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

Song Chen used his thumb to open the knife guard and slowly pulled out the knife.

The silver-white blade was exposed to the air inch by inch, each inch accompanied by fine arcs of electricity leaping from the edge, making a crackling sound.

The moment the entire knife was drawn from its sheath, a pale blue arc of electricity shot straight up from the tip, exploding into a dazzling burst of light in the dim light of the withered forest.

The sharpness of the A-grade battle sword was revealed without any concealment.

Zhao Hu nearly dropped his weapon. He stared wide-eyed at the electric arc-wrapped battle blade in Song Chen's hand, his lips twitching but unable to utter a single word.

He had spent seven or eight years in the wilderness, and the highest-grade battle knife he had ever seen was only B-grade.

Grade A is something only those at the third rank or above, or elites from top martial arts universities, are qualified to possess.

This eighteen-year-old has an A-grade combat knife?

The Azure-Scaled Viper sensed the aura emanating from the knife; its vertical pupils contracted sharply, and its body instinctively shrank back.

It was afraid.

But Song Chen didn't give it a chance to back down; his figure disappeared from the spot.

With the Wings of Gale operating at full power, he merged his body with the air. It wasn't just about speed; each step he took landed on the weakest point in the airflow, making him silent and undetectable.

He appeared beside the snake's body, and the Thunderclap Blade slashed out horizontally.

At this moment, the master-level Blood Battle Blade Intent condensed on the blade, and the purple arcs of electricity on the silver blade suddenly surged, turning the entire blade into a bolt of lightning that cleaved towards the snake's body.

The blade struck the side of the Azure Scaled Viper.

That was the spot where the Ironback Bear had previously torn open the old wound. Although it had mostly recovered, the newly grown scales were much more fragile than when they were intact due to the scorching of the lightning.

The blade of the Thunderclap Blade sliced ​​into the scales, and arcs of electricity drilled into the muscle layer through the cracks, exploding in the snake's flesh and blood.

"hiss!"

The Azure-Scaled Viper let out a painful hiss, and purplish-black blood gushed from its wound, emitting a burnt smell after being burned by the electric arc.

The snake's tail swept wildly, whipping towards Song Chen's waist with a whistling sound.

Song Chen didn't take the hit head-on. The Gale Wings made him drift backward like a leaf blown by the wind, three meters away along the airflow swept by the snake's tail, which grazed his chest.

The moment he landed, he pushed off the ground with both feet and shot forward again.

The Thunderclap Blade slashed upwards, and the electric arcs on the blade condensed into a crescent-shaped bolt of lightning, which detached from the blade and shot out.

This is a fusion of the Sky-Splitting Lightning and the Bloodbath Blade Technique, enveloping the blade in lightning power to create a ranged attack.

The lightning-infused blade of energy struck the snake's body, exploding into a dazzling blue-white light.

The Azure Scaled Viper's body was blasted to one side, a large section of its scales shattered, revealing the charred muscles beneath.

"Its lackeys are here!" Liu west's scream came from behind.

Song Chen glanced at them out of the corner of his eye and saw that the snakes had completely gone berserk.

The Azure Viper's hiss changed from anger to a higher frequency and more urgent command.

That was the pressure of bloodline, a signal to burn one's own life force and drive all low-level snake-like beasts to launch suicidal attacks.

The eyes of thousands of mutated snakes turned blood red at the same time, and they surged towards everyone like a tide.

The first-order snakes swarmed down from the ground, tree trunks, and the withered branches overhead.

Second-tier snakes, mingling in the tide, moved faster, their scales harder, and the venom seeping from their fangs drew out shimmering silver threads in the air.

Zhao Hu was simultaneously entangled by three second-tier snakes, and his left leg was bitten several times, causing his protective qi and blood to be rapidly depleted.

Liu west had already been bitten in two places, and his movements were noticeably slower.

Zhou Yuan ran out of poison bottles and could only fight in close combat with a dagger. A second-tier snake bit his left forearm.

Shen Yuan's wind-based abilities were almost exhausted, and the density of her wind blades dropped significantly.

Song Chen knew that the area had to be cleared first.

He no longer kept anything.

The master-level Blood Battle Blade Intent was released without reservation, and the killing intent, sharp enough to cut through space, spread outwards in all directions from his body.

The movements of the lower-level snakes within a 20-meter radius simultaneously froze, a primal fear of life against a supreme killing intent.

With the Thunderclap Blade held horizontally in front of him, the lightning power of the Sky-Splitting Thunder poured into the blade from his palm, transforming the entire blade into a pure condensation of lightning.

Silvery-white arcs of electricity leaped wildly across the blade, emitting a piercing roar and ionizing the surrounding air to give it the smell of ozone.

Song Chen's figure transformed into a streak of silver-white lightning, carving a path of death through the swarm of snakes.

Each swing of the Thunderclap Blade unleashes a burst of lightning-infused blade energy.

It wasn't a simple slash, but rather the release of the lightning power of the Sky-Splitting Lightning through the blade, creating a chain of lightning strikes within the swarm of snakes.

With a single slash, arcs of electricity leaped from the first snake to the second, third, and fourth.

If the snakes are close enough together, lightning will bounce back and forth between them, electrocuting the entire snake population in the area at the same time.

This is a killer move he figured out after training in the wilderness for so long.

Song Chen's figure darted through the dead wood forest. Wherever the lightning passed, the heads of first-tier snakes were sliced ​​off by the blade, and their bodies were burned to charcoal by the electric arcs.

The scales of the second-tier snake shattered under the repeated strikes of lightning, and its purplish-black blood was evaporated by the high temperature before it could even flow out.

[The second-tier mutated snake has been killed, gaining 65 kill points.]

[The second-tier mutated snake has been killed, gaining 55 kill points.]

[A Tier 1 mutated snake has been killed, gaining 6 kill points.]

[A Tier 1 mutated snake has been killed, gaining 7 kill points.]

……

The system notifications kept ringing, but Song Chen didn't have time to check them.

A brutal massacre ensued.

The mutated snakes in this area began to decline at an alarming rate.

An hour later.

All the monsters have been cleared.

The blue-scaled viper is still alive, but its condition is hardly better than that of a dead one.

The wound on his side was bleeding profusely, and his head was scorched by lightning in several places. One of his vertical pupils had been blinded by the electric arc, leaving only his other eye staring coldly at Song Chen.

Its snake body slowly crawled on the ground, trying to move towards Song Chen, but its speed was already as slow as a snail.

The paralyzing effects of the lightning were still raging through its nerves, and every movement caused spasms throughout its body.

Song Chen stood up, gripping the Thunderclap Blade, and walked step by step toward the Azure Scaled Viper.

The electric arc on the blade had weakened considerably, but it was still emitting a faint crackling sound.

As the Azure-Scaled Viper approached, a new emotion finally appeared in its intact vertical pupil.

fear.

It opened its mouth, attempting to let out a final hiss, but only a hoarse gasp escaped its throat; the lightning had destroyed its vocal cords.

Song Chen stood in front of its head and raised the Thunderclap Blade.

The electric arc on the blade lit up for the last time.

[Slayed a Tier 3 peak Azure Scale Viper, gaining 1800 kill points.]