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

An hour later, the square returned to calm.

Song Chen stood on the steps, looking in the direction where the purple lightning pillar disappeared, Lei Mo's last words still echoing in his ears.

"This grudge will be avenged."

His previous definition of Lei Mo was a mission objective: to end the internal strife, restore the ability to repay loans, and the mission would be accomplished.

But that's not the case now; it's a personal feud now.

Lei Mo probably doesn't know where Blue Star is, but just because he doesn't know now doesn't mean he won't know in the future.

He is at the peak of the seventh rank and could break through to the eighth rank at any time.

After reaching the eighth rank, his authority will be enhanced, and he will have access to more things. If he decides to investigate Song Chen's background at all costs, it's only a matter of time before he finds out about Lan Xing.

This risk cannot be allowed to continue; he must die.

Lei Yuan walked over from the entrance of the Star Lord's Palace, his steps unsteady, his strength completely exhausted.

He was about to express his gratitude when Song Chen raised her hand to stop him.

Song Chen turned to look at Lei Yuan: "Stop talking nonsense and tell me, do you know where Lei Mo could have escaped to?"

Lei Yuan was stunned for a moment, then a cold glint flashed in his old eyes that were pulsating with electricity.

He also heard Lei Mo's threat before he left. Not only did Song Chen want to kill someone who dared to threaten the Punisher, but he also wanted to kill him.

As long as Lei Mo lives, the future of the main continent will forever hang in the balance.

Lei Yuan thought for a moment: "I don't know the specifics, but Lei Yan City on the Cloud Hidden Continent is his lair."

"His secret training base is in the Black Thunder Canyon of the Abyss Continent, and the Aurora Fortress of the Aurora Continent is said to be hiding strategic materials he has plundered from various continents."

"But these are all the obvious places. I need time to find out his real hiding place."

"Check it out, and tell me immediately once you find out."

"yes!"

Song Chen checked his kill count, which had reached 210 billion. He really wanted to spend it, but he held back.

Suddenly, a noise came from the ruins below the steps.

An old man from the Thunder Clan crawled out of the half-collapsed stone building. His full head of silver hair was stained gray by ashes, and his face was blackened by smoke. Only the electric light in his eyes was still dancing.

He saw Song Chen standing on the steps, paused for a moment, and then knelt down with a thud.

Immediately afterwards, the second, the third, the tenth, and the hundredth survivors who crawled out of the ruins in the east, south, and north of the city, as if drawn by something, all surged toward the Star Lord's Mansion Square.

Their clothes were tattered, and they were covered in wounds. Silvery-white lightning blood had congealed into twisted marks on their skin.

An old man leaned on a broken cane made of lightning-struck wood, a woman held a child who had been knocked unconscious by smoke, and young men clutched weapons they had salvaged from the ruins.

In no time, the Star Lord's Palace square was filled with kneeling people.

Unlike the uniform kneeling they performed when they were greeted last time, their knees slammed onto the gravel ground, and their foreheads struck the charred bricks.

Some people bruised themselves, some cried so hard they couldn't speak, and some showed Song Chen the severed limbs that the rebels had cut off.

Some people knelt in the crowd, holding the bodies of their dead children, their lips trembling as they recited the ancient Thunder Clan eulogy.

Kneeling at the front was an old man. Song Chen recognized him as the old patriarch of the Lei clan, whom he had saved in the north of the city before.

The ancestral home of the old clan chief was half burned down by the rebels, but instead of staying at home to assess the losses, he led the hundreds of surviving members of the clan to kneel in front of the Star Lord's mansion.

His long, silvery-white hair was singed at the ends, and there was a fresh wound on his face that ran from his forehead to his chin, from which lightning paste was still seeping out.

He braced himself with his hands on the ground, his forehead slamming heavily against the gravel three times, each time a solid thud.

After kowtowing, he raised his head, and his old, bright eyes were filled with tears.

"Your Excellency, the Heavenly Punishment Envoy, we beg you to do justice for the Thunder Clan."

His voice was hoarse, like sandpaper rubbing against stone, but everyone in the square was shouting along with him.

The cries of "Please, Your Excellency, make the decision!" rose and fell.

Song Chen stood on the steps looking at the group of people, feeling that these people had nothing to do with him. He saved them only because the rebels happened to be blocking his path to racking up kill points.

