"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Within the capital of the Great Shi Kingdom, the commoners heard tremendous booms coming from the direction of the royal palace, the entire capital city trembling. They all craned their necks to look, whispering and discussing among themselves.

Chen Yi punched through the palace floor, reaching a hundred meters underground.

The formation that blocked divine sense detection was revealed at a corner, emitting a hazy, faint light.

"Stellar River Divine Art, Gathering Sand into a Tower!"

Chen Yi deliberately shouted the technique name with perfect enunciation, as if afraid others wouldn't know he was from the Shen family.

He saw Chen Yi continuously circulate his energy, his arm movements wide and sweeping, looking quite impressive.

Under the effect of the 《Stellar River Divine Art》, all the rubble and soil from the hundred-meter-deep hole were extracted, kneaded by Chen Yi into a small mound of earth and casually tossed aside.

A deep shaft leading underground appeared.

Yan Cong watched from the side, nodding repeatedly, thinking to himself: He really is a Shen family law enforcer.

The two then entered the underground via this temporarily opened shaft.

Next, they jointly broke through the restriction, revealing an underground secret chamber.

Dark, cold, deep, mysterious formation patterns glowing faintly.

The secret chamber had several rooms, each piled with different items.

There were cultivation resources, artifact forging materials, and some letters, books, and papers.

This was a quite mature Dragon-Man tribe outpost; they had already been organizing intelligence and conducting experiments here—experiments referring to using local materials to refine things, checking if they differed from those in their own world.

Although this place looked strange, Yan Cong didn't see anyone.

"Young friend Shen, it seems there are no Dragon-Men here as you mentioned."

Chen Yi smiled.

"Old Senior, on the surface, there are only the two of us here, but in reality..."

Chen Yi looked around.

A full four Dragon-Men were floating in the corners, pointing at Chen Yi and Yan Cong, cursing and grumbling.

"What is that fat pig of the Great Shi Kingdom doing! Letting people barge in here! Useless!"

"These two seem to be at the Martial King Realm; there were traces of flight when they came in just now."

"Scared of what? Even Martial Saints can't see us! What a pity about the information we just sorted out; it's probably going to be taken away, damn it damn it!"

As these Dragon-Men were talking, Chen Yi's gaze suddenly focused on them.

One Dragon-Man felt something was off.

"This younger one seems to be able to see us."

The other Dragon-Men didn't think so.

"Don't talk nonsense! Existing in a soul state is our Dragon-Man tribe's racial talent. If even divine sense can't detect us when we suppress our aura, what's a mere Martial King worth!"

Chen Yi spoke up abruptly.

"Who did you say is worth nothing?"

The four chattering Dragon-Men immediately fell silent.

They were shocked on two points.

Chen Yi could not only see them, Chen Yi could also understand what they were saying!

Before these four could react, Chen Yi dashed forward in a flash, grabbing one with each hand and slamming them hard into the other two.

"Perish!"

Chen Yi was now thoroughly enlightened.

These Dragon-Men who had infiltrated were the most reliable warriors from the Dragon-Man Realm.

It was fundamentally impossible to pry any useful information from their mouths.

So, kill!

After killing, turn them into Dragon-Man Pearls for Black Wind to eat, helping Black Wind awaken the Dragon-Scale Horse bloodline!

"Hah! Ho! Tua! Chua chua!"

Chen Yi rained down punches and kicks, his movements fierce and powerful. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

But in Yan Cong's eyes, who was watching from the side, Chen Yi was just fighting wits and brawn with thin air.

What on earth was he doing?

Soon, Yan Cong also sensed something was wrong.

When Dragon-Men suppressed their auras, even a Martial King's divine sense couldn't detect them in their soul state.

But when they realized Chen Yi could kill them, why bother suppressing their aura? Fight for your life!

Once they took action, energy fluctuations emerged, and Yan Cong's divine sense could distinguish them.

"There really are people? Invisible, are they spirit bodies? Young friend Shen, need any help?"

"Completely unnecessary."

