"Come at me!"
Liu Rulong had already been alerted by Zhao Yaqian; at this moment, his spiritual energy was concentrated at the tail of the Wing Hoop Serpent, resembling an enlarged iron whip.
As the dark shadow approached, the massive tail lashed out, and with a muffled thud, it was sent flying into the water.
"Roar"
The creature let out a ferocious roar, revealing its true face—it was a thirty-meter-tall pitch-black hermit crab.
Though it was called a hermit crab, this creature was evidently more terrifying, covered in a black shell studded with sharp poisonous spines.
The fearsome half of its body protruded from the shell, sporting a front jaw hook moving like a whip near its mouth, and two pairs of crab claws, each more than ten meters in size.
Black-Thorned Giant Crab, Fourth-order Intermediate.
Splash
No sooner had the Black-Thorned Giant Crab emerged than the water surface a hundred meters away churned violently, pushing up a five-meter-tall creature.
With spiny backs and gilled cheeks, the menacing creature spread its webbed arms wide, making the water flow even more turbulent.
Spotted Sting Fishman leader, Fourth-order Intermediate.
With the appearance of two Fourth-order Intermediate monsters, the situation immediately took a turn for the worse, as loads of fishmen began emerging from the water.
One thousand, two thousand, three thousand...
The numbers quickly exceeded tens of thousands, while on the giant cuttlefish and sea beast side, thousands of creatures also swiftly gathered as a blockade.
Monsters continued to converge, while Zhu Xiong and his group were thinking of continuing to slash and kill the creatures.
However, unlike before, just as Zhu Xiong was about to continue his attack, the Fourth-order Spotted Sting Fishman leader flashed in front of him and struck his chest with a powerful energy blow.
Thud
Zhu Xiong managed to block the attack with his Spiritual Energy Shield, slightly shaking from the impact, yet successfully halting the offensive.
"Humans, scatter!"
The brief and odd statement was conveyed in a tone most displeasing.
Zhu Xiong’s eyes hardened, though the expression was messy, there was clearly a significant level of intelligence.
On another side, the Black-Thorned Giant Crab, failing in its sneak attack, showed no sign of relenting. Its two massive pincers clapped together, quickly gathering energy, and eventually transformed into a human-head-sized Energy Bullet, aimed straight at Liu Rulong.
The battle intensified.
Whether it was Zhu Xiong, Ye Kailing, or Liu Rulong, all three seemed to be operating at full power, engaging closely with the Black-Thorned Giant Crab and the Fourth-order Spotted Sting Fishman leader.
The two Fourth-order Intermediates were enough for them to take the fight seriously, not to mention that tens of thousands of creatures had already surrounded the area.
Zhao Yaqian moved, controlling the Sky Wound Star and activating the Breeding Armor’s insect cannon.
While she was distracted searching for the presence of Blood Touch Giant Demon, she began to fire a barrage of insect cannons, clearing the continuously incoming monsters.
A multitude of monsters were annihilated by their combined efforts, and there was no space left to stand on the battleground created on the rooftop.
The Black-Thorned Giant Crab and the Spotted Sting Fishman leader kept launching fierce attacks, trying to slow down Zhu Xiong and his team as they slaughtered ordinary sea beasts.
But under the Solitary Star Breeding Armor, Zhu Xiong’s face broke into a smile more radiant than a blooming chrysanthemum.
Damn it, thinking they can stop us is like watching a play from a box in Lincoln’s theatre—an utter fantasy.
Zhu Xiong was not using his full strength, but focused more on defense.
The Energy Shield in front of him kept resonating with the colliding impacts, blocking the majority of the attacks.
Meanwhile, he blocked attacks while freely slaughtering the sea beasts.
By dragging out the battle, the number of sea beasts killed in this sea area had already exceeded ten thousand, a truly bloody expanse.
Just then, Zhao Yaqian’s expression subtly shifted. A powerful aura began to approach from beneath the seabed.
"Blood Touch Giant Demon is coming."
She yelled, at this moment in the sea bottom, the streets and buildings of Haibo Town began to collapse, stirring the water into a muddy swirl, obscuring all clear sight.
But Zhao Yaqian, using her spiritual power, could see everything more clearly than anyone else.
