I Have Infinite Skill Points-Chapter 490 Refreshed the Understanding of Demons
At this moment, the beast tide had surged into the defensive position. The tactics of the Exotic Beasts and the Star Martial Warriors seemed to lean towards two extremes: the Exotic Beasts would first send their ordinary members, followed by the powerful ones to press the attack. However, the Star Martial Warriors deployed their powerful fighters first, aiming to achieve the greatest battle results at the smallest cost.
The entire terrain had been created by Qiao Shan, and his combat approach centered on manipulating it. His methods included creating land traps, causing mountains to collapse, churning the earth, and crushing enemies with rocks. Soon, Qiao Shan had blocked large numbers of Exotic Beasts in the various channels of the defensive position.
But in terms of killing speed, Qiao Shan was clearly far behind Wang Lan. Although many Exotic Beasts were trapped, only a few were killed. This also revealed Qiao Shan’s limitations. Earth Attribute Star Martial Skills primarily relied on crushing power. However, most Exotic Beasts were not as fragile as humans. Even a direct hit from a several-ton boulder wouldn’t necessarily kill a heavily-armored Exotic Beast.
The speed of the Exotic Beasts’ assault still hadn’t slowed; they surged through the defensive line with irresistible force, only being momentarily resisted at the Gate of The Underworld.
At this time, the Star Martial Warriors lying in ambush within the terrain were not idle either, initiating combined Star Martial Skills to massacre the Exotic Beasts below.
Under normal circumstances, occupying such advantageous terrain and launching covering strikes from high ground would leave the Exotic Beasts powerless to retaliate. Thirty thousand Pioneers could achieve a game-changing victory at minimal cost. But this time, the number of Exotic Beasts was too overwhelming, and they had all been imbued with a berserk aura.
Their increased resilience, coupled with their terrifying numbers, gave the Star Martial Warriors one distinct impression: there were too many to kill.
Within the first ten minutes of the battle, casualties had already begun to occur. A dense swarm of Exotic Beasts poured into one of the Pioneer Team’s positions, instantly tearing apart a squad.
The killing efficiency on the ground was leagues behind Wang Lan’s in the sky. Perhaps it wasn’t that the Pioneers below were lacking, but rather, Wang Lan’s combat capabilities were just too formidable.
From early on, Wang Lan had defined his combat style: solo combat, with a clear objective of achieving the fastest possible kills. That’s why Dance of the Dark Butterfly and Zanpakuto became his most frequently used combat skills. Skills like Extreme Heat Light Beam and Mandala Flower were developed to compensate for the shortcomings in his combat style.
Even his group attack skills aimed for maximum damage output. Looking at Wang Lan alone didn’t fully reveal the distinctiveness of his style. However, when compared to Qiao Shan, another Titled Strongman of the same caliber, the contrast became stark.
With the same realm and strength, Qiao Shan’s combat style focused on area control, but his killing power was only slightly greater than that of an ordinary Star Sea Stage warrior. Qiao Shan could handle fighting more than ten Star Sea Stage Star Martial Warriors at once, but he could never kill one in a single blow.
Wang Lan, similarly capable of fighting ten Star Sea Stage warriors, was confident he could kill all ten in an instant. This was the terror of his damage output.
The flying Exotic Beasts in the sky were, on average, at the Star Cloud Stage, with a few occasional Galaxy Stage individuals. However, in Wang Lan’s eyes, they were no different from the Star Cloud Stage ones. Any beast he targeted was killed in a single blow.
So, just as the battle on the ground was reaching a stalemate, Wang Lan, alone in the sky, had nearly finished off all ten thousand flying Exotic Beasts. The few remaining flying Exotic Beasts let out mournful cries, as if protesting their unfair fate to the heavens.
It was too tragic, too humiliating! An army of ten thousand, all charging together! Even if they racked their brains, they couldn’t understand why one person hunting ten thousand of them could inflict such a devastating defeat. Annihilated! How could they be completely annihilated?
