258: Chapter 258 To Save or Not to Save?

"Stop chatting idly, the next wave of attacks is coming."

Liu Hero held his ground alone at the front, his voice a bit hoarse.

As this war progressed to the present, countless human soldiers had already fallen, their blood flowing across the scorched earth and turning this land sticky.

The blood-red setting sun dyed the heaven and earth, and the scent of blood and stench steamed over the scorched earth.

Shen Xingchen stood horizontally with his spear, the spear tip pointing diagonally at the ground, and every time he swung the long spear, overlapping afterimages would be produced.

This was the Six Harmonies Golden Spear!

He had never used this spear technique in Snowfield Dragon City, so at this moment, he could expose it unreservedly before the demon generals.

"Puff—"

The spear tip stabbed unpretentiously into the chest of the leading demon ape. That Tier 7 Blood Demon Ape was like paper-mâché under the immense force covered in dragon scales.

Shen Xingchen flicked his wrist, and the spear force erupted, actually tossing the over-ten-foot-tall Blood Demon Ape away alive!

The demon ape's massive body smashed into the enemy group, causing a wave of chaos.

"So fierce!"

Not only Shen Xingchen's temporary teammates, but even people from other companies noticed Shen Xingchen's brutality.

"Do any of you know this brother?"

Because Shen Xingchen had changed his appearance, many soldiers cast curious glances over.

Such an existence like a god of slaughter on the battlefield surely must not have a simple identity.

But unexpectedly, no soldiers present could answer this question, which further aroused the curiosity of the surrounding soldiers.

"452!"

Shen Xingchen was just counting his kill count to himself.

{System Upgrade Quest:}

{Total Progress: Kill Demonic Royal Bloodline × 1 (1 / 1)}

{Total Progress: Kill Tier 7 Demons × 100 (39 / 100)}

{Total Progress: Kill Tier 6 Demons × 1000 (452 / 1000)}

{...}

Until now, his consumption was not considered large, mainly because he didn't use any high-consumption martial arts, just relying on a long spear and his dragon-transformed physical body to hard-resist.

Although the efficiency was low, it was safe enough.

Just at this moment.

Bang! Bang! Bang—

Above the sky, from the battlefield at the Xiang Realm level, a long saber with stern demonic qi chopped down.

This was originally a casual strike, targeting the human Commander Meng Yi who was his opponent.

But this saber strike landed solidly not far from where Shen Xingchen was.

The earth was directly cleaved with a hideous crack.

All the humans and demons situated above that crack were completely smashed apart by the saber strike!

Commander Meng Yi flew into a rage: "Cangming, you beast, there are also soldiers of your demon race in there!"

Cangming just smiled: "They are merely a few ants. Since you and I are both in the Xiang Realm, why bother caring about these?"

Commander Meng Yi was extremely angry: "A beast is a beast; you simply don't understand what emotion is!"

How could Cangming care so much? He chopped another saber strike towards Commander Meng Yi.

...

Below the battlefield.

Shen Xingchen looked at the severed battlefield, and then glanced at Cangming above.

This was the third time Shen Xingchen had seen this demon general whose whole body was covered in eerie faces, and each time he gave people an extremely arrogant feeling.

With this single saber strike, Cangming had split the surrounding battlefield apart.

Quite a few grouped soldiers were separated on both sides.

The demon race inherently charged in a loose manner without any discipline, but human soldiers had to rely on formations to fight. This sudden change instantly threw those human soldiers whose teams were separated into a flurry.

"Shen… Brother Lin Hu." Liu Hero shouted to Shen Xingchen, then pointed not far away, "That ten-person team over there belongs to the Xue Family Army as well, but because of that saber strike just now, they were split apart and then surrounded by the demons. Do you have any ideas?"

Shen Xingchen looked over in the direction of the finger.

That group of more than ten people over there was tightly surrounded by Blood Demon Apes, Shadow Demon Wolves, and Frost Croc-Beasts. All of them were heavily injured and could only huddle together to prolong their lives. Anyone could tell that they were no longer capable of fighting and belonged to a situation of certain death.

"Hehehe—"

Those demons let out sinister laughs.

Their meaning was very simple: they were waiting for human soldiers to rush up and rescue them, kill the rescuing soldiers first, and finally kill the doomed soldiers within the encirclement.

Rescue or not?

Shen Xingchen remembered very clearly that when he first arrived at the Xue Family Army camp, Liu Hero told him not to rescue them, but now this veteran himself had wavered.

Although reason told them that rescuing doomed people was not worth it.

But who could watch their comrades die so powerlessly!

"Old Liu!?"

While Shen Xingchen was thinking, many people had already rushed up.

Including Liu Hero!

In the end, Liu Hero still did not keep his promise and chose to follow his own burning heart to rescue those comrades he spent day and night with.

"Sigh—"

Shen Xingchen gave a soft sigh.

Rolling thunder emerged on his palms, and countless electric snakes leaped across his arms.

A blazing white thunder blade condensed into existence, resembling the purest divine punishment between heaven and earth, carrying an unquestionable will as it descended upon the mortal world.

Heaven-Extinguishing God-Slaying Slash!

This ultimate skill that Shen Xingchen had once unleashed in Dark Moon Valley erupted once again at this moment.

Yuheng's spiritual power poured into it.

That blazing white thunder blade instantly shot up from its original three chi to several dozen zhang.

At this moment, the gigantic thunder blade was like a beam of light connecting heaven and earth, illuminating the entire battlefield brightly.

Although Shen Xingchen was unwilling to expose himself, he couldn't watch Liu Hero march to his death, nor could he watch those ten surrounded people wail in such despair.

Crack—

The gigantic thunder blade was like a beam of light horizontally cutting through heaven and earth, fiercely cleaving down.

Even the surrounding Xiang Realm experts noticed the commotion in this direction.

"What is this thing?"

"That's a martial skill... unleashed by an ordinary soldier!?"

"Is it a forbidden technique? So fierce?"

No one expected that such a blazing energy would erupt from a sector that had always been a low-tier battle zone.

Chen Meier and the others from Fengwu Squad all looked at that flash of thunder with dry lips.

What a familiar scene; they had seen it just over half a month ago, but they still couldn't hide their shock.

Could this be a method executed by a Tier 6?!

Army commanders like Chen Tianqu and Commander Meng Yi were also somewhat surprised. Only then did they understand why Senior Zhou Xinghe chose to give the Time Authority to Shen Xingchen.

Old Zhou truly lived up to his name as Old Zhou; his vision was far from something they could compare with.

The thunder fell!

The hundreds of demons that originally surrounded the ten-person team instantly felt a high temperature sufficient to melt everything in the world—that was the purest thunder.

An opening was forcefully avoided in the demon encirclement.

Liu Hero and the others rushed in and then rescued the wounded.

Until this moment, those demons still had faces full of terror, standing frozen in place, holding an instinctive fear towards that thunder.