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Shock flashed across the monstrous lion's eyes, and it hastily suppressed its strength, but to no avail. That rising power was unstoppable. It could only watch as its paw was lifted.

The wind swept up the clouds, and the dark skies churned! Beneath the mountain-sized lion paw, Ye Chen’s black hair whipped wildly in the gale, his eyes blood-red, like a bloodthirsty demon, his face twisted in ferocity, devoid of his usual composure. The image of Yue Heng’s broken half-body flashed repeatedly in his mind—that strained smile was like a knife, slicing into his heart again and again, just like the brother who shielded him from the monster in his previous life!

“Die for me!” A chilling voice grated out between Ye Chen’s teeth. He grabbed with both hands, his nails digging into the beast’s sharp palm. With a roar, he stomped the ground, causing it to burst open.

The surrounding ten meters instantly dissolved into ruins. He shot straight up, his savage, brute-like strength forcing the paw upward, flipping it completely! The lion monster poured all its might into its paw, yet still could not halt Ye Chen’s ascent.

Following his momentum, the beast lost its balance and nearly fell backward. Startled, it quickly pulled back its paw and swung the other one toward Ye Chen. Ye Chen sneered, his eyes blazing with crimson light as he stared intently at the descending claw.

He flashed aside, appearing at the very tip of that claw, and suddenly thrust out his hand, wrapping his grasp around the lion’s paw-tip. Though the impact drove him deep into the earth, his hand did not let go; he held tightly to the beast’s claw-tip. The blow shredded his clothes into strips, his upper garment ripping away, revealing his bare torso.

Under the surging power, every muscle on his body bulged like writhing earthworms. He rose from the crater, his face flushed, glaring furiously at the lion monster. With a roar that echoed under countless gazes, he lifted its paw and tossed it sideways as if executing a shoulder throw!

Power to uproot mountains and awe the heavens! “Aaaarrrgggghhhh…” Ye Chen’s hair stood on end, his muscles swelling to their limit, acting as if driven mad. With one step, he forcibly lifted the lion monster’s hardened paw, pulling its entire body along, rendering it immobile and tilting it forward!

The lion monster felt the irresistible force emanating from Ye Chen’s ant-sized body, and terror flared in its eyes. It roared and struggled frantically. Normally, such immense force would shatter a lesser monster’s limb, but its paw was simply too solid.

“Die!!!” Ye Chen bellowed, pouring all his strength into his arms. The ferocious power erupted, finally lifting the lion monster’s entire body! Its body, a hundred meters tall, was held high by his frame, which barely reached two meters!

The warriors fighting furiously and covered in blood on the ramparts watched this savage scene and were utterly stunned. On the streets of the Huaxia Base, countless people froze, completely terrified by Ye Chen’s murderous aura. BOOM!!

The lion monster was slammed down hard, causing the earth to explode. The entire battlefield shook, and numerous monsters shrieked as they were crushed beneath it. Ye Chen, eyes full of bloodlust, tracked the beast, moving in a blur to land atop it.

He raised his fist and tore a massive gash across its body; blood splashed across his face. With a grim smile, he dove inside. The lion monster felt a pang of horror, sensing several bones snapping.

Seeing Ye Chen burrow into its insides, it leaped up and shook its entire frame violently, roaring repeatedly, trying to throw him out. Once inside the lion monster, Ye Chen summoned his blood-red war-blade. The blade, glistening with an ominous bloodlust, seemed to sense its master’s frenzied killing intent, turning chilling to the bone.

As Ye Chen carved a path of slaughter, countless muscles and blood vessels were severed. He trod upon slick, bloody bones, hacking his way forward. The three-meter blade formed a swirling circumference, grinding every drop of blood it touched into a bloody pulp!

“Wuuu!!!” The lion monster let out a piercing scream, rolling madly on the ground in agony, crushing countless nearby monsters. Blood saturated the ground, and it felt the searing pain travel like a straight line directly to its skull. Its eyes widened in inexpressible terror.

The crowds watching the lion monster’s agonizing plight were gripped by cold fear, their looks of shock beyond measure. Suddenly, with a sharp peng, the lion monster’s forehead exploded outward, creating a large bloody hole. Ye Chen had already retracted the blood-red blade and emerged from the opening, standing on the beast’s face.

Its brain destroyed, the screaming stopped; it was utterly immobilized. A harsh wind blew, separating the strands of hair stuck to Ye Chen’s face with blood. Crimson liquid dripped from his brow, soaking his entire set of clothes and clinging to his skin.

The sky deepened, the dark clouds pressing lower, the wind raging without restraint. Just then, a scream echoed from a distance. Ye Chen turned his head, and his eyes nearly burst; it felt as if all the blood in his body would detonate.

On the city wall, countless monsters were surging toward a breach, led by several minor monster chieftains, slaughtering the remaining Black Armored Camp warriors who desperately tried to hold the line. Ye Chen’s eyes flared with rage. He leaped down from the lion monster’s corpse, rushed beneath it, grasped its massive forelimb, and with a twist of his body, veins bulging on his arm, he dragged its body up.

