Chapter 217
Chapter 217: Punch Through This Road for Me
Li Mu’s speed was already astonishingly fast!
But he was still one step too late.
He flipped down from the Somersault Cloud.
Even so, he still saw with his own eyes the moment Hong Liangpeng turned into a pool of blood.
Although Hong Liangpeng had always been meek and submissive, and Li Mu had somewhat looked down on him, Li Mu did not believe Hong Liangpeng had been unable to leave.
He was a Profound Rank Ninth Grade expert!
If he had wanted to survive, it should not have been difficult.
Yet he had chosen to stay here...
Li Mu stood before the pool of blood that Hong Liangpeng had become. His chest trembled, and his eyes turned crimson as he looked around.
He pushed Fiery Eyes and Golden Gaze to the extreme.
The battlefield of tens of thousands spread across the entire forest of giant trees.
Monster corpses of all sizes lay everywhere, their kinds too numerous to count.
They were all monsters Li Mu had seen before in the Verdant Abyss.
What Li Mu had never seen, however, were these Profound Rank humanoid monsters covered in green fur!
They were about the same height as humans. Their arms were extremely long, and their bodies were covered in short green fur, making them look like apes.
But their movements were no different from those of humans!
Rather than calling them green-furred monsters, they were closer to “green-furred men.”
Every Profound Rank monster Li Mu could see was one of these green-furred men!
At that moment, a Profound Rank Sixth Grade green-furred man crouched on a high branch, its hands gripping the bark beneath its feet.
It was also staring furiously at the pool of blood on the ground and at Li Mu.
Clearly, they seemed to possess the concept of “compatriots” as well.
This young man who had arrived riding a cloud was the same kind of creature as the blood-light man on the ground who had killed its compatriot.
“Die!”
The green-furred man was clearly imitating the word Hong Liangpeng had said just now. Green light surged across its body as it leaped toward Li Mu!
While in midair, it swung its long arm fiercely sideways!
It actually carved out a huge dark-green horizontal slash through the air.
The slash swept toward Li Mu.
Li Mu did not dodge in the slightest.
Bronze Head and Iron Arms activated!
Clang!
The green-furred man’s attack struck Li Mu’s body. Under its horrified gaze, the recoil sent it flying backward.
Li Mu’s speed erupted to the limit, and he closed in after it.
He grabbed the green-furred man’s arm and leaped high into the air!
Then, in midair, he swung it in a full arc and violently smashed it down onto a tough vinewood branch!
Bang!
Amid the heavy, muffled impact, the vinewood was reduced entirely to powder.
The green-furred man’s entire body exploded into scattered chunks.
【Victory! Obtained Triumph Points +16000】
【Obtained S-Grade Destiny Spirit Crystal: Vitality Overclocking!】
“Ah!~~”
In midair, the green-furred man who had blasted Hong Liangpeng into the ground let out a strange cry. Its voice was hoarse and grating.
It was probably an expression of rage. Its mouth was full of sharp fangs, and paired with its bloodthirsty, ghostly green eyes, the sight was unforgettable after a single glance.
This green-furred man was also Profound Rank Ninth Grade.
It was the strongest among the nearby green-furred men. Its body was stained with blood, likely from wounds inflicted by Hong Liangpeng.
Seeing it roar, Li Mu did not wait for it to attack. He raised his hand and pointed.
“Heavenly Might!”
Green light flared brilliantly around the green-furred man’s body!
Although it had no cultivation art, the protective light around its body was as hard as transparent armor and terrifyingly tough.
It quickly sensed how fearsome the power of Heavenly Might was.
It forcibly endured an eighty-percent slowdown and swung its arm, striking Heavenly Might!
The force of that arm slash was indeed incomparably powerful. It even carried a trace of the might of the Green-Armored Giant’s small tentacle from back then!
Borrowing the force of the rebound, it actually brushed along the edge and dodged out of Heavenly Might’s range.
Unfortunately...
Against anything below Profound Rank Eighth Grade, Li Mu was almost invincible.
Against anything above Profound Rank Eighth Grade, Immobilization was almost unsolvable!
What Li Mu wanted was not to instantly kill someone in midair with Heavenly Might. That was extremely difficult.
What Li Mu wanted was the lingering Heavenly Might and the Blink after Heavenly Might.
Li Mu vanished from where he stood in an instant.
When he reappeared, he had already blinked behind the green-furred man.
“Freeze!”
The green-furred man had only turned its head halfway before it was frozen in place.
Li Mu brought his cudgel down on its head and directly smashed its skull apart!
After that entire sequence...
To be honest, it had died with plenty of dignity!
【Victory! Obtained Triumph Points +46000】
【Obtained SS-Grade Destiny Spirit Crystal: Physiological Evolution!】
After killing the Profound Rank Ninth Grade green-furred man in midair, Li Mu immediately used External Incarnation!
Twenty incarnations quickly scattered in all directions and merged into the surrounding battlefield. They did not kill monsters below the Profound Rank.
