Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, page 1133
Streaks of brilliance surged out of their Cosmos Rings again and condensed into magnificent armored parts in the vacuum. Electric arcs were dancing among the parts. They were soon attracted by the jumping spiritual energy on the two of them and jumped to them quickly!
"This is—"
All the soldiers of the federal army far away activated their power rune arrays to the maximum. Dragging exhaust flames that were hundreds of meters long, they rushed at the space station like an overwhelming meteor shower.
The group of officers headed by Luo Qisheng was the strongest of all, boasting the few Core Formation Stage Cultivators in the troops. In the spirit of 'the blood of the strong should be shed first', they accelerated and ran toward the front of the 'meteor shower' even though they were at the rear in the beginning. As the sharpest arrowhead, they sprinted at the lightning that looked like gigantic boas.
They had already been prepared to attract a few electric arcs for Li Yao and Long Yangjun in order to share their pressure even at the cost of their own lives.
However, when they were only one step away from the savaging range of the lightning defense array, they sensed that Li Yao's and Long Yangjun's spiritual energy, which had already been off the charts, was soaring yet again. Dazzling blade auras were flourishing in the middle of the space torpedoes and the army of ghosts, which was as awe-inspiring as the brightness released by two stars. Then, explosions erupted on their bodies, and countless fireballs condensed into two orange balls hundreds of meters in diameter, completely consuming the two of them!
Before the officers had a chance to scream, the two orange balls blossomed like a bud and then quickly withered like a flower. The two of them broke out of the core. Their previously shattered crystal suits had been utterly renewed. With the attraction force of the spiritual and magnetic field, countless strengthening plugins had been attached to them, making them even more elegant, magnificent, and powerful than before. Li Yao and Long Yangjun's bodies expanded to almost five meters, too!
They were Ares Extensions, plugins that could maximize the combat ability of the crystal suits before the Colossi were unearthed!
Luo Qisheng had seen a lot of experts who summoned the Ares Extension that could only be used once at the most perilous moment during his hundred years of service, but he had never seen such a unique model before.
The Ares Extensions that were attached to Li Yao and Long Yangjun were filled with profoundness, elegance, and strictness. The complicated spiritual stripes were in a vintage style. After the new plugins were added, the two of them looked like primordial warriors who had travelled through time from the primeval age to the present day!
Yes. The two Ares Extensions were made of pieces of primeval magical equipment from the Nuwa warship in the Ancient Sages Sector by Li Yao.
Remnants left after the fierce battle between the Nuwa Clan and the Pangu Clan were everywhere on the Nuwa warship. Because the warship was buried deep under the glacier, most of them were very well-preserved. A lot of the magical equipment still maintained part of their functionality despite the passage of hundreds of thousands of years.
Before Li Yao arrived at the Ancient Sages Sector, the natives of the Ancient Sages Sector already considered the primeval treasures as marvelous weapons. Qi Zhongdao, the nominal leader of all the Cultivators, was the most typical one of them, having refined the gravity controller of a starship into a piece of unique magical equipment that was invincible in the world of Cultivators.
Yan Liren had used three giant swords from the primeval era that belonged to the Pangu Clan or the Nuwa Clan to deal with the gravity controller!
Although the primeval treasures applied to Li Yao's and Long Yangjun's Ares Extensions were not as good as Qi Zhongdao's Heaven Flipping Seal in terms of performance, the gap was not very large. Perhaps nobody else in the entire Star Glory Federation could afford such extravagance as to consider the primeval treasures as one-time, expendable goods!
Therefore, Li Yao had named the Ares Extension made of the primeval treasures the Primeval Extension!
With the enhancement of the Primeval Extension, the two of them were truly like ravenous beasts from the primeval age. Their speed was further accelerated, and they charged into the crowd of the space torpedoes and the army of ghosts, leaving hundreds of blurred shadows behind them.
Their target was very clear—the pivot of the lightning defense array that Li Yao had found out by taking the blow passively just now!
The defenders soon realized what they were up to. Countless space torpedoes and warriors lunged at them fearlessly, trying to block their attack.
But how was it possible when they were faced with the reveal primeval force?
"Break now!"
Li Yao grabbed an enormous saber that was 17.7 meters long but with an aura that had been extended to hundreds of meters away, suggesting that it could slash a starship in half. Dazzling brilliance surged out like a tide, while Li Yao cut everything in front of his way in half, both the warriors of the army of ghosts and the space torpedoes!
Long Yangjun, on the other hand, chose almost a thousand flying swords. Those flying swords from the primeval age had been rusted and broken. However, after they were refined by Li Yao, some of the sharp pieces were still kept. The sharp pieces had now turned into the best 'bullets', which turned into a thousand streaks of gold brilliance under the control of Long Yangjun's powerful telepathic thoughts. Interweaving into a deadly net of swords, they pierced through the warriors and the space torpedoes!
It was the real hurricane of flying swords!
It was the best example of one against a thousand and a killing spree in space!
