"Retreat!"
The battle had dragged on, yet their men kept suffering losses.
The opposing mentors were gradually freeing up their hands as well, and reinforcements would arrive soon.
The situation was extremely unfavorable. Gritting his teeth, Lu Chen ultimately chose to retreat.
"Hold them back! Don't let them escape!"
Seeing this, Liu Sheng and Wang Gan immediately shouted and charged forward.
The situation had turned, and reinforcements were coming. They absolutely could not let them get away.
Heretics—kill as many as they could.
Suddenly, Lu Chen, who had been fleeing, doubled back and pounced in the opposite direction.
"Not good!"
Everyone saw that the direction Lu Chen was charging toward was precisely where Huo Zihao and the others were.
"Die!"
Lu Chen was incredibly fast. In an instant, he threw a punch at Huo Zihao's head.
Originally, Huo Zihao had been the main name on Southern Province's elimination list.
After all, his registered Blood Qi Value was the highest among this batch of Awakened.
Xiao Ya, Lin Mo, and the others had merely been unexpected discoveries.
Since they had already been exposed this time, they had to kill at least one target.
Otherwise, even if they escaped back, punishment would be waiting for them.
"No, save me!"
The sudden turn of events made Huo Zihao wet himself on the spot.
How had this fight suddenly turned into them trying to kill him?
Weren't Xiao Ya, Chen Jia, and Liu Peipei—the freakish geniuses—your targets?
"How dare you!"
Wang Gan and Liu Sheng roared, but everything had happened too fast for them to react.
Bang!
Huo Zihao watched in terror as the fist smashed into his forehead.
The next moment, red and yellow splattered everywhere, and chunks of flesh rained through the air.
The headless corpse crashed to the ground, twitched a few times, and went still.
"Lin Mo, I'll remember you!"
Without pausing, Lu Chen, having killed Huo Zihao, gave Lin Mo a deep look before sprinting away.
"You think you can leave? Hegemon Fist!"
But in the next second, Lin Mo threw a punch that directly covered the route Lu Chen intended to use to escape.
Forcing him to stop and block it.
Even if Lin Mo's combat strength was inferior to his at the moment, Lu Chen could not afford to underestimate him.
"Bastard!"
Lu Chen roared. After blocking the punch, he did not let his anger drive him to turn back and fight Lin Mo.
Instead, after cursing, he fled at top speed.
He had already sensed a powerful aura rapidly approaching.
If he did not leave now, he would have no chance to escape.
But things went against his wishes. Lin Mo appeared at his side again and threw another punch.
"You fucking..."
Lu Chen was furious and could only block helplessly.
After blocking it, he cursed under his breath, yet had no time to deal with Lin Mo and fled again.
Boom!
The third punch came again.
Lu Chen was utterly enraged.
Every position Lin Mo attacked seemed to have been predicted in advance, striking where Lu Chen had no choice but to defend.
But the powerful aura behind him was already closing in. Lu Chen had no time to waste with him.
He steeled himself and took Lin Mo's punch head-on. A mouthful of blood sprayed out, but Lu Chen used the momentum to flee forward.
This made Lin Mo pause in surprise.
But he still chased after him.
"Fuck, are you ever going to stop, kid?!"
Lu Chen cursed loudly. Earlier, he had been chasing Lin Mo around.
Now the tables had turned—Lin Mo was chasing him. What fucking bad luck.
"Damn it, since you want to die, I'll grant your wish."
In the next second, Lu Chen felt an aura lock onto him. He immediately cursed and charged at Lin Mo.
There was no doubt about it. That aura definitely belonged to the Seventh-grade powerhouse from the reinforcements.
At this point, escape was no longer possible.
Since that was the case, he would drag someone down with him before he died.
Who would have thought that just as Lu Chen counterattacked, Lin Mo retreated at an even faster speed.
Seeing Lu Chen's stunned expression, he even raised his middle finger at him with a mocking grin.
Only an idiot would fight him head-on. Holding him back was victory.
