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Upon seeing Elulu injured, Yan, as her subject, immediately flew to her aid. Elxi, having already lost an arm and discarded her weapon, was utterly powerless to resist.

With one kick, she was sent flying dozens of feet away by the swallow.

"Your Highness, how are you?"

When Yan saw that Elulu's wrist was cut, she did not feel the anxiousness that Elxi had imagined.

No...that's not right! She's about to turn into a zombie, so why isn't Eruru saying a single word?

"A fool is a fool."

Qin He swung the Reaper and Crusher in his hands, looking at Elxi with disdain.

Elulu pulled out a natural-looking emerald pendant from between her delicate, voluptuous breasts.

"This is nature's protection. It was given to me by Qin He after we became friends. With this, I won't get infected and become a zombie."

The most unbelievable result was what he heard. Elxi frantically picked up the dagger again, only to have Qin He slash off his other arm with a sickle!

“El-Xi, the kingdom’s army has been at war for years under your leadership… causing widespread suffering and crop failure. If I hadn’t said that stupid thing, you would probably have died in a mutiny.”

Back then, with her protective magic item, Elulu was definitely more composed than Elxi when facing assassination attempts.

Conscription and tax increases.

During the famine years, El-Xi did indeed continue to conscript soldiers in order to conquer a distant territory.

"You are not suited to be a ruler, or even a general."

"Luckily I ran into Qin He, otherwise I would have really been ambushed by you and turned into a zombie."

Unbelievable… Elsie, with both arms severed, couldn’t believe it. She had always been the most foolish person.

"Yes, I not only have natural protection that can prevent people from turning into zombies, but I also have special means to completely restore zombies to human form."

"You schemed to poison Elulu with zombie blood, but you never expected... that good fortune would come your way?"

The feeling of victory was so exhilarating that Qin He didn't mind letting Elxi die knowing why.

"What a joke! You! Aren't you supposed to be a kind silver dragon? Since you have a way to cure zombies, why don't you use it? Letting the whole city be overrun with zombies... You're no different from those evil dragons besieging the city!"

"Taking the blessing of the Goddess of Nature, yet watching the entire city's inhabitants die... You are not a silver dragon at all, you are a thoroughly evil dragon~ Elulu! Following such a bloodthirsty evil dragon... will not end well... I... I curse you all to die! May you all die!"

Qin He was suddenly bombarded with accusations, leaving him momentarily speechless and bewildered. This person... has gone so mad that they can barely speak coherently, yet they're trying to use moral blackmail?

"Indeed. If I wanted to, I could save a few more zombies, but—"

I don't eat fatty meat.

Just kidding, treating zombies was ultimately just something Qin He did on a whim.

As long as the people around him are safe, who cares about the chaos that might ensue later? Qin He's bodily fluids are incredibly precious; would he really use them to save the entire city of zombies? Does he have nothing better to do?

Just as Qin He was about to make a move, Ai Lulu raised the Mingmie.

"Thank you... Qin He. Leave it to me!"

With a gunshot, Elsie Wilfar's life came to an end...

Chapter 127 Thunder Marrow Golden Rat King

In this battle, the Dead City Merchant Guild and the forces of El-Hee were easily annihilated.

Qin He enabled the Bloodthirsty Reaper to evolve, and Elulu also eliminated the scourge upon the kingdom.

"Meow--!"

A soft, meowing sound rang out; it was Fei Xue. The cat dragged Huang Quan Gui Xian, whose situation had been completely resolved, to Qin He's side.

"How was it? I subdued it. All four limbs are intact, the only problem is its head is tilted a little."

Outside, Fei Xue displayed her extraordinary abilities.

The purple lightning dart blasted Huang Quan Guixian senseless, and the round cat head, like a rocket, smashed the assassination puppet to pieces.

In short, she perfectly completed her mission and subdued Huang Quan Gui Xian, a ninth-tier peak assassination puppet.

"Very good, thank you for your hard work~ This is the promised squirrel mandarin fish... and the whole fish feast that you didn't get to eat."

Qin He casually waved his hand, and plates of various fresh fish that had been prepared in the kitchen were placed in front of Fei Xue.

Having obtained two keys, they now have information on the whereabouts of the third key.

Qin He was about to squeeze the last drop of profit out of the Dead City. As a magical beast who had lived in the Dead City for two and a half years, Fei Xue should know which surviving magical beasts Qin He could hunt down.

After all, it seems that Qin He and Zhong Liuxiu often used dragon cores and demon cores to forcefully improve their cultivation levels, which resulted in their hard-earned demonic energy being unable to break through to the next level.

