Across the five continents inhabited by humanity, countless sea monsters advanced inland along rivers. Because of the long distances involved, most had not yet reached the base cities.
However, the King Level monsters and humanity’s Planetary Level warriors had already begun their decisive battles.
At the same time, every nation and every base city chose to broadcast the battles live nationwide.
Every battle captured the attention of countless people.
The hopes and concerns of the entire world created an invisible force.
That passionate atmosphere stirred the blood of many Councillors who had originally hesitated.
One after another, they stepped forward.
Battle was always bloody.
Among the King Level monsters, some were weaker while others were stronger.
The weakest were comparable to a Level One Planetary warrior.
The strongest rivalled Level Three or even Level Four Planetary warriors.
Humanity’s Planetary warriors possessed only one real advantage.
They all wore Black God Suits.
This greatly reduced their death rate compared with the King Level monsters.
But no matter how much it reduced the risk, Councillors still fell in battle.
After all, the monsters possessed one overwhelming advantage.
Their numbers.
The number of King Level monsters on land already greatly exceeded the number of human Councillors.
The King Level sea monsters were even more numerous.
Although humanity had nearly ninety Planetary Level warriors, on 14 January alone, nine hundred and three King Level sea monsters emerged from the oceans.
That was ten times humanity’s numbers.
And that was only part of their total strength.
This ultimate clash between humanity and the monsters also revealed many mysterious human experts to the entire world.
Luo Feng.
Mohandeson.
East.
One dazzling name after another.
Among them, the brightest was undoubtedly Luo Feng.
Ever since his first appearance, where he killed six King Level monsters by himself, he had been rushing all across China.
When other Planetary warriors fought King Level monsters, every battle was dangerous and exhausting.
Sometimes they were even forced to flee.
Luo Feng was different.
Whenever he appeared, there was only one outcome.
Victory.
From dawn until three o’clock in the afternoon, thirty seven King Level monsters had already died by Luo Feng’s hand.
It was unbelievable.
Even if all the other Planetary warriors in China combined their achievements, they had not killed even half as many.
His reputation soared.
Across China, as well as every nation broadcasting the battles, countless people came to admire Luo Feng.
However.
Although killing thirty seven King Level monsters greatly encouraged humanity, it filled the sea monsters with overwhelming fury.
The more intelligent monsters possessed wisdom.
The deaths of thirty seven King Level monsters quickly drew the attention of one of the two supreme rulers of the oceans.
The Eight Tentacle Beast Emperor.
This Beast Emperor was completely different from the one on Mist Island.
The Beast Emperor on Mist Island had simply grown stronger by consuming Wood Crystal Essence.
The Eight Tentacle Beast Emperor and the Thunder Dragon Emperor, however, had gradually risen through endless battles and slaughter in the boundless oceans.
They were vastly more powerful.
Over one hundred and twenty kilometres outside Kyoto Base City.
The greatest battle of 14 January was taking place.
One side was the Eight Tentacle Beast Emperor.
Its enormous body covered the sky like a floating island.
In terms of sheer size, it was the largest creature on Earth.
It was much larger than the Beast Emperor from Mist Island.
Its head alone resembled a small mountain.
Its eight tentacles were thicker than those of the Mist Island Beast Emperor, although they were of similar length.
Its opponent.
Humanity’s warrior, Luo Feng.
“Councillor Luo Feng is incredibly fast.”
“Danger!”
Countries across the world were broadcasting the battle live.
The fighting was so fast that commentators barely had time to explain what was happening.
“So you look down on me.”
“You’re afraid of Thunder God and Hong, but not me?”
Luo Feng waved his hand.
The golden crescent blade, over thirty metres long, returned to his grasp and transformed back into the Arc Blade Disc.
Luo Feng had already learned that while the Golden Horned Beast was ravaging Earth, it had deliberately travelled to Hongning Base City and attacked the headquarters of the Dojo of Limits.
