Shadow, a Fifteen-Minute God!

High in the northern sky, on an A-Class Airship, Qing Kun stood quietly on the bridge.

The commander said to Qing Kun, "Boss, we don't have a relay base in the south, which will greatly reduce our endurance. If we rashly participate in the war, we may suffer huge losses."

Qing Kun glanced at him. "Do you think I don't know what you're saying? We're already here, are we going to just take a look around and run away? Give us a good beating!"

At this moment, the holographic projection was activated. On the other side of the A-Class Airship, Qing Xing, the father Qing Yu, looked coldly at Qing Kun: "We expect to arrive at the battlefield in 5 minutes. Don't try to cheat or waste my air power."

Qing Kun responded with a string of curses, "Don't worry, I'm definitely braver than you in battle. We're all in the same boat now, all tied to the chariot by the shadows, there's no way out."

"That's good," Qing Yu sneered.

Although these two are now bound to the chariot by the shadows, they can't stand each other.

Qing Kun looked at Qing Yu's holographic projection and said, "By the way, I have something to remind you. If your mentally challenged son dares to use Forbidden Item to bring misfortune to my son Qing Yi again, I'll twist his head off!"

Qing Yu ignored him and turned off the holographic projection.

On the bridge, the commander frowned and asked, "Boss, this operation plan is too hasty and too dangerous. It doesn't conform to our operational principles at all. You two are both battle-hardened generals of the Group Army. Why did you make such a decision? And why did you make it together? Even if we were to start a war, you two wouldn't need to come personally, would you?"

"Do you think I want this? Shadow himself said we have to gamble everything—our reputation, our lives, our very existence—for a ticket to the new era. Do you even know what that means?" Qing Kun cursed as he kicked the commander in the butt. "Go back to commanding, and stop babbling at me."

The commander staggered a couple of steps from the kick and almost fell to the ground.

To be honest, this boss is great in every way: considerate of his subordinates, open-minded, and not cold-blooded. The only downside is that he has a really terrible temper.

The edge of Forbidden Zone No. 002.

A field company is stationed here. They are not here to defend the Forbidden Zone No. 002, but to provide rescue from the fire pit that has crossed here.

Just as Chen Yu said, he made thorough preparations for this battle.

Even though he knew that the Great Elder at the fire pit would definitely not come, he was still on guard.

For the Chen Clan soldier, being able to guard the edge of Forbidden Zone No. 002 and not participate in the battle was of course the best outcome. After all, hunting demigods was not as good as staying here and waiting for orders.

Half of the soldiers in this field company were spoiled sons of the Chen family. Their parents sent them to the military camp to train them and hopefully reform them.

But how could these spoiled brats be so obedient once they entered the army? In the end, Chen's Group Army could only gather them together and assign them the easiest tasks in every military operation.

The strangest thing about this field company is that everyone there is a company commander...

A field company with a strength of 180 men, including 134 captains, was considered a remarkable sight in the Chen's Group Army.

Some soldiers chatted idly. "I wonder how the fighting is going over there. Maybe we should cook something to eat first."

"No thanks, Chen Yu is here in person this time. Anyone who dares to act recklessly will surely die," an officer said. "My dad called me before I came. This is all about getting some recognition. We won a second-class merit award for the entire army. As long as nothing goes wrong, I can be promoted to major in a few months."

However, at that moment, they suddenly heard a strange noise behind them.

Everyone turned around and looked, and they were so frightened they wet themselves.

But then they saw a giant covered in wounds standing at the edge of the forest, holding a large tree branch as a stick, staring fiercely at all the soldiers.

The giant's scars were from battles with mysterious beasts in various Forbidden Zone; he had already reigned supreme in seven Forbidden Zone.

Few people know that in those Forbidden Zone unknown to the Federation, a giant is plotting to establish his own empire.

The giant raised his wooden stick and swung it at the field company, roaring furiously.

The next moment, a group of wild boar kings rushed out of the Forbidden Zone No. 002, knocking the field company responsible for guarding the Forbidden Zone No. 002 off its feet!

Ding Dong's younger brother Gu Dong, was also called back by the old folks!

Gu Dong turned around and looked at Ding Dong behind it. "Gu Dong!"

(Brother, you need to go back right now, I'm going to kill someone.)

Ding Dong out anxiously, "Ding Dong!"

(It's dangerous outside!)

