Luo Ming flew desperately through mid-air, cold rain mixed with cold sweat covering his face.

His heart beat wildly in his chest, and the silver-haired figure behind him pursued him relentlessly like a maggot clinging to bone.

He did not dare to look back.

He didn't even dare to pause for the slightest second.

He only knew that he had to escape back to Heaven's Decree Guild at top speed.

Only there would he be safe.

However, just as he was about to rush out of this block,

that black shadow appeared above him without warning, crashing down heavily like a mountain.

"Boom—!"

Luo Ming only felt as if his back had been fiercely struck by a heavy truck traveling at high speed.

His vision went black, and his protective rock shield shattered instantly at the sound.

His entire body plummeted straight down from the height of dozens of meters like a kite with a snapped string.

"Bang!"

He crashed through the floor-to-ceiling window on the top floor of an office building, glass shards scattering in all directions like raindrops.

His body tumbled inside the office, knocking over countless desks, chairs, and documents, before its momentum remained unchecked and it smashed through the wall on the other side once again.

In the end, he smashed heavily onto the slippery street below.

The hard asphalt road was smashed into a spiderweb-shaped deep pit several meters in diameter.

The huge sound spread very far in the silent night.

...

"Holy shit! What was that sound?"

"An earthquake?"

In a twenty-four-hour internet cafe at the corner of the street, several young people playing games overnight were startled by the commotion, successively taking off their headphones and poking their heads out to look.

"Look! Over there! It looks like someone is fighting!"

One sharp-eyed youth pointed at the deep pit not far away and shouted excitedly.

"Go, go, go! Let's go take a look!"

The few of them instantly perked up, dropped their keyboards and mice, and rushed out of the internet cafe in a swarm.

Soon, many nosy passersby gathered around the deep pit.

When they saw the disheveled figure at the bottom of the pit with blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth, bursts of exclamation immediately erupted from the crowd.

"Th-That's not Luo Ming of Heaven's Decree Guild, is he?"

"Oh my god! Luo Ming, known as one of the two Prodigies of Donghai City, was actually beaten down from the sky?"

"Who did this? So fierce?"

"Quick, quick, quick! Record it! This is big news! Usually seeing this guy with his eyes growing on top of his head, I didn't expect him to have such a disheveled moment!"

Countless mobile phone cameras aimed at the struggling figure at the bottom of the pit, and the flashes lit up in a blur of flashes.

Luo Ming staggered and climbed up from the pit.

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his chest heaving violently, his eyes filled with shock and dread.

He looked up.

That silver-haired man was slowly drifting down from the air, with an elegant posture, like a demon god descending into the mortal world.

"You... Who the hell are you?"

Luo Ming's voice trembled slightly with anger and fear.

"I don't know you at all! We have no grudges or enmities between us!"

Zhou Huai controlled Moria, looking down at him from above, the corners of his mouth curling into a sneer.

"I've investigated you."

"You've certainly done plenty of bad things in Donghai City."

"How can you be so sure that there are no grudges between us?"

These words made Luo Ming's pupils suddenly constrict.

Countless thoughts flashed rapidly through his mind, yet he still couldn't remember when he had offended such a terrifying figure.

"What on earth do you want?!" Luo Ming said through gritted teeth.

Zhou Huai couldn't be bothered to talk nonsense with him anymore.

Moria's figure moved again.

Without using any skills, relying merely on a speed far surpassing ordinary people, he turned into an afterimage and closed in instantly.

"Damn it!"

Luo Ming's expression changed drastically, the Calamity Staff in his hand glowing brightly, countless gray-black curse energies pouring crazily in all directions like splashed ink.

However, these attacks, which were enough to make ordinary Level 50 powerhouses flustered, fell in Moria's eyes like child's play.

His body wove through the dense curse energy like a ghost.

His figure flickered continuously in the shadows, precisely avoiding all attacks.

That posture was relaxed and casual, as if he were not fighting, but strolling leisurely in a courtyard.

Luo Ming's heart sank bit by bit.

His proud attacks couldn't even touch the corner of the other's clothes in front of him.

Although Moria and Luo Ming still had a 20-Level gap.

However, the attribute bonus gap between SS-Level and A-Level had long since made up for the attribute gap brought by the Level.

What's more, it was currently nighttime.

Under the blessing of the 【Night Demon】 state, Moria's five-dimensional attributes had long skyrocketed to an unimaginable degree.

Crushing an A-Level Calamity Cursing Master took effortless ease.

