Chen Cheng made the boldest prophecy in the Secret Realm battlefield.

He risked the backlash to try to locate a world NPC. Although he couldn’t precisely predict Song Yuanhua’s exact location, he roughly locked onto the area.

"Cui Song Mountain."

He breathed heavily, "I almost got discovered, we need to move fast, he might run."

Li Rui glanced at the acting commander Advisor Deng, who immediately issued instructions.

"03, 04, 05, 08, 10, all get into position as instructed, command the Demon Race to blockade Cui Song Mountain and surrounding areas, equip signal flares, and alert at the first sign of the enemy, in any situation."

From this moment, Dragon Country was determined to launch a siege on a world NPC, an action that gathered hundreds of Extraordinaries and thousands of Demon Race members.

Li Rui glanced at the map: "By the time we surround him, he will definitely have discovered us."

Advisor Deng said: "He will definitely move along the cliffs of Cui Song Mountain towards the northwest."

"Then I’ll go wait for him at this high ground."

"Okay, but before you go, take the items with you."

Li Rui nodded.

This was something agreed upon in advance; the command center had urgently assembled spoils from various stations here to let Li Rui enhance himself as much as possible before the battle, increasing the chance of victory.

He and Cheng Mingyue went to the logistics location together.

"It’s all here." The person temporarily responsible for transportation understood the situation and came up ready to introduce.

Li Rui was in a hurry and asked directly: "I need Thunder Fire, items for increasing damage, and plenty of things for instant Spiritual Power recovery, equipment needs to be Legendary Level."

The guide was stunned for a moment, thinking these conditions were too high, but still immediately helped find the things he needed.

"Instant Spirit Recovery items are quite rare, there’s only this one item, but it’s of Legendary Level, take a look?" 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Li Rui confirmed the item handed to him.

[Primordial Spirit Tree Juice.]

[Quality: Legendary.]

[Effect: Spiritual Power recovery speed reaches the limit, lasts 180 seconds.]

This was a good item, Li Rui directly pocketed it, three minutes of unlimited firepower, enough to deal with that world NPC near Zuo Qiutian.

He and Cheng Mingyue took some Epic Level items to temporarily boost their combat power, then headed to the pre-determined ambush location.

"Do we need to be this cautious? If the previous Upper Realm is real, that swordsman shouldn’t be more powerful than the guardians in the sky, right?"

On the way, Cheng Mingyue felt it seemed overly cautious.

Li Rui waved: "It’s different, those two we encountered in the sky were just low-ranking soldiers..."

He had seen more powerful Divine Generals in the Thunder Division. Those Divine Generals who surrounded him in the Flowing Gold Fire Bell Grand General’s Mansion were clearly superior, the two cannot be compared.

"... And Zuo Qiutian and his group are the peak of mortals, likely stronger than the low-ranking soldiers of the Upper Realm, not to be underestimated."

Cheng Mingyue pouted, not continuing her objections, having never seen Zuo Qiutian and his group in person.

The two quickly reached the pre-set location, a gentle mountainous area surrounded by plains, this place was the high ground.

The reason for choosing this location was because from the high ground, they could use Swift Wind Nine Curves to quickly escape, advantageous for both pursuit and retreat.

This Wind Escape Skill, although not as concealed as Song Yuanhua’s Earth Escape, had the advantage of fewer restrictions; as long as there’s no vacuum, it could generally be used, and wasn’t limited by terrain, with wind naturally on the mountain, speed was fast.

Meanwhile, within a hundred miles around Cui Song Mountain, Extraordinaries and Demon Race troops from Dragon Country had already been deployed, vowing to take down the world NPC.

Not only Li Rui, Guan Gui, Dong Sanchuan, and others were also searching for traces of that person in the area.

Song Yuanhua stood at a mountain waist, looking down at the frightened birds flying amongst the trees.

He had already noticed their actions, but had no intention of running away.

"Want to play, huh? Then let’s play."

He twisted his neck, took out a bottle of glowing green unknown liquid, and started to coat his blade while talking to himself.

"Still haven’t found out where the treasures are, next time I should try to ask before killing."

"With this group around, it saves me the hassle of dealing with local Demon Race."

"I wonder if Mr. Zuo’s plans succeeded, I need to hurry up, otherwise I’ll miss out."

"That corpse-driving guy has some skills, I’ll deal with him first."

After finishing the last sentence, the oil on the blade was done, and he leapt off the tree top; as his feet touched the ground, they seemed to melt into the earth.

.....

Guan Gui was walking alone in the forest, more precisely, he was a living person, surrounded by eighteen living corpses, all skilled ones in his hands, if any were slightly inferior, it would be no different to that swordsman as stones, wood, or grass.

He couldn’t even do what he used to, waiting to summon these "guards" when encountering an enemy.

Swoosh.

The breeze blew through the wild grass, making a faint sound.

Guan Gui felt something was wrong, he raised his right hand and pressed lightly, one of the dried reborn creatures lay down, placing its ear on the ground to listen carefully, moments later.

Bam!

All reborn creatures raised their weapons, spreading out nearby, while Guan Gui’s figure disappeared.

Boom!!

One of the reborn creatures’ spells felled a patch of forest, and the swordsman wearing a bamboo hat finally appeared.

"Hiding underground won’t escape my eyes."

Facing reborn creatures numbering several times himself, Song Yuanhua showed no fear, rather appeared excited.

The oiled short blade was meant to chop something.

However, in the next moment, he realized something was off; a swooshing sound was heard, followed by a red light rising into the sky, then spreading into a bright point that lingered high above.

Then, more distant signal flares sounded, sent out positioning signals.

"Oh?"

"Seems you plan to make an all-out effort? Hahaha, interesting."

Song Yuanhua split a reborn creature in two, "I must see how much strength you really have."

...

Li Rui stood on the high ground, expressionless, overlooking the distance.

"Can’t it be faster, the longer I wait the less confident I feel."

Cheng Mingyue was playing with grass using a stick beside him, "It’s too quiet here, he won’t have run away, will he?"

"He won’t, he’s looking for me."

Li Rui didn’t turn back, "Unless he’s sure he can’t find us, otherwise he won’t leave; that guy holds strong hostility against us ’outsiders.’

As he spoke, a red light burst in the sky at a distance.

"You see, he’s coming now."

He smiled slightly, grabbed Cheng Mingyue who approached, and the two leapt down from the high ground, transformed into a green glow flying afar; after they had escaped several miles, the others on the high ground began to react.

"Signal’s given, move out!"