Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, page 1131
It was the 'army of ghosts' that Professor Mo Xuan had trained!
The battle shells made of the bodies of high-level battle-type Cultivators in the past—combined with the Fighting Spirits, which had condensed the battle experience of countless experts—became a terrifying troop that was ten times stronger than the Grand Illusionary Soldiers in the past and could fight more agilely and independently!
However…
Li Yao was ten times stronger than when he encountered the Grand Illusionary Soldiers!
Hu!
Li Yao narrowed his eyes, but the excitement in them was undisguisable. His scorching eyes tore apart the cold universe and glanced at each and every member in the army of ghosts on his opposite. In the end, he seemed even delighted.
"Come to think about it, it's been a hundred years since I released my best strength to my heart's content!" Li Yao smiled, baring his white and sharp teeth!
Chapter 1750: The Supreme Emperor's Excalibur, Photon Phantom! |
"725 in total. Judging from the files in the ward, they were mostly above the Core Formation Stage. Although the bodies are not controlled by themselves right now, according to Liu Wenshan, the so-called Fighting Spirits are absolutely capable of simulating the combat skills of top-tier experts as long as the computational ability is high enough because they are made by combining the essence of the moves, tactics, and teamwork of hundreds of thousands of battle-type Cultivators!" Long Yangjun smiled casually.
She and Li Yao had established point-to-point communication through telepathic thought entanglement. So, there was no need to worry about Professor Mo Xuan's invasion. "The good news is that their bodies have been sleeping for too long. However great the bodies used to be, they are still definitely no match for strong warriors who train crazily every day despite all the stimulations of bioelectricity and the maintenance of high-nutrition liquids!
"However, the defense rune array made of the dazzling whips of lightning surrounding District 01 seems rather tricky. We must be careful not to be caught by them!"
"Got it. Let's go. I really want to know how strong an elite warrior from the Nuwa civilization can be!"
"I would like to find out how terrifying the legendary Vulture Li Yao is when he is doing his best and breaking all his limits!"
Li Yao and Long Yangjun looked at each other and smiled. Then, they did exactly the same weird movement.
They took off the crystal suits on their bodies!
In the darkness of the universe, where sunlight was darting gold swords toward the central area through the gaps among the enormous ball-shaped space stations, in front of the array of electric arcs that were as thick and ferocious as boas and the thousand lifeless soldiers of the army of ghosts, the broken crystal suits on Li Yao and Long Yangjun fell apart like colorful butterflies, and the pieces spread out into cosmic dust around them.
The two of them were only wearing thin mustard-seed combat suits. They did not even wear an oxygen circulation unit but were directly exposed to the vacuum of the universe.
"They…"
Behind the two of them, all the soldiers of the federal army felt that their hearts were grabbed.
The soldiers were people after all. Most of them were even ordinary people whose spiritual roots had not awakened yet. They could only be turned into a cold, efficient war machine under the effective command in a strict battle formation.
The commanding of modern wars was highly dependent on the network system. Without the network, when the highest commander was absent, even an ace troop might turn into loose sand and collapse abruptly.
There was no need to mention the 414 troop, which was just an unknown regular troop!
There was not a habitable planet several lightyears around Hundred Flowers City. It was just a lone space metropolis. Even if the city did suffer the invasion of the Imperium, it would be a battle between the starships of the two parties that decided the final outcome of the war.
If the fleets of the federation failed, there was no force that could possibly stop the fleets of the Imperium from tearing Hundred Flowers City apart.
Therefore, it was meaningless to deploy strong ground troops in this place. The so-called 414 troop and its brother troops were merely 'security guards'. Once the war broke out, their sole mission was to maintain basic order in the enormous metropolis!
The soldiers of the 414 troop had never dreamed that they would have to compete with experts who were once famous nationwide, although the experts had nothing but their shells left now!
After the soldiers entered space and clung to the silver balls like ants, having trouble to breathe under the double pressure of the cold universe and the enormous space stations, and especially after they discovered that Professor Mo Xuan had truly occupied District 01, controlled the automatic defense array that was meant to deal with the Imperium, and even sent out a thousand terrifying warriors to block the entire area, the previously hot blood of the soldiers turned into cold sweat. They looked at each other in bewilderment, not knowing what to say.
The soldiers of the federal army were not scared of death. However, charging at an elephant as ants in a battle that was destined to fail and expecting to be crushed into dust by the elephant without causing any damage to the enemy were not something that everybody was brave enough to do.
They were just ordinary people. They were made of flesh and blood. They had their emotions. They might shudder in fear with their mouths dry and their foreheads covered in sweat. They might imagine their miserable deaths when they were struck by the electric arcs later at the crucial moment. They might recall their families who were waiting for them anxious at home, which made them want to desert. They were just ordinary people!
They… they needed the prospect of victory, hope of brightness, and an ear-splitting horn to make their hot blood that had been frozen by the universe to boil again!
