NIP Chapter 159 Blade-Slaying Armored Dragon Lizard
Chapter 159 Blade-Slaying Armored Dragon Lizard
Qinghu Base, south city wall, underground shelter.
Cheng Xiao squeezed into the crowd, with a public tactical screen in front of him.
All underground shelters in Qinghu Base City are equipped with tactical live-streaming systems to inform citizens of the battle situation during beast tides.
At this moment, the screen is divided into sixteen images, corresponding to the sixteen monitoring positions outside the south city wall.
The scene is full of strange beasts.
Strange beasts surged outside the city walls, densely packed, like a gray-brown tide.
The psionic cannon array continued firing from the city walls, high-explosive shells exploding into bursts of fire amidst the horde of beasts.
However, the bombardment density was insufficient, the number of level 3 beast hordes was too large, and the charging speed of the psionic cannons could not keep up with the speed of the beast charge.
Inside the shelter, people were crying, and children were asking their mothers if the city walls would break.
Cheng Xiao clutched the hem of her clothes, still thinking about the young martial artist she had met not long ago.
She saw the man pull out his knife and disappear; she didn't know where he went.
Then she followed the flow of people to the underground shelter.
Then she saw him on the public tactical screen.
She didn't approach him on her own initiative; everyone saw it.
The sixteen surveillance feeds were originally filled with the flashes of psionic cannons and the charge of alien beasts.
Suddenly, a golden-purple light appeared in the upper left corner of the screen—it was the glint of a sword.
The image automatically zoomed in; the tactical screen's intelligent system identified a high-value target and switched the camera's view to the main screen.
Cheng Xiao saw the person, dressed in gray martial arts attire.
He swept through the beast tide all by himself.
The crying in the shelter stopped, and everyone was looking at the main screen.
On the screen, the young man was moving through the horde of beasts, moving so fast that even the high frame rate mode of the monitoring camera could only capture his afterimage.
A net of golden-purple blade light wove around him. Beasts that collided with this net shattered. Second-tier beasts were severed, third-tier beasts had their limbs flying off, and fourth-tier beasts were caught in the blade light and emerged unrecognizable.
"Who is this person..." someone asked from the side, but stopped midway through their sentence.
Because something even more outrageous happened in the footage.
The young man leaped from above the head of a Glacier Crocodile, drawing a circle above his head with his Heavenly Blade before slashing down. The blade's energy detached from its body, transforming into a crescent-shaped crimson-gold blade of light that sliced into the horde of beasts.
The blade's edge flew over a hundred meters, and all the strange beasts in its path fell down.
Cheng Xiao's mouth dropped open. She remembered the expression on that person's face when he said "Finally, we've been waiting for this" at the store entrance.
She initially thought he was gloating, but now she understands that it wasn't gloating.
That was the excitement of a hunter seeing his prey come into range.
South city wall, command tower.
Shen Lan's hands had moved from the edge of the table to the window frame; all her attention was on Song Chen outside the city wall.
After killing the fourth-tier ice crystal python, he stopped and stood still, looking up at the rear of the beast tide.
Shen Lan followed his gaze and saw a hundred-meter-long armored dragon lizard standing up behind the beast tide.
She whirled around: "Psionic cannon array, target that bladed dragon lizard, focus fire!"
"Governor, wait, look!"
Sun Rui's voice interrupted her.
Shen Lan turned back to the window.
Then she saw it: Song Chen moved, charging straight at the Blade Armor Dragon Lizard.
He transformed into a charcoal-gray arrow, skimming the ground as he shot straight at the Blade Armor Dragon Lizard.
The strange beasts along the way were knocked away by his protective lightning aura, and by the time they got up, he had already passed by.
The Blade Armored Dragon Lizard also saw him. A blinding white light shone from deep within the giant beast's throat, and it exhaled freezing breath—extremely cold spiritual energy compressed to an almost liquid state.
The moment the breath was exhaled, the air condensed into ice mist, and a two-meter-thick layer of ice shell exploded on the ground along the path of the breath.
Song Chen did not slow down; his figure disappeared just as the freezing breath was about to hit him.
The Gale Wings made a right-angle change of direction at extremely high speed, its body drawing a zigzag line that defied the laws of physics, grazing past the edge of its breath.
The breath grazed his left shoulder, and a thin layer of ice formed on the surface of his charcoal gray martial arts uniform before being shattered by the lightning emanating from his body.
