Forty millenniums of cul.., p.839
Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, page 839
As it turned out, since this was the first time that he had ever used the Erratic Light Cannon, he must have failed to control the rhythm of pulling the triggers but simply bombarded as crazily as could. The internal temperature of the Erratic Light Cannons was so high that the core control units had melted. Both shoulder cannons were now wasted!
"Cr*p. It's overheated!" Li Yao looked at Kou Ruhuo earnestly.
As the chief of arms, Kou Ruhuo was responsible for the allotment of weapons and magical equipment for the entire team.
The situation was too urgent. His soul was also shaking unstably due to the many violent collisions and was about to fall apart at any moment. His computational ability had hit rock bottom!
At such a time of life and death, there was no need to consider too much. After a moment's hesitation, Kou Ruhuo picked out a scarlet ball the size of an egg. He tapped it to the center of his eyebrow before he threw it toward Li Yao and roared, "I have unlocked all the barriers and given you the highest permissions of all the magical equipment. You can choose whatever magical equipment is suitable for you!"
Li Yao picked up the round ball and observed it carefully, only to discover that the translucent ball looked like half-frozen magma with particularly bright stars embedded deep inside that were blinking as if endless mysteries had been stored in them!
Li Yao sent his telepathic thoughts into the ball. All the 'stars' embedded in the ball were glittering. Thousands of streams of information stored inside the 'stars' were flooding into his brain unstoppably!
A 3D 'magical equipment warehouse' was immediately unfolded inside Li Yao's brain!
It was a rather advanced Cosmos Ring, which the aggressive magical equipment that Kou Ruhuo carried with himself was stored in. It was an out-and-out walking arsenal!
Li Yao shrieked in his heart while he watched the projections of the different types of magical equipment from the Imperium of True Human Beings swirling slowly inside his brain. Every detail was clearly visible, and all the methods of utilization were demonstrated in the streams of information. He was about to burst into tears!
Crack!
Li Yao clenched the scarlet ball in his hand. His telepathic thoughts flooded into it like a tide and enveloped one of the 'stars'.
After he slightly exerted his strength, the 'star' seemed to be crushed by him. Thousands of starry specs leaked out of the ball and spread all the way upward through the gaps of Li Yao's fingers, entangling his entire right arm!
Very soon, a second layer of crimson armor appeared on Li Yao's right arm!
The armor was not made of metal, and it looked as translucent as a red crystal. However, it could be turned around swiftly at the same time. It could not have been weirder!
On the crystal armor, redness was flowing and expanding crazily, enhancing Li Yao's spiritual energy to the maximum and producing a red claw almost ten meters long!
Every finger was more than two meters long, the sharp aura of the talons that was vibrating at a frequency of tens of thousands of times per second.
All the scraps that entered the range of the aura would be absorbed into them and torn into shreds!
This is the real level of the magical equipment in the Imperium of True Human Beings!
With the marvelous weapon in his possession, Li Yao was so satisfied that he almost felt like roaring!
Compared with the crimson crystal arm armor, the two Erratic Light Cannons that Kou Ruhuo installed for him were nothing more than pistols. It was obvious that they did not trust him and had only been willing to give him the cheapest weapons!
"Thank you for your trust, Senior Kou. I have finally felt the selfless warmth of the Imperium of True Human Beings!"
Li Yao kept the 'arsenal' to himself with no intention of returning it. He roared and snatched at the sphere barrier with the red claw!
Tang Qianhe thought that he was in the middle level of the Core Formation Stage at best and would not be able to bring out the weapon's full power. Therefore, she did not care too much about his attack but focused her attention on Kou Ruhuo's collisions and the bombardment of the remaining hundreds of spiritual puppets.
However, Li Yao had improved his capability to the superlative height of the Core Formation Stage easily. While he was waving the sharp talons, he was also attracting the metal debris from around, which was shattered and heated into five torrents of scorching particles, penetrating into the sphere barrier brutally!
