278: Chapter 278 Dragging Like a Mountain, the Asura Returns

"Be on guard!" Gu Lie stared intently downward, veins bulging on his forehead as he abruptly raised the broken saber in his hand.

"Click, click, click!" Five hundred veteran soldiers simultaneously pulled their bolt actions and raised their battered blades and swords. Everyone's scalp tingled. That one-sided massacre had just stopped, but could it be that some even more terrifying monster had crawled out of the abyss?

Gale-force winds howled. A violent freezing wind from the far north swept past, finally blowing away the dense mist of blood at the bottom of the cliff entirely.

Within the constricted pupils of the five hundred veterans, that figure which had kept them on tenterhooks finally walked out slowly.

"Brother Chen!!!"

Jiang Feng was stunned for a second, then let out a roar of wild joy, clinging to the edge of the cliff as he laughed and cried simultaneously.

Lin Qinghan's tense body relaxed completely at this moment. She let out a long breath of stale air, and her frost sword dropped to the ground with a clatter.

The one who walked out was none other than Su Chen.

He was still shirtless, his short black hair flying wildly in the wind. His pace was steady, neither rushed nor slow.

However, when Gu Lie and those experienced veterans saw Su Chen's current state, everyone simultaneously gasped in horror!

"How... how is this possible?" Gu Lie rubbed his remaining single eye, wearing an expression as if he had seen a ghost.

What did he see?

Su Chen's body was completely clean! Those fine bloodstains left on his skin earlier from forcibly crossing the turbulent spatial currents had surprisingly all vanished at this moment!

No scars! No bleeding! Washed over by the practically abnormal vitality of the Sage Body, the wounds had long since scabbed over and fallen off, restoring his fair, perfect muscle lines brimming with explosive power!

Not only that, but Su Chen's chest rose and fell steadily, his breathing as even as if he had just had a good night's sleep!

"He isn't exhausted?" Old Ma lay prone by the edge of the trench, his voice shaking like a winnowing sieve. "He killed his way in and out of tens of thousands of fierce beasts, and took down three Peak Tier 6 commanders..."

The veterans were completely dumbfounded. Could the Qi and blood inside this kid's body be a bottomless pit?

But this was not what terrified the veterans to the core. What truly caused everyone's hearts to stop beating in fright was the thing in Su Chen's hand!

"Look at the commander's right hand..." The Hawkeye sniper raised his binoculars with trembling hands, his voice dry.

Everyone looked in the direction indicated by the binoculars.

In his right hand, Su Chen was dragging several thick, massive steel chains. Those were the chains used to lock the camp gates, weighing thousands of catties!

The main point was that behind these three taut, straight steel chains were tethered three colossal entities!

As Su Chen walked out of the shadows, those three massive objects dragged across the frozen earth were completely exposed to the daylight.

"Hiss—!" Across the entire cliff fortification, a uniform wave of gasping sounded. Everyone's brains completely crashed in that instant!

Those were three unimaginably huge fierce beast skulls, each skull as large as a three-story small building! Each skull weighed dozens of tons!

"Over a hundred tons..." Gu Lie swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his legs turning weak. "Adding these three heads together, the weight definitely exceeds a hundred tons!"

Su Chen did not use any martial arts Spells at all to lift these three colossal objects! He simply gripped the chains with his right hand and stubbornly dragged them across the ground purely through the brute force of his physical body!

"Is this fucking still human strength?" A veteran heavily slapped himself. "Dragging a hundred-ton object with one hand while strolling in the snow?"

Shock. An ultimate shock that subverted all common sense submerged these five hundred veterans completely like a tsunami.

Below. Dragging the three massive skulls, Su Chen had reached directly beneath the cliff of Jueming Ridge. This was a steep cliff face, nearly vertical and a hundred meters high.

"Brother Chen! I'll drop a rope down to pull you up!" Jiang Feng snapped out of his daze and hurriedly turned to pull on the steel cable in the camp.

"No need." Su Chen's calm voice clearly traveled up from a hundred meters below.

He stopped moving, his right hand tightly gripping those three thick steel chains slightly flexing his right leg.

"Bang!"

A muffled sonic boom suddenly exploded at the soles of Su Chen's feet!

[Six Powers: Moon Walk]!

Amidst the ghost-seeing gazes of the entire camp of veterans, Su Chen directly stepped on the void, his whole body soaring straight up from the ground!

"Clatter!" The chains instantly tightened! Those three massive skulls weighing a hundred tons were forcefully yanked off the ground by Su Chen!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Su Chen stepped continuously in mid-air. He did not climb along the cliff face; instead, as if stepping on layers of invisible transparent stairs, he walked straight up!

"Good lord..." The Hawkeye sniper plopped down into the snow. A frail-looking youth, carrying three mountain-like giant beast heads with one hand, was walking up step by step on the nearly vertical hundred-meter cliff by stepping on thin air!

It completely violated the law of universal gravitation!

"Bang." The final soft sound.

Su Chen's combat boots stepped steadily onto the edge of the Jueming Ridge highlands.

