Enraging! (Seeking follow-ups, don't hoard books!)

A single encounter was enough to instantly kill a mid-level battle mage who had survived countless brushes with death. Though the remaining nine were shocked, they were far from afraid.

At the same time, the roar just unleashed by the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had sent the Sky Eagle into a state of terror, causing it to plummet straight down from the low altitude.

"Form a three-three formation!" the lead battle mage scrambled to his feet and barked orders at the other eight.

Immediately, they grouped into threes, with the three groups then arranging themselves into a "pin" formation.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger circled above their heads, its blood-red eyes filled with keen interest and a hint of disdain.

Mayflies are but mayflies; do they truly dream of shaking a tree?

"We attack together!" Lan Yu called back to Zhao Manyan and the others.

With things having reached this point, Zhao Manyan and his companions could no longer afford to hesitate, and they began to trace their star orbits.

"Violent Wave!" "Wind Disk!" "Fierce Fist!"...

Before long, everyone had finished tracing the mid-level star orbits of their respective elements.

Torrents, gales, and raging flames converged as their elemental magic attacks were unleashed simultaneously, instantly whipping up a violent magical storm.

"Defend!"

The nine executioners each deployed their defensive measures—some used defensive magic equipment, others cast Water Protection or Light Protection-Holy Shield...

"Go!" At Lan Yu's command, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger circling above the nine men channeled its lightning-attribute power.

BOOM—

A sharp, thunderous crack like a bolt from a clear sky echoed across the land. Thick bolts of lightning materialized out of thin air and plummeted straight down.

The lightning tore through the air without mercy, slamming directly into their defenses and instantly turning the entire area into a field of thunder.

"Don't stop the attacks! Keep bombarding them, blast those bastards to hell!" Song Xia unleashed another Fierce Fist.

"Violent Wave!" Zhao Manyan went all out; it was either them or him.

Mu Nujiao channeled her Wind Disk, continuously battering the defenses the nine men had erected.

CRACK—

As time passed, the nine men could no longer withstand such an onslaught.

With a Great War General-level summon beast in the sky and mid-level mages bombarding them from the ground, it was a miracle they had lasted this long.

Finally, their defensive formation shattered under the spatial power of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and the nine men were torn apart by the elemental storm.

"We won!" Zhao Manyan let out a sigh of relief.

Song Xia began to laugh, but as she laughed, she began to cry.

What the others didn't notice was the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger slipping into the elemental storm like a phantom. It snatched up a few of the more intact corpses; now, it could finally taste the flavor of a mage.

One bite, and the taste was quite good.

Of course, it only ate mages who had shown murderous intent toward its "poop-scooper"; usually, it just consumed its master's magic energy or hunted demon beasts while out in the wild.

"Old Lan, what do we do now?" Zhao Manyan asked.

"What else can we do? We head for the Kangning City safe zone as fast as we can," Lan Yu replied.

At this moment, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger flew back and landed behind Lan Yu.

Judging by its unsatisfied expression, it seemed that such a battle didn't even count as a warm-up for it.

"You guys go ahead; I'm going to check on the situation."

With that, Lan Yu mounted the back of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

"Big Brother, are you kidding me? We barely made it out alive, and you want to go back?" Zhao Manyan couldn't fathom Lan Yu's logic.

"I'm just going to take a look. If there's an opportunity, taking out those executioners would be excellent," Lan Yu said. "Besides, I have it with me; there's no need to worry about running away."

Looking at the imposing and handsome Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, the group didn't know what to say.

Zhao Manyan opened his mouth, but the thousands of words in his heart eventually turned into a single sigh. "Alright then."

Lan Yu nodded. "Be careful on the road. If you run into an emergency, just fire a signal and wait for me."

If not for the Blood Li Zi, Lan Yu would never have turned back.

Although the Evil Saint King was an option, Lan Yu preferred the Darkness King.

As one of the big bosses of the Dark Plane, the Darkness King was, in Lan Yu's view, an excellent choice.

If that didn't work out, he could always obtain a godhood from the Douluo Continent and ascend to godhood himself.

Knowing that Lan Yu's mind was made up, the others couldn't persuade him otherwise and could only urge him to be careful in all things.

After parting ways with the group, Lan Yu rode the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to track down Shen Mingxiao and Luo Song, who were currently fleeing.

"You... what do you want?"

"I am a man of great kindness. Since I don't want you to run so hard, I've decided to invite you to die!"

Meanwhile, inside the Jinlin Desolate City.

"There!"

A military judge pointed between two buildings and shouted.

In an instant, several military mages wielding wind-element power chased toward the space between the two unfinished buildings at breakneck speed.

When they tried to move directly from the ground toward the unfinished building Mo Fan had jumped to, they suddenly discovered a quagmire emitting black mist blocking their path.

Impassable!

"Don't let him get away!" Jiang Yi commanded sharply.

Two earth-element mages immediately caught up, one of them using Earth Wave to clear the mud blocking the way.

On the other side, Mo Fan was riding the Swift Star Wolf, leaping between the buildings of a residential area.

"Roar~!"

Suddenly, the Swift Star Wolf let out a low growl and began to crouch down.

"What are you crouching for?" Mo Fan felt his body sinking and couldn't help but ask.

"Awoo~" The Swift Star Wolf let out another cry, telling this idiot Mo Fan that it wasn't crouching, but that the building they were standing on was rapidly sinking.

Mo Fan looked left and right, discovering that their position was already a floor lower than the surroundings, even though all the buildings in this area were the same height.

"Run!" Mo Fan urged hurriedly.

The Swift Star Wolf didn't need Mo Fan's order; it knew it had to run.

Mo Fan took the opportunity to glance back at the pursuers, finding that the group of military mages was chasing at a very high speed.

They didn't need to rely on the buildings to move at all, as they had earth-element mages clearing the path ahead for them.

Wait, where is that devil?

After running for a long time, Mo Fan finally realized that the devil Lu Nian, who had been pursuing him along with the group, had disappeared at some point.

Damn it, where did he go?!

However, the Lu Nian that Mo Fan was currently obsessing over was in a standoff with Lan Yu.

"To be able to kill my subordinates in one blow, your summoned beast is indeed extraordinary!" Lu Nian's sharp eyes stared at Lan Yu ahead.

"Is that your last word?" Lan Yu stood on the back of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, his gaze as condescending as a king's.

"Don't get too carried away!" Lu Nian flew into a rage, a brown light flashing in his eyes.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger sensed the incoming petrification power and flapped its wings, easily pulling away. Lu Nian's petrification power missed completely, not even touching a single hair.

"It seems you, Army Commander Lu Nian, are nothing more than this..." Lan Yu kept harassing Lu Nian with trash talk, not for any other reason than to satisfy his own mouth.

"Trash, waste, scum... you can't do anything, you couldn't even protect your only brother; truly, your father shouldn't have been so greedy for that moment of pleasure..."