High Martial Arts: Slay enemies to become stronger, forge invincibility from billions of corpses.

Song Chen was startled. If he wasn't mistaken, this was the middle stage of the fifth rank, which was two whole major ranks higher than him.

In a head-on confrontation, there is no chance of victory.

These sea creatures really think highly of themselves.

Song Chen did not rise to the surface; instead, his fighting spirit grew even stronger.

He gripped the Heavenly Blade tightly, pushed off with his feet, and charged like a torpedo toward the densest part of the sea monster horde.

A metal shark lunged at him, but Song Chen didn't slow down. He made a palm out with his left hand and slapped it on the side of its face.

This palm strike has no technique whatsoever; it's simply a pure burst of qi and blood.

The armored shark's head was slapped to one side, and its entire body followed suit, turning sideways. (Song)

Using the recoil from the palm strike, Chen adjusted his direction and passed through the gap between the two armored sharks.

As the Heavenly Blade passed through, it slashed once on each side.

Two plumes of dark green blood mist spread out in the seawater.

More armored sharks swarmed around.

Song Chen's figure weaved among them, like a nimble fish.

His speed in the sea is not as fast as on the surface, but the master-level Gale Wings can not only control the airflow, but the essence of the Gale Wings is the ultimate control of fluid power, and seawater is also a fluid.

Azure wings unfurled behind him, transforming into two eddies in the water.

Every turn and every change of direction he made was precisely positioned to catch the armored shark in a blind spot when it pounced.

Their teeth grazed his clothes and missed, and by the time their tails swung over, he had already swum to the other side.

One cut after another.

Each slash precisely cut into the Iron Shark's vital points.

He didn't even need to use his sword against the first-tier sea beasts; the aftermath of the battle resolved the situation.

The third-tier Ironback Sea Serpent charged forward. He used his knife to parry its fangs, grabbed its upper jaw with his left hand, and pulled it out of the reef where it was hiding. Then he plunged the knife into its brainstem.

[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 522 kill points.]

Then he plunged his knife into the eye socket of a third-tier iron-spined sea python, pulling it out along with a shattered eyeball and brain matter.

Before the sea serpent's corpse had even sunk, he had already turned around and smashed a second-tier red squid that had ambushed him from behind with an elbow strike.

The force of the elbow strike created a shockwave in the seawater, sending the red squid flying backward. It crashed into the rocks and exploded into a cloud of blood mist.

Suddenly, the water pressure increased dramatically.

A massive, dark shadow rose from the deep sea, obscuring the light filtering through the surface. Song Chen finally saw its full form.

It was an octopus.

To be precise, it was an octopus so large it was terrifying.

Its main body resembles a small mountain, with a diameter of over 100 meters. Its surface is covered with rock-like folds and bony protrusions, and its color constantly changes between dark gray and dark red.

Eight tentacles extend from the main body, each hundreds of meters long. The tentacles are covered with countless suckers, each the size of a water tank. The edges of the suckers are covered with fine keratinous teeth, which gleam white in the eerie light of the psionic particles.

Mid-stage of the fifth tier, a giant octopus from the deep sea.

Its two eyes are like two windows, and Song Chen's figure is reflected in its amber vertical pupils.

Those eyes didn't hold the arrogant killing intent of a fourth-tier sea beast, but rather a cold, calm gaze, like someone scrutinizing their prey.

A fifth-tier beast king no longer bothers to show emotions towards lower-tier prey.

"Humans".

The giant octopus of the deep sea spoke. Its voice did not need to travel through the air; instead, it resonated directly in the water pressure in the form of mental energy. Every word struck Song Chen's mind like a heavy hammer.

"With a cultivation level of the third rank, you were able to kill so many of my subordinates. You are indeed quite impressive."

"But that's all."

Its two tentacles slowly unfolded, the movement was not fast, but the water flow it generated caused low-level sea beasts within hundreds of meters to be swept away and thrown about.

The touchpad was activated.

The first tentacle lashed out from the front, so fast that it left a white cavity in the water.

Song Chen didn't even see the tentacle's true form; he only saw a blurry shadow hurtling towards him.

He instinctively pushed the Wings of Gale to their limit, shifting his body to the left. The tentacles grazed his right shoulder, creating a torrent that sent him spinning twice before he regained his balance.

The second tentacle followed immediately, stabbing upwards from below.

Before Song Chen could adjust his posture, he gripped the blade with both hands and slashed downwards. The blade of the Heavenly Blade collided with the tip of the tentacle.

The sound of metal clashing exploded in the water.

Song Chen felt a numbness in his hand, and was then thrown upwards by a tremendous force.

His arms trembled and ached, and his wrists almost gave way, while the tentacle was only cut with a shallow wound, from which dark green blood seeped out and spread into a small cloud of green mist in the seawater.

For a giant deep-sea octopus of this size, this injury is not even a minor scratch.

Even with his strength, he could barely break through the defenses of a fifth-tier beast king, even while wielding an S-grade battle blade.

Song Chen immediately made a judgment in his mind.

We can't fight it head-on.

His body flipped in the water, dissipating the impact, and his toes touched the side of a tentacle, propelling him diagonally upwards.

The giant sea octopus's third tentacle coiled around him from the left, trying to entangle him.

Song Chen's body made an almost impossible fold in the water, with his upper body to the left and his lower body to the right, as if he had been broken apart and passed through the gaps in the tentacles.

