Chapter 379 379 Material One

The meeting that Zhou Shi spoke of truly was a meeting. In a short ten minutes, they quickly established Zhao An's position, resources, and authority. Then, to prevent the two sides from fighting again, he quickly separated them, having members of Ying Shi and Ming Yuan led by different members of the royal family to tour An Du.

This pretext finally prevented the two sides from clashing again.

"Is this really alright?" A white figure suddenly appeared in the air beside Zhou Shi.

The figure was clad in pure white, ornate armor, with clasps and claws resembling those of a fierce beast locking the shoulder armor in place. Its face was marked with streaks of blood-red, and a blood-red king character adorned the center of its forehead. Its physique was burly and imposing, like a humanoid giant tiger.

This was Wang Yuehui, the second of the Nine Regalia, the Mountain King.

"Ming Yuan and Ying Shi are both unrestrained individuals, so they can restrain each other and be used by me. What's wrong with that?" Zhou Shi smiled.

"I can understand Ying Shi, but although Ming Yuan is a Dead Angle person, the family members of their team members are all in the country. We could use a gentler approach to win them over," the Mountain King said softly.

"Isn't there Xiao Shuo?" Zhou Shi laughed. "He's doing quite well. If I intervene, it would be superfluous. After all, some favors are no longer of much use to me."

"..." The Mountain King was silent. He understood what Zhou Shi meant—this was to pave the way for Zhou Shuo's future.

"Bai Xing's side has already mobilized its fleet near the Third Defense Line. Judging by military strength, there are now more than fourteen standard fleets gathered," he changed the subject.

"Who is the commander-in-chief?" Zhou Shi asked.

"Grearia Rosen, the Third Star General, is one of the White Emperor's right-hand men."

"It's him," Zhou Shi sighed.

He stopped speaking, seeming to recall what happened when he met the other party.

Leaving the Crooked Horn Palace, Li Cheng Yi immediately saw the two shadow dragons of Ying Shi rise from the ground. Ignoring the shouts of the royal princess below, they flickered and disappeared on the spot in the blink of an eye, reappearing in the distant sky.

Their figures melted into shadows, then instantly shot away like arrows into the distance.

Clearly, they did not want to face Li Cheng Yi when he came out.

"They run pretty fast," Xiao Zong frowned.

"Their strength is still quite good. If you encounter them alone, don't attack," Li Cheng Yi instructed.

"Understood." Everyone nodded slightly. From the brief exchange in the palace just now, it was clear that Ying Shi's speed and strength were far beyond what they could match.

"Then let's go. I'll take you to visit some of the key attractions of the City of Heaven," the prince Zhou Shuo said with a smile. Li Cheng Yi's instant kill of Ying Shi's Saar in the palace earlier made the smile on his face even brighter.

Li Cheng Yi was also happy to take a closer look at this place and bring some local specialties back for his family.

"Also, later, you may be busy. After all, the nobles everywhere are keen-nosed, and all kinds of invitations and banquet invitations will fly over like snowflakes," Zhou Shuo said with a smile.

"Really? Then I'll have to look forward to it," Li Cheng Yi said with a smile.

"After the official conferment in a few days, Mister Tianming will also formally be assigned a garrison area. Each of the nine ranks must have their own garrison area to guard the stability of the empire's territory. So, Mister can start considering it," Zhou Shuo said.

"Thank you for the reminder, Your Highness," Li Cheng Yi nodded.

He looked at the direction Ying Shi left. Now, the strength of the Ming Yuan members could no longer keep up with the strength of the enemy. Therefore, either recruit stronger subordinates to protect the safety of his family's property when he was away, or improve the strength of the Ming Yuan members.

Li Cheng Yi had no idea how to improve their strength. After all, life has its limits, and not everyone has a path like his Evil Flower.

However, the building summoning ability gained after collecting all the Evil Flower's flower language might give him some surprises.

Engraving, Evil Flower.

Soon, led by Zhou Shuo, the group toured the City of Heaven.

After a tour in a flying vehicle, everyone also received a lot of royal special gift boxes.

Everyone had smiles on their faces when they returned to their residence with the gift boxes.

The next day, Yi Emperor Zhou Shi held a short conferment ceremony, awarding the rank of general to Li Cheng Yi and the others.

The garrison area was Fengnan Province nearby, and the nearest self-circulating city—Suqin.

Da Yi has a total of four self-circulating cities. Suqin has always been the general headquarters of the military, gathering the top experts of the military. It is considered a military family area.

Now, assigning it to Li Cheng Yi was obviously to separate him from the Nine Regalia alone.

Although Li Cheng Yi had no idea where Suqin was and had never been there, nominally, he had at least entered the military.

Tongcheng, Dongshan Province.

A Nine Regalia exclusive flying vehicle was speeding towards Tongcheng.

Gray and white highways intersected and dispersed below.

Inside the flying vehicle, Barton and the others looked at the scenery below, all somewhat mentally exhausted.

