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Time in Eastern Ying.

Ten o'clock at night.

The snow was still falling.

And it was getting heavier.

Covering the roads with cold white snow.

For Eastern Ying in December.

The weather was right at the point of entering deep winter, making one disinclined to do anything.

But under the cover of night.

Xi Shenlian had come to a forest.

A primeval forest in an undeveloped area on the outskirts of Tokyo.

Stepping on the snow, which had already accumulated five to six centimeters deep.

He took out his phone.

And gave a command to the Auxiliary AI:

"Scan the entire surrounding area for any signs of human activity."

A few seconds later.

A mechanical, emotionless voice replied from the phone:

"No mechanical signals detected within a fifty-kilometer radius, and space satellites have not detected any human activity."

"Good, then block all surrounding signals and begin recording my subsequent activities via satellite."

"Understood."

The next moment.

Xi Shenlian put his phone away.

Then he closed his eyes.

And took a deep breath.

The next moment.

An inexplicable aura began to spread.

In the forest, countless animals were suddenly awakened from their slumber. Amidst cries of pain and frightened whimpers, they began to flee instinctively in a frenzy.

Even the falling snow seemed to slow down.

And Xi Shenlian opened his eyes once more.

"...Hmm..."

"Finally, I don't have to suppress my power anymore..."

Ever since his awakening.

Due to the immense power he possessed, Xi Shenlian had been constantly restraining himself.

He even had to be careful with the most basic movements, like moving his limbs.

For over a month.

He had never tested his own arm strength, nor had he ever tried to see how fast he could run.

Because everything he saw, apart from System Items, was simply too fragile.

The next instant.

Before his sigh of emotion had even faded.

Xi Shenlian's figure vanished.

In its place was a massive shockwave that erupted!!

As if hundreds of kilograms of high explosives had been detonated, the intense shockwave distorted the air, tearing apart everything within a radius of tens of meters.

Even hardwood, which required multiple people to embrace and was so hard that even armor-piercing rounds might not penetrate it, was snapped and shattered by the impact, turning into countless tiny fragments that then shot out like bullets, piercing the surrounding soil and vegetation!!

The deafening roar that followed was like multiple giant wheels colliding with each other.

Causing the already panicked animals and insects to flee madly!!

And all of this.

Was merely a minor side effect of Xi Shenlian's movement.

If one were to raise their gaze and change perspective.

It would be easy to see that at the same moment the deafening sound erupted, a straight line was rapidly streaking across the snow-covered primeval forest...

And that line was composed of debris and snow flung up by the shockwave!

Less than half a second.

Xi Shenlian had covered nearly ten kilometers!

In front of him.

The air was like a heavy wall.

Due to factors like reactive force and air resistance.

The faster he ran, the harder the invisible walls formed by the air became.

Conversely, the greater the destructive force he generated while running.

Temperatures in the thousands of degrees, sonic booms with the power of large bombs, and blade-like air currents constantly swirled around him. While they couldn't affect or harm him, they indiscriminately destroyed everything in their surroundings.

Simply by passing through.

A python nearly eight meters long was torn into bloody mist by the sonic boom, its bones completely pulverized into powder!

And a herd of wild boars, consisting of six adults weighing nearly a ton each and over a dozen piglets, were flung over ten meters into the air from a distance of over a hundred meters by the violent air currents as Xi Shenlian moved!

Then, those intense air currents and sonic waves stripped away their hides and flesh, which could withstand small-caliber bullets, like a slow, agonizing death. Their internal organs and brains were shattered, causing scarlet blood to gush wildly from their mouths, noses, eyes, and ears!

Countless debris fragments around them became like continuous high-speed bullets, indiscriminately firing at them along the way!

Before they even hit the ground.

The entire herd of wild boars became a pile of bloody, mangled meat.

Innumerable debris fragments had turned their hard skulls into Swiss cheese!!

As for the ground, Xi Shenlian's stomping had forcibly created a trench over twenty meters deep and fifty meters wide.

Soil, snow, rocks...

Everything was flung behind him and into the sky by the shockwaves and air currents as Xi Shenlian passed!

The scene...

It was like a waterfall!

A waterfall flying from a lower point to a hundred meters high, and then falling freely!!

Its length stretched for over twenty kilometers!!

One second later.

When Xi Shenlian stopped his steps.

Debris weighing an unknown number of billions of tons was still swirling in the sky, not yet fallen.

And the high temperatures caused by air resistance and friction, exceeding tens of thousands of degrees, continued to hover outside Xi Shenlian's body.

Simply by stepping on it.

The ground automatically melted in the heat.

Then, Xi Shenlian, without a speck of dust on him, asked:

"What is my fastest speed?"

A voice immediately responded from his phone:

"Based on the current planet's speed of sound at 522 meters per second, according to measurements from space satellites, your speed just now was approximately Mach 47."

"Based on this result, when you are moving at high speed, it is estimated that ordinary people within a radius of 1.5 kilometers would basically have no chance of survival..."

It was only at this moment.

Behind Xi Shenlian, the debris, like a great waterfall, finally began to fall rapidly.

"Rumble..."

The commotion was so great it was like being subjected to simultaneous bombing by dozens of fighter jet formations!

Making the earth tremble.

"Mach 47..."

After thinking for a moment.

Xi Shenlian continued to ask:

"In the classified databases of various countries that you have infiltrated, what is the fastest recorded movement speed of an [Ascended Stage Awakened]?"

"In the accurately recorded data, the fastest movement speed of an [Ascended Stage Awakened] was Mach 32. The current individual is an [Ascended Stage Awakened] and the fastest person on this planet, possessing a speed-type superpower. During the last World War, their recorded movement speed alone reached Mach 4,000. Just one step created a great rift over a hundred kilometers long due to reactive force..."

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