195: Everyone broke through to level six, giving those big shots a good slap in the face!

"Crack!" It was as if some shackle had been shattered.

Zhou Hai's aura shot up like a rocket, instantly breaking through the Level 5 barrier, charging straight into Level 6, and it was still climbing crazily!

Next was Zhao Ze.

His movement wasn't as loud as Zhou Hai's, but the sense of weight behind it was even more astonishing.

The 【Immortal Golden Body】 sequence activated.

His skin began to metallize rapidly; it was no longer the pale gold from before, but took on a textured, dark gold luster.

Even sitting there without moving, he gave the impression of an immovable steel fortress.

The energy from ten Advanced crystal cores was crazily reinforcing his bone density and internal organ strength.

If he used to be the armor of a tank, then now, he was the keel of an aircraft carrier!

And the one with the smallest disturbance, yet the one who caught Lu Sheng's eye the most, was Su Li.

She sat cross-legged in the corner, with no sound around her, even her breathing had disappeared.

But within the shadow behind her, it seemed as if the phantom of a three-headed, six-armed Shura was slowly opening its eyes.

Threads of blood-colored Sword Qi, as thin as hair, swirled around her, slicing through the air and making soft "hissing" sounds.

Even the hard alloy floor had been silently carved with countless deep marks.

【Shura Swordsman】, unparalleled in slaughter!

Nourished by the Advanced crystal cores, the killing instinct within her was fully Awakening.

Time ticked by second by second.

Outside.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The dull sounds of artillery fire began to grow dense, and even in the underground secret room, one could feel the slight trembling of the ground.

That was Liu Deshui's artillery position opening fire. Clearly, the vanguard of the Corpse Tide had entered range.

"Soon..." Lu Sheng glanced overhead, then looked at the three people in front of him whose auras were growing stronger and stronger, his eyes steady.

Two hours later.

When the last glimmer of the crystal cores dissipated into the air.

"Hum—!!!" Three incredibly powerful auras erupted in the secret room almost simultaneously!

Zhou Hai opened his eyes abruptly, and green-blue flames flashed in his pupils. He stood up and casually clenched his fist.

"Bang!" The air in his palm was directly crushed, and a cluster of green-blue flames exploded out of thin air, scorching the air until it warped.

"Level 6 Spirit Source User!" Zhou Hai felt the seemingly inexhaustible power within his body and trembled with excitement, "I feel like I could punch a cow to death right now... no, punch an elephant to death!"

Zhao Ze also rose slowly, his joints emitting a series of crisp metallic clangs. He didn't speak, just casually picked up a piece of discarded alloy steel plate from the floor and kneaded it gently with both hands. The hard steel plate was like dough, easily kneaded into an iron ball by him. Defense and strength, doubled!

"Clang—!" A clear, resonant sword chime. Su Li's Shura Bloodblade manifested in her hand.

The sword light was like blood, so fast that even Zhou Hai and Zhao Ze only saw an afterimage. She gently twirled the sword, and the Shura Bloodblade vanished. The alloy table corner in front of her slid off silently, the cut as smooth as a mirror.

The three looked at each other, seeing shock and wild joy in each other's eyes.

Under Lu Sheng's cost-no-object feeding of high-end resources, their Foundation was much more solid than other Spirit Source Users.

Now, the Blazing Flame Squad had the power to fight even if they encountered an ordinary Level 7 expert!

"How does it feel?" Lu Sheng looked at the three who had been reborn, the corners of his mouth curling into a satisfied arc.

"Awesome!" Zhou Hai laughed loudly and swung his fist fiercely, "Boss, even if that so-called Corpse King comes now, we can still knock out two of its teeth!"

"Don't get careless." Lu Sheng straightened his collar and turned to walk toward the door, his black trench coat flapping loudly behind him. "The teeth must be knocked out, but not with our mouths. Let's go."

Lu Sheng pushed open the heavy alloy door, and the clamor outside rushed in instantly.

"Let those arrogant guys outside see... what a real... Blazing Flame Squad is!"

North Slope camp square.

The atmosphere was grim to the extreme. The distant skyline had been completely submerged by the black Corpse Tide, and dense swarms of zombies, like a black tsunami, were charging toward Gongga Mountain against the dense artillery fire. The air was filled with a nauseating stench of decay and the smell of gunpowder.

