Mysterious Guests

Rumble~~~

The ground shook violently as piercing shrieks and the thunderous crashes of rapid movement drew closer from deep within the great rift!

Clearly, the dying howls of those five Ghost Face Scorpions had caught the attention of their companions deeper within the nest.

Hugo looked at the dense cluster of red dots displayed on the detector, and his mind nearly exploded!

"Not good! At least fifty Ghost Face Scorpions are charging out! Quick, run!"

"What? Fifty?" The guards' expressions changed instantly!

"Quick! Protect the master! Run!"

Old Wu grabbed Hugo, stepped onto a golden disc-shaped flying Psionic Weapon, and began fleeing at high speed.

The other guards, including Qi Yuan, followed behind in a frantic escape!

Screech!

Screech!

Piercing cries rang out behind them as massive Ghost Face Scorpions charged madly from the rift's exit like tanks racing at full speed!

In an instant, they locked onto the enemies ahead!

Screech! Screech!

More than fifty Ghost Face Scorpions, every one of them fully grown, trampled and leaped wildly among the jagged rocks as they rapidly pursued Qi Yuan's group!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

More than a dozen particularly robust Ghost Face Scorpions, each visibly larger than the others, broke away from the main swarm and accelerated instantly—

Their powerful limbs slammed heavily against the black rocky mountainside. After only a few leaps, the dozen or so Ghost Face Scorpions had rapidly closed in on the rear of the group.

Then, without hesitation, the dozen Ghost Face Scorpions attacked at once—

Slash! Crack!

Savage tail hooks gleaming with a cold, sinister light and enormous pincers like millstones came crashing down!

At the rear of the fleeing group were several Star Traveller Tier 7 and Eighth Stage guards, including Qi Yuan!

Pfft! Pfft!

Caught completely off guard, two Star Traveller Tier 7 guards were instantly pierced by the venomous stingers of the icy scorpion tails.

The terrifying venom erupted in an instant. The two guards did not even last one-thousandth of a second before losing their lives!

"Not good! Save them!"

Being carried through the air by Old Wu, Hugo was the only one with enough spare attention to observe the rear. Seeing this, he immediately transmitted his voice to the three Star Traveller Tier 9 Psychic Masters!

When danger struck, Old Wu and all the slave guards naturally made protecting their master, Hugo, their first priority.

Only under Hugo's forceful demand did the Psychic Masters reluctantly divert part of their attention to look after Qi Yuan and the others who had fallen behind.

As Qi Yuan ran, he felt a fierce wind howl behind him. Without a second thought, he swept his Force Battle Blade backward. The Nine Radiance Sky Blade and the power of his domain surged into it at the same time!

Slash! Clang!

A long, slender black scorpion tail was severed in one stroke!

The Force Battle Blade, wreathed in dazzling thunder light, did not lose its momentum. Only after violently clashing with a gigantic black iron pincer did its attack finally come to a halt!

Hiss~

Electric light coiled around Qi Yuan's body as he used the recoil to instantly pull away.

At the same time, a gentle yet exceptionally resilient force descended upon him, pulling him rapidly forward—

Old Wu had directly drawn him to his side with psychic force.

"Move! Charge into the Light Shadow Layer below!"

Standing atop the disc-shaped flying Psionic Weapon, Old Wu gripped Hugo and Qi Yuan with one hand each as he sped toward the hazy Light Shadow Layer shrouding the foot of the mountain!

"Quick, get over here!"

"Move!"

The two Wuxia Race Psychic Masters followed suit, each taking along two of the remaining four Star Traveller Tier 7 and Eighth Stage guards.

The four Zhalin Race warriors flew on their own, and the entire group fled desperately toward the foot of the mountain!

After three and a half full minutes of fleeing for their lives—

The bedraggled group finally rushed into the dazzling, dreamlike light below before the huge swarm of Ghost Face Scorpions could completely surround them.

They did not dare stop, maintaining an altitude barely above the ground as they continued speeding forward.

Behind them, the dozen massive Ghost Face Scorpions also plunged headfirst into the Light Shadow Layer.

Unexpectedly—

Only moments after entering the Light Shadow Layer, the savage Ghost Face Scorpions, which had been so frenzied that they wished to tear Qi Yuan's group to pieces, suddenly developed dazed looks in their eyes.

Before long, as though they had forgotten their original purpose, the Ghost Face Scorpions circled in place in slight confusion before turning around and rapidly returning toward their nest.

The creatures in the Lord of Domain World used for the assessment were all "ferocious beasts" specially bred by the Universe Mercenary Alliance.

Ferocious beasts were called ferocious beasts because their intelligence was extremely low.

Monsters on Earth, or the demon beast races of the universe—even slightly mature demon beasts were no less intelligent than humans!

Ferocious beasts, however, possessed great strength but extremely low intelligence. They did not even know how to learn or think.

The Ghost Face Scorpions of Emberlight World were one such kind of ferocious beast.

Under the powerful hallucinatory effects of the Light Shadow Layer, the pitiful intelligence of the Ghost Face Scorpions naturally caused them to fall under its spell at once, leaving them able to act only on instinct.

On a hillside covered in enormous black boulders, more than a thousand kilometers from the rift where they had encountered the Ghost Face Scorpions—

Qi Yuan's group cautiously emerged from the hazy light below.

"Bleurgh!"

Having traveled through the hallucinatory Light Shadow Layer for so long, Hugo, the young master who possessed only Star Traveller Tier 2 strength, felt dizzy and nauseated, as though he might faint on the spot.

Only after quite some time did he gradually regain some of his senses.

"Damn it, next time I'd rather feed myself directly to the Ghost Face Scorpions than enter that Light Shadow Layer again!"

He grumbled angrily before turning to Old Wu.

"Old Wu, let's rest for a day first and act again tomorrow. I really can't take it anymore!"

"Yes, Master."

At the same time—

Within an exceedingly luxurious vast estate on Lanka Star—

Adona, Hugo's so-called Sixth Brother, received several mysterious guests dressed in unusual black robes.

After a secret discussion, the guests moved directly into a separate courtyard reserved for the estate's most distinguished visitors.

"Brother Anto, do you think this Adona of the Ortega Family has something wrong with his head? Instead of living comfortably as a young noble, he insists on becoming someone's dog and even joins outsiders to deal with his own family."

In the courtyard, three guests dressed in unusual black robes, their chests embroidered with mysterious patterns, conversed through voice transmission.

The middle-aged man called Anto sneered and replied through voice transmission as well:

"Human desires are limitless. As long as the price is right, family and kin are nothing more than shackles standing in one's way!"

"Heh, humans have always prided themselves on being civilized and enlightened, yet when they become ruthless, they are far more cold-blooded than us 'barbarians.'"

The man who had spoken earlier revealed a mocking expression. "It's just a pity that this poor fellow probably has no idea that the powerful backer he worked so hard to cling to is actually nothing more than a controlled puppet."

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