The incursions of sea beasts were becoming increasingly frequent, with powerful ones emerging continuously.
In light of this, the country began organizing the evacuation of citizens from numerous islands and preparing to abandon all of them.
Most of these islands were surrounded by sea, and defending them all would inevitably consume a vast amount of high-tier transcendent power.
With enemies encircling them on all sides and the occasional appearance of creatures from the Eternal Night, the country was clearly no longer capable of defending every front. Therefore, they had to consolidate their defenses and resist the sea beast invasion comprehensively.
In response to this action, some people issued condemnations, calling it inhumane.
"Humane? What humanity? The Lighthouse Nation has already fallen into a demonic state, with hundreds of millions of its citizens being penned up like livestock. All nations in the world are facing the threat of annihilation, and humanity itself is on the brink of destruction!
Freedom is built upon the foundation of life and safety. Under these circumstances, all people should be united as one, and any inflammatory remarks with malicious intent will be severely punished!"
On the news, Lin Yongfeng slammed the table, his voice resounding with conviction.
From then on, order was restored across the domestic internet. Many began to further realize that the internet was not beyond the law, and that mindless do-gooders truly courted disaster!
Some do-gooders were simply not fit to be human, existing only to disgust others.
They enjoyed the benefits provided by the state while spewing their do-gooder rhetoric, and they were all brought to account.
Such individuals contributed nothing to the nation; on the contrary, they used their influence to propagate more brainless followers.
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Among the many islands that were abandoned was Dan San City.
Dan San City was a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Shisheng Province, one of the 27 cities in the Changjiang central area. It was located in the northeastern part of Shisheng Province, bordering the East China Sea to the east, Hangzhou Bay to the west, and Modu City to the north. The terrain sloped from southwest to northeast.
The Dan San Islands were surrounded by the sea and enjoyed a subtropical monsoon climate, with warm winters and cool summers, and ample sunshine. It was once a tourist paradise in the country.
But that was all in the past.
At this moment, volcanoes erupted on numerous islands, and sea beasts rampaged. Dan San City itself was bisected by a massive rift running from west to east, splitting the entire city in two. After experiencing volcanic eruptions, earth tremors, and sea beast rampages, the island and its surrounding archipelago, once a beautiful city, had been reduced to ruins.
On the coastal defense line at Xiaochao Bay in Ningbo City, directly opposite Dan San City, a thick and long metal defense line had been established. Beyond the defense line, fighter jets roared, and countless transcendent individuals charged forward, engaging in fierce battles with the sea beasts. Occasionally, peak B-class transcendent individuals would detonate the spiritual energy core within their bodies, taking dozens of sea beasts with them in a mutual destruction.
The fighter jets flying in the sky were primarily targeted by the sea beasts. They could barely unleash a few spiritual energy bombs before being annihilated mid-air by the advanced sea beasts using their bloodline divine abilities.
Young soldiers, relying on their lack of spiritual energy to avoid attracting the attention of the sea beasts, would charge into the sea beast hordes with immensely powerful spiritual energy bombs, creating a bloody spectacle.
All these scenes were broadcast live on the Shenghua app's war channel, aiming to give the public a more direct understanding of the brutality of war and to rally public support.
On the screens inside the transport planes evacuating the residents of Dan San City, the battle footage from the Xiaochao Bay defense line was being played.
Yang Ming, among the last batch of civilians to be evacuated from Dan San City, watched the transcendent individuals sacrificing themselves and the soldiers resisting the sea beast invasion with their mortal bodies on the screen, his eyes slightly reddening.
Beside him, hundreds of Dan San City residents watched the brutal battle on the screen, falling into a profound silence.
From within the crowd, faint sobs could occasionally be heard.
"These children are so young, and they're not even supernaturals. Why are they being sent to fight? Isn't that sending them to their deaths!"
