Beiyuan Gang

Under the hazy moonlight, Su You and Zhang Yue were busy cleaning up the battlefield. As Su You cut materials from the monster's body, he said to Zhang Yue:

"It's about 10:00 PM now. We still have 14 hours until 12:00 PM tomorrow. We should head back, or it will be troublesome if we miss the Passenger Aircraft."

They were currently over 1,500 kilometers away from the oasis where they had started. Considering they couldn't travel in a perfectly straight line on the way back, they needed to set off a little early.

Because Zhang Yue's current physical fitness was only at the intermediate warlord level, their usual travel speed was around 100 m/s, which was 360 kilometers per hour.

"Alright, then let's split up."

After Zhang Yue finished speaking, as if afraid Su You might misunderstand, she quickly added, "The Elite Training Camp students have their own informants."

"No need."

Su You smiled and shook his head. "I'll just take a detour once I get near the departure point."

This was the Sahara Desert, and a journey of over 1,500 kilometers in a straight line carried no small amount of risk for a lone warlord-level fighter.

"Mm." Zhang Yue lowered her head, her eyes slightly reddened, and she responded in a voice as soft as a mosquito's.

After collecting the monster materials, the two set off together, sprinting in the direction they had come from.

Behind a sand dune more than 300 kilometers east of the departure point, Beiyuan Gang sat in his tent base with a gloomy expression. It was already 7:00 AM on the 29th, and they still hadn't found any trace of their target.

"Could it be that they died in the desert?"

Just then, his communication watch vibrated slightly. Beiyuan Gang took a look and found that headquarters had sent a location within his control zone that required him to verify.

Although headquarters could use satellites to monitor the surrounding area, the effect was very poor due to the weather in the desert, so they could only go and check in person after detecting an unfamiliar target to see if it was the mission target.

After receiving the location, Beiyuan Gang did not hesitate. He quickly arrived at the top of a sand dune, pulled binoculars from his backpack, and looked at the two black dots sprinting toward him in the distance.

"Mission target. And the person beside her is... Su You?"

Beiyuan Gang put down the binoculars and frowned. They had information on all the students in this batch of the Elite Training Camp, especially the top thirty who possessed the strength of a wargod; those were the targets they focused on.

Beiyuan Gang quickly sent out the coordinates while shouting directly into his communication watch: "Mission target spotted. Everyone, come and rendezvous immediately. There is a student with wargod-level strength beside the target."

After saying this, Beiyuan Gang quickly left the sand dune and chose a spot below the dune based on the route Su You and Zhang Yue were sprinting along.

"A genius from Huaxia Country? Hmph!"

Beiyuan Gang let out a cold snort. The moment he saw Su You, he had the urge to slaughter this genius.

The Japanese people today were only a small ethnic group in the world and harbored strong jealousy toward Huaxia Country. Having the chance to slaughter a peerless genius from Huaxia Country made Beiyuan Gang feel his blood boiling.

On the other side, Su You and Zhang Yue were sprinting toward the departure point together and soon arrived below the sand dune where Beiyuan Gang had just been standing.

"Hm?"

Su You's heart suddenly tightened, and the hair on his body stood on end. A feeling of extreme danger surged out instantly. Without thinking, he kicked Zhang Yue, who was beside him, and both of them shifted to the left and right respectively.

Just then, a war blade with an arc suddenly lunged out from the sand on Su You's left, instantly slicing through the spot where Su You and Zhang Yue were about to step.

If Su You had been even half a beat slower, their throats would likely have been slit by now.

Beiyuan Gang missed his strike and seemed somewhat surprised, pausing for a brief moment before his war blade changed direction, slashing directly toward Zhang Yue, who hadn't yet reacted.

Although he really wanted to slaughter this Huaxia Country genius, he knew that if the first strike failed, killing the other party would likely not be something he could achieve in a short time.

Besides, his mission target was the little girl at the warlord level; it wouldn't be too late to deal with this Huaxia Country genius after finishing her off.

The moment Su You avoided that blade, he reacted. His right hand reflexively drew his long sword, his full body strength erupting to the limit. Five bursts of dark energy were released in succession, and the long sword accelerated again and again.

At this moment, after releasing these five bursts of dark energy, a sixth burst of dark energy erupted from within Su You's body. The speed of the Baihong Sword in his right hand soared once more, slashing diagonally toward Beiyuan Gang's body.

By attacking what the enemy must save, if Beiyuan Gang followed through with his slash, he would inevitably be split in two by Su You's sword.

"What?"

Beiyuan Gang never expected Su You to react so quickly. With no other choice, the war blade in his hand shifted, slashing backward, and with a clang, it struck the long sword.

However, Su You had already pushed his body strength to the limit with this strike, and when combined with his 3.6x force output after breaking through, the power of this blow exceeded 400,000 kilograms, far surpassing the 256,000-kilogram threshold of an advanced wargod.

Under Beiyuan Gang's hurried defense, his body strength hadn't been fully exerted, and the massive force was transmitted through the war blade.

Beiyuan Gang was blasted away like a cannonball, then slammed into the sand not far away, creating a deep pit seven or eight meters wide.

Su You glanced at Zhang Yue and breathed a sigh of relief after seeing she was unharmed, then rushed toward the nearby pit like lightning.

Beiyuan Gang flashed out of the deep pit, covered in blood. Having taken that blow—which rivaled an advanced wargod—head-on without any preparation, he was now severely injured.

"Baka!" Beiyuan Gang cursed under his breath. Without the slightest hesitation, he turned and ran. In his current state, facing a Su You at full strength, he had no chance of winning and would likely die at the other's hands.

Su You's heart was filled with raging fire. Six bursts of dark energy were channeled into his legs in succession, and with a violent spring, he tore through the air. His speed instantly approached 1.5 times the speed of sound, and he arrived behind Beiyuan Gang in an instant, thrusting his sword toward his heart like lightning.

Beiyuan Gang was startled. Four bursts of dark energy surged into his legs, and he directly utilized the movement technique "Liuguang" to avoid Su You's strike.

He was practicing the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade from Thunder God, but he had only mastered the first three layers, achieving a 2.8x force output. Although his movement and blade techniques were slightly inferior, his overall strength was not much less than Su You's.

Su You had both long swords deployed, one sword after another, the sword momentum continuous and unending. Severely injured, Beiyuan Gang had no power to fight back, and it looked like he would die under Su You's sword before long.

"Baka!"

Beiyuan Gang gritted his teeth and took another full-force blow from Su You head-on, using the impact to create distance. Although he had been prepared this time and dissipated much of the force, the powerful impact still caused him to vomit blood repeatedly.

Su You had no intention of letting this Japanese man go. His 3.6x force output erupted instantly, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived behind Beiyuan Gang, thrusting his sword directly toward his neck.