physical functions been greatly enhanced, but they also do not know fear and have an unusually strong desire to attack. As long as Zhuge Lan and Ling Xin back, they will lose points!

Faced with hundreds of puppets, the two could only dodge and flee towards the outside of the residential area. But the more they ran, the more frightened they became, as initially, only residents surrounded them from the ground.

Subsequently, the windows of many residential buildings were shattered, and puppets crawled out one after another, like insects emerging from their nests. Using their modified hands and feet, they climbed the stairs and surrounded the buildings in a three-dimensional fashion!

"There are too many people!" Zhuge Lan dodged a child who pounced on her. "Did the Corpse King transform everyone in the entire neighborhood?"

"What's the maximum number of puppets he can control at the same time?" Ling Xin kicked a middle-aged man with a mouthful of sharp teeth away, controlling her strength so that she only knocked him away, not killed him.

"I've never faced him directly, but I've heard that he once controlled an entire town!"

"That would require at least tens of thousands of people..." Ling Xin frowned, looking at the seemingly endless enemy. "This will drag on forever... We either have to fight our way out by risking losing points, or we'll have to find the Corpse King's true form and kill him!"

Fight their way out? Zhuge Lan glanced at it and realized that it would be virtually impossible to break through without killing at least a hundred people. Whether they would even have enough points to spare was another matter. Even if they could barely hold on, they would have lost their margin for error. In the next Source of Calamity, if they caused even slightly more casualties, they would be sent to undergo the Annihilation Process!

"You said the enemy was on the fifth floor..." Zhuge Lan looked up at the café where they had been.

"Now that the enemy has discovered us, they certainly won't just stay put..." Ling Xin shook her head. "How much longer until your teammate arrives?"

Zhuge Lan checked her phone; there was still no reply, "I just sent him my location, I don't know when he'll be here..."

"Even if we come, it might not work..." Ling Xin gritted her teeth and said, "The opponent is a top expert who has unlocked the Heart Refining Realm, and he also has two helpers..." Thinking of this, she took out her phone and decisively posted the location in the group, while leaving a message: "There are three Polluter here! Including the [Paranormal] Corpse King, who can control ordinary people as puppets!"

"You're going to summon Night?" Zhuge Lan frowned. In her guess, Night and Lin Feng were the same person, so this was completely unnecessary. She instinctively wanted to speak up and remind him, but then remembered that this was a secret only she knew, so she kept quiet...

"Night should be able to handle the Corpse King, and she's quite fast too." Ling Xin, oblivious to Zhuge Lan's subtle expression, continued, "Let's protect ourselves first and be wary of possible sneak attacks from the enemy!"

"Hmm?" Luo Jun, who had already reached the vicinity of the residential area, was drawn to a group message.

"Sent by Ling Xin? There are three Polluter here?" Luo Jun compared the map. "Isn't this the place Zhuge Lan sent me? The Corpse King? Controlling ordinary people as puppets?"

Did Ling Xin and Zhuge Lan both find the same place?

But what to do now? It's already here; should I go as Lin Feng or as "Ye"?

If it was Lin Feng, then Ye's delayed arrival is hard to explain... If it was Ye, then his arrival was far too fast!

Moreover, Ling Xin is also there... Zhuge Lan doesn't recognize him and can't see through his disguise, but Ling Xin is his classmate of many years... Although they haven't had much interaction before and probably haven't paid much attention to him, it would be difficult to explain if her identity were discovered.

After thinking for a moment, Luo Jun put on the mask and leaped into the residential area.

From the outside, nothing seemed out of the ordinary, but as soon as Luo Jun entered the residential area, he sensed a strange aura, a faint, pervasive energy in the air... Ordinary people wouldn't be able to sense it; he was only able to detect it because of his exceptionally strong Perception Attribute.

This energy had a tendency to invade the human body, but Luo Jun's strong Root Bone was not afraid of this level of invasion at all. Once he opened his Qi, he completely isolated those strange auras.

As he walked further, he heard the incessant sound of shattering glass, and bizarrely shaped monsters kept crawling out of the surrounding residential buildings, surrounding him.

These are the controlled puppets... Are they dead or alive? Would killing them deduct points?

Out of caution, Luo Jun ignored the puppets. He lightly touched the ground with his toes and leaped directly to the roof of the sixth floor. He moved forward on the roof and soon heard the sounds of fighting coming from ahead.

