Otherworldly Desert Dust

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There was no other way.

The elites of Lun Mountain City, whether young or old, top-notch or budding talents, all referred to themselves as "Lord Wu Hen."

Having received such respect, it was only right to provide them with the corresponding care. How could Wu Hen simply watch as they were slaughtered by the tyrant tiger beetle armors? Indeed, among them there were the foolish, the arrogant, the prideful... but as long as they showed respect and goodwill towards him, Wu Hen regarded them as his compatriots and believed it was his duty to protect them.

Of course, the most crucial point was that Wu Hen had mastered the Third Rank Taste, and a higher realm of Breathing Skill could allow him to recover his Essence Qi in a very short time. Furthermore, with the preferential treatment under the Nuwa Law, dealing with the tyrant tiger beetle armors was not such a difficult task anymore.

Wang Yan naturally obeyed Wu Hen's command, and now, humanity's stronghold at Lun Mountain Fortress was counting on Wu Hen; he was the strongest being in terms of Combat Power among humans. Moreover, he was also the one who achieved the world's first kill of a tyrant tiger beetle.

The top-level human fighters began their assault, they were deployed in a relatively safe area, and began fighting with the tyrant tiger beetle army under the joint protection of Mechanical Beasts and Emperor Mechas.

Meanwhile, Wu Hen also directly summoned the Ominous Bronze Spear, allowing it to exhibit its power freely amidst the chaotic battlefield.

The Ominous Bronze Spear was Wu Hen's weapon; its power was not restricted by the Nuwa Divine Realm, and with its single combat capability already reaching the Third-class Heavenly Brilliance, it demonstrated terrifying dominion. One could see that with each swing of its dark surge, it could swallow the lives of seven or eight tyrant tiger beetles...

A single weapon was comparable to a team of top-level fighters.

Actually, most humans had never seen Wu Hen exert his true power. Even when dealing with the Longevity Sect, it was just a purely overwhelming battle; how many unknown divine skills remained...

"The tyrant tiger beetle might not be the most powerful Red Zhe Insect, Lord Wu Hen should observe for a while longer," a man dressed in fighting clothes approached.

"He Ze Martial Saint!" Wang Yan immediately saluted the man who had arrived. Discover stories at My Virtual Library Empire

Dressed in Black Python Ancient Martial Fighting Clothes, the man resembled a cold, coiled python lurking in the jungle — burly, tall, and exuding a daunting presence of a predator.

He saluted Wang Yan and then bowed to Wu Hen, appearing as a supreme human fighter who had practiced martial arts from a young age and soared in power when the evolution craze descended.

Wu Hen had never seen this man before.

In fact, as someone who had been in a slumber for five years, he was not aware of how many geniuses existed among humans. Li Feng had mentioned that many true powerhouses among humans were lone wolves; after several major calamities, they actually possessed enough strength to stand alone. However, these individuals did not join any organizations or groups. They walked through the bizarre otherworld, tempering themselves into lone brave warriors on the path of evolution. Often, such individuals evolved to realms even Li Feng was unaware of. Only during such catastrophic times might they emerge.

He Ze was one such person, unknown in the past, but unanimously recognized by all human top-level fighters as one of the ten strongest Martial Saints. His fighting clothes were so advanced that they no longer relied on the blessings of the Douyi Star Palace, and he had carved out his own unique evolutionary path!

"Martial Saint, fighting clothes, are you the one who is respectfully known as the Black Python Saint Fighter, He Ze?" Yang Qin looked at the Black Python Warrior with sparkling eyes and spoke with a bit of excitement.

"My restrictions under the Law are weak. If Lord Wu Hen cannot bear to see his compatriots suffer heavy casualties, then let me deal with them first. If you find my strength unsatisfactory, it's not too late for you to take action," He Ze said.

"Alright, I leave it to you, Saint Fighter," Wu Hen nodded.

He Ze couldn't help but smile wryly at this title. Lord Wu Hen was indeed as the rumors described, somewhat unconventional.

Before stepping into the era of evolution, indeed there were many literary and film works that depicted the superhuman abilities of mankind, and on the path of evolution, there were individuals whose radiant presence matched those unique artistic characters. Thus, the people had some more affectionate and special nicknames for them.

The Douyi Star Palace established the ranks of Martial Hero, Martial Saint, and Martial Arts Master, and the ten strongest Martial Saints had their exclusive fighting clothes, which indeed correlated well with the title of Saint Fighter.

Therefore, He Ze, among the ten strongest Martial Saints, came to be known as the Black Python Saint Fighter.

Black Python Martial Saint He Ze fought alone; he had no assistants beside him, nor any logistical team.

He was incredibly fast, and in the area he swooped through, there happened to be a swarm of Silver Winged Mantises. These insects swung their Wind Scythe Blades, attempting to slash at the Black Python Martial Saint He Ze.

But suddenly, a burst of black light bloomed in that area, followed by the entire swarm of Silver Winged Mantises being seized by some invisible force!

Wu Hen focused intensely and utilized his Spiritual Vision to finally see clearly that the Silver Winged Mantises were all entangled by an invisible Black Python Evil Power, and were then strangled to death alive!

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A dozen or so Silver Winged Mantises were killed in an instant, Black Python Martial Saint He Ze killed them off like a swarm of insects in his way, clean and efficient.

