Chapter 540

The "Righteous Qi Body Cultivation" is a great thing—just by doing good deeds you can increase its value, and it even grants powerful skills.

Therefore, after several large-scale promotions by the authorities, this batch of Huaxia soldiers who entered the game have, on average, become Righteous Qi experts.

Actually, any living thing possesses Qi, and experts who have cultivated this path can even sense the presence of surrounding living beings.

Thus, the Deep Forest Envoy's supposedly flawless pollen concealment technique, before these Righteous Qi experts, is about as useful as carrying a lantern at night.

They can chase you to heaven and earth, leaving no escape, and you might even stumble straight into their ambush—in this barbaric land, it's like capsizing in a gutter.

After great effort, taking a huge detour, and even gritting my teeth to cut off a piece of my own soul and stuff it into a doll, I barely managed to escape.

However, the decoy that drew her hatred, even if it gave its all, only managed to flee for half a day before being caught by a squad of pursuing Huaxia experts.

Moreover, with just a perfect, graceful airborne elbow strike, it was struck down on the spot.

But when the hood covering the enemy's face was lifted, that little warrior was left dumbfounded.

"Hey, squad leader? This looks like an inflatable... plastic female mannequin!"

"What inflatable? You kid really haven't seen the world—this is clearly a silicone... plastic female mannequin."

"Oh oh."

"..."

"Squad leader? Stop staring at the squad leader—what should we do with it?"

"I think... I think... we..."

"Squad leader, I understand you, but you're pinching me—it really hurts!"

"Oh, sorry, I think... this might be some rare magical device; we should hand it over to the experts."

"Mm!"

The story splits: the players happily hauled their loot back to town to claim rewards, but the Envoy's side was in for a rough time.

Because of all that, by the time she finally managed to reach the royal court's main camp, it was already the three-day silent period after the twenty-thousand-strong reinforcements had gone missing.

What's more infuriating is that she had just entered the wolf king's tent, hadn't even had a chance to drink water or rest, and hadn't even spoken yet, when she was met with the wolf king's fierce wrath.

"You dare come back? Mandulat, kill her!"

"Mandulat: Roar!"

"Envoy: Holy shit!"

"Who understands us? Right at the start we just turned from a peach into a monkey, hadn't even had time to knock out two little wolf sprites, and we ran straight into a Yin Tiger!"

Although she ultimately escaped the tiger's attack, she relied on the Deep Forest believers' unique heretical plant magic to prove her identity beyond doubt.

But she still felt as if she had bent her waist for two months straight for the mission, as if it had just snapped……

Moreover, the estrangement is like a nail driven into wood—even if you could pull mountains out and keep pulling it out, the mark left by the nail would never disappear.

So the wolf king didn't continue to believe her words, but instead claimed that although the situation was unclear, our forces clearly had the upper hand now, so there was no need to rush.

"Acting rashly is a major taboo in warfare; I will treat you with courtesy myself—just relax and watch my royal court's warriors crush these foolish humans."

"He's already like this—why don't you just go along with him?"

So the Envoy didn't retort, merely lowering her head and smiling.

"Good."

After that, she never came to see the wolf king again, simply staying in her own tent to tend to her body.

As for what she was up to behind the scenes… well, the wolf king doesn't know, and that's that.

Until tonight, the royal court's main force, which thought itself extremely cautious, was smashed to pieces by the players' deliberate bombardments.

Breaching the city took one hour, sweeping across it half an hour—altogether only 101 minutes—to speed-run the stubborn city stockpiled with over 100,000 troops.

The wolf king naturally saw the distress signal sent by Axiabo, but as an old father, what could a mere low-ranking professional possibly do?

"Should we launch the entire army, sparing no cost to aid the stubborn city?"

"Sorry, since even that force of over 100,000 main troops can't do it, the thirty thousand guards he has on hand can't change anything either."

So all he can do is try to get those two beast kings and his own son back, preserving these three greatest powers.

However, although many strong ones seem to surround the wolf king, in reality there are really few who can be readily commanded.

For example, the reason he keeps the two level‑seventy powerhouses, Wendigo and Mandulat, by his side is actually to maintain balance.

After all, Mandulat appears mild, but the wolf king ultimately has a patricidal grudge against him—who knows what he's really thinking?

Thus Wendigo is essentially like the pagoda Li Jing holds in his hands, meant to prevent Mandulat from transforming into an otherworldly little Nezha.