With a mighty roar, he swung it with all his might. The hundred-meter-tall lion monster swung in a vast circle, sweeping outward. Nearby monsters scrambled to escape, shrieking as they were smashed into fragments.

He instantly cleared a large expanse in the dense battlefield. Using the momentum of the spin, Ye Chen aimed toward the city wall and put all his strength into the throw! Whoosh!

The lion monster’s body glided for a thousand meters before plummeting. On the ramparts, the warriors fighting desperately against the monsters suddenly felt the light above them darken. Looking up, they saw a colossal shadow hurtling down toward them.

Everyone cried out in shock and immediately abandoned their monsters, scrambling backward rapidly. BOOOM!!! The violent explosion sounded like a magnitude ten earthquake, violently shaking the earth.

Monsters charging through the breach were caught and crushed. Blood flowed from beneath the lion monster’s carcass, pouring into the moat, turning the entire river a rich crimson! Ye Chen had judged the force of the throw perfectly—neither too light nor too heavy—it did not smash into the human lines but precisely sealed the breach in the city wall!

Ye Chen plunged into the monster horde, slaughtering madly. Any monster entering his immediate range was dispatched with a single punch. Some monsters Ye Chen even seized and used as weapons, swinging them wildly to smash the surrounding creatures into bloody paste.

One step forward, blood splattered ten feet high! Ye Chen’s face was savage, his eyes blood-red, like a blood-Asura returned from hell! Kill!

Kill! Kill! Killed until insane!

The monsters, initially charging forward fearlessly, one after another, eventually began to tremble, watching Ye Chen in terror, halting their advance and daring not approach him. Countless onlookers witnessed this, utterly shaken, feeling that this man, battling drenched in blood, was a peerless, living Shura; nowhere he passed was there a single survivor! “Liii!!” A sharp cry pierced the air.

A strong gust struck Ye Chen from behind. A demonic bird, seizing the opportunity while he was fighting the ground troops, suddenly dove from the sky. Its razor-sharp talons clamped onto Ye Chen’s body, and with a beat of its wings, it stirred a violent gale, snatching Ye Chen high into the air.

The battlefield below slowly receded from Ye Chen’s sight. The multitude of roaring monsters shrank until they were like ants, indistinct. White clouds and mist surrounded him.

On the city wall, Xu Tianguo, Huang Tianci, and others cried out in distress upon seeing this, especially Ye Zhu, whose face instantly turned pale. She swayed, nearly fainting. With the demon bird’s talons gripping him, Ye Chen’s blood-red gaze intensified.

With a furious roar, he ripped his hands free from the grip and tightly seized one of its feathers. Falling from such a height, even he would sustain minor injuries. He flipped over and leaped onto the demon bird’s back.

A flicker of shock crossed the demon bird’s eyes; it hadn't expected Ye Chen’s strength to be so immense. It let out a sharp screech and banked sharply, flying backward in an attempt to throw Ye Chen off its back. “Beast!” Ye Chen roared, slamming a fist into its back.

With a resounding peng, several of the demon bird’s bones instantly snapped. Then, kicking off with his foot, he snapped its left wing. Having lost one wing, the demon bird instantly lost balance, screaming as it plummeted from the sky in a half-gliding descent, its remaining wing beating furiously to slow the fall.

It evidently understood that falling straight down would result in total disintegration. As the ground came into clear view, a flash of crimson light sparked in Ye Chen’s eyes. He suddenly reached out, plunging his hand into the demon bird’s chest cavity, grasping the bones within.

The sensation was slick and yielding. He grunted, tearing with ferocious strength! Splat!

The body of the thirty-foot-tall demon bird was violently ripped apart. A rain of blood sprayed across the sky, and the corpse plummeted straight down. Ye Chen propelled himself off its body mid-air, using the force to slow his descent, tumbling twice before landing steadily on the ground.

On the ramparts, Xu Tianguo and the others cried out in relief when they saw Ye Chen safe. Ye Zhu, lightly covering her red eyes, burst into tears of joy. Just then, Ye Chen’s gaze swept toward the east, where he spotted a small squad of seven or eight people surrounded by monsters.

In the center of the group, a woman was carrying a man whose face was deathly pale, completely drained of color. It was Bai Long, and the woman carrying him was Su Xiaochang! Ye Chen’s pupils contracted.

Seeing the small party about to be swallowed by the monster horde, he roared and charged instantly. A gale swept in his wake. A torrent of monsters blocked his path, but Ye Chen acted like a sharp blade, tearing a bloody path straight through, treading over the soft corpses of the slain monsters as he rushed toward Bai Long.

Just as he was within mere heartbeats of reaching them, suddenly, an ice spike, radiating intense cold, shot out from the distant sky, arriving faster than his momentum. With a clean pu, it struck Bai Long precisely, piercing his body, and in doing so, it impaled Su Xiaochang as well, who was carrying him!