Its goal had been to kill humanity’s two strongest warriors, Hong and Thunder God.
Apparently, the two Beast Emperors had informed the Golden Horned Beast that Hong and Thunder God were humanity’s greatest threats.
However.
The Golden Horned Beast had failed.
Hong and Thunder God had survived by hiding inside the training room within the spaceship headquarters.
The interstellar transport ship itself was incredibly sturdy.
A Level One Stellar Golden Horned Beast had no chance of destroying it.
Let alone breaking through its outer hull and damaging the heavily reinforced training room inside.
As for moving it.
The interstellar transport ship measured over ten thousand metres long.
Its weight was measured in hundreds of millions of tonnes.
Even Earth’s aircraft carriers, tiny compared with the transport ship, weighed tens of thousands of tonnes.
The transport ship was built from far denser materials and was over ten thousand times larger.
Its weight was almost unimaginable.
A Level One Planetary warrior could at most lift around one thousand tonnes.
Even a Level One Stellar warrior could never hope to move an interstellar transport ship weighing hundreds of millions of tonnes.
It could not destroy it.
It could not move it.
Nor could it swallow something so enormous.
Even if it tried to absorb and digest it, the process would take an extremely long time.
The Golden Horned Beast already became full after consuming only a few metal war bases built by Earth.
Its appetite had obvious limits.
Therefore, Hong and Thunder God had escaped disaster.
“I intended to finish you quickly.”
“I didn’t expect your defence to be this strong.”
“In that case, I’ll just take a little longer.”
Luo Feng’s eyes turned cold.
“Die.”
He swung the Arc Blade Disc once more.
The crescent blades on its surface rapidly folded together until they formed a single golden curved blade only one metre long and as thin as a cicada’s wing.
Unlike the enormous blade from before, this one was completely condensed.
Whoosh!
The golden curved blade flashed.
It pierced into the Beast Emperor’s island sized head as easily as slicing into an apple.
“Roooar!”
The Eight Tentacle Beast Emperor let out a piercing scream.
A torrent of pitch black poison sprayed towards Luo Feng.
The entire world held its breath.
When Luo Feng became completely engulfed by the black poison, countless people felt their hearts tighten.
Apart from the Devouring Beast, the strongest sea monsters were the two Beast Emperors.
The Eight Tentacle Beast Emperor and the Thunder Dragon Emperor.
The Thunder Dragon Emperor was famous for its speed, lightning, and physical strength.
The Eight Tentacle Beast Emperor was renowned for its defence, regeneration, poison, and crushing tentacles.
When it came to poison.
It ranked first on Earth.
“Roooar. Roooar. Roooar.”
The Beast Emperor suddenly let out agonising cries.
Its eight enormous tentacles flailed wildly.
Its mountain sized head repeatedly bulged and collapsed.
Its house sized eyes filled with madness and unbearable pain.
Bang!
A wound several metres wide burst open across its skull.
White and crimson fluids erupted like a fountain.
Its eight massive tentacles fell limply.
Its colossal body rapidly plummeted.
Boom!
Its floating island sized body crashed into the wilderness below.
The ground shook violently like an earthquake.
Buildings that had withstood decades of wind and rain cracked apart and collapsed instantly.
Dust filled the air.
One of the two Beast Emperors.
The Eight Tentacle Beast Emperor.
Dead.
From within the black poison cloud, Luo Feng emerged standing upon the Soaring Heaven Shuttle.
He glanced once at the Beast Emperor’s corpse lying below.
Instantly.
People across the entire world, regardless of nationality, race, gender, or age, erupted with excitement.
Luo Feng himself remained completely calm.
“That Eight Tentacle Beast Emperor was simply asking to die.”
Inside the intelligent storage space on Luo Feng’s wrist, Babata held an apple as he sneered.
“Once it left the sea, it wasn’t even a match for Thunder God or Hong.”
“Now that Hong and Thunder God are hiding, it actually thought it was invincible.”
