Forty millenniums of cul.., p.417
Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, page 417
Every attack of Thunderous Roar would make the weapon bash Li Yao's chest like a giant hammer because of the recoil. Although he was struck heavily, Li Yao sensed that the Black Spider Death Curse around his heart was showing signs of loosening!
This—this is—
With the profound spiritual gas of the 80th level of the Refinement Stage and my seething fighting will, I can finally try to break the Black Spider Death Curse right now!
Li Yao was overjoyed by his finding. He further immersed himself in the pleasure of destruction!
He controlled his heartbeat consciously. With every heartbeat, a super explosive bullet would rush out, and he would make a step forward!
One shot, one step, and one heartbeat. The immense spiritual gas of the 80th level of the Refinement Stage bombarded the Black Spider Death Curse crazily!
His heart seemed to have turned into scorching iron, while the nine streams of evil black gas turned into earthworms screaming miserably as they were being burnt!
Excruciating pain caught him like vipers, but the tide-like ecstasies greater and greater swallowed all the discomfort.
Li Yao completely forgot where he was. Scarlet brightness blinking inside his eyes, he marched forward accompanied by blood and blasts!
It was not until Thunderous Roar emitted a click sound that he discovered that one of the bullet belts had run out and regained part of his consciousness.
Li Yao grunted. He finally sensed the agony as if his heart were being torn apart. His hands were also burningly hot like they had been soaked in magma.
He lowered his head and looked. Thunderous Roar was bright red, like a piece of steel that just got out of the furnace.
The plate on his hands had been shattered by the recoil, and his fingertips were chafing.
Cracks resembling spider nets had appeared on his breastplate because of the continuous strikes of Thunderous Roar!
In front of him—
Dozens of shooting stars seemed to have passed by from a low altitude, leaving trenches more than half a meter deep in the ground. Every trench seemed to be on fire. White steam was popping out of them nonstop!
Centered at Li Yao, the area of hundreds of square meters was caught in a weird silence.
No apocalyptic beasts survived. There was not even one intact corpse.
The broken limbs and the scorching rocks were mixed. Some of the rocks were melted into what seemed to be colorful glass!
Deep inside the grey mists, countless apocalyptic beasts were shuddering. Awed by Li Yao's unstoppable aura and the remaining scent of dragon-level apocalyptic beasts inside the super explosive bullets, they were silent for half a minute before they attacked again!
Li Yao groped for bullets, only to find nothing.
The super explosive bullets that Thunderous Roar used were all made of the cores of the dragon-level apocalyptic beasts. He had only refined two bullet belts in total. Right now, one of them had already been used up.
Besides, the weapon was too hot right now, and its barrels wouldn't be able to resist the enormous force. If he continued shooting in burst mode, it was quite likely that the gun would break apart on the spot!
Li Yao spat and put away Thunderous Roar. He unsheathed his saber, staring at the seemingly endless apocalyptic beasts inside the grey mists coldly.
Right then, he heard the sound of ocean.
An ocean made of machines and spiritual gas behind him was raging forward!
The elite warriors of the six tribes condensed into waves of iron and copper. They shouted and yelled and charged into the grey mists along with the drumming passing by Li Yao!
In the moment, Li Yao was like a drop of water that flowed into a rampant ocean and a burning torch that joined boiling magma!
The fighting will of thousands of people burnt furiously. Ripples as if real things were spreading out, influencing and enhancing each other!
Reverberation of fighting will!
"Sand Scorpion!"
Shi Meng suddenly appeared in his back and supported him, while he shouted, "Are you alright? You were mad enough to clear almost half of the battlefield alone just now! We were completely dumbfounded. What is that gun exactly? Truly unbelievable!"
Li Yao managed a smile, but his heart was still beating fast. His brain was in a mess, and he couldn't speak anything. The only sounds that he could utter were the roars of the primordial animals.
