I changed the world.

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Chapter 256 Sea Monster

Such a straightforward explanation finally made Zhang Jing understand, and even An Huiling, who was following behind, understood. She looked around in shock, and although she knew that her teacher would not lie to her, she still murmured in disbelief, "Then... then, where are all the people in the resort?"

"They are naturally dreaming as well."

"But...but I haven't seen a single person these past few days!"

“They certainly don’t appear in human form,” Zhang Taihe said, casually slicing off the head of a monster about to pounce from mid-air. Then, meaningfully, he asked, “Have you ever wondered where all these monsters came from?”

"Ah! Could it be..."

"Pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, fear, anxiety... these monsters are born from the evils of human nature. So, if you can't see through them, whether you hide, run away, or choose to fight, they will only grow stronger... until everything becomes a reality."

“No wonder…” An Huiling finally understood. Then she remembered that every day, she felt that the difficulty of this “game” had increased. It seemed that this was the reason the teacher had mentioned.

“We’ll talk about the rest later. Let’s deal with these things first.” Zhang Taihe turned to Zhang Jing: “Hongjian, may I borrow your sword?”

"Please use it, teacher." Zhang Jing hurriedly unfastened the "Heavenly Punishment Sword" from his waist and handed it over with both hands.

Zhang Taihe nodded, took the longsword, and said, "Let's see."

The next moment, Zhang Taihe vanished from the sight of his two disciples.

An Huiling looked around but couldn't find Zhang Taihe anywhere. She could only look at Zhang Jing, and saw that Zhang Jing's eyes were burning with fire as he looked up at the sky.

An Huiling also looked up at the sky, but under the thick fog, she couldn't see anything clearly.

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"Boom!!!" Just then, a loud roar came from the east, and the ground shook as if a meteorite had struck the ground.

"Boom! Boom! Boom... Boom! Boom... Boom!! Boom... Boom..."

Immediately afterwards, every few seconds, a loud roar was heard, accompanied by the sound of buildings collapsing and exploding, and the ground shook violently.

The surrounding monsters seemed to have encountered a natural disaster and ran around in a panic, some even tearing each other apart.

As the deafening roar continued, the surrounding mist began to thin out. When the eighteenth roar subsided, An Huiling could finally see a bolt of lightning strike the ground with a thunderous crash from the sky, located several hundred meters to her west!

"boom!!!"

With a deafening roar, the two surrounding buildings collapsed and shattered like fragile eggshells, sending shockwaves through the air and turning even the surrounding monsters into dust.

Through the thin mist, An Huiling saw that what was stuck in the ground was a huge longsword, several meters tall, its entire body surrounded by blazing white lightning. It stood there like a monument formed of lightning.

The earth-shattering roar resounded thirty-six times. If someone were to look down from high above at this moment, they would see that, with the center of the Ammani Resort as the center, these giant lightning swords echoed each other, forming two concentric rings. The inner ring consisted of 12 swords, while the outer ring had 24 swords. Between the swords, chains of blazing white lightning connected and echoed each other, faintly forming a huge formation, as if it had firmly nailed the entire area shrouded in mist to the ground.

A huge and furious roar rose from the distant sea. The roar contained an extremely chaotic, frenzied, and even insane quality, enough to put any normal person on the verge of madness and loss of control at any moment.

An Huiling instinctively covered her ears, trying her best to resist the sound. However, the sound seemed to penetrate her palms and go straight into the depths of her heart. Her heart pounded violently, as if it was about to explode. Her temples throbbed, her eyes were bloodshot, and she wanted to vomit, but nothing came out.

Deep within my body, it felt as if something was about to come alive and break free of my skin...

Just then, a warm hand pressed against her back, and a warm current flowed in. It seemed that the sound was also blocked out by some force, and she immediately felt comfortable.

Then she realized that her senior brother had saved her again, and she was grateful. She whispered, "Thank you, senior brother."

"Don't speak, keep your mind focused," Zhang Jing's voice came from behind.

