Please be my partner.

On the other side is the Linshui River, which is not only extremely wide but also appears calm. However, there are actually many undercurrents in the river. Even experienced boatmen only dare to sail on specific sections of the river at fixed times.

Therefore, Xiaofeng Mountain became a natural transportation hub, and before the disaster, it was known as a "battlefield for military strategists."

Today, there is a powerful and strange monster on Xiaofeng Mountain, which has completely blocked this road.

In fact, this phenomenon is not an isolated case. The outside world is full of monster forces like Baishi City or Xiaofeng Mountain that have enclosed territories. This is also the fundamental reason why human civilization can only survive with difficulty and find it difficult to develop again.

After all, humans are social creatures that live in groups. The larger the group, the faster they will develop.

If there are only a few thousand or tens of thousands of people scattered around, it would be extremely difficult to survive, let alone grow and develop.

And more importantly, the larger the group, the easier it is to produce true geniuses.

These geniuses can lead the progress of the times in the world of science and technology, and possess powers that are difficult for ordinary people to achieve in the extraordinary world. They can all play a role in broadening the overall upper limit of civilization.

If there is a powerful martial arts master in the Huaihe Caverns, he can easily wipe out some small monster forces nearby, directly increase the available survival resources by an order of magnitude, increase the cave population tenfold in a short period of time, and annex other nearby cave forces.

If there is a powerful Martial Saint in the Huaihe Grottoes, the surrounding large forces can be easily destroyed. At that time, he can rule a country. As long as he keeps a low profile and does not attract the attention of those evil gods, the entire human civilization can slowly recover under the protection of the Martial Saint.

This is also the fundamental reason why Wen Jie immediately bowed down to him after learning that Melen was an ascender.

In Wen Jie's opinion, Melen is destined to become a martial saint in the future, and this is the hope for the resurgence of mankind.

Outside Xiaofeng Mountain, Wen Jie said to Garuru, "My lord, there's a rule-based monster on this mountain. Its power has formed a monster city. We've already trapped several experts there. So far, we've only learned that once you enter, you'll gradually be assimilated by the monster's power and become a member of the monster city."

Garuru looked at the distorted city looming on the low hill in the distance, and his instinct as a Husky made him eager to try.

You know, Garuru's application of "dimensionality reduction" is not limited to just one punch. The Colossus Fortress is equipped with weapons with even more powerful power, which can directly wipe out a city with just one blow.

But soon, the light in Garuru's eyes dimmed, and the whole dog looked listless.

It would be cool to use the Titan Fortress to attack directly, but the power fluctuation of that level would almost certainly alarm the evil god, which was contrary to Mellen's strategic plan of hiding himself in the dark, so Garuru had no choice but to give up and launch a big attack directly.

However, even though the super-model weapon could not be used, Garuru still had many other means. It looked at Wen Jie, and words appeared in the void...

"Do you want to experience the power of a martial master?"

Wen Jie was stunned at first, then he said happily: "Is it really possible, sir? No! I don't doubt you, I... Of course I am willing."

In this era of catastrophe, no one does not yearn for greater power. Only with greater power can one live a better life and protect the people one wants to protect.

A huge space ripple flashed by, and Wen Jie felt that he was shrouded in the shadow of a huge monster. The oppressive feeling that made the air seem heavier made it difficult for him to breathe.

Wen Jie slowly turned his head, his body became a little stiff like a rusty machine. When he saw the huge monster, his body and mind suffered an unprecedented shock.

Heavy, solid, unbreakable, indestructible...

This is the impression that the ten-meter-tall steel giant gave to Wen Jie, and there are twenty of these steel giants here!

Each steel giant gave Wen Jie a feeling no less than that of a mighty general.

"Choose one and drive it. Once you enter the Titan, you'll naturally learn how to drive it."

Wen Jie said excitedly: "Yes! Thank you, sir!"

Wen Jie came to the Titan statue closest to him and was thinking about how to get in when he saw the Titan's chest open to reveal the cockpit, and at the same time, it leaned over and placed its arms on the ground.

Seeing this, Wen Jie jumped onto the Titan's hands and was immediately sent into the cockpit.

