277: Chapter 277 Dawn Breaks, the Silent Battlefield

The long night in the Extreme North was extremely long, but this death storm known as the "Dark Moon Night" had finally reached its end.

At the end of the horizon, a trace of slightly pale dawn tore open the thick abyss clouds, and the first ray of sunlight spilled over the towering cliff positions of Jueming Ridge.

The cold wind was still biting, but the five hundred Shura Camp veterans on the cliff were like a group of human-shaped ice sculptures that had been completely frozen to death.

Not a single person spoke.

Not a single person moved their position.

Even their eyes didn't blink once.

They just lay like this on the edge of the trench, maintaining the posture of looking down, watching for a whole night!

The bitter wind of the Extreme North covered their eyebrows, beards, and eyelashes with a thick layer of white frost, but they were completely oblivious to it.

The eyes of every single person were filled with bloodshot veins, and their brains were currently in a bizarre state intertwined with excitement and numbness.

"Hoo……" Deputy Battalion Commander Gu Lie parted his cracked lips and exhaled a long puff of white air.

His only remaining solitary eye stared fixedly at the ice field below, his eyeball aching from dryness.

Everything that happened last night was vivid in his mind.

That eighteen-year-old youth in black leaped alone into tens of thousands of beast hordes, turning into a lingering afterimage in the dark night, killing them one by one with a single sword, turning the place into rivers of blood.

In the end, with the most arrogant and purely physical brutality, he violently pounded to death three Tier 6 Peak commander-grade giant beasts!

He forcefully carved a bloody path right through the entire beast horde!

All of this happened too fast and felt too unreal.

"Old Ma……" Gu Lie swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his voice as hoarse as if he were swallowing knives.

"Pinch me. Am I dreaming?"

Logistics officer Old Ma beside him turned his head blankly, didn't pinch Gu Lie, but instead stretched out a trembling hand and pointed at the ice field below.

"Deputy Battalion Commander." There was a spine-chilling tremor in Old Ma's voice.

"It's dawn. See for yourself."

As the sunlight gradually pierced through the dark clouds, the true, tragic state of the ice field below was thoroughly and completely revealed before everyone's eyes.

"Hiss——!"

On the cliff, a large, uniform sound of intake of cold breath suddenly rang out!

Even though the hundreds of veterans were accustomed to mountains of corpses and seas of blood, at this moment, they still felt their stomachs churning violently.

That could no longer be called an ice field at all!

The white snowfield within a radius of dozens of miles had been completely and thoroughly dyed a dazzling dark red!

Wherever the eye could see, there was not a single clean patch of land!

Tens of thousands of mutilated corpses of high-tier exotic beasts were stacked layer upon layer together; some had their heads severed, some were cut off at the waist, and some had big holes blasted into their chest areas where their hearts used to be.

These corpses piled up like mountains, forming massive, disgusting mountains of flesh!

"Look over there!"

A sniper veteran pointed at the center of the battlefield, his voice trembling.

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed.

The originally flat and hard permafrost layer was now crisscrossed with dozens of bottomless, gigantic ravines!

Those were the traces plowed out last night by Su Chen using his legs to kick out the Tempest Kick vacuum slashes!

Each ravine was hundreds of meters long, and their edges looked as if they had been carved by a deity with a giant blade.

Amidst these ravines, the scalding blood of the exotic beasts converged into steaming red streams, flowing wantonly across the ice field and washing the surrounding broken limbs and arms up and down.

Further away were three gigantic corpses resembling small mountains.

The Ice-Armored Giant Elephant whose head was blown apart by a single punch.

The Shadow Poison Leopard cut in half at the waist.

The Bloodthirsty Demon Ape whose arms were ripped off alive and whose chest was crushed to pieces.

"Where is this a battlefield……" One veteran's legs went soft, and he collapsed directly into the trench, holding his head in both hands.

"This fucking clearly looks like a slaughterhouse that has just undergone judgment by the gods!"

It was too tragic.

It was too violent.

Human Martial Artists had always relied on sacrificing their lives to counter beast hordes, but last night, a single person went one-on-one against tens of thousands of exotic beasts, not only not dying, but slaughtering them into such a horrifying and tragic state.

"Wait!"

Just as all the veterans of the battalion were plunged into shock and unable to extricate themselves, Jiang Feng suddenly sprang up from the ground.

With bloodshot eyes, he lay on the edge of the cliff, anxiously and frantically searching among the mountain of corpses and sea of blood below.

"Where is Brother Chen?"

Jiang Feng roared, his voice tinged with an irrepressible panic.

"Where did my Brother Chen go?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was instantly stunned.

Lin Qinghan also snapped back to her senses instantly, her cool eyes quickly scanning the battlefield.

That slender, thin figure in black was nowhere to be seen!

"Deputy Battalion Commander! The battalion commander is gone!"

Old Ma shouted anxiously.

Gu Lie snatched up his binoculars and scanned every inch of land below.

