Pretty badass, huh? My childhood friend!

At the critical moment.

A hand pressed down on the Vicious Dog's head.

It was a hand surging with Thunder Power, crackling with leaping arcs of electricity.

A dark figure leaped out from the line, his hem fluttering like a battle flag in the wind.

The instant the Vicious Dog was pinned down, purple electric arcs burst across its head. A deep, thunderous roar blew apart the Black Mist, and that supreme, utterly evil Dark Attribute was effortlessly pierced through by the lightning.

With one palm pressed against the Vicious Dog's head, he shattered the Black Mist around its body with lightning!

That Dark Attribute no one could approach...

Those terrifying bone spurs...

Before him, they were as fragile as paper.

In an instant, the Vicious Dog was sent flying.

The entire scene fell silent.

The soldiers present had all seen their share of hardships, and they were all Pioneers. Yet at this moment, their hearts actually trembled.

He... had forced back the Vicious Dog that every soldier in the entire Restricted Zone had been helpless against with one hand?

Vast lightning spilled out around him, thunder rolling as dark clouds filled the sky overhead in the blink of an eye.

Terrifying beyond belief!

"What kind of monster is that?"

"He slapped a Rank B Aberration away with one palm. Is he even human?"

Countless soldiers stared at the scene in shock.

They hadn't seen wrong, had they?

Wasn't he just an ordinary person?

He had sent flying a Rank B Aberration that even their commander couldn't handle with one hand? This...

Quite a few people were already dumbfounded.

But Chu Lan was even more shocked.

Fang Yi's figure was reflected in her trembling pupils. She remembered him—he was the young man who had entered with Wang Liang earlier.

"You've got to be kidding me?"

"This guy isn't an ordinary person? He's actually a powerful Pioneer?"

His appearance had fooled everyone.

He wore ordinary casual clothes and had not stood out at all among the soldiers, like an ordinary person who had never witnessed the Great World Change.

"Step back."

Fang Yi spoke.

At that moment.

He stood atop a massive boulder, looking down at the Rank B Aberration.

Thunder Power surged from his palm.

He was not particularly burly, yet at this moment, he looked like a king who commanded thunder, gazing down upon subjects kneeling before him.

His eyes were calm as still water, yet beneath that water lay raging wind and thunder.

In that instant.

Even Chu Lan was suppressed by his majesty. Chu Lan was the commander of the entire Restricted Zone 019, while he was a Tyrant who made thunder bow in submission!

By the time all the soldiers came to their senses, they realized they had instinctively taken a step back.

"Is he... a Pioneer with a High-level Thunder Attribute?" Chu Lan murmured.

She could feel the powerful sense of suppression emanating from him. He truly could restrain her.

It was not merely his attribute, but his strength as well. She was already at the Divine Axe Fourth Star realm, yet she could not even sense his level of cultivation. That meant he was stronger than her.

"So strong."

"Is this the suppression of a Pioneer with High-level Attributes? My body feels stiff. Under the suppression of his attribute, I can't move at all."

As Chu Lan looked at Fang Yi's figure, it was as if she saw a glimmer of dawn.

Meanwhile.

Wang Liang was stunned stupid.

He stood frozen in place, blankly staring at that cold, aloof back.

"Am I dreaming? My childhood friend, my brother who grew up wearing the same pair of pants as me, is fucking a Pioneer? And such an insanely badass Pioneer, one with strength so absurdly powerful???"

It was utterly mind-blowing.

He had just slapped that dog right on the head. That was so damn cool!

Beside him, his teammates looked from afar at the Vicious Dog that had been punched away and swallowed hard.

"Just looking at it makes my head buzz."

"Why does this Thunder Attribute feel ten thousand times more terrifying than the Dark Attribute? I can endure corrosion, but there's no way I could take that slap."

The somewhat grim atmosphere was abruptly dispelled by Fang Yi's palm strike.

The soldiers all relaxed.

They were no longer worried that the Vicious Dog would escape Restricted Zone 019. They even wanted to see it try to run, only to be brutally taught a lesson by thunder!

