It was like grasping a handful of rice to check on the year's harvest, and after inspecting it, letting the rice slip through the palm—twelve people from the Heaven Group fell from the Divine Body's palm like grains of rice.

Six died instantly, plummeting from over two thousand meters high, and another three were killed upon impact.

Of the twelve, only three remained alive.

With Li Changzhou's current control over the Divine Body, it would be difficult not to kill. It's like trying to leave exactly twelve drops of water in a glass after drinking—without training, it's impossible, it all comes down to luck.

The Divine Body slowly shrank, and Li Changzhou hurriedly took a deep breath.

Radiant light pulsated as if guided by his breath, all the lights of Song City flowing toward him like a raging tide, surging into his body.

Electric power, wind energy, tidal force, the stars above, the radiation of the universe, all transformed into quintessential energy, becoming nourishment for his body.

Song City plunged into darkness, like a dead city, and only after two seconds did the lights timidly come back on as if worried about bad people still lurking outside.

Li Changzhou returned to normal human size, his complexion pale.

"Brother?" Li Qianxia approached, intending to support him.

Yang Qinglan gazed at his face.

"It's fine," Li Changzhou shook his head.

The Divine Body made no attacks; Eight Diagram Palm, Nine Revolutions Linked Mandarin Duck Feet, Spiral Force, the recently learned swordsmanship, Hot Sight, and so on—none were used.

If he had unleashed any of those, he wouldn't dare say about Song City, but Songjiang District would have been flattened for sure.

Just now, Li Changzhou simply clenched his fist.

He didn't use too much energy. Adding to that, he took a breath of quintessential energy with the speed of 'finishing the last steps right after the exam bell rings', his body was still holding up.

His pale complexion was mainly due to the consumption required to maintain the Divine Body itself.

Li Changzhou flew to the helipad of a high-rise, most of which had already turned into ruins, its concrete peeled off to expose the steel skeleton inside.

He reached out his hand and lifted Zheng Qing up.

"Thank you," he said.

Zheng Qing looked dazed, still not recovered from the shock, probably unaware that she was standing up.

"You're probably heading for punishment back at the Special Warfare Bureau, do you want to work for me?" Li Changzhou asked.

Zheng Qing slowly understood what he meant.

She shook her head: "...Thank you, but I'm a soldier."

Looking at her expression, it was as if she were in a different world.

"In that case—" Li Changzhou thought for a moment, "give me your Identity Card."

Zheng Qing was still dazed, unthinkingly handing over her Identity Card to Li Changzhou.

Li Changzhou now had 15 Identity Cards in his hand, each with at least an S-class Instinct.

He deprived the "Saint Master", swapped out his own "Hell Road", then activated the Special Effect of "Saint Master" and gave "Hungry Ghost Path" to Zheng Qing.

Zheng Qing's original Instinct was "10% Pain Immunity", which got replaced by "Hungry Ghost Path".

Next, Li Changzhou activated a black fog, taking nine Identity Cards from the Heaven Group and giving her an S-class Instinct "Trend".

While imparting the Skill, Zheng Qing was in extreme pain, curled up on the ground, sweat-soaked through her clothes, the veins on her neck bulging like eels, as if they might burst at any moment.

Luckily, she did not entertain thoughts of resisting Li Changzhou and endured it.

"Trend" downgraded to S-.

[Name: Trend]

[Type: Skill]

[Quality: S-]

[Special Effect: The stronger the force you belong to, the thicker your luck and the faster your strength increases]

[Minimum Use Conditions: Life Form]

[Introduction: 1. With high luck, entering an instance gives a higher chance of obtaining high-level identities, treasures, triggering side missions, and a higher chance of rare Skills appearing in the exchange list;

2. Depending on the strength of your faction, cultivation speed increases vary from 0% to 500%;

3. Great momentum is with me! (Directly complete a Side Mission once, usable once a month)]

[Note: With great momentum, occasional upheavals can occur, but what of it? (Trend: Losing to the Divine Body, no matter how I think about it, isn't my fault, hmph! But the Divine Body is so handsome and huge!)]

Could it be that little Yue who wrote this note?

Li Changzhou returned the Identity Card to Zheng Qing.

"If anything comes up in the future, just come to me. Also, tell certain people in the Special Warfare Bureau, they can come at me for anything, just don't touch Qing Lan's Bookstore. If one book is missing from the bookstore, one city will be destroyed. I mean what I say."

"Changzhou!" Zheng Qing, enduring the pain from the black fog, "come with me, with your strength and my presence, the Special Warfare Bureau will definitely not—"

"The attitude of the Special Warfare Bureau towards me doesn't matter, my stance is still the same: In the game we cooperate as much as possible, in reality we do not commit evil," Li Changzhou said, stepping back. He, Yang Qinglan, Li Qianxia, Turquoise Pool, became like a swirl of oil paint and vanished from Song City.

Zheng Qing looked up at the empty night sky, steadying herself as she stood, the cold wind making her shiver as it blew over her sweat-soaked body.

She gasped for air, glanced at the "Hungry Ghost Path", "Trend" on her Identity Card.

Dozens of golden streaks crossed the sky, descending on Song City, each streak carrying a national team.

Zheng Qing tucked away her Identity Card while taking a deep breath, fresh energy in her eyes as she observed these arrivals.

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Maldives, 4:22 PM.

The ocean was a bi-colored blue, sunset tinged the sky in hues of pink, creating a dreamlike scene.

The constant roar of the waves, the island seemed to be in a mirror of the sky.

"White sandy beaches with trailing ends? Is this Moofushi Island?" Turquoise Pool recognized the place with just a glance.

"Have you been here before, Sister Yao?" Li Qianxia asked curiously.

"I've been here in the winter."

In early December, the Maldives has an average daily minimum temperature of 25°C and a maximum of 30°C, it's the prime tourist season.

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