"Hahahahahahahaha..."
After speaking, Chen Xingquan fell silent for a moment, then burst into a long peal of laughter.
He was so happy.
He truly was overjoyed.
Here, all he had to do after doing something wrong was apologize. No one could do a thing to him, and he would pay no price at all.
"Kill! Let their wails form a beautiful melody, a glorious tribute to my ascent up the Transcender's stairway!" He closed his eyes and listened closely to the screams of Ana City's residents, their pain and terror making his Killing Intent Power burn ever fiercer.
Black Calamity Flame!
Suddenly, a torrent of black fire blasted in from afar.
A Mutated Beast, its body too grotesquely swollen to dodge, was struck by the black flames. It wailed, then crumbled into a heap of black ash.
"Oh? This backwater has an expert?" Chen Xingquan narrowed his eyes and looked toward the source of the flames.
A man in a ragged cloak, a lightning-shaped scar across his face, charged against the fleeing crowd. He moved with astonishing speed, reaching the front in a few bounds.
"A-Long!"
Many soldiers fighting desperately to hold the line cheered in delight when they saw him.
A-Long said nothing. He kept his eyes on the surrounding Mutated Beasts, drew a deep breath, and punched the nearest one. It had pinned a soldier down and was trying to bite off his head, but the soldier held its jaws back with his spear. The beast was always just a hair's breadth away.
Its saliva kept dripping, coating the soldier's face.
Just as the soldier thought he could hold out no longer, A-Long threw his punch. Black flames burst from between his fingers and pierced the Mutated Beast.
The soldier shoved hard, and the beast toppled to one