The Divine Court is enraged! When did the Dragon Xia Kingdom produce such a figure?!

"Trash! A bunch of trash!"

An angry roar echoed through the spacious divine hall.

A burly Divine Official, whose body was wreathed in black flames, suddenly stood up.

With a single kick, he trampled the low-level divine messenger who had come to deliver the news—and was already trembling like chaff—directly into a puddle of flesh!

"A mere Oulu Alliance, a group of natives without even a few Martial Gods, how could they possibly destroy the foundation we've spent a hundred years building! What is that idiot Ryan doing?!"

This individual was none other than the "Heaven-Burning Divine Official," the most hot-tempered among the Twelve Divine Officials.

"Heaven-Burning, calm down."

Another feminine, soft voice rang out. A female Divine Official with a graceful figure, leaning lazily against a divine statue as if she had no bones, spoke languidly.

"Losing your temper won't solve the problem. The most crucial thing right now is to figure out exactly what happened."

"According to the last fragmented piece of information transmitted back, our plan seems to have been ruined by an... unexpected person."

"An unexpected person?" The Heaven-Burning Divine Official's rage did not diminish in the slightest. "Who? Did that old immortal Augustine make a Move personally? Or did the Martial Gods from Longxia intervene?"

"Neither."

The Divine Lord, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke.

His voice was hoarse and ancient, devoid of any emotion, yet it seemed to contain a certain magical power that made his words reality.

"According to the image Ryan transmitted back using his final bit of Divine Power before falling unconscious..."

"There was only one person who destroyed all our plans."

As he finished speaking, the Divine Lord waved his hand gently. A screen made of Divine Power slowly unfurled in the center of the divine hall.

On the screen, the image twisted and flickered, clearly suffering from severe interference. But it was still barely visible.

It was in the Gloomy Forest. An Eastern man who looked excessively young was standing there lazily.

Facing thousands of elite Divine Court soldiers surrounding him, he just waved his fist casually.

There was no earth-shattering eruption of energy, nor were there any flashy, dazzling Moves. It was just such a simple punch.

The next second, the whole world seemed to stand still.

All the Divine Court soldiers in the screen, along with the space around them, instantly turned into the most primitive particles under that punch and dissipated into the air.

One punch, total annihilation! The image came to an abrupt end there.

The entire Council of Gods fell into a deathly silence. All the Divine Officials stared wide-eyed at the now-dissipated screen, their faces filled with unprecedented shock and horror!

"This... what kind of power is this?!" The Heaven-Burning Divine Official's irritable voice trembled slightly due to extreme shock.

"A single punch... annihilated a full-strength Temple Legion, along with the space itself? This... this is impossible!"

"Who... is this person?!" another Divine Official asked with a dry voice.

"Since when did such a terrifying existence appear in Dragon Xia Kingdom? Is our intelligence department completely blind?!"

"His name is Lin Yuan." On the throne, the Divine Lord's voice remained calm. But beneath that calmness, a rage capable of destroying the world was hidden.

"Special Consultant of the Dragon Xia Kingdom Tianshu Base. According to intelligence sent back by our pawns planted in the upper echelons of Longxia, this person seems to be Lin Zhan's grandson."

"Lin Zhan's grandson?" This name caused the Divine Officials present to freeze.

Of course, they knew who Lin Zhan was; he was the Military God of Dragon Xia Kingdom and one of the biggest obstacles to their Divine Court's invasion of the East. But they had never heard that Lin Zhan had such a terrifying grandson!

"Intelligence shows that this person has a lazy personality, does not concern himself with worldly affairs, stays at Tianshu Base all year round, has no achievements, and is known as the biggest piece of trash in the Lin family..." a Divine Official in charge of intelligence reported tremblingly.

"Trash?" Upon hearing these two words, the Heaven-Burning Divine Official acted as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world. He slammed his fist, smashing a black crystal pillar beside him into powder!

"You call this trash?! Then what does that make our elites, who were wiped out by his single punch? Scum?!"

"Investigate! Investigate for me!" the Heaven-Burning Divine Official roared. "Find out his eighteen generations of ancestors! I want to know everything about him! How does he Cultivate! What Realm is he exactly! Why does he possess such terrifying power!"

The atmosphere in the divine hall became increasingly manic. The disastrous defeat in the Oulu Continent, along with Lin Yuan's punch that subverted their cognition, caused this group of high-and-mighty Divine Officials to feel the emotion known as "Fear" for the first time.

"Quiet." The Divine Lord's voice rang out again, instantly suppressing all the noise. He slowly stood up from his throne.

The moment that blurred figure stood up, it seemed to become towering, and the entire divine hall trembled slightly under his pressure.

"The appearance of this person is indeed an accident." "But, it is merely an accident." The Divine Lord's voice carried absolute confidence and coldness.

"Our Divine Court's great plan will not be hindered in the slightest by a mere human."

His gaze seemed to pierce through the endless Void Realm and landed on the distant western part of Dragon Xia Kingdom.

"Our pawn has just sent news." "Dragon Xia Kingdom has discovered an ancient Forbidden Ground on the western border." "And this man named Lin Yuan has already been sent there to investigate."

As soon as these words were spoken, a chilling murderous intent instantly erupted in the eyes of all the Divine Officials!

