543: The villain from the Demon Palace! So you're the boss all along!

Su Lie hurriedly looked at other areas.

"What is this?"

Soon.

He discovered some boxes in the soil beneath the valley camp.

These boxes contained over a hundred barrel-shaped items, resembling dynamite, with simple Runes carved on them.

And the front end of each barrel-shaped item was embedded with a spherical crystal engraved with special Runes.

"Could these be explosives?"

Su Lie murmured softly.

He then looked around the camp.

He quickly made another discovery.

About 1 meter beneath the soil around the camp, he found some large Rune Stones.

These Rune Stones were scattered around the camp.

After a simple drawing of the Rune Stone distribution, Su Lie found that the arrangement of these Rune Stones happened to form a circle: "Damn it! Could this be a formation?"

"A formation, ambushes in the caves on both sides, an empty camp, and suspected dynamite-like items under the camp..."

Combining these four, even without war experience, Su Lie could tell that this was a trap.

He immediately told Wang Hongwei about his discovery and speculation.

While reporting.

Su Lie looked at the three monkeys and one person next to the Commander's stand inside the cave on one side of the camp.

At this moment.

The person in front of the Commander's stand couldn't help but stop his actions, his brows furrowed, and a hint of shock appeared in his eyes.

The three monkeys beside him had their brows furrowed into a ' river' shape, their mouths twitching slightly, and their fingers constantly making strange gestures.

Approximately a few seconds later.

Everything seemed to return to normal.

Just as Su Lie was puzzled.

He heard a message from the team's temporary communication channel.

"Report! Report! I was controlled by a Phantom Demon! She almost killed me just now! I've now escaped the danger! But Zhou Hu and Zhang Shun are probably in grave danger!"

"My attack location is at the second mountain pass!"

"Captain, if you hear this, please quickly formulate a reconnaissance strategy!"

"For safety! I won't go back and rendezvous with you! I'll proceed according to the plan, and if I find that Zhou Hu and Zhang Shun have been controlled, I will kill them!"

"And I suspect there's an enemy in the team! Otherwise, it's impossible for us to be attacked by a Phantom Demon so silently!"

Ye Xiaofeng's anxious voice rang out in the channel.

He was currently slumped on a dirt slope, with dense black energy rising from his chest.

Ye Xiaofeng cursed under his breath and hurriedly took out healing items from his storage equipment.

Soon.

His wounds and contaminated flesh were healed.

Meanwhile.

In the shadows of a valley about 2 kilometers away from Su Lie.

Wang Hongwei was swinging a greatsword with a solemn expression, his left foot corroded into white bone by some corrosive force.

A dagger was still stuck in his left rib.

Not far from him, three chopped-up team members lay on the ground.

Near Wang Hongwei.

Two warrior-class teammates with bloodshot eyes were entangled with Wang Hongwei.

More than ten meters away.

The only remaining melee control-class teammate in the squad was also constantly throwing one control Skill after another at Wang Hongwei.

The teammate skilled in tracking was at the foot of the mountain, drawing his bow and continuously firing one hidden arrow after another at Wang Hongwei.

The pupils of the squad members attacking Wang Hongwei had all turned crimson, and faint demonic energy was emanating from their bodies.

Facing the betrayal of his teammates, Wang Hongwei was both angry and deeply distressed.

Through the entanglement and confrontation during this short period.

He realized that his squad members were controlled by demons.

But he couldn't understand.

Where did the demons come from, and when did they control his squad members?

He was even more puzzled.

Why would the team's hunter, Mu Yi, betray them?

Isn't this just seeking death!

...Now he was severely injured and had been hit by some kind of Spirit-interfering control Skill, making it impossible for him to concentrate on these questions, almost even forgetting his own functions.

This caused him to directly overlook that he could warn others through the communication channel.

Ye Xiaofeng's warning brought a glimmer of rationality to Wang Hongwei's angry eyes.

While he could still think, he quickly shouted through his Spirit in the communication channel: "Stop the mission! Stop the mission! This might be a trap! The hunter Mu Yi in the team is a werewolf! Everyone else has been controlled by him!"

"Black Dragon! Black Dragon! If you're alright, try to provide long-range support!"

"I'm almost at my limit!"

As he urgently issued the new command.

He suddenly jolted again, and a brief moment of clarity allowed Wang Hongwei to see his surroundings clearly. When he found that Mu Yi was gone, a possibility popped into his mind.

