Two Thousand Kilometers an Hour! Merely a Godzilla!

A single slash had actually unleashed blade aura hundreds of meters long! The blade aura shot straight into the clouds, surging in all directions and leaving the spectators utterly overwhelmed with excitement. "Too strong! One slash covers a li! He lets you run 499 meters first!" "With power like this, calling him a War God is truly no exaggeration—" "This must be Big Boss Huang Tian's ultimate killing strike! One slash feels like it could split an ordinary Lord-rank fierce beast clean in two!" "The power is immense, but it probably can't be sustained. If a single strike drains all your spiritual energy and fails to kill the opponent, wouldn't you be done for?" "Come on, bro, a move like this is meant for desperate, life-or-death situations! Why would you pull out an ultimate skill if you could already beat them normally?" "I think you guys are hilarious, arguing about this and that. Let me ask you just one thing: can you even learn this saber technique? If you can't, what's the point of running your mouths!" "Everyone just behave and learn the Triple-Wave Saber first. If you can't even master a relatively basic technique, dreaming of something harder is pure delusion! The big boss is teaching this set of techniques to those with spare energy, great talent, and keen comprehension, not to people like you and me who haven't even crossed the threshold of the guidance technique~~" "Stop scolding, stop scolding—" Watching the deluge of bullet comments, Huang Tian sheathed his saber and explained the essentials of the Hanging Cloud and Severing Flow saber techniques once more. This time, he spoke much slower and in far greater detail. Many viewers in the livestream asked questions, and he answered them one by one. About half an hour passed, and what needed to be explained had basically been broken down completely. If anyone still failed to understand, then they truly lacked the aptitude, and there was no need to keep elaborating. Just as he was about to end the livestream, a bullet comment suddenly drifted across the screen: "The authorities just issued a red alert! A massive beast tide might hit Fuxia City!" After that, more bullet comments rolled past: "The Fuxia City Hall is requesting all citizens to cooperate, follow instructions, and prepare for evacuation." "Are there any friends from Fuxia City in the livestream? How's the situation over there?" "I'm from Fuxia. Just got the notice telling us to inventory our valuables because we might have to evacuate." "Strange. A couple of days ago, I saw on the news that all residents within fifteen kilometers of the coast in your coastal cities were relocated to defend against beast tides. Why are they moving people further inland now? Could this beast tide be unprecedented in scale?" "Don't know. But no matter how unprecedented it is, there should still be time to evacuate. I'm not really panicking, but I'm going to miss my homestead and my big yard full of vegetables, sob sob—" "I heard the government fears this beast tide was incited by the Twin-Winged Giant Dragon to retaliate for being bombed by nuclear warheads—" "That's it! The Twin-Winged Giant Dragon! No wonder the authorities are being so cautious this time. If it really has its sights set on our Great Yan, there'll be endless trouble. A thief can wait a thousand days to strike, but you can't defend against a thief for a thousand days. Thinking about a beast beyond the Lord rank lurking on our borders makes me sick with anxiety!" Watching the stream of comments scroll past, Huang Tian pulled out his phone. Tapping into it, he indeed saw the latest beast tide alert for Fuxia City issued by the government. "The Twin-Winged Giant Dragon?" After a brief contemplation, he spoke up. "I'm going to Fuxia." "Ah?" Both Yang Qiu and Xiao Wu were taken aback. "Going to support Fuxia right now...?" Wuping City was nearly six hundred kilometers away from Fuxia City. Even setting aside traffic and other delays, driving at one hundred and twenty kilometers per hour would take five hours. By the time that much time had elapsed, the military stationed near Fuxia might have already repelled the beast tide, or most of Fuxia would have fallen, resulting in catastrophic casualties among soldiers and civilians alike. If it were the former, rushing over held little purpose since the battle would be over; if the latter, all one could do was reclaim lost territory, and the dead would remain dead. "I'll request the higher-ups to allocate a helicopter!" Xiao Wu blurted out. The Wuping City Patrol Bureau had dedicated helicopters with a cruising speed of around three hundred kilometers per hour. The straight-line distance between Wuping City and Fuxia was roughly four hundred and fifty kilometers. Even setting aside the paperwork, approvals, and dispatch procedures, the flight alone would take about an hour and a half. After ninety minutes, the battle might still be locked in a stalemate. "No need. A helicopter is too slow." No sooner had the words left his mouth than Huang Tian stomped down hard. With a thunderous boom, he leapt atop a high-rise building hundreds of meters away. Another bound launched his body forward, streaking across several streets in the blink of an eye. Six hundred meters in a single second! A War God rank martial artist averaged between 450 and 650 meters per second, so his speed was not particularly extraordinary by their standards. Yet six hundred meters a second translated to 2,160 kilometers per hour! At such a speed, four hundred and fifty kilometers could be crossed in a mere twelve and a half minutes! Watching Huang Tian rocket into the distance, Yang Qiu and Xiao Wu felt their heads buzzing, and