They had been on the run for so long, and now they had finally waited for the Yi Kingdom to solve and suppress the shadow dragons chasing them. Now, according to the people of the Nine Regalia, they were to go over to cooperate with the investigation to determine the relationship between Xing Hu and the shadow dragons, and to determine why the shadow dragons chased them so far.

"It's finally over. As expected of the Yi Kingdom… The strongest in the Earth-Moon, it's not just talk," Yang Chengxi laughed.

She was much thinner now than she was on the island.

"After this, we should be able to go home, right? My mortgage is almost due, and I'm counting on this mission to be completed to get my salary," Engel said helplessly.

"What time is it? You're still thinking about the mortgage," Karan said speechlessly.

"There's no way. I'm just an ordinary person who wants to settle down in the city. My sister needs money for school… My whole family is counting on me," Engel sighed.

"So useless," Karan complained.

"Yeah, you're promising. You still haven't found a boyfriend, more promising than me," Engel nodded.

"I'm investing in myself, preparing to cross classes in the future! What do you know?" Karan said disdainfully.

"Hehe… Last time you said it was for a free life. Now it's become crossing classes?" Engel said.

"Alright, alright, stop arguing, we're almost there," Barton interrupted the two. "After we complete the handover work, we can go home. This trip was really too difficult. We went around the entire Blue Ocean, almost losing our lives."

The flying vehicle was now slowly descending, heading towards the Tongcheng parking apron.

There were already some people waiting below.

Obviously, they were part of those who had been notified in advance.

Barton and his group looked down through the window, but suddenly saw that three of them had light golden eyes and a completely different temperament from the people around them.

"Wait!" Barton suddenly had a bad feeling.

A sense of danger, as if being stared at by a poisonous snake, chilled him to the bone.

"Who are those people!?" he asked the driver urgently.

The driver didn't say a word, seeming too lazy to respond to him.

Damn it!

The others immediately reacted. After escaping for so long, they had developed an extremely keen sense of danger.

The four of them immediately exchanged glances.

Bang.

Barton kicked open the cabin door and jumped out.

"Run!"

The other three followed closely behind, jumping out and running away.

Flames suddenly erupted from the bottom of the backpacks on their backs, propelling them away.

"Oh? Trying to run?" Saar and the other two on the parking apron twitched slightly.

The three shadow dragons simultaneously leaped up, turning into shadows and chasing after Barton and the others.

The difference in speed between the two sides was too great. In the blink of an eye, the four were caught up.

"No!!"

Saar waved his hand, and a large amount of shadow flew out, instantly covering and engulfing Karan.

The scream stopped abruptly, followed by the sound of bones breaking and flesh tearing from the shadows.

"My efforts are back," Saar said with a comfortable expression.

Then he looked to the other side.

Shadow Dragon Faen instantly shadow-flashed in front of Engel, opening its mouth wide.

Puchi.

It spat out a large amount of viscous shadow, wrapping Engel up and pulling him back.

Instantly, Engel shrunk, turning into countless shadows and flying into its mouth.

On the other side, Ying grabbed Yang Chengxi with one hand, and the shadow in her hand spread, wrapping her up.

"Spare me!! No! Don't kill me!!" Yang Chengxi screamed, her face pale.

She fled from the sea to Xing Hu, from Xing Hu to the Yi Kingdom, but she never expected that she would be handed over to the shadow dragons to be devoured by the Yi Kingdom!

Despair, endless despair, spread from her.

Pfft!

The shadow folded, instantly breaking her body in half.

Then it completely wrapped her up, flew into Ying's hand, and merged with her.

"No!!!"

The last Barton watched helplessly as his companions were devoured and killed one by one.

His eyes were bloodshot, and his eyeballs were covered with dense blood vessels.

Watching the shadow dragon Saar smile coldly and fly towards him.

At this moment, everything around him seemed to slow down.

Time seemed to be slowed down hundreds of times, and everything around him turned into static.

"No!!!" Barton roared. Karan and Engel, two colleagues and friends who had been his partners for so long, were devoured in front of him like snacks in an instant.

And he was now facing the same despair and danger.

"The last one… The guy who fused with my efforts…" Saar looked at Barton, opened his mouth, and thick shadow brewed in his mouth.

As long as he recovered this guy, his strength would be able to restore to 90% of its original state. Then, by devouring a massive amount of shadow on this battlefield, he would eventually be able to completely restore his original strength.

At that time… that trash called Tianming, he will definitely find him and eat him!!

Just as he was rapidly approaching Barton.

Puchi.

Suddenly, Barton, who was still flying in mid-air, twisted, flickered, and disappeared from the spot.

Whoosh!

Saar's attack missed, and he turned sharply, looking in the direction of Barton.

"Where is he!?" He was both shocked and angry. "Who!! Who is it!!?"

Daring to snatch people in front of him! Such courage, such strength!

"It's Dead Angle!" Faen quickly flew closer, frowning slightly. "That person, entered Dead Angle…"

"At this time!!" Saar also sensed the situation at this time, and his face showed indescribable anger.

"Why at this time!!?"