Chapter 1753: Miracle of Muscle
Luocheng! An ancient capital of China, with a permanent population of over 8.42 million people!
There are two Spirit Ruins shelters within the city, and one in the suburbs!
Three in total!
But even with all three Spirit Ruins shelters open simultaneously, in such a short period of time!
Only a small fraction of the people had been evacuated, with over five million citizens still trapped in the city, unable to enter the shelters in time!
As a major city, a large force of the Dragon Abyss Army had been stationed here to guard it!
Thanks to the Spider Web garrison operation, Spirit Martial forces from nearby bases had rushed over in time to provide support after the global spirit calamity erupted!
But it still wasn’t enough!
No less than a hundred Spirit Ruins had unfolded around Luocheng, and there was more than one beast horde led by Dao Heaven Beasts!
They had already fully charged out, and as far as the eye could see, massive beasts loomed, a pitch-black sea of them!
Under the setting sun, the entire city of Luocheng had turned into a battlefield, bathed in a blaze of fire!
The Dragon Abyss Army used the steel-and-concrete skyscrapers as barriers to build a defensive wall, trying to hold back the beast tide’s onslaught!
To buy time for the civilians to evacuate!
But the effect was minimal. The defensive line collapsed again and again. Under the iron hooves of the spirit beasts, the skyscrapers crumbled like tofu!
No one knew how long the battle had been raging, but the Spirit Martial forces had suffered staggering casualties!
Since this was a major city, a Dao Heaven powerhouse was stationed here!
And the one guarding Luocheng was none other than Chen Daoyi!
At that moment, over ten Giant Wood Spirits were charging across the battlefield, wielding thick wooden pillars!
With one sweep of a pillar, countless spirit beasts were sent flying!
Chen Daoyi was covered in grime. He had lost count of how many spirit beasts he had killed!
The dead beasts were either devoured or trampled into pulp by the overwhelming tide!
Diamond-rank and Starlight-rank spirit beasts were everywhere!
“Damn it! Hold the line! All of you, hold the fucking line! Don’t let these bastards through!”
The only mission Chen Daoyi had been given from above was to hold Luocheng—hold it for as long as he could!
Until the people were safely evacuated!
But the defensive perimeter was too large, and the spirit beasts were too numerous. He simply couldn’t kill them all!
Over there, a horde of over 100,000 Groundroar beasts howled at the sky!
Opening their hideous jaws, massive pools of blood-red light gathered in their throats!
The leading Groundroar was over a hundred meters long, and its rank was a full Dao Heaven Seven Stars!
With its command, all the Groundroars simultaneously spat out blood-colored energy cannons!
They formed a curtain that crashed down, dyeing the sky a deep crimson!
Below, Wang Gang, dressed in his Dragon Abyss Army uniform, was fighting fiercely. His rank had reached Starlight Rank Three!
His body was as sturdy as a bull calf, muscles bulging with veins popping out. With one hand, he snapped off the tusk of a Starlight-rank Mammoth and drove it into its skull!
This Wang Gang was none other than the former head of the Meat Reform Department. A few years ago, he had just been an ordinary person!
He had once jumped over ten meters into the air to save someone, snapping his own thigh bone in the process!
Jiangnan had fed him over thirty Marrow Cleansing Fruits to max out his abysmal talent!
From then on, Wang Gang was taken under the wing of Red Dragon and joined the Dragon Abyss Army!
With top-tier talent and a will of steel, he trained day and night, and in just a few years, he had surged to the Starlight rank!
He had even been called the Miracle of Muscle!
Riding a wave of victories, his breakthrough speed broke the army’s records, earning him focused training!
Now he was at the level of a base battalion commander, and this time he was sent to guard Luocheng!
Wang Gang would never forget the night that changed his life!
The words Jiangnan had said to him!
“In this era, Spirit Warriors carry responsibilities on their shoulders!”
“Strength doesn’t mean you’re above others. It means responsibility. It means you have to protect those weaker than you!”
“No matter how strong you become, never forget that impulse, that passion to step forward in the square!”
Wang Gang had engraved those words in his mind and acted on them!
He had always taken Jiangnan as his goal, chasing after him, striving forward!
It was Jiangnan who had given him a different life. Wang Gang always remembered what his mission and responsibility truly were!
Seeing the Groundroar horde launch a coordinated volley!
Wang Gang roared: “Uncle Chen! It’s the Bloodlight Roar Cannon Curtain! Block it! Don’t let it through!”
Chen Daoyi grinned bitterly, wiping the blood and foam from his face!
He looked back at the millions of panicked civilians evacuating in the city!
His face full of helplessness: “This damn thing is trying to kill me!”
But Chen Daoyi still stepped up. The ten Giant Wood Spirits slammed their hands on the ground, and he let out a furious roar!
“Ironwood Forest!”
In an instant, the earth overturned. Countless thick ironwood trees burst out of the ground, growing wildly!
The steel jungle seemed to turn into a vibrant rainforest, with towering ironwood trees!
They rose like a wall, trying to block the Bloodlight Roar Cannon Curtain!
But that was a volley from over 100,000 Groundroars, including the Groundroar King at Dao Heaven Seven Stars!
Chen Daoyi’s thin figure was instantly engulfed in blood-red light. The ironwood wall blocked the vast majority of the bloodlight roars!
But some positions were still pierced through, and a tidal wave of Groundroars clawed through the gaps, charging in!
Wang Gang’s eyes bulged: “Open fire! Hit them hard!”
