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Chapter 165: Every Nation but Ours
"I never thought," Xiao Chang said, staring at the distant chaos, "that humanity's crisis would end up resting on a flock of chickens." His voice was complicated.After three-plus months of searching, every survivor scattered across the battlefield had been brought home.Of the theater commanders, three still breathed—Xiao Chang in the Southeast, plus the Northeast and Northwest commanders. Linqing Fu, the central commander, had been found half-dead; if the Federation's best healer hadn't been at his side, he'd have been a corpse. But his injuries were the kind a single Nine-Turn Golden Pill fixed. After one of Ethan's pills, he was moving like a young man again.Beyond the three commanders, seven deputy commanders survived. All survivors together came to roughly three point six million.The room went quiet at the number. Over fifty million soldiers had gone into that battlefield. Barely a tenth came back. For the whole Chinese Federation, it was a
Chapter 164: Closing the Gates
"Are we going back to Earth now?"Qingwu Feng watched him, her gaze clear and unreadable. She couldn't bring herself to kill him—he had given her a second life, after all—but if he had truly been taken, if something foreign was wearing his face, she would spend her own without a second thought. She would drag him down with her.Earth could not afford a single mistake."Not yet." Ethan Su shook his head. "The battlefield isn't stable. We stay until we fix what's here."If they ran for Earth now and the front collapsed, the aberrations pouring through would flood the home world. Earth couldn't hold that."What do we do, then?" She looked at him, waiting.Ethan thought it over. "First, back to Central Command. We seal every channel that leads to Earth. Nothing gets through. Once that's done, we go home."He happened to have a handful of formation disks on him, plus the high-purity crystals he'd looted from the battlefield poc
Chapter 163: Bing Leng
They stopped dead.Ethan spread his spirit sense wide, trying to find the speaker. The pocket hid whoever it was behind something his own eyes couldn't see."Interesting." The voice came again. The air in front of them rippled like heat off metal, and the illusion peeled away.A forest of ice-crystal trees stood behind it. And in the middle of that forest, a castle carved entirely out of snow and ice. At the gate, a young woman in an ice-blue gown studied Ethan without fear.His eye twitched.She looked almost exactly like Song.Taller, fuller figured, but the face was the same — the same unblemished, flawless features. And the eyes. Sea-blue, clear, and when they met his, he felt his whole self start to tip into a slow spiral. His own strong spirit sense caught him and hauled him back."You carry my sister's scent." The woman tilted her head. Her voice was light, amused. "You've met her. She even left a soul-seal on you. That s
Chapter 162: Ice and Fire
"Should be clear for now."After a handful of teleports, Ethan stepped into a place he'd never seen. It was quiet in a way the battlefield never was. No monsters. No humans. No corpses. No blood in the air.Qingwu Feng looked around, frowning. "No battle here? That's wrong. The whole front should be war. Either this is a special pocket, or it's a monster's nest."Ethan nodded. She wasn't wrong.The battlefield itself had been carved by ancestors, but the pocket beneath was older. A hundred years of war had stretched it wider, and the Aberrations tore new tears in it to feed more of themselves through. Like the random rifts, the front spawned mystery pockets full of danger and luck. Lunguo had pulled a body-tempering manual out of one once, and that single find had lifted the whole country. Without it, they wouldn't have held this long. The country had teeth when its back was to the wall."First thing." Ethan sat cross-legged, face set. "I need to w
Chapter 161: Silver Hair, Blue Eyes
In the Landlord Space, Qingwu Feng settled back into the small girl shape and her breathing evened out.Ethan let out the breath he'd been holding. He'd never pictured her needing a rescue call — she was the one with the raw power. If he hadn't come when he did, the little thing would've ended up digested.He sat down hard on a fence post. His back was still on fire from the vine. He hadn't even tended to it. A guard would've handled it by now. He let himself feel it for a second, then moved on.He checked her over. Soul power overdrawn. Qi and blood burned through. That burst of adult power had gutted her. The body she'd spent so long rebuilding was starting from zero again. Luckily he didn't lack for pills. He pressed a handful into her hand and sat down to wait, watching the color come back into her cheeks.He told himself he was lucky. The alternative didn't bear thinking about — the slimes digesting her while he was busy saving Heng Zhang
Chapter 160: Run First
"Xiao Wu can handle herself. Even tricked, her raw power buys her time." Ethan hauled Heng Zhang to his feet. "We move."They stepped out of the Landlord Space. A massive vine uncoiled from the ground and whipped toward them. Ethan dragged Heng Zhang sideways, broke a teleport talisman, and was already fading when the vine's tip grazed his back. A line of fire ran across his shoulder blade. He cursed and jumped again.He didn't land beside Heng Zhang. The talisman spat him out where the locator on Qingwu Feng had pinned her, which was what he'd wanted, except that the instant he materialized he was throwing himself flat on top of Heng Zhang as another vine cracked the air where their heads had been. The thing was everywhere now. It didn't have a body so much as a network — roots and shoots woven through the whole clearing, patient as a net left to soak. Ethan dragged the scout toward cover behind a fallen wall of rock, fed him another pill through the gap in his lips, and risked one l
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