Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, page 1306
Also, the Immortal Cultivators from Manjusaka, with their high-level crystal suits and the magnificent vibe around him, were truly different from the bandits from the Land of Sins. They were so eye-catching that a lot of bandits grew hostile toward them immediately.
At this moment, the gray Exos had surrounded Xiahou Wuxin, beaten him to a pulp, and tied him up with barriers. It was exactly a classic scenario of interrogation.
The bandits had been somewhat suspicious about the weird shouts at the beginning, but they naturally took them to be true right now, thinking that Wei Xiaotian and the other gray Exos from the Heavenly Eye Legion including Wei Xiaotian had learned the coordinates of the secret warehouse.
After only half a second's bewilderment, a fierce battle immediately broke out.
"*sshole. Hand over Xiahou Wuxin!"
"You dare steal my secret treasury? Die now!"
"Protect the city leader! Protect the city leader now!"
The mobsters and the unorganized bandits came first, followed by the elites of the Godly Fist Union and those of Liberty City. They all lunged at the squad of gray Exos, roaring like crazy devils!
Wei Xiaotian looked more awful than ever. Having no other options, he could only go on a killing spree.
The Heavenly Eye Legion, as an alert troop from Manjusaka, was stronger and had the enhancement of the advanced crystal suits. Naturally, they were incomparable to the uncivilized primitives in the Land of Sins.
The ten or so gray Exos marched in and out of the crowd like hungry tigers jumping at lambs. All the tough bandits were shuddering in fear.
Wei Xiaotian opened fire nonstop. Wherever his orange barrel was aimed, only vague ripples spread out instead of obvious brilliance, but they transformed countless bandits into blood plasma abruptly as they broke apart in plopping sounds!
But there were simply too many bandits. Although the bandits in the front were scared out of their wits and tried to run, their retreat was blocked by the bandits behind, who simply pushed them forward.
Despite Wei Xiaotian's strength, after blowing several hundred tough bandits up, he felt that his hands were getting numb, and the 'array activator' was overloaded and in dire need of a half-minute cooldown.
"*sshole!"
Wei Xiaotian was so infuriated that he was gnashing his teeth. Vaguely sensing that something was not right, he glanced at Xiahou Wuxin, only to discover that the ground where the man's feet had been planted was collapsing because of an explosion.
Under the heavy pressure of the great array, Xiahou Wuxin fell underground, quickly leaving Wei Xiaotian's eyesight!
Chapter 2038: Parasitic Killing Intent |
Liberty City was established on the ruins of a prosperous city of the Marital Meritocrats Civilization, with debris as complicated as a labyrinth in the underground world, like a piece of rotten wood that had been gnawed by ants.
It was almost like the gravity arrays that Wei Xiaotian's 'array activator' activated were so powerful that the feeble earth could not take it anymore and collapsed directly, making Xiahou Wuxin fall below.
Wei Xiaotian frowned deeply. Slashing two bandits that lunged at him in half casually, he blew out two winds and threw away the four blocks of broken corpses. In the meantime, he did not forget to plant almost twenty crystal bombs on the broken corpses, paving a channel of blood in front of him with the explosions.
Wei Xiaotian stomped on the ground brutally and lunged at where Xiahou Wuxin fell.
"You want to go? Not so fast!"
To this moment, he still thought that it was merely an accident.
At best, the explosion could only have been caused by Xiahou Wuxin, who was cunning enough to detonate the earth below his feet and flee with the help of soil.
However, the next second, when he was about to reach the entrance of the cave, a creepy warning somehow flowed all over his body, pulling his every nerve ending brutally.
Wei Xiaotian's every orifice was constricted to the minimum.
It was almost like an unimaginable, undefeatable beast was lurking right inside the cave that had appeared out of nowhere, and the very beast had bulged its eyes, waiting for him to jump into the trap!
For a moment, the sound of fighting and screaming on the battlefield vanished. The only thing that could be heard was the vague breathing of the deadly beast that was ravaging his eardrums and heart!
