Chapter 1 Compared to These Almost Chaotic Regions

Compared to these almost chaotic regions, the South Sea only saw a biohazard-like ghoulification, which was relatively stable. At least the number of fiend-transformed individuals wasn't high.

"The Heavenly God Descent Society... is it an organization like the Holy Serpent Spirit Conclave?"

Su Zhou carefully watched the scenes on the electronic screen and asked in a low voice.

[Yes. The Heavenly God Descent Society, the Holy Serpent Spirit Conclave, and the New Dawn Society are the three most dangerous multinational mystical organizations in the world. Among them, the most dangerous, the most harmful, and the most active is the Heavenly God Descent Society.]

The male voice responded: [The three Holy Seats and the crisis response force have already set off, but it will still take time, Professor Su. Your mission is heavy, and that is to kill all mutated cultivators. What needs to be guarded against is the strange, unknown plague that is spreading in the city. Although there have been no fatal or dangerous situations so far, the most dangerous thing is the unknown.]

"Is there no way to save them?"

[The 'mutation phenomenon' created by the Heavenly God Descent Society is an unknown phenomenon that we have not yet fully studied. Currently, no method of reversal has been discovered.]

The male voice's tone was calm, but even so, the sense of regret was even stronger: [In order to avoid greater casualties, please kill the mutants as quickly as possible. The local official cultivators and armed forces will cooperate with you to suppress them. Please don't hold back.]

—I see, that's right.

Su Zhou silently nodded, indicating that he knew and would not hold back.

[Next is target guidance. The first target that needs to be dealt with...]

"Thank you, but I can see it very clearly."

In mid-air, already close to the coastal city, Su Zhou could see hundreds of deep gray flames burning conspicuously throughout the tourist city. He narrowed his eyes and said calmly, "Start with the closest and most dangerous, right?"

The hatch opened, and below was a city already covered in torrential rain.

Breathing out, Su Zhou held the spirit iron staff in his hand and jumped down decisively.

He and the raging wind and lightning, along with the rain, fell towards the city.

"This doesn't seem like a fiend, Yala. But it does have the aura of a fiend."

Jumping out of the helicopter's cabin, the wind swept past his side, and Su Zhou's expression was serious: "Fiends aren't this weak, and they wouldn't lose their minds like this—the Heavenly God's kin can't all be beasts like this!"

"This isn't a fiend created by natural summoning." Yala was also using Su Zhou's vision to observe the entire city, and it said in a low voice: "The Heavenly God's kin created by true natural summoning are innately the most suitable and most compatible type of creature for those Heavenly Gods. Their transformation will not only not affect their minds but will also leapingly improve the essence of the summoner's life—you can think of it as a weakened version of yourself."

"The ghouls appearing in the city should be weakened and degraded versions of the 'Lonely Lord's' kin. The true Lonely Lord's kin should be the rulers of all spirits of the underworld, similar to soul-reaping envoys, or heroic souls who have broken free from death with their own will and spontaneously awakened from the underworld. The latter are not only not evil but are also guardians of civilization. These degraded ghoul souls can only be said to possess a certain 'fiend factor' and are just ordinary vengeful spirits."

For a time, he didn't bother to distinguish which great being the 'Lonely Lord' was. Anyway, They must all be sealed guys. Su Zhou was now driving the wind to help—the vast spiritual power stimulated the wind, allowing him to fly in the air. Su Zhou immediately aimed at a deep gray spiritual light closest to him and then transformed into a cannonball, rapidly flying in that direction.

"So that means someone artificially spread the fiend factor and used the special time period of the spiritual energy eruption to artificially create degraded fiends." Su Zhou thought, even though the spiritual energy eruption was almost over, the flowing light and mist still appeared at the end. This was obviously not a normal process of sudden occurrence: "Then what is their purpose?"

While speaking, Su Zhou directly crashed through the glass of a building and then smashed a mutated ghoul, who was frantically hitting a security door and didn't even realize its arm was broken, into charcoal with a single strike—the violent electric current was transmitted along the spirit iron staff, and in just an instant, the blue-green electric light exploded, completely killing the ghoul, both body and soul.

It didn't even have time to reveal its body, which had no vital points, its special ability to partially etherealize its body, and the spiritual pressure that was enough to suppress the souls of ordinary people to the point where they couldn't move... All the peculiarities were extinguished with one blow under the overwhelming power of the Transcendent stage against the Awakening stage.

And in the next instant, without waiting for the person being attacked to react and thank him, Su Zhou had once again transformed into a gust of wind, rushing towards the next attack point.

The maneuverability of a Transcendent was perfectly demonstrated at this time. A Transcendent cultivator who could fly at full speed at nearly a hundred meters per second moved much faster between cities than the special operations forces and armed police who were also carrying out suppression missions throughout the city.

"Most likely, it's to collect fiend factors." And Yala answered his question during Su Zhou's actions: "If the number of fiend factors they initially spread was one hundred, then the essence of the fiends that descended after the spiritual energy eruption would be at least one million."

"Although I don't know how they will recycle and utilize these fiend factors, there is no doubt that this should be their purpose—to use the lives of ordinary people as a culture medium to cultivate the transcendent elements they need."

