What am I seeing? So many mysterious men? How did he do that? Is this the legendary Clone Technique? Isn't this way too powerful?!
These questions kept surfacing in Li Yun's and Zhao Qing's minds as they looked at the "Shen Feis" sitting cross-legged on the ground.
Anyone would have been bewildered by this.
Shen Fei noticed them too.
But he paid them no attention.
Absorbing the lingzhi and growing stronger was still more important.
Seeing that Shen Fei ignored them, Liu Long felt somewhat relieved.
Li Yun and Zhao Qing slammed the man from Sakura Country and the man from Beautiful Country behind them hard onto the ground.
Then Zhao Qing used his Esper Ability to bind the two men tightly together.
He-
The intense pain jolted them awake from unconsciousness.
They immediately raised their heads and opened their eyes, seeing Liu Long and his two teammates.
Liu Long touched his glasses, and the two men's Spiritual Power Values promptly appeared on the lenses.
7800.
7699.
Suddenly, Liu Long thought of something.
He asked his two teammates, "Did either of you bring a small Spiritual Power Tester?"
The two looked puzzled, only to hear Liu Long continue, "Mine's broken."
So that was it.
Li Yun took a small Spiritual Power Tester from inside his clothes and handed it to Liu Long.
Liu Long took it and tested the two bound men's Spiritual Power Values.
Soon.
The Spiritual Power Values appeared.
Liu Long was dumbfounded.
The Spiritual Power Values displayed on the small Spiritual Power Tester were exactly the same as those on his Spiritual Power Goggles.
In other words.
His Spiritual Power Goggles weren't broken!
That mysterious man's true rank was actually mortal entry stage seven, level four!
He sucked in a sharp breath!
Fear and helplessness abruptly surged within Liu Long. He couldn't understand why this was possible.
Someone at mortal entry stage seven had actually overwhelmed and blasted apart a Steel Bear at mortal entry stage eight, level eight, whose defenses were no weaker than those of a mortal entry stage nine Fierce Beast!
What did that mean?
It meant his combat strength was unmatched in the world!
Once he reached mortal entry stage eight, or even stage nine, he could be called invincible beneath the transcendent level!
At that thought, Liu Long realized just how laughable the words he had spoken a few hours earlier had been.
What right did he have to question such a prodigy?
If he weren't relatively good-tempered, I'd probably be dead already... Liu Long thought of what had just happened to the Steel Bear.
His body couldn't help trembling again.
Beside him, Li Yun and Zhao Qing noticed something was wrong with their captain and couldn't help worrying.
"Captain, what's wrong?"
"Did something happen? You're breaking out in a cold sweat."
With a complicated expression, Liu Long looked at the "Shen Feis" in the distance and said with a bitter smile, "It's the feeling of having walked right up to death's door today, and being lucky the King of Hell didn't take me..."
Li Yun and Zhao Qing followed his gaze, saw the "Shen Feis," and immediately understood what he meant.
Anyone who could come here was no fool. They were all smart, and with Liu Long acting so abnormally, they instantly understood everything.
"Captain, don't be scared. Since he didn't kill you, that means he doesn't care about you. You're fine."
"Captain, don't worry. Not killing you means you aren't even qualified to die at his hands. You aren't worth getting angry over at all, so relax. Your life isn't in danger."
The two comforted Liu Long.
Liu Long's response: ???
Liu Long calmed down and stopped dwelling on those matters. He would get the actual business done first.
He looked at the two bound men.
"Talk. What did you two come here for? Don't feed me any lies. If I don't like what I hear, I'll break one of your hands."
"We love Great Xia! We love Great Xia! We're citizens of Great Xia! Long live Great Xia! Long live Great Xia!"
"We're on your side! Don't hurt us. We're on your side! We love Great Xia! We love Great Xia!"
The man from Beautiful Country hurriedly shouted.
Smack-
Liu Long slapped him hard across the face on the spot.
"Fuck you! Trying to cash in on patriotic slogans? This isn't Douyin! Shouting 'long live' won't help!"
"Do you fucking take us for idiots?"
"I can't stand this anymore, Captain! I'll just break his leg!"
The Sakura Country warrior sneered instead. "You'd better not touch us, or you'll regret it later."