the countless viewers in the livestream erupted into a frenzy! "The big boss is sprinting across a thousand li to provide reinforcements?!" "I remember when Director Huang was at the War General rank, his speed was a hundred meters per second, which works out to three hundred and sixty kilometers per hour—faster than an ordinary helicopter. Now that he's reached the War God rank, doubling that is only normal! Seven or eight hundred kilometers an hour means he can reach Fuxia in about half an hour!!" "No wonder he said a helicopter was too slow. If I had that speed, I'd think helicopters were slow too—" While the livestream was boiling over, countless citizens on the streets of downtown Wuping City looked toward the sky in astonishment. Between the rows of high-rises, a silhouetted figure bearing a war saber bounded through the air, practically cleaving the heavens open. The displaced air roiled into a long wake behind him, streaking across the sky! Only after he had already vanished into the distance did successive sonic booms reach their ears! "Holy crap! Supersonic speed with his bare flesh?!" "That's insane! Can a human really be that strong?!" "Did anyone catch who that was just now?" "I know! I know!" someone holding a phone shouted excitedly. "It's Huang Tian! I was just watching his livestream—he's rushing to reinforce Fuxia right now!" Amid the clamor, Huang Tian took merely tens of seconds to clear the edge of the city. Once out in the suburbs, he moved with even greater abandon. Using a large tree to launch himself, he soared over a dozen kilometers, landed on an earthen knoll, and sprang up violently once more, climbing higher into the air. Dust billowed, shockwaves roared, and sonic booms cracked incessantly! He tore forward at blistering speeds. Whenever he passed over counties, cities, or villages, people invariably pulled out their phones to snap pictures and post them online. Some netizens calculated his speed based on the locations of these photographers: "Divine Huang's speed is roughly... Holy shit! That's absurd! He can reach two thousand kilometers per hour! At this rate, won't he arrive in Fuxia in just over ten minutes?!" Another wave of stunned uproar rippled through the populace. Whoosh! Whoosh! Fierce winds battered his face as gusts swept past. Twelve minutes vanished in the blink of an eye, and Fuxia City came into view. At this moment, Huang Tian had yet to hear the roar of artillery, indicating that the military and the sea beasts had not yet engaged. However, many citizens had already begun evacuating. Some rode buses arranged by the City Hall, while others drove their own cars. The evacuation was hardly orderly, and fender benders and squabbles were inevitable. Fortunately, personnel from the Patrol Bureau and several other departments were directing traffic, preventing any major chaos from breaking out. Huang Tian did not linger to watch. Stepping off the tip of a tall transmission tower, he crossed several kilometers in an instant. With two or three more leaps, he arrived atop a small hill several dozen meters high near the coast. Standing on the hill, he swept his gaze across the area. Many houses along the shore stood vacant, their original owners having been relocated several days prior. Several to over a dozen kilometers away, military forces stood ready in strict formation, with artillery deployed and weapons of all varieties primed. Looking out toward the ocean, the previously tranquil, azure expanse of water had begun to churn with swelling waves. The waves grew larger and wider. A few minutes later, an endless black line abruptly surged across the sea's horizon. "Roar!" "Awoo—" Roars and shrieks shook heaven and earth as countless mutant fierce beasts surged forth from the ocean. Layer upon layer, nearly limitless, arthropod beasts resembling giant crabs and mantis shrimp were barely recognizable. Far more numerous were the cnidarians, chaetognaths, and nemerteans—grotesque, bizarre monstrosities that made one's scalp tingle just looking at them! Dark shadows swept across the sky as well. Tens of thousands of avian fierce beasts spread their wings, virtually blotting out the sun, their piercing screeches tearing through the heavens! Whizz! Whizz! Whizz! Right then, thousands upon thousands of artillery shells screamed through the air, crashing down upon the beachhead in a roaring deluge. The fiery flashes of explosions remained dazzling even beneath the blazing sun, bursting one after another as smoke and sand billowed into colossal mushroom clouds! At the same time, a scorching barrage swept through the sky against the avian beasts. Flocks of winged creatures were shredded by gunfire or blown apart, tumbling down like rain into the surging beast tide on the beach below, where they were trampled into paste. Vast swathes of mutant fierce beasts perished, yet their numbers were simply too overwhelming. As soon as one wave was wiped out, more surged forward immediately. The sky, the beach, the reefs, and the muddy sand crawled with their churning forms. Snap! Crack! A five-meter-tall giant prawn bounded forward with startling agility, trampling over the blasted carcasses of fallen beasts. Boom! An artillery shell detonated nearby, sending shrapnel ricocheting off its carapace without leaving a scratch. Pausing only slightly, it charged ahead with even greater ferocity! "A Beast General! Speed exceeding sixty meters per second!" an officer on the defensive line observed through binoculars, his expression grave. Whizz—Boom! Suddenly, six shells landed around the giant prawn simultaneously. The blast wave flipped dozens of nearby beasts, followed immediately by two precision shells slamming directly into the creature's