The Fires and Smoke of Battle Rise

The Giant Whale Sect building stood right before them.

The night breeze carried a hint of chill as Su Han followed Chen Yixi and the others across the street.

The road was deserted, with only solitary streetlights casting their shadows.

But just as they passed along the road.

Five people suddenly emerged from the left.

All five wore dark blue uniforms, with a gear-and-longsword emblem on their chests that reflected a cold, hard sheen under the lights.

Their leader was a cyborg with a white steel mechanical right arm and a mechanical left eye, which was fixed coldly on them.

Among them were also Black Grade enhanced humans, burly figures with muscles bulging all over their bodies, whose presence was utterly terrifying.

They were the Earth Condemnation Bureau's Human-Level Group.

Almost at the same time.

Five more people emerged from the right.

They wore black combat uniforms, with the Sturgeon Group's insignia embroidered on their sleeves.

Among them were likewise two cyborgs and three Black Grade enhanced humans, all walking slowly toward them.

They were the Sturgeon Group's Level One Security Group.

The moment the two sides met.

The air froze.

The Ten Thousand Immortals Cult's menial disciples immediately stirred.

"The Earth Dispatch Bureau and the Sturgeon Group!"

"We're done for..."

"We've been ambushed."

Some instinctively backed away, their faces pale.

Most of these menials were only at the Body Tempering Realm, with combat power ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.

Cyborgs and Black Grade enhanced humans, on the other hand, had combat power of at least a hundred thousand.

If they fought them, they would simply be throwing their lives away.

But Chen Yixi's expression didn't change.

She didn't even stop walking, merely speaking in a low, icy voice.

"Keep walking."

"Our target is the Giant Whale Sect. Ignore everything else."

With that, she really did just keep walking.

As though those ten people didn't exist.

The menial disciples exchanged glances, but gritted their teeth and followed.

Just then.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

Four figures shot out from behind them.

They were so fast that they left only afterimages, drawing four blood-red trails through the night.

The four landed in front of the Earth Condemnation Bureau and Sturgeon Group teams, respectively.

As they landed.

The ground cracked, spiderweb fractures spreading across its surface.

They then stood before the Earth Dispatch Bureau and Sturgeon Group squads, facing one another, and the scene instantly became a confrontation with swords drawn and bows strung.

As Chen Yixi walked, she glanced back.

Only then did she introduce them to everyone, her voice tinged with unconcealed pride.

"Those are senior brothers from the cult's core, Wolf Smoke Realm experts."

"They're terrifyingly strong. They'll take care of those people."

No sooner had she spoken.

"Boom!"

Two terrifying blasts rang out behind them.

Everyone turned to look.

Blood flames had erupted skyward from the core senior brothers.

Two streams of blood-red wolf smoke rose in billowing waves, dozens of meters high, piercing the night sky like two blazing Blood Pillars!

Terrifying power spread outward.

The surrounding temperature soared in an instant, and even the air was torn apart.

Things all around began to melt, and the streetlights began to flicker.

The menial disciples were in a complete panic.

A scene like this.

For rookies like them, even getting caught in a little of the aftermath would leave them dead without a burial place.

Su Han narrowed his eyes.

A fierce burning sensation and a sense of danger left him uncomfortable all over, and he raised his head.

Then his pupils contracted.

At that very moment.

Elsewhere in downtown Jinghai City, in every corner

More streams of qi and blood wolf smoke were rising, one after another.

They were utterly spectacular and eye-catching, and there were more and more of them.

Three, ten, twenty...

In the blink of an eye, there were more than thirty streams of qi and blood wolf smoke!

Each stream rose dozens of meters high, billowing upward and staining half the sky dark red.

They stood out sharply in the city at night.

It was as though hell had descended.

The air throughout downtown seemed to grow scorching hot.

Countless core disciples of the Ten Thousand Immortals Cult had already begun fighting the experts of the Earth Condemnation Bureau and the Sturgeon Group.

Explosions sounded in the distance, and flames shot into the sky.

The sounds of fighting and angry roars rose and fell.

The entire downtown area had descended into chaos.

This mission really isn't simple, Su Han thought.

So many Wolf Smoke Realm disciples of the Ten Thousand Immortals Cult had been deployed.

And this was only the start of the fighting.

The Ten Thousand Immortals Cult's goal was definitely more than simply wiping out the Giant Whale Sect.

For an ordinary Secret Martial Arts sect like this.

A few Beacon Fire Realm disciples, or a single Wolf Smoke Realm disciple, could easily take care of it.

But judging by the scene before him.

They clearly had another objective.

This might be a major move by the Ten Thousand Immortals Cult.

Behind them, the battle began.

The people from the Earth Condemnation Bureau and the Sturgeon Group had already engaged the four core senior brothers.

Shockwaves burst outward, and flames shot skyward.

Their moves clashed as each displayed their abilities.

A three-story building was shaken down by the aftermath of their exchange, sending bricks and stones flying.

Yet the three squad leaders remained composed, not even looking at the tremendous spectacle so close at hand.

They merely urged the disciples on.

"Ignore that. Hurry."

She and the other two squad leaders took the lead together, charging toward the entrance of the Giant Whale Sect building.

Su Han took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the stirrings in his heart, and followed.

Chen Yixi rushed up to the Giant Whale Sect building's entrance and kicked it open.

The metal doors immediately buckled, and a large hole burst through them.

"In!"

The squad leaders called out.

Everyone filed inside.

They entered a spacious, brilliantly lit lobby.

The marble floor shone like a mirror, and a crystal chandelier hung from the ceiling more than ten meters overhead.

But now, the place was thick with killing intent.

Dozens of people were waiting in front of the entrances to three corridors.

Most of them were Secret Martial Arts practitioners.

Two white-haired old men in gray robes stood at their head, each occupying one of two corridors, their bodies covered in True Gang.

They looked ordinary, but a faint aura of danger emanated from them.

In the other corridor stood an enhanced human.

His body was misshapen and swollen, tall and imposing, with his blood showing an eerie blue through his skin.

He was a blue-level enhanced human.

Behind the three strongest among them stood numerous Baodan Realm and Transformation Realm experts, among others.

Their eyes gleamed fiercely as they glared at the Ten Thousand Immortals Cult members who had broken in.

There were more than fifty of them in all.

Every one of them was an elite of the Giant Whale Sect.

They had long been waiting here, already in fighting stances.

Seeing Chen Yixi and the others enter, one of the white-haired old men at the front stepped forward, his voice aged and heavy.

"Evil disciples of the Ten Thousand Immortals Cult."

"Our Giant Whale Sect has no quarrel or grudge with you. Why have you forced us to this point?"

"We have made every possible preparation this time, with the Sturgeon Group and the Earth Dispatch Bureau assisting us."

"I advise you to surrender obediently and give yoursel-"

"You talk too much." Chen Yixi cut him off at once.

The white-haired old man was clearly stalling for time.

The captains had no desire to waste words with him.

They spoke at the same time, issuing an order to everyone.

"Attack!"

Immediately afterward.

The three captains moved almost simultaneously, shooting forward!

Flames erupted, blood flames burning like beacon fires and sending rolling waves of heat through the lobby.

Each carrying killing intent, they charged at the Giant Whale Sect's three experts.

The scene changed in an instant, as the fires and smoke of battle rose.