60: Chapter 60 The People with Hidden Motives

At this moment, Su Ming had no time to spare for the outside turmoil, and was gazing intently at the brand-new divine statue in the center of the city, with hard-to-conceal excitement surging deep in his heart.

Over the past few days, he had ordered Lilith and a group of priests to mobilize the citizens of the whole city to build it together, finally completing this divine statue exclusively for himself.

From this moment on, in this Chaoming Realm, he finally had a true divine path anchor point.

Su Ming quietly sealed a wisp of original divine power within the divine statue.

From then on, even if his divine power avatar accidentally fell outside, as long as there was still divine power remaining in the divine statue, he could rely on this anchor point to reshape his avatar.

Su Ming definitely didn't want to be ambushed and eliminated like that unlucky guy Liang Feifan.

During the days of building the divine statue, Su Ming never stopped his expansion.

His Undead Army quietly sneaked around, taking Xuanming City as the core, silently devouring and controlling several surrounding towns of various sizes.

At the same time, he sent out Lilith and a group of priests to go deep into various places to preach and spread the name of Jiuyou.

To this day, the believers who worshipped Jiuyou and converted to his Jiuyou had already broken the number of one hundred thousand.

According to the faith conversion rate, it would only take ten days for these accumulated pious faiths to condense a wisp of divine power for him.

A stable and continuous divine power channel had already taken shape.

With this foundation backing him up, Su Ming slowly shed his past caution.

As long as Xuanming City was not exposed and the Jiuyou divine statue was not breached, he would have the capital for infinite trial and error, and could finally boldly expand his territory outward.

Just as he was planning his next move, a Flying Hunter Falcon tore through the air and accurately landed in his palm.

Carrying the latest exploration intelligence, the falcon transmitted into Su Ming's mind: Three thousand miles away, there was a major city with a population of one million—Mingkong City.

However, the intelligence sent back by the Flying Hunter Falcon showed that the current Mingkong City was targeted by quite a few testers.

This was an unrivaled piece of fat meat that everyone coveted, but it was also a desperate land full of highly toxic spikes; a slight carelessness might stab a person to death.

But there was not the slightest fear in Su Ming's eyes.

Tricky?

The trickier and harder it was for anyone to breach, the greater the benefits obtained after capturing it.

Without hesitation, Su Ming immediately gave orders, mobilizing his Undead Retainers to quietly march toward Mingkong City.

...

At the city gate of Mingkong City at this moment, two figures had just passed the garrison's inspection and successfully entered the city.

Wang Haoyu breathed a sigh of relief. Looking back at the towering city walls, a relaxed smile appeared on his face. He turned to the leading man beside him and smiled, saying, "It seems that this Mingkong City is not as difficult to step into as rumors say."

Hearing this, the leading man frowned deeply, his expression solemn, and warned in a deep voice, "Wang Haoyu, this is only the first checkpoint; the real danger..."

Before his warning could finish, a sudden change occurred!

The void trembled without warning for a moment, and an extremely condensed destructive beam suddenly pierced through space, arriving in an instant.

Hiss——!

The brilliant and fierce pillar of light instantly penetrated the leading man's body.

The divine power shield attached to his body had consumed a full ten points of divine power, but in front of this beam, it was as fragile as thin paper, failing to last even a single second before his divine power avatar was instantly annihilated.

Points of light scattered, and the aura completely dissipated. The figure that stood steadily the second before completely vanished without a trace the next second.

Wang Haoyu's pupils shrank sharply, his mind went blank, and extreme terror instantly swept through his entire body.

He had no time to think about where the enemy was hidden or where the attack came from; there was only the ultimate survival instinct left in his heart.

Completely abandoning the thought of saving divine power, his figure turned into a hasty flash of light, fleeing through the air without looking back, and instantly rushed out of the Mingkong City gate.

After his figure drifted away, a stooped and old figure slowly paced out from the shadows of the street, standing at the place where the person had just fallen.

The old man raised his eyes to gaze at Wang Haoyu's panic-stricken fleeing back, his murky eyes filled with exhaustion and helplessness, and he sighed softly, "Disasters are frequent in troubled times, and chaos never ceases. Oh, great Lord of Mingyuan, take a look at the mortals you shelter!"

It was not that he didn't want to pursue, but that he dared not.

Mingkong City was protected by a grand formation, which could keep the city safe, but once stepping out of the city limits, countless dormant and spying extraterrestrial testers in the dark would inevitably swarm and attack instantly.

