Chapter 778: Departure to Ancient Times and

"Now is not the time to sit down, chat leisurely, and drink tea with you."

Zhou Huai looked far into the end of the horizon, "I still have more important things to do right away."

Hearing this, Zhao Qingcang frowned and pressed his lips tightly together.

"Are you going to deal with that… Mr. Duan whom even you dread?"

As the commander of Great Xia, he perceived the sense of urgency in Zhou Huai's words. Just how terrifying must an enemy be to make someone like the god-like Zhou Huai feel troubled?

"With your current strength, are you still not his match?" Zhao Qingcang pursued the question unwillingly.

Zhou Huai nodded, put away his smile, and straightened his face.

"To be honest, it is difficult. Extremely difficult."

"Not only has that old monster lived for countless years and completely become a Transcendent, but he also holds the Origin trump card capable of changing the course of the world." Zhou Huai clenched his fists, "For this battle, I don't have absolute certainty either; I can only try my best."

These words made the surroundings quiet down.

Zhao Qingcang was silent for a long time, lowering his eyelids. He flew forward, extended his calloused hand, and patted Zhou Huai's shoulder.

"Zhou Huai… our strength is already far from being able to help you."

This iron-willed veteran cleared his throat, "This path, you can only walk it alone. The future of Great Xia, and even the future of the world, rests on you."

"You… must take care!"

Lin Zhu at the side also had slightly red eyes and nodded in agreement: "That's right. No matter how big the wind and rain outside are, you just need to remember that Great Xia is always your home."

Speaking of this, Lin Zhu thought of something, smiled, and tried to ease the atmosphere.

"Right, when you return safely, remember to come drink a cup of wedding wine." She hooked her arm around Zhao Qingcang's and said softly, "Qingcang and I have already decided to hold the wedding in the Imperial Capital three months later."

"At that time, you, the God of War of Great Xia, must come and be a witness for us."

"Oh?"

Zhou Huai was somewhat surprised, sweeping his gaze back and forth between the two, then looking at Zhao Qingcang, and couldn't help teasing, "Marshal Zhao, can this be considered an iron tree blooming?"

"True." Zhou Huai sighed, "Since you've been given the rare chance to live another life, you must firmly grasp the person in front of you this time to make up for past regrets. Don't be like before, throwing all your thoughts into the military department."

Being teased like this by a young man in his early twenties, the usually dignified Zhao Qingcang rarely blushed and coughed awkwardly twice.

"Anyway… leave Great Xia to us, go ahead with your mind at ease!" Zhao Qingcang straightened his back, looking straight at Zhou Huai, "Even if it means fighting to the last soldier, I will guard your rear!"

"With your words, I can rest easy."

Zhou Huai said no more.

Time was pressing; that lunatic Mr. Duan would devour more Origin of the old era in some corner of the world, and he had to race against time.

"Let's go. See you in three months."

Zhou Huai waved to the two, then leaped up, landing steadily on Xiao Hei's broad dragon back.

"Roar——!"

Feeling his master's Battle Intent, Abyss Dragon Xiao Hei let out a deafening long roar to the sky. It flapped its black dragon wings that blotted out the sky, and the violent hurricane blew away the surrounding clouds.

"Bang!"

The sound of a sonic boom rang out, and the massive dragon transformed into a streak of black lightning, disappearing at the end of the horizon in the blink of an eye, leaving behind a Void Realm crack that couldn't heal for a long time.

Zhao Qingcang hovered mid-air, his gaze lingering for a long time on the disappearing figure of the black dragon, slow to recover his senses.

"What are you thinking about?" Lin Zhu gently held his hand and asked softly.

Zhao Qingcang let out a long sigh and patted his chest.

"I am just rejoicing…"

"Rejoicing that such a terrifying monster is a person of Great Xia. If he had been born in the Dawnbreaker Guild or the Free Federation… then this world would have long had no place for us to stand."

…

Meanwhile.

Tens of thousands of meters above in the high altitude, gale winds howled.

But the Abyssal Magic Dragon's formidable shield blocked all the fierce winds outside, and the dragon's back was as steady as walking on flat ground.

Zhou Huai sat cross-legged with his eyes slightly closed, organizing the massive power he had just fused within his body.

"Whoosh—"

Just at this moment, a ball of green life energy slowly condensed in front of Zhou Huai.

The light dissipated, and the Goddess of Nature Chun, transformed into a peerlessly beautiful physical form, appeared on the dragon's back. Her long green hair fluttered gently in the breeze, and her beautiful eyes, which had seen through the vicissitudes of the years, gazed at Zhou Huai.

"That trick of yours just now to harvest faith was truly played to perfection." Chun covered her mouth and chuckled, raising her eyebrows, "Not only did you coax the high-level officials of Great Xia's military department to be utterly devoted, but you also casually sheared the wool of tens of millions of Mortals. With this foundation, you have one more bargaining chip to resist the backlash of Heavenly Dao."

Zhou Huai opened his eyes and glanced at her.

"This is called mutual benefit and win-win. I saved their lives, and they provide me with the power to counter the world-destroying crisis; it's very fair."

Zhou Huai stood up, walked to the edge of the dragon's head, and overlooked the mountains and rivers flashing past below.

"The progress of the world-class quest Chaos of the Eight Directions issued by the System is already two-eighths. That old dog Mr. Duan not only devoured the Blood Ancestor, but is also frantically searching for other ruins monsters."

"We can no longer defend passively."

Chun put away her smile and straightened her face. She nodded; as the former companion of the origin sacred tree, she knew Mr. Duan's terrifying ambition better than anyone else.

"The mess on Great Xia's side has basically subsided, and that Grand Elder you let go should already be on the way leading the path to the Dawnbreaker Guild's lair." Chun looked at Zhou Huai and asked, "Then what about us? Where are we going?"

"Where?"

He raised his right hand and pointed to the distant west. There lay a dead desperate land shrouded in flying yellow sand and ancient curses.

"To Ancient Egypt."

At the same time, the Free Federation.

This was once the most famous Old Days Mountains within the Free Federation. The active volcano groups stretching for thousands of miles erupted with scorching magma year-round, serving as a Holy Land dreamed of by countless fire-type Professionals.

However, at this moment, this continuous volcano group had been completely erased from this world.

The continuous volcano groups were flattened by high-dimensional forces, turning into a bottomless wasteland.

Instead, they were forcefully pushed into a bottomless wasteland by a high-dimensional force superior to everything else!

Within a radius of a hundred miles, there were no living creatures.

The originally churning sea of magma was forcibly frozen by an unspeakable black Law, turning into black colored glaze all over the mountains and plains. There was no more scorching heat in the air, leaving only irritable and spine-chilling spatial fluctuations remaining.

Above the firmament, that huge black breach that once represented the anger of the will of heaven and brought down endless destructive thunder was now weakly closing, leaving only faint purple electricity flashing in the clouds.

And in the center of the devastated battlefield.

"Hoo… Chi…"

Accompanied by heavy breathing like a broken bellows, a lava giant over a hundred meters tall fell onto the black glazed earth.

This descendant of the Fire God who once called the wind and rain in the old era, and even made the Holy Lord Francis dread him by three points—Chaidamen, was in an extremely miserable state at this moment.

His proud, purportedly indestructible lava body had actually been forcibly melted in half by a bizarre black substance!