novelslam Chapter 226 Leaving the Arctic
Chapter 226 Leaving the Arctic
Song Chen didn't take the hit head-on. Instead, he charged at Tianlang from the front, and just as the claw blades were about to strike, he spun around and slid to the outside of Tianlang's left hind leg.
With a backhand thrust, Tianjun Blade plunged into Tianlang's knee joint, and Nine Heavens Thunder surged through the blade, exploding inside the joint.
Sirius's left hind leg suddenly buckled, causing him to lose his balance and fall to the side.
It struggled to stand up on its three legs, but Song Chen was already standing on its back.
Holding the Heavenly Blade upside down, he pierced it through the joint between the cervical vertebrae, the tip penetrating the spinal cord and exiting through the throat bone.
Sirius convulsed once and then stopped moving.
[A Tier 5 alien beast has been killed, gaining 86523 kill points.]
He drew his knife and looked around.
More wolves are arriving. Twenty thousand wolves spread out across the plains, their gray fur covering the entire ice field like a dirty blanket.
They completely abandoned their formation and charged forward in a swarm.
Wolf packs don't normally fight like this. They have tactics and coordination, and they will flank from the side, make feints to probe, and take turns wearing down their prey.
But this group of Sirius had no tactics, no coordination, only orders to die.
Their eyes held no reason, only a single-minded madness.
Song Chen pushed the lightning field to its maximum power, and golden-purple electric arcs leaped in chains, weaving an ever-expanding electric grid among the wolf pack.
He took a deep breath and then rushed into the area where the wolves were most concentrated.
Every strike of the Heavenly Blade follows the shortest path, and the Eye of Truth simultaneously captures dozens of attack trajectories within the horde of beasts, the dense golden dotted lines almost completely covering the entire field of vision.
He passed through the gaps between the dotted lines, swung his sword, drew it, and passed through again.
Thunder roared, wolves howled, and blood and shards of ice mingled in the air.
The system's notification sounds exploded in his mind into a dense, almost continuous series of long tones.
[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 785 kill points.]
[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 6855 kill points.]
[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 874 kill points.]
……
An hour later, the plain turned into a slaughterhouse.
The shattered ice and body parts froze together into distorted ice sculptures, and blood flowed on the ice surface before being solidified by the extreme cold into layers of red ice shells.
Song Chen stood in the center of the pile of corpses, breathing slightly heavily. His Beiming Battle Armor was covered with a thick layer of red ice, and the blade of his Tianjun Blade was covered with a layer of sticky blood.
He shook the blood off his knife, looked up, and saw that new pursuers had arrived.
The final mental command from the Sirius King was issued to all the land-based beasts.
On the Greenland ice sheet, besides the Sirius tribe, there were also many vassal tribes, who also heard the news.
A group of Ice Ridge Dragon Lizards emerged from the cracks on the eastern side of the ice field. There were about three hundred of them, all of them at the fourth and fifth tiers. The leader was over a hundred meters long, with exceptionally thick and long ice spikes on its back, and was at the peak of the fifth tier.
Song Chen leaped up from the pile of wolf carcasses and charged towards the group of dragon lizards.
The lead lizard opened its mouth and spewed a stream of icy blue freezing air at him. The range of the freezing air covered an area of hundreds of meters, and the temperature was so low that it could instantly freeze steel brittle.
He didn't dodge; the blade energy on Tianjun Blade changed from golden purple to pure gold, unleashing the seventh strike of the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes.
A pure golden blade of energy cleaved through the very center of the freezing air, splitting the column of freezing air in two.
The freezing air flowed past the shoulder armor of the Northern Darkness Armor from both sides, and a thin layer of ice formed on the surface of the armor plates, but it was automatically shattered by the armor's built-in psionic shield.
He slipped through the gap created by the split in the column of frozen air and plunged his knife into the cartilage of the dragon lizard's palate.
Behind the cartilage was the dragon lizard's brain cavity. After the knife tip pierced the cartilage, it went straight into the brain marrow, and the thunder from the heavens exploded inside the skull.
The dragon lizard's massive body stiffened for a moment, then it crashed to its side, the ice spikes on its back piercing the ice surface, sending shards of ice flying everywhere.
[A Tier 5 alien beast has been killed, gaining 86855 kill points.]
Despite the leader being killed, the Ice Spine Dragon Lizard horde did not collapse.
The Sirius King's death order still held true; they knew they couldn't retreat, they couldn't run, they could only charge upwards.
They rammed with their bodies, sprayed with freezing air, and swept with their tails.
The field of lightning swept through the swarm of dragon lizards, golden-purple arcs of electricity leaping and conducting along the ice spikes on their spines, jumping from one dragon lizard to another, causing them to convulse from the shock.
Song Chen weaved through the convulsing swarm of dragon lizards, his Heavenly Blade slicing through joints, eye sockets, and cervical vertebrae.
After defeating the dragon lizard horde, the polar snow bear horde arrived, followed by the frostwing eagle horde, and then the ice field giant scorpion horde. They surged in wave after wave, each wave more ferocious than the last.
Six hours later.
Song Chen stood on a small hill made of corpses.
The glacial plain is unrecognizable from its original state; the corpses of strange beasts are piled up and cover the entire ice field, making it look like a huge open-air morgue from a distance.
The blade of the Heavenly Blade was covered with layers of frozen ice shells that were then covered with fresh blood. Each swing of the blade could only remove the outermost layer of ice.
The armor plates of the Northern Darkness Armor were covered with dense claw marks. The armor's cleaning array had been operating beyond its capacity for an unknown period of time, and layers of blood and grime had accumulated on the surface of the armor plates. Song Chen was exhausted.
Then, he spent 300,000 kill points to exchange for a bottle of Nine Revolutions Rejuvenating Liquid, which he immediately poured into his mouth, and his qi and blood instantly returned to 80%.
In six hours, he killed countless people.
The kill count on the system panel jumped to a number that even made him a little dazed: 28 million.
In just six hours, from the Sirius pursuers to the successive attacks of the vassal races, twenty-eight million...
The Sirius King's death order pinned the beasts to the battlefield, forbidding them from retreating. He didn't need to chase or search; he could simply stand still and hack away.
This is the true use of the killing system: not to hunt down the beasts, but to make the beasts hunt you down.
"That felt great, so great!"
Song Chen couldn't help but shout.
The terminal vibrated, and when it connected, Zhou Wangyue's voice came through. The sounds of battle in the background had stopped, leaving only the howling of the polar wind: "Song Chen, the Sirius King is dead. Qi Shanhe killed him with his own hands. You can come back now."
Song Chen planted the Heavenly Blade in the ice and leaned against the scabbard to catch his breath: "Dead? Faster than expected."
"Qi Shanhe has been waiting for this opportunity for many years. Where are you now? I'll come pick you up."
"No need, I won't go back yet."
"Not going back?"
Song Chen glanced at the pile of corpses at his feet, then at the slowly increasing kill count on the system panel.
"Teacher, I'm not going back for now. I'll cultivate in the wilderness for a while."
He was so engrossed in the efficiency of gaining kill points that he couldn't bear to go back.
After thinking for three or four seconds, Zhou Wangyue said, "With your current strength, there's really nothing that can do anything to you on land."
"But don't go to the ocean. Whales and sea dragons are looking for you. The ocean isn't land. Sixth-tier sea beasts are twice as powerful underwater, understand?"
"I know, only on land."
"When will you be back?"
Song Chen glanced down at the pile of corpses at his feet: "Hard to say..."
"I want to travel and see the world, to go to Europe, which I had never been to before the cataclysm."