NOVPUBChapter 477 -478: Crush Them (6th Update)
“Damn it,” as the sky-darkening giant hand appeared, Yue Liqun’s originally excited expression faded at once, and he regretfully sighed to himself, “I almost forgot, Shen Zhixing is a Seventh Level Soul Martial Artist in the Awakening Realm!”
The Realm of cultivation practiced by Soul Martial Artists, no matter the race, all starts with the Basic Three Realms, which are the Distant Realm, the Near Realm, and the Shape Origin Realm, each divided into nine levels.
Following these are the Martial Three Realms, the Nirvana Realm, the Sky Breaking Realm, and the Life and Death Realm.
The Nirvana Realm, just like the Basic Three Realms, is divided into nine levels.
The Sky Breaking Realm also has nine levels, with the Sky Crossing Stage above the ninth level.
The Life and Death Realm is divided into four minor realms: body, strength, soul, and heart.
Above this is the Transformation Realm, where Soul Martial Artists undergo a complete transformation.
The Awakening Realm is the first Realm of the Transformation Realm, also divided into nine levels.
However, there is a saying in the Awakening Realm: “Every Three Levels, a new world,” with the First to Third Level being the Low-level Awakening Realm, and the Fourth to Sixth Level being the High-level Awakening Realm.
Especially from the Third to the Fourth Level, though there is only one minor level difference, the gap between the two is similar to that between the entire Awakening and Life and Death Realms.
As for the Seventh to Eighth Level of the Awakening Realm, the span of strength is even more exaggerated, a world apart at each level.
A Seventh Level is someone who can establish their own school, an Eighth Level can be considered a powerful existence, and a Ninth Level has the qualifications to dominate a region.
Therefore, Soul Martial Artists from the Seventh to Eighth Levels of the Awakening Realm are collectively referred to as possessing Master Level, Powerhouse Level, or Overlord Level combat strength.
And Shen Zhixing is a Seventh Level Soul Martial Artist in the Awakening Realm, with Master Level combat strength!
Yue Liqun looked annoyed, realizing he had also been blinded by anger and failed to timely remind Lin Qian of Shen Zhixing’s Realm.
“Even though this is the Huaxia Empire’s most basic assault warship, after a hundred-mile acceleration, propelled by the power of an Array, with his level of strength, he won’t be able to stop it,” seeing Yue Liqun’s expression, Lin Qian said with a chuckle, “Such events will be common in the future. Observe carefully with me and see for yourself what kind of existence the Huaxia Empire really is.”
Hearing Lin Qian’s confident words, Yue Liqun not only continued to look ahead.
“This…” In the next moment, the scene that unfolded in mid-air completely overturned Yue Liqun’s imagination.
The seemingly majestic Soul Power giant hand, at the instant it grasped the assault warship, was utterly shredded, disintegrated into soul energy that filled the sky, and eventually merged into the surrounding world.
This scene was unexpected for everyone, including Shen Zhixing, who had initiated the action.
He originally thought that his condensed hand of Soul Power could directly crush this not-boat-like object into a lump of iron and easily throw it aside to resolve the issue.
But reality harshly slapped him in the face, not to mention crushing it, he couldn’t even block the thing for a single breath.
“Run!” Looking at the terrifying steel beast ahead, Shen Zhixing swallowed hard, his mind filled with only one thought, his soul power surged as he rushed upward in haste.
Likewise, the thirteen Black Corner Clan Soul Martial Artists on duty guarding the area promptly shot up into the sky. 𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒑𝒖𝒃.𝙘𝙤𝒎
Only by fleeing upward could they quickly avoid it.
Sssss!
When Shen Zhixing fled upwards, the rotating drill at the forefront of the assault warship fiercely nailed itself to the barrier Array.
The tough Array barrier over the Royal City went wild under the assault warship’s rotating drill tip, twisting madly and instantly morphing into a vortex.
In just three breaths, the Array barrier the Black Corner Clan in the Royal City had thought indestructible was ground into pieces and completely collapsed.
A bang resounded as the pale purple defensive Array barrier of the Royal City shattered into twinkling lights, scattering everywhere.
Bathed in this purple firework, the Huaxia Empire’s Lower C-Class assault warship made its final collision with Shen Zhixing’s Royal City.
The patrolling Black Corner Clan members outside the Royal City couldn’t evade in time and had an intimate encounter with the assault warship, before disappearing from this world.
The Huaxia Empire’s Lower C-Class assault warship was like a giant meat grinder, its massive form like a ferocious and evil beast swallowing every Black Corner Clan member in its path without mercy.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Deafening roars echoed instantly between heaven and earth as the assault warship brutally rammed into the Royal City, completely obscuring the middle of the straight Mountain City.
Giant rocks shattered and flew in all directions, and the Black Corner Clan members patrolling within were the first to be crushed alongside the walls of the outer mountain, disappearing amidst the rain of stones.
Dense dust began to rise but could not conceal the terrifying crushing power of that domineering metal behemoth.
Inside the Royal City, the Black Corner Clan members who were still cultivating or resting didn’t even realize what was happening before feeling the ground shake and hearing a roaring sound coming from ahead.
Looking toward the direction of the noise, one could see a metallic monster rolling towards them through the crumbling rocks.
“What is this?” A question barely arose in the minds of the people inside the Royal City before they were steamrolled by the assault warship.
Even the Black Corner Clan members in the Awakening Realm, the low-level ones were smashed to pieces upon impact, and the high-level ones managed to last only a breath before they, too, met their tragic end. Only a few of the Sixth Level Black Corner Clan members managed to escape in time, daring not to confront it head-on.
Those of the Sixth Level who successfully evaded could only watch helplessly as the metallic dragon tore through a part of the Royal City and finally came to a halt behind it.
Plop-plop!
The sound of falling debris continued as Yue Liqun watched, dumbfounded, as the Royal City lost a third of its size in a blink of an eye—its Array broken—to be replaced by a huge hole in the center of the mountain.
“So… so powerful!” Yue Liqun clenched his fists tightly, staring at the Royal City that was showing signs of complete collapse, and shouted out loud, overwhelmed by shock.
“Calm down, it’s not over yet,” Lin Qian said somberly, watching the Royal City ahead. “I said to smash it, now it’s smashed, but it’s not broken yet.”
“Ah?” Hearing Lin Qian’s words, Yue Liqun looked somewhat dazed, and quickly continued to watch the scene unfolding in front of him.
At that moment, he saw through the giant hole that took up a third of the mountain, fiery red lights shining on that Lower C-Class Huaxia Empire assault warship.
“What’s that?” Yue Liqun muttered to himself. However, before he could finish, he suddenly remembered the chilling cannons he saw as the assault warship passed by.
Yue Liqun, with sweat dripping from his forehead, turned to Lin Qian and stuttered, “Your Majesty, those three hundred things aren’t all called heavy soul cannons, are they?”
“More precisely, what you witnessed before were called siege-type heavy soul cannons,” Lin Qian smiled and looked towards the assault warship, “Those up there are something different, called the Molten Flame Soul Cannon.”