Ahead of the federal army made by the ordinary people, Li Yao and Long Yangjun had already taken off their broken old crystal suits that they had been wearing previously. Then—
New crystal suits, the most magnificent crystal suits inside their Cosmos Rings, darted out in dozens of streaks of dazzling brilliance as their fingers danced softly under their summon before the crystal suits were put on at a super high speed!
Shua! Shua! Shua! Shua!
The state-of-the-art crystal suits that were in different styles but equally glamorous, as if they were made by pouring out all the stars in the galaxy, consumed the two of them instantly, transforming them into two dominating warriors!
The two super crystal suits were indeed from the center of the cosmos.
With his identity as the captain of Team Red Lotus and the special representative of the Speaker, Li Yao had picked them out carefully from the warehouse of crystal suits on Firefly. Then, after days and nights of crazy modification and strengthening, at the cost of almost all the most precious units on Firefly, he had finally completed the two crystal suits.
Even the most ragged ship might still have some nails that could be of use. Firefly was carrying the rightful government of the Star Ocean Republic after all. Although its stock was incomparable to the Imperium or the federation on a strategic level, it was still not a problem to find two pieces of single magical equipment such as crystal suits!
The crystal suit on Li Yao's body was deep red. It did not carry too much remote magical equipment, but four coldly shining, high-frequency vibration daggers stuck out of elbows and knees!
They were the legendary melee magical equipment invented by the Supreme Emperor himself in the Star Ocean Imperium. They could trigger vibrations in a frequency dozens of times higher than modern 'vibration sabers'. Through the tiny, uneven vibrations, it would be easy to destroy the target's spiritual shield and to greatly increase the metal fatigue of the strengthened armor, eventually disintegrating the target's structure from the molecular level!
When waving such high-frequency daggers, tearing spiritual shields would be as simple as tearing toilet paper, and cutting crystal suits would be as easy as cutting tofu. Even if faced with the super alloy armor of the warships, infiltrating them would be no more difficult than digging a hole at the beach!
Equipped with such marvelous blades, Li Yao's crystal suit had improved his performance in the melee combat to the maximum. Therefore, the name of the super crystal suit was the Supreme Emperor's Excalibur!
Long Yangjun's crystal suit was as impressive as his.
It was a pure white, glimmering, swift, and slender crystal suit. At first glance, it seemed to highlight agility and speed.
However, behind the crystal suit, there were nine longswords that spread in a sector like the tails of a peacock!
Brilliance and electric arcs were flowing on the longswords. They extended all the way downward and dashed out of the crystal suit's back, turned into nine long whips of light. The pale electric arcs were highly condensed, ready to attack like fatal vipers. They seemed to be of an even higher level than the blue electric net on the defense rune array before them!
As the electric arcs and the auras of the swords flashed, the hundreds of square meters around Long Yangjun seemed to be covered in a hazy mist. She seemed to be appearing at every point in the range simultaneously, and yet she seemed to have completely vanished into unsubstantial auras.
It was the Photon Phantom, a super crystal suit that had adopted the magical equipment units from the center of the cosmos and was carefully modified by Li Yao!
A fire could only be furious enough when the wind was strong. The more powerful a crystal suit was, the more spiritual energy it would demand to be driven. Such crystal suits could not be used by any random Cultivator, or even any random Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator.
However, after Li Yao and Long Yangjun, two unparalleled experts, put them on, the hunger and agitation deep inside the crystal suits completely awakened their soaring fighting will. Their muscles were bulging, their veins were expanding, and their blood and souls were burning. The strength that had been hibernating for decades and hundreds of thousands of years was entirely released!
"Argh!" Li Yao and Long Yangjun both roared furiously, like angry beasts that had woken up. Surging spiritual energy rose above from their crystal suits and spread out to all directions, turning into crazily dancing flames at first and two overwhelming giants that surrounded them later!
All the soldiers of the federal army behind them were dumbfounded.
"How—how is it possible?"
"Is this really happening? Such magnificent tides of spiritual energy! It is almost a cosmic storm!"
Although they had blocked the external network, their spiritual energy probe devices were still operable. On the Combat Ability Detector, a standard gear for the federal army nowadays that was upgraded and modified from the Demon Beast Detector invented more than a hundred years ago, all readings were soaring madly and breaking the limits one after another!
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!
The crystal processors of all the soldiers were sending out ear-splitting alarms, warning them to immediately retreat and take cover.
The spiritual energy that was surging out of Li Yao and Long Yangjun had far exceeded their imaginations. All the readings indicated that it was more likely to be two main-force warships that had just been teleported to this place from the four-dimensional space than two Exos that were showing up in front of them!
"What—what level are the two experts at?"
Many soldiers of the federal army knew that the two of them were in the Nascent Soul Stage. They had seen the battle videos of some Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators before, but they never saw such appalling tides of spiritual energy!
"We will rush forward and destroy the lightning defense array first. Then, you can follow up!"
Li Yao and Long Yangjun's voices, enshrouded by their spiritual energy, were sent to the crystal suit of every bottom-level commander like invisible octopi. Then, the two of them turned into two unstoppable streaks of brilliance and lunged at the army of ghosts!
