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

Zheng Beihe witnessed a scene that sent chills down his spine: the Ice Ridge Dragon Lizard that had been perched at the entrance of the valley stood up.

The fifty-meter-long behemoth raised its upper body, its twelve ice crystal spines gleaming coldly in the sunlight. It opened its mouth, its throat sac bulging, and spewed a breath of freezing air at the human.

Wherever the freezing air passes, the air instantly condenses into ice fog, and a half-meter-thick layer of ice shell explodes on the surface of the snow.

The human didn't dodge; the lightning surrounding him suddenly exploded, weaving an electric net in front of him.

The freezing air collided with the power grid, the ice and lightning canceled each other out, bursting out with a piercing shriek, and the water vapor exploded into white mist, enveloping the entire area within a hundred meters.

Then a blade of light appeared in the white mist, and a hundred-meter-long lightning blade of light slashed out from the white mist, striking the Ice Spine Dragon Lizard squarely in the neck.

The ice-spine dragon's neck was cut in half.

It wasn't completely severed; the defensive power of a mid-stage fifth-tier beast was undeniable, its neck harder than steel.

But after the knife slashed in, the man didn't pull it out; instead, he pressed the blade deeper into the wound.

The Ice Spine Dragon Lizard thrashed its body wildly, unleashing over a dozen ice spikes from its icy spines, all of which were shattered by the lightning surrounding the man.

It lashed out with its tail, and the man stepped on its tail to propel himself up, gripping the hilt of his knife with both hands as he descended from the sky.

The second strike landed in the same spot.

The Ice Spine Dragon's head was severed from its neck and crashed onto the snow. Its massive body stiffened for a moment before collapsing with a deafening roar.

This person was Song Chen, and it was now his seventh day on the plateau.

He shook off the blood from the Heavenly Blade, and the lightning around him gradually subsided, revealing his complete face.

[Slayed a Tier 5 mid-level alien beast, Ice Spine Dragon Lizard, gaining 48103 kill points]

The remaining beasts around collapsed. The Ice Spine Dragon Lizard was the core of this area. With the core dead, the remaining beasts scattered and fled.

The fourth-tier animals were the fastest, disappearing behind the ridgeline in the blink of an eye.

He didn't chase after them, but turned and walked towards the entrance of the valley.

Zheng Beihe's hand, which was holding the knife, froze on the spot.

He saw the man's face; he was young, extremely young, no more than twenty years old.

His features could be described as handsome, but the glint in his eyes made it hard to notice his appearance; he was too calm.

After killing a mid-stage fifth-tier beast with two strikes, his expression and breathing remained unchanged.

He walked towards the group.

The two hundred and twenty martial artists remained completely silent.

Su Yan was the first to react. She quickly sheathed her sword and whispered, "Commander, this person..."

"I saw it."

Zheng Beihe's voice was very dry.

He led 220 men, and it was estimated that at least 100 lives would be lost in the process of defeating the mid-stage fifth-tier Ice Spine Dragon Lizard. But this man, with only one knife, finished the job in no more than three minutes.

The person approached.

Zheng Beihe finally sensed the fluctuations in his qi and blood, which indicated the fourth level.

He was already at the lower level of the fifth tier with 20,000 health points, but he absolutely could not solo kill the Ice Spine Dragon Lizard, let alone suppress it.

Who is this person?

Song Chen walked over, about five meters away, holding the S-grade battle knife in his right hand, the blade still bearing traces of the Ice Spine Dragon Lizard's blood.

He raised his eyes and glanced at the group of more than two hundred people.

"The Kitagawa Warriors?"

Zheng Beihe straightened up.

"Yes, I am Zheng Beihe, Commander of the Beichuan Regiment. May I ask who you are...?"

He stopped speaking when the person got closer and he saw the face clearly.

Then he remembered a photo he had seen in an internal bulletin of the Martial Arts Guild.

A freshman at Tianhai University, a recipient of the First-Class Combat Hero Medal, and a direct disciple of Zhou Wangyue, the president of Tianhai University and a sixth-level grandmaster.

In the Battle of Yunbo Island, he killed multiple fourth-tier sea beasts with his third-tier strength, was listed as number 001 on the beast's kill list, and then disappeared.

"You are Song Chen," Zheng Beihe blurted out.

Song Chen glanced at him and nodded.

A collective gasp rippled through the 220-person group.