There was no doubt that such brutal attacks were draining their spiritual energy at a crazy rate, too.
However, they were backed by thousands of soldiers of the federal army. They were not fighting alone. What was there to be scared of?
What was most important right now was to destroy the pivot and shut down the lightning defense array so that the soldiers of the federal army would not die for nothing.
After clearing the debris in front of them, they could already see enormous swirls that were made of dazzling spiritual stripes on the surface of the space station.
The most glamorous, complicated part, which was defended by the most warriors of the army of ghosts, was where the pivot of the array was located.
The pivot of the array was also surrounded by rounds of defense arrays that were powered by a few large crystal reactors below the thick armor. Almost ten layers of spiritual shields which felt almost concrete were protecting the pivot of the array.
Sensing the trickiness of the two intruders, the intensity of the spiritual energy was upgraded by several levels by the defender immediately. Yellowish colors that were visible to the naked eye were spreading out. Affected by the force field, even the rune arrays inside the pivot of the array were almost twisted, making it look like a weird eye that was shooting out hatred and fear.
The army of ghosts and the space torpedoes were seething with impatience again, trying to block the channel of attack between them and the pivot of the array.
After consuming such a huge amount of spiritual energy, it had barely been possible for them to sweep through the enemy so overwhelmingly, too.
"Now is the time!" Li Yao bulged his eyes and bellowed, with blood flowing out of his eyes.
Long Yangjun sniffed. The thousand pieces of ancient flying swords emitted unbelievable brilliance again and turned into golden ribbons around them, hovering quickly within hundreds of meters as the best defense!
Li Yao raised his right arm high and moved his fingers quickly, forming a sign.
Inside the Cosmos Ring, six enormous flying swords, which used to be the weapons of the warriors of the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan but had been utterly deformed after his modification, jumped out to the battlefield. The complicated spiritual stripes on them were illuminated one after another, and bright, orange colors entangled with each other, transforming them into six paralleled crystal rails!
It was… a special railgun. A unique, super railgun that was luxurious enough to use primeval swords as the crystal rails and pieces of the primeval magical equipment as the cannonball!
Li Yao had named it the 'Primeval God-Sealing Cannon'!
Attracted by the magnetic force, the Primeval God-Sealing Cannon slowly landed on the right shoulder of Li Yao's Primeval Extension.
Dozens of connection components immediately ejected from the right shoulder and the helmet of the Primeval Extension, allowing the great cannon to be completely melded with the armor. Li Yao's telepathic thoughts and spiritual energy were also able to flood into the great cannon from his right temple, triggering mysterious reactions with the pieces of the primeval magical equipment and the high-purity marrow crystals that were stored inside the great cannon!
Li Yao burnt his soul without bothering about anything, as if he was pouring his own soul into the great cannon!
Even the six crystal rails made of primeval swords seemed unable to shoulder the violent spiritual energy any longer and turned into translucent orange colors!
At this moment, everybody both on the enemy's side and on their own side sensed the weirdness and magnificence of the great cannon. Even the weakest, most sluggish crystal processors were uttering ear-splitting alarms. "High-energy reaction up head! Warning! High-energy reaction up ahead! Warning!"
The army of ghosts and the space torpedoes were desperately running forward, trying to block Li Yao's route of attack with themselves.
There was already no time. Li Yao had already locked onto the pivot of the array with all his telepathic thoughts.
Even if the army of ghosts did reach him, they would not be able to stop the roar that he had accumulated for a hundred years.
Li Yao clenched his fists so hard that they turned into two black holes. The orange flames deep inside the great cannon were expanding like a sun before the Primeval God-Sealing Cannon was launched with the maximal damage!
Chapter 1754: A Shot After a Hundred Years! |
Bo!
Li Yao felt that cracking sounds were echoing inside his brain again. The ancient memories that had been sealed for a long time were added with new gaps after being riddled with holes by Lei Yuqin's attack. Mental power that was almost concrete surged out of the memory core and swept across the entire brain!
In the meantime, on his right shoulder, boundless spiritual energy flooded out like a supernova outbreak. The Primeval God-Sealing Cannon, the Primeval Extension, and the super crystal suit Supreme Emperors Excalibur' were ripped apart by the violent aftershock at the same time and exploded on his body!
In just one moment, his mustard-seed suit was almost burnt to ash, and his skin was falling apart. His every muscle seemed to have been twisted brutally, and his every drop of marrow had turned into scorching magma. His internal organs were shaking violently like an earthquake!
The 'recoil' of the shot was too powerful for even Li Yao, a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator, to bear. He spurted out a mouthful of blood that was mixed with spiritual energy, which turned into eye-catching redness in the vacuum!
In exchange for such a great price, he launched a shot that could blow up the head of even a deity!
The soldiers of the federal army could only see a dazzling flash that seemed to be reestablishing the entire universe. The red torrents, made of boiling spiritual energy and molecular-level particles of the primeval magical equipment, were extended into a long, narrow red line several kilometers long within a moment before it hit the pivot of the lightning defense array precisely!
