tkworld Chapter 240 Rapid Clearance
Chapter 240 Rapid Clearance
Song Chen stood at the cave entrance, looking up at the fifth-tier beast king, which was ranked among the top three in Nanjiang Province, without any change in expression.
The Iron-Bone Python moved first. It opened its huge mouth, and a black venomous mist gushed out, covering the entire cave.
When the poisonous fog touched the vines on the cave wall, the vines instantly rotted and fell off.
Song Chen stood still, and his lightning domain expanded outwards, with golden-purple lightning colliding with the poisonous mist, producing crackling sounds.
The toxic fumes were burned away by the electric arc, turning into harmless air.
Then he drew his knife.
The first of the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes.
A golden-purple blade aura extended forty meters from the blade's edge, striking the Iron-Bone Python's vital point.
The iron-boned python's body suddenly straightened, and its massive 300-meter-long body sprang up from the pool, smashing the stalactites on the cave ceiling.
The pebbles fell like rain, then turned to dust within the lightning field.
The enormous snake's head crashed back into the pool, the resulting waves slamming against the cave walls with a dull echo.
[A Tier 5 alien beast has been killed, gaining 44787 kill points.]
Song Chen drew his sword, cut open the scales, and took out the crystal core.
He casually put the crystal core into his storage space and turned to walk out.
When they returned to the spaceship, Liu Yue and the other six had already been bandaged and were sitting in the cabin drinking nutrient solution.
Upon seeing Song Chen come up, all six people stood up at the same time.
"Associate Song."
Song Chen sat in his seat: "Cangwu Mountain is cleared, next."
Wang Zhan's eye twitched. From departure to return, it took less than ten minutes, including the round-trip flight time.
Han Duo pulled up a map showing the distribution of secondary nests in Nanjiang Province, where forty-seven red dots were densely arranged.
The most recent one is Yunxi County, northeast of Cangwu Mountain.
"Walk."
The spaceship changed direction and flew northeast.
Liu Yue had already disembarked from the spaceship. She stood there, watching the spaceship's tail flames disappear into the clouds, and glanced down at her broken blade.
"Captain, your hands are shaking," the young male martial artist next to him whispered.
Liu Yue took a deep breath and placed her hand on the hilt of the knife: "Nonsense, who wouldn't tremble when they see this?"
She looked up; her eyes were bloodshot, but frighteningly bright.
"Let's go back and regroup. There are forty-seven level-two nests to be cleared in Nanjiang Province. We need to catch up with the next few rounds."
When the spaceship landed in Yunxi County, Song Chen saw a field of farmland that had been turned upside down.
What should have been rice paddies is now just a network of deep ditches and piles of mud. The remains of several farmhouses lean against the edge of the fields, and waist-high weeds grow in the rubble.
The creature that occupies this place is a fifth-tier, early-stage burrowing scorpion, two hundred meters long, leading more than a thousand strange beasts and using the entire plain as its lair.
Song Chen found it in eight minutes and then ended the fight with a single strike.
When he returned, he stood on the edge of the field, bent down, grabbed a handful of soil, and rubbed his fingers together.
Wang Zhan poked his head out of the spaceship: "Councilor Song, is there a problem?"
Song Chen didn't turn around, but looked at the farmland: "How long will it take for this land to resume production?"
Wang Zhan jumped off the spaceship, squatted down to examine the soil conditions, and then looked up to scan the surrounding terrain.
"The damage caused by the alien beasts is mainly physical disturbance, without any toxic pollution. With current agricultural technology, once the soil conditioner is applied, fast-growing rice can be planted and the first crop can be harvested in three months."
"Three months?"
"Yes." Wang Zhan grinned.
"In the past fifty years, putting aside everything else, our technological progress has been truly rapid."
"The researchers at the Ministry of Agriculture completed the post-war land reclamation plan twenty years ago, and are just waiting for the ground troops to clear the land."
"Once the alien beasts are gone, resuming production within three months is the standard procedure."
Song Chen nodded and then asked, "The wild beasts have all been cleared out, what do we do with the meat? Low-level martial artists can't afford spiritual energy liquid, so they can only eat beast meat to supplement their nutrition."
