High Martial Arts: Slay enemies to become stronger, forge invincibility from billions of corpses.

Chapter 185 Killing the Beast King in a Row

Song Chen did not dodge; the first of the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes.

The lightning on the blade turned golden-purple, and the blade cleaved into the very center of the freezing air.

The freezing air and the lightning collided, ice and lightning eroded each other, bursting out a piercing shriek, and water vapor exploded into white mist, enveloping the area within a radius of several hundred meters.

A second flash of light appeared in the white mist.

The golden-purple blade energy pierced through the white mist and struck the Ice Ridge Dragon Lizard's head.

The tip of the Heavenly Blade pierced into the left eye socket of the Ice Ridge Dragon Lizard, and golden-purple lightning flowed along the blade into the skull.

The Ice Spine Dragon Lizard's entire head exploded from the inside, and skull fragments, brain tissue, and bodily fluids were blasted into a cloud of icy blue blood mist by the lightning.

Its massive body froze for a moment before collapsing with a crash, smashing more than a dozen low-level alien beasts beneath it into a bloody pulp.

[Slayed a Tier 5, early-stage monster, the Ice Spine Dragon Lizard, gaining 21240 kill points]

Before the white mist had even dissipated, Song Chen had already emerged from it.

The abyssal crocodile on the right flank was climbing up from the riverbank; it had been half-submerged in the icy water and was a beat too slow to react.

Now it has completely climbed ashore, and its size is even larger than that of the Iceridged Dragon Lizard.

Its attack method wasn't biting, but ramming. Its charging speed was three times that of the Ice Spine Dragon Lizard, and its massive body rolled over Song Chen like an out-of-control train.

It crushed the low-level beasts in its path, and the frozen ground cracked under its feet.

Song Chen did not back down.

The third of the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes.

The blade's aura changed from golden-purple to crimson-gold.

He didn't split the head off the Deinosuchus, whose skull was the hardest part of its body.

He cut in from the side, and the Heavenly Blade struck the shoulder joint of the Deinosuchus's right forelimb.

The crimson-gold blade energy pierced through the scales, penetrated the muscles, and precisely severed the tendons and ligaments at the joints.

The abyssal crocodile lost its right forelimb instantly, and its body suddenly lost support on one side during the high-speed sprint. The entire beast flipped over like a collapsing mountain, crashing heavily onto the frozen ground and sliding into a pile of rubble on the riverbank.

It struggled to roll over, but its right forelimb was ruined, and its left forelimb was broken by its own weight when it rolled over. Its two hind legs were frantically paddling in the air.

Its tail lashed out, whipping the surrounding low-level beasts into minced meat.

Song Chen didn't give it a chance to turn over. He landed on the overturned belly of the crocodile, where the scales were much thinner than those on its back.

The fourth strike, with pure gold threads emerging from the crimson-gold blade energy, saw the Heavenly Blade pierce through the crocodile's abdomen, through its abdominal muscles, through its abdominal cavity, and into its heart.

Lightning exploded inside the heart, illuminating the entire chest cavity of the Abyssal Devil Crocodile from within, revealing the clear outline of its ribs beneath the skin, before the heart stopped.

[Slayed the Tier 5 mid-level Abyssal Crocodile, gaining 53500 kill points]

At that moment, heavy footsteps and the screeching sound of bone plates rubbing together came from behind.

Everything happened too fast. The first two Tier 5 Beast Kings were almost instantly killed, and the Blade Armor Dragon Lizard is only now arriving.

Its charging speed is not as fast as the Abyssal Crocodile, but its defense is the strongest among these four Tier 5 creatures, and the hardness of its bone plates exceeds that of any alloy below Tier S.

Song Chen leaped off the carcass of the Deinosuchus. The Bladeederus had already rushed in front of him, its huge head lowered, and all the bony plates on its back stood up like a row of guillotines.

He did not leap onto the top of his head.

The fifth of the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes, a pure golden blade aura extending fifty meters.

He charged straight at the front of the armored dragon lizard, and just before being hit, he turned sideways and slipped through the gap between the dragon lizard's left forelimb and torso.

The gap was less than two meters wide. The lizard's skin was as rough as sandpaper. It brushed against his right arm, wore through his clothes, and caused blood to seep from his skin.

