Chapter 1137: The Position Is Not Quite Right

The monster is about to spawn!

The 2500-level boss's combat debut is about to begin; the tens of thousands of team members present, as well as the countless players of all races watching the battle, all held their breath, awaiting the fight's arrival.

The Lord of the Earth was strolling along like a clueless oaf, completely unaware of the huge pile of 'mosquitoes' behind his butt.

Qian Sha turned into black mist and shot forward, chasing after the Lord of the Earth.

Each step of the Lord of the Earth spans several kilometers; his speed is actually still quite fast.

When Qian Sha got close behind the boss, Xiao Feng suddenly frowned: 'Our output from this position…… isn't quite right?'

The area was crowded, packed tightly like …

If the boss were to suddenly turn around after having its defense broken, wouldn't that be a single slap taking out tens of thousands of heads?

'Hiss…… you say that, and I also feel something's off!' Shen Chuo stood beside him, on the head of his fire mythical beast mount, sword in one hand, ready for battle.

Hearing Xiao Feng's words, he furrowed his brow and quickly told his friends nearby: 'Everyone, spread out to the flanks; Qian Sha will strike from the boss's weak point behind it, and the boss will surely turn to attack!'

'Holy shit, hurry up and go!'

'Which idiot led the team to wait behind the boss's butt? This is basically screwing people over!'

'I'm out, I'm out, farewell!'

Originally everyone was anticipating the start of an earth-shattering battle, but upon hearing those two exclamations, they all suddenly scattered and fled.

The boss hadn't even made a move yet, and the crowd was already in chaos.

Xiao Feng could only laugh and cry.

At first, nobody wanted to be hit by the Lord of the Earth, so they hid in the visual blind spot behind it, waiting for the main force to gather.

Now the battle is about to start; if the boss turns around, the area currently behind it will become a dead zone for team wipes, while the area in front of it is the safest.

As the battle progresses, some high-damage players may draw a lot of aggro, causing the boss to chase them and continually adjust its facing.

The player legion must follow the boss in circles, dealing damage from behind it. The legion's positioning must be flexible—anyone slow will die, with no chance for healing.

Xiao Feng and his friends were originally positioned in an area at 8,000 meters altitude, where there were slightly fewer people, not so crowded.

Upon realizing this, they all swiftly moved upward to the higher altitude, still moving quite fast.

The Lord of the Earth took a few steps forward, and some people, fearing death, temporarily failed to keep up.

Moreover, a large crowd was retreating outward, and for a moment the formation became utterly chaotic.

At this moment, Qian Sha had already landed on the Lord of the Earth's back and began searching for the so‑called 'Vital Gate'.

Probably because of his approach, the Lord of the Earth's walking speed slowed, as if sensing something, and he muttered: 'Little creep…… looking for death……'

Then came a 'bang'—his body shuddered, energy waves surged, and a violent energy tremor erupted within a radius of several kilometers; players flying too close were instantly killed at full health, owing who knows how many billions of lives.

'Damn, that's too terrifying!'

The boss merely shuddered its body and easily took out several hundred expert players; the sight was truly horrifying.

The players killed by the shock were resurrected by their teammates with revival arts, but the boss's motion did not stop there.

Qian Sha didn't die; he withstood that blow from the boss using a high‑grade Supreme Treasure.

At this point he had found the Lord of the Earth's Vital Gate—a small 'cave' located at the back of its stone body; after crawling in and walking about seven or eight hundred meters, he reached the so‑called 'Life Core Protective Membrane'.

This stretch of road is neither long nor short.

Xiao Feng and the others waited anxiously, all kinds of defensive buffs already maxed out.

Although the defensive buffs made no difference—if you got hit you died anyway—everyone still subconsciously wanted to boost their survivability a bit, just in case they suddenly dropped dead.

'Annoying…… little thing……'

The Lord of the Earth spoke with a hollow, echoing voice, sensing Qian Sha wandering inside his body, yet seemingly having no means to counter it.

He slowly turned around, reaching out to try to pull out the little creature that had burrowed into his back.

But his stone physique made it impossible for him to perform a backhand reach behind his back, and he couldn't dig out the person inside his 'pores' either.

However, after turning 180 degrees, he saw a vast crowd of tens of thousands of players packed tightly!

'So many…… little creeps…… all…… get lost!'

The boss's Life Core had been invaded, making it extremely irritable.

Seeing so many players following him, he immediately raised his hand and swung a massive palm strike.

'Run!!!'

No one knew who had shouted that.

The players scattered in panic, gazing at the kilometer‑sized, sky‑covering giant palm, wishing they could grow ten pairs of wings.

Yet against the boss's speed, most people's movement was still insufficient—even their teleportation distance fell short!

All that could be heard was a 'whoosh' as the Lord of the Earth's palm came down, striking countless players head‑on and reducing them to ashes in an instant.

Whether flesh‑and‑blood life, stone life, plant life, or mechanical life, none could escape ending up as dust.

'Holy crap, that slap dealt me tens of billions of damage!'

'Healer, save me~ uh, healer, you died too?'

'Damn, my gear broke!'

In an instant, the entire player legion devolved into chaos, with at least over 50,000 people killed in a single hit.

Those who were slapped dead face‑on could at least say they weren't fast enough—they deserved to die.

But some people weren't hit directly by the palm; they were smashed by body fragments flung from other players, and that's truly unjust!

With one palm of the boss, an arc‑shaped empty zone appeared from sky to ground; inside it there was not a single living thing, and many around were sliced to death by the air currents, their deaths gruesome.

'Ah! Too scary, good thing we ran fast!' Cong Cong patted her ample chest, heart still pounding.

Han Zichen also turned pale from fright by that palm: 'So overpowering—worthy of a Golden Immortal's strength; even the fiercest old monsters in our world couldn't block this strike.'

The Tree Shooting Champion of the Blue Star No. 1 Camp, however, remained calm, chuckling: 'Just so‑so; it's only over ten thousand meters high—this tier of boss could actually be bigger.'

'Could it get bigger? Then it'd pierce the heavens!' Li Li and the others exclaimed in shock, not knowing where the Tree Shooting Champion had heard that news.

Shen Chuo, however, said: "Um, it is said that Venerable-level experts all have a kind of Dharma Body; Dharma Bodies are usually tens of thousands of kilometers in size, about the same as a planet. Some particularly powerful ones are even comparable to stars! I just don't know if this Lord of the Earth possesses a Dharma Body."

Xiao Feng listened, scratching his head.

The body is tens of thousands of kilometers tall?

What a joke!

That would mean even a speck of dandruff falling could gouge an artificial lake out of the ground!

"I also only heard it secondhand, never actually seen it. Not talking about this, look, boss froze!" Shen Chuo changed the subject, drawing everyone's attention back to the boss.

After that slap, the boss's body suddenly stiffened and remained motionless.

Xiao Feng received a group message from Qian Sha: "Guys, beat him up!"