Heroes Return

Seeing that his neighbor hadn't listened to him and was instead preparing to finish him off with a single sword strike, the old man knew that trying to persuade this seemingly ghost-like humanoid creature with words was unlikely to succeed.

Thinking of this, the old man immediately began to wave the soul-summoning banner in his hand.

"Since you're so ungrateful, then don't blame me." The old man shouted as he approached Lin Jie. Instantly, a cacophony of shrill screams filled the air. At the same time, silent undead and evil spirits surrounded Lin Jie. The temperature of his wounds in J City seemed to plummet rapidly, as if affected by the ghosts.

"Ten Thousand Ghosts Devour Souls!"

Instantly, countless undead, as if engulfed in a potion of light, began to tear at Lin Jie. Meanwhile, the neighbor seemed completely oblivious to the terrifying number of evil spirits before him.

Lin Jie had no time to care about the last resistance the man was putting up. He slashed his sword at the old man as if he were killing the man in the red robe.

The old man subconsciously raised his Soul-Summoning Banner, which then released a large amount of terrifying Yin energy. The banner met Lin Jie's sword light head-on. In the old man's mind, as long as he could withstand Lin Jie's attack, he could escape unharmed.

However, he clearly underestimated the power of Lin Jie's sword strike.

With his all-out combat experience and the added boost from his magical artifacts, the two powerful forces finally collided in the skies above J City.

The stalemate lasted only a few seconds before the summoning banner snapped in two mid-air. At that moment, the powerful demons broke free from the banner's control and began tearing at the old man's body. However, the old man was completely unresponsive; Lin Jie's sword strike had ended his life. His corpse was then devoured by the rampaging demons.

After the old man's body disappeared, the evil spirits began to slowly vanish from this world.

As the blood-red clouds above disappeared, the people in the midst of the battle noticed that the mist that had enveloped the entire Bachelor Mountain and the omnipresent evil spirits were also gradually dissipating into the air.

The entire Bachelor Mountain was immediately filled with excitement, after all, the disappearance of these two strange phenomena meant that two powerful enemies had been killed by Zero.

This is undoubtedly great news for the members of the bachelor temple who have already begun to feel exhausted and struggle.

"Now you're the only one left." Lin Jie muttered to himself, then looked up at Bachelor Mountain.

The next second, Lin Jie raised his hand and swung his sword down in the direction of Bachelor Mountain.

With a deafening roar, a massive black shadow reappeared. This time, it was clear that the shadow was missing half of its body.

"Arrogant human, you're nothing but a bastard relying on the power of the Immortal Slaughtering Sword!" The shadowy monster roared angrily at Lin Jie, "If you've got the guts, fight me head-on! What kind of skill is it to rely on weapons!"

Actually, if it weren't daytime outside, this shadow monster would probably have run away long ago. But because it fears sunlight, it has no choice but to stay and fight this terrifying evil star.

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Just as Lin Jie was trying to kill the last enemy who had activated the barrier on Bachelor Mountain, a fierce battle broke out on the other side of Bachelor Mountain.

In particular, the 500-meter-long dragon at the foot of Bachelor Mountain had once again taken flight from the mountaintop. At this moment, the two masters, Wuyu and Wuliang, were standing on the dragon's back, fighting a person covered in scales.

"Hahahaha! This feeling of power is just too good!" Stein laughed wildly as he looked at the two monks in front of him: "The two of you can't stop anything! Ahahaha!!"

Laughing wildly, a terrifying spell appeared before Stein, followed by a terrifying energy beam that shot towards both Wuneng and Wuliang simultaneously. Faced with this spell imbued with the terrifying might of a dragon, even Wuyu, a monk skilled in defense, dared not take it head-on. The two simultaneously dodged Stein's attack with lightning speed using Sudoku.

At the same moment, Wu Liang appeared beside Stein, and the giant net in his hand enveloped Stein.

But at that very moment, strange magical runes appeared on Stein's body. Dragon flames erupted from Stein's body. The specially made net that had been surrounding Stein was instantly burned away by the rising flames.

As he burned Stein's net, Wuyu appeared on Stein's other side. His fist, radiating golden light, slammed directly towards Stein.

This punch gave Stein the feeling of facing a huge mountain of gold, but in the face of this powerful blow, Stein merely chuckled faintly.

