Four in the morning.
The alarm tore through the night sky.
A piercing shriek echoed across the entire Sixth Defense Line, and the lights in the camp blazed on all at once.
Lin Feng got out of bed, pulled on his Combat Suit, grabbed Mountain Splitter, and headed out.
By the time he left the tent, the camp was already in utter chaos.
Soldiers raced toward the wall with weapons in their arms. Officers shouted out unit numbers, while the heavy machine-gun positions in the distance began to warm up.
Lin Feng didn't follow the crowd.
He leaped straight onto the wall.
With the jumping power of a third-stage Martial Master, he scaled the twenty-meter wall in just two steps.
The wall was already packed with people.
Rows of guards stood shoulder to shoulder, gripping all manner of weapons, their faces taut with nerves.
Lin Feng walked to the edge of the wall and looked out.
Under the moonlight, the horizon was moving.
A black line stretched toward them from the edge of the world.
It wasn't a line. It was a tide.
A tide made up of countless Exotic Beasts.
Iron-Armored Demon Wolves, Steel-Bristle Fierce Rhinos, Rock Armor Lizards, Poison-Claw Centipedes... all kinds of Exotic Beasts were mixed together, a vast black mass covering the entire field of view.
The ground trembled.
Loose stones on the wall bounced.
"Damn, it's at least several times bigger than last time." The voice of an old soldier beside him trembled.
Lin Feng took a deep breath.
He smelled blood.
And opportunity.
"Everyone, listen up!" Li Zhenguo's voice came through the communicator. "Heavy weapons fire first. Martial Artist squads, clear the Exotic Beasts climbing the wall! Martial Master-level fighters, stand by to reinforce any weak points!"
"Lin Feng, hold the middle section."
"Understood."
Lin Feng drew Mountain Splitter. Its Dark Gold Spirit Pattern shimmered in the moonlight.
The moment the Beast Tide slammed into the wall, the whole world shook.
The heavy machine guns opened fire.
Tongues of flame tore through the darkness, and bullets rained down on the beasts.
The Exotic Beasts' cries of agony merged into one. The Demon Wolves in the front were riddled with bullets, but those behind them trampled their companions' corpses and kept charging.
The first Exotic Beasts began climbing the wall.
The Iron-Armored Demon Wolves drove their claws into the alloy wall and scrambled upward.
The guards on the wall swung their blades down. One man was slapped off the wall by a Demon Wolf's claw, and his screams vanished into the tide.
Lin Feng didn't wait for the beasts to climb up.
He jumped off the wall.
He jumped outward.
"Has he lost his mind?" a guard beside him shrieked.
Lin Feng plunged from the wall into the heart of the Beast Tide.
He drove Lost Trace Step to its limit, his body leaving three afterimages in the air.
The instant he landed, Mountain Splitter swept sideways.
A crescent of Gale Wind ripped along the ground. More than a dozen Iron-Armored Demon Wolves at the front were sliced in half.
Blood gushed. Flesh flew.
[Slain E-Class Exotic Beast: Iron-Armored Demon Wolf ×14, gained Martial Path Points ×700]
[Steel of the Blade: 284/500]
Lin Feng didn't stop.
Standing in the middle of the Beast Tide, he swung Mountain Splitter left and right.
Every slash unleashed a Gale Wind, and every Gale Wind reaped a swath of Exotic Beasts.
He was like a meat grinder, planted in the heart of the tide, shredding everything that surged toward him.
[Slain E-Class Exotic Beast: Steel-Bristle Fierce Rhino ×3, gained Martial Path Points ×150]
[Slain E-Class Exotic Beast: Rock Armor Lizard ×7, gained Martial Path Points ×350]
[Slain D-Rank Exotic Beast: Shadow Leopard King ×2, gained Martial Path Points ×400]
[Steel of the Blade: 296/500]
Everyone on the wall was dumbfounded.
One man.
In the middle of tens of thousands of Exotic Beasts.
Killing.
And still smiling.
"Who is that?"
"That new Sergeant Major! Lin Feng!"
"A Sergeant Major? He's out there alone? That's Martial Master-level firepower!"
Captain Zhao stood on the wall, mouth hanging open.
He was over forty years old and had guarded the Northern Territory for more than a decade.
He'd never seen anyone fight like this.
Who said you had to stay on the wall to defend it?
The man had jumped straight down and carved through the Beast Tide.
This wasn't defending the wall.
This was heading out to farm monsters.
Lin Feng charged through the Beast Tide, every slash of Mountain Splitter carrying Armor Piercing.
The armor of E-Class Exotic Beasts was mere decoration before him, and even D-Rank beasts couldn't withstand two blows.
His talent stacks climbed at a dizzying pace.
[Steel of the Blade: 297/500]
[Steel of the Blade: 298/500]
[Steel of the Blade: 299/500]
One more.
An Iron-Winged Bat swooped down from the sky. Lin Feng didn't even look up as he flicked Mountain Splitter upward.
The bat split down the middle, and its two halves flew in opposite directions.
[Slain D-Rank Exotic Beast: Iron-Winged Bat ×1, gained Martial Path Points ×200]
[Steel of the Blade: 300/500! Third Stage activated: Blade Momentum Penetration! A single slash can pierce multiple targets without losing penetrating power!]
Lin Feng paused for a second.
Mountain Splitter hummed in his hand, and the Dark Gold Spirit Pattern on its blade suddenly shone twice as bright.
He could feel it: this slash wouldn't stop at just one kill.
Perfect.
A row of Steel-Bristle Fierce Rhinos charged at him—five of them abreast.
Lin Feng raised his blade and stepped forward.
Mountain-Splitting Slash.
A golden Gale Wind tore free.
It pierced the first rhino's head without slowing.
Then the second.
The third.
The fourth.
The fifth.
All five Steel-Bristle Fierce Rhinos fell at once.
Five heads exploded simultaneously.
[Slain D-Rank Exotic Beast: Steel-Bristle Fierce Rhino ×5, gained Martial Path Points ×1000]
[Steel of the Blade: 305/500]
On the wall.
Silence.
Then a cheer erupted like a mountain crashing into the sea.
"Holy shit!!!"
"One slash, five D-Ranks???"
"Is that even human?"
Li Zhenguo stood in the command tower, his one eye fixed on the blood-soaked figure below.
His lips moved, but he made no sound.
The commander beside him saw it, though.
He was smiling.
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