Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, page 626
As it happened, the penetrating bomb was perfect to open the iron can that was buried deep under the ground.
However, the normal usage of a cannonball was to be fired by a main gun. Without enough acceleration, it could not deal much damage.
If Li Yao were to place the thick, black bomb there and detonate it with simple triggering rune arrays, the best result he could expect was that the floor he was on would be blown into smithereens. It was impossible for the minus nineteenth floor, which was protected by multiple layers of defense rune arrays, to be affected.
It was the critical reason Li Yao needed the 'Venomous Scorpion Bone Biting Shackle'!
The 'Venomous Scorpion Bone Biting Shackle' boasted the most immaculate restriction rune arrays of the Heaven's Origin Sector, which had perhaps been polished by Jiang Shaoyang for an entire year.
Demon emperors and the Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators were all monsters with unbelievable vitality. Even if a crystal bomb was detonated right near their chest, they might not necessarily be killed.
It was because the damage of the bomb would spread out, and only one tiny proportion of it was really aimed at their body.
With the boundary of the restriction rune arrays, however, all the damage of the bomb would be focused on one point and would, therefore, significantly wreck the demon emperor or the Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator when it was detonated.
To put it simply, the restriction rune array could be compared to an invisible membrane made of a magnetic field. After an explosion took place, all the energy would surge and shatter the items within the range of the membrane. As for the bystanders out of the membrane, no matter how close they were to it, they would not be harmed at all.
Through such a method, it could be ensured that the target inside the restriction rune array was executed precisely, and there would be no damage to the surroundings.
Such a usage was exactly what Li Yao needed.
Li Yao prepared to slightly change the form of Jiang Shaoyang's restriction rune array through a series of modification. He was going to rip apart a hole that led downward inside the restriction rune array, which would envelop the entire cannon ball like an invisible and yet firm bell. After that, he would use his other crystal bombs as a source of power.
After the crystal bombs were detonated, because of the boundary of the restriction rune array, most of the energy would have nowhere to run but downward.
When they pushed the cannonball through all the floors in the middle, the cannonball would be detonated and blow out all the spiritual energy so that the 'turtle shell' outside of the control center would be wrecked!
In short, Li Yao was going to craft a special turret and barrel for the cannonball!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Li Yao's expression became serious again. Sounds of gears biting each other were echoing from his joints. With a flash of a Cosmos Ring on his little finger, a pair of gloves that were weaved with soft crystal tubes appeared in his hands. A deep green liquid was flowing vaguely inside the tubes, which extended and wreathed his arms, as if it were a futuristic fluorescent arm suit.
They were Ice Spirit Gloves. The liquid inside the tubes was Ice Spirit Jade Marrow, a marvelous material that could release coldness stably no matter how high a temperature it was put into. Li Yao was trying to cool down his hands with them.
Li Yao was not fond of the Ice Spirit Gloves because it would reduce the keenness of his hands. However, when his hand speed was accelerated to the highest, the heat resulting from the friction with the air could easily turn into interference for the magical equipment being assembled. Having no better choice, he could only deal with the slight hinderance.
Shua!
More than a hundred and fifty light beams were triggered by the mini crystal processor, which almost took up the entire interrogation chamber.
On the light beams, all the structural designs were jumping at a speed of one picture every three seconds.
The components floating around Li Yao split apart and danced crazily like blocks of ice that had been tossed into boiling oil!
Li Yao's fascinated eyes turned blood red. In the end, he was gnashing his teeth as if he were a hungry tiger ready to lunge at a lamp, and he hurled the units into the heavy bomb one after another.
He was throwing the units so violently that the Fire Ant King felt that his blood was freezing. He could not help but wonder whether or not the cannonball would explode then and there!
Is—is he really a Cultivator, not faked by a certain demon emperor? the Fire Ant King asked himself again.
Three minutes later, everything around Li Yao was cleaned. The last component fitted into the joint of two units perfectly, like the last piece of a puzzle.
What a wild and straightforward 'puzzle' it was!
It looked like a vertical launcher for a crystal warship that had been put upside down. The front end of the cannonball was aimed down, half a meter from the ground, and fixed by multiple messy frames.
The Venomous Scorpion Bone Biting Shackle, which had been utterly deformed, was now lying at the rear of the cannonball. The shell of the Venomous Scorpion Bone Biting Shackle had been completely plucked, and it was connected to the cannonball through hundreds of crystal threads.
In order to give the cannonball a sufficient initial velocity, Li Yao deployed a circle of crystal bombs on the ground right below the cannonball. When the entire penetrating system was triggered, the circle of crystal bombs would blow up the floor first so that the cannonball would have some ten meters to gain momentum.
"Nailed it!"
Li Yao took off the Ice Spirit Gloves, which were about to be burnt, and looked at his work with great satisfaction.
With the crystal cameras on his mini crystal processor, he took many pictures of the combinative magical equipment.
When I am back in the Star Glory Federation where there is the signal of the Spiritual Nexus, I am going to send the pictures to Jiang Shaoyang and let him know that the magical equipment he produced has such a special usage. He will certainly be very excited! Li Yao thought to himself.
