by <unknown>
The time is too urgent. I have to gamble. If Xiao Xuance doesn't bite my bait, I can always reveal my identity and speak the truth to everybody!
In that moment, Li Yao planned a trap for Xiao Xuance!
First, he was going to attack the defense lines of the space gate together with the space pirates!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The flowers of death were blossoming among the space pirates and the Immortal Army. Countless Immortal Cultivators were blown up by the immense blast.
Without the protection of spiritual energy, their broken bodies were soon frozen into icy blocks by the cold universe, drifting randomly in the battlefield.
Li Yao narrowed his eyes and calculated the trajectories of the bombardment quickly. It took him five seconds to find a satisfactory coordinate and angle.
Without any hesitation, he charged at where the Cultivators' defense was weakest, with an orange exhaust flame spurting out of his back.
Half a minute later, Li Yao was hit precisely by a powerful crystal cannon in the front!
The bombardment came from the main cannon of a crystal warship. The tremendous spiritual energy stored in the attack blew him away instantly!
When the light of the crystal cannon died down, although Li Yao's body was still intact, his crystal suit had been battered, and blood was flowing out all over his body.
The blood was soon frozen and turned into crimson frost.
Li Yao drifted slowly toward a corner of the space gate as if he were a dead body.
There were many dead bodies similar to him on the battlefield. Nobody paid him much attention.
Sneaking into the defense line under the disguise of a corpse was a common strategy. However, the soldiers who carried out such a strategy had to wear a crystal suit when they pretended to be dead bodies, too.
In the airless, frigid space, without the protection of a crystal suit, even Cultivators would not able to hold on for long.
At the very least, their heads had to be protected by helmets, which would provide necessary oxygen and energy.
On the other hand, Li Yao was only covered by twisted scraps of his crystal suit, which had been melted onto his body as if it were slag.
His head was exposed to the vacuum. His eyes were wide open and dim. His facial expression was frozen in the bewilderment at the last moment of his life. Over all, he looked like a vivid rock statue.
Shua! Shua! Shua!
Mystic rays beamed out of the Cultivators' crystal warships and scanned the battlefield carefully, especially the 'dead bodies' whose limbs were intact and whose crystal suit was undamaged.
If so much as the tiniest spiritual wave was perceived, the crystal warships would bombard the targets mercilessly until the dead bodies were blown into ashes together with their crystal suits.
Corpses like Li Yao that did not have crystal suits and had twisted limbs were determined to be 'lifeless' and simply ignored by the crystal warships.
Li Yao gradually approached the space gate.
The powerful crystal cannon gave him a high initial velocity. In the vacuum where there was barely any friction, he was like a shooting star.
However—
There were too many variants in a battlefield, and he could not take all the accidents into consideration.
A crystal warship suddenly exploded near him, and its debris smashed at him like a hurricane.
With Li Yao's Cultivation right now, he could resist all the incoming scraps as long as he placed the weakest spiritual shield around him.
But as a 'dead body', he could not do that.
The distance is close enough, Li Yao thought as he calculated quickly. At this moment, there were the last fifteen kilometers between him and a star beacon that had been repaired.
Then—it's time to take action!
In a moment, Li Yao's eyes turned from a dull gray to shining gems. Endless lightning was dancing around his pupils. The crimson frost on his skin was boiled into a bloody aura that surrounded him!
Hiu!
Li Yao did not crash at the space gate. Instead, he darted toward a crystal warship that was closest to him!
…
Rong Jun was extremely excited in the simmering battlefield.
Rong Jun was a Cultivator in the high level of the Building Foundation Stage and also an experienced Exo. It had been more than half a month since he came to the front line, and he had participated in more than ten bloody battles where he had slain dozens space pirates and Immortal Cultivators. Naturally, his excitement was not because of a regular battle.
He was so thrilled that he was barely able to control himself because another batch of Cultivators had arrived in the Spider Den Space Zone.
Long Feihu, his idol and the undefeated champion of the Heavenly Sword Arena, was among the newcomers!
Long Feihu was a top expert who had been famous for almost fifty years. He was in the high level of the Building Foundation Stage, and his skills in operating a crystal suit were fantastic. In the Heavenly Sword Arena, one of the top five arenas of Heavenly Saints City, he had once secured a miraculous hundred-win streak!
Many young men of the Flying Star Sector actually embarked on the path of an Exo after watching Long Feihu's combat videos!
Rong Jun was no exception. When he was little, Long Feihu had already distinguished himself. He kept Long Feihu's personal autograph to this day, which was the most valuable treasure for him.
He did not expect that he would be fighting side by side with his greatest idol. Besides, the two of them were so close to each other. How could Rong Jun not be excited?
Long Feihu! The expert who secured a hundred victories in a row! The legendary expert of the Heavenly Sword Arena!
Strong. He is so strong. Just one slash, and a 'Greedy Wolf Battlesuit' has been chopped in half!
