Feng Zhiyuan felt a deep sense of powerlessness. In the face of the massive changes to the world’s Laws, an individual’s strength seemed so insignificant.
He couldn’t be bothered with gathering his belongings and began to retreat back into the city with some of his men.
He wasn’t the only one.
Many others who were moving back couldn’t care about anything else, relying on their barely-usable Flying Skill to make a swift departure.
Some retreated.
Some advanced.
Under the gaze of his Insight Skill, he discovered a three-story building in the public area that was different from the rest, its entire structure enveloped in the fluctuations of a Barrier.
This extravagant move was a real eye-opener for him.
“It’s them!”
At the same time, Feng Zhiyuan also noticed several familiar figures from the old university archery team. He never would have thought this group of young people would be doing so well.
Especially that aloof-looking lady. In the midst of the Elemental Suppression, the Spiritual Energy waves around her body showed no signs of sluggishness. With a flick of her fingers, one Spiritual Energy Arrow after another streaked through the dim sky like shooting stars.
Moreover, they were undoubtedly self-tracking; each shot precisely pierced the eye sockets and heads of Cave Dwellers over a hundred meters away.
This kind of ultra-long-range sniping was simply clean and ruthless.
“Look... up in the sky!”
A survivor pointed a trembling finger toward the sky.
A figure tore through the air, arriving via a Teleportation Skill Technique.
“It’s him!”
Feng Zhiyuan glanced up and naturally saw the figure hovering high in the air.
When observed with his Insight Skill, all he saw was a shroud of mist; he couldn’t penetrate the fluctuations of the Telekinesis Barrier surrounding the figure. The only intelligence he could glean was that the Telekinesis fluctuations around the other person were absurdly strong.
The waves it emitted were so powerful that they faintly caused a visual distortion, as if gravity itself was collapsing the air around him.
And the moment he arrived, he acted.
WHOOSH!
He made a grasping motion in the empty air with his right hand. All the Cave Dwellers who had been charging wildly were instantly frozen in place. In the next moment, an unreasonable, colossal force crushed them from all directions.
“This...”
To the shock of many onlookers, the flesh-and-blood abominations with bodies as hard as steel became like soda cans being crushed in a fist.
CRACK!
Accompanied by the muffled sound of their chitinous outer layers shattering, a continuous series of bone-cracking sounds rang out. An entire area of Cave Dwellers was crushed into clumps of bloody paste, squeezed by dozens of strands of Strong Will.
‘He’s the Number One?’
Feng Zhiyuan was dumbfounded. While he was still struggling with how to break the defense of a single flesh-and-blood abomination, this guy was already one-shotting entire mobs.
Only the legendary Number One could possess such shockingly immense power.
But after Su Chen finished this area-of-effect clearing, the Cave Dwellers’ offensive didn’t weaken. Their momentum in invading the base was like waves of zombies surging forward.
Seeing this, his body plummeted like a meteorite, smashing into the ground in front of a charging vanguard.
BOOM!
The moment he landed, the earth trembled. The ground in a ten-meter radius around Su Chen instantly cracked and collapsed.
Immediately after, the chaotic air currents in the surrounding space were instantly compressed, and an invisible Telekinesis Shell shot out, plowing a hundred-meter-long bloody trench through the surging monster tide.
“That’s just insane...”
Far away, on the rooftop of a guesthouse, members of the Zongguanxian Club also watched as Su Chen wreaked havoc.
“Even if Spiritual Runes are completely unrestricted, the effect this guy is producing is just too domineering and absurd. Is this the power of Telekinesis Lv9?”
To some, that numerical value felt a bit conservative.
For most people who had never been exposed to high-level combat power, their understanding of personal strength was completely inadequate to make a judgment.
And that was just the appetizer.
Facing the remaining abominations that continued to throw themselves forward wave after wave, including many elite Cave Dwellers who had come specifically to kill, Su Chen was in high spirits. Not only did he not retreat, but he took a step forward, into the thick, foul stench.
At that moment, the pure physical brawl truly began.
“ROAR!”
A mutated Cave Dweller, its body covered in thorny barbs like a spike-covered meat grinder, charged violently toward Su Chen’s chest.
