Chapter Ninety-One: The Planet Turns

Frost rolled across the land wherever Qin Hao passed, instantly freezing the blade-thread demons in place.

They had spread across the road for several hundred meters, yet Qin Hao walked through them as though taking an idle stroll, sealing every last one in ice. It took only a few minutes.

The one hundred and twenty heroes, especially the newly risen ones, had all thought this would be a grueling battle. After all, the flame demons Qin Hao had killed before had mostly been the old, the weak, and the wounded.

But now they were facing vigorous, ferocious first-tier evolved hunting creatures.

No one expected that, to Qin Hao, these hunting beasts would be no more than pitiful rabble.

The frozen blade-thread demons were not dead, but they could not move. The heroes behind him immediately rushed forward to sever their heads and finish them off.

Qin Hao’s voice drifted out as well.

“First-tier evolved heroes, kill as many as you can. Second-tier evolved heroes, just help hold them back.”

“Yes, Lord Qin.”

Among the one hundred and twenty people, only five were second-tier evolved, including An Ziheng, Li Xinlong, Xu Qian, Sun Miaomiao, and Lin Ke’er, who had previously received Qin Hao’s favor.

Zi Hui was already a third-tier evolved.

One hero, hearing this, asked in confusion, “Why not let the second-tier heroes take action? Wouldn’t that be faster?”

“Second-tier heroes only get one hero point for killing one of these beasts, so there’s no point in us hunting them anymore. Maybe the Peace Alliance hopes we’ll earn hero points by rescuing people instead. Don’t worry, we’re not going to stand around doing nothing. Any hunting beasts that Mister Qin doesn’t freeze, we’ll take care of for you.”

Sun Miaomiao explained enthusiastically.

Only then did the others understand. After this system update, it seemed that those with greater strength no longer had the advantage; many resources had vanished.

And at this point, some of them also seemed to sense that the Peace Alliance was not exactly a selfless benefactor.

The Peace Alliance, perhaps, was nothing more than a merchant.

On the battlefield, Qin Hao froze the blade-thread demons, while another kind of creature came charging over as well.

It was the devourer.

The devourer was stronger, and its intelligence was primitive. It could not comprehend Qin Hao’s might at all. It even rushed forward madly with its mouth gaping wide, intent on biting him apart.

It did not even bother to mind the sharp weapon in Qin Hao’s hand. To it, even if it were a blade, its own teeth could crush it in an instant.

But in the next moment, Qin Hao’s Ice Abyss touched the devourer’s mouth, instantly freezing it. A flash of blade-light passed, and half its head was cut away.

The devourer had no way to resist before Qin Hao killed it.

Farther away, more devourers saw Qin Hao’s actions and charged in.

Their speed was astonishing, like jackals that had caught the scent of meat.

But if they were fast, Qin Hao was faster.

With a thud, Qin Hao stamped the ground. The earth split like a spiderweb beneath his foot, and then he burst forth like a cannonball.

His speed was terrifying, like a hurricane.

Fifty meters per second, one hundred meters in two seconds.

And even this speed was merely the result of Qin Hao casually drawing out the strength of his own body.

In an instant, he crashed head-on into the devourers.

With his left hand, Qin Hao drew the Star-Slaying Divine Weapon and swept it in a single stroke, sending a head soaring through the air.

“Kill!”

Qin Hao swept through like a gale, instantly crushing every life-form in his path.

Along the highway, wherever Qin Hao passed, corpses lay strewn across the ground. More than sixty devourers had no ability to stop him and were instantly cut to pieces.

Three maw demons did not even have time to open their jaws before Qin Hao’s thought power controlled the Star-Slaying Divine Weapon to pierce their bodies and shatter their mental cores.

A burst of stellar energy exploded from the maw demons, and their bodies went limp and collapsed to the ground, turning into a heap of rotten mud.

Qin Hao’s thought power surged, whipping up the blood of more than sixty devourers and drawing it into his body.

Their genes were shattered, broken down, and sorted into the most perfect strands.

With so few devourers, the chance of finding a divine gene fragment was extremely small. Qin Hao merely inscribed the slightly superior genes onto his own.

In an instant, he felt his bones grow harder, his carrying strength increase, and his body seem even more flexible.

Then the maw demon’s blood was devoured as well.

“The maw demon’s genes are very useful.”

This species, with its enormous mouth, possessed formidable digestion. Anything it swallowed could be rapidly broken down and transformed into energy.

Before the apocalypse, humans could grow larger or fatter by eating, and strengthen themselves through exercise.

But nothing changed people as drastically as eating alien creatures after the apocalypse.

That was because these extraterrestrial beings contained stellar energy within their bodies.

The more one ate, the stronger the body became.

That was the function of the maw demon’s genes.

Qin Hao’s Blood-Sacrifice Demon Body had the same effect: it condensed power through blood.

And the Blood-Sacrifice Demon Body itself had originally been a human-suitable art transformed from the maw demon’s genes.

The more maw demon gene fragments Qin Hao absorbed, the stronger the Blood-Sacrifice Demon Body became.

Having absorbed the maw demon’s gene fragment, Qin Hao once again joined the slaughter of the blade-thread demons, though he chose to freeze them all and let the other heroes kill them.

Once all the blade-thread demons had been dealt with, everyone gathered up the spoils. With Qin Hao’s enormous storage space, they were spared the trouble of transporting them.

They had not managed to hunt flame demons at night, but the heroes did not relax. They continued moving through the darkness. Even killing one more hunting beast would increase their strength by a little.

Because no one knew when the Ancient Demon civilization would open its spatial black hole, all the heroes agreed to keep bringing flame demons to Qin Hao for hunting, turning this place into a graveyard for flame demons.

Qin Hao did not refuse.

The night passed in slaughter, and dawn arrived. Some heroes intended to return to base and see whether the survivors were in danger, after all, those humans still needed to provide them with hero points.

Others had not rested in a long time and planned to go back and sleep.

Still, there were thirty people remaining, continuing to bring flame demons to Qin Hao without pause.

The number of flame demons Qin Hao had hunted had already reached seven thousand.

Within the [Survive 2] mission, Qin Hao had already killed five thousand flame demons. Although these flame demons no longer contributed hero points, the hunting count itself would not change. The Ancient Demon civilization also used that hunting count to curse heroes.

So now, once only four thousand flame demons remained, Qin Hao would obtain the curse. In the region where he stood, flame demons would quake in fear, and only wind demons would come to attack him.

When the wind demons had hunted ten thousand, only voodoo demons would appear here.

The time had quietly drawn near noon.

“Qin Hao, want to go back and rest for a while?”

“I’m not tired yet.”

“All right. Though I have no idea when the Ancient Demon civilization’s spatial passage will appear.”

Qin Hao smiled faintly.

“Have you ever thought about this? The star where the Ancient Demon civilization lives is naturally different from our Blue Star. Perhaps one full rotation there takes two, three, or four times as long as Earth’s. If so, what they consider one ‘day’ might be two, three, or four of ours?”

Zi Hui’s eyes lit up at that.

“That’s possible.”