Su Zhe's gaze narrowed as he locked onto the thirteen Single-Horned Iron Rhinos ahead, each like a walking fortress.
The dozen or so Single-Horned Iron Rhinos before him varied greatly in strength. The strongest had reached Star Level Seven, while the weakest was only Star Level One.
They seemed to have just finished drinking from Demon Moon Lake and were moving leisurely toward the depths of the forest.
Their heavy hooves struck the ground with dull, thunderous booms.
"Thirteen... That'll do."
He only needed one Single-Horned Iron Rhino to complete the assessment.
The strongest Single-Horned Iron Rhino here was only Star Level Seven.
So Su Zhe didn't choose to launch a sneak attack. Instead, he planned to test whether he could take them all down head-on!
Su Zhe appeared before the Single-Horned Iron Rhinos like a phantom, blocking their path.
"Roar!"
The few Single-Horned Iron Rhinos at the front immediately spotted the intruder.
Their blood-red eyes locked onto Su Zhe as they let out low, threatening growls. With a thought, Su Zhe unleashed his Domain!
The Domain of Fire instantly enveloped them.
The surrounding space warped and darkened. The rock-hard skin of the few Star Level Three Single-Horned Iron Rhinos at the front groaned under the Domain's corrosive power, fine cracks spreading across their bodies.
The Domain of Fire formed by the Void Devouring Flame could even absorb the enemy's energy and turn it to its own use.
"Whoosh—!"
Su Zhe flashed beneath a Single-Horned Iron Rhino.
After taking down the assassin earlier, Su Zhe had gained considerable insight into movement techniques. Though he was still some way from truly mastering Thousand Shadows, his footwork had improved by a whole level.
His right arm swelled and changed shape in an instant, transforming into a sharp blade. He thrust upward, piercing the Single-Horned Iron Rhino's neck and plunging into its brain!
Devour!
Su Zhe crushed the Single-Horned Iron Rhino's brain. The Blacklight Virus that had penetrated its body rapidly devoured its flesh and blood. In less than a second, the beast had been completely consumed!
[Devoured a Star Level Three vicious beast. Obtained 10,240 Devour Points]
The notification flashed, but Su Zhe's movements didn't slow for an instant. Like a shadow, he darted among the Single-Horned Iron Rhinos, swiftly claiming their lives.
As he amassed Devour Points, he drew ever closer to the one-million mark.
After reaching Star Level, Su Zhe had also tried devouring Planetary Level monsters, but he'd found that they no longer provided any Devour Points.
That wasn't a problem.
The Thunder World was teeming with Star Level vicious beasts and adventurers.
Reaching one million Devour Points here would be fairly easy.
"Roar!"
As Su Zhe continued his slaughter, the Single-Horned Iron Rhinos fell into a frenzy.
They charged and trampled wildly, even injuring one another with their attacks before Su Zhe could get close.
In the chaos, Su Zhe failed to dodge in time a few times and was struck by some of the Single-Horned Iron Rhinos.
Still, it wasn't a problem.
After devouring the Single-Horned Iron Rhinos and all the vicious beasts he'd faced before, Su Zhe's defense alone was probably greater than that of even the Star Level Seven Single-Horned Iron Rhino.
So what if he got hit?
They couldn't even break through the armor that instantly hardened over Su Zhe's skin. What good would hitting him do?
And even if Su Zhe was injured, he could recover quickly by devouring his enemies!
Just as Babata had remarked, Su Zhe might be fairly average in the Virtual Universe, but in the real world, the more chaotic the battle, the stronger he became.
There was an endless supply of "blood bags" around him, and he could grow stronger as he devoured them.
Add in his unique Domain of Fire, and Su Zhe was practically unbeatable against opponents of the same level.
Unless an enemy could overwhelm him outright, it would be very difficult to truly kill him!
"Shhk! Shhk! Shhk!"
Su Zhe darted through the herd.
His arms shifted between blades and massive hammers, smashing into the Single-Horned Iron Rhinos.
Although Su Zhe was learning sword techniques, there was no reason he could only use them with a sword. Besides, what mattered most about learning Flowing Fire Blade was mastering its force application techniques and the accompanying insights into the Origin Law of Fire.
Mastering a Domain and comprehending a law weren't mutually exclusive.
Luo Feng, for instance, had already grasped a sliver of the Origin Law of Metal while at the fourth or fifth level of his Domain.
Thanks to the Void Devouring Flame, Su Zhe's talent for the Origin Law of Fire was no worse than Luo Feng's.
So comprehending the Law of Fire wasn't as difficult as one might imagine.
"Boom!"
With that final blow, Su Zhe blasted the Star Level Seven Single-Horned Iron Rhino to death with Flame Thunder Burst. Lightning and fire fused, erupting in a brilliant flare that engulfed the beast.
In just three minutes, the noisy battlefield fell completely silent.
Su Zhe had wiped out every Single-Horned Iron Rhino. He had even deliberately kept the horn of the last one instead of devouring it.
At the same time, Su Zhe's strength rose to Star Level Three!
[Devoured a Star Level Seven vicious beast. Obtained 163,840 Devour Points]
[Warrior level increased: Star Level Three]
[Devour Points]: 643,538 (1,000,000)
Wiping out this herd had earned him hundreds of thousands of Devour Points. The Star Level Seven Single-Horned Iron Rhino alone had provided nearly half of that.
He was getting closer and closer to his goal of one million Devour Points.
Su Zhe had once wondered whether a million Devour Points would be too hard to earn. Now, it seemed almost too easy.
"I've got the Wind Horn Stone and the horn. I can leave whenever I want." Su Zhe weighed the horn in his hand. "But... leaving now would be such a waste."
His gaze shifted toward the deeper reaches of Demon Moon Lake, where even more vicious beasts roamed.
In the Thunder World, resources were practically everywhere for Su Zhe.
He decided to achieve both his goals in the Thunder World: earning one million Devour Points and reaching Star Level Nine!
The assessment was complete.
Now the hunt could begin.
"Xiao Yu, start tracking the locations of all vicious beasts and adventurers."
Su Zhe gave the order.
Both vicious beasts and adventurers could provide him with plenty of resources.
He'd let one group of adventurers go earlier because they'd knelt so quickly that it had made it awkward to attack them. But any adventurers he encountered near this lake wouldn't be like them.
"Master, there's a group of human adventurers eleven kilometers to the upper right," Xiao Yu said.
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