Chapter 1006

Niu Zuo was uncertain about the decisions made by Feng Wang and Huang Hou.

Behind him, the corpses of the Phoenix Organization members, already dead, twisted like vortices, swelled like balloons, their bodies instantly tripling in size, floating bloated and distorted in midair, emitting faint black light like bulbs hanging above everyone's heads.

"What?! The corpses came back to life?!"

"Watch out! This aura—they've become monsters!"

Everyone immediately reacted, rushing forward to fight the monsters.

The transformed corpses were clearly stronger than living humans, but with numerical superiority, they were still eliminated.

Niu Zuo led his men up the stairs of Qing Gao Lou, only to see more floating flesh-balls of monsters surging toward them, blocking their advance.

This confirmed Niu Zuo's suspicion: indeed, every member of the Phoenix Organization had detonated their parasitic seed and become monsters.

If their own side had insufficient personnel or strength, they might truly have been stopped by these monsters and unable to reach the top.

But now…

"Leave a group to handle the monsters; everyone else, follow me up! Our only goal is to kill Feng Wang and Huang Hou, disperse Black Cloud, and save Jingcheng!"

The large force gave Niu Zuo considerable maneuvering space.

After a slight redistribution of personnel, his advance became unimpeded.

"You're moving too slowly—I and several Elders will go ahead to deal with Feng Wang and Huang Hou."

The Elders from the Red and Blue factions frowned at the sluggish formation and quickly voiced their objections.

Niu Zuo wanted to say something, but these Rain-level powerhouses ignored his commands entirely, forming their own small cliques—even their issued orders sometimes took priority over his as the "leader."

Before Niu Zuo could reply, the Elders surged forward at incredible speed, racing straight for the rooftop, leaving only Blue Shan's Fifth Elder behind in the ranks to guard against any mishap to Wu Captain.

Niu Zuo's face darkened. Had these old bastards been sealed away too long that their minds had gone dull?

Underestimating Feng Wang and Huang Hou like this will cost them dearly!

But these Elders had come solely for Wu Captain; Niu Zuo's opinion was utterly irrelevant.

Moreover, in the Elders' eyes, Feng Wang and Huang Hou were the core issue, and in this high-level power struggle, Niu Zuo—a weakling—was useless.

"You old bastards!! I wanted to avenge Huang Er with my own hands!"

Niu Zuo clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and led his men upward again—when suddenly a streak of golden light swiftly pulled ahead of the group, racing up the stairs straight toward the rooftop.

"Wait! Don't separate from the—"

Boom!!

As Wu Captain charged forward at full speed, the wall beside the stairs suddenly exploded; flying shards of stone revealed a giant hand that precisely gripped Wu Captain's throat, freezing him in place.

"Found you at last, little rat."

At the sound of the voice, Niu Zuo's expression changed.

For the hand gripping Wu Captain's throat belonged to… the Fourth Prince of Wu Yu Clan!

The Fourth Prince of Wu Yu Clan now wore a shattered black-bone armor, only fragments still clinging to his body; his helmet was gone, revealing a pale face.

He slightly twisted his neck, looking down from above at Niu Zuo and the others below the stairs.

Earlier, they had been blocked by You Long and the others at Juan Niao Lou; after a fierce battle, though injured, they had eliminated those three.

But the fugitives had vanished; the three brothers split up to hunt down the escapees, while the original woman was left to the Third Prince to handle—they never intended to assist.

Yet Jingcheng was too vast, and the piercing Blood Rain interfered with their senses; tracking non-Rain-level targets proved troublesome.

Only when Qing Gao Lou suddenly gathered a large number of humans did the Fourth Prince, the most perceptive among the princes, arrive immediately—and instantly locked onto Wu Captain.

At this distance, he was certain this group contained his previous target.

He smashed through the building's wall and grabbed directly—his strike had succeeded.

"Everyone here will die!"

Most crucially, atop the tower, even more Rain-level human warriors had gathered; this was a chance to eliminate a large number of elite human fighters at once—a great achievement.

"Best to finish them all before the other Princes arrive!"

The Fourth Prince of Wu Yu Clan narrowed his eyes, and with a crisp crack, snapped Wu Captain's neck, tossing him aside like trash.

With a thud, the wall of the adjacent room shattered as Wu Captain's "corpse" tumbled inside.

"How dare you!!"

Everything happened too fast, too suddenly.

The Fifth Elder of Wu Family from Blue Shan had just reacted and moved to act—when Wu Captain's neck was already broken and he was dead.

Filled with rage, he charged forward and clashed with the Fourth Prince.

Their exchange was lightning-fast, each strike unleashing staggering energy waves that made Qing Gao Lou tremble as if about to collapse.

"Protect Prince Qi!"

"You dare, monster—how dare you harm Prince Qi!"

"Charge! Avenge Prince Qi!"

Seeing the Fifth Elder of the Wu Family overpower the sudden monster, everyone rushed forward to assist—only to see the Fourth Prince casually slap his hand, and every one of them froze for an instant, then instantly exploded into piles of meat pulp, unable to even approach the Fourth Prince.

Rain-level combat was not something anyone could interfere with.

As if drawn by the commotion, more Phoenix Organization flesh-ball monsters drifted in from all directions, engaging Niu Zuo's troops in battle, trapping the group in place—neither advancing nor retreating.

Niu Zuo was anxious, but Wu Captain was still useful; he couldn't just leave him.

He rushed into the room where Wu Captain's body had fallen, accompanied by Ming—sure enough, Feng Ming Yin had ignited, and with golden light, Wu Captain rose again.

"Are you alright?"

Niu Zuo stared at Wu Captain with a strange expression; though he'd seen this before, the astonishing recovery ability still left him stunned.

No wonder Qing Guo has endured to this day—if the current Emperor's bloodline power were as strong as Wu Captain's, who could claim with certainty they could overthrow him? Perhaps the Emperor's strength has already brushed the boundary of Immortal Realm?

Whoosh—

As Niu Zuo pondered this, the eight-armed monster beneath Ming suddenly moved, gliding to his back and—boom—catching something as if it had intercepted it.

They turned to look, and saw that the eight hands had caught—indeed, it was the corpse of Wu Family's Fifth Elder, a hole pierced through his chest, not a breath left in him!

"Dead? A Rain-level powerhouse, just like that?"

(End of Chapter)