The Fire Ant King opened his mouth, hesitating whether or not he should tell his new ally that the magical equipment he crafted just now really look like a huge pile of garbage.
However, when Li Yao tapped the light beam softly and activated the penetrating system, the dangerous mystic rays that were emitted from the overlapping frames and tubes decorated the 'garbage' with a certain coldness and made it exude a beauty of violence.
"Fire Ant King, how much have you recovered your capability?" Li Yao glanced and noticed that the wounds on the Fire Ant King's body had all healed.
The Fire Ant King sniffed. Perhaps because he felt that he had been more or less eclipsed due to the series of shocks just now, right now, he bulged his eyes out and croaked like a frog deep inside his throat. His limbs and torso, which had withered, were expanding again. His mitochondria were burning crazily, and his demonic energy was surging out and twisting the air into colorful swirls!
"Ho!" the Fire Ant King bellowed. More than ten swirls crashed into him, enshrouding him in a hazy mist.
When the hazy mist was gone, the leader of the Blade of Chaos who showed up in front of Li Yao again already possessed a brand-new appearance!
He was shorter than the previous Fire Ant King. The eye-catching crimson shell had mostly disappeared from his body and turned into red armor covering his scapula, chest, arms, abdomen, groin, and other critical body parts after melding with his flesh and blood.
But the antennae on his forehead were longer and shaking slightly in the air.
He was even more handsome than before. Other than his red skin, there was no difference between him and an elegant human expert.
Hiu! Hiu! Hiu!
The Fire Ant King's arms and legs seemed to be still, but a dazzling light appeared in front of him as he was shaking off the wet interstitial fluid secreted because of the crazy mutations of his cells. His smile was full of hatred, which made his face more hideous than usual.
"I've chosen to activate all my potential with the strengthening drugs. At the cost of a huge amount of my vitality, the poison, venom, and barriers that Elder Nether Spring left on me have finally been devoured. I have even stimulated my cells with his poison and thereby gained even greater strength!
"The price is that I am going to be fatigued for a long time after the battle, but there's no time to worry about that now!
"I am back at the demon emperor stage for now and can maintain this at least until we march out of the place!
"Nether Spring, since everything began when we discovered a residence of Chaos together years ago, let's just finish our grudge once and for all in another residence of Chaos!"
Li Yao sighed. "Before today, I never thought that I would be fighting side by side with a demon emperor. Let's go!"
The Fire Ant King was dazed. "Where?"
"To a shelter, of course." Li Yao blinked. "Do you wish to explode with the cannonball, Fire Ant King?"
The gate of the interrogation chamber was opened again.
Li Yao and the Fire Ant King strode out blatantly toward the other side of the floor, not even trying to disguise themselves.
Perhaps because they looked too bizarre and they were walking in a too unconcealed way, the guards of the Nether World Watch around them all thought that they were dreaming. They watched as the two of them passed by and did not know how to react for a long time.
"Is—is this the Fire Ant King?"
"Un—unlikely. Something must've gone wrong…"
Li Yao and the Fire Ant King talked to each other in a low voice while walking forward casually.
"Countdown, eight, seven, six…"
"It seems that my Fellow Cultivator is more focused in the arts of refining in your training," the Fire Ant King observed. "You must be very careful when we're down there. Just leave all the tricky enemies to me!"
"Four… Three… Crap!"
"What's wrong?" the Fire Ant King asked.
"I seem to have miscalculated. The bomb might be slightly more powerful than I expected."
Chapter 945: What About Another Miracle? |
"Aooo!"
A biochemical beast, dozens of meters tall with dark gold hair all over its body like a primeval elephant, roared and stomped on the ground with the thick, forceful feet, blowing out invisible airwaves on the snowy world.
Dozens of captives were blown away by the blast. The battle formation that had taken shape collapsed all of a sudden!
The primeval elephant rushed among the captives unstoppably. Its thick trunk was waving left and right like a huge hammer, and the captives that were hit by it all suffered from broken bones or internal bleeding!
With the primeval elephant as the arrowhead, the soldiers of the Nether World Watch in heavy armor pushed forward neatly like a wall.
Any captive that was bold enough to attack the iron defensive line was like a tide attacking the seashore. No matter how huge their strength seemed to be, they were always slapped back brutally!
As more and more soldiers of the Nether World Watch appeared around the captive camp through teleportation arrays, they gradually congregated into black squares, and the black squares piled on top of each other to form walls. The zone of activity for the captives was getting smaller and smaller!
They had been heavily wounded and exhausted because of the bombardment by the high-voltage electric arcs some ten minutes ago after all. Besides, they did not have many suitable weapons, and their teamwork was far from flawless. They were merely fighting with their hot blood.
When large teams of the Nether World Watch formed dominating battle formations and appeared in their sights, it was almost a declaration of the failure of the prison break.
But they were still waving their hands and claws numbly. They were not fighting to survive but fighting for a valiant death!
In the sky, a huge object slowly revealed itself, casting a shadow of desperation on them.
A devilish warship had flown over to the captive camp!
