Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, page 572
As a result, the blades of the Eight-Armed Demonic Apes kissed their companions, and the bullets and acid all hit their teammates nearby precisely in the head, too. Sparks of blood were spluttering everywhere. A bloody mist seemed to be rising inside the obscure forest!
Hooo!
Before the dead bodies of the Eight-Armed Demonic Apes fell to the ground, dozens of streaks of whiteness lunged close. Their body size expanded while they were still in midair. Their pure white fur was ripped apart, revealing the tattoos that looked like bloody crescent moons!
The Blood Moon Wolf Raiders in their ultimate form were more like combinations of wolves and bears than just wolves. They were almost five meters tall when they stood up, and they gazed at Li Yao with their eyes that looked like two orange lanterns!
Chapter 859: Cell Obliterating Cannon! |
However, what they had locked onto was nothing but Li Yao's blurred shadow, which was also mixed with intense demonic energy and gave everything the feeling that it was the real entity.
It was not until their sharp claws ripped the blurred shadow apart, turning it into almost transparent air currents, that the Blood Moon Wolf Raiders realized that something was not right.
But there was no time!
The Blood Moon Wolf Raider at the back of the team screamed in pain as his chest exploded like a blossoming flower. A bloody shadow dashed out of the beast's chest, covered entirely in the wolf blood, which made his scent no different from that of other Blood Moon Wolf Raiders.
"Hooooo!"
The Blood Moon Wolf Raider next to him snatched at the bloody shadow, the sharp claws tearing apart the air and breaking the sonic barrier, and held Li Yao's left hand hard.
Hum! Hum! Hum! Hum!
The bone blade on Li Yao's elbow oscillated at a frequency higher than ten thousand times per second. The force of the vibration was transmitted to Li Yao's palm and then flooded into the enemy's arm.
Pu!
The entire left arm of the Blood Moon Wolf Raider, because of the intense vibration, exploded into a cluster of bloody mist!
Before he had the chance to scream, Li Yao had already kicked him into midair.
Hum! Hum! Hum! Hum!
In the sky, the swarm of insects that looked like a colorful yet venomous cloud finally arrived.
The insects were like extremely corrosive water. Wherever they landed, they would consume the tree leaves together with the branches, leaving absolutely nothing.
They were known as 'Floral Locusts', whose mouthparts could secrete a huge amount of corrosive liquids, allowing them to corrode their preys into mush before they enjoyed their meal. Such liquid was so destructive that even Cultivators in crystal suits might hesitate to get in touch with them.
The heavily wounded Blood Moon Wolf Raider happened to be kicked into the swarm of Floral Locusts.
The Floral Locusts were bloodthirsty and yet very unintelligent. How could the Blood Moon Wolf Raider, who was soaked in blood because of the broken left arm, get away from them?
The Floral Locusts surrounded the beast as if he were wearing a thick garment of insects. The miserable scream only lasted half a second, before it was replaced by weird, chewing noises.
A moment later, bones that were riddled with holes fell off from the group of insects one after another.
Despite the brutality and ruthlessness of the Blood Moon Wolf Raiders, they all secretly clicked their tongues. They might not have been afraid of death, but such a shocking way of death was enough to make the boldest of them hesitate.
Pa! Pa! Pa!
Li Yao certainly would not let go of such a great opportunity. His bloody shadow dashed between the Blood Moon Wolf Raiders, and none of them could resist any of his attacks. They all ended up being kicked into the sky after one of the limbs was broken. The flying Floral Locusts in the sky refused none of them and turned all the heavily wounded Blood Moon Wolf Raiders into piles of bones.
Higher in the sky, dozens of Mirage Falcons were still hovering stealthily, with their feathers that were almost transparent rising and falling, which kept them in the supersonic state although their range of activity was less than a thousand square meters. Fierce wind was blowing in the middle of the birds.
