The general surrenders power; you can't understand the mindset of a lazy bum!

The figure of the Blazing Sun Martial God transformed into golden light and dissipated into the horizon.

The supreme pressure that had suppressed the ages and mended the heavens and earth also slowly receded along with it.

Yingchou Stream returned once again to a deathly silence.

Sunlight spilled down once more.

Warm golden radiance shone upon every soldier who had survived the disaster, yet it could not disperse the turbulent waves, surging like an icy sea, within their hearts.

Everyone's gaze, like iron filings drawn to a magnet, converged tightly on the same focal point.

The youth standing before the swamp of flesh and blood, hands in his pockets, looking as if he had just casually swatted a mosquito.

Lin Yuan!

Silence.

A suffocating silence.

Time, at this moment, seemed to be stretched infinitely.

Finally.

Thud!

The soldier closest to Lin Yuan could no longer grip the weapon in his hand; it hit the ground with a clang.

Immediately after, his knees, which had been trembling violently, suddenly gave way!

He dropped to one knee!

This action was like a stone thrown into a calm lake, instantly stirring up a monstrous wave!

Thud!

Thud!

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Like falling dominoes!

One!

Ten!

A hundred!

On the training ground, those hundreds of battle-hardened soldiers with wills of iron simultaneously made the same movement at this moment!

They threw down the weapons in their hands.

In a posture bordering on pilgrimage, they knelt on one knee toward that lazy figure!

Their movements were perfectly synchronized!

Their faces were filled with an indescribable fanaticism and adoration!

That was not the obedience of a subordinate to a superior.

It was the most instinctive, primal awe of a Mortal looking up at a god!

“Consultant Lin... Mighty!!!”

Someone, using every ounce of their strength, roared those four words from deep within their throat!

This roar was like a spark starting a prairie fire!

Instantly, it ignited the volcano named 'Fanaticism' in everyone's hearts!

“Consultant Lin is mighty!!!”

“Consultant Lin is mighty!!!”

“Consultant Lin is mighty—!!!”

The mountain-shaking, sea-tsunami-like roars converged into a terrifying wave of sound capable of shaking Kunlun!

It soared into the sky!

The entire stream valley hummed and vibrated from the shock!

They were using their most direct and purest way to vent the shock and gratitude in their hearts!

Venting their supreme adoration for that god-like power!

Su Li leaned against the rock wall, forcibly suppressing the surging Qi and blood in her body as she struggled to stand straight.

She watched this shocking scene of hundreds of iron-blooded warriors kneeling in unison.

She looked at that back, worshipped by everyone as a deity.

Her usually cold Phoenix eyes were now lit with two flames of 'Fanaticism'!

Awe?

No!

Mere awe was no longer enough to describe her current feelings!

It was the collapse and reconstruction of a belief!

She had always thought that what she pursued was the pinnacle of power and the glory of a soldier.

But it wasn't until today that she understood.

In the face of true, absolute power!

Her so-called pride, her so-called will, was how minuscule! How laughable!

Him!

Lin Yuan!

This man, in the most domineering and unreasonable way, had redefined for her, and for everyone, what it meant to be 'Powerful'!

It wasn't a Realm, nor was it a Move!

It was an absolute crushing on the level of life itself!

It was a supreme Divine Might that could determine life and death or overturn the world with a single thought!

She clutched her still-bleeding wound; the intense pain, far from making her feel weak, instead made her brain clearer than ever before!

Her body trembled slightly.

Not because of pain, and not because of Fear.

But because of an extreme excitement originating from the depths of her Soul!

She had finally found the goal she would pursue for her entire life!

Just then!

Rumble—

A burst of hurried footsteps came from behind.

Shi Potian, the Commander-in-Chief of Tianshu Base, came sprinting all the way from the command center with several personal guards!

He didn't even have time to take an armored vehicle!

When he rushed to the edge of the square and saw the scene of hundreds of soldiers kneeling in unison,

his heart, which had already been shocked to the point of numbness, twitched violently once again!