But the old clan chief's next words made him stop in his tracks.

"My lord, the rebels were defeated today, but their main force is still intact. Lei Mo is not dead, and his seventh-rank generals are not all dead. The three sub-continents are still in their hands."

"If the adults leave, they'll come back with a vengeance. What will we use to stop them?"

"My lord, you have killed a million enemies today. I have witnessed it with my own eyes. If you are willing to lead your troops to conquer the Cloud Hidden Continent, I am willing to lead all the men of my clan to be your vanguard and fight to the death without regret."

As soon as he finished speaking, all the young and middle-aged men kneeling in the square stood up.

They held all sorts of weapons in their hands. Although they had no unified formation, had not undergone military training, and most of them were not even at the fifth rank.

But their eyes are filled with hatred. They don't need any mobilization or promises. As long as someone points them in a direction, they will pounce on them and bite their enemy's throat.

As Song Chen looked at this group of people, he was thinking about something else.

How many rebels remain on the three subcontinents?

The five million troops in the Thunderstrike Plains were the main field army of the rebels, while those who massacred the city in the capital were elite troops that had been prepared in advance.

However, the three subcontinents are the rebels' strongholds, and the number of troops remaining there will not be small.

The Cloud Hidden Continent is the foundation of the Thunder Demon, and there should be at least a million troops guarding it. The Abyss Continent and the Aurora Continent should be about the same.

The three continents combined have at least five million troops.

Five million rebels, estimated at an average of 10,000 kill points per person, would amount to 50 billion kill points, which is very tempting.

Thinking of this, he turned to look at Lei Yuan.

At this moment, Lei Yuan was leaning against a pillar at the Star Lord's Hall, having the army doctor bandage the wound on his arm.

He was in much better spirits than before. When he saw Song Chen's gaze sweep over him, he immediately pushed the doctor away and stood up straight.

"What are your orders, sir?"

"Now that we've already incurred wrath, why don't we march on to the other three continents and eliminate the threat once and for all? What do you think?"

Lei Yuan's eyes lit up; of course he wanted to.

The three subcontinents have been causing trouble for over ten thousand years, and this time they even slaughtered his royal city, almost destroying the Star Lord's mansion as well.

If we can use Song Chen as a weapon to completely cripple the three subcontinents, the main continent won't have to worry about internal strife for the next few thousand years.

But he didn't dare bring it up, fearing that Song Chen would think he was taking revenge.

Now that Song Chen had spoken first, the floodgates in his heart opened instantly.

"What you say is true, sir." Lei Yuan stepped forward, lowered his voice, and spoke with a hint of probing.

"The rebels have just been defeated, and Lei Mo's collective teleportation spell will take at least a week to recover. The other three continents may not yet know about the frontline collapse."

"Before they can react, let's go straight through the teleportation array and attack them, catching them completely off guard."

"The Cloud Hidden Continent is Lei Mo's stronghold, the Abyss Continent is the place with the most rebel soldiers, and the Aurora Continent is the weakest but also the richest."

"The main cities of the three continents all have portals leading to the West District. Although the control core was shattered by you, the framework is still intact. I can have it repaired quickly."

Song Chen glanced at him. He saw right through Lei Yuan's little scheme. This old guy didn't just want to help; he wanted to use Song Chen to completely break the backbone of the three sub-continents.

But he didn't care; he needed kill points anyway.

The two people's goals perfectly overlap, and that's enough.

"Fix it quickly, and we'll leave as soon as it's fixed."

……

The portal's control core was repaired faster than Lei Yuan had anticipated, taking only two hours.

The Thunder Clan's psionic technicians dug out spare cores from the ruins and replaced them, after which three of the four portals lit up again.

A silver portal leading to the Cloud Hidden Continent, a black portal leading to the Abyss Continent, and a blue-white portal leading to the Aurora Continent.

Song Chen first chose the Cloud Hidden Continent, which is Lei Mo's lair and the heart of the rebels. He decided to attack here first, and then go to the Abyss and Aurora.

To prevent his home base from being raided again, Lei Yuan only brought a dozen or so seventh-rank generals this time, leaving the rest to guard the royal city.

The moment the group passed through the silver light gate, space tore open for a moment, and then they stepped onto the land of the Cloud Hidden Continent.