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

Chapter 119 Encirclement

Song Chen pushed the Wings of Gale to their limit, using each step he took on the sea surface to propel himself forward at such speed that he tore a white wave in his wake.

Behind them came a deafening roar from the direction of Yunbo Island, the aftershocks of a sixth-tier Grandmaster clashing with a sixth-tier Beast King. Each boom caused a hundred-foot-high wall of water to erupt from the sea surface within a radius of dozens of miles.

Sea creatures roamed all around.

First-tier swordfish swarmed up from underwater like raindrops, second-tier armored sharks lunged from both sides with their gaping maws, and third-tier sea serpents coiled underwater.

Further away, the auras of the fourth tier were like nails driven into the sea, closing in on this side.

Song Chen gripped the Tianjun Blade tightly and then drew his sword.

The first strike was a horizontal slash.

More than a dozen first-tier arrowfish beasts that rushed up were cut in half at the waist, and their corpses were torn apart and devoured by the sea beasts that followed before they even hit the water.

[A Tier 1 beast has been killed, gaining 5 kill points.]

[A Tier 1 beast has been killed, gaining 6 kill points.]

[A Tier 1 beast has been killed, gaining 4 kill points.]

……

Without pausing, Song Chen flipped the blade and delivered a second vertical slash.

The two Tier 2 armored sharks were split in two from head to tail, their dark green blood splattering onto the sea surface.

Its eyes still held the ferocity of its attack, and it died without ever realizing how it had died.

[A Tier 2 alien beast has been killed, gaining 64 kill points.]

[A Tier 2 alien beast has been killed, gaining 52 kill points.]

Two more Tier 2 red squid pounced from his left front, their tentacles, barbed with barbs, lashing towards his waist.

With a flap of his wings, Song Chenfeng twisted his body in mid-air, the blade following his movements. With one stroke, he severed both tentacles, then the tip of the blade pierced the head of one of the tentacles. As he pulled it out, he used the momentum to sweep it horizontally, cutting the other end of the body in two.

[A Tier 2 alien beast has been killed, gaining 74 kill points.]

……

The system prompted that the screen was being refreshed.

But Song Chen didn't have time to look. A Tier 3 Iron-Spine Sea Python rushed up from underwater. It was over 15 meters long, and the bony spines on its back gleamed with a metallic sheen. Its gaping maw snapped at his waist.

He didn't retreat. He reached out with his left hand, his five fingers digging directly into the sea python's upper jaw. Using this as a fulcrum, he flipped his body over, gripped the knife in his right hand from the hilt of the Tianjun Blade, and plunged the knife into the very center of the sea python's head.

Purple lightning poured into the blade and spread along the central nervous system of the Ironback Sea Serpent.

Its body convulsed violently in the lightning, and the thorns on its back exploded one by one, revealing the charred flesh and blood underneath.

[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 547 kill points.]

From the moment the sword was drawn to the moment the third-tier sea serpent was killed, it took less than a second.

The sea was briefly still for a moment.

The low-level sea beasts that were attacking suddenly stopped.

The second-tier armored shark hesitated, while the first-tier swordfish even began to retreat.

Animal instincts instilled fear in them; the murderous intent emanating from this human was more intense than that of any creature they had ever seen.

But those at the fourth level are not afraid.

A sharp voice came from ahead: "Human."

That was a demonic fish with a ghostly face.

Its body resembles a ribbonfish magnified hundreds of times, with silvery-white scales refracting a cold light in the seawater, and it is over thirty meters long.

But what's truly terrifying is its head, a face that looks exactly like an old human woman, with wrinkled skin, sunken eye sockets, a mouth that stretches to the ears, and three rows of fine, sharp teeth.

The fourth-tier sea beast is already able to speak human language.

"You can't escape. The Emperor has specifically named you and wants your life. The entire sea area has been sealed off. You third-tier ant, obediently let me devour you."

The voice of the demon-faced fish was sharp and piercing.

Song Chen's answer was a knife.

His figure vanished instantly under the propulsion of the wind wings, reappearing atop the head of the Ghost-Faced Fish Demon.

Lightning surged on the Heavenly Blade, its blade intent locked in, and it slashed down.

The demonic fish let out a cold laugh, and dozens of thin bone spikes suddenly shot out from both sides of its body, piercing towards Song Chen from all directions.

At the same time, its old woman-like mouth opened to an incredible angle, emitting a piercing sonic shriek.

This is a sonic attack.

The sea surface exploded with a piercing roar, sending up countless columns of water, and visible ripples appeared in the air.

This level of sound waves is enough to shatter the internal organs of a second-tier martial artist, and even a third-tier martial artist would be dizzy.

But Song Chen didn't faint.

