Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, page 678
Some other devilish warships even crashed into each other, raising new explosions!
The tidal force, which had gone completely out of control, caused the disorder of the magnetic field, too. For many demon beasts that could perceive the natural magnetic field, it was like an iron fork piercing into and twisting inside their brain!
The demon beasts had already been on the verge of fury because of the excessive exhilarants. Now, they were completely out of control.
They got rid of their barriers and boundaries and attacked all the living creatures around them!
Chaos. All the demon beasts, demon emperors, and devilish warships were in chaos! In front of the outbreak of the tidal force caused by the three satellites aligning, even a demon emperor could do nothing!
However, the elite troops of the coalition army, which were now in havoc, were among the more fortunate ones.
The fourteen demon emperors and the best warriors, who constituted the first wave of the attack, were much more miserable than them.
When the Eye of Blood Demon collapsed, they were marching toward the Heaven's Origin Sector unstoppably through the wormhole.
It was almost like they were caught in an earthquake when they were passing a tunnel, and the entire mountain fell upon them.
Huala! Huala!
The tidal force tore apart the wormhole in various directions. Even the lightning around the wormhole was ripped into shreds. The army inside the wormhole fell apart instantly!
Some of the devilish warships were straightened into a river of flesh and blood dozens of kilometers long. The elite soldiers aboard were all squeezed together. There was no telling who was who at all anymore.
Some other devilish warships, on the other hand, were sent into the deepest gap inside the wormhole by the tidal force. They did not reach the Heaven's Origin Sector but an unknown space on the other side of the sea of stars, which was probably a desolate world without any resources. When their fuel and food ran dry, they were destined to starve.
Possibly the most unfortunate devilish warships and demon emperors were half teleported over but were half kept in the Blood Demon Sector, as if many invisible, tiny strings had cut them precisely in half!
'Ape Fiend' Yuan Riyue was one of them.
The super expert, who was one of the strongest in the Blood Demon Sector, realized that something was wrong the moment the tidal force went out of control. He leapt out of the cocoon-like cabin and tried to escape back to the Blood Demon Sector.
However, strong as his personal combat ability was, it was not enough to compete with the magnificent force of nature. He seemed to be grabbed by a pair of invisible giant hands and pulled into the deformed, collapsing wormhole.
The tidal force pulled his bones and internal organs out of his body and sent them into the Heaven's Origin Sector through the wormhole.
His empty shell, on the other hand, was ripped into a bloody mist and sprayed on the land of the Blood Demon Sector.
Before the wormhole was closed, few troops were successfully teleported to the Heaven's Origin Sector.
But Jin Wuxu was one of them.
The commander of the Mirage Falcon troop was among the first demons to pass the wormhole. Also, he appeared at the perfect location right in the sky of the downtown of the capital city.
Here, he could avoid the flying swords darted out by the Cultivators with the cover of the skyscrapers. He could also sabotage the buildings and make as much mayhem as possible so that he would find an opportunity to charge at the Hexagonal Array at the center of the capital city!
Jin Wuxu grinned hideously and enjoyed the fresh air of the Heaven's Origin Sector, which he knew would turn stinky before long.
However—
The allies that he had been waiting for were late. The several warriors who were teleported over were also in panic and unable to fight back.
He even saw that in the sky in the southwest, when a devilish warship was only half teleported when it was chopped into two halves by a terrifying force, with only the front half sent over!
Screams were echoing nonstop around Jin Wuxu.
But they were not uttered by the Cultivators but demons whose bones were broken and whose faces were covered in blood!
What—what the heck is going on?
Jin Wuxu felt that his brain nerves were about to be melted because of the abrupt change!
Hooo!
Earsplitting roars were resonating for away. Jin Wuxu stared for a while, only to discover that it was Elder Blood Robe, one of the four giants of the Blood Demon Sector and the commander of the first wave of attack!
Elder Blood Robe was floating in the clouds. An enormous cluster of demonic energy, which was in the shape of lion and tiger, was soaring into the sky!
Jin Wuxu felt that he had found a life-saver. Overjoyed, he tried his best to get close to Elder Blood Robe.
However, when he was just ten kilometers away from the comrade, he stopped abruptly, and his ecstasy turned into fright.
He discovered that Elder Blood Robe had not been entirely teleported to the Heaven's Origin Sector.
Elder Blood Robe's right arm, right shoulder, and even part of the right side of his head were all gone, as if the sharpest blade had slashed down from the right side of his skull and cut away part of his body!
Also, on the ground, dozens of streaks of brightness were soaring into the sky and dashing toward Elder Blood Robe at a lightning-like speed.
They were the Cultivators in the Core Formation Stage and the Nascent Soul Stage.
As the capital city of the Star Glory Federation and the heart of the Cultivators of the Heaven's Origin Sector, however weakly defended it was, there were always dozens of Core Formation Stage Cultivators and several Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators.
With a miserable face, Jin Wuxu was hesitating over whether to turn around and run away or to reinforce Elder Blood Robe when he felt excruciating pain as if countless needles were stinging his body!
