I Bound Myself to a Destructive Witch

After subduing the Half-Dragon legion, Xia Feng ordered these restless fellows to stay in the underground base and await commands.

Then the three transformed into three Advanced officers using their "Senluo Wanxiang" and proceeded deeper into the base.

In the depths, there were facilities like the Evil Transformation Experiment Cabin, Half-Dragon Experiment Cabin, Spiritual Material Experiment Cabin, and many others.

As he walked, Xia Feng scavenged various spiritual materials he saw along the way; he even smashed open a cabinet of rare spiritual materials and found a Level 6 Spiritual Material—Exorcising Spiritual Flame!

Unfortunately, its spiritual properties were not wood-aligned, so Miss Mu couldn't use it.

However, as it was still a Level 6 spiritual material, Xia Feng unceremoniously collected it into his Nash Space.

While he scavenged, Miss Mu and Ms. Fu also scavenged.

The three of them thoroughly emptied out the underground base.

Following the Evil Demon Heart's reaction, Xia Feng quickly found in the reactor of the Evil Transformation Experiment Cabin... a huge number of Evil Spirit Pearls!

There were no high-level Evil Spirit Pearls, only low-level ones, but there were as many as 200!

One low-level Evil Spirit Pearl could repair 0.01 percent of the Evil Demon Heart, so 200 pearls amounted to 2 percent.

Without hesitation, Xia Feng smashed all the pearls; countless streams of ink-black liquid poured into his palm, entering the Evil Demon Heart, greedily absorbing every bit.

[Repair Progress: 4.4799%]

The pure Evil Spirit Liquid contained within excited his whole body, making his heart leap.

[4.7919%]

[5.1012%]

...

[6.4710%]

Xia Feng could feel that as he absorbed more low-level Evil Spirit Pearls, their reparative power weakened.

As he got further along, repairing the heart became more difficult; the spiritual quantity of the low-level Evil Spirit Pearls' Evil Spirit Liquid was insufficient to keep up, making it seem like the repair efficiency was waning.

But it was no big issue.

He was now only 3.6 percentage points away from 10%, and judging by the still excited reaction from the Evil Demon Heart, there were more than just these Evil Spirit Pearls in this base.

Struggling to suppress his rapidly throbbing heart, he looked up to the north.

The reaction of Evil Power there was much denser than that of these 200 low-level Evil Spirit Pearls! And much more enticing!

Xia Feng swallowed, and together with the two women, set off again, leaving the underground base and heading towards the core area.

The military district was vast, but with their identities as high-ranking officers, their journey was unhindered; they passed by the General Command Hall, the fortress core armory, Spiritual Artifact practice fields...

As they passed the Spiritual Artifact practice field, Xia Feng immediately sensed a large number of Spiritual Artifacts.

40 D-level Spiritual Artifacts, 10 C-level Spiritual Artifacts, and 1 B-level Spiritual Artifact!

Together with the two B-level Spiritual Artifacts they had obtained when they entered, they now had three B-level replicas.

It was just a pity that not one of these many Spiritual Artifacts was A-level.

But that was also normal, as a B-level was already a very rare level for a Spirit Master.

That this fortress had three B-level Spiritual Artifact owners was already quite impressive.

What's more, they hadn't even reached the core area yet, where there might be even better Spiritual Artifacts.

They moved swiftly along the way, occasionally seeing news and images related to Yeli Helian on the screens alongside the road.

The screens showed the 200th-anniversary celebration of Helian City, with Yeli Helian standing on a high platform, waving kindly to the people, a middle-aged man with a gentle and civilian-friendly demeanor.

In fact, Yeli Helian's reputation in Helian City was quite good, even remarkably good.

He established a transparent and publicly open City Lord's Charity Fund, founded a vast number of orphanages, hospitals, schools, and other organizations beneficial to the people, and even visited remote towns annually. For families affected by unstable disasters or cult invasions, he even introduced relevant comforting policies, providing for the widowed and raising children, pouring money into public welfare construction as if it were free.

From the day he founded the city, Yeli Helian had been honored as one of the Empire's top ten excellent City Lords for two hundred consecutive years, and online, he had a blogger account with a high number of fans and very good reviews.

One could say that if Xia Feng cursed "Yeli Helian, fuck your mother" on the street, passing pedestrians would definitely stop in their tracks and glare at him ominously. At best, they would spit at him; at worst, they would film him and post the video online for criticism.

Perhaps that's just how this world is, where the truth is always just a facade; even in today's age of highly advanced information transmission, it's still very hard for people to see the truth beneath the truth.

Xia Feng retracted his gaze and continued forward.

He soon saw a huge cage appearing between heaven and earth ahead, like a giant birdcage constructed of some rare spiritual material, with countless withered yellow branches crisscrossed.

But with the Eye of Decompilation, Xia Feng could still see the vast spiritual quantity contained in those branches.

The cage should be where the core area was.

And there was a military defense line between the military district and the core area.

A dark ink-colored mist spread throughout the heavens and earth, like a mythical beast that could swallow the sky, towering and coiling around the world, looking down on Xia Feng and his companions.

This was the Evil Power Barrier constructed from Evil Spirit Pearls.

Xia Feng's black pupils dilated, and his breathing grew more rapid.

At this point, he finally sensed the specific number of Evil Spirit Pearls.

3 high-level Evil Spirit Pearls! 210 low-level Evil Spirit Pearls!

Although he didn't understand why this military fortress had so many Evil Spirit Pearls, such a terrifying quantity was more than enough for him to reach 10% and activate his third Demon Power!

The first two Demon Powers were very strong, and he had no idea what the third one would be.

"Miss Q, Ms. Fu, wait here for me, I'll be back shortly."

Both women knew he wasn't afraid of Evil Power, and even liked to devour it. They didn't question him and serenely nodded, waiting in place.

At the same time.

Behind the Evil Power Barrier, in the military command room on the high platform, the officers had naturally also noticed the man who suddenly appeared on the monitoring screen.

"Strict orders forbid anyone to approach the core area for any reason, and yet someone still comes."

The officer, dressed in dark black military clothing with deep blue eyes, squinted and murmured softly, "It seems this guy is the rat in the dark, not so smart after all, daring to reveal himself like this."

While considering, he waved his hand to give an order, "Report this to City Lord Helian."

"Yes, Commander Hai."

A subordinate spoke in a deep voice, "Commander, should we activate the B-level defense?"

"No need," Commander Hai shook his head, "With the concentration of this Evil Power Barrier, even Venerable wouldn't be able to cross, it's enough."

"I guess this guy won't recklessly crash in—"

He coldly spoke, but his deep blue eyes fixed on the screen with a hint of doubt.

In the surveillance footage,

The man seemed to know he had been exposed. He directly shed his disguise, changing into a black-robed figure wearing a K mask, then recklessly charged into the dense Evil Power fog.

His black robe fluttering, in the instant he entered the Evil Power Sea—

Around the Evil Power Sea, the numerous interconnected Evil Spirit Pearls hovering in the air buzzed and vibrated simultaneously, as if answering a mother's call to come home for dinner...

No, that's not right; it was more like they were called home to be eaten! Xia Feng excitedly spread his arms wide, welcoming the affectionate embrace of the Evil Spirit Pearls.

Zhip zhip zhip zhip—

A dense flurry of gray-black pearls flew from all directions like spilled beans. When they struck his chest, they immediately turned to ash and vanished into his heart.

"Thump thump thump thump!" His heart frenetically pounded as he sensed the vitality of the Evil Demon Heart was being rapidly repaired.