It was an open space amidst a cluster of buildings, where two girls were desperately fighting back, surrounded by a dense array of puppets. They dared not kill the puppets; when attacked, they could only dodge or push them away. Relying on their inner energy and exceptional physical abilities, they struggled to hold on, constantly trying to break through, but there were always more puppets blocking their escape route!

In Luo Jun's view, the two of them were like being surrounded by a group of babies less than a year old. These babies were physically fragile, but they crawled quite fast and would grab onto anyone's legs. Let alone kicking or hitting them, even a slight effort to shake them off could injure or even kill them. They were truly restricted...

Although they looked disheveled, the two were not in immediate danger due to the protection of their inner energy. After all, even the strongest infant is still an infant, and these enhanced puppets were only slightly stronger than ordinary people, posing little threat to Cultivators had already unlocked their inner energy.

The real danger lies with the hidden Polluter!

The Corpse King is a formidable opponent on par with the Spirit King Zhuge Lang, whom we faced previously. Judging by his appearance, he has already unlocked the Heart Refining Realm. If he were to make a move, these two Foundation Establishment Realm would likely find it difficult to handle him...

This piqued Luo Jun's curiosity. Why hadn't the Corpse King made a move when he had already trapped them both? Could it be out of pity for them?

Just then, as more and more puppets surrounded them, they suddenly became agitated, and then black shadows appeared on their bodies, converging to attack Zhuge Lan and Ling Xin.

The two men's internal energy was initially able to resist, but the corrosive power of the black energy was too strong. It quickly stained their internal energy and seeped in, causing their skin to turn bluish-purple.

They've made their move? I didn't expect they'd use the spirits within the puppets to corrupt them... Are they trying to turn Zhuge Lan and Ling Xin into puppets?

This move makes it impossible to determine the opponent's location. Luo Jun frowned slightly, jumped into the crowd, grabbed one of the two men's arms with each hand, and leaped back to the rooftop.

"Night?" The two breathed a sigh of relief when they saw it was him. They immediately circulated their Inner Breath to remove the pollution. Soon, the blackness on their skin slowly faded, and the stained qi gradually became transparent and clear.

"You got here so fast?" Ling Xin looked at Luo Jun, her tone slightly surprised.

"He's nearby," Luo Jun replied casually. Zhuge Lan, standing beside him, glanced at him and said, "I also called a teammate named Lin Feng. He has a face full of scars and Bearded Man. Did you see him?" Sure enough, he had been asked that question. Luo Jun subconsciously touched his chin, secretly marveling at the magic of the Midnight Mask... Although he had disguised himself and had a full beard, these prominent features were hidden after putting on the mask, and it was impossible to tell that the lower half of his face was any different from before.

"I met someone who looked similar to your description," Luo Jun said. "When he saw me coming, he knew he wouldn't get any points, so he left..."

This explanation was somewhat far-fetched, but given the suddenness of the situation, Luo Jun couldn't think of a better one.

Do you still have detection capabilities?

"I still have some!" Zhuge Lan said. "Shall we use it now?"

"Use it!" Luo Jun said decisively. "Find the enemy's location, I'll deal with them, you all stay here and protect yourselves!"

Zhuge Lan nodded, immediately used her detection ability, and pointed to the building where the teahouse was located. "Three red dots... have spread out. Two of them are still on the fifth floor, but one has left..." She then pointed in another direction. "Over there, behind that building, moving eastward at a very fast speed!"

Luo Jun frowned slightly and immediately chased after Zhuge Lan in the direction she pointed.

Compared to the two that didn't move, this one that's running around needs to be dealt with more quickly!

Luo Jun moved with incredible speed, crossing the building in just a few steps. Behind the building was a group of ferocious puppet monsters, in complete chaos.

But Luo Jun's eyes were sharp; he scanned the crowd and finally locked onto one person!

It was an old woman who looked to be in her sixties. Although her skin appeared bluish-purple and her veins bulged like everyone else's, in Luo Jun's vision, the old woman's body faintly glowed.

That faint light was different from normal qi. Luo Jun had only seen it on others after he obtained a perception enhancement that Attributes Exceeding Hundred.

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That's the hidden Qi in the Hidden Qi state; this old woman is the Polluter!

Having identified his target, Luo Jun immediately rushed forward. The old woman clearly realized she had been discovered and finally stopped hiding. A dazzling aura rose from her body, and at the same time, the puppets around her rushed towards Luo Jun to block her, as if their lives depended on it!

