Exploding God

A huge red crown, that familiar red figure—

It's clearly a Red Sunflower Claw!

And the dark shadow standing on its back...

Wait, was there someone up there just now?

"Thankfully, it's not too late. Where's Lü Geng?"

A calm voice rang out clearly from the rising smoke.

Han Zhen, Qi Yuan, and Suo Qiang felt a buzzing in their heads and their hearts felt as if they had been hit by a ten-thousand-ton blow. They stared blankly at the familiar figure that slowly walked out.

His clean shirt was spotless. His left hand held an open, thick picture book with four fingers twisted behind his back, while his right hand gripped a very familiar, long military knife at an angle, the tip of which was still dripping with the crimson-orange blood of Hong Kui's claws.

Incongruous clothing, incongruous faces, incongruous weapons.

But when these elements come together, they create a visually stunning and impactful scene.

Before everyone could react, the boy had stopped twenty meters in front of the Devouring Terror Spider, calmly raising his head, his back serene and tall.

"Lu, Lu, Lu..." Suoqiang stammered, unable to utter the next word for a long time.

Han Zhen and Qi Yuan's lips were trembling, and they were almost speechless.

Undeterred by the force of a fall from a great height, and ignoring the toxic fog of the swamp.

Is he... still breathing?

Also, how exactly did he find that Red Sunflower Claw?

What sins did the Red Sunflower Claw, lying dead in the mud, commit?

All the questions were mixed together at this moment, washing over the minds of Mu Jin and the others like a river.

7th realm warrior?

How could this possibly be a 7th-level martial artist!

At the same time, everyone felt a sense of absurdity and impracticality.

Hearing the noise, Ye Tianming opened his eyes as if in a final burst of energy. He braced himself against the ground with one hand, struggled to sit up, and cried out hoarsely, "Brother Lu... Lü Geng is covering our retreat... I beg you... save... him."

"...I beg you..."

Ye Tianming, who was usually known for his calm and maturity, leaned against a rock and wept bitterly.

Ye Tianming's voice broke the surrounding tranquility, and the Terror-Eating Spider, which had been paused briefly, seemed to be stimulated and became restless again.

"it is good."

Lu Ze looked up at the Devouring Terror Spider, which had already lowered its body and was about to pounce, and nodded slightly.

As the last drop of blood fell along the blade into the soil, he casually drew a straight line on the ground and then stepped over it.

"The path to survival is open 3,000 meters ahead; you may leave on your own."

"Oh, by the way, you can take the map back with you now."

With a snap, Lu Ze closed the picture book with his left hand and tossed it gently behind him.

Han Zhen stared blankly as he stretched out his hands, watching the book, which had traced an arc, spin and land in his palms. The pages that had just closed opened again due to the disturbance of the airflow.

Page 35, [Geography and Hydrology of Shangnan City Surrounding Area - Topographical Evolution Map of Kulin Wetland 5 Years Ago]...

The crooked, thick lines, like scribbles, outline the general shape of the bitter forest wetland, while the mineral and plant markings are like those of an elementary school student... and there is also a circle lightly drawn in the valley.

That circle must have been drawn later; the carbon ink looks out of place with the surrounding printing ink.

But it is precisely because of this that it is so eye-catching.

When the location where he had just surrounded and killed Red Sunflower Claw flashed through his mind, Han Zhen suddenly shuddered, his pupils shrinking to a single point.

The stream flows into the dense forest, through a half-cliff, in a low-lying valley.

This is clearly the place they were just in.

So...

Did Lu Ze come here because of this thing?

With a paper map that's about to be phased out?

He looked up at Lu Ze's back in shock, so much so that he ignored the first words Lu Ze had said.

bass!

The blade sliced ​​into the rock beside him an inch, and Lu Ze's wrist trembled slightly.

Three pieces of gravel bounced up with a thud.

Then, without turning his head, Lu Ze swung his sword backward.

The sound waves, overlapping at the same frequency, spread through the air carrying dust and mist, and the three pieces of rubble vanished instantly.

Only Qi Yuan, with his keen dynamic vision, caught a glimpse of the afterimage in the corner of his eye.

That is……

He turned around abruptly.

—Bang bang bang!

On the cliff face, the right compound eye of the three-headed terror spider exploded, and green sap flew and spread.

A piercing scream rang out, and the surrounding swarm of terror-devouring spiders went berserk, their brutal gazes all falling on Lu Ze, who was calmly advancing with a knife in hand.

