CHAPTER 385: CHAPTER 385: CORRUPT OFFICIALS DO NOT WASTE

At this point, Ye Wan Ning suddenly remembered something, and strangely furrowed her brows.

"No, Shui, you’ve only been born in the Illusion Realm for a few months, and you’re an original descender, everything has to start from scratch, how could you kill a member of the Nihility Sect? They’re almost all complete bodies!"

Once these words were said, Li Cang reacted as well, and both of them simultaneously looked towards Zhu Haomiao’s chest, their gaze seemingly penetrating his coat.

Seeing this, Zhu Haomiao calmly lifted his coat, revealing a purple-gold Dragon Emblem, then silently buttoned it back up, continuing his meal.

"....."

Watching the young man elegantly eat as if nothing happened, Ye Wan Ning and Li Cang exchanged a glance, each seeing the complex emotions in the other’s eyes.

Invisibly showing off is the most lethal!

The most crucial part was that attitude, as if it were only natural and not worth mentioning, it was truly infuriating!

"I originally thought that as your heavenly position increased, your promotion speed would greatly slow down, but unexpectedly, your speed in breaking through dominance was even faster than the First Layer Heaven!"

Pinching the young man’s cheeks and looking at his helpless expression, Ye Wan Ning felt her gums itch and involuntarily ground her teeth.

"I had no experience in the First Layer Heaven, but with formulas in the Second Layer Heaven, it’s much quicker..."

With his cheeks pinched, Zhu Haomiao explained helplessly, then changed his tune.

"Besides, is it that difficult? Isn’t having hands enough?"

"..."

After a few seconds of silence, Ye Wan Ning bared her small tiger teeth and gave a fierce grin.

"Cangcang, hold him down for me, I’m going to bite this pretentious person to death!"

"?!!"

"Wait, I’m speaking from the heart..."

"Precisely because it’s from the heart, I must bite you! Grr!"

...

A few days later, after spending a fulfilling holiday and feeling his Existence Anchor stabilize, Zhu Haomiao descended into the Illusion Realm without stopping.

He softly opened his eyes, facing the familiar ceiling, and in the next second, endless streams of virtual memories continuously poured into his mind, taking even Zhu Haomiao several minutes to process despite his divine attributes.

[Armor Breaking Power]: LV.4→LV.6 (Perfect·Triumph)

[Qi] +22

[Dexterity] +11

[Strength] +9

Silently recalling and savoring the changes in his mind, Zhu Haomiao got up, his fingers like a sword, lightly tracing the hard marble wall with a flick.

A sharp, cold light flickered on his fingernails, with no sound of friction, slicing through the hard marble wall like a hot knife through butter, leaving a barely visible black line.

Looking at the damage he casually caused, Zhu Haomiao couldn’t help but click his tongue softly.

The seemingly insignificant black line was actually several meters deep.

Such terrifying cutting power could probably split a heavily armored martial artist trained in horizontal training in half with one strike.

After initially testing his new extraordinary power, Zhu Haomiao shifted his thoughts and looked at his six-dimensional attributes.

Unfortunately, due to the increasingly strong Plane Suppression Force after ascending to dominance, this round of deep sleep only processed less than 10 average attributes.

At this rate, who knows how long it will take to realize all accumulated attributes...

Subconsciously flicking his fingers, a greed coin magically appeared between Zhu Haomiao’s fingers, flipping and dancing lightly as if it had life.

Looking at the shining gold coin in his hand, Zhu Haomiao hesitated for a moment but abandoned the radical idea.

Even though he obtained a large amount of greed coins by collecting them throughout the Demon Suppression Prison, the cost-effectiveness of ’purchasing’ attributes at the hegemony energy level was too low.

It can, but it’s not necessary!

Better to save it as a trump card for critical moments...

Nodding thoughtfully, Zhu Haomiao flipped his hand, and the ornate coin suddenly vanished from his palm.

Pushing open the Seven-pointed Star bronze gate, the black-clad young man strolled out. Not far after leaving the ’sleeping tomb’, he saw a grand and luxurious carriage parked by the official road.

Wilson, standing beside it, respectfully opened the car door to receive Zhu Haomiao, who then sat inside as the carriage slowly set off, speeding toward the Imperial City.

"Was anything significant happening during my deep sleep?"

"The internal reforms of Da Zhen are being conducted in an orderly manner. I have developed all the corrupt officials into ’believers’, and now the bureaucratic atmosphere is rapidly transforming. It is expected that the entire operation will be aligned by the end of this year."

Hearing this, Zhu Haomiao gave Wilson a meaningful glance.

Good officers are not let down, and corrupt officials are not wasted...

No, to Wilson, perhaps corrupt officials are more useful...

"Additionally, intelligence indicates that a foreign army is gathering on the northern border, likely to initiate war soon."

"Oh? Specifically in which direction?"

"Yong State."

...

Yong State·Tianxiong Pass

Gazing into the vast yellow sand in which vague outlines flickered, Luo Ming, whose face was wrinkled, squinted his eyes slightly.

"Charge!"

As the distance closed, countless bizarrely dressed people roared, trying to climb the city walls like ants attacking a city.

"Release the arrows."

On the well-fortified city walls, countless archers drew their longbows, firing the arrows in their hands.

In an instant, a cloud of black arrows rose from the city wall, raining down like a storm over hundreds of meters.

"Aaaah!!"

There was no need for aiming; the encompassing rain of arrows nailed hundreds of people to the ground, who screamed in agony.

"Run~"

To Luo Ming’s surprise, just one wave of arrow rain caused the attacking enemy to collapse in morale, fleeing in panic.

"..."

At that moment, not only was Luo Ming silent, but even the commander in the enemy camp was silent.

"Master Mop, is this really okay?"

A giant centaur, towering like a beast, bowed its head to the robed monk with a face painted in vibrant colors.

"It doesn’t matter; these peasants are worthless. It’s good to use them to deplete the enemy’s arrows."

"..."

Even the golden bloodline centaur, who never regarded vassals as part of them, had countless curses they wanted to say.

You’re a bit too extreme...

However, completely ignoring the centaur’s sentiments, Master Mop waved his hand, sending another wave of thousands of believers who, after consuming some secret potion, turned red-eyed and charged fearlessly.

"Kill!!"

"Groar aah!!"

"Run!"

...

As the potion’s effects wore off and their courage waned, repeated assaults never even got close to Tianxiong Pass’s walls, only leaving behind a field of corpses.

Standing atop the Heroic Pass, looking at the sea of corpses extending to the horizon, Luo Ming was filled with questions.

What are these people doing?

He once thought that having lived for centuries, he’d seen it all...

But at this moment, Luo Ming had to admit, he’d never seen such a tactic before!

Without doing anything, they came screaming and dying, as if not here to fight but to deliver military merits!

"My lord, do you think the enemy has a plot? Something feels off to me."

Listening to his subordinate’s inquiry, Luo Ming too looked puzzled, but soon, as endless enemies surged like waves in succession, he seemed to grasp something, his expression gradually turning solemn.