# Chapter 912: The People Who Guard This Land
At this moment, Zhong Yingxue held nothing back!
She directly released the Nine-Headed Phoenix, and massive fireballs wreathed in rolling black flames smashed down overwhelmingly upon the beast horde!
A booming explosion!
The violent power even shattered the enormous bodies of the spirit beasts into pieces!
Charred black flesh and broken earth splattered everywhere!
And Xia Yao, who hadn't gotten to show off during the exchange match, was feeling stifled. Right now, her big eyes were full of eager anticipation!
Her furry wolf ears popped out as she directly completed a half-beast transformation!
"Light Feather! Silver Shadow!"
A flash of silver light appeared on Xia Yao's body, accompanied by two sharp sonic booms as her figure shot out in an instant!
"Blood Incineration... Wolf King!"
"Boom!"
With her pupils completely turned silver, her speed increased once again!
"Steel Claw... Nine Star Flash! First Flash!"
In that instant, her sharp wolf claws extended, and around her body, dazzling silver starlight dots lit up like a galaxy!
Like a steel blade plunging into the beast horde, three platinum-grade spirit beasts had massive wounds carved into their bodies and fell to the ground!
But this wasn't over yet!
The starlight around her gradually turned crimson red, and her speed and power surged!
"Second Flash! Third Flash!"
At this moment, Xia Yao's body was like a silver blade light weaving through the beast horde!
Wherever she passed, she left behind a trail of beast corpses and blood stains!
Meanwhile, over at Wu Liang's side, his Savage Charge had reached its limit, and the golden light on his body was extremely bright!
"Brother! Smash them!"
Jiangnan directly tossed a bottle of Nuclear Milk over. Wu Liang opened his bear mouth and roared at the sky!
He even chewed up and swallowed the aluminum can!
The next moment, a crimson-red Wu Liang charged straight out!
His thirty-meter-tall bear body was like a moving hill, crushing countless spirit beasts along the way!
And in the midst of his charge, Wu Liang directly triggered a triple nuclear explosion!
Each nuclear explosion covered a range of over a thousand meters, forcefully creating a nuclear explosion battle line!
It split the entire beast horde open!
The oncoming blast wave rolled up thick clouds of dust. Xiong Er let out a loud roar and slammed his bear paws on the ground!
A thick earthen wall rose up, blocking the nuclear explosion shockwave and protecting the safety of the civilians!
But Wu Liang changed direction and charged again, another triple nuclear explosion!
This time, the shockwave directly shattered the earthen wall!
As soon as Wu Liang stopped, he tossed out another "If You Dare, Hit Me," and the beast horde, already blown to pieces, howled as they charged toward Wu Liang!
Jiangnan laughed heartily. Wu Liang had completely risen up!
This tank was way too capable of fighting, wasn't it?
In the sky, Xiao Jiuwo alternated between Great Flame Heaven and Snow Country Descent, constantly sending flying spirit beasts crashing down!
At this moment, the passengers on the highway were stunned by this scene, their eyes nearly popping out as they pulled out their phones to record videos!
"This... this is too fierce! Their bodies are so small, how can they unleash such powerful force? So unbelievable!"
Super shocking! Witnessing it live is simply a different feeling from watching the livestream!
"Don't cry, little girl, be good! With Brother Nan Shen here, everyone will be fine. Everything will be okay!"
At this moment, Wang Shoujiang and the other defense teams were completely shocked!
A few platinum-level fighters pulling a fight with over a thousand beasts?
Even diamond-grade spirit beasts were beaten to death! This was way too brutal, wasn't it?
And they were worried about whether Nan Shen and the others could handle it? They should be more worried about how long the beast horde could last!
What kind of terrifying combat power was this?
This was a complete massacre!
At this point, the thousand-strong spirit beast horde had been killed down to less than three hundred!
Jiangnan was about to finish them off!
Just then, a buzzing sound passed overhead. An unmanned early warning aircraft streaked across the Gobi Desert at high speed!
In the distance, dozens of high-speed tracked artillery vehicles crossed over a dirt slope, leaped into the air, then heavily crashed down to the ground!
Behind them followed ten troop transport trucks, carrying the Dragon Abyss Army who had been chasing the beast horde all the way!
Knowing that this beast horde was heading for the highway, the unit was frantic!
They marched toward this direction desperately, but they almost didn't make it in time!
Their hearts had sunk halfway!
But who would have thought that as soon as they caught up, they saw flames everywhere and beast corpses littering the ground!
All the Dragon Abyss soldiers were momentarily stunned, but then they saw that familiar dazzling light!
One Dragon Abyss soldier shouted: "That's Dali's radiance! I drank it back when I was at Jade Dragon Town! It's Nan Shen and them! Haha!"
"I heard Nan Shen was coming to the base, and we run into them? What a coincidence!"
Standing on one of the tracked artillery vehicles was a burly bearded man with bronze-colored skin!
His lips were chapped, his cheeks bore the red flush of the highlands. Seeing that the passengers on the highway were still safe, he couldn't help but sigh in relief!
He was the captain of this beast-hunting operation team, Ji Chuan!
He couldn't help but laugh: "Our job got done by Nan Shen? That's a huge help!"
Then he shouted loudly: "Artillery coverage!"
After that, he took out two small flags and waved them in a series of signals!
Jiangnan looked at the flag signals and grinned: "Withdraw? Our job is done! Retreat!"
