Mutation Strikes Again

She hesitated for a moment, but still tucked the High-grade Spirit Stone Gu Sheng had given her close to her body.

By the time she had slung her pack over her back and rushed out of the inn, Gu Sheng was already waiting outside.

He carried a heavy leather bag made of some special material, clearly filled with supplies he had just collected from Linlang Pavilion.

The chaos and sounds of slaughter in the small town were close at hand. To the east and west, the defensive lines hastily assembled by the Headhunter Gang and Formation Breaker Gang had already clashed head-on with the vanguard of the remnant souls!

Screams, furious roars, and explosions from colliding energies rang out without end.

In midair, countless twisted remnant souls swooped down. Every dive was accompanied by a martial artist's scream and the rippling shock of a soul being torn apart.

The glow of the defenses trembled under the impact of the vast tide of remnant souls. Martial artists kept falling, their bodies uninjured, yet all light had vanished from their eyes—their souls completely devoured.

"Big Brother!"

Gu Yuan ran to Gu Sheng's side. Looking at the scene before her, especially the familiar faces silently falling beneath the remnant souls' attacks, her eyes filled with pity and conflict.

She suddenly raised her head to look at Gu Sheng, her voice pleading.

"Big Brother! You... you're so powerful. Could you... could you help them? Save this camp?"

Gu Sheng's gaze swept over the chaotic battlefield, taking in the martial artists who fought desperately only to be swallowed again and again by the remnant souls.

His eyes did not waver in the slightest.

"Twenty thousand Earth Martial Realm remnant souls, mixed with those at the Sect Realm, and still coming without end."

Gu Sheng's voice