Wang Mingyuan glanced at the twin blades and waved his hand.
White spiritual energy wrapped around the blades, sharper than what covered his body.
"Attack enhancement."
Wang Mingyuan adjusted his glasses: "The attack power of these twin blades and your body's defense are both above Stream Realm level.
The intensity increase of the mist creatures hasn't accelerated that much yet. With your current strength, you're more than capable of handling the mist creatures here."
"Thank you, teacher."
Su Zhan gripped the sword hilts tightly.
It seemed the teacher also knew this mist might be a trap set specifically for them. Otherwise, he would have let him train through experience rather than applying these buffs directly.
Damn, weapon enchantment plus defense buffs.
This definitely made him feel much more secure internally.
He was secretly astonished - this teacher's Life Soul was just too comprehensive.
The protective form that transformed into a cushioning airbag during the plane crash.
The detection form that spread throughout the entire coffee shop during the search.
And now this enhancement form that combined both offense and defense.
Capable of attacking, defending, scouting, and supporting.
This kind of all-around Life Soul was definitely SSS-grade without a doubt.
"Teacher, is your Life Soul SSS-grade?"
Su Zhan asked.
After becoming familiar with each other, these things could be asked casually.
"Yes."
Wang Mingyuan didn't hide it, his eyes continuously scanning their surroundings.
He was still thinking about which route would maximize rescue efficiency, and which areas were relatively safe and spacious enough to gather survivors.
Su Zhan glanced discreetly at Wang Mingyuan.
Once a human genius, an SSS-grade Life Soul awakener, now relegated to being a teacher in the second line due to injuries.
Sigh...
This kind of injury probably couldn't be treated by all of Daxia combined. Otherwise, the authorities wouldn't have given up on treating Wang Mingyuan, an SSS-grade powerhouse.
What kind of creature could possibly inflict such an unsolvable injury?
Terrifying.
With that kind of ability, it wouldn't be on the same level as the mist creatures he had encountered before.
Just at that moment.
A black shadow dove down from the second floor!
The monster's wing vibrations created extreme noise pollution.
It had a hard shell like a beetle, completely black and shiny, with even its abdomen tightly wrapped in heavy armor.
Its huge compound eyes reflected dozens of distorted human figures, and when its mouthparts opened, they revealed three circles of spirally arranged sharp teeth.
Its forelimbs were scythe-like organs.
"Duck!"
Wang Mingyuan called out lightly, his right hand forming a sword finger that sliced through the air. A white spiritual blade shot through the air.
Whoosh—
The monster didn't even have time to scream before it was neatly split in half from the middle.
Green mucus splattered everywhere.
The monster's wing vibrations created extreme noise pollution.
A white spiritual membrane appeared, blocking all of it.
The two halves of the insect corpse fell to the ground, still twitching neurotically.
"Scythe Mist Mantis."
Wang Mingyuan looked at the corpse and explained: "This one's strength is at low-risk fourth stage. Don't be fooled by its low realm - they're colonial creatures that win through numbers. But with my spiritual energy enhancement, you should be able to handle them without prob..."
Before he could finish.
Dense sounds came from the ceiling.
Both looked up to see dozens of identical monsters peeking out from behind the railings on various floors, their compound eyes gleaming with bloodthirsty light.
Su Zhan slowly assumed a combat stance, the white glow still covering his twin blades.
Time to experience what Stream Realm power felt like.
"Whoosh—"
The first Scythe Mist Mantis dove down, raising its scythe-like forelimbs.
Su Zhan's figure flashed, his twin blades crossing in a slash. White spiritual energy sliced through the hard shell as easily as cutting tofu.
Green mucus sprayed out, only to be deflected by the spiritual energy barrier.
The second and third followed closely behind, pouncing from different angles!
Su Zhan shifted his footing, his figure weaving through the monster group.
Twin blades whirling, blade light like snow.
Wherever he passed, Scythe Mist Mantises were severed into two sections.
Their attacks landed on Su Zhan's body, but could only spark against that layer of white spiritual membrane, unable to leave even a trace.
"Clang!"
A Scythe Mist Mantis's scythe heavily chopped at Su Zhan's back, but left no mark whatsoever. The recoil force made it stagger.
Without even turning his head, Su Zhan reversed his blade and cut it in half at the waist.
The commotion here instantly attracted more Scythe Mist Mantises' attention.
More and more Scythe Mist Mantises flew in.
Blade light like rainbows, severed limbs flying everywhere.
Su Zhan fought more fiercely the longer he battled, his twin blades dancing into a silver storm.
Although the Scythe Mist Mantises were numerous, they simply couldn't break through that seemingly thin but actually indestructible white spiritual membrane.
Wang Mingyuan stood in place, hands in his pockets, calmly observing the battle.
Occasionally, stray monsters would pounce toward him.
With just a slight glance, blades formed from spiritual energy would shred the monsters mid-air.
"That's about enough."
Wang Mingyuan suddenly spoke.
Hearing this, Su Zhan crossed his twin blades and slashed out violently!
"Boom—"
A cross-shaped white blade energy erupted, cutting down all remaining Scythe Mist Mantises!
Green mucus converged into small streams on the ground.
Su Zhan shook the blood off his blades and turned to Wang Mingyuan: "Teacher, these buffs you stacked on me... are just too ridiculous."
He looked down at the twin blades in his hands.
The Scythe Mist Mantises were like paper tigers before this power.
And that layer of spiritual membrane covering his body.
When the scythes chopped at him, he only felt slight vibrations, as if all impact had been directly erased by some rule.
This wasn't just some attack and defense enhancement?
This was basically god mode!
Was this the power of Stream Realm...
Fighting these Dew Realm third, fourth, fifth stage creatures was like fighting babies.
Wang Mingyuan adjusted his glasses: "Basic operations."
Su Zhan frowned looking at the monster remains covering the ground.
Those severed, shattered compound eyes, shells, scythe forelimbs...
"Teacher."
Su Zhan used his blade tip to pick up a shell fragment: "These monsters... it's like they took insects from our world, enlarged them dozens of times, and added armor plating."
"The classes mentioned that the mist mimics things from the real world, but this is way too similar."
Wang Mingyuan condensed a wisp of white light at his fingertip, illuminating the spirally arranged sharp teeth in the monster's mouthparts:
"Not similar - these are modified bodies based on insect templates, combining various parts from different insects.
The most obvious is these scythe-like forelimbs - definitely mimicking mantises.
Mist creatures have extreme plasticity.
We don't have the capability to investigate the social structures and evolutionary limitations of mist creatures...
But we know.
They can even mimic things like airplanes and artillery.
Some mist creatures have even evolved treads, evolved cannon barrels.
Our experts' reasoning is...
Useless evolution leads to poor hunting ability and eventual elimination.
Slowly, slowly.
Only those with useful evolution remain when reaching higher realms."
Su Zhan nodded slowly.
This knowledge was covered in classes.
But only by seeing it firsthand could one truly understand the essence of what the books taught.
Natural selection, survival of the fittest.
This theory applied equally to mist creatures.
"Alright, let's go."
Wang Mingyuan pointed toward the nearby escalator.
It had long been jammed and collapsed under corpses.
Su Zhan frowned looking at the monster remains covering the ground.
"Okay."
Su Zhan nodded.
He had become accustomed to such scenes by now.
Following Wang Mingyuan's movement, he pushed off with his legs, vaulting over the escalator and landing on the second floor.
Su Zhan cautiously scanned their surroundings.
Even after just experiencing an overwhelming victory.
He didn't dare relax in the slightest now.
After all, if this mist was truly set up specifically for the two of them.
Then the real crisis... hadn't arrived yet.