78: Chapter 78: Grass and trees withered, spiritual energy extinguished

At almost the same moment, chaotic destruction erupted simultaneously in several other Yao Beast gathering spots.

The Green-Scaled Python pack, hiding in the forest and spewing toxic miasma that filled the sky, was precisely bombed; their thick snake bodies were all blown in half, and toxic mist mixed with blood mist permeated the forest.

The Iron-Winged Yao Eagles, circling in mid-air with iron claws gleaming coldly as they waited to dive and hunt, had their sturdy wings forcibly torn apart by the shockwaves, and with endless shrill cries, their broken bodies fell heavily into the mountain forest.

Severed limbs and broken arms flew through the air, and charred earth mixed with scarlet blood soaked the ground; after every explosion, a silent, dead vacuum could be cleared within the surging beast tide.

The continuous, heaven-shaking loud noises completely alarmed the vast majority of Yao Beasts in the outer region of the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Range.

Yao Beasts lurking and wandering in all directions were all attracted by the sound of the explosions, abandoning their original positions and crazily converging toward the center of Myriad Beast Valley; the momentum of the beast tide became increasingly surging, layered upon layers, endless.

Atop the lonely peak, Spiritual Qi circulated at Li Changqing's fingertips, and rocket shells broke through the air one after another.

The rocket shells in his Storage Pouch constantly decreased, while the number of Yao Beasts falling beneath the valley increased exponentially.

In less than half an hour of high-intensity hunting, the rocket shells in the Storage Pouch were completely exhausted.

In Myriad Beast Valley, two fierce Tier 2 Yao Beasts that had occupied the area, over five hundred ferocious Tier 1 Yao Beasts, and countless low-tier wild beasts were all turned into severed limbs, minced meat, and charred bones in the violent explosions.

The continuous high-temperature flames and explosive heat waves scorched and melted large areas of soil and rock, condensing them into a dark, shiny, glass-like texture.

The beast tide that had originally been surging, raging, and squeezing layer upon layer was forcibly blasted into several huge, charred blank zones; it was a scene of devastation, bloody and tragic, shocking to the eye.

The ultimate power of mundane thermal weapons was displayed to the fullest in this mountain wilderness.

If it were not for the beast tide being bewitched by the Demon-Attracting Incense, with the vast majority of Yao Beasts having completely lost their intelligence, lacking wisdom, discernment, and tactics, and only knowing how to blindly gather, it would have been impossible for them to allow him to hunt them so precisely, becoming living targets and creating such shocking results.

The surging torrent of the beast tide suddenly stalled, its violent momentum of convergence forcibly curbed.

But just a moment later, in the dense forest deep within the valley, eight majestic, violent, and overbearing Demonic Qi surged into the sky, pressing down upon the mountains!

Eight cold and bloodthirsty Divine Senses firmly locked onto Li Changqing atop the lonely peak; the killing intent was piercing, tightly entwining him, with no way to break free.

They crossed several miles of mountain forest in an instant, arriving within hundreds of meters of the lonely peak in the blink of an eye, hovering, coiling, and surrounding him from all sides.

It was unexpectedly eight Tier 2 Yao Beasts!

The Red Flame Mad Lion was wrapped in flames with crimson, fierce eyes; the Iron-Armored Violent Bear had a physique like a mountain with monstrous brute strength; the Shadow Leopard hid in the shadows with concealed killing intent; the Two-Headed Wind Python flicked its tongue, churning with toxic wind...

Every Yao Beast possessed vast and majestic Demonic Qi, with incomparably strong Physical Bodies; deep within their pupils flickered bloodthirsty, cruel, greedy, and violent light, and the pressure surrounding them was like a landslide or tsunami, suffocating.

They had been alarmed by the continuous, strange explosion noises just now, and knowing that the human Cultivator at the top of the valley was the culprit behind the slaughter of countless Yao Beasts, they had already reached a tacit understanding to join forces and surround him, aiming to eliminate this human threat first.

Seeing the eight Tier 2 Yao Beasts appear simultaneously and surround him, Li Changqing's cold face showed not a shred of panic or fear; instead, he gently exhaled a breath of stale air, his tense back relaxed slightly, and a bone-chilling determination rippled in the depths of his eyes.

