by <unknown>
"The biochemical beasts will improve our strength by two or even three levels. Destroying the crystal suits of the Cultivators will be more than easy!"
All the demons were exultant while they danced and laughed.
Glancing around, Wang Ji's eyes stopped on a black beast.
The beast was relatively smaller in size, less than six meters in length. Its body was slippery, like a mix of black metal and flesh. Its head was disproportionally long and covered by a curved shell which blocked its eyes. A mouthpart with sharp, helical teeth could be seen through the half-open bloody mouth.
The limbs were long and slim, with black bone spurs all around. In the back of the beast was a bone tail ten meters long, concluded by a three-edged sharp blade embedded with thorns.
Wang Ji felt enormous strength, and even more enormous lust for killing, from the beast.
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!
Below the stomach of the beast, the black ribs opened one by one, unveiling a giant empty chamber inside.
Wang Ji strode forward and crawled into the beast. Then, the ribs closed without leaving the tiniest gap.
Hiss!
The black beast stood up!
The rigid robot a moment ago seemed to have turned into the most brutal predator. The air in front of it was torn apart and twisted after a casual snatch.
Acids more corrosive than vitriol were streaming out of its mouth, which dribbled to the ground and produced burning noises.
Transformed by the beast, Wang Ji's voice was extremely twisted and high.
"Haha. Hahahaha. Such invincible strength! With this biochemical beast, I can wield the strength of a demon king!
"Hurry up and pick a biochemical beast most suitable for you!
"Prepare the Super Green Acid Cannon!
"Let the hunting begin!"
…
Deep inside the silver ocean, the fierce battle was ongoing.
Li Yao roared and slashed off a 26th tentacle. But his left hand felt off for a moment, causing him to temporarily halt the Purple Electric Blue Fire Claw Art. The tentacle was not smashed into pieces. It hit himself heavily.
Despite the protection of his crystal processor, he felt that somebody had hammered him right in the chest after a dull thunder-like noise.
Thankfully, Ding Lingdang came in time and burnt the tentacle to a crisp with a blazing dragon.
Under the pressure of the silver seawater, her Nona-colored Fire was suppressed. Her capability was seriously undermined. After fighting for such a long time, she was breathing heavily, too.
'Something is not right!'
For some reason, Li Yao felt uneasy, as if somebody was peeping at him in the bottom of the ocean.
'The undersea beasts are not trying to eliminate us; they are trying to keep us here!'
Li Yao noticed that, pressed by the hundreds of vigorous tentacles of the undersea beasts, the six members of Team Blue Bronze were drawing closer and closer, and the remaining Orb Patrollers of Team Tiger Deity were assembling, too.
Li Yao couldn't help but ask in the communication channel, "Yan Zi, do you feel that something odd is watching us from the bottom of the ocean?"
As a scout, Yan Yangtian's senses were the sharpest of all.
"Something is indeed not right. I have goosebumps all over my back!"
Yan Yangtian gnashed her teeth.
"I feel the same way, too. Take care, everybody. Brace for new enemies!"
Before Captain Hong Tong finished his sentence, abrupt changes took place!
A streak of greenness was shot from the depths of the silver ocean, darted at Team Tiger Deity, and suddenly exploded into a cluster of green fog when it was dozens of meters away from Team Tiger Deity.
The cluster of green fog seemed to be alive. It danced, expanded, and lunged at Team Tiger Deity!
The five Orb Patrollers of Team Tiger Deity sensed that a great danger was coming and prepared to run away, but they were delayed for a second by the tentacles of the undersea beasts.
In that one second, the cluster of green fog tangled the five Orb Patrollers!
The green fog split into many green lines which crawled into gaps of the crystal suits like miniature worms.
A lot of bubbles appeared on the surface of the crystal suits while they were corroded and decomposed. Eventually, shocking holes were taking shape!
Through the holes, the green lines crowded into the inside of the crystal suits and started corroding the bodies of the Orb Patrollers!
