dognovel Chapter 261 Cangyuan
Chapter 261 Cangyuan
The remaining defensive emplacements of the Tianhai East Fortress were still firing, but the rate of fire was decreasing because it was no longer necessary; the sea monsters' formation was collapsing.
More than half of the fifth-tier beast kings were killed or wounded, countless fourth-tier beasts were killed or wounded, and the corpses of third-tier and lower-tier beasts covered the entire sea area from the coastline to the horizon.
The once densely packed tide of beasts surging towards the land is now being swept from the shore into the sea as if by an invisible broom.
The observer's voice came through the communication channel, hoarse: "The marine mammal horde is retreating at an accelerated pace, thirty kilometers, forty kilometers, fifty kilometers... they have already passed the edge of the continental shelf."
Another voice chimed in: "The pressure on the Tianhai East Defense Line is zero, repeat, the pressure is zero."
On the sea, Song Chen's lightning field expanded once again, with a diameter exceeding 1,200 meters.
Of course, it wasn't due to the Heavenly Thunder of the Nine Heavens. His spiritual power is only 40,000, which is not enough to support such a large area of lightning.
He relied on precision. His Eye of Truth scanned the spiritual energy fluctuations and locations of every alien beast in the sea in real time. His lightning domain was like a carefully woven net, with electric arcs flowing first to high-value targets, while low-level targets were simply swept away by the aftershocks of the electric arcs.
Song Chen glanced at the system panel.
[Second-tier beast defeated, gaining 43 kill points]
[Second-tier beast defeated, gaining 51 kill points]
[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 178 kill points]
[A fourth-tier alien beast has been killed, gaining 3200 kill points]
The notification sounds were so dense in his mind that they almost formed a line.
He automatically ignored it, only glancing at the total amount on the panel every now and then.
Tianhai City, main city wall.
The defenders on the city wall were all in position, the main cannons were pointing east, and the psionic barrier was ready for operation.
Forty minutes after the evacuation order for 30 million residents was issued, the city streets were jammed with cars and people.
However, the evacuation was only half completed because some people couldn't run, some didn't want to run, and some blocked the intersection.
The city's overall commander is Chen Henian, a peak fifth-tier commander and the commander of the Tianhai City City Defense Army.
He stood in the command room of the main tower of the city wall, looking at the situation map on the sea, watching the dense red dots surging towards the main city of Tianhai, and then began to calculate how long the city wall could hold out.
Then the red dot stopped and started moving backward.
Chen Henian thought the observation equipment was broken.
"Recalibrate."
"It's been calibrated three times already." The observer's voice carried a tone that even he himself couldn't believe.
"Commander, the sea monsters are indeed retreating. A high-speed moving energy source has appeared in the east, pushing the monster tide outwards."
Chen Henian stared at the image on the screen. The purple-gold psionic light was moving through a dense array of red markers at such a speed that the observation system had to constantly correct its trajectory.
Where the light passed, the red markings disappeared over a large area.
"Who is that?"
No one could answer.
Then a voice came through the communication channel, from the outer reconnaissance post.
"It has been confirmed that it was Honorary Councilor Song Chen who single-handedly pushed the beast tide back from Tianhai East Fortress."
The soldiers on the city wall peered out from the crenellations, looking eastward through their binoculars.
They couldn't see the details; the distance was too great. But they could see the purple-gold lightning, moving slowly and irresistibly eastward.
Ahead of the lightning was a fleeing tide of beasts, and behind it was red seawater filled with the corpses of strange beasts.
A young soldier lowered his binoculars and his lips moved.
"Is this even human?"
……
The mouth of the Yangtze River is 120 kilometers from the open sea.
Beneath the sea surface, a surge of mental energy pierced through layers of seawater.
This spiritual energy originated from the depths of a narrow ocean trench.
The trench is located more than 200 kilometers from the coastline and is 4,000 meters deep. It is a fault zone that transitions the continental shelf into a deep-sea basin.
