High Martial Arts: Slay enemies to become stronger, forge invincibility from billions of corpses.

Song Chen did not release any pressure, nor did he activate the aura of the Star Core Thunder Prison. He simply stood calmly on the sea.

But the moment the two stepped into the 100-meter range, it was as if they had hit an invisible wall; their chests tightened and their knees instinctively bent downwards.

Yuan Qian's dark golden pupils contracted violently. Over the past few days, he had digested a large amount of his father's and aunt's flesh and blood, and his blood energy had exceeded 400,000. However, in the face of this aura, even breathing became difficult.

Whale Moon wasn't much better off; her body was trembling like a leaf, her face was pale, and her lips were quivering, preventing her from speaking.

Three days ago, they were still able to remain calm in front of Song Chen, but now they can't even look him in the eye.

"Master...Master, you've broken through again?" Yuan Qian managed to speak.

"Yes, a slight breakthrough." Song Chen nodded.

Yuan Qian and Jing Yue knelt down at the same time. They didn't know what to say, they just knelt down instinctively.

Song Chen looked at the two of them, then withdrew a trace of his aura and completely contained the power of his star core.

The invisible pressure within a hundred-meter radius instantly dissipated, and Yuan Qian and Jing Yue gasped for breath, their foreheads covered in cold sweat.

"You two go back now, and don't forget the treaty you signed."

"Yes, sir." The two said in unison, and immediately retreated, fleeing towards the deep sea as if escaping.

Song Chen looked away and stretched his shoulders.

After the power of the star core was completely contained, he looked no different from before, with steady breathing and a regular heartbeat.

As he watched the setting sun gradually sink into the sea in the west, he suddenly remembered something.

Last time in the office at Tianhai University, before Li Qingcang left, he turned back at the door and said that he would call me when he went to the Vortex.

The Speaker had waited for over a decade to reach the seventh rank, and now that someone had stepped through that threshold first, he was eager to know.

Since she had agreed, Song Chen had no intention of going back on her word.

He activated his Void Travel ability, and space folded up in front of him.

Song Chen disappeared from the depths of the Pacific Ocean, heading towards the summer sea.

After several traversals through the void, Song Chen appeared in the sky above Tianhai City.

He was about to land directly on the president's office of Tianhai University, but the scene captured by his Eye of Truth scanning the East China Sea made him stop.

On the sea, countless strange beasts are being transported in formation.

Hundreds of colossal whales floated on the sea, their backs piled high with glowing psionic crystals.

Dozens of sea dragons swam in the water, using psionic beams to pull the deep-sea herbs and the crystal cores of the strange beasts.

Some Tier 5 sea scorpions and iron-boned whales carried whole blocks of rare ore, while a group of sword-beaked sharks patrolled and guarded the perimeter of the transport convoy.

The entire transport fleet was so large that it stretched from the mouth of the Yangtze River all the way to the lighthouse at Tianhai Port, forming a long, floating dragon of supplies on the sea.

At the Tianhai Port dock, large human cranes are loading boxes of supplies brought by the alien beasts onto trucks.

Several makeshift material sorting centers were set up behind the dock, where researchers dressed in martial arts research institute uniforms were classifying and registering crystal ores.

Further away, outside the walls of Tianhai City, the corpses of hundreds of sixth-tier beast kings were lined up, stretching from the base of the walls to the horizon.

Some of the bodies have already begun to be cut up and decomposed. Faculty and students from Tianhai University, along with soldiers from the city's defense forces, are using engineering machinery to dismantle the flesh, carapace, and bones, and then sort and store them.

The two races, who were fighting to the death not long ago, are now in perfect harmony.

When Song Chen landed on the roof of the office building where the president's office of Tianhai University was located, Zhou Wangyue was on the rooftop of the main building, standing on the edge of the rooftop railing watching the transport fleet on the East China Sea.

Song Chen landed beside him and glanced at the sea as well: "Teacher."

Zhou Wangyue turned his head and looked him up and down.

Song Chen's aura was completely concealed, and no spiritual energy fluctuations could be sensed.

"Another breakthrough?"

"Breakthrough, Star Core Level 1."

Zhou Wangyue was shocked; he didn't understand what a Star Core level was.

But he didn't ask any further questions, only saying, "I can no longer sense your current strength."

As he spoke, he turned to look at the strange beasts being transported on the sea, then at the mountains of beast king corpses piled up outside the city walls, and began to explain what had happened in the past few days.

Song Chen began to hunt down the remaining Beast Queens, Giant Whales, and Sea Dragons worldwide, and started to implement the treaty under the orders of Yuan Qian and Jing Yue.

The whale clan was responsible for transportation. Hundreds of whales of the fourth rank and above were divided into three shifts to transport supplies to Tianhai Port along the Pacific shipping route.

The Sea Dragon Clan is responsible for collecting the minerals. Their psionic network covers every crystal vein in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, allowing them to pinpoint and mine them one by one.

The Beast King's corpse was left in the sea during Song Chen's global extermination and hadn't been dealt with yet. Yuan Qian sent people to drag it back one by one, and even the corpses from the two major battles in the Sea Dragon Domain and the Giant Whale Domain were brought over.

The corpses of several hundred sixth-tier beast kings alone would be enough for the Great Xia Martial Arts to use for ten years.

Sensing the presence of many newly awakened individuals in Tianhai City, Song Chen asked, "Did those humans who broke through consume the things sent from the ocean?"

Zhou Wangyue nodded: "Yes, the first batch of spiritual herbs and crystal minerals transported from the ocean has already been distributed to Tianhai University, Shangjing Martial Arts Research Institute, and various military regions at the front."

"Although you took the life crystal cores from those beast king corpses, the spiritual energy essence remaining in the flesh, bones, and scales of the corpses is enough to help martial artists who are stuck at a bottleneck break through."

"In the past few days, many students at Tianhai University have broken through one or two levels, and many veterans in the city defense army have also been promoted."

"Perhaps before long, Great Xia will have a few more councilors."

Song Chen listened without saying a word.

He watched the transport fleet on the sea. The giant whales quietly turned around and swam back to the deep sea after piling the heavy crystal ore on the dock. Their movements were neat and orderly, even more efficient than human cargo ships.

The two clans under Yuanqian and Jingyue's rule are strictly adhering to the treaty that even he himself finds harsh.

But he knew it wasn't because they were loyal, but because they were afraid.

What we fear is not the treaty itself, but the person behind it.

"These two guys are pretty dedicated."

"It's not about being dedicated; it's that you scared them too much before," Zhou Wangyue said, glancing at him.

"You killed so many beast kings, forced Yuan Qian to swallow his own father and aunt in public, and forced Jing Yue to swallow the giant whale king brothers in public."

"These transport teams, tributes, and the beast king's corpse are all forced out by your blade. They are terrified to the core and dare not disobey."

Song Chen didn't refute it. The teacher was right. When Yuan Qian raised the white flag, he only wanted to save his life. Now, his dedication stems from his fear of losing his life.

He suddenly remembered that before setting off, Yuan Qian had taken the initiative to chase after him and ask to participate in the hunt. The driving force behind that "loyalty" was the same as that of the transport convoy on the sea today.

He glanced one last time at the mountains of supplies piled up on the dock and the densely packed corpses of beast kings outside the city walls, then turned to Zhou Wangyue.

"Teacher, I have something to tell you when I come back this time."

"I'm heading to that psionic vortex, do you want to come along?"