The violent backlash surged back.

The purple lightning surrounding Lei Ze was abruptly extinguished, his arm bones shattered, and he was sent flying backward.

Crimson Lotus's prized crimson armor ripped apart, spraying blood everywhere. Burning Sky, Rock Shatter, and Boning were also sent flying, the five crashing heavily onto the ravaged ground below.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Five huge craters were smashed into the ground, and smoke and dust billowed into the sky.

Inside the pit, the five people struggled to get up, only to find that the fundamental laws within their bodies had been locked tightly by a black force.

His mana was stagnant, and he could hardly move even a finger.

The five men's blood and qi surged, and their auras weakened to the extreme.

Razer stared intently at the dark figure in mid-air, a sense of powerlessness rising within him.

Even with the five of them working together and prepared to be annihilated, they couldn't even touch a single hem of their opponent's clothes.

Mr. Duan's strength has now reached a terrifying level. This is not a gap that can be bridged by numbers, but an absolute crushing on a dimensional level.

In mid-air, Mr. Duan didn't even look at the five seriously injured people below. He simply lowered his head and gently patted his sleeve with his white-gloved hand.

Then, he stopped what he was doing, slowly raised his head, and looked beyond the ruins and clouds towards a certain direction high up.

Mr. Duan, holding his black cane, slowly said:

"Aren't you two going to make a move?"

High in the distance, behind the clouds, two figures floated in the void.

One of the young men, with blond hair and casual clothes, was sweating profusely as he looked down at the battlefield.

He swallowed hard and said to the person next to him:

"Mr. Duan's strength is getting stronger and stronger."

The blond-haired youth, Qi Xing, wiped away his cold sweat: "This is many levels stronger than when we fought them back then."

He turned to look at the young man beside him, who was wearing a sharp trench coat and had a blank expression.

"Mingze, how confident are you in facing him now?"

Mingze stared intently at Mr. Duan below, and answered expressionlessly:

"Ninety-nine percent."

Qi Xing was stunned when he heard the number.

"No way? Such a high win rate? What kind of unparalleled skill have you been secretly practicing behind my back these past few years? Even those five veteran SSS-level players below you got wiped out in an instant, and you still have a 99% win rate?"

Mingze answered without even blinking:

"This is the probability of failure."

Qi Xing's expression froze instantly.

He slumped his shoulders in dejection:

"Damn, that means we're guaranteed to lose! A 99% failure rate, what's the point of fighting? We might as well just run away!"

Mingze shook his head, his eyes resolute.

Even if there's only a 0.1% chance of winning, we'll still give it our all.

As soon as he finished speaking, ripples appeared around Mingze, and the two of them disappeared directly from behind the clouds.

Soon, the two appeared in the air above the battlefield, hovering a hundred meters away from Mr. Duan.

Honglian, who was at the bottom of the pit, struggled to raise her head. When she saw who it was, her face was full of disbelief.

"Mingze?! Qixing?!" Honglian exclaimed in shock, "You...you must leave!"

Mr. Duan was not surprised by the arrival of the two.

He slowly wiped his cuffs, without even glancing at the two of them:

"I thought you two had changed your personalities and chosen to be cowards."

Mingze ignored the gasps below and looked at Mr. Duan with a complicated expression.

This man once brought them out of despair and gave them strength, but in the end, he destroyed their homeland with his own hands.

“Teacher, as your student.” Mingze’s voice echoed above the ruins.

"I am never afraid of war."

Mr. Duan seemed to have heard something amusing.

He stopped what he was doing and suddenly burst into laughter, the sound of which was particularly jarring in the ruins.

"Hahaha..." Mr. Duan shook his head and pointed at Mingze with his cane:

"If that's the case, wasn't it you who was the first to betray me and collude with the Heavenly Dao back then?"

Upon hearing this, the entire battlefield fell into a deathly silence.

Mr. Duan looked at Mingze with sharp eyes:

"You think that the will of Heaven will help you achieve a half-step of transcendence."

"So you think you have the right to oppose me?"

Apart from Qi Xing, who was aware of the situation, the five people at the bottom of the pit below were all shocked, clearly learning about this for the first time.

"What?!" Ignoring the excruciating pain all over his body, Lei Ze abruptly sat up, staring intently at Ming Ze: "Ming Ze... did you collude with the Heavenly Dao?!"

Honglian's mind went completely blank.

They always believed that Mr. Duan had deliberately provoked the Heavenly Dao's annihilation punishment in his pursuit of a higher realm and devoured them, so they focused all their hatred on Mr. Duan.

But now Mr. Duan is actually saying that Mingze was the first to betray us and collude with the Heavenly Dao?! Mingze was actually a traitor to the Eighth World back then!

Facing the shocked and puzzled looks of his former comrades, Mingze remained expressionless.

"I just did what I thought was right."

Mingze looked directly into Mr. Duan's eyes.

"I, Qi Xing, and all of us, including all of humanity in the Eighth World, should not be stepping stones on your road to success."

Mingze emphasized:

"Teacher, why do you think the world is constantly being destroyed and then constantly being rebuilt?"

"From the First World all the way to the current Ninth World."

"Even the Ninth World is on the verge of destruction."

Mingze pointed to the ruins and questioned them:

Is it the will of Heaven to destroy all humanity?

"From beginning to end, the only person it wants to get rid of is you."

The five people below were completely stunned when they heard these words.

The Heavenly Dao keeps restarting the world, just to eliminate Mr. Duan alone?

Were they all just victims of this game?

Qi Xing chimed in, pointing at Mr. Duan and loudly proclaiming:

“That’s right, teacher, you are the virus that was born in the First World.”

"You have infected one world after another, turning each era into a mess."

Qi Xing spread his hands:

"The Way of Heaven is like antivirus software."

"In order to eliminate you, this super virus that cannot be removed by conventional means."

"He can only format it again and again, wiping out the whole world along with us!"

Mr. Duan laughed even louder as he listened to their accusations.

"Am I a virus?"

"Hahaha......"

Mr. Duan tapped the air with his cane, producing a crisp sound.

"What an interesting metaphor."

He abruptly stopped smiling, his eyes flashing with murderous intent as he looked at Mingze and Qixing in front of him, as well as the five heavily injured people below.

"Since I am a virus, then today I will devour you all!"

After saying that, Mr. Duan immediately took action.

The black cane in his hand suddenly slammed downwards.

"boom!"

A terrifying gravitational force instantly erupted centered on Mr. Duan.

A black vortex condensed directly in his palm.

That's pure devouring law!

The five people, including Raize, at the bottom of the pit were already seriously injured and had no chance to resist this suction force.

"No—!" Honglian screamed.