"A year or two earlier than expected?" Li Yuan's heart skipped a beat as he had previously thought that Coach Xu Bo was only injured and his strength was damaged.

  Never thought it would come to this.

  It turned out that the teacher originally had only one or two years of expected lifespan left. According to common sense, it is extremely easy for a Yuanwu practitioner to live over 150 years old.

  Li Yuan was clear in his mind that as a teacher, at this point, he would probably not tell lies.

  "Hey, Xu Bo, want to give it a try?" Gao Hao couldn't help but say: "The medical flyer is coming very quickly."

  He is a martial arts genius from Jiangcheng.

  Although I have never received guidance from Xu Bo, as a member of Xinghuo Wudian, I have also heard about his deeds.

  "It doesn't matter."

  "Gao Hao is in charge, the crisis at Nan Huang Elementary has been resolved, you can go execute the next task, don't worry about me." Xu Bo shook his head heavily: "The sooner we purge the Fish Spirit Tide, the fewer casualties there will be."

  "Alright, take care, senior." Gao Hao's eyes dimmed slightly, and he stopped persuading, cupping his hands together.

  Buzz~

  An aircraft descended, and Gao Hao lightly jumped over ten meters high, landing on the aircraft. Immediately after, the aircraft quickly took off and disappeared into the night sky.

  Time is pressing.

  As a source of martial arts, he is extremely important combat power and can play a huge role.

  "Teacher." Li Yuan looked at Xu Bo.

  "How's your body?" Xu Bo looked at Li Yuan and asked proactively: "Is there any major problem?"

  "No." Li Yuan shook his head.

  "Then take you and my team, pull out the uninjured ones, form a new team, and have you lead it to continue with the next task. Don't stay here." Xu Bo's face was pale, but he seemed quite calm: "The team you're leading can still play a huge role."

  "No way." Li Yuan shook his head: "Teacher, I have to send you back."

  "Listen to orders."

  Xu Bo's eyes suddenly became sharp: "How can you not even listen to the teacher? What can you do by staying here? Can you treat me?"

  Li Yuan opened his mouth, his eyes slightly reddened, but he couldn't say a word.

  In his heart, as if a huge stone was crushing down, deep inside, there was a faint sorrow spreading.

  "Don't worry."

  "I won't die that easily." Xu Bo's voice returned to its usual warmth: "As martial artists, after half a year in university, you should have gone through several actual combat assessments. Can't you tell the difference between light and heavy, fast and slow?"

  "At present, the most urgent thing is to resolve the Fish Spirit Tide."

  "This is a disaster that Jiangbei Province has not encountered in over a decade, and one that the city of Jiang has not seen in over a hundred years." Xu Bo looked at Li Yuan: "Now that you have the ability, go and play your part."

  "Go!" Xu Bo said heavily: "Don't let me scold you again."

  "Yes." Li Yuan gritted his teeth.

  ...a few minutes later.

  The 16 survivors of the two Wu Corps teams were reorganized into a new team of 10 people.

  Led by Li Yuan, piloting a flying machine, following the arrangement of the intelligent system, continuing to start executing the next task.

  Vanish quickly in the night sky.

  Six people were left behind, either because they were physically weak or injured, and stayed to continue participating in the school's rescue efforts.

  "He's gone."

  Xu Bo watched Li Yuan lead the team away, struggled to get up, and followed them to the distant half-collapsed teaching building. He listened to the cries for help coming from under the ruins of the teaching building, his heart aching slightly.

  "It's all my fault."

  "If we can lure the Fish Spirit Clan away, it won't lead to a battle that causes the building to collapse." Xu Bo gritted his teeth and endured the pain all over his body, starting to participate in the rescue.

  Death? He had been prepared since the day he knew there was no cure for his illness.

  ……

  Black night, in the marshland.

  A large number of fish spirits that were originally hidden here are fleeing frantically.

  Buzzing... Buzzing... Buzzing... A large number of combat drones are gathering from all directions in the high sky, driving wildly.

  "Rat-a-tat-tat!" Metal bullets flashed across the night sky, crazily sweeping and shooting down fish spirits one after another, wailing filling the fields.

  "Boom!"

  In the vast wilderness of the suburbs, the heavy-duty drone finally dropped its bombs without any scruples, using radar and thermal imaging technology to continuously drop bombs.

  Deafening! The sound shakes the heavens!

  Further away, there were large numbers of ground troops composed of humans around level 10, combat robots, holding various thermal weapons, constantly advancing from the ground, strangling everything.

  On such a frontal battlefield, let alone thousands of advanced Fish Spirit Tribe warriors.

  As long as there is no second-order strength.

  Even tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Fish Spirit Tribes would be completely annihilated when surrounded by a massive mechanical legion.

  ……

  More than 40 kilometers away from the city center by the river, in a street ruins.

  "Kill!"

  "Advance on three fronts! Annihilate." Li Yuan's voice was cold and detached as he gave the order.

  In such a street ruins, it is impossible to use heavy weapons, considering the large number of ordinary people who are still alive.

  Only then can these first-class warriors have room to play their role.

