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Zhou Huai looked at the tragic scene below, which resembled a purgatory, feeling inexplicable shock.
The old residence of the Zhou Family, a place that bore all the painful memories of the original owner, had actually been destroyed just like this.
What on earth had happened here?
However, when his gaze locked onto the middle-aged man in black who was struggling to crawl out from the rubble in the center of the ruins, his pupils suddenly constricted.
People from Sakura Country?
Why would there be people from Sakura Country here?
Could Zhou Feng's final heaven-shaking strike have been to perish together with this person from Sakura Country?
Just as Zhou Huai's thoughts were spinning rapidly, Saito Mikado below also noticed him.
Saito Mikado looked up at the pitch-black giant dragon circling in the air, as well as the silver-haired figure exuding a cold aura on the dragon's back, and his heart sank abruptly.
However, after carefully sensing the aura of that black dragon, he let out a slight sigh of relief.
It was indeed a Hell-level BOSS, but it was clearly still in its infancy.
Its Level was not high.
In his current state, although disheveled, wanting to escape would not be a difficult task.
The most crucial thing now was to immediately obtain the Heaven-Suppressing Seal from Zhou Feng's corpse!
As long as the Divine Artifact was in hand, a mere juvenile dragon was completely nothing to worry about!
Thinking of this, an ugly smile squeezed onto Saito Mikado's face, and while moving slowly toward the direction where Zhou Feng had fallen, he shouted loudly:
"Friend in the sky, are you also a member of the Zhou Family?"
He tried to use words to buy time.
However, what answered him was a terrifying torrent hot enough to melt gold and iron!
"Roar—!"
Demon Dragon Xiao Hei received the order, opened its giant mouth, and the demonic flames containing the power of the abyss poured down like divine punishment!
"Damn it!"
Saito Mikado's expression changed drastically.
His Level was currently suppressed, his equipment was completely lost, and he was heavily injured; how could he dare to take an attack of this level head-on?
Without thinking, he awkwardly performed a lazy donkey roll, narrowly avoiding the direct impact of the Dragon Breath.
Boom!
The pitch-black demonic flames slammed fiercely into the spot where he had just been standing, and the ground was instantly eroded into a huge pit emitting black smoke!
Zhou Huai couldn't be bothered to talk nonsense with him.
Since he was a person from Sakura Country, killing him would suffice.
Saying one more word would just be a waste of time.
Moria, standing on Xiao Hei's back, saw a flash of silver light in his eyes.
"Eternal Night Domain!"
Hum—!
An invisible fluctuation spread out explosively centered around him!
Heaven and earth lost all color at this moment, turning into a depressing black and white.
All light was swallowed up, and only endless darkness shrouded the entire ruins.
Following that, Moria's figure leaped down from the dragon's back.
That posture was like a resolute and elegant Leap of Faith.
The moment he fell, his body completely merged into that thick darkness, disappearing without a trace.
Saito Mikado's heart instantly leapt to his throat!
An unprecedented sense of crisis, like a cold viper, coiled around his heart!
He never dreamed that in this small Donghai City, he would actually encounter such a bizarre powerhouse!
Not only could he control a Hell-level BOSS, but his own strength was also unfathomable!
He forcibly suppressed the shock in his heart and looked around vigilantly.
However, within the Eternal Night Domain, Moria was the absolute Sovereign.
Puchi!
A pair of ferocious sharp claws condensed from pure darkness reached out without warning from the shadows beside Saito Mikado, savagely tearing open his flank!
"Urgh ah!"
Saito Mikado let out a muffled groan as blood splattered.
Without thinking, he slashed back with a stream of Saber Qi!
But that pair of sharp claws retreated the moment they struck, instantly sinking into the shadows and causing him to slash at empty air.
Before he could catch his breath, another shadow wriggled behind his back.
Another claw strike!
This time, it directly left three bone-deep wounds on his back!
Wisps of pure Demonic Qi, like bone-gnawing maggots, crazily drilled into his body through the wounds, wildly destroying his vitality.
"Bastard! Get out here!"
Saito Mikado looked like a madman, randomly releasing skills all around.
But his attacks appeared so pale and weak within the Eternal Night Domain.
After just a few rounds of exchange, he was already covered in blood and in an utterly disheveled state, being played in the palm of Moria's hand.
Just at this moment.
From various parts of the ruins, a few staggered figures struggled to crawl out.
They were the ninjas who had luckily survived Zhou Feng's final strike.
Seeing Saito Mikado fall into crisis, they didn't even think about it, dragging their heavily injured bodies to rush over here, attempting to support him.
At the exact same time.
Hundreds of members of the Evernight Guild finally rushed to the battlefield.
