"It's Senior Brother Shen Mu!"
"Senior Brother Shen Mu actually defeated more than a dozen High Lord-Level Monsters—and killed seven of them!"
Facing more than ten High Lord-Level Monsters at once, and even killing seven of them.
That was no longer a feat a War God could accomplish. Not even an Invincible War God could do it. Only those councilors who had surpassed the War God level could achieve such a terrifying record.
As everyone discussed it, quite a few trainees had already gone forward to greet him, including Zhao Ruo, whom Shen Mu knew fairly well.
"Senior Sister Zhao Ruo, I'll have to trouble you and the other seniors from the training camp to dissect these monsters for me. Just leave the most valuable parts for me. The rest can be divided among the senior brothers and sisters."
Shen Mu looked at Zhao Ruo as he spoke. He truly did not want to move any further. Even though his spiritual force and physical strength had mostly recovered, his mind was still exhausted.
"No problem, leave it to us!"
Naturally, Zhao Ruo would not refuse. The corpses of High Lord-Level Monsters were practically all valuable. Aside from the most precious special parts, even things like hides and bones could be worth hundreds of millions, comparable to all the valuable materials from a Beginner Lord-Level Monster.
Right now, Shen Mu only wanted to get a good night's sleep. Though the trainee camp could not be considered completely safe, someone would notify him immediately if anything unexpected happened.
The next morning, a little after nine.
Shen Mu slept for nearly ten hours. When he woke up, he felt completely refreshed.
When he stepped out of the tent, only a dozen or so trainees who had just returned from hunting monsters were resting in the camp.
"Senior Brother Shen Mu is awake!"
"Senior Brother Shen Mu, these backpacks contain your spoils from yesterday, including the most valuable parts such as the Dark-Gold Python's fangs and the Silver Moon Dire Wolf's fur."
Although Shen Mu had only entered the camp this year and was considered a junior there, aside from a few Chinese trainees familiar with him, no one called him Junior Brother anymore.
A bonfire burned in the open space at the center of the camp, with several trainees gathered around it roasting meat.
One of the Chinese trainees waved at Shen Mu. "Senior Brother Shen Mu, want some? This is Fire Scale Trident Pig meat you hunted yourself yesterday!"
"Sure."
Shen Mu did not stand on ceremony. He had been hungry for a while. Aside from some high-energy candy pills, energy bars, and other food he had eaten to replenish himself before fighting the monsters yesterday, he had not taken in any energy at all.
It had to be said that the Fire Scale Trident Pig's meat was quite good. The meat of such high-level monsters had undergone a qualitative transformation. Not only did it lack any bloody smell, it tasted delicious after a simple preparation.
Shen Mu ate around four or five jin of roasted meat before stopping once he felt full.
Today, Shen Mu would be facing a truly grueling battle. Eating too much would easily affect his condition.
After eating and drinking his fill, Shen Mu checked his equipment. His spear and throwing knives were all in excellent condition. After all, they were SS-grade equipment; cutting through a group of Lord-Level Monsters would barely wear them down.
After completing his final inspection, Shen Mu once again ventured deep into the Australia Continent under the gazes of the camp trainees.
In the central hinterlands of the Australia Continent lay a great rift valley.
From high in the air, Shen Mu looked down over the canyon. All kinds of ape-like monsters lived there—Kong Apes, Mighty Demon Apes, Mountain Giant Apes, and more—numbering in the tens of thousands.
At the very center of the canyon, atop a massive boulder, a gigantic ape over a hundred meters tall lay sprawled out. Like a small mountain, it radiated a pressure as heavy as the earth itself.
At that moment, the giant demon ape was breathing in and out cosmic energy. Its dark yellow fur resembled tiny shuttles, faintly flowing with an earthen-yellow glow.
Shen Mu took a deep breath, then rapidly descended. The twelve spears behind him trembled violently as terrifying spiritual force enveloped them.
Screech!
A piercing sound tore through the air as the twelve spears shot toward the Mountain Giant Ape like orbital weapons.