The helmet and the breastplate of such a crystal suit adopted the Great Bright Alloy, which is extremely hard. They are designed to resist the bombardment of a crystal cannon multiple times. But Long Feihu broke them apart with a casual attack!
In the chaos of the battle, neither of the two parties were able to keep their battle formation. It had become an open hunting ground.
Rong Jun simply chose to stay closely behind Long Feihu. He accepted his idol's temporary command and teamed up with him, while he observed his idol's battle skills.
Rong Jun had thought that Long Feihu's fighting style was the glamor and sophistication he demonstrated in the Heavenly Sword Arena.
But now that he was on the battlefield, he realized that Long Feihu had not been giving his best performance in the arena at all. His real fighting style was simple, straightforward, and cruel. The piercing and the slashing were clean and quick. Barely any space pirates or Immortal Cultivators could let him attack twice. In several minutes, countless dead bodies were already floating around Long Feihu. He was likely the most precise slaughtering machine in the world!
Rong Jun was completely fascinated. He was about to cheer for his idol loudly in the communication channel!
Suddenly—
Earsplitting alarms echoed inside Rong Jun's crystal processor. An immense spiritual wave was darting at an unimaginable speed from behind him!
Before he realized what was going on, Long Feihu had rushed upward!
Then, Rong Jun felt as if a crystal warship was rushing at full speed crashed into him!
I'm screwed!
Rong Jun was blown away before he had the chance to scream.
With his abundant experience in fighting, he knew clearly that it was probably the last second of his life.
However, in the next second, as he gradually freed himself from the tremendous blast stabilized himself, Rong Jun discovered, to his surprise, that he was not dead. In fact, there were not the slightest injuries on his body. Even his crystal suit was undamaged!
How is this possible?
Rong Jun was immediately soaked in cold sweat. At first, he thought that he had been hit by a mental attack. But when
he looked at his surroundings, he found out that he had truly been blown several kilometers away!
This… this is impossible!
A stream of spiritual energy blew me several kilometers away without hurting me at all? Who—who did it? His control over spiritual energy must be incredibly precise!
Before Rong Jun recovered from his daze, he saw an even more dumbfounding scene!
His crystal camera found that Long Feihu, his idol, was floating a kilometer away like a puppet that had lost all its strings. Flames were bursting out from all the key parts of his crystal suit, as if somebody had chopped off all the transmission tubes of his crystal suit!
"Senior Long!"
Countless exclamations echoed inside the communication channel.
Clearly, Rong Jun was not the only person who had seen the shocking view.
"Cough cough. Cough cough cough cough!"
After three seconds of silence, Long Feihu's coughs came over in the communication channel.
Along with the coughs was a furious roar. "Got away. He got away!"
"Long—Long Feihu was totally crushed in just one second!"
Something deep down in Rong Jun's heart seemed to be collapsing. He held back his astonishment and looked at Long Feihu's back.
He saw a streak of redness hundreds of meters long that looked like a shooting star with a long exhaust flame. It was zigzagging agilely in the impregnable web of fire. The crystal cannons hit him multiple times, but in the end, it was the blurred shadow of him that was shattered.
Within a breath, after altering his direction hundreds of times, the red shooting star with an extremely long exhaust flame crashed into the front of a crystal warship heavily!
Chapter 775: Reappearance! |
If it were not for his helmet, Rong Jun's jaw would have hit the ground.
When a crystal warship was sailing in the universe, sometimes it would have to pass through meteoroid showers. Therefore, the head of the crystal warships was always specially strengthened. Even if it were hit by the main cannon of the enemy, it might not necessarily take any damage.
However, the streak of redness was like a burnt iron chopstick piercing through tofu. It was not in the least hindered and penetrated into the crystal warship easily.
The only thing left was a pure round and red hole around which the steel was bulging and melting into an orange ring.
The communication channel was immediately thrown into chaos. Somebody was calling for reinforcements, somebody was contacting the Cultivators in the crystal warship, and somebody was shouting to determine the stranger's identity by comparing his features with the profiles in the database.
However, after less than twenty seconds, the streak of redness penetrated through the other end of the crystal warship!
Never in the Cultivators wildest dreams had they foreseen that an expert on the enemy's side could pass through a crystal warship in less than twenty seconds.
There were no Cultivators behind the crystal warship!
Then, Rong Jun saw a devastating scene.
In the blink of an eye, the streak of redness reached the front of a star beacon.
Due to the long distance and the crimson aura around the enemy, Rong Jun could not tell what the enemy's crystal suit looked like exactly. He only saw that six limbs around five meters long extended out of the redness, as if a weird, giant spider had stretched out. Then, the six limbs pierced into the star beacon brutally!
Every star beacon was almost a hundred meters long, protected by powerful defense rune arrays.
However, no matter how brilliantly the stripes on the defense rune arrays were shining and how forceful the electric arcs they released were, they could not stop the intruder from blowing six holes in the hundred-meter-long star beacon with the six limbs!
On the back of the star beacon, six volcanoes seemed to erupt at the same time. Countless components and scraps spurted out together with the flames and poured into the depths of the sea of stars.
