292: Chapter 292 Slaughter by Ten Thousand Swords!!

The morning sea breeze carried a heavy, salty stench.

Mixed with the stench of rotting seaweed and the unique odor of mutated creatures, it slammed hard against the concrete walls of the East Sea Defense Line.

This was the most important coastal defense line in eastern Huaguo, and the current front line in the struggle between humanity and marine mutated creatures.

At this moment, inside the defense line command post, the atmosphere was suffocatingly heavy.

"Report! The third wave of the beast tide has broken through the Sector A defense line! Requesting reinforcements! Requesting reinforcements!"

"Sector B's heavy artillery ammunition is exhausted! Requesting retreat!"

"Sector C... Sector C is showing SSS-rank energy fluctuations! It's that big guy! It's come ashore!!"

The communication channels were filled with desperate roars and noisy static.

Commander Wang Jianguo stared intently at the surveillance screens.

On the screen, the originally azure sea had now turned ink-black.

Densely packed mutated sea beasts were surging out of the water like boiling dumplings.

The sheer number was enough to trigger a trypophobe's nightmare at a single glance.

And what caused the most despair was the massive dark shadow slowly rising from the sea level.

It was a giant mutated emperor crab with a body size comparable to an aircraft carrier!

Just one of its claws was thicker than the defense line's tallest watchtower.

Its carapace was covered in hideous spikes and barnacles, and every movement triggered a small-scale earthquake.

This was an SSS-rank mutated creature, the Deep Sea Demon Crab King!

The system's red alarm flashed frantically on the screen.

"Evacuate?"

Wang Jianguo gave a tragic laugh and slammed his military cap onto the table.

"Evacuate where? Behind us is the Su Province Base City, with three million survivors inside! If we retreat, what happens to them? Are they supposed to offer their heads to feed the crabs?"

"Pass down my orders! All Ability Users, hold the line to the death! Even if you have to use your teeth, bite a piece of meat off them for me!"

Just as everyone was bracing themselves with the resolve to die, preparing for the final moment.

Suddenly, a radar operator let out a cry of surprise.

"Com... Commander! There are people in the sky!"

"Nonsense! Of course there are people in the sky, those are our brothers from the Air Force... wait, what did you say? People?"

Wang Jianguo snapped his head up to look.

In the sky above the smoke-filled battlefield, three figures were stepping through the void, walking slowly as if taking a leisurely stroll in a courtyard.

The man in the lead was dressed in casual clothes.

He was actually holding a cup of... milk tea?

Behind him followed two stunning beauties. One was dressed in black as dark as ink, cold as frost; the other wore a short skirt and twin tails, clutching a handful of grilled skewers, her mouth glistening with oil from eating.

This scene looked like it belonged to a completely different dimension compared to the blood-and-gore battlefield below.

"That's... Lord Lin?!"

Wang Jianguo's eyes widened, as if he were looking at a savior.

...

In mid-air.

Lin Yuan took a sip of milk tea and looked down at the densely packed sea beast swarm, his brow furrowing slightly.

"The smell here is indeed a bit heavy; it's not very suitable for a picnic."

Beside him, Xia Bingning said indistinctly while gnawing on a mutton skewer:

"Mmm... Master, with so many crabs and mantis shrimp, it should be enough to last us a long time, right? That big crab looks like it has a lot of roe!"

She pointed at the SSS-rank Demon Crab King that was driving countless soldiers to despair.

Tears of emotion (drool) escaped from the corners of her mouth.

Xia Bingli, on the other hand, calmly activated her Perception Sharpening.

Her gaze was like lightning: "Master, the number of S-rank Mutated Beasts below exceeds three hundred, there are twenty SS-ranks, and one SSS-rank. Without using weapons of mass destruction, clearing them out will take..."

"No need for all that trouble."

Lin Yuan interrupted her tactical analysis.

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Yuan's gaze changed abruptly.

A terrifying pressure, pushed to the extreme, instantly erupted from his body!

The originally gloomy sky suddenly changed color.

Rolling dark clouds gathered from all directions, and within the cloud layers...

Purple lightning snaked frantically, as if countless thunder dragons were roaring.

"Sword, come!"

Lin Yuan gave a light shout and pointed one hand toward the sky.

