Remember This Name

The Donghai Battlefield was known as the Meat Grinder among the coastal battlefields.

When Jiang Li arrived at the Donghai Battlefield frontline, he could see from afar that the area ahead was a sea of ruins.

Before coming here, Jiang Li had already learned about the place.

The entire Donghai Battlefield was divided into five frontlines. Of them, the First Frontline had the most terrifying mutated beasts, with Beast Tides striking frequently. No one outside the military was permitted to go there.

The farther back the frontline, the weaker the mutated beasts. Even so, Grandmaster-level mutated beasts were commonly seen on the Second Frontline.

The Second through Fifth Frontlines, meanwhile, welcomed Great Xia martial artists to hunt mutated beasts.

But online advice unanimously warned against training or hunting mutated beasts at the Donghai Battlefield.

The reason was simple: the mortality rate was too high. Half the martial artists who entered the battlefield never came back out.

When Jiang Li stepped out of the vehicle, ruins lay all around him. A four-story building stood before his eyes.

The words "Donghai Camp" were emblazoned above its main gate, marking the entrance to the Donghai Battlefield.

After entering, Jiang Li took out his ID and passed inspection before he was allowed into the camp.

The vast camp had only a dozen or so people at the windows leading to the frontlines.

The staff at the application windows, on the other hand, were exceedingly warm. They not only gave him a cup of warm qi-and-blood soup, but also maps of the Second through Fifth Defense Lines.

The maps bore clear markings showing which types of mutated beasts were more numerous in each area and what grade of martial artist each area suited.

There was also a special warning: this was a battlefield, not a hunting ground, so certain powerful mutated beasts would not remain in fixed areas.

That was also one of the situations with the highest death risk on the battlefield!

Even Jiang Li felt tremendous psychological pressure when faced with such a situation.

But before absolute strength, that pressure was too fragile to withstand a single blow, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

With the Black Horizontal Saber in hand, Jiang Li boarded the bus bound for the Fifth Frontline.

"You're so young? You should still be in school, right?"

A middle-aged man traveling with him looked at Jiang Li and shook his head. "Take some advice and go back. You're at such a fine age. It'd be such a pity to die here."

"It's really rare to see a student from a martial arts university at the Donghai Battlefield. Didn't your teacher tell you that only fools come here?" another person said in a mocking tone. "Kid, you'd better forget about this Donghai Battlefield."

Hearing that, Jiang Li raised his eyes and glanced at the mocking man.

With just that one look, the man's expression changed drastically. He seized the broadsword on his back and stared fixedly at Jiang Li.

"Jiang Li. Class 3, Grade 3, Seventeenth High School, Beihe City."

Jiang Li's expression was calm. "Remember this name. Soon enough, it will thunder in everyone's ears."

The moment those words came out, everyone on the bus froze.

They looked at Jiang Li, then burst into laughter.

Instead, Jiang Li's words only made them think he was innocently adorable.

"Kid, once you actually enter the battlefield, you'll understand. Just hope you don't piss your pants from fright then!" a man said.

"Fine, Jiang Li. I'll remember you!"

"You're only in your senior year of high school? Your parents are really heartless, letting you come to the Donghai Battlefield. Are you even a ninth-grade martial artist yet?"

The group teased him. Being able to laugh before entering the battlefield eased the tense atmosphere considerably.

"Old Zhang, what's wrong?" the first man to speak frowned.

He looked at the mocking man, who was staring fixedly at Jiang Li.

Old Zhang drew a deep breath and said in a low voice, "This kid is probably not simple."

At the instant Jiang Li had opened his eyes and looked at him, he had felt as if he were not facing an unseasoned child, but a Beast King rampaging across the battlefield.

When the vehicle reached the assembly point, someone invited Jiang Li, "Jiang Li, want to come with us? With more people, dealing with mutated beasts will be easier."

He meant well. He was afraid Jiang Li, like a newborn calf unafraid of tigers, would die on this battlefield.

"No need!"

Jiang Li refused. Then, alone with his saber, he headed toward the Fifth Frontline.

Watching Jiang Li's retreating figure, the others could not help shaking their heads and sighing. They knew there was a high chance Jiang Li would never return.

"Move!"

With a loud shout, they too formed their own groups and headed for the battlefield.

On the Fifth Frontline, a Purple Armored Giant Crab stood ahead. The crab was as tall as a person.

Among sea beasts, giant crabs were particularly troublesome mutated beasts. Their strength, defense, and crab pincers were all martial artists' nightmares.