  "Ahh~"

  A fish spirit warrior hidden in the ruins suddenly burst out, a flash of dazzling knife light cut through the darkness.

  "Clang!"

  The long spear swung, blocking this terrifying slash.

  "Boom!" Li Yuan's figure was like a flash of lightning, and with a loud whoosh, he suddenly charged forward, directly colliding with the body of this 18-level high-ranking warrior of the Fish Spirit Clan.

  It sent its massive body crashing outwards.

  "Hmm"

  A flash of gunfire streaked across the sky, instantly piercing its massive body, this scene was frozen in mid-air.

  Blood is flowing.

  The spear moved too quickly.

  "Pfft~" "Pffft~" Li Yuan suddenly withdrew his gun, the tip pointing downwards, and fresh blood flowed down along the barrel.

  This 18th-level Fish Spirit Tribe member's body heavily fell onto the ground, its body still trembling.

  "Bang!" "Bang!" Two more shots rang out, and the head of this Fish Spirit Clan's skull was instantly severed, its four arms chopped off, and its body split into five pieces.

  Fell silent.

  Li Yuan has always listened to his teacher's words.

  "You have consecutively killed entry-level creatures, obtained spiritual nutrients, and your spiritual awakening degree has reached 25.2%." A divine palace prompt flashed before Li Yuan's eyes.

  Li Yuan was taken aback subconsciously.

  "In front, killing six or seven first-tier fish spirits didn't get any reaction, and I thought it was impossible to upgrade the spiritual awakening level, and that only killing second-tier ones would work." Li Yuan secretly said: "It turns out that a single first-tier alien is not enough to increase by 0.1%."

  Li Yuan could imagine that as time went on, when the spiritual awakening degree was raised to 40%, 50%, every thought of raising spirituality would probably require killing a large number of alien tribes.

  "Then kill him."

  "No matter how many foreigners there are, kill them all." Li Yuan's eyes were icy cold, his heart filled with a surging intent to kill.

  Originally, breaking the shackles of the divine palace and further enhancing the awakening of spirituality should have been a great joy.

  But now Li Yuan's heart cannot be joyful at all.

  At this moment, he just wanted to complete more tasks and kill more Fish Spirit Clan members.

  ……

  For the entire city of Jiang, this was an endlessly long night.

  It is a great disaster that has never been suffered in over a hundred years.

  In the past, although Fish Spirit Star Boundary had repeatedly launched attacks, most of them were small-scale and only three times against Shizhou and Yizhou near the entrance of the star boundary.

  Is this a city? It has never suffered such a massive attack before.

  Therefore, when the Fish Spirit Tide first broke out, it caused astonishing damage to the entire Jiang City, with extremely heavy casualties.

  However.

  A perfect urban defense system, Sky Net, Mechanized Legion plus a large number of warriors made the entire Jiang City's war machine burst out quickly.

  Neighboring counties and cities also rushed to provide assistance at the first time.

  When the morning sun shines on the earth again.

  This unprecedented "Fish Spirit Tide" has been basically cleared up.

  Except for a small number of Fish Spirit warriors who escaped into the lake, river, or underground caves... almost all of the invading Fish Spirit tribe have been slaughtered.

  However, human warriors are driving flying machines in relentless pursuit and slaughter.

  A large number of mechanical warriors are also constantly tracking and killing.

  ……

  "Preliminary statistics show"

  "After a night of fierce battle, the city of Jiang has restored peace, and the Star Boundary creatures' attack has been basically cleared. The host's voice on the Star Boundary channel was heavy: 'According to preliminary statistics, this time the death toll in Jiang City exceeded 110,000, the number of injured exceeded 120,000, and economic losses surpassed... Roughly estimated, a total of more than 60,000 Star Boundary creatures were killed... This is a painful lesson.'"

  "This is a targeted attack on the vulnerabilities of our country's 'urban defense system'."

  "Have already reported to the Seven-Star Alliance, and will make a major adjustment in the deployment of urban defense systems."

  ……

  December 18th at 11:00

  Li Yuan and his team had not received another mission from the intelligent system.

  "The combat mission has basically been completed."

  "Martial artist Li Yuan, your battle video will be uploaded synchronously with the smart ring's monitoring... After the Jiang City defense war is fully over, a unified award ceremony will be held." Li Yuan received the reminder.

  "I also received it."

  "There's a reminder, let's go home and rest first, waiting for the next command." Instructor Xing, Fang Longhu and others chimed in, all looking at Li Yuan.

  After this night battle.

  They have absolute faith in Li Yuan.

  "Good."

  "Return." Li Yuan's eyes were bloodshot as he gave the order.

  Whoosh!

  The aircraft flew rapidly towards Xinghuo Nanhulu Community.

  Ordinary rescue mission? Ordinary people across the entire society have been quickly mobilized.

  ……

  Xinghuo Nanhu community, as quiet as ever, the flames of war seem to have had no impact on this place.

  Back home.

  Li Yuan and his family exchanged a few words.

  He re-entered the underground martial arts room and first ate a portion of high-yielding spiritual spring water.

