Hurt my loved ones? I'm not guarding this country's borders anymore!

"Heh...hehehe..."

"Okay... take a look at your body... hahaha..."

The venomous curse uttered by the Holy Lord's messenger before his death still seemed to echo in my ears.

Shen Jinglong stood still, looking down at his right arm.

The eerie black line, like a living venomous snake, had spread from his wrist to his elbow.

It exuded an ominous, chilling aura, slowly and steadily creeping along his meridians toward his heart.

An unprecedented feeling of weakness began to spread from my limbs and bones.

The Dragon Lord's Qi within his body was circulating wildly, attempting to annihilate this foreign evil force.

However, the results were minimal.

This poison is like a maggot clinging to his bones, stubbornly sticking to the walls of his meridians. Every time he removes a trace of it, it takes ten times the amount of his true energy.

"Commander Long! How are you?"

Qinglong sensed something was wrong and rushed over despite his serious injuries, his face full of worry.

Shen Jinglong did not answer.

His gaze passed over the Azure Dragon and landed on the dark mass of the Northern Bear Kingdom's army in the distance.

Although the Holy Lord's messenger is dead, the "Undead Legion" he controlled has also fallen.

But the main force of the Northern Bear Kingdom is still intact.

Their tanks, cannons, and countless soldiers remain a sword of Damocles hanging over the North.

And myself...

I'm afraid it won't last much longer.

Dozens of kilometers away.

The central command tent of the Northern Bear Kingdom.

Commander-in-Chief Pavlov was stunned as he watched the countless points of light representing the "Undead Legion" on the electronic sand table instantly go out.

"What's going on?!"

He grabbed the collar of the communications soldier next to him.

Why did Plan A fail? Where is that Holy Lord's messenger?

"Marshal... Marshal..." The communications soldier trembled with fear, "We... we've lost contact with the envoy... the battlefield over there... it seems... it seems to have been cleared out..."

"waste!"

Pavlov shoved the communications soldier aside, his face contorting with rage.

But he was, after all, a marshal who had fought in countless battles.

After a brief moment of shock, a ruthless glint flashed in his eyes.

"Since the secret weapon is no longer effective, then let's use human lives to make up for it!"

"Pass on my order! All troops, attack! Raze that position to the ground! I want that Shen Jinglong, along with his tens of thousands of remaining soldiers, to be blown to bits by artillery fire!"

"Boom!"

The order has been issued.

The army of the Northern Bear Kingdom, this sleeping steel behemoth, has awakened once more.

Countless tanks roared, their tracks grinding through the muddy ground, launching a general offensive with earth-shaking force.

On the battlefield.

"Commander Long! The enemy is attacking again!" a junior leader of the Dragon Guard roared as he reported.

Shen Jinglong raised his head.

He looked at the surging torrent of steel, his eyes unusually calm.

He slowly closed his eyes, feeling the deadly poison eroding his life within his body.

It's cold.

Very evil.

This power, and the energy within those "living corpses" just now, comes from the same source.

A crazy idea flashed through his mind.

Since this poison is a "great gift" given to me by the Holy Lord.

Then I might as well...

I'll use this "gift" to return the favor to all of you.

Shen Jinglong opened his eyes again.

In his eyes, there was no longer any anxiety or anger, only a cold, almost manic killing intent.

"Azure Dragon".

He spoke calmly.

"Pass on my order: all soldiers in the Northern Frontier shall retreat three kilometers."

"What?!" Qinglong exclaimed in shock. "Commander Long, retreating in the face of battle is a cardinal sin in military strategy! If we retreat, our defensive line will be completely destroyed!"

"Execute the command."

Shen Jinglong's voice was unquestionable.

"I said I'd back out."

Qinglong stared at Shen Jinglong's emotionless profile and gritted his teeth.

Although he didn't know what Long Shuai was going to do, he chose to believe him unconditionally.

"yes!"

"All troops, listen to my command! Retreat! Quickly!"

