Chapter 774: Let Them Go

"Go?"

Zhou Huai put away his smile and looked at him expressionlessly.

He sneered.

"If you just leave empty-handed like this, the task Mr. Duan gave you to guide your fellow clansmen hasn't been completed…"

"Do you think he will let you off easily?"

"Won't your end still be death all the same?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the Grand Elder and the dozen or so surviving Ancient Awakened Ones stopped their movements upon hearing them.

They looked at each other in dismay and lowered their heads one after another.

Mr. Duan sent them to Great Xia precisely to bring back the Ancient Awakened Ones captured by the Great Xia Military Department to the Dawnbreaker Guild, thereby expanding their forces to contend with Heavenly Dao.

As a result, not only did they return empty-handed, but they also lost half of their elite combat strength.

Given Mr. Duan's indifferent and ruthless methods, if he were to find out that they had fled from battle and even begged for mercy on their knees…

What awaited them was Soul extraction a million times more painful than death! Their fate would not be pleasant!

Advancing is death, and retreating is also death!

Just when all the Dawnbreaker Guild members lowered their heads, and even some were already prepared to close their eyes and await death.

Zhou Huai suddenly changed his tone.

The chill on his face faded, replaced by a smile.

"However, everyone rest assured."

Zhou Huai patted the scales of the Dragon beneath him.

"I just said, not only will I not make a move against you."

"On the contrary, I can still do you a big favor."

He paused, looked at this group of old monsters, and said word by word: "I can hand over all the Ancient Awakened Ones currently captured by Great Xia, completely intact… to you."

"What?"

The Grand Elder raised his battered head, his sole remaining eye opened wide, and he looked at Zhou Huai.

He even stretched out his charred fingers to pick his ear, thinking his hearing had malfunctioned during the previous thunderous sound.

He wants to hand all the captured Awakened Ones over to us?

How is this possible?

Not only the Grand Elder, but even Zhao Qingcang and Lin Zhu, who had been hovering in the distance, widened their mouths upon hearing this sentence.

The two looked at each other and both saw the other's wide-open eyes.

"Those Ancient Awakened Ones were personally ordered to be captured by the Star Sovereign before!" Lin Zhu lowered her voice.

"They were even sent into the underground Prison Number Zero at the very first moment!" Zhao Qingcang clenched his teeth, "Now we are going to give away all these chips that were captured with such difficulty?"

"Could he be compromising with the Dawnbreaker Guild?"

"Absolutely impossible! A Quasi-God Level Abyssal Magic Dragon is enough to crush everything; he doesn't need to fear this group of defeated opponents at all. Then why is it?"

Zhao Qingcang frowned, deducing various possibilities in his mind, but in the face of Zhou Huai's layout, he found that his thinking simply couldn't keep up.

However, whether it was Zhao Qingcang or Lin Zhu, they both chose silence with extreme tacit understanding.

Gale winds howled in the high altitude, blowing the charred debris on the Grand Elder's body down in a rustle.

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his heart beating within his battered chest cavity.

The Grand Elder's sole remaining eye widened, and a leaking-wind-like sound came from his battered throat: "Y-Your Excellency… Are… Are your words true?"

To hand over all the Ancient Awakened Ones captured by Great Xia to them completely intact?

Could there be such a pie-falling-from-the-sky good thing in the world?

Zhou Huai looked down condescendingly at this monster whose body was half-turned into charcoal and smiled.

"What I said is naturally true."

His tone was calm. This light-as-a-feather sentence made all the Dawnbreaker Guild powerhouses present kowtow repeatedly.

"Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord, for sparing our lives!"

"Lord is magnanimous! After we go back, we will put in a good word for you in front of Mr. Duan!"

Those dozen or so surviving SS-grade and S-grade ancient powerhouses kowtowed in the Void Realm one by one, thanking him repeatedly, fearing that Zhou Huai would go back on his word.

The Grand Elder's chest heaved, and the heart that had been hanging in his throat finally dropped to the ground.

He secretly gnashed his teeth and grinned — this young man possessed a Quasi-God Level Abyssal Magic Dragon and was outrageously strong, but after all, he still feared Mr. Duan's mighty reputation!

As long as they could bring this batch of Awakened Ones back to the Dawnbreaker Guild and fill the vacancy in combat strength, Mr. Duan would never pursue their guilt of fleeing from battle! Even, when Mr. Duan's world-destroying plan was completely finished and the day Heavenly Dao collapsed arrived, he would lead a large army to flatten this Great Xia territory all over again and wash away today's humiliation!

Zhou Huai ignored this group of ants; he turned his head and looked at the highest commander of the Great Xia Military Department not far away.

"Marshal Zhao."

Zhou Huai's voice reached Zhao Qingcang's ears.

"Trouble you to go and bring those people all out."

Zhao Qingcang was startled.

He glanced at the Dawnbreaker Guild crowd, then looked at Zhou Huai, and frowned.

"Zhou Huai…" Zhao Qingcang stopped talking mid-sentence.

"Do you really want them to take all the people away?"

Zhou Huai understood Marshal Zhao's concerns.

Although those were the Ancient Remnant Clan, they had all occupied the bodies of Great Xia citizens.

Recently, the Great Xia Military Department had been researching how to drive these Ancient Awakened Ones out of their bodies.

Unfortunately, there had been no progress for a long time.

If these people were taken away, the original owners of their bodies might truly never come back.

Zhou Huai emphasized it once more.

"Marshal Zhao, bring the people out. I will have a way."

Lin Zhu on the side tugged at Zhao Qingcang's hand.

Giving a look of tacit consent.

Zhao Qingcang sighed.

"Very well."

Finished speaking, Zhao Qingcang hesitated no longer; he stood at attention in mid-air, gave Zhou Huai a standard Great Xia military salute, and then turned around, turning into a stream of light as he headed straight for Command Room Number Zero deep underground in the Imperial Capital.

Watching Zhao Qingcang's departing back, the Grand Elder's hanging heart was completely put at ease.

"Lord's word is worth a thousand gold!" The Grand Elder smiled ingratiatingly, the smile squeezed out of his battered face uglier than a ghost's, "As long as the handover is complete, we will get the hell out of Great Xia immediately, and never stay a second longer!"

Zhou Huai crossed his arms, his golden hair flying in the fierce wind, standing quietly atop the Dragon's head, admiring the scenery below.

Time ticked away minute by minute.

About twenty minutes later.

On the ground in the suburbs near the Imperial Capital, a low engine sound came over.

Before long, a dozen heavy armored military trucks, under the tight escort of a large number of elite soldiers from the Great Xia Military Department, drove slowly out of the secret base's floodgates.

Zhou Huai gently patted the horns of Magic Dragon Xiao Hei, and the massive Abyssal Magic Dragon let out a low snort, flapping its sky-covering Dragon wings, following unhurriedly, and finally hovering above the open space in the suburbs.

The convoy drove slowly from the edge of the city to the uninhabited suburbs.

A harsh screech of brakes sounded, and a dozen military trucks stopped in a flat open space.

The fully armed Great Xia soldiers quickly got out of the vehicles, holding heavy magic guide rifles, and vigilantly set up a cordon around the area.

Zhao Qingcang stepped down from the first off-road vehicle, looked up at the giant Dragon suspended in mid-air, then turned his head to look at the Dawnbreaker Guild members, and issued an order.

"Open the truck doors."

The heavy metal rear compartment doors of the dozen trucks were pulled open by the soldiers simultaneously.

"Everyone, the people have been brought to you." Zhao Qingcang stepped back expressionlessly.