74: Chapter 74 Talent

"Roar!"

The Silver-Crowned Giant Ape straightened its body, swung its arms up, and slammed them fiercely into the ground.

A visible shockwave swept outward, centered on it.

Dozens of nearby low-to-mid-tier magical beasts didn't even have time to scream before their internal organs were shattered by the shockwave, and they collapsed to the ground, bleeding from their seven orifices.

Peak Martial Emperor.

Even just the aftermath of its venting rage was not something low-to-mid-tier magical beasts could withstand.

The Giant Ape snorted heavily through its nostrils.

In its view, it had always been magical beasts tearing humans to shreds; it had never seen a human dare to single-handedly slaughter their way through a beast tide and stand before it.

"You're quite big."

Li Zhengyang looked up.

The next second, the Giant Ape moved.

Its massive body displayed terrifying explosive power.

It swung its right arm in a wide arc, clenched its fist, and smashed it down directly.

Before the force of the punch even arrived, the rock layer beneath Li Zhengyang's feet had already begun to crack.

Li Zhengyang did not dodge.

He took a half-step back with his left leg, lowered his waist, and activated the Indestructible Golden Body.

A reddish-gold light flashed beneath his skin.

He exerted force with his right hand, and the abyssal meteor dragon spear went from bottom to top, directly blocking the blow.

Hard collision.

A 5th Grade Martial Emperor, head-on against a Peak Martial Emperor.

Boom!

A deafening collision sound exploded in the core area of the beast tide.

The ground beneath Li Zhengyang's feet collapsed several meters with a roar, forming a giant crater.

The scene the Giant Ape had imagined—the human being smashed into meat paste—did not occur.

Li Zhengyang held the dragon spear with both hands, his body standing straight.

With the 100% strength boost from the Ancient Dragon Power, combined with the Indestructible Golden Body, he forcibly withstood the punch.

Crack.

A crisp sound rang out.

The Giant Ape's finger bones cracked.

The intense pain made it roar in fury.

The Giant Ape withdrew its right hand, and the fur on its chest turned red in an instant.

Its body size began to swell rapidly.

Twenty meters, twenty-five meters, thirty meters!

The muscles all over the Giant Ape's body bulged rapidly, and an even more terrifying, violent aura shot straight into the clouds.

[Enemy target detected using innate ability: A-grade Berserk]

[Strength increased by 100%, pain sensation shielded, defense increased by 100%]

[Duration: 10 minutes]

The system's notification flashed in Li Zhengyang's ears.

A-grade talent? Berserk?

Strength and defense doubled?

The Giant Ape opened its gaping maw and exhaled a wave of air.

It raised its arms again, and this time, a thick layer of blood-colored battle energy emerged on the surface of its fists, resembling two war hammers.

"Die!"

Even though they didn't speak the same language, the intent to destroy everything was clearly discernible.

The twin hammers smashed down.

The air was forcibly displaced, forming a brief vacuum zone.

Li Zhengyang had to take this seriously.

He gripped the middle of the shaft with his right hand and held the end of the dragon spear with his left.

Nine Heavens Thunder Control Spear, third form.

"Thunder Strikes in Eight Directions!"

On the spear tip, the previously subtle lightning arcs instantly surged into a black thunder dragon.

Li Zhengyang stepped on the Startling Cloud Step, advancing instead of retreating.

His body turned into a bolt of lightning, stepping on the wind from the Giant Ape's smashing fists, moving against the current.

The thunder was compressed to the extreme at the spear tip, carrying an aura that extinguished everything.

The spear tip collided with the blood-colored battle energy.

There was no stalemate.

The armor-piercing effect of the SS-grade abyssal meteor dragon spear was displayed to the fullest at this moment.

That layer of blood-colored battle energy, capable of withstanding a Half-Step Martial Venerable, was instantly torn apart.

"Pfft!"

The spear tip pierced into the Giant Ape's right fist, penetrating through the forearm and twisting upward.

Although the Giant Ape's pain sensation was shielded, the complete destruction of its right arm's function caused its body to tilt violently.

Leveraging this momentum, Li Zhengyang turned back in mid-air.