Then he drew his knife.

A pure golden blade of energy pierced through the left forelimb armpit of the Blade Armored Dragon Lizard.

There are no bone plates covering it, only a relatively thin layer of skin and muscle.

The blade's energy pierced through the muscles, through the chest cavity, and into the heart.

Like the Abyssal Crocodile, it has a heart.

The Blade Armored Dragon Lizard's heart was blasted open by lightning, and its body suddenly lost power during the charge, with all four limbs going limp at the same time.

The massive body slid forward a considerable distance due to inertia, carving a deep furrow in the frozen ground, before coming to a stop.

[Slayed a Tier 5 mid-level alien beast, the Blade-Armored Dragon Lizard, gaining 48552 kill points.]

All three level 5 heads were killed.

The time taken, from landing to now, is no more than three minutes.

Song Chen pulled the knife from under the armpit of the Blade Armored Dragon Lizard and shook off the blood from the blade.

His breathing was heavier than usual, but he still held the knife very steadily.

Then he turned around and looked at the blue-scaled hunting dragon at the very front of the herd.

The Azure-Scaled Dragon Hunter did not run away.

It stood on a huge rock at a bend in the river, its four-meter-long body taut like a bow, its dark blue scales shimmering with a cold light in the sunlight.

The bony spikes at the end of its tail all stand upright, like an open fan.

His amber-colored vertical pupils stared at Song Chen, the pupils shrinking into thin slits.

It is being evaluated.

The fifth-tier upper-level dragon hunter's intelligence was high enough for it to understand that it couldn't escape.

This human is faster than it; the way he killed the Blade Armored Dragon Lizard just now was a smooth and fluid motion.

The dragon hunter saw every detail clearly, but it didn't move, because it was also waiting for an opening.

The moment the human's breathing became heavy after he had killed three fifth-tier beings in succession.

Right now.

The dark blue figure sprang up from the giant rock, and the dragon hunter changed direction three times in mid-air, leaving a blurry afterimage in the air with each change of direction.

The bone spurs on the tail detached from the tail during the first change of direction, turning into more than a dozen hidden weapons that shot towards Song Chen's back.

During its second change of direction, it circled around to Song Chen's left and slapped down from the side with its four paws.

By the third change of direction, it had already appeared in front of Song Chen and was biting down on his throat.

The three attacks arrived simultaneously.

Bone spurs block the retreat, claws block the flanks, and teeth block the front.

This is the way dragon hunters kill: not by crushing with force, but by using speed and angles to make the prey face deadly threats from all directions at the same time.

Song Chen's Eye of Truth marked every attack trajectory with a golden line.

The flight path of the bone spurs, thirteen in number and at tricky angles, blocked all his space for retreating and moving left and right.

The claws landed on four points: the left shoulder, the right rib, the left leg, and the right wrist.

The occlusal angle of the teeth, in the middle of the throat.

He didn't retreat; instead, the wings of the Gale propelled him forward, charging straight towards that enormous maw.

Just as they were about to bite, he turned his head, and his teeth grazed his neck, less than half an inch from his carotid artery.

At the same time, he raised his left hand, spread his fingers, and grabbed a bone spur that was shooting toward his face.

The impact of the bone spur cracked the web between his thumb and forefinger on his left hand, and blood dripped down the bone spur, but he managed to grab it.

Then he used the bone spike as a short spear and thrust it into the right forelimb shoulder joint of the dragon hunter.

The bone spur pierced through the gaps in the scales, penetrated the muscle, and precisely severed the tendons at the joint.

The dragon's right forelimb instantly lost power, causing its body to lose balance in mid-air, which it managed to recover by swinging its tail.

Song Chen had already used the recoil from the piercing to get to its left side.

The Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes, the seventh slash.

The pure golden blade energy extended for a hundred meters, its edge slicing into the left rib of the dragon hunter. Lightning was compressed to its limit on the blade, like a bolt of lightning that had been bound.

The dragon hunter's ribs snapped like dry branches under the blade's force, the blade piercing through his chest cavity and exiting from the right side.

Then Song Chen pressed down on the blade and pushed it downwards.

The blade's energy traveled down the dragon's chest cavity, slicing through its entire body.