Although the remnants of the northern army were puzzled, they immediately carried out the order and retreated like a tide.

This scene stunned the attacking Northern Bear Kingdom army.

"Hahaha! They're scared! They're going to run away!"

"Charge! Crush them!"

The morale of the Northern Bear Kingdom's army was instantly ignited, and their offensive became even more ferocious.

They didn't notice.

In the center of the battlefield.

The man in black armor did not retreat.

He stood there alone, facing a vast army.

He stood in that place piled high with the corpses of the "Undead Legion".

"bring it on."

Shen Jinglong opened his arms wide, as if embracing the entire battlefield.

"Let me show you what real... art is."

He activated all the Dragon Lord Qi within his body.

This time, instead of suppressing the poison, he actively guided his true energy to collide fiercely with the black, evil energy!

"boom!"

It was as if a miniature nuclear bomb had detonated inside Shen Jinglong's body.

Two completely different forces intertwined and devoured each other.

excruciating pain.

The indescribable pain caused the veins all over his body to bulge.

But he didn't make a sound. Instead, he forcibly compressed the violent energy that was about to get out of control, and then released it through his own body as a medium!

"With my blood, I will detonate your...death!"

Shen Jinglong roared to the sky.

An energy wave, invisible to the naked eye yet containing a destructive frequency, swept across the entire battlefield from his center!

next second.

A sudden change occurred.

The corpse of the "undead" closest to Shen Jinglong suddenly lit up without warning.

The residual energy within its body was instantly activated and detonated by that energy wave!

"boom!"

The body exploded like a bomb.

And this is just the beginning.

The explosion triggered a chain reaction.

The second, the third, the tenth, the hundredth...

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Rumble—!"

On the entire battlefield, tens of thousands of "undead" corpses were transformed into tens of thousands of super bombs at this moment!

An unprecedented chain of explosions has occurred!

The explosion's flames illuminated the entire sky as if it were daytime.

The devastating shockwave formed a visible white blast that swept outwards in all directions.

The first to be hit was the tank formation of the Northern Bear Kingdom, which was at the forefront.

Heavy tanks weighing tens of tons are as fragile as paper toys in the face of this force, easily tossed into the air and then torn to pieces.

The infantry formation behind them was instantly vaporized, without even being able to utter a scream.

Flames, thick smoke, explosion.

This land has become a veritable hell on earth.

"No...no! This is impossible!"

Inside the central command tent, Pavlov stared dumbfounded at the large patch of light on the electronic screen that vanished in an instant.

His elite legion, which he was so proud of, was the steel torrent he was prepared to crush the Dragon Kingdom.

That's it... gone?

"puff!"

Pavlov's face turned ashen, and he suddenly spat a mouthful of blood onto the screen.

Meanwhile, on the northern frontier, three kilometers away...

Everyone stared in disbelief at the scene before them, a scene that seemed both miraculous and apocalyptic.

They saw it.

Amidst the flames and explosions that filled the sky.

Only one figure stood proudly.

Shen Jinglong.

His clothes were torn to shreds, and he was covered in blood, looking like a demon god who had walked out of hell.

Despite his extremely weakened state, his aura as a supreme war god still made the entire world pale in comparison.

"We won...we...we won?"

Azure Dragon muttered to himself, his eyes filled with fanatical worship.

"General Long is mighty!"

"Long live Commander Long!"

The deafening cheers echoed through the sky.

however.

Just as the cheers reached their peak.

The man, who was like a god in everyone's eyes, suddenly swayed.

"puff!"

A mouthful of jet-black blood spurted from his mouth.

He could no longer hold on and collapsed to his knees.

The black line on his arm had now spread to his heart, emitting an eerie black light, as if it were about to completely devour his life.

With his last ounce of strength, Shen Jinglong looked toward the direction of the Azure Dragon, his voice hoarse and urgent.

"Azure Dragon... relay my command..."

"The defense of the North... is now in your hands..."

"I... must return to Cangcheng immediately!"

"Any later... and Sisi will really be... beyond saving!"