DUM! DUM! DUM! DUM! DUM!
Wei Xiaotian's heart was beating faster than ever.
How is it possible? When did such a brutal monster appear in the Land of Sins? How did it escape our attention?
The thought only flashed briefly in Wei Xiaotian's mind before he reacted as fast as lightning. At the risk of tearing apart all his bones and muscles, he tried to change the angle of his jump and brushed past the entrance of the cave at a close distance.
Boom!
The moment he passed the cave narrowly, an intense cluster of black smoke spurted out of the cave, like the breath of a dinosaur.
If he had jumped into the cave without minding anything just now, he certainly would have been swallowed by the black smoke, embracing his doom.
Although he was not directly hit by the black smoke, Wei Xiaotian still sensed that the terribly brutal force had locked onto him tightly, as if countless transparent tusks had bitten his arms and thighs.
Strangled by such a force, even a cold and heartless Immortal Cultivator like him could not help but moan. Having no time to analyze the source and elements of the force at all, he hopped and sprang, fleeing as quickly as possible!
The black smoke dispersed. Like raging ghosts, it spread in all directions in rings with the cave as the center. Very soon, it covered the entire battlefield.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The skyscrapers lying awry nearby were also detonated by the crystal bombs that had long been planted below the cornerstones. As they collapsed abruptly, the dust they raised blocked the entire sky.
Wei Xiaotian secretly cried. As a result, it would be impossible for Manjusaka to observe what was going on in the battlefield.
This is an expert much more awesome than Xiahou Wuxin and at least three times… no, five times… no, countless times stronger than him!
Who can it be? The Fist King?
It's impossible. Even if 'Fist King' Lei Zonglie is some sort of spiritual puppet that boasts automatic learning and upgrading functions, 'Great Iron City' should be his limits. The dominance and magnificence were entirely different from the sordidness, brutality, and aggression right now!
Thinking quickly, Wei Xiaotian made the decision immediately. He wanted to command his subordinates to retreat and make further plans after the situation was analyzed calmly.
They were all jade, and the sinners were nothing more than bricks. It was illogical to hit bricks with jade.
However, the moment the thought occurred to him, he heard the screams of his teammates of the Second Special Operation Squad of the Heavenly Eye Legion.
Despite the number of sinners, they were all weak mobsters who were poorly equipped. With their advanced gear and their dominating strength, the Immortal Cultivators were able to deal with them before.
However, if a few experts who were similar to 'Fist King' Lei Zonglie, if not stronger, were hiding in the middle of the crowds that were like a surging flood, the situation would be quite dangerous.
They did not even need to attack the Immortal Cultivators directly. All they needed to do was hide in secret and harass the Immortal Cultivators, forcing the Immortal Cultivators to spare half of the attention on dealing with them. The mobsters that were coming at them fearlessly and unstoppably would naturally take care of the rest.
The Second Special Operation Squad of the Heavenly Eye Legion had dealt a heavy blow to the tough bandits and killed countless. With the bloody debts between the two parties, the tough bandits certainly understood the importance of taking advantage of the vulnerabilities of their enemies well and attacked them even more vehemently. All the Immortal Cultivators were mired in the violent turbulence, unable to move anymore.
In less than twenty seconds, the internal screen on Wei Xian's crystal suit indicated that the performance of his subordinates' crystal suits and their physical parameters had turned black, which meant that they had been completely destroyed and killed!
The next moment, the light beam twisted violently, and all the data turned into question marks. His connection with his subordinates had been jammed.
The killing intent that felt like a parasite appeared behind him again.
To this moment, Wei Xiaotian still had not figured out who exactly was harassing his subordinates and hunting him.
Frightened, Wei Xiaotian lost his earlier cool. On all fours, he slithered and crawled, fleeing in panic in the middle of the storm of bullets and blades!
Horrible! It was too horrible! Even when he was faced with the mutated beasts in the laboratory or Lord Wuying Lan, he did not seem to have sensed such terrifying killing intent before!
