Stronghold

“Mr. Li.” The captain of the flying passenger jet personally entered the cabin. “Hmm?” Li Yao looked at him. The captain quickly said, “Mr. Li, tonight our jet will fly from Paris Base City to America’s Washington Base City. So, we can only stay here for another half an hour at most. If Mr. Li doesn’t tell us the exact landing location within half an hour, we’ll have no choice but to…” Li Yao frowned. “I understand!” Every flying passenger jet was incredibly expensive, a crucial strategic weapon of the nation. It was impossible for them to let Li Yao monopolize it for too long! While Li Yao was extremely annoyed, Luo Feng was quite content. In fact, Li Yao’s trip to Paris Base City on August 1st, the addition of three War Gods, and the time it took to secure a laser cannon, meant he didn’t depart until August 5th. In the central hinterlands of the Australian continent, within a mountain range. “The largest monster horde in this mountain range is that ape monster horde,” Luo Feng muttered in a dim cave, organizing the monster materials in his backpack and placing them at the bottom. “Today, I’ll take out the leader of this ape monster horde! Tsk, tsk, it truly lives up to its reputation as one of the three great danger zones—the sheer number of monsters is astounding, and there are so many monster lords!” It had been four days since he arrived. Yet, he had only successfully hunted one monster lord, and it was just a Beginner Tier Lord! “No wonder they say monster lords are hard to defeat, and even harder to kill,” Luo Feng sighed helplessly. He was a formidable mental-force user, his methods far more unpredictable than ordinary Warriors. But in the past three days, he had located eleven monster lords, and every single one was incredibly cunning. They would flee at the first sign of trouble! Luo Feng’s mental force-controlled flying knives had a range limitation. Their power was greatest within fifty meters, consuming little mental force. At a hundred meters, he could barely maintain maximum power, but it consumed significantly more mental force due to the distance. Beyond that, their power rapidly declined. And a monster lord could cover a hundred meters in a single movement. “Attacked eleven monster lords, only killed one.” “And that’s because I’m a mental-force user!” “No wonder War Gods complain about how hard it is to earn money, preferring to hunt Advanced Beast Generals rather than confront monster lords.” Luo Feng picked up his water skin, took a few gulps, then quickly packed his things. With his backpack and shield on, Blood Shadow Battle Blade in hand, he set off cautiously. Luo Feng leaped from the cliff of one mountaintop, soaring seventy to eighty meters to another, then continued to race forward. He leaped, ran, and executed unbelievably agile movements, traversing the mountain range as if walking on flat ground. “Hmm?” Luo Feng suddenly stopped, crouching on a cliff. “Here,” Luo Feng heard the cacophony of cries clearly. He looked down! The canyon below was teeming with various ape monsters, a dense, countless swarm, easily tens of thousands. Based on Luo Feng’s experience hunting monsters over the past few days, the most dominant force in this mountain range was this ape horde! This ape horde alone had three monster lords, and its leader was an Advanced Lord! It was the undisputed strongest horde in this mountain range. Luo Feng had even named this unknown mountain range the Ape Mountain Range. “Huh, where’s the leader of this ape horde today, that Advanced Lord King Kong Ape?” Luo Feng carefully distinguished. Among the numerous apes in the canyon, the most conspicuous were two giant apes covered in purple fur—Mighty Demon Apes, the top-ranked among ape monsters! Though Mighty Demon Apes were the strongest of their kind, these two were only Beginner Tier Lords. “Roar~~~” An ear-splitting roar, as if to tear through the sky, instantly sent the entire ape horde into a clamor, boiling with excitement. Below, a gigantic ape, twenty meters tall and covered in golden scales, was dragging a silver python over thirty meters long with one hand. As it passed, all the ape monsters scattered, even the two Mighty Demon Apes fawningly cheered. “Roar~~” The gigantic ape reached the innermost smooth platform, plopped down, and violently tore apart the python, its head completely crushed. Splatter! The python was ripped in half, blood spraying everywhere, and thousands upon thousands of ape monsters shouted excitedly. The gigantic ape casually tossed one half of the python corpse, and the two Mighty Demon Apes beside it immediately began to devour it with relish. The gigantic ape sat there, tearing and eating with gusto, completely unconcerned by the python’s blood flowing over its scales. “It’s the Silver Lightning Python!” “I couldn’t kill it, but this King Kong Ape did.” Luo Feng, secretly observing from the cliff, watched in shock. That Beginner Tier Lord Silver Lightning Python was one of the eleven monster lords Luo Feng had previously confronted. However, the Silver Lightning Python was too cunning, and with numerous pythons under its command to entangle Luo Feng, he hadn’t succeeded. He never expected it to be killed by this Advanced Lord King Kong Ape. “First, I need to make it think I’m an ordinary Warrior, then I can catch it by surprise,” Luo Feng thought to himself. The King Kong Ape was ranked second among ape monsters. Ape monsters were mainly divided into two types: fur-covered apes and scale-covered apes. Among the fur-covered apes, the Mighty Demon Ape reigned supreme. Among the scale-covered apes, the King