The time was during the day.
At ten o'clock that night.
The snow was still falling.
And it was getting heavier.
It covered the roads in cold white snow.
For Dongying in December,
the weather was currently right at the point of entering winter, making people too lazy to do anything.
But under the cover of night,
Xi Shenlian arrived at a forest.
A primeval forest in an undeveloped area on the outskirts of Tokyo City.
Stepping onto the accumulated snow, which was already five or six centimeters thick,
he took out his phone.
He issued an order to the Auxiliary AI:
"Search the entire surrounding environment and check for any signs of human activity."
A few seconds later,
the phone emitted a mechanical, emotionless voice:
"There are no mechanical signals within a fifty-kilometer radius, and the Space Satellite has not detected any human activity."
"Good. Then block all signals in the surrounding area and begin recording my subsequent movements through the Space Satellite."
"Yes."
The next moment,
Xi Shenlian put away his phone.
Then he closed his eyes.
He gently inhaled.
The next instant,
an inexplicable aura began to spread.
In the forest, countless animals abruptly awoke from their slumber. Amid mournful cries and frightened whimpers, they frantically fled on instinct.
Even the snow falling from the sky seemed to slow down slightly.
Xi Shenlian opened his eyes once more.
"...Mm..."
"I can finally stop suppressing my power..."
Ever since he had awakened,
because his own power was too great, Xi Shenlian had constantly restrained it.
He had even needed to move his hands and feet with extreme caution.
Over the past month or so,
he had never tested how powerful his arms truly were, nor how fast he could run.
Because aside from those System Items, everything he saw was simply far too fragile.
The next moment,
before his sigh had faded,
Xi Shenlian's figure vanished.
In its place, a massive shock wave erupted with tremendous force!!
It was as if hundreds of kilograms of high explosives had been detonated. The violent shock wave directly twisted the air, tearing apart everything within a radius of several dozen meters.
Even the hardwood trees, which required several people to wrap their arms around and were so tough that even armor-piercing rounds might not penetrate them, were snapped and smashed apart by the impact. They turned into countless tiny fragments, which shot outward like bullets and pierced the surrounding soil and vegetation!!
The thunderous roar that erupted was even like several ocean liners crashing into one another.
It sent the already panicked animals and insects fleeing madly!
And all of this
was merely a minor side effect caused by Xi Shenlian running.
If one raised their gaze and viewed the scene from another angle,
it was easy to see that as the thunderous roar erupted, a straight line was rapidly slicing across the snow-covered primeval forest...
That line consisted of all kinds of debris and snow flung away by the shock wave!
In less than half a second,
Xi Shenlian had moved nearly ten kilometers!
In front of him,
the air was like a heavy wall.
Because of reaction force, air resistance, and a series of other factors,
the faster he ran, the harder this invisible wall formed from air became.
Correspondingly, the destructive force he created while running also grew greater.
Temperatures of several thousand degrees, sonic booms as powerful as large bombs, air currents as sharp as blades... all of them remained around him as he moved. Although they could not affect or injure him in the slightest, they were indiscriminately destroying everything around him.
Simply because he passed by,
a python nearly eight meters long was torn into a bloody mist by the sonic boom, with even its bones crushed completely into powder!
A herd of wild boars consisting of six adults weighing nearly a ton each and more than a dozen piglets was also violently swept more than ten meters into the air by the powerful air currents from over a hundred meters away as Xi Shenlian moved!
Then, the powerful air currents and sound waves peeled away their fur and flesh as if flaying them alive. Their hides could have blocked small-caliber bullets, yet their internal organs and brains were shattered, causing scarlet blood to gush madly from their mouths, noses, eyes, and ears!
The countless fragments of debris around them were like an endless barrage of high-speed bullets, indiscriminately shooting at them along the way!
Before they even hit the ground,
the entire herd had become heaps of mangled flesh.
Countless fragments of debris had blasted their hard skulls into something resembling honeycombs!!
As for the ground, Xi Shenlian's steps had forcibly carved out a ditch more than twenty meters deep and over fifty meters wide.
Soil, snow, stones...
Everything was flung behind him and into the sky by the shock waves and air currents as Xi Shenlian passed by!!
That sight...
was practically a waterfall!
A waterfall flying from the low ground to a hundred meters in the air before freely falling back down!!
It stretched for more than twenty kilometers!!
One second later,
when Xi Shenlian stopped,
debris with a total weight of who knew how many billions of tons was still swirling through the sky, not yet having fallen.
The temperatures of over ten thousand degrees caused by air resistance and friction also continued to linger outside Xi Shenlian's body.
Simply because he stepped on it,
the ground automatically melted in the intense heat.
Then, Xi Shenlian, not even a speck of dust clinging to his body, asked:
"What was my top speed?"
The phone immediately gave its answer:
"Based on the current planet's speed of sound, calculated at 522 meters per second, the Space Satellite's measurements indicate that your speed just now was approximately forty-seven times the speed of sound."
"Based on this result, when you move at high speed, ordinary people within a radius of 1.5 kilometers are expected to have virtually no chance of survival..."
It was only at this point
that the debris behind Xi Shenlian, resembling a massive waterfall, finally began to fall rapidly.
"Rumble..."
The commotion was so immense that it was like being bombarded simultaneously by dozens of fighter-jet formations!
It made the earth tremble.
"Forty-seven times the speed of sound..."
After silently considering it,
Xi Shenlian continued asking:
"Among the secret Data Repositories of various countries that you infiltrated, what is the fastest movement speed recorded for a Mature Stage Awakened?"
"Among the records with accurate data, the fastest movement speed of a Mature Stage Awakened was thirty-two times the speed of sound."
"The individual is currently an Ascended Stage Awakened, as well as the fastest human on this planet. He possesses a speed-type superpower. During the last World War, his accurately recorded movement speed alone reached four thousand times the speed of sound. With a single step, he created a massive rift stretching over a hundred kilometers through reaction force..."
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