On the center of the Mirage Falcons, the feathers slightly rose up, and, together with the collapsed muscles on the back, constituted a natural cockpit in which two members of the Feather Clan, one in the front and the other in the back, were sitting.
Their brains were connected to the brain of the Mirage Falcon with the tensile nerve tracts.
Inside the cockpit of a Mirage Falcon whose feathers were particularly glamorous and was exceptionally large, a demon with an eagle head, a human body, and purple and blue wings was observing the situation of the battle with the eyes of the Mirage Falcon, sneering every once in a while.
"Young master."
His co-pilot sitting behind him who was in charge of the attack and the defense of the Mirage Falcon asked, somewhat worriedly, "Forces of the Kingdom of Lion Butchers and the Nether Spring Kingdom seem to be unable to hold it any longer. Shall we give them a hand?"
"I didn't know that I still underestimated the b*tch's capability."
The demon who was addressed as 'young master' chuckled and said casually, "We have removed all her loyal subordinates in the Gold Crow Kingdom. I thought that she would be a sure catch. I didn't know that she had other arrangements. She has somehow hired such an intimidating expert to help her.
"Judging from his appearance, it is very likely that the expert is in the beginning level of the demon emperor state. No wonder even Yuan Hao of the Nether Spring Kingdom was killed by him and the b*tch.
"The b*tch has indeed got something with her, but I wonder, how did she convince such an expert to fight for her?
"However, there is no need for us to do anything. They're all from the Kingdom of Lion Butchers and the Nether Spring Kingdom anyway. What's the problem if some of them are accidentally killed? Let's just wait and watch!"
Almost immediately after the 'young master' finished his remarks, another bloody, heavily wounded Blood Moon Wolf Raider was kicked high into the sky again. But this time, the trajectory of the animal was different from the previous times. It was not directly kicked into the swarm of Floral Locusts but toward a higher place, which was closer to the Mirage Falcons.
Before the Floral Locusts flew upwards to catch the new prey, a shadow suddenly jumped from behind the Blood Moon Wolf Raider and stomped on the body of the beast hard!
The heavy stomping split the Blood Moon Wolf Raider and blew it into smithereens immediately!
The bloody shadow, with the counterforce, surpassed the speed of sound instantly!
"Not good!"
The dark green eyeballs of the 'young master' were immediately covered in a layer of transparent sclerotic bone from which sharp brilliance was beaming out!
Right above the bloody shadow that was soaring up, three Mirage Falcons happened to be diving down rapidly. When their relative speeds were combined, there was no way that either party could avoid the clash.
The Mirage Falcons reacted promptly enough. They shot out almost a hundred fiery feathers within the moment. However, the bloody shadow flashed past all of them with unbelievable body-moving techniques. Right when the two parties passed by each other, he grabbed the feathers of one Mirage Falcon and climbed on the back of the bird!
Hiu!
The Mirage Falcon shrieked aloud while spinning, diving, and sprinting at a speed more than three times the speed of sound, trying to throw the enemy off with the centrifugal force and the friction.
At three times the speed of sound, the softest breeze turned into the sharpest blade.
Li Yao gritted his teeth and clutched the feathers of the Mirage Falcon, while streams of brightness flashed on his right arm and pierced toward the wings of the Mirage Falcon silently.
Li Yao's 'Mono Mica Threads' were extremely thin, tensile, and sharp threads of the mica that were refined based on the mustard-seed technology.
When they were used cut the hardest diamonds and obsidians, the highest accuracy could always be maintained without leaving any powder.
Strong as the Mirage Falcon might have been, its body was made of flesh and blood after all. How could it withstand his cutting?
Shua!
Almost ten Mono Mica Threads dissected the wing on one side of the Mirage Falcon like the sharpest scalpels.
Losing one wing mid supersonic flight, the Mirage Falcon immediately lost balance and fell to the ground, spinning and almost hitting some ten Mirage Falcons that were near.
