The wind howled mournfully in my ears.

Zhou Huai sat steadily on the broad back of the demonic dragon Xiao Hei, and with a thought, summoned Xiao Hei's current attribute panel.

Upon seeing this, he couldn't help but exclaim in his heart, "Wow!"

The attribute panel displays health points: 103,500,000 / 103,500,000

It's surpassed 100 million!

Originally, as a level 30 abyssal dragon, even as a hellish-level leader, Xiao Hei's health would be at most in the millions. But now, under the abnormal blessing of the Ancestral Dragon Blood Pact of the top-tier class, the Heavenly Dragon Knight, its rank has been forcibly elevated to the quasi-god level.

One person and one dragon, their lives are completely shared, and their attributes are perfectly combined! 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

"With this much health, even if I stood still and let a high-level professional hack at me for a whole day and night, I wouldn't even be able to scrape off a sliver of health, right?" Zhou Huai chuckled.

He controlled Arthur's body and patted Little Black's obsidian dragon scales.

"Little Black, full speed ahead!"

"hold head high--!"

Xiao Hei let out a dragon's roar, and its dragon wings flapped behind it.

The airflow exploded!

A deafening sonic boom echoed through the air.

Xiao Hei has now grown to over sixty meters tall and moves extremely fast in the sky!

It transformed into a streak of light and pierced through the clouds!

Soaring high in the sky, the aura of a quasi-god-level dragon poured down.

Below, in the desolate mountains, strange beasts lay prostrate on the ground, trembling.

And so, Arthur rode on Little Black, flying with overwhelming force towards the ruins of Simon City.

This speed is in no way inferior to the Great Sage Li Er's ability to shrink the earth to an inch, which ignores spatial distance.

In less than an hour.

That desolate land, swallowed by endless greenery, had already appeared at the edge of the horizon.

Meanwhile, outside the old site of Simon City.

On a high ground three kilometers away.

The makeshift military tents stretched out in a row, where several fully armed Daxia troops were stationed.

Outside the command post, the atmosphere was oppressive.

Li Zhenyuan, the commander of the Third Army Corps of the Western Border Garrison of the Great Xia Dynasty, was staring ahead with his hands on his binoculars.

At the edge of the horizon, not a trace of the ruins of what was once Simon City could be seen.

Ahead lay a dense primeval forest.

The forest was dark green, with towering trees reaching into the clouds and thick vines wriggling through the woods.

What's even more chilling is that this forest... is alive!

"General Li, are you really just going to stand by and do nothing? Are you really going to do absolutely nothing?!"

Beside him, the young Chief of Staff Zhang He, his eyes red and his voice agitated, said, "Just a day ago, this forest was still three kilometers away!"

"But look at the present!"

Zhang He pointed to the ever-expanding green sea of ​​demons, "At this rate of spread, those poisonous vines and mutated tree roots will completely engulf Xiling City in three days at most!"

"There are hundreds of thousands of permanent residents there!"

"Are we just going to stand by and watch those hundreds of thousands of people become fertilizer for this devil's forest?!"

Faced with Zhang He's questioning, Li Zhenyuan, who was nearly sixty years old, turned around.

His weathered face was etched with weariness, and he let out a heavy sigh.

"What are you yelling about?! You think I don't want to get involved?!"

Li Zhenyuan's eyes were bloodshot, and his voice was low, "Behind us lies the territory of our Great Xia, our people. I feel more heartbroken than you do!"

"But how? How can we manage it?!"

He grabbed Zhang He by the collar, pointed at the forest, and roared, "Didn't you see what happened to the advance team that went in to scout the situation?!"

"Three whole squads of a hundred men each!"

"There are even two high-level professionals who were urgently dispatched from the capital to lead the team!"

"And then what happened?"

Li Zhenyuan's fingers trembled violently, and his eyes reddened. "They sent back a three-second scream, and then... the entire army was wiped out! Not a single person came back alive to report!"

"Those mutated plants are impossible to kill. They regenerate immediately after being cut down, and they even devour the magic power and flesh of the professionals!"

"Even high-ranking figures who went in were completely helpless, leaving no trace!"

"With our regular troops whose average level is less than forty, what can we possibly achieve by charging in? Besides becoming food for those trees, what else can we change?!"

Zhang He was grabbed by the collar, and the anger in his eyes dimmed, replaced by helplessness and despair.

He closed his eyes in pain, tears streaming down his rough cheeks.

"But... are we just supposed to wait here to die...?"

"The highest order has already come from the capital."

Li Zhenyuan released his grip, straightened Zhang He's disheveled collar, and softened his tone slightly, "Marshal Zhao personally issued a death order, which only instructed us to evacuate the residents near Xiling City as much as possible and build a buffer zone."

"No one may act rashly without orders."

"The higher-ups said that someone will come to deal with this site."

"Someone's coming to handle this?" Zhang He opened his eyes and let out a bitter laugh. "General Li, even at a time like this, you still believe in these words to appease the troops?"

"Who can handle this?"

"Could it be that Marshal Zhao Qingcang is personally leading the expedition?!"

Zhang He shook his head, staring blankly at the approaching dark green mass. "I've never seen anything like this in my life before! It can devour a city overnight and cause high-level experts to fall silently!"

"Excuse my bluntness, but even if Marshal Zhao, who is said to have returned to his peak, came in person, he might not be able to handle this strange law that is impossible to kill or eradicate!"

Li Zhenyuan fell silent.

Because he knew in his heart that what Zhang He said was true.

This is no longer a regular monster siege; it is the descent of an ancient law beyond the comprehension of all humankind!

Just as the two were speechless and the atmosphere became extremely oppressive.

"Buzz—!"

Without warning, the air in the world stopped moving!

A powerful pressure crashed down on the entire encampment!

"thump!"

"ah--!"

That was a tremor that came from the depths of one's soul!

Even though this oppressive aura wasn't specifically targeted at anyone, the nearly one hundred Great Xia soldiers on the defensive line below were terrified and turned pale when they came into contact with it!

Many lower-ranking soldiers' legs buckled uncontrollably, and they knelt down on the ground.

Even worse, some people rolled their eyes back and fainted on the spot before they could even scream!

"Enemy...enemy attack?!"

Li Zhenyuan and Zhang He were both seasoned veterans and high-level professionals, but they could only grit their teeth and desperately channel their inner power to barely keep from kneeling.

The bones of the two men cracked and popped under the immense pressure.

"hold head high--!!!"

Immediately afterwards, a high-pitched dragon roar resounded in the sky above them!

The voice contained an overwhelming divine power that was both tyrannical and noble, looking down upon all living beings!

The shockwave made everyone below feel a sharp pain in their ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) eardrums and their internal organs churning violently!