It was like a burnt, iron chopstick piercing into the eyeball of a huge monster. All the warriors of the army of ghosts and the space torpedoes in the path of the attack were shattered, vaporized, and obliterated. The multiple layers of the lightning defense array did not even stop the attack for 0.1 seconds before it dispersed into shining pieces of spiritual energy. Crimson brightness rose from the depths of the 'eyeball' and expanded crazily, like a circular tide in an ocean that was hit by a meteor. Destructive 'tides' were spreading on the shell of the space station. Wherever they reached, the rune arrays, the magical equipment units, and the automatic bastions were exploding and dying down in flames of various colors.
After only several seconds, the glittering shell of District 01 was replaced by dim, tinted colors, like an enormous glass ball that had been burnt!
The crazily dancing lightning around the space station previously began to cramp like the feet of a centipede that was struggling to live. After every cramp, the brightness and the range of the lightning would be slightly reduced. They degraded from dragons into boas, from boas into snakes, from snakes into earthworms, and eventually from earthworms into insignificant ants, dispersing in space amid flickering light!
The spiritual and magnetic field was completely disrupted because the thousands of electric arcs were gone at the same time. The perception rune arrays of everyone's crystal suit were creaking, as if the sole eye of the giant monster was really blinded by Li Yao, which made it scream miserably in pain!
The entire automatic defense array crashed!
The power of a single shot was as invincible as that!
The heated battlefield was seized by a few seconds of weird silence after the shot.
Everybody was dumbfounded and sweating hard. They found it hard to believe their eyes, ears, and all the other sensory organs. They could not trust the estimated damage displayed on the probe magical equipment of their crystal suits, either!
The damage of the shot was even more powerful than the barrage of a triple main gun on a main-force warship. Was the guy really 'just' a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator, not in the Divinity Transformation Stage or even a higher level?
"God… God bless the federation!"
When a lot of soldiers of the federal army stepped out of the space stations like headless flies into the cold universe, they were still filled with confusion, if not fear and desperation, because they did not understand what was going on and what they should do at all!
The orders from their superiors were not trustworthy. The extraterrestrial devils, which they had barely heard of for more than a hundred years, revisited the human world. The expedition army of the Imperium of True Human Beings was likely to assault the strategic locations of the federation at this moment, too. Troubles were arising both inside and outside, and everybody was panicking. To make matters worse, they lacked organization and leadership. Could there be a more terrible situation and a more perilous moment?
At that time, even the bravest, firmest, and most optimistic of them did not have the courage to imagine just a few hours into the future, which would certainly be unbelievably miserable and dark!
They were merely risking charging forward and fulfil their responsibility with their lives, driven by the Rising Dragon of the Nine Stars emblem on their chests as well as the honor and instincts of soldiers!
When they saw the dense space torpedoes, the intimidating army of ghosts, and the crazily dancing lightning, nobody knew how to break through the impenetrable defense line!
They knew how to die, but they did not know how to win!
However, right now—
Li Yao's shot gave them an answer and the hope of victory!
"So, there is such an expert on our side supervising the situation. We've got nothing to fear!"
"Is—is he a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator? No. I've seen the battle videos of the Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators before. Such a shot couldn't have been launched by a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator. He must be in the Divinity Transformation Stage. He must be!"
"The fire support provided by the Nascent Soul Stage and the Divinity Transformation Stage has completely destroyed the lightning defense array. What are we waiting for? March forward. For the federation!"
"For the federation!"
"For the federation!"
Wars could not be won by one or two experts.
But the splendid performance of the top-tier experts on the front line could indeed boost morale, tear apart the enemy's most vulnerable part, and add a fatal weight onto the scale of victory!
The shot drained almost all of Li Yao's spiritual energy temporarily. He had lost the protection of the crystal suit and the mustard-seed combat suit, too. He floated in the cold vacuum like a block of rotten wood.
However, he was not frightened, because he clearly sensed that the tides of spiritual energy behind him that were a hundred times more powerful than him were already set on an unstoppable rampage!
The 'meteor shower' made of the ordinary soldiers of the federal accelerated abruptly after a moment of hesitation, marching into the enemy's crowd overwhelmingly!
The army of ghosts hesitated for a few more seconds than them.
The reason was simple. The army of ghosts were actually being controlled by the 'Half Intelligent Battle Telepathic Thoughts Amalgamations', an artificial intelligence supported by big data. They could only choose the appropriate tactics based on the situations that were stored in the database.
However, even the most enormous database could not have imagined that there would be such a crazily extravagant man who could afford building so many precious primeval treasures into a 'Primeval God-Sealing Cannon' that could only be activated once!
Li Yao's craziness and magnificence was out of the database's bounds.
The warriors controlled by artificial intelligence were all cramping crazily, as if they were shuddering in fear under Li Yao's powerful cannon.
When they finally moved out of the infinite loop caused by data overflow, the soldiers of the federal army had already reached them!
