Mythical Era: My Evolution into a Celestial Beast-Chapter 797: Dark Star Battle Body, One Man Slaughters a City (I)

"Tianxuan City!" Dressed in a black combat suit and gripping a slender saber, Shi Feirou wore a grave expression. "Mr. Chen, before the apocalypse began, Tianxuan City had a population nearing ten million. freewebnσvel.cøm

"Because there were so many people, it fell on the very first day of the outbreak, overrun by countless monsters. With such a vast population, many terrifying creatures emerged right from the start.

"Now, that place is probably even worse than hell. Last year, when the base's radio was still operational, we received a signal saying that a ninth-tier overlord-level monster had appeared there."

Shi Feitong's face turned pale. "They say that once monsters evolve to the ninth tier, they transform into an entirely different, horrifying form, unimaginably powerful like demons."

Over the past few years, the strongest creature they had ever encountered was a seventh-tier tyrant, whose casual strike could topple skyscrapers and whose defense was practically impenetrable.

That was nothing compared to facing a ninth-tier monster. However...

"It doesn't matter," Chen Chu said calmly. "You two only need to guide me there. I’ll take care of the monsters."

Tianxuan City was more than five thousand kilometers away in a straight line. A slight deviation in direction could lead them a thousand kilometers off course. That was why Chen Chu needed someone who had either been there or knew the route well.

Shi Feirou paused, her voice softening. "That's true. I nearly forgot your strength. In front of you, no monster could pose a threat.

"But reaching Tianxuan City means crossing two major provinces and over twenty cities. It's a long journey. This time, I will accompany you personally. Little Tong, you head back and inform the others."

"Mhmm, okay, Sis." Shi Feitong nodded. She understood that Shi Feirou was worried about her. Apart from following the main group to escape pursuit, she had never traveled more than a hundred kilometers from safety since the start of the apocalypse.

It couldn’t be helped. The world outside was crawling with mutated human monsters and all kinds of mutated creatures. Especially those dinosaur-like beasts; already powerful before, they had become even more fearsome after being reshaped by the virus.

Just then, Chen Chu shook his head. "No need to make it so complicated. It’s just a few thousand kilometers. It won’t take long."

As he spoke, the subspace wristband on his arm trembled slightly. As his powerful spiritual will spread out, space distorted open, and a black-and-red fighter jet, nearly seventy meters long with wings spanning over fifty meters, came into view.

This world lacked transcendent energy, and the principles of the declining era suppressed transcendent forces. However, activating storage equipment and subspace required only spiritual will, so it was unaffected.

Seeing the fighter jet materialize out of nowhere, the Shi Sisters, who had never witnessed spatial equipment before, stared wide-eyed.

"W-What is that?" Shi Feitong exclaimed.

"This is my fighter jet. Let's go. We'll fly there."

With his strength, Chen Chu could easily cross five thousand kilometers alone. However, since he was bringing the two sisters, it was faster and safer to use the jet.

Click!

The fighter’s rear hatch opened. Still stunned, Shi Feirou and Shi Feitong followed Chen Chu inside, eyes filled with the awe of villagers seeing a spaceship.

Hum!

As the three entered, the autopilot system activated, and Yunxiao’s propulsion system switched to the nuclear fusion reactor. The entire fighter vibrated from the tremendous surge of energy.

Whoosh!

Wild winds howled as shockwaves blasted out. The fighter jet roared into the sky, bursting through the air and ripping apart the clouds.

Sitting at the glass cockpit, Shi Feitong looked out, her face alight with excitement. "So this is what flying feels like! The whole world looks so small from up here! Sis, was that Wangshan City we just flew over? The houses look tiny, like little matchboxes!"

"Yes, that was Wangshan City," Shi Feirou replied.

Watching the clouds and the vast mountains and rivers racing away beneath them, Shi Feirou’s heart pounded furiously. Even the towering mountains below seemed to roll like waves.

It was her first time flying. In this technologically backward world, airplanes had been incredibly rare, reserved only for the truly powerful.