  Then, he quietly began to cultivate "The Observation of Mahāvidyārāja Sutra" and "The Stars of the Heavens".

  This warhorse's relentless battle and injuries from fighting the second-tier alien species had exhausted him to the extreme.

  This cultivation lasted for more than five hours.

  Until five o'clock in the afternoon.

  Li Yuancai slowly opened his eyes, and all the fatigue in his body had completely dissipated.

  His internal injuries have basically recovered, and even more so, Li Yuan feels that he has become more energetic.

  "Yuanli originally has the effect of recovering from injuries." Li Yuan sighed secretly: "In conjunction with Guanxiang method, as long as it's not a fatal injury, it will recover quickly."

  Li Yuan's residual light subconsciously glanced at the Shen Gong panel.

  ——

  Life Rank: 15.9 (First Tier)

  Punching force: 17,345 kilograms

  Speed: 59.2 m/s

  Spiritual Power: 24.8 grade

  Willpower: 29 levels

  Spiritual Awakening Degree: 25.4% (Current Upper Limit 30%)

  Stellar Vein: Level 10

  Mastery Boundary: Gun Technique (4th stage 99%), Body Technique (4th stage 99%), Fist Technique (4th stage 99%)

  ……

  Judging from the data on the Divine Palace panel, apart from the degree of spiritual awakening, all other aspects have changed very little.

  But actually.

  This bloody night, everything he experienced was like a desolate street, dead ordinary people, the old and weak wailing in the collapsed building, Teacher Xu Bo... had an unprecedented impact on Li Yuan's soul.

  This is beyond comparison in ten actual combat assessments.

  "The Warrior's Duty."

  "Kill the enemy, protect the country." Li Yuan murmured to himself, and his understanding of these four words had reached a deeper level.

  This is something that cannot be compared with hundreds of "General History" classes.

  ……

  Six o'clock in the afternoon.

  Li Yuan rushed to the ninth floor of Guanshan District First Hospital and went straight to the VIP ward.

  Li Yuan inquired of Principal Tan and others, confirming that Xu Bo had indeed been sent here.

  He was originally a source of martial arts, and had made many achievements... Xu Bo was unwilling, but was still forcibly sent here.

  "Wan Shu." Li Yuan saw Wan Qinghe and another unfamiliar black-clad woman standing at the door.

  "Li Yuan? You're here?" Wan Qinghe saw Li Yuan.

  "Are you Li Yuan?" The woman in black stared at Li Yuan with a somewhat kind gaze.

  "Wan Shu." Li Yuan nodded and looked at the black-clothed woman: "Senior, who are you?"

  Through the Temple of God's investigation, Li Yuan was able to confirm that the black-clothed woman was a 24th-level Yuan Wu Warrior.

  "She was your teacher's former teammate." Wan Dianzhu said softly, "Li Yuan, let's talk later, you go in first, your teacher... doesn't have much time left."

  Li Yuan's heart skipped a beat, and his eyes turned slightly red.

  Crossing over two guards, he walked into the ward, where there were still many people inside.

  They all looked at Li Yuan.

  "It's Li Yuan, he is Lao Xu's student."

  "Li Yuan has arrived." These people were mostly ordinary in strength, among them a young man with a face somewhat similar to Xu Bo's.

  Li Yuan suddenly understood that these people in front of him were probably all relatives of Professor Xu Bo.

  "Li Yuan." The bedridden Xu Bo's face was as white as a sheet.

  Compared with that burly man who could still fight a bloody battle with the second-class alien last night, as if he were a god of war.

  It's like heaven and earth.

  "Teacher." Li Yuan's nose turned sour as he fell onto the hospital bed.

  Li Yuan can clearly perceive the teacher's vitality, which is indeed declining continuously.

  "Teacher, is your illness really incurable? Is there no use for the heavenly treasures and earthly gems?" Li Yuan's heart trembled secretly, still holding onto a thread of hope.

  However, Gao Hao's strength and vision are not low, and it is said that they are almost unbeatable, which is probably true.

  Besides, Li Yuan has also asked many people from last night till now.

  The answer obtained is either 'no solution'.

  Either it can't be achieved.

  "Don't think too much, I have many friends who are teachers, and even the Flying Swordsmen have come to help me before." Xu Bo lay on his sickbed, his voice very weak: "I can delay for a few more years, it's already a miracle."

  "I know what you're thinking in your heart, but can everything in this world go as one wishes?"

  "Even Dongfang Xi can't do it."

  "Last night, being able to team up with you and my own students to take down a second-tier alien was satisfying enough." Xu Bo looked at Li Yuan, the pale face's smile very radiant: "At least it proves that I, Xu Bo, will die in a blaze of glory! A glorious death!"

  "This is the best destination for warriors."

  "You also proved that I was a good martial artist when I was young and barely qualified as a teacher."

  "I had hoped to wait until you won the championship in the global university martial arts competition, but it seems like I'll have to give up on that."

  Li Yuan's eyes had completely turned red, biting his teeth and forcing himself not to let tears fall.

  "Xu Ling, come here, you've met Li Shixiong before." Xu Bo suddenly said in a low voice.