Yet a streak of saber light flashed past, and that ninth-grade giant crab, whose defense was astonishing, was instantly cleaved in two.

Jiang Li stood behind the giant crab, the Black Horizontal Saber in his hand.

[Slain a mutated beast. Obtained 6 years of lifespan.]

"Giant crabs really have pitifully short lifespans. Still, there are plenty of them!"

Jiang Li had no time to retrieve the Beast Core. Eight Purple Armored Giant Crabs were already charging at him from ahead.

Jiang Li did not even circulate his cultivation technique. Gripping the Black Horizontal Saber, he took a single step forward.

In the blink of an eye, all eight Purple Armored Giant Crabs were slain by Jiang Li.

Only then did Jiang Li follow the information in the materials and search the crabs' abdomens for Beast Cores, placing them into the storage pouch at his waist.

Afterward, Jiang Li set off again, advancing deeper into the Fifth Frontline.

Ninth-grade mutated beasts were utterly beneath notice to him now.

Wherever Jiang Li passed on the Fifth Frontline, ninth-grade mutated beasts were all dealt with in a single slash.

Even eighth-grade mutated beasts were cut down within minutes by the Swift Wind Thunderous Charge Saber.

In a single day, Jiang Li killed over thirty ninth-grade mutated beasts and four or five eighth-grade ones.

Ahead, ninth-grade mutated beasts were becoming scarcer and scarcer, while eighth-grade mutated beasts grew more numerous.

Jiang Li looked at an eighth-grade Red Scaled Demon Shrimp in the distance and revealed a faint smile.

"I'm just getting hungry. You'll do for dinner."

With that, he carried his saber toward the eighth-grade Red Scaled Demon Shrimp.

Fifth Frontline, command room.

A middle-aged man with a general's stars on his uniform stared at the screen. Dense red dots were surging toward the Fifth Frontline.

"What the hell is Li Yang on the Fourth Frontline doing!? A herd of over a hundred eighth-grade mutated beasts, along with a sixth-grade Beast King, and he actually let them through to the Fifth Frontline!"

"Give the order immediately! Sound the emergency alarm! All soldiers on the Fifth Defense Line, stop the beast herd!"

"Also, all eighth-grade martial artists are to join the battlefield immediately!"

Having said that, the middle-aged man spun around, snatched up the spear beside him, and charged out of the command room.

At the same time, Jiang Li, who was on the battlefield greedily devouring shrimp meat, heard a piercing, ear-splitting sound in the distance.

"That sounds like the so-called emergency alarm, doesn't it?"

Jiang Li swallowed the shrimp meat in his mouth and looked toward the source of the alarm.

"Perfect timing!"

At once, Jiang Li sprinted into the distance like a cheetah.

Before long, he arrived at the area ahead where artillery fire filled the skies.

A group of soldiers were in the trenches, frantically firing grenades and heavy machine guns.

Smoke and gunpowder filled the entire battlefield.

A pack of lizard-like sea beasts kept falling beneath the artillery barrage. Then even more mutated beasts burst through the barrage and charged into the trenches.

The soldiers grabbed their weapons and fought back. For a time, roars, blood, and screams rose one after another.

At that moment, one soldier faced an eighth-grade Sea Demon Lizard charging toward him, his bearing that of a man ready to die.

He kept firing until his magazine was empty. Then he suddenly seized a spear from beside him and, with a high-explosive grenade at his waist, charged at the Sea Demon Lizard that was already within arm's reach.

"Kill!"

That furious roar was the final sound that man had resolved to make in this life.

Yet in the very next instant, a sharp streak of saber light flashed past, instantly severing the Sea Demon Lizard's head.

The soldier stood there with his spear in hand, blankly staring at the saber-wielding figure.

An eighth-grade mutated beast had actually been instantly killed with one slash?

When he saw Jiang Li's youthful face clearly, he found it even more unbelievable.

But Jiang Li erupted into action once more.

Ahead, a huge pack of Sea Demon Lizards was charging madly toward them, mixed among them were three seventh-grade Fire Sea Demon Lizards standing two meters tall.

"Good. This time, I won't have to search everywhere for mutated beasts."

"As expected of an emergency alarm!"

A light entirely different from everyone else's bloomed in Jiang Li's eyes. Facing the beast herd, he charged straight into it alone.

At that moment, it was as though a shout rose from the depths of his heart.

Go completely mad!