"Wait."
Host Xiao Ying stared fixedly at the screen, her voice trembling slightly.
"Does our contestant Xu Fan have no intention of leaving?"
Her words caused an uproar.
Although Xu Fan's swordsmanship was astonishing, even beyond the bounds of human understanding,
there were far too many Nuger Worms.
They stretched across the land and filled the sky.
They went on as far as the eye could see.
By a conservative estimate, there were at least a thousand Nuger Worms.
Even if they stood still and let Xu Fan hack away at them, it would still be an incredibly grueling feat of endurance.
Not to mention...
Every one of these Nuger Worms had no fear of death. They craved Xu Fan's flesh and blood, swarming toward him one after another.
No matter how you looked at it, the sensible thing to do was to fight while retreating until he was completely out of danger.
But...
Not only had Xu Fan chosen not to fight while retreating,
he had actually taken a step forward!
Deeper into Nuger Worm territory!
Naturally, Host Xiao Ying didn't miss that detail.
It left her utterly shocked.
No matter how confident Xu Fan was in his swordsmanship, there had to be a limit, right?
He wasn't blind.
Couldn't he see just how absurdly many Nuger Worms there were?
And yet he was still walking forward.
Contestant Xu Fan...
How could he possibly dare?
Xiao Ying's palms were already sweating. She wished she could rush in herself and lead Xu Fan to safety.
The guests in the Live Stream Room.
The production team.
And the audience.
None of them could understand how contestant Xu Fan was thinking.
Was he really that hardheaded?
Didn't he know how to take a roundabout approach?
At least make a strategic retreat!
Was he really just going to charge in like that?
"Contestant Xu Fan is way too fierce! Does he think he's Zhao Xin? 'With the will to charge into battle, there's no coming back alive'?"
"I can't understand what contestant Xu Fan is thinking. Does he really think he's a god? There must be over a thousand Nuger Worms! Once he runs out of stamina, oh god, I can't even imagine it."
"God Xu, please stop moving forward!"
The viewers hammered away at their keyboards, posting their thoughts on the live chat.
And then...
In less than a few minutes,
the Female Snow Wolf, battling the Nuger Worms, began to show signs of exhaustion.
In terms of combat prowess,
the Female Snow Wolf could easily overpower any Nuger Worm here.
One bite was enough to pierce an opponent's throat.
Its movements were clean and decisive,
and it was utterly ferocious.
But the Nuger Worms cared only about their hunger for flesh and blood. They were insatiably greedy.
They seemed not to notice the brutal deaths of their own kind,
let alone feel any fear.
When one fell, another immediately crawled over it.
The waves of attackers never stopped.
It looked like an endless white tide.
This terrifying war of attrition rapidly drained the Female Snow Wolf's strength.
It was worth mentioning that...
Ever since the Female Snow Wolf had been driven from the pack, it had never hunted large numbers of vicious beasts.
At most, it had ambushed fawns or rabbits.
As a result, although it had explosive strength, its stamina was nothing special.
After biting to death seventeen or eighteen Nuger Worms in a row, the Female Snow Wolf's bite began to weaken.
At first, a single bite would tear through flesh and expose bone. Now it had to clamp down on a Nuger Worm's neck and thrash its head around before it could break the creature's neck.
Its efficiency had dropped.
And every so often, a Nuger Worm managed to bite it.
Before long...
The Female Snow Wolf had been surrounded without even realizing it, trapped in a desperate situation.
Only then did it understand that it wasn't strong enough.
A trace of fear even appeared in its eyes.
There were too many Nuger Worms.
As it stared at the pale mass of the insect horde,
the Female Snow Wolf couldn't think of any way to escape them.
The most terrifying thing was...
Many Nuger Worms had already made their way behind it.
By the time the Female Snow Wolf realized what was happening, they had cut off its retreat.
Clearly,
these Nuger Worms had no intention of letting them go.
Despair
gradually took root in the Female Snow Wolf's heart.
One Nuger Worm leaped into the air and pounced on the Female Snow Wolf, baring its gaping maw. It wanted to imitate the wolf's attack and bite through its throat.
Worse still...
The Female Snow Wolf had noticed the enemy's attack, but its strength was spent. Though it could see the danger, its body couldn't react in time.
All it could do was watch helplessly as the creature pounced. It couldn't even dodge.
It was over.
Whoosh!
With a sharp whistle, a flash of cold light streaked past, cleaving the Nuger Worm that had pounced on the Female Snow Wolf in two.
Thud!
The two halves of its writhing body hit the ground.
It thrashed and snapped wildly, but it couldn't reach the Female Snow Wolf.
Immediately after...
A long blade plunged down, piercing its brain and pinning it firmly to the ground.
The Female Snow Wolf's eyes widened. In utter disbelief, it followed the blade up to its wielder.
Who else could it be but Xu Fan?
Seeing the Female Snow Wolf cornered, Xu Fan had swung his long blade and carved a path through the swarm.
Behind him lay countless insect corpses.
He looked like an asura.
The Female Snow Wolf stared, transfixed.
"Holo, fall back."
Xu Fan's voice was low.
The Female Snow Wolf blinked. Clearly, it didn't understand what Xu Fan had said.
But...
It could feel an overwhelmingly powerful aura emanating from him.
He was completely different from the man who had roasted wolf meat and shared food and fresh water with it.
No...
He was like a completely different person!
Even the Snow Wolf King, when enraged, couldn't match Xu Fan's current presence.
What was this strange-looking creature?
He didn't even have fangs or claws.
So how could he be this impossibly strong?
After speaking, Xu Fan didn't wait to see whether the Female Snow Wolf had understood him.
He swung his blade at the Nuger Worm crawling toward him.
Whoosh!
Sword Qi swept through the air, unleashing a terrifying gust that sent the Nuger Worms trying to pounce flying.
The Sword Qi also cut straight through the Nuger Worm in front of Xu Fan, splitting it in two.
Green fluid sprayed everywhere.
Xu Fan said nothing. His blade rose and fell, again and again.
It was like chopping vegetables.
However...
As the number of Nuger Worm corpses continued to grow, an indescribably foul stench filled the air.
It mingled with the rotten odor coming from their mouths,
making the smell unbearable.
Even a vicious beast like the Female Snow Wolf couldn't help vomiting.
As for Xu Fan...
He remained perfectly composed, walking forward as if it were nothing.
Wherever he went, not a blade of grass remained; corpses littered the ground!
For the first time, the greedy Nuger Worms felt fear.
Many of them showed terror in their eyes, their feet beginning to retreat.
They wanted to get as far away as possible from the monster Xu Fan.
Even the Female Snow Wolf following Xu Fan was completely dumbfounded.
The man who had given it food and seemed so kind and gentle had actually...
been this ruthless?
However...
The Nuger Worms hadn't given up completely.
Some had begun to feel fear, but most still watched Xu Fan with menace.
And in their hunger to devour Xu Fan, they opened their gaping jaws to attack their own kind, ravenously eating them.
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