Gu Dong grinned and said, "Gu Dong."

(What's there to be afraid of? Just do it!)

With that, Gu Dong took heavy steps and charged out with the herd of wild boars.

Ding Dong hesitated for a long time, but then followed them out!

Deep within the Forbidden Zone, someone roared, "Knights came before heaven! Killing knights at our doorstep? Are you fucking insane?! Let's fight! Here, no one can kill Qing Chen, not even a god! I'm telling you!"

Someone sighed, "You've been dead for hundreds of years, can't you stop being so irritable? I always thought it was a mistake for Master to take you as a knight. Look at how you've raised Gu Dong! We should never have let you take care of children in the first place!"

At this moment, Li Bingxi was already following the shadow's gaze toward Forbidden Zone No. 002.

He stared at it in utter astonishment.

Before this, there had never been a precedent in the entire Federation for mysterious creatures from the Forbidden Zone to participate in wars, and they rarely even left the Forbidden Zone!

But now, he had just watched the flock of birds fly out of the treetops, and the Vermilion Bird flying at the very front. He saw that the Vermilion Bird's tail feathers trailed more than ten meters long, and it looked like a meteorite that had just entered the atmosphere and was burning up, its body covered in starlight.

Is this what Shadow was referring to... Qing Chen's trump card?

Xiao Mengqian stared blankly in the direction Vermilion Bird had gone, while Yingzi watched her with a smile.

This is the Knight Organization's trump card.

That is the love and care that knights have shown to their juniors over the centuries, and the hope that the old folks have for the knightly tradition to be revived after the knights had gradually declined over the centuries.

Now, all that accumulated power has been bestowed upon Qing Chen by the old folks.

Thinking of this, Shadow suddenly felt relieved.

He turned to Qing Chen and smiled, "Actually, I was always a little worried before, so I was reluctant to leave. I was worried that someone would bully you and no one would help you, I was worried that when you were sad, no one would be there to confide in you, and I was worried that no one would be waiting for you when you got home. I kept holding back because I wanted to see if there was anyone in this world who cared about you like I did. Now, I think I don't have to worry anymore. Remember, you had a brother like this."

Shadow waited for more than ten years for that one call of "brother".

I have no regrets in life.

As he spoke, Qing Chen realized something, and tears streamed down his face. "Is there no other way?"

"That's all," the shadow suddenly burst into loud laughter. "Little Chen, don't cry. I sent Chen Yu and Li Bingxi here, and I haven't killed them yet, so they can witness the arrival of an era that belongs to you—a new era, New World!"

As he spoke, Li Bingxi involuntarily stepped back, feeling as if the shadow's aura was rising infinitely and gradually merging with the world.

The shadow's hair began to shatter into scattered stars, and its body gradually became ethereal.

"You've reached the tipping point where your spirit and will merge with the world!" Li Bingxi exclaimed in shock.

The shadow laughed and said, "What's there to be afraid of? I reached that critical point a century ago."

The ordinary person's life is a journey of self-cultivation, pursuing the strengthening of their physique so that they can withstand a stronger spiritual will and interact with the world, using their mortal body to influence the rules of the world.

The shadow, having just awakened, stood at the finish line of all the tracks.

However, apart from the god Ren Xiaosu, everyone in this world who crosses that critical line will fall into a state of physical disintegration, forever merging with the will of the world and sinking into the sea of stars.

Even powerful figures like the demigods Yan Liuyuan and Li Shentan, who orchestrated this time-travel incident, were not exempt.

Yan Liuyuan's reason for remaining in a deep sleep for a long time was to resist the process of being assimilated by the world's will by sealing himself away.

However, today, for Qing Chen's sake, Shadow took the initiative to cross that critical line and became the person closest to the gods!

As he spoke, he turned to Qing Chen and asked with a smile, "So, your brother's pretty amazing, isn't he?"

Qing Chen wiped away her tears. "Amazing, my brother is the most amazing."

"No regrets," Shadow laughed loudly.

This shadow stands in this wilderness, amidst a vast army.

The heavens and earth revolved around him, their majestic power like a whale's breath, and even the dark clouds in the sky were violently parted.

Shadow turned to look at Li Bingxi and Chen Yu.

"Li Bingxi, do you want to kill me? You're not worthy."