Shi Meng shook him hard for a while. Seeing that he was not heavily wounded but only exhausted, Shi Meng was greatly relieved. He raised his saber high and picked up his Wolf Fangs before he bellowed, "Iron Bears Detonation Team, strike!"
Dozens of iron giants in super heavy armor charged at where the grey mist was densest. Soon, the sound of explosions and battle drifted over.
Roars and yells were echoing nonstop throughout the entire battlefield. This battle of the apocalypse was much smaller in scale than the previous one. However, the two parties had met and engaged in a head-on battle from the beginning!
Li Yao took a long breath. His heart almost burst out of his chest.
Most of the warriors were blocked by the grey mist, but he could sense everyone's whereabouts precisely. Their fighting willing was burning so furiously that they were the brightest beacons in the mist!
Break! Break!
The enormous spiritual gas of the 80th level of the Refinement Stage attacked the Black Spider Death Curse without bothering about anything!
The Black Spider Death Curse, realizing that its doom was drawing close, stuck to his heart and wouldn't let go. It even condensed into needle-like bugs, trying to slither deeper into his heart!
Just when Li Yao's spiritual gas and the Black Spider Death Curse were in a deadlock, he suddenly sensed the arrival of new fighting will that was completely different from that of the qi-trainers but was equally strong!
Exos of the Great Horn Exo Society were standing on the hill like a hundred rocks while they observed the battlefield.
The endless apocalyptic beasts and the qi-trainers of Iron Plateau even tougher than them left a deep impression on the space residents.
"This is all due to the schemes of the Temple of Immortals!"
Lei Dalu shouted at the loudest of his voice, "If all the Iron Plateau natives below us are slain, the Temple of Immortals might still be able to get their way and raise a war between Iron Plateau natives and space residents!
"Our starship has been seriously damaged. Even if we run out of this place right now, it will take us quite a few days to fix it. If the Temple of Immortals has other arrangements on Iron Plateau, we won't be able to leave the planet on our own!
"So, the only solution right now is to fight side by side with the Iron Plateau natives below us and annihilate all the pests so that we can win their trust and get their help!
"Prepare to fight, Great Horn Exo Society!
"The right flank of the apocalyptic beasts seems to be made up by those better at remote attacks. Their melee combat ability must be very weak. Let's stab into their right flank!
"Go now. Show the Iron Plateau natives how real Cultivators fight!"
Thousands of power rune arrays were activated. The fulminations suppressed all the other noises in the battlefield for a moment.
When the Great Horn Exo Society started charging, many qi-trainers were dazed for a moment.
They were even somewhat vigilant when they saw the Cultivators in eccentric armor waving weird magical equipment.
However, when the Great Horn Exo Society turned into a shining blade and pierced into the right flank of the apocalyptic beasts, all the vigilance and misunderstanding was gone.
The qi-trainers saw clearly that, no matter whether they came from Iron Plateau or the space, no matter what environment they had been raised in, and no matter how different their understanding about the utilization of spiritual energy was, their blades were equally sharp, and their blood was equally red and hot!
Sensing the two enormous clusters of fighting will gradually joining together, Li Yao laughed out and lunged at the beasts.
A translucent mantis-like apocalyptic beast came at him, shrieking. Li Yao roared and slashed his saber, which seemed to have turned into a furious bolt of lightning!
Huala!
A thunderbolt broke out in front of Li Yao, inside his brain, and in his heart at the same time.
While the mantis-like beast was chopped in half, a stream of black gas darted out of his chest and shrieked in the air before it turned into vague smoke and disappeared!
One of the nine streams of black gas formed by the Black Spider Death Curse had finally been broken by him!
Li Yao couldn't have felt more satisfied at that moment. He felt that a shackle that had confined him for a long time had shattered. A familiar strength returned to his body. The range of his surging spiritual gas further expanded, too!
Excellent. This is the way!
With the reverberation of fighting will, thousands of people's strength can be gathered and help me break the Black Spider Death Curse!