Zi! Zi! Zi! Zi! Zi!
The five talons pierced deep into the sphere barrier, leaving five holes behind!
The two force fields completely entangled with one another. All the particles were interfering with and crashing into each other. The sphere barrier was immediately thrown into disorder and could not sustain the perfect sphere any longer. A lot of lumps bulged out on the surface, and many deep dents were appearing, too!
Kou Ruhuo was overjoyed. The Immortal Cultivator was tough enough to leap on top of the sphere barrier while grabbing a superstring cannon that was even thicker than his thigh. Weathering through the intense radiation and interference, he pressed the barrel into a deep dent on the sphere barrier and pulled the trigger brutally!
"Ahhhhh!"
Kou Ruhuo's inhuman screams were echoing inside the communication channel.
There was no telling whether it was because of the excruciating pain caused by the radiation and interference or because he was greatly enjoying himself in the storm of bullets!
Boom!
The spiritual shield of the escape capsule of the Pangu Clan was finally blown up into icy, thin crystals that were glittering and dispersing in all directions!
Tang Qianhe shrieked and jumped onto the escape capsule. "Lord, wake up now!"
"Kill him!"
Li Yao, Su Changfa, and Kou Ruhuo opened fire at the same time.
Li Yao's bizarre claw of spiritual energy, Kou Ruhuo's giant that was made of his Nascent Soul, the hundreds of spiritual puppets under Su Changfa's control… Thousands of streaks of brilliance darted toward the escape capsule like thousands of vipers!
The cracks on the escape capsule of the Pangu Clan reached the maximum. Finally, it could not bear the bombardment of spiritual energy anymore and exploded!
Huala!
For a moment, Li Yao felt that the space around the escape capsule was 'broken'.
Waves ten thousand times stronger than tsunamis were spreading in all directions. All the magical equipment on his crystal suit was blocked. The light beam went blank, and there was nothing but ear-splitting noise in the communication channel. Even the telepathic thoughts that he unleashed were like butterflies in a storm. He felt that the whole world was swirling in front of him, and he could not perceive anything!
When the dizziness gradually alleviated and his crystal suit returned to normal, the last picture that he was able to see was displayed on the twisted light beam!
The escape capsule of the Pangu Clan was shattered into pieces, which were floating in the zero-gravity space, mixed by transparent dews that must have been the energy liquid stored inside the escape capsule earlier.
The member of the Pangu Clan, however, was sitting cross-legged in midair in a solemn posture while making a seal with both hands against his chest. His two fingers were extended out, one pointing the sky and the other pointing at the ground.
Glamorous brilliance was emanating from his armor, too, as if it was being activated!
He was not woken up according to the normal procedure but forced to wake up because of the crazy attack from Li Yao and the rest of them. Therefore, his big, pale face was written with fatigue, and he was not willing to open his eyes for a long time.
However, when his eyelids were truly opened in the end, revealing a pair of eyes that were purely black without pupils, all the three of them were awed by the indifference, graveness, and coldness in the eyes!
"Merciful and almighty Lord, welcome back to the infected universe. Please free us from all the miseries and completely purge the entire world!"
Tang Qianhe's voice was as calm and soft as before, with barely any inflection.
Even after her true god had arrived, she was showing no sign of delight except raising her lips a few degrees!
Tang Qianhe picked up a cold drug from her Cosmos Ring and drank all of it. Then, she made seals with her hands quickly while she muttered spells.
From every pore on her body, thick, deep-blue fluids that looked like the hibernation energy liquid were leaking out!
The liquids seemed to be alive. Drawing deep blue strokes on her elegant body, they were… dissecting her quickly!
Sacred brilliance and a touching smile appeared on Tang Qianhe's pretty face that was about to be melted in the blue light. Her eyes full of expectation, she murmured, "Absorb me, Lord, and refill the energy that you have lost during the protracted hibernation. Then, destroy the tyranny of human beings and establish a perfect world where there are no wars, no suffering, no oppression, and no slavery!"
