187: Who told you that my Divine Sherman can't stop this beast tide?!

"Damn it—!!! You four old geezers!! Stop right there!!!"

Below,

The Sky-Rending Giant Ape King, Giant Ape King, who was entangled by countless fierce beasts, looked up and saw four streaks of light shooting towards the altar without hesitation, instantly understanding their intentions!

He let out an extremely aggrieved roar, no longer caring about Su Chen, who was close at hand.

Boom!

The Overlord-level energy within his body erupted, instantly shaking several surrounding fierce beasts into blood mist!

His legs bent slightly, and his massive 100,000-meter body displayed astonishing elasticity and strength that was inconsistent with its size, causing the seabed beneath his feet to collapse!

The next moment,

He transformed into a dark gold meteor that tore through the heavens and earth, shattering all obstacles in his path, and charged towards the beast emperor altar at a speed no less than that of the other beast kings!

The stage for competing for the beast emperor inheritance was forcibly unveiled amidst this destruction and chaos!

And Su Chen, the instigator, watched all of this coldly, a cold glint of everything being under control flashing in his huge compound eye.

It's done.

Next, is the real battle.

Almost the instant the five beast kings disappeared in the direction of the altar,

A denser, more frenzied beast tide, like a school of piranhas smelling blood,

Surged towards the only existence in the field radiating immense life energy—Su Chen!

"Protect His Highness! Form a circular formation!"

Chen Feng's roar overpowered the howling of myriad beasts, his vibranium long saber drawing a silver arc that tore through the darkness,

With a flash of saber light, a huge crescent-shaped saber aura plowed through the seabed,

Severing the claws of three demonic wolves that lunged at the fan-shaped area ahead!

Hot blood splattered like a downpour onto his cold Dragon Blood Battle Armor, instantly evaporating into a crimson mist.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

Fifty Awakening Level Dragon Blood Warriors shattered the rock layers with their footsteps, instantly forming a circular defense line of flesh and steel with Su Chen's broken demon body as the core.

They silently wielded their long sabers, each strike precise and efficient, their blades tearing through carapaces, severing sinews and bones, and with their bodies, they forcefully withstood the fiercest initial impact!

"Roar!! Grandpa Bear is here!!"

Bearman King Enuoke stood upright, his massive Ice Frost Giant Bear body erupting with a wild aura, and his huge bear paw, carrying absolute zero coldness, slammed down!

Bang!

The head of a giant beast resembling a plesiosaur was instantly twisted and deformed, and the extreme cold spread, instantly freezing it into a huge ice sculpture, which was then shattered into crystal clear fragments by the subsequent torrent of charging giant beasts!

He then opened his bloody maw, fangs glinting with cold light, and bit fiercely into the neck of another scaled giant beast, his bulging muscular neck suddenly snapping—tear!

Accompanied by the ear-splitting sound of tearing muscles and tendons, the giant beast's head was actually ripped off by him, and warm blood rained down on him!

Within this desperately constructed defense line, like a small boat in a storm,

Su Chen's broken tentacles were rapidly wriggling and regenerating at a visible speed.

Flesh buds at the bone-deep wounds intertwined like living things, quickly healing.

His huge compound eye swept over the endless, increasingly frenzied beast tide outside the defense line, and then looked at the new cracks and bloodstains on Chen Feng and the others' armor.

Can't drag this out any longer.

"Deacon Lan Xin,"

Su Chen's thoughts were transmitted, with an undeniable urgency, "The Star Sea Merchant Guild's awakening essence should have arrived."

Lan Xin waved her staff, repelling a bat-winged monstrous bird attempting to pounce from the air, her face pale but firm as she nodded:

"Everything is ready, I will have Aux teleport it over immediately!"

She quickly whispered a few words into the communicator.

Buzz—!

A spatial passage, just wide enough for one person and with extremely unstable edges, was forcibly opened at the edge of the defense line,

Within the distorted light curtain,

Aux, clutching a constantly vibrating metal box inscribed with countless sealing runes, stumbled out.

"Boss! The item is here! The moment it's unsealed, I'll..."

His ecstasy and eagerness for credit came to an abrupt halt.

What he saw was an endless, monstrous beast tide filling every inch of heaven and earth!

The deafening roars, the muffled sounds of flesh tearing, theroar of energy explosions, like the wailing of billions of wronged souls, instantly broke through his psychological defenses.

