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132: Chapter 132 Three Slashes!
Chapter 132: Three Slashes!
A stronger pressure swept over them like a hurricane.
The ordinary Yao Race members charging on the front line seemed injected with a berserker agent, their attacks instantly becoming three parts stronger.
"Elite level Yao Race!" someone cried out in terror.
The pressure descended like an avalanche, roaring down upon them.
Li Wen suddenly looked up, a glint of silver light flickering deep within his eyes.
The second layer of Primordial Spirit Power, which had always been restrained and silent, was thoroughly agitated by the life-and-death struggle and the oppressive might of the powerful enemy chieftain.
Buzz! A chilling perception originating from the depths of his Soul swept over his entire body.
Brain processing speed, nerve reflex speed, five-sense capture ability—everything instantly elevated to an unbelievable height.
Everything in the outside world seemed to have its slow-motion button pressed, including the detailed movements of the four Elite Commanders charging, the dark gold runes circulating on their weapons, every subtle flicker of the starlight behind them, and even the complex patterns formed by the energy fluctuations emanating from their bodies affecting each other—
All were laid bare before Li Wen's Primordial Spirit, not missing the slightest detail.
If the previous [Absolute Focus] was about maximizing combat instinct, then the insight gained by activating the second layer of Primordial Spirit at this moment was opening a perspective of 'overlooking' that surpassed the mundane, built upon that ultimate instinct.
"Come on." Li Wen faced the four powerful enemy chieftains whose gazes, tangible and filled with greedy brutality, were cast upon him. He held his standard fast saber level, the tip pointing directly at the core of the surging Yao tide.
The Qi and Blood that had been dormant within his body erupted like a rushing long river, pouring into the saber blade.
The dark silver threads within the grayish-white saber light suddenly condensed.
Before the Elite Commanders could even charge out of the Interstellar Gate, a figure shot out like an arrow from a bow, charging fiercely against the surging black tide.
It was Li Wen!
"Is he insane?!"
"Charging in alone? He's looking for death!"
"Li Wen! Hurry back and form the array!"
Exclamations instantly erupted at the foot of the city wall.
Whether it was his companions from Jiangnan Province, Chu Feng and Nangong Xue, or the Geniuses from other regions—
Including Ron Zaka and Du Yun from the blue star youth platinum ranking—all were stunned speechless by Li Wen's seemingly insane action.
Facing the overwhelming Yao horde, whose lowest Realm was Unity Realm, and the four Elite Yao General Commanders radiating terrifying pressure, resembling moving small mountains—forming a defensive array and fighting steadily was the default optimal solution for everyone.
Li Wen's action, in their eyes, was tantamount to walking into a trap.
Inside the main control space, a Marquis-level Expert frowned slightly: "This kid—is he being too overconfident? The danger is exponentially increased within the Yao horde, especially with four Elite Yao Generals at the Peak of the Momentum Realm surrounding him—"
Even Marquis Qingyuan's gaze focused on Li Wen's virtual projection, carrying a hint of scrutiny: "Courage is commendable, but impulse is sometimes recklessness. Can his Technique Awakened insight support him in accurately capturing every threat in this environment?"
Their doubts were not groundless.
Elite level Yao Race members not only possessed Physical Body strength far surpassing humans of the same rank, but their combat techniques were also honed through countless bloody battles, reaching the Peak of the Momentum Realm. A single one of them was enough to make any on-site Genius remain highly vigilant.
Not to mention Li Wen was alone, deeply trapped in heavy encirclement.
However, Li Wen seemed to have isolated himself from all outside sounds and gazes.
His world contained only the standard fast saber in his hand and the surging Yao horde before him.
[Absolute Focus Lv9]—Fully activated!
Buzz!
An invisible ripple spread out with Li Wen as the center; his perception instantly rose to its extreme.
The muscle tremors of every surrounding Yao Race member, the angle of their claw swings, the trajectory of their fangs' bites—
Even the minute changes in the energy flow in the air transformed into crystal-clear streams of information, surging into his Sea of Consciousness, which had been strengthened by his Primordial Spirit.
"Flowing Rainbow · Lve Ying!"
A cold, low shout sounded insignificant amidst the Yao horde's roars, but its effect was earth-shattering.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
Li Wen's figure suddenly blurred within the gaps of the Yao horde, moving so fast that only a grayish-white afterimage remained.
The long saber in his hand was not used for broad, sweeping attacks but transformed into countless precise, swift, and extremely condensed pale saber lines.
These saber lines seemed alive, skillfully weaving, turning, and cutting through the dense Yao horde.
Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!—
Wherever the saber light passed, it was like a hot knife through butter.
The charging Wolf Yao, Bear Black, and serpentine Yao Beasts, regardless of their tough hides, covering scales, or resilient muscles, were as fragile as paper before the pale saber light imbued with Li Wen's Late Stage Peak Momentum Realm Intent.