Immediately afterwards, holy white runes lit up on his fist. The runes made the surface of his fist appear as if it were composed of white light.

At that moment, the two fists collided simultaneously. The collision caused the dragon, which had just taken flight, to roar angrily, then its body veered off course and flew off, plunging into the top of Bachelor Mountain.

Seeing that the dragon hadn't touched Bachelor Mountain, Master Wuliang breathed a sigh of relief. But then he witnessed something that shocked him. This guy, neither human nor lizard, had actually caught Wuyu's fist with a single, casually extended fist. He'd seen very few people in Area C who could withstand Wuyu's punch head-on, except for Wuliao, who was one of them. In fact, Wuyu hadn't even had a chance to throw a punch during their fight.

But this person was different; he easily blocked Wuyu's fist with a single punch. He didn't even take a step back. Wuyu was then forced back more than ten steps before stopping, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

"Hey kid, what grudge do you have against us? With this kind of strength, why don't you develop your own power, become a regional overlord, stir up trouble in the world, rise up in rebellion, and rule the whole world? Why are you picking on our Bachelor Temple? Is it really okay for us to fight each other to the death here? Putting everything else aside, if your dad knew that you'd turned yourself into this inhuman, ghostly figure and then come out to challenge a temple made up of a bunch of bachelors and losers, wouldn't he be furious? Those manuals we sell at the entrance are all genuine! They're not a scam! By the way, if you're not satisfied, you can actually buy a brand new beginner leveling gift pack for just 19.9 yuan! Really! We have everything from basic techniques to advanced techniques and advanced techniques..." Wu Yu started talking non-stop to the man in front of him.

"Senior brother, you've gone off-topic!" Wuliang patted Wuyu on the shoulder, then shouted at the man in front of him, "I wonder what grudge you have against our Guanggun Temple that would cause you to go to such lengths to make things difficult for us!"

"Hmph! I have absolutely no grudge against you!" The man calmly looked at the people in front of him and said, "But you have only yourself to blame for being too arrogant, daring to provoke any kind of organization!"

"Oh! I don't know! You were paid by those people who show off their love to come and destroy us, right?" the unscrupulous master suddenly said.

"...That's not the case at all!" Stein said. "You guys are really pathetic! You don't even know what kind of big organization you've messed with."

"To be honest, we've made too many enemies. We really don't know who we've offended this time," Master Wuyu said after thinking for a moment. "And most of the time it was done by our boring senior brother who claims to be able to quell any dissent! He's dead now! If all else fails, we can take you to his grave and let you whip his corpse, okay?"

"Hmph! If I weren't so bored, I probably wouldn't have dared to launch an attack so easily." Stein sneered and said, "Now your Bachelor Temple can just wait to be destroyed."

"You'd better think this through! Do you see our 3,000-strong urban management brigade?" Master Wuyu said. "If you really intend to fight us to the death, you'd better be prepared to have two hundred wounded."

"What a joke!" Stein sneered. "Do you even know what the most promising field of study in the world is?"

The two shook their heads.

"Without a doubt, the most promising field of study in the world is science!" Stein said to the two old monks as if he had finally found a child to boast to. "And the force within science that has enabled human evolution is undoubtedly genetics and biological engineering. And do you know what the most powerful field of study in the world is?"

The two shook their heads again.

"Listen up, you two old fogies! The most powerful science in the world is magic!" the man exclaimed excitedly. "And the most powerful magic is undoubtedly dragon magic!! And I have now fused the two together! That means I have begun on the path to humanity's most perfect evolution! Even if you were living a boring life, you might not be my match. It'll just be a bit more troublesome!"

"This kid's got a serious case of chuunibyou!" Wu Yu said to Wu Liang, who calmly nodded.

“There’s really nothing to say to you two old folks living in the last world!” Stein said unhappily.

"You've said everything you needed to say! But since you like evolution, then go ahead and evolve! Wait... evolution!" Wuliang said, as if he had just realized something, "So you're from Evolution Corporation! No wonder."

"Have you finally figured out why you were attacked?" Stein said.

"Ah! I remember, seven or eight years ago, when the sea creatures attacked humans, I think there was a director of some evolution company who got his manhood kicked off by my senior brother out of boredom for illegally discharging sewage." Master Wuyu suddenly exclaimed in surprise, "My senior brother said he'll never be able to fix his manhood in his lifetime! So you mobilized so many flying dragons to avenge your chairman's manhood!!!"

