"Your opinion?" The Tao Family’s overlord scoffed and shook his head. "Just hand over the Bloodline Crystal, and I can promise you a bit less pain."

"And what about my opinion? Don’t you want to hear it?"

A voice arrived before its owner. The expressions of the several overlords present all changed. The three overlords from Lin Hua Country, in particular, found the voice familiar, as if they had heard it somewhere before.

The next moment, Chen Suifeng appeared beside Su Ze. He was so handsome that everyone present, except for Su Ze, felt woefully inadequate in comparison.

Seeing Chen Suifeng’s strikingly handsome and recognizable face, the three overlords from Lin Hua Country trembled.

"Mr. Ch-Chen... Mr. Chen, what are you doing here?"

"If I hadn’t come, how would I have known about the moles in our organization?"

"Mr. Chen, this... this is a misunderstanding!"

"Yes, please, have mercy..."

Before the three could finish speaking, one of Chen Suifeng’s hands transformed into a cloud of mist, detached from his body, and appeared before them in the blink of an eye. It formed a large misty hand and instantly crushed one of their heads.

"My opinion is that all three of you can go to hell." Chen Suifeng’s gaze was frigid. "Back when I was a soldier, the thing I hated most were bastards who stabbed their own comrades in the back!"

The other two were scared witless. They never expected Chen Suifeng to be so ruthless, killing without a moment’s hesitation.

Even Su Ze was surprised. He’d thought Chen Suifeng would, at most, capture the three and hand them over to Lin Hua Country for trial. He never expected the man to just start killing them on the spot.

Bai Guishou was cursing wildly in his heart. ’Fucking headquarters! Fucking Mr. Kang! You always send me on these goddamn suicide missions! Fuck your mothers!’

Previously, Mr. Kang had sent him to the Miracle Oasis to seize the Miracle Spring Water, and he had lost a life, using up his one chance at resurrection.

Now, his resurrection skill wasn’t fully ready yet. If he died again, even if the resurrection succeeded, his strength would plummet, and it wasn’t certain he could ever recover!

The other elder from the Filth Earth Organization, the cloaked man, was also cursing his rotten luck. He had just broken through to the Saint level and had been an elder for less than a week, only to be sent on a suicide mission like this. ’I must have fucked a Brahma River Crocodile to have such shitty luck!’

Chen Suifeng didn’t stop. The large misty hand continued toward the other two overlords from Lin Hua Country.

Their hearts almost bursting with terror, the two men fled for their lives. But before a Saint-level sovereign like Chen Suifeng, all struggle was futile. The misty hand easily caught up to the elder from the Tao Family and, with a clench of its fist, crushed him into pulp.

While Chen Suifeng was hunting down the two Lin Hua Country overlords, a swarm of black insects quietly flew out from Bai Guishou’s body and fled into the distance.

The cloaked man also wasted no time, turning to flee.

He and Bai Guishou, one heading south and one north, ran in opposite directions with a tacit understanding. This way, maybe one of them could survive.

However, Chen Suifeng simply detached one hand to continue chasing the last Lin Hua Country overlord and sent another flying after the cloaked man. His main body, now handless, pursued the swarm of black insects that was once Bai Guishou.

As he passed Bai Guishou’s body, Chen Suifeng casually kicked it, causing it to explode. It was just an empty shell; Bai Guishou’s true body had long since transformed into the swarm of black insects and fled.

But Chen Suifeng was faster. Transforming into a streak of cyan light, he caught up to the black swarm in an instant. He opened his mouth and spat a cloud of shimmering vapor. The insects immediately went rigid and fell from the sky, shattering like ice as they hit the ground.

At the same time, the last surviving Lin Hua Country overlord was also caught by the misty hand and swatted dead like a fly.

And with that, of the five Saint-level overlords from moments ago, only the cloaked man remained alive, still being hunted by the misty hand.

What Su Ze found strange was that the twenty-odd, foul-smelling Butterfly Stage Tainted Ones hadn’t taken the opportunity to flee. Instead, they remained obediently in place.

The cloaked man was also about to be caught by the misty hand. Seeing that he couldn’t escape, he suddenly changed direction and dashed toward Su Ze.

If he could take Su Ze hostage at this moment, he might still have a sliver of a chance to survive.

Su Ze’s expression changed slightly. Watching the cloaked man rapidly approach, he unhesitatingly unleashed his strongest attack.

He activated Liquid Life, creating ten Liquid Clones. Simultaneously activating Ant Power, all ten clones threw their "Strongest Punch" at once.

This was a punch that fused "Needle Strike," "Furious Waves," and "Thunder God Body." The "Thunder God Body" wasn’t a perfect fit—it was mostly there to add bulk to the attack—but he had no better option.

BOOM!

With a world-shaking bang, Su Ze’s ten clones were shattered by the immense recoil, but the cloaked man was also sent flying by the punch.

That’s right, Su Ze had sent a Saint-level overlord flying with a single punch!

He might have been the weakest of the Saint-level overlords, and he didn’t appear to be seriously injured.

But for someone at the Butterfly Stage to repel a Saint-level overlord with a single punch, Su Ze was the first of his kind.

After all, the gap between the Butterfly Transformation Stage and the Saint level was a fundamental difference in one’s plane of existence. A "wall" separated the two.

Su Ze had now broken through this wall!

The cloaked man was utterly astonished. ’I’m a disgrace to the Saint level... I was actually knocked back by someone in the Butterfly Transformation Stage!’

Even Chen Suifeng’s jaw nearly hit the floor when he witnessed this.

He found that he had already tried his best to rate Su Ze highly, but he still underestimated Su Ze’s strength and potential time and time again.

’The first time I met him, I knew he was talented, but I never expected him to outshine all the other prodigies and make it to the very end of the Divine Dice. That’s why I told him to know when to quit while he was ahead.’

’This time, I was already treating him as the greatest genius in the history of the Lin Hua Continent, but I never imagined he would deliver a blow that would shatter all precedent!’

Chen Suifeng searched his memory of the last thousand years of Blue Star’s evolutionary history but couldn’t recall a single genius capable of repelling a Saint-level expert while still in the Butterfly Transformation Stage.

What was most terrifying was that Su Ze wasn’t even at the Peak of the Butterfly Transformation Stage. He still had extracts to absorb; he hadn’t yet reached his full combat potential for this stage.

’Why didn’t I meet him sooner? If I’d met Su Ze earlier, I never would have given that kid Wan Qizhi the time of day...’ Chen Suifeng was already considering whether he should expel Wan Qizhi and take Su Ze on as his disciple instead.

His beloved disciple, who had once seemed perfect in every way, now seemed utterly lacking.

WHOOSH... In the blink of an eye, Chen Suifeng appeared in front of Su Ze. He recalled his two misty hands and, with a casual backhand, swatted the cloaked man dead.

Finally, not a single one of the five Saint-level overlords managed to escape; all of them perished at the hands of Chen Suifeng.

The plan to lure the snakes out of their hole had been a complete success!

But what was going on with these twenty-odd Butterfly Stage Tainted Ones?

Why weren’t they moving now that their leaders were dead? They weren’t fleeing, nor were they attacking.

Chen Suifeng also sensed something was wrong. Just as he was about to step forward to investigate, the twenty-odd black-robed figures suddenly charged toward Su Ze in unison.

Chen Suifeng’s eyes hardened. A giant palm slammed down from the sky, instantly flattening the foremost black-robed figures into meat patties.

It was just that within the flattened corpses on the ground, there was only pale, glistening flesh, with no sign of blood or bone.