High Martial: I Grind Professions

Chapter 170: Chapter 131: 3 Strikes

”So... so fast! So precise!”

”His blade... how can it be so fast? And the angles are so tricky!”

”Look! The Demon Race’s attacks can’t even touch the hem of his clothes!”

Shock! Utter and complete shock!

If the ”Peerless” evaluation from the mentality and Spiritual Sense assessment had seemed somewhat abstract before, then this scene was the most direct and shocking interpretation of it.

Du Yun gripped his longspear tightly, his heart pounding with shock.

’This is a peerless Spiritual Sense... combined with his Awakening of meticulous Insight... Terrifying! His micro-control with the blade, his grasp of the battlefield’s dynamics—it’s reached an inhuman level.’

He knew his own spear techniques were overwhelmingly powerful, but if he were the one surrounded like this, he could never move with such ease.

Ron Zaka’s expression was grim. All traces of disdain had vanished from his eyes, replaced by deep apprehension.

’Power... speed... technique... His overall combat ability far exceeds my predictions. No wonder he received a peerless evaluation.’

The strength he was so proud of seemed almost clumsy before Li Wen’s supremely efficient art of slaughter.

A strange light flickered repeatedly in Nangong Xue’s cold eyes.

’So, this is his true strength... During the third provincial mock exam, he really wasn’t giving it his all.’

She recalled being eliminated by a single slash when she fought Li Wen, only now understanding just how vast the gap between them truly was.

Chu Feng stared intently at Li Wen’s figure weaving through the demon hordes, his heart a tangle of complex emotions.

Just as everyone was reeling from shock, Li Wen, like a bolt of grayish-white lightning, tore through the layers of the demon horde and ruthlessly charged before an Elite Level Demon Race commander.

It was a Rhino Demon General, over ten feet tall, covered in black bone armor, and wielding a massive bone hammer.

”ROAR—!”

The Rhino Demon General let out a heaven-shaking roar. It had clearly sensed the immense threat posed by this tiny human.

The massive bone hammer, carrying the force to shatter mountains and split stone, whistled through the air with a piercing shriek as it smashed viciously toward Li Wen.

The power in that single strike was enough to flatten refined steel into a disk. Its Peak of Power Realm strength fused with its demonic aura, forming a terrifying restrictive field that sought to lock down Li Wen’s space to evade.

On the city wall, everyone’s heart leaped into their throats.

Facing such a terrifying blow, would Li Wen dare to block it head-on? He was surrounded by a horde of demons; if he were to be pinned down, the consequences would be unimaginable.

”Defensive Form: Mirror Reversal!”

Li Wen’s eyes were ice-cold, devoid of any panic.

Faced with this powerful and heavy blow, he surprisingly didn’t dodge or evade.

The longsword in his hand traced a profound arc. The grayish-white blade glow instantly condensed, as if transforming into a formless, smooth mirror.

CLANG—!!!

A deafening clang of metal on metal exploded outward, and the violent shockwave sent several ordinary members of the Demon Race flying.

An unbelievable scene unfolded!

The massive hammer, powerful enough to sunder mountains, slammed into Li Wen’s blade yet failed to push him back.

The grayish-white blade glow acted like living water, skillfully deflecting and redirecting the force.

The Rhino Demon General felt a strange force pulling at its giant hammer, causing seventy percent of its power to be diverted. It smashed into empty ground, blasting open a huge crater.

Li Wen absorbed the remaining thirty percent with his blade’s momentum and his formidable physique, his body only swaying slightly.

”To be able to use the Defensive Form to such a degree at the Peak of Power Realm... what powerful deflection techniques,” Marquis Qingyuan couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration.

In the instant the Rhino Demon General’s old force was spent and new force had yet to be gathered—the moment it was thrown off balance by its missed strike—

”Heaven-Dropping!”

A sharp glint flashed in Li Wen’s eyes.

The momentum of his blade changed abruptly! It was no longer a nimble shadow, no longer a sturdy defense, but a vast, majestic power that descended from the heavens, covering everything.

The grayish-white blade glow was no longer condensed into a line. It suddenly spread out like a heavy canopy of the sky, pressing down with immense force.

PFFT!

The slash landed with absolute precision in the gap of the bone armor on the Rhino Demon General’s neck, which had been exposed by its forward lunge.