Spiritual force and gravitational acceleration stacked together. In the blink of an eye, the twelve spears accelerated to a terrifying speed, their kinetic energy surpassing the limits of the War God level.
Shen Mu raised a hand and clenched his fist. Twelve streaks of light intertwined, their speed surging once again as the spiritual force empowering them reached a terrifying limit of 5,200 tons.
Boom!
Crimson streaks fell from the sky like meteors crashing to earth, their sharp oppressive force locking onto the Mountain Giant Ape.
"Roar!"
The Mountain Giant Ape sensed the danger before Shen Mu's attack could land. Terrifying genetic energy erupted from its body, and its fur instantly transformed into a thick suit of stone armor!
Rumble!
It was as if the ground had suffered a massive explosion. The air current formed a terrifying shockwave, instantly throwing up dust dozens of meters high.
The violent gale directly sent several Lord-Level Monsters around the Mountain Giant Ape flying, smashing them against the canyon walls as the earth shook and the mountains trembled.
The next instant, streaks of cold spear aura flew back out of the dust and returned to Shen Mu's side.
"Roar!"
An ape's howl filled with boundless fury suddenly rang out from the dust. Then, a mountain-sized figure shot out like a cannonball, charging straight at Shen Mu in midair.
His vast spiritual force spread outward, and Shen Mu immediately noticed that his previous strike had opened a hole more than two meters wide and over five meters deep in the Mountain Giant Ape's back, only to be stopped by its hard dorsal spine.
"Roar!"
The Mountain Giant Ape was incomparably furious. It had obediently waited for its new master to give it orders, only to be ambushed by a powerful human.
The power of that strike had nearly matched its full-force eruption. If not for the protection of its stone armor, it might have been severely injured and lost its combat ability outright.
Logically speaking, a first-stage Planet-Level lifeform could fly at a thousand meters per second, but that was in a vacuum.
In midair, due to the air resistance created by its massive body, the Mountain Giant Ape's flight speed was less than 300 meters per second.
Shen Mu was different. As an Advanced War God-level Mentalist, he could easily reach a flight speed of 600 meters per second.
Shen Mu rapidly retreated, while the twelve spears once again transformed into streaks of dark black brilliance and shot out.
The Mountain Giant Ape roared again. Its enormous fists turned to stone, and one punch erupted with terrifying genetic energy, instantly knocking several spears aside.
Shen Mu controlled the spears, sending them straight toward the wound on the Mountain Giant Ape's back.
Its powerful combat instincts allowed the Mountain Giant Ape to instantly perceive the intentions of that detestable human in the distance. Thick stone armor condensed once more over the bloody wound on its back.
Boom!
Black spear aura blasted against the stone armor, shattering countless chunks of rock, but it could not break through completely.
Without the advantage of timing and terrain from before, the maximum burst force of Shen Mu's individual spears was only a little over five hundred tons, making it difficult to break through its defenses.
If the twelve streaks of spear aura merged into one, then in a frontal battle, they would also be knocked away by the giant beast's attacks.
"The gap between major realms really is difficult to overcome!"
From the Azure Dragon Avatar's perspective, this Mountain Giant Ape was nothing more than a toy. Killing it would be effortless.
Yet when his human body faced this giant beast, he felt a powerful pressure, as though an ancient beast possessing immense strength were charging in to kill him!
"I honed this spiritual-force spear technique for this very moment!"
Shen Mu flew in circles around the giant beast, while the twelve spear auras abruptly changed. Thrusting, stabbing, blocking, chopping, and many other techniques unfolded.
Although each spear carried only a little over five hundred tons of force—merely half the brute strength of this King-Level Monster's body—it was very difficult to injure the giant beast while it was protected by stone armor.
But Shen Mu had never expected to succeed in a single strike. While injuring the giant beast was extremely difficult, repeated attacks would still make the Mountain Giant Ape feel pain and drive it into a frenzy.
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Setting explanation: Before Luo Feng obtained the Sky Shuttle in the original work, his flight speed was over 600 meters per second, twice that of Councilor Fal. The Mountain Giant Ape was larger than a human, so its flight speed was naturally slower.
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