He hasn’t had much interaction with the young lieutenant, Qin Shi, and hasn’t yet gotten used to his way of doing things.
"At an altitude of three thousand meters, it doesn’t affect Lieutenant Qin."
The airship pilot said.
This was his second ascent, and he recalled how the lieutenant, barely twenty years old, had single-handedly used a military saber to slash apart seven or eight sets of biological armor possessed by electronic demons.
The extreme violence and overwhelming Qi power made a deep impression on the airship pilot.
"Lieutenant Qin has just crossed into the Specialized Level Fifth Rank, right?"
The liaison officer had looked at the relevant files and had a rough understanding of his "superior."
"Reaching the extraordinary domain at such a young age is itself a powerful testament. Even within the Fifth Rank, there are variations in strength."
The airship pilot chuckled, unable to resist the urge to smoke a cigarette during the hovering pause for a bit of refreshment.
"But this is three thousand meters high in the sky, without any protection, a rapid fall would shatter even a body of steel!"
The liaison officer still couldn’t understand. He looked down, but the clouds obscured the uniformed figure of the young lieutenant, making it no longer visible.
The wild wind roared as Qin Shi broke through the thick clouds like cascading mountain peaks, plummeting straight down, with his descent speed increasing as the domain power continued to intensify.
"One thousand meters, eight hundred meters..."
Qin Shi counted silently, and when there were only three hundred meters left in the dangerously low altitude, he suddenly swung the Electric Shock Saber out of its sheath, slashing the void.
A crack was split open, swiftly expanding outward to form a portal below.
Qin Shi was swallowed in, abruptly disappearing, leaving the distracted swarm of night bats bewildered.
Two seconds later, the void opened, and the portal reappeared.
Against the pitch-black background, his military coat fluttered, as if a cannonball had struck the ground!
At that moment, the platinum Scorching Sun expanded, transforming rapidly from concentrated light into an eye-catching brilliance!
The saber’s blade vibrated, and the light erupted, sweeping across dozens of meters!
Ye Xiaotang, who had been fleeing, halted in her tracks; her dark eyes mirrored a thick red-black bolt of lightning, pulled and twisted like a dragon soaring, tearing the fragile space of the polluted zone, then detonated!
The dazzling brilliance spread wantonly, and Life Force fluctuations felt like thousands of steel needles, causing a tingling sensation on her skin!
The airflow surged like tidal waves, pushing outwards layer by layer, causing Ye Xiaotang’s steps to stagger, forcing her to muster Life Force to counteract.
Long Qiuyuan similarly anchored his dual blades into the ground, slightly bending to avoid being swept away by this terrifying storm.
"The purity and intensity of these Life Force fluctuations is truly frightening!"
As a P9 of Xuyang Heavy Industry, she had seen many top students from the Four National Universities and various genius scholars, but when compared to her boss, they all seemed to pale in comparison.
"The term Scorching Sun is indeed fitting. Let the stars lose their light, leaving only him to illuminate the Galaxy!"
The platinum Scorching Sun exploded, its brightness so intense it seemingly deprived all creatures of their senses.
After a moment, Ye Xiaotang and Long Qiuyuan regained their sight and clarity.
A batch of wildly flying night bat creatures appeared, seemingly slashed and cut, revealing lines of blood before transforming into bits of flesh!
The reversing airflow pushed, fluttering the black coat with gold trim.
The perfect Electric Shock Saber was already sheathed, and Qin Shi leaned on the saber’s hilt, standing steadily on the ground.
All around was blood and chunks of flesh!
After reaching the Specialized Level Fifth Rank, the Martial Arts Path began to exhibit "dominance" and "destructive power."
Hundreds of night bat creatures, averaging at disaster’s second energy level, would trouble even a well-equipped vanguard team.
Yet Qin Shi easily swept them away like trash.
"Extraordinary items are indeed useful."
Qin Shi executed this raid through a three-thousand-meter rapid descent, relying on the portal he obtained from the Human-faced Spider’s nest, which he bound to the perfect Electric Shock Saber.
By swinging and slashing the void, he could instantly enter and then step out again!
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Even a mosquito is meat, not to be wasted.
He was exceptionally granted the identity and treatment of a Lieutenant Level by the administrative head of White Poplar Barrier City, Yao Guodong, commanding a resource-rich "vanguard unit."