With their legs pressing down, the four foremost Terror Spiders simultaneously leaped high into the air.

With a series of whooshing sounds, eleven clusters of spider silk spit out one after another, tearing through the air like cannonballs.

"Be careful!"

Don't go.

"Those spiders are immune to physical attacks!"

Amidst gasps of surprise, the Hibiscus Squad instinctively raised their guns.

However, the next second——

A shocking and exciting scene unfolded, sending chills down your spine.

The biting wind whipped at Lu Ze's sleeves, and the stray hairs on his forehead fluttered as he looked up at the sky, his molten military knife swirling gracefully behind his neck.

Arms hanging down, knees bent, body hunched, eyes lowered.

In the instant his eyelids blinked and then lifted again, a phantom image of a crimson phoenix suddenly appeared deep within his pupils.

At this moment, in Lu Ze's perceived world, all was silent.

He raised his head, his eyes cold and calm.

A fierce wind howled through the forest, scattering fallen leaves everywhere, and a massive black shadow blotted out the sky.

But in Lu Ze's eyes, there were only those flowing stellar trajectory lines...

Within his sea of ​​consciousness, the Star Source Power began to rapidly decrease at a rate of 20 points per second, and the Phoenix Flame surged and burned fiercely!

Correspondingly, Lu Ze's overall aura has seen an astonishing surge!

Starting from the toes and spreading upwards, the airflow around the body spontaneously forms and slowly circulates, isolating the body from all the wind and swamp fog.

"You lowly beasts from the Five Realms, how dare you block my way?"

With a soft whisper, Lu Ze lifted his heel and hovered, then in the next instant... he stomped down!

At that moment, everyone vaguely saw the figure of the boy, bent over and holding a knife, suddenly blur.

boom!

The air surged from all directions, and the earth seemed to bear a thousand tons of pressure, instantly sinking within a radius of ten meters.

Amidst a dozen or so white cocoons, a dark figure darted past against the current.

The spider silk spread out into countless webs as it landed, but the prey that the giant spiders wanted to kill leaped up seven meters into the air at that moment, its feet carrying more than 3 tons of force as it crashed into the giant shadow in mid-air.

In mid-air, the eyes of the Devouring Terror Spider that had leaped to its highest point suddenly turned crimson, and its abdomen suddenly bulged upward, causing its body, which resembled a giant millstone, to fold in a bizarre instant.

Just as the Terror-Eating Spider was about to hiss, an extra-long military knife suddenly pierced its mouthparts diagonally from bottom to top.

A flash of light, and a head is severed in mid-air!

Using his knees for leverage, he pushed off again, and the spider corpse, which was about to fall freely, was instead propelled another ten meters higher, dragging the sprayed yellow-green sap along with it!

Lu Ze swooped down like a hawk and instantly reached the second giant spider. His blade flashed like a blazing fire, entering from the left and exiting from the right!

One more strike!

In the blink of an eye, he leaped back and turned, coldly soaring into the air. Just as the third giant spider was about to open its mouth, his single arm flashed with a horizontal slash, bringing a chilling light that seemed to pierce the dawn, cleaving the Devouring Terror Spider in half.

After three strikes, Lu Ze landed on the head of the fourth Devouring Terror Spider with a beauty of power beyond human imagination and a lightness that seemed untouched by worldly concerns.

The still-powerful, molten saber, carrying the force of a backcut, abruptly halted as its edge perpendicularly struck the ground, then pressed down.

The blade was completely embedded in the spider's brain, with only the hilt still trembling.

squeak--

The piercing scream only lasted half a note before the massive spider corpse crashed to the ground.

Lu Ze's clothes were still as clean as ever, without a single drop of blood or splatter. He stepped lightly off the spider corpses, and just before his foot touched the ground, he gripped the hilt of the sword behind him, which was level with his shoulder, and gently drew it out.

The chaotic wind whipped up fallen leaves, causing them to flutter down.

Lu Ze calmly looked ahead, his steps unwavering. His right arm held the sword horizontally in front of him, while his left hand, which had remained motionless at his side, was gently raised and casually extended as a broad leaf flew past his eyes, as if the leaf had just happened to hit his hand.

A bright green banana leaf landed in the palm of the hand, and the wrist was turned over.

He covered the back of the knife with a banana leaf, wiped away the blood that covered the blade, and then tossed it aside.

Lu Ze stood behind him, his eyes frozen in shock...

He calmly walked towards the spider swarm, knife in one hand.

"Unfortunately, I'm in a hurry."

"So... let's leave them all behind."