The Beast Tide had lost its strongest Lord-level Monster, the Diamond Ape.
In an instant, the horde was leaderless. Many of the more intelligent High-Level Beast Generals that weren't Diamond Apes shrieked as they tried to flee the battlefield.
They had been forced to come here by the Diamond Ape in the first place.
Now that their leader was dead, they naturally had no desire to keep leading their clans to their deaths.
But Teng Qingshan wasn't about to let them escape.
Standing on his newly acquired Telekinetic Weapon, he controlled Bone Blades, claws, and other Telekinetic Weapons, and began cutting them down in a frenzy.
In less than two minutes,
every Monster in the horde attacking the army had been slain by Teng Qingshan!
When Teng Qingshan had dealt with the Diamond Ape leading them and begun slaughtering the horde, the soldiers in the army and the Martial Artists among the civilians all stopped attacking of their own accord, watching Teng Qingshan put on a one-man show.
If they mixed in with the horde, they would only get in the way of Teng Qingshan's hunt.
Under the harvest of more than a dozen special Telekinetic Weapons,
Monster after Monster fell.
The sight—
Jia Yi swore he would never forget it for as long as he lived!
The Monsters that had been evenly matched with him
were easily sliced apart like tofu
by the Telekinetic Weapons controlled by Teng Qingshan.
The Beast Tide, which had seemed endless, fell in droves beneath streaks of blazing light.
After resolving the crisis here,
Teng Qingshan went to the Diamond Ape's corpse.
The materials from a Primary-Level Lord Diamond Ape were extremely valuable, and very useful to Teng Qingshan at his current level.
A large group of soldiers had gathered around the Diamond Ape, standing guard over it.
"Thank you for coming to our aid, Sect Master Teng!" A middle-aged man wearing a high-ranking military insignia walked over. "I'm Yue Shan, in charge of this evacuation. I can't thank you enough, Sect Master Teng. If not for you, our entire regiment, along with the more than a hundred thousand civilians behind us, might have died here!"
"You're too kind, Commander Yue. This was the least I could do," Teng Qingshan said. "Time is short. Once I've harvested the materials from this Diamond Ape, I'll have to head to the next location in need of support."
"Please, go ahead, Sect Master Teng."
Just then, Jia Yi hurried over from a distance.
As soon as he arrived, he saw Teng Qingshan using the Diamond Ape's own claws to cut into its body.
Shk, shk, shk!!!
The pale golden scales, which could withstand missile strikes, were easily peeled off in one piece by the claws under Teng Qingshan's control.
The Diamond Ape was enormous, standing a full ten meters tall.
After testing it, Teng Qingshan found that the strongest defense on its body was the scales on its chest.
He packed those scales, the ten claws removed from the Diamond Ape's hands, its hardest piece of arm bone, and its two sharpest, toughest fangs into the backpack he carried. He left the rest of the materials for the army.
"Here's your spear, Sect Master Teng," Jia Yi said, quickly stepping forward to return it.
"This spear suits you well, so I won't take it back. Keep it for yourself, Lieutenant Colonel Jia Yi. I can use the materials from this Lord Monster ape to forge another one when I get back."
During the battle, Teng Qingshan had noticed Jia Yi, whose strength had now reached the Middle-Level Warlord level, and his impressive spear skills.
Teng Qingshan had made the spear from the finest materials he had taken from a High-Level Beast General. It could hold up in a fight against a Primary-Level Lord Monster for a short time, and it was just right for Jia Yi to use now.
Looking at the enormous Monster corpse lying on the ground, Jia Yi knew Teng Qingshan truly had no need for the spear in his hands. "These are extraordinary times, so I won't stand on ceremony. Thank you, Sect Master Teng!"
Jia Yi wasn't one to be coy. Though they now had materials from a Lord-level Monster's corpse, he wasn't a Spiritual Telekinetic. Forging a weapon a Martial Artist could use would take considerable time.
They hadn't even traveled halfway to Jiangnan Base City. There was still a high chance of Monster attacks along the way.
A weapon that suited him was important.
"Good. Commander Yue, keep moving. I'm heading to the next location."
Time was short. After exchanging farewells, Teng Qingshan stood on the Diamond Ape's claws and headed toward the next location requesting assistance, as indicated by his Communication Watch.
A few minutes later,
Teng Qingshan arrived at his destination.
He swept through the Beast Tide like a Heavenly God descending, saving more than fifty thousand civilians and the over thirty thousand soldiers in charge of their evacuation.
After greeting the officer in charge of the evacuation and Liu He, a Martial Artist whose strength had reached the Primary-Level Warlord level, Teng Qingshan continued on to help others.
And so,
Teng Qingshan raced across more than a million square kilometers of land, constantly aiding armies in need of rescue.
Fortunately, now that Teng Qingshan had materials from a Primary-Level Lord Monster to use as Telekinetic Weapons, his flying speed had increased slightly once more. He could easily make it in time, even when rushing long distances between battles.
He had no trouble supporting several provinces centered around Yangzhou City.
His combat radius had reached an astonishing two thousand kilometers.
Within that range,
even if Jiangnan Base City were attacked by a Lord Monster, Teng Qingshan could return in just over ten minutes.
Several days earlier, Teng Qingshan had also taken his grandfather to the safest place in Jiangnan Base City: the command center.
With its security, it could hold off even a Primary-Level Lord Monster for at least half an hour.
Because if even a Base City's command center came under threat,
that was when they could use nuclear weapons!
At the current stage, nuclear weapons still posed a great threat to Monsters.
But unless it was a matter of life and death, no one was willing to use nuclear weapons with their severe radiation.
That was precisely why
Teng Qingshan could leave to aid the surrounding areas and help their people evacuate to Jiangnan Base City.
As night fell,
the land of China took on an entirely different aspect.
Teng Qingshan stood atop a mountain peak.
"After a day of providing support, I must have killed over a million Monsters. The Little Cauldron absorbed so much soul energy—it really has become just a little more solid."
Feeling the illusory Little Cauldron deep in his consciousness, Teng Qingshan's heavy mood finally eased a little.
Although he had slain over a million Monsters today, countless soldiers and ordinary civilians had still died!
And at the same time,
there were simply too many places in need of rescue.
Teng Qingshan could only tackle them one by one,
doing his best to save the worst-hit areas within his ability.
Even so,
over the course of that day,
Teng Qingshan had personally witnessed more than a hundred thousand people in China die in the jaws of Monsters!
And that was the death toll after he had arrived and dealt with the Beast Tides!
If Teng Qingshan hadn't descended like a Heavenly God and swept away the Beast Tides with invincible might,
the death toll would have been far higher.
But there was one piece of good news.
During the evacuations,
many promising Martial Artists had emerged from both the army and among the civilians.
The best of them had now reached Warlord-level strength, and several had even reached Middle-Level Warlord, like Jia Yi.
For these exceptionally talented Martial Artists,
after dealing with the Beast Tide, Teng Qingshan would leave them the finest Monster materials and offer them some guidance.
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