Sequence Highway Survival: I Upgrade Supplies in the Apocalypse-Chapter 270: Hatred’s Fourth Ability: Hidden Edge

It was clearly night.

Clearly there were no visible shadows.

And yet, everyone distinctly felt the crushing pressure of being overshadowed by a massive boulder.

The pink-haired girl planted one long leg in front of the other in an archer’s stance atop the vehicle, her feet seeming rooted to the roof, flames flickering in her gaze.

She bent slightly at the waist, gripping the hilt of the Fire Dragon Sword.

A surge of momentum was brewing.

Even as a Sequence 3 sword immortal adept in sword qi, the pink-haired girl could not be confident she could finish off a boulder over a hundred meters in diameter in an instant.

Even if she could cleave the boulder in two with one strike, those two halves could still utterly destroy the convoy.

Surviving in the apocalypse was like walking a tightrope.

One slip could very well doom the entire convoy.

How many times had the convoy faced threats that could wipe them out? No one could count.

But every time they faced such danger, they had to give everything, because one careless move could lead to unbearable consequences.

Like the pink-haired girl, Ding Dong stood on the roof of the panel van, her eyes calmer than ever.

Yet within that calm, power waited to erupt at any moment.

On this woman’s face, it was hard to spot nervousness;she seemed to have made peace with life and death.

Only the taut lines of her expression betrayed a slight leak of emotion.

If you didn’t know her well, you wouldn’t notice the change.

As for Chen Ye.

Hatred had already been drawn.

The cockpit was filled with dense fog, which seeped through the window seams and traveled along the vehicle’s body like devout worshippers.

Not even heavy rain or the wind from driving could disperse that fog.

And the fog kept wildly expanding.

Fuzzy silhouettes began to form within the mist.

And there was the Apocalyptic Fortress.

There was no longer any chattering over the radio. Only silence remained.

That inexplicable Merry Little Prince.

Before anyone realized it, it had quietly closed in behind Iron Lion’s school bus.

Iron Lion’s eyelids kept fluttering.

It looked like he might open his eyes at any moment.

But he seemed unable to open them forever.

The boulder struck the ground with a thunderous crash, launching itself high into the air.

Rain from the sky was blocked by the boulder.

In the next second, the whole convoy would be reduced to minced meat.

There was almost no chance to change the boulder’s trajectory or blast it away!

Time and conditions did not allow it.

Inside the school bus, Xu Lina clamped her mouth shut, not daring to make a sound. Her gaze shook wildly, her legs went weak;if she weren’t seated she would have collapsed.

Her brain had ceased functioning rationally, leaving only terror.

At that moment.

The pink-haired girl moved.

A dozen sword-light clones cut through the air, slicing through raindrops that hadn’t yet fallen.

The raindrops were cleft in two yet kept their shapes, still falling.

In the silent rainy night, the sword qi met the boulder.

"Puk! Puk! Puk!~~~"

A few light piercing sounds, not loud.

Very different from the previous overwhelming force.

The boulder’s surface bore a dozen tiny, bottomless holes.

Stone chips flew in all directions.

The pink-haired girl’s expression shifted slightly, blood appearing at the corners of her bitten lips.

Her sword-light clones had pierced deep into the boulder under her sensing, but the boulder was too large.

The girl shifted her sword signs, and the clone blades inside the boulder began to hum as their trajectories changed instantly.

Countless stone fragments rained down, striking the roof with a rapid crackling.

Many windows already bore spiderweb cracks from the pebbles.

The boulder was too massive.

And time was too short.

There was no room for the girl to strike a second time.

At that moment, a lithe figure like a leopard suddenly filled the pink-haired girl’s vision.

This woman, somehow, had already gotten onto the boulder’s impact path toward the convoy.

She leapt high, her eyes as calm as a deep well.

The lone arm at her side curled slightly into a fist.

"Mountain Shatter!!!"

When those words left the woman’s mouth,

her fist struck the boulder.

The Fist Master Sequence 2’s sequence name was called Mountain Shatter.

This move was named after the sequence. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

That a sequence and a move shared the same name meant this technique—or this ability—was not simple.

The woman’s fist was like an iron punch.

It was different from the fist qi she had released once at Fairy Lake.

This was a straightforward punch, power manifesting from within rather than outwardly flashy.

The moment she unleashed that blow,

the boulder exploded.

While stone chips flew,

thunder cracked across the sky.

"Rumble…"

Lightning lit the entire valley in an instant.

Chen Ye clearly saw a clear fissure appear across the boulder’s surface.

It wasn’t as if the boulder had been split solely by Ding Dong’s punch.

A hundred-meter boulder exceeded human capabilities.

Even a Sequence Superpowers entity would be beyond what current Sequence 2 could normally accomplish.

Ding Dong had simply, on top of the pink-haired girl’s prior damage, sent this punch through.

"Whoa!~~~"

The woman spat a mouthful of blood and was thrown back violently.

Her gaze dimmed as she looked at the boulder she had blasted into two pieces.

Each piece looked like a small mountain.

But inside those small mountains, many places had been ground to powder by sword qi;countless fissures raked through the boulder’s core.

Is it... that there’s truly no way?

It shouldn’t be like this!

Do we... really have no hope?

Chen Ye sighed softly.

Against a boulder like this, the Blood Eye was nearly useless.

Hatred had already been unsheathed, and blood threads struggled to pull the blade back into the sheath.

But the effort was futile.

Chen Ye gave his wrist a light shake.

The machete flew from his hand like a living thing.

The willow branch acted like an extended arm, catching Hatred and forming a blade-net in midair.

The blade-net, brimming with relentless cutting momentum, cloaked the split boulder.

The sword-control technique and Sun Xixi’s sword qi control were clearly different.

Sun Xixi’s sword-control had a huge range and could achieve long-distance kills;with greater sequence she could even take an enemy’s head from a thousand miles away.

But the blade-control was Hatred’s innate ability, with a far smaller range.

Chen Ye had once sacrificed his nearly-blinded right eye to Hatred.

That had forged a bizarre link between Hatred and Chen Ye, allowing far finer, more accurate control.

Although there were no blade-light clones, Hatred had another ability.

This was Hatred’s fourth ability—Hidden Edge!!!

The blood sheath could continuously absorb drifting grudges in the air.

Previously in Divine Elephant Village, Hatred had absorbed a tremendous amount of resentment.

Those grudges had been absorbed by the sheath’s inner “blood-fiber fuzz.”

Then it continuously secreted a special essence of resentment.

That resentment essence formed an extremely thin, self-sharpening layer of grudge-energy blade edge on the blade’s surface.

The longer the blade stayed in the sheath, the keener the edge became.

It could even automatically raise its ranking number!

Hatred had absorbed so much resentment back at Divine Elephant Village that the blood-fiber fuzz had been collecting it up until now.

Only today had Hatred, having nearly fully absorbed those grudges, appeared in the world again.

This Hatred was stronger than before!!!

If you checked Hatred’s ranking now, it would have moved significantly forward.

But in terms of sharpness, the Fire Dragon Sword was not Hatred’s match.

So when the blade-net formed by Hatred met the boulder,

it was like a hot knife through butter.

Or perhaps the Fire Dragon Sword had already compromised the boulder’s structure,

and combined with Ding Dong’s punch that had already further shattered it,

the boulder had long since been falling apart.

Hatred simply finished the boulder off.

Even so, it was impressive.

The section of the boulder nearest Chen Ye had already been on the edge of collapse and was sliced apart in an instant.

As for the other half, it wasn’t that Chen Ye didn’t want to save it, only that there was no time.

It felt like a long process, but in truth it all happened in a very, very short span.