My whole family was brutally murdered? I awakened the thug system and went on a killing spree.

The behemoth pushed off the ground with its hind legs, its massive body charging headlong at Qin Meng like a derailed heavy armored train. Its three-meter-long bony horn was aimed directly at Qin Meng's chest.

Qin Meng stood still. He stretched out his hands and grabbed the bone horn that was hurtling towards him. The two completely disproportionate physical masses collided. Qin Meng's feet plowed into the ground, sliding backward for more than ten meters before coming to a screeching halt. The beast's charging momentum was forcibly cut off. The enormous inertia caused the beast's hindquarters to tilt upward.

Qin Meng clasped his hands together and snapped them with force. With a crisp crack, the abyssal bone horn, which required a ninth-order high-frequency cutting machine to cut, was snapped cleanly in half.

The behemoth let out a bloodcurdling roar. It lashed its long, bony-spiky tail at Qin Meng's side. Qin Meng neither dodged nor evaded. His Hundred Battles Body trait activated. The tail struck the dark red Dao patterns. The bony spikes snapped inch by inch, turning to dust.

Qin Meng grabbed the tail that hadn't yet retracted. His arm muscles bulged. He swung the three-hundred-ton abyssal behemoth like a hammer. It spun twice in place, then he released his grip. The behemoth's massive body, like a giant cannonball, crashed into the provincial capital's energy shield two kilometers away.

The colossal beast slammed solidly into the azure light barrier. The barrier caved violently, and energy ripples spread wildly in all directions. Hundreds of large nuclear fusion reactors beneath the provincial capital issued overload warnings. The beast was thrown back by the shield's rebound force, crashing heavily at Qin Meng's feet. Most of its bones were broken, and chunks of internal organs spewed from its mouth.

Qin Meng walked over and stomped on the giant beast's head. The skull shattered. Brain matter mixed with green blood spilled all over the ground. The abyss possessed extremely strong vitality; the giant beast was still convulsing, its severed forelegs trying to tear at Qin Meng's calves.

Qin Meng bent down and plunged his hands into the gaps in the giant beast's carapace. He exerted force to both sides. The eighty-meter-long beast was torn in two by his bare hands. A torrential downpour of flesh and organs followed. A system notification sounded, indicating that his ferocity value had increased by 100,000 points.

Qin Meng shook the blood off his hands. The provincial capital's energy shield was in an extremely unstable state due to the epic mass impact. The light screen flickered, changing color from blue to red.

Qin Meng walked to the shield. He extended his right fist, gathering his strength. His right arm swelled, veins coiling like small snakes. Extremely compressed high-pressure air formed a white ring at his fist. He slammed his fist into the light barrier.

The ear-piercing sound of shattering glass echoed through the sky. The provincial capital's defensive array, capable of withstanding the impact of small meteorites, was smashed open, creating a hole five meters in diameter. Qin Meng strode inside.

The provincial capital's command center. The alarm on the main control screen turned a glaring deep red. The data analyst's voice trembled violently. "Sequence Zero has been physically eliminated. Survival time: two minutes and seventeen seconds. Energy Shield Number One has been damaged by external force, creating a permanent breach."

Ye Jingshan slapped the data clerk across the face. "Bullshit! What kind of physical destruction could penetrate the Xuanwu Formation?"

Zhao Zhenhai leaned against the control panel, covering his face with his hands. His ultimate trump card, planned for half his life, couldn't even buy him twenty minutes of delay. "He's in." Zhao Zhenhai lowered his hands. "Activate all the city's automated weapons. Internal Security troops, go to breach number one and block him. Fill it with your lives, fill it to death."

Li Changyuan turned and walked out.

"Where are you going?" Zhao Zhenhai asked.

"I'm going to the city wall to oversee the battle." Li Changyuan walked out of the command post without looking back.

Outer ring road of the provincial capital. Ninth block.

The once bustling commercial street is now deserted. The people have long been forcibly evicted into underground shelters. Hundreds upon hundreds of armed military robots are hidden in the buildings lining both sides of the street.

Qin Meng walked on the asphalt road. Infrared rays swept densely across his body. Behind the wall, the cylinder of a Gatling gun began to preheat. A half-meter-long tongue of fire shot from the muzzle. Tens of thousands of armor-piercing incendiary rounds intertwined to form an impenetrable metal net, covering the area where Qin Meng stood.

The flashes of fire illuminated the entire street. The asphalt pavement was riddled with holes, and the shop windows along the street were all shattered. A minute later, the ammunition was exhausted. The gun barrels glowed red-hot.

