"So that's Commander Hu's strength?" Yu Minxia, leading a team plugging the gaps in another direction, saw Shen Cong kill a three-core Bug Warrior with a single blade, her eyes going wide, and asked Mu Ting beside her in a low voice.

She'd never witnessed Shen Cong make a move.

That time of the encounter battle with A-Tai, the Master, the dragon-claw pagoda tree, and the giant snail—she'd arrived to find Shen Cong had already stopped. The battle to wipe out Xihai Park, too, she'd only heard about secondhand, never felt firsthand.

Today was the first time she'd seen Shen Cong kill.

The ferocious battle armor, kicking up a gale, charged thunderously at the three-core Bug Warrior amid flame and explosion. The two short blades were utterly unremarkable, as though merely swung out at random—and the Bug Warrior's head parted ways with his body.

The gap in strength was too great.

The three-core Bug Warrior's reactions simply couldn't keep pace with the speed of Shen Cong's full-force burst.

In that instant, in the eyes of Yu Minxia and the others, the Bug Warrior—reckoned a natural predator—had a body as fragile as if pasted from paper.

They had no idea that Shen Cong had already decoded the secret of the bug core, discovered the Activity water-wave, and would naturally, in targeted fashion, disrupt the balance of the Activity water-wave. With this blade coming down, the Activity wave injected into the blade had already shifted frequency several times in succession—first breaking the Activity water-wave's stable triangular structure, then stirring up the sharpening reaction.

To say it was like slicing tofu would be an exaggeration—but it was about the feeling of chopping through bone.

And then.

The three-core Bug Warrior died.

Shen Cong had already charged at another three-core Bug Warrior.

Leaving a receding figure for the countless people watching the battlefield to have their courage split, or their hearts enthralled.

"This is the guardian deity!" Mu Ting's eyes were near to twinkling with little stars. "Eldest sister, did you know? The guardian deity is a great hero who treads on five-colored auspicious…