" Oh? There are actually still fish that slipped through the net?"
A soft cry of surprise came from midair.
Dressed in floating battle armor and clad in fur with horns on their heads, the strange men stopped and looked down at Lu Xuan, who stood alone.
At the same time,
Lu Xuan raised the face covered by a ghost mask and quietly spat out three words.
"Get down here!"
"Looking for death... Bang!"
His mighty Psychic Power descended like an immense sea, crushing down on everyone's heads.
It made the strange warriors' minds go blank.
Before the words had even faded,
they fell like meteors, smashing one deep pit after another into the ground.
When they opened their eyes and regained consciousness, they felt an agonizing pain throughout their bodies. Looking down, they saw their bones broken and blood flowing.
"Ahh... What happened!?"
Everyone screamed, completely unaware of what had happened.
They were Ninth-order warriors, after all!
Yet in the instant their minds went blank, they had been smashed into the ground without realizing a thing.
What in the world was going on!?
"Oh? You really are strange."
Lu Xuan appeared before them. The flying blades filling the sky floated above their heads at his command.
"Who... who are you?"
The strange men were shocked and suspicious, and a trace of fear rose in their hearts.
This man had just made them crash down from midair with a single sentence. Was he a Martial Dao Grandmaster? Or an even more powerful existence?
Wasn't it said that warriors above the Martial Master realm generally did not appear in the Wilderness?
"Shh!"
Lu Xuan raised a finger to his lips and tilted his head. "You're a little strange. Let me study you carefully..."
Just moments ago,
when Lu Xuan's Psychic Power struck the group of strange men, he suddenly realized that they seemed not to be living beings. Or rather, their brains were extremely weak. Before his Psychic Power, they were like hollow shells.
They were completely different from ordinary people.
Once Psychic Power reached a certain level, it could control ordinary people.
However, it could not manipulate living humans like objects and turn them into weapons, because humans possessed Psychic Power and thoughts and would resist external force. They were not dead objects.
But this group of people seemed different.
The moment his Psychic Power came into contact with them, Lu Xuan felt as if he were controlling a thoughtless dead object.
They could not produce thoughts and resist.
"Could Psychic Power restrain these strange men?"
Lu Xuan raised his hand, and one of the strange men was lifted into midair.
The others widened their eyes, feeling that everything they knew had been overturned.
Control someone else?
How was this possible?
While they were still puzzled, Lu Xuan moved a finger.
The strange man shot out like a bullet from a fired gun, slammed into a tree, and exploded into chunks of flesh that splattered across the ground.
"What!?"
The remaining strange men stared wide-eyed.
They turned around and stared at Lu Xuan in terror. A trace of fear arose in their hearts and began expanding without limit, until their bodies trembled like sieves and they repeatedly kowtowed and begged for mercy:
"M-Milord!"
"Spare us! We're modified humans who came from the front lines. We only wanted to take a look at the rear. We absolutely had no other intentions!"
They were genuinely terrified.
Even though the person before them did not possess stronger vital energy than they did,
his strange and unfathomable methods had left them utterly powerless to fight back.
That alone was enough to make them afraid.
It was a fear that came from the depths of their souls!
"Modified humans?"
The term was rather novel... Lu Xuan looked them over. All of them bore more or less some traits of other species, and he immediately sneered:
"So you're a bunch of hybrids fused with monster genes!"
"Yes, yes, exactly!"
The strange man nodded repeatedly. "Milord, we're hybrids! Every one of us is a hybrid! Please, show mercy and let us go!"
"What a pity..."
Lu Xuan's smile faded, and his expression instantly turned cold. "You shouldn't have killed them!"
With that,
he clenched his five fingers.
Puff, puff, puff!
The heads of several strange warriors exploded one after another, dying with hatred on their faces.
Lu Xuan collected their Storage Rings and placed them beside Scarhead's corpse. After burying him, he finally let out a long breath:
"Uncle Scarhead, I'll avenge you!"