These Dragon-Men who entered the human world early on were not highly leveled.

Of the four before them, three were even only at the Soul Tempering Realm.

Chen Yi also understood the reason: the more powerful a unit, the greater the resistance it faced when crossing the world barrier.

So, it was impossible for strong Dragon-Men to be here in the early stages.

Their realm was inferior to Chen Yi's, they were an alien race, and in a non-physical form—they were purely asking for death.

In no time, Chen Yi dealt with the four Dragon-Men. Four Dragon-Man Pearls appeared out of thin air on the ground. He casually picked them up and tossed them into his storage ring.

Yan Cong curiously glanced over.

"This is..."

"Spoils of war."

"And those Dragon-Men?"

"Already taken care of."

As Yan Cong was about to ask more, a series of explosions and the smell of gunpowder suddenly came from above.

"Crash, rustle..."

A large amount of broken earth fell, the surface structure collapsing and blocking the exit of this underground secret chamber.

Chen Yi looked at Yan Cong with amusement.

"It was done by the king you protect."

Under divine sense detection, Yan Cong naturally knew this. He was furious.

"To think the king really is privately colluding with the alien race! And he's so guilty he wants to silence both of us! But he's still this stupid, thinking this little collapse can trap and kill Martial Kings!"

"If he weren't stupid, the Dragon-Men wouldn't have sought him out."

"I'm going up right now to execute heaven's will and take his dog's life!"

"Don't rush. He can't escape. Old Senior, come look at this."

Chen Yi led Yan Cong into one of the rooms of the underground secret chamber. This room stored the intelligence and archives collected by the Dragon-Men.

They saw the Dragon-Men systematically organizing information about the human world: history, humanities, terrain, political systems, culture, martial arts, factions, and so on—comprehensive, all-encompassing information.

The more Yan Cong looked, the more alarmed he became.

"What are these Dragon-Men planning to do? Do they want to completely understand the entire human world? They're even collecting intelligence on the Demon Tribe!"

Chen Yi said with a light smile.

"They want to win in one battle, making the first battle the decisive one! To eliminate all resistance forces in the human world in one fell swoop and complete the occupation of the human world."

Such a monumental matter was still too impactful for a guardian of a small kingdom.

"Young friend Shen, the Shen family already knows about this and has taken some action, right?"

"Yes, they are currently contacting all parties, making early preparations, and uniting to face the enemy."

"That's good, that's good..."

Very unfortunate.

That was not the case.

Chen Yi just wanted Yan Cong to believe he really came to the Great Shi Kingdom to eliminate external enemies, not to break the Martial King pact.

To save himself the trouble.

However, this casually spoken lie actually gave Chen Yi inspiration.

Although the Shen Family Founding Ancestor possessing his descendants was a bit lacking in martial virtue...

But him guarding the weakest point of the human world's barrier showed that, as a former Guardian, he still had a sense of responsibility he adhered to.

If the Shen Family Founding Ancestor could believe him and mobilize the Shen family to contact all parties to jointly prepare to face the enemy, given the Shen family's influence, it could be done.

"I need to keep a few of these Dragon-Man Pearls as evidence, and also take some of the intelligence they collected."

Afterwards, Chen Yi and Yan Cong fought their way back to the surface.

Yan Cong personally executed the Great Fat Pig King and stated he would handle all subsequent administrative issues. Chen Yi left peacefully.

The death of the Great Shi King would change many people's fates.

Sun Cheng'en's deadlock was resolved.

Li Lingyue also wouldn't need to come to Great Shi for a political marriage.

But, the path of the Female Emperor was never successful because of one Great Fat Pig. Li Lingyue could become the Female Emperor solely because she was Li Lingyue!

Chen Yi held the walkthrough in his hands; he only needed a few micro-maneuvers to help the Female Emperor ascend to power again.

After all, the chaotic soil of a hundred kingdoms coexisting in the Southern Borderlands still existed. The situation wouldn't change just because one Great Fat Pig died.

[Simulation Task Progress: Destroy Dragon-Man Tribe Outposts (3/6)]