Buzz—!!!

A clear, resonant sword hum echoed through heaven and earth.

In the next second, under the stunned gazes of everyone—including the sea beasts below that were currently devouring corpses—

The void behind Lin Yuan suddenly split open.

A divine sword, entirely purple-gold and entwined with destructive lightning, slowly emerged.

But that was just the beginning.

Following that, a second, a third, a hundredth, a thousandth...

Densely packed Purple Firmament Divine Thunder Swords, like a plague of locusts, instantly filled the entire sky!

Ten thousand swords!

A full ten thousand Purple Firmament Divine Thunder Swords!

They hovered behind Lin Yuan, forming a massive sword array that blotted out the sun.

Every single sword radiated a heart-stopping aura of lightning tribulation, their tips pointed directly at the beast tide below.

The originally clamorous battlefield fell into a deathly silence at this moment.

Even that previously arrogant SSS-rank Demon Crab King...

Froze in its tracks. It waved its massive claws.

Its two protruding eyes stared fixedly at the purple 'sea of thunder' in the sky, and only one thought remained in its underdeveloped brain:

What the hell is this?

Is this something a human can pull off?

Mama, I want to go back to the deep sea!

"Whoa..."

The mutton skewer in Xia Bingning's hand fell.

"Brother Lin is too amazing!"

Although Xia Bingli had been mentally prepared.

Seeing this spectacular sight of ten thousand swords suspended in the air with her own eyes, her breath couldn't help but hitch.

How was this a Superpower?

This was clearly a miracle!

"Go."

Lin Yuan's expression was calm, as if he were merely doing something insignificant. He lightly pressed his finger downward.

Rumble—!!!

The roar of thunder resounded between heaven and earth.

Ten thousand Purple Firmament Divine Thunder Swords, carrying the momentum to destroy everything, poured down like a purple rainstorm!

This was no ordinary rain of swords.

This was a lightning tribulation!

Every sword that fell was accompanied by a thick bolt of Purple Firmament Divine Thunder.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The originally indestructible sea beast carapaces were as fragile as paper before the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder.

Those S-rank Mutated Beasts, whose defenses usually required heavy artillery to breach...

Were instantly blasted into a mist of blood the moment the thunder swords touched them, having no time even to scream.

It wasn't just physical damage; the true damage and the essence of the lightning tribulation attached to the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder...

Obliterated their life force directly from the soul level.

"Screee—!!!"

The sea beast swarm finally reacted, letting out terrified shrieks as they began frantically trying to flee back into the sea.

But the sword array was already complete; where was there a path for retreat?

This was a one-sided massacre.

No, it couldn't even be called a massacre.

This was a cleanup.

It was as simple and brutal as using a high-pressure water gun to wash dirt off the ground.

"Is this a hallucination?!"

Behind the defense line, Wang Jianguo pinched his thigh hard; the pain made him grimace, and tears even came to his eyes.

"This is actually real! This is too ridiculous!"

Meanwhile, that SSS-rank Demon Crab King finally felt the threat of death.

It roared angrily, its entire body erupting with blue light.

Refusing to believe its fate, it attempted to use a Deep Sea Shield to withstand the sky full of thunder swords.

It was an overlord of the ocean!

Its carapace could even withstand the shockwave of a nuclear bomb!

However.

Lin Yuan glanced at it with an indifferent gaze.

"Do you also wish to dance?"

He lightly hooked his finger.

At the center of the sword array, two exceptionally large primary swords suddenly accelerated.

Turning into two bolts of purple lightning, they instantly pierced through heaven and earth!

Puchi!

Puchi!

There was no resistance.

And no suspense.

Those two Purple Firmament Divine Thunder Swords were like a hot knife through butter.

They easily pierced through the Deep Sea Shield that the Demon Crab King was so proud of.

They plunged directly into its two eyeballs and then burst through the back of its head!

"Scree..."

The Demon Crab King's scream came to an abrupt halt.

Its massive body collapsed with a boom, kicking up a colossal wave.

Immediately after, the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder erupted.

Zzzzt—

Terrifying electricity instantly swept through the Demon Crab King's entire body.

That massive body twitched violently in the lightning, emitting bursts of a scorched smell.

Two swords.

Just two swords.