Su Chen’s expression was calm. As it came at him, he clenched his left hand into a fist and shattered its head with a single punch.
The bone spikes, sharp enough to pierce steel plates, were the first to snap the moment they made contact with his fist.
Soon after, a Cave Dweller with mimicry abilities slithered in from the side like a venomous snake. It whipped out its mutated, several-meter-long arm, attempting to strangle Su Chen with its toughness.
Su Chen didn’t even turn his head. His right hand shot out like lightning, his five fingers clamped together like a hook, and grabbed the slimy, fleshy arm.
“Get over here!”
Putting forth strength with one hand, he swung the monster, which weighed hundreds of pounds, around in front of him.
After it traced a terrible arc through the air, he smashed it viciously into another corpulent behemoth that was about to attack.
THUD!
As flesh struck flesh, bones made an overburdened, shattering sound.
Su Chen didn’t stop moving. His Global Perception allowed him to clearly sense the flow of every inch of killing intent around him, even with his eyes closed.
And his unparalleled combat intuition turned him into a killing machine, allowing him to cut into piles of monsters at will.
A Cave Dweller Priest had just opened its mouth to spew corrosive acid mist when Su Chen was already upon it, his five fingers piercing straight through its throat like a steel chisel.
RIP!
With a casual tear, he ripped out its entire windpipe, spine and all.
SWOOSH!
Then, he delivered a powerful right roundhouse kick that landed square on the waist of an abomination attacking from the side, successfully blasting it into a spray of gore and viscera.
“This...”
“Brother Chen is practically a god.”
Pang Peng and the others who had flown over from behind were also completely astonished.
Seeing his violent, fist-to-flesh close-quarters combat, it would be impossible to say they weren’t deeply shaken.
Su Chen’s movements had no unnecessary flair, nor did he use any Elemental Runes. But every punch he threw created a sonic boom, and every palm strike he chopped down was accompanied by a red glint that tore through the air.
His own unparalleled physical strength, supplemented by the powerful Telekinesis fluctuations surrounding his body, made him seem invincible in his slaughter.
At the very least, this pile of mindless Cave Dwellers was no match for him.
‘He’s letting his true nature loose. He definitely prefers close-quarters combat to long-range casting,’ Yan Ruoruo sighed to herself.
She already knew what Su Chen did before he transmigrated: he was an extreme sports athlete who walked the line between life and death. Someone with such strict and ultimate control over every inch of his muscles would indeed be more inclined toward melee combat.
BANG!
A dull thud echoed.
With the aid of his Telekinesis, Su Chen’s body, forged through a thousand trials, delivered the destructive force of a heavy battering ram.
Every leap and dodge was heart-stopping to watch, yet he perfectly avoided all damage before immediately countering with a fatal blow.
Meanwhile, some of the flesh-and-blood abominations trying to surround him were pierced by a continuous stream of Spiritual Energy Arrows, which destroyed their fragile central nervous systems and instantly left them in a vegetative state.
Ten-odd minutes later, two successive tide-like waves of charging Cave Dwellers had been completely slaughtered in the base’s plaza.
The battlefield fell into a brief silence.
Su Chen stood alone. His windbreaker was soaked in large patches with dark purple blood. Bathed in gore, his personal excitement had yet to fade, and his cold eyes held a trace of exhilaration.
The dopamine reward system was kicking into high gear.
A life-and-death battle was always the ultimate neurological stimulant.
The thrill of close-quarters combat, of pulverizing enemies with his fists, was far more direct than simple long-range casting.
This scene made the hearts of Pang Peng and the others behind him pound. They were vaguely reminded of the time in the dark caverns below, when Su Chen had revealed a side of himself that could only be described as berserk.
Just then, Su Chen, not fully lost in the afterglow of the slaughter, slowly raised his head and gazed profoundly at the sky.
Unwittingly, the force of the Elemental Suppression had risen sharply, and the air had grown thicker.
The Broken Star Ring was now hanging almost directly over the city.
‘The suppression force in this area is already approaching 70%. It should peak within one or two hours.’
Furthermore, this interstellar catastrophe wasn’t just bearing down on Dongfu City; the distant Oran City was also within its scope.

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