"What did you say?" Stein was completely bewildered by their words when Wu Yu said that he was there to avenge someone's manhood. According to them, he was sent to fight these experts to the death for some unfortunate director's manhood?

A surge of anger welled up inside him. He couldn't believe that the research he had painstakingly developed, the kind that would put Evolution Corporation on the world stage, would be used by some unlucky director to avenge his own life! And this director even said he would decide whether to continue investing precious T-matter in the research based on the results! If the results were bad, he would abandon the research!

Could it be that the research results he had in his hands were ultimately less important than that director's lifeline? Instantly, Stein's eyes, which had transformed into dragon eyes, were filled with endless rage, and his aura, carrying the immense majesty of a dragon, directly crushed towards the two people in front of him.

At this moment, Wuliang and Wuyu both formed a common Buddhist hand seal, blocking the onslaught of this aura.

"Looks like this kid's getting impatient!" Wu Liang exclaimed in surprise.

"No wonder he's angry. Anyone would be furious to hear that the results of their painstaking research were used to avenge a man's manhood!" Master Wuyu joked. "But thinking about it, it's really hard for a man to say something like this to others! Come to think of it, he was just showing off with such confidence! Hahaha! Showing off to avenge a man's manhood!"

"Hmph! So what if what you're saying is true?" Stein said coldly, "But in order for my research to continue, I must destroy the Bachelor Temple today! You two can watch as the temple you're protecting is razed to the ground!"

After Stein finished speaking, the two of them only then noticed that the giant dragon beneath their feet had once again begun to charge towards the gate of the Bachelor Temple. At the same time, the terrifying dragon breath in their hands was already being unleashed towards the Bachelor Temple.

However, at that very moment, the monks who had set up the formation at Guanggun Temple suddenly unleashed a burst of intense golden light. The golden light formed a swastika-shaped Buddhist seal above Guanggun Temple, directly blocking the powerful dragon breath. However, at the same time as the breath was blocked, many monks with lower cultivation levels within Guanggun Temple's formation coughed up blood and collapsed.

"I'm curious how long you can hold out," Stein said coldly, then looked down at the Bachelor Mountain once more.

At this moment, the dragon spread its wings and crashed into the direction of Bachelor Mountain.

At the same time, Wuyu and Wuliang appeared beside Stein at the same time, launching a series of powerful attacks at the same time.

But at that moment, dazzling white magic circles suddenly erupted from Stein's body and limbs, and at the same time, his strength and speed also increased to an unprecedented level.

But that wasn't the key point. The two masters from the Bachelor Temple were fully confident that they could compensate for their lack of strength and speed with their fighting skills. But what surprised them was that the person in front of them seemed to anticipate their every move and could execute the most appropriate action each time.

"Hmph! The dragon's eyes have already seen through everything!" Stein said. "Even if you have the highest level of martial arts and combat experience, you simply cannot defeat me."

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But just then, an unexpected change occurred once again. As the dragon's massive body was about to crash into Guanggun Temple, it suddenly roared. Then, the entire dragon flipped over in mid-air, finally crashing headfirst into J City.

At this moment, in front of the plaque above the main gate of the Bachelor Temple, Master Wuneng slowly withdrew his leg.

"Damn it, I almost died if I didn't act soon." Master Wuneng said, then leaped down the mountain. His previously closed eyes suddenly opened. A pair of eyes without pupils suddenly appeared bright and piercing. But what truly made Master Wuneng's eyes seem to have a divine light was a huge eye that could be vaguely seen and appeared intermittently behind him.

As the giant eye appeared and disappeared, a pair of golden eyes vaguely emerged in the eyes of the Incompetent Master.

"My two junior brothers, focus on dealing with this lizardman! This humble monk will go and meet this giant lizard!" Master Wuneng said, then flew towards the giant dragon in the city. At this moment, Master Wuneng's body gave the impression of running in the sky.

"Huh? I didn't expect that guy who can't do anything right and just goes around swindling money all day would actually have such power. I heard he was taken hostage by a captain in the Thousand Illusion Sea before!!" The moment the dragon flipped over, the two of them, speechless and unscrupulous, jumped onto a building on the side.

At that moment, Stein was standing under a building opposite the two of them.