The smoke cleared. Qin Meng stood there, stroking his chin. Armor-piercing bullets had struck his skin and bounced off. Flattened metal bullets littered the ground beneath his feet. He hadn't even broken a skin, only the dust on his body had been swept away.

"They're quite good at saving time and even offer a body scrubbing service," Qin Meng commented.

He bent down and picked up a handful of discarded steel bars from the ground. With a flick of his wrist, dozens of steel bars, moving at supersonic speed, pierced through the walls on both sides of the street, precisely pinning the armed robot hidden behind them to a load-bearing pillar. Explosions lit up several buildings in succession.

After clearing away the lumps of iron, Qin Meng continued walking forward.

Ten minutes later, he stood beneath the inner city wall of the provincial capital. This wall was a hundred meters high, entirely constructed of high-strength alloy. Above the wall stood five thousand elite soldiers of the Li family. Li Changyuan stood in the highest tower.

"Form ranks!" Li Changyuan ordered.

Hundreds of high-level lightning-type ability users simultaneously pressed their hands into the conductive grooves of the city wall. Dark clouds filled the sky. A thick bolt of lightning, fifty meters in diameter, descended from the heavens, striking the lone man standing below the city wall. The ultra-high voltage current ionized the surrounding air, producing a strong smell of ozone.

Li Changyuan stared intently at the scene below. This level of combined lightning strike would turn even a peak ninth-tier cultivator into charred remains.

The lightning dissipated. Qin Meng stood in a deep pit. He took a deep breath. The dark red Dao patterns on his body moved at twice the speed. The energy absorption valve was operating at full capacity. This massive amount of lightning energy was completely absorbed, converted into bioelectricity, and stored in his cell nucleus.

Qin Meng opened his eyes. Tiny arcs of electricity flickered in his pupils. "It's a little numb." He shook his right hand.

The five thousand men on the city wall were completely silent. Li Changyuan dug his fingers into the metal railing of the tower, deforming the solid bars. "Keep going! Drain his power core and kill him!" Li Changyuan roared.

The people below didn't move.

Qin Meng pressed down with both legs, shattering the air and sending a sonic boom spreading across the bottom of the crater. The hundred-meter-long city wall became useless. Qin Meng leaped directly to the same height as the city wall. In mid-air, he kicked the seemingly indestructible alloy battlement. A ten-meter-long section of the battlement was sent flying, crashing into the dense crowd behind. Hundreds of people were crushed into a bloody pulp.

Qin Meng landed on the wide passageway of the city wall. The crowd dispersed to both sides like a receding tide. No one dared to point a weapon at him. He walked straight towards the tower.

Li Changyuan rushed out of the tower, wielding a high-level lightning staff. "I'll fight you to the death!" Li Changyuan swung the staff, conjuring a high-density spherical lightning bolt, which slammed towards Qin Meng's face.

Qin Meng stretched out his left hand and grabbed the ball of lightning. With a forceful squeeze of his fingers, he dispersed the lightning into a string of harmless sparks. Then, he clenched his right fist and casually punched forward.

A mid-level punch was unleashed. The fist didn't touch Li Changyuan's body. The high-pressure air column pierced directly through Li Changyuan's chest cavity. A large, clear hole appeared in his chest. The edges of the wound were charred by the intense heat generated by the vacuum friction, but not a drop of blood flowed. Li Changyuan's expression froze in extreme terror. His body fell backward, tumbling down the city wall steps.

With their commander killed, the five thousand Imperial Guards completely collapsed. They abandoned their armor and fled into the city.

Qin Meng ignored the deserters. He jumped off the city wall and headed towards the most magnificent ancient building complex in the center of the inner city.

The Zhao family ancestral home. Underground command center. A large screen displays footage of Li Changyuan being punched through the skin.

Zhao Zhenhai slumped into a chair. Ye Jingshan pulled out a space-breaking talisman from his pocket. "The provincial capital can't be held. I'm going to the capital to get reinforcements." Ye Jingshan crushed the talisman. A spatial fluctuation flashed, and Ye Jingshan disappeared from the spot.

Zhao Zhenhai looked at the empty chair and let out a dry laugh.

The ground trembled. The explosion-proof lights on the top of the command center shattered one after another. Qin Meng kicked open the two-foot-thick bronze gate of the ancestral home. The door flew over a hundred meters, smashed through the artificial hill in the courtyard, and finally stuck into the ventilation pipe of the underground bunker.

Qin Meng stood at the edge of the courtyard, looking down into the dark underground passage.

"Check the water meter." Qin Meng's voice carried underground through the ventilation ducts. Zhao Zhenhai closed his eyes. He was waiting to die.