Origin Devourer Beast

Rumble!

Su Bei stomped the ground. Within a radius of more than ten meters, it was as if a dragon-elephant had struck the earth. Sand and dust exploded, leaving behind a massive crater. His figure became like a hurricane tearing through the air, vanishing from where he stood in the blink of an eye.

When he reappeared, he was already nearly a hundred meters away!

After several flashes, he had traveled a thousand meters. His speed had improved enormously as well!

With a fallen star as the core and Emperor Sun Aura as energy, he formed a universe within his body!

The inner and outer universes reflected one another, forging a supreme physical body!

This was the core of the Great Sun Emperor Body Technique, created by combining the cultivation methods of the Fantasy World with the Gene Methods of this world.

It transcended all cultivation methods. Even the top-tier Gene Methods of this world could never compare to Su Bei's.

This was a brutal and naked dimensional strike from a Fantasy World whose existence was measured in eras against Gene Martial Arts, which had only been born a thousand years ago.

Although what Su Bei possessed was merely a rudimentary form, still a vast distance from true completion.

Even so, Su Bei now possessed a certain beauty in his data.

Even among prodigies, there were records of those who opened the Body Gate and surpassed ten thousand kilograms of strength. But Su Bei, with nearly twenty thousand kilograms, was enough to look down upon them all.

One had to know that according to the Association's minimum punching-force standard for Second-order Martial Artists, it was only 15,000 KG. Yet Su Bei had already far surpassed that threshold.

Most people needed a long time to reach that standard before attempting to open the second Secret Treasury Gate and further unlock their body's potential.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Shattered Battlefield.

Liang Dao and the other three were in poor condition. All of them were injured, with Lei Bin in the worst state. His entire right arm had been severed cleanly at the middle. His face was pale as gold paper as he fled awkwardly backward.

Their speed was not slow either. Their strength appeared to be around ten thousand kilograms.

Xu Zhijie in particular had not originally been the strongest among the four during the Quasi-Martial Artist stage. Yet now, electric light flickered all over his body, and he moved with incredible speed. From time to time, he drew his bow and fired arrows behind him. Lightning clung to the shafts like ion cannons, shattering the rocks and mountains behind them in an instant.

He cultivated the inherited top-tier Gene Method, the Ion Electric Gene Method. Although he had only used the A-grade Ascension Secret Treasure, the Thunderlight Stone, during his advancement, it suited him extremely well. He had also inherited part of his ancestors' recessive genes. At this moment, all the genes in his body seemed like tiny figures made of lightning, with both his strength and speed nearly maxed out.

Bang!

A hundred meters behind them, an alien beast the size of a small calf staggered with a clang under the terrifying strike. Yet after rolling over and getting back up, it seemed completely unharmed and continued charging at them.

Its body was covered in black armor, exposing only a pair of eyes. It somewhat resembled an arthropod, with six slender legs beneath it. Its two sharp forelimbs were like sickles, while its mouthparts were packed with layer upon layer of dense teeth, making it look utterly terrifying.

The only visible pair of eyes radiated savagery and cunning. It clearly possessed a degree of intelligence.

"This won't work! It's already starting to adapt to my power!"

"If this keeps dragging on, no matter how many supplies we have, it'll wear us to death!"

"Do none of you have any other trump cards left?"

The others were no weaker. Liang Dao cultivated the Lion Dragon Gene Method, and his vitality and blood were incomparably abundant. The muscles in his long legs were especially knotted. He slashed backward with the curved blade in his hand, releasing a burst of green Qi Force that shot dozens of meters and intercepted the alien beast.

"When I came to the Shattered Battlefield to earn merit, the old man at home only gave me a martial talisman for saving my life. It's for escaping. Besides, items containing power beyond the rules can't be brought in here!"

Yet at this moment, these prodigies were filled with panic.

Every movement felt as though it was being watched by a pair of vicious eyes, and even their motions carried an extremely unnatural sense of discord.

"Abandon the mission!"

"Who could have imagined there would be an Origin Devourer Beast here?!"

Origin Devourer Beasts were the nobility among Starry Sky Alien Beasts. Their carapaces were incomparably hard and difficult to damage with blades or swords. They fed on devouring source energy, and the power contained in their flesh and blood was exceedingly terrifying. More importantly, they possessed a horrifying ability to adapt. As long as they were not killed in one blow, they would rapidly adapt to that kind of power!

Whether in volcanoes, ice caves, or even a complete vacuum, they could survive. The more injuries they sustained, the stronger they became.

A real-life version of: what could not kill them only made them stronger.

Every appearance of an Origin Devourer Beast on the Void Battlefield would bring a bloody storm. Human powerhouses would immediately be dispatched to suppress and kill it.

The merit awarded for an Origin Devourer Beast was also outrageously high!

Its only weakness was perhaps its fragile soul. If a sixth-order Spiritual Sense Gate martial artist were present, a biological force field could directly crush it to death. The Nascent Stage was one of the few weak periods in an Origin Devourer Beast's life.

