After the mutant fierce beasts throughout Shangyuan City had been basically wiped out, order was soon restored. Hundreds of thousands of citizens, still shaken, walked out of their homes, greeting and hugging friends and neighbors. Some shops lucky enough to have escaped destruction by mutant fierce beasts gradually resumed business, and the scent of daily life slowly rose in the city.
City Hall arranged personnel to visit everywhere, investigating damage to houses, roads, public facilities, and so on, and tallying casualties.
Meanwhile, the Patrol Bureau, under Guan Lang's orders, left a small contingent to keep guarding the urban area and maintain order.
Most of the personnel, nearly nine hundred, armed themselves with weapons and equipment, and together with Huang Tian drove to Mangyuan Mountains in the far northwestern suburbs. However, the journey was not peaceful, for after leaving the urban area, mutant fierce beasts could often be seen along both sides of the road.
Since they saw them, they naturally could not ignore them, so they marched a segment, halted a segment, and personnel were gradually scattered about. By the time they reached the vicinity of Mangyuan Mountains, it was already dusk, and the original nine hundred had been reduced to just over five hundred.
"It's getting dark soon. Why not rest for a night and enter the mountains tomorrow morning?" Guan Lang and Huang Tian stood side by side in front of an armored vehicle. The former looked up at the gradually darkening sky, then glanced at the deep mountains, feeling quite uneasy in his heart.
"Fine." Huang Tian nodded. To him, entering the mountains by day or night made no difference, after all he had night vision, while the patrol officers did not. At night it was pitch black; they could not even see the road, let alone clean up beast corpses or clear the battlefield.
Seeing Huang Tian agree, Guan Lang clapped his hands and shouted loudly to his subordinates: "Rest a bit tonight. Except for those on night guard duty, everyone rest early, recharge your batteries. Understood?"
"Understood!" everyone answered in unison.
"Mm!"
Guan Lang nodded, then took out binoculars and looked toward Mangyuan Mountains. Unfortunately, a faint mist had risen in the mountains at this time, and he could not see clearly at all, only vaguely make out the figures of a few scattered mutant fierce beasts.
After looking for a while and still seeing nothing clearly, he had no choice but to reluctantly lower the binoculars. Turning his head slightly, he saw Huang Tian already sitting on the ground, intently absorbing spiritual energy from the void, not wasting a bit of time.
Guan Lang suddenly felt the urge to cultivate as well, but unfortunately he had not even learned the Spiritual Energy Guidance Technique.
In the days since the Great Change, as director of the Patrol Bureau, he had been busy nonstop and had no time to study the guidance technique, so naturally he could not succeed in cultivating.
This could not go on. In this great era of evolution, the importance of martial artists would only keep rising. He had to learn the guidance technique as soon as possible—
Thinking this, he sat down on the spot, took out his phone, found the segment where Huang Tian explained the guidance technique, and played it silently. One night passed in the blink of an eye.
The next morning, dawnlight bathed heaven and earth, and plants appeared even more lush under the hazy light.
Everyone simply ate something to fill their stomachs, then began checking and organizing equipment. Once everything was done, Yang Qiu operated the drone to rise into the air. Although they would lose signal not long after entering the deep mountains, he still started a livestream, named "Sweeping Mangyuan Mountains."
Soon, many people rushed into the livestream room, and bullet comments flew thick and fast.
"I just looked it up. Mangyuan Mountains is nearly two hundred kilometers, with over a hundred kilometers within Shangyuan City itself. There must be tens of thousands of mutant fierce beasts, and maybe even Beast Generals!"
"Shangyuan City proper has only just stabilized, and now they want to level Mangyuan Mountains? Isn't that too hasty? The risk is too great—"
"Indeed it's overly hasty. And if they actively enter the mountains, armored vehicles absolutely cannot go in, so firepower drops greatly—In my opinion, they should just wait for the beasts to come, set up defenses outside Mangyuan Mountains, and boost firepower. Then they can kill each beast that comes."
"Absurd! Mutant fierce beasts aren't stupid. After evolving, their intelligence is not low. How could they charge a fortified position head-on? Besides, Mangyuan Mountains stretches for two hundred kilometers. How would you deploy defenses? Guard this end, and leave the other end exposed."
"Actually, whether there's firepower or not isn't that important. Victory or defeat in this operation hinges entirely on Huang Tian. In this environment of high mountains and dense forests, a War General rank martial artist is far stronger than hundreds of ordinary patrol officers."
"Agreed +1. If even Huang Tian, the big shot, is set back and driven away by mutant fierce beasts, then driving armored vehicles into the deep mountains won't do any good."
While netizens heatedly discussed, Huang Tian had already taken the lead in entering Mangyuan Mountains. As soon as he entered the mountains, he felt a sense of being watched.
Some mutant fierce beasts hid in the forest, secretly casting glances their way. Seeing that Huang Tian and the others were numerous and powerful, they did not dare attack for the moment. In the sky, several birds circled, crying out, seemingly calling their companions.
