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

The central section of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

The altitude is 5,300 meters.

More than two hundred martial artists were stationed below a sheltered ice cliff.

The leader of the team was Zheng Beihe, a fifth-level martial artist and the leader of the "Beichuan" martial arts group, which had been famous in the Northwest for a long time.

Behind him were four deputy commanders, all at the peak of the fourth rank. Further back were two hundred and twenty elites drawn from various teams, the weakest of whom were at least at the third rank.

More than two hundred people, not a single one of them spoke.

Of course, it wasn't the lack of oxygen at high altitude that prevented them from speaking. The martial artists who could stand here all had a Qi and Blood value of over 100, so the altitude of 5,300 meters was no different from that on flat ground for them.

They remained silent because a strange beast lurked in the valley ahead.

Ice-spine dragon lizard, mid-tier 5.

It is over fifty meters long and has twelve ice crystal spines on its back, each three meters long.

It can spew out freezing air at minus 150 degrees Celsius, and in a one-on-one fight between martial artists of the same level, its chance of winning is no more than 30%.

It lies at the entrance to the Kler River Valley, like a living iceberg.

Deputy Regiment Leader Su Yan walked up to Zheng Beihe. She was thirty-seven years old and at the peak of the fourth level. She had two old frostbite scars on her face.

Her gaze swept across the snowfield and landed on the valley.

"Commander, it's been three hours."

"It moved once, adjusting its lying position, but never left the entrance to the valley."

Zheng Beihe did not respond.

They traveled for eleven days on the plateau, all for something deep in the Keleqing River Valley: the S-grade spiritual medicine, Snow Marrow Lingzhi.

Animals can absorb spiritual energy, and so can plants; the Snow Marrow Ganoderma is one of them.

It grows only in the depths of ancient glaciers at altitudes above 6,000 meters, and matures only once every ten years.

It has only one effect: to enhance the qi and blood of martial artists. Its greatest advantage is that the medicine is mild, so ordinary people can take it directly without exploding and dying.

Zheng Beihe's daughter is nine years old this year. Her blood and qi value is only 0.1. She cannot withstand ordinary spiritual medicines at all. Only the Snow Marrow Lingzhi can save her.

Moreover, this Ganoderma lucidum is quite large; after my daughter uses it, I can sell it for an astronomical price.

So he came, bringing with him two hundred and twenty elite soldiers.

But now, a mid-stage Tier 5 Ice Spine Dragon Lizard is blocking the entrance to the valley, and hasn't moved an inch in three hours.

Second team leader Zhao Kuo walked over.

"Is this monster also waiting for the Snow Marrow Ganoderma?"

Everyone has thought of this problem.

Even exotic beasts need elixirs, and the Snow Marrow Lingzhi is a treasure for ice-type exotic beasts like the Ice Spine Dragon Lizard.

If it is truly waiting for the Ganoderma lucidum to mature, then the question is not whether they can drive it away, but whether it will allow anyone into the valley.

Third team leader Zhou Tong suggested, "Commander, how about we take a detour?"

"Crossing over the glacier on the west side will take four more days, but it's safer."

Su Yan interrupted him: "The Ganoderma lucidum will mature in the next three days. There's no time to take a detour."

Zhou Tong shut his mouth.

Zheng Beihe remained silent, his gaze fixed on the direction of the valley, his fingers slowly stroking the hilt of his knife.

He was at the lower stage of the fifth rank. Among the four deputy leaders, only Su Yan had reached the threshold of the fifth rank, while the other three were at the peak of the fourth rank.

Of the 220 team members, more than ten were at the fourth rank, and the rest were at the third rank.

Fill it with human lives, and it will be filled to death, but how many people will die?

Fifty? One hundred?

After hesitating for a long time, Zheng Beihe finally spoke.

"Observe for another two hours. If it still doesn't leave, I'll lead a team to try it from the front..."

Suddenly, the ground shook, as if something heavy had crashed onto the ice in the distance.

Zheng Beihe turned around abruptly, and everyone stood up at the same time. More than two hundred people simultaneously placed their hands on their weapons.

They all sensed that, to the southeast, about two kilometers away, a surge of psionic energy was rapidly increasing.

The intensity jumps from the second to the third order, from the third order to the fourth order, then breaks through the fourth order, continues to rise, and finally stabilizes at a value that sends chills down everyone's spine.

There were psionic energy fluctuations from strange beasts, and also from humans.

"What the hell is this thing..." Zhao Kuo's horse-slaying sword was already drawn.

Then came the second vibration, followed by the third, the fourth...

The tremors grew more frequent and intense, and the snow on the ice and rocks began to fall in a soft rustling sound.

A white wave erupted from the snow-capped mountain ridge to the southeast; an avalanche had occurred.

This avalanche is clearly abnormal. A normal avalanche is when snow slides down a slope, but this white wave in front of us is an explosion, as if something has crashed out from inside the mountain.

The snow mist rose hundreds of meters into the air, refracting a blinding white light under the sunlight.

Then everyone heard a sound, a roar from a strange beast, many heads.

Countless tiny lights appeared in the snow mist; they were the eyes of strange beasts, red, yellow, and eerie blue, shimmering in the churning snow dust.

"Form ranks! Prepare to engage the enemy."

Zheng Beihe drew his knife.

But his next order was not issued, because the first strange beast to emerge from the snow mist flew out.

A fourth-tier snow salamander, fifteen meters long and covered in ice armor, flew out of the snow mist, tumbled seven or eight times in the air, and crashed onto the glacier three hundred meters away.

The ice cracked, the snow salamander twitched twice, and then remained still.

It had a hole in its chest, a penetrating wound that entered from the front and exited from the back.

Then came the second one, the third one...

Third-tier Iron-spine Snow Wolves, fourth-tier Ice Crystal Pythons, and fourth-tier Plateau Frost Eagles flew out of the snow mist one after another. Some were split in two, some were blasted into pieces, some were already dead when they landed, and some were still twitching.

All 220 warriors gripped their weapons tightly, unable to see what was happening in the snow mist.

But the energy fluctuations were moving rapidly through the center of the snow fog, each shift accompanied by the screams of the strange beasts.

Then the snow mist was torn apart, and a silver-white blade of light slashed out from within the snow mist, splitting the snow dust in two.

The aftershocks of the blade swept across the glacier, carving a crack a hundred meters long into the ice.

Everyone saw the scene through the snow fog.

It was a human, his clothes were tattered, revealing the strong muscles beneath, and he held a knife in his right hand, the blade gleaming like mercury.

He was surrounded by strange beasts, hundreds of them swarming in from all directions.

The snow was littered with the corpses of strange beasts, their blood staining large patches of white snow a dark red.

The human stood in the center of the pile of corpses, his body crackling with dense lightning. With each swing of his blade, arcs of electricity exploded, and as the lightning-infused blade swept across, the charging monsters fell in droves.

Zheng Beihe saw that the person's left hand was pulled out of the chest cavity of a fourth-tier alien beast, with a crystal core between his fingers.

Then he turned around and with a single slash, cleaved another fourth-tier Ironspine Snow Wolf that pounced at him in two from head to tail.

Without stopping or hesitating, it was as if they were processing a batch of garbage that didn't need to be sorted.

Su Yan's voice trembled: "Commander, look, that person... he's coming this way."

They are definitely heading this way.

The young human moved forward while killing, heading towards the entrance of the Kler River Valley. Behind him, the snow was covered with the corpses of strange beasts.