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

Song Chen stood in the center of the impact crater, holding the Tianjun Blade in his hand, and looked around.

He deliberately chose this landing point to be the one in the three Moonshadow Clan cities where the battle was most intense, as the defensive shield of the eastern city's defense line had been completely shattered.

The siege hordes of blood-corroding creatures are surging into the city through the breach, and the Moonshadow Clan garrison is desperately blocking the breach, using their own bodies as roadblocks.

Their weapons are the silver energy blades and crystallized ray cannons unique to the Moonshadow Civilization. When the energy blades strike the blood-corroded creatures, they can cut them in half, but after the cut, the wounds will quickly heal and split into two smaller individuals.

The Crystallization Ray Cannon can temporarily freeze blood-corroded organisms into crystals, but the freezing time is very short, and they are quickly reactivated by the nutrients in the fungal carpet.

The corpses of Moonshadow Clan soldiers filled the gaps, and silvery-gray blood mixed with the dark red digestive fluids of the Blood-Corroding Creatures flowed through the ruins, making a hissing, corrosive sound.

Standing at the forefront of the breach was a squad that had been fought to the point where almost all of its members were injured.

Their armor was the standard silver-white light armor of the Moonshadow Civilization. Most of the armor plates were broken or detached, revealing deep wounds that exposed bone underneath.

The captain was a female soldier. Her helmet had fallen off at some point, revealing a face stained with silver-gray blood.

Her left arm was gone below the elbow joint. The cut was barely sealed with first aid gel, but the gel had been blackened by the corrosive gases from the fungal mat.

He still held an energy blade in his right hand, the light on the blade had dimmed to the point of being almost invisible, and he was still mechanically slashing at the blood-corroded creatures that kept surging in front of him.

Behind them was a barricade that had been half-destroyed by the bomb. Behind the barricade, dozens of Moonshadow Clan civilians, including the elderly and children, were crouching together. Their silver-gray eyes reflected the blood torrent that was constantly approaching from the end of the street.

The female soldier swung her knife and slashed down a blood-corroding cell that lunged at her, then her legs buckled and she knelt on one knee.

Her strength was completely exhausted. The energy blade slipped from her hand and fell onto the stone slab covered by the fungal carpet. The last trace of silver light on the blade went out.

She looked up and saw a siege engine in the process of merging and taking shape, with dozens of blood-corroding cells converging into a fleshy giant that was over ten meters tall.

The giant's arm had taken shape and was raised, ready to smash down.

She didn't close her eyes or scream; she simply used her body to block the barricades behind her.

The flesh giant's arm crashed down, then broke in two mid-air.

The female soldier was stunned for a moment. She saw a golden blade of light slash out from behind the barricade, passing over her head. The trajectory of the blade of light was straight and sharp, and the arm of the flesh giant was severed at the shoulder.

The severed arm crashed to the ground, its fingers still twitching.

After piercing through the arm, the blade continued to fly forward, cleaving all the blood-corroding creatures in a straight line behind the flesh giant in two, creating a blank passage hundreds of meters long in the middle of the street.

The blood-corroding creatures on both sides of the passage were thrown about by the aftershocks of the blade's edge. The neural network of the fungal carpet experienced a brief signal interruption under this attack, and all the blood-corroding creatures on the street were simultaneously frozen for a fraction of a second.

Song Chen emerged from behind the barricade, a few drops of dark red bodily fluid from the blood-corroding creature splattered on his armor, sliding down the texture of the armor plates.

He paused beside the female soldier and glanced down at her.

"Go to the back."

He used a universal language.

The female soldier looked up at him. She had never seen a human before, nor had she ever seen this dark gray heavy armor, but she recognized who had come to help.

With her last bit of strength, she nodded, then was dragged back behind the barricade by her teammates.

Song Chen turned around to face the blood-soaked torrent at the end of the street, the tip of the Tianjun Blade touching the ground.

The fungal carpet emitted a sharp screech the moment the blade touched the ground; it was the stress response of the Blood-Eroded Civilization's neural network when it sensed a threat.

