CHAPTER 84: CHAPTER 78: WORLDWIDE SENSATION, HUMANITY’S UPLIFT! (PART 2)

It was used for relocating the people.

But, yes, it was truly insignificant.

So much so that the donors only felt their bodies became a bit more comfortable.

However, in more and more live streams, people started to show astonishing changes!

In the Eastern Country alone, one video was pinned to the very top, going absolutely viral!

It was a man in his fifties, and visibly, he was becoming younger.

Even his gray-white hair had turned mostly black!

"What did he do?"

With the investigation by netizens, everything this man had done was revealed to the world.

He drove a large bus, and in just four days, helped evacuate thousands of people!

"This is a great achievement! Truly a great achievement!"

"All the cities are at the very front lines of the battlefield! He was really putting his life on the line."

"A magnificent person!"

"Doing all this before the Monument of Great Achievements even appeared, I really admire him!"

"..."

Netizens seemed to have reached rare agreement regarding this man; while the rewards he received made people envious, it didn’t make them jealous.

People seemed to gain a deeper understanding of the meaning of the word "great achievement."

But, at this moment in time, those with the most great achievements were undoubtedly a single type of person.

-- Warriors!

Especially the warriors fighting on the very front lines!

Clearly, all nations realized the importance of promoting great deeds, and the Eastern Country directly put forward a special character—the captain of Old Thirteen Squad!

"In today’s war, you don’t need to be nameless heroes anymore. On the contrary, you must inspire the people!"

Following the orders from above, all members of Old Thirteen temporarily withdrew from the battlefield, came before the camera, and arrived at the Monument.

At the same time, their achievements were continuously promoted on TV.

Each person’s battle armor displayed scenes of their heroic combat.

"They are the first batch of warriors to complete the Martial Arts initiation, and also the first batch of Martial Arts soldiers to enter the battlefield in support." Even the tone of the narration was extremely excited, "Just the captain alone, in only one day, eliminated 104 pieces of vine. They also helped over 50,000 people evacuate, and even paid the price of two martyrs for it!"

Even though only a portion of the combat footage was shown, it was enough to make people scream in astonishment.

Especially the scene where they helped a massive number of civilians evacuate—it shook everyone’s hearts.

The sacrifice of those two warriors was entirely a voluntary choice to let more people survive; they could easily have escaped themselves.

Now, facing the camera, even this man looked visibly uncomfortable.

Just keeping his expression tense.

With the greasepaint wiped off his face, he looked like nothing more than an ordinary man in his prime.

And when he arrived at the Monument and saw his own achievements, he didn’t hesitate for a second.

"Pour it all into my Martial Arts Cultivation!"

One hundred and four vines, over 50,000 people helped evacuate, and during combat he wore battle armor, plus all the main cultivation techniques he used came from Shen Yu.

So, the gray mist this captain ended up providing to Shen Yu reached a shocking total of 13,000 units!

This meant that by strengthening him alone, Shen Yu had saved over 13,000 people.

Of that, forty percent would be handed over to the Association as gray mist reserves. Of the remaining sixty percent, thirty percent belonged to Shen Yu, and the final thirty percent belonged to him.

That came to nearly 4,000 units of gray mist!

With that much gray mist, just how strong could one become?

If he cultivated the Golden Cicada Technique, this was enough to reach the First Realm!

After all, Martial Artist Shen Yu only needed a little over 300,000 units of gray mist to ascend from the Third Realm to the Fourth Realm.

The improvement of Martial Arts Cultivation works with exponentially increasing consumption.

And at the First Realm, what could one accomplish?

Now, the captain of Old Thirteen Squad showed the whole world.

Boom—!

Waves of air exploded visibly from his body; the faint True Power that was only barely sensed inside his body actually materialized directly into reality!

"Hah!" The captain suddenly leapt forward, and without wearing Power Armor, his jump reached eight or nine meters high—and several dozen meters away!

Not just the people present—even the countless audiences in front of their screens all screamed out at this moment.

They’d seen earlier footage of this man’s fighting—even when wearing Drive Armor, this was about as far as he could jump.

The camera moved, and happened to capture the stunned face of Shi Zhuang standing nearby.

Yes, Shi Zhuang was here too.

As an Otherworld mercenary fighting on the human Mother Star, Shen Yu hadn’t excluded them from receiving this blessing—they too could get thirty percent of the gray mist they earned for Shen Yu.

At that moment, the personnel responsible for guiding Shi Zhuang used a translation device in front of the camera to ask:

"Mr. Shi, how much do you think the squad captain’s Martial Arts Power has increased?"

"It’s incredible—absolutely incredible!" Shi Zhuang made no effort to hide his shock and excitement, "Back in the day, it took me at least half a year to reach this level, and I was already considered a genius!"

Yes—Shi Zhuang started cultivating at age ten, and only reached this step at ten and a half.

Even though, from his current perspective, this level is awfully feeble.

But how long did it take today?

Instantly!

Shi Zhuang’s excitement wasn’t for the captain, but for himself!

He never would have expected that an Immortal of this world would be so generous—generous enough to share their merit and mana with them!

Yes, Great Works Manifestation.

For Shi Zhuang, wasn’t this just merit?

God knows how excited he was when he saw Shen Yu’s live stream, and understood its meaning through the translation.

This belongs only to Immortals—merit that can even let an Immortal grow and transform, and now it’s shared with him!

Originally, he thought—even if Immortals were willing to share, they wouldn’t share much.

But now, he realized he was wrong.

This young man, how many people has he saved?

More than a tenth of what Shi Zhuang achieved?

"May I manifest my Great Achievement now?" Shi Zhuang, clutching the sleeve of his "Manager" uniform—a master of immense power—showed his impatience and anticipation for all the world to see.

"Of course, anytime," the staff member replied, stunned and then quickly nodding.

Bringing Shi Zhuang here was precisely to let him gain more power, so he’d have even greater drive to fight.

Given permission, Shi Zhuang didn’t hesitate another second.

He chose to strengthen his Martial Arts Realm.

At that moment, his realm broke through!

That’s right—one man plus countless javelins. With Shi Zhuang alone, he could easily defend a considerable zone; in the past few days, he’d helped evacuate at least hundreds of thousands, and his realm was already at the edge of a breakthrough.

This bottleneck that had held him back for so long was now so fragile beneath the power of gray mist.

Shi Zhuang’s body trembled slightly, feeling the entirely new power surging through him, and exerting all his effort to control himself.

Then, he suddenly opened his eyes wide.

"Go!" Under the gaze of millions, he used the little Eastern Country language he’d just learned and said, "Back to the battlefield!"

Now, there was only one thing he worried about.

Not enough monsters to kill!

And he regretted it deeply.

Regretted it so, so much.

He should’ve gone all out slaughtering before!

Saving people—that’s all it is.

He should’ve just grabbed, lifted, and carried those people right onto the ships—not one of them would’ve died!

Evidently, the unbelievable generosity of Shen Yu the Immortal in this world had fired up his passion and drive—the effort to get here was so worth it that he felt incredibly lucky!

But what Shi Zhuang didn’t realize was that his unabashed fervor had ignited the whole world.

"The Association is just too strong! And Member Shen Yu really is a hero!"

This phrase instantly went viral across every platform, spreading endlessly around the world.

Even though the apocalypse crisis was still ongoing, and people were still suffering and dying every single day.

Yet, humanity as a whole was now more inspired and uplifted than ever before!

This era, yes, is tragic and filled with peril.

But looking at it now, it’s also filled with unimaginable opportunities!