tkworld Chapter 245 The Statement of the Ocean Royal Family
Chapter 245 The Statement of the Ocean Royal Family
On the ground, an elite team from Nanjiang University was also nearby; they were already on a mission there.
The team was led by Liu Tiexin, the vice dean of the academy, a fifth-level beginner, with eight fourth-level instructors under his command.
When they arrived, the battle was already halfway through. They thought they could at least help, but after standing on the ridge for three minutes, no one said a word.
Even a peak fourth-tier beast wouldn't be qualified to get close to Song Chen.
The lightning field crushes everything below the fourth rank, instantly carbonizing them. The fourth rank can only last a few more seconds, but that's all.
A young instructor stared at the eighty-meter-long Earth-Splitting Bear, which they had failed to kill in three previous attempts, now cleaved in two by Song Chen's blade. His lips twitched for a moment before he finally managed to stammer, "We've trained at school for ten years, and what have we actually trained for?"
No one answered him.
……
The massacre lasted for four hours.
Song Chen killed any beast he saw without hesitation, leaving mountains of corpses along the way.
He would extract the crystal core from each fourth or fifth-tier beast he killed, while ignoring the lower-tier ones.
The system notifications were so numerous in his mind that he automatically ignored them, only glancing at his total kill count midway through, which had reached 32 million.
Of the forty-seven fifth-tier beast kings, not one escaped from Nanjiang.
Golden-eyed Black Dragon, Iron-armed Violent Ape, Black-scaled Leopard, Wind Falcon, Scaled Turtle, Earth-splitting Bear, Poisonous Dragon Lizard...
These names, which had made Nanjiang Province tremble for decades, were all turned into corpses within four hours.
Song Chen tossed their crystal cores one by one into his storage space, piling them up into a small mountain.
The last remaining beasts hid in a narrow valley, numbering about three hundred, with the highest being only at the fourth rank.
They huddled together, shivering, and some of them let out low whimpers.
Liu Tiexin arrived with his elite team and, seeing the group of strange beasts, felt there was finally something he could do to help: "Councilor Song, leave these to us."
"Need not."
Song Chen walked into the valley.
The lightning field expanded to two hundred meters, enveloping the entire valley.
He didn't draw his sword; he simply stood there, letting the lightning field slowly and evenly roll over every corner.
The screams of the strange beasts echoed from the depths of the valley, rising and falling, becoming less dense and sparse, before finally fading into silence.
Not a single one was left.
Liu Tiexin stood outside the valley, listening to the sounds fading away inside, a chill running down his spine.
He had been fighting strange beasts for twenty years and never imagined that one day he would feel a sense of pity for them.
Three hundred strange beasts, not even a single intact corpse was left behind.
Song Chen emerged from the valley, his armor spotless.
He sheathed the Heavenly Blade, his movements as calm as when the battle began.
"Back to Nanjiang."
As the spaceship took off, several low-level alien beasts that had gotten there early were trembling under the tree canopy in the jungle.
They couldn't see what was happening to the north, but the screams of the fifth-tier beast king echoed throughout the jungle.
After the last roar of the fifth-tier beast disappeared, the entire rainforest fell into absolute silence; even the chirping of insects ceased.
The few low-level beasts exchanged glances, then ran south without looking back.
On the spaceship, Song Chen leaned back in his seat, mentally accessing the system interface. The total kill count was displayed as 33 million.
The accumulation of Qi and Blood required to break through to the sixth rank is not far off.
He opened his eyes and glanced at the receding horizon outside the porthole.
Just then, his phone rang; it was Zhou Wangyue calling.
Song Chen was a little puzzled. Zhou Wangyue never called him while he was fighting, unless something serious had happened.
He caught it with one hand.
"Teacher, is there something you need?"
Zhou Wangyue's tone became unusually solemn: "The Whale King and the Sea Dragon King issued a joint statement five minutes ago."
Song Chen's hand holding the knife didn't move, but his eyes narrowed slightly: "What statement?"
"The original text is not long. The two royal families demanded that Great Xia immediately stop its 'extermination and extermination' of the land-based alien beasts, calling it an act of war against the entire alien beast population of Blue Star."
"If the Great Xia does not cease all military operations within 24 hours, the two major royal families of the sea will launch an attack on all coastal base cities on land using alien beasts from the entire ocean."
"The statement was broadcast via mental energy, and all four countries in the alliance received it. The Eagle Country and the European Union are in an uproar, waiting for the Great Xia's response."
Song Chen stood on the hill, with the massive body of the golden-eyed black dragon coiled beneath his feet and a torrent of tens of thousands of strange beasts scattered behind him. He pondered for a moment.
"I didn't expect the marine creature to react so quickly."
"It is indeed a bit unexpected that two royal families would step forward at the same time, which means that they have taken the defeat of the land beasts as a direct threat to themselves."
Song Chen's gaze fell on the corpse of the golden-eyed black dragon below.
The King of the South River just said, "Spare us your lives," but now it seems there's more to his words than meets the eye.
It's no coincidence that Ocean Royal Family chose this time to issue a statement.
The golden-eyed black dragon led all the fifth-tier cultivators of Nanjiang southward, towards the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia, where the sea lies to the south.
"Perhaps the land-dwelling creatures have long since made contact with the ocean."
Zhou Wangyue paused for a moment before replying, as if he was thinking.
"It is indeed possible that the land-dwelling beasts are fleeing to Southeast Asia, while the ocean royalty is exerting diplomatic pressure. These two things are strategically coordinated."
Where are you now?
"Nanjiang border."
"Did you catch up? They've all been killed."
Zhou Wangyue paused for a second, then said something that surprised Song Chen.
"The Speaker has emerged from seclusion."
Upon hearing this, Song Chen was startled.
Li Qingcang, Speaker of the Great Xia Council, possesses over 700,000 Qi and Blood, is the only high-level sixth-tier martial artist in the Great Xia, and the only human martial artist capable of single-handedly challenging a royal king.
After years of seclusion, he has now emerged.
"When?"
"Early this morning, as soon as he came out of quarantine, he saw the ocean's statement and then convened an emergency meeting."
"Speaker Li's original words were: 'If those two from the Ocean want to fight, they can come after 24 hours. The coastline of Great Xia is long enough to collect their corpses.'"
Song Chen raised the corner of his mouth. This speaker, whom he had never met before, was speaking in a way that suited his taste.
"Can the Speaker withstand a simultaneous attack from the Whale King and the Sea Dragon King?"
Zhou Wangyue did not answer immediately; the pause itself was an answer.
"With Speaker Lee's nuclear arsenal, there won't be any problems in the short term."
"But the Speaker also said that the ocean's resources are much deeper than the land's. The whale and sea dragon races have been lurking at the bottom of the sea for fifty years, and no one knows how many sixth-tier beings they have accumulated."
"If this war really breaks out, it won't just be a border conflict."
In a short period of time.
Song Chen noticed these four words.
Li Qingcang is the strongest fighting force among humans, but he said "for a short time." In other words, even this chairman with 700,000 units of Qi and Blood knows that once the ocean war breaks out, Great Xia cannot withstand it alone.
"What does Parliament mean?"
"There are two factions."
One faction advocates suspending land-based operations and stabilizing the sea first.
"But Qin Zhen slammed his fist on the table and said that they had finally crippled the Sirius Clan, and stopping now would only give them a chance to catch their breath."
Qi Shanhe also sent a message, which contained only four words: "Fight on regardless."
"The Speaker has made the final decision: proceed as planned."
Song Chen smiled and replied, "I like this decision."
The phone hangs up.