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

"A mere ant born of a low-dimensional mutation, merely draped in the cloak of a clay god, dares to presume to imprison my divine soul?"

Lu Li snorted coldly. He slowly raised his right hand, his long, slender, and fair fingers gently touching the whistling Soul-Binding Rope and Mourning Staff.

"Buzz—!"

With this gesture, the power of the Great Dao of Slaughter, through this one-in-a-million projection, crashed down upon the theater!

This is the pure law of the Great Dao, a mighty force that transcends all strange rules.

The moment Kill Avenue descended, the entire theater scene was instantly transformed.

The void collapsed, evolving into an endless purgatory. Mountains of corpses and seas of blood rolled and roared behind Lu Li, with the remains of countless quasi-emperors and saints floating in the sea of ​​blood.

"Snap... Bang!"

When the murderous aura pointed at by that finger touched that mourning staff...

Before the mourning staff even got close to Lu Li's body, the S-level rules contained within it collapsed instantly, and the entire staff crumbled and disintegrated into dust in mid-air like rotten wood!

Immediately afterwards, the remaining power of that finger strike, with overwhelming force, crushed the Soul-Binding Lock.

"Snapped!"

The Soul-Binding Lock shattered, and then, that finger touched the forehead of the S-rank Ghostly Demon who had transformed into Black Impermanence from a distance.

"boom!"

Before it could even let out a scream, this S-class eerie entity, which had brought jubilation to foreign netizens and despair to Chinese viewers, vanished like a dream under the Emperor's killing law.

His body, his soul, and his proud rules of killing were crushed into nothingness in the blink of an eye!

An S-class monster was annihilated with a flick of the finger!

With the demise of the original body, the eerie domain that shrouded the core area of ​​the abandoned territory also vanished with a roar.

The shattered reality space reappeared, and in the place where Xi Gui had stood, an S-grade ghost crystal radiating a rich dark gold luster fell.

Beside the strange crystal, a red costume with black patterns lay quietly—this was the S-class strange prop, the strange costume.

This strange prop has an extremely powerful effect; once worn, one can play any role, even characters from myths and legends.

However, the prerequisite is that the person being impersonated must have a certain degree of "fame," meaning that after impersonation, people must be able to recognize who it is at a glance. Once this condition is met, the person can be temporarily borrowed and some of their abilities can be utilized.

Of course, using S-level supernatural items will result in a geometric increase in the supernatural backlash.

For an ordinary person, the moment they put it on, their life essence and soul would be drained by the backlash.

Furthermore, if one plays the same powerful role multiple times, it may even attract the cross-dimensional probing of the source will of that role, or even provoke the main body to take action to suppress it.

Lu Li looked at the costume, a glint of light flashing in his eyes. He thought to himself, "This is indeed a rare find... If Xueyao were to wear it and try to impersonate me in times of danger, I wonder if she could bypass the world's rejection and directly borrow some of my power?"

Lu Xueyao quickly stepped forward, picked up the S-grade ghost crystal, and as for the S-grade ghost costume, she simply put it into her system backpack with a thought.

……

Meanwhile, on Blue Star, inside the opera house in Black Stone Village, Xu Tianming and the others, who were originally pressed into armchairs and preparing to burn their lives to fight the opera's tricksters, suddenly felt the oppressive feeling on their bodies recede like a tide.

Then, to their astonishment, they saw the body of the theatrical figure who had so easily defeated them on the stage suddenly begin to flicker and disappear like a television screen that had lost its signal.

"Ughhhhhh—!"

With a mournful scream of despair, the monster twisted and turned into ashes.

Subsequently, the entire eerie realm of Blackstone Village shattered like a broken mirror.

The gloom in the sky dissipated, and the long-awaited sunshine once again shone on this dilapidated village.

"What...what happened?" Yan Tu spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, his face filled with disbelief. "How could it have died on its own?"

Su Qingyuan and Chu Jin looked at each other, puzzled, while Xu Tianming seemed to have figured it out.

Ignoring the stinging in his eyes, he quickly pulled out his military tablet from his pocket, connected to the internet, and opened the live stream room of the Chosen One of the Dragon Kingdom in the Eternal Night Wasteland.

When he saw the live stream chat filled with phrases like "Lu Li is awesome" and "Destroys S-rank with a flick of the finger," Xu Tianming understood everything.

"I see..." Xu Tianming shook his head with a wry smile: "The monster we encountered is not an independent A+ level monster at all."

It...it's merely a piece of the puzzle left behind on Earth by the true form of that S-rank Phantom from the Eternal Night Wasteland.

"The Origin Ghost was wiped out by Lu Xueyao's brother. As a piece of the puzzle, it lost its source of power and naturally could not maintain its own existence. It could only perish along with it."

After hearing Xu Tianming's explanation, all three of them gasped in shock.

The battle in the Eternal Night Wasteland miraculously saved their squad from afar!

As the puzzle piece died, an A-grade ghost crystal fell from the edge of the stage.

Secondly, next to the strange crystal, a mask with bizarre patterns fell down. This was clearly an A-grade strange item—the Strange Mask!

The moment the mask appeared, Chu Jin suddenly covered his face. He felt that the Thousand-Faced Nuogui he was controlling was resonating with him and was feeling hungry!

"come out!"

Without hesitation, Chu Jin immediately unleashed the supernatural power of the Thousand-Faced Demon.

A cloud of gray mist surged out, directly enveloping and swallowing the eerie mask on the ground.

As the eerie mask was completely digested, the form of the Thousand-Faced Nuo Ghost underwent a subtle yet qualitative transformation.

On the originally pale, expressionless basic mask, several more ancient dark gold patterns emerged, exuding an eerie aura.

"Chu Jin, what changes have you noticed in your pet?" Xu Tianming and the others immediately surrounded him, asking with concern. Chu Jin felt the surging power within him, and his eyes under the mask flashed with surprise.

He exclaimed excitedly, "Captain Xu... my Thousand-Faced Demon has advanced! After devouring this A-grade demonic artifact of the same origin, it has advanced to... gold quality!"

"Not only that, its core capabilities have also been completed!"

Chu Jin's voice trembled slightly with excitement: "From now on, no matter what level of an anomaly it is, as long as its strength and level are lower than mine, as long as I can suppress it, the Thousand-Faced Nuo Ghost can forcibly transform it into a mask, allowing me to use its corresponding killing rules! This means... my previous containment restrictions no longer exist!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Tianming, Yan Tu, and Su Qingyuan were initially taken aback, but then they were all genuinely happy for Chu Jin.

After all, a gold-quality pet means it has the potential to grow into an S-class pet master.

In other words, as long as Chu Jin lives, there is hope that an S-level Ghost Master will be born in the future of the Dragon Kingdom.