The next second, he was already standing directly above the head of the Blade Armor Dragon Lizard.
Hold the knife with both hands.
The lightning on the blade changed from reddish-gold to pure gold.
This is the seventh strike of the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes, and its power is seven times that of the first strike.
The golden blade energy instantly extended a hundred meters long, and a pure lightning bolt was compressed into the shape of blade energy, extending out from the Tianjun Blade.
The knife fell.
The head of the Blade Armor Dragon Lizard was split open in the middle.
Bone plates, skin, muscles, skull—layer upon layer, were sliced apart by the golden blade energy.
The Blade Armor Dragon Lizard's prized defense was torn apart like paper by the Seven Thunder Slashes, which were seven times more powerful.
The blade's energy slashed down from the top of the skull, pierced through the entire cranial cavity, and exited from the lower jaw.
Then Song Chen pressed down on the blade and pushed it downwards.
The golden blade energy traveled down the neck of the bladed dragon lizard, slicing through the cervical vertebrae, the chest cavity, and the abdominal cavity.
The hundred-meter-long behemoth was completely cut in half from head to tail, like a specimen on a dissection table, precisely divided into left and right halves along the midline.
The two halves of the Blade Armor Dragon Lizard fell to the left and right, crashing to the ground and causing the psionic cannons on the city wall to jump.
Internal organs and blood were scattered all over the ground, quickly freezing into a dark red iceberg in the minus thirty degree air.
[Slayed a Tier 5 Upper-Stage Beast, Blade-Armored Dragon Lizard, gaining 85250 Kill Points]
Song Chen landed next to the corpse of the Blade Armor Dragon Lizard and shook the blood off his knife.
The surrounding horde of beasts stopped, and then they started to run.
They scattered and fled, without any organization or direction.
Some ran towards the depths of the wilderness, some towards the mountains, and some even towards the city walls; pure instinct dispelled all will to fight.
Song Chen glanced at the system panel.
This beast tide brought in two million in less than ten minutes. Not bad, not bad at all. Beast tides are so satisfying.
He looked at the fleeing beasts; these were all kill points.
"You can't escape."
After taking the crystal core from the Blade Armor Dragon Lizard, he drew his sword and chased after it.
The Wings of Gale were activated once more, instantly catching up with the pack of alien beasts fleeing into the depths of the wilderness.
The lightning on the Heavenly Blade lit up again, but it was just a normal silver-white color. There was no need for the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes to deal with the fleeing beasts; ordinary slashes were enough.
He chased them all the way into the depths of the wilderness.
Shen Lan stood at the window of the command tower, watching the figure chase the fleeing beast horde, killing its way further and further away.
From the area visible from the city wall, to the edge of the psionic radar, and then to the area completely invisible to the naked eye.
"He...he chased after him?" Sun Rui's voice was a little dazed.
Shen Lan did not answer; her voice had regained the composure of a garrison commander.
"Pass on the order."
"First, the city wall garrison should remain on alert to prevent stray beasts from attacking the city walls."
"Second, count the corpses of the beast tide and tally the results of the battle."
"third……"
She paused for a moment.
"Go and invite Song Chen; I want to see him at the celebration banquet."
Sun Rui nodded, and then he spent the whole afternoon looking for it.
The psionic radar was deployed, drones were dispatched, and the martial arts squad was also mobilized.
Song Chen knew exactly where the fleeing beast horde was headed. The snow was covered with the corpses of strange beasts, one every few dozen meters, like a road paved with their bodies.
But Song Chen didn't end the road.
The drone flew 30 kilometers along the trajectory of the corpse. The corpse was still extending, but the figure of the person had disappeared.
The search and rescue team chased the enemy for 40 kilometers before giving up.
They couldn't catch him. He killed the monsters as fast as he traveled, chasing and killing as he went. By the time the search and rescue team arrived, he was already far deeper in the area.
As darkness fell, Song Chen still hadn't returned.
Shen Lan stood at the window of the command tower, looking out at the dark wilderness.
The others in the command tower had already evacuated, leaving only her and Sun Rui.
Sun Rui asked in a low voice, "Governor, should we still hold the victory celebration banquet?"
Shen Lan looked out the window and remained silent for a long time.
"Let's withdraw."
There was a hint of regret in her voice, the regret of one martial artist for another, the regret of "having passed away before we even had a chance to get to know each other".