Xia Yao and the others quickly pulled out of the beast horde battlefield!
On the Dragon Abyss side, dozens of tracked artillery vehicles all opened fire while moving!
Deafening artillery blasts echoed, making people's eardrums ache, kicking up large amounts of dust!
The scene was extremely spectacular!
High-explosive armor-piercing shells made of Spirit-Binding Steel blasted even platinum-grade spirit beasts to death!
The remaining spirit beasts were blown to smithereens by the Dragon Abyss's fierce firepower!
Wu Liang watched from the side, his scalp tingling: "Damn, the Spirit Martial Force sure kills fast!"
Jiangnan, looking at the tracked artillery vehicles, had eyes sparkling, almost drooling!
Such good stuff!
The convoy stopped in front of Jiangnan and his group. Immediately, some Dragon Abyss soldiers rushed into the battlefield to finish off the wounded!
They also dispatched personnel to help the passengers stuck on the highway evacuate!
Ji Chuan was the first to jump off the vehicle, saluting Jiangnan: "Reporting to Commander Jiang! Dragon Abyss Army of Outpost Base 001, Ji Chuan, code name Bedrock, reporting in!"
Jiangnan returned the salute with a smile: "Ran into them on the road, so I stopped them on the way."
Ji Chuan scratched his head shyly: "You're heading to the base, right? Let's talk on the road. Things aren't over yet!"
Jiangnan ran back, put away the off-road vehicle, and the group boarded the Dragon Abyss beast-hunting convoy, heading straight for the spirit beasts' tracks!
Sitting in the vehicle, Jiangnan looked back at the battlefield littered with beast corpses!
He saw another convoy of steel tanker trucks arriving. A group of Dragon Abyss soldiers in black one-piece military uniforms got off.
They started disassembling useful materials from the beast corpses and loading them onto the trucks!
The tanker trucks sprayed purple mist. As soon as the beast corpses came into contact with the purple mist, the flesh was rapidly dissolved and melted away!
Jiangnan was puzzled: "What are they doing?"
This skilled process was clearly not their first time doing it!
Ji Chuan explained: "These are the logistics unit of the Dragon Abyss Army, responsible for cleaning up the battlefield and dissolving the beast corpses!"
"Otherwise, if left unattended, over a thousand massive beast corpses under the sun's exposure would quickly rot and spoil, easily breeding plague and bacteria!"
"After all, this isn't a spirit ruin or a no-man's land. There are no spirit beasts to consume the corpses."
Jiangnan grimaced!
Clearly, these were valuable lessons learned from countless painful experiences!
"By the way, is there a spirit calamity nearby or something? These spirit beasts aren't low level. Where did they come from?"
Ji Chuan smiled bitterly: "Outpost 017 fell and was destroyed. They broke out from the no-man's land!"
"The beast horde split into three groups after breaking out. We wiped out one group earlier. This is the second group. The third group is still being chased!"
"As for spirit calamities? Ever since the spiritual energy revival began in the Western Frontier, they've never stopped!"
Jiangnan was taken aback. He didn't know much about the situation in the Western Frontier!
Hearing Ji Chuan say this only made him more confused!
"What's the situation?"
Ji Chuan then began to explain!
It turned out that the Western Frontier, being on a high plateau, was sparsely populated and contained China's largest no-man's land, the Dike No-Man's Land, covering an area of over 1.2 million square kilometers!
That was an astonishing number, even larger than one-third of the entire Western Frontier!
It bordered the national border to the west, adjacent to the Fanguo!
And that was only the part of the Dike No-Man's Land within China! The Fanguo side was equally large!
Since the beginning of the spiritual energy revival, the no-man's land seemed blessed by heaven, with spirit ruins erupting in concentrated bursts!
The density was astonishing. Over a hundred had already been explored!
Even now, new spirit ruins would appear from time to time!
By now, no one knew exactly how many spirit ruins were in the no-man's land!
Moreover, these spirit ruins were in a state of no supervision because it was impossible to manage them all!
This directly led to the situation in the no-man's land spiraling completely out of control!
Countless spirit beasts poured out of the spirit ruin space gates, occupying the territory of the no-man's land!
Over the years, the no-man's land had almost become a human forbidden zone!
To prevent these spirit beasts from further expanding their territory, encroaching on human living space, and endangering public safety!
Thus, outpost bases were built around the Dike No-Man's Land!
To control the situation in the no-man's land, many outposts were even built deep inside the no-man's land, at the border positions!
Hundreds of outpost bases formed a large net, tightly suppressing the situation in the no-man's land!
Guarding this land with their lives!
But in recent years, new spirit ruins had appeared frequently, and the Fanguo side wasn't peaceful either!
The situation at the outpost bases was also struggling!
Jiangnan never expected that the Western Frontier's situation was like this!
Looking at the Dragon Abyss soldiers on the trucks, many were holding their guns, gazing out at the Gobi Desert!
Their faces were tanned black and peeling. Some soldiers' faces even looked quite young, clearly not very old!
When they saw Jiangnan looking, they smiled brilliantly!
Jiangnan's heart tightened. He felt a surge of deep respect and rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand.
It was precisely because of them guarding this magnificent land that China had peace and tranquility!
"Little Nan? What's wrong?"
"Nothing. The wind and sand are too strong. Got something in my eyes..."