Dark Attribute? Corrode everything?

Where thunder strikes, nothing survives!

When Fang Yi's gaze swept over it.

Even the Vicious Dog that had driven everyone into despair panicked.

That figure carrying a brutal, gloomy aura was reflected in its eyes. He radiated an overwhelming pressure, like the Lord of destruction itself, looking down on it.

The Vicious Dog had received the blessings of Spirit Qi and evolved through mutation. The other Pioneers present had done the same.

Yet it could clearly sense that the person before it was different from everyone else.

He had already reached the pinnacle of Spirit Qi Recovery!

He was a supreme force it could not possibly face!

The Vicious Dog trembled all over and tucked its tail between its legs, actually feeling fear toward the human before it.

Whoosh—

Fang Yi slowly drew the blade at his waist.

It was a slender Tang Saber, its blade branded with crimson flame patterns. It reflected the daylight, gleaming so brightly it hurt the eyes.

Fang Yi walked toward the Vicious Dog. His unhurried footsteps made the atmosphere grow heavier and heavier.

"Is he going to finish it?"

Chu Lan stared intently at Fang Yi's steps.

Fang Yi arrived before the Vicious Dog, and the blade in his hand slowly rose.

In an instant,

she felt an invisible pressure surge toward her from Fang Yi's direction, making her heart shudder and her breathing stop.

At the moment it surged forth, Fang Yi's figure blurred.

That was because of his unimaginable speed. He descended from midair.

In that instant, even the blade disappeared from sight. Only dazzling lightning exploded in the air, like a real bolt of thunder!

That slash was unyielding and murderous, carrying the awe-inspiring majesty of a Tyrant.

The Vicious Dog had no time to react at all.

It could only see the long blade carve an arc above its head, as Purple Lightning surged overhead.

The next moment.

Terrifying lightning tore open the sky, like a thunder god descending upon the world and looking down on all living things, leaving everyone utterly shaken.

That slash commanded lightning.

Rumble!

A terrifying light suddenly burst forth.

Incomparably terrifying thunder crashed toward the Vicious Dog, splitting several cracks across the ground.

"Could this be... the Ultimate Thunder Attribute?"

Wang Liang was dumbfounded.

Behind him, the talented teammates chosen to form the squad were equally dumbfounded.

They had thought that palm strike earlier was already incredibly cool, so cool it had practically made him an idol. Yet they had never expected this slash to be even more earth-shattering.

The Thunder Blade emerged!

Pfft!

A powerful dual-attribute Rank B Aberration Fierce Beast was directly blasted apart by the lightning.

That was a Rank B Aberration Fierce Beast!

Its corpse exploded into countless pieces, drifting down from the air and landing on the ground, still crackling with terrifying electric arcs.

"Fuck..."

The surrounding soldiers stood rooted in place, unable to hide the shock in their eyes.

What a simple, unadorned slash.

One strike, and it had been blown to pieces. He did not even give it the chance to take a second strike?

His strength... probably far surpassed that Rank B Aberration Fierce Beast, didn't it?

For a moment, everyone could not help but sigh.

As soldiers, they had thought their circumstances were already quite favorable. They could take advantage of the military's resources to station themselves in places rich in Spirit Qi, absorb it into their bodies, and cultivate continuously. By now, most of them had reached Divine Axe First Star or Second Star.

But before seeing Fang Yi, they had truly believed they would have to perish together with that Rank B Aberration.

After all.

Even their commander at Divine Axe Fourth Star had been helpless against that terrifying Dark Attribute. It was enough to show just how frightening that Fierce Beast had been.

At that moment...

Looking at the Vicious Dog's remains, so effortlessly killed by Fang Yi, they stood there blankly, feeling as though none of it was real.

A Rank B Aberration had been killed that easily?

Even within the Xia Kingdom, such strength could be called top-tier!

And now... there was still nearly a year before Spirit Qi Recovery truly began.

Once Spirit Qi fully recovered a year later, just how terrifying would he become?