Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, page 619
At the end of the pathway, in an ultra-solid prison cell with double crystal walls, a handsome, furious demon was pacing back and forth anxiously.
The moment he saw 'Mad Medic' Lu Wuxin, the demon lunged at him like a crazy tiger, triggering thousands of electric arcs on the defense rune array!
He was blown back brutally. More than ten burnt scars were added to his body, but he felt none of it and simply pointed at Lu Wuxin, cursing with the utmost hatred!
Li Yao was shocked. The demon had dense, golden hair. His nose that of a lion, and his mouth was broad. There was blue color deep inside his bright golden eyeballs.
All the features were the signs of 'Blue-Eyed Lions', the royal family of the Kingdom of Lion Butchers!
Elder Nether Spring was truly crazy enough. He even dared to kidnap a member of the royal family of the Kingdom of Lion Butchers, which was his hardcore ally, and run experiments on him!
The Blue-Eyed Lion was more than infuriated. His veins were bulging out and his chest was fluctuating like an air bellow, but he was not killed in the attempt just now.
The Mad Medic grinned hideously and narrowed his eyes. He cast his spells while he stared at the captive, deep brilliance beaming out of his eyes.
A weird thing happened!
The Blue-Eyed Lion was roaring thunderously, but only a moment later, he lowered his arms, and his face turned indifferent, as if he had been hypnotized. He was looking at Lu Wuxin both admiringly and fanatically, like the zealots who were willing to die for their one true god!
Then—
His blue eyes were corrupted by bloody streaks, too. Thick veins protruded out of his body, which doubled in size. Countless bone spurts grew out of his spine, his arms, and his knees, decorating him in an armor that was brimming with needles!
Inside the bloody mouth, the two upper canine teeth were almost three times their original length. Like the sharpest sabers, they were certainly able to pierce through a crystal suit!
Huchi… Huchi… Huchi…
After every breathe, streams of dead gray mist would spurt out of his mouth, which surrounded him and did not disperse for a long time.
"Hooooo!" The Blue-Eyed Lion roared crazily and dashed forward, turning into hundreds of blurred shadows that filled the entire prison cell.
Dozens of deep claw traces immediately appeared on the wall!
Lu Wuxin's lips curled. The Blue-Eyed Lion came to an abrupt halt. Then, he suddenly lowered his arms and bashed the wall hard with his head.
Zi! Zi! Zi! Zi!
Thousands of electric arcs burst out of the defense rune arrays, enlarging his pupils and making his golden hair stand up.
But he seemed to have no sense of pain at all. He continued crashing into the wall and did not stop even though he was bleeding hard.
Pa!
The Mad Medic snapped his finger. The Blue-Eyed Lion trembled violently as if he was freed from a nightmare. The bone spurs and the bulging veins retreated into his body, and his dirty eyes gradually cleared.
His skull had collapsed because of the collisions, and he was writhing on the ground in pain. He did not even have the strength to curse anymore. Desperation filled his blue eyes, where the blood strains lingered.
"Indeed, not bad." Lu Wuxin nodded in great satisfaction. "I did not feel the least resistance when I controlled him. Also, he was much more active than before. When I gave him a simple command, he would search his memory and experience to complete it on his own.
"Besides, his speed and strength have both been improved by at least 150%!
"An army made of such soldiers is one that Elder Nether Spring really needs!"
"There's more than that," the white-robed demon declared proudly. "The Demon God Virus of the latest version modifies the respiratory system perfectly. Right now, his saliva, his blood, and the air that he exhales all contain a huge amount of Demon God Virus. When the enemy is bitten, scratched, or touched his blood, or rather, when they are simply engaged in melee combat with him without protection, they will be infected by the Demon God Virus and become our weapons!
"However, the current version of the virus is still vulnerable under high temperature or low temperature, and it will be easily suppressed by the incendiary bullets and the frost rune arrays. We are hoping to improve that part of the virus in our next version."
