From here, Liu Xing began his hunt. He ran through the streets, slashing and shooting every abomination he encountered.

An abomination with half a human face and half covered in white fur stood at the side of the street. It died instantly, a red line forming across its neck as its head fell to the ground. Another creature, its lower face that of a dog, was gorging on the stomach of a spirit beast. It split in two, its right and left sides falling in opposite directions. A zombie-like abomination with two snake heads sprouting from its neck suddenly sprouted holes in each forehead, collapsing to the ground.

Liu Xing activated his Lightning Cloak and moved faster. The world became slightly blurry but not unrecognizable. Each abomination he found soon met its end. It seemed that while they had transformed into spirit beasts, their vital points remained prime targets for attack.

He slashed more necks, shot more brains, and pierced more hearts. Liu Xing was like a blade cutting through grass. Red blood with hints of blackness began to paint the streets and walls. The stench of blood under the morning sun made the City of Suns an ill-fitting name. It would be more aptly called the City of the Dead.

With his Lightning Cloak active, Liu Xing moved even faster. His lightning blade now extended several meters, and he swung it wildly left and right, cutting abominations in half. Blood rained down as walls around him either bore deep gashes or crumbled entirely.

As he moved deeper into the city, Liu Xing noticed the number of abominations increasing. At first, there was one every ten meters, then one per meter. When he reached the heart of the former city, he found himself in a narrow street so full of abominations that he couldn't see its end.

This street teemed with hundreds of of abominations, each with a unique and generally repulsive appearance, as if humans had been fused with animals.

Liu Xing considered using exploding bullets for the sake of efficiency, but restrained himself. After all, he had already given up stealth, but he didn't want to lure all the abominations in the city just yet. Instead, he leaped to a nearby three-story building with a balcony and dark, curving roofs. Landing on the roof's edge, he began to shoot. His first bullet flew toward a spirit beast in the center of the crowd. It had a head resembling a grotesque fly, complete with two antennae and large red eyes. The bullet struck its right eye. The creature exploded into a blood mist, its body remaining standing, held up by the crowd around it.

Liu Xing suddenly realized something. These spirit beasts seemed to have low intelligence. The abominations looked left and right, as if searching for what had killed one of their own. Some with large ears or animal features like rabbits and elephants had their ears twitching. Those with antennae waved them wildly, but not a single abomination looked up.

Realizing this, he changed his strategy. Instead of moving through the crowd, he decided to become a sniper, picking them off from his perch.

Lying on his belly atop the roof, Liu Xing began shooting. With his Lightning Cloak still active, his fingers moved like a blur. In a second, he kills dozens of spirit beasts. Each head he shot bloomed into a red flower, blood pooling on the ground below.

The group of abominations began to move erratically, pushing others as if they were people trapped in a burning train with the doors slightly open and everyone desperate to escape. Some crashed into houses and walls, creating a dust cloud that slightly hindered visibility.

Liu Xing focused and methodically killed every abomination in the street. Hundreds died in less than a minute, and a wide pool of blood began to flood the area.

When it was over, the narrow street was filled with abomination corpses. They lay on the ground, heads riddled with holes and limbs tangled together.

Each abomination had a low cultivation level, so the bullets he absorbed into his consciousness, while numerous, weren't enough for him to breakthrough to the next stage. Still, Liu Xing's heart hammered with excitement. After all, there were still thousands, if not millions, of abominations in this city, and they could fuel his cultivation.

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"Time to make some noise." He decides to lure more abominations to his place.

Liu Xing aimed at a spirit beast converging around the narrow street and shot it with an exploding bullet. The abomination, which looked almost like a werewolf, suddenly exploded. The blast was quite loud, and every abomination in sight snapped their heads toward the source of the noise and began to run as if they were guard dogs who had heard an intruder.

Some began howling, shouting, and cackling. An abomination with arms made of two dogs, but with a human head with the scalp peeled off, exposing the brain, happened to jump onto the roof where he was perched. Liu Xing aimed at its head and pulled the trigger. The abomination exploded into a rain of blood, showering the abominations below with red liquid. When it died, Liu Xing felt two of his bullets were made from its beast core. He absorbed one into his consciousness and used the other to kill his next target.

Liu Xing continued to dispatch the transformed citizens of the City of Suns. At one point, he decided his current position wasn't optimal, so he launched himself toward a tall statue in the center of a plaza. The statue depicted a man looking upward, his hands behind his back, wearing a flowing robe with star and sun patterns. It was the tallest structure around and the perfect place to snipe enemies.

Liu Xing stood atop the statue's head and surveyed his surroundings. From this vantage point, he could see far and wide. Numerous spirit beasts crowded below, as if waiting for a world-shattering announcement from a great emperor. Seeing the crowd, Liu Xing decided to use the statue as his base.

Liu Xing took his stance, inhaled deeply, and began to aim. His first target from this position was an abomination that resembled a child. It didn't have animal parts on its body, but instead had an enormous head that it had to drag along the ground as it moved. The sight was weird, disgusting, and pitiful, making Liu Xing realize that while he could be glad to use them to advance his cultivation, he needed to do so respectfully.

"May you have a happy life in your next life."

He pulled the trigger. A blue bolt shot through the sky and hit the abomination's head. It exploded into a shower of red, and as if Liu Xing had struck a wasp's nest, all of the abominations snapped their heads toward the explosion and converged on that spot as if Liu Xing were there.

Liu Xing began to shoot rapidly. He maintained his state of Flowing Meditation, occasionally absorbing the bullets made from these abominations' beast core.

The plaza below began to flood with red blood. Abominations moved around like headless chickens, screaming, growling, and cackling. They seemed to sense an enemy but didn't know where, so they moved randomly.

More and more abominations poured into the plaza. They emerged from streets and buildings, even jumping from rooftop to rooftop. Liu Xing, with his gun and without moving a step from his position, killed them all.

After more than half an hour, during which he had already killed thousands of abominations, a different enemy finally appeared.

This abomination looked more intimidating than the others. While most maintained their overall humanoid appearance with one or two weird traits, this one was different. It stood about three meters tall, with two giant gray elephant feet. Its bare chest bore the face of a boar, complete with two giant tusks. Its hands were made of two giant, wicked blades, their edges gleaming in the morning sun, and its head was a single giant white eyeball.

It sauntered slowly, crushing and slashing the abominations around it as if they were mere annoying insects before a mighty cultivator. Sensing its qi, Liu Xing realized this spirit beast was at the same realm as him: Lock Opening realm sixth stage.

After it arrived in the plaza, the giant abomination swiveled its massive eyeball around, its pupil swimming to take in the situation. Liu Xing was still busy pulling the trigger and killing the abominations below ase he observed this newcomer. He noticed that this giant creature fixed its gaze on each of his abominations that he killed. And after a few moments, it looked up directly at his location.

Seeing this, Liu Xing stopped pulling the trigger and turned to face the creature. Although he was still invisible, he had no doubt that this abomination knew he was there. After all, it wasn't hard to deduce where the deadly bolts had been coming from.

For a moment, the explosions and sounds of falling abominations stopped. Only the footsteps, screams, and growls of mindlessly running abominations could be heard.

Then, the spirit beast with the giant eye for a head pointed its right wicked blade toward him. Several pulses of wind rippled from the abomination. It sent the waves rhythmically: long pulse, long pulse, short pulse. Long pulse, long pulse, short pulse. Seeing this, Liu Xing's eyebrows rose. What was it doing? Was it sending a signal?