Forward I

Amid the boundless desert.

Sheets of black carapace armor collided with a tidal wave of countless grunt beasts. Flesh and blood flew like meat through a grinder, splashing and piling up everywhere.

Heavy crashes and explosions became the only notes on this battlefield.

Wei He stood far away from the battlefield atop a dune, revealing only the top of his head as he watched the fighting.

Bang!

Suddenly, a gigantic four-winged creature resembling a bat was struck by a red laser overhead, exploding into countless scraps of flesh.

Some of the meat fell beside Wei He, still smoking black as it twitched from time to time.

Wei He reached out, grabbed a piece, and squeezed it.

"Such hardness." He narrowed his eyes slightly.

"It seems not all pollution beasts have fragile bodies."

Without lingering, Wei He quietly retreated some distance.

He began searching for prey suitable for him to hunt.

Very soon, two brown, rotting humanoid monsters with enormous blade-like claws for hands spotted Wei He.

The two monsters kicked off the ground and lunged toward him.

They were extremely fast.

In an instant, they reached three times the speed of sound.

Wei He took a step back, raised both arms horizontally, and held them upright like palm blades.

Swish!

He countercharged the two monsters with unmatched precision. In the instant they crossed paths, he slipped through the gap between them.

At the same time, his raised palm blades, like genuine sharp blades, swept precisely across the monsters' necks.

Slice! Slice!

The monsters' low snarls came to an abrupt halt. More than ten meters past Wei He, they staggered and fell to the ground, their heads naturally splitting into two pieces.

Blood mixed with brain matter slowly seeped out and flowed away.

"All speed, no strength." Wei He shook his