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

"What is this?" Sun Rui stared at the screen.

"A speed-type ability user? No, speed-type users aren't that fast."

Shen Lan stopped speaking for the second time.

Because the blue dot of light had already passed through the south city wall, traced a parabola in mid-air, and landed on the beast tide that was gathering outside the city wall.

Shen Lan rushed to the observation window of the command tower and pushed it open.

A cold wind blew in, and she saw it.

A young man dressed in gray martial arts attire stood with his back to the city wall, charging headlong into the horde of beasts.

He held a knife in his right hand, the lightning on the blade compressing from silver-white to ghostly blue, and then from ghostly blue to dark purple.

The wind blew in from the direction of the wilderness, carrying with it the stench of strange beasts and violent spiritual energy fluctuations.

The person stood alone between the city wall and the horde of beasts.

Then he rushed in.

The dark purple blade energy exploded amidst the beast tide. The first slash enveloped all the strange beasts within a fan-shaped area fifty meters in front of it.

The second-tier creatures were torn apart by the blade's energy, the third-tier creatures were cut in half at the waist, and a fourth-tier Iron-Spine Boar was struck squarely in the face by the blade tip, its entire head exploding into fragments.

[Second-tier beast defeated, gaining 25 kill points]

[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 380 kill points]

[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 5800 kill points]

[Second-tier beast defeated, gaining 30 kill points]

……

The system notification sounds exploded in my mind, so dense that I couldn't hear the intervals.

Song Chen didn't stop.

With his wings of whirlwind fully extended, he left trails of afterimages amidst the beast tide.

With each swing of the Heavenly Blade, a large number of strange beasts fell, and lightning exploded among the beasts, sending blood and flesh flying everywhere.

Before the encirclement of the strange beasts could close in, he had already broken through the first layer.

Then they turned back and charged in from another direction.

Shen Lan stood by the window of the control tower. The wind blew a few strands of her hair away, but she didn't bother to gather them up.

She watched the man fight his way through the beast horde, watched the lightning on the blade change from dark purple to deep purple, and watched the corpses of the strange beasts pile up on the ground at a visible speed.

Sun Rui's voice came from behind: "Governor, we've found out that person's identity. The identification device at the city gate shows that he is Song Chen from Tianhai University."

Shen Lan didn't turn around; her gaze was fixed on the gray figure as he fought his way through the second layer of the beast tide and was advancing towards the core area of ​​the third layer.

In the core area, a colossal beast of the fifth rank, over fifty meters in size, is standing up.

The young man saw it too.

He adjusted his direction, and the lightning on the blade compressed again, with a hint of gold beginning to shine through the deep purple.

As Shen Lan looked at the blade energy that was beginning to emit golden light, he suddenly remembered something.

The president of Tianhai University, Zhou Wangyue, a sixth-level grandmaster, recently took on a closed-door disciple, who seems to have the same name. If nothing unexpected happens, it must be him.

……

The lightning on the Tianjun Blade in Song Chen's hand had changed from dark purple to golden purple.

Now that he has penetrated deep into the beast horde, he has begun using the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes.

The blade energy shifted from an extended state to a compressed state, shrinking from a 25-meter-long blade aura to 10 meters. The darker the color, the higher the density.

Golden-purple blade energy flowed across the blade, like a layer of liquid lightning paste.

The first knife.

Cut horizontally.

The blade swept from left to right, its golden-purple aura carving an arc.

The strange beast directly in front was struck by the blade's energy, and the second-tier beast was instantly severed.

The moment the blade swept across the body, lightning-based spiritual energy exploded at the cellular level. The three-headed ice-spine wolf's torso was severed in two at the same instant. The cut was charred black, and not a drop of blood flowed out. The blood vessels were burned and sealed by the lightning as they were severed.

Even those at the third tier were instantly killed.

A fourth-tier giant scorpion raised its pincers to block, but the blade's energy struck the pincers, shattering their ice armor and splitting them in two. The remaining force of the blade's energy penetrated the giant scorpion's head and thorax, cleaving a half-meter-deep gash in its entire front half.

The giant scorpion convulsed and collapsed, its six legs leaving deep marks on the ice.

One strike, a hundred heads, tens of thousands of kill points.

Song Chen didn't stop. The characteristic of the Heavenly Thunder Seven Slashes is not the power of a single strike, but the cumulative effect of consecutive strikes.

The moment the blade energy of the first strike dissipated, the second strike followed.

The lightning paste on the blade deepened, and crimson-gold threads began to seep through the golden-purple, spreading like cracks across the surface of the blade's aura.

The second strike is a vertical cleave.

The target is a fourth-tier Glacier Devil Crocodile.

The thirty-meter-long body had only turned halfway when Song Chen was already standing on its head.

Instant kill.

[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 9300 kill points]

The third strike.

Song Chen leaped up, and the Heavenly Blade drew a complete arc above his head, with the crimson-gold threads on the blade already occupying half of the golden-purple blade energy.

The blade cleaved down from its highest point, and the lightning energy detached from the blade, transforming into a separate crescent-shaped blade aura that cut into the densest area of ​​the beast tide.

Along the path of the crescent-shaped blade of energy, hordes of strange beasts fell.

Wherever the blade's energy passed, it plowed a trench ten meters deep into the ground, with the remains of strange beasts lying on either side of the trench.

[Second-tier beast defeated, gaining 25 kill points]

[Second-tier beast defeated, gaining 30 kill points]

[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 380 kill points]

[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 5122 kill points]

……

On the system panel, the kill count jumps upwards in units of tens of thousands.

The fourth strike.

The fifth strike.

The blade energy on the Tianjun Blade had completely turned crimson gold.

The cumulative effect of the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes began to appear; the power of the fourth slash was three times that of the first, and the power of the fifth slash was four times that of the first.

The lightning on the blade had thickened to the point of almost solidification. With each swing, low-level beasts within a hundred meters of the point where the blade struck would be instantly killed by the overflowing lightning.

The sixth strike.

The blade energy turned completely crimson gold, its length compressed to five meters, and its density so high that it was visible to the naked eye.

The air around the blade was ionized by lightning-based psionic energy, emitting a piercing shriek.

Song Chen gripped the knife with both hands and slashed from the lower right to the upper left, the blade cutting into the vital spot of a fourth-tier ice crystal python.

The moment the crimson-gold blade energy touched the python scales, the scales were not cut open, but melted.

The temperature of the lightning plasma was so high that even the defense of a fourth-tier alien beast could not withstand it. A hole the size of a washbasin was melted out at the seven-inch mark of the Ice Crystal Python, and the blade passed through the hole, severing the entire spine.

The ice crystal python's nearly 100-meter-long body broke off at the seven-inch mark, and its front half flew out due to inertia, crashing into the herd of beasts behind it.

Then Song Chen stopped.

The leader of this beast tide has emerged.

He had been preparing for this guy's six-hit combo.

The leader is over 100 meters long and looks like a lizard magnified countless times, but it has two rows of bony plates on its back, each plate is three meters high and has sharp edges like a knife.

Its limbs are as thick as pillars, its head is flat, its mouth is split to the roots of its ears, and each of its teeth is as long as an adult's arm.

Tier 5, Upper Stage: Blade Armor Dragon Lizard.