They were slower than Wang Lan in flight, less agile in evasion, had shorter attack range, and their attack frequency was incomparable. Wang Lan could unleash hundreds to thousands of Swords of Light at a time. Frankly, after seven or eight volleys, the flying Exotic Beasts were mostly wiped out.
Even after slaughtering them, he’d probably remark that not a single one was a worthy opponent.
Soul Beads rained down from the sky. The Star Martial Warriors hidden beneath the aerial battlefield wished they had helmets; Soul Beads falling from such heights really hurt when they hit your head.
"GULP—" Si Yu swallowed hard as he watched the sky being cleared of flying Exotic Beasts. At that moment, he couldn’t find any words to describe his feelings. That was an army of flying Exotic Beasts, ten thousand strong!
They were the beast tide’s air superiority, their vanguard! This group of Exotic Beasts, which he had considered the greatest threat, was the first to be dejectedly eliminated from the battle. Moreover, their side had destroyed the enemy’s most dangerous contingent with zero casualties.
Wang Lan’s reputation... was indeed well-deserved.
After Wang Lan’s fifteen-meter-long Zanpakuto sliced the last Exotic Beast in two, he slowly descended from the sky, landing on a mountaintop.
Looking down at the battle situation below, his brows furrowed slightly.
From the Sea of Chaos, countless Exotic Beasts continued to surge forth madly. It seemed as if the swarm would overwhelm the entire ten-kilometer stretch of terrain.
Although the number of Exotic Beasts was vast, the Pioneer Team’s killing speed was far slower than Wang Lan had anticipated. At this rate, it was only a matter of time before the Exotic Beasts breached the defensive line.
Without further hesitation, his figure flashed, and he arrived in a canyon pass choked with Exotic Beasts. "Heaven and Earth Millstone!"
An Array instantly materialized in the sky above, covering a five-hundred-meter radius. From within the Array, countless meteors rained down. Simultaneously, another Array appeared on the ground in the midst of the gathered Exotic Beasts, and red-hot magma erupted from it.
Heaven and Earth Millstone was a combined skill, merging Heavenly Fire Extinguishing World and Earth Surge Lava. The moment this skill was unleashed, all the Pioneers engaged in combat momentarily forgot to fight. Even Qiao Shan, busy fending off Exotic Beasts, froze like a statue, staring at the scene before him.
What an apocalyptic sight this was! Flaming meteors continuously smashed into the earth, while on the ground, lava spread out like a tsunami in all directions. Any Exotic Beast within the area was engulfed by the magma; those impervious to magma were smashed to death by the meteors.
It was like a razor blade gliding over the target area, leaving no Exotic Beast a chance of survival. Every second, dozens, even hundreds, of Exotic Beasts were slaughtered—whether they were armored, reflective-armored, or magic-based, all were incinerated to ashes.
"What... what kind of divine skill is this?" a Pioneer stammered in disbelief.
The meteors cascaded from the sky like waterfalls, and lava erupted from the ground like geysers, creating a wondrous spectacle between heaven and earth. If they hadn’t known it was a Star Martial Skill, they would have mistaken it for a divine power.
"Now I truly believe Wang Lan single-handedly killed a hundred thousand Exotic Beasts! With this Star Martial Skill, this killing efficiency... forget a hundred thousand, I’d believe a million!" one Pioneer exclaimed.
But for Wang Lan, this was merely the beginning.
After clearing one congested area, Wang Lan’s figure flashed, and he reappeared at another chokepoint teeming with Exotic Beasts. This was an artificially created corridor, a kilometer long, densely packed with swarming Exotic Beasts.
The Exotic Beasts relentlessly broke through one Gate of The Underworld after another, charging deeper into the terrain with unstoppable momentum. Surveying the scene, Wang Lan excitedly licked his lips. This terrain is perfect.
"Let’s try a composite Star Martial Skill in Five-colored Phoenix form: Mountain Flood and Magma!"