“Luo Feng, you’re already slightly stronger than Thunder God.”
“Dealing with it was child’s play.”
“What an idiot.”
As he spoke, Babata took another huge bite from the apple.
For the current Luo Feng.
The Arc Blade Disc alone was enough to kill a Level Six Planetary Beast Emperor.
If he used the fragment of Crimson Mixed Copper Essence.
He would possess strength comparable to the world’s strongest warrior, Hong.
The entire world celebrated Luo Feng’s slaying of the Beast Emperor.
Meanwhile, the Planetary warriors standing at the pinnacle of humanity were utterly shocked.
For so many years, neither Hong nor Thunder God had been able to deal with the two Beast Emperors ruling the oceans.
Although this battle had taken place in the sky rather than underwater.
Apart from Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God.
Was there anyone else on Earth capable of fighting a Beast Emperor?
The Third Speaker, Ice Emperor Mohandeson?
The Fourth Speaker, East?
Neither could.
Only then did the world’s strongest warriors finally realise.
Luo Feng, the genius who had only recently reached the Planetary Level and had once been considered roughly equal to Mohandeson and East.
In just one year.
He had grown strong enough to stand beside Hong and Thunder God.
Based purely on strength.
Luo Feng deserved to be the Third Speaker.
Perhaps even the Second Speaker.
He had simply never challenged for the position, choosing instead to remain quietly in Yangzhou City.
Hongning Base City.
Dojo of Limits Headquarters.
Although the exterior of the interstellar transport ship bore several scars, its interior remained completely intact.
Inside one of its training rooms.
A barefoot man dressed in black sat cross legged.
Opposite him sat another barefoot man dressed in white, his head completely shaved.
One in black.
One in white.
They were Hong and Thunder God, who had remained hidden inside the transport ship’s training room because of the Golden Horned Beast.
“Luo Feng truly deserves his reputation as Earth’s greatest spiritual master genius.”
Hong slowly opened his eyes.
His gaze remained calm.
“His strength has grown unbelievably fast.”
“He is now unquestionably Earth’s strongest spiritual master.”
“Compared with my younger brother, he’s probably just as powerful.”
“Good.”
“With such a genius on Earth, even if I die, I can rest in peace.”
Hong’s eyes were as calm as the sea.
Suddenly.
Tiny arcs of electricity appeared throughout the training room.
Hong’s expression changed slightly.
Thunder God, who had remained seated with his eyes closed, looked perfectly calm.
Yet streams of lightning gradually surrounded him.
Within moments, the entire training room had become a domain of lightning.
Electric serpents danced through the air.
The bald man dressed in white slowly opened his eyes.
Lightning flickered within them.
A faint smile appeared on his face.
It resembled the serene smile of the Buddha from ancient Chinese legend.
“Brother Hong.”
Thunder God spoke slowly.
“The supreme state of harmony between heaven and man from ancient Indian yoga.”
“The perfected unity of body and spirit from Chinese internal martial arts.”
“Surpassing both of them is the path into the Domain.”
“Congratulations.”
Hong replied with a smile.
Hong specialised in Chinese internal martial arts.
Thunder God cultivated both traditions.
Many of Earth’s martial arts manuals had been created by combining ancient martial arts with modern human abilities.
Their power had increased enormously.
But in terms of cultivation realms, Hong and Thunder God had always benefited greatly from Earth’s ancient wisdom.
Harmony between heaven and man.
Unity of body and spirit.
Unity of man and sword.
The perfected state of Tai Chi.
All represented the highest known levels.
Yet beyond all of them.
Lay the Domain.
“Brother Hong.”
“You and I have fought side by side through life and death for decades.”
“How could I retreat at a time like this?”
Thunder God looked directly at Hong.
Hong gazed back at him.
It reminded him of the Great Nirvana era, when the two of them had repeatedly fought on the edge of death together.
“Very well.”
“We’ll go together.”
Hong nodded gently.
“Together.”
Thunder God smiled.