Chapter 74: The Opening of Every New Era Is Always Accompanied by Death

Within the range covered by sword intent, time seemed to freeze at this moment; the pupils of all mutated creatures suddenly contracted, their ferocious faces frozen in the terror of the final instant.

The next second, hundreds of beast bodies stiffened simultaneously, then crashed down with a boom.

The entire street suddenly fell into an eerie silence.

The survivors who had escaped the calamity stood dazed in place, fear still lingering on their faces.

They looked around blankly, watching those mutated creatures that had been fierce and violent just moments ago now all turn into cold corpses; on every single body remained a sword hole piercing through from front to back, its edges glowing with Jin Guang.

"A superpower user? Or a holder of treasures from the myriad heavens?"

The answer rose in their hearts, but there was no time now for them to sigh.

Since they had survived, the only thing they needed to do was one thing.

Find a safe place and hide! But where was the safest place right now?

The Tian Shu Bureau!

There was absolutely no place safer than the Tian Shu Bureau!

Ye Xuan silently watched those survivors who had escaped the calamity rise from the ground, then flee without hesitation toward the same direction.

Those around who had originally been somewhat confused, upon seeing their actions, seemed to think of something as well and hurriedly followed; but some others, after hesitating slightly, ran off in other directions.

He did not know where they were preparing to go.

Perhaps to the Tian Shu Bureau, perhaps home, perhaps to find a place they felt was safe, but that had nothing to do with him.

He turned indifferently, took one step, and his figure appeared at a street corner dozens of meters away.

Although the Qi tide had arrived and caused a vast number of creatures to mutate, it was ultimately just the beginning; whether superpower users or mutated creatures, their own power levels had not risen significantly.

Except for a very few who had mutated before the Qi tide, the mutated creatures now were basically all at the First Tier, with very few at the Second Tier.

The reason they could cause harm to humans, even killing them, was more due to the sheer numbers.

It was the rats in the sewers that, after mutating on a massive scale, had actually run out, even forming a rat tide, beginning to hunt down all living things within sight, not even sparing the natural predators at the top of the food chain.

It was unexpected.

Had the arrival of the Qi tide caused resistance to the new type of rat poison developed by Great Xia?

With such a huge number, weapons with high destructive power could not be used.

The people of the Tian Shu Bureau would likely need to waste some time to solve them.

But, that was all.

Under an absolute gap in strength, no matter how large the numbers, it held no meaning.

As for the people who died under the Qi tide

The opening of every new era is always accompanied by death; if you want to live, strive with all your might to become a strong one.

The Tian Shu Bureau can protect them once, twice, three times, even ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times, but the Tian Shu Bureau cannot protect them every single time.

There will always be that moment when they must face those dangers themselves.

At that time, how will those who have grown accustomed to being saved respond?

Ye Xuan would not stand idly by regarding what happened before his eyes, but he also had no interest in playing the savior.

If he truly wanted to avoid the sacrifice of everyone, he could have, at the very moment the Qi tide began, used the Rat Talisman to manifest the Emperor Armor, then killed all the rioting mutated creatures in all of Hangcheng.

Why not do so? Because he had no interest.

He could save Hangcheng this time, even not just Hangcheng; but what about next time? The time after that?

This time you saved them, next time you didn't; would they push the blame for those who died in the disaster onto you?

Then launch endless attacks against you?

Everyone has an answer in their hearts to this question, and in Ye Xuan's heart, that answer is affirmative.

Therefore, he would do some things actively due to a stirring in his heart; but he would absolutely not bear a certain responsibility due to the will of others.

Heroes and sages have others to be them.

The Imperial Capital.

On the streets under the night, a burly figure continuously hunted down the mutated creatures around him.

Gu Che held a rough spiked club in one hand, the club covered in flesh and blood fragments, with a few strands of hair hanging between the iron spikes; his expression was cold, bloodthirsty light revealing itself in his eyes, his thick arm muscles knotted, veins bulging.

"Come on, you beasts!"

Three mutated dogs pounced from the shadows, saliva dripping from their fangs; Gu Che was too lazy even to dodge, swinging the spiked club in a horizontal sweep.

"Boom!"

The head of the foremost mutated dog exploded directly, bone fragments and brain matter splattered everywhere; the second was struck in the waist and abdomen, its spine broken, screaming as it flew out more than ten meters; the third, before it could pounce close, was kicked in the chest by his foot, its ribs shattered, smashing into the wall and leaving a dent.

"Is this all you dare to attack humans with?"

"Laozi truly doesn't know where your bunch of beasts get such confidence."

Gu Che sneered, resting the spiked club on his shoulder.

He was absolutely human-supremacist, having no feelings whatsoever for these livestock that harmed humans; rather, upon hearing of incidents where mutated creatures injured humans under the Qi tide, his first thought was to kill this entire bunch of beasts!

It was just a pity his current strength was still weak; he was only a user of the Green Dragon Fruit's ability, not the possessor of the Kaido template of the Hundred Beasts; otherwise, he would directly activate Conqueror's Haki to clear the area.

But this way was not bad either.

Being able to personally beat this bunch of livestock that attacked humans to death was also a good experience.

Gu Che thought this.

"Pfft."

The sound of a sewer manhole cover being pushed open rang in the air, and a dark mass of rats surged out from within; Gu Che's eyes grew cold, and his left hand clenched tightly.

"Boom!"

A surging gale erupted from his palm, transforming into a wind wave that swept over the rat swarm, piercing through the bodies of the mutated rats.

But the rat swarm was truly too numerous; just as the wind wave dissipated, new ones surged up; Gu Che cursed, and drove the spiked club in his right hand into the ground.

"Boom—!"

Deep-blue Lei Ting surged down the metal rod into the ground, and web-like arcs of electricity instantly spread out, shocking every rat within sight into convulsions and smoke.

"Damn, there's a lot of them."

Gu Che took a deep breath. In the end, his strength was still too weak; he'd only been killing for a short while and was already getting tired.

In terms of physique, as a Blue Star person, he was indeed quite a bit behind the people of this world, let alone a monster like Kaido.

Fortunately, Blue Star's spiritual energy enhanced living beings on a fundamental life level. Right now he wasn't as strong, but in the future he would become even stronger than Beasts Kaido.

Roars of more mutated creatures came from the distance. Gu Che rolled his neck, picked up the spiked club, and strode toward the source of the sound.

"Keep going! Laozi wants to kill to his heart's content tonight!"

"Do you even know what it means to be number two on the Great Xia Transcendent Rankings, openly!"

Thanks to big shot "Warm Sun 1314" for the Silver Alliance—this is a real scrub author, never expected to receive a tip of this level; no need for more words, must add more chapters, at least 10 extra chapters.

But the author's hands are clumsy, and I still have to go to work, so I can only write three chapters a day, and I'm still saving drafts. It might only be fulfilled after the book goes up for paid release, and it'll take several days at that.

I'll strive to make up for it within a month after going up for paid release. Thanks to the big shot for the support.

If any reader bosses have any Multiverse treasures you'd like to see, you can tell me—more niche ones are fine too, but something with strong power like Dragon Ball will have to wait until later.

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