The momentum of a Peak of Power Realm blade, combined with the unique, crushing weight of the Heaven-Dropping Form, instantly tore through the seemingly indestructible defense.

”Mountain-Piercer!”

Before the momentum of Heaven-Dropping had faded, Li Wen flipped his wrist, and the momentum of his blade changed again!

It shifted from the vastness of Heaven-Dropping to the ultimate penetration of a single point breaking through a surface.

The grayish-white blade glow became highly condensed, like a beam of aurora piercing the void, and thrust unimpeded into the gap torn open by the Heaven-Dropping Form.

SHHIIING—!

The blade’s light flashed and vanished.

It was as if time had frozen in that instant.

BOOM!

The massive body of the Rhino Demon General suddenly froze, its crimson beastly eyes filled with incredulous shock.

Then, its enormous head shot into the sky.

From the severed neck, demon blood gushed forth like a fountain.

The Elite Level Demon Race commander was dead!

The whole process was clean! Decisive!

From parrying the giant hammer to seizing the opening and killing it in two slashes, it all happened in the blink of an eye.

Dead silence!

The entire battlefield, from the prodigies fighting desperately on the wall to the powerful experts like the Chuhe King and Marquis Qingyuan watching from the main control space, fell into a dead silence.

Everyone was stunned by the incredible scene before them, their minds completely blank.

He... he really did it!

Surrounded by a myriad of demons, he had faced and killed an elite demon general of the same realm—one with far more ferocious combat experience!

And it was so efficient, so... domineering!

”GULP...” Someone swallowed hard.

”D-Dead? An Elite Demon General at the Peak of Power Realm... was killed just like that?”

”Three moves! He only used three moves! Parry, break defense, kill! All in one smooth sequence!”

”My god... is he even human? That Insight, that grasp of timing, the transitions between blade techniques...”

After the brief silence, a volcano of exclamations and discussions erupted.

”Is this the power of a peerless Spiritual Sense combined with an Insight-type Awakening?!”

someone cried out, their voice filled with incomprehensible shock and deep awe.

”So... combat can be like this...” someone muttered to themselves, their eyes filled with yearning as they watched Li Wen’s solitary, proud figure standing amidst the spray of demon blood,

”We’re struggling just to hold our formation here, but he can move freely through the demon horde, slaying their commanders... The gap is just...”

Domineering! Invincible!

These two words were now clearly seared into the minds of every prodigy who witnessed this sight.

That grayish-white figure, flickering through the black tide of demons, a swath of the Demon Race falling with every flash of his blade, had become a unique beacon of light in this city of despair.

Li Wen flung the demon blood from his blade. His cold gaze swept over the three remaining elite demon generals, who were roaring in shock and fury at their companion’s instant death, and the surrounding demon horde, which hesitated slightly in fear.

Without any pause, his figure once again became a grayish-white bolt of lightning, proactively striking out toward the next target.

The slaughter was just reaching its climax. ℯℯ𝑙.

...

The dark, deep vortex of the Stargate seemed to connect to a bottomless nest of the Demon Race.

The fall of the first Rhino Demon General, rather than intimidating the Demon Race, was like cold water thrown into magma, provoking an even more violent eruption.

Three Elite Level commanders who had not yet engaged the humans let out sky-shaking roars, charging forward with an even more turbulent tide of demons.

They had varied forms—one was like a giant lizard covered in bone plates, another like a semi-humanoid great ape wielding a stone pillar. The savage, baleful aura emanating from them made the air feel thick, and the heavy pressure caused many students to catch their breath.

Ron Zaka gripped his spear, his face flushed with excitement from slaughtering the ordinary demons.

He had seen how easily Li Wen dispatched the Rhino Demon General, and now he spotted a newly emerged, relatively slender wolf-headed demon general.

An intense desire to compete, along with a sense of indignation from being outshone by Li Wen, instantly overwhelmed his rational judgment.

”Hmph! He’s not so special!” Ron Zaka roared. The qi and blood in his body erupted, and the spear in his hand transformed into a golden rainbow that tore through the air.

He actually abandoned the ordinary demon soldiers around him and charged recklessly toward the wolf-headed demon general.

His eyes flashed with confidence, as if he could already see the glorious scene of himself slaying a commander as easily as Li Wen had done.