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In order to save his image, Tang Ximen finally seized an opportunity to explain what had transpired during his Dragon Tribe trial.
Everyone listened diligently and nodded as he explained.
However, for some unknown reason, the look of sympathy in their eyes became even more intense.
What the f*ck?! Do they think I’m making this up?!
A feeling of sadness welled up in Tang Ximen’s heart as he lay on the black brick.
“Senior Zi Yang, you’ll be responsible for protecting Senior Tang from now on,” An Lin ordered solemnly.
After becoming the team’s scout, Battle God Zi Yang had now become Tang Ximen’s “daddy” as well.
The pitiful Battle God didn’t have any right to speak, and he could only accept this task obediently

After resting for a while, they decided to continue on.
They pushed open the heavy stone door and were met with a gradually widening black tunnel.
A feeling of danger and chaos swirled around them as they walked along this passageway.
An Lin frowned. There was a nagging sense of familiarity about this environment.
After making their way through the black tunnel, they arrived before a vast stretch of decaying land.
That’s right, this land was decaying and moving toward destruction. Not a single blade of grass grew upon this crumbling land, and the rocks on the ground were all fractured and decayed. The atmosphere was oppressive, and it was as though this entire realm was about to disintegrate into nothingness.
“The Ten Realm-Guardian Tribes have arrived at the Foreign Land. Please exterminate all members of foreign tribes. Difficulty: hell mode.”
The voice that traveled down from the sky left them all stunned.
“Huh? Why does this announcement make it sound like we’re part of the Ten Realm-Guardian Tribes?” Xuanyuan Cheng was a bit taken aback.
“I guess we’re probably viewed as a part of them because we accepted their inheritances
” An Lin was a bit speechless.
“Haha, that means cosplaying? Interesting, very interesting
” Liu Qianhuan had a look of excitement.
It was clear that they had become members of the Ten Realm-Guardian Tribes now, and were thus tasked with protecting this world and exterminating members of all foreign tribe.
“Say, is this really the main point? Are you guys just going to ignore the fact that we’ve been assigned to the hell mode difficulty?” Tian Lingling’s delicate face was pale with fright as she spoke.
“Oh!” As if coming to a sudden realization, An Lin turned around to address the middle-aged male next to him. “Senior Zi Yang, in addition to Tang Ximen, you’re also responsible for Tian Lingling’s safety!”
Battle God Zi Yang: “
”
Tian Lingling: “
”
Boom!
At this moment, the ground suddenly fractured to reveal a gaping, pitch-black pit.
There was a solemn expression on An Lin’s face as he gripped his Evil-Slaying Sword tightly and glanced at the dark pit.
Then, an extremely dangerous aura oozed out from the pit. It was chaotic, distorted, bizarre, terrifying
 Like claws that were trying to drag them deep into the abyss, a myriad of negative emotions crept out into the surroundings.
Suddenly, three figures leaped out from the dark pit. These creatures were morphed from distorted black matter, yet they appeared material and tangible.
Their crimson eyes swiveled around chaotically, making them seem violent and erratic.
An Lin realized what these creatures were the instant that he saw them—sinister devils!
These weren’t any normal sinister devils; these were high ranking sinister devils! Like the cyclops sinister devil that they met in the Abyss of Evil, these sinister devils were especially material. A feeling of extreme danger emanated from their bodies.
“Be careful, guys!” An Lin shouted in warning. “Make sure not to get stabbed by that black matter! That black matter can distort one’s mind!”
He still remembered the time that he almost transformed into a mindless sinister devil after being stabbed by one.
Luckily, Xiao Hong was there at the time, and she used her light power to heal him. Otherwise, there was a strong possibility that he would have cracked and descended to become a mindless sinister devil.
As he shouted this warning, the three sinister devils had already become dark streaks.
One of them rushed directly at An Lin. To his surprise, he was able to make out a strange and uncanny smile on the sinister devil’s pitch-black and figureless face.
An Lin’s expression remained unchanged. Like a bolt of lightning, his Evil-Slaying Sword drew out a large crescent arc and slashed toward the sinister devil’s face.
The sinister devil twisted strangely, and it managed to evade An Lin’s devastating sword strike. At the same time, it raised its palms toward him. As the flesh on its arms squirmed, black matter shot out of his hands. They were like sharp blades being pulled out of their sheaths, and the insane speed at which they traveled created shrill hisses through the air.
