Chapter 63: War of Vengeance, Eradicating the Predator Tribe

Three days later.

At the entrance of the western mountainous region, an aura of stern slaughter surged into the skies.

An unprecedented expeditionary force had gathered here.

At the forefront hovered three "Dragon Tooth" V-shaped combat aircraft. Their chilling black exterior paint was, in itself, a silent declaration.

On the ground, fifty fully armed members of the Dragon Tooth Special Task Force stood in neat formation. The black powered armor they wore reflected a cold metallic glint under the sunlight, and the source-energy rifles in their hands emitted a faint blue energy glow. Each of them looked like a silent killing machine.

Beside them stood three hundred elite members of Thunder City—the Thunder Guard.

They wore the first-generation exoskeleton armor produced by Thunder City and wielded "Honeycomb" source-energy rifles. Although their equipment lacked the high-tech appearance of the Dragon Tooth unit, the fierce, battle-hardened courage radiating from them was by no means inferior.

Li Hexuan, Zhang Nan, and Su Mengyi stood at the very front of the formation.

Their injuries had fully healed, thanks to the high-activity cell repair fluid from the Capital Region Base and Su Mengyi’s unreserved infusion of life energy. Not only that, but having experienced a life-and-death bloody battle and the collision of king-class domains, their perception and control over their own powers had reached an entirely new level.

This time, there would be no stealth, no probing.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

They would launch a war of conquest as an upright and formidable army.

Li Hexuan exchanged a confirmatory glance with Canglong.

"Move out!"

With the order given, the massive army marched forward, pressing imposingly toward the mountain range that had once nearly cost them their lives.

...

The Predator Tribe.

The valley remained a scene of primitive and fanatical activity.

The corpses of the clansmen who had been killed by the domain explosion triggered by Li Hexuan had already been cleared away. However, the massive traces of destruction left behind by that battle, along with the lingering smell of scorched ozone in the air, still served as a reminder of the terror of that day.

That powerful "Shadow Envoy," Chen Hao, had vanished through a secret passage along with a few of his core subordinates after sustaining severe injuries, and had never appeared again.

This left the entire tribe with an uneasy sense of abandonment.

Yet the surviving Predator chieftain, relying on his prestige, forcefully suppressed the unrest among his clansmen. He framed the invasion by Li Hexuan and the others as a desecration of the tribe's sacred ground, and explained Chen Hao's departure as a journey to seek even greater power.

He wanted revenge.

He had dispatched all his hidden sentries, laying down even more traps throughout the mountain forests, firmly believing that if those damned humans dared to return, they would never make it back alive.

At that very moment, without warning, the tribe's horn blew in urgent, piercing blasts!

"Woo—woo—woo—!!!"

There was no sense of early warning about discovering an enemy in that sound; instead, it was filled with unprecedented shock and terror.

The chieftain snatched up a new stone axe from beside him and rushed out of his tent.

In the direction of the valley entrance, all the Predators halted what they were doing. They all raised their heads, their faces plastered with astonishment and blank disbelief.

The chieftain looked in the direction his clansmen were gazing.

Then, he saw a sight he would never forget for the rest of his life.

In the forest several hundred meters in front of the tribe, the earth was splitting apart.

This was no metaphor.

The ground was literally tearing open.

A vine—a giant vine whose sheer size defied description, pitch-black throughout and covered with eerie dark purple patterns on its surface—burst forth from the soil!

Even with just a section of it exposed, its diameter exceeded ten meters, writhing like a demonic dragon from the abyss as it churned up rocks and tore the earth asunder!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

With an unstoppable, destructive momentum, the giant vine swept horizontally toward the tribe.

The traps, hidden sentries, and defensive fortifications that the Predators took such pride in and spent countless efforts setting up were as fragile as children's sandcastles before this colossal vine.

The strangling snakes disguised as vines were instantly crushed to pulp.

The grimace-toads lurking in the water pool, along with the entire pool itself, were drained and smashed dry in a single strike by the giant vine.

The sturdy wooden barricades turned into scattering debris at the mere gentle brush of the giant vine.

At this moment, the complex geographical advantages the tribe was so proud of became a complete joke.

At the very front of the expeditionary force, Su Mengyi extended her fair hand, pressing it forward into empty space.

The usual gentleness on her face was gone, replaced by a sacred, majestic, and detached coldness.

King-class ability—Abyss Demon Vine!

This was the true, terrifying form of a life-attribute ability user after breaking through to the king class! They were no longer mere healers and supporters; they were, in themselves, a walking natural disaster!

"Roar—ahhhhh!"

Recovering from the extreme shock, the Predator chieftain let out a furious roar.

He could not retreat! Directly behind him stood the tribe's sacred ground and totem!

He raised his stone axe, the corded muscles on his body expanding once more as a primordial aura burst forth.

"Kill! For the glory of the tribe!"

He took the lead in the charge, and hundreds of Predator warriors let out bloodthirsty roars, following him as they rushed toward the oncoming giant vine.

At that exact moment, a massive figure descended from the sky.

Boom!

The earth trembled violently.

Zhang Nan landed right in front of the Predator chieftain, blocking his path.

At this moment, Zhang Nan had completely changed in appearance.

His height had surged to four meters, and his entire skin had transformed into a dark golden rocky texture, across which flowed crimson patterns resembling molten lava. His physique was no longer a simple muscle expansion, but had formed a flawless Titan battle armor brimming with the aesthetic of sheer power.

Titan Might—Titan God of War Form!

"Your opponent is me." Zhang Nan's voice echoed through the valley like a booming bronze bell.

Looking at the behemoth before him and sensing a power even purer and heavier than his own, the beastly intuition of the Predator chieftain filled him with a fatal sense of danger.

Yet he had no way out.

"Die!"

With a roar, he used all his strength to bring the giant stone axe in his hand crashing down toward Zhang Nan's head.

Last time, he had been able to trade blows evenly with Zhang Nan.

But this time.

Zhang Nan did not even use a weapon.

He raised his giant fist, now transformed into dark golden rock, and met the descending stone axe head-on.

Bang—crack!

A crisp, teeth-setting cracking sound rang out.

The sturdy stone axe shattered into pieces the moment it made contact with Zhang Nan's fist!

The Predator chieftain froze in place.

He looked at his empty hands, then up at the unscathed monster before him.

The next second.

Zhang Nan's other fist, carrying unstoppable, colossal force, slammed heavily into his chest.

Puff!

The chieftain's body bent like a shrimp, and he flew backward like a cannonball, heavily crashing into the cluster of tribal buildings behind him, his fate unknown.

A single punch.

Just a single punch.

All the charging Predators stopped dead in their tracks.

They looked at the Titan God of War, who resembled a demonic deity, and then at the Abyss Demon Vine that had advanced right to the gates of the tribe.

Their fighting spirit completely collapsed in that instant.