Liu Deshui, Zhang Daoxuan, Ye Hongyu, and Chen Yan, who had just recovered his state, were standing on the command platform, watching the battle situation with grave expressions.

"This number... is too terrifying." Liu Deshui wiped away cold sweat, his voice trembling, "At least ten million! And there are a large number of High-Level Floating Corpses mixed in; my artillery position can barely hold them back!"

"Where is War God Lu? Why hasn't he come out yet?" Zhang Daoxuan looked back toward the underground bunker with some anxiety, "At a time like this, only he can stabilize the morale of the troops!"

"Hmph, probably doing pre-battle preparations." Ye Hongyu beside him snorted coldly; although she had submitted, the arrogance in her bones remained, "But those people around him... that one called Zhou Hai, and that Zhao Ze, their strength is mediocre. In a battle of this level, bringing them along is just a burden."

Chen Yan heard this and frowned slightly, wanting to retort but not knowing what to say. It was true. In the eyes of experts like them at Level 7 and Level 8, although Zhou Hai and the others were Lu Sheng's confidants, their strength was only Level 5. In the face of a Corpse Tide of this scale, they really seemed lacking. Many people were even whispering privately that the Blazing Flame Squad were just hangers-on relying on the shade of Lu Sheng's big tree.

Just then.

Four figures, backlit, strode out from the darkness. The one in the lead was naturally Lu Sheng. His expression was indifferent, hands in his pockets, and that Grandmaster aura of a deep pool and a towering mountain made everyone present lower their heads involuntarily.

But immediately after.

Everyone's gaze was drawn to the three people behind Lu Sheng.

"This... how is this possible?!" Liu Deshui's eyes bulged, pointing at Zhou Hai, stuttering, "He... wasn't he just Level 5? How in such a short time..."

Zhou Hai was walking on Lu Sheng's left side; although he wasn't deliberately releasing his spirit source, the surrounding air was violently distorted by the high temperature. With every step he took, the snow beneath his feet vaporized instantly, leaving scorched black footprints on the ground. That explosive aura, suppressed to the extreme, actually made Liu Deshui, an Level 8 Expert, feel a hint of heart palpitation!

On the other side, Zhao Ze looked like a walking dark gold sculpture, as steady as a mountain, giving people the illusion that even if the sky fell, he could hold it up.

The most terrifying one was the red-haired girl Su Li, who had always kept a low profile. She walked at the back, her hand on her sword hilt, her gaze cold. Just by being swept by her eyes, the low-level Spirit Source Users around felt a stinging pain in their skin, as if they had been cut by invisible blades. That was Sword Intent pure to the extreme!

"Level 6 Spirit Source User?!" Zhang Daoxuan gasped; as a Martial Ancestor, he valued Foundation most, "This aura... it's even more solid than an average newly entered Level 7! What kind of Immortal Pill or miraculous medicine did they eat?!"

In just a few short hours.

Jumping from an ordinary Level 5 to an expert capable of threatening a Level 7? This is freaking cheating, right?!

Chen Yan was also stunned. He had originally thought that after breaking through to Level 7, he would be the number one person under Lu Sheng. Now it seems... there isn't a single weak person around Lu Sheng!

"Is this... Lu Sheng's Foundation?" Ye Hongyu looked at the three reborn figures, and the hint of contempt in her heart vanished completely, replaced by deep awe. To be able to make his subordinates undergo such a transformation in such a short time, this man's methods were simply unfathomable!

"What are you all looking at?" Lu Sheng walked to the command platform, his gaze sweeping over everyone, and said indifferently, "The Corpse King hasn't arrived yet, and you're already scared silly?"

"No... we wouldn't dare!" Liu Deshui quickly collected himself and came up with a fawning expression, "War God Lu, your brothers... their Breakthrough came at just the right time! With them here, our chances of defending against the Corpse Tide have increased by a few points!"

Lu Sheng ignored his flattery and looked into the distance.

There, the black Corpse Tide suddenly parted in the middle. An evil aura, a hundred times more terrifying than at any time before, rose into the sky like a black tornado!

"Roar—!!!" A roar shattered the clouds in the sky.

A terrifying monster, fully ten meters tall, covered in black bone armor, and with wings on its back, was slowly rising from the Corpse Tide. In its hand, it held a giant bone sword forged from the spines of countless humans, and those eyes burning with green ghost fire, even from tens of kilometers away, could exude that terrifying sense of oppression.

The Abyssal Corpse King—has arrived!