Lurking and hunting was only to lure the snakes out of their holes.

The true annihilation only began from this moment on.

He tapped his Storage Pouch with five fingers, and with a flash of Spiritual Qi in his palm, a strangely shaped projectile covered in dull, matte metal suddenly appeared.

This projectile was about the length of an adult's forearm, its body covered in layers of precise mechanical patterns that were distinct from cultivation runes, with cold and sharp lines.

Embedded in the center of the projectile was a transparent crystal window; deep within the window, a mass of unknown, chaotic substance was slowly swirling, and wisps of heart-palpitating, eerie fluorescent light leaked out—this was the ultimate Sharp Weapon crafted by human scientists with all their ingenuity after Tianlan Star entered a Tier 1 civilization: the portable Nuclear Armor-Piercing Shell.

Without a moment's hesitation, Li Changqing's Dantian Spiritual Qi surged out, and nearly one-third of his pure Spiritual Qi was forcefully poured into the projectile along his Meridians.

In an instant, the dense mechanical patterns on the projectile fully revived, lighting up with bone-chilling, dark blue electric patterns, like a dormant dragon suddenly opening its eyes.

The unknown substance rotating inside the crystal window suddenly accelerated, rapidly churning up circles of suffocating energy ripples; the terrifying aura of destruction piled up layer by layer, pressing until the surrounding air was almost stagnant.

With a movement of his Divine Thought and a burst of wrist strength, he fiercely threw this world-destroying projectile toward the center of the encirclement of the eight Foundation Establishment Stage Yao Beasts in mid-air.

At the same time, a white jade talisman engraved with complex spatial displacement runes at his fingertips shattered with a bang.

Fine spatial ripples instantly spread, distorting the surrounding light and shadow, while the Nuclear Armor-Piercing Shell had already climbed to its energy critical point in an extremely short time, its destructive power fully charged and ready to be unleashed at a touch.

The next second, a point of ultimate, blindingly pure white light suddenly bloomed over the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Range, like a miniature sun born out of thin air, its dazzling corona instantly swallowing all colors between heaven and earth.

The white light expanded with a roar, turning into a scorching fireball dozens of feet in diameter, and rolling heat waves swept across the wilderness.

Those eight Foundation Establishment Stage Yao Beasts that had run rampant in the mountains could not even let out half a shrill cry before their thick protective Demonic Qi, condensed over a hundred years, shattered inch by inch like window paper and vanished into nothingness.

Their incomparably strong Physical Bodies, under the terrifying high temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees, instantly melted and vaporized, leaving not even a trace of blood foam or bone fragments.

The fireball hung high in the sky, its scorching light making it difficult for one to open their eyes, and following closely behind was a shockwave, clearly visible to the naked eye, raging in a perfect spherical shape.

The violent energy torrent was unstoppable, instantly breaking and carbonizing ancient trees for hundreds of feet around; hard rocky cliffs cracked layer by layer and collapsed with a roar, and the clusters of low-tier Yao Beasts lurking in the distance were like sandcastles built by children, instantly blown away and crushed by the violent shockwave.

Violent tremors swept across the mountain forest for dozens of miles; the earth shook violently, rocks rolled down, and dust surged. A black mushroom cloud, carrying crimson flames, dust filling the sky, and deadly radioactive fallout, slowly rose from the center of the explosion, ascending straight up, grim and terrifying.

As the firelight gradually faded, only a bottomless, charred giant crater remained at the center of the explosion; the rocks on the edge of the crater had all been melted by the high temperature into a transparent, crystalline texture, which, after cooling, formed a grim and uneven texture.

Violent radiation streams and dense neutron streams swept across all directions, not only instantly slaughtering all living beings within the explosion range, but the residual strange energy also clung tightly to the earth and air, continuously eroding all things; even if a ghost or spirit body touched it in the slightest, it would suffer fatal injuries of Divine Soul scorching.

In the mountain forest eight miles away, spatial ripples suddenly surged, and Li Changqing stumbled out, his face pale as paper, scarlet blood oozing from the corners of his lips, and his chest and abdomen churning with violent Qi and blood vibrations.