The sword qi was like water droplets falling into a river, causing only a ripple before disappearing.
Qiu Wenying frowned.
But the giant stone man's fist had already swung, and she was still in mid-air.
"Be careful."
Fan Li drew his sword and slashed out, a sword qi several times larger than before streaking towards the stone man's arm at extreme speed. Strangely, the yellow light had no effect this time, and its arm was cleanly severed into two pieces.
Wang Liqiang, noticing this, was about to speak, but in the next second, the arm that hadn't landed reattached as if by a magnet.
The stone man was once again intact.
Roar!
The giant stone man seemed to be enraged, emitting an invisible sonic wave from its mouth. However, having suffered before, everyone was prepared and immediately shielded their minds.
But they couldn't help but stop, covering their ears with slight pain.
After landing, Qiu Wenying also covered her ears while creating distance.
"We can't break its defense."
The group fell into a stalemate.
Fortunately, although the small stones around them were increasing, they didn't pose much of a threat. Moreover, the giant stone man seemed to only have these two attack methods: sonic waves or fisticuffs.
The formation of the seven people had long been scattered as they continuously tried various methods to break the yellow light on the giant stone man's head.
Unfortunately, the effect was minimal.
If this continued, everyone would end up with depleted internal energy.
The expressions of the seven people turned solemn.
The mission hadn't even started, and they hadn't seen the contact person yet, were they going to die here?
Li Chonglou also thought rapidly.
Based on the current situation, the stone man, connected to the earth, was immune to physical attacks. This meant that attacks using explosive internal force were not viable.
But the only usable sword qi couldn't break the stone man's defense. How should they proceed?
"No, there must be a way. It's only the seventh layer."
Li Chonglou calmed himself. He himself was at the seventh layer. If his soul hadn't been damaged, dealing with a beast of the same seventh layer would have been effortless with Elder An's fusion.
Therefore, compared to the other six, he had a sense of confidence in his heart.
Just then, Fan Li and Wang Liqiang simultaneously unleashed sword qi, attempting once again to break the yellow light on the stone man's head.
However, apart from causing larger ripples, it had no other effect.
But this scene gave Li Chonglou an idea.
"The characteristic of the seventh layer is its robustness, its internal energy can be inexhaustible, but this also has a weakness."
With this thought, Li Chonglou suddenly called out to Fan Li, "Captain Fan, you can try to break the surface with a point."
He himself was at the seventh layer cultivation, so he naturally understood the characteristics of the seventh layer realm.
Although he hadn't used his seventh-layer abilities after returning to reality, he had explored them in his sea of consciousness.
The inexhaustible nature was the greatest characteristic of seventh-layer experts. Conversely, its weakness was also the same.
However, while it sounded simple, it was difficult for those who had not experienced the seventh layer realm to realize this.
Unless they had someone who had always been at the seventh layer, or even higher, guiding them, but how many people who came here had such trump cards?
Therefore, Fan Li was initially a little dismissive of Li Chonglou's reminder.
However, as it was a possible approach, he could only call Wang Liqiang to try again.
The sword qi from the two just happened to collide earlier; it wasn't intentional. There was a slight gap in time, which naturally led to some discrepancy.
This time, with Fan Li's command and the two's tacit understanding, the two strands of sword qi landed precisely on the same point at the same time.
The next second.
A larger ripple followed, this time even extending to the yellow light covering the entire giant stone man!
Effective?
Fan Li's eyes lit up with joy, and he called out to Qiu Wenying and Wu Yin.
"Kill!"
With a fierce shout, four strands of sword qi were instantly unleashed.
They also landed precisely on the same point at the same time.
Chiu!
The yellow light shattered, and the four strands of sword qi finally struck the giant stone man.
It was just that perhaps due to the excessive consumption of the yellow light, the four strands of sword qi had been weakened to a certain extent, only leaving four deep scratches on its surface.
The enraged stone man once again let out a long howl.
The fierce aftershocks even stunned some of the smaller stone men, and the red light in their eyes significantly dimmed.
But the group was delighted rather than alarmed.
"Wu Di, you guys take over!"
After the stone man's mental attack stopped, Fan Li, ignoring the stinging sensation in his head, immediately spoke.
Four strands of sword qi were unleashed again, but this time, Li Chonglou and the other two followed with their sword qi.
Although much weaker, after the four strands of sword qi broke through the yellow light again, the three people's sword qi, combined with the remaining sword qi of the four, finally shattered the giant stone man's head.
Crash.
The pair of crimson eyes instantly lost their color. The giant stone man's body, like decaying stone, crumbled into pieces of碎石 and fell.
And with the death of the giant stone man, the red light in the eyes of the surrounding small stone men also significantly dimmed.
Many small stone men remained frozen in place, looking bewildered.
"Go!"
Without bothering to loot, Fan Li called out and led the group towards the other end of the wasteland.
After breaking out of the stone men's encirclement, the group saw a shocking sight.
On a desolate patch of land lay the corpses of dozens, even hundreds, of mutated wolves. Their blood had stained the entire ground, a chilling sight.
"Don't mind it, let's get out of here first."
The group paused only for a moment before continuing their journey.
After another half hour, they finally saw the end of the wasteland.
On the other side, green came into view – a mountainous area.
The people inside the cave also sensed Fan Li's presence. Xue Zhu shook himself and stood up, saying calmly, "Time to get to work."
Before long, the two sides met at the boundary between the wasteland and the mountains.
The two teams from Xue Zhu's side also stood separately, one led by him, and the other by Shan Gui.
And the young man, Xiao En, stood behind Shan Gui.
"Hello, I am the academy representative for this mission."
The missions for the Execution Department members were called academy missions when carried out outside. Xue Zhu nodded indifferently.
"Xue Zhu."
"Shan Gui."
The four were simultaneously shocked.
"Team Xue and Team Gui?"
The four exchanged glances, seeing the astonishment in each other's eyes.
These were top-five strong teams!
However, the latter had no intention of conversing and directly started explaining the mission details.
Their current area of responsibility was a basin within the mountain range ahead, covering the scope of six mountain peaks, a considerable area.
But because they were newcomers, they were temporarily assigned patrol duties.
However, Xue Zhu mentioned a point that immediately caught the attention of the seven people.
This mission was not only undertaken by them; there were also members of the suicide squad and externally hired personnel!
"So, the six mountain peaks were assigned to us?"