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At this moment.

Zhongsun Wen snorted softly and decisively used a secret exploration technique, a flash of white light flickering in his eyes.

"Boom!"

With a sound of illusory noise.

The world before this Xuan Shi of the Outer Battle Zone underwent a wonderful change in an instant.

What was originally a vast world of water, now turned into a translucent mist sea like light smoke.

This was naturally some kind of extraordinary vision.

Only to see a huge column of mist hundreds of meters away, no less than one kilometer in diameter, surging mightily and incessantly.

This mist column was clearly distinct from its surroundings, naturally the No. 6 ocean current belt.

And within the ocean current.

A large mass of solidified black smoke, shaped like a salamander, emitted wisps of black gas from its surface, its size reaching a terrifying five hundred meters.

The giant salamander's mouth was wide open, a long tongue formed from mist extending more than eight hundred meters, not yet retracted into its mouth.

And at the end of this long tongue, several tiny clusters of light blue mist were rapidly dissipating.

Zhongsun Wen's heart immediately "thumped".

This was a Blackscale Sea Demon!

This strange mist salamander was clearly a water-based secret technique cast by the enemy, that is, a giant combat puppet condensed from seawater.

Through the puppet's size, the thickness of the black smoke, the level of extraordinary fluctuations, and other information, he instantly came to a shocking conclusion.

That was—this was actually a Xuan Shi-level powerful Blackscale Sea Demon.

This time he had hit the jackpot!

No.

He had hit a major ghost!

As for the tiny mist clusters, they were the warriors who had been attacked, and the fact that the mist clusters were rapidly dissipating indicated that their lives had come to an end.

A roar immediately sounded in the communication channel.

"Attack!"

"Blast them with Xuan weapons!"

"Understood!"

Listening to the warriors' roars, Zhongsun Wen's mind instantly raced with a thousand thoughts.

For example:

Vice-General Cheng had long guessed that the Blackscale Clan's experts would most likely use the ocean current belt to sneak into the lower part of the battle zone, which was why he sent out Sea Hawks and Fish Hawks to patrol.

In other words, the true target of this Vice-General was the Blackscale Clan's experts.

To put it in a more cold-blooded way, this genius figure in the eyes of outsiders was actually using the warriors as "bait" to lure out the enemy.

This thought made Zhongsun Wen feel a little chilly.

Too ruthless!

The image of Vice-General Cheng that this Xuan Shi of the Outer Battle Zone constructed in his mind suddenly became blurred.

Not just a genius!

But also an incomparably ruthless commander!

No wonder the other party was so young, yet had climbed to the high position of Vice-Palace Master and Vice-General.

With such outstanding talent and such a terrifying mind, it would be against the natural order of things if such a person's rise was not fast.

From a rational point of view, Zhongsun Wen understood better than anyone that this was the most sensible and least costly approach, and also a very brilliant strategy.

But he found that he had also become "bait", and he was still a little psychologically unacceptable.

Or another example:

Blackscale Sea Demons were sea creatures with extremely strong talent, and coupled with their huge size, they had accumulated more extraordinary power, their strength was stronger than Wan Hao Clan Xuan Shi of the same rank.

Moreover, the ocean was a natural place for them to fight, and although they and others were Xuan Shi, they were afraid that even if they joined forces, it would be difficult to defeat the other party.

Not only that.

Even running away was impossible.

This battle.

Only a death battle!

There was no retreat!

The only hope was that Vice-General Cheng, who was so thoughtful, would mobilize the strength of the Dongli Battle Zone as soon as possible and encircle and kill the Blackscale Clan's experts with all his might.

The above thoughts.

Although they take a long time to describe, in reality only a moment passed.

Subsequently.

The battle began.

Although the Sea Hawks were the first generation of submersibles, they were all modified in a relatively simple way and could carry four guided Xuan weapons.

Each Sea Hawk fired two Xuan weapons.

The Fish Hawks went all out, each firing eight Xuan weapons.

"Bang! Bang!"

With a series of launching sounds.

Hundreds of guided Xuan weapons, one after another, detached from the Sea Hawks and Fish Hawks, and under the remote control of the combatants, swept towards the Sea Demon from all directions.

From the very beginning of the outbreak of the battle, it instantly reached its climax.

*

Yan Mountain Fortress.

Cheng Han stood in front of a huge floor-to-ceiling window, gazing at the rolling sea tide outside Lian Island.

Two Xuan Shi from Qinghan Xuan Palace, Lan Jiayao and Sima Nanshan, were standing quietly beside him, secretly sizing up their superior's figure.

The two of them sensed very clearly that Vice-General Cheng's state was unusually strange.

The extraordinary aura he emitted was filled with an indescribable sense of decay, like withered and yellow weeds in the bleak cold wind.

However, the extraordinary fluctuations surging in his body seemed particularly deep and powerful, and also gave people a strange feeling of containing infinite vitality.

This was obviously a very contradictory and also very abnormal thing.

But "decay" and "vitality" gave people an incredible sense of harmony.

This extreme contradiction really confused these two Xuan Shi to the extreme.

What exactly was going on?

What had happened to Vice-General Cheng?

Lan Jiayao's mind instinctively thought of a recent sensational event—the God City had once again bestowed Vice-General Cheng with a Myriad Wonders Spirit Banyan Pistil.

She personally felt that her superior's strange changes were very likely related to this divine object.

The female Xuan Shi, relying on her closer relationship, couldn't help but gossip: "Vice-General, has your strength improved again?"

Cheng Han turned his head, glanced at the two subordinates, and nodded with a smile: "Yes."

