Yu Lian truly leaped from the airship without any flight equipment.
For an ordinary person, this would be a suicidal act; the real world isn't like wearing a hood and jumping into a haystack to defy Newton.
...Unfortunately, this idealistic world, where mysticism runs rampant, has no Newton.
While Yu Lian's actions were unscientific, they were highly psychic.
Yu Lian spread his arms in the air, allowing the whistling wind and the invisible mystical power seeping from every pore of his body to form a harmonious resonance.
His body, like a large bird spreading its wings, glided smoothly across the sky, soaring directly towards the giant beast's gaping maw.
This was certainly not a flying ability; such a grand, god-like skill should not even be considered before Five Rings.
However, even if it was just gliding, as long as it was utilized well, it was still quite impressive.
At least, Xia Xiake and his team on the airship looked at Yu Lian's figure as if on a pilgrimage.
"Captain, we..."
"Captain Yu Lian said for us to ascend, so let's ascend," Xia Xiake said.
He thought for a moment, then added, "Ascend directly above that Great Rock Tiger! Also, check your weapons and be ready for combat at any time!"
This way, if Captain Yu Lian needed to retreat, it would be easier for everyone to provide support.
Many loyal "soldiers" in the beast tide army also discovered the invader, but Yu Lian's movements were too fast.
By the time they truly reacted, Yu Lian's body had already passed through their vast "military formation," and he was only half a step away from the enemy.
Up to this point, Yu Lian was completely in a stance of preparing to decapitate a general amidst a million soldiers.
Of course, this didn't mean he was truly reckless to that extent.
Although he had done such things frequently in his previous life, in this life, he was, after all, a highly educated and cultured individual with status.
Wouldn't it be better to follow the path of a wise general who relies on intellect in the future?
And wouldn't it be even more fitting for the tone of this book to follow the path of a mentor who subdues others without fighting, brings prosperity with a single word, and saves the world with a single action?
It is said that the idol Li Instructor never even carried a gun in his entire life.
But there was no other way!
At that moment, the roar of the giant beast was not due to the habits of a feline.
The instant its voice roared out, Yu Lian had already felt the condensation of extraordinary power.
In its roar, the airflow was condensing, becoming active, and growing increasingly violent.
This was a psychic technique of elemental activation; once fully unleashed, it would certainly form a considerable scale of gales or even tornados, and might even generate sharp wind blades and scorching lightning through the high-speed friction of the airflow.
A civilian airship with fragile armor like the Seagull would have a nine out of ten chance of crashing if hit.
Yu Lian himself wouldn't care, but his companions on board would likely be in grave danger.
"Must stop it!" Yu Lian told himself.
Someone once said that solitary beasts like the Great Rock Tiger have already mastered a certain level of extraordinary talent and can be classified as Phantom Beasts.
Now, for such an oversized individual to appear, capable of literally creating wind with its roar, it seemed quite reasonable.
If this were in the era of classical civilization, with its colossal and majestic body, awe-inspiring demeanor, plus this roar and the ensuing lightning and thunder, this creature would surely be regarded as the embodiment of a deity, wouldn't it?
Yu Lian watched the approaching opponent, looking at the majestic body of the giant beast and its terrifying, gaping maw.
The instantaneous high-speed glide had already brought the large cat into his attack range.
He spread his hand, and before the roar of this king of beasts could transform into a thunderous storm, he had already conjured a Mind Lash and slammed it onto its face.
In any case, Mind Lash, a move without flashy sound or light effects, was much faster to cast than grand moves like a tiger's roar shaking the mountains or summoning wind and rain.
Yu Lian's judgment was very accurate; this Great Rock Tiger indeed possessed a certain degree of intelligence.
When Mind Lash struck its head, its face immediately showed a very human-like pain, its mouth twitched, and its majestic, thunderous roar instantly turned into a "woo-ah-gah."
It tilted its head and retreated a few steps.
The half-charged ultimate move naturally couldn't be released.
Psychic power is not some extraordinary, divinely bestowed power used for showing off; ultimately, it is a weapon.