"Oh? We've caught you, and you still dare threaten us?" Without wasting any more words, Li Yun stomped down and broke the Sakura Country warrior's thigh.
"Aah-"
The Sakura Country warrior roared in pain, "You'll all regret this!"
The next second.
Shen Fei's utterly icy voice rang out.
"Noisy!"
Instantly.
Everyone fell into a Genjutsu, unable to break free.
An hour later.
Shen Fei dispelled the Shadow Clone Technique.
He had now fully refined all the lingzhi.
The Spiritual Power Value within his body had reached 7800.
His strength had increased substantially once again.
Shen Fei stood and patted his ancient Battle Armor.
"It's time to head for the Level Nine Area."
"I heard the Transcendent Administration Bureau's strongest Esper Ability user is there."
"I hope they don't disappoint me."
Shen Fei used the Body Flicker Technique and left.
He didn't linger in the Level Eight Area because he had discovered that ever since unlocking the Mangekyō, his fusion percentage had been increasing very little.
Even killing the Steel Bear had only added 1%.
Shen Fei suspected that, at this point, he had to fight stronger people to increase his fusion percentage!
As for why he didn't stay in the Level Eight Area to kill other Fierce Beasts... the reason was simple.
Shen Fei had already used Susanoo to pound the level-eight Fierce Beast with the highest defenses to death. Wouldn't the others, with weaker defenses than the Steel Bear, die even more miserably? Shen Fei could already foresee it: they would simply be instant kills... there would be no thrill of battle at all.
Without the thrill of battle, killing Fierce Beasts was a waste of time.
Since it was a waste of time, why not head straight to the Level Nine Area and fight stronger people?
And so, Shen Fei headed toward the Level Nine Area.
Not long after Shen Fei left, they finally regained their senses.
The three members of Liu Long's squad were filled with lingering fear.
It had simply been too terrifying.
A single word had trapped them in a Genjutsu they couldn't escape...
If Shen Fei had truly wanted to kill them, wouldn't they have lacked even the chance to fight back...? Once again, his strength shook them.
Liu Long was even more determined to apologize properly the next time they met!
They took a deep breath.
They turned their gazes toward the two men.
Then they began torturing them for information.
At first, both kept their mouths firmly shut.
But as it went on, their tongues grew looser and looser.
An hour later.
They had confessed everything.
Liu Long and his two teammates were utterly shocked.
As it turned out.
Sakura Country and Beautiful Country had colluded, intending to create a Demon Beast Empire within Great Xia.
Sakura Country's Legacy Holder, the Danzo Sword Saint, was at mortal entry stage nine, level nine.
Beautiful Country's Legacy Holder, codenamed Mage, was at mortal entry stage nine, level nine.
The two had brought Shan Jiao Yilang and McLean to the Ten Thousand Great Mountains-the very two men before them.
Their goal was to awaken the Beast God.
Once the Beast God awoke, it would unleash a Beast Tide, capture Nanyun City, and establish the Demon Beast Empire.
Then Sakura Country and Beautiful Country would step forward directly and call on the entire world to recognize the Demon Beast Empire's government.
As the current leader of the Western Countries Alliance, Beautiful Country's words would certainly be acknowledged throughout the West.
Moreover, there were a few traitors in the East... when the weight of world opinion bore down, the Demon Beast Empire would truly be established...
Once Great Xia was the only country refusing to recognize it, everything would be too late.
The Western Countries Alliance, along with those few traitors, would ally with the Demon Beast Empire. If Great Xia attacked and destroyed the Demon Beast Empire, it would give them an opportunity to intervene... so once the Demon Beast Empire was established, Great Xia would be powerless to turn things around.
That would plant an extremely troublesome thorn within Great Xia's borders!
"Fuck! Those animals! Take them back to the Surveillance Station immediately!"
"We must report everything to Headquarters and Great Xia at once!"
"We absolutely cannot let Sakura Country and Beautiful Country get their way!"
Let me reveal something. So far, Shen Fei has only been fond of fighting; he has no ambition. Madara, on the other hand, had an ambition: to create peace through Infinite Tsukuyomi. But Shen Fei's definitely won't be that. I'll arrange one for him later. Needless to say, though, he'll definitely become the entire world's enemy. One man fighting the whole world-that will definitely happen. I've already finished the outline for what comes next, so look forward to it.
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