And Mandulat's purpose is like Lü Bu beside Dong Zhuo, keeping the already‑chancellor‑level Wendigo—Cao Cao—from running wild.

Otherwise, if he saw no one beside the wolf king, he'd swiftly defect, taking his little 'Strange Council' group to rebel and seize power.

So the top expert of the inner court can't move, the strongest national master of court and countryside can't move—what other capable hands does the wolf king have to share his burdens?

"Envoy: Why are you all staring at me? I'm a guest! Do you have any manners?"

"..."

"Damn!"

So I thought I was just here as a Deep Forest Envoy on vacation, and instead I found myself jumping straight into a second battle after getting beaten up by the players.

Yet since the wolf army commander once forced the tribe's warriors to march through a snowy night, they could harbor the careless thought of 'who cares if they live or die, whose son is it?'

Now she has to go rescue the son of some utterly unfamiliar Yanhuai old man, so naturally she's taking it slow all the way, without any urgency.

Thus, by the time she reached the vicinity of the stubborn city, the showdown involving hundreds of thousands had already been decided, ending in a total victory for the players.

Although amidst this utter defeat, Axiabo, the Fox King, and the Bull King—these three top-tier beast‑person experts—still persisted in fighting.

But look at the numbers of Pioneers surrounding them in the city… it's probably already a swarm of ants devouring an elephant, doomed to die.

Funny enough, these two warriors and one mage, with a core that's clever and simple, are not something the players have seen for the first time.

Especially those veterans who went through the game's closed beta immediately recalled last year's Sunshine City, where the three beast‑tribe giants who ran the Adventurers' Association resided.

However, the beast‑tribe trio's final fate was to turn on each other in a greed‑filled frenzy, becoming the first player kicked out of Sunshine City's chicken‑dinner showdown.

Among the three, only Boris, who was relatively the most honest, muddledly got a good ending with Ji Ming's help and successfully withdrew.

Second Uncle Mi Yang, who tried to usurp the throne, and Third Uncle Galis, who feigned honesty but was actually disloyal, both ultimately died because of their own ambitions.

Therefore, according to this script, the first of the three beast‑race experts to collapse and flee should be the Ox King, whose outward persona matches Galis.

However, the facts proved the players' speculation wrong, because although these three beast‑race powerhouses seemed not that close.

But if we talk about their relationship, under the Wolf King's mediation they are actually much tighter than the trio from Sunshine City!

Otherwise, given Asixibao's habit of overstepping the Fox Queen's command, even if he weren't directly chased back by the Fox Aunt in anger, he'd deserve to wear tiny shoes until his feet cramp.

Thus, at this critical moment of life and death, it was the Ox King, who had already been stabbed several times by the players, who spoke up first.

He activated a magic scroll and silently transmitted his voice.

【Queen Sis, victory is hopeless; quickly think of a way to bring the Prince to safety—I'll hold them off!】

【I…】

【Don't hesitate! Either one dies or we all die! I'm thick‑skinned and can hold out a bit longer—hurry up and act!】

Without waiting for the Fox Queen's reply, the Ox King let go of his mind and plunged into an absolute berserk state.

His blood boiled and burst throughout his body; his impure bloodline was forcibly activated, and his originally five‑meter‑tall frame swelled wildly, like a mountain thrusting up from the earth…

Finally, standing alone on the earth was a muscular demon god sixty meters tall, with six horns on its head, resembling a monster.

A player no bigger than a person's finger: …

"Guigu, is this still Double Moon Struggle? Why is the city spawning monsters for me?"

"It's over, such a huge minotaur! Pure‑love war god, come save me!"

"Wait, are his clothes…? Holy shit!"

No way, the Hulk's ability to grow and shrink is truly a marvelous big trouble, but it's absolutely core technology of the Marvel universe—something a little bullhead couldn't master.

Thus, relying on his high level and forcibly activating his Titan bloodline, the Ox King's body swelled, bursting all his clothes, returning to simplicity, his holy nature restored.

Therefore…

Therefore, in the very next second, the harmony mechanism was triggered, and the towering muscle demon god turned into an oversized cauliflower.

Player: "A generous gift crab, I haven't even had time to take a screenshot!"

Thanks to his absolutely massive physique that cannot be ignored, the Ox King assumed a stance and forcefully joined the battlefield of the other two beast‑race powerhouses.