Next, Qin He naturally planned to deal with the remaining powerful magical beasts in the city and seize their magic cores for cultivation.

After all, for Qin He now, hard power is the only true measure of success.

Faced with a madman like Elxi who tries to morally blackmail someone even on his deathbed, Qin He's only attitude is to kill.

As a purple lightning cat, Fei Xue even eats quickly. Upon seeing the fragrant fish delicacies, she devours them like a whirlwind, displaying her talent as a food-stealing cat.

In no time, only empty plates remained.

"Meow~ Delicious."

They obtained the second key, but the location of the third key... was extremely dangerous.

It turns out that the two Silver Fire Dragon City Lords were involved in the Dead City Merchant Guild's transaction of a pseudo-dragon at the peak of the Saint realm.

The two silver dragons entrusted one of the keys to the safekeeping as witnesses to the transaction, and they would not allow either party to do anything that would be unfair.

But now, the two silver fire dragons have gone out on important business. The key was also left behind in their dragon nest, which is the city lord's mansion in Dragon Plains Dead City.

Inside the dragon's nest, two Saint-level magical beasts chosen by the Silverfire Dragon are guarding it, and even Feixue is not entirely clear about their exact strength.

Rushing to retrieve the third key would likely result in him being smashed into mincemeat by the two gatekeeper beasts before he even got it. Qin He decided to take a longer approach.

Once you raise your cultivation level, everything will be alright.

Therefore, Qin He and Zhong Liuxiu devised a comprehensive cultivation plan.

Seven days a week, aside from meals and going out, he and Zhong Liuxiu would stay in a room filled with dragon crystal coins and cultivate diligently all night long.

Incidentally, Qin He also needs to slowly refine and absorb the magic cores he has collected from the outside world.

After all, this trip to the Dead City could have yielded a large number of magical beast cores, but thanks to Lutafya's Corrupted Branch, not a single zombie magical beast in the city has any cores left.

The mere mention of Lutafya filled Qin He with rage. Once this Dead City incident was over, he was going to confront her... and demand a proper explanation.

"Feixue, is there any magical beast in the city that you particularly want to beat up?"

Any monster that gets targeted by the Purple Lightning Cat and survives must be a formidable opponent.

Upon hearing Qin He's question, Fei Xue immediately named a magical beast that was an enemy of the Purple Lightning Cat:

"Of course it's that nest of Thunder Marrow Golden Rats in the city! They have a Thunder Marrow Golden Rat King, who also possesses peak eighth-tier strength. I'm sworn enemies with that rat!"

After Fei Xue explained the situation, Qin He understood what was going on.

Thunder Marrow Golden Rat and Purple Lightning Cat represent the highest speed among small thunder-type magical beasts.

Generally speaking, the Thunder Marrow Golden Rat is faster than the Purple Lightning Cat. However, its endurance for continuous movement is far inferior to that of the Purple Lightning Cat.

Under normal circumstances, the Purple Lightning Cat, equipped with a Light Dart, can easily hunt down the Thunder Marrow Golden Rat. The Thunder Marrow Golden Rat, mimicking its nemesis, has evolved the same skill!

A very small number of Thunder Marrow Golden Rats will also produce Thunder Marrow Orbs that are comparable to Purple Lightning Darts.

Like the Purple Lightning Cat's Lightning Dart, this lightning ball can lock onto the enemy and absorb lightning magic energy around the enemy to achieve a cyclical attack.

Even after self-destruction, it can be reassembled, making it a divine skill for murder, robbery, and remote head-locking.

Last time, Fei Xue encountered the Thunder Marrow Golden Rat King, who was already in his old age. The opponent was a rat king with two golden marrow thunder orbs, but Fei Xue had three light darts.

Once they locked onto each other, they unleashed a barrage of light darts and lightning balls, attempting to severely injure the other. The result, naturally, was that the cat and mouse remained locked in a stalemate for half a month.

Judging from the injuries, Scarlet Snow was less severely injured. The Thunder Marrow Golden Rat King, on the other hand, was in much worse shape.

From then on, Fei Xue kept thinking about getting rid of this hateful Thunder Marrow Golden Rat King.

"Hmm? No... I have a strange feeling."

Fei Xue's folded ears suddenly stood up, as if she had sensed danger or some other situation.

……

At this moment, the Yin-Yang Two Elements Pool.

The location of the Scarlet Snow Nest.

