117: Chapter 117 Astonishing Gains, Skyrocketing Kill Value

The Mountain-Hugging Demon Ape's massive body had become a mangled mess of flesh and blood; under the tearing of the spatial rifts, it had been transformed into a blood-colored giant ape.

Its arms were gone, and a massive cavity had been torn into its chest, from which internal organs gushed out and hung outside its body.

But it wasn't over yet.

Behind it, those spatial rifts were expanding frantically even as they tore the demon ape apart.

Every fierce beast within a radius of several thousand meters was sucked into the rifts.

"Awooo—!!"

The beast tide let out desperate roars, but their voices were quickly swallowed by the spatial rifts.

Thousands of fierce beasts died without a place for burial under this single strike!

[Ding! Killed First-Order Fierce Beast × 3476, slaughter value +12085...]

[Ding! Killed Second-Order Fierce Beast × 1031, slaughter value +14044...]

[Ding! Killed Third-Order Fierce Beast × 71, slaughter value +21600...]

[Ding! Killed Fourth-Order Fierce Beast × 5, slaughter value +11000...]

[Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the achievement — Thousand Beast Slayer, achievement points +1]

System notifications popped up frantically, scrolling continuously.

Kill notifications rang incessantly in Lin Mo's mind as his slaughter value soared wildly.

On the attribute panel, the slaughter value column instantly broke through sixty thousand points!

This was the highest amount of slaughter value he had ever obtained from a single battle to date!

However, Lin Mo's face was somewhat pale.

That strike just now...

Had nearly exhausted eighty percent of his Spirit.

An SSS-rank cultivation technique was indeed not something he could use casually at his current level.

"Whew..."

Lin Mo let out a long breath as fine beads of sweat seeped from his forehead.

His legs felt a bit weak, and the edges of his vision began to blur; if he had to do it once more...

He wasn't sure if he could hold on.

"But... the effect was unexpectedly good."

Lin Mo looked at the battlefield below, a slight curve appearing at the corner of his mouth.

The once insufferably arrogant Fifth-Order Beast King was now lying in a pool of blood, gasping for its last breath.

Its body was broken and mangled, with wounds torn by spatial rifts everywhere, and blood had dyed the ground into a dark red sea of gore.

"Aw... aw..."

It let out weak whimpers; the previous ferocity in its eyes was gone, replaced by deep fear.

It wanted to flee.

This tiny ant was not an ant at all.

This was a dragon wearing human skin!

It struggled to stand up, but having lost its arms, it couldn't maintain its balance; its body swayed a few times before finally crashing to the ground, kicking up clouds of dust.

A flash of despair crossed its eyes.

This once invincible Beast King felt the approach of death.

It remembered the feeling it had when it was still a cub facing a natural predator.

That feeling of being weak and helpless, only able to wait to be devoured.

It wanted to run away, but its limbs were completely immobile due to its heavy injuries; it could only lie in the pool of blood, staring at Lin Mo with its remaining vision.

It watched the electric arcs still flickering around this human, and the blinding cyan-gold mark on his forehead.

Fear submerged it like a tide.

"Want to escape?"

A voice came from above.

Lin Mo had teleported in front of the demon ape at some unknown point, stepping onto its head and looking down at this once insufferably arrogant giant beast.

A faint smile played on his face, clearly very satisfied with the power of Hidden Dragon in the Abyss.

To the demon ape, however, this smile looked like that of a god of death.

"Roar..."

The demon ape let out a weak whimper, attempting a final struggle.

But Lin Mo gave it no chance.

He extended his palm and pressed it lightly against the demon ape's head.

"It's over."

His voice was very soft, yet it sounded like a death sentence.

"Thunder Dragon Break."

Cyan-gold thunder light erupted from his palm!

The thunder light formed a sphere of lightning over ten meters in diameter, enveloping the demon ape's entire head.

Inside the lightning sphere, countless bolts of lightning crashed down frantically, each one accurately striking the demon ape's body.

"Awooo—!!!"

The demon ape let out a shrill scream, its body twitching violently under the bombardment of the lightning sphere; every electric shock brought intense pain, as if countless red-hot iron rods were churning inside its body.

But this process did not last very long.

Because the demon ape's body had already begun to collapse.

Under absolute suppression, its powerful physical body finally couldn't hold on any longer.

The demon ape's skin began to carbonize and peel off, revealing the bright red muscle tissue beneath.

The muscle tissue began to necrose under the searing current, turning a dull grayish-white.

Bones began to shatter under the bombardment of the current, making cracking sounds.

The demon ape's struggles grew weaker and weaker, and its screams became smaller and smaller.

Finally, when the lightning sphere dissipated, the hundred-meter-tall giant beast had completely lost its life, its body lying stiffly in the pool of blood, eyes wide open and pupils dilated.

Large areas of skin were carbonized, and the bloody hole through its chest from the Thunder Dragon Break was now blocked by carbonized tissue, but the surrounding skin and muscle showed a strange charred black color, like a tree struck by lightning.

On the city walls.

There was a deathly silence.

Everyone stared blankly at the figure standing on the giant beast's corpse.

Their minds were completely blank.

"This Mountain-Hugging Demon Ape is dead?"

Someone murmured, their voice trembling.

"A Fifth-Order Beast King... just died like that?"

No one dared to believe it.

But the facts were right before their eyes.

That giant beast, which had once been insufferably arrogant and almost trampled Jiang City, was now lying quietly on the ground, turned into a cold corpse.

"Lin Mo..."

Director Zhou's voice trembled, and tears blurred his vision.

"Well done... well done!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire city wall erupted.

"Lin Mo!!"

"Lin Mo!!"

"Lin Mo!!"

The earth-shaking shouts echoed through the clouds as countless people chanted that name, the waves of sound rising higher and higher.

The veterans' eyes filled with tears, the young Awakeners trembled with excitement, and ordinary citizens fell to their knees in worship.

At this moment, Lin Mo's name was etched into everyone's hearts.

Guardian God of Jiang City!

The number one genius of Great Xia!

Countless honors were bestowed upon him.

And Lin Mo just stood quietly on the demon ape's corpse, looking toward the southeast.

The wind blew past.

The system notification sounded in his ear.

[Ding, congratulations to the host for killing the late Fifth-Order King-rank fierce beast Mountain-Hugging Demon Ape, slaughter value +24000]

[Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the achievement Beast King Hunter, achievement points +3]

[Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the achievement, Undefeated Against Higher Ranks V, achievement points +5]

[Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the achievement, Undefeated Against Higher Ranks VI, achievement points +5]

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