Wang Hongwei hurriedly and anxiously warned in the communication channel: "Damn it! Black Dragon! Be careful! The hunter is coming to kill you!"

His warning had just sounded.

Su Lie, who was in an Invisibility state, had already seen the hunter.

When he was observing the demon camp earlier, to prevent being discovered by the demon patrol on the ridge, he had switched from Invisibility to an Invisibility state.

This was also a change he made to avoid being attacked from behind.

At this moment.

Hunter Mu Yi was followed by more than a dozen ghost-like energy bodies.

They were in a semi-encircling formation, moving towards Su Lie's location.

Mu Yi frowned tightly, muttering to himself: "Impossible! He was clearly here just now, how could he have run away?"

Su Lie discovered that the energy bodies following Mu Yi were not specters, but energy life forms condensed from demonic energy.

Under Su Lie's Identification.

He saw the basic information of these energy life forms.

Phantom Demon

Level: 99

Lifespan: 100,000 years

Magic Power: 50 billion; Spirit: 1 trillion; Charm: 50 billion; Speed: 50 billion;

Skills: Charm, Soul Erosion, Illusion, Demonization...

Talents: Shadowy Presence, Possession, Spirit Devour...

"These Skills and Talents are so tempting!"

Su Lie's eyes widened.

He couldn't help but let out a sigh: "What a pity! I can't use the Divine Thief Talent!"

As he spoke.

He took out the dragon flame shotgun and also applied the Pyre Master Skill's buff effect to the dragon flame shotgun.

He couldn't use his Talent, but he had a shotgun with Treasure Refining special effects.

The shotgun's gun spirit, Gold and Silver Archmage, yawned and emerged from the gun barrel.

It lazily turned its head to glance at the surrounding enemies, then suddenly recoiled: "Master! They're right in our faces! Aren't you going to kill them? Are you dreaming?"

After speaking.

It seemed to have thought of something and quickly looked at Su Lie.

Then it looked at the monsters again.

The Gold and Silver Archmage plopped down on one knee on the gun's rail: "You scared me to death! Are they blind? How can they not see us?"

Su Lie glared at the Gold and Silver Archmage.

At this moment, he was contemplating what power to use to both deter Mu Yi and help Wang Hongwei.

Soon.

A Talent in the Talent list caught Su Lie's eye.

This made Su Lie's lips curl into a smile.

He suddenly appeared from the Invisibility state.

This made the hunter, who was searching for Su Lie, pause.

The dozen or so Phantom Demons following the hunter also looked at Su Lie.

At this very moment.

Su Lie used his Lion's Roar Talent on them.

Roar!

At this instant, all life within a 20-kilometer radius centered on Su Lie trembled.

Then, all living beings fell into a stunned state.

However.

This state cannot last long.

It can only last for 60 seconds.

Su Lie then immediately knocked the hunter to the ground at his feet, and then, with the shotgun pressed against the Phantom Demon's body, he 'physically transcended' them one by one.

In the blink of an eye.

The massive resources brought by the Phantom Demons' deaths were instantly teleported into Su Lie's Backpack Talent's storage compartment.

After dealing with these monsters.

Su Lie then performed a memory read on the hunter.

When he saw the hunter's memories.

Su Lie's brows furrowed: "Damn it! Is the mist rule so contradictory? Or is the Guild itself a contradiction? Isn't this infighting?"

He learned through reading memories.

This hunter, Mu Yi, was a member of the Guild's Demon Hall.

Yesterday, Mu Yi received a mission from the mist rule through the Demon Hall.

The mission required Mu Yi to infiltrate the Jianxu Trial Mystic Realm as an official member of the Punishment Hall, assist the demons there in annihilating the Guild's Punishment Hall Legion, and take the opportunity to rescue Luo Hou Sword Master, who had fallen into demonhood.

Mu Yi used his Identity Disguise Talent to pretend to be an official member of the Punishment Hall.

This guy was indeed a werewolf, as Wang Hongwei said.

When Mu Yi entered, he had already activated the second communication system.

Before Su Lie and the others left the palace, he had already contacted the demon forces in the target valley, obtaining support from a team of Phantom Demons.

After everyone split up.

Mu Yi used the power of the Phantom Demons to lure Wang Hongwei into a trap.

And through the Phantom Demons, he controlled other teammates to encircle and kill Wang Hongwei.

Mu Yi himself possessed the Talent to see through Invisibility.

Knowing Su Lie's threat, he personally came, wanting to ambush Su Lie using his teammate's identity.

He didn't expect that he had just arrived at the mountaintop.