"Be careful—" Guan Lang was alert in his heart, and lowered his voice to remind him.
Huang Tian nodded slightly, drew his war saber from its sheath, then his figure leapt and turned into a flowing shadow, disappearing into the forest!
"Whoosh—"
A person enters the forest, the saber flashes!
The saber light was frost-white. Among the dense forest, it was like a galaxy cascading down, pearls and brilliance shining!
Several mutated yellow weasels hiding behind trees had just bared their fangs when they were impaled through the throat by a saber strike, dying on the spot. Several pythons coiled among rocks had just raised their heads and flicked out their tongues when the saber light flashed past, their bodies instantly severed into two sections, falling to the ground, still twitching unwillingly.
Leaping to a mountain depression, his expression shifted as he sensed something unusual. His right foot suddenly lifted, then he stomped down heavily!
"Boom!!!!"
This stomp was like an ancient giant elephant heavily trampling the ground. The mountain ground suddenly surged like water, spreading outward in all directions, with cracks exploding open!
Dirt and broken stones flew up, and along with them three huge black shadows. Looking closely, they were three centipedes over a meter long! Their shells were pitch black, their legs danced wildly, their mouthparts were terrifying!
But no matter how fierce, they could not withstand a saber strike. With a whoosh, the war saber swept horizontally. The three centipedes paused simultaneously in midair, their shells cracked, blood splattered, their bodies severed into two sections and falling to the ground.
After casually killing three mutated centipedes hidden underground with one saber strike, Huang Tian suddenly leapt up like an arrow leaving the bow, rushing straight to the sky. The war saber immediately danced!
"Pfft pfft pfft~"
The sound of flesh and blood exploding rang out. Feathers flew everywhere, blood mist permeated. Over a dozen birds were sliced into pieces in midair, falling like rain.
Huang Tian emerged from the blood rain and feathers all over the sky, lightly landing on a branch of a large tree below, then shot forward again!
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh~"
He rushed along wildly. Saber light like a silver-white silk ribbon. Where the frost-white passed, severed limbs flew wildly, bloody wind and blood rain!
Guan Lang and the others behind him, fully armed, were all stunned. It took several seconds before they reacted. They hurriedly ran to catch up, but they could never catch up to Huang Tian, who was slaughtering mutant fierce beasts while racing forward.
A group of people, no—to be precise, Huang Tian was like a sharp blade, fiercely stabbing into the mountain range, rapidly advancing forward!
One rush lasted a whole morning!
He was not advancing in a straight line. If he only charged straight along one line, he would have long since sliced through the mere two hundred kilometers of Mangyuan Mountains.
He was sweeping in a fan shape, killing almost all mutant fierce beasts along the way, so it inevitably delayed progress. Of course, this way Guan Lang, Liu Yang, and the other patrol officers could barely keep up and not be thrown far behind.
"Whoosh—"
The wind blew, bringing a faint fragrance. Huang Tian's figure suddenly stopped. Standing on a slope, he looked toward the mountain valley not far ahead. He could see several plants emitting a strange fragrance in the valley, gently swaying in the breeze.
"Those are—spirit plants?" His eyebrows rose slightly. "But it looks like they're still a few days from maturing?"
As he was pondering—
"Awoo—"
Suddenly, a beast howl came, the whistling sound long and carrying a majestic presence, echoing back and forth in the mountain valley.
He saw a jagged mountain peak where a silver-gray giant wolf appeared. Its body far exceeded that of its ordinary kin, as big as a water buffalo. Its whole body's hair stood up like steel needles, pupils eerie green.
Behind it, several dozen mutated wolves growled lowly, glaring angrily at Huang Tian, seeming to regard him as a thief trying to steal the treasure.
"Howling Moon Wolf King?"
Behind Huang Tian, Guan Lang came running, panting. When he saw the giant wolf on the mountain peak, his expression changed greatly. He hurriedly spoke out a reminder: "This is a Beast General rank mutant fierce beast, the Howling Moon Wolf King. Its speed is incredibly fast, at least a hundred meters per second! Its teeth and claws both carry deadly poison. You absolutely cannot be scratched by it!"
He had just finished speaking when on the other side of the mountain peak, rocks flew everywhere!
A rather strange figure leaped out with a boom. It was a rabbit! This rabbit stood on two legs, as tall as a person. Its whole body had knotted muscles, and purple-blue blood vessels coiled like pythons!
Its red eyes were full of brutality. Its forelimbs hugged a thick tree trunk. The tree trunk was as thick as two people's waists. It waved it around with a mighty wind!
"This, what is this—?" Guan Lang was dumbfounded at the sight of this muscular rabbit. The official mutant fierce beast guide didn't mention this kind of mutant fierce beast at all!
But this was also normal. After the Great Change, hundreds of millions of living things were all evolving. No matter how much the official pooled everyone's strength, they couldn't record every kind of mutant fierce beast clearly.
