The battle lasted only a minute, but it felt like it went on forever.

It took a long while for everyone to catch their breath.

The factory surroundings were filled with sounds of painful groans.

The three of them wielded long swords and finished off the severely injured and dying barbarians and giant beasts one by one.

Out of a total of twenty-one giant beasts, seventeen were killed, and four escaped.

As for the barbarians, more than thirty were killed, and most fled. The ones who died were mostly slaughtered by Zhu Xueqing, as even a newly appointed martial artist is still a martial artist. Unless there are strong barbarians, they simply can't compete with a human martial artist.

During this time, no barbarians or humans returned, obviously completely frightened.

A few minutes later, after handling everything, the group quickly left.

...

The port was deserted, and the Southeast Asian guards had already fled with the barbarians.

But Chen Shouyi was well aware that this was the calm before the storm. They were already exposed, and the cult would never allow their enemies to infiltrate deeply without a response.

The group returned to their original location.

Chen Shouyi walked over to a nearby postal box and said softly:

"You can come out now!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a tiny head peeked out cautiously from the mailbox's gap.

Upon seeing Chen Shouyi, Shell Lady's mouth pursed, and her little face was full of grievance, with tears streaming down:

"Kind giant, finally you remember to come back. Little one has been waiting for you for so long. If you didn't come soon, I would have been eaten by the bad bugs here."

Although Chen Shouyi knew that Shell Lady loved to exaggerate, seeing her look so pitiful as if she were an abandoned kitten, he couldn't help but feel heartache and hurriedly responded:

"I'm back, aren't I? Alright, come on out!"

"Okay!" Shell Lady replied quickly and squeezed out of the mailbox gap.

Chen Shouyi picked up Shell Lady and placed her on his palm.

She stretched out her arms, opened her hand to show Chen Shouyi, and said: "Look, there are so many bad bugs here, trying to eat little one."

Upon looking, Chen Shouyi saw her little hand was filled with mosquitoes smashed into mush, obviously collected as evidence.

Her skin was more resilient than leather, so how could mosquitoes possibly bite her? But he played along and said:

"So many!"

"There were even more, but when I crawled out... some fell!" Shell Lady said, tears falling in grievance as she prepared to go back to the mailbox:

"I'll go find them for you to see!"

Chen Shouyi, breaking into a sweat, quickly stopped her: "No need to find them, it's filthy. Just throw them away!"

"Okay!" Shell Lady quickly threw the mosquitoes away and clapped her hands clean.

...

In the deep night, the moonlight was cold.

The ground was shrouded in a faint mist, and everyone was quickly replenishing their food.

"Zhu Xueqing, soon we will first send you away from the East Sea to deliver the intelligence." Luo Jingwen said.

This time Zhu Xueqing did not refuse and nodded seriously: "Alright, but I can go alone."

"No, this intelligence is quite important, and the risk of you alone is too great. Now with Qujiang City and Nanshan City likely under martial law, we cannot take any risks!" Luo Jingwen said.

Zhu Xueqing felt dejected and said nothing further.

In fact, her strength proved to be the weakest.

Being confronted with a single giant beast was already enough to kill her.

She had originally thought, at least she was stronger than Chen Shouyi.

Unexpectedly, under his harmless appearance, he was actually a Tyrannosaurus Rex in sheep's clothing.

Especially with that terrifying giant transformation, his strength was even greater than Elder Luo's, beyond the realm of martial artists, almost comparable to Great Xia's supreme Ye Zong. Nearly all the giant beasts were killed by him.

After Luo Jingwen finished speaking, he looked towards Chen Shouyi, who was feeding Shell Lady, and tentatively asked: "Shouyi, what do you think?"

"I have no objections!" Chen Shouyi looked up with a smile and said.

Luo Jingwen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief at his words.

...

In an abandoned factory dormitory, everyone found a set of clothes to change into and quickly hit the road.

The cult reacted promptly, and when they reached Qujiang City, the streets were already filled with patrolling soldiers and barbarians, with giant beasts appearing in the sky.

However, the group had no intention of hiding.

Time was of the essence; the longer they delayed, the more dangerous it became here.

Currently, only lower-level forces could be deployed, so the intelligence needed to be delivered before any high-level forces were dispatched.

A checkpoint had been set up at an intersection, and a group of Southeast Asians, seeing them running from afar, aimed their guns at them, with even two anti-aircraft machine guns among them:

"Don't worry about them, I'll take care of it! Help me take my bag," Chen Shouyi said.

Zhu Xueqing immediately took it, not yet speaking.

Chen Shouyi tapped his toe, suddenly accelerated, and sped towards the Southeast Asians ahead like an arrow released from the bowstring.

In the next second, gunshots rang out, bullets like a storm shooting towards Chen Shouyi.