The dragon spear turned horizontally.

"Silent Kill."

Li Zhengyang softly spat out the two words.

The reversed blood energy gathered at the spear tip, and the previously violent thunder sound instantly vanished.

The whole world seemed to quiet down before this single thrust.

A slender black line traced across the Giant Ape's neck.

Four characteristics triggered simultaneously!

The Giant Ape's movements froze, and the killing intent in its eyes gradually dissipated.

A fine line of blood slowly appeared on its neck.

Li Zhengyang flipped in mid-air and landed steadily ten meters away.

With a light flick of his wrist, the black blood on the abyssal meteor dragon spear was shaken off completely.

"Bang."

The Giant Ape's head slid off along that line of blood and slammed heavily onto the ground.

Fresh blood shot into the sky from the severed neck, raining down as a bloody downpour.

That mountain-like headless corpse collapsed with a roar.

Kicking up clouds of dust.

[Ding!]

[Host detected killing a Peak Martial Emperor magical beast (Silver-Crowned Giant Ape)!]

[Target detected possessing talent, system initiating plunder analysis...]

[Talent plunder successful!]

[Obtained talent entry: A-grade Berserk]

[Talent effect: Strength and defense increased by 100%, pain sensation significantly weakened, duration depends on the host's blood energy reserves. No exhaustion period.]

Li Zhengyang raised an eyebrow.

This thing is good.

Strength and defense doubled directly, and there's no exhaustion period.

With the Indestructible Golden Body protecting his body, and then activating this Berserk, he would simply be a humanoid tyrannosaurus.

He strode to the front of the Giant Ape's head.

He poked with the dragon spear in his hand.

The bone shattered, and a magical core, larger than any he had seen before, was pried out.

A Peak Martial Emperor magical core.

If this thing were placed on the black market, it would make those old guys from the major factions fight tooth and nail for it.

Li Zhengyang casually put away the magical core.

With the core dead, the surrounding silence was finally broken.

The magical beasts originally driven by the Silver-Crowned Giant Ape were now like headless flies.

The pressure of the Peak Martial Emperor level had vanished.

Replacing it was the killing intent radiating from the human holding the long spear in the center of the field.

It was unknown which magical beast first let out a fearful wail.

Immediately after, the beast tide collapsed.

Without the command of a high-tier leader, the instincts of the magical beasts took the upper hand.

The magical beasts turned around like madmen, scattering in all directions.

Li Zhengyang glanced at the scattering beast herd, not intending to let them go just like that.

Money delivered to his door—how could there be any reason not to take it?

"Since you've come, leave behind some toll money."

Li Zhengyang took a deep breath.

The blood energy of a 5th Grade Martial Emperor erupted fully.

He pushed the Startling Cloud Step to its limit.

He turned into a reaping grim reaper amidst the collapsing beast tide.

Wherever the dragon spear passed, lightning flickered.

With one sweep of the spear, magical beasts were snapped in half at the waist.

He specifically picked high-value targets to kill.

While killing, he dug out magical cores.

His movements were so skilled it made one's scalp tingle.

He killed for a full half hour.

Only then did Li Zhengyang stop.

Within a radius of several kilometers, there were no living creatures left standing.

The ground was covered with incomplete magical beast corpses, and blood had dyed the earth a deep scarlet.

He took a look at his storage space.

The space was almost full.

A rough glance showed hundreds of high-tier magical cores, plus that pile of rare materials he hadn't had time to count yet.

This wave of beast tide could be considered slaughtered through by him alone.

The main force had been wiped out cleanly.

Even if there were still some fast-running magical beasts, they wouldn't pose any threat anymore.

Li Zhengyang shouldered the abyssal meteor dragon spear and walked out from the mountain of corpses and sea of blood.

He turned his head and looked toward the direction of the Pojun Division branch.

On the horizon, there was a faint, abnormal layer of dark red air churning.

Li Zhengyang reached out and wiped the bloodstain off his cheek.

A flash of chilliness flickered in his eyes.

"It's time to go back."

Li Zhengyang exerted force with his legs.

Bang!

A shockwave exploded.

He took the first step and sped toward the Pojun Division branch.