Li Yao waved his saber. Spiritual gas surged out, and the aura of the blade was extended to more than ten meters away with sawtooth-like edges as if it had grown tusks!
After breaking part of the curse, Li Yao's control over his spiritual energy was even more skillful. His capability was instantly higher than a moment ago!
"Kill them all!"
Li Yao charged to where there were the most apocalyptic beasts.
Chapter 620: The Real Player! |
The battle lasted three hours, and by the time it was over, night had fallen.
There was so much blood in the air that the sky seemed to be full of holes. Even the stars were dyed a queer crimson color.
With a crack, the saber in Li Yao's hand finally couldn't resist his surging spiritual gas anymore and broke into pieces the size of fingernails.
But they managed to maintain the shape of a saber, enhanced by Li Yao's spiritual gas, and did not explode until the saber was pierced deep into a behemothic apocalyptic beast's internal organs, which were immediately minced into a pulp.
The apocalypse beast collapsed and stiffened. However, Li Yao stopped looking at it and picked up a dented saber from the ground. His spiritual gas surged out and decorated the common saber glitteringly as if it were the most marvelous blade in the world.
Li Yao couldn't remember how many sabers he had broken.
He only knew that the blades and weapons he carried with himself had been used up an hour ago.
Even the Sky Scorpion Armor crafted out of the shells of apocalyptic beasts was riddled with holes and cracks.
However, his fighting will did not perish with his weapons. Instead, it was even higher than before as the slaughter continued.
For three hours, he had attacked the Death Curse with the reverberating fighting will and broken six shackles.
With each shackle broken, his control over spiritual energy grew more delicate, and the range of his surging spiritual gas expanded even further!
Just when he was going to summon his spiritual gas and blow up the last three shackles, he suddenly felt empty, and he could see the mountains and crags thousands of meters away. However, there were no more apocalyptic beasts in between.
Li Yao was at a loss, not knowing where he should go to.
Shi Meng and another member of the Iron Bears Detonation Team, on the other hand, hurried to drag him and shouted into his ears, "Sand Scorpion, wake up! Stop fighting. You are going to be mentally deranged!"
As it turned out, when they saw that Li Yao was fighting more and more bravely like a crazy devil, they thought that he had become addicted to the pleasure of killing and was about to become a monster who knew nothing but slaughtering.
Shi Meng clicked his tongue and shouted, "Sand Scorpion, what drugs did you take today to make you so insane? Do you know how many dragon-level apocalyptic beasts you've slain? The qi-trainers of the other five tribes did not even dare to come close to you and fight by your side. They feared that you wouldn't recognize who they were and kill them in your delirium!
"I thought you were tough enough in the previous battle of apocalypse, but I didn't expect that you would be ten times fiercer today!"
Li Yao licked his dry lips. The last three shackles still confined his heart and made him unable to condense his spiritual gas and advance into the Building Foundation Stage. He was quite upset.
He was hoping to continue slaughtering the apocalyptic beasts, but all he could see in the grey mist were his companions.
The roars of the apocalyptic beasts were replaced by cheers of joy.
"We've won!"
Shi Meng listened attentively for a while, before he raised his saber and said merrily, "We've annihilated all the apocalyptic beasts!"
"So easy?"
Li Yao took a rest. The previous prolonged battle of the apocalypse was still as fresh as yesterday in his mind. How come this outbreak was so lethargic?
Although the warriors present were all elites of the six tribes and Cultivators who had offered their help, Li Yao still felt that the ending had been too abrupt and something was wrong.
"Last time, it was a fully mature egg of apocalypse, but this time, it's only a hasty outbreak. Chances are that the egg of apocalypse only just started brewing the beasts. It goes without saying that their intensities are different!" Shi Meng grinned. "Anyway, there are no apocalyptic beasts anywhere close. The grey mist is dispersing, too. This must be all of them!"
Several True Qi tanks turned on their headlights and patrolled the battlefield, picking up the injured and the deceased.
