Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
One spear after another flashed like streaks of light, stirring the air into layer upon layer of turbulent waves and further reducing the Mountain Giant Ape's speed and agility.
"Roar!"
The Mountain Giant Ape grew increasingly enraged. It could not catch that detestable human, and its ranged attacks were nothing more than cumbersome Origin Force bombardments with virtually no chance of landing a hit.
There were also those hateful human weapons around it, as though twelve human experts one rank below it were besieging it. What infuriated it most was that it could not mount an effective counterattack.
"You beast, your daddy's right here!"
While verbally taunting it, Shen Mu controlled twelve spears and launched attack after attack.
Layer upon layer of Spear Aura surged like waves, while his swift, ghostlike figure moved like the tide. Whenever Shen Mu found an opening, the sharp Spear Aura would stab straight at the giant ape's anus, perineum, eyes, and other weak points.
Of course, the giant ape possessed powerful battle instincts and protected its weak points well. Yet repeated attacks like these gradually allowed rage to consume its intelligence.
A King-Level Monster might possess intelligence no weaker than a human's, but it ultimately had little rationality. Its beastlike fury erupted completely!
"Roar!"
Dense earth-yellow Origin Force abruptly erupted in the next instant. The Mountain Giant Ape went completely berserk, its terrifying Origin Force condensing into blazing spheres like molten lava that smashed madly toward Shen Mu.
Boom, boom, boom!
The lava cannonballs blasted toward Shen Mu, but they were only moderately fast. With Shen Mu's current speed, even human society's conventional firearms would struggle to threaten him, apart from nuclear technology and laser weapons.
Shen Mu easily dodged the scorching lava spheres. Some exploded in midair, while others blasted into the ground and surrounding mountains.
Boom!
This stretch of mountains seemed to have become the site of a human conventional-weapons war, with terrifying explosions rising and falling one after another.
Such a huge disturbance could be heard even twenty or thirty li away. Warriors with particularly sharp senses could detect the ground faintly trembling even from dozens of kilometers away.
Almost immediately, news of Shen Mu fighting a King-Level Monster spread throughout the entire training camp.
At this moment, in Hongning Base City, a red fighter jet rapidly took off, directly leaving the atmosphere and flying from space toward Australia Continent.
This was Hall Master Hong's Primordial-Grade Smart Fighter Jet, the fastest aircraft in human society without question.
On board the fighter jet, Iceberg and Bewitching, two of Hall Master Hong's three personal guards, gathered together and hurried toward Australia Continent.
Under normal circumstances, a life-or-death adventure was just that. If someone died, they had only themselves to blame. The martial hall and training camp would not interfere at all.
But this time was different. An enraged King-Level Monster could very well wipe out every student. The purpose of a life-or-death trial was to temper the students, not send them to their deaths.
"Bewitching, can we go any faster?"
A fierce young man over two and a half meters tall, powerfully built and with disheveled hair, looked toward the only woman among the three personal guards and asked.
Bewitching shook her head slightly. "Even in a vacuum, our maximum speed is only Mach 40."
Hongning Base City was located in the Middle East, several thousand kilometers from Australia Continent and just over ten thousand kilometers from Shen Mu's battle site.
Even flying at Mach 40, more than eight hundred kilometers per minute, would take over ten minutes.
Now, they could only hope Shen Mu could rely on a Mentalist's flexibility and speed advantage to hold out long enough.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Under Shen Mu's control, the twelve streaks of Spear Aura split and converged. Eight feinted while four gathered and erupted, delivering an impact force exceeding two thousand tons.
Attacks of such power left quite a few wounds on the Mountain Giant Ape. Other than the injury from the initial ambush, they were basically all superficial and had little effect on its condition.
Even so, the pain from those wounds further provoked the giant beast's fury.
"Roar!"
The Mountain Giant Ape once again raised its head and roared, releasing even denser earth-yellow Origin Force.
Every second, more than a dozen enormous lava spheres condensed and then blasted toward Shen Mu.
For lifeforms at any level, going all out consumed the most energy. Even this King-Level Monster suffered severe depletion of stamina and Origin Force after firing hundreds of massive lava cannons.
"You beast, come on!"
Shen Mu provoked the irrational Mountain Giant Ape again and again. Instead of retreating despite its severe exhaustion, the giant beast fought even more desperately, no longer sparing any thought for conserving stamina or Origin Energy.
Boom, boom!
Terrifying lava spheres slammed into the ground, melting the earth into flowing, searing magma.
"Roar!"