The SSS-rank ocean overlord was dead.

Lin Yuan snapped his fingers.

The sky full of thunder swords instantly dissipated, turning into specks of purple light that returned to his sea of consciousness.

At this time, on the coastline below.

The originally dense beast tide had vanished.

In its place were scorched remains covering the ground and smoking severed limbs.

In a short ten minutes.

Tens of thousands of mutated sea beasts had been completely wiped out.

Lin Yuan slowly descended onto the platform of the defense line command post with the two sisters.

Looking at the petrified statues of Wang Jianguo and the other generals, Lin Yuan's expression was indifferent, his gaze like one looking down at ants.

That invisible pressure made everyone present dare not look him in the eye.

Wang Jianguo's legs went weak, and he almost knelt. He mechanically turned his head.

Looking at Lin Yuan, his lips trembled for a long time before he managed to squeeze out a sentence:

"Do you... do you need any followers? The kind that can cheer for you?"

Lin Yuan didn't pay attention to his flattery; he just faintly glanced at that Demon Crab King, which had been charred on the outside and tender on the inside.

As a leader, Wang Jianguo understood instantly!

"You can take this as you please! You must take it! Even if you wanted to take the entire East Sea away, that would be no problem!"

Wang Jianguo was so excited he was incoherent, nodding and bowing repeatedly.

Beside him, Xia Bingning couldn't help but let out a "puchi" laugh, whispering:

"Master is so fierce, scaring people like that~"

Lin Yuan glanced sideways at her and said:

"Want to eat spicy crab?"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Xia Bingning's eyes lit up.

Are you kidding me?

Is this man even human?

He's a living ancestor! A human-shaped nuclear weapon!

That scene of ten thousand swords firing at once... he felt he would be scared awake from his dreams for the rest of his life.

Too brutal! Too unreasonable!

Those sea beasts that usually gave the army such a headache.

Before this man, they were simply like food delivery—and the kind that roasted themselves and delivered themselves to the door at that!

Wang Jianguo thought of the methods Lin Yuan had used.

He couldn't help but be amazed.

Is this the world of the powerful?

Terrifyingly formidable!

Xia Bingning leaned in close to Lin Yuan and whispered:

"Master, Master, that move just now was clearly super cool. Why don't you give it a more domineering name? Like 'Purple Firmament World-Extinguishing Great Method' or something?"

Lin Yuan looked down at her, a flash of doting amusement in his eyes:

"The name isn't important. What's important is... going back to make spicy crab for you."

"Yay!"

Xia Bingning cheered, completely forgetting that there was a group of trembling official personnel nearby.

Lin Yuan didn't bother with the others and disappeared from the spot with the two sisters.

...

On the way back.

Xia Bingning was still in an excited state, chattering around Lin Yuan.

"Master, Master, that move just now was too cool! Can you teach me? I want to learn too!"

Lin Yuan dotingly rubbed her head:

"Do you want to scrub your gums until they're raw?"

Xia Bingli, however, remained silent.

It wasn't until they were almost at the base that she suddenly spoke, her voice carrying a trace of imperceptible trembling.

"Master."

"Hmm?"

"Your strength... exactly what realm have you reached?"

As an assassin, she was used to evaluating a target's strength.

But just now, she realized she was wrong.

Lin Yuan was like a bottomless ocean.

You think you've seen the surface, but in reality, it's the gaze of the abyss.

Every single one of those ten thousand thunder swords was enough to instantly kill an ordinary A-Rank Esper.

And yet, when Lin Yuan controlled them, it was as effortless as breathing.

This gap made her feel despair, but at the same time...

A perverse sense of peace.

This was her man.

Lin Yuan stopped and looked back at the pair of sisters.

The afterglow of the sunset spilled over him, plating him with a layer of gold.

He smiled slightly, reached out, and lightly flicked Xia Bingli's forehead.

"My realm? I don't know either."

He wasn't lying when he said this.

After all, where was there any ranking of realms now?

He truly didn't know.

However, since the Apocalypse began, strength had been clear in the early stages.

But now, the enemies he encountered were simply trash.

They basically couldn't test to what level his strength actually reached.

Having finished his thought, he turned and continued forward.

"Let's go, home to make spicy crab."

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