Li Yao took the opportunity when their distance was shortest and jumped to the back of another Mirage Falcon. Then he did exactly the same thing on the second victim.
The Mirage Falcons were immediately thrown into chaos. In such a mess, they were not able to keep their 'stealth mode' any longer.
Gotcha!
Li Yao had his eyes on the most magnificent Mirage Falcon.
While most of the Mirage Falcons were in a flurry, it was the only one that remained calm. There must have been an expert commanding the animal!
To catch bandits, first catch the ringleader. The decapitation strategy had always been Li Yao's favorite!
Li Yao roared and lunged at the most magnificent Mirage Falcon.
"Idiot!"
The young master of the Feather Clan scoffed. With a telepathic thought, his will was transmitted to the brain of the Mirage Falcon like lightning.
The Mirage Falcon flapped its wings hard. Almost a thousand feathers spurted out and interweaved into a furious hurricane that swept toward Li Yao overwhelmingly.
Li Yao was going to dodge the attack when he suddenly felt the air around him become as hard as rock. More than ten Mirage Falcons were hovering around him rapidly and waving their wings hard, triggering air turbulences that locked him like countless shackles!
BOOM!
It took Li Yao 0.1 seconds to get out of the air turbulences. But in that tenth of a second, the hurricane of fiery feathers arrived, too, hitting Li Yao precisely in the head. Li Yao was wreathed in flames and fell to the ground like a shooting star.
"Fighting the Feather Clan in the sky. You really wanted to get killed!"
The young master of the Feather Clan grinned hideously. The remaining Mirage Falcons exited stealth mode simultaneously. Their necks, which were covered in wrinkles, were extended to the limits, and their craws gradually expanded, revealing a dangerously red color. The marrow crystals inside the craws were being activated in preparation for 'Fiery Shooting Stars', the ultimate attack of the Mirage Falcons!
"Even if you are a low-level demon emperor, you are cannot resist the simultaneous bombardment of more than ten waves of Fiery Shooting Stars!"
What the young master of the Feather Clan did not see was that, deep inside the half-burnt forest, Li Yao was on one of his knees, his body still on fire, but he raised his left arm high toward the sky with his fingers wide open. The half-round crystal in the center of his palm was giving out enticing brilliance!
Countless cells inside the left arm were shivering crazily, and the mitochondria inside all the cells were functioning at the highest efficiency, generating immense energy that congregated in the center of the palm.
The energy was so furious that his left arm was trembling. Even the solid shells were being torn apart, making scattered bloody mist burst out. Li Yao had to hold his left wrist with his right hand hard in order to lock onto the target precisely.
The arc-like crystal in the center of the palm of the left hand was once a special battle organ that the ancestors of human beings billions of years ago evolved with in order to fight against nature.
It was similar to the crystalline lens inside the eye, except that it was much more precise and tensile. It also boasted multiple layers of reflection and congregation functionalities.
The mitochondria were the energy providers in the cells, which powered up the bodies of living creatures.
Generally speaking, the mitochondria's release of energy was stable and mild. However, how immense would the generated energy be if the mitochondria inside billions of cells was to burst out at the same time?
Ordinary people usually had fifty to six trillion cells inside their body, and Cultivators could even have more than a hundred trillion cells.
What Li Yao was doing right now was burning up a hundred billion of his cells immediately and focusing the energy that the cells released on one point with the crystal inside his palm, shooting it out!
It was one of the brand-new techniques that he unlocked from deep inside his genes—
"A hundred billion times! Super crystal! Cell Obliterating Cannon!"
Chapter 860: Red Tide Plan |
Shua!
Li Yao's left arm shrank rapidly at a visible speed. A cluster of red brilliance rushed out of the super crystal at the center of his palm toward a Mirage Falcon that he had locked onto since long ago at a speed more than five times the speed of sound!
The Mirage Falcons were in their most vulnerable state when they launched the 'Fiery Shooting Stars'. Their necks that were extended to the maximum ruined their streamlined body, making them unable to keep cruising at a supersonic speed. The demonic energy that they released continuously made them even more obvious targets than they should have been, too!