Seeing that Wenjie was ready, Garuru stretched out his little claws and pointed at the twisted city on Xiaofeng Mountain, issuing an attack order...Woof!

Twenty Titans simultaneously released a faint green light from their eyes. When these legendary creations clustered together, an even greater sense of oppression spread.

"Boom!~"

Nineteen Titans suddenly started up and rushed towards the twisted city. One Titan was a little slower but also followed closely behind. As they moved forward, the last Titan controlled by Wen Jie quickly became familiar with the situation and gradually became flexible from being stiff.

In the twisted city, there was an extraordinary bustling scene: common people toiled, the rich and powerful listened to music in brothels, the elderly on the street chatted about family matters, and children ran happily in the alleys...

This is simply a picture of a harmonious and peaceful city.

However, in the eyes of any normal human being, this market scene is extremely weird and terrifying.

Because all the people in the city are made up of monsters. They have bodies similar to humans, but have heads of monsters such as pigs, cows, sheep, monkeys, and snakes.

The common people were covered in linen clothes, the powerful were dressed neatly, and the occasional butcher's shop would display skinned human bodies.

A pig-headed old lady was bargaining with a cow-headed butcher. Her haggling appearance seemed extremely strange and bizarre.

It is clearly a city of monsters, but they live according to human behavior, and no monsters notice that there is anything wrong.

But, monsters are monsters after all!

The impact of twenty Titans gave the Twisted City almost no time to buffer.

Psionic rays, elemental cannons, retraction bombs, hypergravity zones, thermal shock cannons, ion collapse beams...

The technology's cluster bombardment showed its fangs in an instant. In just a short encounter, the firepower poured out by twenty Titans caused the Twisted City to lose almost one-tenth of its area.

After seeing this result, Wen Jie, one of the firing points, was in disbelief and admired Melen, the ascended senior, even more.

Looking at the battle plan that had been re-planned by the intelligent brain, Wen Jie stopped having random thoughts and put all his energy into the next battle.

At this time, Garuru had also transformed into the form of a Titan and slowly walked into the twisted city. It could feel the city's anger, resentment, and... fear.

Countless invisible distorted forces gathered in the center of the city, quickly forming an irregular aggregate, which was the main body of the distorted city.

It was born from the distorted will of countless lives, and also possesses the ability to distort the will of life.

A large amount of data flashed before Garuru's eyes like a screen. Although Garuru didn't like calculations very much and only had a special liking for "big and hard", after all, it had an innate foundation, and the mechanical dog's computing ability was actually not weak.

In just a moment, Garuru had already understood the basic situation of the twisted monster, so he directly gave an order to the Titans... Destruction!

Destroy this city, destroy all monsters in sight, destroy every brick and tile!

This twisted city itself is the source of power for the twisted monster. As long as the twisted city is destroyed, the twisted monster will naturally collapse without a fight.

Of course, Garuru's goal is not to destroy the twisted monsters. The master is collecting these rare species of monsters. The mechanical dog intends to weaken the power of the twisted monsters so that he can capture them.

But before that, Garuru needs to entangle the twisted monster first to prevent the latter from disturbing the actions of the Titans.

Garuru accelerated and rushed towards the twisted monster. The source energy furnace burned fiercely, transforming into a magnetic field restraining force to bind the invisible and intangible twisted monster.

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While Xiaofeng Mountain was in fierce battle, the other members who had scattered out of the Huaihe Cave were not idle either.

Zhou Shao and Meng Shao were moving quickly towards the southwest. Their goal was to contact a cave settlement that had been discovered before, which was 150 miles away from the Huaihe Cave.

The population of this catacombs is much smaller than that of the Huaihe catacombs, only about 10,000 people.

In this era of disaster, almost everyone is in danger of losing their lives, which has led to widespread distrust among people.

After all, when everyone is hungry, the people who come to you are most likely not there to offer you warmth, but because they are attracted by the food in your warehouse.

It is precisely under this kind of thinking that even if some caves want to connect with other caves to open up communication channels, it is difficult to do so.

Because you can only know a person's face but not his heart, you cannot guarantee that the other party will cooperate with you as sincerely as you do.