Luo Jun was incredibly fast, moving like a fish through the crowd as if it were empty, and arrived in front of the old lady in an instant!

The old woman clasped her hands together, and the puppets around her collapsed to the ground, their bodies erupting with dark shadows that converged on Luo Jun. However, despite both being at the Foundation Establishment Realm, Luo Jun's internal energy was far superior to Ling Xin and Zhuge Lan's. Even such a high concentration of pollution couldn't penetrate his indestructible Gathering Origin Protective Qi. Luo Jun completely ignored it, raising his hand with lightning speed to grab the old woman by the neck and drag her away from the crowd!

The old woman struggled fiercely, but Luo Jun's hand was like Iron Hook, gripping her Gathering Origin Protective Qi, enveloping her as well. The ghosts couldn't use their abilities at all and could only let Luo Jun grab them and take them away!

So what if she's Corpse King? Even at her Peak, she'd have a hard time resisting Luo Jun at close range. Besides, she hasn't even reached that level yet. If it weren't for the fear of harming innocent people, Luo Jun would have killed her in that one exchange!

"You won't kill me!" The old woman retorted fiercely, "Do you think my abilities are limited to manipulating puppets? What I'm truly renowned for in the [Paranormal] world is my defensive power! Once I push my abilities to their limit, even Peak Expert can't harm me in the slightest!"

"Oh? Defense?" Luo Jun narrowed his eyes. With his Superman senses and the feeling of his hand gripping her neck, he could indeed sense that the old woman's protective aura was incredibly hard, even stronger than his own Gathering Origin Protective Qi!

No... it's not hardness. Luo Jun sensed that the Corpse King's Body Protecting Qi seemed to have some kind of mysterious structure, which was different from the defensive principle of normal aura. However, Luo Jun couldn't figure out the specific principle. It should be some kind of Secret Method!

No matter what it is, Luo Jun doesn't believe there's any defense in this world that can't be broken!

Grabbing the Corpse King, Luo Jun Luo Jun to an open space. With a push of his feet, he pulled out the Myriad Jun Hammer.

"You seem quite confident in your defense..." Luo Jun sneered, grabbed the iron chain and swung it around. Using a technique to change the weight, the hammerhead carried the two of them into the sky, quickly reaching a high altitude.

The old lady was surprised by Luo Jun's move and asked in astonishment, "What are you trying to do?"

"Only here can we avoid affecting others." With that, Luo Jun grabbed the Corpse King's head with one hand and swung the hammer down on her with the other!

Under Luo Jun's control, the Myriad Jun Hammer became as light as a feather. With the help of his arm strength, it accelerated to its maximum speed, and at the moment of impact, it suddenly regained its weight of two thousand tons!

The energy contained in this hammer was unparalleled. It exploded the moment it came into contact with the Corpse King's aura. A bright light burst in mid-air, followed by a loud bang and a shockwave that spread out, shattering the windows of residential buildings hundreds of meters below!

This terrifying hammer blow, judging by its power alone, was almost comparable to a tactical nuclear missile. The kinetic energy released alone triggered a powerful airburst. What's even more terrifying is that, unlike a bomb or meteorite, this hammer didn't shatter into pieces and disperse its energy. When the hammerhead struck the Corpse King, it released all its energy onto the old woman. Even the strongest protective aura couldn't withstand it, and she was instantly smashed into a cloud of blood mist, vaporizing under the intense heat!

Even Luo Jun, who was wielding the hammer, was affected by the powerful force, and his aura rippled.

The moment the Corpse King vaporized, Luo Jun noticed that the number of people on the ground had decreased by one, and at the same time, news came that the income was 850 points!

They've made a killing!

In his excitement, Luo Jun suddenly heard a warning voice in his mind:

"Player Points have Reset, mission failed, Annihilation Process triggered!"

"Countdown to Countdown begins!"

"Ten, nine, eight..."

What happened?

The sudden notification sound completely stunned Luo Jun. He subconsciously checked his remaining score and saw a clear zero standing there!

This is impossible! I should have at least three thousand points! How could this be...?

Thinking of this, Luo Jun suddenly gasped. Looking down, with his exceptional eyesight, he saw that the thousands of puppets in the community were now lying on the ground, lifeless...

(End of this chapter)