Li Yao chose the perfect moment to attack, which was when the marrow crystals inside the craws of the Mirage Falcons were about to enter the most heated state. A hundred billion cells were obliterated and turned into the purest energy, which congregated into the cluster of red brilliance through the reflections and refractions of the super crystal. The attack hit the head of the Mirage Falcon precisely, leading to a chain reaction in the marrow crystals inside its crawl and detonating the next wave of the 'Fiery Shooting Stars'!
"Not good!"
Every feather on the face of the young master of the Feather Clan stood up, making his head three times as large. He shrieked loudly and aborted the attack of the Fiery Shooting Stars in time, soaring up with the Mirage Falcon!
However, not all his teammates were as adept at reining a biochemical beast as he was.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
After a series of thunderous explosions, the sky immediately turned into a surging ocean of flames, which raised tides hundreds of meters high. Most of the Mirage Falcons were consumed. A storm of fiery drops rained down and covered dozens of square kilometers nearby!
However, other than Li Yao, there were a lot of hunters of the demon race who were chasing after him, too.
For a moment, the fire was burning furiously, and screams were echoing nonstop. The forest had turned into a living inferno where countless demons were struggling miserably in the intense flames. They were riddled with holes by the scorching, shooting magma and turned into burnt, black bones while they were shuddering in pain!
Although the young master of the Feather Clan soared up to the sky one step in advance, he was still lightheaded because of the blast. It was not until three seconds later that he finally came back to himself despite his expertise as a demon emperor.
When he watched the troop of Mirage Falcons, which had been what he was most proud of, screaming and shrieking in the flames, turning into roasted, bare turkeys, every feather that was standing up on his face turned into the reddest color imaginable.
"B*tch! You filthy b*tch, Jin Xinyue!
"Who is this monster that you have found? Who is he exactly?"
Right now, the 'monster', according to the young master of the Feather Clan, was fleeing quickly inside the forest. The fire and the magma became his best cover.
Under the scourge of the overwhelming Fiery Shooting Stars, most of the hunters of the demon race were killed or wounded. It would take them at least half a day before they could regroup again.
Li Yao felt that his head was dizzy, and golden swirls were popping up in front of his eyes. Although his left arm had regained its normal appearance, it was still dangling down from his shoulder limply..
He even vaguely felt as if his entire right left was now soaked in scorching magma and about to be melted. It was about to be ignited and would be burning from inside to outside.
The deepest strength of the cells is truly dreadful, drastic, and unsteady!
Li Yao was very clear that it was a lucky incident. He had inherited part of the abilities of the Blood Stripe Virus, whose natural instincts were to control and modify genes. It was why he could manage, however unstably, the 'primeval cells' that were just activated.
If it were a different Cultivator, even if they were in the Nascent Soul Stage, unlocking the strength of genes so recklessly would have destroyed their cells and turned them into a pool of pus. When the mitochondria provided excessive energy, it was also possible that their body would burn.
Li Yao quickly thought of something. He had read in many ancient training notes that a lot of high-level Cultivators were killed in weird flames that started burning from the inside of their body without a good reason.
At first, it was believed that those Cultivators were assassinated by their enemies, or they were poisoned in a special way.
However, such cases had happened in various sects of various Sectors over thousands of years. The cause of death was always the same, but there was no trace of poison at all despite the scrutiny. It then became one of the greatest mysteries for the ancient Cultivators known as 'Spontaneous Human Combustion'.
Maybe, those ancient Cultivators discovered the secrets of genes and cells by accident, too. But they did not know the usage and activated the dangerous recessive genes in their ignorance, which made the mitochondria overload and released such a huge amount of energy that their body could not bear, causing them to be burnt in the end.
After my experience, it is safe to say that triggering the strength of cells for combat is too unstable and dangerous!