"Most excellent," Lu Wuxin remarked. "But we must hurry. It won't be long before the Demon God Virus is sent to a real battlefield!"
They were talking in lower and lower voices and seemed to be discussing a specific technological problem.
Li Yao's heart became colder and almost fell apart like a piece of ice.
So, that was the truth of the so-called 'third life form' and 'the gods that surpass mankind and the demon race'!
As it turned out, such 'evolution' had a success rate of only 2.5%. The remaining carriers of the virus were either killed instantly or turned into 'uncontrollable mutants' whose brain was dead but whose cells were alive!
Even the strengthened 'perfect mutants' were merely slaves of Elder Nether Spring's forces and would be at their mercy!
This is too horrible. The blood, saliva, and breath of the 'perfect mutants' all contain a fatal and highly infectious virus!
Should it spread out on a large scale, countless creatures in both the Blood Demon Sector and the Heaven's Origin Sector will be killed, turned into monsters, or end up being their slaves!
Damn. This is an even more dreadful future than the rule of the Imperium of True Human Beings!
While Li Yao cursed silently, the white-robed demon seemed to have received Lu Wuxin's instructions and left.
Li Yao would rather not keep Neltharion with the Mad Medic for long. Therefore, he simply followed the demon.
As it turned out, the demon took the lift and went upward to the surface.
Neltharion and the demon moved out of the building together. It was not until this moment that Li Yao finally got a general picture of Elder Nether Spring's nest.
It was a freezing snow world with blowing wind outside. They were in a lone island, surrounded by an icy ocean that was full of swirls, surging tides, and colliding glaciers. Looking into the distance, Li Yao found that the horizon seemed to have become a forbidden abyss that was hidden in the dark mist.
The lone island was the shape of a dumbbell. It was narrow in the middle and broader on two ends. They were presently at the south of the island.
The part of the building above the ground was less than thirty meters tall and covered in thick snow and ice. It was impossible to detect it from the sky at all.
Next to the building was a helipad for devilish warships. Three inconspicuous enormous devilish warships were docked under the cover of the floating islands that pretended to be icebergs.
Neltharion followed the white-robed demon to the north of the island.
The north of the island turned out to be a vast camp of captives. The visible captives who were wandering in the yard in the freezing wind numbered around a thousand. There was no telling how many more were locked in the underground building.
Li Yao adjusted the resolution of Neltharion and observed the captives carefully.
They were not the newly captured soldiers of the Blade of Chaos.
Despite the temperature of dozens of degrees below zero, they were still only wearing thin prison garb and training themselves hard with whatever facilities they had.
Most of the captives were healthy and strong, and they were apparently split in two groups.
The captives on the left side were mostly human beings, many of whom had popular tattoos of the federal army on their faces and arms. It was easy to tell that they had gone through harsh training in the military through their eyes and the way they walked.
But their capability was much higher than any special force of the federal army that Li Yao had seen. Many of them were punching at a supersonic speed casually while they were yawning, tearing the air apart time and time again for almost one minute straight!
Is this happening? Since when have the soldiers of the federal army become so tough? Li Yao secretly clicked his tongue.
The captives on the right side, on the other hand, were mostly the Claw Clan and the Horn Clan of the Kingdom of Lion Butchers, but a lot of them were clearly the members of the Insect Clan and the Feather Clan, too. Together, they were almost a small coalition army of the demon race.
The captives of different species had all been captured by Elder Nether Spring for his experiments. Most of them had already suffered a lot of wounds and were barely recognizable.
Even so, there was clearly mistrust between the two sides. An invisible 'boundary' seemed to be in the middle of the camp. Many captives were looking at the other side of the 'boundary' with hatred.
So, they are truly the soldiers of the federal army. They are my compatriots and comrades!
I must find a way to rescue them all!
After unearthing the terrifying experiments that Elder Nether Spring had been working on and discovering that so many of his compatriots and comrades had ended up being captives and experiment subjects, Li Yao was more infuriated and determined than ever!