Chapter 1285: Regards from an Immortal Cultivator! |
Li Yao felt so creeped out that all his nerve endings seemed to be exploding. Tang Qianhe's enjoyable, hopeful smile on her face was giving him a strong feeling of nausea, too.
Dismembering her body and soul and offering them to the Pangu Clan?
Was… was it really behavior that befitted a 'human being'?
However, for the Pangu civilization, it seemed to be anything but unusual. Li Yao had once seen the pictures in the primeval memories where the Pangu Clan created flourishing lives. At that time, it was the members of the Pangu Clan who drank thick, black liquids and dissected themselves, allowing their genes to fall into the ocean and evolve into all the other creatures!
Since they did not even hesitate to dissect themselves, it was not hard to guess their attitude toward human beings, which were considered tools. Perhaps, in the concepts of the Pangu civilization, the dissection was not death but immortality in a different form!
But for modern human beings, such 'immortality' was simply too hilarious!
No wonder his foster father had said that the Covenant Alliance was ten thousand times more wicked than the Imperium!
No wonder!
"Stop her!" Kou Ruhuo shouted desperately. "After absorbing her, the member of the Pangu Clan will become even more formidable. We are definitely going to be no match for him! If he reactivates the planetary warship, all will be lost!"
Li Yao was greatly alarmed.
The members of the Pangu Clan were not literally 'gods' but carbon-based lives that were made of flesh and flood. However brilliant their civilization had once been, one of them could not be too strong!
However, once he completely returned to himself and found a way to activate the planetary warship again, there would certainly be dire consequences!
The homeland of the Imperium might not have been affected immediately because of the billions of lightyears in between, but it would certainly be a world-blighting catastrophe for the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Flying Star Sector, and the Blood Demon Sector, which were right next to the place!
Li Yao could not help but envision all the citizens of the Star Glory Federation worshipping the member of the Pangu Clan with a smile resembling that of a retard while they were suppressed by the brilliance of the Path of Ultimate Benevolence. Then, they dissected themselves into the most fundamental energy and provided nutrition for the Pangu Clan.
It was a future that was even more unacceptable than being the Imperium of True Human Beings' slaves!
"This is not the future!"
With a roar, Li Yao snatched the member of the Pangu Clan who was still in a trance with the bizarre claw of spiritual energy!
Parent civilization?
That's not a reason to not kill you!
Kou Ruhuo, on the other hand, aimed all the firepower at Tang Qianhe, trying to blow her up before she was devoured by the member of the Pangu Clan.
"The Lord has arrived. Stop your futile struggle and accept the purge. This is your only fate!"
Tang Qianhe's voice sounded both dull and blurred. After saying that, she leapt toward the member of the Pangu Clan with a smile of relief, dragging her glittering body that was about to melt!
Kou Ruhuo's thousands of whips of light that were flooding out were about to rip her to shreds, and Li Yao's bizarre claw of spiritual energy was about to grab the member of the Pangu Clan's face, when the member of the Pangu Clan opened his lips and uttered a series of deafening, soul-stirring primeval spells!
Every word sounded like a combination of hundreds of syllables, which did not break apart again until they crawled into the heads of the listeners. They turned into golden, shining stripes and tied, confined, and suppressed the listener's souls!
His voice became louder and louder. Infinite spiritual energy was also being condensed in front of him. With every syllable that he uttered, the most complicated character would pop up in front of him!
The characters were a hundred times more precise than the most sophisticated calligraphy that Li Yao had seen in the memories about the ancient Cultivators forty thousand years ago. They were all made of more than a thousand strokes that were all square and errorless!
The glittering, octagonal spells, after being spoken by the member of the Pangu Clan, immediately extended and expanded, as if they were unfolded from the second dimension to the third dimension. They were upgraded from a plane into a cube of sharp edges that had dense spells on all surfaces.
Boom!