"Hmph, my senior brother's Dharma name is 'Speechless,' but in fact we usually don't let him talk because once he starts, he can't stop! My senior brother's Dharma name is 'Boring,' but he was the most troublesome when he was alive." Master Wuliang said with a smile, "So do you really think that Senior Brother Wuneng is as incompetent as his name suggests? Sometimes, being dull is just for fools to see."

“You’re absolutely right! You’re underestimating our senior brother!” Wu Yu said.

"Oh my god!!!" Before the two could finish speaking, Master Wuneng's voice rang out behind them. The three then saw Master Wuneng dodging the dragon's attacks while leaping and hopping across its body. He looked utterly disheveled.

"What are you two doing! Hurry up and finish off that lizardman grunt and come help! This humble monk can't hold on much longer!" Master Wuneng said telepathically to the two people in the distance when he noticed that the three people in the distance had stopped fighting.

"Damn it! Where did all that power from that kick go?!" Wuliang felt his face burning.

"Have you ever heard of an ultimate move?! Have you ever seen an ultimate move without a cooldown?! And my 100% flip-cover kick can only make people flip covers!!!" Master Incompetent shouted.

"Senior brother, haven't you already opened your Heavenly Eye? Can't you see the true nature of this dragon?"

"It's because I opened my Heavenly Eye and saw the true nature of things that I realized I couldn't beat them at all!!!" Master Wuneng said, then jumped a great distance away. The dragon, as if enraged by Master Wuneng's kick, chased after him relentlessly.

Seeing this, Wuyu and Wuliang knew that Master Wuneng couldn't hold out for long, so they both rushed towards the lizard-like man.

A battle with destructive power no less than that on the mountain erupted at this moment.

At this moment, both monks emitted a large amount of golden light.

Correspondingly, strange and ancient magical runes began to light up on Stein's body. Dragon language magic used to enhance the body began to glow from the mouth of a human.

However, along with the enhancement of the dragon language magic, the unscrupulous master's golden hand descended from the sky. As the golden hand fell, Stein, with a bizarre movement that no normal person could possibly perform, dodged the giant golden palm that the unscrupulous master had cleaved down from the sky.

The golden palm landed directly on the spot where Stein had just stood. This palm strike actually pierced through the entire building, and after piercing through the building, the entire building collapsed with a huge roar.

At that moment, Wuliang in the sky sat cross-legged and formed a strange hand seal. Behind him, however, was a spectacular sight: thousands of different hands appeared.

"Has she really shown her true abilities?" Looking at the magnificent giant hand in the sky, Stein couldn't help but laugh. "Is this the legendary Thousand-Hand Guanyin? It looks rather ordinary!"

Just then, the Silent Master suddenly appeared beside Stein, and his fist, flashing with heavy Buddhist light, once again slammed towards Stein.

As if he had anticipated this, Stein dodged to the side, narrowly avoiding the powerful punch from the Speechless Master. Simultaneously, a fist imbued with the colors of fire, lightning, and light charged towards the Speechless Master. Faced with this fist containing terrifying power, the Speechless Master was momentarily at a loss for how to dodge.

But the next second, Stein's fist collided directly with a monk's staff. The massive explosion sent all the stones on the ground where the two were standing flying.

"Strange, how did you manage to dodge my dragon eye and use your staff?" Stein asked, somewhat surprised.

"This monk's staff technique is called the Mad Demon Staff Technique," Master Wuyu said, and attacked Stein once again. This time, Master Wuyu's staff attacks were not only difficult to dodge, but also continuous, and each strike was stronger than the last.

Faced with such an attack, even with his immense physical strength, Stein was simply no match for the Silent Master's onslaught. He was struck more than a dozen times in one go. At this moment, Stein unleashed a barrage of defensive magic to protect himself from the onslaught.

However, after being attacked by Wuyu more than a dozen times, Wuyu's powerful thrust shattered Stein's defenses, and the staff struck Stein's stomach. Stein was immediately sent flying.

After crashing through several buildings, Stein finally managed to stand up with great difficulty. At this point, Stein had a huge and horrifying bloody hole in his abdomen.

"I never imagined you possessed such power. It's no wonder the Bachelor Temple isn't just all talk." Stein's dragon eyes, with their vertical pupils, underwent a slight change at this moment.