Amidst the soft weeping, a sudden cry of anger erupted. Yang Ming followed the sound and saw a middle-aged woman wearing a mink coat, with permed curly hair, exuding an aura of a nouveau riche. As she spoke, she continuously wiped away tears.
Yang Ming recognized her. She was a landlady from the center of Dan San City. When boarding the fighter jet, she had been extremely resistant to leaving her homeland, muttering about losing her dozen or so properties. But now, after witnessing the brutal battle below, she burst into tears.
From the discussions of her relatives not long ago, Yang Ming knew that she had a son who had given up a comfortable family environment and resolutely joined the JD police, sacrificing his life a few years prior.
"This feeling of powerlessness... If only I had the ability..."
Yang Ming watched the battle on the screen, his jaw clenched, his fists trembling slightly. He thought of his parents who had died in the jaws of sea beasts while fishing, and his emotions began to tremble violently.
Just then, a sensor next to the main light in the transport plane sounded, projecting a beam of light onto him.
Yang Ming looked around at everything, an expression of astonishment involuntarily appearing on his face.
Within his dantian, a new sequence core was forming, continuously absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy of light. Subsequently, his pupils turned into a kaleidoscope of colors.
Everything around him began to appear illusory. When his vision returned, Yang Ming's pupils involuntarily contracted slightly.
"Yang Cuilian: Mortal, bone structure 1, 48 years old, farming talent: A; piano talent: C; luck: B-class, awakening progress: 0.2%"
"Liu Gensheng: Mortal, bone structure 2, 32 years old, calligraphy and painting talent: A; photography talent: B; luck: D-class, awakening progress: 23%"
"Zhang Bishui: Mortal, bone structure 1, 26 years old, chef talent: B; sports talent: B, luck: D-class, awakening progress: 86.34%"
"Gou Youlong: Mortal, bone structure 0.2, flower picking talent: A; computer talent: C, luck: F-class, awakening progress: 0.1%"
"Li Youzai: Mortal..."
In Yang Ming's eyes, everything had changed. His pupils, with their kaleidoscope of colors, emitted light with every blink. Moreover, whenever he focused on someone, their corresponding information would appear, causing him to show an expression of surprise.
"Someone has awakened!"
Just then, a stern voice rang out. Yang Ming looked over and saw a military officer walking towards him with a look of delight.
"Li Zheng: Condensing Spirit stage cultivator, bone structure 6, fire element talent: A, hidden weapon talent: A, luck: C-class, awakened."
"Hello, please follow me!"
The officer saluted Yang Ming with a smile, his eyes showing curiosity as he looked at Yang Ming's seven-colored pupils.
However, before him, Yang Ming, who had been looking astonished and surprised, suddenly changed his expression. He pointed mutteringly towards the sea surface outside the transport plane's window, his mouth trembling, "Look... look over there..."
"Hmm?" The officer turned to look, and his pupils began to constrict violently.
On the sea surface several kilometers from Xiaochao Bay, dozens of colossal heads appeared, each the size of a house. These were clearly A-class sea beasts.
Yang Ming's face turned deathly pale in an instant because he saw that after the sea beasts appeared, the officer named Li Zheng's luck had directly dropped from C-class to the lowest E-class, and it was a deathly gray color.
He then looked at the people next to him and found that everyone's luck had changed. All of them had become a deathly gray E-class.
"Are we going to die? I just awakened!" Yang Ming's mouth opened, his face filled with endless fear.
As he was in a state of panic, a sea beast flew up from the sea, flapping its fleshy wings, and fixed its gaze on the transport plane he was in.
"Roar~"
It roared towards the sky, and under its leadership, the dozens of sea beasts below also let out roars. Instantly, a terrifying sound wave stirred up a tsunami hundreds of meters high, sweeping towards the Xiaochao Bay defense line.
"All those below B-class, retreat immediately!"
As the sound wave propagated, several experts below A-class, but not yet at the tenth stage, roared. Simultaneously, they erected mental shields to protect those below B-class from being turned into blood mist by the sonic waves.
