I became a god through frontier slaughter, and I crushed the academy's prodigies!

"Send them all back to Forge City."

Shen Tian said to his watch,

"Tell the Heavenly Crafts Bureau that resources are plentiful. I want you to double the production capacity of the heavy fortresses within three days. Also, push the defensive lines of the eight major cities outwards."

"yes!"

Chu Feng's voice became somewhat hoarse due to excessive excitement.

Shen Tian cut off the communication and turned to look at Qin Zhenshan and the others behind him.

"The Purple Spirit Clan's fleet has been cleared away, but there is still a lot of unsightly trash on this land that needs to be removed."

Qin Zhenshan was stunned for a moment, before he could even ask a question.

Shen Tian's azure and silver wings suddenly unfurled.

The spatial runes at the edge of the Time-Space Calamity Wings flickered violently, and the surrounding light was severely distorted.

Without any jumping motion, he vanished from the spot.

There was no sonic boom, and no airflow disturbance.

Qin Zhenshan felt a blur before his eyes, and there was nothing in the sky ten thousand meters above him.

"Is this speed... even achievable by humans?"

Afei swallowed hard.

Over the next few hours, the high-level alien beasts in the eight major cities of Tianyun Prefecture, which had fallen, faced the darkest moment of their lives.

With the help of the Time-Space Tribulation Wings, which allow for dimensional cruising at twenty times the speed of sound, Shen Tian transforms into a Grim Reaper roaming over various war zones.

Three hundred kilometers outside the Yancheng defense zone.

A five-tier beast king, the Crimson Flame Two-Headed Dog, over a hundred meters long, stood atop a towering mountain, roaring towards the sky, attempting to summon low-tier beasts from within a hundred miles to launch a beast tide.

High in the sky, a streak of cyan-silver light silently streaked across the sky.

There was no outward release of internal energy, and no deafening sonic boom.

Shen Tian merely passed overhead at twenty times the speed of sound, and the void storm attached to the edge of the Space-Time Tribulation Wing directly sliced ​​through this space.

The massive body of the fifth-tier beast king suddenly froze.

The next second, its body smoothly split in two from the middle.

The cut was as smooth as a mirror, and before the blood could even spurt out, the two halves of the body crashed down the cliff.

Five hundred kilometers outside the Fengcheng defense zone.

A fifth-tier beast king, the Ironclad Rhinoceros, is slumbering hundreds of meters underground.

Shen Tian hovered a thousand meters in the air, his right hand suddenly clenching into a fist.

The immense power of the Primordial Divine Elephant erupted instantly.

The five thousand-fold increase in basic strength, combined with the collapse of a mass of one hundred thousand tons, transformed into a substantial, heavy aura.

Shen Tian delivered a powerful punch from a distance.

The ground within a ten-kilometer radius churned violently like boiling water before collapsing with a deafening roar.

The terrifying physical impact penetrated hundreds of meters of ground without any hindrance, turning the sixth-tier beast king, known for its absolute defense, into a pile of minced meat in its sleep.

The kill count was fluctuating wildly on the system panel.

Within Shen Tian's sea of ​​consciousness, the clear and profound eye without pupils, formed from the True Meaning of Penetrating Emptiness, slowly rotated.

Countless spacetime trajectories representing cause and effect and energy fluctuations intertwine and recombine on Shen Tian's retina.

He turned his head, his gaze piercing through thousands of kilometers, locking onto the distant north.

That's the Ice City defense zone.

Beneath the frigid permafrost, a life force, both extremely hidden and terrifyingly vast, is slowly reviving.

Shen Tian's wings flapped again, the void cracked open, and his figure disappeared into it.

Ice City, the northernmost garrison city of Tianyun Prefecture.

The occupied areas here are covered by ice and snow tens of meters thick all year round, with temperatures remaining at minus forty degrees Celsius. The strong winds whip up ice shards that cut through everything exposed like knives.

A scout squad of fifty elite soldiers from the Po Jun Division is making a difficult advance across the icy plains in five tracked armored vehicles.

"Captain, the detectors indicate a high-intensity energy reaction underground!"