"Splash"
The sea surface tossed up waves twenty to thirty meters high, and Zhu Xiong, with a slight change in color, quickly opened his large shield, protecting everyone in front.
The waves crashed like thunder, resounding boomingly. A creature, over thirty meters long with a body colored like blood and menacing claws covered with barbs, emerged—it was the Blood Touch Giant Demon.
As soon as the Blood Touch Giant Demon appeared, a horrifying tentacle already struck towards the Solitary Star controlled by Zhu Xiong.
"Bang"
With a muffled sound, the Solitary Star was knocked away, crashing heavily into the water and stirring up a large splash.
"Ignorant humans."
The Blood Touch Giant Demon was extremely contemptuous—an attack from a Fourth Order Superior was not something Zhu Xiong and his peers could easily endure.
"Retreat!"
Zhu Xiong recovered from the impact, struggled to his feet in the water, and began to run. Zhao Yaqian from the Sky Wound Star quickly followed, and even Liu Rulong, controlling his Wing Hoop Serpent, spat out a vast amount of poison mist before soaring into the air, changing direction, and starting to flee.
"Kill them."
The Blood Touch Giant Demon, having personally taken the field, would hardly let them escape. Its body moved swiftly, the tentacles moving faster than most Fourth Order Monsters.
In its eyes, devouring Zhu Xiong and his companions would be beneficial for accumulating massive energy for itself.
The Blood Touch Giant Demon relentlessly pressed forward, even the Black-Thorned Giant Crab and the leader of the Spotted Sting Fishmen were closely following, moving rapidly.
One fleeing, the other pursuing.
The speed of a Fourth Order being was incredibly fast; in less than ten minutes, they had already reached the highway outside Haibo Town.
Meanwhile, Ye Kailing, who was still above the original sea level, rapidly dived down.
Sea Beasts surged in the water, the newly arrived sea creatures tearing at the bodies of their kin, and even more sea beasts, like a tide, surged towards the shore, eager to converge with their leader to encircle and kill Zhu Xiong and his group.
This time, the numbers were not just tens of thousands as it began but nearly all in full force rushing over.
"Eat up, see how much you can devour."
A cold light flashed in Ye Kailing’s eyes as the chest area of the Sky Hero Star contorted, then incredibly split open.
Inside the split, flesh writhed, revealing two special warheads—unequivocally Sub-core Psionic Projectiles.
With the Blood Touch Giant Demon drawn away, there was no need for caution here anymore.
Ye Kailing dropped the two Sub-core Psionic Projectiles, which fell at a high speed onto the old site of Haibo Town.
She continuously raised her position, speeding towards the direction outside Haibo Town.
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Boom!
Waves soared sky-high as the massive explosion sound nearly enveloped a radius of ten kilometers, powerful psychic fluctuations transmitting from under the water to every area of the Haibo Town sea region.
The powerful energy tore apart the sea creatures, whether they were Spotted Sting Fishmen, Blood Thorn Octopuses, or Poison Stinger Giant Cuttlefishes...
They might have possessed considerable strength, but at most, they only had Third Order capabilities.
Such strength was incapable of directly confronting a Sub-core Psionic Projectile.
...
The booming sound reached where Zhu Xiong and the others were; the Blood Touch Giant Demon suddenly halted its pursuit, abruptly twisted its body to look behind.
The intense psychic fluctuation reached here, with the horrific fire visible in the sky.
"What have you done?!"
The angry roar, almost enough to shatter the heaven and earth itself, emerged like booming thunder from the belly of the Blood Touch Giant Demon.
Being a Fourth Order Superior, its intelligence was no less than that of humans. Propagating its species was for accumulating belief and becoming even stronger in the future.
But now, with its species gone, its path to becoming stronger had been severed by these damned humans.
Rage filled every one of its nerves, as anger rose furiously.
"Heh, nothing much, just helped you kill some offspring."
"Damned."
Boom
A tremendous beam of light shot towards Zhu Xiong himself— a full-powered strike from a Fourth Order Superior, potent enough to destroy any existence in the Fourth Grade Lower Class.
However, as the attack approached Zhu Xiong, a shield appeared instantly; with a loud bang, it vibrated continuously, yet it remained undamaged.