218: Chapter 218 A King's Aura? He's practically paralyzed from the waist down!

Smoke and dust slowly dissipated.

In the center of the sinkhole, it looked as if two small hills were struggling to arch up from the ruins.

The Mountain Demon pushed aside the rocks and Tiger Fiend's body pressing down on him, standing up unsteadily. The jet-black beast fur on his chest, of which he was so proud, was now covered in his own blood and Tiger Fiend's blood, a total mess.

His pair of orange-gold beast pupils held a mix of fierce flames and utter confusion.

On the other side, Tiger Fiend also staggered back into a prone position. His perfectly aerodynamic, streamlined silver fur was in disarray, dark blue beast blood continuously seeped from the corners of his mouth, and his eyes were extremely sinister.

Both of their brains were a mess.

Mountain Demon couldn't figure it out. He had clearly been suppressing that brat and having a blast, so how did he inexplicably get a backstab headbutt from his own brother?

Tiger Fiend was even more confused. He had clearly been about to claim three heads, so how did he inexplicably get dragged away by an irresistible force and then slam into his big brother's pectoral muscles?

Throughout the whole process, they didn't even see how their opponent made his move.

That weird recoil defense.

That weird confinement and pulling.

Completely incomprehensible.

Tiger Fiend's spine was still buzzing.

He glanced with his peripheral vision at the young figure standing on the mountain of corpses in the distance, swallowing a mouthful of blood foam.

If it weren't for Mountain Demon being right there, the first thing he would want to do right now wasn't revenge.

It was—run!

However, Su Ming couldn't be bothered to look at them anymore.

Because there was some movement behind him.

"Brother Ming!!"

Ye Xiao scrambled over from the rock wall in the distance, covered in blood, howling.

Passing by a Tier 6 Magic Spider trembling on the ground, he even kicked it.

"What are you looking at? Haven't you seen a savior return in triumph?"

The Tier 6 Magic Spider, which had broken three legs, was kicked over and let out a whimper even more aggrieved than Ye Xiao's.

"Thud!"

Ye Xiao performed an incredibly smooth kneel, clutching Su Ming's thigh with both arms, burying his face in it and refusing to let go.

"Waa, Brother Ming! I thought I was going to die a virgin for the country today!"

"That dead cat really wanted to kill me! Really! It was off by a millimeter! A millimeter!!"

"If you had moved 0.3 seconds later, your most loyal, most handsome, most understanding little brother would have been turned into a figurine by that dead cat!"

Su Ming looked down at Ye Xiao, who was wailing on his leg, and his mouth twitched.

"Get up."

"Not getting up! I'm spooked, let me hug for a while longer..."

Su Ming didn't actually kick him.

It wasn't because he was soft-hearted.

It was simply because Ye Xiao was still crackling with lightning arcs, so hugging him was like free charging—no loss in taking advantage of it.

On the other side, Young Master Gu Lingfeng also climbed up from the rubble pile.

He walked near Night Crow and Ye Canglan, first imitating the style on TV, stiffly giving a non-standard military salute to Ye Canglan, then took two Advanced recovery potions from his space ring and handed them over.

Ye Canglan's dark purple vertical pupils looked at this young man with a face full of gold sand stains, but did not reach out.

Young Master Gu Lingfeng didn't waste words and shoved them directly into Night Crow's hand.

"Use it for your dad, I have more here."

Night Crow was silent for a moment, took them, and helped Ye Canglan inject them.

The moment the potion entered his body, the deathly gray on Ye Canglan's weathered face faded visibly, and his breathing stabilized.

Young Master Gu Lingfeng patted Night Crow's shoulder and pointed his chin at the figure in the distance who was struggling with Ye Xiao.

"Let's go over too, it's safest near Big Brother."

He paused and took the first step himself.

He had completely lost the airs of the Hunter Association Young Lord now.

This big brother of mine is so strong he's no longer in the category of humans!

Never mind himself, I'm afraid if his dad—the Hunter Association General President—came over,

He would have to respectfully call him 'Brother' upon meeting!

Thinking about it this way... wouldn't his own seniority go up too?

Hey!

When I get back, I'll take back all the shares of the most profitable auction houses of the Family, and then give half to Big Brother!

Let's see if those old things in the Family dare to whisper behind his back in the future!