Hundreds of much thinner but much faster streaks of brightness rose up from various locations of the city and darted toward him in weird arcs!
The Hexagonal Array of the capital city had triggered hundreds of auto-piloting flying swords and launched a fatal attack toward him!
Jin Wuxu's lips trembled. He somehow recalled his father's words a moment ago.
Don't get killed!
Jin Wuxu laughed in an way even uglier than when he cried. How—how can I be killed in this place? I am the heir of the Feather Clan…
A battle formation of hundreds of flying swords consumed him instantly!
Chapter 1028: The Way to Escape! |
"How could it be?"
Blood Demon, the flagship of the coalition army of demons, was also affected by the furious tidal force. It was struggling like a lone boat in the surging waves.
Thankfully, it belonged to the second echelon and had not entered the wormhole yet. Therefore, it managed to escape the moment before the wormhole collapsed. Staggering in the rushing storm, it almost crashed into the coast of the bloody lake.
Jin Tuyi and several other demon emperors, including Hong Yuntao, who was the master of the Sea Dominator Kingdom, lunged out of Blood Demon and looked in a daze at the best troops of the demon race, which had been almost entirely obliterated, and the wormhole in midair that was about to perish.
The capital city of the Star Glory Federation on the other side of the wormhole had been so close to them that they could also touch the lights of the skyscrapers when they reached out their hands.
But right now, it became as tantalizing as their reflections in the water. All the schemes and ambitions were falling apart along with the spluttering electric arcs.
Jin Tuyi, Hong Yuntao, and all the other demon emperors stared at the loose troops on the ground desperately and speechlessly.
The grouping and organizing of troops of hundreds of thousands of soldiers was an esoteric art. Now that they had been completely disrupted by the tidal force, it would take quite a few days for them to be regrouped.
Even when they were regrouped, after such a gory accident, it was practically impossible to restore their morale to the high point a moment ago!
Moreover, even if their morale could be restored, so what?
The peak hour of the tidal force had passed. The Eye of Blood Demon had been completely sabotaged. Half of the water in the bloody lake had vaporized, and the other half had flooded to the coast. All the carefully refined rune beasts had been killed, and the most valuable specialists had been buried deep below the lake, their status unknown!
In the sky, the wormhole created by the Eye of Blood Demon had collapsed. The gaps that were as thin as hairs were far from enough to teleport a demon emperor or a devilish warship over.
Besides, even the tiny holes were dispersing at a visible speed.
The channel for assault between the two worlds were only opened for several seconds before it was shut down again, perhaps forever!
The first wave of attack had been wiped out!
Even if a few lucky dogs had successfully been teleported to the Heaven's Origin Sector, without the reinforcement of the follow-up troops, they would be moths darting into the fire!
Everything was because of one person. Just one person!
"My son! My Mirage Falcons! My Red Tide Plan!"
Jin Tuyi was so devastated that he was screaming at the top of his voice. He almost fell out of the air.
The feathers above his head that congregated into a crown were messed up by the blowing wind. His hair fluttering in the wind and his eyes bloodshot, he went mad and slashed his saber, declaring with boundless hatred, "Kill him! Kill him! I am going to mince him into pieces!"
…
At the same time, in the command center of the Spore Stratagem in the secret base of the Nether World Watch, because of the delay of the transmission of brainwaves, the picture of the Eye of Blood Demon that the Nether World Watch received through secret channels was several seconds late.
As the tidal force went out of control, ripples spread out on the picture. The picture twisted and blurred.
However, the doom of the first echelon of attack, consisting of fourteen demon emperors and dozens of devilish warships, was still crystal clear to them.
The pressure in the secret base was instantly ten times lower than before. Everybody was silent, as if the base was a graveyard at the bottom of an ocean!
Pu!
Half a minute later, Elder Nether Spring, who had been soundless the whole time, suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood and nearly fell over.
Shivering, he extended his right hand and snatched in midair, but he did not even know what he was aiming for himself!
The Spore Stratagem was a parasite to the Red Tide Plan. It had to be carried out when the Red Tide Plan was halfway through in order to achieve the best effect.
But right now, the Red Tide Plan had been aborted when it was only a fetus!
The Eye of Blood Demon had been blown up. The channel between the two Sectors had been closed. Even if the Eye of Blood Demon could be repaired in a month or two, there would still be half a year before the tidal force reached the peak point again.
When an arrow was placed on a bow, it had to be fired. To facilitate the Spore Stratagem, many of Elder Nether Spring's spies had been working hard, at the risk of getting exposed. They would certainly be found out after half a year's thorough investigation!
"Who did it?"
His face pale, Elder Nether Spring ripped apart the air in front of him and gnashed.
"Who exactly did it?"
…
Five hundred kilometers to the southwest of the Eye of Blood Demon, on Chaos, which was lurking in darkness, Jin Xinyue, Han Tuhu, and Suo Chaolong were all stunned.
They all saw the clouds in the northern sky and heard the series of explosions, which sounded like thunder.