However, after the initial excitement, Shi Feirou quickly calmed down, hesitating slightly. "Mr. Chen, your fighter is flying too high. I can't make out the cities below. Even though I’ve been to Tianxuan City before, that was by train years ago. I can only recognize some familiar landmarks along the way."

"That's easy. Yunxiao, maintain a low altitude of three thousand meters."

At his command, the fighter, which had been soaring tens of thousands of meters above ground, immediately dove down. It crashed through the clouds in a sharp descent and soon leveled out at three thousand meters, where everything on the ground appeared clearly before their eyes.

Seeing this, the two sisters gasped once again.

As expected of a mighty figure from the ancient human race. Even the fighter jet he carries with him is so advanced. He doesn’t even need to pilot it personally; a single word is enough to control everything. Too powerful.

Their expressions resembled those of people in the 1980s being told that one day, television programs would be transmitted digitally[1] and computers would fit in the palm of a hand.

After the shock passed, Shi Feirou turned slightly to glance at Chen Chu, then froze.

As the sun sank in the west, the orange-red light pierced through the fighter jet’s glass, bathing the three of them in a warm glow. Under the sunset, Chen Chu’s nearly flawless side profile seemed to shimmer faintly with light.

A strand of silver hair, dyed by the time mark on his forehead, hung slightly over his brow, giving him an inexplicable sense of aged depth. It made him appear even more mature, steady, and undeniably charismatic.

Roar!

Suddenly, the clouds to their side burst open as a ferocious roar shook the sky.

Bathed in the sunset, a colossal beast over seventy meters long, covered entirely in black-silver scales and resembling a pterosaur with four claws and a twisted, savage head, dove from the clouds.

Roar!

Catching sight of the low-flying fighter jet, the beast let out a vicious roar, its massive wings beating heavily as it lunged forward.

Although the beast’s body showed no signs of energy circulation, its wings were thick and sturdy. Along their leading edges, numerous vents inhaled air, converting it into a fiery fuel that spewed out from its back and produced formidable propulsion.

Seeing the colossal beast rushing at them, Shi Feirou’s expression grew grim. "Mr. Chen, that's a seventh-tier Tyrant Pterosaur. We've entered its territory."

"No worries," Chen Chu replied calmly, watching the charging creature without any intention of making a move.

At the same time, Yunxiao's wings cracked open, revealing two anti-air crystal-energy missiles, each five meters long. Blue-white flames blasted from their tails.

With a roar of energy, the two missiles shot out at five times the speed of sound, accelerating further as they streaked thousands of meters ahead in a flash. They struck the incoming pterosaur with unerring precision.

Boom! Boom!

Brilliant fireballs erupted in the sky. Violent explosions formed a circular shockwave that swept across several kilometers.

Yet amid the collapsing blaze, the wounded beast, its scales shattered and half its flesh blown apart, emerged once more.

The injured creature’s eyes glowed blood-red. Fixating on the rapidly flying jet, it folded its wings and burst forward, spitting dazzling red shockwaves like a missile.

"It actually survived." Chen Chu sounded a little surprised as he glanced back at the mutated beast speeding after them.

Those two missiles carried powerful anti-magic effects. Under normal circumstances, a level 7 beast would have been blasted to pieces. Yet this so-called seventh-tier creature was only severely wounded.

The reason was clear: Its physical body was abnormally strong, comparable to a level 8 beast.

Due to the lack of transcendent energy in this world, the virus-driven evolution had resulted in these beasts possessing far stronger physical bodies than their counterparts of the same level. Even Chen Chu found this unexpected... and intriguing.

It seemed that the virus responsible for these mutations was quite unique. Perhaps it was worth taking a few samples back for research. Given the current level of technology on the Blue Planet, if they could develop a harmless enhancement serum, humanity’s collective physique would experience a major leap.

By then, if everyone practiced the body enhancement art he intended to create, it could be possible for the entire human race to enter the transcendent realm within a short period.

While Chen Chu was lost in thought, Yunxiao’s left side cracked open, revealing a two-meter-wide cannon barrel that began gathering searing white light.

Boom!

A brilliant white beam shot across the sky and blasted through the pterosaur's head. Its massive, burning body spiraled down from the sky.

