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

At this moment, the deep-sea giant octopus's rage erupted completely.

Its remaining six tentacles all came to life, abandoning all restraint and lashing out at Song Chen frantically.

The tentacles shattered the reefs, cracked the seabed, and made the seawater tremble.

But Song Chen is like an eel, weaving in and out of the gaps between the tentacles.

His body is small but fast, and each change of direction happens precisely when the tentacles have run out of power.

And he was still killing, killing while dodging.

As the tentacles lashed out, he charged toward the next group of sea monsters.

The giant octopus, fearing it might harm its own minions, hesitated even more in its attack.

Song Chen seized upon this, deliberately venturing into the areas where sea creatures were most concentrated. He swung his knife wildly among the armored sharks, slit throats among the sea serpents, and reaped lives with punches and kicks among the swordfish.

Song Chen's heart was pounding.

It wasn't because of fear, nor because of exhaustion, but because of pleasure.

Every tactile sensation of a blade slicing into flesh, every scream of a sea monster when lightning exploded, every ticking number when a system notification sounded sent his adrenaline soaring.

To others, these sea creatures are symbols of death, monsters that devour human lives in the beast tide.

But in his eyes, they were walking kill points, nourishment that made him stronger.

He used to kill strange beasts in order to become stronger.

He's killing the beasts now because he wants to.

Song Chen smiled.

"Haha, your Beast King isn't all that great after all."

He turned around in the water, facing the tentacles of the giant sea octopus that were reaching out again.

This time, he didn't dodge completely. Instead, he let the tentacles brush past his back, using the force of the brush to accelerate and spin as he charged into the last group of iron-spined sea serpents.

Lightning surged on the Heavenly Blade.

A knife.

Seventeen sea monsters died at the same time.

Song Chen didn't look at the specific numbers in the system. He drew his sword, turned around, and faced the giant octopus in the deep sea.

But his eyes were shining, a more primal light, the light of a predator.

The giant octopus in the deep sea saw that light, and for the first time, fear appeared in its vertical pupils.

It has killed many human martial artists, including those at the fourth and fifth levels.

But no third-tier human has ever dared to look at it with such eyes after killing so many of its subordinates in front of it.

That's not about success or failure.

They were watching their prey.

"Human, you..."

"Are you trying to kill me?"

The sound of the giant deep-sea octopus reverberated under the water pressure.

Song Chen didn't answer; he answered with his actions.

He rushed toward the giant octopus in the deep sea.

It's not about running away, it's about charging straight at them.

All the tentacles of the giant deep-sea octopus contracted simultaneously, then sprang out like springs, sealing off all of Song Chen's escape routes from eight directions.

This time it held back, no longer worried about hurting its subordinates, whose numbers had already been nearly wiped out by this human.

Eight tentacles wove together to form a cage.

Song Chen's figure weaved between the tentacles, and he had pushed the Wings of Gale to a level that even he himself had never achieved before. The azure wings of the wind transformed into two vortexes in the water, pushing his speed to the limit.

He dodged the first four tentacles and passed through the gap between the fifth and sixth.

The moment the seventh tentacle lashed out, he touched the side of the tentacle with his toes, using the force to spring upwards.

An eighth tentacle swept past his feet.

He went through it.

They passed through the encirclement of eight tentacles.

An incredulous glint flashed in the vertical pupils of the giant deep-sea octopus.

Then Song Chen's knife came down.

Even with his full power, he could only manage to leave a shallow mark on a fifth-tier beast king's defenses, but he was aiming for its eyes.

Purple lightning on the Heavenly Blade condensed into a single line, compressing all its power onto the tip of the blade.

The intent of the Thunderous Annihilation Blade no longer spreads outward, but converges inward, concentrating all its destructive power at a single point.

The tip of the knife pierced the left eye of the giant sea octopus.

The amber-colored vertical pupils exploded in the lightning.

The giant octopus of the deep sea let out a truly agonizing scream.

This was the first time Song Chen had heard a fifth-tier beast king make such a sound. All of its tentacles simultaneously lashed out at its head, trying to kill Song Chen.

But Song Chen had already drawn his knife and used the recoil to propel himself towards the sea.

His body burst through the sea, carrying a pool of seawater and dark green blood as he flew into the air.

The wings of the Gale unfolded in the air, allowing him to stabilize himself in mid-air.

On the sea, on the deck of the psionic spaceship, everyone witnessed this scene.

Fang Zhenhai almost dropped his binoculars.

What did he see?

The third-tier genius student burst out of the sea, covered in blood and with tattered clothes.