"These so-called modified humans are a bunch of monsters that defy ethics. I'll uproot them all, completely annihilate them, and make them accompany you in death!"
Without wasting any time,
Lu Xuan put on the ghost mask. His Psychic Power lifted him into the air, and he transformed into a rainbow streaking across the void.
"Miss, these monsters have twice the vital energy of warriors in the same realm. If we fight them head-on, we definitely won't stand a chance. We can only wait for reinforcements."
Somewhere.
The members of Zero Martial Arts Company stopped.
Xiao Yu'er rubbed the Storage Ring in her hand and asked, "Are they after the goods?"
"No!"
The vital-energy Martial Master shook his head. "This group of monsters has accumulated too much resentment. I'm afraid they're here to take revenge on society and humanity. They're simply even more terrifying than the Holy Cult."
The Holy Cult was evil.
But this group of monsters was both stupid and evil.
Stupidity was more frightening than evil.
It was like having two people point guns at you—one a murderer, the other an unintelligent black chimpanzee. Whose pulling the trigger would you truly fear more?
There was room to negotiate with an evil person.
There was none with an idiot.
"A bunch of people enjoying abundance. As expected, you're far too weak!"
Before the people from Zero Martial Arts Company could catch their breath,
the contemptuous cries of the strange men came from the distance. Immediately afterward, dozens of modified humans landed in front of them.
The leaders were four Martial Masters.
Everyone else was a Ninth-order warrior.
Facing such a lineup, Zero Martial Arts Company had no chance to escape.
"Everyone, leave now, and Zero Martial Arts Company can let bygones be bygones."
Xiao Yu'er's face still carried a hint of pride.
"Little girl, you seem to have quite an extraordinary identity!"
Several modified humans tilted their heads, greed appearing on their faces. "If we capture you, wouldn't we be able to exchange you for even more resources from your company?"
"Hahaha! Exchange her for resources!"
They suddenly revealed ferocious smiles, erupted with vital-energy power, and charged to kill.
"Miss, you go first!"
Ma Tao and the other members of the War Spirit Squad rushed forward to hold them back.
Looking at the modified humans charging out against a group that did not even have a Seventh-order warrior among them, the modified humans sneered:
"A bunch of ants!"
Just as the two sides were about to clash--
"Puff!"
The head of one modified human at the very front suddenly exploded, turning into a cloud of blood mist.
The sight stunned everyone present.
Those charging forward abruptly halted.
The group of modified humans was even more panicked. They turned their heads toward every direction, searching for the person who had attacked.
"Who?"
Someone demanded.
Xiao Yu'er and the others grew tense as well.
When that modified human had died just now, they had not sensed even the slightest trace of an aura. Even though there were Martial Masters among them, they could not see anyone attack.
Such a method of killing without a trace was unheard of.
"Puff!"
Suddenly,
another modified human's head exploded, spraying blood everywhere.
Everyone's nerves tightened. The fresh scent of blood from the modified human made an indescribable terror rise in their hearts.
"Who is it? Who exactly is it?"
The modified-human Martial Masters probed in every direction and slowly began gathering together.
At that moment--
"Puff! Puff! Puff!"
Several more explosions rang out. The heads of the modified humans who had just gathered together exploded in unison.
"Who? Just who is playing tricks!?"
The modified-human Martial Master roared. His vital energy shook out and swept across several miles in every direction.
Yet he could not sense anyone nearby at all.
Panic and unease spread through the scene. Before they could take action, the heads of several more modified warriors blossomed.
In just these few short minutes,
only four modified-human Martial Masters remained at the scene. Their pupils trembled with anxiety, and their bodies began shaking uncontrollably.
"Friend, we've never offended you..."
"Since when does robbery have anything to do with whether you've offended someone?"
A cold voice descended from the heavens. An invisible pressure made everyone unable to raise their heads.
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