"Is he alright?" Zhu Xueqing asked worriedly.

Although martial artists have some bullet defense capability, they can only defend against handguns. Even someone like Luo Jingwen at the peak of martial arts can only rely on muscle reflexes to catch bullets from rifles, it's still dangerous, not to mention machine gun fire.

"I don't know, I'll go help." Luo Jingwen said gravely.

However, as soon as he moved his foot, he stopped.

He was stunned, looking at Chen Shouyi, a bit lost. All the bullets, once they reached within about ten meters of Chen Shouyi, quickly decelerated, and by the time they got two or three meters from him, they were completely stationary, rarely breaking past two meters.

"It's the power of heart and mind he talked about!" Zhu Xueqing exclaimed in astonishment from the side.

She had seen Chen Shouyi use it to block rain before and thought it was fascinating, but didn't realize it could be so powerful, even blocking bullets.

"This kid is lying; it must be a talent ability. The power of heart and mind can't possibly do that!" Luo Jingwen said through gritted teeth, though he was already starting to believe it.

He planned to find time to practice it properly once this task was completed.

If he could learn to block bullets like Chen Shouyi, his survival ability would be significantly enhanced.

Although with strong action capability and intuition for danger, bullets rarely hit martial artists. Peak martial artists like him can even see bullet trajectories and dodge in advance or use a sword to block.

But difficult doesn't mean impossible. Mind will inevitably have moments of laxity, and humans have limits. Once bullets become too dense and there's nowhere to hide, even he could be overwhelmed.

"Then he has two talent abilities!" Zhu Xueqing said in shock, the second being Giant Transformation.

"Three, and he can control wind too." Luo Jingwen said expressionlessly.

Feeling a bit sour inside, poor him at his old age, having consumed plenty of divine blood and divine marrow, and even had a few encounters.

But it was useless; he didn't have even one.

Why can't there be fairness between people?

Unfortunately, he didn't know that Chen Shouyi actually had four (including Natural Healing), if they counted the power they believed to be from will.

As they talked, Chen Shouyi had already swiftly charged into the crowd, starting a massacre.

Seconds later, twelve Southeast Asians were decapitated, bodies strewn across the ground.

Feeling his head slightly aching, Chen Shouyi was somewhat excited.

This was his first time using the power of will to block bullets. Initially, he just wanted to try it on a whim to avoid being accidentally hit.

Although being hit wouldn't matter, as the bullets couldn't penetrate his skin, it was still too shocking, and his newly changed clothes would be ruined.

Unexpectedly, it worked.

Yet the mental energy consumption was significant; in just a few seconds, he'd blocked about a hundred bullets, and his mental energy was depleted like a reservoir after a flood.

Zhu Xueqing came over with a briefcase, jokingly saying, "Return your girlfriend to you."

Over time, she found that Chen Shouyi was quite easy to get along with, not very talkative, but gentle, without the arrogance common among young powerhouses.

Mm, people who like to keep pets are always love-filled.

Chen Shouyi awkwardly took the briefcase, stressing again, "My daughter!"

"Hehe!" Luo Jingwen chuckled.

Chen Shouyi wanted to ask what "hehe" meant.

But decided not to bother with a pervert's nonsense.

Too dark-minded!

The little Shell Lady is only slightly longer than a finger, what could I possibly do?

The most is just to look!

...

Encountering several checkpoints along the way, Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen alternately took them down.

Chen Shouyi noted that, in normal condition, Luo Jingwen was actually slightly stronger than himself, agile in movement, his sword strikes swift like lightning, and his explosive strength quite formidable.

But it made sense, being a veteran martial artist, Luo Jingwen must've consumed much more divine blood and divine marrow than he did.

He speculated that Luo Jingwen's physical attributes, including intelligence, were all around seventeen points, quite balanced, unlike his own noticeable weaknesses.

At seventeen points, divine blood had minimal effect.

Despite having consumed much divine blood himself, his agility remained unchanged at 17.6, and his strength and constitution were challenging to enhance past 16.9. The current 17 was due to practicing the Horizontal Training Thirty-six Forms.

Of course, if transformed, he completely overpowered Luo Jingwen.

...

They alternately battled.

Along the way, three giant monsters descended from the sky, trying to kill them.

All were slain by Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen, and no other giant monsters appeared afterwards.

Approaching dawn, the group successfully entered the mountainous border between two provinces.

"Be cautious along the way, stay hidden, and once in Nanshan City, make no stops, and don't contact the military." Luo Jingwen advised.

"Do you suspect Nanshan City has been infiltrated by cults too?" Zhu Xueqing asked.

"It's safer to assume so. Nanshan City is just across from Qujiang City." Luo Jingwen replied seriously.

PS: Second update, cultivators not yet at the Tribulation Crossing Stage, don't wait.

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