*Crack*, lightning flashed, and the smell of burnt flesh came.

Rushing into a room in a residential area, and killing another smaller ghoul, Su Zhou withdrew the iron rod in his hand, his brows furrowed—this time he saw scattered corpses next to the ghoul, an older white-haired man, the infected person seemed to be his grandson, and when attacked, the old man didn't even have time to react before being killed.

"Spiritual energy recovery... It's clearly such a happy thing. Everyone has a future to look forward to."

Su Zhou had already left the house and went to the next attack point, but the two corpses, one large and one small, still remained in his mind, arousing a strange emotion.

"The Descent Society's actions."

It was difficult to explain whether this emotion was sentimental or regretful, but what remained unchanged was anger. Su Zhou muttered to himself in a calm, icy tone: "It's really disgusting."

His speed was even faster. In an instant, only a gust of wind carrying lightning could be seen, rapidly flying between the high-rise buildings of the city, pulling up bright electric light in the rain.

And every time the electric light exploded, it meant that a mutated ghoul had been killed.

The name of the Transcendent who acted like thunder was spreading in the mouths of those being rescued.

It wasn't just Su Zhou who was acting.

At this time, there were also dozens of military units rushing from the South Sea Fleet not far away, as well as local armed forces rushing to the scene to deal with the disaster and stabilize the situation. Even some enthusiastic citizens cooperated to kill some mutated ghouls.

National cultivation, at least giving some ordinary people the ability to protect themselves in times of crisis.

As time passed, when Su Zhou killed more than forty of the strongest mutated ghoul cultivators at the fastest speed, the situation in the entire South Sea City had largely stabilized. At least the people who had reacted and received the notification would not be at a loss when facing ghouls, so that they would be killed without even being able to resist.

And the remaining weaker mutated ghouls were temporarily impossible to cause much chaos and were being suppressed in an orderly manner by the armed forces.

*Splash!*

At this moment, Chen Zhicheng also saw the spiritual light flying in the city. Through the window and the lightning, he vaguely saw Su Zhou's face and recognized this serious-looking acquaintance.

"He's here too... Or was he originally here?"

He couldn't help but be stunned: "The chaos has subsided a lot. Is it all because of him that the speed is so fast?"

"Even if it's not all because of him, he's at least the main reason."

There wasn't only one city in the South Sea region. In fact, the Descent Society attacked a very large area. Fortunately, compared to other regions around the world, the situation in the Zheng Nation's South Sea was relatively good, and the chaos had been mostly calmed down in just two hours. As the three Holy Seats and elite cultivator units arrived to reinforce, the entire South Sea turmoil was somewhat stabilized.

But the situation was still not optimistic.

What happened first was actually those who felt unwell during the spiritual energy recovery. Some of them persevered on their own and made it through that period of discomfort, but some of them were in more serious condition, so they called ambulances and were sent to hospitals for recuperation.

And it was then that the relevant staff in the hospital noticed that a strange bacterium was multiplying in the bodies of these severely uncomfortable patients, but this bacterium was not like ordinary bacteria, infecting normal human tissue.

In fact, it infected spiritual energy!

The more active the spiritual energy, the more active it was. As long as the patient's body had a large amount of uncontrolled spiritual energy overflow, it would multiply in large numbers, creating all kinds of hallucinations, discomfort, and piercing pain deep into the bones and soul.

"This is a virus, an ancient spiritual energy virus! It should have been extinct with the severance of communication between heaven and earth, but now it has reappeared!"

Immediately, the hospital issued an emergency epidemic warning, that an unknown new spiritual energy bacterium had appeared. One doctor warned: "This is a special virus that reacts according to the level of spiritual energy activity and has nothing to do with the physical body. Those infected must tighten their minds and not allow their spiritual energy to fluctuate greatly!"

The second wave of situations occurred among some civilian cultivators who fought with the mutated ghouls, as well as some armed forces who did not wear protective suits.

Because of some spiritual energy overflow caused by the battle, they were also infected by the bacteria and experienced various hallucinations and discomfort. Although the situation was not very serious, they temporarily lost some of their combat capabilities. These people were urgently sent to temporary isolation medical areas for treatment, and the plague warning to the entire South Sea area used the most severe tone to require all citizens to stay in their homes, try not to go out, and repeated the response methods for this strange plague.

Finally, the most serious group of infections exceeded everyone's expectations.

It was precisely those completely crazy, inhuman mutated ghouls.

The completely irrational ghouls simply did not have the power to control their spiritual power to suppress the virus. On the contrary, the more pain and hallucinations they felt, the more they vented their power, and the more deeply they were infected—as a result, all kinds of acute complications emerged, and the soul completely lost control of the physical body, directly causing these ghouls to lose all ability to move and be at the mercy of others.

But before the armed forces could step forward to kill these ghouls who had become paralyzed, the crazy unknown bacterium completely took their lives, turning them all into corpses.

Not only that, but all the chaos in all the chaotic places that had been attacked around the world subsided.

Because all the sources of chaos had been killed by these strange plagues that appeared at the same time as the mutation phenomenon.

For a time, only the cold sound of rain and death echoed between the cities.