Chapter 934: Are You Even a Human Being? |
Neltharion did not enter the camp of the captives recklessly. Instead, it took a circle around the north of the lone island. The perimeter of the northern half of the island spanned approximately ten kilometers, and the camp of the captives on the ground already had a coverage of almost three square kilometers. It was quite huge.
Three layers of obstacles had been established out of the captive camp.
The first layer of obstacles was made of frost thorns that could resist extremely low temperature. They interweaved with each other like countless icy pitons and constituted a high wall more than twenty meters tall. Whenever a captive was close to the wall, the thorns would extend out and shake like vipers.
Behind the frost thorns was a high-voltage electric web with bluish electric arcs flowing through thick wires. Occasionally, two electric arcs would collide, resulting in brilliant sparks.
Behind the high-voltage electric web were clusters of weird demonic plants, which, at first glance, appeared to be organs of a certain enormous demon beast. They were almost four floors high and bright blue with translucent lumps growing on them that were pulsating like hearts. The giant petals on their top were like bloody mouths that had been widely opened. The sharp thorns around the petals were as sharp as tusks. Deep inside the flower, icy mist was spurting out and congregated into a vague cloud in the air.
The weird demonic plants had been cultivated all around the captive camp with a span of hundreds of meters. The icy mist they generated enshrouded the captive camp and lingered.
In Li Yao's experience, they probably possessed air-attacking abilities.
The frost thorns, high-voltage electric web, and air-attacking demonic plants that could spurt icy mist. Even if a captive passed through the three layers of obstacles, they would still find themselves surrounded by a gloomy, creepy ice ocean that was thousands of kilometers offshore. They could not run away even if they had grown wings!
However, they were still not the most powerful barrier of the captive camp!
In the middle of the frost thorns and the high-voltage electric web, a bronze pillar had been established every few dozen meters. Together, they seemed to be hundreds of giants in heavy armor that were eyeing all the captives coldly.
All the bronze pillars were carved with complicated, vintage runes.
Li Yao thought quickly. Judging from the style and the method of engravement, they were all ancient runes from forty thousand years ago.
The hundred and eight pillars integrated into an ancient array. Right. It must be an ancient array that was set up by Ba Yanzhi's 'Chaos Demons' in order to confine certain brutal demon beasts, or even… the 'Ultimate One Demons'!
Li Yao was greatly refreshed. Naturally, an ancient rune array was always made of ancient magical equipment and the most classical ancient spiritual stripes.
Analyzing ancient spiritual stripes, dismantling the ancient magical equipment, and cracking the ancient rune arrays were all his specialties!
It appeared that the ancient rune array was the pivot of the captive camp. If that was the case, he might be able to rescue all the captives after he destroyed the rune array!
Steering Neltharion, Li Yao scanned every pattern on the hundred and eight bronze pillars before moving into the captive camp prudently.
All the captives, be they human beings or demons, were confined with silver shackles and manacles on their necks, wrists, and ankles. There was also the weight that they carried for their training. Every lock was embedded with shining crystals that were surrounded by sophisticated spiritual stripes.
Although the locks were modern magical equipment that were newly made, the spiritual stripes on them were in the distinctive characteristics of the ancient Cultivators and apparently belonged to the same system as those on the bronze pillars.
It seems that the locks must work with the hundred and eight bronze pillars. Judging from the pattern of the spiritual stripes, such devices can trigger super powerful electric arcs, but it's hard to say whether or not that are other mysteries to them.
Li Yao was going to observe more carefully when a riot suddenly broke out at the front.
As it turned out, some of the captives on the demons' side had trained themselves so hard that a few broken pieces of ice had splashed to the human beings' side and hit the head of a captive precisely.
There was grudge between the two sides of captives in the first place. Now, the tiny fuse immediately triggered an overwhelming fire. All the captives jumped to their feet and glared at each other across the invisible boundary, cursing and calling each other's name.
