High Martial Arts: Starting with a Martial Saint Peak Cultivation

The crowd outside the celestial palace was still eagerly waiting.

But Chen Yuan's mind was not on this planet at all.

He sat in the white jade pavilion, his fingers gently twirling the rim of his teacup.

His gaze, however, fell on the system panel.

The sign-in section is still grayed out.

We'll have to wait a while longer for the next refresh.

"Too slow."

He muttered something under his breath.

It would be great if we could just sign in with a baby who could locate Chen Tianling.

Whether it's a tracking treasure or a secret technique that can lock coordinates by binding with a soul.

Anything is fine.

As long as I can help him find the person.

Youying, who was lying on the outside of the pavilion, heard his boss muttering and looked up. "Boss, missing Tianling again?"

Chen Yuan did not answer.

He simply placed the teacup on the stone table.

The shadow flicked its tail and didn't ask any more questions.

.........

at the same time.

In an unfamiliar star field extremely far from the Cangxuan Realm.

The starry sky here is different from anywhere else.

There are no neatly arranged galaxies, nor slowly rotating nebulae.

There were only waves of turbulent energy, as if something had exploded them from the inside out.

The spatial structure is pitted and uneven, with residual voids and cracks everywhere.

Some of the cracks were still emitting a dim, cold light.

This star field is like a scar in the universe.

Deep within this chaotic starry sky, a spatial rift suddenly and silently tore open.

The edges of the crack are jagged.

Residual fragments of space are still dissipating outwards.

A figure tumbled out of the crack.

The figure was wearing a set of dark gold armor, but the armor was now almost completely destroyed.

The breastplate was mostly shattered.

Only a few fragments of the armor on his left arm remained, and the armor on his right leg was cracked into a spiderweb pattern.

The head was completely damaged, exposing the internal skull.

The surface of the armor still shimmered with an extremely faint golden light.

With each rotation of the golden light, the cracks in the armor would heal a tiny bit.

However, the healing process is so slow that it is almost imperceptible.

The figure had its eyes tightly closed, and its breathing was so faint as to be almost imperceptible.

This person was Chen Tianling.

But at this moment, he was in very bad condition, having suffered serious injuries and was in a deep sleep.

The body floated slowly in the void, out of control.

The residual effect of the substitute jade talisman still left a trace of protective spiritual light within his body.

The spiritual light was so thin it was almost invisible, but it was still stubbornly protecting his heart and consciousness.

It's a miracle that they survived in such a desperate situation as the Shattered Vortex.

It is a miracle that they were able to escape from the vortex.

This was due in part to the substitute jade talisman, and also to his own foundation in the early stages of True God cultivation.

There was also a sliver of luck that was hard to explain.

The instant the spatial rift completely closes.

The already chaotic energy flows around them seemed to be stirred up, and suddenly surged in this direction.

The energy flow struck him.

This made the already serious injury even worse.

The cracks on the skin that had just begun to heal opened up again.

Chen Tianling's body was propelled by the energy flow, drifting towards a certain direction in this star field.

.........

After drifting for an unknown amount of time, a planet appeared ahead of his trajectory.

It was a gray, hazy planet.

Looking down from space.

Vast expanses of land were barren, a yellowish-brown and a burnt black.

The ocean is a dark, somber gray.

The planet's surface is shrouded in a thin layer of toxic smog, and its atmosphere is filled with high concentrations of corrosive gases.

This is a planet that has experienced an apocalyptic crisis.

Chen Tianling's body was captured by the planet's gravity and began to fall towards the Earth's surface.

He passed through the atmosphere during his fall.

The surface of the dark gold armor sparked with a fine layer of sparks from the corrosive gas.

However, the armor itself still retains its defensive capabilities.

Those sparks didn't even leave a scratch.

His body transformed into an inconspicuous shooting star in the night.

Trailing a faint golden tail, it plummeted towards the central region of the planet.

Yun Yuanxing.

The name of this planet.

The number of people still alive on Yunyuan Star at this moment is much smaller than during its peak.

three years ago.

A novel virus, whose origins are unknown, has swept across the entire planet.