Wang Zhan's expression became somewhat subtle, and he took two steps forward: "Councilor Song, actually, the alien beast breeding farm started ten years ago."
Song Chen turned to look at him: "What? Farming?"
He was unaware that he had already started breeding exotic beasts.
Wang Zhan immediately explained, "It's about breeding exotic beasts. The Agricultural Institute has long since domesticated a group of docile herbivorous exotic beasts with virtually zero aggression. Their meat is even more stable than wild ones, and their effect on improving the blood and qi of low-level martial artists is no worse than that of wild-hunted beasts."
"There are many kinds, such as white cloud chicken, thick-skinned pig, blue-striped sheep... a whole bunch."
"It's just that there was no shortage of meat before, so it wasn't promoted on a large scale."
Song Chen thought for two seconds, then nodded in satisfaction: "That's good."
He turned and walked toward the spaceship, his steps lighter than before.
"What's next?"
"Eagle Beak Cliff Mining Area"
Eagle Beak Cliff Mining Area is an old mine that has been abandoned for fifty years. The mine tunnels are interconnected and occupied by two Rock Armored Lizards at the initial stage of the fifth rank, one male and one female, with three thousand strange beasts under their command.
Wang Zhan frowned as he looked at the data on the spaceship: "The Rock Armor Lizard's scales are among the hardest in its class; they can't be penetrated by anything below the fifth rank, and the mine tunnels are too narrow..."
As the spaceship landed, the horde of strange beasts in the mining area had already noticed the intruders, and a dark mass poured out of the mine entrance.
Song Chen jumped off the spaceship, and the lightning field exploded directly in the center of the mining area.
A golden-purple spherical lightning field covered an area of 150 meters, causing low-level alien beasts to carbonize and fall in droves.
Two rock-armored lizards burst out from the depths of the mine tunnel, their massive bodies smashing through the support structure at the tunnel entrance, sending debris flying everywhere.
The male was over 250 meters long, while the female was slightly smaller. The two beasts charged side by side, and the ground trembled.
Song Chen will not back down.
With the Eye of Insight activated, the complete flow of spiritual energy between the two rock-armored lizards was revealed before my eyes.
The gaps where the scales overlap, the trajectory of joint rotation, and the rhythm of muscle contraction are all clearly visible.
He activated his speed boost, leaving a trail of blue wind as he slashed directly into the left armpit of the male rock armor lizard.
The Heavenly Blade slashed horizontally, its blade energy cutting through the gap, severing tendons and piercing the heart.
The male rock lizard let out a deafening scream, its forelimbs buckled, and its entire body crashed to the ground, sending up a spray of rubble tens of meters high.
The mother rock lizard flew into a rage and swept her tail across.
Song Chen flipped in mid-air, touched the tail with his toes, and used the momentum to spring onto its head. He then gripped the Heavenly Blade upside down and stabbed it into the gap between the scales between its eyes.
The blade was halfway submerged.
The mother rock lizard froze, then collapsed to the ground with a thud.
The two fifth-tier beast kings fought for less than a minute from start to finish.
Wang Zhan watched this scene from the spaceship and swallowed hard.
He recalled how he had just been worried about the narrowness of the mine tunnels and the hardness of the scales, and now he felt a bit foolish.
Song Chen sheathed his sword and walked back: "Next."
Within 48 hours, battle reports from Nanjiang Province came out like a barrage of bullets.
Cangwu Mountain, Eagle Beak Cliff, Yunxi Plain, Blackwater Swamp, Woniu Ridge, Shimen Gorge...
Twelve level-two nests, twenty-three level-five beast kings, and countless low-level exotic beasts.
In the city defense command center of Nanjiang Base City, Lu Zhengbei received a new battle report every two or three hours.
At first, he sat behind his desk and looked carefully, but later he simply moved his chair next to the communications station, holding a teacup while waiting for news.
"Report! The Yunxi Burrowing Scorpion has been killed!"
"Report! The Blackwater Swamp Poisonous Swamp Crocodile has been killed!"
"Report! The Golden-Winged Eagle at Shimen Gorge has been slain!"
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