msmithbooks Chapter 155 Sweeping Through the Valley
Chapter 155 Sweeping Through the Valley
From the shadows of the ice walls, from the cracks in the ice, and from behind the bends deep in the valley, a large number of strange beasts emerged.
Second-tier Ice Spine Wolf, third-tier Snow Salamander, fourth-tier Glacier Python, fourth-tier Frost Armor Giant Scorpion.
They were densely packed, filling the entire cross-section of the valley; a rough count revealed no fewer than three hundred.
Song Chen brandished his knife and charged in—or more accurately, crashed into it.
The first bolt of lightning exploded on the Tianjun Blade, and the blade was wrapped in electric arcs, turning it a dazzling silver-white.
He transformed into a bolt of lightning and slashed into the densest part of the beast horde. With his first sweeping strike, the heads of more than a dozen Ice Spine Wolves flew off at the same time.
[Second-tier beast defeated, gaining 55 kill points]
[Second-tier beast defeated, gaining 28 kill points]
[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 255 kill points]
……
The system notification sounds kept exploding in my mind.
Song Chen didn't stop. With his Gale Wings movement technique fully activated, his figure left a trail of afterimages in the beast horde.
Each swing of the Heavenly Blade was accompanied by a burst of lightning, the blade slicing through skin, muscle, and bone, the blood instantly freezing into red ice crystals in the minus thirty degree air, scattering everywhere.
A Tier 3 snow salamander pounced from the side, opening its massive mouth filled with sharp teeth.
Song Chen made a fist with his left hand, and lightning condensed into substance between his fingers. He then punched the snow salamander into its mouth.
The lightning exploded from the inside, shattering the snow salamander's entire head into fragments, and its fifteen-meter-long body convulsed and collapsed.
[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 620 kill points]
He wasn't using a knife, because the knife in his right hand was being used to slay the fourth-tier glacier python directly in front of him.
The Heavenly Blade cut into the glacier python's vital spot, its tip piercing the gaps in its scales. With a twist of the wrist, it sliced through the spine in one stroke.
The fourth-tier beast's defenses were torn apart like paper by the S-level sharpness of the Heavenly Blade and the enhancement of Song Chen's lightning energy.
The entire spine of the glacier python was completely removed, and it flew into the air with its flesh and blood.
[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 4150 kill points]
Zheng Beihe stood a hundred meters away, his hand holding the knife trembling.
He had seen many martial artists fight, even grandmaster-level experts, but he had never seen anyone fight like this before. It wasn't a fight; it was slaughter.
Moreover, he clearly saw Song Chen's expression.
His face showed no extra emotion, but his eyes shone. Every time the blade sliced through the beast's body, every time lightning shattered an enemy's head, the light in his eyes grew brighter.
He seemed to be enjoying it, not the victory, not the overwhelming power, but the killing itself.
Enjoy the feel of the blade cutting through flesh, the sound of bones breaking, and the moment life slips away under the knife.
"Who...who exactly is he? Is he really a student?"
Zhao Kuo's voice was trembling.
No one answered.
On the battlefield, Song Chen had already fought his way through the first wave of beasts.
In less than five minutes, half of the more than three hundred strange beasts fell, and the rest began to retreat.
Even mythical beasts experience fear; when the aura of the killer overwhelms everything, they too will flee.
Song Chen gave them no chance to escape. The speed of Gale Wings was maximized in the narrow valley, and his figure appeared in front of every beast that tried to flee.
A flash of light, a corpse falls to the ground, then the next one.
A fourth-tier frost-armored giant scorpion burrowed into an ice crevice, leaving only its tail sticking out.
Song Chen flew over, grabbed the scorpion's tail with both hands, and lightning poured into his palms, spreading along the scorpion's tail throughout the giant scorpion's entire body.
A muffled thud came from the ice crevice, then silence.
[Slayed a Tier 4 Beast, Frost-Armored Giant Scorpion, gaining 5820 Kill Points]
He loosened his scorpion tail and turned to find his next target.
In the line of 220 people, someone took a step forward.
