The fire-type Awakening user's eyes widened.

He discovered that in the face of the supreme Law, the Divine Power within his body was frozen!

Not only that, but he could no longer control even a single finger or a single muscle!

"Bang!"

Having lost all support from his power, he fell straight down from mid-air, crashing heavily beside the magma pit, unable to move at all.

The three S-Level commanders below, who were just preparing for a desperate struggle, were completely dumbfounded.

"This... That voice just now was—"

"Never mind all that! Someone is helping us in secret! Hurry up and catch him!"

The commander holding the heavy sword reacted the fastest. He pounced forward and fastened the demon-forbidding chain onto the fire-type Awakening user's limbs!

The commanders collapsed onto the ground, panting heavily, their entire bodies long since drenched in cold sweat.

Meanwhile, on the rooftop of the tall building.

The corner of Zhou Huai's eye twitched.

As this forced cross-Level control of the Words Become Law took effect, the backlash of the Heavenly Dao erupted!

"Rumble, rumble, rumble—!!"

The night sky split open, and seven or eight consecutive scarlet heavenly lightning bolts intertwined into a lightning net, striking down toward Li Er!

"Bang, bang, bang, bang!"

A series of sounds!

All the lightning strikes hit Xiang Yu who was standing beside him.

Xiang Yu's massive body was blasted back repeatedly by the strikes. With every step he retreated, he left deep footprints on the reinforced concrete rooftop.

His dark gold armor could not withstand it and shattered piece by piece! His chest, back, and arms were all blasted with charred wounds, and fresh blood spurted out!

The health bar above his head was blasted away by more than half from this wave of Heavenly Tribulation!

If it were any other SS-Rank Expert, even if they didn't die, they would only have half a breath left.

Zhou Huai looked at Xiang Yu.

Because in the very next second.

A dark red overbearing aura erupted from Xiang Yu's battered body! The 【Fight to the Death】 passive was triggered, and his health regeneration speed soared!

Those terrifying wounds were rapidly intertwining with granulation tissue, scabbing, and healing!

For the Hegemon-King of Western Chu, as long as he wasn't instantly killed on the spot,

this bit of lightning strike, this bit of injury... was nothing more than a breeze and frost!

Zhou Huai withdrew his gaze and smiled.

Because as that fire-type Ancient Awakened One was fitted with the demon-forbidding chain and completely lost the ability to resist,

a System prompt sounded in his mind.

【Ding! Detected successful suppression of an extremely evil Ancient Awakened One!】

【Congratulations, Host! Great Sage Li Er has obtained Merit points: 100,000!】

Capturing a single Ancient Awakened One actually rewarded a full 100,000 Merit points!

This was also a pattern Zhou Huai had just discovered in the past few days.

You must know that usually in Secret Realms of all sizes, killing a strange beast of a decent Level would result in Merit points granted by the System's judgment amounting to a pitiful 1 to 10 points or so.

Yet assisting the Great Xia Military Department in capturing, or directly taking action to wipe out an Ancient Remnant Clan member, the Merit point reward given by the System had unexpectedly increased by tens of thousands of times!

This was simply astronomical profits!

In this short span of a few days, Zhou Huai manipulated Great Sage Li Er, cooperating in secret with the Great Xia Military Department, and roamed like a ghost across various battlefields where Awakened One disturbances broke out. As long as the military experts beat those Awakened Ones down to their last breath, Li Er would timely toss out a Words Become Law skill to control the field or suppress them.

Through a coherent set of operations, not only did he get a free ride on the military's labor force, but Li Er's Merit point pool skyrocketed rapidly, and now he had accumulated a full million and more!

Looking at the long string of numbers on the panel, Zhou Huai sat in his courtyard in Donghai City, touching his chin in thought.

He didn't really understand what the evaluation standard for these Merit points actually was.

But judging from the current situation, it was evident that there was an invisible hand in the dark, or rather that ethereal Old Man Heaven, who also felt that these suddenly awakened Ancient Remnant Clan members were a huge threat.

This exaggerated reward of 100,000 points was clearly meant to specifically encourage Zhou Huai to deal with them.

"If there really is an Old Man Heaven in this world..." Zhou Huai smiled, "then everything I am doing right now, is it in accordance with the Heavenly Dao?"

"And that Mr. Duan, who attempts to use these Ancient Remnant Clan members and even wants to restart the world and wipe out all living beings, is acting in a heaven-defying manner?"

Thinking about it this way, Zhou Huai himself found it quite interesting.

Regardless of whatever Heavenly Dao or not, as long as he could rapidly grow stronger, as long as he could pull that aloof Transcendent down from the altar, he, Zhou Huai, wouldn't mind acting as a blade for the Heavenly Dao!

"Hoo—"

Zhou Huai withdrew his thoughts and immersed his consciousness back into the Avatar side.

Currently, the Ancient Remnant Clan disturbances that broke out within the Modu area had been mostly captured by the military with Li Er's secret assistance. Those Awakened Ones who had lost the ability to resist were also being secretly escorted truckload by truckload to the No. 0 Underground Prison, becoming Insect Emperor Caesar's exclusive experience pack.

Time was tight, and he still had to rush without stopping to other cities of Great Xia to continue this guaranteed-profit procurement journey.

On the rooftop of the tall building, the night wind was biting.

Zhou Huai manipulated Li Er, who was dressed in a grey robe, to turn around expressionlessly, reach out, and grab the thick arm of Overlord Xiang Yu who was still smoking next to him.

Afterward, Li Er looked into the distance and gently took a step into mid-air.

"Hum—!"

The surroundings were completely silent.

Ripples appeared in the space beneath the two men's feet.

In the next second, the bodies of Li Er and Xiang Yu blurred in place and directly disappeared without a trace!

When they appeared again, their figures had already reached the the void hundreds of meters away. With just a brief pause, they took another step, traversing an even greater distance.

This was definitely not Li Er using that Words Become Law again, which consumed an extreme amount of Merit and was prone to getting struck by lightning.

Rather, it was a new skill he comprehended when he reached Level 5—【Shrinking the Earth to an Inch】!

The outrageous thing about this skill was that it didn't consume any Merit points at all, requiring only a negligible amount of mana to easily cross spatial barriers, and furthermore, it had zero skill cooldown time!

As long as his mana was sufficient, he could keep walking indefinitely!

"As expected of the SSS-Level Great Sage Li Er, pulling out any random skill uses these kinds of legendary immortal methods."

Feeling the wondrous experience of space rapidly retreating beneath his feet, Zhou Huai couldn't help but inwardly praise in his heart.

Previously, even with the Great Xia Military Department's most advanced helicopter, flying from Donghai City to the Imperial Capital would take at least a day at the fastest.

But now, with 【Shrinking the Earth to an Inch】, Li Er bringing Xiang Yu across the entire vast territory of Great Xia wouldn't even take half a day!

This was the outrageous nature of the unique hidden class!

The night was deep, and no one noticed that high above the scarred skies of Modu, two figures were stepping on the the void, strolling leisurely as if in a courtyard. After a few consecutive flickers, they had completely vanished into the boundless night, rushing toward the next battlefield.