"Quick! Support the lord!"
Under the blessing of the Eternal Night Domain, their speed and strength received a terrifying boost.
Like a group of vengeful spirits surging from the darkness, they instantly met those surviving ninjas.
The battle couldn't even be called a battle.
It was a one-sided massacre.
Those ninjas, who were already at the end of their tether, couldn't even last a single round under the encirclement of the Evernight Guild elites before being completely slaughtered and turning into cold corpses.
On the other side, the battle between Moria and Saito Mikado was also nearing its end.
Saito Mikado was shrouded in Demonic Qi all over his body, his movements becoming increasingly sluggish, and the radiance in his eyes gradually dimming.
He let out an angry roar filled with unwillingness, and in the end, his heart was pierced by a pitch-black sharp claw that suddenly thrust out from the shadow beneath his feet.
Moria's figure slowly emerged, and with a blank expression, he waved his other hand.
Puchi.
Saito Mikado's head flew high into the air, astonishment and unwillingness still lingering on his face.
Zhou Huai quickly manipulated Moria to step forward and grope around the headless corpse.
Soon, he felt a Storage Ring.
His Divine Sense probed into it, quickly scanning through it.
Zhou Huai's brows furrowed.
There were quite a few good things in the ring, but the Heaven-Suppressing Seal that he wanted most was nowhere to be found.
He turned his head, his gaze falling upon Zhou Feng, who was lying quietly in the pool of blood not far away.
It seemed the Divine Artifact was still in his hands.
Zhou Huai manipulated Moria and walked over in silence.
He squatted down and carefully flipped over Zhou Feng's flesh-mangled body.
The scene that met his eyes was shocking to the core.
At this moment, Zhou Feng could hardly be called a human anymore.
All over his body, there was hardly an intact piece of flesh; blood flowed from his seven orifices, and his aura was withered to the extreme.
If not for a trace of weak rise and fall in his chest, Zhou Huai would have almost thought he was already dead.
Just at this time, Zhou Feng's eyelids, gummed up by blood, trembled with difficulty and opened a slit.
Looking at the silver-haired face before him that was both familiar and strange, a trace of relief unexpectedly flowed out from his cloudy eyes.
"It's... you..."
His voice was as hoarse as a broken bellows.
He twisted his neck with difficulty, his gaze vainly searching among the crowd around him, seeming to anticipate the appearance of a certain figure.
However, he saw nothing.
That pair of eyes that had just lit up with a hint of brilliance dimmed once again.
A heavy trace of disappointment surfaced on his blood-mangled face.
"It looks like... Zhou Huai... after all, is still unwilling to see me..."
He said weakly, and before his words finished, it triggered a violent fit of coughing.
More blood gushed out from his mouth.
Looking at him like this, Zhou Huai inexplicably felt a bit stuffy in his heart.
He had originally thought that he no longer had any feelings for this so-called "father".
But at this moment, that sorrow originating from the depths of the original owner's memory surged like a tide, making him feel an inexplicable soreness.
"Don't speak yet."
Zhou Huai manipulated Moria, his voice still cold, but with a bit less killing intent.
From his own Storage Ring, he fished out a bottle of Advanced Life Recovery Potion, and without a word, poured it into Zhou Feng's mouth.
However, once the potion entered his throat, it was like a stone sinking into the sea.
Zhou Feng's Health did not recover in the slightest, but instead continued to drop at a slow yet firm speed.
His Origin power had been completely burned out during the final strike of activating the Heaven-Suppressing Seal.
Even immortals would find it hard to save him.
Zhou Feng seemed to know his own condition as well. He smiled miserably and, using his last shred of strength, slowly raised his blood-mangled hand.
A black seal, likewise stained with blood, was tremblingly placed into Moria's hands by him.
"Give this... to him..."
"The backlash of the Heaven-Suppressing Seal... is huge... tell him... to... use it with caution..."
Finished speaking, he coughed violently twice more, and his eyes began to scatter.
He knew his time was running out.
Zhou Feng gripped Moria's hand tightly, saying with difficulty in a tone that was close to begging:
"Could you... please... bring a message... to Zhou Huai for me..."
"In this lifetime... the person I've wronged the most... besides his mother... is him..."
"Could you... please say this for me..."
"Dad... is very sorry..."
"I originally thought... when everything... was over... I could... slowly make it up to him..."
"It's a pity..."
However, his sentence "It's a pity..." after all could not be finished.
The hand grasping Moria slipped powerlessly down.
His cloudy eyes completely lost their last bit of luster, and his head heavily dropped back to the ground.
The third son of the Zhou Family, Zhou Huai's father.
Amidst Zhou Huai's heavy and complicated emotions, he completely lost his vitality.