His roar was drowned out by the deafening thunder of cannons and the rattle of machine guns!
Spirit-Binding cannons, rockets, grenades, machine guns, rifles—all the various Binding Spirit weapons opened fire simultaneously, spitting flames!
The barrage suppressed ferociously, pinning the Groundroars that had broken through at the breach!
Thanks to the resources from the two Binding Spirit Ruins that Jiangnan had secured in the Abyss, China’s reserve of Binding Spirit weapons was staggering!
And they came in handy at times like this!
Chen Daoyi gritted his teeth, pouring out his power to try to repair the broken ironwood line!
But just then, a massive gap was smashed open in the ironwood wall!
The Groundroar King, a Dao Heaven Seven Stars beast, charged in. Its black claws seemed capable of tearing the sky, swiping viciously at Chen Daoyi!
Blood-red light gathered on its claws!
“Boom!”
With a deafening explosion, the surrounding buildings were all reduced to dust. Chen Daoyi was instantly knocked back!
The tremendous impact blasted Chen Daoyi right through half of Luocheng!
The Groundroar King’s six bloodshot eyes locked onto the civilians evacuating in the city. Drool poured down like a waterfall!
Its six legs stomped madly as it charged toward the crowd!
Along the way, buildings shattered, explosions roared, and the ground trembled violently!
Wang Gang’s eyes turned bloodshot. If that thing reached the crowd, it would be a massacre!
He threw away his Gatling gun and ran desperately toward the Groundroar King!
His burly body sprinted at breakneck speed along the ruined streets!
Many Dragon Abyss soldiers were frantic!
“Brother Gang!”
That monster was a full Dao Heaven Seven Stars!
Could he stop it?
But Wang Gang didn’t care about anything else. At this moment, the impulse in his heart—how was it different from the impulse that made him step forward back in the square?
Wang Gang’s face twisted in ferocity!
So what if it was a Dao Heaven Seven Stars Groundroar King?
“Those who can’t give up their lives change nothing!”
“Charge, Wang Gang!”
“Boom!”
In the sky, a blood-red lightning bolt struck down like a sword, hitting Wang Gang’s body squarely!
That bolt of lightning seemed to freeze time and space, even blasting apart the surrounding buildings!
“Roar!”
A wild howl erupted, rolling out waves of air. Wang Gang’s muscles grew explosively!
In the blink of an eye, he transformed into a muscle giant three thousand meters tall, his whole body emitting white steam and a terrifying heat!
Sparks flew!
The muscle giant took huge strides, each step shaking the earth, charging toward the Groundroar King!
But the Groundroar King had already reached the crowd. Amid screams of terror!
Its giant claw came down, crushing countless people under it!
Its tail whipped, smashing whole groups of people into pulp. Its massive mouth opened, swallowing a sea of figures, chewing and devouring!
Cries of agony and screams echoed. Death seemed to be the only theme!
This was the most real scene of a spirit calamity: lives as thin as paper, as cheap as grass!
The ugly face of the Groundroar King showed a satisfied expression, its eyes growing more vicious!
Opening its maw, blood-red energy gathered in its throat, clearly preparing to fire a Bloodlight Roar—and it was aimed straight at the crowd!
Wang Gang’s eyes felt like they would split. The muscles in his legs bulged, then exploded with power!
The ground cracked beneath him. His three-thousand-meter colossal frame leaped into the air, tackling the Groundroar King in a grab-and-slam!
A Starlight Rank Three tackling a Dao Heaven Seven Stars!
That was suicide!
But Wang Gang was looking for death!
“Boom!”
Before the Bloodlight Roar could be fired, the Groundroar King was tackled to the ground, pinned heavily beneath Wang Gang!
His body was enormous, his strength terrifying. Even the Groundroar King couldn’t resist for a moment!
However, the bloodlight roar in its mouth shot out in an instant!
Wang Gang gritted his teeth: “Armor!”
In an instant, another blood-red lightning bolt struck!
Countless bones pierced through his skin, growing wildly, forming a full-body bone armor!
The giant form changed, shifting from the flexible giant form to a defensive bone-armor giant!
“Boom!”
But the hundred-meter-thick energy pillar still punched through Wang Gang’s defense, blasting a three-hundred-meter-diameter bloody hole in his chest!
Blood poured down like a waterfall!
But Wang Gang didn’t even look. He raised a fist as big as a mountain and smashed it down on the Groundroar King!
“Boom!”
The ground quaked. Wang Gang’s heavy punch even triggered an earthquake, hammering the hundred-meter Groundroar King into the earth!
“Die, you bastard!”
The second fist followed immediately. But the next moment, endless blood-red light erupted from beneath the giant pit!
Wang Gang’s enormous three-thousand-meter body was forced back, his fist completely blasted apart!
The Groundroar King climbed out of the pit, shaking its head. It was about to move!
Just then, a figure shot in from the distance at terrifying speed, clad in a heavy spiritual armor!
It kicked the Groundroar King square in the body. Wooden spikes extended from the foot, even piercing through its flesh!
Blood splattered as the Groundroar King was sent flying!
Chen Daoyi appeared. His body was covered in large patches of burns, with bone showing in some places. He was drenched in blood, looking utterly ferocious!
He spat a mouthful of blood and spittle, his face full of ruthlessness!
“You think I don’t exist? I might not be all that strong, at best just a unit of combat power!”
“But I’m still a goddamn Dao Heaven! A mere beast dares to act tough? I’ll skin you alive!”