But he held a knife in his hand, the tip dripping with dark green blood, and on the sea beneath his feet, a huge whirlpool was churning, and a terrifyingly large octopus was frantically thrashing its tentacles underwater, its left eye now a bloody, mangled hole.

"He...blinded a fifth-tier beast king?"

Lin Yue's voice sounded like someone was choking him.

The deck was so quiet that only the sound of the waves could be heard.

Shen Yutong saw Song Chen regain his balance in mid-air, saw his injuries, and saw him smiling.

Covered in blood, having just escaped the clutches of a fifth-tier beast king, he was actually laughing.

That smile made Shen Yutong's heart skip a beat. It was an expression she had never seen on his face before—pure, undisguised joy.

Zhao Kunlun's Adam's apple bobbed. He had seen Song Chen kill sea monsters on Yunbo Island, killing them for three days, but at that time Song Chen was calm and silent, like an emotionless killing machine.

This person is different now; he's like a wild beast that's been released from its cage.

The whale's roar echoed again in the sky, tinged with anger.

"Useless. Can't even take down a third-tier opponent."

Its massive, mountain-like body collided with Zhou Wangyue before separating, its enormous head turning towards the sea.

It saw the giant octopus thrashing in agony, saw countless sea monster corpses floating on the surface, and saw a blood-soaked figure in mid-air.

"This human..."

The whale king's voice lowered, and the previous sarcasm disappeared.

Zhou Wangyue also saw it.

His sixth-level grandmaster-level perception allowed him to see everything happening on the sea.

His disciple, that third-tier kid, broke through the encirclement of fourth-tier sea beasts, fought against the fifth-tier beast king in the sea, killed hundreds of its subordinates, and finally blinded one of its eyes.

Zhou Wangyue smiled, then looked away and turned his gaze back to the Giant Whale King.

"Jingyi, do you think you can still kill him today?"

The whale king did not answer.

On the sea, Song Chen took a deep breath.

The sea breeze, carrying a salty smell, filled his lungs, intensifying the pain in his back wound. But this pain also made him more alert.

He didn't look back at the giant sea octopus, nor at the ongoing sixth-order battle in the sky. His gaze was fixed on the east.

The teacher said there are islands to the east.

Find a place to hide, and he will come looking for you.

Song Chen sheathed the Heavenly Blade; the recent slaughter had created an opening in the sea beasts' encirclement.

If he doesn't leave now, he won't be able to leave once the Deep Sea Giant Octopus recovers from its excruciating pain, or once more Tier 5 Beast Kings arrive.

Wings of Gale Unfurled Behind Him.

The azure wind wings were brighter than ever before, with psionic particles flowing within them, refracting a dazzling light.

With a light touch of his toes on the sea surface, he transformed into a streak of blue light and headed towards the deep sea to the east.

Behind him, the sea was covered with countless corpses.

The first-tier arrowfish beast had a charred black body that covered the sea surface for hundreds of meters in radius.

Second-tier armored sharks, some severed, some with their throats cut, some with their heads smashed by a punch, floated haphazardly in the surging waves.

The third-tier Iron-Spine Sea Python had more than a dozen bodies, each over ten meters long, intertwined together. Each one had its throat slit, and its dark green blood had stained a large area of ​​seawater with an eerie color.

The fourth-tier ghost-faced fish demon was split in two from head to tail, with the two halves of the corpse floating on opposite sides of the sea, separated by tens of meters of bloody water.

And that fifth-tier deep-sea giant octopus was frantically lashing its tentacles underwater, blood still gushing from the wound in its left eye.

On the deck, Fang Zhenhai put down his binoculars, moved his lips, and said a sentence.

"I've never seen such a fierce student in my entire life."

Lin Yue nodded in agreement.

The third-tier warrior broke through the encirclement of the fifth-tier warriors, killed hundreds of sea beasts, blinded one of the fifth-tier beast king's eyes, and then left triumphantly.

Who would believe such a thing if I told them?

Shen Yutong loosened her grip on the gunwale, her eyes still fixed on the direction in which the blue streak of light had disappeared.

Zhao Kunlun walked to her side, remained silent for a moment, and said, "Girl, don't look anymore. He'll come back."

Shen Yutong hummed in agreement.

But she didn't look away.

The sea breeze ruffled the stray hairs damp with seawater from her forehead, revealing her slightly reddened eyes.

In the distance, the streak of blue light grew smaller and smaller until it finally disappeared where the sea met the sky.

All that remained were corpses strewn across the ground and a boatload of still-dazed survivors.