"You look a lot like the guy I fought with before."

The man closed his eyes as if in deep thought, and after a while, he remembered the name of that person. He opened his eyes and smiled, saying, "I remember now, Chen San's nephew, named Chen Jingtan."

"I don't know why, but you all seem to think that I'm a smart person, with complex thoughts and long-term, convoluted goals in everything I do... Do I look like that kind of person to you?"

Susa was stunned.

He looked at the crow with a complicated expression, thinking to himself, aren't you that kind of person? Showing weakness to the enemy, luring them in before striking, that's not a strategy that a simple-minded person could come up with.

Song Ci sighed softly, "So the things you say and do are all the same, either using your own reputation or analyzing the pros and cons with me. Why can't you just speak your true thoughts from the heart?"

Upon hearing this, Susa had a vague sense of foreboding.

He took a few steps back, no longer getting too close to this dangerous man.

"You say so much, but you're just afraid of getting hit, right?"

Susa's mouth twitched. Who would speak like that?

Unfortunately, the crow was that kind of person.

Song Ci said lightly, "If you're afraid of getting hit, just ask for mercy directly. That's the simplest way, and things wouldn't be so complicated, right?"

At the moment when her voice fell...

A tremendous sense of oppression suddenly came from in front of them.

Susa widened his eyes, looking at the fist that was rapidly enlarging in front of him.

He raised his foot and stepped down, and in an instant, countless water droplets surrounded him, forming a solid water wall at the critical moment, but it was shattered upon contact with the fist!

"Crack!"

The water wall instantly shattered.

Susa was like a kite with a broken string, thrown into the air, a series of blood beads scattered in the air. It all happened so quickly that no one had time to react. By the time they realized that the crow had made a move, it was all over.

Song Ci disappeared from where she was and appeared in Susa's original position.

For him, whether he took one step back or ten steps back made no difference.

The attack happened in an instant.

Susa lost consciousness, and the sky was shattered. The faint blue arc turned into a sky full of flying fireflies, and the frozen ice bridge on the river turned into scattered debris. The previously solid river mist was instantly blown away by the howling wind.

The mist dispersed, and the cold river in the long night became clear.

The flames of war that seemed to have been extinguished were rekindled at this moment. However, the heavy motorcycles accompanying the convoy lost the support of the ice bridge and slowly fell into the river.

The headlights went out, and the light disappeared. Only the sincere transcendent beings who still had consciousness realized belatedly... how dark this long night actually was.

They thought everything was over, but they didn't expect Song Ci to act unreasonably.

Was he trying to completely destroy the peace between the Sincere Hall in the north and south?

"That's it."

Unexpectedly, after defeating Susa, Song Ci put his hands back in his pockets.

He no longer had any intention of making a move and said to the only one in the convoy who still had the power to speak, Qilin, "Take your brothers back to South Bay... They are all alive. Find a hospital and they'll be fine after lying down for ten days or half a month."

Qilin stared at the crow.

Sweat dripped from his forehead... What was this damn man thinking? After hitting Susa, did he really think that nothing had happened tonight?

Qilin knew that after tonight, his adoptive father's anger would be unleashed on Hua Zhi, Zhao Shi, and this man who had violated the ban on martial arts.

A huge tsunami would be stirred up in the underground world.

...

...

"We're almost there."

Chu Ling reminded, "I've located the crow... He's now downstream of the South Bay River, not far from here."

"He's shifting the battlefield to the riverbank."

Gu Shen vaguely guessed Song Ci's intentions. He knew that he was in South Bay... so Song Ci hoped that he could find him faster.

"Perhaps it's because Chen Wu didn't appear on the front lines that he made such a decision?"

Gu Shen murmured softly, "Although from what I know about the crow, he doesn't seem like such a meticulous person... Can you 'monitor' the situation over there?"

"It's very difficult." Chu Ling quickly said, "By stealing Deep Sea's permissions, I can locate him, but there are very few surveillance cameras on the riverbank of South Bay. I mobilized a few drones that were close to hibernation, but there's a domain deployed on the river, and the drones' line of sight is completely blocked."

"This is to prevent ordinary people from entering the battlefield..." Gu Shen narrowed his eyes, feeling somewhat worried, "It seems that the transcendent beings of the Sincere Hall in the south are well-prepared... Can the crow hold up?"

"There are no abnormal life signs, so it doesn't seem like he's injured."

Chu Ling suddenly said, "Wait a minute, just now, the domain was lifted..."

Then she fell silent.

Gu Shen, driving towards the river, felt curious and uneasy, "How's the battle going?"

"It's over..." Chu Ling's tone was somewhat strange, "Song Ci is unharmed, and all the members of the Sincere Hall have been defeated. According to the records, the outcome of this battle was not in much doubt, but the difference in strength between them shouldn't have been so great. Chen San's four disciples are not unknown figures, and the lowest rank among them is a transcendent being of the eighth level of Deep Sea. Susa is a transcendent being of the tenth level of the natural system. At the moment when the domain was lifted, I captured a segment of the image."