The Orb Patrollers struggled to resist the deterioration of their spiritual energy. But they could spare no attention to deal with the undersea beasts now, which snatched them easily with their tentacles one by one.
Team Blue Bronze was completely dumbfounded, especially Li Yao, who was more shocked than everyone else.
He was quite familiar with the crystal suits that Team Tiger Deity wore. They were the most advanced models of the Heaven's Origin Sector, manually strengthened by the most experienced Armadominuses.
In the war against the Heaven's Origin Sector, the crystal suits had often survived hours in a battlefield without being damaged by anything.
But right now, the acids in the shape of green lines that looked like weird worms had ruined the crystal suits within several seconds!
'What kind of acid is this?'
Before Li Yao was back to himself, he had a terrible feeling. Without input from his brain, his body had swum up toward the surface of the ocean!
"There's no time! Hide behind the undersea beasts!" roared Li Yao.
The six members of Team Blue Bronze dashed behind an undersea beast.
The second streak of greenness appeared and exploded a hundred meters below them, but it hit the monolithic undersea beast first.
The undersea beast seemed to be shrieking desperately, indicated by the violently jumping oscillograph, although they didn't hear anything. Its tentacles were cramping crazily, before turning into ichor one by one.
The undersea beasts could spurt out acid themselves, which meant that their bodies should have had resistance against acids. But it was utterly pointless faced with the weird green acid.
The solid cone-shaped shell didn't last long, either. Despite the ivory, sticky serum, it turned mottled after a short moment. Much ichor that used to be the body tissue jetted out!
Half a minute later, the hundred-meters-long undersea beast became an empty, broken shell floating and soaking in the seawater.
The other two undersea beasts were greatly appalled. They fled without a moment's delay.
Li Yao and his teammates took the opportunity to dash hundreds of meters upward during the precious half a minute.
However—
The streak of greenness transmitted extremely fast inside the seawater when it exploded. Although the six of them used the undersea beast as a shield, a bit of the green fog still splashed on their bodies.
The bits of acid turned into green lines, which tied up everyone's crystal suits and looked for the gaps in the crystal suits madly.
"Not good. My leg joint has been corroded!"
"What kind of acid are they? The anti-corrosion layer on our crystal suits is completely useless against them!"
"They seem to be living creatures under manipulation of someone. Ah! They've dug a hole on my crystal suit and are crawling into my body!"
Exclamations echoed nonstop in the communication channel.
Chapter 413: Formidable Beasts! |
Cold sweat was appearing on Li Yao's forehead. His Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was smeared by several 'green lines', too, which were corroding the surface of the crystal suit at a crazy speed.
Furbished and polished by him repetitively, the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was extremely solid. Its speed of corrosion was much lower than that of other crystal suits.
But if he were to simply leave it alone, the weird green lines were bound to drill several holes on his crystal suit eventually.
Once the gree
n lines entered his body, he would have to resist them with his spiritual energy, which would be a terrible nuisance.
Ten ultra-thin blades stuck out of Li Yao's fingertips. His hands moved as fast as wind and cut a layer of metal off the surface of his crystal suit. Then he threw it away into the deep ocean together with the green lines on it.
Twelve green lines were cleaned up quickly.
But two of the green lines had dug into the crystal suit deeply. Li Yao simply pulled off the entire piece of plate armor and tossed it away.
After all, with the amazing framework of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, the loss of one or two pieces of plate armor did not affect its functionality very much.
But his teammates were not as quick as him. In a flurry, many of them dismantled too many corroded components to maintain the performance of their crystal suits.
But Weiqi and Leng Ziming both grunted in the communication channel. Two green lines had penetrated through their crystal suits and crawled into their bodies.
"The green line is like a weird worm. Not only does it corrupt my flesh and blood, it is also crawling deeper into my body through my spiritual veins. My spiritual energy circulation has been seriously jammed!"