He steadied his posture. Gripping the three thick steel chains with his right hand, he shook his wrist abruptly, exerted force from his waist, and smoothly flung his right arm forcefully forward!

"Get out of the way!" Seeing this, Jiang Feng roared at the top of his lungs.

There was no need for a reminder at all. The five hundred Shura Camp veterans at the edge of the cliff had already been scared out of their wits by the massive shadow looming overhead. Everyone scrambled, scattering wildly toward the surroundings of the camp!

"Rumble!!!" "Rumble!!!" "Rumble!!!"

Three consecutive terrifying, deafening crashes like meteorites from beyond the heavens smashing into the ground exploded right in the dead center of the Shura Camp's drill ground!

The entire Peak of Jueming Ridge sank heavily from the impact! Three huge deep pits were directly smashed into the iron-hard frozen earth plaza. Ice and snow filled the sky, mixed with gravel and dirt, soaring into the air.

"Splash!" A massive wave of thick, foul-smelling black residual blood burst outward in all directions like splashing water, directly spattering all over the surrounding veterans!

The smoke and dust quickly dissipated in the howling wind of the far north. The scene in the center of the drill ground was completely revealed before the eyes of the camp's five hundred desperadoes.

Three unimaginably huge fierce beast skulls were piled miserably and bloodily in the very center of the plaza like a small mound of enemy corpses exuding endless Evil Qi!

The skull at the very bottom was the [Ice-Armored Giant Elephant]. Its brain had been completely blasted into a mess of bloody paste by the concealed force of Ryuo.

Crushed in the middle was the [Shadow Poison Leopard]. This nocturnal assassin that made the Great Xia army terrified at the mere mention of it died with unfulfilled grievances. The severed neck was as smooth as a mirror, clearly having been cleanly decapitated in a single blow!

And at the very top was the [Bloodthirsty Demon Ape]! Its facial features were completely distorted into an expression of extreme fear and extreme despair!

Three Peak Tier 6 commanders! Three terrifying overlords who normally at the Star Gate frontlines were enough to wipe out an entire full-strength division! At this moment, they were casually discarded like trash in front of these ruffians.

"Gulp." Dense sounds of swallowing saliva came from the crowd.

The residual pressure of the Peak Tier 6 still lingered. Several young soldiers with a cultivation level of only Tier 1 had faces as pale as paper. Their legs turned soft, and they collapsed straight onto the snow.

"This... this is the head of the Shadow Poison Leopard?" A veteran with a cross-shaped scar on his face had his teeth chattering wildly. "Three years ago... our regiment was raided in our camp by a Shadow Poison Leopard... all three thousand brothers died!"

Another veteran with a missing arm stared intently at the topmost Bloodthirsty Demon Ape, tears streaming directly down his face. "That demon ape... smashed our No. 2 fortress to pieces with a single club last month! Two Grandmaster honored guests were torn alive by it!"

Usually, in this freezing wasteland of the far north, they loved to boast about their experiences escaping from the jaws of fierce beasts. They took pride in this, styling themselves as the most ferocious desperadoes, and felt that those officers from Kyoto were all greenhouse flowers that had never seen blood.

All the veterans' gazes turned stiffly over. They looked at the frail-looking black-haired youth standing beside those three massive skulls.

Just earlier on the cliff, they had uninhibitedly mocked him. They mocked him as a tender-skinned young master soldier, even telling him to crawl back to Kyoto to drink milk.

Recalling those words from just now, the hundreds of ruffians felt their faces burning with pain! These three skulls were the most violent and unreasonable ultimate slap to the face for all their previous provocations!

"What kind of monster... did we just provoke?" Logistics officer Old Ma knelt in the snow, his entire body trembling like a sieve. Was this sent here to die? This was clearly sending a god of slaughter over to take their lives!

"Clang." Su Chen casually tossed them aside, and those three thick steel chains dropped onto the snow.

He did not look at those frightened ruffians. He only slowly turned around.

Those deep, pitch-black eyes swept across the entire scene with extreme calmness. There was no angry roar, no victor's showboating. There was only absolute indifference, like looking at a pile of worthless dead objects.

"Is this what you call the rules of the far north?"

Su Chen spoke. His voice was not loud, yet in the dead silent camp, it was clear enough to make people's scalps tingle.

He took a step forward, treading on the bloody water mixed with ice, snow, and brain matter on the ground. Step by step, he walked up to Deputy Commander Gu Lie.

Gu Lie's massive, two-and-a-half-meter-tall physique now hunched over like an errant child in front of Su Chen. His remaining single eye didn't even dare to meet Su Chen's gaze.

"Brother Chen..." Jiang Feng swallowed his saliva, breaking the dead silence, "How should we handle these three heads?"

Su Chen did not turn back. He looked at Gu Lie, the corners of his mouth slowly curling up into an ice-cold arc.

"Hang these three heads on the gates of the Shura Camp." Su Chen's voice was like the freezing wind of the far north—piercing to the bone, fatal.

"I want everyone on the entire First Star Gate defense line to take a good look."

"These are the rules of my Shura Camp."