My Apocalypse System Arrives 10 Years Early

Mountains of bat guano piled up here. However, even this much guano couldn’t fill the cave, because the cavern was simply enormous. After Li Xiang walked inside, the extent of his Night Vision Superpower only made him feel his own insignificance.

He had noticed it earlier when he was blocking the entrance. He’d needed far more and larger boulders than usual, using dozens of them just to barely seal it off. Though he had guessed how large the cave was, he was still shocked after coming inside!

If it were just a matter of size, the cave would have eventually filled up over time. But Li Xiang discovered that within the small hills of guano, countless insects were crawling in and out. Clearly, these insects fed on the bat droppings.

’I wonder if the bats eat these insects. If so, wouldn’t that create a closed loop?’

Li Xiang flicked his Profound Iron Mountain-Removal Rod, sending out wave after wave of ultrasound. The dense swarms of bats hanging upside down from the cavern ceiling were instantly disturbed, surging forth like a black cloud that blotted out the sky.

Many of the bats couldn’t withstand it and plummeted down, though a large number were able to resist the "ultrasound." Li Xiang leaped up, brandishing the eight-to-nine-hundred-kilogram Profound Iron Mountain-Removal Rod, and created a flurry of afterimages. In an instant, he had killed countless bats. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

But compared to the total number of bats in this cave, it was merely a drop in the ocean.

Like a god of slaughter, Li Xiang fought his way deeper into the cave.

Then, he discovered that blocking the "entrance" with boulders had been completely pointless. This "cave" had more than one entrance; there were also various exits, large and small, in the ceiling. He also noticed pools of water throughout the cavern.

When it rained heavily, a massive current would form inside the cave, washing out the bat guano. This was likely another reason the droppings couldn’t accumulate too much.

The cave was home to all sorts of life—plants, moss, insects, birds, and beasts—like a veritable Garden of Eden.

Besides the bats, the larger animals included swallows, snakes, herds of deer, and more.

Lu Cave. Naturally, a cave named for deer had to have deer. That was how it got its name; it was said to be a favorite habitat for them.

This cave was extremely deep and wide, stretching two kilometers in length. At its highest and widest points, it was about two hundred meters tall and nearly one hundred fifty meters wide.

Even its relatively narrow sections were eighty to ninety meters high and wide.

It was undoubtedly the largest Bat Cave Li Xiang had ever seen in his life.

An ordinary Extraordinary Being probably wouldn’t even be able to hit the bats.

Most of the bats flew near the cavern’s ceiling or in its upper regions, and ordinary Extraordinary Beings didn’t have such a powerful jumping ability.

A Tier Six Extraordinary Being could jump fifty or sixty meters at most, but Li Xiang’s Extreme Speed allowed him to reach 1.5 Mach, which was why he could easily leap to the ceiling.

Moreover, other Extraordinary Beings didn’t have an ultrasound attack to disrupt the bats’ sense of direction.

The afterimages from the eight-to-nine-hundred-kilogram Profound Iron Mountain-Removal Rod moved with blinding speed, forming a black sphere three to four meters in diameter around him. This "sphere" "bounced" up and down within the cave. Coupled with the continuous ultrasonic vibrations, the bats were sent flying everywhere like headless flies. Utterly "blinded," they fell like snowflakes under Li Xiang’s assault.

Li Xiang unleashed his maximum combat power, using every skill at his disposal. After more than an hour of killing, his Spiritual Power began to wane. He had to stop, take out his wine gourd, and gulp down mouthfuls of Spirit Wine to recover his stamina and Spiritual Power.

After a short rest, he began to fight again.

Supported by an ample supply of Spirit Wine, Li Xiang’s endurance far surpassed what other Extraordinary Beings of the same tier could imagine. Besides, the sheer volume of Spiritual Power within him was already far greater than that of other Extraordinary Beings.

The constant system notifications became so annoying that Li Xiang paused them.

He focused only on killing.

In Southeast Asia, human lives were cheap. What did killing a few bats matter?

The bats here weren’t from a single colony but many different ones. Based on the system’s previous prompts, there were over ten species. The most numerous seemed to be the wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat, followed by a species with exceptionally long wing membranes, and another that had no tail.

Li Xiang didn’t pay much attention to the specific species. He had already gone into a killing frenzy!

It was like falling into a pile of "gold"—a treasure trove that could never be exhausted.

Li Xiang practiced every Martial Art he had ever learned! It was both a hunt and a trial to temper himself.

One by one, his Martial Arts grew more proficient. He continually gained new insights, allowing him to execute even more variations.

Before he knew it, more than three hours had passed. Li Xiang was fighting with utter, exhilarating satisfaction.

The three gourds of Spirit Wine he carried were completely consumed. He had no choice but to chew on some High Tier Spiritual Medicine—some of which was extremely bitter—to recover his Spiritual Power.

But he couldn’t worry about that now. No matter how bitter or exhausting it was, he had to keep going!

This was a challenge, but more than that, it was a rare opportunity.

Just as his Spiritual Power was depleted once again, forcing him to stop and swallow several types of High Tier Spiritual Medicine, waves of insight suddenly washed over him. He could no longer suppress the breakthrough to the Realm he should have reached long ago. With a long, continuous roar, he broke through.

Tier Seven.

Middle Stage Transcendent.

Typically, Tier Six and below was considered Low Tier, Tier Seven to Tier Twelve was the Middle Stage, and only Tier Thirteen to Tier Eighteen was considered High Tier.

He had finally set foot into the realm of Middle Stage Transcendent.

System: "Congratulations, Host, for breaking through to a new Realm. You have been awarded 16,000 Achievement Points and have received a surprise reward: System’s Otherworldly Warehouse side length x2."

Previously, the warehouse’s side length was 64 meters; now it was 128 meters. As a cube, its total volume had expanded to: 128m x 128m x 128m, for a total of 2,097,152 cubic meters.