Though primarily a support unit, the Yunxiao fighter jet, constructed from the remains of a mythical beast and armed with an array of devastating weapons, could unleash a destructive quasi-mythical-level force when needed.

A mere level 7 beast simply didn’t warrant Chen Chu’s personal intervention.

After dealing with the flying beast, a ruined city built into the mountains appeared ahead. Shi Feirou immediately spoke up. "Mr. Chen, that's Huanshan City ahead. We need to veer slightly to the right."

"No problem," Chen Chu replied, gently tilting the fighter jet. It traced a graceful arc through the air, soaring over the broken city below.

Roar! Roar!

Seeing the black-and-red jet thunder overhead, the monsters lurking within the ruined city raised their heads and howled furiously. Some even rushed out of the city, dozens of them chasing below.

However, Yunxiao easily outran them, disappearing over the distant forest.

At three times the speed of sound, the jet crossed over two thousand kilometers, covering an entire major province in the blink of an eye. The sheer speed left the two sisters reeling once again.

This was even after deliberately slowing down to allow Shi Feirou enough time to recognize landmarks and adjust their course.

“What was that flying overhead?”

"Everyone, look! There's an airplane in the sky!"

"An airplane? Really an airplane?"

On a mountain range thousands of meters high, where half the mountainside was covered in stone houses, thousands of survivors watched in awe as the black-and-red jet streaked past.

"It must be from one of the larger bases," a burly man, radiating powerful energy, shouted with excitement. "They must have developed advanced new technology, enough to break through the pterosaurs' blockade and fly here.

"Quick, light a fire! Make smoke signals! Let them know there are people down here!"

Before they could light the smoke signals, Yunxiao had already streaked across the sky at an astonishing speed, flashing past the distant peaks and soon shrinking into a tiny speck.

Even so, the survivors atop the mountain remained immensely excited. In their numb, lifeless eyes, a glimmer of hope was finally rekindled. What they didn’t know was that the jet wasn’t a product of this world’s technology at all.

Inside Yunxiao, Shi Feitong glanced hesitantly behind them. "Sis, I think I saw a very large base back there."

"I saw it, too." Shi Feirou nodded, but said nothing more.

What could seeing it change? Their own base was barely holding on. If not for Chen Chu’s intervention to rescue Gao Tianxiang and the others, the loss of most of their fighting strength would have left their base staring straight into the abyss.

Even with the sisters' decent strength, it was nearly impossible to support dozens of youths in such a dangerous world.

Screech!

The skies ahead swarmed with dark shapes. A massive flock of ordinary mutated pterosaurs, each with bodies nearly ten meters long and wingspans over a dozen meters, surged toward them, enraged by the invasion into their territory.

Rat-a-tat-tat-tat!

Beneath the fighter jet, two six-barrel 100mm caliber cannons roared to life. Over three thousand rounds per minute fired out, weaving a deadly curtain of bullets that engulfed the sky ahead.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The level 4 mutated pterosaurs were shredded apart. Their bodies, torn to pieces by kinetic energy alone, exploded further as incendiary rounds detonated inside them, reducing them to fragments.

In the blink of an eye, the entire flock, over a thousand beasts strong, was annihilated. A thick blood mist blanketed the skies across a radius of over ten kilometers, flooding the air with an overwhelming stench.

Shi Feitong couldn’t help but go pale in the face of such an unbelievable massacre. It was too horrifying.

Roar!

Just after Yunxiao vanished into the distance, a torrential rain of blood fell. From deep within the forests, a colossal dinosaur, over a hundred meters long, lifted its head and let out a furious roar that shook the mountains.

Over the next half-hour, the fighter jet slaughtered two more flocks of mutated pterosaurs and several large flying beasts before finally approaching Tianxuan City.

1. The original line was about people in the 1980s being told that television would be broadcasted in full color; however, color television was first introduced in the 1950s, and was already widespread by the early 1970s. On the other hand, the switch from analog to digital transmission is considered the largest innovation in television since the advent of color, and occurred in the early 2000s, which is why it was selected as a replacement example here. ☜

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