During these two days of "closed-door" cultivation, he successfully merged the second Myriad Wonders Spirit Banyan Pistil.

And raised the fusion progress of the Myriad Wonders Spirit Banyan Bud to the third stage in one fell swoop—withering.

For ordinary Xuan Du, reaching this stage of fusion would take at least decades of effort.

But Cheng Han felt that more than a month had passed, this buffer time was enough, and it was almost time to enter the next stage.

Anyway, he was the most outstanding genius in the history of Qinghan Xuan Palace, was it strange that he was a little faster…no, a billion times faster?

The world of geniuses does not need you ordinary people to understand!

At the same time.

The Crown of Life Xuan Seal also advanced a big step forward, and the upper limit of his mental value climbed to 505.2 points, breaking through the 500-point mark for the first time.

This level of mental power had already steadily reached the level of a mid-level Xuan Du.

The proficiency of the All-Knowing Eye had also increased by as many as 50,000 points, with progress reaching 533281/2 million.

Cheng Han thought for a while and casually demonstrated a small trick.

"Snap!"

He flicked his hand and snapped his fingers.

A burst of light spots emerged, transforming into a virtual flower, and then the light spots dissipated, turning into a real flower.

This was a vivid demonstration from virtuality to reality.

It also represented the ultimate use of life force.

Lan Jiayao witnessed this scene for the first time, and her pupils immediately shrank.

Although Sima Nanshan had seen it before, he still watched with a look of amazement.

Cheng Han's tone was calm: "I recently had an insight that the other side of life is death, but the two are not completely opposite, but rather two as one."

Along with the sound of his voice.

The originally bright and colorful flower instantly lost its color, becoming withered and black.

Lan Jiayao blinked her eyes, only feeling that it was difficult to understand.

Any kind of life either chooses to live or chooses to die, life and death are naturally in an opposing state, how can they be two as one?

But she didn't dare to refute.

Sima Nanshan also had a bewildered look on his face.

The next second.

The two Xuan Shi sensed a terrifying thing.

They suddenly discovered that the vitality in their bodies was actually slowly flowing away bit by bit, the source pointing to the withered flower.

The flower was like a reversal of time, instantly returning to its delicate state.

But this phenomenon only lasted for a very short moment.

Cheng Han shook his right hand and smiled: "Alright!"

As soon as he finished speaking.

The flower suddenly dimmed, and then turned into a burst of light spots and disappeared.

The two Xuan Shi then sensed that the lost trace amounts of vitality had returned to their own bodies in some incomprehensible way.

Lan Jiayao then came back to her senses and instinctively took a step back.

The female Xuan Shi had a strong intuition that her superior had a way to draw out most of her vitality in an instant, which made her feel fear from the depths of her soul.

Sima Nanshan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his heart beating rapidly a few times.

Cheng Han explained with a smile: "Life and death are both cycles of life, and naturally belong to a part of life."

This was the biggest insight he gained from the third stage.

Materializing the insight was an extremely terrifying secret technique.

Seeing that the two of them were quite shocked, Cheng Han simply changed the subject: "Pay more attention to the monitoring of the ocean current belt, and if necessary, increase the frequency of patrols."

The deduction results showed that there was a 90% probability that the Blackscale Clan's experts would sneak into the battle zone, which was why he decisively used the fishing strategy.

Otherwise, if he fought head-on with them in a serious manner, how many people would die in the Dongli Battle Zone?

Cheng Han continued: "As for the dissenting opinions from Zhongting, you don't need to pay much attention to them, if others dare to intervene, you can push back strongly."

With his current status, even if the General came forward, he would dare to openly wrestle with him, let alone just a mere Vice-General.

Considering that his subordinates might not be able to withstand the pressure and a part of the Sea Hawks might be transferred away by the other party's loopholes, he specially gave them a preventive shot.

The two nodded again: "Understood!"

Cheng Han was about to speak when he suddenly paused.

A phantom image appeared before his eyes:

In the dark seawater.

A salamander-like creature covered in black scales, with a body length of more than fifty meters, was casting a secret technique to condense a giant water monster and pounce on a group of submersibles.

It really came!

It really was a Xuan Shi-level Blackscale Sea Demon!

From a logical point of view.

Since this sea clan decided to attack the Dongli Battle Zone, it would definitely try to figure out the situation of the battle zone, any creature who understood the art of war would definitely do so.

If the Sea Hawks and Fish Hawks were mobilized to attack the Blackscale Clan according to the intentions of the two Vice-Generals, it would be equivalent to clearly showing the strength of our side.

Cheng Han disdained this kind of "stupid fighting" approach.

He chose to do the opposite, shrinking the underwater legion and luring the strong among the Blackscale Sea Demons to come and scout.

Facts proved that he had bet correctly!

In that instant.

Cheng Han chuckled softly: "Caught a big guy!"

As soon as he finished speaking.

An extremely majestic wave surged in his body, its intensity steadily reaching the Xuan Du level.

Lan Jiayao and Sima Nanshan suddenly felt the wave, and felt like they were suffocating.

Cheng Han gave a light shout, stepped forward with his left foot, and waved his right hand smoothly.

At the same time.

A torrent of green light erupted from the patterns on his right arm, instantly condensing into a dark green spear.

The spear shaft was rough and unbearable, exuding a dead air, like a withered old vine.

The two Xuan Shi only made eye contact, and together they produced a terrible feeling of heart-palpitating fear.

Cheng Han vigorously swung his right hand, and the withered spear instantly disappeared.

A breath later.

The spear flashed several times in succession, appearing in the sky ten kilometers high, and then rapidly plunged towards the sea surface below.

This spear.

Was like a blow from the Nine Heavens above.