While Guan Lang was stunned, the muscular rabbit kicked with its thick leg. The mountain rocks under its feet shattered with a boom. Like a shell leaving the barrel, it tore through the air, hugging the thick tree trunk, and smashed straight toward Huang Tian on the slope!
The tree trunk, carrying the force of ten thousand jun, struck down head-on. Before it even arrived, the whistling great wind had already made the grasses below bow low, and gravel flew everywhere.
At the same time, the Howling Moon Wolf King on the peak suddenly leaped up. In midair, only a silver flash was seen. It had already crossed a hundred meters distance. Its maw opened wide, biting toward Huang Tian's head. Those fangs were like swords, gleaming with cold light. The fishy wind hit the nose!
A tree trunk heavy strike on the left, the Wolf King gnawing on the right. Huang Tian was not panicked at all. At the moment the tree trunk was about to hit him, his body shifted to the right. The thick tree trunk immediately crashed down grazing his left shoulder. The wind it brought made his clothes flap and snap!
"Boom!!!!"
The tree trunk hit the ground like a shell landing. The earth shook violently. Cracks spread like spiderwebs in all directions. Gravel and mud were shaken skyward. A violent air wave swept out, throwing everything around into the air!
The strike failed to finish it. The muscular rabbit was about to change moves, but Huang Tian's left hand had already grabbed the air, clenching his hand into a fist!
"Boom!"
A punch was thrown, the air letting out an explosion sound. A visible air wave rolled and surged. As the fist crashed down with a boom!
"Bang!!!!"
The fist landed squarely on the muscular rabbit's face.
Instantly, its head snapped back violently. Its neck bones made cracking sounds. Its entire body flew backward like a torn sack!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
It snapped the first tree. The trunk exploded into sky-filling wood chips. Then, its backward flying momentum didn't decrease. Second tree, third tree—it flew backward hundreds of meters, smashing through who knows how many big trees in succession. Where it passed, everything was a mess.
Its huge front teeth flew out of its mouth, falling to the ground together with it—
And almost at the same time the muscular rabbit was punched away, Huang Tian turned his right hand holding the saber. Saber light, like a silver-white silk ribbon, from below upward, diagonally slashed toward the Howling Moon Wolf King that was about to pounce in front of him.
Glancing at the muscular rabbit punched away, then looking at the chilling saber light slashing toward its face, the Howling Moon Wolf King's pupils suddenly contracted. Its four claws kicked madly. It actually forced itself to stop in midair, landed ahead of time, then quickly turned around. Without looking back, it fled toward the distance!
It even abandoned the several spirit plants about to mature that it was guarding.
It was afraid.
It had a premonition. As long as it dared to exchange blows with that saber-wielding man, it absolutely couldn't withstand three moves!
Spirit plants were nice, but life was more important! So, it hesitated not at all and fled!
However, Huang Tian didn't give it a chance. He suddenly exerted force under his feet. The ground collapsed with a boom into a deep pit. His figure shot into the sky like a shell. Arriving later but striking first!
"Whoosh~"
Leaping over the Howling Moon Wolf King, Huang Tian slashed downward with his saber. The saber light passed over its rear waist. One slash—and it passed through.
Instantly, the Howling Moon Wolf King's body still shot forward dozens of meters in midair. Then its front half and back half suddenly separated with a boom!
Fresh blood and internal organs rained down. The two halves of its corpse heavily smashed onto the rocks, splashing a large cloud of blood mist!
After killing the Howling Moon Wolf King, Huang Tian didn't stop. When he landed, he stomped again. The ground shook violently again. He had already rushed to the side of the muscular rabbit that was lying on the ground unable to get up.
At this time, the muscular rabbit hadn't completely died yet. Its chest slowly rose and fell. Its eyes turned with difficulty. Fresh blood flowed from its big mouth. When it saw Huang Tian approaching, its body instinctively tensed. Deep fear showed in its red pupils.
"Huff huff~"
It seemed to want to roar something, but couldn't make a clear sound at all.
Huang Tian's expression was indifferent. His left hand clenched into a fist. He raised it high, then fiercely smashed down!
"Boom!!!!"
One punch smashed onto the rabbit's head. The earth shook violently. The ground cracked open with a boom. Dozens of cracks spread in all directions. Fresh blood and brains burst forth. The muscular rabbit's body twitched one last time, then completely fell silent.
Huang Tian then stood up. He casually shook the blood off his hand. The mountain wind blew from afar, blowing the blood away, blowing away the stench of blood here.
"Whimper whimper~"
Those over a dozen mutated wolves that followed the Howling Moon Wolf King, seeing that the Wolf King was already dead in the blink of an eye, were both grieved and afraid. They were about to flee.
"Open fire! Kill them!"
Guan Lang shouted loudly. The next second, dozens of patrol officers raised their guns and fired without hesitation.
"Whoosh whoosh~"
A hail of gunfire. The wolf pack whimpered. Huang Tian, as if he hadn't heard, walked step by step toward the valley where spirit plants grew, his expression calm.
Chapter 262