Kong Ape was the strongest! At the same rank, a Mighty Demon Ape was slightly stronger than a King Kong Ape. But an Advanced Lord King Kong Ape possessed immense strength, extreme speed, and astonishing defense. It was not to be trifled with! “My killing move is to use mental force to control my flying knives and kill it.” “But if I wound it without killing it, it will sense mortal danger and definitely escape. Once it escapes, I won’t be able to catch it.” Luo Feng knew he only had one chance! If he failed to kill the King Kong Ape on the first attempt, it wouldn’t give him a second. In the canyon, the earth-shattering cries of countless ape monsters filled the air, and the three ape lords devoured the flesh and blood of the Silver Lightning Python lord. Suddenly— A black figure, like a black panther, shot down from high above, stomping directly onto the body of an ape monster. With a 'bang,' the ape monster’s body exploded, flesh and blood flying everywhere. Using the astonishing force of that stomp, Luo Feng shot like lightning towards the central position of the ape horde! There, were the three lords! “Roar~~~” “Roar~~~” The two Mighty Demon Apes roared in fury, and immediately, a massive number of Beast General-level apes, along with even more Soldier-level apes, madly surrounded and attacked Luo Feng. “Get out of my way!” Luo Feng’s eyes were like lightning, his body like the wind, as he rapidly advanced. His Blood Shadow Battle Blade instantly transformed into a lightning bolt. Blade lights flashed, slicing open the bodies of ape monsters. Blood sprayed, and bodies flew. In the Trial Tower, Luo Feng could withstand the siege of numerous monsters of equal strength. Now, facing Beast General-level and Soldier-level obstacles, he swept through them like a storm. Wherever he passed, there was a bloody mess of corpses. Blood stained his combat uniform as Luo Feng stomped on the back of an ape, leaping directly towards the center. “Roar~~” On the central platform, the seated King Kong Ape lord casually picked up a rock nearby and hurled it violently at Luo Feng! Boom! Given the King Kong Ape’s hand size, this rock was nearly a meter in diameter. This massive boulder, like a cannonball, reached Luo Feng in the blink of an eye. The powerful air pressure it generated shook the surrounding air. Logically, Luo Feng could have used his mental force to give the boulder a ‘push’ from the side, knocking it off course! But Luo Feng didn’t want to expose his mental force! “Hah!” Luo Feng strained to duck low in mid-air, simultaneously tilting his shield. The boulder grazed his shield and flew off course. Luo Feng, however, fell into the ape horde below. As he landed, a bloody chaos erupted. Luo Feng instantly slaughtered over a dozen ape monsters around him, then, with a flash of his figure, he reached the central platform. “Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” Three more massive rocks were hurled by the King Kong Ape lord. But Luo Feng displayed a perfect movement technique, like a wisp of smoke, swaying slightly on the platform to dodge two of the boulders and using the force to parry the third. “Whoosh!” The air suddenly vibrated violently, even producing a visible shockwave! “A fist!” The instant Luo Feng dodged the third boulder, he saw a gigantic fist, covered in golden scales and as large as a boulder, appear before his eyes. In that split second, the King Kong Ape had shot from its seated position on the platform, its punch appearing before Luo Feng like lightning, incredibly fast! The King Kong Ape’s eyes were icy cold! A human? It hadn’t killed a human in a long time, but to all powerful monsters, humans were a common enemy! It believed that this punch, timed perfectly, had appeared at a crucial moment. This human would definitely have no time to dodge and could only take the blow head-on to dissipate the force. But… even an Advanced War God Warrior wouldn’t dare to take a punch from an Advanced Lord King Kong Ape head-on! If this human took it head-on, he wouldn’t just be turned into pulp, his internal organs would be shattered! “I’ve been waiting for you, uninvited guest!” Luo Feng laughed in the face of the punch. Whoosh! His figure swayed eerily. With no leverage for the human body, he drifted like a leaf in the wind, directly dodging the King Kong Ape lord’s terrifying punch! “Hmm?” The King Kong Ape lord was greatly startled. How could this human dodge? Could it be… the most special among humans…? Before the King Kong Ape lord could even think, the same instant Luo Feng dodged with mental force— Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! Six black flying knives! Two SS-grade flying knives, four 9-series flying knives! Six streaks of lightning! They shot out! Their target: the King Kong Ape lord’s head! “Hmph!” The King Kong Ape lord’s eyes widened. Its right fist, which was smashing towards Luo Feng, instantly opened into a gigantic palm and slapped towards Luo Feng! At the same time, its left palm appeared like lightning in front of its face, and its body slightly shifted! Plink! Plink! Plink! Three flying knives struck its left palm, only piercing the surface, a trace of golden-red blood staining its palm red. Plink! Plink! Two flying knives struck the King Kong Ape’s face. One only went halfway in, jammed by the facial muscles and unable to go deeper. The other merely pierced the scalp, blocked by the hard skull. Plink! The last flying knife grazed past the King Kong Ape’s neck, carving out a huge wound. Blood gushed out like tap water, causing the King Kong Ape lord to let out an extremely furious roar!