Chapter 14: Challenging the King-Level Beast
"It's Brother Shen Mu..."
"Brother Shen Mu actually defeated more than a dozen high Horde Leader monsters and even killed seven of them."
Facing more than ten high Horde Leader monsters at the same time and even killing seven of them. This was no longer a feat that Wargod experts could accomplish, not even invincible Wargods. Only those Councilors who surpassed Wargods could achieve such a terrifying record.
While everyone was discussing, many students had already gone up to greet him, including Zhao Ruo, whom Shen Mu was familiar with.
"Senior Sister Zhao Ruo, could you and the other senior brothers and sisters from the training camp please help me to dissect these monsters? Just leave the most valuable parts for me, and the rest can be divided among the senior brothers and sisters."
Shen Mu looked at Zhao Ruo and said. He really didn't want to move anymore. Even though his spirit force and physical strength had mostly recovered, his mind was still very tired.
"No problem, leave it to us."
Zhao Ruo naturally wouldn't refuse. The corpses of high Horde Leader monsters were basically all valuable. Besides the most valuable special parts, even the skin and bones could be worth hundreds of millions, comparable to all the valuable materials of a lower Horde Leader monster.
Now, Shen Mu just wanted to have a good sleep. Although the training camp couldn't be considered safe, if anything unexpected happened, someone would notify him immediately.
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The next morning, around 9 o'clock.
Shen Mu slept for nearly ten hours and woke up feeling refreshed. Walking out of the tent, there were only a dozen or so students in the camp who had just returned from hunting monsters and were resting.
"Brother Shen Mu is awake."
"Brother Shen Mu, these backpacks contain your spoils from yesterday, including the fangs of the Dark Golden Python, the fur of the Silver Moon Wolf, and other valuable parts."
Although Shen Mu joined the camp this year and was considered a junior, now, except for a few familiar students, no one called him "Junior Brother" anymore.
In the open space at the center of the camp, a bonfire was burning, and several students were gathered around roasting meat. One of the Chinese students waved at Shen Mu: "Brother Shen Mu, do you want some? This is the meat of the Fire Scale Three-Bladed Boar you hunted yesterday."
"Sure."
Shen Mu didn't stand on ceremony. He was already hungry. Since before the battle with the monsters yesterday, he had only eaten some high-energy pills and energy bars to replenish his energy, and nothing else.
It had to be said that the meat of the Fire Scale Three-Bladed Boar was quite good. The meat of such high-level monsters had undergone a qualitative change, not only without any bloody smell, but also delicious after simple processing.
Shen Mu ate about four to five pounds of roasted meat and stopped when he felt full. Today, Shen Mu needed to face a real tough battle. Eating too much could affect his state.
After eating and drinking his fill, Shen Mu checked his equipment. The spears and flying knives were in excellent condition. After all, they were SS-grade equipment, and cutting through a group of Horde Leader monsters basically wouldn't cause any wear and tear.
After completing the final check, Shen Mu, under the watchful eyes of the camp students, once again ventured deep into Australia.
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In the central region of Australia, there was a large rift valley. From high above, Shen Mu looked down at this canyon. Various ape-like monsters lived in the valley, such as the Golden Ape, the Great Demon Ape, and the Mountain Ape, numbering in the tens of thousands.
In the center of the valley, on a massive rock, a giant ape over a hundred meters tall, like a small mountain, lay on top, exuding a heavy, mountain-like pressure. At this time, the giant ape was absorbing and exhaling cosmic energy. Its dark yellow hair was like small trees, and a layer of khaki light was faintly flowing between them.
Shen Mu took a deep breath, and his figure quickly descended, with the twelve spears behind him trembling violently, and terrifying spirit force acting upon them. A sharp sound of breaking through the air rang out, and the twelve spears shot towards the Mountain Ape like ground-based weapons.
The combination of spirit force and gravity almost instantaneously accelerated the twelve spears to a terrifying speed, with the kinetic energy exceeding the limit of the Wargod level. Shen Mu raised his hand and clenched his fist, and the twelve streams of light intertwined, their speed increasing again, with the limit of the spirit force applied reaching the terrifying figure of 5,200 tons.
Boom! The red stream of light descended from the sky like a meteor hitting the ground, with a sharp sense of pressure locking onto the Mountain Ape.
"Roar" Before Shen Mu's attack landed, the Mountain Ape sensed the danger, and terrifying primal force erupted from its body, turning its fur into a thick stone armor in an instant.
The ground seemed to explode, with the airflow forming a terrifying shockwave, instantly stirring up dozens of meters of dust. The violent gust of wind directly blew away several Horde Leader monsters around the Mountain Ape, slamming them into the cliff walls, causing the earth to shake and mountains to tremble for a while.
In the next instant, streaks of cold spear lights flew back out of the dust and returned to Shen Mu's side.
A roar filled with immense anger suddenly sounded from the dust, and then a figure as large as a small mountain shot out like a cannonball, straight towards Shen Mu in the sky.
Shen Mu's powerful spirit force spread out, and he immediately noticed the back of the Mountain Ape, where his previous attack had opened a hole more than two meters in diameter and over five meters deep, ultimately being blocked by the hard backbone.
The Mountain Ape was extremely angry. It had been waiting obediently for its new leader to give it orders, but it didn't expect to be ambushed by a human expert. The power of the previous attack was almost comparable to its maximum output. If it weren't for the protection of the stone armor, it might have been severely injured and lost its combat effectiveness.
In theory, a planetary level one life form could have a flight speed of kilometers per second in a vacuum environment. In mid-air, due to the wind resistance caused by its massive size, the flight speed of this Mountain Ape was less than 300 meters per second. Shen Mu was different. As an advanced Wargod spirit master, his flight speed could easily reach 600 meters per second.
Shen Mu's figure quickly retreated, and at the same time, the twelve spears transformed into streaks of dark, sharp lights shooting out again.
The Mountain Ape roared again, and its enormous fists turned to stone, smashing out with terrifying force and instantly knocking away several spears.
Shen Mu controlled the spears to shoot directly at the wound on the Mountain Ape's back.
The powerful combat instinct made the Mountain Ape realize the intentions of the distant, detestable human in the first moment. A thick stone armor re-formed on the bloody wound.
Boom! The black spear lights exploded on the stone armor, countless stones shattered, but they couldn't break through completely.
Without the previous advantage of timing and location, the maximum output of each of Shen Mu's spears was only over five hundred tons, just half of the brute force of this king-level monster. It was very difficult to harm the beast protected by the stone armor.
If the twelve spear lights were combined, in a frontal battle, they would also be deflected by the attacks of this beast.
"The gap in the great realm is indeed difficult to cross."
From the perspective of the Azure Dragon clone, this Mountain Ape was just a plaything. Killing it would be a breeze. However, when facing this beast in human form, Shen Mu felt a strong sense of pressure, as if an ancient beast with immense power was attacking him!
"Tempering the spirit force spear technique was for this moment."
Shen Mu's figure danced around the beast, and at the same time, the twelve spear lights suddenly changed, displaying various moves such as stabbing, piercing, blocking, and slashing. Although each spear carried only five hundred tons of force, just half of the brute force of this king-level monster, and it was difficult to harm the beast protected by the stone armor.
But Shen Mu didn't expect to succeed with one strike. Although it was difficult to harm the beast, repeated attacks would also cause the Mountain Ape to feel pain and then go berserk.
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