The giant beast charged furiously toward Shen Mu. Perhaps by overdrawing its own strength, its speed surged to more than five hundred meters per second in that instant.
At the exact moment the Mountain Giant Ape erupted, Shen Mu, whose psychic power spread across the surroundings, detected its opening.
Among the spears stabbing toward the Mountain Giant Ape from above, below, and every direction, four beneath the ape suddenly accelerated. They transformed into four streaks of light that merged into one and shot straight at the giant beast's anus!
"Roaaar!"
An incomparably miserable howl rang out. The four spears successfully pierced through its weak point, instantly heavily injuring the giant beast, but they were also completely lodged within the Mountain Giant Ape's body.
"Die!"
Shen Mu's eyes instantly filled with bloodshot veins. His psychic power poured forth in full force, controlling the four spears as they tore through the Mountain Giant Ape's body.
Boom!
The giant ape let out a pained roar, its hill-like body crashing to the ground. Under the threat of death, the Mountain Giant Ape completely unleashed all its Origin Force and blasted the spears embedded deep in its body away.
After two consecutive explosive overdrafts, the Mountain Giant Ape's powerful aura weakened severalfold. It no longer possessed the grave, oppressive presence it had before the battle began.
In the next instant, Shen Mu's figure rapidly closed in, almost appearing directly before the Mountain Giant Ape.
The Mountain Giant Ape's eyes instantly turned bloodshot. Overwhelming hatred drove it to pounce at Shen Mu.
On the ground, even though the Mountain Giant Ape was severely injured, its speed was still close to a thousand meters per second. Like a collapsing mountain peak, it smashed toward Shen Mu.
In the next instant, Shen Mu's figure abruptly dropped as he crouched directly on the ground.
Behind Shen Mu, twelve flying knives spun into a streak of light and shot out the instant he crouched down.
Screech!
A brilliant red flash grazed past Shen Mu's hair, instantly crossing a hundred meters. Empowered by an impact force of more than five thousand tons, it pierced directly through the giant beast's throat.
"Die!"
Shen Mu roared, terrifying momentum bursting out with his psychic power like a colossal dragon parting the sea!
The twelve flying knives that had entered the Mountain Giant Ape's body shot upward from its throat, instantly stabbing into the giant ape's head and wreaking havoc within!
In an instant, the Mountain Giant Ape did not even manage a final cry before dying on the spot!
Its hundred-meter-tall body, carried by the momentum of its charge, toppled violently and crashed to the ground like a collapsing mountain.
Boom!
The earth trembled, and the giant ape's corpse completely filled Shen Mu's vision. Its ape head, over ten meters in diameter, was less than a meter from Shen Mu, blocking everything before him.
"Whew, whew!"
With the battle over, the taut string within him loosened, and Shen Mu collapsed onto the ground, his chest heaving violently as he gasped for breath.
At that moment, Shen Mu felt intense soreness throughout his entire body. A violent stabbing pain also surged from deep within his mind, caused by the slight overdraw of his psychic power.
"It's finally over..."
That had been Shen Mu's final blow. If he still had not been able to finish off the Mountain Giant Ape, then the Azure Dragon Avatar would have had to take the field.
Buzz!
The air suddenly trembled in waves. A dark-red streak of light flew from the horizon to Shen Mu's vicinity in the blink of an eye, instantly hovering above him. It was a dark-red triangular fighter jet.
Three figures, two men and one woman, flew out of the fighter jet. Seeing Shen Mu gasping heavily and the lifeless Mountain Giant Ape, they were deeply shaken.
Even the young man known as Iceberg revealed shock in his eyes.
None of the three disturbed Shen Mu as he savored his victory. Bewitching took a deep breath and said, "I'll report to the Hall Master first."
With that, Bewitching dialed Hong's communication number. Once the call connected, she unconsciously stood at attention. "Hall Master, the mission is complete. The Mountain Giant Ape is dead."
"Good work."
Hong's voice remained calm and tranquil.
Bewitching's voice trembled slightly as she added, "No, Hall Master. By the time we arrived, the Mountain Giant Ape was already dead... Shen Mu killed it himself!"
As soon as those words were spoken, even Hong, thousands of kilometers away, fell silent for two seconds.
"Bring Shen Mu back. I want to see him."
At 9:30 that evening, Limit Martial Hall released an announcement to the world. Its contents consisted of only a single line.
Shen Mu, a student of Limit Martial Hall's Global Elite Training Camp, independently killed the King-Level Monster Mountain Giant Ape on Australia Continent during a life-or-death trial.
That brief sentence was like thunder erupting from silence.
For a time, the entire world was in uproar!
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