Ba Weiqi rasped, "I have to activate my spiritual energy to maximum just in order to resist it. But as a result, 40% of my spiritual energy will be wasted. My combat ability will be greatly undermined!"
"My situation is even worse."
Leng Ziming said quickly, "The green line is crawling into my brain. I have to focus more than half of my attention to cope with it. I can't carry out my gunfighting skills as I should!"
"We can't stay here. Let's go!"
Captain Hong Tong made the decision immediately. Ding Lingdang and Yan Yangtian swam over and seized the two wounded companions. But as they were going to flee to the surface of the ocean, a huge amount of bubbles popped up around them as if the seawater was boiling. Almost twenty invisible killing scents had locked onto the six of them hard and sure.
"Team Tiger Deity is staying in this place. Why are you in such a hurry to go, Team Blue Bronze?"
It was difficult to hear voice clearly in the rolling seawater. But they all heard a weird soundwave from the depths of the ocean.
Almost twenty black shadows swam up rapidly from the bottom of the ocean at an unimaginable speed. They surpassed the six of them very soon and stopped ahead of them.
"Biochemical beasts!"
"What kind of biochemical beasts are these? They are only less than twenty meters long, yet their terrifying oppression is multiple times stronger than the kraken we killed last time!"
"Since when did the Blood Demon Sector procreate such formidable biochemical beasts? And why have we never seen them before?"
Li Yao's pupils constricted violently as he stared at the hideous, rampant biochemical beasts carefully.
Five of the biochemical beasts were carrying five Cultivators whose crystal suits were on the verge of destruction. They were the five Orb Patrollers from Team Tiger Deity.
A black beast in the lead had a sharp bone tail which pierced through the back of a Cultivator out of his chest. Dozens of thorns extended from the bone tail and stabbed into the acupoints all around the Cultivator's body, making him struggle in agony and unable to summon his spiritual energy.
"Vulture Li Yao, we meet for the third time!"
Satisfied laughter burst out from the black beast, while it waved its tail and pushed forward the thorns on the tail. The Cultivator of Team Tiger Deity was torn to pieces immediately. A mist of blood was flowing in the silver ocean.
CRACK!
Li Yao's eyes were bulging so much and he was biting his teeth so hard that it seemed like they might break apart at any moment.
He had recognized the voice of the demon inside the black beast. It belonged to Wang Ji, the disciple of Elder Blood Robe and the crown prince of the Kingdom of Lion Butchers!
At the same time, the other four Orb Patrollers of Team Tiger Deity were slain mercilessly by the biochemical beasts one after another.
Team Tiger Deity was wiped out!
"Swoosh!"
Without further ado, Wang Ji reined the black beast and charged at Li Yao in a streak of brightness!
The high-intensity silver water had no hindrance on the black beast at all. It appeared right in front of Li Yao's face within a moment. The bone tail which was stained with blood speared forward faster than many flying swords. The intense killing scent was almost a real thing and penetrated into Li Yao's heart like a needle!
Li Yao's eyelids twitched uncontrollably. He dashed backwards while he slashed up with his Boiled Blood Wind Slashing Saber brutally.
Yet, the boil tail grabbed his saber precisely and would've snatched it away if he hadn't reacted quickly enough.
'So fast! So dominating! Wang Ji is at least five times stronger than when I last met him now that he has entered this biochemical beast!'
Li Yao cursed silently. He had been no match for Wang Ji in the first place. Last time the two of them encountered, he was lucky enough to disrupt Wang Ji's teleportation half way through it. That was why he could defeat Wang Ji.
But right now, Wang Ji's capability seemed to have fully recovered. He had even found so many formidable biochemical beasts somewhere. Li Yao had no chance of winning at all!
The primary color of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was also black. Therefore, two streaks of blackness were colliding brutally against each other inside the silver ocean.
The match seemed to be even. But the crystal processor of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was sending out warnings crazily. More and more units were overloading. Several components were bordering on fatigue fracture.
