"Yuehua, hallucinate him!"

Qin Chuan instructed the arriving Shangguan Yuehua.

Without a word, Shangguan Yuehua silently unleashed her spiritual power to use the hallucination skill.

The next second.

Qin Chuan suddenly felt the sea of consciousness deep within his brain boiling over, his consciousness becoming fuzzy, and his sensory perceptions in utter chaos.

He was under a spiritual attack.

And the person attacking him was none other than Shangguan Yuehua, not far away.

"Yuehua, what are you doing?!"

Qin Chuan's eyes widened in disbelief as he looked towards Shangguan Yuehua.

Shangguan Yuehua spoke sparingly, "To kill you."

Upon hearing this, Qin Chuan's expression turned extremely ugly.

At this moment, he realized something clearly.

The Deputy City Lord Shangguan Yuehua, whom he had trusted, valued, and pinned great hopes on, was a traitor just like another Deputy City Lord, Bai Wubian!

"Yuehua, you've hidden your intentions well."

With a Biological Level higher than Shangguan Yuehua's, Qin Chuan quickly resisted her spiritual attack; his face turned as dark and somber as ink.

Bai Wubian and Shangguan Yuehua had always been at odds in the city, incompatible as fire and water.

In the end, both turned out to be traitors, in cahoots with each other.

Such excellent disguises.

"Yuehua, just keep him occupied, no need to pursue killing him. There's no need for that,"

Bai Wubian, having recovered, flew quickly to the other side of Shangguan Yuehua and together, they flanked Qin Chuan.

Bai Wubian had one purpose now, to delay Qin Chuan, to allow the other accomplices to kill Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan.

Of course, if it was possible to capture both alive and bring them back to the Sun-Moon Sacred Land, that would naturally be best.

...

Elsewhere.

Lin Zichen was carrying Shen Qinghan, flying at high speed.

They left behind piercing sonic booms in the air.

In just half a minute.

Lin Zichen had carried Shen Qinghan for nearly a hundred miles, quickly distancing themselves from the center of the battlefield.

Hm?

As he was about to skim over a grassland, Lin Zichen sensed a familiar presence below.

Very familiar.

It was the presence of Su Jiujie.

Following the direction of the presence, Lin Zichen looked down and saw Su Jiujie lying on the grassland below, lifeless and immobile.

On closer inspection, she was still breathing.

Her limbs were motionless, but there was still movement in her chest.

Without hesitation, Lin Zichen exploded with spiritual power and used telekinesis to lift the dying Su Jiujie from below, holding her on one side.

Seeing the rescued Su Jiujie beside her, Shen Qinghan's pretty face was full of disbelief.

She had personally witnessed Su Jiujie being blasted into nothingness by Bai Wubian, not even a hair left behind.

Yet, Su Jiujie, who had been blasted into nonexistence by a Legendary Level Expert, now lay fully intact below on the grassland, which was utterly inconceivable.

Noticing the confusion and disbelief on Shen Qinghan's face, Lin Zichen explained, "She has the ability to escape death by shedding her tail, like a gecko, and can resurrect indefinitely."

"Indefinite resurrection?"

Shen Qinghan's mouth dropped open in surprise, "So, she has an immortal body?"

Lin Zichen said, "Probably, but I suspect there's some kind of limitation, each time she escapes death she must pay a price; otherwise, it's just too outrageous."

Shen Qinghan didn't speak, just nodded, feeling that Lin Zichen made sense.

At this time, the barely alive Su Jiujie whispered weakly, "Every time I escape death by shedding, I have to consume one tail..."

"I only have one last tail left..."

"If I die again... I'll truly be dead..."

Su Jiujie worried that Lin Zichen, thinking she could resurrect indefinitely, would take her life lightly and neglect her well-being. Based on this, she felt she had to make it clear to Lin Zichen that she was down to her last life.

Lin Zichen chose not to believe her.

He didn't believe that Su Jiujie really was down to her last life.

Even though he didn't believe it, he didn't try to verify it either.

"Lin Zi, this isn't the way back to the city, where are we going?"

Shen Qinghan noticed the direction they were flying in was wrong and immediately voiced her confusion.

Lin Zichen patiently explained, "There are too many traitors, and it's not a good place to be in the city until the City Lord has completely dealt with all the traitors."