"Bastard! Bastard!"

Luo Ming became increasingly frantic, waving the staff in his hand even faster, letting out meaningless roars from his mouth.

All his attacks were like stones sinking into the sea, failing to stir up the slightest ripple.

Just at the moment when he lost his composure due to anger,

Moria's figure appeared behind him without warning.

A cold hand gently rested on his shoulder.

Luo Ming's body stiffened abruptly.

A chill rushed straight from his tailbone to his crown.

"Your reaction is too slow."

Moria's flat voice sounded in his ear.

Without even thinking, Luo Ming's internal energy went berserk instantly, and he prepared to forcefully turn around and counterattack.

However, Moria's hand was like an iron clamp, firmly fixing him in place.

"Don't move."

Zhou Huai's voice took on a hint of playfulness.

"This is the urban area, after all. If you release some ultimate move here, a lot of people will die."

Luo Ming turned his head, those eyes filled with hysterical madness.

"I don't care!"

"You forced me!"

He let out an angry roar, broke free from Moria's hand, and his body violently retreated backward, wanting to widen the distance between them once again.

However, as he opened his mouth and had just uttered a single syllable,

"Slap—!"

A crisp, loud slap suddenly rang out.

Moria's figure had somehow appeared in front of him once again.

That slap landed squarely on Luo Ming's face.

The huge force slapped his entire body into a 360-degree rotation in the air, and finally, like a broken sackcloth bag, he heavily crashed back into that deep pit.

A few bloody teeth drew a parabola in the air and fell onto the ground with clattering sounds.

This slap directly stunned Luo Ming into a daze.

Lying at the bottom of the pit, he only felt the world spinning, his ears buzzing, and blood constantly seeping from the corners of his mouth.

Those onlookers watching from afar were also stunned by this scene.

Luo Ming struggled to crawl up from the ground.

A foot wearing black leather boots stepped fiercely onto his back.

"Bang!"

His body, which had just propped itself up halfway, was once again heavily pressed back to the ground, his face making intimate contact with the cold asphalt road.

"I said, don't move."

Zhou Huai controlled Moria, his voice cold.

"Cooperate obediently, and perhaps I can let you suffer a little less."

Lying on the ground, feeling the mountain-like pressure on his back, Luo Ming let out a burst of maniacal laughter.

"Hahaha... Hahahaha!"

"No one can threaten me!"

"Kill me if you dare! If you have the guts, kill me!"

He roared, his limbs still struggling desperately, trying to shake off the restriction of that foot.

Zhou Huai looked at his unyielding appearance and shook his head helplessly.

"It seems you still haven't figured out the current situation."

He applied a little force with his foot.

"Crack!"

A teeth-aching sound of bone cracking rang out.

Luo Ming's left arm twisted outward at a bizarre angle.

"Ah—!"

A heart-rending scream pierced the night sky.

The onlookers turned pale one by one, subconsciously taking two steps back.

"Too... Too cruel..."

"Who is this guy? Why is he so vicious?"

"He's going to completely offend Heaven's Decree Guild with this!"

However, Luo Ming still did not yield.

He gritted his teeth and continued to support the ground with his other hand, attempting to stand up.

"Crack!"

Another crisp sound rang out.

His right arm also broke right on cue.

"Ahhhhh—!"

The screams grew louder and louder one after another.

Just as Zhou Huai was about to snap his legs as well,

"Roar—!"

A high-pitched, resounding dragon roar suddenly came from above the clouds.

Everyone abruptly raised their heads.

They saw a giant Silver Dragon breaking through the rain curtain, circling in the sky above the city.

Under the reflection of the neon lights, the Dragon's scales reflected a cold, metal-like luster.

That terrifying dragon might originating from deep within the bloodline instantly enveloped the entire block.

"It's... It's Li Qiu!"

"The other prodigy of Heaven's Decree Guild!"

"He's here!"

The Silver Dragon let out a roar and slowly descended.

The violent wind whipped up the pooled water and dust on the ground, blowing so hard that everyone could not open their eyes.

Li Qiu stood with his arms crossed on top of the dragon's head, looking down from above, his black trench coat flapping loudly in the wind.

His sharp eyes pierced through the crowd and accurately locked onto the silver-haired figure below stepping on Luo Ming.

Heavily letting out a yawn, Li Qiu spoke somewhat lazily.

"Mister down there, I don't care what grievances you have with Luo Ming."

"I advise you to better, now, immediately, right away—"

"Let him go!"