Chapter 96: The Most Pretentious Star Beast Harvester

A crisp chime rang in his mind.

The system had detected that the host was devouring the spiritual force of a spirit realm being, and it began loading.

By past experience, whenever the system’s processing stalled, it meant the energy in the array was too immense.

Ten minutes later, Zhang Chu felt a wave of dizziness in his head, as if his mind had exceeded its load.

The system automatically interrupted the skill known as Passive Devour.

At the same moment, a weak point in the array was torn open.

A sky-shaking murderous aura crashed down on Zhang Chu like a storm.

A furious roar answered it.

The wasteland iron wolves, long driven to the brink of madness, charged forward, intent on tearing Zhang Chu to pieces.

At that moment, from several hundred meters away, Huang Lili sensed the crack in the array and hurriedly shouted, “The array of the high-level forbidden ground has been opened!”

Fan Dayong and Wang Peng rushed in at once.

Zhang Xueying and Hu Sanyi followed close behind.

Huang Lili brought up the rear.

“Pegasus Meteor Hammer!”

As soon as Fan Dayong entered the array, he summoned his meteor hammer.

He handled the second-rank minor-grade Pegasus Meteor Hammer with consummate skill.

With one smash, one body fell.

In just a few seconds, more than ten one-rank wasteland iron wolves were dead on the spot.

The four-rank wolf king, encircled at the center, let out wave after wave of howls and began directing the thousands of wolves to charge in shifts.

Zhang Xueying and Hu Sanyi kept pace with Fan Dayong.

Their long swords rose and fell in a blur.

Powerful force energy overflowed from the blades, constantly blocking the wolves’ assaults.

But they were only martial artists.

Against star beasts, they still found themselves somewhat overmatched.

Even so, they could serve as support for Fan Dayong at the front.

“Heaven-given combat art, Hypnotic Divine Technique!”

While Zhang Xueying and the others were butchering their way through the horde, Wang Peng was developing in the rear.

He unleashed his heaven-given combat art.

His first-rank spiritual force spread out in a tidal surge.

Several attacking wasteland iron wolves shuddered all over, and the fierce light in their eyes instantly dulled.

Zhang Xueying seized the opening and brought both swords down.

A second-rank wasteland iron wolf was slain with a single stroke, dropping dead at once.

“Again!”

Realizing how powerful Wang Peng’s support ability was, Zhang Xueying and Hu Sanyi quickly moved together.

Wang Peng handled the hypnosis.

The other two handled the slaughter.

But very soon, second-rank and third-rank wasteland iron wolves surged to the front.

Fan Dayong also began to retreat steadily, barely managing to withstand the beasts’ onslaught.

In less than five minutes, more than nine hundred wasteland iron wolves had formed a dense encirclement, hemming the five of them in.

Fan Dayong was gasping for breath, his arms aching faintly from the constant hammering.

Wang Peng’s vision was already growing dark.

The Hypnotic Divine Technique consumed too much spiritual force.

“It’s over. We’re going to die here this time.”

Huang Lili’s face had gone deathly pale, and she felt as if she were about to cry.

So many star beasts.

Even a war of attrition would exhaust them to death.

“The more dangerous the moment, the more we have to stay calm.”

With both swords clenched in her hands, Zhang Xueying guardedly watched the star beasts tightening the noose around them.

As a teacher at the Martial Dao Research Institute, she would rather die in battle than retreat a single step.

“Zhang Chu, what are you doing?”

Fan Dayong turned and shouted at Zhang Chu, who had his eyes closed as though resting his spirit.

Among the six members of the special operations team, only Zhang Chu was a four-rank dual-power warrior.

A crisp chime rang out again.

The system detected that the host had completed spiritual force devouring. Spiritual force value plus thirty thousand.

At last, the system finished loading the devoured spiritual force.

Damn.

Thirty thousand?

The spiritual force contained in this spirit realm array was far too formidable.

What he had just devoured was not even one percent of the array’s total.

