High Martial Arts: Gains one point of health per second, sweeping across the heavens.

Su Jie crashed to the ground like a meteorite, cracking the earth beneath his feet. His icy gaze instantly locked onto the Thunderwing Roc in the air, which was emitting a cry of alarm and anger.

"You're the third one!"

He bent his knees slightly, and the ground beneath his feet exploded with a deafening roar. He unleashed the full power of the "Sky-Stepping Step," and his entire body shot into the sky like a shooting star, accompanied by a piercing sonic boom, heading straight for the Thunderwing Dragon Roc!

The Thunderwing Dragon Roc clearly hadn't expected Su Jie to be so ferocious, having already killed two king-level beasts of the same rank and still having the strength to attack it.

It let out a sharp screech, and with a sudden flap of its wings, countless bolts of destructive lightning, as thick as buckets, poured down like a torrential rain, blocking all of Su Jie's paths of advance!

"A mere trick!" Su Jie sneered, and his left fist once again shone with a faint golden light of immortality. Without dodging or avoiding, he threw a punch!

Wherever the fist struck, a vacuum channel was forcibly created in the dense lightning! His speed did not decrease, and he instantly pierced through the lightning curtain, appearing in front of the Thunderwing Roc's enormous head!

Fear finally showed in the compound eyes of the Thunderwing Roc. It tried to flap its wings and fly away, but Su Jie was faster!

"Get down here!"

Su Jie's left hand spread its five fingers wide, like an iron clamp, and with a terrifying power of more than 600,000 combat strength, it gripped the hard beak of the Thunderwing Dragon Roc!

Then, amidst the shocked gazes of countless martial artists below, he exerted force from his waist and abdomen, and swung his arm downwards with a sudden thrust!

"boom--!!!"

The massive Thunderwing Roc was actually slammed down from the sky by Su Jie using brute force! It crashed heavily to the ground, kicking up clouds of dust, and the sound of bones shattering rang out like popping beans!

Su Jie followed closely behind, stepping on its head with one foot and applying slight pressure.

"Pfft!"

His head shattered like a watermelon.

[Slayed the King-level monster "Thunderwing Dragon Roc" and refined it to obtain 230 points of Blood Essence!]

In the blink of an eye, three powerful king-level demonic beasts were killed! Su Jie's overwhelming strength acted like a stimulant into the hearts of the remaining defenders.

"Kill! Follow King Su! Slaughter all these beasts!!" A general-level officer with a missing arm and covered in blood roared as he planted his sword on the ground, his remaining arm still slashing at the low-level demonic beasts that surged forward.

However, the overall situation on the battlefield was not fundamentally reversed by Su Jie's localized dominance. After all, this was a massive beast tide!

"Ugh—!"

In the distance, a piercing scream rang out. Su Jie turned his head sharply and saw a human level one battle king being attacked by three king-level demonic beasts of the same level.

He risked serious injury to kill one, but was pierced through the heart from behind by another ghostly [Shadow Cat], and finally trampled into a pulp by a [Giant Rhinoceros]!

Before he died, he detonated his martial meridians. The brilliant light took away the Shadow Demon Cat, but it also illuminated the mountain of corpses of his comrades around him.

"Old Zhao!!" Another second-level battle king's eyes were bloodshot. He was being entangled by five king-level demonic beasts and was also covered in wounds. He was unable to rescue them and could only watch helplessly as his comrade fell.

Such tragedies continued to unfold across the vast front.

On the eastern defensive line, a female war queen burned her life force, her powerful methods temporarily blocking the surging beast tide. But soon, she too died from exhaustion, her body frozen in place, like an ice sculpture monument.

On the western side of the canyon, three war kings formed a defensive formation to guard the vital passage. They had already repelled dozens of waves of beast tides, and the corpses of monsters piled up thickly at their feet.

Two of them had already died in battle, and the last one, with a broken arm and a leg, still managed to detonate all the energy bombs he carried with him using his remaining blood and energy, perishing together with several king-level monsters that charged at him, fulfilling his oath of "the position is ours as long as we are here" with his life.

Tragic! Devastating!

The human warriors used their lives and blood to hold back the horde of monsters inch by inch.

However, the number of King-level demonic beasts was simply too great, seemingly endless, constantly surging forth from the depths of the beast tide. With each War King sacrificed, the defense line weakened further, and collapse seemed only a matter of time.

As Su Jie watched these scenes unfold, his chest felt like it was about to explode. He was strong, but he couldn't instantly cover the entire battlefield.

All he can do is kill as many king-level monsters as possible in his area to relieve the pressure on his comrades in other directions, and become stronger as soon as possible!

"System, how much Qi and Blood Essence do I have now?"

[Current Qi and Blood Essence: 680 points.]

[Current average Qi and Blood reserves: 360 million points]

"Just a little short..." Su Jie's eyes were sharp as knives as he scanned the battlefield. "It takes 1140 points of Qi and Blood Essence to exchange for the remaining 1140 million Qi and Blood needed to condense a level nine martial vein..."

Just then, the beast tide surged again, and three ferocious king-level demonic beasts rushed at him from different directions at the same time!

One is the [Bewitching Fox], skilled in mental attacks; another is the [Mystic Tortoise Beast], with astonishing defensive capabilities; and the third is the [Nine-Headed Hydra Lizard], incredibly fast with venomous claws and teeth!

"Perfect timing! We were just worried we wouldn't have enough!"

Instead of being afraid, Su Jie took the initiative to meet them! The "Stepping into the Sky" technique made him move like lightning, and he was the first to find the Bewitching Fox, which posed the greatest threat to him.

The fox demon's eyes glowed with an eerie red light, and an invisible mental shockwave pierced Su Jie's sea of ​​consciousness like a sharp cone!

If it were an ordinary War King, he would surely have been caught off guard and struck. But the Martial Heart (green) light between Su Jie's brows flickered slightly, and the Heart as Solid as a Rock effect was activated. The mental impact was like a mud ox sinking into the sea, failing to cause the slightest ripple.

"die!"

Su Jie's left hand seemed to pierce through space, crushing the Bewitching Fox's head in its horrified gaze! [Blood Essence +190 points!]

Immediately afterwards, he twisted his body to avoid the venom spewed by the hydra lizard, and his right leg swept across like a battle axe, kicking heavily into the seemingly indestructible carapace of the Xuan Turtle Beast!

With a dull, resounding thud, the back armor, which was strong enough to withstand the full force of a level four battle king, was dented and cracked by Su Jie's kick!

The giant tortoise let out a painful roar, blood gushing from its mouth and nose.

The nine heads of the Hydra lizard came tearing at Su Jie from different angles. Su Jie's left hand moved so fast that it left afterimages, sometimes punching and sometimes pointing. Each collision was accompanied by the explosion of a lizard head!

In just a few breaths, the nine-headed lizard became a headless lizard, collapsing to the ground. [Blood Essence +210 points!]

Finally, he charged at the heavily injured Xuan Turtle Beast once again, his left hand forming a chop with his five fingers together. Immortal golden light condensed at his fingertips, and like a hot knife cutting through butter, he pierced the crack in the carapace!

"puff--!"

The hand strike pierced straight through, striking the very core! The colossal body of the Xuan Turtle Beast trembled violently, then its life force ceased. [Blood Essence +220 points!]

An astonishing light flashed in Su Jie's eyes!

"System! Consuming 1140 points of Qi and Blood Essence, you have exchanged them for 1140 million Qi and Blood. You are now instantly condensing your ninth Martial Meridian!"

[Command confirmed! Consuming 1500 million points of Qi and Blood, initiating the condensation of the ninth martial meridian...]