Moreover, completely mad, he had lost all consciousness, so if not for the Fox Queen's agile dodge, even she would have taken a palm from the muscle demon god.

As a result, in order to survive, all the players who had been surrounding the Fox Queen were forced to shift their targets, leaving them no time to attend to her.

"Brother Ox…"

The Fox Queen's grief welled up from her heart; she wished to fly over immediately and fight side‑by‑side with her brothers, but she dared not waste the survival opportunity her younger brother had bought with his life.

She could only hurriedly add a few movement‑speed buffs to herself and fly toward Asixibao, who, as the Wolf King's son, was surrounded most severely.

At that moment, Asixibao had also been rescued from the muscle demon god's unreasonable, barbaric charge, and was staring blankly at Uncle Wang, who had gone mad and was swinging building debris wildly.

"Why…"

"Don't just stand there—hurry up and go!"

She raised her hand, cast a few buffs, and the Fox Queen fled south with Asixibao.

Yet no matter how huge the Ox King's commotion, it had no absolute taunt effect; players aren't mindless NPCs—they only deal with the monster right in front of them.

Thus, even if the Ox King had begun demolishing inside the city, many strong individuals still ignored him, and as soon as they noticed the Fox Queen and Asixibao trying to flee, they immediately pursued them by any means.

Yet no matter how white Asixibao's fur, outwardly he was just an "ordinary" werewolf.

Now he was even alone parkouring through the dark, snow‑covered forest, everywhere a murky black, really not conspicuous.

By contrast, the Fox Queen, even if she just floated lazily in the sky, had her eight huge tails clumped together, making her like a moving target.

All of this is just messing around in the game—who among the big shots here hasn't touched a gun?

Naturally, each of them is eager, wishing they could rush up and blast his mother.

Among them, 【Eight Trigrams Roaming Body】 especially, without any hesitation, wrapped in a fullness of righteous qi, slammed into them like a bullet leaving the barrel.

If it were his former self, even a solid hit would at most make the Fox Queen stagger a little, causing no real damage.

But who made those wolf soldiers have previously taken part in the wolf calamity? Each is burdened with heinous sins, and killing just one can yield a huge amount of merit.

And as the host of the Water Drop, 【Eight Trigrams Roaming Body】 excels above all at clearing troops, and its efficiency is terrifyingly high.

Not to mention the twelve chimes of the Spring Festival—if the killing gets going, giving you five thousand Spring Festival chimes is no problem.

Thus, after sweeping through, he now reaps a double harvest of experience and merit, his level jumping straight from sixty‑one to sixty‑seven, and the "Righteous Qi Nurturing Body Technique" breaks through ten layers in one go, entering the fifth transformation realm.

"Okay, thanks to the old iron of the wasteland for the rocket!"

Thus this strike directly broke the Fox Queen's defenses; on the spot he paid tribute to the legendary pilot Zobayang, cried "ah ya" and fell from the sky, slamming hard onto the ground.

"Not good!"

Seeing the Fox Aunt, who had deliberately flown up to draw aggro for him, crash, the grateful Asixibao instinctively wanted to turn back to save her.

However, before the Fox Queen could even get up, the Pioneers who had come in pursuit already surrounded her like zombies.

"Hurry up and go!"

Seeing the enemies lunging at her, the Fox Queen simply activated her latent bloodline, turning into a lithe eight‑tailed spirit fox.

But the power came at the cost of her sanity; plunged into madness, she retained only a thirst for slaughter and could never return.

"Damn it, too damnable!"

Asixibao thought he would never cry again after being hung up and whipped by his father at age five, but seeing this scene he couldn't help but blur his eyes.

But upon seeing the water droplet, its tip flattened by the impact, loop in mid‑air and change direction, still wanting to bump into him,

he could only grit his teeth, leave the Fox Queen here, and continue sprinting head‑down toward the wasteland.

Unfortunately, as the highest‑value target of this battle, even with two beast kings sharing the fire, Asixibao remains a tempting piece of meat worth risking for.

Thus there remains a group of powerhouses relentlessly chasing him, their caliber already so high that none are below level fifty, and at the very least they are level‑sixty experts.

This not only includes the Eight Trigrams Wandering Body and the Great Desert Cang Lang, but also includes half a squad of super-powered special forces and that man, as well as several top experts from other forces, which can be considered a player all-star team.

A Xibao, seeing the situation, naturally cried out in misery and could only flee with his head in his hands.