One Year!

The alarm blared throughout the Heaven Dou City, Lin Xia's pupils contracted sharply as she stood under the blood-red setting sun.

Outside the city walls, a newborn, Dark Red Hyena cub tore through the Soul Ancestor guards, while a ten-thousand-year-old Iron-Armored Rock Rhino smashed through the city gate's massive stone.

Why hasn't the Divine Realm intervened yet?

Bibi Dong silently shook her head Withered Purple Light and annihilated the Mutated Poison Frog that had pounced on her palm.

"The Rakshasa God... did not respond."

The Qian Renxue Holy Sword sliced off the bat's wing, and he said sharply:

"Even the Angel God has lost contact!"

The three of them looked at the Divine Power Markings on the newly mutated Soul Beast, feeling a chill run down their spines.

The God of Wrath is building an army of Soul Beast.

A somber, leaden-gray cloud hung low over the imposing walls of Heaven Dou City, like a giant, ominous coffin lid.

The once bustling and prosperous streets are now deathly silent, with doors and windows tightly shut. Only the wind, carrying dust and a faint, fishy smell, howls through the empty Plate pavement.

On the city walls, the heavily armed taxi soldiers stood with tense expressions, their fingers gripping their cold weapons tightly, their gazes fixed on the once lush and verdant forest outside the city, now eerily silent and desolate. A suffocating tension and fear permeated the air.

It's been a year.

For a whole year, the name Yu Xiaogang, which seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth, weighed heavily on everyone's hearts like a boulder.

The initial fervor of the hunt had long since cooled under the repeated bizarre missed attempts and inexplicable spatial interference, transforming into a deep-seated weariness and unease.

The Spirit Hall's spies stopped actively searching, and Shrek Academy's revenge team, led by Ma Hongjun, was like a deflated balloon, only able to wander aimlessly by gathering information about unusual activity in the surrounding forest.

The one-armed madman and his seemingly reckless protector seemed to have sunk into the deepest trench, leaving no trace.

However, this silence is not tranquility. It is the suffocating stillness before Hurricane.

Lin Xia stood at the top of the majestic city gate tower, her slender fingers unconsciously stroking the cold, rough stone bricks.

A year had not left any obvious marks on him, but his eyes, which always held a gentle vitality, were now filled with an unyielding solemnity and doubt.

Beside him, Bibi Dong, dressed in a deep purple Pope robe, appeared even more menacing under the oppressive sky. Her exquisitely beautiful face was like an ice sculpture, and her deep purple eyes reflected the unsettling shadows of the forest outside the city.

Qian Renxue was dressed in a simple white outfit with Platinum patterns. Her holy face was covered with frost, and her golden pupils were sharp as swords as she vigilantly scanned the distance.

Suddenly, a piercing, soul-wrenching alarm blared into the sky without warning!

The ear-piercing sound of metal scraping against metal, like the wail of a dying man, instantly shattered the stagnant silence of Heaven Dou City!

"Whoosh--Buzz--!!!"

The alarm sounded from the east of the city! Immediately afterwards, Growl, mixed with the sickening sound of bones cracking and the ferocious roar of some wild beast, swept in like a tsunami!

"They're here!"

Lin Xia's eyes sharpened, and her voice was low and urgent.

Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue had already transformed into streaks of light, instantly shooting towards the direction where the riot had broken out.

Lin Xia followed closely behind, a flash of emerald light beneath her feet, her body as light as a swallow, her speed not slowing down at all.

A section of the city wall on the east side has fallen into chaos.

The taxi drivers defending the city were in disarray, their faces filled with disbelief, terror, and despair.

The enemy they faced completely shattered their understanding of "Soul Beast".

Several menacing shadows tore apart the hastily assembled defensive line of the soldiers.

Its appearance still vaguely resembled the familiar "Tusked Hyena," but its size had more than doubled!

Their rough fur had a murky dark red color, as if it were soaked in congealed blood. What was even more unsettling was that beneath the fur, there were eerie patterns that were as intricate as Spider Web and shimmered with a faint golden light.

Their fangs protrude, are incredibly long, and gleam with a dark, ferocious, and cold light.

What's most terrifying are their eyes; they lack the wild gleam of a beast, instead displaying a pure, burning crimson of endless hunger and destructive desire!

These mutated hyenas possess strength, speed, and sharpness of claws and teeth far exceeding their counterparts. Even more terrifying are their ferocity and near-immortal defense!

A captain at the Soul Elder level roared and swung his longsword, imbued with Soul Power, fiercely slashing at the shoulder blade of a mutated hyena. The power, strong enough to cleave ironwood, only managed to create a deep but not fatal wound!

The spurting of dark red blood did not frighten or deter the beast; instead, it completely ignited its ferocity!

"Roar--!"

The hyena let out a sharp, piercing roar, its scarlet eyes Lock-On on the Soul Elder who had injured it, the pain of the wound driving it even more mad.

Ignoring the second blow to its body, its gaping maw, filled with sharp teeth, viciously bit at the Soul Elder's throat at a tricky angle!

"Ugh!"

The cracking sound of bones breaking was drowned out by screams.

"Damn it! This defense... and this vitality!"

Lin Xia's pupils contracted sharply, and she let out a low shout.

"Vine Bind!"

He pressed his hands lightly to the ground, and a surge of Life Energy instantly poured into the foundation stones of the city wall.

The emerald green light spread along the Conversion the city wall as if it were alive. Countless tough and thick vines broke through the hard stone bricks, like pythons emerging from their caves, and accurately wrapped around the mutated hyenas that were tearing at the soldiers.

The vines Wrap grip, and the binding Nature Power temporarily suppressed the hyena's ferocity.

However, at the very moment the Vine Strangling, Lin Xia keenly sensed an extremely weak yet unusually violent energy fluctuation, like a tiny electric current, that suddenly erupted from the dark red and pale gold patterns on the hyenas' bodies!

Hiss--

The parts Wrap by the vines were visibly turning gray and withering!

It's as if some force is Sheer Force stripping away and Corrosion its vitality!

"Divine power!"

Lin Xia's heart trembled violently. Although faint and mixed, the violent attribute carrying the burning sensation of sulfur and the will to destroy was of the same origin as the aura belonging to Yu Xiaogang and the God of Wrath that she had sensed a year ago at the door of Flender's room! It was only more dispersed, yet also more... complex!

"Judgment."

Bibi Dong's voice rang out, cold and devoid of any emotion.

She didn't even move her feet, but simply raised her slender hand towards the mutated hyenas that were temporarily trapped by the vines.

On his palm, a deep, dark purple light silently condensed, instantly transforming into a blade as thin as a cicada's wing yet seemingly connected to the Abyss of death.

A light swipe.

Laugh--!

There was no earth-shattering noise.

Those few mutated hyenas with their tenacious vitality and amazing defense, along with the vines Wrap around them, disintegrated and decayed silently the instant the purple light swept by, as if they had been injected with an invisible strong acid!

In the blink of an eye, only a small pile of gray dust, carrying a strong smell of sulfur and blood, remained on the spot!