The saber light either pierced throats, severed spines, or split open hearts—every strike accurately hit a vital spot, wasting not a single bit of excess power.
There were no earth-shattering explosions, no dazzling lights and shadows.
Only cold efficiency and fatal elegance.
Patches of Yao Race members fell silently, like wheat being harvested.
The grayish-white saber light formed an absolute death Domain within three zhang of him.
Any Yao Race member stepping into this Domain was instantly dismembered and killed.
Wherever Li Wen passed, he forcefully carved open a bloody passage paved with severed limbs through the surging black Yao tide.
On the score panel, Li Wen's score soared madly at a suffocating pace. Already far ahead, he completely widened the gap with those behind him, firmly occupying the top position.
"Hiss—-"
At the foot of the city wall, all the Geniuses who witnessed this scene involuntarily sucked in a cold breath.
The pressure of the joint defense seemed to ease slightly, only because their minds had been completely captured by the figure moving through the multitude of Yao as if it were deserted land.
"So—so fast! So accurate!"
"Look! The Yao Race's attacks can't even graze his clothes!"
Shock! Unparalleled shock!
If the 'Peerless' evaluation from the previous Heart-Nature and Spiritual Sense assessment seemed somewhat abstract, then the scene before them was the most direct and shocking interpretation of it.
Du Yun gripped the long spear in his hand, deeply shaken: "This is Peerless Spiritual Sense—combined with his insight-level Technique Awakening—terrifying! His micro-control in Blade Technique, his grasp of battlefield dynamics, has reached a non-human level."
He considered his own spear technique domineering and unparalleled, but if he were trapped in such heavy encirclement, he could never achieve such ease.
Ron Zaka's expression was solemn, and there was no trace of contempt left in his eyes, only deep dread: "Strength—Speed—Skill—His overall combat capability far exceeds my estimation. No wonder he earned the Peerless evaluation."
His proud strength advantage seemed somewhat clumsy in the face of Li Wen's extremely efficient art of slaughter.
Nangong Xue's cool eyes shone with brilliance: "So, this is his true strength?—During the Provincial Three Mock Battle, he truly held back."
She recalled being eliminated by a single slash when she fought Li Wen, and only now did she understand how vast the gap truly was.
Chu Feng stared intently at Li Wen's figure sweeping through the Yao horde, his heart filled with complex emotions.
Just as everyone's minds were stirred, Li Wen, like a grayish-white lightning bolt, pierced through layers of the Yao horde and fiercely arrived before an Elite level Yao Race Commander.
A Rhino Yao General, over ten feet tall, covered in pitch-black bone armor, wielding a giant bone hammer.
"Roar—!"
The Rhino Yao General let out a heaven-shaking roar. It had clearly sensed the immense threat posed by this tiny human.
The massive bone hammer, carrying the momentum of shattering mountains and splitting rocks, smashed fiercely towards Li Wen with a sharp whistling sound.
This strike contained enough power to smash refined steel into iron discs. Its Peak Momentum Realm strength merged with the Yao Evil Qi, forming a terrifying restrictive field, attempting to lock down the space for Li Wen's evasion.
Everyone on the city wall held their breath.
Facing such a terrifying blow, did Li Wen still dare to meet it head-on? Trapped by the Yao horde, if he were tied down, the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Guarding the Gate - Mirror Reflection!"
Li Wen's eyes were cold; there was no panic at all.
Facing this heavy and powerful strike, he did not dodge or evade.
The long saber in his hand drew an arc in an esoteric trajectory. The grayish-white saber light on the blade instantly condensed, as if transforming into an invisible, smooth mirror surface.
Clang—!!!
A deafening sound of metal clashing erupted, and a violent air wave directly blew away several surrounding ordinary Yao Race members.
An unbelievable scene appeared!
The giant hammer, capable of splitting mountains and rocks, struck Li Wen's saber, yet it failed to repel him.
The grayish-white saber light, like flowing water possessing life, skillfully deflected and diverted the force.
The Rhino Yao General only felt a bizarre force pulling its giant hammer, causing seven-tenths of its ten-tenths power to be diverted, smashing into empty space and blasting a huge pit in the ground.
The remaining three-tenths of the power was stubbornly withstood by Li Wen using his Saber Intent and powerful Physical Body. His figure only swayed slightly.
"To utilize the Shou Que Style to this extent at the Peak of the Momentum Realm, what a powerful force-unloading technique," Marquis Qingyuan couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.
Just as the Rhino Yao General's old force dissipated and new force had not yet gathered, its figure slightly unstable due to the missed hammer strike—"Drooping Heaven!"
Brilliant light shot from Li Wen's eyes.
