"The extra Lord-level Monsters have been cleared out. Since you want to fight the Golden Monkey King one-on-one, I'll head over to Jia Yi's side first."
"Okay, thanks for your help."
Zhu Xi smiled at Hen Ren, then was sent flying by a slap from the Golden Monkey King.
Fortunately, the Black God suit had strong enough defenses, so Zhu Xi wasn't badly hurt.
Hen Ren nodded and watched as the Golden Monkey King charged at her furiously.
She raised her fair hand, dodged the Golden Monkey King's punch, then slapped it to the ground with the strength of a Planetary Level Six fighter, without adding any Force Amplitude.
The Golden Monkey King was badly injured, but not dead. After all, Hen Ren had held back.
"I'm off."
Hen Ren flew away.
On the evening of August 31, most of the Lord-level Monsters in the core area of City 0551 had been killed. The only King-level Monster left was the Earth Dragon King. Jia Yi was keeping it pinned down, and it was only a matter of time before he killed it.
As for the Golden Monkey King, after Hen Ren slapped it, Zhu Xi killed it soon afterward...
But a small number of Lord-level Monsters remained. Then the tanks and planes bombed City 0551, and every monster in the city went berserk!
On September 1, the harem—ugh, the Willow Leaf Squad—set out with Liu Qingling, with only Yu Fei and Gu Zizhen staying with the army. Led by War God-level fighters, they circled around the army and the main battlefield to reach the rear.
It made sense. Aside from Yu Fei, the others wouldn't be much use on a battlefield filled with gunfire. Gu Zizhen stayed behind to protect Yu Fei and serve as a battlefield medic, providing emergency treatment.
Xu Ai and the others' goal was to decapitate the enemy by taking out the Lord-level Monsters directing the wave from the rear.
What surprised Xu Ai was that Luo Feng had already reached the High-level Warrior level, and was able to join their squad.
Even Gao Feng, the captain of the Fire Hammer Squad, wasn't qualified to join. Had Luo Feng revealed that he was a Spirit Reader?
But Lord-level Monsters were cunning. They wouldn't stupidly stand in the most conspicuous spot to direct the wave. Even Hen Ren had to search for them patiently... Or so she thought!!!
"This is actually my first time experiencing what it's like to be surrounded by monsters..."
Hen Ren's flying swords strangled countless monsters, while the long sword in her hand carved a bloody path through the horde.
Just how many monsters were there in City 0551?
A monster wave couldn't be formed with just a few thousand or tens of thousands. Their numbers had to be counted in the tens of millions at least!
There were even rat-like monsters among them, and their numbers could be counted in the hundreds of millions!
Even if the vast majority were merely Monster Soldiers and Monster Generals, they were still far from easy to wipe out. That was what frightened humanity most.
No matter how powerful Hong and Thor were, they could kill the two Beast Emperors and the King-level Monsters, but there was nothing they could do about a monster wave of this size.
That was why, even though they were capable of killing them, they wouldn't kill the two Beast Emperors. They needed the Beast Emperors to keep the monsters in check!
Hen Ren couldn't do much about it either, even if she went all out.
If Hen Ren, who had crossed the threshold of the Law of Water, went all out, she could easily defeat most Star-level fighters. A flying sword infused with the secrets of the Law of Water slammed into City 0551.
Most of the monsters in City 0551 would probably die from the impact, but the city itself would likely be torn apart...
Besides, she couldn't kill every monster on Earth in an instant...
Hen Ren casually struck with her sword, killing several monsters. Then she suddenly froze and couldn't help looking toward the direction of her three flying swords.
A spider monster had been trapped and strangled. Yes, it was a Golden Silk Demon Spider...
She'd thought it was a formidable foe, only to find it was cannon fodder. Its spider sense was completely useless against overwhelming strength.
Uh... Never mind...
Hen Ren was speechless, but quickly put it out of her mind and continued clearing out the monsters.
Elsewhere...
"One!"
Xu Ai swung her sword and killed a hidden Lord-level Monster, then quickly slipped into the shadows of the ruins and fled.
"Roar!!!"
Their leader was gone. The monsters roared in fury, but then fell into disarray. Without a Lord-level Monster directing them, they suddenly didn't know what to do!
"Check again and see if there are any other Lord-level Monsters around," Jun Xia said to Xu Ai over Bluetooth.
Although Xu Ai had killed the Lord-level Monster in this area, there might still be subordinate Lord-level Monsters nearby, just as Intermediate Lord-level Monsters could have Primary Lord-level Monsters under them.
Xu Ai watched for a while longer. After confirming that the monsters in the area had lost their leader and were beginning to scatter, she left with Liu Qingling and the others.
"We found one over here. Can any of the War Gods come help?"
Luo Feng's voice came through the Bluetooth. Xu Ai asked where he was, then led the others over.
"Roar!!!"
"They've been spotted over there!"