Then, the man held the star beacon with his six limbs and started spinning it. In just one second, he had spun the star beacon almost a thousand times!
Is he a human being?
Rong June felt that his head was dizzy, and his heart was freezing. The endless data jumping out of the light beam made him wonder whether or not he was in the middle of a dream!
In the end, the man threw the star beacon away brutally. The star beacon immediately turning into a roaring shooting star and crashed at the star beacons further ahead.
BOOM!
There was no sound in the vacuum, but the spiritual waves raised by the huge collision of the two star beacons were like a tsunami. Rong Jun could not help but move backward, as if he had heard an earsplitting explosion.
The star beacons that were used to navigate the long-distance space jumps were very precise magical equipment. When the two star beacons crashed heavily, the violent shaking triggered a certain chain reaction in the components inside them. After a few weird flashes, the two star beacons collapsed toward the center and exploded within a breath. The fireballs expanded stubbornly in the vacuum like a deformed tumor. Dazzling, eccentric colors were beaming out!
Although Rong Jun was not a refiner, he could tell that the two star beacons had been destroyed!
The crimson shadow slowly rose up from the red lotuses of destruction and stared at the battlefield like an invincible God of War.
Although Rong Jun was behind the enemy, he still shivered and had a feeling that a ferocious animal had got its eyes on him and would bite off his head as soon as he moved slightly!
What was odd was that the mysterious intruder suddenly went rigid, and even bent his body, for a moment in the battlefield full of unexpected factors.
Rong Jun did not know what it meant. Ever since the crimson shadow showed up, his movements had been clean and precise without the slightest hesitation. But right now, he seemed to be… catching his breath?
The chaos and noise in the communication channel gradually cleared up and calmed down.
Countless Cultivators and Grand Illusionary Soldiers were marching toward the mysterious expert.
But the mysterious expert did not dawdle for too long. Before he was surrounded, he dashed out of the circle at an amazingly high speed.
When Long Feihu came back to himself, he changed to a speed-type crystal suit and chased after the enemy. But after half a minute of rushing, the distance between them only continued to increase. He could only shake his head and abandon the pursuit.
The enemy reached the most chaotic area of the battlefield and split off into dozens of blurred shadows that ran in different directions.
The serial explosions of the two crystal warships were like a hurricane that blew away all the blurred shadows.
The Cultivators and the Immortal Cultivators alike lost track of the expert.
He had gone.
Rong Jun looked at where the enemy had disappeared, dumbfounded, unable to calm himself down for a long time.
When he looked back, he found that the two star beacons had been completely melted into wasted iron and copper. They were now beyond repair.
Rong Jun sighed. Those star beacons were mostly magical equipment left by the Star Ocean Imperium that were now put into use again after maintenance.
With the technology of the Flying Star Sector, it was possible to produce more of them, but it would require a huge amount of manpower and resources, and it would take at least a month to ship the new star beacons to the frontline after they were manufactured.
The space gate was a precise system. Without the broken and damaged star beacons, it would not be able to guide the space jumps of the large-scale fleets. Should there be an error, the whole fleet might end up in a foreign, desolate space zone outside of the Flying Star Sector, or even directly twisted in the four-dimensional universe.
The day of the final battle has to be put off for at least a month.
Rong Jun felt that his head was aching
.
Right then, he heard Long Feihu's solemn voice in the communication channel. "The stranger is in the Nascent Soul Stage and has never appeared before!"
The appearance of a new expert in the Nascent Soul Stage was not just a headache for the Cultivators on the battlefield.
Since the arrival of the extraterrestrial devils five years ago, the Cultivators had decided to implement the 'Grand Illusionary Soldier Project' and set up a command center in Heavenly Saints City that was responsible for the organization of the war against the Temple of Immortals.
At this moment, it had been three hours since the two star beacons were destroyed.
The command center was still in a mess because of the aftershock of the incident.
The damage of a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator was equal to that of a crystal warship. But their stealth ability and their agility were hundreds of times higher than those of a crystal warship. They were essentially strategic weapons that could move, attack, or hide themselves!
If a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator had made up their mind, it would not be a problem if they intended to destroy a city or suppress an asteroid!
Therefore, for the two parties engaged in any war, they had to closely monitor the first-rate and the super experts in the peak of the Core Formation Stage and in the Nascent Soul Stage on the enemy's side. They would create secret files and collect all the data so that they would know exactly where those experts were at any given moment!
On the other hand, the Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators were not carrots in a farmland. They could not just appear out of nowhere.
It would consume astronomical resources to raise a Cultivator into the Nascent Soul Stage. Advanced facilities and wholehearted mentors were mandatory, too. The whole process might easily take a hundred years.
No Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators would show up without a reason!
After five years of warfare, the few Nascent Soul Stage experts on the Temple of Immortals' side were all under the Cultivators' watch. But the Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator who emerged beyond all expectations did not look like any of the Immortal Cultivators that had appeared before.
Was he the last trump card of the Immortal Cultivators?