The Saber Intent suddenly changed! It was no longer the agile Lve Ying, nor the solid Shou Que, but a magnificent, vast momentum descending from the heavens, covering all directions.
The grayish-white saber light was no longer condensed into lines but suddenly spread out, resembling a heavy curtain of the sky, pressing down with immense force.
Puchi!
This slash accurately cleaved down onto the gap in the Rhino Yao General's neck bone armor, which was exposed due to its forward momentum from the smash.
The Peak Momentum Realm Saber Intent, combined with the unique heavy crushing force of the Drooping Heaven Stance, instantly tore through the seemingly impenetrable defense.
"Piercing Mountain!"
The momentum of Drooping Heaven had not yet ended, Li Wen flipped his wrist, and the Saber Intent changed again!
It instantly condensed from the vastness of Drooping Heaven into the ultimate penetration of a single point breaking a surface.
The grayish-white saber light was highly condensed, like an aurora piercing the Void, stabbing in without obstruction along the gap torn open by the Drooping Heaven Style.
Ssssh—!
The saber light flashed and vanished.
Time seemed to freeze at this moment.
Rumble!
The huge body of the Rhino Yao General suddenly stiffened, its scarlet beast eyes filled with unbelievable shock.
Immediately afterward, its massive head flew towards the sky!
Yao blood surged out of the severed neck like a fountain!
Elite level Yao Race Commander, Dead!
The entire process was clean! Efficient!
From blocking the giant hammer to seizing the weakness and killing with two slashes, it was all in the blink of an eye.
Silence!
The entire battlefield, whether it was the Geniuses fighting hard on the city wall or the experts like King Chu He and Marquis Qingyuan watching in the main control space, fell into a dead silence.
Everyone was severely shocked by the incredible scene before them; their minds went blank.
He—he actually did it!
Surrounded by tens of thousands of Yao, he frontally killed an Elite Yao General of the same Realm with fiercer combat experience!
Moreover, it was so efficient, so—so domineering!
"Gulp—-" Someone swallowed hard with difficulty.
"Dead—died? An Elite Yao General at the Peak of the Momentum Realm—was killed just like that?"
"Three slashes! Only used three slashes! Block, break defense, kill! Completed in one go!"
"My God—is this still human? This insight, this grasp of timing, this conversion of Blade Technique—"
After a brief silence, there was an eruption of exclamations and discussions like a volcano.
"Is this the power of a Peerless-level Spiritual Sense combined with an insight-type Technique Awakened?!"
Someone cried out, their voice filled with incomprehensible shock and deep awe.
"So—combat can be like this—" someone murmured, looking at Li Wen's solitary, proud figure standing amidst the spraying Yao blood, their eyes full of longing. "We are here forming arrays and struggling to hold on, yet he can move freely among the Yao horde, slaying generals and capturing flags—this gap—"
Domineering! Invincible!
These two words were clearly imprinted in the hearts of every Genius who witnessed this scene.
That grayish-white figure, constantly flickering in the black Yao tide, whose every flash of saber light was accompanied by the fall of large numbers of Yao Race members, became a unique landscape illuminating the darkness in this desperate city.
Li Wen flicked the Yao blood off the blade, his cold gaze sweeping over the remaining three Elite Yao Generals who were roaring in anger and shock over the instantaneous death of their comrade, as well as the surrounding Yao horde which was slightly hesitant due to fear.
He did not pause at all; his figure once again turned into a grayish-white lightning bolt, actively charging towards the next target.
The slaughter had only just entered its climax.
The dark and deep vortex of the Interstellar Gate seemed to connect to the bottomless lair of the Yao Race.
The fall of the first Rhino Yao General not only failed to deter the Yao Race but instead resembled cold water thrown into lava, inciting an even more violent surge.
The three Elite Commanders who had not yet engaged the others let out heaven-shaking roars, charging forward with an even more surging Yao tide.
Their forms varied; some resembled giant lizards covered in bone armor, others were half-man, half-ape holding stone pillars. The fierce Evil Qi emanating from them made the air feel somewhat viscous, and the heavy pressure caused many students to gasp for breath.
Ron Zaka gripped his long spear tightly, his face flushed with excitement from the previous slaughter of ordinary Yao Race members.
He saw the ease with which Li Wen killed the Rhino Yao General, then glanced at the newly emerged Wolf-Headed Demon General, which looked relatively slender.
A strong desire to compete and unwillingness spurred by Li Wen's brilliance instantly overwhelmed rational judgment.
"Hmph! Nothing more than that!" Ron Zaka roared low, his Qi and Blood erupting, and the long spear in his hand transformed into a golden rainbow tearing through the air.
He actually abandoned the surrounding ordinary Yao soldiers and fiercely lunged straight towards the Wolf-Headed Demon General.
Confidence flashed in his eyes, as if he could already see the glorious scene of him easily slaying a commander like Li Wen.