The fight could be left to the arriving Seventh-grade powerhouse.
Lin Mo immediately charged toward the other fleeing Heretics.
When killing, one had to pick the soft persimmons to squeeze.
"Bastard! Beast! Shameless scum!"
Seeing what Lin Mo was doing, Lu Chen was so furious that smoke nearly poured from all seven orifices.
He wanted nothing more than to swallow the kid whole and flay him alive.
It was all because of him that Lu Chen could no longer escape.
Buzz!
A terrifying pressure descended instantly. Lu Chen's entire body sank under it, and he nearly dropped to his knees.
The Seventh-grade powerhouse had arrived!
The newcomer was tall and voluptuous.
Her attire gave off an air of regal elegance, making her seem like a queen.
Yet her stunningly beautiful face was covered in icy coldness.
Especially those eyes—utterly devoid of emotion, as though everything she looked at was cold and lifeless.
She appeared not far from Lu Chen. Without saying a word, the aura she released alone made it difficult for him to move.
"So this is a Seventh-grade powerhouse?"
Watching from afar, Lin Mo could not help but marvel inwardly.
Starting from Seventh-grade, one became something beyond human. Their base combat strength was nearly three times higher than that of a Sixth-grade Martial Artist.
"Mentor Du!"
Although Wang Gan, Liu Sheng, and the others were still surrounding the fleeing Heretics, they all respectfully called out.
The newcomer was none other than Du Yufei, a mentor of the Martial Alliance Elite Camp.
She was also one of the three great powerhouses atop the mountain outside Star Beast Forest.
A Peak Seventh-grade Marrow Refining expert!
Du Yufei did not respond to the mentors' calls. Her jade-like finger pointed from afar at the other fleeing Heretics.
Crack, crack, crack~
In an instant, ice crystals appeared across the ground, freezing the legs of those Heretics in the blink of an eye.
"Ice Element! Another Mutated Element Ability."
Seeing this, Lin Mo understood.
So this mentor had awakened a mutated Ice Element Ability.
The Heretics were frozen in place and were immediately caught up to by Liu Sheng and the others.
"Hmph! Above heaven and below earth, only our Divine Cult reigns supreme!"
Seeing that they were about to be surrounded, the Heretics unexpectedly snorted angrily and shouted their slogan.
The next second, their bodies began to swell rapidly.
"Not good, they're going to self-destruct! Get back!"
Liu Sheng and Wang Gan shouted as they retreated at once.
They had not expected these Heretics to be so extreme that, rather than be captured, they would choose to self-destruct.
And without the slightest hesitation—they were completely insane!
"Madmen, they're all madmen!"
In an instant, the self-destruction produced a massive, terrifying shockwave.
Some mentors were too close to escape in time, and despair appeared on their faces.
These Heretics were all powerhouses at Peak Fifth Rank or above, and so many of them were self-destructing together.
The power of their self-destruction could not be underestimated.
It was absolutely not something these accompanying Fifth Rank mentors could withstand.
Once caught in the blast, even if they did not die, they would be severely wounded or crippled.
At that moment, several ice walls appeared out of thin air, cutting off the force of the explosions.
Those incomparably violent explosions could not shake the ice walls in the slightest.
"Thank you, Director Du!"
The crowd, still shaken by their narrow escape, thanked Du Yufei one after another.
Thanks to Du Yufei, they had recovered their lives from the jaws of death.
"So strong!" Lin Mo watched the entire scene, deeply shaken.
Meanwhile, two Sixth-grade Heretics had already taken advantage of the others' self-destruction to flee far away.
Those people had self-destructed to preserve them.
"Hmph!"
Du Yufei gave a cold snort. Without any visible movement, she vanished from where she stood.
The next second, as if she had teleported, she appeared before the two fleeing Sixth-grade Heretics in the distance, blocking their path.
Whoosh!
Du Yufei lightly waved her jade-like hand, and the two terror-stricken men instantly turned into ice sculptures.
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