The more Young Master Gu Lingfeng thought, the more excited he got, his steps becoming three points lighter.

...

Night Crow supported his father and walked up to Su Ming in one step.

Ye Canglan's gaze scrutinized the young man who had rewritten his fate for five years at such close range for the first time.

No earth-shattering Source Energy fluctuations, no terrifying Killing Intent; he looked like an ordinary, just slightly taller, boy next door.

Yet it was this young man who had just caught a punch weighing several hundred tons with one hand.

He confined a Tier 7 Beast King from a distance, then threw the opponent like a shot put.

"Boss."

Night Crow's voice interrupted Ye Canglan's thoughts.

He stood in front of Su Ming.

"This is my father, Ye Canglan."

After speaking, he turned back to his father.

"Dad, this is Su Ming, a freshman from the Six-School Joint Recruitment. This time, it was I who asked him to help bring me here to find you."

Night Crow paused, his tone devoid of any hesitation, instead carrying a firm sense of pride.

"At the same time, he is also the boss I have sworn to serve for the next five years."

He spoke neither humbly nor arrogantly.

Upon hearing his son's introduction, Ye Canglan roughly guessed the ins and outs.

Five years of service.

Xiao Mo had used five years to become strong, then chose to follow this person.

If it were before, he might have felt distressed, thinking his son had lost out.

But after seeing that scene just now...

This Deputy Commander of the Federation's Western Frontier Branch looked at the young man in front of him who looked more like a Vicious Beast than himself and slowly straightened his body.

He retracted the remaining spider legs on his back, brought his feet together, and raised his right hand.

He gave a standard Federation military salute to Su Ming.

"Ye Canglan, thank you, Mr. Su, for taking care of my son Xiao Mo along the way!"

"It is Xiao Mo's honor to serve Mr. Su! In the future, as long as there is any place you need me, Ye Canglan, I will go through fire and water without hesitation!"

Su Ming looked at this soldier in front of him.

Even though half his face was covered by a hideous mask and he was covered in wounds, that upright, pine-like military bearing carved into his bones could not be suppressed.

He had really found him.

The mission of this trip, Perfection.

Su Ming put away the usual playful grin on his lips, kicked away Ye Xiao, who was still hugging his leg, stood straight, and returned a standard military salute.

"Southern Military Region 8th Independent Regiment, reserve, Su Ming! Greetings, Commander Ye!"

A flash of surprise passed through Ye Canglan's dark purple vertical pupils.

A soldier?

This kid is already a soldier?

He had originally been worried that Night Crow following Su Ming would delay his enlistment in the army.

"Good! Heroes truly emerge from the youth!"

Ye Canglan nodded approvingly, "Night Crow is in your hands from now on!"

"Federation soldiers are one Family! As long as he follows Mr. Su! It doesn't matter which military region it is!"

On the side, Ye Xiao and Young Master Gu Lingfeng were not having it when they heard this.

Good heavens!

Ginger really is older and spicier!

As soon as they met, he directly tied the relationship down!

"Hey! I acknowledge it too! I acknowledge it too!"

Ye Xiao did a carp leap and jumped up, squeezing to the front: "Uncle Ye is right! Federation soldiers are one Family! I acknowledge it too! I'll sign up for the army when I get back!"

Young Master Gu Lingfeng was even more ruthless, directly taking out his communicator: "I'll have my dad dissolve the Hunter Association right now, and everyone will come over to be grunts for Big Brother!"

Everyone: "..."

Ye Canglan looked at this group of noisy young people and smiled for the first time in a long while.

The bestiality in those vertical pupils almost completely dissipated.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Su Ming kicked the two clowns away, one by one.

He looked back at Ye Canglan, thinking of the symbiotic giant web in the canyon, and the thousands of Advanced Magic Spiders that were Sealed.

Linking that to the rampaging Iron-Spine Rhinoceros from before...

He couldn't help but ask: "Commander Ye, can that 'deep sequence' control Source Beasts?"

Ye Canglan didn't expect him to ask this and nodded slightly.

"Yes. It's a mental domination sequence. It can take over the consciousness network of Source Beast groups."

He looked at the Tier 6 Magic Spiders in the distance that were tied by spider silk and trembling, his eyes filled with complex emotions.