At the same instant, all the blood-corroding creatures on the entire street turned towards Song Chen.

Hundreds of blood swarms, dozens of fusion entities, and three-headed siege bodies all ceased their attacks on the city, focusing their attention on the gray figure standing in front of the barricades.

Song Chen raised the knife: "Come on."

The next moment, the blood-corroding creatures pounced on them simultaneously.

Song Chen unleashed a Star-Splitting Slash, this time without charging up from the first strike. With his current combat skill level and attribute base, the power of the third and subsequent strikes could be released instantly.

The blade of light slashed across the street, cleanly slicing through the hundreds of blood-corroding cells at the forefront. The dark red light from their shattered cores exploded across the street.

The siege engine let out a deep roar, its massive legs, dozens of meters long, stomped over the ruins and charged toward him, each step shaking the ground.

Song Chen remained stationary. When the siege engine was less than ten meters away from him, he raised his hand and unleashed his fifth strike. The blade slashed diagonally upwards from the bottom of the siege engine, splitting the massive structure, which was about the size of an aircraft carrier, in two from bottom to top.

The moment the siege body cracked open, the digestive juices and unformed larvae stored inside poured out, forming a foul-smelling, dark red lake of blood on the ground.

Song Chen didn't stop. He activated his Void Travel ability and flashed to a street that was being submerged by a torrent of blood.

The entire Moonshadow Clan garrison on this street has been wiped out, their bodies wrapped in creep and being decomposed and absorbed.

The square at the end of the street was crowded with thousands of Moonshadow Clan civilians, surrounded by Blood-Erosion Creatures. The civilians on the outermost edge had their ankles entangled by the tentacles of the creep and were being dragged deeper into the creep.

Song Chen landed in the center of the square, activated the Star Core Thunder Prison, and the plasma field spread outward from him, with 108 thunder dragons flying out at the same time.

Each thunder dragon's body was enveloped in blue-white lightning and a layer of pale golden plasma flames.

The Thunder Dragons circled and writhed around the plaza, each independently pursuing a target. After biting the Blood-Corroded Creature, they did not unleash lightning strikes, but instead released continuous plasma burning.

The blood-corroding creature that was bitten began to melt from the inside, and its core was burned to ashes by high-temperature plasma within a second.

The entire square was illuminated by lightning in an instant, as if it were daytime, and thousands of civilians were blinded by the intense light.

When they reopened their eyes, the blood-corroded creatures in the square had all turned into dark red charcoal cooling on the ground.

A little girl, held in her mother's arms, peeked out from her mother's shoulder and said something in the Moonshadow language.

Song Chen didn't understand, nor did he have time to listen; he had already dashed to the third block.

After he cleared the three main streets, the remnants of the Moonshadow Clan garrison and the two volunteer forces that had arrived earlier joined forces.

One of these two units is the Solar Prominence Assault Regiment from the Radiant Sun Civilization, with nearly a thousand members, equipped with the Radiant Sun Civilization's unique plasma light blades and thermal energy projectors.

The captain's name is Sora, a bald beauty who speaks concisely and clearly.

The other team is the Frost Moon Civilization's Cold Tide Special Forces, consisting of eighty members. They specialize in low-temperature warfare and ice crystal blockade, and their captain is Nova.

Both teams were elite troops, but they had been overwhelmed for several hours by the sheer number of Blood-Corroded Creatures, suffering more than half of their casualties.

After seeing Song Chen single-handedly wipe out the Blood Erosion troops across three streets, Sora and Nova didn't waste any words and immediately handed their own troops over to him to command.

Sora says her thermal projector can burn out isolation zones on the creep, disrupting the neural network connections of the blood-corroding creatures. This would cause the blood-corroding creatures in the isolated area to lose their ability to fight together and become scattered soldiers fighting their own battles.

Nova said his Ice Crystal Lockdown could reduce the movement speed of the Blood-Eroded Creatures by at least 70%. Although the freezing time was not long, it was enough to work in conjunction with Song Chen's swordsmanship to clear them out in one go.