Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, page 645
The drill of mystic rays, after a full upgrade, now boasted three acid bags. Before the mystic rays shot out, a huge amount of highly-corrosive acids would be released.
Corrosion before digging significantly improved the efficiency of drilling.
Very soon, Li Yao dug the hole to a place two to three kilometers away from the military camp. Then, he extended three tunnels to the east, west, and south. He stopped digging when he was one meter from the ground and planted a special sensor chip and a lot of crystal bombs in the tunnels.
As a result, there was no anomaly on the ground. But through the crystal processor of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, he would sense the three chips very clearly. The three tunnels would be his routes of retreat.
If he was left with no choice, he could bring Jin Xinyue to the top of one of the three tunnels and blow through the one-meter-thick soil with the Cell Obliteration Cannon. After they snuck into the underground, he would detonate the crystal bombs and block the hunters.
However, that was only a last resort.
At least a hundred thousand soldiers of the coalition army of demons were stationed in Void Turmoil City right now. Should there be a massive explosion, they would certainly detect it and start a large-scale search.
More importantly, the Sea Clan would certainly increase their wariness and block the ocean completely. Even in the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, Li Yao was not confident that he could compete with the Sea Clan in terms of speed in the depths of the ocean.
He had no interest of fighting an army of a hundred thousand soldiers on his own. It would be best if he could achieve his purpose without alarming anyone.
When the three tunnels were all dug through, Neltharion had already snuck into the military camp and found rows of tents that were temporarily established.
Jin Xinyue was in one of the tents!
Excellent!
The precision of the Child-Mother Heart Connecting Ring was too low. The navigation could not have been any more precise, but it was good enough for Li Yao.
Li Yao's eyes were glittering while he pondered carefully how he could sneak in.
The defense of the military camp is almost flawless. All the personnel getting in and out of the military camp, including the silver-blood commanders in glamorous armors, will be examined and strictly questioned. Although this silver-blood commander was only scrutinized ten minutes ago, a second sentry has appeared and verified his identity again. There is no way to fake him.
Shrilling thorns, watch towers, and the 'Ghost Eye'-level devilish warship have almost every area under their control without any blind spots.
If I can locate the precise tent that Jin Xinyue is in, I can dig the tunnel to right below her feet with the drill of mystic rays.
However, it will be very difficult. There are almost a hundred tents here, and they are built with materials that boast anti-surveillance techniques. I cannot even see what is going on inside through Neltharion. That is really prudent!
The heavy defense of the military camp left a deep impression on Li Yao.
The toughness of the regular army of the demon race was evident from the arrangement of the military camp. It was certainly much better than the mobs such as the beast tides that infiltrated the Heaven's Origin Sector ten years ago.
The most important problem is, even if I can sneak into the military camp, how am I going to bring Jin Xinyue out?
Mayhem. I have to wreak mayhem!
There is a warehouse of crystals in the northeast corner of the military camp. It is not very large, and the crystals stored inside are low-level, high-impurity ones, but they should be enough to make a tiny explosion and cause a brief riot.
Should I dig my way to the warehouse?
Li Yao immediately vetoed the idea.
The Insect Clan in the coalition army of demons were specialists in digging in the first place. Critical facilities such as a warehouse of crystals were certainly protected by surveillance and counterattacking measures.
Perhaps a few rock bugs that were highly sensitive to quakes were hibernating right below the warehouse at present.
It was also one of the reasons Li Yao did not dare dig the tunnel into the military camp directly.
Very soon, through Neltharion, Li Yao noticed a team of Land Whales that were wriggling toward the military camp slowly.
The fat Land Whales were responsible for shipping food and supplies to the military camp. Occasionally, they would transport the low-level crystals that the army collected and the new captives too.
Of course, the sentinels were examining the Land Whales thoroughly. They would turn every box of goods upside down to check. There were barely any gaps among the cargoes where one could hide.
However…
Half an hour later, a team consisting of nine Land Whales were riding toward the military camp with loads of goods.
When they passed through a ramshackle block, a skyscraper that was built on a giant tree suddenly collapsed. After an earsplitting explosion, the tree that had been entirely burnt fell down, raising a sandstorm.
The Land Whales were shocked and sneezing because of the overwhelming dust. They were running around and causing havoc.
In Void Turmoil City, which had turned into ruins, burnt trees were everywhere. Collapses and explosions were nothing unusual.
The well-trained riders waved electric whips and slapped the beasts below them. Very soon, they got the situation under control. The panicked Land Whales in the dust were restrained again and got back to the road.
In a moment, the Land Whales reached the gate of the military camp.
The displaced goods and the dusty and dirty riders attracted the guards' attention.
After learning of the havoc on their way, the guards examined the trunk even more thoroughly.
For the demonic plant hay that was the food for demon beasts, they did not just stab their spears inside as they normally did. Instead, a soldier was sent into the hay and searched inch by inch.
But they found nothing in the end.
The guards waved their hands and let the newcomers in.
