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Their individual strength is by no means inferior to that of a dragon, and their bloodline can even exert a subtle suppression on dragons.

The head of the Dead City Merchant Guild is now a centenarian. Although this old woman is completely withered, she is still a peak-level expert in the Godhood realm.

"Qin He, the Silver Dragon...this scoundrel must not be allowed to live."

The moment the words of decisive battle were uttered, a snowy owl immediately flew down and landed on the chief's wrist.

"Chief, I've thoroughly assessed Qin He's abilities. Now, let me tear him to pieces..."

Immediately, the snowy owl, which was only the size of a rugby ball, spread its wings and disappeared from the spot, instantly teleporting to the location of the Dragon Plains Dead City via a spatial scroll.

At the mid-stage of Sainthood, the divine beast Golden-Winged Garuda. It is an ancient divine beast that usually enjoys eating the flesh and blood of dragons, and is therefore hunted down by the dragon race.

The one flying towards the dead city is one of the few remaining descendants of the Golden-Winged Garuda in this world.

It is said that in ancient times, the Garuda was a being capable of achieving unparalleled power, which could support its bloodline holders to reach absolute strength.

Now, Garuda is about to meet the silver dragon Qin He and clear the way for the Death City merchant group... This trip should have been incredibly smooth.

But why did Garuda suddenly feel a tremor that came and went during its flight? It was as if some powerful being was watching it.

……

"Your Majesty, the little bird has already flown away. Its senses are very sharp; it should be something that can bring amusement to His Highness Qin He and His Highness Xiu Xiu."

The world's most powerful dragon lich transformed into human form, his eyes, gleaming with dark flames, fixed on Garuda. If this Ebony Death God so desired, the golden-winged roc would be reduced to ashes on the spot.

Although she was a dragon lich, she should theoretically not possess a physical body or corresponding desires. However, with Dorgosos's invincible cultivation, she had long since broken through the barrier of the physical body.

The alluring naked body in the air, a work of art in itself, was wrapped in rings of shiny bandages for a negligible amount of protection.

Although in this world, going naked is almost the norm for some orcs and dragons, Dorgothos still wanted to keep a low profile during his trip to the human city.

"Great~ Let's do it your way from now on, but don't steal all of Qin He's fun... that would be too boring."

Tiamat gave instructions on Dragon Island... Then, Dorgosos vanished from the spot, his figure instantly disappearing into the old woman's dwelling!

……

Sensing the impending danger, the old woman immediately grabbed a sharp sword.

"Not bad, vendor. Now... put away your toothpicks and kneel down!"

There was absolutely no possibility of resistance.

Although both are at the peak of godhood, the old woman is only at the "early stage" of that peak godhood stage.

Even the peak of godhood is divided into early, middle, late and perfect levels.

Only those who have surpassed the peak of the Godhood Realm and reached the Great Perfection stage are like Bahamut and Tiamat, half-step Creation Realm dragons.

With his combined cultivation as a black dragon lich and mage, Dorgosos definitely possesses the terrifying strength of a peak god.

Even Lutafya's mother, Lucia, the strongest woman on the Jotun continent and a Lich Princess at the half-step Creation Realm, couldn't kill Dorgosos.

The old woman never expected that he would voluntarily put down his weapon...

Duo Gaosuosi, who usually lives in seclusion on Five Emperor Dragon Island, actually came out in person for Qin He!

When the three Dragon Kings arrived at the Dead City, they easily concealed their presence. This prevented the merchant guild from learning that Qin He had obtained the future Dragon Emperor's throne.

“Very well, now let’s make a will. Give the highest jurisdiction of your merchant group to the most beautiful young woman, or of course—a mature woman is also acceptable.”

"At the same time, you must ensure that after your death... the new leader can be respected by the people. After that, your Dead City Merchant Guild should harass Silver Dragon Qin He from time to time."

"But remember, the new leader must be someone Qin He can deal with step by step, slowly, by sending out henchmen who are strong enough to be taken care of... but not so easily killed. Send out the more interesting ones first, understand?"

After compelling the old woman to write her will and make all the necessary preparations, Dorgosos immediately ripped out her heart. Thus, a powerful figure at the peak of godhood met a violent end.

Having achieved her goal, Dorgosos flew to the nearest human city-state. Now she would stay in the city and find a bard to listen to some poems.

Next, she would secretly ensure the validity of this will. The Death City Merchant Guild, as an organization, already had enough influence for Qin He to hone his skills.

Even without direct intervention, they could hire other forces. For Qin He, this kind of interesting experience was exactly what he needed.

If Qin He were allowed to develop freely, with the Electronic End Dragon, he could definitely become a regional overlord. But too much comfort would erode the wildness in his bones.

……

Garuda arrived outside the Dead City, but was somewhat troubled. After all, not to mention the ring of blue dragons outside the city, the leading fat blue dragon and black dragon were both at the Saint level.

Blue Dragon Mulberry and Black Dragon Ink Jade are both in the early stages of Sainthood. However, they are highly sought-after geniuses in the Dragon Realm. If Garuda were to face them head-on…

She is destined to lose.