Several bandits ahead of him discovered him at the same time and realized that he was the leader of the mysterious combat squad. They all roared and lunged at him.
"Get lost, you ants!"
Wei Xiaotian's face became more hideous than ever, with an expression that was even more disgusting than those of the sinners from the Land of Sins. He did not slow down at all even if that meant his crystal suit would be slashed by the enemy's chainswords and vibration sabers. Two clusters of dazzling light balls burst out of his hands and sent the few bandits to hell!
Within a breath, he had already passed the tornado of blood and arrived at the edge of the battlefield and the black fog.
The killing intent behind him got more and more aggressive, as if somebody was grinning creepily next to his ears.
Wei Xiaotian shrieked. Instead of turning his head, he extended his left arm backward, trying to activate a new array to block the enemy's pursuit.
But out of his expectations, hardly had he extended his arm when he felt his shoulder blade turn cold. The 'array activator' did not function at all when his entire left arm was chopped off neatly, including the 'array activator' and the Cosmos Ring that stored his crystal suits!
Wei Xiaotian did not stop or hesitate at all. He did not even show any sign that he hoped to reach for his broken limb and pull it back. Like a gecko that had just lost its tail, his speed was not affected at all when he finally broke out of the black fog!
He escaped desperately, never faster or more panicked in his entire life, until he ran out of strength, and his body was entirely drained. He finally collapsed in the middle of ruins.
When he looked back, he discovered that none of his subordinates escaped, and the raging black fog looked even creepier and more mysterious than before.
Chi! Chi! Chi! Chi!
A cluster of white, icy fog spurted out of the fracture of the crystal suit, freezing the wound directly, stopping the bleeding, and depriving him of the sense of pain. Then, a layer of materials that were similar to gel was secreted and enshrouded the shocking wound. After it was exposed to the air for a few seconds, the gel was transformed into a silver shell like a new crystal suit.
There was no delight on Wei Xiaotian's frozen face.
He adjusted his crystal processor gloomily and reached out to Manjusaka.
"My lord, we have failed. You must have noticed the anomaly on the battlefield. Yes. A few experts showed up. I suspect that 'Fist King' Lei Zonglie is still alive and has found a new iron body. He even has several partners now.
"Yes. The enemy cut off my left arm in one attack, but I didn't see clearly whether it was 'Fist King' Lei Zonglie or somebody else. But it doesn't matter now. I request a railgun bombardment of one square kilometer on the battlefield.
"Yes, understood. What?
"My lord, are you sure? This will affect a lot of things and involve the 'epic quest' that is a hundred times grander than the Battle of Liberty City!"
…
At this moment, in an underground sewer five kilometers away from the battlefield, Li Yao rolled forward in squeaky noises.
Clang!
The super alloy chainsword that he had installed on the left side of his body broke and fell to the ground.
The tracks occasionally uttered unpleasant sounds, expressing their protest.
Li Yao sighed. The body that he had temporarily jumbled was too fragile to accommodate his soul. When could he be his perfect fleshly body again?
Then, he chuckled in amusement. Wei Xiaotian proved to be overly cautious and was truly scared away by his pretension.
In fact, Wei Xiaotian was certainly an expert above average. With the enhancement of the high-level crystal suits, if he had competed with Li Yao's ragged body right now, he would have made Li Yao pay a gory price in the bloody battle even if he could not defeat Li Yao.
Therefore, Li Yao had kept himself back and only intimidated the opponent with the air of the Divinity Transformation Stage, playing the trick of deterrence. The guy was truly shocked and fled in panic as he expected and did not even have the courage to fight back after the loss of an arm.
If Wei Xiaotian had been bold enough to fight to the end, Li Yao would have been caught in an awkward situation. He had to make a hard choice between revealing who he was and fleeing in a hurry.
But as it turned out…
I have a Cosmos Ring now!
Carrying the 'array activator' and the Cosmos Ring in which Wei Xiaotian stored his crystal suit, Li Yao could not have smiled more delightedly.