"I am a nameless person on this earthly path, a person with no more attachments in this world. Chen Yu, I am a mountain you can never climb in this life. From this day forward, you will feel fear whenever you think of me. Your path of cultivation ends today!"

At this moment, Chen Yu and Li Bingxi were no longer calm as before. They had guessed the level of the Shadow, but they never expected that the Shadow would be able to take the initiative to cross the chasm between demigods and gods!

They are now fighting not mortals, but a quarter-hour god!

This was Shadow's biggest trump card, which he kept hidden for a century, intending to use it to usher in a new era for his younger brother.

"Chen Yu, kill him!" Li Bingxi said in a low voice, but he turned and ran away.

A dignified demigod, yet before the shadow, he was like a stray dog, completely disregarding his dignity as he ran wildly, with all his clones running in twenty-four different directions.

I dare not speak loudly.

It might startle the celestial beings!

But how could the shadow let Li Bingxi off the hook? He whispered, "Time!"

The world suddenly slowed down and froze.

Everyone froze, including the demigods.

There are fixed rules for extraordinary individuals in the world. Any force applied to other extraordinary individuals will be resisted by their life force field. For example, Yang Yang can destroy war robots, but she cannot control B-Class extraordinary individuals at will.

If the demigods hadn't noticed the Shadow's ability to freeze time, they would have also frozen in time. For them, time would have been normal; only the Shadow's speed would have been relatively faster.

However, if a demigod senses something, such as a shadow killing someone in front of them, the demigod can resist with their own mental will and break free from the laws of time.

This is also why Shadow never sought to fight demigods in the past.

But things are different now. The Shadow is no longer a demigod; he is a rank higher than all other demigods and is now touching the realm of gods.

Even if he were to die in a quarter of an hour, he would still be a god for that quarter of an hour!

As brilliant as stars!

Therefore, when the force field called "Time" was unleashed, even the speed of a demigod froze!

The shadow strode towards Li Bingxi, casually defeating all twenty-four of Li Bingxi's clones one by one.

He leaves no trace for a thousand miles, and kills one person with every step!

As Li Bingxi's clones shattered one by one, the shadow stood beside Li Bingxi's main body, looking at the aged demigod before him. The look of terror on the other's face froze along with time itself.

The shadow chuckled, "I knew you possessed Forbidden Item that could save your life, which is why I dared to come here. There are only two Forbidden Item in the world that can save your life. One is the Forbidden Item ACE-90, Immortal Brooch that can only be used once, which was given to Chen Yu by Qing Wen's mother. The other is the Concentric Lock, which is in your heart, isn't it?"

The shadow didn't wait for Li Bingxi's answer; he already had his answer, and the other party couldn't answer it either.

In fact, both Chen Yu and Li Bingxi, these two demigods, dared to come here because they possessed Forbidden Item could save their lives.

The Forbidden Item ACE-90, the Immortal Brooch, is a single-use item that Qing Wen obtained from Qing Zhong- jong.

This Immortal Brooch can be exchanged for the souls of ten people to bring one person back to life.

"Once used, the Immortal Brooch will disappear and reappear ten years later in a random brooch shop, where it will be bought by someone unaware of its existence."

Forbidden Item ACE-023, Concentric Lock.

"We do not ask to be born on the same day, month, and year, but we ask to die on the same day, month, and year. If one of us dies, the other will take our place. If the husband dies, the wife's body will transform into a cocoon after three days, but it will be the husband who emerges from the cocoon, and the wife will die in his place. The husband will return to the physical functions of a 21-year-old. This Forbidden Item was found on the grave of a superhuman couple who were deeply in love and at odds. To use this Forbidden Item, one must be a couple who have lived together for more than 21 years."

Li Bingxi dared to come because of this Forbidden Item.

Therefore, Li Bingxi never intended to exchange his own life for resources; he intended to exchange his wife's life for those resources.

In this war, the two demigods have four objectives.

The first goal is to wear down the shadow.

Both sides share the same goal: to kill the other demigod. Chen Yu wants to kill Li Bingxi, and Li Bingxi wants to kill Chen Yu. They both possess the only Forbidden Item in the world that can save their lives, so they are not afraid of death. This is equivalent to simultaneously killing the shadow and the other demigod, greatly increasing their chances of winning.