So now, Garuda will use the simplest method to lure the tiger away from the mountain. First... she will fly to a distant oasis in the form of a snow owl.

That place was the habitat of countless dragon beasts, and also many savage beasts. Garuda spent time setting up a magic array, intending to unleash a beast tide of these dragon beasts and savage beasts to storm the entire dead city.

Next, when Sang Shen and Mo Yu are dealing with the massive beast tide, that will be the perfect opportunity for Garuda to enter the city and assassinate Qin He.

The magic circle was formed, and a red light seemed poised to soar into the sky, but it was stopped by Garuda's illusionary trick. Then, countless beasts and savage creatures, influenced by the red moon's energy and gradually driven mad by their rutting instincts, launched a direct attack on the city!

During the red moon's illumination, certain spices can become excellent tools for guiding the beast tide to attack the city.

Even just using the red moon energy to arouse their destructive desires is enough to create a gap in the Blue Dragons' defenses.

After all, the Blue Dragons had already made a fortune from the initial siege.

Next, when the zombies mutate, what they need to do is prevent the decaying branches from spreading to more places.

……

Amidst billowing dust, a large number of beast dragons soon charged in. Next came herds of elephants, bison… and countless other savage beasts scattered throughout.

The insane howls were accompanied by the frenzied scene of them all surging into the vicinity of the dead city.

The swarm of blue dragons reacted immediately, unleashing their lightning-infused breaths as they soared into the air. Using their natural advantage, they temporarily subdued the attacking dragons and savage beasts.

But this advantage was only temporary. Soon, some berserk bipedal wyverns and various pterosaur-like beast dragons launched a frenzied self-destruct attack.

"What happened? I haven't finished my meal yet."

Upon seeing the beast dragons and savage beasts forming a horde to attack the city, Sangshen immediately lost her composure.

The enormous, obese blue dragon slid along its belly, hurtling towards the city from the side like lightning. Mo Yu also arrived at the city's side, attempting to block the beast tide.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Garuda immediately flew into the dead city. After all, the nearly ten thousand savage beasts that had been attracted might not even last two minutes before being slaughtered by the two evil dragons.

Chapter 157 Entering the Dungeon in Divine Gear

Upon entering the city, Garuda immediately transformed into its true form. A divine bird, its entire body radiant with golden light, appeared, accompanied by auspicious rays of light.

Although it doesn't quite match the majestic momentum of the mythical bird spreading its wings for ninety thousand miles, it is still worthy of being a descendant of the Golden Roc.

After thinking for a moment, Garuda transformed into a human form, concealing its divine bird aura.

Dressed in all black to conceal her extraordinary beauty, she planned to go directly to eliminate her two main targets, Qin He and Zhong Liuxiu.

Garuda possesses the inheritance of a divine beast. Since she began cultivating, she has killed and devoured many adult dragons, but she is not confident of victory against beings like Sang Shen and Mo Yu.

Throwing knives and firearms—she could deflect them all with her protective wings; they were no problem. But the spear, infused with deadly poison, instantly killed a peak ninth-tier expert…

In his storage ring, Garuda had prepared more than ten gallbladders of the Wild Python. These could be swallowed immediately in an emergency to force the venom into the gallbladder.

In that case, even the most terrifying poison would have a chance to be suppressed.

As for the dragon's might, which is said to be able to intimidate mid-level ninth-tier dragons, it is not worth mentioning. The blood-sucking evil weapon is only powerful in team battles when killing enemies and feeding back to the user.

Next, Garuda, who had anticipated Qin He's methods, headed to Qin He's location—the desert south of the city.

……

Qin He is now using the nearly one thousand assassin scorpions to hone his weapon skills. As he changes his techniques, he feels the charm of the Martial Arts Mastery.

This is a masterpiece compiled by a Dao Creation Realm expert, drawing upon his understanding of various weapons. It's like a fusion of Qin He's previous numerous but not fully mastered techniques.

Wielding the Demonic Prison Wave, Qin He cleaved the giant red scorpion, which was about a meter long, in two!

His originally powerful and sweeping movements with the heavy sword gradually became effortless, and the strong sword wind swept away the surrounding yellow sand. The swirling demonic flames then incinerated everything.

After removing the stingers from those killer scorpions, he immediately pocketed the alchemical materials that could be used in medicine.

The Killer Scorpion is a subspecies of magical beast... or rather, a special species with a wide variety of forms.

They possess basic elemental attributes such as earth, fire, water, wind, light, darkness, ice, and lightning. For example, the creature Qin He just cleaved in two with a single sword strike was a fire-attribute killer scorpion.

Despite not being directly related to the desert environment, a significant portion of a killer scorpion clan might choose to absorb water-based magical energy for cultivation.

Although it is an arthropod monster, the Killer Scorpion is still a decent wild game.

When traveling in desert regions, many adventurers, when out of supplies, will take the risk of attacking the lair of killer scorpions to capture water-type killer scorpions alive and obtain water.