He then heard Su Lie's report, Ye Xiaofeng's and Wang Hongwei's warnings and arrangements.

Mu Yi could only first contact the demons in the valley.

That's why he brought more than a dozen Phantom Demons to hunt Su Lie.

What he didn't expect was that.

His Talent actually lost its effect on Su Lie.

After obtaining the intelligence, Su Lie's brows furrowed: "No wonder the demon Commander in the cave on one side of the valley showed a strange expression; it seems they must have received Mu Yi's report! And that human with the demons, I suppose, must be a demon spawn from the Demon Hall!"

After a brief analysis.

Su Lie directly sent Hunter Mu Yi to his demise with the dragon flame shotgun.

He immediately switched to an automatic rifle, first aiming at Wang Hongwei's position with the scope, and when he found Wang Hongwei and his surrounding teammates were in a stunned state.

Su Lie then sharply turned around: "Since I've already obtained the intelligence, then I apologize!"

As he spoke.

He looked at the target valley area again.

Just look.

The Legion there was making new arrangements.

The camp was still the same camp.

But the caves on both sides of the valley had many crisscrossing passages.

Clearly.

The demon Legion wanted to change their strategy, taking advantage of Mu Yi's opportunity to hunt Su Lie.

Su Lie first aimed at the suspected dynamite-like objects buried underground in the center of the valley, and after leaving a tracking mark.

He then roughly marked the demons in the mountain belly on both sides of the valley, the demon Commander, as well as the demons on the ridge and the three mountains.

Approximately 10 seconds later.

Su Lie then applied the Pyre Master profession's auxiliary Skill buff to the automatic rifle and used the automatic rifle's ice-fire grenade special effect.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Within 10 seconds, nearly a hundred billion ice-fire grenades poured out.

At this moment.

A shower of ice and fire meteors appeared in the sky outside the valley.

After completing the shooting.

Su Lie then flapped his wings and flew down the mountain.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

When he arrived in front of Wang Hongwei, a sky-shattering explosion came from behind him.

A shockwave that blotted out the sky and covered the earth violently impacted the surroundings.

The mountain that the group was leaning against also had half of its body sheared off by this shockwave.

The falling boulders smashed onto Wang Hongwei and the others, knocking them to the ground.

Su Lie, however, timely consumed Mysterious Yellow Energy, used the Moon Scale Armor divine ability, and put on a spherical shield.

The shield blocked the boulders and dust 50 centimeters away from Su Lie.

Amidst the flying dust.

Su Lie cast the Light Rebirth Skill on Wang Hongwei and the others.

"Ah..."

In the blink of an eye, painful wails erupted from the bodies of the other teammates.

Under the purification of divine power.

Shadows of burning Phantom Demons emerged from the possessed teammates' bodies.

These shadows were completely incinerated into ash by the divine power the moment they appeared.

However, three teammates still died directly, wiped out by the divine power contained in Light Rebirth, due to being too deeply demonized.

At this moment.

Ye Xiaofeng, who was lying dazed on the hillside of a nearby small hill, extended two hands from the dirt: "Damn it! What's happening?"

The small hill he was on was too short and didn't suffer any damage.

But the sky-blotting dust and shockwave still buried him in the dirt.

When he climbed out.

Ye Xiaofeng was utterly shocked.

He discovered.

The area 50 kilometers in front of the small hill had actually become a vast, open plain.

No!

It should be said that it was a plain covered with a sea of lava and fire.

There, let alone demons.

Even the mountains were gone.

It took Ye Xiaofeng a full minute to recover. He turned to look around, his mind quickly recalling what had just happened.

Soon.

He remembered hearing a few gunshots while he was resting.

Immediately after.

He saw Su Lie flapping his wings and flying down from the mountain.

And then the big explosion happened!

He was about to check when he was knocked down by the shockwave and then buried by the ensuing dust.

"Hiss! Damn it! This Black Dragon guy was playing dumb, he's actually a big shot!"

Ye Xiaofeng gasped, instantly becoming excited.

He hurriedly got up and ran wildly in the direction Su Lie had flown down from.

At this moment.

Wang Hongwei, who had just recovered, suddenly swung his saber in a 360-degree spin.

After he moved more than ten meters from his previous position.

Wang Hongwei then took advantage of the clear view before his blurry vision to wipe the dust from his face, then looked around warily.

At this moment, he inhaled a smell of damp earth through his nostrils.

The scene before him, however, made him forget the choking smell, and he stared blankly ahead...