"But the price is the host's mental burden. The chaotic beast thoughts of thousands of Advanced Magic Spiders pouring in are enough to crush anyone's sanity."

Su Ming understood in a second.

No wonder the last page of the diary said "Kill me".

The more this thing dominates, the more sober one is, the more painful it becomes.

The more it dominates, the closer to madness one gets.

And his previous actions wiped out thousands of spiders...

It was equivalent to directly removing the mountain of high mental pressure pressing down on Ye Canglan's brain.

The few dozen Tier 6s left behind were exactly the amount the other party could easily control.

"Thanks to you."

Ye Canglan looked up at the young man who was half a head taller than him.

"That web broke, and I truly woke up."

Su Ming scratched the back of his head.

To be honest, he really hadn't thought that much.

At the time, his mind was full of "So many spiders are all mass points."

But well...

Since he confirmed the spiders were useful to the other party, as his employee's Family, he felt embarrassed to take everything, leaving the guy as a commander of nothing.

Those Tier 4 and Tier 5 Magic Spiders would be collected later, and most of the Tier 6 ones had been practiced to death by him as sparring partners...

And the remaining few dozen Tier 6 Magic Spiders...

They had also been squeezed dry just now!

There really wasn't much utility value left!

Might as well do a favor.

With his mind made up, Su Ming jerked his wrist.

"Whoosh!"

Dozens of spider silk reins pulled taut, along with the dozens of Tier 6 elite Magic Spiders tied to the other end.

This group of high-level Vicious Beasts that should have been invincible in the sinkhole were now like a pile of large packages violently delivered by a courier, smashing precisely at Ye Canglan's feet.

"Uncle Ye!"

Su Ming's address had changed.

With a bit of guilty generosity on his face, he flicked his wrist, and the spider silk tied to the necks of the Magic Spiders snapped.

Then, he cleared his throat solemnly.

"It is said that troops should be elite, not numerous!"

"I saw that the rabble from before were of no use, so I helped you clear them out."

He pointed to the pile of "wounded soldiers" wriggling at his feet, his face full of sincerity.

"Look at the remaining few dozen! They are all good seedlings with strange bone structures, one in a million! Their hardware has the Kingly Posture!"

"Now I return these elite soldiers to their owner as a meeting gift for our first meeting; you must accept them!"

Upon hearing this, Ye Canglan slowly lowered his head.

Looking at these "Kingly" specimens with "strange bone structures" at his feet.

The one on the left had three of its eight legs broken and was wriggling on the ground in circles, its movement comparable to a drunken spinning top.

The one on the right had both chelicerae broken off, and was leaking green blood foam from its mouth, looking like a centenarian who had just had teeth pulled.

The rest were no better; either their back armor was cracked over a large area, or half their compound eyes were blind.

One even had its white belly turned up, its six residual legs waving feebly in the air, looking just like it was doing pre-death calisthenics.

...

On Ye Canglan's resolute and blood-stained face, the muscles began to twitch uncontrollably.

This is a Kingly Posture?

That's more like high paraplegia, okay!

Looking at Ye Canglan's constipated expression, as if he had swallowed a handful of flies, Su Ming coughed twice, feeling that the appearance of this batch of "gifts" was indeed a little... lacking.

However, as a black-hearted boss with top-tier professional ethics, he would not allow his image to be damaged!

His face sank suddenly, and he turned around abruptly.

He pointed at the Mountain Demon who had just climbed up from the ruins in the distance with extreme grief, righteous and heartbroken!

"Uncle Ye! Don't look at them as if they are a little... chipped right now."

"But this was definitely caused by force majeure!"

"It's all that dead monkey's fault! The top-tier troops I carefully selected for you were smashed and fractured by that turtle fist it threw just now!"

"You just make do for a moment, rest on the side first."

"I'll go get justice for you right now!"

After saying that, Su Ming turned around abruptly.

He strode towards the two confused Beast Kings in the ruins with aggressive momentum.

As he walked, he raised his hand and pointed at the noses of Mountain Demon and Tiger Fiend.

His voice echoed in the empty sinkhole, arrogant to the extreme.

"Hey! That long-haired big gorilla over there! And that brainless little wild cat!"

"I see you two, one golden-haired and one silver-haired, are clearly not good things!"

"You broke the high-end gifts I was going to give someone, what are you going to use to pay for them today?!"

"..."