An Huiling dared not say anything more and followed Zhang Jing's instructions to calm her mind, but her gaze still lingered curiously in the direction from which the huge roar had come.

Then, An Huiling's eyes widened. The direction she was looking at was the entire Ammani Resort facing the sea.

Since the entire resort area is built along the coast, and An Huiling and Zhang Jing are currently not far from the sea, separated by a few low buildings, they can even see the scene on the distant sea through the now sparse and almost transparent mist.

The once calm sea, with no strong winds, was now churning with waves. Huge waves formed massive walls, crashing onto the beach, sweeping over the resort's beach volleyball courts, nudist beaches, and other facilities, onto the roads, and even collapsing some buildings near the shore.

What shocked An Hui at this moment was not the giant waves, but a terrifying behemoth slowly rising from the sea amidst the waves.

What a twisted and enormous terrifying monster it was! It slowly rose from the sea, and a torrent of seawater poured down its body like a waterfall...

When it fully rises from the sea, it resembles a massive 10,000-ton ship, appearing majestic and spectacular.

Compared to this, the monsters that An Huiling had encountered before were nothing more than tiny ants, not worth mentioning at all.

Its entire body was enormous and twisted, constantly wriggling. Its entire body was covered with tentacles of all sizes, like thousands of worms entwined together, wriggling and interspersed. Among the tentacles were disgusting organs that looked like eyes, and even mouthparts that resembled teeth.

PS: I've seen some friends discussing An Huiling's background, so I'll explain briefly. An Zhengquan is called Chairman An because he is the chairman of the board. Qianluo Group is a conglomerate that started with social media. If that's hard to understand, think of it as Tencent in Shenzhen, and it'll be easier to grasp. Because the Great Zhao's influence extends throughout the East, Qianluo is an even stronger version of Tencent.

Chapter 257 The Saint

At what could barely be called its head, it had some huge, octopus-like tentacled mouthparts, and its enormous, scarlet eyes burned with a dark light. It kept rising upwards, and finally it broke free of the water and hovered on the surface of the sea. The seawater on its body cascaded down like a waterfall, accompanied by increasingly turbulent waves.

It roared, and the roar that had almost made An Huiling lose control was clearly its roar.

From a distance, it looked more like a giant, twisted squid. It was looking towards a higher point in the sky, where a figure like a thunder god stood high in the air, his eyes flashing with blazing white lightning, his clothes fluttering wildly. It was Zhang Taihe.

At that moment, the thirty-six giant swords on the ground trembled violently, and the lightning chains wrapped around them suddenly swelled up as if they were alive, turning into silver snakes that coiled towards the floating behemoth.

The chains of lightning coiled around the floating behemoth almost instantly, binding it tightly like living dragons and snakes. At the same time, intensely hot plasma burned and exploded on its surface, turning into streaks of white flames.

Meanwhile, high in the sky, an extremely intense pressure was rapidly forming. Even the relatively slow-witted An Huiling could feel it. It was a feeling that every cell was warning her, as if someone was shouting in her ear, telling her that annihilation was about to befall her.

Around An Huiling and Zhang Jing, monsters ran, roared, or simply fled in all directions, trying to escape the impending crisis of destruction.

On the surface of the sea, the enormous monster was struggling violently, its tentacles writhing and flailing wildly, its mouthparts all open, spewing out some kind of extremely filthy substance. This spewing was obviously able to resist the corrosive effects of the flames on its body.

At the same time, the monster twisted its body, and its huge form suddenly became ethereal before disappearing into thin air, clearly possessing some kind of spatial traversal ability.

However, in the next moment, the chains of lightning suddenly shone brightly, and then dragged the giant monster back out of its teleportation state, binding it tightly. Although the chains of lightning were all taut, none of them broke, leaving it unable to break free.

At that very moment, leaden clouds rolled in the sky, pressing down lower and lower until they began to boil and churn like boiling water. A few breaths later, An Huiling, who was staring blankly at the sky, witnessed the most shocking scene of her life!

Even long afterward, when An Huiling recalls this scene, it still feels as vivid as if it were happening right before her eyes.

