SSS-level catastrophe? That's my wife!

"Cough, cough..."

The King of Qing leaned against the courtyard wall, his face as pale as paper, his chest heaving violently, and he kept coughing up dark red blood, which stained the ground in front of him.

A gray-robed man was carefully treating the wound in his abdomen.

"Alright, you can go now."

The old man's voice suddenly rang out behind him, and before the gray-robed man could speak, he added, "He won't die."

The Azure King weakly raised his eyes to look at the three approaching figures, his eyes filled with resentment: "That woman, I... will definitely not let her go."

The air fell silent for a moment—

The old man remained silent, the monk sighed helplessly, and Xiao Li stared blankly at the Green King as if he were an idiot.

He was beaten half to death, where did he get the courage to say such a thing?

Xiao Li suddenly chuckled, his tone laced with malice: "Otherwise... let him die now, so he won't implicate us later."

The monk casually echoed, "This humble monk agrees. If the three of us are of one mind..."

"Unify my ass!" The old man's veins bulged, his face filled with helplessness, and he interrupted, "Save people!"

The monk raised an eyebrow and asked calmly, "There are many kinds of saving lives. Is it saving someone from death, or saving them from being saved?"

Fang Shi: "…………"

Upon hearing the conversation between the three, the Azure King was instantly overcome with anger and rage, spitting out a mouthful of blood and collapsing unconscious.

……

A moment later, Jiang Shuwan, dressed in a black robe and wearing a blood-red mask, transformed into a blur, darting swiftly between the broken walls outside the restricted area at a speed so fast that her trail was almost invisible.

Suddenly, she stopped in her tracks, her beautiful eyes sweeping over the two black-robed figures blocking her path.

The person on the left wears a white mask, and the person on the right wears a gray mask; both exude a faint aura.

"Oh, so this is a formidable character?" the person on the right chuckled.

"Hmm, let's interrogate them first," the person on the left said calmly.

"Interrogation?"

Jiang Shuwan suddenly laughed, a disdainful smile playing on her lips. "How many lives do you have to dare interrogate me?"

She glanced at the two men, her voice icy: "I'm too lazy to kill anyone. Get lost now, or you might still live."

Gu Cang was taken aback at first, then clapped his hands, his tone tinged with a hint of teasing: "Brilliant, absolutely brilliant."

"How do you think she can be so blindly confident?"

Lin Mu raised his eyes to look at the black-robed figure in front of him, his brows furrowing slightly. He said in a deep voice, "She doesn't seem to be from the kingdom. Let's trap her first."

"An earthen dungeon!"

Gu Cang's aura as a mid-stage seventh-level cultivator erupted instantly, and he suddenly raised his right foot, slamming it heavily onto the ground.

With a muffled "bang!", the soil beneath the ruins suddenly rose from the ground, surging and coalescing like a living thing.

In the blink of an eye, a closed cage several meters high was constructed, completely sealing the three people inside.

The pitch-black soil instantly obscured the moonlight overhead, leaving only a depressing gloom.

Jiang Shuwan looked at the towering earthen prison, a hint of amusement flashing in her beautiful eyes: "An earth-type ability user?"

"That's somewhat interesting... but it's still too weak."

"boom--"

The next second, crimson flames suddenly erupted and swept around Lin Mu!

The scorching flames spread like wildfire, instantly illuminating the pitch-black earthen prison as if it were daytime.

A rare look of surprise flashed across Jiang Shuwan's beautiful eyes: a seventh-tier advanced realm cultivator? And a fire-type awakener at that?

There are quite a few hidden powerhouses in this world... No wonder that good-for-nothing Zhan Qing would think of summoning the former Four Kings.

Gu Cang stared at the black-robed man wearing a blood-red mask before him, his voice hoarse as he asked, "Are you still confident now?"

Jiang Shuwan's lips curled up slightly, and her clear voice became low and husky through the mask: "You two little ones are quite interesting."

"Hey bro, look at you, still pretending even at a time like this? You're pretty funny!"

Gu Cang raised his right hand slightly and uttered a low shout: "Lock!"

Several thick mounds of soil suddenly burst forth from the ruins beneath Jiang Shuwan's feet, rapidly winding upwards along her black robe like vines.

In the blink of an eye, it wrapped around her waist and arms, trying to bind her tightly.

Lin Mu sized up the man in black robes and said in a deep voice, "You who are hiding your face, take off her mask."

"That's exactly what I was thinking! None of those hidden-identity bastards are good people!"

Gu Cang had barely finished speaking when he spat out, "Of course, I wasn't talking about 'us'."

Just as the layers of soil were about to touch Jiang Shuwan's blood-red mask, a faint, mocking smile appeared on her lips.

"boom--!"

An extremely violent aura suddenly erupted from her body!

An invisible shockwave spread out like a shockwave, instantly shattering the soil clinging to the black robe into dust, which fell to the ground with a "rustling" sound.

Lin Mu and Gu Cang's pupils shrank simultaneously, and their expressions changed.

Gu Cang exclaimed, "Holy crap! Bro, didn't you say only the Azure King was at the high level?"

"Well, Master Gu ran into a high-level match as soon as he appeared. That's really giving him face!"

Jiang Shuwan glanced at the two of them and chuckled, "I didn't want to make things difficult for you, but since you're asking for some torture... then I'll just play along."

As soon as she finished speaking, she waved her jade-like hand, and the long sword at her waist, glowing with an eerie blood-red light, was drawn. The blade pointed directly at the two of them, and the blood-red blade reflected the firelight, exuding a chilling aura.

"Ha...you overestimate yourself."

The crimson flames around Lin Mu blazed even more fiercely!

Amidst the raging flames, he clenched his right fist, and a crimson fire dragon roared out from his palm, crashing towards the man in black!

Just as the fire dragon was about to pounce on Jiang Shuwan, an even more violent wave of energy suddenly erupted from her body!

An invisible wave of air sliced ​​across like a sharp blade, cutting the fire dragon in two, which then burst into two streaks of crimson flame that crashed heavily against the inner walls of the earthen prison with a deafening roar.

Lin Mu's eyes suddenly narrowed, and his heart clenched.

He never expected that he would run into a seventh-level awakened being on the outskirts of the restricted area, and that this person's aura was even stronger than that of the Azure King.

He immediately said in a deep voice, "Gu Cang, go and reinforce the defenses outside the earthen prison to ensure its sturdiness. You can't get involved here."

After saying that, he glanced to his side, but his lips twitched suddenly: because Gu Cang's figure had disappeared from the spot.

Outside the earthen prison.

Gu Cang slammed his palm heavily into the ground, and the outer layer of soil in the entire earthen prison thickened at a visible speed, becoming as hard as iron.

He gazed at the ever-growing earthen prison and muttered to himself, "People always need to recognize their own strength and listen to advice in order to have enough to eat."

"In this 1v1 battle, I refuse to believe that anyone below the eighth rank can be a match for Lin Mu."

Inside the earthen cell, the flickering firelight illuminated the masks beneath the two men's black robes.

"You're quite confident, little one," Jiang Shuwan said with a touch of lazy casualness.

"Confidence stems from ability. I hope you can still be so stubborn later."

Before Lin Mu finished speaking, several streaks of crimson flames erupted from his palms like fire dragons, carrying scorching waves of air as they blasted towards the man in black robes.