Transformation of the Heart!

In the footage.

Countless sea monsters crawled over the ruined fortress and surged madly into the city, forming a vast black mass.

They were beyond counting.

Whether they were vicious arthropod sea monsters, bizarre coelenterate sea monsters, echinoderm monsters... their numbers were all measured in the hundreds of millions.

The most numerous of them were fish-type monsters.

White sharks over fifty meters long and gigantic whale monsters exceeding a hundred meters were everywhere. Countless flounders and hairtail fish were mixed among them, leaping from the seawater and charging desperately toward the shore...

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!!

Even enormous octopus monsters, as large as floating islands, flew in from afar. As they passed the Statue of Liberty, they stirred up an incomparably terrifying roar of tearing wind.

One of their tentacles wrapped around the statue and hurled it violently into the distance, demolishing all the nearby skyscrapers...

In the blurry footage, an especially massive crimson wolf-shaped monster suddenly flew into view. It had a pair of wings on its back, and its enormous steel-like wings swept past, slicing one high-rise building after another in half.

The distant sea itself began to boil.

Countless sea monsters burst from the water, rapidly advancing along the harbor as they slaughtered their way into this international metropolis...

"New York has fallen."

Like a raging storm, the news spread frantically across every corner of the world.

Upon hearing it, the upper echelons of countless nations, War God experts, and innumerable ordinary people could only sigh in despair—if even such a powerful city could be breached by a Beast Tide, with disaster descending in an instant...

Then what about the cities where they lived?

Which city would this Beast Tide attack next?

No one could answer that question, nor did anyone dare predict its answer.

For a time, a deep gloom shrouded the entire world...

As the videos went viral.

Lin Ye and the other two in the shelter also learned of the news.

Having just finished the neural response test, Lin Ye, Xue Zhan, and Xu Qi opened the Warrior Forum together to view this earth-shattering news.

Video after video was playing on their phones—

Most of the footage had been recorded by New York warriors before they died, showing scenes that were tragic and bloody.

It filled people with boundless terror and dread, allowing them to truly understand the horror of a disaster-class Beast Tide!

Even the most advanced technology on the planet was useless before them.

"Farewell, fellow surviving warriors. I hope you can avenge us!"

A translated voice came from the footage.

Then, an incomparably gigantic manta ray monster grew larger and larger in the camera frame... until everything finally went dark.

That warrior's fate was self-evident.

Lin Ye opened another video about the New York Beast Tide.

In the blurry footage.

Countless sea monsters that had breached the steel fortress crawled all over the skyscrapers and occupied street after street.

The prosperity and vitality of the past had been wiped out in a single day.

The entire metropolis had become a paradise for monsters.

RATATATATA!!!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!!

Scattered explosions rang out throughout the city, tragic and sorrowful!

In some footage, American civilians who had failed to evacuate in time hid in various corners, only to be torn to pieces by the swarming monsters.

Not even a drop of blood remained.

THUD! THUD! THUD!!!

Even more chilling was the appearance of colossal beasts at least thirty meters tall.

Thousands of terrifying monsters used the sharp horns on their heads to ram the ground again and again with insane force.

Every impact drove their horns six or seven meters deep into the underground shelters built from reinforced concrete.

Yet these monsters seemed tireless, ramming again and again...

The three exchanged glances, their expressions all grim.

The entire testing hall fell into dead silence.

The neural response testing hall sank into a brief yet terrifying silence.

Lin Ye and the other two looked at one another, their expressions incomparably solemn.

Everyone's hearts felt heavy.

New York was hailed as the world's number one city.

It was also a city of steel, boasting hundreds of thousands of elite troops and powerful technological defenses.

Even so, it still failed to stop the Beast Tide from the sea. It fell beneath the endless horde, reduced to ruins... and millions of lives were buried there.

This night was destined to be a painful one.

Lin Ye stared at the darkened screen, an indescribable heaviness pressing down on his heart...

Today, the Beast Tide had destroyed the international metropolis of New York and killed millions of American citizens.

What about tomorrow?

Just imagining millions of his Great Xia compatriots being slaughtered and their cities destroyed overnight...

What kind of scene would that be?!

"I have to become stronger and stop all of this!!" Lin Ye clenched his fists, his emotions surging intensely.

"Sniff... sniff..."

Soft sobbing sounded beside him.

Lin Ye turned his head slightly and found that Xu Qi's eyes had already reddened. She was just short of bursting into tears.

"Don't cry... Heaven blesses Great Xia. We won't suffer a disaster like this."

Completely inexperienced at comforting girls, Lin Ye merely reached out and gently placed a hand on Xu Qi's shoulder.

What he felt beneath his palm only made his heart ache for her.

Beside them, Xue Zhan's face was as dark as water, his sword-like brows tightly furrowed... as though something had stirred old memories within him. The High-tier War General slowly closed his eyes.

Lin Ye rose to his feet and walked over to the floor-to-ceiling window.

As he quietly watched the bright, dazzling sun in the sky, he found it truly unbearable to accept the thought of cities being breached by Beast Tides and his compatriots being massacred.

Grief, fury, helplessness!

He had once believed himself to be one of heaven's chosen, blessed with extraordinary talent.

But now, it seemed he had been wrong!

No matter how high his talent was, it would still take a very, very long time before he might possibly stand on equal footing with experts like Hong and Thunder God.

Right now, before a disaster-level Beast Tide like this, he was still little more than cannon fodder.

Faced with a Beast Tide of such scale, he had no way to resist or even hinder it.

Even through a screen, that sense of despair still pierced deep into his soul.

In the face of such a terrifying Beast Tide, he had no solution at all.

The only thing he could do was watch as these Beast Tides destroyed city after city.

A profound sense of powerlessness filled his entire body!

In this disaster-ridden era filled with danger, an individual's strength was weak and insignificant.

Lin Ye looked at the lawn outside the martial arts hall and felt like one of those blades of grass, endlessly trampled, attacked, and destroyed by Beast Tides. All he could do was endure passively.

All of a sudden, his mind grew hazy.

In a daze...

Lin Ye's heart began to drift, and everything became hollow, clear, and ethereal...

Drifting along with his heart was his Psychic Power.

This Psychic Power even struggled to keep extending, reaching beyond the martial arts hall and toward the sky...

It was an intense yearning that came from the depths of his heart.

His heart yearned to extend, and his Psychic Power yearned to grow...

After suffering so many blows—especially New York's fall—Lin Ye's state of mind had been profoundly affected.

Yet it was precisely under such circumstances...

That Lin Ye came into contact with the feeling of enlightenment... and his state of mind changed as a result.

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