He knew very well in his heart that these extraterrestrial blasphemers were the most cunning and difficult to deal with.

Once they could not be killed and choked off in the first instance, and given the slightest chance to breathe, they would soon be able to bring out an army.

To completely suppress these blasphemers, the only way was to rely on the crystal energy cannon inside the city.

However, the crystal energy cannon consumed a terrifying amount of energy, and after each firing, it required a long cooling and conditioning period, making it impossible to use at will.

...

Deep in the dense forest outside the city, Wang Haoyu landed somewhat flustered. After repeatedly scouting his surroundings and confirming that no one was pursuing him, he collapsed to the ground, panting heavily, still shaken.

"Fortunately... Fortunately, I escaped."

A cold and angry voice suddenly sounded beside him: "Wang Haoyu, where is my brother Xu Yuan?"

Wang Haoyu stiffened all over, turned his head to look, and saw a tall figure standing in the forest—it was Xu Yuan's younger brother, Xu Hao.

Meeting the other's gaze full of scrutiny and anger, Wang Haoyu felt a pang of guilt, subconsciously avoiding eye contact, and his voice was dry: "Xu Yuan... is gone. As soon as we entered the city, we were ambushed from the dark, and a weird beam directly annihilated his divine power avatar."

"Impossible!" Xu Hao's expression changed drastically, and he instantly stepped forward, tightly grasping Wang Haoyu's collar, his eyes full of disbelief. "My brother had a ten-point divine power shield with solid defense. How could he be instantly killed?! Was it you acting secretly behind the scenes who harmed my brother?!"

"I didn't!" Wang Haoyu hurriedly shook his head to defend himself, his tone urgent, "That attack was too terrifying. The divine power shield was as good as non-existent in front of it, and there was no power to resist at all. It was a true instant kill!"

"An instant kill..."

Xu Hao let go of his hand and staggered back half a step. The anger in his eyes gradually receded, replaced by extreme solemnity and panic.

Forcing his thoughts to calm down, he instantly figured it out as well.

Right now, there were quite a few testers coveting Mingkong City, with various factions eyeing it covetously.

Wang Haoyu was definitely no fool and could never intentionally kill his own brother at such a critical juncture.

However, previously when the two brothers joined forces, they could still suppress Wang Haoyu.

But now that Xu Yuan had fallen and only he was left, he simply couldn't keep Wang Haoyu in check, and he dared not be sure whether Wang Haoyu would trick him.

Suspicion, dread, and panic instantly entwined his heart.

"What should we do next?" Wang Haoyu looked at him and asked tentatively, "Continue waiting for an opportunity, or look for another small city to develop?"

Xu Hao took a deep breath, the last trace of obsession in his eyes completely dissipating, and his tone was resolute: "I give up. Starting today, our team will disband right here."

As his words fell, he turned around and left without hesitation, faint divine power lingering around his body, obviously intentionally speeding up to guard against Wang Haoyu making a move from behind.

Looking at Xu Hao's hastily fleeing back, Wang Haoyu gently shook his head, his eyes full of regret: "What a pity."

But he did not leave. His gaze looked again toward the towering Mingkong City in the distance. After pondering for a moment, he turned and darted toward the dense forest on the other side.

The news of Xu Yuan's instant-kill fall spread like wind rapidly among the various tester teams outside the city.

After learning of this, many people had drastic changes in expression and tremendous shocks in their hearts.

Many of them had heard of Xu Yuan's reputation; his strength was incomparably formidable.

Yet even such a person was instantly killed, which was enough to prove that the terror of Mingkong City exceeded imagination.

Since the other party could instantly kill Xu Yuan, they could also instantly kill all of them!

For a time, all testers no longer dared to have the slightest contempt, and successively put aside their estrangement to actively contact each other.

In just one day, four or five scattered teams gathered in one place, temporarily forming a coalition army.

After a quick consultation, everyone finalized the plan: Tomorrow at noon, the entire army would sally forth together to jointly launch a fierce attack on Mingkong City.

As for the resource distribution and city ownership after breaking the city, no one proactively mentioned it.

Everyone harbored selfish motives in their hearts, feigning cooperation to break the situation, but actually harboring ulterior motives, each wanting to reap the fisherman's profit.

All parties thought they were the chess players.

No one knew that a thousand miles away, a dead and grim Undead Army was rushing over.