Ten minutes later, one of the Land Whales moved into the warehouse of crystals.
Below its fat belly, in the middle of the wrinkles that were dangling because of the gravity, Li Yao set the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit into stealth mode and slowly wriggled out.
His plan had worked out. Nobody expected that an intruder would be hiding in a wrinkle on the skin of a Land Whale without being discovered by the beasts.
It was all thanks to the highly-efficient narcotic drugs that the Fire Ant King provided!
It was a perfect infiltration.
Next, Li Yao was going to deploy a few special crystal bombs at the critical locations of the warehouse. The explosion was not the key point. He was trying to create an illusion that the crystals were going to explode in minor collisions because of their mediocre quality so that his following operation would be more convenient.
Let's begin!
Li Yao snapped his finger in his heart and smile confidently.
He had come and gone like the wind in the most perilous places such as the Mausoleum of Chaos and the Nether World in the North Pole. Now that he had snuck into the small military camp, wasn't he already a sure winner?
Right then—
Earsplitting alarms were ringing outside, as if ten thousand loudspeakers were shrieking at the same time. The entire military camp could hear them!
Chapter 975: Blow Up a Devilish Warship! |
What—what the heck!
Within his crystal suit, Li Yao's face was almost the color of spinach right now.
Was the coalition army of demons so well-trained now that they had seen through his infiltration but deliberately let him in to trap himself inside the camp?
That was too horrifying!
Li Yao sensed the enormous demonic energy spreading out above his heart, as if the sky was boiling. It was a sign that the 'Ghost Eye'-level devilish warship was driving at full speed.
The 'Ghost Eye'-level devilish warship was a model designed to suppress ground troops. A great cannon that could shoot out demon fire, acid, and infrasonic waves simultaneously had been grown below the head of the warship. Even an expert in the Nascent Soul Stage would need to dodge the bombardment!
Exclamations, screams, explosions. Everything was a complete mess!
Right when he was cursing and gritting his teeth, prepared to march out, he suddenly realized that he was not the target of the chaos.
Neltharion, which was floating above the warehouse of crystals, noticed a streak of brightness that soared from an enormous tent and rushed toward the southwest.
It was an… Core Formation Stage Cultivator!
At this moment, there would not be a second 'Core Formation Stage Cultivator' in Void Turmoil City other than Jin Xinyue.
The Core Formation Stage Cultivator unleashed tremendous spiritual waves and broke the sonic barrier, passing through the sky like a supersonic shuttle. Naturally, the coalition army noticed the anomaly immediately. That was why the entire military camp was in a riot.
Not only did all the soldiers of the Feather Clan activate their flight techniques to block the enemy, even the 'Ghost Eye'-level devilish warship was also turned on immediately and chased after her.
Li Yao could hardly refrain himself from punching a hole in the wall. What was Jin Xinyue doing exactly? Did she not claim to be a well-trained saintess of the Pantheon of Demons, who were best at stealth, assassination, infiltration, and ambushes?
Why did she expose herself right in front of the eyes of the coalition army of demons?
Everything was screwed!
A Core Formation Stage Cultivator had appeared in Void Turmoil City right under the nose of a hundred thousand soldiers of the coalition army of demons. Could it be any more thrilling?
He would have to find out the answer to the question after he rescued Jin Xinyue.
Thankfully, the immense spiritual waves that she released attracted the attention of all the demons in the military camp. The 'Ghost Eye'-level devilish warship and the Feather Clan had both been summoned to chase after her, which gave Li Yao a chance to take action more openly.
The newly-captured civilians had been panicking in the first place. With the fuss that Jin Xinyue caused, they were all shouting and running about like headless chickens, distracting the attention of the Death Sickle Tarantula and the ground troops.
Other demons are easy to fix. The key is the 'Ghost Eye'-level devilish warship!
The shell of the devilish warship of such a level is embedded with more than twenty biochemical eyes that originated from the large squids. It will be practically impossible to get away once I am locked onto by them!
I have to destroy the devilish warship!
A crystal suit versus a warship!
Back in the Heaven's Origin Sector, during the ultimate test on the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, Li Yao had snuck into a crystal warship and controlled the entire bridge.
But right now, it was obvious that he could not infiltrate the 'Ghost Eye'-level devilish warship. He would have to destroy the devilish warship in a head-on battle.
In the siege of so many enemies, he only had one shot. He had to destroy it in one attack!
Li Yao took a deep breath. The environment nearby that he surveyed just now overlapped with the structural designs of Void Turmoil City, and he came up with plans to destroy the warship one after another.
Difficult. It was too difficult!
His target was a devilish warship that was almost a thousand meters long and boasted a powerful shield of demonic energy and a shell of biochemical skeletons. Even the full-strength strike of a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator might not be enough to completely deprive the warship of all its combat ability unless he was unbelievably lucky to hit a critical part such as the arsenal.
What should I do?
Li Yao panted anxiously. Then, he suddenly moved his eyes to the crystals stored in the warehouse.