Having fought with sinister devils before, An Lin was prepared for this, and he immediately parried with his sword.
An Lin slid back a few steps as the gigantic force possessed by the black matter crashed into his Evil-Slaying Sword.
Just as the sinister devil attempted to follow up its attack, a flaming sword projection which possessed the power of lightning suddenly flashed before it. The roar of thunder was deafening, and the sinister devil was instantly engulfed by this strike.
The sinister devil shrieked in pain as it stumbled back. A beautiful figure bore down upon it aggressively, giving it no reprieve as she launched an endless stream of attacks.
An Lin was startled. Xu Xiaolan was doing all the showing-off, how could he allow this?!
Without any hesitation, he immediately conjured his Wings of Wind and swooped toward the sinister devil.
The second sinister devil rushed toward the resting Tang Ximen. However, its path was blocked by Xuanyuan Cheng, Su Qianyun, Yao Mingxi, and Hu Guan. Under the joint attack of these four people, the sinister devil fell into continuous retreat.
The last sinister devil pounced toward White Spirit Snake. Then, it was savaged by Battle Goddess Bi Qiong.
Before long, the sinister devils found themselves in an extremely unfavorable situation.
Glancing at the battles, Liu Qianhuan felt that her help wasn’t needed. Thus, she watched from the sidelines and casually launched a few light cannons whenever she felt like it.
Right at this moment, however, the sound of wailing suddenly traveled up from within the black pit.
Immediately afterward, an insanely thick column of black light shot into the sky.
Like raging waves, hundreds upon thousands of sinister devils—all of whom possessed boundless negativity—poured out from atop the column of light!
“Holy f*ck! There’s that many?”
An Lin became numb with fear as he gazed at the thick cloud of sinister devils descending from the skies.
Soon after, a dozen or so sinister devils lunged toward him.
His sword twirled and flashed, and the sinister devils were torn to shreds.
These sinister devils weren’t powerful, with most only being of the Dao Body Stage or Spirit Nurturing Stage. However, they were surging over in terrifying numbers!
Battle Goddess Bi Qiong released her Divine Slash. A vast azure blade sliced outwards and cleaved the leading sinister devil into two. Then, the blade swept outwards for thousands of feet, instantly obliterating dozens of sinister devils into nothingness.
Before she could even withdraw her sword, dozens more sinister devils lunged at her.
Bi Qiong frowned as she looked at the sea of sinister devils. She grabbed White Spirit Snake and flew toward Battle God Zi Yang. She felt that Battle God Zi Yang’s sweeping flame attack was a better way of dealing with these sinister devils.
However, Battle God Zi Yang appeared little better than a bludger right now. There was a wall of flames around him, and any sinister devil which leaped into these flames were scorched to death.
“Aren’t you going to burn the sinister devils outside of your flame barrier?” Bi Qiong was a little puzzled after entering this flame barrier with White Spirit Snake.
“My only responsibility is to protect Tian Lingling and Tang Ximen,” Battle God Zi Yang replied expressionlessly. “Besides, I don’t possess a Divine Flame anymore. I don’t have the ability to burn that mob of sinister devils to death.”
It was clear that Battle God Zi Yang still felt a deep sense of resentment

After slaying a powerful sinister devil, Xuanyuan Cheng and the others also retreated into Battle God Zi Yang’s flame barrier.
“Oi, why aren’t you guys attacking the enemy?” Zi Yang grumbled in dissatisfaction. “If you all retreat here, then the sinister devils are all going to charge over here as well! I’ll be under a lot of pressure!”
“Defending as a group is safer!”
Xuanyuan Cheng yelled as he cast long-range immortal spells.
An Lin and Xu Xiaolan were also flying toward Battle God Zi Yang’s flame barrier after slaying a powerful sinister devil.
“Gundam One, Gundam Two, go into the flame barrier and release a protective barrier.”
An Lin released the Gundams from his storage ring and gave an order.
“An Lin, what are you planning to do?”
Xu Xiaolan scowled upon seeing An Lin suddenly stop in his tracks.
“Me? I want to try a new move.”
Crimson symbols appeared on the back of An Lin’s hands.
Immediately afterward, a tremendous true flame intent flooded into the surroundings!