A group of Thunder Marrow Golden Rats, their bodies gleaming with a golden luster and their tails as short as hamsters, were wreaking havoc.

A few days ago, Lei Sui Jinshu Wang received the news.

They said that their clan's mortal enemy, the Purple Lightning Cat, had encountered Qin He, the Silver Dragon, who had recently become quite the figurehead in the city. They also said that after meeting Qin He, the Purple Lightning Cat hadn't returned to its den for a day or two.

At first, the Thunder Marrow Golden Rat King certainly didn't believe it. Its advanced age naturally gave it the cunning and shrewdness to match.

It wasn't until the Thunder Marrow Golden Rat King sent two suicide squads from his troop to investigate that the news turned out to be true!

Immediately, a joyful atmosphere filled the entire Thunder Marrow Golden Rat clan.

"Yay! That pink-haired fat cat has finally been punished! From now on... nothing can stop us from eating everything!"

"Good! That Silver Dragon Qin He truly lives up to his reputation as the number one hero dragon in this zombie-infested world, actually eliminating such a major threat as the Pink-haired Fat Cat... If it weren't for the fact that dragons and rats don't work together, I would really want to acknowledge him as my boss!"

……

Various speculations arose that Fei Xue had been killed by Qin He, and these riotous Thunder Marrow Golden Rats went to occupy Fei Xue's cat house.

Fei Xue has lived in the Dead City for the past two and a half years, and the wealth she has robbed with her speed is comparable to that of some high-level dragons.

Putting everything else aside, there are at least a dozen storage rings that she has snatched from the hands of passing humans with her claws.

Just then, Fei Xue had a few storage rings left in the cat's nest. Now, the Thunder Marrow Golden Rat clan had stolen them all.

The Thunder Marrow Golden Rat clan wasn't satisfied with causing such a ruckus at Fei Xue's residence.

They used their golden lightning to continuously shock the fish, making a mess of the Yin-Yang Pond where Fei Xue kept carp.

Not only that, after causing such widespread destruction... these wretched rats actually crushed the fire-type magic crystal and set off a fire that was extremely difficult to extinguish.

It wasn't until the cat's den was burned and the rats retreated that Fei Xue realized the danger!

"Damn it! Qin He... come with me right now!"

Leaving behind a single sentence, Fei Xue hurriedly transformed into a streak of pink lightning, melting everything in its path like purple lightning, violently advancing along the shortest route!

When Fei Xue rushed back to her cat house, where she had lived for more than two years, she found that it had been engulfed by a fire caused by a fire-type magic crystal, and everything in sight was charred black.

An immense rage poured forth from Fei Xue's vertical pupils.

No matter where she fled, she could still smell the hateful odor of the Thunder Marrow Golden Rat King and the Thunder Marrow Golden Rat clan!

Not only that, Fei Xue, who rushed back, also saw a Thunder Marrow Golden Rat that had slowed down, swaggering around with a lifeless Yangquan Golden Carp in its mouth.

This was intolerable. The next second, the Thunder Marrow Golden Rat was already a dead rat with its neck twisted.

After blasting open the Thunder Marrow Golden Rat's skull with a light dart, Scarlet Snow put its magic core into her storage collar.

"Damn rats..."

The Yin Spring and Yang Spring, which were originally clear and bright, nourishing the two kinds of carp, are now filled with dead fish, belly up, due to the lightning of the Thunder Marrow Golden Rat.

Not only that, but even the quality of the two springs was contaminated to the point that they were undrinkable.

At this moment... Qin He finally managed to catch up with Fei Xue's speed by using all his strength.

"Hiyuki... here—"

Looking at the chaotic scene before him, Qin He knew... that a magical beast had destroyed Fei Xue's home.

"It's the Thunder Marrow Golden Rat King! It and its rats destroyed my fishpond... my spring, and even the storage ring in my nest..."

Picking up the trembling, furious Fei Xue, Qin He reached out and stroked her ears and head. This was the first time Qin He had ever held a cat like this.

"Feixue...do you know why I asked you that question just now? It's because I'm going to kill! Kill powerful enough magical beasts to improve myself."

"Next... I will completely eradicate the Thunder Marrow Golden Rats in this dead city, leaving not a single one alive!"

Upon hearing Qin He's promise, Fei Xue buried her head even deeper into Qin He's arms.

She had thought about leaving her home in the dead city one day, but that would only happen if there was a magical beast willing to take care of her and entrust the Yin-Yang Springs and the golden and silver carp to it.

Instead of having my home completely destroyed by my most hated blood enemy, as it is now...