# 789
# Chapter 789
"I only received the message when I flew near Jialin Pass, so the journey took a while." Zuo Qing lowered his head to look at the battlefield below. When his gaze landed on a few specific figures, his pupils slightly contracted.
"Oh?" He let out a surprised sound, and after a moment of contemplation, a smile curved his lips. "No wonder Sunken Dragon Pass held out until now—it turns out they've... returned."
"Who?" Guan Zai asked with confusion.
"The Fifth Special Squad." Zuo Qing pointed toward several figures in the beast tide. "At the same time, they are also the students of the Sword Saint."
"Zhou Ping's disciples?"
At these words, Guan Zai paused slightly. He studied the Night Watch squad members for a while before nodding. "So it's them..."
Zuo Qing shifted his gaze away from the Night Watch squad and looked toward the far end of the beast tide, his expression growing increasingly grave.
"The scale of this beast tide seems even larger than the one half a year ago... It appears those foreign gods can no longer wait."
"What do we do now? Charge directly into the mist and solve the problem at its root?" A murderous glint flashed in Guan Zai's eyes.
"No." Zuo Qing果断 shook his head. "The situation inside the mist remains unclear to us. What if this beast tide is merely a decoy, with a few foreign gods lying in ambush right at the mist's border, waiting for us Human Apex to walk into their trap?
Zhou Ping is not in Great Xia, Master Chen and Lu Wuwei haven't arrived yet. The risk is far too great if the two of us charge in rashly."
Guan Zai raised an eyebrow. He turned to stare at Zuo Qing for a long while, then sighed with admiration, "No wonder Ye Fan raised you—every single one of you is so calculating."
Zuo Qing smiled helplessly. "Since we've taken this position, we must see further than ordinary people. After all, if our decisions go wrong, the entire Great Xia will have to bear the consequences..."
"Then your meaning is, we only need to defend?"
"Those foreign gods can indeed hoodwink a large number of 'Mysteries' to form a beast tide and invade Great Xia, but the 'Mysteries' surrounding Great Xia are limited in number. The beast tide half a year ago, plus this one, the 'Mysteries' in the mist along Great Xia's border have probably almost been exhausted by them...
We don't need to take the risk of entering the mist to fight the foreign gods. We just need to kill all the 'Mysteries' here. In the short term, they won't be able to mobilize another large-scale beast tide. By the time they truly bring in a third beast tide from somewhere else in the mist, our war fortress will have long been completely formed."
Guan Zai pulled his cap brim lower, his eyes narrowing slightly. "I understand what you mean."
He stretched out his hand, pointing at the roaring, charging beast tide below. "Kill them all?"
"Mm."
...
Lin Qiye stood in the center of the numerous magic formations. As if sensing something, he raised his head and gazed toward the sky.
Below the gloomy clouds, a figure materialized out of thin air. He wore a baseball cap, his face obscured, his plaid shirt flapping in the high-altitude wind. A pair of calm eyes gazed down at the chaotic battlefield below.
"Hm?" Lin Qiye stared at that figure, confusion flickering in his eyes. "Who is that..."
Before his words finished, above the figure wearing the baseball cap, within the dark night sky, a massive, deep-green rectangular block suddenly lit up, slowly pulsing beneath the firmament.
It resembled the input cursor that appears when a mouse clicks on a screen.
"Filtering for non-human lifeforms within range with energy fluctuations greater than zero and less than or equal to 'Klein' realm... Filtering complete."
"Physical engine modification in progress..."
"Physical engine modification complete. Target lifeform count: 972. Please enter fundamental operation instructions..."
Lines of characters flickered before the figure.
The figure wearing the baseball cap raised both hands and lightly tapped on the虚空.
Meanwhile, in the night sky before that blinking cursor, letters sprang forth one after another.
"Delete."
These seven characters froze beneath the漆黑的夜空, emanating a sinister green glow. A moment later, the string of characters suddenly vanished, and the world once again plunged into dead silence.
Yes, dead silence.
All the roaring, shrieking, fierce and fearless "Mysteries" simultaneously froze in place. The charging beast tide was as if someone had pressed the pause button, transforming into statue after statue, standing tall atop the tide of blood.
The magic formations around Lin Qiye stopped simultaneously. He疑惑地 gazed at the scene before him, and the next moment, an expression of disbelief appeared on his face.
He watched as nearly a thousand "Mysteries" before Sunken Dragon Pass simultaneously dissolved into scattered deep-green specks of light, slowly vanishing into the air. It was as if someone had erased their very existence...
The world was correcting their deaths.
In less than five seconds, the black mass that had loomed before Sunken Dragon Pass, apart from the powerful "Klein" realm "Mysteries," had already vanished without a trace. Only the whimpering wind and churning waves of blood remained, testifying to the fierce battle that had once raged here.
Seven characters killed 972 "Mysteries."
Lin Qiye raised his head to look at that figure standing calmly in the air. His heart was filled with shock.
There was no doubt he was a Human Apex, but even for a Human Apex, this level of combat power was simply too离谱. Lin Qiye had encountered many Human Apex—Master Chen, Ye Fan, Zhou Ping, Yuzuri Takishiro... But in his memory, the only one capable of annihilating a beast tide with a snap of his fingers was the Great Xia Sword Immortal, Zhou Ping.
Lin Qiye did not doubt that Zhou Ping could sweep away the entire beast tide with a single sword. But the problem was, Great Xia only had one Zhou Ping.
The man in the plaid shirt before his eyes was perhaps the... highest combat power of Great Xia besides Zhou Ping.
Among the five Human Apex of Great Xia, the only ones Lin Qiye hadn't met were "Void" and "Solo Rider." If he guessed correctly, the person before him was the guardian god of Great Xia's virtual world, "Void" Guan Zai.
Guan Zai had used seven characters to annihilate nearly all the "Mysteries," but the effect range was limited to those below the "Klein" realm. Therefore, some powerful "Klein" realm "Mysteries" still survived before Sunken Dragon Pass. However, at this moment, their numbers were far from constituting a "beast tide."
A blur of cyan light mixed with Chaos fog streaked down from the sky, piercing through seven or eight "Klein" realm "Mysteries" in an instant, shattering them into scattered blood mist that diffused through the air.
At the far end of the beast tide, the Spirit Medium squad was also frantically harvesting the remaining "Mysteries."
After Great Xia's reinforcements arrived, in merely a few short minutes, the situation was reversed. The beast tide had been nearly completely wiped out.
Lin Qiye stood among the numerous formations, letting out a long breath. He waved his hand to disperse the surrounding magic formations. Merlin's soul that had been附着他 also quietly left his body, touched the few strands of hair on his head, sighed, and returned to Asylum of the Gods.