Thirty thousand meters beneath the sea, in a deep pit on the ocean floor, the Golden Horned Beast, its head missing, lay motionless in the darkness.
Li Qingxu waved a hand and tossed Luo Feng's body beside the Golden Horned Beast.
Strange golden patterns spread out from beneath his feet, twisting like dragons and serpents as they gradually formed an array.
He had changed some of the events, and to prevent anyone from secretly searching for the Golden Horned Beast's corpse, he decided to use the Origin Heaven Divine Technique Array to conceal and seal off the area.
To the naked eye, the place appeared empty, with nothing there at all.
If anyone attacked the area, the Origin Heaven Divine Technique Array would activate automatically, moving the Golden Horned Beast and Luo Feng's body to a spot on the ocean floor ten thousand meters away.
Once it sensed that the attack had stopped, the array would turn on its own and send them back to their original location.
Only someone else who knew how to use the Origin God technique could detect anything amiss.
In the conference hall on the top floor of the War God Palace, the two phantom figures on the screen representing life signs had disappeared completely.
Only one sign remained in that location, and it was rapidly moving away.
"Those two life signs have vanished completely!"
"We won! Humanity has won!"
Many people in the hall cheered with delight.
After all, humanity's war bases were like food to the Devourer Beast. If they couldn't kill it, humanity would eventually be wiped out.
"So Luo Feng and the Devourer Beast killed each other."
But some people could only sigh heavily, their faces grim.
Especially Hong, the Dojo Master of the Limit Dojo.
Once the strongest man on Earth, he could only watch as Luo Feng, who was far younger than him, traded his life for the Devourer Beast's. And he himself had done nothing.
Guilt, dejection, and unwillingness welled up inside him.
"Wait, look!"
A cry of alarm rang out.
The image on the big screen showed a stretch of the Pacific Ocean where an enormous monster, as large as an island, suddenly broke through the surface.
A golden fist appeared out of nowhere and blew apart its head, which was as large as a small mountain. Beast blood burst out like a waterfall.
"It's that Octopus Beast Emperor! Councilor Li killed it too!"
"Could Councilor Li be avenging Luo Feng?"
Watching Li Qingxu's figure flash across the screen, people couldn't help speculating.
"All of you, go kill monsters! Especially King-level monsters. Don't let a single one escape."
"If any of you dare slack off in secret and hold back, I guarantee you'll end up just like the monsters."
Hong's icy voice rang through the hall, and his eyes swept over every councilor, brimming with killing intent.
Before the Great Nirvana, he had been an assassin. Now, after the battle with the Devourer Beast and Luo Feng's death, his killing intent had reached its peak.
Before, he had refrained from killing certain councilors because he was worried it might hurt humanity. He had long wanted to kill some of them for the things they had done in secret.
Now, Hong was giving them a chance. If they fought desperately to hunt down monsters, he could let their past deeds slide.
But if they dared to slack off even a little and didn't give their all in the hunt, there would be no reason for them to stay alive.
"What Hong said goes for me too."
Thor stood beside Hong, his icy gaze sweeping over the other councilors as well.
"Yes, First Speaker. Second Speaker."
In an instant, everyone in the conference hall lowered their heads slightly and answered.
"Move!"
At Hong's command, everyone filed out of the War God Palace.
January 14 was destined to be a day of madness.
Across the five continents where humanity lived, countless sea monsters were advancing along the rivers. Since they were still some distance away, most had yet to reach the Base Cities.
But King-level monsters had already begun their decisive clashes with Councilor-level fighters. Every country and Base City had, without coordination, begun broadcasting the battles nationwide.
Every battle had countless people on the edge of their seats.
The concern of everyone around the world created an invisible field of energy.
Perhaps it was because the battles were being shown to all of humanity, or perhaps it was because of Hong's words in the War God Palace.
Every Councilor-level fighter was fighting desperately against the King-level monsters.
The weak fought the weak, the strong fought the strong, and every councilor had a clear role.
Battles were always bloody.
The King-level monsters had their strong and weak, too. The weakest were comparable to a first-tier Planetary Level fighter, while the strongest were on par with third- or fourth-tier Planetary Level fighters.
The only advantage humanity's Planetary Level fighters had was the Black God Set, which gave them a lower death rate than the King-level monsters.
But even with a lower death rate, some councilors still fell.
After all, monsters had one major advantage: numbers.
There were far more King-level monsters on land than human councilors.
And the number of King-level monsters in the sea was even more astonishing.
Humanity had nearly ninety Councilor-level fighters, but in just one day, nearly a thousand King-level monsters had already flown out of the ocean.
And that was only part of them.
Two councilors, perhaps because the battles were being broadcast around the world, had decided to seek out King-level monsters weaker than themselves.
After the two joined forces to kill five or six King-level monsters without sustaining a single injury, a black beam suddenly pierced through them, killing them on the spot.
Hong, dressed in black and holding a spear, appeared above their corpses.
People watching the broadcast around the world couldn't understand why Hong, the world's strongest fighter, would kill fellow humans. After all, those two had killed several monsters.
But Hong offered no explanation. His figure turned into a beam of light once more and shot into a group of dozens of King-level monsters.
The climactic battle between humanity and the monsters also brought many mysterious human fighters to the attention of countless people around the world.
The most dazzling among them was a young man dressed in white, his black hair flying in the wind.
He was Li Qingxu, a Councilor-level fighter from the Limit Dojo.
At that moment, he was above the waters of the East Sea, near the eastern coast of Huaxia Nation.
Li Qingxu used the Battle Saint Method, forming the Mountain and River Seal with his hands.
A great mountain appeared above his head, covered in ancient trees and wolves, with birds and beasts roaming its slopes and silver waterfalls thundering down.
The spectacle was overwhelming. It was like a real, towering mountain rising into the sky, majestic and immense, with birds and beasts racing across it and great rivers roaring.
Looking down at nearly a hundred King-level monsters and countless lower-level sea monsters, he raised the Mountain and River Seal and brought it crashing down.
"Boom!"
The earth and sky turned upside down. A thunderous crash shook the waters.
The incredibly powerful shock wave spread across a radius of nearly a hundred kilometers.
Every monster in that area was instantly vaporized.
The terrifying energy even split the sea apart in an instant, creating a vast opening down to the ocean floor.
"My god, is this how powerful Councilor Li is?"
"Could a mountain that suddenly appeared like that really be conjured by a person?"
Other Councilor-level fighters from Huaxia Nation were battling King-level sea monsters in the waters nearby.
But when they saw what was happening in the distance, every one of them was stunned.
The images in the conference hall hadn't conveyed just how powerful Councilor Li was.
Only now, witnessing it for themselves, did they truly understand how terrifying he was.
Li Qingxu said nothing. He activated the Battle Saint Method, and the Mountain and River Seal appeared once more.
His figure seemed to teleport, appearing above another densely packed group of sea monsters.
"Hum!"
The towering mountain seemed to tear through time and space, rushing in from antiquity to suppress the sea below.
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