Chapter 254 The Explosion of Human Combat Power

Only one day had passed since the brief but devastating conflict in Bloodstone Town.

The surveillance footage of Old Ding catching the native cultivator's natal flying sword with his bare hands and punching through the Foundation Establishment stage's shield was like a firebomb thrown into a pile of dry wood, instantly igniting the entire wasteland.

Kyoto Alliance, Hunter Guild Cyber ​​Security Bureau.

Hundreds of top cyber hackers and array engineers were sweating profusely, their hands moving like blurs across the virtual keyboards. But on the big screen, the video of Lao Ding breaking a shield with a single punch continued to pop up like a virus on the tactical terminals of all the yellow zone hunters around the world.

"Sever the backbone network! Perform a physical network shutdown!" the security chief roared hysterically.

"I can't do it, sir!" A chief code architect slumped in his chair, staring at the strings of eerie blue code that were mutating on their own on the screen, his voice filled with unfathomable awe.

"The underlying protocol of this video... has been tampered with. It bypassed all our physical servers and directly attached itself to the airborne aura waveband. This isn't hacking; this... this is a high-level spell!"

Meanwhile, at the Kyoto Academy of Sciences, the underground core laboratory.

The young researcher who led Lao Ding's "Perfect Biochemical Root" surgery was staring intently at the extremely complex gene array blueprint in front of him.

Outsiders believed that the perfect biochemical spiritual root was a great breakthrough by the Academy of Sciences, which had exhausted one-third of the resources in the Green Zone.

But only he himself knows how he got out of that dead end of "demon blood fusion medium" that had stuck him for two whole months and caused countless test subjects to reject and self-destruct.

It was an ordinary late night, and he fell asleep in front of the microscope. In his dream, an extremely grand, cold, and emotionless mechanical voice abruptly recited a psionic formula that did not belong to the existing knowledge system of humankind in his subconscious.

After he woke up, he casually filled the formula into the model, and the perfect spiritual root was born in such an absurd way.

"This isn't my genius..." The young researcher's white lab coat was soaked with cold sweat as he looked at the battle report of the Bloodstone Town riot on the screen, finally piecing together all the fragmented clues.

He suddenly collapsed to the ground, looking up at the ceiling as if he could see through the thick layers of earth and into the cold, indifferent eyes of the heavens watching over the world.

"He was the one teaching us... that Dao Lord needed these lowly mortals to survive, needed them to devour demons and cultivate demonic arts..."

That night, the Supreme Council convened an emergency closed-door roundtable meeting.

The atmosphere in the hall was so oppressive it felt like it was about to freeze. The video couldn't be deleted; groups of casual players in the yellow zone were tearing off their guild badges.

"Physical eradication must be carried out immediately!"

A representative of a powerful clan, his eyes bloodshot, slammed his fist on the table and roared, "Deploy the Green Zone's most elite 'Native Foundation Establishment Brigade' and heavy-armored combined arms brigade! Those peasants in Bloodstone Town have only produced one old codger who barely touched the threshold of Foundation Establishment. If we send a dozen or so peak Foundation Establishment cultivators together, plus heavy firepower coverage, we can wipe that wasteland off the map completely in an hour! We absolutely cannot allow these lower-class people to possess the power to contend with the powerful clans!"

"I agree."

The military commander, whose face had long since sided with powerful factions, strode to the highest-level tactical control console and gritted his teeth as he entered his iris code. "We can't let those peasants in the Yellow Zone seize the initiative. I'm issuing the 'Level A Purge Order' right now..."

However, just as the commander's finger was about to press the blood-red "Execute" Enter key,

hum! ! !

The air in the top-secret central intelligence room suddenly froze in an eerie atmosphere.

No piercing alarms sounded, nor were there any actual spiritual attacks. Yet, in the same split second, the dozens of powerful clan leaders and commanders in the hall, who held the highest authority over all of humanity and possessed profound cultivation, collectively experienced an extremely terrifying, suffocating feeling that sent chills down their spines!

Disaster is imminent!

This was a death warning that transcended the physical realm and struck straight to the soul. It was like an invisible, gigantic sword, powerful enough to shatter stars, that abruptly hovered over the top of each of their heads.

The commander's finger, hovering in mid-air, began to tremble violently and uncontrollably. He had an extremely clear, extremely absurd intuition: if he pressed down with that finger, not only him, but everyone in this room, and even the entire superstructure of the Green Zone, would be completely wiped from the world in an instant by some indescribable higher-dimensional force!

Cold sweat instantly soaked through everyone's clothes.

"Huff... huff..."

After a tense standoff lasting more than ten seconds, the commander finally swallowed hard and withdrew his trembling hand from the control panel.

The moment he gave up issuing the cleansing order, the terrifying death aura that had been pressing down on everyone's souls dissipated silently like a tide.

Several representatives of powerful families collapsed onto their leather seats, their legs giving way beneath them. They gasped for breath, their eyes filled with unconcealed horror.

"You all felt it, right?"

Professor Wang Mingyuan, who had been silent all along, stood up. He took off his glasses, which were blurred by cold sweat, and his eyes flashed with a chilling light that seemed to have seen through the cruel truth.