The area Chaos was at was affected by the tidal force, too, despite being five hundred kilometers away. Soil and tiny branches slowly flew into the sky, briefly free of gravity, before they fell to the ground and broke apart.
Even Chaos itself was shaking slightly in the blowing wind.
"This is a bit too violent, isn't it?"
Han Tuhu and Suo Chaolong looked at each other in bewilderment and wiped off their sweat.
Although they knew that Li Yao's purpose was to destroy the Eye of Blood Demon, they had never expected Li Yao to do it so dramatically!
"What… what a splendor," Jin Xinyue mumbled. "How is Master going to get away?"
…
Inside the bloody lake, while the coalition army of demons was in havoc, a streak of brightness swooshed to the sky like a long, black spear. When it was at an altitude of more than two thousand meters, it dashed into the turbulent storm and quickly span around several times inside the storm before it threw itself out with the centrifugal force caused by the storm!
Li Yao had chosen such a way to escape blatantly right in front of hundreds of thousands of warriors' faces!
"Stop him! Stop him now!"
Jin Tuyi burst into fury. Together with the other few demon emperors, he accelerated to his maximum speed and surrounded the enemy!
It was the center of the elite troops of the demon race. How could one get away so easily?
At the periphery of the bloody lake, some of the devilish warships were not seriously affected after all. They had already stabilized themselves and aimed their acid cannons toward Li Yao!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The barrage of a hundred demons turned the airspace around Li Yao into an ocean of venom and acid!
Shua!
The Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit suddenly split into more than ten identical shadows and dashed in different directions.
"Petty trick. Where are you going exactly?" Jin Tuyi roared.
A streak of dark, golden brilliance rushed out of Blood Demon, which turned out to be his own biochemical beast, a great falcon with a pair of golden wings almost eighty meters long and a scorpion tail that was dozens of meters long!
The two of them melded into one and slashed toward the second shadow, which was rushing southwest precisely like a blinking unparalleled saber!
In the meantime, almost twenty acid cannons had blocked all possible spots where the shadow could dodge!
Huala!
The shadow was hit brutally by Jin Tuyi and immediately fell apart, blossoming in the sky like a flower.
All the other shadows were also dispersing under the scourge of the cannon fire.
However—
The shadow hit by Jin Tuyi just now was indeed the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit. Otherwise, it would not have been able to fool the super expert whose computational ability was unbelievably high.
However, the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was empty. There was absolutely nothing inside except for the mainframe crystal processor, which could autopilot and make the fundamental flight and dodge movements!
Jin Tuyi, Hong Yuntao, and all the other demon emperors flew to the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, which had been shattered. They glanced at the surroundings gloomily.
"He can't run away. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers have surrounded the place. Where can he possibly flee to?"
Jin Tuyi's eyeballs almost exploded. Two streams of deep, dark blood and tears flowed out. "The Red Tide Plan is doomed. My son and the Mirage Falcon troop are doomed, too! I am definitely going to capture him. I will capture him, skin him, burn him to ash, and tear his soul into shreds!"
BOOM!
Hardly had he finished his sentence when an ear splitting explosion burst out at the rear of Blood Demon. A cluster of black smoke soared into the sky, raging and consolidating into an enormous mushroom cloud.
The pupils of Jin Tuyi, Hong Yuntao, and the other demon emperors constricted violently. Their eyeballs were almost frozen as they saw an incredible picture!
On the head of the flagship Blood Demon, which was the greatest glory of the Blood Demon Sector, a human being was standing against the wind carrying his saber!
It was Li Yao!
"Ahh!"
Jin Tuyi bulged his eyes so hard that blood almost spurted out.
He was about to ride his great falcon and capture Li Yao who was wearing no protection when Li Yao extended and curled his middle finger toward them.
Another explosion broke out at the rear of Blood Demon!
The guy had installed crystal bombs inside Blood Demon!
"The lunatic has never planned to run away since the very beginning. He knew that he couldn't, too!"
Hong Yuntao, master of the Sea Dominator Kingdom, moaned in uttermost desperation, "He threw out his crystal suit intentionally as bait and a distraction. While our attention was all focused on his outfit, he took the chance to conceal his aura and sneak into Blood Demon!
"We were all chasing after the enemy and neglected Blood Demon. He escaped our attention!
"We wasted at least ten seconds on his decoy!
"Ten seconds is enough for a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator to do a lot of things!
"In such a way, he—he has hijacked Blood Demon!"
Including Jin Tuyi, all the demon emperors were greatly stunned by the discovery and did not come back to themselves for a long time.
Li Yao's middle finger was still saluting them, but he had stabbed his battle saber into the shell at the head of Blood Demon and sat down next to it.
Shua!
More than ten crystal cameras were floating around Li Yao. They captured his image from all angles and projected it to the sky through a specially-made hologram projector.
In the sky, a light beam almost a hundred meters in diameter immediately appeared.
Li Yao's face, which was covered in smoke and fire, showed up in the clouds right in front of all the best troops of the demon race!
