78: The power of a sword can cut through everything!

"Roar—!!!"

A fissure split open in the center of the fleshy mass, spraying out a torrent of dark green acid!

Su Lei leaped up instantly, and the ground where he had been standing was corroded into a deep pit twenty meters in diameter!

Before he could land, before he could even land, three dark purple tentacles had already whipped toward him to strangle him!

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

The bright blade light flashed like lightning, severing the tentacles upon impact. However, the flesh at the severed ends writhed crazily, and in the blink of an eye, even thicker limbs regenerated, their surfaces covered in a disgusting mucous membrane.

"Super-speed regeneration?"

Su Lei's eyes narrowed.

Suddenly—the hairs on his back stood on end!

A fourth tentacle had snuck behind him at some point, its suction cups fully opened to reveal spiral-arranged, jagged fangs inside!

"Pfft!"

Su Lei slashed backward to sever the tentacle, but more limbs had already wrapped around his limbs, their suction cups pressed tightly against his skin, beginning to frantically drain his Qi and blood!

At the core of the fleshy mass, the split fissure slowly widened, forming a giant mouth three meters in diameter, ready to devour its prey!

With his limbs bound and his Qi and blood being continuously drained, Su Lei's vision began to blur, but deep within his pupils, a silver light suddenly ignited!

"Crack—" The Hero Badge on his chest suddenly shattered.

A massive, shudder-inducing energy surged into his limbs and bones like a burst dam!

His originally withered Meridians were instantly replenished, and his Mental Energy erupted into the sky like a volcanic eruption!

The tentacles wrapped around his body were instantly shaken into minced meat!

"This is...!?"

In the monitoring room, everyone was dumbfounded. The values on the data panel soared crazily, and finally—"Bang!" The instrument overloaded and exploded!

In the desert, Su Lei hovered in mid-air, surrounded by a silver energy storm.

He slowly raised his blade, pointing it at the "Nest Guardian".

""Ten Steps, One Kill" · Streamer of the Heavenly Rift!"

The blade light was no longer a slash, but a silver torrent that pierced through heaven and earth!

"Boom—!!!" The fleshy mass was completely vaporized, and the aftermath shattered all Vicious Beasts within a radius of five hundred meters. Even the hundreds of drones floating in the air instantly turned into dust!

After the sandstorm subsided, Su Lei slowly landed, blood dripping from the tip of his blade. He looked toward a certain place thirty kilometers away, as if looking through layers of obstacles, directly at Lin Qingcang in the underground base.

... In the monitoring room, there was dead silence. All the researchers were frozen in place, staring fixedly at the screen that had gone black. Their minds were still lingering on the final image.

The silver torrent from Su Lei's slash had completely vaporized the "Nest Guardian", and along with it, all the Vicious Beast test subjects within a five-hundred-meter radius had been completely obliterated...

"No, this is impossible..." A young researcher's voice trembled, and the data tablet in his hand dropped to the floor with a "clatter".

"Are you kidding me? The Nest Guardian... was killed in one strike?" Another person muttered to himself, as if unable to accept reality. "That is a monster that killed a Grandmaster with its own hands!"

Fear spread like a plague. Some began to retreat unconsciously, some had cold sweat oozing from their foreheads, and their fingers tapped the table unconsciously, as if this could alleviate the trembling in their hearts.

Lin Qingcang stood in the center, his face terrifyingly gloomy. His gaze swept over everyone, his voice cold: "What are you panicking about?"

Everyone instantly fell silent. "He is just at the end of his rope." "That slash consumed all his strength; he is at his weakest right now."

Lin Qingcang turned and walked to the communication console, pressing the base-wide broadcast button. "All armed personnel, immediately enter combat positions!" "Target—Su Lei." "At all costs, kill him."

The broadcast ended, but the base fell into an eerie silence. In the corridors, fully armed soldiers stood in place, not a single person moving. Under their masks, their faces were pale.

"Are you kidding me..." a special forces soldier said in a low voice, "Even the 'Nest Guardian' was cut down in one strike, are we going up there to die?" "This performance is undoubtedly Grandmaster-level." Another person swallowed, "How could we possibly beat him?"

In the command channel, the captains rarely urged their subordinates; no one even made a sound. They had just witnessed the monitoring footage—the scene of Su Lei hovering in mid-air, splitting the world with one blade, had been deeply imprinted in everyone's minds. That was not a battle. That was a crushing defeat with no suspense.

... "Where is everyone!?!" Lin Qingcang kicked open the door to the command room, his roar echoing through the corridor. However, only silence responded to him. The hundreds of soldiers who should have been lined up and waiting were nowhere to be seen!

"Gen, General." The adjutant's voice came from behind, "The soldiers have collectively disobeyed orders."

"Hmm?" Lin Qingcang turned his head sharply, "What is going on!?!" The adjutant's forehead broke out in sweat, and he whispered: "They said that is no longer an enemy that humans can fight."

"What a bunch of trash!" Lin Qingcang took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the anger in his heart. "What about the others?" "I remember there were fifteen Third-Order Martial Masters and five Fourth-Order Martial Masters." "Where have all these elites gone?"

The adjutant lowered his head further, stuttering: "They have, they have already left the base." "What did you say!" Lin Qingcang's pupils shook, his whole person shocked and furious.

Apart from those test subjects, these Martial Masters were the most powerful force in the Western Theater Command. It was just to deal with an exhausted Fourth-Order Martial Master... Desertion? Are you kidding me!

"Do they all want to face a military tribunal? Huh!" The adjutant wanted to speak several times but stopped, finally struggling to state the reason under Lin Qingcang's cannibalistic gaze. "The vast majority of them participated in the wasteland reclamation of the Savage Ancient Realm, and they don't want to attack their savior..."

"Bullshit!" Lin Qingcang violently drew his sidearm and shot the corridor's alarm system to pieces! "Make them come back immediately!" "And tell those soldiers... either die at Su Lei's hands." "Or..." "Die at mine!"

The broadcast sounded again, this time with Lin Qingcang giving the order personally. "Those who desert will be treated as traitors and executed on the spot!" The soldiers finally moved, but their steps were heavy, as if heading to the execution ground. They knew they were just cannon fodder. But compared to being executed immediately, they would rather... take a gamble.

Meanwhile, Lin Qingcang extended a trembling finger and dialed a number. ... Five minutes later. Su Lei stood at the entrance of the underground base, slowly raising his hand, his palm pressed against the cold metal.

"Hum—" Invisible Mental Energy seeped into the interior of the gate like a tide; the lock cylinder, hydraulic devices, electronic locks... all structures were clearly presented in his mind.

With a soft sound, the explosion-proof door weighing dozens of tons slowly slid open, and the alarm sound was extinguished by his Mental Energy before it even had a chance to sound. In the corridor, the fully armed guards didn't even have time to raise their guns before they collapsed to the ground the next moment.

It was as if a gust of wind had passed by; wherever it went, surveillance cameras burst one after another, and laser grids were twisted and deflected before they could be triggered.

"Enemy attack! Sector A has fallen!" "Target has breached Sector B's defenses!"

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