The infected person will lose all consciousness.

They turned into mindless zombies who only knew how to devour flesh and blood.

Whether it's a human or an animal, no one can escape this fate after being infected.

Civilization collapsed completely in just a few years.

Cities turned into ruins, farmlands into wastelands, and factories into lifeless lumps of iron.

The survivors huddled in a base surrounded by high walls and barbed wire, barely surviving by scavenging for supplies left over from the old era.

But besides zombies, there are also mutated beasts on the abandoned planet.

Those mutated beasts are the product of both viruses and radiation, and are several times larger than the beasts of the old era.

He was cruel and bloodthirsty.

Some high-level mutant beasts have even evolved superpowers.

It can breathe fire, spew ice, and manipulate soil and rocks.

Zombies, mutated beasts, and humans.

The three forces fought each other on this planet, and none of them could completely eliminate the others for the time being.

And this moment.

In the middle of the abandoned planet.

There is an abandoned city that has been overrun by zombies.

But only three years have passed.

This city has transformed from a once bustling industrial hub into a place now filled with nothing but ruins.

The windows of the high-rise building were all shattered long ago.

All that's left is a bare reinforced concrete skeleton.

The streets are filled with rusty, abandoned vehicles.

Some vehicles remained in the position they were in when they were hit, with dried black bloodstains still on the windows.

Tielan City.

The name of the city.

The entire city of Tielan is teeming with zombies.

During the daytime.

Most of the zombies hid in the shadows of the buildings.

Because their skin rots faster under strong light, only a few low-level zombies are still wandering the streets.

At night, all the zombies came out.

Under the dim light of night.

Thousands upon thousands of zombies filled every street in Ironland City.

They wandered aimlessly, dragging their rotting legs, making low, hoarse sounds from their throats.

Some zombies bumped into each other while walking, then tore at each other a few times before scattering.

In the core area of ​​Tielan City.

A fourth-tier peak lord-level zombie was lurking there, its size a full circle larger than that of an ordinary zombie.

His muscles bulged like blocks of iron.

A pair of scarlet eyes emitted a faint red glow in the night.

It is the undisputed ruler of this city.

All the zombies obeyed its commands.

And this moment.

The outskirts of Tielan City.

A team of human survivors is silently lurking on the second floor of an abandoned shopping mall.

There are seven people in the team.

The leader was a man in his early thirties.

His name is Lin Feng.

Second-tier peak ability user.

Its ability is earth manipulation.

He wore light armor made of mutated animal hides and carried an alloy machete stained with the black blood of zombies on his back.

His face was covered with a masking paste made of zombie blood mixed with mud.

This masking cream can conceal the scent of a living person.

This makes it difficult for low-level zombies to spot them.

The six people behind him were all experienced; they were all wearing concealer.

He held all sorts of weapons in his hands.

They had machetes, iron bars, and homemade crossbows.

They came from a human survivor settlement called "Blackrock Camp" near Ironland City.

Blackrock Camp is not large.

There are only a few thousand people in total.

The camp's manager is Zhao Guangwei, a peak third-tier superhuman.

Lin Feng led the team out on a mission from the camp's supply depot: to search for medicine and canned goods on the outskirts of Tielan City.

This mission is extremely risky.

But the returns are also high.

You can keep 30% of the supplies you find.

The remaining 70% was given to the camp.

For those struggling to survive in the apocalypse, even 30% of the supplies is enough to make them take risks.

"Be careful, everyone."

Lin Feng lowered his voice.

"This mall was relatively clean when we came here last time. Tonight, we'll search floors one through three, take whatever we find, and be quiet."

A young man in the group wiped the sweat from his forehead.

whisper.

"Brother Feng, there seem to be a lot more zombies around here than last time..."

"Can we do this?"

Lin Feng glared at him.

"Enough with the nonsense, it has to work."

"The antibiotics in the camp are almost gone. If we don't get some back soon, we'll be helpless if someone gets injured next time."

He had just finished speaking.

The entire shopping mall suddenly shook violently.

The tremor came without warning, as if something had crashed down from the sky.

It crashed not far from them!