Chapter Seven: The Beast Horde Approaches!

[Of course! He has no real skills, a complete failure. If things got serious, he’d be exposed and would definitely run away!]
[Deserters are shameful!]
[General Ji has fought for half his life, and now he has a son who’s a deserter! Isn’t this a disgrace to General Ji’s name?!]

Seeing the comments, Ji Tianxing immediately put on an expression of bitter disappointment, snorting coldly, “This is utterly outrageous! He’s the one who signed up to fight, and now he’s the one deserting!”

His two elder sisters quickly stepped forward to comfort him. “Father, please calm down. Don’t take it to heart!”

“That’s right! We’ve always known what kind of person Ji Ling is. It’s only natural he’d desert! You don’t need to waste your anger on such a scoundrel.”

The host also hurriedly spoke to soothe him, “General Ji, please control your anger. You are the pillar of our Dragon Nation—don’t let this upset your health!”

At that moment, Ji Ling and Nangong Lingyue appeared on the live broadcast.

Having passed the danger and spotted the main force, the tension in their nerves eased, and they were chatting casually.

“By the way, what media outlet is this Qingyun Platform? Do they treat their staff like expendable lives? War correspondents can just film around the edge of the black mist and report. Why send an unarmed young girl into such a place?” Ji Ling asked.

Nangong Lingyue seemed surprised. “You don’t know Qingyun Platform?”

Ji Ling shook his head.

Nangong Lingyue was about to explain when General Lin called Ji Ling from afar.

“Coming!” Ji Ling answered reflexively.

“Keep up!” General Lin ordered briefly.

Nangong Lingyue smiled at Ji Ling, “Go ahead.”

Meanwhile, the live chat exploded.

[Wait, could Ji Ling really be a spy?]
[He doesn’t even know what Qingyun Platform is? He must be some kind of walking half a million in salary!]

Actually, it wasn’t surprising Ji Ling was unaware—he wasn’t originally from this world.

Since the strange invasion, every country had established special organizations to handle the supernatural and anomalous matters. In Dragon Nation, the highest authority responsible for divine and strange affairs was the Divine Resource Administration, or simply the Divine Bureau.

The Divine Bureau held supreme decision-making power over gods, anomalies, the black mist border, and military dispatch. Every unit and individual was obligated to cooperate unconditionally with its operations. Within the nation, the Divine Bureau held near half the control, second only to the official highest authorities.

Official bodies might be the Divine Bureau or others, but the Divine Bureau effectively represented the government.

Qingyun Platform was a multimedia agency under the Divine Bureau.

It regularly sent reporters to the battlefield to broadcast and report, so the people at home could stay informed and respond accordingly.

So Ji Ling’s ignorance of Qingyun Platform was puzzling.

However, the speculation about Ji Ling being a spy didn’t last long.

Suddenly, a thunderous beast roar from the live broadcast jolted everyone’s hearts!

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At the eastern border, a lieutenant was trying to lift an ancient bird-shaped deity statue. Just as he lifted it, the ground began to tremble violently.

Then, two blood-red giant eyes flashed through the black mist.

A towering, pitch-black monstrous beast—several stories tall—awakened from the mist!

Its deafening roar sent shockwaves that knocked all the soldiers present to the ground.

Many struggled to stand but blood flowed from their ears, eyes, and sockets!

Several bled profusely from all orifices and lay lifeless on the ground.

“Take cover! Take cover!” General Lin shouted hoarsely, heart riven with pain at the loss of so many young lives from a single roar.

The surviving soldiers scrambled for shelter.

Just one roar had halved the twenty-thousand-strong army!

These men were General Lin’s soldiers, his brothers in arms.

How could he not be anguished?

[Oh my god! What kind of strange creature is that? Terrifying!]
[A single roar kills so many!]
[Our Dragon Nation’s twenty-thousand army might be wiped out!]
[Are we just going to stand by and watch?!]

As the roar’s aftershocks faded and the earth calmed, harsh cries came from the black mist.

Thousands of strange creatures charged, baring claws and teeth!

“Beast tide incoming! Hold the line! Hold the line immediately!” General Lin decisively commanded the soldiers to resist.

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Bullets rained like a torrential storm!

Though ordinary bullets rarely inflicted fatal wounds on the strange creatures, the hail of gunfire effectively slowed their advance.

They were flesh and blood, after all—even if their bodies were a hundred times tougher than earthly creatures, concentrated firepower could still hinder them.

Then, suddenly, thunder and lightning flashed across the high sky.

Everyone looked up.

Thunder roared like a dragon’s cry, and dense rolling clouds appeared to swirl as if a giant dragon soared within.

“The power of Yinglong...” Behind the remaining hundred thousand soldiers, Ji Ling gritted his teeth, raising both hands. Lightning flickered faintly in his palms, his body wracked with pain, but he roared fiercely:

“Thunder shakes the nine heavens!”

With Ji Ling’s roar, a thunder curtain spanning hundreds of kilometers descended from the sky!

The beast tide charging toward them was instantly enveloped in this thunder curtain.

Between flashes of lightning and peals of thunder came the anguished wails of the strange creatures and the smell of burning flesh.

When the thunder curtain dissipated, Ji Ling collapsed to his knees, utterly exhausted.

The ground was littered with charred carcasses of strange beasts—the battlefield looked like a horrifying hell, strewn with blackened remains.

To everyone’s astonishment,

The massive strange beast that had killed half the soldiers with a single terrifying roar now collapsed lifeless.

The black mist receded several kilometers, revealing a wider view and a dozen deity statues previously hidden in the fog.

All knew that with one strike of “Thunder shakes the nine heavens,” Ji Ling had annihilated the beast tide and that dreadful giant.

The crisis was over.

The live chat erupted with excitement, comments scrolling endlessly!