"Already about to give in? What a bunch of weaklings!"

Jiang Dali pretended to be straining against the three Heavenly Human Realm stone sculpture puppets while secretly observing the players’ condition. Seeing that dozens of player teams were mostly retreating in disorder and unable to withstand the opponents, he felt speechless.

Clearly, the players were dealing decent damage to the Gang Qi Realm stone sculpture puppets. At least after persisting for hundreds of breaths, they could wear down and defeat one stone sculpture puppet.

However, the current situation was that players feared the death penalty and were cautious, failing to form a cohesive and effective battle strategy, even hindering one another. If one or two players retreated out of fear, it would cause a chain reaction of breaches in the encirclement, leading to further casualties, resulting in a vicious cycle that turned a hopeful battle situation into a crisis.

This situation completely exceeded Jiang Dali’s expectations while perfectly showcasing the selfishness and evasiveness of human nature when faced with danger.

Except for a few teams that managed to hold their ground due to sincere cooperation, most other player teams were starting to fight and retreat, almost turning into a scene of abandoning armor and fleeing in panic.

Jiang Dali knew that if he didn’t intervene, the purpose of this mission would fail, and there would be no more attracting players to come in and harvest resources.

Actually, issuing this mission was just a small goal to harvest a wave of Ying Country’s wild resources.

His other goal was to make players aware that the numerous Heart Shadow Stone Carvings inside Ying Country’s Holy Tomb could be used as fast leveling targets to brush up on Martial Arts Proficiency, thus prompting more players to desperately want to enter the Holy Tomb to improve their Martial Arts Realm.

This would then lead to a frenzy of abnormal people invading the Holy Tomb, and under the players’ enthusiastic charge, other Holy Tombs in Ying Country would become "dungeon targets" for the players to invade. By then, leveraging the players’ power, he could easily learn about the conditions inside other Holy Tombs and personally go to harvest them.

He even thought of his own reason to brush up on Martial Arts Realm — to eliminate the evil stone sculpture puppets! This would prevent players from assuming that an NPC like him was emulating the players by using the stone sculptures for leveling.

However, now that the script was ready, the players were so disappointing, failing to uncover the secrets of the Heart Shadow Stone Carvings and benefit from them, almost retreating collectively with complaints.

Jiang Dali roared suddenly, blasting apart a Heavenly Human Realm Heart Shadow Stone Carving with a punch, breaking through the encirclement. His hands swiftly grasped, unleashing a vast, surging absorption force that transformed into a whirlwind, pulling three Heart Shadow Stone Carvings that were chasing players to his side. His steel-like arms swung powerfully, smashing them into pieces.

This sudden shocking change immediately provided an opportunity for the fleeing players, boosting their spirits.

In that instant, no one noticed Jiang Dali’s cold eyes flashing a trace of weird light, as the power of Primordial Spirit subtly spread out, infiltrating the body of one of the Gang Qi Realm Eight Desolate players wearing a black hood.

Hell Soul Swapping Scripture!

At that moment, the body of the Gang Qi Realm Eight Desolate player stiffened. Before the main consciousness could forcibly go offline, he felt as though he had fallen into an endless, dark, eerie space.

"What’s going on?"

The Eight Desolate player exclaimed in surprise, only seeing several strange negative statuses appear on the panel simultaneously, all things like "Divine Enthronement," "out-of-body," leaving him puzzled.

At the same time.

Jiang Dali’s Primordial Spirit had already controlled this player’s body, creating a feeling of the body extending and adding another piece of flesh.

Only this piece of flesh was extremely weak.

Whoosh!——

A heavy sound of breaking wind suddenly came from the side.

"Watch out!"

Several players next to him swiftly issued nervous warnings.

However.

What no one predicted was that just as the heavy stone sword was about to land on the Eight Desolate disciple, the disciple suddenly burst forth with a solid and heavy ferocious momentum, swiftly retreating half a step, bending, arching his body, drawing his broadsword from below, slashing upward!

Clang!——!

A metallic reverberation exploded.

Block judgment succeeded!

The Eight Desolate disciple’s body trembled greatly. Despite his slightly reddened face under the mask, his form was unwavering, standing firm as a mountain, resisting the Heart Shadow Stone Carving’s powerful blow.

The surrounding players, witnessing this scene in shock, were about to continue scattering and fleeing, but saw the player who had successfully blocked suddenly duck, dodging the stone sword’s downward strike, his broadsword simultaneously piercing out like a black dragon emerging from a cave, swiftly striking at the Heart Shadow Stone Carving’s forehead.

Thump crack!——

A dull impact sound accompanied by an astonishing "-238!" damage number emerged from the stone carving’s top.

This was the highest damage value players had inflicted so far.

The retreating players, seeing such a shocking scene, unconsciously paused, gasping.

What’s going on?

Who is this guy? How is he suddenly so powerful?

Is it just luck?

Or playing dumb to deceive?

Next, the Eight Desolate disciple wearing a black hood showcased a series of amazing combat skills and maneuvers.

Broadsword to open Iron Cloth Shirt, successfully blocking the second stone sword attack from the carving!

Darting forward, circling the side of the sculpture rapidly for another strike to the forehead, hitting the previous spot, and a higher damage value appearing once more.