Chapter 1751: I Can Fight 100,000 of Them! |
The soldiers of the federal army witnessed a scene that they would never forget.
It was like wind blowing away clouds and tigers jumping on lambs!
The seemingly magnificent, impenetrable line of defense was almost riddled with holes and falling apart the moment the two streaks of brilliant broke through it.
Even the thousands of electric arcs were hesitating and shivering, not knowing where they should strike.
That was because their enemies were too fast! Li Yao and Long Yangjun, two super Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators close to the Divinity Transformation Stage enhanced by the super crystal suits from the center of the cosmos, were too fast!
Most of the soldiers of the federal army could only capture vague brightness with their naked eyes. It was rushing into and out of the army of ghosts like smoke and flying like a ribbon. Then, a lot of crystal suits on the enemy's side were already falling apart, utterly deformed, or exploding into enormous fireballs, with broken limbs flying everywhere. They all split apart and perished abruptly under the overwhelming spiritual energy, turning into lackluster space junk, which interweaved into abnormal swirls that turned into the battlefield into a bizarre painting.
It was not until they replayed the picture captured by the crystal cameras at a speed ten times slower than before that the soldiers finally saw how Li Yao and Long Yangjun raged in the army of ghosts unstoppably with their sabers and swords.
It was quite a weird feeling.
It was almost like Li Yao and Long Yangjun were from an amazing new world, where the speed was ten times faster, and they accidentally entered a 'slow world'. All the Fighting Spirits nearby, no matter what dominating and renowned experts the battle shells under their control used to be, were targets that were absolutely motionless in front of them and completely at their mercy!
The two streaks of brilliance rushed all the way forward, leaving two paths of destruction made of fireballs behind them, as if they had torn an enormous wound on the universe with their unstoppable sharpness!
Shua!
The high-frequency daggers pierced through three layers of spiritual shield easily, ripped apart a super alloy shield that was carved with dense defense rune arrays, and pierced into the chest of one of the Fighting Spirits without a sound. Before it was able to react, the bones on its chest were already shattered into pieces, and even the internal organs were shaken into a cluster of blood!
The high-frequency daggers were drawn out, and the wound caused by the super high-frequency vibrations quickly expanded. Because of the internal pressure, the blood and internal organs of the Fighting Spirit erupted like magma, only to be frozen into round, icy balls by the extremely low temperature in the vacuum of the universe, as if a blood red flower of ice was slowly blossoming.
Even a Fighting Spirit could not go on fighting when its body was entirely destroyed.
Right when it transformed all its waves into mental power, trying to assault Li Yao's brain, Li Yao had already opened his left hand in advance and focused a cluster of dazzling light, blowing up its entire head together with the prepared mental attack after one bombardment!
The entire process of combat was as fluent as a running river. It took less than 0.5 seconds from when the high-frequency daggers began to wave to the light cannon's bombardment!
Li Yao clenched his burning left hand, feeling that every pore on his body had been expanded to the maximum. Sweat was running out like magma. He could not have felt more comfortable!
It had been a hundred years since he had last fought such a gratifying battle!
When he looked back, he noticed that the broken limbs, the debris of the twisted crystal suits, and the broken flowers of blood constituted a devastating path of death.
Not far away from him, Long Yangjun turned into dozens of shadows, each of which was surrounded by nine invincible auras of sword. The hundreds of auras of sword made up a meat mincer.
All the Fighting Spirits that were touched by her would be absorbed into the 'meat mincer' ruthlessly and cut apart by the hundreds of auras of sword. It was even more miserable than to be killed by Li Yao!
Soon, the army of ghosts who were bold enough to block the two of them were all cleared. The Fighting Spirits nearby who should have been charging at them fearlessly were somewhat hesitant. They were all searching the database crazily and considering what kind of tactic should be adopted in order to cope with two monsters like Li Yao and Long Yangjun. But little information about feasible solutions could be found even in the enormous database that stored almost all the combat data of the Star Glory Federation from the past hundred years!
Those Fighting Spirits were all tilting their heads, as if their crystal processors had crashed. They fell into brief rigidness.
The Fighting Spirits that were responsible for remote attacks were still raining mystic rays, bullets, and flying swords toward the two monsters that even the database did not know how to deal with while hiding behind the defense array, causing messy ripples on Li Yao's and Long Yangjun's spiritual shields!
More than ten crystal suits seemed to be blocking their way valiantly, but on closer inspection, they were all weirdly stiff, with pale flames of spiritual energy popping out of the gaps of the crystal suits. When Li Yao and Long Yangjun brushed past them, they all exploded in brilliant sparks, as if they were welcoming the two of them!
All the soldiers of the federal army could only think of one word after seeing the scene…
Invincible!
Li Yao and Long Yangjun broke through the defense line quickly and flew toward the pivot of the defense array on the surface of District 01!
The automatic defense array was the most marvelous weapon to claim the lives of the soldiers. It would be a meaningless, suicidal mission to ask the federal army to march forward without destroying the array.
