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

Soon, Song Chen found a new target.

Deep in the wetlands ahead, on a patch of dry land, lay an enormous four-legged beast.

It is over forty meters long and nearly ten meters tall at the shoulder. Its skin is covered with thick mud armor, which is a natural armor formed by the hardening of mud and psionic particles after long-term rolling in the mud.

It has four curved horns on its head, two long and two short, with spiral patterns on the surface of the horns.

This is a peak-level fourth-tier swamp rhinoceros, the overlord of the wetland ecosystem in the Ganges River basin.

It was asleep, its breathing sounding like a bellows, each exhale sending the surrounding psionic particles flying backward.

Song Chen didn't rush to make a move. He squatted down at the edge of the swamp to observe its breathing rhythm and the flow of spiritual energy.

The swamp rhinoceros's mud armor is so thick that it's difficult to break through it with a single frontal slash, but its mud armor isn't a solid block.

Mud armor is formed by the hardening of countless layers of dried mud and psionic particles, with extremely fine gaps between each layer.

Those gaps are invisible to the naked eye, but in the vision of the Mystic Eye, they are as clear as cracks on a dry riverbed.

Song Chen memorized all the gaps in its mud armor, and then moved.

Wings of Gale unfurled behind him, the azure wings propelling his body and drawing an arc in the air above the swamp.

Instead of attacking from the front, he circled around to the side of the swamp rhinoceros, where the mud armor was thinnest and the gaps were densest.

The swamp rhinoceros sensed him, its eyes snapping open, its amber vertical pupils reflecting the blue figure swooping down from the sky.

Its reaction was extremely fast; its huge body sprang up from the ground, and the four horns on its head simultaneously lit up with an earthy yellow light.

Psionic energy surged from the tip of its horn, forming a semi-transparent psionic shield around its body.

Song Chen's blade struck the shield, causing it to tremble violently and crack with countless tiny fissures, but it did not shatter.

The Swamp Rhinoceros's psionic shield is harder than the bone armor of the Abyssal Siren.

Song Chen also gripped the hilt of the knife with his left hand, and the power of thunder from the heavens poured into the blade from both hands at the same time.

The lightning changed from purple to dark gold.

The dark golden blade light sank into the shield, and the shield melted silently under the blade light, like ice meeting red-hot iron.

The blade's edge pierced through the shield, penetrated the mud armor, and cut into the side ribs of the swamp rhinoceros.

The swamp rhinoceros let out a deafening roar and rolled violently to one side, trying to throw Song Chen off.

Song Chen didn't let go; the knife was stuck between its ribs. His body swung in the air as it rolled, and then he used the momentum to flip onto its back.

He stood on the back of the swamp rhinoceros, holding a knife in both hands with the tips pointing downwards.

The Mystic Eye pierced through the mud armor, through the muscles, through the bones, and locked onto the location of its heart.

A knife pierced through.

The blade sliced ​​through the gaps in the mud armor, pierced the muscle layer, passed through the gaps between the ribs, and precisely pierced the heart.

The swamp rhinoceros's body suddenly stiffened, the yellowish-brown light on its four horns went out at the same time, its four legs went limp, and its huge body crashed to the ground, sending the swamp mud and water flying more than ten meters high.

[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 9547 kill points.]

Song Chen drew his sword, and the blood of the swamp rhinoceros gushed from the blade, resembling a dark red fountain in the twilight.

He picked the crystal core from the heart and stored it in the system space.

This crystal core was much larger than that of the Ironback Crocodile, and was entirely yellowish-brown, with spiritual energy slowly flowing inside.

He scanned his surroundings again; indeed, there were many strange beasts.

Start the killing!

Song Chen returned to the town when night had completely fallen.

The bonfire has been lit, and people in the square are eating around it.

The first person to see Song Chen was Lin Zhao, who was squatting by the campfire, poking at the fire with a twig.

She heard footsteps, looked up, and froze.

Song Chen is carrying a "mountain" into the square.

A swamp rhinoceros weighing hundreds of tons pressed down on his shoulders, its massive carcass obscuring the night sky behind him.

One by one, the people around the campfire raised their heads, the talking stopped, the person studying the route map put down the map in their hand, and the person who was dozing against the stone pillar suddenly stood up.

Song Chen walked to the center of the square, slung the shoulder over his shoulder, and placed the swamp rhinoceros's carcass on the ground.

With a loud bang, the ground trembled.

The flames of the campfire were momentarily suppressed by the shockwave, then leaped up again, illuminating the entire mountain of corpses.

"This meat is good; it will give me the strength to go home."

"Everyone, eat this."

The square was silent for a full three seconds.

Then the old lady with completely white hair was the first to speak.

"Take out the pot, the biggest one."

People in the square seemed to wake up from a dream. Some ran back to their residential buildings to move pots and pans, some went to the well to fetch water, and some dug out old-fashioned knives from the ruins.

The knife was badly rusted; after sawing at the swamp rhinoceros's hide for a long time, it only left a white mark.

Song Chen walked over, drew his Tianjun Blade, and a flash of purple lightning illuminated the blade as he neatly sliced ​​open the swamp rhinoceros's hide. He then sheathed the blade and handed the cut piece of meat to the person next to him.

The campfire burned even brighter.

The meat chunks were skewered on sharpened twigs and roasted over a fire.

The oil dripped into the fire, sizzling and filling the entire square with its aroma.

Someone dug salt out of the ruins; the salt jars, left over from the old era, were so well sealed that they hadn't gotten damp.

The aroma is even stronger when salt is sprinkled on the roasted meat.

Song Chen sat down by the campfire, and Lin Zhao handed him a piece of roasted meat.

He took it and took a bite. The meat of a fourth-tier beast was firm and chewy, but not dry.

The muscle fibers, infused with psionic energy, develop a unique umami flavor after being grilled, making them even tastier than sea monster meat.

He finished one piece in a few bites, and Lin Zhao handed him another.

He took it and continued eating. He had spent the entire day killing strange beasts and carrying hundreds of tons of corpses for several kilometers, which had taken a toll on him.

When he ate the third piece, Lao Zhou was pushed in a wheelchair to the campfire.

He looked at the mountain of corpses of the swamp rhinoceros and scanned it with his mental energy.

"From the wetlands?"

"Um."

"How many?"

"The surrounding third and fourth levels have all been cleared out."

Old Zhou nodded without asking any further questions. He picked up a roll of paper from his lap and handed it to Song Chen.

"We've communicated with everyone, from various countries, with different destinations, and I've drawn up the routes for them."

Song Chen took the scroll and unfolded it. It was the back of Lin Zhao's nautical chart, which was covered with dense writing.

Each person's name, country of origin, destination, and communication results.

Some names are marked "sea route", some "land route", and some "to be determined".

The handwriting was dense, but clear.

At the end of the list, Lao Zhou separated the last line with a horizontal line and wrote a separate paragraph below it.

"407 people from the Great Xia Dynasty, destination: Shangjing Base City, mode of transportation: psionic spaceship."

"The Great Xia military promised to dispatch a long-range spaceship to the mouth of the Heng River within three days to bring all 407 people back at once."

"Spaceship model: Yunkun-class long-range transport ship, with a maximum capacity of 350 people, a range of 12,000 kilometers, and equipped with a Tier 5 psionic shield."