In a world of pure martial arts, Yun Shou initially believed he could only live an ordinary life with the weak cheat he possessed.
That was until the age of fourteen, when he obtained a secon...
"This scene is like a myth being reenacted!"
[The Three-Faced Vajra sorcerer Leora muttered to herself.]
[Those dozen or so individuals were merely first-level transcendents; even the second level was a lofty and unattainable figure for them.]
The sorcerer who fought a bloody battle against a terrifying famine thousands of years ago and saved millions of miles of land was indeed a figure of mythology to them.
"I seem to see the silhouette of a wolf in Shouyuan, that fighting wolf!"
"My God, he's practically the reincarnation of that lord!"
"Invincible, absolutely invincible!"
[“Ahem!” A mid-level wizard coughed lightly. “Astonished as we are, let’s join the attack immediately. Fortunately, most of the most powerful Kara behemoth has already been wiped out, greatly increasing our safety!”]
"We can't let Lord Shouyun die from exhaustion like the Silver Wolf Sorcerer did back then!"
Everyone nodded in agreement. That sorcerer had suffered terribly; he was the only one at the third realm to intervene, and in the end, he was exhausted to death.
[What's worse, it wasn't until after his death that people discovered the maximum size of the Kara behemoth was related to the size of its population. Before that, he had been traveling to various places, desperately killing behemoths that were hundreds or thousands of meters long, basically ignoring the smaller behemoths that roamed the mountains and plains.]
However, his death from exhaustion also took away the vast majority of the 300-meter-long Kara behemoths, giving the other first and second realm beings an opportunity to counterattack.
"The battle was awesome!"
"Stomping noobs is just as satisfying!"
"And when I combine continuous battles with crushing weaker opponents—it's an unstoppable force!"
[One minute, two minutes, three minutes...]
[One after another, crimson mountains of flesh overturned and exploded, and after they lost their life force, they even became food for their own kind, undergoing an internal cycle of regeneration.]
However, there must have been energy loss involved. For a 15-meter behemoth to eat a 30-meter corpse and still grow to 25 meters would be an achievement considering its astonishing digestive capacity.
And you, you won't allow them to eat their own kind.
Because—"These are all the essential medicines for my future martial arts!"
You kicked over a 28-meter-long behemoth, freeing it from the 35-meter-long corpse.
The larger the size of the Kara behemoth, the more terrifying its muscle strength, and the abundant blood and flesh energy it contains is unimaginable.
[It's only because it contains a certain amount of toxicity, and consuming large quantities can cause physical discomfort, that it's disliked by sorcerers. Furthermore, the cost of removing the toxicity exceeds its intrinsic value, so few people are interested in it.]
But you are different. Although you cannot resist poison, you have a similar "technique".
[This is a "technique" within the Extreme Martial Arts system. Its effect is to assist in martial arts training. It is a top-tier "Eight Directions Dietary Supplement Technique," and at its peak, it is said that one can eat anything.]
[The first level of the "Eight-Directional Dietary Therapy" can make a person almost immune to all poisons, allowing for the absorption of low-toxicity foods like centipedes and scorpions without any side effects!]
Although the starting cultivation level for learning this technique is the "Nine Transformations of True Essence" at the first realm, you'll reach that stage in just a few days. You can store these giant beast meats in your spatial ring.
On the outskirts of the famine, a Grandmaster of罡劲 (Gāngjìn, a type of internal energy cultivation) and a low-level wizard worked together, one providing support and the other dealing damage. In a short time, they blasted several giant beasts, each three to five meters tall, to death.
When they looked up at the center of the battlefield, they were astonished to find that the largest, twenty- or thirty-meter-tall behemoths still active had become extremely few in number!
[What were once moving hills have now become lifeless, with only a very few still twitching and howling, but even that is merely the lingering echo of their dying breath.]
"My Aunt Margaret's ball of yarn!" the wizard exclaimed, his mouth agape.
Although the number of crimson mountains on the field has not decreased, the vast majority of them have already become corpses, and the entire landscape is deathly silent.
With each charge, the sounds of punches, kicks, the beast's feeding noises, and roars gradually diminish.
For a fleeting moment, the world fell silent, for about ten seconds.
Whether it's your sonic booms that often tear the sound barrier, the powerful strikes of a grandmaster, or the furious roars of a bloodline sorcerer.
There was no movement during those ten seconds.
[The sixteen first-level players each spent more than ten seconds searching for their next opponent, causing the entire battlefield to remain silent for that long.]
[And you, without knowing when, found yourself standing atop the largest of the Kara behemoths, whose fallen corpse was a full thirty meters tall.]
"The battle is over."
"It wasn't difficult at all, was it?" Their gazes shifted to you, and you shrugged casually.
It felt as relaxed as going camping.
Everyone was speechless, for it all seemed almost surreal.
There are still three or four hundred Kara behemoths left on the field, and only a few of them have reached a size of ten meters.
Then they watched as you patted each of the corpses, and the dozens of meters-tall beast carcasses vanished into thin air. They were startled again: "Spatial equipment!?"
"What's so strange about that?" You waved your hand. "And stop watching. There are still a few hundred left. Let's take them out first, lest they become a threat."
The Kara behemoths are growing exponentially too fast. If they don't encounter powerful magical beasts, three or four hundred of them can grow to a massive size in just over ten days, causing another wave of famine.
[Only when their numbers drop to a few dozen, or even just a few, will it work. Only then will their growth, reproduction, and development speed be unable to keep up with the attacks of the magical beasts—most magical beasts are inherently averse to these endlessly feeding monsters and will attack upon encountering them.]
[It took you most of the hour, or rather, it took them most of the hour, to wipe out all the remaining small, scattered giant beasts.]
[You, on the other hand, are cleaning up the animal carcasses across the land.]
These extraordinary beings charged hundreds of miles along the path the famine had taken, killing some of the giant beasts that had been abandoned by the main group or had strayed off course.
As for the more distant areas, they couldn't do it. Human strength has its limits. The Ancient Myr Forest covers more than 30,000 miles, and they couldn't possibly explore and clear out all the remaining Kara behemoths within it.
There will always be a few remaining small animals that will struggle to survive, yet are difficult to eradicate, until decades or centuries later, when they happen to seize an opportunity and unleash a devastating famine that destroys everything in their path.
But after you snapped your fingers to give the signal, you didn't care about any of that afterwards.