Death Train: SSS-level talent right from the start!

Chen Ye moved quickly without stopping. The Demon-Slaying Halberd twirled in his hand, and the spear slammed into a thick gray tree trunk with a whooshing sound.

"boom--"

The tree trunk broke in the middle, and the upper half tilted and fell, hitting the adjacent trees and making a rustling sound.

There was no blood mist gushing out from the broken end; it was just an ordinary tree.

Chen Ye didn't linger. His gaze was already fixed on the next tree.

This time, he chose a red-barked tree.

The trunk was thinner than the surrounding trees, and the bark was a dark red.

Chen Ye's steps did not falter in the slightest. The tip of the Demon-Slaying Halberd rose from below, tearing through the air with a sharp whistling sound.

"laugh--"

The gun blade sliced ​​into the tree trunk, piercing diagonally upwards from the roots. The red-barked tree snapped in two, its upper half falling askew.

At the severed point, a thick cloud of blood mist gushed out, and a dark figure darted out from within the mist.

It is an elite tree spirit.

Its limbs were on the ground, its muscles bulging like gnarled tree roots, and its blood-red vertical pupils locked onto Chen Ye's direction.

With a powerful kick of its four claws, the fallen leaves exploded, and its body sprang up from the ground at an astonishing speed. Its ten fingers spread wide, and its sharp claws aimed straight for Chen Ye's face.

Chen Ye did not retreat.

He twirled the Demon-Slaying Halberd halfway in his hand, held it horizontally to his side, pushed off with his right foot, and charged forward.

The spear tip pierced the tree spirit's chest and emerged from behind.

The tree spirit's body hovered in mid-air, dark red blood flowing down the gun barrel.

With a flick of his wrist, Chen Ye pulled the Demon-Slaying Halberd out of the tree demon's body. The tree demon's body crashed heavily to the ground, twitched twice, and then stopped moving.

The system notification flashed before his eyes.

Chen Ye didn't look at the panel, but turned and walked towards the next red-barked tree.

The Demon-Slaying Halberd trailed behind him, its shaft still stained with the tree demon's dark red blood, dripping down the blade's grooves.

On the other side, Gu Qinghuan's speed was equally astonishing.

Six silver-white throwing knives darted around her rapidly. She didn't even need to get close to the tree trunk; the blades had already drawn precise trajectories in the air, continuously slicing through the same red-barked tree.

The tree trunk shattered under the shredding of the throwing knives, and blood mist gushed out. As soon as a tree spirit emerged from the mist, it was struck head-on by six throwing knives at the same time.

His head was pierced, his chest was cut open, and his limbs were severed. He appeared and fell in less than three seconds.

Gu Qinghuan's expression remained unchanged. She didn't stop walking. Six throwing knives were pulled from the tree demon's corpse, drawing six silver-white arcs in the air as they flew towards the next tree.

The two men were about twenty meters apart, each advancing rapidly within their respective areas, with trees falling one after another behind them.

The sound of the tree trunk crashing to the ground echoed through the forest, branches and leaves rustled down, and fallen leaves on the ground were blown up and fell again by the shockwave. The occasional gust of blood mist from the broken ends quickly dissipated in the morning light.

Su Jin was also maintaining the same rhythm in the distance.

She twirled her long sword in her hand, and with a flash of light, the tree trunk was severed cleanly from the root.

A tree spirit burst forth from the blood mist, its white blade slicing down in two.

Lei Xing's fists pounded on the tree trunks one after another, and the thick trees crumbled and collapsed in front of him as if they were made of paper.

Occasionally, tree spirits would appear, and he would engage them in close combat. His dark skin gleamed with a dull luster in the morning light, and his fists would strike the tree spirits with heavy thuds.

On the other side, Jiang Ning's cyan arrows kept shooting out.

While killing the monsters, he was also observing Jian Lan and Li Jiahao. He was currently using ranged attacks, and as soon as Jian Lan and Li Jiahao cut down the trees and encountered monsters, he would shoot them down immediately.

On Zhao Hai's side, he led Qin Zhaoyang and Zhou Yating to choose a separate area.

Qin Zhaoyang held the Swift Wind Crossbow, each arrow hitting the tree trunk with precision. The explosive arrows detonated, the tree trunk broke, blood mist gushed out, and a tree demon darted out from the mist.

Zhao Hai followed up with a punch. The crimson flames of the Heavenly Fire Falling Star exploded above the tree demon's head, instantly killing it.

Zhou Yating stood beside him, continuously firing ice arrows. Before the ordinary tree spirits that poured out from the broken opening could even pounce on anyone, they were shattered by Zhao Hai's punch.

Zhao Hai's attacks today were more decisive, faster, and more powerful than yesterday's.

His right arm remained almost entirely metallic, with crimson flames constantly burning and extinguishing on his fist, only to reignite again.

Wen Ning was alone in an area. Five or six felled trees lay on the ground beside her. From the broken end of one of the trees, a green light shot out and quickly entered her forehead.

She checked the system panel and found that the trial mission was complete.

After completing her mission, she headed towards Zhao Hai's location to join him in protecting Qin Zhaoyang and Zhou Yating.

The group would cut down trees in one area for an hour and then move on to another. Although this could prevent the blood mist from becoming too concentrated in one spot, the concentration of blood mist in the entire forest was still slowly increasing as they cut down more trees.

……

noon.

Chen Ye's Demon-Slaying Halberd swept down a red-barked tree, but when he was about to shoot the tree demon that was about to leap out, the tree demon did not appear.

A ball of green light flew out from the heart of the tree and entered his brow, where a leaf-shaped mark slowly appeared.

He opened the system panel and his gaze fell on the line of trial missions.

[Trial Quest: Obtain the Tree God's Blessing (Completed)]

Chen Ye closed the system panel and continued chopping down trees to earn more points.

Time continued to pass amidst the sound of trees constantly falling in the forest.

More and more people are receiving blessings.

Following Wen Ning and Chen Ye, Gu Qinghuan, Su Jin, and Lei Xing also completed their trial missions before evening.

Receiving the Tree God's blessing is a matter of probability. Excluding luck, those who chop down more trees, have higher levels, and possess greater talent will naturally be more efficient at chopping down trees, thus increasing their chances of receiving the blessing.

By evening, more than half of the people in the group had received the Tree God's blessing, and Wang Ze and Xia Yan also received the Tree God's blessing.

Chen Ye planted the Demon-Slaying Halberd on the ground and looked up at the sky.

The beams of light filtering through the gaps in the tree canopy are dimming, and after a day of logging, the blood mist in the forest is several times thicker than yesterday.

Zhao Hai and Wen Ning walked over with Qin Zhaoyang and Zhou Yating.

Zhao Hai followed his gaze to the sky, then glanced at the thickening blood mist around them: "It's getting dark, the blood mist will definitely be thicker tonight than last night."

Wen Ning continued, "We've been chopping all day, and the blood mist concentration in the forest is already very high. We don't know what will happen tonight."

As they were talking, Su Jin, Lei Xing, and the others also came over.