Published: February 19, 2025
CHAPTER 65: Desire for Destruction
After criticizing Luo Fei's weapon, everyone exchanged experiences about the ambush and battle they encountered today.
Although this temporary team disbanded right after setting out, sharing information proved somewhat useful.
For instance, the cultists that Lin Xue and the others encountered were different from those they faced; these people had blackened skin and bulging muscles during combat, exhibiting strong power and defense.
It seemed that they were not from the same faction, or perhaps not from the same cult as the cultists here.
By the time their discussion wrapped up, it was already ten at night. While Xia Youhui was still playing with his phone, Chen Chu put his phone down and stared at the ceiling, lost in thought.
After witnessing Luo Fei's sniper 'cannon', he began to contemplate whether he should prioritize increasing his defense when he later gained attribute points.
This idea had never crossed his mind before, but today's sudden skirmish had instilled a strong sense of crisis in him.
For high-level cultivators with true power protecting them, ordinary firearms posed no threat, but for low-level cultivators like them, it was a different story.
For example, this afternoon, if they hadn't had the battle armor prepared by the school, no one would have dared to charge forward against those with rifles, submachine guns, or even heavy machine guns.
Although they had already broken through to the double heaven, and the weakest among them was over seven times stronger than an average person, they were still flesh and blood, unable to withstand bullets capable of penetrating several millimeters of steel.
Moreover, the battle armor could only defend against ordinary bullets and could not withstand specialized weapons, like that enhanced 'Desert Eagle' used by the cultist, or Luo Fei's sniper cannon.
Especially with snipers like Luo Fei lurking in the shadows, they posed an even greater threat to newcomers like Chen Chu.
After all, when facing the cultists' attacks, they could still choose to resist head-on, fight, or retreat, but once targeted by a sniper in hiding, it was either death or serious injury.
"Let's see how effective it is to enhance my attributes later," Chen Chu decided, closing his eyes as his consciousness sank into the heavy armored beast's realm.
Thousands of kilometers away, by a wide estuary, the fierce black mutated beast slowly crawled out of its lair, stirring up mud as it disappeared beneath the water's surface.
As the heavy armored beast grew in size, its defense and power surged under the influence of its innate talents. The once slightly dangerous estuary had now transformed into its hunting ground.
Boom!
Underwater, splashes erupted as the heavy armored beast struck out with a claw, smashing half the head of a three-meter-long ordinary mutated fish.
Crack!
The heavy armored beast bit down, creating a blood hole the size of a basin, chewing with its jaws, as rich blood mixed with fish flesh dripped from between its teeth, looking ferocious.
The three-meter-long mutated fish weighed about two hundred pounds and was devoured in less than ten minutes.
Chen Chu could keenly sense that, with the energy transformation, the heavy armored beast's cells were continuously splitting and compressing, its body visibly expanding.
Its outer shell thickened and hardened, completely defying the biological rules of growth.
But it wasn't enough.
Feeling the emptiness from within, Chen Chu... the heavy armored beast's tail swayed slightly as it continued to swim in the deep water, searching for its next prey.
Here, fresh water mingled with seawater; the river was wide and deep, fostering countless ferocious freshwater fish, along with some mutated sea fish that could adapt to freshwater occasionally appearing.
Just a few kilometers out, a shadow over five meters long appeared not far away, its massive body filled with an oppressive aura.
This mutated fish was covered in thick scales, resembling a grouper but much larger, with its slightly open mouth filled with sharp teeth, looking extremely menacing.