Liu Qingling and the others tensed up, worried about their comrades who'd been discovered.
Xu Ai, however, wasn't worried at all. Luo Feng had a High-level Warrior's physical strength and High-level War General-level Spirit Force. Escaping wouldn't be difficult for him.
"Qingling, I'm going to support them. Get ready to cover our retreat."
Xu Ai wasn't about to let Liu Qingling and the others put themselves in danger. The main force of the monster wave was at the front. Most of the ones in the rear were cowards, or little minions meant to confuse the Lord-level Monsters. They couldn't keep her there.
But if Liu Qingling and the others came along, things would get complicated.
"I'll go with you. I'm a Spirit Reader, so I'll have a better chance of covering your escape."
"Okay, then stay close to me."
Xu Ai nodded and led Jun Xia through the ruins, using them for cover as they hurried over.
Luo Feng's group had already begun to retreat.
Even War God-level fighters wouldn't be foolish enough to take on a monster wave head-on. Luo Feng's team was made up of War General-level fighters, so they had no choice but to run!
"Hmph!"
Luo Feng killed a Monster General-level One-horned Wild Boar with a single slash, pulled out a comrade who'd been pinned down, and dragged him along as he fled!
The third layer of the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade, footwork approaching the Perfect Level, and physical strength close to the Primary War General level—that was why he'd been allowed to join the decapitation squad despite his rank!
Compared to the same point in the original story, Luo Feng was far stronger now!
"Slash!"
Xu Ai rushed out, unleashing a Force Amplitude of twenty times as she swept her sword across, driving back many monsters.
She held them off for a while. Once Luo Feng and the others had gotten some distance away, she leaped back and returned to Jun Xia.
Jun Xia had a metal plate beneath her feet. After wrapping an arm around Xu Ai, she immediately controlled the plate and fled at top speed!
After they'd escaped for a while, Xu Ai heard the monsters roaring furiously and charging after them even more wildly.
"Their Lord-level Monster has been taken care of. We don't need to bother with them. Just run for your lives."
Xu Ai told Jun Xia. She wasn't worried, since she'd already asked Hen Ren to head their way!
Jia Yi and Zhu Xi were also leading War God-level fighters in a fierce assault from other directions. Victory was within reach.
It took three days, with Hen Ren, Jia Yi, and Zhu Xi joining the fight as Planetary-level powerhouses, along with the efforts of the War Gods, to finally break up the monster wave. They killed every monster they could, but there was nothing they could do about the rest once they scattered and fled.
Rather than waste time chasing them down, it was better to quickly set up the Laser Cannons and prepare to repel the next monster wave.
It took another month to clear out the monsters in City 0551 and build a preliminary defensive line.
After that, the two very busy men, Jia Yi and Zhu Xi, left first. Before leaving, they asked Hen Ren to help defend City 0551 for a while, and she agreed.
Then she witnessed all sorts of messed-up things.
"You can never underestimate how vile people can be..."
"These days, we have to fight monsters—and fight people, too..."
Xu Ai sheathed her sword and sighed.
A dozen people who'd completely lost the ability to fight lay in front of her.
"Don't think of them as people. They're a bunch of beasts. No one would blame us for killing them."
Liu Qingling looked at them and spoke coldly.
The ones Liu Qingling called beasts were, in fact, a group of people who'd betrayed humanity!
There had been all kinds of cults on Earth before. Many had been wiped out during the RR Virus outbreak, but the cultists who survived the Great Nirvana Period had started causing trouble again, even founding a new sect.
They saw monsters as humanity's saviors, claiming that both the RR Virus and the emergence of monsters were caused by humanity's destruction of the environment—that Earth's immune system had created them to wipe out mankind!
So they sided with the monsters and helped them attack humanity...
These were the so-called human traitors, completely brainwashed into becoming puppets...
"Same as usual. Arrest anyone who looks like a ringleader. Execute the rest on the spot."
Liu Qingling watched coldly as a group of soldiers moved in, arresting the cultists who were better dressed and finishing off the rest.
Xu Ai looked around, then found a place to sit down.
Nearly a month had passed since the assault on City 0551. Most of the defenses had been built. During that time, organized monster waves led by Lord-level Monsters had attacked several times, and then there'd been trouble caused by these cultist human traitors.
The King-level Monsters didn't dare come, because many Laser Cannons had already been installed.
Xu Ai sighed as she watched the soldiers expertly carry away their dead and wounded comrades, haul off the cultists who looked like ringleaders, then bring out flamethrowers to cremate the rest after finishing them off.
These human traitors had created a lot of extra work for them!
After a while, the place was finally cleaned up.
"Xu Ai, we've got things covered here. Go back and cultivate."
Ye Yu patted Xu Ai on the shoulder. Unless something major happened, she wanted Xu Ai to spend more time cultivating.
Xu Ai nodded. Seeing that everything had settled down, she returned to her tent.
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