"Are they kidding me? These sea beasts, the highest is level thirty, and the lowest is level ten. Why are they targeting this place, damn it!"
The A-class expert stationed at Xiaochao Bay looked at the scene, his face instantly becoming extremely grim.
Then, he looked at the three-pointed short dagger with a special inscription he held in his hand.
Subsequently, he used his mental power to control the dagger and quickly wrote the character "俞" in the air.
"Hurry up and come, I can't handle so many sea beasts!"
At the Xiaochao Bay fortress, there were only three A-class experts at stages six or seven, with him being the highest at stage ten. Logically, under China's surveillance, most sea beasts should have rushed to Modu City. If so many sea beasts were heading towards Xiaochao Bay fortress, they would have been discovered hundreds of kilometers away and preemptive arrangements would have been made.
But the reality was that so many sea beasts above level ten had appeared so abruptly, without any warning. It was clear that a spatial-type sea beast had transported them.
"Could it be that among the sea beasts, there are beings similar to strategists who command the sea beast hordes? Otherwise, how could they execute this feint so flawlessly?"
The A-class expert of Xiaochao Bay fortress trembled slightly. While writing the character "俞" with the three-pointed dagger, he also took out his phone and dialed the information department.
The three-pointed kunai he controlled was given to him by a young man named Yu Zhibo, who told him to write "俞" with his mental power if he encountered A-class sea beasts he couldn't handle, and he would arrive immediately.
He knew Yu Zhibo and knew he was very strong, but no matter how strong he was, could he be stronger than dozens of sea beasts above level ten?
He dared not place all his bets on a single youth, so he also made an emergency call to the information department. Even though he knew that these A-class sea beasts, upon appearing, would be detected by energy detectors immediately, he felt he should do something.
And it was after he took action that the numerous A-class sea beasts either flapped their fleshy wings or swung their long tails, carrying monstrous tidal waves, and swept towards the Xiaochao Bay fortress defense line.
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"Xiaochao Bay fortress? It seems I'll be harvesting some materials for Edo Tensei this time!"
In the Pure Land space, Yu Zhibo, who was researching the development of遁术 (escape techniques), felt a stir. Seeing a light spot representing the Flying Thunder God Mark in the depths of his sea of consciousness form the character "俞," he couldn't help but curl his lips slightly. Then, he performed the Flying Thunder God Technique and disappeared from his original location.
The next moment, he appeared directly in the air above the Xiaochao Bay defense line.
"Holy crap!"
The moment he appeared, he was greeted by the sight of an overwhelming tsunami, followed by 36 sea beasts, the lowest at level 10 and the highest at level 37, charging from tens of kilometers away.
Yu Zhibo almost turned and fled.
At the Xiaochao Bay fortress, the human supernaturals fighting the sea beasts by the sea showed expressions of despair, while C-class and ordinary soldiers frantically retreated.
The A-class water-elemental supernatural who had summoned him was currently fully concentrating on condensing a water wall, channeling his innate power to create a giant water wall five hundred meters high on the sea surface five kilometers away, intending to block the tsunami.
But the result disappointed him. The water wall was large and thick, but facing the spiritual pressure and aura of dozens of A-class sea beasts charging forward, the water wall was quickly destroyed and merged with the incoming tsunami, forming an even larger tsunami that surged forward.
"Get back, let me!"
Just as he was in despair, a clear voice, like a heavenly sound, echoed from above him.
He looked up and saw a tall figure standing in the sky, with a miniature camera beside him.
At this moment, the corners of Yu Zhibo's eyes were covered with red eyeshadow, and he immediately entered Sage Mode. Then, he slightly spread his hands, and terrifying energy began to gather in his palms.
"Sage Art: Water Style: Raging Torrent!"
"Sage Art: Wind Style: Rasengan!"
"Sage Art: Hurricane Water Vortex Technique!"