Shen Qinghan, "You mean... there might be a lot of traitors still in the city?"

"Not might, definitely. There are definitely more traitors," Lin Zichen affirmed.

Lin Zichen continued, "Even a Deputy City Lord from City No. 1 can be a traitor, so now when someone tells me that the City Lord Qin Chuan is also a traitor, I'm not surprised at all."

Hearing him say this, Shen Qinghan couldn't help but change her expression slightly.

How could there be so many traitors?

Are there really that many traitors?

How is it possible that the side of Earth still exists?

If even the top brass has been infiltrated to this extent, shouldn't it have collapsed long ago?

Shen Qinghan was utterly baffled.

Equally perplexed was the other side's Su Jiujie, who was breathing weakly.

As the Holy Maiden of Green Hills Ancient Mountain, she found it hard to comprehend how a power could still operate when so full of traitors.

Truly, a wonder of the world.

...

In the blink of an eye,

several minutes had passed.

Lin Zichen, carrying the two women, flew at high speed for hundreds of miles using Flight Control until his spiritual power was overdrawn, forcing him to land on a forest below for a temporary rest.

He chose to land on a sky-scraping giant tree, casually sitting on a thick branch that spread out.

Then, with a thought, he took out various magical pills and elixirs from his Storage Space to rapidly recover his spent spiritual power.

"Lin Zi, she looks so weak. Should we give her a Bloodbath Pill?"

Shen Qinghan, kind-hearted and unable to bear seeing others in pain, wanted to heal Su Jiujie's injuries.

But being indecisive, she habitually asked Lin Zichen for his opinion before doing anything, without ever assuming to take charge on her own.

Lin Zichen laughed, "Of course you can. These are all trivial matters. You do what you want to do without having to consult me on everything."

Upon hearing this, Shen Qinghan also picked up a relatively good-quality Bloodbath Pill and carefully placed it into Su Jiujie's mouth.

The Bloodbath Pill melted in the mouth, instantly turning into streams of warmth that flowed into Su Jiujie's body, nourishing every cell and repairing the damage within.

Under the nurture of the Bloodbath Pill,

Very soon,

the previously pale-faced Su Jiujie's cheeks became rosy.

However, her spirit still looked very weak.

That was because her soul had been heavily damaged, something a Bloodbath Pill couldn't heal.

Seeing this, Shen Qinghan took out a Soul Nurturing Pill and placed it in Su Jiujie's mouth to repair her soul.

Then, despite the imposing name of the Soul Nurturing Pill, its effect on soul repair was just so-so.

After Su Jiujie took the Soul Nurturing Pill, her badly damaged soul showed no significant signs of healing.

At this, Shen Qinghan also felt powerless.

She had done all she could help, but Su Jiujie still looked sickly; now it all depended on Su Jiujie's own Self-Healing Ability to repair her bodily injuries.

Next to them, Lin Zichen took out all the dozen or so Blood Demon Flowers from his Storage Space.

These were evolution resources he and Shen Qinghan had collected when exploring the dense forest earlier.

"One half for each of us, eat up," Lin Zichen said as he handed half of the Blood Demon Flowers to Shen Qinghan, wanting her to consume and absorb them to increase the strength of her Qi-Blood.

Shen Qinghan shook her head and didn't take the Blood Demon Flowers. Instead, she said,

"You eat it. You're already at Rare Ninth Order, the evolution resources we get from now on should all go to you. Let's first boost you to Epic Level Creature."

Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan thus set off.

Before leaving, Qin Chuan made a significant contribution by sending evolution resources to Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan.

Together with the previous Blood Demon Flowers, Lin Zichen successfully broke through to Epic Level.

It was Shen Qinghan who said, "You eat them, you're already Rare Ninth Order, just one step away from Epic Level."

The difference in strength was astronomical.

Lin Zichen didn't hesitate and consumed them.

After reaching the Epic Level,

Lin Zichen sensed his body had changed.

Many Acupoints had opened up.

His senses became sharper, and his physical body stronger.

...

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The road ahead was when Lin Zichen's strength would be showcased.

Lin Zichen was pursued by multiple traitors,

but with his formidable strength, he counter killed them all.

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Source: Webnovel.com, updated by Aunomay Read