"Drip—"

The image captured by the drone appeared in front of Gu Shen's glasses.

In the mist, a faint blue arc flickered, and a layer of expanding domain that covered the sky was shattered, and a figure was thrown out in a very miserable state.

The tenth level of Deep Sea, thrown nearly a hundred meters by a single punch.

Just by looking at this image, Gu Shen felt a faint sense of pain from Susa's perspective.

His expression was complicated as he murmured, "Song Ci said that one punch could take down twenty of me... Is he being too conservative?""Song Ci never connects to the deep zone, so his strength has always been a mystery," Chu Ling said. "But judging from his performance in conquering the northern hall of the Chengxin Society, his achievements in the deep zone are probably at the eleventh level... However, that punch just now was not something an ordinary eleventh level could deliver. Chen San's four sworn sons suffered a great loss; they completely misjudged Song Ci's strength."

The mental link in the deep zone can only serve as a basic assessment.

It cannot truly measure a person's strength or weakness.

The deeper one reaches in the deep zone... it only means that one has more comprehensive control over their Transcendent powers, and theoretically, the stronger their combat power should be.

But real combat is another matter entirely.

"He is an unconventional combat genius, acting on intuition," Chu Ling quickly analyzed. "Many of Song Ci's actions... cannot be gauged by common sense, as if... he was born with an incredibly sensitive radar, without the need for much consideration, just by following his heart, he can exert extremely powerful combat strength."

Gu Shen glanced warily behind him, a long straight line in the distance, and at the edge of his peripheral vision, he could already catch a glimpse of a vague car shadow following.

Chen Wu was right behind him.

Their speeds were gradually closing in.

"Then may I boldly ask, can this radar see me?"

"He chose to move the battlefield... probably by intuition," Chu Ling suggested. "We can't worry about that now, let's just drive straight through."

Gu Shen glanced at the fuel gauge, which was nearing empty. This heavy motorcycle was indeed fast, but it was also a gas guzzler. From escaping the Nanwan Building to the riverside, it was nearly out of fuel.

He took a deep breath.

Twisted the throttle to the max!

"Boom!"

The heavy motorcycle, burning its last oil, roared wildly towards the riverside.

...

...

"Retreat!"

Qi Lu issued the final order.

In this battle, they were utterly defeated.

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The members of the convoy, stepping on the river surface covered with a thin layer of ice, supported each other, moving towards the riverbank. After the sky had shattered, even retreating became a strenuous task... requiring Transcendents with natural powers to create a path for retreat.

Just as the Transcendents of the Chengxin Society were preparing to leave the scene in dejection.

A roar.

Pierced the long night.

Someone looked up in astonishment to see a blinding long light, breaking through the night.

It was a heavy motorcycle flying out from the guardrail along the river road, burning the last boiling blood in its fuel tank. Someone saw the stopwatch image specially engraved on the side of the motorcycle.

"Is this... reinforcements?"

Qi Lu was somewhat bewildered.

He quickly realized that this was not reinforcements.

He had never seen reinforcements come alone, nor did he recognize the strange young man on the heavy motorcycle.

What exactly was going on?

Then, a second roar sounded.

The guardrail of the river road was completely shattered, and following it, the second motorcycle smashed through the guardrail and flew out.

"It's reinforcements!"

Someone shouted loudly.

Everyone recognized the driver on the second motorcycle, the curly-haired, gloomy young man.

Qi Lu squinted in the strong light but still recognized the other party.

Because that young man named Chen Wu was too dazzling.

Qi Lu suddenly realized that his previous thought was wrong... reinforcements coming alone could work, as long as the person arriving was strong enough.

The highway was built up, with a height difference of several tens of meters from the river, hence the guardrails for protection.

But at this moment, the fragments of the guardrail flew together with the two motorcycles.

The cold wind howled fiercely.

Chen Wu took his hands off the handlebars, the vehicle flew, crossing in the air, and at the moment of weightlessness, he crouched on the motorcycle, as if standing on a plank, and suddenly exerted force—

The entire heavy motorcycle beneath him exploded like fireworks.

Bang.

This burst of fireworks completely illuminated the long night.

Among the countless sparks, he fell like a meteor.

Gu Shen twisted the throttle to the limit in mid-air, but at this moment, no matter how he twisted the throttle, there was no way to accelerate... He could only watch helplessly as, in the instant the fireworks exploded, Chen Wu crashed towards him like a shooting star.

At this moment.

Song Ci, standing alone by the cold river, suddenly moved.

Two pairs of flip-flops collided in a kick.

The fireworks shattered.

The long night was dazzling.