The human elite team suffered a crushing defeat, hundreds of tyrant tiger beetles flew over the fortress walls with ease, they disregarded the heavy weapons scattered across various areas, including the missiles fired into the sky, none could harm them...

Numerous tracking missiles exploded on the fortress walls, creating billowing thick smoke, while hundreds of tyrant tiger beetles flitted and played among these slow-moving missiles, slaughtering those teams wielding elemental energy weapons from several kilometers away on the fortress walls; even those with Visual Awakening, Olfactory Awakening, and Auditory Awakening were defenseless, and once a tyrant tiger beetle broke through, their lives were as fragile as straw.

On that wall, there were over a thousand Primordial Machine Spiritual Awakened, too late to retreat, and just as they were about to be massacred clean, a mountain-like shadow emerged from the missile smoke, landing supersonically among the tyrant tiger beetles, annihilating more than a dozen in the blink of an eye, and creating a Python Mountain domain, suppressing all the tyrant tiger beetles on this mountain range!

Majestic and mighty, like a sprawling mountain range, He Ze alone battled hundreds of tyrant tiger beetles. His speed, his strength, his domain, his methods, all were a level above the tyrant tiger beetles. This difficult task was something Wu Hen could achieve as well, even without the constraints of Nuwa Divine Law, he too could face a hundred enemies alone!

"This person has some strength," Cai Huang gave his own assessment.

"He is one of the survivors from those Star Palace fighters massacred by the Purple Robed Master, that catastrophe hit him hard; his comrades, his teachers, his relatives all died, and their deaths were so inconsequential. Since then, He Ze has unleashed the highest potential of humanity, carving out his own path in ancient martial fighting clothes along the Evolution Chain Gate, he's been someone the Longevity Sect has been wanting to recruit before you awoke, it's just that his movements are hard to track, had it not been for Li Feng issuing a flee order to all, we might not have been able to meet him," Shen Wenhai said.

"He is quite knowledgeable about the alien insects; if nothing goes awry, he probably spent a long time on Insect Island on his own and it seems like he knows that aside from the tyrant tiger beetles, there are stronger species among the Red Zhe Insects," Wu Hen said.

Black Python Martial Saint's combat experience was so profound that even Wu Hen was amazed; his combat techniques seemed to contain a bit of the Ancient Clan's philosophy of simplicity, with killing methods not flashy but very effective.

Insects surpass humans in all aspects of physical abilities, but among the superhumans, there are also those who have completed evolution, these evolved ones have combat power as if returned to a past era, when all creatures on Earth dreaded the terrifying upright apes, with speed, endurance, explosive force, intelligence, potential, and the use of various sharp weapons!

The perfect combat power of the tyrant tiger beetles is relative to the unevolved humans, capable of moving tens of times their body length in one second, but the Black Python Martial Saint could not only move hundreds of times his body length in one second but also change direction, rise and fall, and complete multiple lightning bends in the process, something the tyrant tiger beetles can't do, even after shedding their thick armors, they can't keep up with the Martial Saint.

His fighting was ice-cold, without a trace of unnecessary movement, even though the Black Python Martial Saint was very much alive, he seemed more of a predator than those tyrant tiger beetles, his killing was too rapid, forcing the tyrant tiger beetle army to dispatch even more to hunt him down!

From a few hundred to nearly a thousand, the tyrant tiger beetles from the sky to the ground, from the mountains to the basins, cornered Black Python Martial Saint He Ze from all directions, but this Black Python Saint Fighter could still break through their encirclement, entangling with them through the oxygen layers, even though his killing speed slowed down, it was evident that the tyrant tiger beetles found it hard to take his life!

Seeing this, Wu Hen became even more convinced that even without the constraints of Nuwa Law, no amount of tyrant tiger beetles might be able to kill this Black Python Martial Saint. His perception, his combat realm, and the methods he wielded in combat made him invincible among the tyrant tiger beetle army. The only thing the tyrant tiger beetles could do was to deplete his Qi, suppress his speed of killing...

"Sigh, among those survivors from the Star Palace, quite a few have strength close to that of He Ze, it's a pity that we've lost contact with them; otherwise, this battle wouldn't be so strenuous," Shen Wenhai sighed.

Wu Hen counted himself as a Frontier as well.

But within the Frontiers, he was definitely not among the very forefront, when previously faced with the Purple Robed Master, Wu Hen was utterly incapable of fighting back.

In the five years of his slumber and loss, those front-runners also evolved continually.

Seeing one of the top ten Martial Saints from the Star Palace now able to hold their own, Wu Hen also felt deeply moved.

In fact, He Ze's strength was far beyond the human group, to the point where there was a fault-line like lead. But those who experienced the era of celestial visitors knew that even this achievement was still insignificant in the immense Desert Dust.

Above their heads, countless stars shone, with more than seven thousand visible to the naked eye, brilliant and divine. The goal of human navigators was to become as the Star Radiance; they would continue to forge ahead tirelessly until they reached that realm!

"If He Ze is a Martial Saint, then who is the current Martial Arts Master?" Wu Hen asked with some curiosity.

Martial Saints are among the top ten fighters of the Star Palace, while the Martial Arts Master is the strongest of them.

This excited Wu Hen. If they could meet up with the human navigators, wouldn't their journey be less arduous?

"Mingyi," was the reply.

"Oh!"

Wu Hen gaped widely.

Recalling the soft kiss on the lips at their last farewell, the sweetness seemed to linger still.