Blood Debt

Lu Feng quickly bent down, trying to pick up the scattered beetles around him and toss them outside the Energy Shield.

But the nearby Multi-headed Python pack had already noticed his movements, mistaking him for a rival competing for their food, and immediately twisted their bodies to lunge at him.

"Oh no!"

Lu Feng's heart tightened, and he turned to run.

Just then, dozens of gunshots suddenly rang out.

The Chasing Wind Squad arrived just in time. Team members raised their High-Energy Heat Melting Guns and opened fire fiercely at the python pack.

Dense beams of energy instantly blanketed the battlefield. Tier 2 and Tier 3 Multi-headed Pythons suffered heavy casualties under the barrage.

Yet the seven Leader-level Multi-headed Pythons emerged unscathed, their ferocity only further provoked.

Their colossal bodies abruptly launched into the air, crashing down toward the crowd with brutal force.

"Everyone fall back!"

Gao Zhan barked the order, but he himself charged against the tide of retreating men.

He precisely grabbed the long tail of one Leader-level Giant Python, channeling all his strength to swing it and fling it aside.

Fang Qing advanced almost simultaneously, engaging another Leader at its vital point.

Nearby, Hong Kun couldn't help swallowing hard, a flicker of hesitation crossing his face.

Three Innate Realm Warriors against seven Exotic Beasts of the Same Realm.

Could this fight even be won?

But reality left him no time to dwell. One Leader-level Giant Python was already hurtling its massive body toward him.

The remaining Team Members kept firing as they rapidly fell back.

Everyone understood—they must not get within attack range of these Leader-level Exotic Beasts.

If struck by them, they'd either die or be crippled.

"Big Brother, watch out!"

Yang Qian, who had been firing his gun, suddenly shouted and rushed toward Hong Kun, who was locked in combat with one Leader-level Giant Python.

He spotted another Leader-level Giant Python silently circling behind Hong Kun, its gaping maw poised to devour him!

Without hesitation, Yang Qian sprinted forward, raising his High-Energy Heat Melting Gun to unleash a wild barrage at the python's head in Mid-air.

This sudden assault enraged the Giant Python instantly. Its over-ten-meter-long Giant Tail lashed out—

"Pfft!"

Yang Qian was sent flying with a heavy blow, a mouthful of blood spraying through the air.

"Yang Qian!" Hong Kun turned back to witness this, crying out in shock.

"Uncle Yang!" Lu Feng shouted from afar, unable to hold back.

But before Yang Qian could hit the ground, another python's long tail came crashing down from Mid-air.

"Boom!"

A dull thud. Yang Qian was slammed hard into the ground, falling silent.

"Old Man, I'll fight you to the death!" Hong Kun's eyes turned bloodshot. Roaring, he drove his Alloy Dagger madly into the python's body before him, stab after stab.

Yang Qian was his brother since childhood—closer than blood kin.

He had thought joining the Expedition together would be their chance to both become Martial Experts.

Never did he expect such an ending.

The next moment.

Another python tail coiled around Hong Kun's arm like lightning, hoisting his whole person into the air.

In an instant, his body was tightly constricted by another Leader-level Giant Python.

"President!"

Another member of the Skyfire Club charged out from the ranks.

"I'll kill you!"

He aimed his gun at the python constricting Hong Kun and fired desperately.

But the Heat Melting Gun had little effect on a Tier 4 Exotic Beast. Instead, it thoroughly enraged this Colossal Beast.

Under the horrified gazes of the crowd, the gaping maw in Mid-air suddenly swooped down and swallowed him whole in an instant!

"Xiao Chen!"

Hong Kun's voice was nearly shattered.

In the depths of agony and despair, Hong Kun raised his still-functional left arm, gripped his Alloy Short Blade, and resolutely severed his own right arm, still trapped by the python's tail!

The moment his body broke free, he unleashed the full power of an Innate Realm Warrior, hurling himself recklessly at the python before him, his dagger raining down like a storm.

Blood splattered. Flesh tore.

This Leader-Level giant python had been cleaved cleanly in two by him!

The battle on the other side was equally brutal.

Gao Zhan, with his Innate Realm Fifth Level cultivation, was single-handedly taking on one Fourth-Tier Mid-Stage and one Fourth-Tier Early-Stage Multi-headed Python.

Though the situation was dire, he could still barely hold on.

But Fang Qing was already in grave danger.

With only Innate Realm Early-Stage strength, she faced two Fourth-Tier Early-Stage giant pythons at once, her body constantly twisting and dodging through their relentless assault.

She knew full well that she must never let these pythons coil around her; the Alloy Dagger in her hand was the only weapon that could deal them real damage.

Every time she viciously stabbed the dagger forward, she had to endure the heavy blow of a python's tail.

This was almost a battle of trading wounds for wounds.

Just then, one giant python dove sharply from mid-air, all four heads opening their massive jaws at once.

Fang Qing hurriedly sidestepped to evade, and the dagger sank into the back of another python.

The wounded python let out a sky-shaking roar, its body thrashing violently.

Fang Qing gritted her teeth and dodged again, but failed to notice another python tail sweeping in from a blind spot—

"Bam!"

The heavy tail slammed into her back.

Even more deadly, the raised scales on the tail's tip pierced into the back of her skull like a sharp blade.

Fang Qing's whole person flew backward like a broken string kite, spitting a mouthful of blood mist in the air, before crashing heavily to the ground, completely losing consciousness.

"Fang Qing!"

Gao Zhan witnessed this, his eyes bloodshot.

He let out a furious roar, grabbed the long tail of the python before him, and hurled it with all his strength, flinging its massive body over a hundred meters away.

But this opening allowed another python's upper body to smash into him, staggering him several steps before he barely steadied himself.

Ignoring his own injuries, he rushed to his fiancée's side first.

"Captain, watch out!"

Several Chasing Wind Squad team members shouted in unison—behind Gao Zhan, a giant python was opening its massive jaws, about to swallow him whole.

At that critical moment, a figure charged in from afar.

That person leaped into the air, like a cannonball, and kicked the python's head with brutal force, sending it flying dozens of meters away.

The newcomer was a squad leader from another outpost of the 115th Legion.

After receiving orders from the Command Center, he had immediately led his entire team to arrive for support.

Right after, a second and third support squad also reached the battlefield one after another.

The arrival of fresh forces quickly turned the battle situation around.

The remaining Second-Tier and Third-Tier Multi-headed Pythons were swiftly cleared, and the few Leader-Level giant pythons were also killed one after another under the combined assault of multiple Innate Realm Strongers.

Yet this disaster brought heavy casualties to the Chasing Wind Squad.

Seven team members died, the Skyfire Club lost two, and Hong Kun lost an arm.

Fang Qing was rushed into the Dawn Starship's Medical Pod for emergency treatment. Gao Zhan and the team members waited outside the door, anxiously awaiting the result.

But from start to finish, not a single one of those Grandmaster Realm Legion Commanders ever showed up.

"Captain Gao, this disaster was man-made," Lu Feng suddenly spoke.

"What?" Gao Zhan spun around sharply, his eyes wide.

"I suspect the Night Owl Squad did it."

"Any evidence?"

Lu Feng shook his head.

He had only seen a Mecha streaking across mid-air—how could he produce evidence?

After hearing his account, the Chasing Wind Squad members all gnashed their teeth in fury.

Gao Zhan's fists clenched until his knuckles cracked.

"Zheng Yi... I'll make you pay with your life!"

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