He was a fourth-level martial artist from the second team, in his forties, wielding a pair of short halberds.
Seeing Song Chen kill over a hundred strange beasts by himself, he instinctively wanted to help. This was the rule of the Hunting Gang: no one should face a horde of beasts alone during a battle.
He had just taken his second step when a blade of energy slashed past his face.
The blade grazed his forehead, severing several strands of hair, and blasted a crater the size of a washbasin into the ice wall behind him.
The fourth-tier martial artist stood frozen in place.
Song Chen glanced back at him, just once.
His eyes were neither fierce nor cold, and they didn't even seem to have any emotion.
But the fourth-level martial artist felt as if he had been doused with a bucket of ice water from head to toe. It was not the look of a human looking at another human, but the look of a predator looking at an intruder who had entered his hunting ground.
"Don't steal it."
Song Chen only said those two words.
Then he turned around and continued killing.
The fourth-tier martial artist retreated back into the group, his back covered in cold sweat, his voice trembling.
"Holy shit... I almost died."
He wanted to say more, but couldn't.
The system notification sounds were still exploding in Song Chen's mind.
[Second-tier beast defeated, gaining 25 kill points]
[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 380 kill points]
[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 420 kill points]
[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 3910 kill points]
……
The kill count was jumping so fast that the numbers were scrolling wildly across the screen.
Less than eight minutes have passed since we entered the valley, and our kill count has already increased by 120,000.
And this is just the beginning.
The second wave of beasts surged out from the depths of the valley.
More numerous and stronger than the first wave, the number of fourth-tier alien beasts has doubled, and two fifth-tier early-stage Glacier Terror Crocodiles are also mixed in.
It was over thirty meters long, its back covered with ice armor harder than steel, and its blood-red eyes reflected Song Chen's image.
When Song Chen saw the two Rank 5 beginners, a hint of joy appeared in his eyes.
The lightning on the Tianjun Blade subsided, all the electric arcs were pressed into the blade, and the blade changed from silver-white to a deep dark blue.
That's not the color of lightning; it's the color of lightning when it's compressed to its extreme.
The first of the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes.
Song Chen's figure disappeared from the spot, and the next instant, he was already on top of the first glacial crocodile.
The Heavenly Blade cleaved down, its dark blue blade energy extending fifty meters long, striking the carapace of the Deinosuchus.
The carapace shattered, ice shards flew everywhere, and the first strike went in half a meter deep.
The Glacier Crocodile, in pain, suddenly rolled over with its 30-meter-long body, its huge tail lashing out at Song Chen.
Song Chen easily dodged it.
The second strike.
The blade aura was twice as thick as the first strike, its dark blue color tinged with purple light.
The blade and the crocodile's tail collided head-on. The fifth-tier beast's tail was severed in one strike, and the severed tail, still covered in ice armor, flew out and crashed into the ice wall, causing a corner of the ice wall to collapse.
[Slayed a Tier 5, early-stage alien beast, Glacier Terror Crocodile, gaining 18105 kill points]
The second Ice Crocodile charged forward, saw its companion's death, but did not retreat.
The dignity of a fifth-tier beast made it open its huge mouth, its mouthful of sharp teeth biting down at Song Chen.
The third strike.
The purple blade aura extended to eighty meters.
Song Chen slashed the knife upwards, the blade cutting into the crocodile's lower jaw and exiting through its upper jaw.
The Icecrocodile's entire face was split in two, and the bite force between its upper and lower jaws was completely destroyed before it could even be released.
But it wasn't dead yet; the vitality of a fifth-tier beast is terrifying.
The fourth strike.
Song Chen leaped up, gripping the sword with both hands, the blade's aura turning a deep purple.
The blade struck the center of the Ice Crocodile's skull, its energy penetrating the entire cranial cavity, entering from the crown and exiting from the throat.
The head of the crocodile was completely split in two, with brain matter and frozen blood splattered all over the ground.
[Slayed a Tier 5, early-stage alien beast, Glacier Terror Crocodile, gaining 28300 kill points]