Chapter 749

These... pitch-black beast monarchs, numbering dozens, surged forth one after another.

Regardless of life or death, one beast monarch self-exploded, severely injuring a Renzuda Sect Grandmaster; the second rushed forward to continue the desperate battle, and if that failed, it too would self-explode.

Under this kind of combat, the number of Renzuda Sect Grandmasters finally decreased by one.

As if some necessary condition had been fulfilled, the stable cavern fissure trembled.

The void suddenly shattered.

A colossal, pitch-black claw, vast enough to blot out the sky, slammed down from another world, utterly destroying the entire Jingcheng.

Pitch-black mists descended from the heavens, corroding the remaining living beings.

Darkness swept across the world.

Su Han's pupils sharply contracted, "... These pitch-black beast monarchs—are these the corrupted beings trapped in the old white fox's mind?"

"Correct... That final colossal claw, nine times out of ten, was... one of the Saints."

Su Han finally understood why the old white fox had mistaken him for a corrupted Saint upon seeing him use the Dark Fruit's power.

Because, purely from appearance, the dark corrupted force closely resembled the darkness of the Dark Fruit.

Moreover, according to Su Han's perception, the nature of the corrupted force resembled the Evil of This World.

And after the Dark Fruit devoured the Evil of This World, it acquired some of its properties.

If one does not carefully probe—or lacks deep understanding of both forces—it's only natural to mistake one for the other.

"... It seems something truly terrible is about to happen!"

Su Han's gaze flickered slightly; without the slightest hesitation, he dialed Grandmaster Dama directly.

The phone rang for only three seconds before being answered.

"Su Sheng!"

Grandmaster Dama's voice carried a hint of exhaustion, but also a trace of relief.

"I've already heard from Li Hongtian about the incident in Shannan Province! I am deeply grateful to you."

Thank you for saving Liu Xuan's life."

Grandmaster Dama's words were filled with gratitude.

That was a Zunda Sect Grandmaster! Sacrificing himself to seal the cavern—sounds heroic beyond measure.

But such a sacrifice, no nation on this Earth would willingly pay.

Even for the Renzuda Sect as a whole, the loss of one Grandmaster was a tremendous blow.

"Are you currently at the Zijin City cavern?"

Su Han asked softly.

"How do you know that?"

Grandmaster Dama paused, startled—he was extremely well-known throughout all of China.

But this mission to Zijin City to suppress the cavern was a top-secret operation.

News outlets shouldn't have reported anything about it.

Moreover, although Su Han's power was immensely strong, Grandmaster Dama knew well that Su Han lived in seclusion, with no intelligence network—he shouldn't be privy to such classified information.

"Zijin City! A great calamity is coming—this time, I may have to act."

Su Han sighed softly, skipping all formalities and cutting straight to the point, his voice grave, "Before that—tell me, what is the current situation in Zijin City?"

"Have you encountered... any beast monarchs with pitch-black bodies?"

Grandmaster Dama fell silent briefly; upon hearing Su Han say he would act, his first reaction wasn't relief, but profound shock.

The fact that a calamity required Su Han's intervention carried immense implications.

Merely beast monarchs alone would never meet Su Han's threshold for action.

Su Han saying this could only mean the threat now arriving was... something superior to beast monarchs. "... Are there still living Saints in the caverns? But that makes no sense! If there were, why didn't they act before? Why only now? If they had acted earlier, we would have had no chance to resist at all!"

Grandmaster Dama's spirit trembled; though confused, he didn't believe Su Han would joke about such a matter.

At this moment, he deeply rejoiced that Earth had produced one Saint.

If there were no beings of equal rank, this might truly be Earth's annihilation.

Grandmaster Dama spoke urgently, "Yes, we have indeed encountered pitch-black beast monarchs at Zijin City's cavern."

"And these beast monarchs are all unusually silent."

"Previously encountered beast monarchs could use spiritual sense to communicate with us, using language to shake our minds—but not these."

"I understand."

Su Han hung up without hesitation, his eyes turning deep and solemn.

He reflected on the information he had gained from consuming the white fox's soul.

"The old white fox previously rallied four beast monarchs to rampage in the Zijin City cavern! But... they were all pitch-black—so the beast monarchs the old fox summoned... must all have been corrupted."

"... But in the old white fox's memories, no Saint beast from the caverns ever left its tomb—was one only recently freed?"

As Su Han pondered, he made no hesitation—he reached out and slashed open the void before him; a magic array instantly formed, and he stepped through.

...... Grandmaster Dama ended the call.

He furrowed his brow.

He was about to dial the Zijin City front line to issue a warning when he suddenly sensed something wrong.

He looked up, disbelieving, toward the outskirts of Jingcheng.

"... This sensation is—"

Terrifying torrents of bloodlust surged upward from afar.

Grandmaster Dama was currently within Jingcheng, while the Zijin City cavern lay just beyond its outskirts.

Yet even across this distance, he could still sense the bloodlust emanating from the Zijin City cavern—frighteningly intense.

This is not a situation created by one or two Zunda Masters giving their all.

The Grandmaster Dama's face showed a dazed expression, along with a trace of horror.

"... Many years ago! The Moscow underground cave erupted.

In that battle, the Beast Emperor and Renzuda Masters directly joined the fight! The number reached double digits.

But even the blood qi back then was still somewhat inferior to now..."

The Grandmaster Dama felt slightly dizzy.

That battle over two decades ago was already called a rare underground invasion, occurring once every fifty years.

Only twenty-some years have passed—why has China erupted into another high-level battle now? Back then, the Moscow underground cave battle directly caused massive casualties in Moscow.

Three Zunda Masters died, directly leading to the collapse of the then-powerful Soviet Union, which became today's Russian Alliance.

Without that underground invasion, Russia could never have fallen from its position as one of the world's three great powers, and would have been relegated behind the Flower Flag Nation and China.

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