And a weapon, of course, should be used in the most practical way, shouldn't it?
Many superhumans never understood this principle in their entire lives, so one cannot demand that a large cat understand it either.
However, in real combat, the price of not understanding is often a price you can only pay once in your lifetime!
Yu Lian did not open fire.
After being hit by Mind Lash, the Great Rock Tiger had painfully closed its eyes.
Yu Lian could not be sure that the C10 rifle in his hand could directly penetrate its eyelids.
Fortunately, he didn't have much else, but he had plenty of weapons.
The Great Rock Tiger, which already possessed some intelligence, probably quickly realized that closing its eyes was a rather foolish act.
After retreating a step, it reopened its eyes and roared again.
This time, it wasn't a tiger's roar creating wind, but merely a pure sonic attack.
This level of attack was enough to make over a hundred large Dinosaur Birds lose their courage entirely.
But Yu Lian felt no pain or itch; he had already sealed his ear canals with psychic power and enhanced his eardrums with cellular activation.
As for the slight mental impact effect inevitably mixed in with the sound waves, it could not cause any damage to the mental defense of the soul labyrinth.
The first sight the Great Rock Tiger saw upon opening its eyes was a flashing blue Lightsaber in front of it.
The giant beast had never seen such a thing, but it could sense the danger contained within it.
It immediately raised its head, placing its fangs in the path of the Lightsaber.
This was one of its battle-hardened weapons; with this pair of meter-long fangs, it had defeated and devoured countless enemies to reach its current status.
Up to this point, there was nothing these fangs could not tear, and nothing they could not resist!
...It only felt an unbearable heat in its upper jaw.
Its fangs, which could split metal and stone, when touched by the blue Lightsaber, were like ice pillars touched by hot tongs; they didn't break, but a section of them was directly melted away.
The Lightsaber continued smoothly forward without a trace of smoke or fire, directly wiping away most of the flesh from its upper jaw.
The Great Rock Tiger quickly retreated, moving several steps back with an agility completely unsuited to its size, and was forced directly to the edge of the hill.
It looked at the small human in front of it, still shaken, and before it could decide whether to flee or fight, the numbness caused by the heat receded.
The unbearable heat instantly turned into unbearable pain.
The intense pain completely stripped the Great Rock Tiger of its remaining sanity and Wisdom.
It furiously raised its giant claw, intending to smash the person in front of it.
Yu Lian did not doubt that the opponent's claw strength could likely flatten an armored vehicle with a single slap, but he stood still, unflinching, and swept his Lightsaber backhand.
The Lightsaber directly tore through the Great Rock Tiger's raised foreleg, and the giant, sandbag-sized claw flew backward, landing below the hill and directly smashing into the beast horde.
Before the Great Rock Tiger could react again, Yu Lian stepped forward, and with a light sweep of his Lightsaber along its trajectory, he directly pierced the Great Rock Tiger's throat.
He then performed a tactical leap backward, thus avoiding being splattered by the gushing blood.
As he moved, the Lightsaber swept open again, and the Great Rock Tiger's fatal wound transformed from a puncture to a horrific gash, with blood, internal organs, and even bone fragments gushing out.
However, the Great Rock Tiger couldn't even let out a scream.
This beast king might have been considered the overlord of the natural world on this Lumina Planet, and perhaps it had already mastered intelligence and supernatural abilities, but in front of an energy Lightsaber that could tear through a warship's armor plating, it appeared so fragile.
The Great Rock Tiger beast king, commanding an army of millions of beasts, lost the strength to support its body and crashed to the ground, its life extinguished.
Thus, Yu Lian completed the feat of decapitating a general amidst a million soldiers, but he felt no sense of accomplishment at all.
"Is... is that it?" He felt the victory was too easy; he barely exerted any effort, and the opponent fell.
Perhaps the beast horde also felt that things happened too quickly.
The more distant beasts still instinctively moved towards the Red Maple Factory, but animals closer to the hill, such as three armored-headed wolves and about ten fast-moving Lumina Dinosaur Birds, were all staring at Yu Lian.