Chapter 2039: Establishment of the Anti-Sky Guerilla Team! |
Not far away ahead of him, Xiahou Wuxin and 'Fist King' Lei Zonglie, two sworn enemies half a day ago and two men who had lost everything right now, were confronting each other in silence in the middle of the sewage.
"Fist King?"
Xiahou Wuxin had just been pulled underground by Li Yao after blowing up the ground. In his dizziness, he did not know what was going on yet.
However, although the Fist King had changed into a new iron body, the release model to transform crystals into spiritual energy was almost the same as before. So, Xiahou Wuxin recognized who he was immediately.
The Fist King did not deny it at all. In a tone as cold as machinery, he asked straightforwardly, "Do you want to fight me again, or do you want to fight the 'angels' with me?"
Xiahou Wuxin narrowed his eyes, his face that was covered in blood cramping.
"Master!"
At this moment, Xin Xiaoqi, having been rescued by Han Te and Liu Li from the mess, ran to him in tears of joy.
Hearing the sound of his dearest disciple, Xiahou Wuxin immediately lost all his hostility. With a long sigh, his crazily expanded body withered like a balloon that had lost all its air. He turned back into the weaselly, white-haired old man. Glancing at the Fist King in suspicion, he then looked at Li Yao and asked, "May I ask who this senior is?"
Although he did not see what happened on the ground, he could easily infer that Wei Xiaotian and his teammates must have been defeated from the fact that everybody had appeared at this place safe and sound.
The Fist King's strength was on par with his own. Perhaps, when the Fist King was maneuvering an enormous body like Great Iron City, he would have been able to display incredible combat ability, but his body that had been temporarily jumbled together was absolutely no match for Wei Xiaotian.
Then, the only possibility left was this weird-looking… senior.
Li Yao smiled. "Is it important? If I were an angel, or Immortal Cultivator, such trouble would have been necessary. I would have a hundred ways to force you to confess all your secrets."
"Master, Han Te and Liu Li are both good guys," Xin Xiaoqi said. "My intuitions tell me that they are trustworthy!"
After pondering for a moment, Xiahou Wuxin glanced back at the battlefield and made his decision. "Fair enough. Let's go. I'll lead you to a secret warehouse where we will take a brief rest!"
Having been the leader of Liberty City for decades, Xiahou Wuxin was without a doubt the boss of the region. He knew the debris and the interconnected tubes deeply buried below the ground as clearly as he knew his own fingers.
Under his guidance, everybody moved several times faster than before. In several places that appeared to be dead ends, he could even find secret doors that were covered in dust and rust.
Every now and then, he would also lead everyone to rappel several hundred meters down through the iron ropes of the forsaken lifts.
Moving for half an hour in silence, they reached a place of darkness where they could not see their own fingers or hear any sounds.
"The Land of Sins was known as Martial Meritocrats Planet several hundred years ago. It used to be a highly-developed planet. Not only was the surface of the planet full of the traces of human beings, but hundreds of enormous cities were also established in places a thousand meters into the ground. Those underground cities are like enormous ant nests and beehives. Connected to each other, they constituted an underground world that was even more prosperous than the ground."
Xiahou Wuxin lit a fluorescent bulb, illuminating the ragged space around him into an ocean of greenness. While examining directions carefully, he spoke in a low voice between coughs. "When Judgment Day took place, all the cities on the surface were razed to the ground, and even most of the underground cities were bombarded into smithereens by the 'earth penetrators'. However, it was impossible to dig out every part of the surface of the planet. Therefore, a lot of underground cities were retained. Or at least, they were not as badly wrecked as the cities on the surface.
"The resource supplies of the underground world were highly dependent on the surface. Since the surface had been transformed into an unpopulated land with serious pollution and radiation, it could provide no more resources for the underground world. Therefore, those who hid in the underground ruins during Judgment Day were mostly killed. But the pathways, facilities, and secret warehouses that they left behind can certainly be made of use by us who have come hundreds of years later."
