Fifty meters.
Thirty meters.
Ten meters!
The distance between Lin Yuan and the Ironclad Mad Ape was rapidly closing.
"Roar—"
The ten-meter-tall giant ape threw back its head and roared.
The terrifying sound waves became tangible blasts of air.
Dozens of nearby First-Tier Ferocious Beasts instantly collapsed limply to the ground.
The Ironclad Mad Ape had gone berserk.
Its crimson eyes locked onto the tiny human before it.
It could sense the incomparably terrifying energy contained within this human's body.
Eat him!
As long as it ate him, it could evolve once more!
The Ironclad Mad Ape strode forward on its thick legs, charging ahead like a heavy tank.
Its entire body was covered in hard, ink-black scales.
Under the sunlight, the scales gleamed with chilling metallic light.
More than a billion people across the internet stared fixedly at their screens.
Their breathing stopped.
A monster of this level was suffocating even through a screen.
Just then.
Lin Yuan released his right hand.
"Boom!"
The 860-pound spear fell, its shaft sinking more than half a foot into the rock.
The entire internet erupted.
Inside the military dependents' compound in Shu Capital.
Zhang Hui abruptly stood up, clutching the sofa cushion so tightly that her knuckles turned white.
"What is that child doing?"
"Why did he throw away his weapon?"
Lin Jianguo gritted his teeth and said nothing, the veins on his forehead throbbing wildly.
Lin Xiaoxiao covered her mouth, tears welling in her eyes.
Inside the Southwest Military Region command room.
Zhao Dingbang clenched his fists and stared fixedly at the large screen.
"Lin Yuan."
"Show the whole world."
"Just how terrifying a Third-Tier Martial Artist truly is!"
"..."
At the center of the battlefield.
Facing the raging wind, Lin Yuan suddenly clenched both fists.
The True Qi within him surged into his arms like floodwaters bursting through a dam.
The terrifying power of a Third-Tier Martial Artist in the Bone Tempering Realm erupted without restraint at that moment.
There were no flashy movements.
Lin Yuan bent his legs slightly, then kicked off the ground.
"Bang!"
The ground instantly collapsed into a massive crater three meters across.
He became a cannonball shot from its barrel, charging straight at the Ironclad Mad Ape!
A trace of humanlike mockery flashed through the Ironclad Mad Ape's eyes.
A puny human actually dared to compete with it in physical strength?
It swung its water-vat-sized fist, carrying a shriek that tore through the air as it smashed viciously toward Lin Yuan.
One large fist and one small fist collided explosively in midair.
"Boom—!"
A deafening sonic boom erupted.
Centered on them.
A terrifying blast wave spread wildly outward in visible ripples.
Within a thirty-meter radius, dirt, shattered stones, and broken trees were instantly hurled into the air!
Even several nearby First-Tier Ferocious Beasts were torn apart by the blast wave!
The entire internet fell silent.
Everyone stared at the cloud of dust.
The next second.
An incomparably shrill scream pierced the sky.
"Aoo—"
It was the Ironclad Mad Ape!
The dust dispersed.
The image was transmitted clearly onto everyone's screens.
The Ironclad Mad Ape's right arm, thicker than a tree trunk, began shattering inch by inch from its fist!
Its hard black scales flew apart...
Its thick bones pierced through flesh...
The Ironclad Mad Ape's entire arm exploded directly into a cloud of blood mist!
"Bang!"
Its enormous ten-meter-tall body flew backward like a kite with its string cut.
It flew more than twenty meters, smashing through three towering trees before crashing heavily to the ground.
As for Lin Yuan.
He remained where he was, holding his punching stance.
Completely unscathed!
"Holy shit!"
"Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit!"
"What the hell did I just see?!"
"One punch! Just one punch, and that monster's arm was gone?!"
The livestream comments froze for a second before flooding past like an avalanche.
Imperial Capital.
No. 1 Conference Room.
Elder Zhan slammed his palm on the table and shot to his feet.
"Good!"
"What an incredible Third-Tier Martial Artist!"
Elder Long's hand trembled slightly as he held his teacup, his eyes flashing with wild delight.
On the battlefield.
The Ironclad Mad Ape struggled to its feet.
Its originally savage crimson eyes were now filled with inescapable terror.
Monster!
The human before it was more of a monster than it was!
It let out a mournful howl, turned, and bolted toward the dense forest.
Run!
It had to run!
"Think you can escape?"
Lin Yuan snorted coldly.
