Chen Du Takes Action, Shocking Great Xia's Military and Officials

Having successfully broken through, Chen Du returned to Magic City.

But in the era of Spiritual Qi Revival, a single day could very well bring earth-shaking changes.

With Spiritual Qi Revival, the speed at which humans and evolved beasts alike evolved was simply astonishing.

Without warning, the clear sky suddenly darkened. Countless outstretched pairs of iron-gray wings blotted it out, casting vast, dense shadows.

When the first shriek rang out, the piercing pain that shook people's eardrums was followed by silent ringing in their ears.

The shriek condensed sound waves into a tangible force that swept through the financial district like an invisible giant hammer. More than a dozen buildings exploded at once.

Shattered glass and steel frames poured down from hundreds of meters in the air like a silver rain, hammering the crowds in the streets.

Blood and shards of glass mingled, soaking the asphalt.

Black-Feathered Birds circled downward, their steel-like wings slicing the sunlight into scattered patches.

Each bird was as large as a small passenger jet, its body over twenty meters long and its wings spanning a full fifty meters.

Chen Du looked at the giant birds. Their beaks gleamed like metal, and their talons were curved like hooks. Every dive tore the roof off half a building.

Each beat of their wings whipped up a hurricane in the streets below, sweeping cars into the air and smashing them into disks of scrap metal when they fell.

The crowds screamed and scattered, but they had no idea where to run.

The military arrived quickly.

Armed helicopters closed in from four directions, their autocannons spitting tongues of flame.

But the armor-piercing rounds struck the Black-Feathered Birds in showers of sparks.

Missiles trailed long plumes of flame into the flock, and explosions blossomed one after another in midair like a grand fireworks display.

Tanks formed ranks in the streets, their barrels raised high as they sent shell after shell into the sky.

But the Black-Feathered Birds merely tilted their heads slightly and casually swept their steel wings, batting the incoming missiles away to explode in midair.

Or they simply made no attempt to dodge, letting the armor-piercing rounds explode against their chests. Their iron-gray feathers were only blackened in patches, and not a single one fell out.

The bodies of these Black-Feathered Birds were comparable to those of Third Tier powerhouses, and even stronger. Ordinary firearms and explosives were not even enough to tickle them.

And because Blue Star's surface area had expanded a hundredfold, perhaps now several hundredfold, countless enormous mountains, famous mountains, and divine mountains had risen from the earth. No one knew how many populations of evolved beasts they had nurtured!

Chen Du stood atop a building that had yet to collapse, watching the slaughter.

He could sense that these Black-Feathered Birds were no fools. They were driving humans away, killing them, and destroying them in an organized manner.

Their targets were every living person in the area and every trace of human civilization.

The logic of this flock of evolved beasts seemed simpler.

Anything that threatened them! They would wipe it out first!

Even with intelligence, they could not possibly think as complexly as humans.

The shriek rang out again, closer and sharper this time, plunging straight into his eardrums like a knife.

He raised his head and looked at the flock circling in the sky, a trace of coldness flashing in his eyes.

At this rate, Magic City would soon be destroyed.

And he naturally had a weapon: a wooden sword he had bought on a whim on his way back.

He drew his sword and looked at the Black-Feathered Birds filling the sky. A faint, almost imperceptible light appeared on its edge.

Then he leaped from the roof, plunging dozens of stories down.

As he fell, the sword light stretched into a silver line, like streaking meteors.

The atmosphere in the Magic City command center was so oppressive it could be wrung out like water.

A military commander with the rank of major general sat across from the branch director of the Spiritual Qi Revival Administration, with an electronic map in front of them.

The financial district had been marked dark red, signifying "completely out of control."

In the footage being sent back, the steel Black-Feathered Birds were still rampaging. Skyscrapers collapsed one after another like toppled building blocks, and thick smoke swallowed the entire street.

The military commander said gloomily, "Missiles can't penetrate them, autocannons have no effect, and armor-piercing rounds can't even knock off a feather."

"Our weapons are useless against them. If this drags on, the entire financial district will be gone."

The Administration's branch director looked no better.

He knew the strength of the Magic City branch's evolved humans. Even the strongest field team leaders were only Second Tier. Against evolved beasts of this caliber, going up against them would be suicide.

Their only Third Tier was still carrying out a mission in another province. Communications had been cut off, and there was no way they could return anytime soon.

The branch director sighed. "It's not that there are no powerful evolved humans in the country, but they'd have to happen to be in Magic City and happen to be willing to act. Those people are used to going it alone. They don't take orders from us."

Someone in the command center cursed under their breath.

Everyone knew those powerhouses could not be blamed. Whoever it was, after fighting their way out of encirclement alone and reaching the peak, why should they turn around and risk their life for a group of strangers who did not even have their contact information?

How long had it been since Spiritual Qi Revival began? Humanity had yet to establish its own system of evolution, but evolved beasts had already reached the Third Tier in droves.

"Report!" The communications officer pulled off their headset, their voice tight. "An unidentified flying object has appeared above the financial district. It's moving extremely fast. It doesn't look like the flock. The target is suspected to be... human."

Everyone in the command center froze.

On the screen, the satellite image zoomed in. An incredibly thin silver line was streaking through the air, moving so fast its outline was almost impossible to make out.

As the silver line passed, the two nearest Black-Feathered Birds suddenly burst into clouds of bloody mist in midair.

"What is that?" The military commander shot to his feet, sending his chair sliding back half a meter.

"Keep tracking it!" The Administration's branch director stood up as well.

He naturally hoped it was an ally, but if it was a lone evolved human whose allegiance was unknown...

Given the strength the person had displayed, the risks afterward would be equally difficult to gauge.

On the screen, the silver line had already charged into the densest part of the flock.

Iron-gray wings blotted out the sky like a curtain, while that speck of sword light flickered incessantly within it. Each time it flashed, a Black-Feathered Bird fell from the sky.

No one in the command center spoke.

The branch director stared fixedly at the screen, his fists clenching unconsciously.

Sword light crisscrossed the flock, and the Black-Feathered Birds' steel-hard wings silently broke apart, their wounds smooth as mirrors.

Before blood could even spurt out, the enormous birds plunged from the air and crashed onto rooftops and streets, raising great clouds of dust.

Chen Du was like a man harvesting wheat, while giant iron-gray shapes kept falling from the sky.

In distant buildings, on the streets, and at the entrances to underground passages, countless phone cameras pointed at the sky.

The figure on their screens was so blurred that all that remained was an extremely faint silver line.

But every time the silver line flashed, a Black-Feathered Bird fell.

The flock finally realized that the thing slaughtering them was more terrifying than they were.

An especially enormous Black-Feathered Bird let out a shriek, and the flock began to change formation, trying to surround Chen Du from all directions.

But the moment they shifted formation, Chen Du had already cut into its very center, a step ahead of them. Sword light rippled outward like a full moon.

A ring of sword qi spread in every direction, with him at its center.

Wherever the sword qi passed, seven Black-Feathered Birds were cut in half at once. Thick bird blood and broken feathers showered down on the ground like a torrential rain.

In the command center, the branch director stared at the screen and said in shock, "Just how strong is this human evolved one?"

After all, a single steel Black-Feathered Bird like that could easily destroy an army, and neither missiles nor bullets were any use against it.