The whole nation is trying to survive on the cable car; I'm choosing one of three options at ea

General Boneface has decided, amidst the ongoing conflict, to switch to evacuation mode and end the conflict.

Su Mu did not give him a chance to retreat at his leisure.

In this instance, dying only returns you to the cable car, not on the actual battlefield, meaning you can use all your strength to get a kill.

Unlike on a real battlefield, there's no need to consider the possibility of retreat.

He did not intend to let a ghost general-level being escape from his grasp. Outside of Ash City, he might give up the pursuit due to the problem of his escape route. After all, one should not pursue a desperate enemy. Moreover, who knows if there are other ghost generals around? When he entered and left Ash City, he saw at least five ghost general-level ghosts.

But there's no need to keep it now.

The moment the Bone-Faced General retreated to the edge of the open space, fragments of his bone armor simultaneously peeled off his body. These fragments scattered in all directions, forming a spreading barrier of broken bones, like a ring of blasted gray-white clouds, briefly obscuring Su Mu's pursuit route.

He leaped towards the sky, the tattered armor adjusting its posture as it ascended, as if using the barrier as cover to escape.

But just as his body rose a few meters, a pale golden light curtain unfolded in the night sky above him.

The light curtain arrived without warning, its edge connected to a fragment of a scroll slowly drifting down in the night wind. The light curtain itself steadily covered a large area above, like an invisible wall, completely cutting off his path of ascent.

The moment the Bone-Faced General's body touched the light barrier, it was bounced back to its original position. His toes left a very thin, burn-like mark as they grazed the surface of the barrier. Then he landed back on the ground, his posture no longer as composed as before.

Su Mu's gaze passed over the closing light screen and saw the people standing behind it... dark gray military uniforms, neatly arranged, several rows of soldiers holding fragments of scrolls.

The leader withdrew his hand from the scroll, his gaze passing through the closing light barrier and landing on Su Mu. Without any further action or words, he simply confirmed that the interception was complete, and then put his hand back at his side.

The night wind in Peach Blossom Village was quiet for a moment after the barrier was set up, and then the few remaining branches of the Cloud Vine suddenly shot out from the ground.

The branches precisely wrapped around the bones as General Boneface landed and had not yet fully regained his footing. The branches tightened the moment they closed in.

The branches closed up faster than General Boneface had anticipated.

He glanced down at the dark red vines wrapped around his ankles. His jaw slowly opened, emitting a short, hollow sound, as if something was blocking his airflow.

The barrier above his head continued to light up, the pale golden light curtain covering the entire open space without moving, completely sealing off his escape route.

The recovery speed of Moyun Teng after the contract was completed far exceeded Su Mu's expectations.

Its previous protracted war of attrition with General Boneface had nearly depleted its energy reserves, and the wounds on its trunk and broken branches looked like they would take a long time to heal.

But during his battle with the Bone-Faced General, the vine, through the bond of the contract, drew a new, pure energy supply from Su Mu's body...

The aura emanating from the ancient king's battle blood activated its dormant fighting instincts the moment it came into contact with the contract connection.

The broken branches that had been hanging down to the ground began to slowly rise again, and new, thinner branches were growing from the broken ends at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The dark red vine, after wrapping around the Bone-Faced General's feet, did not stop, but began to climb upwards...

From the ankle to the calf, from the knee to the thigh, from the waist to the chest, each loop is tighter than the last, like a rope being repeatedly stretched and tightened.

It gave the Bone-Faced General no chance to break free. The newly sprouted branches tightened their grip deeper and deeper as they wrapped around him, pressing fine cracks into the surface of his bone armor.

Su Mu readjusted its posture in mid-air.

Tricolor light surged across his body, and his silver-white hair trailed a straight path in the night wind. He saw the figure being entangled by vines, the dark red branches tightening, and the gray-white silhouette being gradually compressed.

He accelerated through the air, and just as the Bone-Faced General broke free of the entanglement around his ankles and tried to shift his weight upwards, the spear pierced the gap between his armor and bone armor from the side and above.

After charging for three seconds, the attack was perfectly triggered. The spear tip released a spreading shockwave the moment it pierced through the ground, pressing the Bone-Faced General's body several meters to the side and downwards, carving a straight trench in the ground.

A crack was slowly spreading on the shoulder of the Bone-Faced General, extending from the junction of the armor and bone armor all the way to his collarbone. The edge of the crack was widening, like a stone slab being repeatedly hammered and splitting from the inside.

After being suppressed twice in a row, General Boneface made a decision.

Instead of trying to break away alone, he transformed the attacks and suppression that were constantly draining him into a one-time, all-encompassing burst.

His bone armor, which was mostly covered by cracks, completely fell off his body. The fragments did not fall in mid-air, but instead converged, condensed, and rose towards the same center point.

Grayish-white bone fragments rapidly intertwined above that convergence point, first the outline of the spine, then the framework of the ribs, and then the skeletal structure of the arms and legs.

A gigantic skeleton, several times taller than the previous crocodile, took shape at the convergence point. The skeleton's head hung low, as if it were slowly raising its head from a deep sleep, and two green flames, brighter than the original ghost fire of the Bone-Faced General, burned in its eye sockets.

His jaw slowly opened, emitting an extremely low, hollow echo squeezed from the deepest part of his chest. The sound continued to reverberate throughout the entire Peach Blossom Village, then penetrated the surrounding dilapidated peach grove and spread further towards Ash City.

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