He left an afterimage where he stood and instantly appeared before the spear.
With a sharp flick of his toe, he sent the spear shaft flying upward.
The 860-pound heavy spear shot into the sky.
Lin Yuan gripped the spear with one hand, twisted his waist, and poured True Qi into it with all his might.
"Die!"
The spear became a bolt of black lightning, tearing through the sky.
"Splat!"
The spear accurately pierced through the Ironclad Mad Ape's skull from behind.
That terrifying force carried its corpse sliding more than ten meters before it finally crashed to the ground.
The Ironclad Mad Ape was dead!
At that moment.
An eerie silence descended before the Shu Capital Defense Line.
The First-Tier Ferocious Beasts that had been attacking the defense line all stopped moving.
They looked at their king lying in a pool of blood.
The fear rooted deep in their bloodlines completely overwhelmed their beastly instincts.
"Whine..."
A Mutated Wild Wolf whimpered, tucked its tail, and backed away.
It was as though that were a signal.
The next second.
The Ferocious Beasts covering the mountains and fields fled madly into the depths of the forest like a receding tide.
The Fifteen-Hundred-Thousand Beast Tide.
Had collapsed!
"They're running..."
"They're running!"
Watching the scene before them.
The frontline soldiers had even forgotten to pull their triggers.
"We won!"
"We held them back!"
"Long live Colonel Lin!"
No one knew who shouted first.
Immediately afterward.
Thunderous cheers rang across the entire Shu Capital Defense Line.
Countless tough, iron-willed men had reddened eyes, embracing the comrades beside them as they laughed and cried.
In the livestream.
The official host's voice was hoarse, filled with irrepressible excitement.
"Dear viewers!"
"The Shu Capital Defense Line... has held!"
"Our Colonel Lin Yuan has successfully slain the Peak Second-Order Stage Ferocious Beast, the Ironclad Mad Ape!"
"The Beast Tide has retreated!"
The entire nation erupted.
Overwhelming cheers broke out in countless cities.
The military dependents' compound.
Zhang Hui's legs gave out, and she collapsed onto the sofa, covering her face as she burst into tears.
"He's all right..."
"My son is all right..."
Lin Jianguo wiped the corner of his eyes and broke into a foolish grin.
Lin Xiaoxiao jumped excitedly around the living room.
"My brother is a superhero! My brother is so cool!"
On the battlefield.
Lin Yuan did not stop.
He pulled out the Overlord Spear and turned to slaughter the Ferocious Beasts still fleeing.
"Everyone!"
"Clear the battlefield! Leave no survivors!"
The frontline commander drew his sidearm and shouted sharply.
More than a hundred First-Order Martial Artists, along with a large number of fully armed soldiers, charged out from the defense line like tigers descending the mountain.
The pursuit began.
This was a one-sided slaughter.
The Ferocious Beasts had lost their leader and had no will to fight.
Lin Yuan charged at the front.
Wherever his spear passed, flesh and blood flew.
In just half an hour,
tens of thousands of slower Ferocious Beasts were left behind on this land forever.
The thick stench of blood surged into the sky, staining half the heavens red.
The military district's logistics units quickly moved in.
Heavy trucks rolled onto the front lines and began recovering the Ferocious Beasts' corpses.
These would all be top-tier resources for training future martial artists.
Lin Yuan held his bloodstained spear and was about to find a place to recover his breath.
A burst of hurried footsteps sounded.
A major covered in mud and gunpowder smoke rushed up to Lin Yuan.
He snapped into a salute, his eyes red-rimmed.
"Colonel Lin!"
"An urgent dispatch from the Southwest Theater Command!"
The major's voice was terribly hoarse, carrying a trace of sobbing.
"The Shennongjia Defense Line is in critical danger!"
"An eighty-thousand-strong Beast Tide led by a Late Second-Tier Stage Ferocious Beast has already broken through the first line of defense!"
"More than half of the martial artist troops over there have been killed or wounded. They request that you provide support immediately!"
Lin Yuan frowned slightly.
He glanced at the devastated battlefield strewn across the ground, without the slightest hesitation.
"Where's the aircraft?"
The major wiped the blood and grime from his face and pointed behind him.
"It is ready and can take off at any time!"
"Let's go."
Lin Yuan carried his spear and strode quickly toward the helipad.
Five minutes later,
an armed military helicopter rose from the ground, becoming a tiny black dot as it flew straight toward Shennongjia.
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