"Roar... roar... roar..."
In an instant, their brains seemed to receive violent impacts. Their pupils began losing focus. Their bodies swayed involuntarily before collapsing heavily to the ground. The mutant bird flocks in the sky also let out low cries before plummeting from the air.
Under the Spiritual Energy Revival, the Way of the Sword seemed to be evolving toward mythology as well. Not just sword qi—even mental-type abilities had emerged.
"This kind of ability—it's probably what novels call Sword Intent."
Chu Han murmured.
Slaughter Sword Intent condensed amid killing—its first deployment actually caused such large-scale intimidation.
Quite unexpected.
But the consumption was also abnormally massive. He felt thirty percent of the spiritual energy within his body vanish at once. Moreover, because it was a mental-type ability, he couldn't use it again in the short term. At least, he couldn't deploy it on such a large scale like just now.
However, this alone wasn't enough. He looked at the mutant beasts continuing to gather ahead and gripped his sword hilt slightly tighter.
While this time lasted—he'd continue killing!
He also wanted to try maintaining clarity amid slaughter.
The earth had long been dyed red with blood. Countless corpses covered the road surface.
Amid desperate beast cries, countless mutant beasts looked at that god-like, demon-like figure in the distance.
"Roar—"
This was the final beast cry. And the last straw that broke the other mutant beasts.
Finally, those mutant beasts began retreating backward—even fleeing toward the distance.
They were afraid.
Fear of this demon had conquered their desire for evolution.
One mutant beast corpse after another made them understand—some existences they absolutely could not defeat!
Though he merely stood there, he seemed like a barrier blocking them from the human city—filled with oppression, suffocating.
He stood alone amid a mountain of corpses and sea of blood. His originally white robes had long been dyed red—yet this only further accentuated his killing intent.
Chu Han simply stood in place, calmly watching the mutant beasts' flight.
At this moment, he still possessed the ability to continue slaughtering—but there was no longer any need.
He'd killed enough already.
The corpses on this road were already sufficient.
Moreover—he was tired of killing.
"Hah—"
Taking a deep breath, a flash of light crossed Chu Han's sword body. The Clow Card from before fell into his hand.
"Thank you."
He sincerely offered thanks, then put away the Sword Card.
Without the Sword Card, he absolutely couldn't have slaughtered an entire Beast Tide with his strength alone.
Even less could he have comprehended sword qi and Sword Intent.
To be precise, the current sword qi and Sword Intent weren't things he himself understood, but things the Sword Card itself had comprehended amid slaughter under spiritual energy's influence.
He could merely use them because he'd fused with the Sword Card.
"I should've brought some liquor."
Chu Han casually thrust his longsword into a nearby mutant boar's corpse, then sat atop a nearby mutant fox, speaking with some sentiment.
He didn't like drinking. Especially baijiu.
But now he somewhat wanted to drink.
"After resting, I should head back early."
"Take a bath, lie in bed and sleep—that should feel quite comfortable."
Chu Han slightly narrowed his eyes. His entire being appeared somewhat languid.
At the same time, Cloud City's support had already arrived. Along the way, they'd also encountered attacks from some mutant beasts, wasting considerable time.
But after they arrived—everyone fell into stupefaction.
What concept was it—tens of thousands of mutant beast corpses fallen in swaths across the ground?
What they saw now was exactly that.
"This is... way too exaggerated!"
A Spiritual Energy Bureau ability user looked at the scene and spoke incredulously.
Everywhere the eyes reached—only corpses.
Mutant rats, mutant boars, mutant tigers, mutant bears... Under the Beast Tide, they'd gathered together. Then died together.
"This kind of pure slaughter is far too shocking."
"This isn't just blocking a Beast Tide with one person's strength—this is completely cutting through a Beast Tide with one person's strength!"
"Can one person, one sword really achieve this degree?"
"Fiction becoming reality—it feels like swordsmanship has also changed due to spiritual energy."
"After we return, there should be video, right? I want to see the whole process."
"You're not the only one who wants to see it..."
Everyone looked at the densely packed mutant beast corpses covering the ground, their faces filled with shock and disbelief.
Also because of these mutant beast corpses, they had to disembark from their vehicles and walk on foot toward the road's far end.
The reason—they were going to provide support!
Though it looked like Chu Han didn't need support...
As they continued deeper, the shock and horror on their faces grew ever deeper.
Walking all this way—aside from mutant beast corpses, they couldn't even see a single living mutant beast.
Suddenly—
"Commander, this mutant tiger still has breath."
A perception-type ability user pointed at a nearby mutant tiger.
"Finish it."
"Yes, sir."
Hearing the order, he unhesitatingly drew his dagger and stabbed it into the mutant tiger's head.
Stabbing repeatedly until brain matter oozed out.
Time passed slowly. This support force numbered approximately two hundred people.
They walked along the road. Their gazes shifted from original shock, horror, and disbelief to current rigidity. When shocked for too long, it became like this.
With all these mutant beasts on the ground—even if they all attacked together, they might not handle them.
Yet Chu Han had killed them all in such a short time?
The key point—Chu Han's talent was only Second Sequence.
Currently, no Second Sequence ability user had ever achieved this degree.
The gap between ability users of different talents wasn't small—especially between First Sequence and Second Sequence.
Forget Dragon Emperor and the others who possessed formidable combat power immediately after ability awakening during the First Spiritual Energy Tide. Even those just now awakening who merely possessed First Sequence talent—after just one month of cultivation, their strength would surpass current Second Sequence.
This was the gap in talent.
Chu Han was the only ability user who could achieve this degree with Second Sequence talent.
From information transmitted by superiors, his Tyrannosaurus ability was merely used to assist swordsmanship—enhancing his physique to guarantee prolonged combat and swifter killing. In other words, he'd only used his ability to amplify his body.
Granting himself greater strength, speed, and stamina—to better deploy swordsmanship.
But relying solely on swordsmanship—how could one possibly cut through an entire Beast Tide?
Unless under spiritual energy's influence, human swordsmanship had undergone unknown changes.
Of course, this was merely speculation. Whether true or not—they'd have to wait until meeting Chu Han to confirm.
"Look—is that Chu Han?"
Suddenly, someone spoke with some excitement, pointing in a direction.
Hearing this, the others looked in the direction his finger indicated.
(End of Chapter)