The third objective is to kill Qing Chen, thus wiping out the Knight Organization. While the Knight Organization's advancement is perilous, the process is shorter than that of other demigods. They all fear that two demigods might coexist within the Knights; if that were to happen, none of the conglomerate leaders would have peace of mind!

The fourth resource exchange involves Li Bingxi needing the resources held by the Kyung family.

The shadow sighed, "Li Bingxi- hee, Li Bingxi, your wife will die with you today. If it weren't for you, I would never have killed a kind-hearted old woman. You deserve to die."

As he spoke, Shadow gently traced Li Bingxi's throat with his finger, severing all of Lee's life.

He touched Li Bingxi's body and took out a scalpel from the other's sleeve. "Huh, the Forbidden Item ACE-043 is actually on you. It belongs to my brother now."

The shadow turned around and came to Chen Yu again, laughing, "I know I can't kill you today. That damn Immortal Brooch is really strange. I went to your house but couldn't find where it was hidden. It must be kept by the person you trust the most."

As he spoke, Shadow used the scalpel he had just acquired to sever Chen Yu's neck.

No one in the world had ever imagined that someone could kill a demigod as easily as slaughtering a dog!

But then Chen Yu's body turned into smoke and flew south; that was Chen Yu's soul, summoned by the Immortal Brooch.

"What a pity," the shadow said with a smile, "But your Dao heart has been shattered. Just wait for my brother to come and kill you."

The shadow walked back to Qing Chen and put the scalpel he had just received into Qing Chen's hand. He stared at it, calculating every second.

Then, this deity gently wiped away the tears from Qing Chen's eyes.

He studied him for a moment, gently embraced his equally frozen younger brother, and then let go.

"Xiao Chen, this is the end of the road I can walk with you."

"I will no longer care about the future, regardless of wind, snow, sunshine or rain."

"Run, run with a speed that even despair cannot catch. Slay all your enemies, stand on my shoulders, and see the world that should have been yours."

The six suns in the sky have vanished because of Chen Yu's "death".

The shadow opened the Shadow Gate and entered the dimly lit hut in the Ginkgo Manor.

He looked at his father, who still had his back to him, slowly knelt down, and kowtowed. "Father, I beg you for my brother's sake. Let us be father and son again in the next life."

After saying this, the shadow placed the necklace around its neck on the ground, its body completely disintegrated, and turned into a handful of stars that flew into the sky.

A tear fell to the ground in front of the old man.

There will never be another Qing Zhun in this world.

In a corner of the northern city No. 25.

Qing Ye looked at the old woman imprisoned in the iron cage in front of him. She had been poisoned and was unable to speak.

This is Li Bingxi's first wife, imprisoned here by Li Bingxi, awaiting her fate of death.

Behind Qing Ye, the Shadow Unit was finishing up their work. Outside the iron cage were the corpses of the security personnel responsible for guarding the old woman, along with blood.

He sighed and said, "I'm sorry, but I have no choice but to kill you. Li Bingxi is dead. If you have any grudges, go find him on the road to the underworld."

Actually, no one called Qing Ye to tell him about Li Bingxi's death, but he firmly believed that with the Shadow's intervention, Li Bingxi was doomed.

However, when the old woman heard Qing Ye say that Li Bingxi was dead, the despair in her eyes was gone, replaced by gratitude.

Qing Ye seemed to understand something, raised his hand and pulled the trigger, the bullet hitting the old woman precisely between the eyebrows.

On the southern battlefield, after a brief moment of being frozen by the shadow, Chen Yu disappeared without a trace. Li Bingxi covered his neck, struggled for a moment, transformed into a mandarin duck, flew into the sky, and then turned into pink light and shadow.

Zard exclaimed, "Wow, so beautiful!"

At this moment, Qing Chen was still surrounded by the Chen family's army.

He felt as if he had just had a long dream.

That period of time, though it seemed to pass quickly, felt like an eternity.

Qing Chen looked at the scalpel in his hand and couldn't help but burst into tears. The next moment, the lightning magma in his body erupted and surged continuously.

But his eyes were like gold, and even his tears turned golden. When they fell to the ground, each tear even sparked countless arcs of electricity.

Qing Chen looked at Yang Yang and said, "Yang Yang, I don't have a brother anymore."

On this day, the shadow allowed Qing Chen to witness his own death.

This was the last gift he gave to Qing Chen, helping Qing Chen awaken to A-level.

A gift bought with one's life.

Third update.

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