Chapter 221 - Shaken (1/2)

The world was shaken, and the waves were hitting harder and harder.

The deaths of Saint Peter and Adam were still not yet the most astonishing revelation.

Many throughout the world were in shock when someone uploaded a clip showing Lu Xuan hovering high above the air, summoning a thunder dragon to smite the Seventh Fleet.

No one expected any human to be that powerful, after all.

That feat alone exceeded the imagination of all cultivators all throughout the world.

Various heritages of cultivation throughout the world had been broken for hundreds of years. Many cultivators eventually came to regard the surreal feats performed by cultivators of the Celestial Realm, which were recorded in ancient texts and inherited within their respective clans and sects, as little more than fairy tales. They were unable to fathom how such godly beings could walk among humans.

However, from the looks of things at present, such feats no longer seemed to be the stuff of legend.

What excited the cultivators more, was that since Chu Yunfan showed that even mortals were capable of such feats, it was only a matter of time before they were able to pull such feats someday as well. By then, those cultivators would be regarded as gods among humans.

Other than the world of cultivators, what Lu Xuan did had also rocked those of yet another circle.

Said circle was none other than the higher-ups of various nations.

Everyone knew just how huge and formidable the American Seventh Fleet was, so much so that it was said that only Huaxia and Russia were capable of fielding a naval force on par with it. The remaining two of the five major powers were utterly incapable of even amassing such a force.

In an era where nuclear weapons were deemed off-limits, such fleets were the very weapons that formed the backbone of a nation’s fighting force. The Americans had been reaping all manner of riches and beating many who stood against them, armed with such a naval force.

They never truly suffered any setbacks all along.

The two Gulf Wars were more than enough to serve as demonstrations of the might of the American fighting forces.

However, at the moment, such a glorious fleet was severely crippled by just one man. The fleet lost over 70 percent of its ships, and casualties were over 50 percent as well.

The United States had never suffered such losses since the second world war.

Governments throughout the world were shocked to the core, as the emergence of Lu Xuan was simply too sudden, and his abilities were simply too surreal for them to comprehend.

If such a man had been able to reduce the effective fighting force of the Seventh Fleet to such extent, any other American fleets, or naval forces of other nations, would effectively be crippled from just one blow like that.

The Americans were probably the only nation powerful enough to avoid being hurt to the core by such an attack.

If other developing nations of medium powers were to suffer such an attack, it would have been more than enough to dismantle their naval forces once and for all.

The intimidation from one such attack was deemed to be of little difference to nuclear weapons.

Worse still, such a being was from Huaxia, and that earned the envy and jealousy from many other nations.

The American higher-ups were furious at the turn of events.

They had never suffered a blow so huge since World War II, after all.

If it had been the East Sea Fleet of Huaxia that attacked, the confrontation alone would have been more than enough to be considered an act of war.

Yet, it was simply an act from just a single individual, and that simply did not give the Americans enough reason to do anything.

“We definitely cannot afford to let him go free. The United States will have lost all its intimidation factor.”

“We must honor our fallen with the head of that guy!”

“We have to make Huaxia hand that man over, or we’ll start a war with them. War!”

Those of the far-right were furious, harping all over the place about starting a war with Huaxia.

But then again, no one bothered with them. Under the threat of mutually assured destruction, which could be brought about by the might of nuclear weapons, the five major nations never fought each other directly. Any confrontations were done either by going into battlefields without confronting each other or simply through proxies.

That was because if a war were to be started, things would definitely spiral out of control in no time, and mushroom clouds would most probably be seen everywhere.

As such, all that talk about waging wars were little more than chants of those of the far-right.

The higher-ups of the American government suffered a blow so huge that many declared revenge.