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

One hundred kilometers.

Two hundred kilometers.

Three hundred kilometers.

362 kilometers.

Song Chen stopped in front of an abandoned mine.

"It's down there."

Zhou Wangyue landed beside him, and the Grandmaster's perception penetrated downwards, but he found that he could not detect him.

Song Chen drew his Heavenly Blade and launched the first attack, transforming himself into an arrow and hurtling down the slope of the mine.

The mine has been abandoned for many years, with most of the supporting pillars rotten and the walls covered with claw marks from strange beasts.

The deeper you go, the clearer the Earth Dragon King's spiritual energy fluctuations become. The oppressive feeling of a peak fifth-order being surges up from the depths of the ground, like an inverted mountain.

At the end of the mine was an empty space, with nothing there.

Song Chen picked up a knife and began digging. After digging for 300 meters, a huge underground cavity appeared.

The Earth Dragon King is right in the center.

Its massive body was curled up on a giant rock, its dark golden scales glowing faintly in the darkness.

It was quite large, bigger than any fifth-tier alien beast that Song Chen had ever killed, but its psionic energy density was ridiculously high.

In the vision of the Eye of Truth, the Earth Dragon King's body was not made of flesh and blood, but was a mass of spiritual energy compressed to the extreme.

Each scale contains the equivalent of the spiritual energy of a fourth-tier beast's entire body, and the spiritual energy fluctuations on its four claws are so intense that they almost solidify into a tangible substance.

Its eyes were closed, its breathing slow and deep, and a low heartbeat came from its chest, each beat like the beating of a war drum.

The moment Song Chen rushed in, the Earth Dragon King opened his eyes.

Without a roar or a threatening burst of psionic energy, it simply vanished from the giant rock.

Its movement speed is too fast for the naked eye to detect.

But Song Chen's Eye of Truth caught its trajectory. It launched itself off the giant rock, made a right angle in mid-air that defied the laws of physics, and slammed its four claws down toward his face.

He channeled lightning into the Heavenly Blade, causing golden-purple blade energy to explode on its surface, which he then used to slash at the Earth Dragon King's claws.

The first of the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes.

Blade and claw collided in mid-air, the sparks flashing like lightning in the darkness.

Song Chen felt a terrifying force coming from the blade, and he was sent flying.

His back slammed into the rock wall of the mine, creating a crater several meters in diameter. He wasn't seriously injured, but his attack was blocked.

Before the rubble even hit the ground, the Earth Dragon King appeared before him, its second set of jaw teeth popping out and biting down on his neck.

Song Chen turned to the side, activating the Gale Wings to their fullest extent, and moved several meters to the side.

The Earth Dragon King's jaws bit into the rock wall, carving a hole through the several-meter-thick granite.

The second strike.

The blade's aura changed from golden-purple to crimson-gold.

Song Chen cut in from the side, and the Heavenly Blade struck the Earth Dragon King's back.

The moment the scales clashed with the blade, a sharp shriek rang out as the two spiritual energies began to erode each other.

The crimson-gold blade energy pierced the scales for about five centimeters before being deflected by the spiritual energy surging from the Earth Dragon King's body.

A white mark was left on the scales, but no blood was drawn.

Song Chen looked at it and said, "That's powerful! Let's do it again!"

The third strike, the fourth strike, the fifth strike.

Song Chen's figure left afterimages in the underground cavity.

The Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes grew heavier with each strike, the blade energy transforming from crimson gold to pure gold.

The Earth Dragon King was faster than him, but the Eye of Insight allowed him to predict the Earth Dragon King's attack trajectory.

Instead of confronting him head-on, he struck out during the gaps in the Earth Dragon King's attacks.

The third strike landed in the same spot, leaving a white mark on the spine.

The fourth strike continued to hit the same spot.

On the fifth strike, the white seal finally cracked, and dark golden blood seeped out from the gaps in the scales.

The Earth Dragon King let out a low roar; it was enraged.