The mediocre crystals contained too many impurities and were highly unstable. They might burn or explode when they were touched.
What if…
Li Yao's eyes were glittering as he came up with a crazy idea.
He closed his hands and rubbed them. Five Cosmos Rings appeared in his palm and collected all the crystals!
One minute passed.
The entire military camp was seething because of the appearance of a Core Formation Stage Cultivator. Everybody was paying attention to the Cultivator who had shown up out of nowhere.
Later, exclamations were echoing nonstop. A commander of the military camp seemed to have been killed by Jin Xinyue, which raised an even larger riot.
In such chaos, there was suddenly a blind angle in the defense system. With vague demonic energy spreading out of his body, Li Yao easily escaped out of the military camp with the aid of Neltharion from above.
Jin Xinyue was still on the run. The city was surrounded by troops. Having no choice, she could only dash to the debris at the center of the city.
The troops of the coalition army nearby were all informed of the arrival of a Cultivator. They joined the search and chased after her.
Li Yao had to destroy the 'Ghost Eye'-level devilish warship before the main troops arrived!
Shua!
He turned into a streak of blackness and marched to the depths of Void Turmoil City.
With the Child-Mother Heart Connecting Ring, he could basically locate or even predict Jin Xinyue's whereabouts. Accelerating to the highest speed, he stopped in the front of Jin Xinyue on the way that she would inevitably pass and found a tree skyscraper almost a hundred meters tall.
It was a lookout tower.
Li Yao blinked and appeared in the branches at the top of the tree skyscraper like smoke.
On the branches that were as thick as overpasses, three fat demons were crouching.
Their bellies were as huge as drums, and their mouthparts had evolved into the shape of syringes, which allowed them to shoot out venomous needles at a supersonic speed. They were natural-born lethal snipers.
When Li Yao dashed to the top of the tree, they were all waiting patiently for the arrival of Jin Xinyue. Their hollowed mouthparts had locked onto Jin Xinyue in advance, and their bellies were rising up in greenish colors while the venom was being secreted and congregated.
They reacted quite fast. The moment that Li Yao reached the top of the tree, they turned around and spurted out green venom at twice the speed of sound, aiming for the critical parts on Li Yao's body!
Li Yao narrowed his eyes so hard that his pupils almost broke apart. Black liquid was released from the depths of his pupils and contaminated the entire eyeballs, making his eyes even more deep and mysterious!
The combination of the overwhelming demonic energy and spiritual energy produced an extremely tensile and yet indestructible shield that froze all the venomous needles in midair.
The three snipers were all dumbfounded when they discovered that their venom had been halted in midair.
Li Yao sniffed and released his energy. The dozens of venomous needles were blown backward at a speed more than three times the speed of sound and riddled the three unprepared snipers with holes.
They all collapsed.
The body of one of the snipers even fell off from the branches and landed in front of Jin Xinyue.
Jin Xinyue had lost her cool already. She was sweating hard, and her nerves had tightened. Caught unprepared by the body falling from the sky, she stopped briefly.
The 'Ghost Eye'-level devilish warship immediately locked onto her.
Dazzling brilliance was beaming out of the barrel of the main gun of the devilish warship, and visible ripples of demonic energy was spreading!
Not far away from the 'Ghost Eye'-level devilish warship, under the cover of the branches and leaves, Li Yao was on one of his knees. He raised his left arm, which was like a cannonball that had been uncoated. The living cells that enveloped the crystal suit condensed into translucent bone spurs and scales and triggered astounding electric arcs in the high-speed vibrations!
He opened his fingers, and his crystal suit split apart. A crystal the size of an egg popped up from his palm. The biochemical energy that he had earned at the cost of tremendous cells melded with the spiritual energy that was transmitted to the front end of his arm by the super-compressed crystal reactor through the tubes, as if two overwhelming rivers had joined together, raging, roaring, and simmering!
The Cell Obliteration Cannon might not have been enough to blow up a devilish warship. However—
Li Yao's right hand picked up three Cosmos Rings, all of which had been fully loaded with the low-quality, unstable crystals that he had just looted and the extremely powerful crystal bombs that he had refined earlier!
The Cell Obliteration Cannon was activated at almost the same time as the main gun of the 'Ghost Eye'-level devilish warship.
The moment before they were launched, however, Li Yao snapped the three Cosmos Rings out and shot them toward the devilish warship with his spiritual energy and telepathic thoughts!
The retrieval rune arrays of the three Cosmos Rings had all been activated, with a timer set to half a second later!
Shua!
The three Cosmos Rings were hurled above the devilish warship in an elegant curve before all the retrieval rune arrays were activated.
Crystals weighing almost five tons were released from the Cosmos Rings and smashed the devilish warship overwhelmingly like a landslide.
Five hundred billion times, super crystal Cell Obliteration Cannon!
Li Yao uttered a deafening roar. From the deepest part of his marrow to his internal organs, from his internal organs to every bit of his flesh and blood on his limbs, along with the living cells on the surface of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, everything was burning at the maximum rate!