When he called up his personal panel, even Zhang Chu was stunned.

Martial power: 22,001 out of 50,000.

Spiritual force: 50,113 out of 100,000.

His realm had not broken through to the fifth rank, yet his spiritual force had already reached fifth-rank level.

Feeling his spiritual perception grow stronger and stronger, Zhang Chu suddenly opened his eyes.

With a single leap, he stepped on the body of a wasteland iron wolf and sprang into the encirclement.

“Brother Chu, looks like we can only go all out!”

Hu Sanyi was drenched in blood, a short blade reversed in his hand, his eyes sharp as blades.

“Take a breather. Leave it to me.”

Zhang Chu patted Hu Sanyi on the shoulder.

“Teacher Xiao Chu, this is not the time to be stubborn.”

Zhang Xueying said hastily.

“You really think you can handle this alone?”

As for whether the others believed it or not, Fan Dayong certainly did not.

A four-rank dual-power warrior was indeed formidable.

But even a single person trying to fight thousands of star beasts head-on would tire eventually.

Zhang Chu ignored him.

What would some second-generation bureaucrat know about the power of a cheat?

He raised a middle finger toward the four-rank wolf king several hundred meters away.

“All your wasteland iron wolves are just a bunch of trash.”

The wolf king, as though it understood Zhang Chu’s taunt, let out a thunderous howl.

All the wasteland iron wolves launched themselves forward.

“Prepare for battle!”

At the sight, Zhang Xueying raised both swords.

Everyone tensed.

And then, at that very moment, a vast and singular spiritual force burst from Zhang Chu’s body, like an immense net spread over the ravine.

“This is the spiritual force of a four-rank dual-power warrior?”

Huang Lili was the most sensitive to spiritual force.

The spiritual force radiating from Zhang Chu made her feel faintly trembling.

Fan Dayong and the others also stopped moving.

Because they were witnessing the most terrifying scene of their lives.

In Zhang Chu’s palm, a thick electric vine rose into the air like a giant serpent, then split into hundreds of thin branches that swept toward the star beasts like a storm.

At the same time, his abnormal spiritual force surged outward from his body.

Even Fan Dayong felt a sudden hum in his sea of consciousness, as though something were tearing at his spiritual force.

“What kind of monstrous heaven-given combat art has Zhang Chu awakened? How can it have such a terrifying spiritual attack?”

While everyone stood there dumbstruck, the electric vine coiled and erupted.

Coiling.

Electrifying.

Passive devouring from afar.

Zhang Chu was willing to call this the “three-step mass combat technique.”

The star beast struck by it dropped dead on the spot.

The inner core inside its body withered at a visible speed, losing all vitality.

A crisp chime rang.

The system detected that the host had slain one first-rank star beast. Martial power plus five. Spiritual force plus five.

The system detected that the host had devoured one first-rank star beast core. Martial power plus five.

The system detected...

Zhang Chu’s massive display of power made the system’s prompt tones sound as if they might collapse at any moment.

“This... is this even human?”

Huang Lili’s eyes shook.

She could clearly sense that all the star beasts’ spiritual force had been devoured.

“Brother Chu is such a boss. He’s practically become a god!”

“Xiao Chu was hiding this all along. If the director of the orphanage knew about this, he’d probably have a statue of him carved right there in the orphanage!”

Watching wave after wave of star beasts fall dead, Zhang Xueying and the others were completely stunned.

Especially Fan Dayong, that second-generation bureaucrat, whose face was twitching uncontrollably.

He was willing to call Zhang Chu the “most swaggering star beast reaper”!

Zhang Chu stood there with effortless cool, while successive waves of wasteland iron wolves fell at his feet.

Five minutes later, Zhang Chu took the Crimson Flame Sword from his storage ring and flashed to the top of the four-rank wolf king.

Sword rose and fell.

The wolf king’s head rolled to the ground.

“Stop standing there in a daze. Move it, and head for the Demon Suppression Tower!”