abdomen. The shells detonated with a deafening roar, spraying a mist of blood and instantly engulfing it in dense smoke and flames. Yet its death caused scarcely a ripple. The relentless horde pressed forward wave after wave. Under the midday sun, the beach was smothered in gunsmoke, severed limbs, and gore. Huang Tian was in no rush to intervene. The situation remained stable for now, requiring no hasty moves. Another five or six minutes passed in this manner; the beast tide surged relentlessly, and the artillery barrage raged on—rockets, howitzers, missiles... "Ooooh!" Suddenly, a strange cry resonated from deep within the ocean. A colossal octopus over forty meters tall rose from the water like a mountain. Brandishing its massive tentacles with overwhelming menace, it lumbered toward the shore! Following its emergence, six more Lord-rank fierce beasts revealed themselves one after another, each towering forty to fifty meters high. The most gigantic among them was a marine iguana standing a staggering sixty-eight meters tall. Shaped like a lizard yet walking upright, it possessed sharp dorsal fins and was covered from head to toe in dark gray scales, exuding a horrifying savagery! "Seven Lord-rank fierce beasts!!" Gazing upon those seven moving mountains, many soldiers began breathing heavily, their faces turning pale. Yet despite their dread, they continued executing their firing orders. Whizz! Whizz! Whizz! Whizz! Tens of thousands of shells, rockets, thermobaric rounds, and missiles poured frantically toward the seven Lord-rank beasts. Blazing fireworks erupted across the sky as dozens of mushroom clouds rose along the nearshore waters, dense smoke and brilliant fire completely obscuring visibility. Though nothing could be seen clearly through the haze, the artillery fire remained unrelenting, bombarding the beach without pause. Eventually, through the rolling smoke and fire, a lightly wounded Lord-rank sea serpent burst through the shroud, lunging toward the military's defensive positions! Yet before it could advance far, another, even more devastating round of artillery saturated the area, blasting it backward with fresh wounds gouged across its body. Seeing this, the other Lord-rank fierce beasts scattered, attempting to flank from farther down the beach to dismantle the defensive line. However, once they spread out, they discovered that other positions had been established along the perimeter as well. Those batteries had held their fire until now, launching a sudden ambush that slammed a barrage of shells right into the beasts' faces, inflicting considerable injuries on each of them. *The Twin-Winged Giant Dragon still hasn't shown itself?* Huang Tian mused. *Perhaps it never intended to appear, and this is merely a probing assault. Or could it be that this beast tide wasn't incited by it at all?* After pondering for a moment, he leaned toward the first possibility. The beast tide had indeed been triggered by the dragon, but having suffered a nuclear strike, it had grown far more cautious, making this nothing more than a probing offensive. "In that case, there's no need to wait any longer." Clang! The dragon-like chime of a war saber clearing its scabbard rang across the sea and sky! Huang Tian leaped forward like a rainbow streak, unleashing a single slash that sent a hundred-meter-long arc of chilling light tearing through the expanse! It was as cold as congealed moonlight, as biting as an avalanche off an icy peak! The blade light parted the fiery haze, cut through the screaming wind, and crashed squarely onto the writhing sea serpent. The serpent's tens-of-meters-long body froze. Blood sprayed like rain as the two severed halves of its carcass crashed down with a thunderous thud, crushing a large swarm of beasts beneath them! Without losing momentum, Huang Tian shifted his stance and delivered another slash. The chilling light sliced diagonally downward, striking the raised carapace of a Lord-rank giant crab. A violent crack rang out as the rock-hard shell was cleaved cleanly through along with the flesh inside, and the crab collapsed, split in two. Immediately after, blade light flared once more in rapid, blinding flashes. Within moments, the severed heads of four more Lord-rank fierce beasts tumbled to the ground, blood gushing like fountains and staining vast swathes of the sea crimson! "Whimper—" The sole surviving Lord-rank beast, the over-sixty-meter-tall marine iguana, revealed sheer terror in its eyes. Letting out a whimpering cry, it turned its massive legs around and plunged frantically back toward the ocean, throwing up billions of white spray droplets in an instant! "Heh. If you could come here, why wouldn't I be able to go there?" With a long whistle, Huang Tian gripped his saber and plunged into the sea! The seawater closed over him, swallowing him whole. One second, two seconds... five seconds! Boom! The ocean surface abruptly detonated, sending thousands of water pillars shooting skyward all at once! Huang Tian burst from the water, soaring into the heavens. He held his war saber in his right hand while his left gripped the very tip of the marine iguana's massive tail, dragging the creature entirely out of the sea by brute force! By this point, the Lord-rank beast was already a corpse, deep blade gashes marking its neck, chest, and belly! Suspended high in midair, Huang Tian hauled on the long tail and hurled it with all his might! Rumble! The colossal corpse of the marine iguana smashed down violently onto the beach! A world-shaking crash shook the earth, sending countless grains of sand spraying in all directions. A massive crater opened up, seawater rushing violently into it as surging white waves roiled and churned!