An emperor in his later years is summoned by his sister to save the nation's fate.

The wooden sword thrusts out, the eerie fire ignites, and the gluttonous beast devours it. This smooth and fluid combo makes reaping the starving ghosts as easy as cutting melons and vegetables.

After the Taotie swallowed ten starving ghosts in a row.

"Buzz—"

Xu Jingming was jolted, and his eyes burst with wild joy.

His strange pet, Taotie, has finally perfectly replicated and mastered one of the core bizarre abilities of the Starving Ghost!

That belongs to the Starving Ghost Realm!

However, the joy had not yet faded.

"Ugh!" Xu Jingming's face suddenly turned pale, and he clutched his chest, coughing up a mouthful of blood mixed with black impurities.

The Taotie's body accumulated a vast and chaotic amount of supernatural power from consuming too many strange things at once.

This force exceeded the current limit of tolerance, inevitably triggering the backlash from the monster pets that the monster tamers fear most!

He could feel his reason being eroded by a violent hunger, and his body was even beginning to show bluish-gray patches that looked like he was starving to death.

Fortunately, he was prepared. Xu Jingming quickly took out a specially made small test tube from his tactical pocket.

The test tube contained a single drop of diluted Netherworld Water, the life-saving trump card that had just been requested and allocated from headquarters yesterday.

He tilted his head back and drank it all in one gulp. As the dark water entered his throat, the extremely yin and cold power of creation instantly flowed through his body, completely freezing and calming the turbulent and strange power within him!

Not only did the mutated patches disappear instantly, but the stamina consumed in the previous battle was also restored to its peak condition in an instant!

"Phew...that was close, but it was really exhilarating!" Xu Jingming wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and gripped the wooden sword tightly again.

Behind them, among the remaining starving monsters, there was one that was the largest.

It seems that a cunning instinct has been awakened in it by the successive deaths of its companions.

Instead of rushing forward to its death, it turned around, opened its blood-red maw, and viciously devoured its two weaker companions alive!

"roar--!"

After devouring its companion, the starving monster's body swelled up again, and black patterns faintly appeared on its bluish-gray skin. The eerie pressure it emitted directly crossed the threshold and advanced to Rank B!

"A B-rank? Perfect, I'll use you to test my new tricks!"

Xu Jingming showed no fear whatsoever. With a thought, he unleashed the Starving Death Domain he had just mastered!

A layer of bluish-gray mist instantly enveloped the B-grade starving monster.

Under the suppression of this eerie domain, the opponent's perception and movements became noticeably slowed down.

"die!"

Xu Jingming used his Ghost Domain Teleportation technique, appearing behind it like a ghost. With a whooshing sound, the black pine sword in his hand pierced the back of its head!

The B-level Starving Ghost instantly crashed, and the Gluttonous Beast opened its massive maw once more, swallowing it whole.

"boom!"

After devouring a B-level monster, the range of the monster domain that Xu Jingming had just mastered increased dramatically, and its power was even greater than before!

When the battle was completely over, none of the fifty mutated, starving monsters that had invaded the Tianhai branch of Bureau 749 survived.

They either collided with the Blood Transformation Array and were dissolved into the dozen or so blood beads at the core of the array plate, emitting an alluring fragrance.

Either they become nourishment for Xu Jingming and Taotie.

Branch Director Lu Mingyuan watched the surveillance footage and couldn't help but clap his hands in praise: "Captain Xu truly lives up to his reputation as headquarters' top combat force! Such methods are simply divine!"

Qin Chuan, standing to the side, was also filled with shock and longing, secretly clenching his fists: "One day, I too will grow into a top-tier Ghost Master like Captain Xu, capable of single-handedly suppressing the strange tides!"

Meanwhile, in the Eternal Night Wasteland, the first wave of bizarre invasions has already erupted outside the territories of the various Chosen Ones.

Compared to Lu Xueyao's impregnable fortress, the area outside Liu Mengxi's lord's mansion, another chosen one of the Dragon Kingdom, has now become a true hell on earth.

The night wind howled, and black rain poured down. Several eerie creatures surrounded the solitary stone house, making it impossible to pass through.

Among them are the D-level calling ghost, the C-level headless ghost, and the most deadly of all, the B-level knocking ghost that leads the pack!

"Thump—thump—thump!"

The dull yet rhythmic knocking seemed to strike directly at Liu Mengxi's soul.

Opening the door will lead to death, and not opening the door but hearing a knock will also lead to death.

Even though Liu Mengxi upgraded both the walls and the gate to level 2, it could only provide temporary physical resistance.

That terrifying supernatural power, belonging to the B-level, seeped through the stone wall like mercury spilling onto the ground.

"ah."

Liu Mengxi screamed, and in an instant, large patches of grayish-white lividity appeared on her originally fair arms.

The suffocating feeling of having her vitality drained away completely threw her into a panic.

She desperately urged her purple, mysterious pet, Chu Renmei, to power.

But at this moment, Chu Renmei, feeling the pressure from the group of strange people outside the door, especially the high-ranking B-level knocking ghost, was trembling and huddled in the corner, not daring to go forward to resist!

Just as Liu Mengxi was on the verge of panic and mental collapse.

Suddenly, a familiar and incredibly gentle male voice came from outside the door.

"Mengxi...it's me! Open the door quickly, it's so dark and cold outside."

Liu Mengxi was startled. It was the voice of the senior she had secretly admired for a long time in college!

In this environment of despair and fear, upon hearing this call, Liu Mengxi's extremely tense nerves suddenly relaxed by a fatal sliver.

Her reason was completely replaced by her desire for redemption.

"Senior? Has the senior come to save me?"

She turned her head slowly, as if possessed.

Turning back means certain death; the insidious killing pattern of the shouting man was directly triggered!

"Snap!"

A chilling sound of bones breaking rang out.

Liu Mengxi's head was twisted 180 degrees around her neck by an invisible, terrifying force!

Her eyes, filled with fear and disbelief, were fixed on her back.

He collapsed to the ground like a lump of mud and died instantly.

However, since her manor was a level 2 building, the gate and walls were not directly breached.

The strange creatures outside continued their frenzied attacks on the defenses, trying to break in and devour her flesh.

At this moment, the chat in the official Dragon Kingdom live stream room fell into a deathly silence, followed by an outpouring of complex emotions.

"Dead... really dead."

"Sigh, what a pity, that was a purple-quality monster!"

"What's there to regret? This is the cruelty of the Eternal Night Wasteland! This wave of bizarre invasions was truly terrifying. Without sufficient composure and methods, even a purple-grade monster pet couldn't protect her!"

"She brought this on herself! It's clearly written in the 749th Bureau's training manual that you absolutely must not respond to calls from strangers! She actually triggered the 'calling ghost' rule; this is fate!"