Lu Wuxin, Despot, and Swirl, the three commanders of the Nether World, stood on the bridge and watched the riot below them coldly.
"Stun Beetles, now!" Despot waved his hands hard.
Pu! Pu! Pu!
Below the devilish warship, through the tubes that looked like genital cavities, dozens of wet, black balls were spurted out. They fell toward the captive camp like bombs and exploded when they were about ten meters away from the ground, releasing black beetles that looked like crabs.
The wings of the beetles were beating fast, triggering supersonic waves that were not audible to ears but would seriously jeopardize the central nerves.
In the meantime, red and green colors were rapidly flashing on the translucent abdomen, stimulating the optic nerves of all the captives!
The supersonic waves and the dazzling colors could lead to a serious stunning effect on living creatures!
The soldiers of the Nether World Watch, on the other hand, had been prepared. They were all wearing special protective chips on their eyes and earpads on their ears.
In the range of attack of the Stun Beetles, the captives who were relatively weaker were all staggering as if intoxicated. Some of them were even kneeling on the ground and vomiting, their combat ability reduced to zero.
"Sticky Beetles, now!" Despot said coldly again.
Pu! Pu! Pu!
This time, it was a batch of bright blue beetles that was spurted out. They were mostly the size of billiard balls, and there were hundreds of them. After they unfolded their wings at a low altitude, they automatically flew to the places where the captives were densest before they exploded and splashed out liquids that were as thick as yogurt!
Under the blowing, freezing wind, the liquids solidified immediately, sticking a lot of captives together.
Even when some of the captives managed to rip the 'yogurt' apart, the threads of the liquids were still clinging to them, slowing down and deforming their actions.
The blowing wind had already cooled the captives' hot blood. Under the suppression of the devilish warship, their morale was lower than ever.
"The enemy has lost hope. They are now lunatics trying to get themselves killed."
Despot read the subtle change of the situation keenly.
"Take it slow. Try to reduce the casualties." Lu Wuxin sighed as he looked at the enormous hole leading underground right in front of the captive camp.
With everything coming to this point, he could not enjoy the suppression no matter how spectacular it was.
"Kill them all!"
In the snowy world, Han Tuhu, Suo Chaolong, and Yuchi Ba knew that they had no chance of winning, but they were not frustrated at all. Instead, like the final radiance of the setting sun, their fighting will was leaking out of their every pore. They were like infuriated volcanoes that were about to burst out their most brilliant life!
Now that it was a dead end in the front, there was only one thing they could do.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill them all!"
Han Tuhu had gone completely crazy. Chunks of flesh and stains of blood covered his claws and his tail. He did not look like a yaksha anymore, but an ancestor of yaksha! Even the red star medal at the center of his hat seemed to be made of blood right now. It was shining as if a dragon was ready to lunge out at any second!
"Stand up. Stand up. Stand up, everybody. Continue killing. Kill them all!" Han Tuhu burst into laughter. "Warriors of the Star Glory Federation, we should be proud of ourselves! We are the first batch of soldiers to go on such a killing spree in the homeland of the Blood Demon Sector! When our blood melts the snow and our souls return to our home, we will be able to chat with the predecessors who established the federation with our heads held high!"
Pei!
Suo Chaolong was nearby. His golden hair had been dyed red by blood. He was on a rampage, too. There were almost ten flying swords and sabers protruding from his body, but he was still rushing forward unstoppably despite the bleeding.
Clang!
After a collision, the saber in his hand broke in half. He did not even bother to blink and simply drew out a flying sword from his chest, stabbing it into the soldier of the Nether World Watch in front of him. He twisted the flying sword brutally, pushing his entire arm into the enemy's chest. Then, he kicked the bottom of a demon captive.
"Get up and go on fighting!
"Do you see it? The hairless monkeys are swaggering around right under our noses.
"Bring out the valiancy and bravery of the silver-blood demons and show them how a real battle should be fought!"
BAM!
The two of them threw themselves into the crowd of the Nether World Watch time and time again and cleaned their surroundings easily. As it happened, because their moves were too mighty and they both chose where the soldiers of the Nether World Watch were densest, their blades crashed into each other as they cut open the skull of the same unlucky soldier!
Han Tuhu and Suo Chaolong glared at each other.
"Han Tuhu!" Scorching flames were burning deep inside Suo Chaolong's eyes. "Among the boneless troops of the Star Glory Federation, only your 'Flying Tigers Legion' could make me get somewhat serious! Our battle last time was messed up by those scumbags. What a pity that I won't have a chance to fight against you anymore! If I did, I would certainly swallow every soldier of your legion and leave none!"
"I am always here if you want to fight!" Han Tuhu drew out a flying sword from his ribs, which turned into a streak of white brightness surrounded by electric arcs and blew a soldier of the Nether World Watch who was lunging at Suo Chaolong backward. "If we cannot fight when alive, then we can fight in hell until we are contented!"
"We are not going to die!"
The soldiers of the Blade of Chaos led by Yuchi Ba, although being ruthlessly butchered same as others, actually possessed the highest morale among the three groups there. That was because the underground explosion just now had given them a sign of the power of God Chaos.
