Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Steel of the Heart

"Snap!"

Xiang Bei split another willow tree in half and took out the thousand-year-old willow heartwood.

At this moment, of the original nine ancient trees, three have been violently split open by Xiang Bei, who took the willow heartwood.

The remaining willows were also rustling with their leaves, whether out of fear or because Xiang Bei had killed their kin, causing these willows to hate and be angry at Xiang Bei!

However, Xiang Bei certainly wouldn't care what these willow trees thought; the important thing was to hurry up and take the willow heartwood from them.

However, just as Xiang Bei was preparing to continue his poisoning of the remaining willow trees...

Suddenly, an alarm sounded on Xiang Bei's smartwatch.

"What's going on?" Xiang Bei frowned slightly. His level of access was very high, and unless there were special circumstances, no information would bother him, let alone directly trigger an alarm on his smartwatch.

Without any hesitation, Xiang Bei directly opened the emergency messages on his smartwatch.

"A Level 1 beast tide has occurred in the sea area towards Tsukai Castle in Kyoto Base City, and is currently impacting the castle's defenses!"

"The fighter jets will move to my position immediately, and I will rendezvous with you right away!"

Without much thought, Xiang Bei abandoned the remaining willow wood and rushed out of the fog island towards the location where the fighter jet had been stationed. At the same time, he used his smart watch to order the fighter jet to rendezvous with him as soon as possible.

These plant spirits grow here and can be taken anytime, but it's not certain about Jin Hai City. If we go back a little later, who knows how many more people will die or be injured.

Not to mention that he is currently working in the Kyoto base city of Xia Kingdom, protecting the Kyoto base city and resisting the invasion of monsters is his duty and inescapable responsibility.

His family and friends also live in Kyoto.

As warriors and martial artists, Xiang Shan, Xiang Hu, and Xiang Jiang will surely be on the front lines fighting against the monsters.

But a first-level beast tide...

Even a small level-three rat swarm is enough to cause the death of a veteran war god.

Not to mention a level one beast tide!

There must be a king-level monster directing it from behind the scenes.

Moreover, given the sheer size of the sea monsters, the terror of a Level 1 beast tide would far exceed any imagination.

It wouldn't be surprising at all if several or even a dozen war gods fell!

Xiang Bei must quickly return to the Kyoto base city to provide support.

Therefore, after learning about the situation, Xiang Bei rushed out as quickly as possible.

Along the way, every monster placed in front of Xiang Bei was smashed to pieces by him in the most ferocious way.

In less than twenty minutes, Xiang Bei had successfully rendezvoused with the fighter jet. Before the jet even landed, Xiang Bei leaped high into the air and onto the aircraft, then flipped over and entered the newly opened cabin door.

"Get back to Kyoto base city as quickly as possible!" Xiang Bei said urgently.

"yes!"

The two drivers immediately responded.

Ordinary fighter jets do not have the intelligent flight control system of the King-class fighter jets, so they are operated by the pilot and auxiliary systems.

Once the fighter jet took off, it transformed into a streak of light and sped towards Kyoto base city, reaching maximum speed along the way.

. . .

at the same time

Kyoto Base City, the war base of the Southeastern Military District, due east.

This is a war base located at the confluence of several rivers in the east of Jinhai City.

It is also the largest war fortress in the entire Kyoto base city and the one closest to the sea.

Its purpose is to block the monster hordes in the sea from advancing on land along the river.

At this moment, the war base has long since been transformed into a scene of purgatory.

In the endless sea, on the beach, all kinds of aquatic monsters almost covered the sky, charging fearlessly towards the war base near the estuary.

These terrifying monsters come in all sorts of forms. The most common are naturally the numerous and diverse fish monsters, interspersed among them are arthropod monsters such as crabs and shrimp, reptiles such as sea lions and seals, and even terrifying and bizarre monsters evolved from various marine creatures such as starfish, jellyfish, sea snakes, sea cucumbers, and sea worms.

The sheer number and variety of them are almost countless.

But these monsters all share one characteristic: they are insane and fearless of death! Completely disregarding their own lives, they relentlessly charge towards the war base.

The overwhelming horde of monsters almost completely filled the area in front of the war base, with many even landing directly on land. Despite not being adept at moving on land, they still fearlessly charged ashore.

Inside the war base, a torrential downpour of firearms rained down on the hordes of monsters.

A deafening roar!

The Fire and Thunder 5000 series, the latest researched technology of the Xia Kingdom, has become a monster-reaping machine. Whether it is a beast soldier-level monster or a beast general-level monster, they are all turned into a dazzling display of flesh and blood under the terrifying firepower.

The area beneath the war base was turned into a bloodbath.

But even so, it was no match for the monsters below.

Even though countless monsters were torn to shreds by heavy weapons as soon as they appeared, more monsters kept surging in from behind.

Human weapons can run out, overheat and need rest, or even become obsolete.

But the monsters below seemed endless, never stopping!

Furthermore, the sea monsters are not without ranged attack capabilities.

While the war base unleashed its firepower on the monster horde, the sea monsters were also attacking the city walls.

For example, some monsters, such as squid, spew out black, corrosive ink.

It not only has extremely strong destructive power, but can also destroy weapons on the city walls, and even destroy the city walls themselves.

Some monsters can also pressurize seawater inside their bodies and then eject it, with a power no less than that of firearms.

Some monsters even have regenerable spikes growing on their bodies.

When attacking, simply throw out the spikes.

The attack by such a powerful beast tide also caused heavy casualties to the defending warriors.

Every moment, soldiers fall on the city walls.

"The situation is not optimistic!" Commander Li Dawei of the Southeast Command Area of ​​Kyoto Base City stood on the rear observation post, observing the changes on the ground. Next to him was Deputy Commander Wang Luohan.

Behind them were many war gods from the Xia Kingdom's military, as well as some free war gods and martial arts school war gods who volunteered to participate in the war.

"Three heavy firing positions have already been damaged. The corrosive liquid from those squid is too damaging to fixed firing positions," Wang Luohan said with a heavy expression.

"Let's take action. It won't take long to clear out these small fry." Behind him, the old man held a bronze halberd, his tiger-like eyes filled with murderous intent.

Don't be fooled by the loving way the old man treats Xiang Bei and his brothers at home; he's a real tough guy who's fought his way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

He was very aggressive when he was young, but he became much more peaceful after being injured.

But now, not only has the old man fully recovered from his injuries, but his strength has also reached the level of a peak war god, and he can no longer contain himself.

Especially when they see their soldiers fighting valiantly on the front lines, while these war gods can only wait in the rear.

"Not yet." However, Commander Li Dawei gently shook his head and said, "The beast tides on both sides are extraordinary. The number of lord-level monsters in the sea is already greater than the number of our war gods. We cannot act rashly before those lord-level monsters make their move."