Despite being mere wild animals, they displayed an emotion of utter bewilderment.
Yu Lian held his Lightsaber horizontally in one hand and his gun in the other, standing with his back to the Great Rock Tiger's corpse, confronting the beast horde.
At the same time, he prepared to have the Seagull airship, which had ascended to high altitude, descend to pick him up.
They only needed to descend to about twenty or thirty meters from the ground, and he could figure out a way to directly ascend, perhaps with a "reverse three-layered cloud" technique.
He did not intend to fight his way in and out seven times through this vast army composed of hundreds of thousands of various animals.
Leaving aside whether it was even possible, even if he did it, what would be the cost-effectiveness?
Moreover, if he messed up, that kind of death would be truly frustrating.
But at this moment, the elite beasts closest to him let out a cry of panic, turned their heads, and ran, as if they had encountered their natural predator.
Their actions finally affected their companions around them.
At this point, the wild animals seemed to have just woken up from a crazy dream, all stopping in their tracks.
This state spread rapidly like a plague throughout the entire beast horde.
Some observed blankly, some fled in panic, some trampled each other, some bit each other, and some even continued forward instinctively.
Though all were animals, at this moment, there was a sense of déjà vu, like a microcosm of human society.
The social nature of wild animals is only so much, so it is impossible for them to live concentrated in a small area like Wisdom beings.
When they reverted to their true nature, this scale of chaos was inevitable.
Yu Lian estimated that by the time the chaos ended, it would be good if one-third of this beast horde survived.
However, Lumina Planet is, after all, an underdeveloped planet, retaining a large amount of natural essence, and it will quickly recover.
So, this stampede of fierce beasts, like a flood, was over?
All their unnatural organization originated solely from this oversized Great Rock Tiger?
"Is that it?" This was all Yu Lian's thoughts.
For a moment, he felt, what was the point of him and Feifei mobilizing young adults, preparing to establish a defense line outside the city, and him even personally taking action to slay generals and capture flags, making such a big fuss?
...Never mind, they're just wild beasts!
Even if they were truly organized in an unscientific way, one couldn't expect them to cause any harm to modern civilization!
Yu Lian thought.
"Ah! It hurts!"
"Medic!"
"What are these things?!"
"Retreat! Get out of here!"
However, almost at the same time, in a vast, endless forest half a planet away from the Red Maple Factory and the Great Grassland, human screams echoed continuously.
A large Dinosaur Bird with emerald green feathers pulled its metallic-gleaming beak from the chest of a human soldier.
The soldier, clad in power armor, was pierced through by the monster's single blow as if made of paper.
However, he was not yet dead, and he watched in terror as the Dinosaur Bird gazed down at him with a playful look.
This was absolutely no wild animal!
The poor security force soldier instinctively came to this conclusion, but he had no time to think further, only wailing and pleading, "Mommy, mommy...Woo..."
The Dinosaur Bird's giant claw stomped down directly, flattening the soldier's head along with his helmet.
It, or rather, She, raised Her head, like a triumphant king, looking at the scene before Her.
Her army was massacring.
Dinosaur Birds, like raptors, were in their natural element in this dense jungle.
In comparison, although the human soldiers' equipment was excellent, there was no strategy, and they didn't even realize a battle would occur, so they naturally suffered heavy losses when caught off guard.
Of course, the absolute numerical disadvantage of humans was also one of the reasons.
After a series of mechanical, unnatural roars and convulsions, an armored airship screamed as it swept over an entire jungle from above, falling into a rugged valley, followed by a deafening explosion.
If one had sharp eyes, someone would surely have seen that before the airship crashed, seven or eight giant raptors were already clinging to its body, and the cockpit had long been destroyed.
The emerald green King of Dinosaur Birds let out a roar like a carnivorous beast, wantonly proclaiming Its triumph and arrogance.
"Retreat! Retreat! Call Command HQ for reinforcements!" A Captain suppressed the grief in his heart and shouted loudly.
He was very sad, feeling that he would surely become the first officer in Commonwealth history to be routed by wild beasts.