"A Forbidden Ground? Could it be the legendary Forbidden Ground that suppresses the 'Ancient Demon God'?"

"Very good! Heaven is truly helping me!" The Heaven-Burning Divine Official let out a cruel, sinister laugh. "Since he wants to go to his death, don't blame us! That place is the best grave prepared for him!"

"Divine Lord! Please give the order!" All the Divine Officials knelt on the ground in unison, their voices filled with fanaticism and murderous intent. "This time, we, the Twelve Divine Officials, are willing to take action ourselves!" "At all costs, we must completely strangle this man named Lin Yuan!" "We will let Dragon Xia Kingdom know what the consequences are for opposing our Divine Court!"

On the throne, the Divine Lord was silent for a moment. Then, he delivered the final judgment with that emotionless voice. "Granted." "Pass on my divine decree, activate the Holy War contingency plan." "This time, I will make that ancient Forbidden Ground the grave of that man, and also the first cornerstone for our Divine Court to reign over this world!"

...

Southern border of Dragon Xia Kingdom, Hundred Thousand Great Mountains. This place is mountainous and densely forested, filled with miasma, and extremely dangerous.

A jet-black, stealth floating warship with a sci-fi design silently tore through the clouds and hovered over this dense forest.

The hatch opened. Lin Yuan walked out first, followed by a solemn-faced Su Li and one hundred fully armed soldiers with fierce Auras.

This hundred-man squad was the most elite force of Tianshu Base, each one a battle-hardened veteran who had crawled out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood. The weakest among them had reached the Middle Stage of the Meridian Opening Realm! They were the pride of Tianshu Base and the sharp blade of Dragon Xia Kingdom!

Yet at this moment, these usually arrogant elite soldiers looked at Lin Yuan's back with undisguised fanaticism and worship in their eyes. Being able to follow this legendary big shot on a mission was simply the honor of a lifetime that they could brag about throughout their military careers!

"Sigh, this damn place doesn't even have a lawn to lie down on." Lin Yuan looked around, staring at this godforsaken wasteland, and curled his lips in disgust. If he had known the environment was this harsh, he wouldn't have come no matter what. Those old guys at headquarters were just good at dangling carrots, promising him three months of paid vacation after the job was done, only to trick him into coming to a place like this to eat sand.

Su Li looked at his lazy appearance and smiled helplessly, then turned around and gave orders to the hundred-man squad behind her. "Attention, everyone!" Her voice was cold and powerful. "Initiate highest-level alert! Form groups of three, take combat formation, and advance while searching toward the ruin coordinates!"

"Yes!" The hundred soldiers responded in unison. Their movements were uniform, and they instantly formed a tactical formation capable of both offense and defense, beginning to advance cautiously toward the depths of the ruins.

Su Li walked to Lin Yuan's side and said softly, "Consultant Lin, according to the coordinates provided by headquarters, the entrance to the ruins is in a valley thirty kilometers ahead, we..."

Before she could finish her sentence, "Rumble—!" A loud noise like rolling thunder suddenly came from the end of the horizon! The entire earth began to tremble violently!

Everyone's expression changed, and they instantly entered combat status! "What's going on?!" "An earthquake? No! This energy fluctuation..." "Enemy attack!!" A soldier in charge of reconnaissance let out a shrill roar!

Everyone looked in the direction his finger was pointing. They saw that on the distant horizon, a crimson "tide" was crazily sweeping toward their location with a terrifying, world-destroying Aura!

That was not a tide at all! It was one giant bull after another, each the size of a heavy truck, their bodies burning with raging flames, their eyes blood-red... Red Flame Demon Bulls!

One of the most notorious exotic beasts in the western ruins, brutal by nature, bloodthirsty, and warlike!

"My God! This... this number... there are at least a hundred of them!" "Every one of them has an energy fluctuation that has reached the Late Stage of the Meridian Opening Realm! Damn it! We are surrounded!"

A look of gravity instantly appeared on the soldiers' faces. Even for their elite squad, facing a group charge of over a hundred fearless exotic beasts at the Late Stage of the Meridian Opening Realm would definitely be a tragic and bloody battle!

"Moo—!!!" Just then, a more violent, majestic bull roar resounded through the sky!

At the very front of that crimson beast tide, a bull king, three times larger than the other demon bulls, with a pair of spiral giant horns on its head that looked like red-hot branding irons, suddenly reared up and stomped heavily on the ground with its flaming giant hooves!

"Boom!" A terrifying pressure at the Early Stage of the Huagang Realm, like a tangible shockwave, erupted and spread out!

"Huagang Realm... it's the Demon Bull King!!" A sound of gasping echoed through the squad. Everyone's heart sank to the bottom. They were in big trouble!

Su Li's pretty face also instantly turned incomparably cold. She suddenly drew the combat saber from her waist, and her cold shout spread across the entire field!

"Attention, everyone! Form the Tiangang Battle Formation!" "Long-range firepower squad, indiscriminate covering fire!" "Melee squad, prepare to meet the enemy head-on!" "No matter what, hold the line to the death!" "Yes!!"

The soldiers roared in unison. Although they were terrified, not a single person retreated! They quickly changed formation, their energy was instantly driven to the limit, preparing to meet this inevitable, incomparably tragic, and bloody battle!