But they were only First-order Martial Artists. Even if this Origin Devourer Beast was still in its Nascent Stage, all they could do was flee!

Lü Yan asked. After becoming a martial artist, the aura around her had grown ever colder. She spared no expense with her vitality and blood, and frost formed everywhere she passed. "What about Su Bei? We still haven't met up with him."

"There is no other way."

Lei Bin said, "We've already left signals behind. If he sees them, he can escape... if he's still alive."

After losing his right arm, Lei Bin's mood was exceedingly low. If he had not used the life-saving item his family had given him in time, let alone an arm, even his life would have been left there.

At those words.

The group fell silent for a moment.

There had been no information for a full day and a half. Even though they had some confidence in Su Bei, they could not help thinking in the worst direction now.

After all, he was a ruthless man who had suppressed all four of them by himself during the Quasi-Martial Artist stage. There was no reason he should die here.

But that was an Origin Devourer Beast. What if Su Bei had encountered it before they did?

They did not dare gamble on it.

"Retreat!"

Liang Dao ultimately made the decision. "If we keep fighting while retreating, our chances will only become slimmer. This news must be delivered to the outside world!"

"Su Bei isn't weak. After opening the Secret Treasury Gate, his strength should be no less than ours. Perhaps he has a chance of escaping."

He said this both to comfort himself and to comfort the others.

But since they had made their decision, none of the four were the type to hesitate. Fighting as they retreated, they fled toward the exit.

Another five or six minutes later.

The four had arrived at the exit of the Shattered Battlefield. Each of them used their full strength, shooting out Qi Force and staggering the Origin Devourer Beast as they instantly rushed into the spatial passage.

The next moment.

The four figures vanished.

Hiss!

The Origin Devourer Beast charged up to the entrance and let out a roar. Its two forelimbs swept furiously to either side, turning air pressure into blades that cut through the ground. Electric arcs actually flickered across its forelimbs!

If Xu Zhijie had been there, he would have discovered that those electric arcs were no different from the ones he used!

Yet a thoughtful look flashed through its eyes. It did not pass through the spatial passage, instead hiding to one side, its pair of eyes fixed firmly on the passage.

In the real world.

The four fell directly out of the spatial passage.

The expressions of everyone around them changed as they looked at the still-stable spatial passage!

"What happened?!"

Lu Yingyue asked from over a hundred meters away, and the four hurriedly approached.

"It's an Origin Devourer Beast!"

Liang Dao said, "While we were clearing out the other Starry Sky Alien Beasts, we encountered an Origin Devourer Beast. It is the lord of that Shattered Battlefield. We fought as we retreated and managed to escape."

"An Origin Devourer Beast? Is it in the Nascent Stage?" Lu Yingyue's expression changed, and she then looked toward the others.

Lu Yingyue immediately got her answer. If it had not been in the Nascent Stage, those four likely would not have escaped at all!

"Where is Su Bei? Why are only the four of you out?"

Liang Dao lowered his head. "When we entered the interior of the Shattered Battlefield, we were teleported randomly. The four of us were close together, so we met up first. Until we left the Shattered Battlefield, we were unable to establish contact with Su Bei..."

"However, we've left information behind. As long as he's still alive, he should be able to leave the Shattered Battlefield."

"He has no chance."

Lu Yingyue showed no mercy. "An Origin Devourer Beast is not stupid. It will definitely guard the entrance to the spatial passage."

"His life plaque hasn't shattered yet, though. It will depend on his own fate."

"Make preparations first. Contact the military and report the situation. Seal off this Shattered Battlefield. Once the entry level has been raised, kill the Origin Devourer Beast!"

Lu Yingyue issued orders rapidly. Someone beside him immediately made a call and urgently notified the military.

"Then... can't we just destroy the spatial passage?"

Lu Yingyue shook his head. "No. The creation of the spatial passage already means that the real world has connected with the fractured space. If it is destroyed, spatial turbulence will cause everything within dozens of kilometers to collapse."

"We cannot bear that kind of loss."

Lu Yingyue sighed inwardly.

In recent years, Shattered Battlefields had been appearing with increasing frequency, and the military had grown stricter and stricter in its handling of them.

For a fractured space open to Quasi-Martial Artists, having him, a fifth-order martial artist, personally stationed here was already an extremely high-level arrangement.

Yet no one had expected that this Shattered Battlefield, open to Quasi-Martial Artists, would actually contain a Nascent Stage Origin Devourer Beast.

What a pity about Su Bei. Even Lu Yingyue had been envious of his martial arts realm.

It was fate.

Among those of the same realm, an Origin Devourer Beast was practically invincible.

"Um..." Xu Zhijie spoke at that moment. "I don't know if I saw it wrong, but before entering the passage, I think I saw Su Bei."

He had not dared to be certain.

Because that figure's speed had seemed a little too fast.