The Illusionary Eyes shone with golden light deep within his pupils. The moment the mental barrier was erected, a sonic shriek swept over him, like water rushing over rocks, without shaking him in the slightest.

The demon-faced fish, just like a human, showed a hint of surprise in its eyes.

Before the shock had even subsided, Song Chen's blade had already fallen, revealing the unmistakable power of his master-level swordsmanship.

A purple, illusory lightning blade extended thirty meters from the edge of the blade.

Those bone spikes were cut off like paper in front of the lightning blade, and then the blade cut into the middle of the head of the demon-faced fish demon, and went down the spine, splitting its thirty-meter-long body in two from head to tail.

Lightning exploded inside its body, turning its flesh, bones, and internal organs into charred remains.

[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 3847 kill points.]

The two halves of the demon-faced fish's corpse collapsed to either side, crashing into the sea and creating a huge splash.

The surrounding sea creatures became noticeably agitated.

The first-tier swordfish beast began to retreat frantically, and the second-tier armored shark no longer hesitated and turned to flee.

Even the third-tier sea serpents slowed down, their vertical pupils revealing a look of apprehension.

They saw it; this human had killed a fourth-tier opponent with a single strike.

This is beyond their understanding of "prey".

Suddenly, a strange mental fluctuation came, and the fear in the eyes of the beasts vanished instantly, and they charged forward frantically.

In the distance, a psionic spaceship is hovering on the sea.

The ship is painted with the logo of the Tianhai City Maritime Patrol Team.

On the deck, a dozen patrol members were using psionic cannons to clear out the sea monsters on the perimeter.

Captain Fang Zhenhai stood on the ship's side, holding up binoculars and looking into the depths of the sea monster swarm. His expression changed from worry to disbelief.

"Song Chen... just killed a Tier 4 monster? Just one strike?"

Fang Zhenhai's voice was trembling.

There was a moment of silence on the deck.

The patrol members were separated by the dense swarm of sea monsters. They could only vaguely see a blue figure moving at high speed on the sea surface. Every time a blade flashed, a sea monster fell.

First-tier, one slash and it's gone.

Tier 2, one slash and several kills.

Tier 3, one cut, one head.

The fourth-tier sea beast was actually cleaved in two with a single strike.

"Holy crap... this is Tier 3?"

"A young patrolman murmured."

Fang Zhenhai put down his binoculars, and his Adam's apple bobbed.

He was a fourth-level martial artist who had worked in the patrol team for fifteen years and had seen many geniuses.

Every year, Tianhai University sends its most talented freshmen to the front lines for training. Among them are many prodigies who can fight beyond their level, but how could a third-level student slay a fourth-level student with a single strike?

He had never seen it, nor had he ever heard of it.

Deputy Captain Lin Yue's voice was somewhat hoarse: "Captain, we've been ordered to rescue people, how do we respond?"

Fang Zhenhai gritted his teeth: "Continue to clear out the outer perimeter and push forward."

"But what about those fourth-tier sea beasts inside?"

"I said push forward!"

Fang Zhenhai roared, then took a deep breath and lowered his voice: "That kid is Principal Zhou's disciple. Principal Zhou is fighting desperately against a sixth-level opponent to buy us time. If we can't even save his disciple, what face will our patrol team have to go back?"

No one spoke on the deck anymore.

The psionic spaceship began to move forward, its psionic cannons at the bow firing incessantly, blasting the sea monsters blocking its path into pieces.

On the spaceship, a rescued person stood up, holding onto the ship's railing.

It's Shen Yutong.

She was wrapped in a blanket, her short hair was soaked by seawater and stuck to her face, and her face was pale, but her gaze pierced through the layers of waves and sea monsters, fixed on that direction.

"He's still inside."

The voice wasn't loud, but Zhao Kunlun, who was standing next to her, heard it.

Zhao Kunlun reached out his hand, as if to say something, but in the end he just patted Shen Yutong on the shoulder.

"He'll be alright."

Shen Yutong didn't speak, she just stared in that direction.

Then she saw the cyan figure suddenly accelerate and rush into the encirclement formed by a group of three fourth-tier sea beasts.

With a flash of light and a burst of lightning, he tore open a gap in the encirclement of the three fourth-tier sea beasts with a single strike.

One of the fourth-tier Red Squid Kings was unable to dodge in time and was struck at the base of its tentacles by the blade. All three tentacles were severed at the root, and dark green blood gushed out.

The Red Squid King let out a mournful screech.

Its remaining tentacles lashed wildly at the surface of the sea, but its body was retreating.

The fourth-tier sea beast has retreated.

It was afraid.

She recalled how strong Song Chen was when they were on Yunbo Island, and now it seemed that he had held back back then.

"Song Chen, you must survive."