The cube of spells exploded, blowing out thousands of torrents of particles that pierced the bodies of all three of them!
Li Yao felt the most excruciating pain from his bones, as if thousands of ants were gnawing his heart. The superstring shield outside of his crystal suit was shaking like a candle in a storm. A lot of units in the crystal suit had exploded during the moment. The Rockman was mottled and riddled with holes!
What made him even more uncomfortable was the weird sense of depression flowing out from his cells. It was harassing his every gene strand and urging him to worship and take the orders from the member of the Pangu Clan!
In his trance, the member of the Pangu Clan seemed to have become a true god and the only inviolable dominator in the entire universe!
The primeval spells took effect immediately after they were cast, and the fundamental laws suppressed and stole their souls!
Pu!
Li Yao's soul seemed to have been struck by lightning. His every cerebral vessel was leaking blood. He had been blown away almost ten kilometers by the storm of spells, crashing into countless scraps along the way. His back was covered in bruises, and his bones were almost broken!
When he finally stabilized himself again, there were the only last remains of the Rockman on his body. His blood was fleeing from his body quickly in tiny pearls!
His eyes were even dyed in the freshest redness by the blood. Even his pupils were almost entirely melted!
Kou Ruhuo and Su Changfa had been blown away by the storm of spells, too!
The dozens of spiritual puppets that were closest to the member of the Pangu Clan were all spurting out dazzling sparks before they completely went out of control in the cracking explosions.
They were either activating their power rune arrays to the maximum and flying aimlessly like headless flies or floating in the vacuum quietly with their limbs twisted and their light turned off, like the surrounding war debris!
The member of the Pangu Clan took the opportunity to snatch Tang Qianhe!
Tang Qianhe moaned in great satisfaction. Both like a cluster of thick liquids and like a furiously burning torch, she integrated into the brilliance triggered by the gray giant!
For a moment, thunder was echoing from the gray giant's body. The surface of his armor was brighter and clearer!
He stretched out his arms with a long roar.
The entire escape center was shaking in fear under his roar!
He lowered his head and looked at Li Yao, Kou Ruhuo, and Su Changfa not far away, the three mini creatures who were very similar to himself in appearance but multiple times smaller.
As if not entirely satiated, he extended his enormous hand to the three of them.
The information streams contained in the spells and his matter-of-fact countenance made the three of them immediately understand what he meant.
The member of the Pangu Clan was asking the three of them to jump into his palm promptly and be swallowed by him so that his energy could be refilled.
"Hehehehe…"
Kou Ruhuo's low and crazy laughter echoed in the communication channel.
Before Li Yao and Su Changfa realized what was going, the bald Immortal Cultivator had already lunged toward the gray giant's huge hand.
"Lord!" Kou Ruhuo's rough voice was echoing from the broadcast array of the crystal suit. "Please accept the sincerest regards from me, a true human being, to the merciful and almighty Lord!"
He became faster and faster, like a flying sword that was accelerating at the last phase. His voice turned into sharp arrows, marching forward with him. He seemed to be a great army on his own!
"Lord!"
Kou Ruhuo burst into laughter as he broke three of the gray giant's barriers of spells in a row. Waving his right arm, he raised a narrow, long saber and slashed right toward the member of the Pangu Clan's face.
"F*ck you!"
Boom!
Kou Ruhuo, who was less than three meters tall even with his crystal suit, was an out-and-out dwarf in front of the member of the Pangu Clan, who was almost twenty meters tall!
However, the saber of the 'dwarf', together with the long, scorching aura of the blade, left a dazzling trace on the member of the Pangu Clan's face!
The Immortal Cultivator's blade aura crashed into the member of the Pangu Clan's spiritual shield brutally. In the twisted force fields, both of them seemed to be in the middle of unpredictable alien space!
The attack was condensed by all the spirit of an expert in the Nascent Soul Stage. Although it did not hurt the member of the Pangu Clan's body, it was a major shock for his soul that had only just woken up.