"W-what the hell?! Is... is this hell?!"

The color drained from Aux's face instantly, his hands clutching the box trembling like a sieve, his legs weakened, and he almost collapsed to the ground.

"Just in time."

One of Su Chen's newly regenerated, still slimy tentacles extended out like a ghost, gently yet firmly coiling around the metal box in Aux's arms.

The tip of the tentacle exerted a slight force, and the box shattered in response, revealing a strange crystal stone the size of a basketball, as if a miniature galaxy was imprisoned within it, emitting immense energy fluctuations that made one's soul tremble—

awakening essence!

Seeing Su Chen pick up the essence, his body's energy began to boil, as if he was about to refine it right there in the center of this purgatory of corpses and blood,

Aux was scared out of his wits and shrieked:

"Your Highness! No! Absolutely not! Refining the essence requires absolute silence and cannot be disturbed in the slightest for several hours! Here... here it's simply suicide!!"

He pointed at the beast tide surging like a black flood outside the defense line, and at the increasingly shrinking, precarious defense line of Chen Feng and the others under the beast tide's impact, his voice choked with tears:

"They... they only have fifty-odd people! They can't possibly hold them off! Your Highness! Let's retreat through the passage first, find a safe place to refine it, and then come back to fight!"

"It's too late."

Lan Xin gritted her teeth, resisting an impact, and said urgently:

"Establishing a stable long-range teleportation channel takes too long! The five beast kings have already begun to assault the altar trial! If they get there first, everything we've done, all our sacrifices... will be in vain!"

"Then... then what do we do?!"

Aux looked at the endless, frenzied giant beasts outside the defense line, his eyes filled only with utter despair,

"This beast tide... simply cannot be stopped by dozens of people! This is a desperate situation! A dead end!!"

Just at this suffocating moment of despair—

"Who told you..."

A voice as steady as a mountain, clearly transmitted through the roaring beasts,

"...that my Divine Summer cannot stop this beast tide?"

Boom————————!!!!

As if the entire world was forcibly torn apart!

A massive spatial rift, spanning thousands of meters and flickering with unstable electric arcs at its edges, like a knife mark wielded by a Creator God, violently opened in the sky above the side of the battlefield!

The wailing of space even temporarily suppressed the roar of the beast tide!

Immediately after,

A ten-thousand-meter-class aerospace carrier—the "Beiming"—with lines as sharp as if carved by a knife and axe, covered in dark vibranium armor, and with a ferocious Divine Summer dragon emblem painted on its bow,

Slowly emerged from the rift, like a steel continent descending from another dimension!

Its shadow instantly enveloped a large part of the battlefield, and the cold metallic luster formed an extreme visual impact with the chaotic and bloody primitive battlefield below!

In the belly of the carrier, like a giant beast awakening, dozens of huge launch bay covers slid open simultaneously!

The next moment,

Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!!!

Like a beehive overflowing!

Hundreds of thousands of "Martyr-III" unmanned mechas, like an enraged swarm of metallic death bees, engines roaring a symphony of destruction, surged out in silver torrents!

These vibranium-enhanced killing machines moved swiftly like ghosts, their vector thrusters spewing blue tail flames, ignoring the giant beasts' slaps and bites, and pouncing precisely on the nearest giant beasts like the most accurate surgical scalpels!

They flexibly clung to the giant beasts' massive bodies, using high-frequency oscillating drills or high-energy particle cutting arms to frantically bore channels through their hard carapaces and scales, instantly drilling inside!

Then—

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

A continuous series of muffled self-detonation roars exploded from within the giant beasts, from the inside out!

Flesh, carapaces, and internal organs burst and splattered from within like a grand crimson fireworks display!

The giant beasts' mournful wails were instantly drowned out by even more violent explosions!

Chen Feng and the others' pressure sharply decreased, and the defense line, which had shrunk to its limit, instantly pushed out several hundred meters!

And this,

Was merely the prelude!

Rumble rumble rumble—!!!

From within the spatial rift came heavy footsteps that made the earth wail, like ancient Titans striding!

Ten colossal beings, a thousand meters tall, like moving metal mountains, stepped out of the rift one by one, their strides changing the very landscape! Each heavy footstep caused a small earthquake!

The third-generation menshen mecha!

Descending!