Time passed especially quickly when he was immersed in cultivation.
When Teng Qingshan awoke from contemplating the Conception of the Water Element Fist, he realized that night had already fallen.
The faint moonlight spilled across the earth.
It outlined a scene of peace and tranquility.
Teng Qingshan immediately stepped onto the Samsara Spear and prepared to return home.
Just as he was about to enter the city, he changed his mind, turned around, and began patrolling the outskirts of Yangzhou City.
While practicing his fist technique during the day, he had slain a Beast General-level giant eagle that had attacked him.
By now, other Beast General-level Monsters had surely appeared.
He calculated the timing.
It was already July 2015.
Starting in August, large-scale Beast Tides would appear.
In September, humanity and the Monsters would erupt into an all-out war, ushering in the Great Nirvana Era.
Clearly,
Beast General-level Monsters had already appeared.
Peace in the human world was about to be shattered.
Under cover of night,
Teng Qingshan rode the Samsara Spear, flying at high speed just over ten meters above the ground.
With vision comparable to an eagle's, Teng Qingshan could easily see what was happening a thousand meters away, even in the dark.
At the same time, powerful Telekinesis surged from his mind, spreading out over a hundred meters around him.
Yangzhou City covered a vast area, with a diameter of over a hundred kilometers at its widest point.
But Teng Qingshan's Object Manipulation flight speed had now reached a thousand meters per second!
Wrapped in a faint ocher-colored current, Teng Qingshan looked like a War God clad in ocher armor.
After reaching the Third-Stage Domain,
even though his Source Energy and Telekinesis had not undergone a qualitative transformation,
his Spiritual Telekinesis, which had nearly reached the limits of a War God, could still forcibly control the earth-attributed Cosmic Energy and form a Domain that covered his entire body.
That way, Teng Qingshan could use the Domain to counteract the air resistance generated during flight. This was why he could fly so fast.
And this still wasn't Teng Qingshan's full speed.
It was fair to say that having a Domain and not having one were entirely different levels.
In less than a minute,
Teng Qingshan had flown over the largest lake west of Yangzhou City.
As his Telekinesis swept over it,
Teng Qingshan indeed discovered that many mutated aquatic creatures had appeared in the lake.
Even the grass carp had grown over two meters long, and their mouths were now full of densely packed, sharp teeth.
The other fish had also mutated to varying degrees.
Those that hadn't mutated
had all become food for the mutated creatures.
Looking at the lake's churning waters, he saw mutated creatures hunting everywhere.
After circling the lake, Teng Qingshan's Telekinesis did not detect any Monsters above Beast General level.
After all, although this was the largest lake within a hundred kilometers, it was only a few kilometers across and just over ten meters deep.
The strongest creature in it was a catfish on the verge of evolving to Intermediate Beast Soldier level.
A Monster like that, especially one that couldn't come ashore, posed no great threat to humanity.
Teng Qingshan then continued riding the Samsara Spear, patrolling the surrounding hills and forests.
This patrol
brought him a pleasant surprise.
Animals mutated far faster than humans.
Many of the old farms had been abandoned.
Pig farms in particular: during the Virus outbreak, people had no spare capacity to manage them, and the pigs at the large farms nearby had mostly escaped.
Pigs ate a great deal, and once they returned to the wild, it took only a few months for them to grow tusks and revert to wild boars.
After being strengthened by the Virus, these domestic pigs evolved even faster once they had become wild boars.
From what Teng Qingshan could see, there was a wild boar herd in the forests north of Yangzhou City!
The boar leading the herd was already covered in a layer of fine scales. In the faint moonlight, they reflected a dim, fiery red sheen.
Most importantly, three sharp, battle-axe-like horns had grown from the head of the boar leader!
"Fire-Scaled Trident Pig!"
Teng Qingshan's heart sank.
Sure enough, a Beast General-level Monster had already evolved among the pigs.
And it didn't look like this Fire-Scaled Trident Pig had only just reached Beast General level. Judging by its size and fiery scales, it was clearly close to becoming an Intermediate Beast General.
It was about as strong as the giant eagle Teng Qingshan had killed earlier.
Wrapped in Domain Energy, Teng Qingshan silently glided over the wild boar Monsters.
Thanks to his powerful night vision, Teng Qingshan also discovered that the herd numbered over a hundred. Apart from the leader, whose strength had reached Beast General level,
all the rest were Beast Soldiers.
Over a hundred Beast Soldiers?
Among them were ten High-Level Beast Soldiers and more than ten Intermediate Beast Soldiers.
A horde of Monsters on this scale could already unleash a devastating assault on a human settlement.
"Since I've found them, I'll kill them all!"
Teng Qingshan's eyes turned cold. Dozens of Flying Daggers shot out, hurtling toward the hundred or so Beast Soldier-level boars. The Telekinetic Weapon he had just obtained, forged from the giant eagle's sharp talons and beak, flashed with a fiery red light as it stabbed toward the leading Fire-Scaled Trident Pig.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Amid faint, barely audible whistles,
the wild boar Monsters crumpled in droves beneath Spiritual Telekinesis nearly at the limits of a War God, like wheat stalks flattened by a gale!
Even the strongest Fire-Scaled Trident Pig had no time to react before a sharp talon pierced straight through its skull.
In less than half a second,
Teng Qingshan had wiped out the wild boar herd, which would otherwise have posed a major threat to Yangzhou City.
He put away the three hardest and sharpest horns from the Fire-Scaled Trident Pig's head, cut the single horns from the heads of the Beast Soldiers, and also removed the Fire-Scaled Trident Pig's hide. After packing away all the spoils, he flew toward the next location.
Over the next hour,
Teng Qingshan inspected the entire area within dozens of kilometers around Yangzhou City, killing a total of five Beast General-level Monsters!
Two of them were pig Monsters.
The other Beast General-level pig Monster was an Iron-Haired Boar. It had no horns on its head, but its strength was greater and its fur offered better defense. It was one type of pig Monster.
The other two Beast General-level Monsters were a Twin-Tailed Tiger Cat and a Tiger Mastiff Dog.
In summary, all these Beast General-level Monsters were animals commonly found in human society.
But after the Virus, environmental changes, and fighting among themselves, they had evolved into all kinds of Monsters.
Carrying a large bundle of spoils,
Teng Qingshan returned to the Xingyi Sect headquarters beside White Horse Lake. He left the Monster materials in the second-floor storeroom, then went up to the third floor.
"Qingshan, why did you get back so late?"
Elder Teng came out just then.
For safety's sake, Teng Qingshan had asked the old man to move in. The third floor was spacious enough to partition off a suite.
"I went out to check on the situation nearby. Grandpa, you should get some rest. I'm fine."
Teng Qingshan said with a smile.
"Mm. I've heard that the mutated animals have been getting more and more unruly lately. Be careful when you go out, Qingshan." Although the old man knew Teng Qingshan was very strong now, he couldn't help worrying.
"Don't worry, Grandpa. Those so-called mutated animals are easier for me to kill than chopping melons and vegetables. If I run into something I can't handle, I won't try to be a hero."
"That's good."
Seeing Teng Qingshan's confidence, the old man finished his reminders and returned to his room to rest.
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