But now it’s different. When the strength is at the same level, you naturally have to think more, but when the strength has an overwhelming advantage, many concerns can be let go.

For example, the current Huaihe Caves.

It was precisely because of this realization that Wen Jie assigned more "radical" tasks.

Zhou Shao and Meng Shao came to this small settlement to negotiate. Although there were only two of them, they were full of confidence in this trip.

Just as the two of them easily passed through the area that had previously seemed quite dangerous and came to the vicinity of the small cave, they stopped at the same time. At this time, both of them were wearing a pair of transparent glasses, which was also one of the abilities of the mechanical puppet giant wolf.

I saw six figures hiding in the woods ahead clearly marked on the glasses.

Zhou Shao said calmly: "Friends in front, we are from the Huaihe Grottoes and would like to meet your leader to discuss important matters."

After a moment, a cold wind blew past, and there was no response from the other side.

Meng Shao curled his lips speechlessly, and pointed out the specific hiding places of the six people one by one, and then said: "There is no point in hiding anymore, so show yourself."

At this time, the six people who were hiding were sure that the two men were not deceiving them, but they had no intention of showing up obediently, so they launched an attack directly.

Six spears whizzed towards Zhou Shao and Meng Shao.

Young Master Meng frowned and was about to teach these ungrateful guys a lesson, but Young Master Zhou reached out to stop him. Although he was a little unhappy, the tasks assigned by the Ascended Seniors and the Leader were always his top priority. If a conflict arose at this time, the subsequent negotiations would definitely become more difficult. Instead of doing that, it would be better to scare them.

In the blink of an eye, the spears were already close to them, but Zhou Shao and Meng Shao did not move at all, which surprised the six people in hiding. In their opinion, being able to come to them from other settlements required considerable strength just to deal with the dangers along the way, and it was unlikely that they could not cope with their attacks. Moreover, their attacks were mainly probing and did not aim at the two men's vital points.

At this moment, the six people saw a scene that almost made their eyes pop out. They saw a faint halo around Zhou Shao and Meng Shao. The six spears shot into the halo and instantly lost all kinetic energy. After a brief pause, they fell to the ground.

Meng Shao looked at the protective shield. Although he had known about it for a long time, this was his first time using it. He couldn't help but reach out to touch it, but he did not touch the protective shield. Instead, he passed through it directly. At the same time, the protective shield automatically extended and wrapped his hand inside.

This novel experience made Meng Shao feel playful.

"Cough cough!"

Young Master Zhou glanced at Young Master Meng and told him to be serious in the occasion, as they were not representing themselves now.

Only then did Meng Shao stop and looked solemnly at the six people who came out of their hiding place.

Zhou Shao said calmly, "We have no ill intentions. Let your leader come out and talk."

The leader of the six said, "Not everyone is qualified to see our leader. If you have anything to say, just tell me and I'll pass it on for you. As for whether the leader will see you later, I can't decide."

Zhou Shao was not surprised by this. He simply pointed to the side, gathered his energy, and fired an elemental cannon. The huge impact stirred up a strong wind and dust, causing the six people to stagger and fall to the ground.

When the smoke and dust cleared, the six people looked at the small piece of forest that had been wiped out with fear on their faces, and couldn't help trembling.

Zhou Shao said calmly, "Now, am I qualified to see your leader? Ask him to come out and talk. I have something important to discuss with you."

Although it was the same sentence, after Zhou Shao showed his powerful strength, it seemed to carry a thousand pounds of weight in the ears of the six people. They didn't dare to say anything more and crawled back to the cave to report to the leader.

The result was not too surprising. After knowing the strength of the two people outside, the leader of the cave realized that it was useless to hide in the cave, so he came out alone to meet them.

After dismissing his attendants, Master Zhou and Master Meng roughly revealed some news about the ascenders. Of course, more specific information would only be known after the leader went to the Huaihe Cave.

Although the leader was somewhat skeptical, after witnessing the overwhelming strength of Zhou Shao and Meng Shao, he agreed to arrive at the Huaihe Cave at the agreed time.

Similar incidents also happened to other explorers who set out from the Huaihe Caves. After learning the news of the ascender, the leaders of each cave were surprised, some were skeptical, but in the end they all decided to come and find out.