The water pressure at the bottom of the trench is enough to crush steel into thin sheets; sunlight cannot reach this area, and the glow of psionic energy is the only source of light.
At this moment, a strange beast lurks in this trench.
Its name is Cangyuan, and it is a direct descendant of the Sea Dragon Clan. Its father is the Sea Dragon King.
Cangyuan is 1,100 meters long and is one of the best among the younger generation of the Sea Dragon Clan.
Its appearance combines the dragon shape from Eastern legends with the primitive features of deep-sea creatures, with its slender body covered in dark blue scales.
The limbs are short and thick, with webbed toes and bony claws at the tips that can pierce the armor of warships.
Its head is long and flat, with three rows of gill slits on each cheek. The edges of the gill slits glow with a ghostly blue light. These are the unique psionic organs of the sea dragon race, used to extract psionic particles from the water.
Sea dragons generally do not go ashore. They are extremely dependent on the aquatic environment, but correspondingly, their combat power underwater far surpasses that of any land race, even exceeding that of the whale race.
Underwater, they can easily manipulate ocean currents, create deep-sea whirlpools, and generate super-pressure water cannons.
After breaking through to the sixth level, Cangyuan's mental power level reached a terrifying level, enough to precisely command every alien beast within a sea area of hundreds of kilometers.
It was it that commanded the beast tide that attacked Tianhai this time.
The goal of this battle is not to conquer Tianhai. The Ocean Beast King knows that there are still enough nuclear weapons. Going ashore at the sixth level would be suicide. The goal is to wear them down.
By using massive amounts of fourth and fifth-tier ammunition, psionic energy, and stamina to deplete humanity's defenses, the Skysea Defense Line will be destroyed, paving the way for the next real offensive.
Cangyuan executed the plan perfectly; the outer fortress of Tianhai was almost completely destroyed.
With Zhou Wangyue in charge, Tianhai used tactics such as maneuvering, Ironbone Whale breaking through defenses, Seathorn widening the gap, and Sword-beaked Shark chasing down the fleeing soldiers, giving humanity no chance to catch its breath.
It wasn't even using its full strength. There were still four sixth-tier sea beasts lurking in the trench: two giant whales, one abyssal python, and one mutated giant squid.
These are the reserve forces, waiting to be deployed only after humanity's strongest fighting force has been exhausted to its limit.
Then the purplish-gold light appeared.
Cangyuan's spiritual perception was more acute than any observation device; it immediately detected the point of light, a human's spiritual energy fluctuation, sixth rank.
It moved with incredible speed, cutting into the battlefield from the due east direction without stopping or probing, and landed directly in front of the eastern fortress.
Then it started killing. Cangyuan watched as it killed three fifth-tier Ironbone Whales with three strikes.
Three cuts, three heads, each a fatal blow, without wasting a single ounce of strength, without any unnecessary movements.
This is not a battle, it is an execution.
For the first time, Cangyuan's spiritual energy fluctuations became disordered, and it recognized this spiritual energy characteristic.
It wasn't present at the battle in Japan, but its father's confidant relayed all the battle information.
This is the human who smashed a nuclear bomb with his bare hands in Japan and fought six beast kings all by himself.
But he was at the fifth rank at the time.
Song Chen, at level five, was already able to kill a level six beast king; he's currently at level six.
Cangyuan could not understand why this human was progressing so quickly.
Its mental power spread out like a large net, precisely calculating Song Chen's movement speed, the coverage area of the lightning field, and the time and spiritual energy consumed for each fifth-tier enemy killed.
The more data it calculated, the more alarmed it became.
"How much Qi and Blood does he have?"
Cang Yuan transmitted his question to a sixth-tier giant whale beside him through his mental power.
The giant whale thought for a few seconds and then sent back a number using its mental power.
"When Lord Jingyi fought him in Japan, his health was around 60,000; now it's no less than 100,000."