In the darkness of night, the two men's standoff was accompanied by the occasional howls of zombies drifting from the mountains or the valleys ahead and behind them, sounding utterly chilling.
The battle was on the verge of breaking out. Energy currents churned between them, stirring gusts of wind and sand throughout the valley, the howling wind ringing right beside their ears.
The fifth-order New Human looked at the four corpses on the ground. It would have been a lie to say he was not shocked, but even stronger was the fury of having been provoked.
"You're just a fourth-order New Human, yet you're killing my men." He spoke slowly, his tone brimming with supreme confidence and disdain for Chu Han. "Don't entertain any heroic fantasies about challenging someone above your level. Without reaching the fifth order, there are things people like you will never understand."
Chu Han raised an eyebrow at those words. The fifth order was a dividing line among New Humans, and he naturally knew the special meaning behind it. However, when Chu Han had reached the fifth order, it had been during the earliest days after the apocalypse erupted, several years ago when information had been scarce. At that time, fifth-order New Humans were few and far between, and everyone knew nothing about the secrets of this so-called dividing line.
It was precisely then that Chu Han had seized the advantage and become the first New Human outside the Mysterious Family to awaken a domain!
But times had changed. Back then, Chu Han had known more than ordinary New Humans, so it had been only natural for him to defeat opponents of the same rank or even challenge those above him. Now, after the environment of the apocalypse had changed step by step, the secrets of