At the same time, the Twisted City has become a ruin, and all the monsters in the city have been slaughtered.

In the center of the city, the Titan Garuru stood calmly, without a single scar on its black-gold body. In its right hand was a twisted monster trapped in an invisible magnetic field.

After putting away the twisted monster, Garuru gave Wenjie an order: "Let's go! Go to the next monster gathering place!"

Chapter 378 The Last Straw

No matter how turbulent the outside world is, Mellen has always been calm and peaceful in Baishi City.

After returning to Baishi City, Melen has been studying the Taiyue Map and has made some progress.

What Melen has been hesitating about is whether to abandon the Shenglong School's martial arts and directly switch to the basic practice of [Taiyue Tu].

On the one hand, in the path of martial arts, changing the foundation is not an easy thing. Martial arts itself is like the annual rings of a tree. It is okay when you are weak, but as your martial arts skills improve, the main martial arts will naturally leave more and more profound traces. If you want to change without affecting your future, you need to spend a lot of time and energy to sort out these traces.

Moreover, if I find the Taiyue Map today and want to revise it, what if I find a better martial art tomorrow? Will I have to revise it again?

If this continues for a long time, the 'annual rings' will not have time to be sorted out and will become chaotic and messy, and the potential for martial arts will be lost in vain.

On the other hand, Melen has gradually felt that what the Shenglong Sect said about inheriting the tradition from the upper realm is probably true, but this inheritance is not complete.

Take the killing martial arts of Black Dragon Peak for example. Although it is powerful and can dominate the same level after reaching the Martial Sect realm, it is easy to break due to its rigidity. It absorbs and utilizes murderous energy unscrupulously without many means to restrain it. In the end, it is likely that it will not be able to cultivate to the limit of Martial Sect and achieve perfection in nature. Its body and mind will be devoured by the murderous energy.

The old man in gray sits cross-legged on the top of Shenglong Mountain all year round. In addition to being in charge of the Shenglong Sect, he is also cultivating his mind and suppressing the increasingly powerful murderous aura in his body.

Although Mellen was not worried that the murderous aura would affect him, there was no need to move forward on a path that was obviously the wrong path, unless he could find the real Shenglong Sect of the upper realm and obtain the complete inheritance of the martial arts. However, Mellen, at least now, would not leave the uncertain future to luck.

In fact, for martial arts masters, there is another way to solve this situation, which is to integrate the high-level martial arts obtained and use them as nourishment for their own martial arts.

After all, there are so many geniuses in the world, and not every one of them has a perfect start. Not every one of them can have the guidance of a famous teacher and learn top-notch inheritance at the beginning of martial arts.

Those martial arts masters who rise from obscurity will almost inevitably encounter an insurmountable bottleneck when they reach a certain point on their martial arts journey. This is caused by their weak martial arts foundation at the beginning.

At this time, ordinary geniuses may fall like a meteor, but the real geniuses will rise against the trend, integrate all methods into one, and climb to the true pinnacle of martial arts!

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, and Mellen shook his head slightly, deciding to put this matter aside for the time being. After all, he was still far from reaching the ultimate perfection of a martial master.

Since there are ascenders in the catastrophe world, there is a high probability that there is a way to solve the complexity of the foundation after the change of foundation, or at least there is a secret method to speed up the sorting. Otherwise, it is impossible for every ascender to join a martial saint sect at random and just happen to encounter a martial saint inheritance that suits their original martial arts?

Moreover, even if Melen really wanted to change his foundation, he would definitely have to excavate the remains of several powerful martial saint sects before making a decision.

After thinking about these things, Melen slowed down his comprehension of the Taiyue Map and focused some of his attention on Garuru.

Part of the reason why he was in a hurry to expand his territory was that he wanted to find records of the Martial Saint sects before the disaster through the records in other caves.

It was also a matter of luck that he was able to obtain relevant information about the Tianshan Sect from the Huaihe Cave this time, and the benefits he gained were also amazing. If he could obtain a few more Martial Saint inheritances, Mellen would have more choices in the future, and at the very least, it would greatly increase his martial arts foundation.

It took seven days for Garuru, led by Wenjie, to directly destroy six monster forces.