But he did not hesitate in the slightest!

He strode through the kneeling crowd and walked straight up to Lin Yuan.

Then, under everyone's astonished gazes,

this iron-blooded general, who wore general stars on his shoulders and commanded the top combat forces of Dragon Xia Kingdom, deeply bent his waist—a waist that had never bent for anyone!

He lowered that proud head!

“Consultant Lin!”

His voice trembled violently with excitement.

With both hands, he unfastened a token from his waist, forged from Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Purple Gold and carved with a roaring Qilin.

The Tianshu Command!

The symbol of the highest authority in Tianshu Base!

To see this token was to see the Commander-in-Chief!

It could mobilize all personnel within the base!

All resources!

He held this token, representing supreme power, high above his head.

In a tone bordering on sacrifice, he announced loudly: “From this day forward! All three thousand six hundred and twelve members of my Tianshu Base will follow only your... lead!!!”

Boom—!!!

These words were even more shocking to everyone present than the previous Flood of Ten Thousand Swords!

The Commander-in-Chief was actually handing over the command of the entire base?!

This... this was simply unheard of!

However!

Just when everyone thought Lin Yuan would naturally accept this immense power that could drive anyone mad,

that voice, which seemed indifferent to everything, rang out again.

“Hmm?”

Lin Yuan finally, slowly, turned around.

He didn't even look at that purple-gold token that would make countless people green with envy.

He merely sized up Shi Potian, who was still in a bowing posture, with a strange look in his eyes.

Then.

He spoke unhurriedly.

His voice carried undisguised reproach: “A dignified general, taking it upon yourself to represent the entire military district and follow my lead? Doing such a thing is too unbecoming of your status as a soldier, isn't it?”

Lin Yuan's voice was as flat as water.

Yet it was like a thunderclap from the Nine Heavens, striking hard into Shi Potian's mind!

“Where are the military regulations?”

Boom—!!!

Shi Potian felt as if he had been struck by lightning!

He jerked his head up, his face, which had been flushed with excitement and fanaticism, instantly drained of all color!

It became deathly pale!

Cold sweat broke out on his forehead with a 'shua'.

Wrong!

I was wrong!

What... what on earth am I doing?!

He had been completely lightheaded by Lin Yuan's god-like strength.

He had actually forgotten his own identity!

Forgotten his own duties!

Forgotten those iron-blooded military regulations carved into his bones!

Surrendering command without authorization—what a monstrous crime was that in the military?!

“I... I...”

Shi Potian's lips trembled, unable to utter a single word.

Only endless horror and lingering Fear remained on his face.

He hastily withdrew the token and bowed deeply once more: “Consultant Lin! I was muddled! I was lightheaded! Please punish me!”

Lin Yuan looked at his panicked appearance and waved his hand impatiently.

“Fine, fine, I don't want anything. Everything at Tianshu Base remains as it was; do what you're supposed to do, and don't change anything because of me.”

He paused, his gaze sweeping across the field.

Finally, it landed back on Shi Potian.

The corners of his mouth curled into a faint, half-smile: “Besides... I don't need any resources from your military district. Because, I have no use for them.”

Having said that,

he no longer paid attention to the completely petrified Shi Potian, nor to the hundreds of soldiers whose worldviews were frantically collapsing and being reconstructed.

He turned around, hands back in his pockets.

With a leisurely pace, he drifted slowly toward the lawn.

Leaving behind only a back that everyone could only look up to.

Su Li watched all of this blankly.

She watched that man dismiss that immense power with such indifference.

And use an even more indifferent tone to say those words, 'I have no use for them'.

She suddenly understood.

This man was no ordinary playboy.

That bone-deep laziness and 'lying flat' were not a pretense.

It was because the height he stood at was too high!

So high that all the power and resources in the world were like dust in his eyes, not worth mentioning!

Is this... his perspective?