We offered you a summer job, but you went and became a mercenary?

Lei Hu quickly gestured for the special forces soldiers to follow.

The group continued their ascent deeper into the secret realm, following the slope.

The further you go in, the fewer plants there are, but the energy fluctuations emitted by each one are extremely exaggerated.

The oppressive atmosphere in the air grew increasingly heavy.

Lei Hu and Zhao Gang felt as if hundreds of pounds of heavy stones were pressing on their chests, and every step they took required a great deal of physical exertion.

Several elite soldiers at the early stage of the Transformation Realm found it extremely difficult to breathe, and their faces turned bright red.

"General Lin, something's not right ahead." Large beads of cold sweat appeared on Lei Hu's forehead, and his knuckles were white as he gripped his gun. "I feel something watching us from the shadows, and the pressure is too strong."

Lin Ye stopped in his tracks.

A violent gust of wind blew in from the deepest part of the valley.

The wind carried a chilling sense of oppression.

The special forces soldiers were blown about by the wind, and some of them couldn't withstand the pressure and knelt on one knee on the rock.

Lin Ye stood still, carrying the snakeskin bag in one hand and scratching his wind-blown hair with the other.

"This place is really weird, how come there's a draft?" Lin Ye complained with a displeased look, "It's messed up my hair."

He turned to look at the special forces soldiers kneeling on the ground.

"Old Lei, can you guys hurry up?" Lin Ye urged. "Let's finish this job and get back to Jiangcheng. This crappy place doesn't even have a signal, and I can't connect to the internet for my mobile games."

Lei Hu let out a bitter laugh.

That's not a draft at all.

That was definitely the terrifying pressure emanating from a Grandmaster level!

Even these seasoned soldiers who live on the edge of death couldn't withstand it; this guy only felt that the wind had messed up his hairstyle.

Lei Hu gritted his teeth, forced himself to stand up, and called to his team to continue forward.

We bypassed a huge floating boulder in front of us.

Suddenly, the view opened up.

Ahead lay a patch of extremely flat, black land.

This land was barren, except for a single, blood-red plant growing alone in the very center.

At the top of the plant grows a fruit the size of a thumb, radiating a dazzling red light.

The surrounding spiritual energy had completely liquefied here, turning into droplets of white water that slowly swirled around the blood-red plant.

The moment Xia Wanqiu saw the plant, she gasped.

"A thousand-year-old blood ginseng!" Xia Wanqiu's voice rose eight octaves, not even noticing the notebook falling to the ground. "A top-grade item recorded in ancient texts! This thing can directly transform a person, breaking through the physical limits of ordinary martial arts!"

Lin Ye's eyes lit up instantly.

Even a 200-watt light bulb isn't as bright as his eyes now.

"I don't care about a complete transformation." Lin Ye threw the snakeskin bag on the ground. "This thing, with all these special effects, is worth at least a hundred small goals, right?"

Lin Ye rubbed his hands together and strode towards the black earth.

He walked up to the thousand-year-old blood ginseng and bent down.

He had just stretched out his right hand, his fingers not yet touching the blood ginseng's leaves that emitted a red glow.

Boom—!

The ground of the entire secret realm began to tremble violently without warning.

The dark brown rock layer crumbled inch by inch, and countless thick cracks spread wildly outward along the black soil.

Followed by.

A terrifying, ear-piercing roar, so loud it seemed to tear eardrums apart, exploded from the depths of the earth beneath the blood ginseng!

Roar--!

A mutated snow ape, larger than a heavy truck, smashed through the surface rock and soared into the air.

This beast was covered from head to toe in a thick layer of white ice crystal armor.

Two bloodshot eyes stared intently at Lin Ye, who was standing next to the blood ginseng.

It opened its blood-red maw, revealing two rows of serrated fangs, and a foul-smelling gust of wind rushed towards you.

Lei Hu lay prone behind a rock a dozen meters away, forced to retreat by the violent shockwave.

The moment he saw the snow ape clearly, his face turned deathly pale, and he even stopped breathing.

"This...this beast's strength has probably reached the peak of the Grandmaster realm!"

Lei Hu strained his voice, which completely cracked.

"This beast's qi and blood fluctuations have reached their limit!!"

The dozens of special forces soldiers standing nearby were completely terrified.

Peak Grandmaster!

What does this mean?

Looking across the entire Dragon Kingdom, you could count the number of old monsters of this caliber on one hand.

Not to mention that this is a mutated beast with thick skin, thick flesh, and an exaggerated size!

At the same level, human martial artists simply cannot break through the defenses of mutated beasts!

"Fire! Cover General Lin's retreat!"

Lei Hu disregarded any orders and picked up his assault rifle, frantically pulling the trigger at the snow ape in mid-air.

Da da da da!

Dozens of assault rifles opened fire simultaneously, and a dense barrage of bullets instantly enveloped the snow ape's massive body.

It was all a waste of effort.

When regular rifle bullets hit the snow ape's thick layer of ice crystal armor, they only sent up a series of sparks, leaving not even a white mark.

On the contrary, several ricochets hit the rocks and almost injured their own men.

The snow ape was enraged by these tickling attacks.

It suddenly twisted its body in mid-air, and its thick hind legs kicked hard off a floating boulder.

Click.

The floating boulder, weighing tens of tons, shattered into pieces on the spot.

Using the terrifying recoil, the snow ape's massive body transformed into a white afterimage, carrying a devastating blizzard as it hurtled straight toward Lin Ye's head.

That palm, larger than a millstone, was covered with sharp ice spikes and tore through the air with an extremely sharp sonic boom.

"It's over..."

Zhao Gang closed his eyes in despair.

Monsters of this caliber are simply beyond the capabilities of conventional firearms.

Even if Major General Lin had just brought out a nuclear weapon, he would absolutely not dare to detonate it at this distance, otherwise everyone would perish together.

completely annihilated!

All that remained in everyone's mind were those four words.

At this critical moment.

Lin Ye stood still, showing no intention of dodging.

He didn't even look at the huge hand that was slamming down from mid-air.

His gaze was fixed on the area where the snow ape had landed.

There used to be a large patch of mutated wild ginseng that radiated a golden light.

Now, everything was trampled into mud by the snow ape's enormous feet, and the golden light was completely extinguished.

Lin Ye's face instantly turned extremely gloomy.

It's a million times uglier than the snow and wind in this secret realm.

Are you blind?!

Lin Ye pointed at the muddy puddle on the ground and started cursing loudly.

"That's a mutated wild ginseng from last year!"

"One of these plants could easily sell for a million or two hundred thousand!"

Lin Ye was so angry that he trembled all over, pointing at the snow ape in mid-air.

"You stomped on my large apartment in downtown Jiangcheng and it's gone!"

"Can you afford to pay for it?!"

Under the extremely astonished gazes of Lei Hu, Zhao Gang, and the others.

Lin Ye did not use any ancient martial arts true energy to fight head-on.

He suddenly reached his right hand into the snakeskin bag.

The system's temporary storage space is now open.