After leaving the Command Room, Teng Qingshan stepped onto the Samsara Spear and quickly swept across Jiangnan Base City, confirming there were no Lord-level Monsters before flying toward the former Hui Province.
The Communication Watch on his wrist showed that a migration convoy there was under attack by Monsters.
The convoy was enormous. More than a hundred thousand people were being evacuated, one of many groups of residents being moved from a district in the former provincial capital of Hui Province.
But now, more than three hundred kilometers from the Base City, the convoy had been attacked by several high-level Warlord-level Monsters and thousands of Beast Soldier-level Monsters.
The army escorting the convoy was already struggling to hold its ground and was on the verge of being swallowed by the Beast Tide.
After seeing the distress signal,
Teng Qingshan immediately flew to the scene.
He unleashed his entire domain.
A faint Flame Battle Armor covered Teng Qingshan from head to toe.
Even the Samsara Spear was wrapped in fiery-red currents of air.
In an instant, Teng Qingshan's speed surged to its limit. He became a streak of Flowing Light and vanished into the horizon.
"Qingshan's gotten even faster."
"Chief, according to the satellite, General Teng is traveling at 1,500 meters per second. It's unbelievable!"
In the Command Room, Chief Wang Hai, several deputy chiefs, and the chief of staff watched the projection screen. The green dot representing Teng Qingshan was moving rapidly, and they were all amazed.
A speed of 1,500 meters per second was already faster than the most advanced fighter jets of the modern age.
At that speed, it took Teng Qingshan less than ten minutes to cover the more than three hundred kilometers and reach the skies above a plain.
Here,
a bloody battle was raging between the human army and the Monsters.
The experienced, well-equipped soldiers were protecting more than a hundred thousand civilians behind rows of armored vehicles and tanks.
Beyond them, countless Monsters were assaulting the human defensive line.
Roar! Roar! Roar!!!
Countless Monsters shrieked and roared.
Rumble!!!
The thunder of artillery shook the sky.
From Teng Qingshan's vantage point, countless Iron-Haired Boars, Shadow Cats, Mangniu, Bloodthirsty Tanks, Black-Line Snakes, and other Monsters were repeatedly trying to break through the barrage.
The army was pouring out every last round of ammunition, doing all it could to kill the Monsters approaching the defensive line.
Vulcan Machine Guns spat out a torrent of metal at a hundred rounds per second, keeping all the low-level Beast Soldier-level Monsters beyond the defensive line.
Grenade launchers, antiaircraft guns, mortars, and other powerful weapons fired without pause, blasting craters across the plain and killing heaps of Monsters.
But while machine-gun rounds and artillery shells could handle ordinary Beast Soldier-level Monsters, Warlord-level Monsters had reflexes fast enough to dodge before the shells reached them.
These conventional weapons posed little threat to them.
Only by expending a huge amount of ammunition on a wide-scale bombardment could the army hope to inflict some damage on the Warlord-level Monsters.
That was why even now, the somewhat intelligent Warlord-level Monsters didn't dare launch a full-scale assault on the human defensive line.
Their strategy was to use the vast numbers of Beast Soldier-level Monsters to wear down the humans' ammunition. Once the barrage weakened, they would attack!
There was no denying that the Monsters had evolved their intelligence remarkably quickly while fighting humans. They had already learned to use simple tactics.
"Brigade Commander, we're nearly out of ammunition!"
Inside an armored vehicle,
the communications soldier urgently reported to Brigade Commander Zhang, who was in charge of the evacuation.
"Hold the line! Our reinforcements will be here soon!" Brigade Commander Zhang said, his expression resolute and his spirits high. "General Teng has accepted our request for help. He'll be here any moment!"
"General Teng?" The communications soldier's expression lifted as well. "That's great! Once General Teng gets here, we can wipe out the whole pack of bastards."
The communications soldier immediately relayed the news over the radio. Every soldier who received it was filled with excitement.
They had thought that if they ran out of ammunition before driving off the Monsters, a true bloodbath would follow.
The strongest among them was an officer who had only reached the Primary-Level War General stage. Against a Warlord-level Monster, he would be torn to pieces in an instant!
The War General-level Martial Artists whom humanity had struggled to produce were so fragile against the Monsters.
But fortunately, they had held on until Teng Qingshan arrived!
High above,
Teng Qingshan surveyed the area and, seeing no sign of any Lord-level Monsters nearby, immediately dove toward the Beast Tide below.
The more than ten Flying Daggers under his control instantly became more than ten Death God Scythes. In less than a minute, Teng Qingshan single-handedly wiped out the Beast Tide that had been about to break the army.
Watching Teng Qingshan descend like a Heavenly God and reap tens of thousands of Monsters with a wave of his hand, the soldiers and civilians behind them all gaped in shock.
"You can handle these Monster materials yourselves. I have to get to the next location!"
Teng Qingshan's voice rang out across the battlefield.
Then he headed for another place where the situation was extremely dire.
Watching Teng Qingshan turn into a streak of fiery light and disappear into the horizon,
the sole officer below who had reached the Primary-Level War General stage gazed after him with deep admiration. "I, Li Dawei, will become a War God someday!"
"Beep! Beep! Beep!!!"
As he flew,
the special Communication Watch on his left wrist kept beeping.
A tiny blood-red dot kept pulsing larger and smaller.
"So a Lord-level Monster has finally appeared..."
Teng Qingshan looked at the location marked by the red dot as he flew at full speed, his eyes icy.
The more than ten Warlord-level Monsters, the over ten thousand Beast Soldier-level Monsters, and the even larger number of lesser Monsters he'd just slaughtered had been no more than an appetizer.
The latest distress signal pointed to the most urgent situation so far: a Lord-level Monster had appeared!
Earlier,
the strongest Monster to appear on the main battlefield had been a Fire-Scaled Trident Pig that had evolved to the high Warlord Level.
"Let's see which Lord-level Monster dares show its face."
Teng Qingshan became a streak of fiery light and shot toward the southeast at top speed.
At that moment,
beside an unfamiliar lake,
a battle of unprecedented scale was raging.
Hundreds of thousands of human soldiers and tens of thousands of Monsters were locked in a frenzied fight.
Countless bullets and shells fell like raindrops, engulfing the frenzied, bloodthirsty Monsters.
The fighting was far more intense than the battle just before.
Amid the hail of bullets and shells, an ape ten meters tall, its entire body covered in pale golden scales, darted nimbly across the battlefield.
It was the Diamond Ape, a Primary-Level Lord!
The Diamond Ape was already moving faster than the speed of sound. Its pale golden afterimage flashed across the battlefield, leaving the human artillery unable to get a lock on it.
It easily dodged every powerful shell, while a casual slap from it could smash a tank to pieces!
Machine-gun rounds that happened to hit it couldn't even make it itch.
"Yah! Yah! Yah!!!"
The Diamond Ape looked at the string of shells falling behind it and the machine-gun rounds raining down like drops of water.
Its eyes shone with a very humanlike contempt. Its enormous body swept across the battlefield in a pale golden blur, and its massive palm came crashing down. Another armored vehicle spitting out a torrent of metal was smashed to pieces, and the soldiers inside were killed in an instant.
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