"The breakthrough of the perfect biochemical spiritual root happened to coincide with this point in time; that video happened to be forcibly played in the spiritual energy network in an extremely bizarre way; plus that just now... as long as we dare to issue a suppression order, we will be warned by the rule that we will be annihilated body and soul."

Wang Mingyuan placed his hands on the conference table, looked around at the senior executives present, and exposed the blind spot that made all the smart people feel hopeless.

"Everyone, stop deceiving yourselves. This is the will of the Dao Lord. He is protecting those lowly peasants!"

"The Dao Lord demarcated the Yellow Zone and established the Pact of Severing the Connection Between Heaven and Earth, not to protect us, but to use this planet as a huge training ground! What he wants is the energy level of Earth and the overall improvement of the human species."

Wang Mingyuan's voice was like a cold blade, scraping across the hearts of every powerful clan leader.

"In the Dao Lord's eyes, those of us who sit in the Green Zone and monopolize resources are no different from the demonic beasts outside; we are all just a cog in this evolutionary game. If we dare to overturn the table at this time, interfere with the 'great infighting of species' he has set, and forcibly block the path of mortals to immortality..."

Wang Mingyuan pointed to the ceiling above his head: "That feeling just now will turn into a real divine retribution."

These words shattered the powerful clans' illusions of forcibly suppressing the rebellion.

Under the extremely subtle yet absolutely domineering will of the Dao Lord of Kunlun, the old class barriers of humanity were forcibly torn open.

"So we're just going to watch these uncontrollable mad dogs grow bigger? Watch them seize our rule?" The clan representative slumped in his chair, a bitter smile on his face.

"No, not only can we not kill them, we should also sell them the best weapons."

"A smart man" wearing glasses said.

"Since the Dao Lord needs an overall improvement, then we'll be the ones handing over the knife! Pass on my order: have the Academy of Sciences fully open up its biochemical spiritual root technology! Sell off all those third- and fourth-generation exoskeleton armor and heavy firepower stockpiled in the major military factories to the Yellow Zone's Loose Human Alliance at the lowest possible price for demon cores!"

"Use the industrial capacity of the Green Zone to arm these tens of millions of fearless mad dogs and help them extract the inner core of the demon king in the deep mountains! As long as the people in the Yellow Zone die quickly enough and the demon beasts die in large numbers, the Dao Lord will be satisfied. Only then can we preserve our survival value as the 'logistics chief' in this terrifying evolutionary game."

Under Gu Qing's subtle pressure, the highest decision-making level of the wasteland abandoned the suppression and was forced to go with the flow.

The next day, thousands of heavy transport planes took off from the Green Zone, pouring mountains of military equipment and modified biochemical agents into the major black markets of the Yellow Zone like a torrential rain.

This is a distorted compromise under coercion.

The powerful clans emptied their stockpiles in exchange for top-quality medicinal herbs that the independent hunters had dug up from the depths of the wilderness; while the lower-level independent hunters received even more deadly fangs.

The explosive growth in human combat power, catalyzed by this hidden will, has ushered in an unprecedented explosion.

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Outside the Jianghuai defense line, there was a scorched hilly area that had been plowed countless times by artillery fire.

"Quick! Shrink the formation! Use infrasonic shock grenades to corner those armored rhinos!"

A hunter captain with a thick beard roared hoarsely. Behind him, a dark red bio-elemental root was writhing violently, rapidly converting the half-tube of low-level demon blood he had just drunk into violent kinetic energy.

Around him, hundreds of lone hunters clad in various exoskeletons no longer relied on the trenches for passive defense and counterattacks as before. Their eyes were bloodshot, like a pack of hungry wolves smelling blood, and they launched a counter-charge against a herd of dozens of mindless armored rhinoceroses!

"kill!"

A slender young hunter suddenly leaped up. He didn't activate the exoskeleton's fire control system at all, but instead relied on the rough meridians in his body that had just been widened by demon blood to forcefully pour a surge of blood energy into the high-frequency vibrating blade in his hand, which was full of nicks.

The blade, accompanied by a piercing buzz, slashed precisely and savagely into the thick neck armor of an armored rhinoceros, instantly gushing out scalding demonic blood.

The young hunter expertly ripped off his helmet and greedily inhaled the blood-soaked fountain. His bio-root on his back erupted with a blinding red light, instantly restoring most of the spiritual energy depleted from the intense sprint.

Such scenes are playing out exponentially every day along the vast, meat-grinding yellow zone defense line stretching tens of thousands of kilometers.

In just one month, the number of frontline combat personnel in the Yellow Zone exploded from over four million to an astonishing twenty-five million! The blood and qi strength of countless independent hunters were artificially boosted to the level equivalent to the mid-to-late stage of Qi Refining under the nourishment of demon blood.

This bloody feast, which transcended species and completely abandoned the bottom line of civilization, was brought to its climax by Gu Qing's hidden move.

However, faced with the irrational evolutionary frenzy of humanity, which resembled a locust swarm, the highly intelligent demon kings were clearly not going to sit idly by.

Inside a giant volcano deep in the Ten Thousand Mountains of western Hunan.

Accompanied by an extremely piercing metallic chewing sound, a terrifying mutation and evolution unique to the demon race is quietly taking shape amidst the lava and the scattered scrap metal armor of humans.