"Dazhu!!!"
Seeing their comrade, who had fought alongside them through life and death, slapped to death, the soldiers who witnessed the scene were overcome with rage!
In an instant.
Countless shells rained down on the Diamond Ape.
But the Diamond Ape was simply too fast.
The moment the shells were fired, it easily dodged them and darted toward another armored vehicle.
"Yah yah yah!!!" It cackled as its huge, pale-gold palm swung down to strike again.
"Beast! Prepare to die!"
Suddenly.
An officer wielding an enormous War Blade appeared, blocking the Diamond Ape's path. He swung the massive blade in a strange, fluid arc, and its speed surged as it cut through the air. In an instant, it met the Diamond Ape's enormous palm.
Smack!
The War Blade, made from ordinary alloy, was shattered to pieces in an instant beneath the Diamond Ape's palm, which was harder than diamond.
"Roar!!!"
Amused to see a human withstand its blow, the Diamond Ape continued attacking, swinging its palm again.
"Lieutenant Colonel Jia Yi has joined the fight!"
The soldiers who noticed the scene cheered.
Throughout the journey,
whenever they encountered Monsters the army couldn't handle, Jia Yi had stepped in and slain them!
Now,
Jia Yi had stepped forward once more!
"This beast's strength has probably reached the legendary Lord-level Monster."
The instant his War Blade was smashed, Jia Yi nimbly rolled aside, evading the Diamond Ape's incoming palm.
"This ape Monster is far too strong and well-defended. I can't fight it head-on."
Jia Yi swayed again, easily evading the Diamond Ape's barrage of attacks.
Before the Great Nirvana, Jia Yi had already reached the level of an Internal Martial Arts Grandmaster. After seeing the Five Hearts Toward Heaven Method shared by Teng Qingshan, he had easily cultivated Genetic Origin Energy.
By now, his physical abilities had reached the level of a mid-level Warlord, and his basic punching power was 25,000 kilograms. With four times the force from his body, he could unleash up to 100,000 kilograms of power.
And with the second volume of the Xingyi Canon shared by Teng Qingshan, Jia Yi's movement and speed had also been fully brought into play. That allowed him to just barely hold his own against this Primary-Level Lord Diamond Ape.
But the War Blade in his hand clearly couldn't withstand a clash with the Diamond Ape, whose strength and defenses were even greater. It shattered in an instant.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
As he dodged at incredible speed,
the towering, savage Diamond Ape pursued him relentlessly.
Although its speed in a straight line far surpassed Jia Yi's,
Jia Yi was more agile when changing direction over short distances. For the moment, the Diamond Ape truly couldn't do anything to him.
"Yah yah yah!!"
Seeing a human more agile than itself, the Diamond Ape shrieked in fury.
With countless shells also raining down on its kin, the Diamond Ape, whose intelligence was no lesser than a human's, immediately decided to stop pursuing Jia Yi for the time being.
It was confident that if it spent a little more time, it could catch and kill Jia Yi. But by then, many of its kin—ape Monsters ranging in strength from Primary-Level Beast General to High-Level Beast General—might have been killed or wounded.
It didn't want too many of its kin to die!
Whoosh!
The towering Diamond Ape darted toward an armored vehicle nearby.
It raised its enormous palm, ready to bring it down.
But the next moment,
whoosh!
A Bone Blade wreathed in a flame-like streak of light shot straight toward it!
Crack~
A crisp sound rang out.
The Bone Blade had severed the Diamond Ape's wrist clean through!
Aaargh!!!
Its palm had been forcibly severed. The intense pain made the Diamond Ape howl in agony.
Its savage eyes instantly locked onto the human who had suddenly appeared, his body enveloped in crimson currents and his feet hovering above the ground on a long spear.
But having seen a human who could hover in midair and control a streak of light to sever its palm, the Diamond Ape knew it had encountered a true human powerhouse.
For the moment, it didn't dare act rashly. It roared, trying to intimidate him.
"It's Sect Master Teng!"
Teng Qingshan had hurried here at top speed.
He had arrived just before the Diamond Ape went completely berserk.
"This beast's hide is pretty tough." Facing the first Lord-level Monster bold enough to attack humans, Teng Qingshan was quite interested. "You must be Lieutenant Colonel Jia Yi. Take this spear and support the other parts of the battlefield. I'll handle things here."
At a thought from Teng Qingshan, the Samsara Spear beneath his feet instantly appeared in front of Jia Yi.
The Samsara Spear was now made from the finest materials taken from a High-Level Beast General Monster.
It was more than enough for Jia Yi at his current level.
"Thank you, Sect Master Teng!"
Jia Yi took the spear, thanked him, and immediately joined the battle nearby without the slightest hesitation.
At the same time,
Teng Qingshan used his Telekinesis to control the severed Diamond Ape palm. He easily detached its five sharp claws and turned them into Telekinetic Weapons.
Each claw was half a meter long and gleamed with a pale-gold sheen. They made excellent Telekinetic Weapons.
They were much more useful than the Telekinetic Weapon made from the Fire-Scaled Trident Pig materials.
The Bone Blade Telekinetic Weapon, made from the sharpest spike of the High-Level Beast General Fire-Scaled Trident Pig, had been completely ruined after cutting off the Diamond Ape's palm.
Watching the human turn its severed palm into a weapon right before its eyes,
the highly intelligent Diamond Ape flew into a rage.
All its earlier cunning and reason were instantly forgotten.
Though it was clever, it was still a beast evolved from an animal, and its remaining wild instincts continued to influence it.
"Roar!!!"
With a furious bellow, the Diamond Ape struck its chest with its still-intact left hand and charged at Teng Qingshan.
It would tear the human in front of it to pieces!
Whoosh!
The Diamond Ape burst to its full speed, becoming a pale-gold blur.
It moved so fast that it was already beyond the limits of an ordinary soldier's ability to follow with their eyes.
"Over 400 meters per second? Not bad."
Standing on two of the claws, Teng Qingshan thought, and easily dodged the Diamond Ape's seemingly ferocious attack.
At the same time, he controlled the other three claws. Crimson currents swirled around them as they turned into three streaks of flame-like light. Moving too fast for the Diamond Ape to react, they easily severed its still-intact left hand and both feet!
Boom!!!
With both hands and both feet severed, the Diamond Ape instantly lost its balance and crashed heavily to the ground.
"Aoowow!!!"
Hearing the Diamond Ape's miserable cries, Teng Qingshan felt no sympathy.
If he had arrived even a moment later,
tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians here might have died, or even more!
Aoo! Aoo! Aoo!
The Diamond Ape thrashed its severed limbs and continued pounding the ground in a frenzy. Its ferocity was now fully unleashed.
"Beast, die!"
Whoosh!
A flaming claw shot straight into the Diamond Ape's skull.
It then burst out through the back of its head, trailing flecks of brain matter.
Thud!
Even with its powerful life force, the Diamond Ape had lost all signs of life after suffering that fatal blow. It collapsed helplessly to the ground.
Thus, the Diamond Ape—one of the strongest among Primary-Level Lord Monsters—was easily slain by Teng Qingshan.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!!!
Then Teng Qingshan summoned more than a dozen Flying Daggers, Bone Blades, and claws.
He once again became the Death God, beginning to reap the countless Monsters across this battlefield.
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