The tentacles' suction cups brushed against his calf but didn't grab him.

The giant deep-sea octopus narrowed its vertical pupils slightly.

This human's cultivation level was clearly only at the third level, but his agility in the water far exceeded its expectations.

That movement technique wasn't a common martial arts move; it was more like a grandmaster-level combat skill? A third-tier human with a grandmaster-level movement technique?

"Human, you're quite something. Now I understand why the Emperor wanted to kill you. Prepare to die."

It abandoned its contempt.

All five tentacles moved simultaneously.

From five different directions, all of Song Chen's possible evasion routes were blocked.

The tentacles worked together seamlessly, each strike precisely coinciding with Song Chen's change of direction.

This is not a simple attack, but a net woven from tentacles that is slowly tightening.

Song Chen's situation instantly became extremely dangerous.

He dodged the first tentacle's strike, but was hit on the shoulder by the aftershock of the second one.

Even the aftershock sent him flying, his back smashing through a coral reef.

The third tentacle followed closely, stabbing towards his landing spot. He gritted his teeth and pushed off the rocks, sliding several meters along the seabed's mud and sand. The tip of the tentacle grazed his scalp and pierced into the mud and sand, while the splashing pebbles hit his face.

The fourth tentacle pressed down from above.

Song Chen had no time to dodge. He gripped the blade with both hands, channeling the power of the Thunderous Annihilation Blade into the Heavenly Blade, and slashed upwards with the blade.

Purple lightning exploded on the blade, colliding with the tentacles. The lightning spread along the tentacles, leaving a charred mark on the suckers of the giant deep-sea octopus.

The giant deep-sea octopus let out a low, muffled groan.

It wasn't pain, of course; the pain receptors of a fifth-tier beast king had already degenerated. It was surprise.

This attack from a third-tier human actually caused it to feel a slight numbness?

Its fifth tentacle swept across.

Song Chen had just unleashed a powerful strike and, without time to catch his breath, could only parry with the Heavenly Blade held horizontally to his side.

The tentacle lashed out at the blade, the force transmitted through the blade, sending Song Chen flying towards the sea.

His master-level swordsmanship provided him with powerful force-dissipating techniques, which prevented him from getting injured.

But let him know that a fifth-tier beast king is truly no match for him.

In a head-on confrontation, he couldn't withstand a single move.

Song Chen was well aware of this, but he was even more aware that while the deep-sea giant octopus's attacks were ferocious, they had a fatal flaw.

It's too big.

Its massive size of 100 meters makes it a dominant force in the deep sea, but when faced with a human martial artist who is less than two meters tall, extremely fast, and whose agility has reached the level of a grandmaster, its attacks appear clumsy.

It's like trying to swat a mosquito with your palm; no matter how hard you try, it's all for nothing if you miss.

Song Chen is much faster than a mosquito.

As he ascended, he adjusted his posture, touched the toes of one of the pursuing tentacles, and instead of continuing to flee, he used the momentum to swoop down and charge back into the sea monster horde.

A hint of anger flashed in the vertical pupils of the giant deep-sea octopus.

This human actually wanted to kill its subordinates right in front of it.

Song Chen charged into the middle of a group of armored sharks. These sea beasts had been standing in a circle watching the battle, waiting for their king to crush the human.

Unexpectedly, the human suddenly descended from the sky and cleaved one of the heads in two with a single slash.

[A Tier 2 alien beast has been killed, gaining 53 kill points.]

He drew his knife, smashed the gill slit of the other head with his left hand, and crushed the jaw of the third head with his right knee.

The three armored shark corpses began to sink almost simultaneously. Then he turned around, his blade flashing in an arc, enveloping all five armored sharks around him.

With one slash, five heads flew off.

[A Tier 2 alien beast has been killed, gaining 68 kill points.]

[A Tier 2 alien beast has been killed, gaining 45 kill points.]

……

The system notification sound exploded in my mind.

Song Chen didn't stop. His figure drew a blue arc in the water, passing through the group of armored sharks and heading straight for a group of third-tier iron-spined sea pythons not far away.

The tentacles of a giant deep-sea octopus chased after him.

The first tentacle pierced his back, but he dodged it at the last moment. The tentacle pierced through an armored shark that couldn't dodge in time, impaling its entire body on the tentacle.

The giant octopus didn't care, casually tossing the corpse aside, and its second tentacle immediately lashed out.

Song Chen dodged again, then slammed his tentacle onto a reef on the seabed, shattering the reef, which was over five meters in diameter, into pieces.

Amidst the flying rocks, he had already rushed into the swarm of iron-spined sea serpents.

The third-tier sea serpents reacted much faster than the second-tier ones. They simultaneously burst out from the rocks where they were hiding and attacked Song Chen from all directions.

Song Chen's figure weaved among them, the blade flashing.

He no longer sought to kill with a single blow; that was too slow.

He used a throat-slitting technique, the blade precisely slicing through the gills of each serpent, cutting open blood vessels and arteries.

A sea serpent whose throat has been slit will not die immediately, but it will lose most of its mobility and struggle futilely in the seawater, its gushing blood turning the surrounding water a dark green.

One, two, three.

Five, eight, ten...

Within ten seconds, Song Chen slit the throats of twenty iron-spined sea pythons.

The system's notification sounds were as frequent as raindrops.

His kill count was skyrocketing at a rate he had never seen before, with each strike netting him thousands of kills.