As the thoughts fell, Yu Zhibo simultaneously threw out the Raging Torrent, infused with Sage energy, and the Rasengan, infused with Sage energy and wind nature transformation, from his left and right palms. Under the control of his mental power, the two ninjutsu merged together. Upon encountering water, they began to grow wildly, then stirred up monstrous waves, forming a giant water tornado thousands of meters high. Driven by the terrifying hurricane, it carried endless seawater towards the charging sea beasts.
"Boom!"
A massive roaring sound erupted. Under the rapid rotation of the water tornado containing Sage energy and hurricane, the tsunami hundreds of meters high was completely absorbed and merged, becoming a water tornado thousands of meters high. With the power of tilting the heavens, it pressed down towards the dozens of sea beasts that were rushing forward.
"Roar!"
Facing Yu Zhibo's counterattack, a level 26 shark, hundreds of meters long, became enraged. It opened its mouth filled with fangs and fired an air cannon several feet in diameter into the center of the water tornado. Then, the air cannon exploded, turning the water tornado into scattered water droplets, completely dispersing it.
Subsequently, the dozens of sea beasts accelerated their pace and surged towards the Xiaochao Bay fortress.
In the sky, two seahorses with fleshy wings were rapidly approaching. One of them spat out a water ball containing terrifying demonic power and innate energy, directly targeting the transport plane not far away.
"Sage Art: Thunder Fire Rage Burst Ball!"
Yu Zhibo frowned and casually threw out a three-colored energy ball, a combination of Sage energy, lightning style, and fire style, which collided with the water ball emitted by the seahorse, resulting in a terrifying explosion in mid-air that even distorted space.
Then, with a wave of his hand, utilizing his absolute control over the Pure Land space, he moved out sixteen coffins containing Zhu Yan, Hao Zhi, the crab couple, and the remaining 12 bodies that had undergone the Edo Tensei ritual. Instantly, his entire field of vision was filled.
Zhu Yan, over three hundred meters tall, covered in silver fur, with red hands and feet, exuding fierce might.
Hao Zhi, three hundred meters long and two hundred meters high, filled with a sense of wildness and power.
The crab couple, like a war mill, with incredibly sharp pincers, over two hundred meters high.
Also, the Blue Whale Demon, with a 16th-stage aura, over six hundred meters long, floating in the air, casting a vast shadow over the ground.
Furthermore, the Demonic Flood Dragon, over five hundred meters long, covered in black scales, coiled to the side of Zhu Yan.
In addition to these, there were eleven sea beasts that Yu Zhibo had either captured himself or with the help of other transcendent individuals over the past three days. Their realms were generally between the teens and twenties. Before being awakened, they stood like statues covered in cracks, exuding a terrifying aura.
With the appearance of the sixteen giant bodies revived through Edo Tensei, the two seahorses flapping their fleshy wings in the sky stopped their actions, looking at the beastly figures standing on the beach with surprise and uncertainty.
The more than thirty sea beasts behind them also ceased all their actions simultaneously.
"Next, let my undead legion play with you!"
Yu Zhibo stood in mid-air, brought his fingers together to his lips, and with a thought, awakened all the revived异兽 (monstrous beasts).
And the moment his thought fell, the eyes of Zhu Yan, Hao Zhi, the Demonic Flood Dragon, the Demonic Whale, and many other giant beasts, including the sixteen red vertical eyes on the crabs' backs, all opened at the same time.
Boom!
Like primordial beasts awakening, 16 immense auras surged into the sky. The undead giant beast legion, led by Zhu Yan, let out a roar that echoed throughout the heavens and earth.
"Kill!"
Yu Zhibo's face was icy, and he forcefully waved his right hand downwards!
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Three hours! I've been revising for over three hours! Damn it!
Thank you for putting this in the author's notes, thank you everyone.
Also, Yang Ming will be useful later, he's not just filler, you'll see as you continue reading.