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Zi Yuan hovered in mid-air, and with a sudden inhale, his dragon mouth swelled up like a balloon.

A golden light barrier appeared around the dragon's body, protecting him and the people behind him from the harassment of the large number of flying abyssal creatures outside.

Shen Feng was able to free his hands and shout at Shi Youping.

"The Shi family! Have you all gone mad! Yue Sheng is the captain of the enforcement department of the Professionals' Association, and now he also serves as the patrol commander of Glory City! How dare you disobey his orders!"

Shi Youping sighed deeply.

"Oh dear, Captain, look outside! The fifth wave of abyssal creatures has arrived. Our Shi family has just suffered a heavy blow from bandits, our experts have all perished, and the city is full of the old, weak, sick, and disabled."

We can only rely on defensive facilities to resist, otherwise who will protect the secondary crystal?

If you take half of our energy crystals, this crystal won't be able to be protected!

Shen Feng reprimanded him.

"Nonsense! The main city's resources are critically low! What good is a secondary crystal if we lose the main crystal?"

"Your main city has many experts; they won't be gone anytime soon. We can't do that here."

Yue Sheng stopped Shen Feng and Shi Youping from continuing their debate.

"They won't help the main city, especially if I'm the one to make them hand over the energy crystals and go to the second guard city."

From the day the hundred-person trial team entered Glory City, Yue Sheng and the Shi family's garrison regiment had a falling out.

After that, the bond grew stronger and stronger.

Yue Sheng was aware of all this.

But he didn't expect that the Shi family would actually dare to disregard the bigger picture.

Aren't they afraid of being purged after the war?

Who gave them the audacity to act recklessly?

Thinking about these things now is useless; the most important thing is to quickly bring energy crystals to the main city.

"Zi Yuan, let's go!"

With a flick of its claws, the golden light shield around Ziyuan Dragon's body suddenly contracted and condensed, transforming into golden spears that shot out in all directions, striking down many flying abyssal creatures.

Immediately afterwards, Zi Yuan arched his body, preparing to exert his strength and break through the encirclement of abyssal creatures filling the sky.

"Hold on tight! We're going all out..."

"Buzz!!"

High above, something ominous was falling at an astonishing speed.

Zi Yuan sensed it, his movements stopped abruptly, he canceled the mount's force field, and with a forceful flip, shook Yue Sheng, Shen Feng and the others off.

"Zi Yuan!!"

A terrifying red light blade, hundreds of meters long, like a crescent moon, cleaved Zi Yuan in two from top to bottom!

Yue Sheng, Shen Feng, and six others fell into the abyss below, where the creatures were attacking the city's protective barrier.

Zi Yuan's body also fell down.

Before they could even grieve, Yue Sheng and his six companions were forced into a high-intensity battle.

If they don't fight, the fifth wave of abyssal creatures from all directions will devour them alive.

Zi Yuan's head twitched; he wasn't quite dead yet.

"Damn it... You think you can trick me? You think you can ambush me? I, the handsome, dashing, peerless, and unparalleled Grandpa Dragon, you've got some nerve... Just you wait, everything that doesn't kill me only makes me stronger!"

Zi Yuan closed his dragon eyes.

His body began to glow, then instantly dissipated into countless purple light spots, which rapidly coalesced into a golden egg with purple stripes.

This egg was quite large, as tall as a person. Standing amidst the monsters, it was quickly knocked over and rolled around on the ground.

This is the innate ability of Ziyuan, the mount.

When he suffers a fatal injury, he can be reborn as a dragon egg.

Of course, with this rebirth, his level and the resources used to nurture him would all be wasted.

It means you have to start practicing from scratch.

But his memories will remain.

This is why Yue Sheng, such a serious person, would have such an unserious mount, because Yue Sheng was not its first owner.

If the dragon egg is broken, then Zi Yuan is completely finished.

Therefore, Yue Sheng unleashed his full power at this moment, piercing through monsters along a path of over a hundred meters with a single spear thrust, taking a step that covered dozens of meters, and shattering three fifth-tier abyssal creatures five or six times his size with a single punch.

"Zi Yuan!! I've come to save you!!"

Yue Sheng fought desperately among the monsters, while Shen Feng and six other trusted men protected him from the sidelines.

Yue Sheng finally managed to reach the dragon egg, quickly picked it up, and put it into his backpack.

"Don't be afraid, old friend, I'll raise you back into a dragon!"

Shen Feng looked up at the sky.

"Who launched this attack from the sky! Come down!! Such a powerful expert, yet you don't even dare to show your face??"

No one responded.

Only more abyssal creatures rushed forward.

Yue Sheng looked up at the sky, his eyelids twitching; he had guessed what was going on.

The golden spear in his hand was stained with the black substance left by the explosion of the abyss creature. Yue Sheng gripped it tightly, and the aura generated by his status skills flickered.

"Fight your way out!"

Shen Feng glanced at the endless monster army in the distance, then looked back at the well-preserved barrier and towering defensive towers of Guard City No. 3.

"That's not a good idea, Captain. With just the seven of us, even with our seven pets, without a flying mount like Zi Yuan, it will be very difficult for us to fight our way out. We should ask the Shi family to open the city gates and let us in; perhaps we can hold out a little longer!"

As he spoke, Shen Feng shouted to Shi Youping, who was standing on the south gate tower not far away, telling him to open the gate.

Shi Youping, however, put his hand to his ear with a grin.

"What?! What did you say? Oh dear, our defensive tower is making too much noise, I can't hear you!"

"I said open the city gates! Let us in! Can't you see we're surrounded by monsters?!"

"Open the city gates? That's not a good idea! There are so many abyssal creatures outside. If I open the city gates and the array, won't we fall? My Shi family's garrison can't bear that responsibility!"

Shen Feng gritted his teeth in anger.

"I'll fucking kill you, you bastard who uses your position for personal revenge!"

Yue Sheng pulled Shen Feng back and said.

"Doesn't Chu Feng's Desert Eagle mount fly?"

The trusted confidants who followed Yue Sheng were all third-tier professionals, and Chu Feng was no exception.

Chu Feng was a mage. With a single Fireball Tide, he temporarily forced the surrounding monsters back. He spoke solemnly.

"The Desert Eagle can only carry one person. I won't leave alone, Captain. Let's break through together!"

Yue Sheng shook his head.

"This is not the time to talk about this. Get out!"

We will try our best to break through; perhaps we can hold out until reinforcements arrive.

If you can't hold out, even if you've already escaped, you can at least become our witness, testifying to the absurd behavior of the Shi family and the fact that they killed us!

Chu Feng's eyes reddened as he looked at his teammates with whom he had shared life and death for many years, and at his respected captain, and nodded emphatically.

"Fine! I will definitely not let the Shi family get away with this!"

Chu Feng summoned his mount, using various skills to clear a path while directing the Desert Eagle to fly into the distance.

Just as Yue Sheng, Shen Feng, and the others relaxed and prepared for a desperate fight.

The terrifying sound of something tearing through the air came again.

"puff!!"

Blood suddenly appeared.

Chu Feng and his mount were cleaved in two from top to bottom by a blade of light.

died.

Yue Sheng was stunned.

Shen Feng was furious.

"Who!!! Who is it!!! Get down here!!!"

No one responded.

The sky was deathly silent.

Only the sounds and shadows of abyssal creatures flitting about could be heard.

at the same time.

The sixth wave of Abyss invasion has arrived.

Ahead, awaiting Yue Sheng and his team, were even more powerful and numerous abyssal creatures.

Behind them were their teammates, whose city gates were closed.

Above, lurks an unknown and powerful assassin.

Yue Sheng and his group were in dire straits.