[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-starting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete":3,"chapter-starting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete-starting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete-chapter-72":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Starting from the Apocalypse, I Alone Severed Eternity",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2312454,4518,"Chapter 72: Six Harmonies Fist Master: Burning the Zither and Boiling the Crane","starting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete-chapter-72",72,"\u003Cp>(PS: This chapter killed me—I couldn’t be satisfied no matter how I wrote it. Let it be like this; I’ll revisit later to revise.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along the riverbank of Ancheng, flames blazed everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every building inhabited by humans had been attacked by fire-feathered squads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They climbed or rode fire-winged birds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bypassing the main entrance, they stormed inside and slaughtered indiscriminately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The building was packed with too many humans, creating utter chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Panic, fear, crowding, trampling—before the fire-feathered even entered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most had already descended into a mad frenzy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the first-floor staircase entrance of one building, cracks and scorch marks from heavy blows covered every surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A towering, muscular man, nineteen-tenths of a meter tall, held a long spear forged of refined iron, guarding this spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every fire-feathered who charged at him was effortlessly skewered like a string of gourds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a single shake of his arm, the corpses shattered and flew apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A month for the staff, a year for the blade, a lifetime for the spear”—this man was Luo Song.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was an heir of the Six Harmonies Fist, wielding the ancestral Luo Family Six Harmonies Spear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had trained with the spear since childhood, for over twenty years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this battle, he perfectly demonstrated the principle: “One inch longer, one inch stronger.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how the fire-feathered charged, he dispatched them in mere moments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet no matter how many he killed, the rest pressed forward, fearless and relentless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another clash of spear and blade—Luo Song staggered, as if on the verge of collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He cried out anxiously: “Hurry up and buff me! I can’t hold on!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fire-feathered facing him brightened his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately accelerated his assault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Luo Song suddenly surged forward, swept the fire-feathered’s great blade aside with his spear tip, then thrust again—killing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Idiot, I tricked you,” Luo Song spat on the fire-feathered’s corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the fight, Luo Song had discovered with surprise that the fire-feathered understood Chinese.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No—“buff” was an English word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They must have been granted some language comprehension ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately conceived this ruse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the fire-feathered arriving via light orbs, though appearing simultaneously, had landed in sequence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This gave Luo Song time to coordinate with his team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, this plan succeeded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I wonder how things are going upstairs,” Luo Song thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt anxious, desperate to know the battle’s status.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Luo Song held another role: commander of this building’s defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the second assault began, Luo Song sensed the chaos within the building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He instantly realized: if things continued this way, casualties would be catastrophic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Humans had too many points to defend; splitting forces would leave them insufficient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’d be picked off one by one, annihilated entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he overruled all objections and divided combat personnel into several main units.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each unit advanced in one direction, sweeping from bottom to top, then sweeping again from bottom to top.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each was assigned a sector to clear of alien lifeforms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He himself led a mage squad to guard the most dangerous first floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t arrogance—he had his reasons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, the mage squad’s effectiveness was immense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though called “mage squad,” it included priests, druids, and other spellcasting classes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t rely on spell damage as primary output; instead, they enhanced melee fighters as elite supports.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, his own class was no ordinary one—he was a rare base class: Fist Master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps due to his lifelong cultivation of Six Harmonies Fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the apocalypse, this class appeared among his class selection options.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, at level five, he gained a powerful feat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“[Extreme Endurance]: At level five, Fist Master is immune to fatigue;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>at level ten, immune to exhaustion; at level fifteen, immune to fear; at level twenty, immune to instant death and energy drain.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Combined with his lifelong martial training granting him body like forged steel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“[Body Like Forged Steel I]: Harsh environments or prolonged exertion rarely cause fatigue; gain +4 bonus to Constitution checks. When HP drops to 1–9, your condition remains stable. (Endurance cap +25%)”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Song’s endurance was astonishing, perfect for prolonged combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially when his HP was low, he retained formidable fighting power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Paired with priests’ and druids’ healing, he was practically an unkillable cockroach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if others had identical stats, without these feats, they’d have collapsed or died long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was why he was confident holding the first floor alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The facts proved it: Luo Song’s personal strength, combined with a stack of buffs,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>left the fire-feathered powerless against him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other teams lacked individuals as powerful as him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But their numbers were vast; once they linked up with the squads holding each floor,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>their combined strength far exceeded his alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they executed their orders successfully, building losses would be minimized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I hope they complete it…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arrow met spear—Luo Song barely dodged the strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had it not been for his Intuition Dodge I and Lightness Spell agility bonuses,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he’d have been dead from that arrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The archer was a newly appeared fire-feathered archer, wielding a longbow of four hundred pounds draw weight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each arrow he fired traveled over one hundred sixty meters per second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such speed was beyond human reaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Song’s eyes hardened—he realized this new monster was his greatest threat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he didn’t eliminate the fire-feathered archer quickly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>once reinforcements arrived, he was finished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Song shouted: “Flash!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flash of magical light instantly enveloped Luo Song.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was “Foot Oil,” a spell that boosted movement speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was his secret signal with the mages—a trick to deceive enemies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fire-feathered archer, hearing Luo Song’s shout, instinctively shut his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Luo Song closed the distance instantly, sweeping his spear horizontally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was the Six Harmonies Spear? Eye and heart in harmony, qi and strength in harmony, step and technique in harmony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now Luo Song embodied the Six Harmonies perfectly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One sweeping strike—fast, brutal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fire-feathered archer couldn’t dodge—he died with his skull crushed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Song smiled faintly, about to turn back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he glanced toward the entrance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That glance erased his smile instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the distance, three fire-feathered archers were rushing toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worse, behind them came three fire-feathered melee fighters wielding curved great blades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A ferocious expression darkened Luo Song’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If heaven wants me dead, I’ll kill you first.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t believe it—I’ll reach you, and you’ll still be shooting your damn arrows.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then a strange expression crossed Luo Song’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From his observation, these fire-feathered didn’t seem to be attacking the building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked… as if they were fleeing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their expressions of terror were unmistakable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Song vaguely touched his face—was it windy?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet this breeze was barely a whisper, yet his cheeks stung inexplicably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Luo Song was about to ponder what was happening, he saw a sight that froze him in horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The six Firefeatherers sprinting ahead had their skin, muscles, organs, and bones sloughing off one by one, blood splattering everywhere, cascading in a wet rush onto the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like the legendary thousand cuts and ten thousand slices, but faster, deeper, and more cruel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was burning the zither and boiling the crane—destroying beauty itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, a young man wielding a long sword appeared before the building’s entrance.\u003C\u002Fp>",1204,"2026-06-20T12:43:33.559Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","9934d030101860661cccfeafe9350a464449bcd4e528d3188e3f51ebededc2b7","starting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete-chapter-73","starting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete-chapter-71",109,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete-cover.jpg"]