When everybody gathered in the entrance of the valley and did a headcount, they discovered that approximately two hundred people had passed away and all the rest were seriously wounded and exhausted. Their ammunition and True Qi containers were running low, and their weapons and blades were all severely damaged.
Many qi-trainers were so exhausted that they did not have any strength left. They couldn't even stand on their feet. Some other people had even passed out now that the battle was over.
Everybody was stained with dust and blood. Iron Plateau natives and space residents were no longer distinguishable. True Qi armor and crystal suits were all wasted iron and copper when they were broken. Cultivators of the Great Horn Exo Society and qi-trainers of the six tribes leaned against each other and breathed heavily on the ground.
For a battle of apocalypse, it was already an unbelievably small loss.
"Be cautious, everybody. Brace for the second wave of apocalyptic beasts. Turn on all the tanks. We will march out of the grey mist in ten minutes!" the chief of the Giant Axe Tribe shouted on a drumming tank.
He was the commander-in-chief of the battle. After all, the place was full of peril. It would be the best if they left the place as soon as they found all the injured warriors!
But Li Yao's heart was pounding, and he frowned deeply because he thought that the victory had come too easily.
Suddenly, he remembered Xiong Wuji's words.
One egg of apocalypse could only absorb limited resources from underground.
If the small fries that it produced were too weak, it was a sign that most of the resources had been dedicated to an extremely strong apocalyptic beast!
Li Yao swallowed and said, his voice tremoring, "Shi Meng, did you kill any calamity-level apocalyptic beasts? It is my understanding that one calamity-level apocalyptic beast comes with every outbreak of eggs of apocalypse."
Shi Meng was dazed. He shuddered, too, and replied, "I didn't seem to run into any strong beings close to the calamity level.
"However, since the egg of apocalypse was detonated by force, maybe the calamity-level beast was still too young and was killed in the explosion. It is not unlikely."
Li Yao didn't believe that The Temple of Immortals' arrangements would be so simple. He suddenly jumped to his feet and shouted excitedly, waving his arms, "Don't relax. Stay alarmed. The battle is not over yet!"
The warriors of the six tribes had seen his insane bravery just now and more or less considered him to be the strongest expert in the younger generation. They were not unwilling to listen to his warning, but the fierce combat in the last three hours had drained everyone's spiritual gas. They were merely fighting with the support of their fighting will.
But right now, all the apocalyptic beasts they could see had been cleared. Their stress had been removed. Many of them couldn't even move their fingers while they were sitting on the ground, let alone standing up and holding their weapons!
Right then, the grey mist in front of everyone became hazy again, while heavy footsteps in a fixed rhythm came over from the depths of the grey mist.
An enormous apocalyptic beast was walking toward everybody unhurriedly!
Before the apocalyptic beast showed itself, the air was already frozen. An invisible mountain seemed to have fallen from the sky and buried everyone.
Such an intimidating aura only suggested one thing—a calamity-level apocalyptic beast was coming!
Li Yao could feel his heart palpitating as he gazed at the grey mist with his eyes wide open.
The grey mist gradually split like a curtain being pulled, revealing a brand-new apocalyptic beast.
The apocalyptic beast was rather skinny for a calamity-level apocalyptic beast, and it was no more than five meters tall.
It was like a combination of the forelegs of a mantis, the body of a tarantula, and the tail of a scorpion. However, it didn't give any sense of ugliness typical of the jumbled demon beasts or carry any hideousness that belonged to insects. Surrounded by a thin, bright aura, it was weirdly graceful and majestic!
It was like a tyrant standing in its own palace!
"Ah!"
Many qi-trainers gasped and screamed in disbelief.
The front end of the insect body was connected by countless purple gold veins and nerves to the upper body of a human being!
If the lower half body that looked like an insect was ignored, the upper half body of the human would have looked immaculate. Every muscle was shining in glamorous colors. Magnificent blood stripes identical to the tattoos on the Titan Warriors were flowing on the skin slowly as if they were alive!