After putting away the Demonic Prison Waves, Qin He swung the Bloodthirsty Reaper and Bloodthirsty Crusher once more. Two golden blood shadows rapidly circled beneath Qin He's feet—

"die!!!"

The Bloodthirsty Crusher's heavy hammer immediately gleamed with an incomparable golden luster as it slammed into the fine sand beneath Qin He's feet.

Then, the Crusher, stained with the yellow demonic blood of an earth-type killer scorpion, continued to swing.

The Bloodthirsty Reaper swung down from the ground and hooked up the eighth-tier earth-type assassin scorpion. Qin He stored the dead scorpion in his spatial scale.

When scorpions encounter the even more deadly, bloodthirsty reapers, their fate is sealed. Even the killer scorpions hiding beneath the sand know that magic will attract zombies.

So... they wanted to poison Qin He without using magic as much as possible.

To achieve this, the Scorpion King only needed to hit the target a few times with its stingers. After all, it wasn't like they hadn't killed arrogant dragons like Qin He before.

With only a peak fifth-order cultivation level, how dare he provoke a swarm of assassin scorpions?

It's not that the assassin scorpions hadn't heard of Qin He's reputation; rather, they simply hadn't paid any attention to Yu Yu within the city.

Seeing that there were no humans to eat in the southern desert of the city, how could the killer scorpion, which relied on sandworms to ensure the survival of its tribe, let go of the silver dragon in front of it?

They couldn't wait to hunt down Qin He, who was only at the peak of the fifth rank, and devour him completely.

Knowing that Qin He was difficult to deal with, the Scorpion King ordered the seventh-tier scorpions to scout ahead, while the eighth and ninth-tier elite forces joined him to find an opportunity.

Soon, Qin He killed dozens of killer scorpions of various shapes and sizes on the spot.

With a hammer and a sickle, Qin He wielded his two spiritual weapons in a seamless and impenetrable manner, making it impossible for anyone to get close.

Only when he felt the handle was good enough did Qin He take out the Thunderclap Black Gold Mace! In addition to its weight, Qin He directly activated the black gold thunderclap of the Thunderclap Black Gold Mace.

In an instant, the double maces were enveloped in mysterious lightning and flashed with black gold. With just one swing, they instantly blasted out hundreds of feet of yellow sand!

The black and gold lightning surged forth, piercing straight at the killer scorpion. The immense power of the lightning shook a large group of scorpions with lower cultivation levels directly out of the sand.

Soon, the scorpions below the sixth rank were either dead or wounded; such power was emanating from a single strike…

This Thunderclap Black Gold Mace truly lives up to its reputation as a treasure housed in the treasury of a peak Saint-level dragon. Moreover, the Black Gold Thunderclap Pearl can transform into Black Gold Thunder, which can be proportionally amplified through methods such as demonic energy and battle qi.

In other words, he can continue using this Black Gold Thunder technique indefinitely.

The twin maces were now completely enveloped in black and gold lightning, making the assassin Scorpion almost instantly killed upon contact. Qin He raised his maces and struck the air—

A deafening roar instantly halted the attack of the numerous assassin scorpions on the ground, and a surge of black and gold lightning bolts shot out from the mace, instantly killing all the assassin scorpions.

"Okay, next we'll switch to throwing knives."

The twelve Saint-level flying knives that Qin He carried with him slowly rose into the air under the guidance of his mental power, but Qin He did not intend to use his mental power to directly drive them to kill the enemy.

After all, no matter how superior the throwing knife's performance is, its material is designed for combat at the Saint level.

With Qin He's current peak fifth-order mental power, it is possible to make them levitate.

But if you were to actually use your mental power to control it in real combat, you'd probably be exhausted before you even killed a few enemies.

Therefore, Qin He now needs to use his own hand strength to throw the flying knife, kill the enemy, and then use his mental power to retrieve it.

With a flick of his wrist, Qin He could sense, through a slight mental connection, that the throwing knife had indeed hit its mark.

As the sharp blade sliced ​​through the fine sand, one killer scorpion after another fell dead at lightning speed. Qin He also sensed the Scorpion King…

It couldn't contain itself and wanted to take down Qin He before the entire tribe was wiped out by him.

After retrieving all twelve throwing knives, Qin He personally took action, wielding the Hundred-Refined Divine Forged Spear to lock onto the Scorpion King and kill it with a single blow…

Only then did the swarm of killer scorpions panic. They frantically unleashed their magic at Qin He.

"...Good timing."

Various elemental magics poured down, exploding around Qin He with incredibly dense elemental fluctuations. The scorpion swarm was now about to lure in the zombies, then run away with the Scorpion King, as far as they could.

Unfortunately for these low-intelligence crawlers, they miscalculated. Qin He wouldn't give them a chance to escape. Drones were already on standby, ready to take them all down.

But as a violent explosion rang out, the result was not Qin He hitting the Scorpion King. Amidst the yellow sand, suddenly, golden wings broke the Scorpion King, and a sword's shadow snatched away silver scales—