They only hunted down the green-furred men that were madly pursuing the soldiers!
Even without consuming his True Qi, Li Mu’s speed was not something ordinary green-furred men could escape.
However, no matter how capable Li Mu was, the battlefield was simply too vast.
Li Mu and his incarnations could almost instantly kill any green-furred man they saw.
But most of their time was spent searching for those green-furred men.
Chen Chong had long since begun commanding the entire battlefield.
Looking at the overall situation, the surrounding monsters were practically endless.
The twenty thousand soldiers were too scattered, but under Chen Chong’s command, they began gathering toward the center.
With no landmarks to use as reference points, they could only rely on the soldiers at the outermost perimeter to judge the direction from which the monsters were attacking.
Then they gradually moved inward, searching for places with more people.
After they formed dense defensive rings one after another, those rings would then gradually merge together.
Especially in a battlefield like this, with numbers exceeding ten thousand and stretching across several kilometers, what it tested most was a commander’s overall perspective and battlefield responsiveness.
Every decision determined the life or death of countless soldiers!
Even for Chen Chong, this was only his second time commanding such a large-scale battle.
As for the soldiers...Birds and beasts, strong and weak alike, were gathering madly.
Many soldiers had already killed until they were numb!
The most difficult part for them was finding the battlefield that suited them.
Previously, when they carried out missions in the Abyss, those at a certain grade of cultivation would go to a monster area corresponding to that grade.
But here, the monsters were both strong and weak.
If they encountered weaker monsters, that was still manageable.
If they encountered monsters stronger than them to a certain degree, many of them could still use their trump cards to escape, or they could be rescued by their comrades.
But if their luck was poor and they encountered a monster that completely overpowered them, or a Profound Rank green-furred man...
Then they could only wait for death.
This was an enormous test of human will!
Just as everyone was resisting desperately and nearly falling into despair, an uplifting voice came from every soldier’s Tactical Watch.
“Soldiers, Tiger Marquis Li is slaughtering the Profound Rank monsters!”
“More than a hundred Profound Rank experts and the Tiger Roar Army have already arrived as reinforcements.”
“Hold on!”
Chen Chong’s words were no less effective than a shot of adrenaline!
“Tiger Marquis Li is here!?”
“Tiger Marquis Li is here! The Tiger Roar Army is here!”
“Brothers, lift your spirits!”
“Tiger Marquis Li is watching us!”
For a time, every soldier’s blood boiled!
The name Tiger Marquis Li had taken root in people’s hearts far more deeply than Li Mu himself realized.
As martial artists, the highest-level topic the soldiers discussed every day was cultivation, and nothing but cultivation.
The Sub-Profound Spirit Tree and the High-Grade Spiritual Energy Concentrate were not only distributed on a large scale, but their prices were also practically discounted again and again.
Even if soldiers did not carry out missions, they could exchange for them as long as they trained at the Instructor Department’s training field and earned points.
The soldiers discussed these things more than anything else every day, and the name they mentioned most frequently was Tiger Marquis Li.
All of it was Tiger Marquis Li’s weighty love for the soldiers of the Abyss-Suppression Army!
The Red Horse Military District and the Spirit Dragon Military District were included as well, because Tiger Marquis Li could have completely refused to open those resources to the two Military Districts and sold those quotas for money instead.
At this moment, the Tiger Roar Army and more than a hundred Profound Rank experts had already fought their way in.
Before they arrived, Li Mu had already hunted down more than thirty Profound Rank green-furred men.
Once the Profound Rank experts arrived, they quickly killed all the green-furred men.
The battlefield situation gradually turned around.
At the very least, the Profound Rank monsters that posed the greatest threat to the soldiers had all been wiped out.
What followed was a massacre of monsters by Humanity’s Profound Ranks.
In addition, Li Mu alone could now maintain up to sixty External Incarnations at the same time.
That was equivalent to sixty Profound Ranks.
The Tiger Roar Army’s combat power was extraordinary as well.
Among them, many had already taken three rounds of Low-Grade Body-Fortifying Pills.
Even those who had taken fewer had at least gone through two rounds, and Qi-Gathering Pills were common as well.
After all, they were Li Mu’s own foundation. Aside from turning some of his Low-Grade Body-Fortifying Pills into Spiritual Liquid, Li Mu had given all the remaining stock to Song Chuhe.
Most importantly, all of them had consumed Corpse Dissolution Flower Liquid. At critical moments, they possessed the ability to enter a berserk state, and their combat power could instantly leap across two grades without issue.
The arrival of the Tiger Roar Army instantly eased the pressure in the south.
But for the sake of the rescue, they had been sprinting at full speed the entire way here and had not paid any attention to the surrounding monsters.
At this moment, a terrifying number of monsters had also gathered in the south.
Suddenly, Li Mu’s voice sounded from everyone’s Tactical Watch.
“I am Li Mu.”
“Everyone, lift your spirits!”
“The target is due south!”
“Those who can fight, charge forward! Those who are injured, fall back!”
“Punch through this road for me!”