SSS-level catastrophe? That's my wife!

7:00 in the evening.

The city was completely enveloped in night, and neon lights lit up one after another, outlining the city's silhouette.

Yunjing Residential Area.

Lin Mu stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

The long-dormant energy within him began to surge and flow, and his previously furrowed brows slowly relaxed.

He gazed out the window at the dazzling night view and sighed softly:

"Although it has only recovered to the first level, being able to reactivate one's energy is a good start."

"Ding-dong—"

The doorbell rang suddenly, and Lin Mu turned and walked towards the entrance.

The moment the door was pushed open, a suppressed male voice came: "Your main course has arrived."

"Thank you." Lin Mu reached out to take the lunchbox.

The man outside the door gripped the box tightly, a strange smile playing on his lips, and even licked his lips at Lin Mu:

"Congratulations, you're the lucky one today. Remember to order less takeout in your next life."

Before he could finish speaking, the man's face began to contort and distort.

His hands swiftly transformed into sharp claws, and a thick, long tongue emerged from his mouth, the tip of which revealed a ferocious human face.

Lin Mu calmly looked at the humanoid calamity before him and sighed helplessly:

"Alright, I guess I'll just go to Gu Cang's place for a free meal."

He then raised an eyebrow and sized up the other person: "What kind of look is this? It's much more disgusting than a typical low-level calamity."

Calamity was clearly taken aback: it couldn't understand why the human before it could remain so calm even as death approached.

Lin Mu muttered to himself, "A D-rank calamity? It's been a long time since I've seen one this weak..."

"Yeah, I guess I'm pretty weak right now."

"roar--"

The calamity was completely enraged, and its claws and giant tongue attacked Lin Mu simultaneously.

Just at this critical moment, Lin Mu's phone suddenly rang.

He calmly took out his phone, and immediately answered after seeing the caller ID: "What's up?"

The D-level calamity suddenly turned into an ice sculpture when it was only an inch away from Lin Mu's fingertip.

As Lin Mu closed the door, the ice sculpture shattered with a "crack," turning into countless ice crystals that dissipated in the corridor.

Gu Cang's hoarse voice came from the other end of the phone: "Want to stretch your legs a bit?"

Lin Mu leaned back on the sofa: "What do you mean?"

"Something's not right in Zhenbei City. I'm going to go check it out." Gu Cang's tone became serious.

"Isn't Ning Mo over there?" Lin Mu asked casually.

"I suspect there's a sizable calamity organization hiding there; we can't let our guard down," Gu Cang said in a deep voice.

"Have you forgotten? In my current state, I was just a burden in the past," Lin Mu said with a self-deprecating laugh.

"Protecting just one person is a piece of cake for me."

"When it comes to defense in this world, if I say I'm second, who dares to claim first?"

Gu Cang paused, then added, "Besides, don't you want to see your subordinates from afar?"

"Besides Ning Mo, Zhenbei City also dispatched five special-class Zhen'e envoys."

"Forget it, the time isn't right yet, and I have to go to class," Lin Mu refused seriously.

There was silence on the other end of the phone.

After a long pause, Gu Cang slowly uttered two words: "Skip class."

"No need, let's talk when we meet in half an hour," Lin Mu conceded.

"You're coming?" Gu Cang's voice carried a hint of surprise.

"Yeah, I ordered takeout, and it turned out to be a D-level calamity delivered to me," Lin Mu said helplessly.

A rare soft laugh came from the other end of the phone. Lin Mu's face darkened, and he hung up immediately.

……

The Ninth Special District of Zhenbei City under the cover of night.

After half a day of bloody fighting, the air was filled with a nauseatingly strong smell of blood.

Ning Mo held the [Sacred Artifact - Limitless Staff].

He slowly walked towards the figure slumped on the ground, the gray mist swirling around him churning like waves, and the pressure of a seventh-level mid-stage cultivator suddenly erupted, causing debris to fall from the ground.

He stared at the other person, his voice icy: "So it was you, SS-level Calamity, Liu Zhiyu."

Liu Zhiyu staggered to his feet, coughing up a mouthful of blood onto his black robe. The calamity-inducing patterns that had covered his entire body had mostly faded, revealing his pale face.

He swayed precariously as Ning Mo approached, his voice hoarse: "Ning Mo, haven't you seen through the true nature of this world yet?"

"Is everything you, Zhen'erting, doing really right?"

"Right or wrong is no longer important."

Ning Mo's eyes were indifferent as he slowly spun the Wuji Staff in his hand: "The Ninth Special District was ravaged by calamity, and you, just happened to appear here."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ning Mo frowned sharply and turned around abruptly.

Several blue wings gleaming with a chilling light tore through the air, like sharp battle blades aimed directly at his face!

But before the wings could even touch it, they were instantly swallowed up by the surging gray mist around him, turning into tiny specks of light and dissipating.

The next second, a beautiful figure shrouded in a black robe appeared like a ghost in front of Liu Zhiyu.

Two huge blue tail wings suddenly flapped behind it, accompanied by a sharp whooshing sound.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of even denser blue wings rained down on Ning Mo like a storm, each carrying a force powerful enough to tear steel apart!

"Zhenbei City is truly a place where hidden talents abound; familiar faces keep popping up one after another."

Ning Mo snorted coldly, and the gray mist around him surged again.

But just as countless wings were swallowed by the mist, his expression changed drastically!

A blue tail fin, several times thicker than before, broke through the fog.

A fierce gust of wind pierced straight at his neck, just an inch away from his skin!

"clang--!"

The Wuji Staff slammed horizontally, precisely piercing the tip of the tail fin, the metallic clang causing the air to hum.

Strangely, the pierced tail fin healed instantly.

Then hundreds more wings swept in like a tidal wave, completely enveloping Ning Mo!

"The fog is rising!"

Ning Mo roared, and the gray mist around him instantly spread to dozens of meters, devouring all the attacking wings like a living thing, even completely blocking out the light.

When the fog dissipated, the spot was deserted.

Ning Mo frowned, gazing in the direction where the two had disappeared, and whispered:

"Why are the Red King's forces gathered in Zhenbei City? Didn't they participate in the final battle?"

A kilometer away, the figure in black robes was carrying Liu Zhiyu at full speed through the buildings, rushing towards the Sixth Special Zone.

With each flap of its blue tail fin, several afterimages were created.

"Ahem... I'm sorry, Sister Ning, I..." Liu Zhiyu was interrupted by Yu Ning before she could finish speaking.

"What do you mean, 'you'?"

"I warned you to move immediately, but you insisted on staying here to die!" Yu Ning's voice was tinged with anger.

"Those lunatics from Zhen'e Ting... we've been hiding well enough."

"But after evacuating the crowd, they indiscriminately wiped out all living things in the Ninth Special District..."

Liu Zhiyu gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with resentment.

"Ha, if I had arrived a second later, I'd be collecting your corpse right now."

"Stop talking, save your energy." Yu Ning frowned slightly and skipped faster between the buildings.

"The Red King is still waiting for us in the Sixth Special District."

"What?!"

Liu Zhiyu's pupils dilated suddenly, and her voice trembled with excitement: "Sister Ning, you just said... the King is still alive?"

"She's really still alive!?"

"If you cough up blood all the way, you probably won't have a chance to see the king again."

Yu Ning's voice softened slightly.