Wang Lan opened his mouth wide. As his Star Power surged, a torrent of lava gushed out. A phoenix phantom materialized, transforming into a giant Array. The lava burst through the Array, instantly cascading forth like a silver river.
The lava possessed the heat of fire, the weight of earth, and the impact force of water. Instantly, the lava surged into the corridor as if a floodgate had opened into a dry riverbed. The lava instantly engulfed the entire kilometer-long corridor, with tens of thousands of Exotic Beasts thrashing within it.
Not all Exotic Beasts feared lava; some were naturally capable of bathing in it. Although casualties were heavy, many Exotic Beasts still trampled over the corpses of their comrades to continue their charge.
Seeing the entire corridor engulfed in lava, Wang Lan suddenly retracted his Star Martial Skill, a cruel smile spreading across his face.
"Freeze Over a Thousand Miles!"
This was a Super S-rank Star Martial Skill that Jiang Xinyu had obtained. Although Wang Lan hadn’t mastered it, his Five-colored Phoenix form was imbued with the Ice Attribute, allowing him to replicate about seventy to eighty percent of its power. He exhaled a blast of frigid air. While it couldn’t instantly freeze the lava, it rapidly cooled the scorching flow. The cooled lava lost its fluidity, solidifying into searing hot rock.
Instantly, the tens of thousands of surviving Exotic Beasts were immobilized, trapped within the solidifying rock.
"Heaven Rupturing Earth Splitting!"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Listening to the explosions, Wang Lan silently turned away. A true man always turns his back on an explosion. This turn of his back symbolized Wang Lan’s immense confidence. Lava, followed by freezing, and then a shattering explosion—after three consecutive Super S-rank Star Martial Skills, it was impossible for any Exotic Beast to remain alive.
The Pioneers who had witnessed the entire sequence were once again dumbstruck.
If the earlier Heaven and Earth Millstone had delivered a stunning visual impact, then Wang Lan’s textbook-perfect three-pronged assault was a shock to their very souls.
First, the lava engulfed and eliminated two-thirds of the Exotic Beasts unable to withstand high temperatures. Then, freezing the lava immobilized the remaining third. Wang Lan had even preemptively buried explosive charges of Earth Attribute Star Power, timed to detonate the moment the lava solidified, blasting the trapped Exotic Beasts to smithereens.
This wasn’t a blind unleashing of Star Martial Skills; there was a clear, calculated sequence. Even as the lava surged, preparations for the final detonation were already in place. Thirty thousand Exotic Beasts, slaughtered in mere minutes.
What kind of killing speed was this? Wang Lan’s strength was terrifying to behold!
Previously, Qiao Shan had viewed Wang Lan as a junior who, by some stroke of luck, had managed to turn a desperate situation around, gaining great fame and qualifying as a Titled Strongman. Now, his attitude towards Wang Lan could only be described as one of complete admiration and respect.
Qiao Shan didn’t deny the existence of geniuses and acknowledged Wang Lan as one. He even believed Wang Lan’s future achievements wouldn’t be limited to just being a Titled Strongman; he might even reach the level of the Five Emperors.
But that was the future, not now, Qiao Shan thought. After all, Wang Lan’s Star Martial Art cultivation was only at the early Star Sea Stage.
In recent months, Qiao Shan had heard more than once in the Titled Strongman chat group that the Yu Family was applying for a title for Princess Yu. Although he hadn’t commented, he had thought similarly: A twenty-two-year-old girl, only at the late Star Sea Stage, applying for a title?
In Qiao Shan’s opinion, even the late Star Sea Stage wasn’t qualification enough for a title, let alone the early Star Sea Stage. However, he had accepted Wang Lan’s case due to his monumental achievements. Qiao Shan acknowledged Wang Lan’s contributions, not necessarily his raw power at that stage.
Qiao Shan had thought this perception of his would last for a long time. He never would have believed that this notion wouldn’t even survive a single day.