"Don't panic! Open your fucking eyes wider and look for him!"

Dense beads of cold sweat oozed across Gu Lie's forehead.

Last night, after the three commander-grade giant beasts suddenly died and the tens of thousands of beast hordes collapsed and fled in disarray, Su Chen did not immediately return to the cliff position.

They clearly saw that the blood-stained youth in black merely casually shook the black sword in his hand, and then turned and walked toward the deepest part of the battlefield.

The blood mist over there was too thick, coupled with the darkness of the polar night, so Su Chen's figure quickly disappeared into the wind and snow.

Originally, they thought Su Chen had simply gone to pursue the remaining enemies or harvest the spoils of war, but now, it was already daylight!

"How could he be missing……"

Jiang Feng was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, grabbing his giant axe and preparing to jump down.

"No! I'm going down to find him!"

"Stop right there!"

Gu Lie grabbed the back of Jiang Feng's collar and pinned him in place.

"Down there is full of poisonous blood and hidden ravines, what kind of mess are you going down there to make!"

"But Brother Chen isn't making any movement!"

Jiang Feng roared with red-rimmed eyes.

"The battalion commander, he……"

Beside them, a veteran swallowed a dry mouthful of saliva, his voice laden with thick worry.

"He was down there fighting at high intensity all alone for so long last night, and on top of that, he withstood three Tier 6 Peak commanders head-on."

"Could he be…… exhausted of physical strength and collapsed down there?"

That's right, anyone would get tired.

Even an iron-forged body should have reached its limit after experiencing that kind of inhuman slaughter intensity!

If Su Chen really collapsed in the mountain of corpses and sea of blood due to exhaustion, the minus seventy degrees extreme cold of the Extreme North, coupled with the abyss poisonous blood all over the ground, could freeze an unprepared living person into an ice sculpture and corrode them into a pool of white bones within ten minutes!

"Shut your Crow's mouth!"

Gu Lie flew into a furious rage, backhanding a fierce slap onto that veteran's helmet and sending the veteran staggering.

"The battalion commander can even smash a Martial King to pieces with a single punch, how could he possibly fall in a place like this!"

Gu Lie pointed at the veteran's nose and cursed furiously.

However, after cursing, a trace of obvious tension and panic also flashed through Gu Lie's own sole remaining eye.

"Old Ma."

Gu Lie turned his head, his voice frighteningly low.

"Pick fifty brothers, bring ropes and stretchers, and get ready to go down with me to fish people out!"

Gu Lie could no longer wait.

Su Chen was the new king of the Shura Camp and the backbone of all of them.

If Su Chen died down below, the hope that the Shura Camp had just ignited would be completely extinguished!

"Yes!"

Old Ma immediately turned around to call for people.

Lin Qinghan did not speak.

She stepped directly past the crowd and walked to the very edge of the cliff.

The frost longsword in her hand was already unsheathed.

The moment Gu Lie gave the order, she would be the first to jump down.

On the entire cliff position, the atmosphere was depressed to the extreme.

All the veterans held their breath, so nervous that even their heartbeats almost stopped.

The wind grew stronger and stronger, whipping up the blood mist below and rolling it continuously along the edge of the cliff.

Just as Old Ma brought fifty elites and prepared to cast down the ropes!

"Wait!"

Lin Qinghan suddenly raised her hand, staring into the depths of the blood mist below.

A trace of brilliant light suddenly flashed in her cool eyes.

"There's a sound."

Lin Qinghan's words instantly froze everyone.

"A sound? What sound?"

Jiang Feng lay on the edge of the cliff, pricking up his ears and listening desperately.

"Shut the fuck up, all of you! Don't breathe!"

Gu Lie roared, and the entire position instantly fell dead silent.

Hoo——

Aside from the howling of the wind and snow, the ice field below was frighteningly quiet.

But immediately following that,

"Clatter, clatter……"

"Creak——!"

An extremely bizarre sound suddenly slowly drifted out from the deepest part of the thick blood mist below!

It sounded like something huge and heavy was being forcefully dragged forward by someone across the hard permafrost!

"Creak——! Clatter, clatter!"

The sound drew closer and closer.

With every sound, the cliff walls of Jueming Ridge seemed to tremble slightly along with it.

"Be on guard!"

Gu Lie's expression changed drastically, and he abruptly pulled out the broken saber at his waist.

"Something is coming over! Prepare for battle!"

The five hundred veterans instantly pulled their bolts to load, raised their blades and swords, and stared fixedly at the blood mist below.

Could it be an even higher-level abyss beast?

"Clatter, clatter……"

The sound of metal friction had already approached directly underneath the cliff.

A gale howled.

A fierce, strong wind blew past, instantly scattering a large expanse of the thick blood mist lingering below.

Within the constricted pupils of the five hundred veterans, under the shocked gazes of Jiang Feng and Lin Qinghan,

a slightly slender figure in black slowly walked out from the depths of the blood mist.