So, it feels like being in charge.
"Only when you’re in charge do you realize how costly everyday essentials are."
Qin Shi felt emotional; every time he executes a mission, the equipment needs maintenance, and if severely damaged, it needs to be re-equipped: firearms, chainsaws, and so on.
Then there’s the huge expense of vehicles like airships and battle wagons, not to mention the specialized medical resources and cultivation resources supplied to him.
This compelled Qin Shi to transform into a "Heaven’s Mandate Worker," actively engaging on the Western Front, eyeing the lairs of followers on the "Must-Kill List."
In just half a month, he has consecutively succeeded, taking down a third-level threat, gladly earning the name "Follower Assassin."
Ye Xiaotang was being chased, crying out chaotically, but she worked swiftly, immediately collecting research-worthy pollution samples and packing them in specially-made transparent bags.
In battlefield cleanup, she was quite professional, completing it rapidly like a storm sweeping away the clouds.
"The snake-baiting plan seems to have succeeded, boss."
Long Qiuyuan gazed into the distance, as a wave of life force like a black tide rushed rapidly, making her quiver and a chill swell up.
Such an intense threat must inevitably be a third-rank disaster, and the evolutionary level was extremely high.
Qin Shi’s eyes flashed with anticipation.
"I’ll take over the battlefield."
As they spoke, a huge shadow was cast upon the pitch-black sky, that of a bat-like silhouette with a thirty-meter wingspan.
The Power of Shadow congealed into substance, resembling a massive dark cloud, flashing and crossing several kilometers in an instant!
"Phase Shift? Able to fly in the interlayer between the material universe and the Netherworld."
Qin Shi raised an eyebrow as the huge bat shadow, like frames missing in a movie, instantly moved with a few leaps and was already enveloping over!
The mind felt like blood mist spreading, accompanied by the sonic waves emitted by the Night Bat King, invading Qin Shi’s Sea of Consciousness instantly.
The previously set-up spiritual defenses were easily breached!
The Night Bats’ talent lies exactly in this.
They can emit spiritual ability sound waves of frequencies matching the Netherworld, with a range that expands with the rise in evolutionary level.
Once covered, one must undergo a "will assessment," and failures will have their flesh stripped from their bones, becoming just a skeleton.
"A bit of intensity, but not much."
Qin Shi’s head shook briefly as the Sea of Consciousness rippled like a stone cast into water, but soon it was calm again.
His spirit’s stability had been relentlessly tempered by Elder He using the Void Meditation Technique; the Night Bat King’s spiritual sound waves were nowhere near enough.
"Do you have any other tricks?"
Qin Shi hadn’t drawn his saber, and the Night Bat King Morgan mastered the phase shift ability; its body technique was elusive, making it hard to lock onto.
"Are you the audacious human who dares to intrude into the lair, hunting followers?"
The Night Bat King Morgan spread its wings, hovering mid-air, the Power of Shadow surged fiercely, covering hundreds of meters.
A cold and slippery spiritual fluctuation, like tentacles reaching towards Qin Shi, recoiled sharply as soon as they touched the platinum Scorching Sun, as if burned by a hot iron plate, in agony.
"Since you know it’s me, yet you come here willingly, it really makes one admire your courage."
Qin Shi stepped forward, the platinum Scorching Sun rising from his bones, shining out, illuminating the polluted area’s dark sky.
He proactively approached the massive Night Bat King, nearing the shadow domain it released.
"Arrogant! Conceited!"
The Night Bat King Morgan sneered:
"You’ve slaughtered so many followers that you’ve already been targeted! This is the ’Deep Zone,’ your battle line can’t advance here, which means no one will come to save you!"
Qin Shi remained unfazed, continued forward, as the platinum Scorching Sun became increasingly real.
Strands of light formed into substance, gradually diluting the shadowy domain like dark ink that couldn’t dissolve.
"Relying only on you, it seems unlikely to achieve this fantasy."
Qin Shi’s gaze was calm, the life magnetic field seemed to sense; it wasn’t just the Night Bat King, but there were other third-rank disaster-level followers here!
"Planning to reverse-hunt me, huh? Good, I need more resource supplies!"
Realizing this was a deliberate set-up bait, Qin Shi was instead delighted, a smirk appearing on his lips like a starving person seeing several bountiful deliveries brought right to him.
He couldn’t wait to start the feast!