In another three to five minutes, the crystal suit would collapse!
Wang Ji was clearly at ease. His scorn penetrated through the seawater and rubbed the soundwave perception unit of the crystal suit like sharp blades.
"Vulture Li Yao, it was you who sabotaged my endeavor in the Thunderous Sound Mountain, it was you who disrupted my teleportation in Red Lotus City, and it was still you who stole my blood saber. As a Building Foundation Stage Cultivator, you are remarkable. Too remarkable!"
Wang Ji laughed. "It will be a shame to kill such a remarkable Cultivator as yourself easily, won't it? I will dig out your brain and transplant it into the dirtiest swine. Yours shall be the most wretched soul in the world!
"Then, I will capture all the family and friends you have and torture them to death right in front of your face!
"I have all your files. I know everything about your family and friends, too. The girl running the Nona-colored Fire behind you is Ding Lingdang, your girlfriend, isn't she?
"She will be a start!
"This is your inevitable destiny when you chose to be my enemy! I will make you a pig crouching beside my feet, screaming, cry—Ahhh!"
Li Yao chewed his lips so hard that they were bleeding. His life fire was burning furiously. His spiritual energy cast flames in the color of blood that were almost real out of his Boiled Blood Wind Slashing Saber. At the cost of a heavy blow in his chest, he separated two talons of the black beast from its claw!
After Wang Ji entered the biochemical beast, their senses had melted into one. The excruciating pain of his fingers being cut off made him scream desperately.
Li Yao roared. His fighting will had never been higher.
Every word that Wang Ji said was a bucket of hot oil that had been poured into his wrathfully burning brain, making his each and every brain cell expand and explode!
"You threaten me with my family and friends? Good!
"I will not allow you to step out of Boneyard even if I have to be blown to pieces!
"This place… will be your grave!"
Wang Ji didn't expect Li Yao to advance so much within several months. He was so pissed off that he was actually laughing.
"Remarkable, truly remarkable. As expected of the strongest newcomer of Occult Orbs Fel
lowship, Vulture Li Yao!
"But how much can your own remarkableness do? Look behind you!"
Li Yao didn't need to turn back to know that the situation there must be bad.
With the enhancement of the powerful biochemical beasts, every silver-blood demon had overwhelming strength against the Cultivators, not to mention that the number was in their favor, too. There were sixteen of them in total.
For Team Blue Bronze, Ba Weiqi and Leng Ziming couldn't carry out their full strength because of the scourge of the weird green lines. There were in effect only four and a half of them!
Wang Ji kept Li Yao occupied. The remaining fifteen demons were challenging his teammates, which meant every three of them versus one Cultivator. The advantage couldn't be more obvious.
As the maintainer of the team, the information from the six crystal suits was all transmitted to the crystal processor of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit via the local area Spiritual Nexus.
In the 3D light beam, the six translucent figures that represented the status of the six crystal suits turned from green to yellow, from yellow to red, and from red to black eventually one piece after another.
It meant that more and more units of the crystal suits had been completely wrecked.
The specifications of the crystal suits were all unstable and dropping.
"Three of my main power rune arrays are having problems. One is out of control!"
"The joint on my left leg has been hit. 12% of agility lost!"
"I have run out of my flying swords!"
"Bastards, you think you can annihilate Team Blue Bronze so easily? Enjoy this!"
'Dummy' Ba Weiqi and 'Shell' Leng Ziming bellowed in the communication channel at the same time.
Their unstoppable posture immediately informed Li Yao of what they were going to do.
A moment later, the crystal processor of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit acknowledged two extremely intense spiritual waves which were bursting out like volcano eruptions.
"Bo!"
The silver ocean was raging. Wind and thunder were thriving.
Ba Weiqi and Leng Ziming, two Building Foundation Stage Cultivators, entered the seed explosion state without bothering with anything else and fully activated the spiritual seeds that the Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators had bestowed upon them.