An investigator stared at the blinding red light flashing wildly on the screen, his voice trembling.

The captain suddenly pushed open the hatch on the roof, and a biting cold wind rushed into the carriage.

The sight before him made his heart clench.

The flat ice field several kilometers ahead is now bulging violently.

The thick ice layer shattered inch by inch like fragile glass, and countless huge vines, several meters thick and with an eerie purplish-black color, broke through the ice like a swarm of wildly dancing snakes.

These vines are covered with sharp barbs and emit a nauseating, pungent smell of blood.

"A sixth-tier beast king! It's the sixth-tier beast king, the Netherworld Blood Vine!"

The captain's eyes widened in fury, and he roared.

"Everyone back up! Immediately call headquarters for heavy fortress fire support!"

But his orders came too late.

Hundreds of enormous vines, like javelins fired from heavy ballistae, pierced the air with a sharp whistling sound, instantly covering a distance of thousands of meters and plunging down fiercely towards the armored convoy.

At this critical moment.

Suddenly, a pitch-black crack a hundred meters long appeared in the sky.

With his azure and silver wings on his back, Shen Tian stepped out of the void rift.

He looked down at the Netherworld Blood Vine below, its main trunk reaching hundreds of meters in height and its root system covering an area of ​​more than ten kilometers, his expression indifferent.

With his right hand clenched loosely, the dark golden supreme Dao weapon, Divine Punishment, appeared out of thin air in his palm.

Shen Tian's internal energy surged into the blade like a river bursting its banks, and the unparalleled swordsman's divine sword intent erupted instantly.

He waved his hand casually.

A dark golden blade of light, a thousand meters long, tore through the swirling snow.

Within the blade's aura, there was a black and red fire lotus that had merged with the true meaning of the Calamity Flame, and a 100,000-ton mass collapse of the Ten Thousand Jun True Meaning.

The moment the blade touched the Netherworld Blood Vine, the purplish-black vine, which was said to be impervious even to high-explosive armor-piercing bullets, was easily severed as if a hot knife were cutting through butter.

The collapse of 100,000 tons of mass followed immediately.

"boom--"

The ice field, spanning several kilometers in radius, evaporated instantly upon contact.

The terrifying shockwave turned thousands of tons of ice and snow into scalding white steam that shot into the sky.

The arrogant sixth-tier beast king didn't even have time to let out a scream before its massive main body was split in two.

An inextinguishable black-red flame erupted from the broken end, spreading downwards along the wood fibers and quickly burning the massive, frantically writhing root system to ashes.

The scout team's armored vehicles were pushed hundreds of meters away by the violent blast wave, their tracks carving deep grooves into the ice.

The captain struggled to climb out of the carriage and stared blankly at the huge, charred canyon in front of him, which was hundreds of meters deep and several kilometers long.

In the sky, Shen Tian slowly returned the Divine Punishment to his spatial ring.

A crisp system notification sounded in his mind.

[Ding! Slayed the Tier 20 Beast King 'Netherworld Blood Vine', gaining 000 Kill Points!]

[The target has been detected to possess the purple talent "Netherworld's Glory and Decline." Consume 10,000 kill points to plunder the talent?]

Shen Tian hovered in mid-air, his gaze fixed on the system panel's prompts.

"plunder."

[Ding! 20,000 kill points deducted. Looting successful!]

[Acquired Talent: The Cycle of Life and Death (Purple)]

[Entry Description: You have mastered the laws of life and death of wood. Plants and trees are your eyes and ears; the vitality of all things can be seized by you.]

[Life Steal (Passive): Your attacks inflict the 'Wither' effect, forcibly draining the target's life force upon impact to replenish yourself, and causing the target's body to age rapidly.]

【Descent of All Trees (Active): Activates the essence of wood, instantly creating an indestructible forest of demonic vines within a radius of one thousand meters, binding and strangling all hostile targets within the area.】

A surge of vibrant green energy appeared out of nowhere, coursing wildly through Shen Tian's limbs and bones.

This energy resonated miraculously with the immortal essence of the Undying God-Demon Body, causing his cellular activity to surge once again.