Vier and Lance widened their eyes, hardly believing what was before them.

"Hera Fortress... has fallen?"

Wherever people are, there is fire; a place without light must be deserted.

Rod calmly said, "No, perhaps they abandoned it. In times of crisis, Saint Rel Royal City might choose to consolidate its strength, reduce losses, and protect more core areas..."

Before he finished speaking, the ground suddenly began to shake.

"Watch out!" Liszt shouted, "Something's not right here!"

Qingyu sensed the danger and immediately shouted, "Prepare for battle!"

Only a few seconds passed before a loud explosion occurred, and the fortress shattered into fragments. Pus and blood erupted from underground like a volcanic explosion, blotting out the sky with blood-red hues, obscuring all vision before them. The ground pulsated wildly like a drum, causing weaker warriors to lose balance and fall.

Qingyu urgently yelled, "Be careful!"

A flash of fire and another loud bang ensued as a rumbling spiritual power wave crashed down like an avalanche.

Rod looked up to see a golden firelight forming a gigantic wall, blocking an enormous mass of pus and blood.

It crashed into the fire wall and exploded into fragments, with countless blood droplets evaporating in the strong light.

In the distance, a colossal insect, taller than the mountains, emerged from the original site of the fortress, resembling a combination of centipede and cockroach, its massive mouth aiming at them, with pus and blood still flowing down its shell edges.

Hiss!

The giant insect let out a terrifying roar, its huge body suddenly arching, releasing intense spiritual energy waves from its head.

Liszt shouted, "Its spiritual energy waves are rising dramatically. Be careful, it's attacking again!"

Bang!

Another even larger mass of pus and blood burst from its mouth, the overpowering spiritual energy causing spatial disturbances, invisible transparent ripples spreading out like lightning.

"Quick, dodge!" Liszt screamed, "We can't block it!"

Boom!

The pus exploded in mid-air, countless blood droplets striking the ground and raising plumes of smoke, distorting the space with vibrating spiritual energy.

When the blood light fell, Rod realized it was someone who had rushed into the air to block the blow.

She had gray hair, none other than the third Fire Son, Peibela from the Wood City.

Her spiritual energy scattered across her body, the spirit mist in front pulverized, half her body blown away, blood and flesh mangled, blood pouring down.

Rod exclaimed in shock, "Peibela!"

"Don't worry," Qingyu softly said, "she's fine."

"Fine?"

Rod widened his eyes, seeing a strange light encompassing Peibela.

It had an exceedingly odd distortion, like some opaque paints, or a rapidly passing rainbow.

When the light descended, her body suddenly became intact, as if what was seen before was merely an illusion.

Qingyu's face showed a hint of a smile:

"Peibela controls the Source Law of Time Retrospection. Its true power is to reverse her own time, restoring her state to several seconds before. As long as she's not completely dead, she will never be killed."

Horus looked at the aerial figure and said solemnly, "That's the Time Retrospection controller, Peibela of Wood City."

Rod looked at Peibela in amazement, the flickering light around her wavering, like an uncertain phantom, even her existence becoming ethereal.

"Children."

Peibela's voice wasn't loud, but everyone could hear it clearly.

"As long as I'm here, you will not be harmed."

Boom!

The third mass of pus and blood surged forward.

Liszt shouted, "2.6 million kilocrest spiritual energy!"

This overwhelming spiritual energy distorted the space, but Peibela resolutely charged toward it.

Accompanied by a terrifying bang, the spiritual power waves overwhelmed everyone's senses as if the heavens were collapsing.

The blood-red sky descended, yet under the colorful light, Peibela remained unharmed.

Lance exclaimed in awe, "Invincible War God, your companion possesses an incredible time-space power. It's the most wondrous Source Law I've ever seen. Its absolute spiritual power isn't strong, but its precision is unparalleled."

Rod looked at him in surprise.

Peibela's absolute spiritual energy exceeded 500,000, already surpassing the level 15 spiritual energy threshold, and he said it wasn't strong?

"Um, she can reverse her own time, as long as she isn't killed immediately, she is undead..."

Lance nodded, "An extremely rare time Source Law, one of the three great primordials."

In the Dream Realm, the Book of Knowledge rarely praised, "She's a talent. Her Source Law was also rare in ancient times, anything related to time and space is rare."

The doll said, "Master, this monster gives me a very uneasy feeling, I think you should retreat immediately..."

Rod furrowed his brows, realizing his words were yet to reach his lips, as Vier voiced worryingly,

"Rod, let's retreat. I feel immensely uneasy; this giant insect doesn't seem to be the only one..."

No sooner had she spoken than several explosions were heard, more giant insects broke through the ground, pus and blood spraying out from beneath, pouring over their bodies.

It seemed there was a massive blood lake underground, these giant insects were monsters from the Blood Lake.

Liszt urgently shouted, "Their spiritual energy exceeds the level 16 threshold. Though they lack Strong Sources, such super-ranked monsters won't be much weaker than King Level! Let's retreat now!"

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