Chu Nian and Qi Meili fled together.

Seeing Jingyue being attacked from behind by a large bird swooping down from above, Qi Meili was startled. She conjured an ice spike in her hand and leaped high into the air, aiming it at the strange bird's eyes.

However, on her other side, a giant snake, nearly a hundred feet tall, had already set its sights on her.

Jingyue saw the giant snake flick its tongue, which was over ten feet long, towards Qi Meili. She was in a position where she could have immediately cut off the tongue with her sword, but she froze and did not move at all.

Qi Meili was currently in mid-air, and all her attention was focused on the large bird, so she didn't notice the large snake at all.

Chu Nian now understood why Qi Meili was so badly injured during the monster tide in the original owner's memories. It seemed that Jing Yue not only wanted the original owner dead, but also, given the close friendship between Qi Meili and the original owner, wanted to kill even Qi Meili, who had always admired and protected her.

However, the original owner died later, and a dead person would no longer have any impact on Jingyue, so Jingyue lost her desire to kill Qi Meili.

Chu Nian pretended to use the original owner's dual wind and thunder abilities to continuously kill the monsters around her, while secretly releasing her mental energy to absorb the nuclear energy of the giant snake.

The giant snake turned to ash. A flicker of disappointment flashed across Jing Yue's eyes.

The large bird that Qi Meili killed also turned to ash.

At the same time, many monsters turned to ash.

Chu Nian had been very cautious and hadn't absorbed these monsters on a large scale. However, she discovered that too many human ability users had already suffered casualties.

This was the largest monster wave she had ever participated in, in the original owner's memory, resulting in heavy casualties among human ability users. The monsters even breached several city walls, but fortunately, they were stopped at the last wall by the combined efforts of several of the military's strongest generals.

The monster horde retreated by dawn. Several generals were seriously wounded in the battle, and two of them died from their injuries shortly afterward.

Chu Nian didn't consider herself a good person, but seeing so many people melted and disappeared by the nuclear energy from those monsters was too much for her to bear. She used a wide-range devouring technique, transferring all the nuclear energy into the spatial artifact she had specifically used to create nuclear energy veins.

All the onlookers saw were numerous monsters turning to ash, and they had no idea what had happened. But as soon as the monsters in the front row turned to ash, the monsters behind them surged forward like a tsunami, covering the sky and stretching endlessly.

Monster attacks occur frequently, but always at night. This is likely related to the monsters' habit of hunting at night. They retreat as soon as it gets light.

So, as long as we hold out until dawn, the danger will pass.

This time, thanks to Chu Nian's secret intervention, the monster tide did not cause the massive losses to humanity as depicted in the original story. The monsters only breached the first city wall before their attack power weakened due to a large number turning to ash, and they were firmly blocked by human ability users outside the second city wall.

At dawn, the monsters retreated.

When Jingyue looked up, she saw a person standing on clouds high in the sky.

The unique, otherworldly aura emanating from him instantly attracted the attention of many people present.

Chu Nian also saw the other person and was surprised: Hmm? In the original plot, the male lead did not personally participate in this monster wave!

Chu Nian suspected that Han Chao had come to investigate the matter of the monster turning to ash, so she further restrained her magical abilities.

Han Chao surveyed the area from the air for a while. Seeing that there were still monsters that hadn't managed to leave in time, roaring and baring their fierce fangs, he frowned. He raised his hand and unleashed a sharp, invisible burst of magical energy that struck the monsters, quickly felling them to the ground.

However, although the monsters were defeated, they didn't turn into corpses; instead, they transformed into nuclear energy factors invisible to the naked eye. Many superhumans with sufficiently powerful abilities also possess exceptional detection capabilities, allowing them to detect these nuclear energy factors.

Monsters that turn to ash do not contain nuclear energy factors.

Han Chao seemed to have already noticed this. Sensing that the monsters he had killed had turned into nuclear energy particles and dispersed in the air, he frowned and left with a puzzled look on his face.

Jing Yue was also a little surprised by his unexpected appearance here, but seeing that he was about to leave, she used her powerful supernatural abilities to leap into the sky and block him, saying with a smile, "Hello, I'm so grateful to you for saving me in Huai Mountain last time, I haven't had a chance to thank you yet..."

"No need." Han Chao interrupted her coldly, a little impatiently. He transformed into a gust of wind, bypassed Jing Yue, and disappeared.

The protagonist's speed is something that probably few people in this world can match.

Although Jingyue was a very powerful superhuman, she couldn't reach that speed yet, so she could only let him leave. But she was still a little disappointed and couldn't help but stare in the direction he left for a while.

The Peng brothers came up to greet her. Peng Jian said, "Captain Jing, wasn't that the person we met in Huai Mountain? Who exactly is he?"

Knowing the plot, Jingyue naturally knew that Han Chao was a ginkgo tree spirit, but she pretended not to know to avoid arousing suspicion about her identity. It wasn't until she started dating Han Chao that he specifically confessed to her that he was a tree spirit, and she feigned surprise.

Although the original owner of this body was once captivated by Han Chao's handsome appearance, she had little interest in a man who would fall in love with another woman. Therefore, even after she learned that Han Chao probably loved her, she had no desire to win his love back.

She simply hoped Jing Yue would get what she deserved. Also, she desperately wanted humanity to escape this painful and struggling existence, and for the world to become a better place. And she also hoped that those who had truly cared for her—her parents, Qi Meili, and others—could live happy lives.

So Chu Nian didn't have the leisure to chase after Han Chao's shadow like Jing Yue. Having exhausted her mental energy all night, she went home, washed up, and went straight to bed, not even eating the breakfast that the original owner's parents had specially prepared for her.

She didn't know how long she had slept, but in her hazy state, she heard someone whispering in her ear, "Master, Master, wake up!" The voice sounded somewhat familiar.

She thought about it vaguely and remembered that the voice sounded a bit like that of Simon Feld, the Great Void Hand.

The Great Void Hand?! Chu Nian instantly woke up and, sure enough, found the sleazy man with the hooked nose standing by the bed.

She shook her head vigorously to clear her mind, and hurriedly asked, "How is it? Did you find it? Did the boundary stone react?"

Simon frowned, shook his head, and returned the boundary stone to Chu Nian.

Chu Nian examined the boundary stone again and said, "Impossible. This boundary stone of mine is definitely the same as the boundary stones that Xiao Linzi refined. It can open the gate to the underworld."