It was a brilliant sword light that seemed capable of annihilating everything!

Like a falling star, it sliced ​​through the entire cloud layer overhead!

In the blink of an eye, they were already on top of the giant monster's head!

As if sensing the impending destruction, the giant let out an extremely intense roar, all its eyes opened, and millions of tentacles of various kinds swarmed like boiling worms, making one's scalp tingle at the sight.

Immediately afterwards, the air around it distorted in An Huiling's vision, and a protective force field like an eggshell formed around it, forcefully repelling the surrounding lightning chains and protecting the entire giant monster within.

No sooner said than done, the sword light had already landed in front of the giant monster, slashing fiercely at its egg-shaped protective force field. At the moment of contact, a strong light accompanied by a shockwave emanated from it in all directions...

Coastal buildings crumbled instantly upon the arrival of the shockwave, with large amounts of debris, along with some plants and monsters, being hurled into the air.

Almost instantly, the shockwave reached An Huiling and Zhang Jing's location, but Zhang Jing reacted quickly, shoving An Huiling to the ground beside him...

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The stalemate didn't last long. The eggshell-shaped protective force field began to crack, then burst like an inflated bubble. With a deafening scream, the unobstructed sword light swept past...

After slicing through the giant monster, the explosive sword light pierced directly into the sea, carving a sword mark hundreds of meters long and creating a huge gap in the sea. The scene at that moment resembled the moment in Zhang Jing's previous life myth where Moses parted the sea, revealing the rocky strata beneath the seabed.

Immediately afterwards, a towering wall of water rose up like a tsunami, accompanied by billowing steam that filled the sky...

Is this the power of a fourth-tier cultivator...?

Zhang Jing stood up and stared blankly at the sea. In front of him, the once vast buildings had been almost completely razed to the ground, leaving only some crumbling ruins less than two meters high.

Regarding fourth- and fifth-tier cultivators, there was a title he had consulted in a certain sutra: "Saint." Before this, he hadn't had a strong sense of this, but at this moment, he felt the difference with absolute clarity.

Although he knew that a significant part of this was due to the enhancement effect of his "Heavenly Punishment Sword," he was still shocked, as he was far from reaching such a level.

After this devastating sword strike that scorched the heavens and boiled the sea, thick, humid air enveloped the surface of the ocean, making everything hazy once again.

However, at that very moment, the surrounding lightning chains surged again, reaching into the mist on the sea surface from all directions, followed by a series of shrill screams.

The rain in the sky had stopped sometime earlier, and the rising water vapor, along with the mist, quickly faded away and disappeared under the sea breeze.

On the sea, the once enormous and terrifying monster was now reduced to half a body. The hindquarters had vanished, leaving only a horrifying, charred sword wound. Chains of lightning bound it tightly, and blazing flames erupted from its flesh. Its mournful roars must have originated from this wound.

However, the monster was clearly severely injured at this moment. Although its struggles were still fierce, it was obviously weak and powerless.

At this moment, more lightning chains extended outwards in all directions, using the thirty-six longswords as nodes. The chains stretched forward, reaching straight into the mist that enveloped the area. Then, mysterious runes emerged from the lightning chains.

Chapter 258 Shattered

From Zhang Jing and An Huiling's perspective, what they saw was countless blazing white chains of lightning in all directions, as if trying to lock up the entire space.

After about a dozen breaths, the chains began to vibrate rhythmically, the vibrations growing stronger and stronger. Then, the entire space seemed to be pulled by some overwhelming force and began to tremble faintly.

Cracks began to appear in the surrounding void, like shattered porcelain, and these cracks rapidly spread outwards...

Finally, accompanied by what seemed like an extremely angry and resentful roar from the depths of the void, everything around—including this world, the strange and twisted buildings, the shattered ground, and the monsters that were everywhere—shattered with a deafening roar, like an unreal soap bubble bursting apart…

At that moment, Zhang Jing noticed a large number of illusory figures rushing into the Demon Refining Pot on his chest...

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