Very soon, a brawny individual dashed out of from each of the two sides!
What was odd was that, the leader who walked out of the federal soldiers had a green face and long tusks. His body was dark, and his arms were exceptionally long, dangling down by his ankles and growing black scales. He also had a bone tail that looked like a long hammer in his back.
He looked even more hideous than a yaksha.
However, he was wearing a federal soldier's hat on his head neatly. Although the hat had been riddled with holes, he had managed to patch it up and wash it clean.
At the center of the hat was a medal of the federal army. It was a red star surrounded by two silver dragons.
The guy who strode out of the demons' side proudly, on the other side, turned out to be a handsome middle-aged man with a square face and broad eyes. Other than his chin that was slighting protruding and his canine teeth that bared out of his mouth, Li Yao could not see any features of demons on him at all.
Are those two guys on the wrong side of the boundary?
Li Yao scratched his head.
"Suo Chaolong!"
The 'yaksha' who walked out of the human captives and had a military hat on his head roared furiously, "What the f*ck is the meaning of this? You didn't take enough of a beating last week, and you want me to blow out your newly grown molars again, right?"
"Han Tuhu, don't make a fuss here. My guys only splashed a tiny bit of ice by accident when they were training. Your people were yelling and cursing first!"
The leader of the demon captives, who was the square-faced, middle-aged man, chuckled aloud. "You are crying for help when you were hit by nothing but a few scraps of ice. What a bunch of losers! No wonder you collapsed all the way from the Dark Desolate Domain to the Giant Blade Pass without even having the courage to fight back at all!"
"Hahahaha!"
Han Tuhu, who appeared to be a yaksha, laughed and spat on the ground brutally. His saliva was frozen quickly in the air and crashed into pieces when it hit the ground. "Collapsed without having the courage to fight back? Exactly. I wonder, who was it that threw all their belongings and fled all the way north from the Giant Blade Pass back to the Dark Desolate Domain when my 'Flying Tigers Legion' launched counterattack?"
Suo Chaolong, the leader of the demon captives, widened his eyes and bellowed, "It was the lowly black-blood demons and the chaotic-blood demons who fled! My 'Blood Lion Battalion' is exclusively made of the toughest bronze-blood soldiers and the noble silver-blood demons. We only made a strategical retreat because of the burden of the scumbags!
"After we reached the Dark Desolate Domain and were no longer burdened by the scumbags, did we not crush your 'Flying Cats Legion' as easy as pie?"
"Crush?"
Han Tuhu's eyes, eyebrow, and nose scrunched together because of his fury. "You do know the arts of bragging well. You suffered as many losses as I did. In the end, we were fished up indiscriminately and brought to this freezing hell for the horrid experiments. Yesterday alone, yet another three of my brothers were killed. Three best brothers!"
"Pei!" Suo Chaolong spat on the ground, equally noisily. "It was only because the 'Flying Cats Legion' was biting us too hard and trying to perish together with us at any moment. That was too f*cking stupid! Two of my subordinates were killed yesterday, too. The day before that, four!"
Han Tuhu sneered. "You are merely answering for your own folly. When you invaded the Heaven's Origin Sector, a 'noble silver-blood demon' such as yourself did not see this coming at all, did you?"
Brutality beamed out of Suo Chaolong's eyes. "For the last time, it was not an invasion; it was a comeback! Our ancestors lived in the Grand Desolate Plateau a thousand years ago. We are the rightful owners of the Grand Desolate Plateau!
"Even to this day, the relics of the demon cities left by our ancestors can still be found on the Grand Desolate Plateau. Do you dare deny it?
"It was the cunning, sordid, greedy army of the Star Glory Federation that invaded the Grand Desolate Plateau! You destroyed our home and annihilated the vast majority of our ancestors. Only the most fortunate one percent were able to flee to the Blood Demon Sector through wormholes!
"If you are talking about an invasion, the federal citizens such as you are the really invaders! We are merely taking back our ancestral home a thousand years ago!"
