Chen Gu gave a slight smile, then reappeared at the entrance of the cavern.

On the altar, the elderly Shaman's face turned livid! More than half of her warriors and Shamans had fallen; she was utterly humiliated and seething with rage. And Chen Gu, as if to spite her, chose that moment to provoke her further! They faced each other from a distance. Chen Gu made a throat-slitting gesture—a gesture universally understood by humanoid intelligent life forms as a blatant threat.

The elderly Shaman could no longer contain her fury and, with a sudden movement, raised her blood-red Magic Wand towards Chen Gu.

However, just after making the provocative gesture, a faint blue ripple of energy swiftly enveloped Chen Gu. It contracted sharply inwards, and he vanished with a WHOOSH.

The elderly Shaman's heart skipped a beat. She didn't believe Chen Gu would flee at this critical moment, so he must be preparing to attack!

The elderly Shaman closed her eyes, roaring and muttering incantations. When she opened them again, her originally blood-red eyes had turned a milky white.

She scanned the entire cavern. Her eyes detected no living beings, only faint lines—the pathways of flowing energy.

Chen Gu abruptly appeared behind a Shaman, his palm, sharp as a knife, pierced the Shaman's neck with a HISS!

Then, his figure disappeared once more, along with a few stone weapons of the Subterraneans that lay on the ground.

THUD!

THUD!

THUD!

These stone weapons materialized almost simultaneously in the chests of several Shamans. They looked at their wounds in disbelief, thinking they had been ambushed by Subterranean warriors from behind. However, as they struggled to turn around before dying, they saw that the nearest Subterranean warriors were several steps away. It was clear they were not the attackers.

The elderly Shaman's eyes precisely tracked the energy trajectories of these stone weapons but still failed to detect Chen Gu's presence.

Just then, alarm bells screamed in her mind. With a muttered curse, a dark-red energy barrier materialized around her.

THUMP!

Suddenly, Chen Gu appeared behind her, his palm, knife-like, struck forcefully against the barrier.

The entire energy barrier shuddered violently.

Chen Gu launched another unexpected attack. Just when the elderly Shaman assumed he would first eliminate her subordinates before their final confrontation, Chen Gu attacked her directly.

This was true strategy: always unpredictable.

The elderly Shaman abruptly slammed her Magic Wand down, and dark-red flames swiftly spread, turning the top of the altar into a sea of fire.

This was a special domain spell. Chen Gu found himself trapped within this sea of fire. The abilities of the Quantum Wizard were strongly interfered with, and he couldn't escape using Quantum Teleportation.

The elderly Shaman raised her other claw. The withered, rough appendage seemed impossibly heavy. As the elderly Shaman roared her incantations, a thick, blood-red light enveloped the claw!

Chen Gu felt a profound sense of unease; he was being restrained in mid-air by this 'Ghost Claw'.

However, in the next moment, a maelstrom of conflicting thoughts uncontrollably erupted in the elderly Shaman's mind—she even 'wanted' to direct this attack against her own divine body!

It wasn't that she truly 'wanted' to, but rather Chen Gu *made* her 'want' to.

Isabella Wu—Mind Remote Control.

The elderly Shaman was of a high rank and not easily controlled. However, this momentary interference allowed Chen Gu to break free from her spell's lock. He quickly swept down from the altar and vanished into thin air once more.

When he next appeared, he had already snapped another Shaman's neck!

"ROAR—" The elderly Shaman roared furiously, unable to contain her rage any longer. She flew down from the altar. Behind her, four gigantic wings of flame unfurled with a great ROAR. Magic Wand in hand, she hunted Chen Gu relentlessly.

Chen Gu suddenly materialized among a group of Subterranean warriors, his tactical acumen once again on display. The elderly Shaman's full attention was on the other Shamans, but this time, his target was the warriors!

Chen Gu spread his hand wide and thrust it downwards. Thought Storm!

Chen Gu could now harness the power of a Fourth Energy Level Brain Domain Hacker. To him, the brains of these warriors were like undefended meat-machines.

The savage onslaught of the Thought Storm struck. Hundreds of Subterranean warriors collapsed to the ground without even a grunt, their bodies completely limp.

"ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!" The elderly Shaman raged helplessly. Her warriors had been almost entirely wiped out, and only three Shamans remained.

The three surviving Shamans, terrified out of their wits, scrambled towards the elderly Shaman. She raised her hand, and three streams of blood-red power enveloped her subordinates, pulling them to her side. I will protect them myself and fight Chen Gu to the death! she vowed.

Her three subordinates, tears of gratitude streaming down their faces, stood behind the elderly Shaman.

Chen Gu appeared with a cold laugh some tens of meters in front of the elderly Shaman. She raised her Magic Wand abruptly. A powerful spell began to gather. But behind her, one of the Shamans' eyes suddenly glazed over. She raised her own Magic Wand and plunged it into the elderly Shaman's back!

"AUGH—"

The elderly Shaman screamed in agony. Furiously, she whirled around and wrenched the Magic Wand out, a long spray of fresh blood following it.

When had this subordinate been controlled by the enemy?

Chen Gu, still controlling that Shaman, made her brandish the Magic Wand for another attack. After all, his control was brief and only allowed for basic, mechanical movements, not the execution of complex spells.

This time, the elderly Shaman merely raised a finger. With a single gesture, the controlled Shaman's head exploded with a POP.

Blood and brain matter splattered onto the other two Shamans beside her. They were so terrified they immediately dropped to their knees.

Chen Gu would not miss this pincer opportunity. He darted towards her, his combat style rapidly shifting, as if channeling the distinct abilities of Milna, Katrina, and Derek Kun Shea Ken. Across the tens of meters separating them, one moment he dashed with the speed of lightning, the next he teleported repeatedly. This left the elderly Shaman utterly unable to discern what kind of 'spell' he was preparing to cast.

Since she couldn't predict his moves, the elderly Shaman decided to stop trying. With her back still to Chen Gu, she slammed her blood-red Magic Wand forcefully onto the altar. A terrible power erupted from within her. The four fiery wings behind her WHOOSHED, transforming into an enormous pillar of fire that instantly engulfed Chen Gu, like a torrential river bursting its banks.

But just as a victorious smile touched the elderly Shaman's lips, the two Shamans kneeling before her suddenly struck! They lunged forward in unison, forcefully plunging their Magic Wands into the elderly Shaman's body!

Indeed, the bodies of Subterraneans were tougher than those of humans. However, the elderly Shaman was ancient, her body severely weakened by age and decay. Shamans, unlike human Experts whose bodies are naturally enhanced upon advancement, sometimes even had to sacrifice their physical health to progress.

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