Jia Yi

At this moment, the young man known as Little Jia gave a bitter smile upon hearing this. "Chief, you think too highly of me. Not only is he no weaker than me—I wouldn't even last three strikes against him!"

"Oh? He's that strong?"

"Yes, Chief. In terms of Physical Fitness alone, we may not differ by much, but his attainments in Blade Technique far surpass mine. His Blade Technique has already transformed into killing itself!"

"My Blade Technique is still at the technical level and cannot compare to such a Blade Technique. Before his blade light, not a single one of that endless Rat Horde could break through. Even if some did, he deliberately let them through to temper his Shield Technique. If I were trapped in such a Rat Horde, my final outcome would be to die in battle from exhaustion."

The young man called Little Jia was none other than Jia Yi!

Several Years after the Grand Nirvana, he became the highest leader!

He had grown up in a family of Soldiers that was also a Martial Way family. From childhood, he had been exposed to many martial arts, and his talent in the Martial Way was exceptional. Though frail in his early years, he had still reached the Master Realm at a young age, so naturally he could discern the depth of Yang Yu's Blade Technique.

Moreover, Jia Yi had raised his body to the Human Body Limit even before the Grand Nirvana. After the Double R Virus, he had even developed the Five Hearts Toward Heaven Method!

From then on, his strength entered a period of rapid growth.

He now possessed Physical Fitness at the level of a seasoned Intermediate War General!

However, his most proficient Sword Technique was still at the Master level, nowhere near Yang Yu's realm in the footage.

Jia Yi was also a Genius Martial Artist. Later, through the tempering of slaughter against Monsters, he would rapidly become an existence surpassing a War God.

But for now, lacking extensive real combat experience and guidance from Relic Inheritance, his strength was still relatively ordinary.

Yang Yu in the footage had now completely emerged from the frenzied Killing Conception.

Looking at the Mutated Rats carpeting the entire Urban Village, Yang Yu smiled silently.

"Unfortunately, this is only the earliest stage of the Grand Nirvana. These Mutated Rats are quite weak, and the Rat King has only barely entered the Beast General Level. The other rats are even more ordinary. Among the hundreds of thousands in the Rat Horde, fewer than a thousand have reached the Beast Soldier Level."

Yang Yu strolled casually through the Urban Village, walking back while recalling the battle.

At this moment, the Drone Camera in the air silently followed behind Yang Yu. It rose several dozen meters into the sky, bringing the entire Urban Village into view.

What appeared before all the Civilians of Jiangnan City was a landscape of rat corpses covering the earth!

Seeing this scene, everyone fell silent.

And all of this had been accomplished by that Boy who had held a War Blade and shield, then ultimately relied on his fists!

Alone, he had resisted the entire horde of Mutated Rats—and emerged completely unscathed!

Though Yang Yu had appeared crazed throughout the five-hour slaughter, not a single person felt afraid.

They only felt reassured!

He was their own War God!

A War God who could protect their safety!

Though the term War God did not yet exist, everyone instinctively thought of it.

Yes, if he was not a War God, who else could possess such valor?

Furthermore, the comprehensive strength Yang Yu displayed truly was no weaker than that of the War Gods of later generations.

His Blade Technique, movement technique, and Fist Technique had all completely transformed over the course of the slaughter.

This meant that Yang Yu's pure Martial Artist strength had already fully reached the level of a Junior War God!

If any Senior War General had come instead, as long as he was not a Spirit Reader, he would most likely have been buried alive by the hundreds of thousands of rats.

Only a War God could slaughter them all through absolute strength.

Looking at the rat corpses covering the ground, Yang Yu knew that this was only the beginning.

The Mutated Rats covering merely one Urban Village and its surrounding area already numbered so many.

Then how many were there beneath the entirety of Jiangnan City?

For a super-large metropolis like Jiangnan City, its underground area was not much smaller than its surface area.

The countless sewers and underground pipe networks alone occupied nearly one-third of the underground space.

And these places were precisely paradise for rats.

No one knew how many rats there had been before the Grand Nirvana. After the Grand Nirvana, especially now that half a year had passed since the Double R outbreak—

Coupled with rats' naturally formidable reproductive ability, merely thinking about it made clear just how terrifying the number of Mutated Rats must be.

After all, it took humans nearly a year to conceive and give birth to a child.

But rats only needed three to four weeks from pregnancy to delivery!

In one year, they could produce six to eight litters.

The offspring they gave birth to could reproduce after only half a year.

Compared with humans, this reproductive capacity was simply outrageous!

In other words, in these six months, these rats had already reached their fourth generation!

Yet humanity had not even produced its first litter.

This was also why humanity could not out-evolve those Monsters during the early stages of the Grand Nirvana.

The reproductive ability of these Monsters was generally much stronger than that of humans.

Especially after being optimized by the Double R Virus, the gap became even greater.

Thus, in the early stages of the Grand Nirvana, humanity truly struggled to hold out.

Fortunately, technology still supported them. Otherwise, it truly would have been a catastrophe.

He arrived outside the Urban Village.

At this moment, the Conghu Army and the rescue personnel all looked at Yang Yu as if he were a monster.

Yang Yu was not surprised by their expressions.

Anyone who saw a human Martial Artist take on hundreds of thousands of rats alone would have worn that same expression.

Of course, the Rat Horde was weak at present. It was unlike decades later, when even a War God-level Martial Artist surrounded by a Rat Tide would be submerged and worn to death without a good means of escape.

Naturally, only a Rat Tide made up of hundreds of millions of more highly mutated rats, led by a Lord Level Rat King, with even the weakest rats at the Beast Soldier Level, could achieve that.

This showed just how great the threat posed by mutated rats was.

"Little Yang—no, Chief Yang!" Conghu Army hurriedly corrected himself, his expression respectful. "I truly never expected you to be this strong! You swept through the Rat Horde alone. If not for you, let alone providing support, our squad might have been swallowed by the Rat Horde and never returned if we had run even a little slower."

"Haha, Big Brother Conghu, why be so formal? Just call me Little Yang. I'm already very moved that you were willing to brave such enormous danger to come save me."

Yang Yu had always held the Conghu Army and others, who dared risk their lives to protect those behind them, in the highest respect.

Strength could be high or low.

But responsibility and courage had no hierarchy!

Seeing that Yang Yu was so young yet so humble and courteous, everyone in the rescue team smiled knowingly.

"Hello, Warrior Yang Yu. I'm the Captain of this squad. My name is Zhang Tieshan. If you don't mind, you can call me Old Zhang." The officer with a major's insignia on his shoulder warmly introduced himself.

"Haha, Old Zhang! You've all worked hard on this trip." Yang Yu did not stand on ceremony as he looked at this forthright man in his forties.

"You truly are young and promising. Even Chief Jia, the strongest person in our military right now, may not be stronger than you!" Zhang Tieshan said with a smile as he directed everyone to sort through the rat corpses.