Chapter 1615: Black Qi

Zhang Yi stood in the distance, unhurried and composed, silently taking out a piece of pastry from his dimensional space and taking a bite.

It was supernatural food crafted by Yang Siya, whose ability index had now surpassed 9000+, and it was exceptionally effective at replenishing energy.

But he wasn't in a rush anyway. After all, favorable timing, geographical advantage, and unity among his people, all three stood firmly on his side.

He had all the time and patience in the world to slowly grind down the Transcendents of Mist Valley.

Silver Armor saw this, and the rage burning inside him was indescribable!

Yet there was absolutely nothing he could do. He was trapped in a desperate situation, unable to win in a fight, and unable to outrun his opponent's speed.

So all he could do was stay put, desperately propping himself up with his formidable supernatural powers.

At the same time, he sent out distress signals to units in other regions, hoping they could come to his aid.

However, the five major forces dispatched by the Wuluan Empire this time had each struck one of humanity's five military bases, and the distances between them were enormous.

Never mind that they still had their own missions to complete, even if they finished their objectives and rushed over, it would take at least an hour.

And Zhang Yi wasn't about to give him that much time.

He used the Sword in the Tree to continuously harass Silver Armor, while over at Lu Keran's position, the Tianshui City Cannons fired without hesitation the moment they finished charging, regardless of cost!

On the main battlefield, there was also the formidable threat of Zhang Yi himself.

Silver Armor grew more exhausted with every passing moment, and the screams and cries for help from his subordinates kept ringing out continuously.

On the battlefield, Liang Yue was drenched in blood from the slaughter. Even though she had to face over a hundred Captain-level opponents all by herself, she showed not a single trace of fear!

Her speed was too fast, her blade too sharp, and her peerless martial arts mastery had turned her into a killing machine of close-quarters combat!

Never mind Transcendents with ability indexes lower than hers, even Epsilon-class Transcendents with indexes comparable to or even higher than hers, anyone who dared to step within her attack range wouldn't even have a chance to strike, they would be instantly annihilated!

After more than ten minutes had passed, fifty to sixty corpses of Mist Valley warriors lay sprawled across the ground.

The remaining Mist Valley warriors felt utter despair in their hearts, because the human female before them only grew stronger the longer she fought.

Finally, after exchanging three clashes of blades, Liang Yue forcibly slew a 9900-point Mist Valley Soldier Commander along with his weapon, then stood rooted to the spot, her entire body stained with blood.

She didn't continue her assault, and this uncharacteristic behavior filled the remaining Mist Valley warriors with trepidation.

"Is that female... exhausted?"

"Should we... go for it?"

The Mist Valley warriors actually hesitated.

That was hardly surprising. After a great battle where their main general had chosen to flee first, their morale had long since crumbled. It was only natural that fear of combat would creep in.

Liang Yue's pitch-black armor was mottled with bloodstains, and her inverted-triangle helmet concealed her features.

She breathed heavily, and streams of blue vapor rose from the exhaust vents of her armor. Then slowly, the vapor grew denser, its color shifting to a deep blue, even darker and more profound.

Finally, the color of that vapor transformed into pitch black! Like thick, ominous death aura, somber as the waters flowing through the River of the Underworld.

An overwhelming sense of dread coiled around the hearts of every Mist Valley warrior nearby, and instinctively, they began to retreat!

The human female before them, small in stature and only half their size, looked like an awakened demon god in their eyes.

Liang Yue slowly raised her head. After endless slaughter, the final barrier she had absorbed from the God Essence had finally been shattered!

Unlike Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yi was born as an existence above Epsilon-class, so his breakthrough came naturally, without any particular sensation.

But Liang Yue was different. Her genetic talent wasn't as exceptional as Zhang Yi's, so after absorbing the God Essence, it had taken her an extremely long time to reach this step.

That was why her breakthrough was far more arduous, and why the feeling of breaking through those shackles was so much more pronounced!

It was a sublimation of the very level of life itself, a complete transformation, with the vitality of every single cell in her body surging and increasing.

She even felt that she could now split a mountain in half with a single slash of her blade, and that she could cross the entire world in an instant if she broke into a sprint! ℯℯ𝑙.

Liang Yue hadn't forgotten that she was still on the battlefield. She lowered her head, her gaze sweeping over the enemies around her. Even though she was literally looking up at those towering monstrosities, it felt like she was looking down at a swarm of ants.

And merely being stared at by Liang Yue sent the hearts of those Mist Valley warriors plunging into an icy abyss, with only one enormous word flashing in their minds, DEATH!

"No good! She actually elevated her life level!"

One Mist Valley warrior screamed in shock.

Liang Yue raised the Dragon's Roar in her hand, and black Qi surged wildly from her body.

When a supreme martial arts grandmaster, a warrior possessing the world's most powerful combat techniques, ascends to Epsilon-class, it's like opening the floodgates of a dam, there's no stopping the torrent that follows!

Liang Yue raised her blade, then delivered a clean, decisive horizontal slash. She was cutting through the void itself, yet the pitch-black blade aura swept across everything in sight in an instant!

"Puh!"

...

Blood erupted like fountains from the waists of dozens of Mist Valley warriors, their bodies cleaved cleanly in two by that single slash!

A mass of bodies collapsed directly to the ground, and wretched screams echoed endlessly across the land of Tianshui City.

When the Mist Valley warriors witnessed this scene, all will to fight evaporated completely.

At this moment, they were no longer even on the same level as Liang Yue!

"Run! She's no longer an enemy we can deal with!"

"Quick, call the Commander over!"

"But the Commander is also fighting the enemy!"

"What? How is this possible? Why does an ordinary human city have three 5th-tier ability users appearing at the same time!"

Their answer came in the form of Liang Yue's blade.

She had always been decisive and ruthless in killing, and now that she had been promoted, she was even more eager to test just how strong she had become.

So she grabbed her blade and gave chase without the slightest hesitation.

The Dragon's Roar in her hand swept horizontally, chopped vertically, and slashed from the side, its enormous black blade aura like a curtain of heaven falling upside down, and every Mist Valley warrior in its path was cut down on the spot!

In less than a minute, she had killed every single Mist Valley warrior.

Then her gaze turned toward the distance, where Huahua was locked in fierce combat with the giant beast transformed by the Black-White Commander.

Liang Yue tightened her grip on the long blade in her hand, her eyes razor-sharp.

"I've never fought against a Transcendent of this level before!"

Now that she had finally ascended to the Epsilon-class, she had reached the realm she had dreamed of for so long.

Now, she could fight side by side with Zhang Yi!

Liang Yue's body sank slightly, then her feet slammed hard against the ground. The earth beneath her shattered instantly, and her figure shot forward like a cheetah, tracing a black line through the air as she hurtled straight toward the Black-White Commander!