The name of the Battle of Yunbo Island is familiar to everyone in the martial arts circle; it refers to the newcomer who went missing after being chased by a sixth-tier beast king.

Everyone thought he was dead.

He didn't die, and he's reached level four.

The carcass of the Ice Ridge Dragon Lizard lay across the entrance to the valley, its massive body resembling a collapsed hill.

More than two hundred martial artists remained standing still, with no one moving. All eyes were on the young man, who was squatting next to the head of the Ice Spine Dragon Lizard, using the tip of his knife to pick out the fist-sized life crystal core.

The crystal core glowed with an icy blue light, spun around between his fingers, and then he put it into his backpack.

In the back row of the team, a young martial artist tugged at the sleeve of the older teammate next to him.

"Brother Wang, who is this guy?"

He spoke in a low voice, but everyone around him pricked up their ears.

The man called Brother Wang was an old martial artist at the peak of the third rank who had lived in Beichuan for twelve years.

He didn't answer, his gaze fixed on the young man, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down repeatedly.

Another young team member asked, "What did Commander Zheng just call him? Song Chen? Which Song Chen?"

"The one on Yunbo Island, a student from Tianhai University."

"student?"

The young martial artist's voice couldn't be suppressed and carried far across the quiet plateau.

Several fourth-level martial artists in the front row turned around and glanced at him, their eyes filled with the same shock. They had also heard Zheng Beihe call out that name, but they hadn't dared to make a sound.

He lowered his voice: "Impossible, a student? A student can single-handedly kill a mid-level 5th tier? Even if all of us went together, we might not be able to take down that Ice Spine Dragon Lizard, and he did it alone?"

Brother Wang didn't reply, he just watched.

The young man had already stood up from beside the corpse of the Ice Spine Dragon Lizard; he was far too young.

"Holy crap...are students these days all this fierce?"

The young martial artist murmured.

Song Chen sheathed the Tianjun Blade; the blood on the blade had been frozen into red ice shards by the cold air.

As he walked past the Beichuan Hunting Group, more than two hundred people automatically made way for him, like a group of low-level beasts encountering a apex predator in the food chain, their bodies reacting before their minds.

He stopped under an ice rock, sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and opened the system panel.

In my mind, a semi-transparent screen of light unfolded silently.

Song Chen

[Rank: Fourth-Tier Martial Artist, Fourth-Tier Superpower User]

[Qi and Blood Value: 2505]

【Mental Power: 1803】

[Combat Skills: Thunderous Annihilation Blade (Grandmaster), Gale Wings (Grandmaster), Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes (Mastery).]

[Special Abilities: Nine Heavens Thunderclap (Rank A), Mystic Vision (Rank A), Shapeshifting Technique (Rank B)]

[Kill Value: 325200]

This is Song Chen's seventh day on the plateau, and he is still halfway to Anning City.

Seven days ago, when he crossed the summit of Mount Everest, his Qi and Blood value was 1050 and his Spirit power was 1024.

After seven days of frenzied killing, I exchanged all my killing points for pills, which boosted my health to 2505 and my mental strength to 1803.

But what truly enabled him to solo kill a mid-level fifth-tier opponent was not the increase in his health and mental strength.

It is an S-rank combat skill, Heavenly Thunder Seven Slashes.

Song Chen closed her eyes, with only one thought in her mind.

Expensive, fucking expensive.

The Heavenly Thunder Seven Slashes is an S-level item unlocked after upgrading the system to level four. The purchase price is acceptable, with a million kill points being quite reasonable, making it one of the cheaper S-level items.

But improving proficiency is too expensive.

From beginner to expert, 500,000.

From proficiency to mastery, one million.

To master it to the highest level, three million.

The total kill count is 4.5 million.

He killed for seven days without eating or sleeping, accumulating nearly ten million kill points, which he then poured into the game, just enough to upgrade the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes from mastery to mastery.

To break through to the Grandmaster level of this S-rank combat skill, five million is required.

Fortunately, its power is worth the price. The Ice Spine Dragon Lizard's defense is such that even a master-level Thunderous Annihilation Blade can only cut half of it in, while a master-level Heavenly Thunder Seven Slashes can cut it in half.

The seven strikes were unleashed in quick succession, each strike heavier than the last. By the seventh strike, the blade energy had solidified, making it more than five times more powerful than the first strike. The Ice Spine Dragon Lizard died from the seventh strike.

value.

But it is really expensive.