Its speed increased again, and its four claws wove an attack net in mid-air.

Song Chen had pushed his Gale Wings to the limit. Although he dodged all the attacks, he was in a rather disheveled state.

At this moment, Zhou Wangyue, who had been watching, moved.

From the edge of the mine to the Earth Dragon King, the Grandmaster-level martial artist's movement was almost instantaneous.

Song Chen's Eye of Truth caught Zhou Wangyue's trajectory. He took four steps on the ground, each step precisely landing in the gaps of the Earth Dragon King's attack net. After four steps, he was standing directly above the Earth Dragon King.

Then came a palm strike, without using a knife.

Place your palm on the back of the Earth Dragon King.

There was no burst of psionic energy, no earth-shattering noise, just a light press.

Then the Earth Dragon King's body was as if it had been hit by a mountain, falling straight down from mid-air and crashing into the giant rock below.

The giant rock shattered, shards of rock flew everywhere, and limbs carved deep grooves into the rock face as they tried to get up.

Zhou Wangyue landed, and his second palm pressed down on the same spot.

A section of the Earth Dragon King's back collapsed.

The scales shattered, and the spine broke.

The spine of a fifth-tier peak beast king, with a hardness exceeding that of any alloy below S-grade, was broken into several pieces by Zhou Wangyue's two palms.

Dark golden blood gushed from the Earth Dragon King's mouth, and its limbs thrashed wildly, but its hindquarters had completely lost the ability to move.

It's not dead yet.

The vitality of a fifth-tier peak beast king is terrifying. Even with its spine broken, its upper body is still struggling and resisting frantically.

It gathered its last strength and bit at Zhou Wangyue's neck.

Zhou Wangyue dodged to the side and was about to unleash his third palm strike when Song Chen hurriedly shouted, "Teacher, I have a grudge against this Beast King. Let me handle it."

He glanced at Song Chen, then didn't move.

Song Chen fell down the rock face, his breathing becoming heavier, but his hand holding the knife remained steady.

The blade energy on the Tianjun Blade receded from pure gold to silver-white, eliminating the need for the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes. The Earth Dragon King's defenses had already been pierced by Zhou Wangyue's two palm strikes.

He walked up to the Earth Dragon King.

The Earth Dragon King stared at him with his amber vertical pupils.

The eyes of the fifth-tier peak beast king held no fear, only rage and resentment.

It is only one step away from the sixth rank, and this underground river is the key to its breakthrough.

It has entered and exited this place countless times, absorbing fragmented energy, suppressing its aura, then absorbing again, and suppressing again.

Once it breaks through to the sixth rank, it will become the sole king of this region.

But now, with his spine completely broken, he lies deep in an abandoned mine, watching an eighteen-year-old fourth-tier martial artist raise his sword.

The Heavenly Blade pierced the Earth Dragon King's left eye.

The blade pierced through the eye socket, through the skull, and into the skull. Lightning-type spiritual energy poured into the blade and exploded inside the skull cavity.

The Earth Dragon King's struggles ceased.

[Slayed a Tier 5 peak beast, the Earth Dragon King, gaining 97402 kill points]

Song Chen drew his knife, and dark golden blood dripped from the tip, corroding shallow pits into the rock.

He looked down at the corpse of the Earth Dragon King and remained silent for a few seconds.

The potential danger in Anning City has been eliminated.

Zhou Wangyue stood behind him, looking at the corpse of the Earth Dragon King, and then at the wounds on Song Chen's body.

"I didn't expect you to have reached this level, you can even fight a peak fifth-tier beast king."

Song Chen nodded.

"Teacher, you flatter me."

"Once I reach level 5, I should be able to solo it."

Zhou Wangyue didn't say anything more. He looked down at his phone and saw that the garrison's spaceship was expected to arrive in more than 30 hours.

"Let's go back to Anning City."

Song Chen took the life crystal core from the Earth Dragon King, sheathed the Heavenly Blade, and then flew away.