The Golden Rat King

He flew a circle at low altitude.

While flying.

Teng Qingshan extended his telekinesis to its limit.

Suddenly.

A rat appeared in Teng Qingshan's consciousness, hidden more than ten meters underground, its body covered in golden fur.

"So that's where you've been hiding. And that aura feels a little familiar. Once I kill this Rat King, the Rat Tide will naturally fall apart!"

Wrapped in an ocher-colored current that concealed all his aura, Teng Qingshan headed straight for the burrow where the Golden Rat King was hiding.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak~"

In the underground cave.

The giant Golden Rat King, now two and a half meters long, was squeaking incessantly, as if constantly issuing commands.

Its cries were strange. They sounded soft, yet carried a great distance, remotely directing the Warlord Level Cyan Rats.

At that moment.

The Golden Rat King, now evolved to Intermediate Lord Level, felt its strength was finally sufficient and began attacking human cities.

In its memories.

It had once been a street rat, chased and beaten by everyone!

But now.

It was the Rat King!

The Rat King that commanded countless rats!

What humans had done to it in the past, it would repay tenfold, a hundredfold!

When it had first broken through to Lord Level, it had been in Yangzhou City.

But then it had seen a terrifying human flying toward it through Object Manipulation, and fled in panic.

Now it had left that city far behind and come to the Southwest Mountainous Region, where it had bred a terrifying army of rats.

Believing the time was right, it had finally been unable to hold back and launched an attack on humanity.

This time, it was still directing the attack remotely.

Even if there were hidden experts among the humans,

it would simply flee again the moment it sensed something was wrong.

The plan was sound.

And its senses were keen.

But there was always someone better.

Every move the Golden Rat King made was under Teng Qingshan's watch.

"Sure enough, it's the same Rat King that appeared outside Yangzhou City. I didn't expect to see it here. What a strange coincidence."

After confirming that the aura from this Rat King belonged to the rat that had once hidden beneath the Rock Pile, Teng Qingshan couldn't help marveling at the twists of fate.

Once he confirmed that the Rat King was the only one in the surrounding area for now, Teng Qingshan didn't hesitate. As the ocher-colored current rippled around him, his telekinesis spread across the entire area, deliberately avoiding the Rat King.

Rat Kings that evolved to Lord Level were very sensitive to telekinesis, and Teng Qingshan wasn't sure what level this one had reached.

If it had reached High-Level Lord, then given the speed of rat Monsters, taking it down would be no easy task without spending considerable time and effort.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Without a sound.

Eighteen Telekinetic Weapons wrapped in ocher-colored currents flew out, completely sealing off the space around the Rat King.

"Squeak?"

The Rat King, which had been keeping all its senses alert, finally noticed something was wrong.

Whoosh!

Though it hadn't identified the source of the danger, the Golden Rat King was already preparing to move.

But—

It was too late!

Teng Qingshan had already sealed off every possible escape route.

Squeee!!!

When it sensed more than ten Telekinetic Weapons closing in, the Golden Rat King's fur stood on end.

"It's that human!"

The Golden Rat King remembered.

Even now, it had no confidence it could defeat the human shrouded in mysterious flames.

"Run!"

After letting out a sharp, urgent squeal, the Rat King immediately charged toward the direction it thought most likely to break through.

Only one Telekinetic Weapon was approaching from that direction.

And according to the Rat King's senses, it seemed to be the least durable.

That was indeed the case.

The weapon had been made from a tooth of a Primary-Level Lord Mutated Wolf King.

Compared with the stronger Mutated Tiger and Mutated Leopard, its teeth were indeed a little inferior.

The underground soil and gravel vaporized in an instant as the Golden Rat King accelerated. A golden blur flashed as its claws met the Telekinetic Weapon made from the Wolf King's tooth.

Bang!!!

At Intermediate Lord Level, the Rat King's desperate strike carried an impact of 200,000 kilograms!

But each Telekinetic Weapon Teng Qingshan controlled now could easily unleash an impact of over a million kilograms with the Domain's enhancement!

The gap was enormous.

Even though the Golden Rat King's claws were harder than the Telekinetic Weapon, and it had struck the weapon directly,

it was still sent flying with ease.

Underground.

Teng Qingshan had also dashed into the burrow. After locking onto the Rat King with his telekinesis, he continued to control his weapons and attack.

From that last strike,

Teng Qingshan was certain the Golden Rat King before him had evolved to Intermediate Lord Level.

If he let it escape this time, its caution and cunning, combined with the monstrous breeding ability of rat Monsters,

would lead to endless trouble.

So today, it had to die!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

In an instant.

Teng Qingshan's powerful consciousness concentrated twenty streams of telekinesis on the hardest and sharpest Bone Blade Telekinetic Weapon.

It shot toward the Golden Rat King!

At the same time, he switched from the Earth Domain to the more offensive Flame Domain.

Empowered by the twenty streams of telekinesis, the Bone Blade became a fiery meteor. It slammed into the Golden Rat King's head at a speed it couldn't react to!

Boom!!!

The terrifying impact of more than twenty million kilograms vaporized the Golden Rat King's head in an instant!

With an impact this powerful, forget an Intermediate Lord Level Rat King—even a newly advanced Planetary Level Rat King would die if struck head-on!

Whoosh!

With a sweep of telekinesis,

Teng Qingshan collected the Rat King's remaining corpse.

The hide, claws, and teeth of an Intermediate Lord Level Rat King were all rare, valuable materials.

From how it had just withstood a direct clash with a Telekinetic Weapon, its claws were clearly exceptional in both hardness and sharpness.

They were even superior to the Telekinetic Weapons Teng Qingshan was currently using.

After flying out of the ground and rising into the sky,

Teng Qingshan saw something unexpected.

The Rat Tide that had been relentlessly attacking Southwest Base City

was now rushing toward him with all its might.

The Southwest Base City, which had been on the brink of collapse, finally got a moment to breathe.

Watching the Rat Tide retreat like a flood,

the soldiers and Martial Artists behind the defensive line struggled to hide their shock.

Though they had clashed with the Rat Tide for less than ten seconds,

the impact had been no less terrifying than that of a Lord-level Monster.

The rat Monsters had been everywhere, spreading across the entire field of vision.

Even the battle-hardened soldiers felt a chill run down their spines.

"Thankfully, General Teng arrived at the critical moment. Otherwise, the consequences would have been unthinkable..." On the city wall, Commander Zhang Wei said with relief.

They had spotted Teng Qingshan's arrival on the satellite feed just moments earlier.

So even when the Rat Tide struck, they hadn't panicked.

They knew very well that once Teng Qingshan arrived, the Rat Tide crisis would no longer be a threat!

Just as expected.

After Teng Qingshan dealt with the Monster leader hiding in the shadows, the entire Rat Tide retreated, then began launching a frenzied attack on Teng Qingshan in the sky.

Under the Rat King's dying command just now, the rats it had bred with its own hand would attack Teng Qingshan even if they all had to die!

They would fight to the last rat!

That was what made the Rat Tide so terrifying: it fought to the death and never retreated!