by <unknown>
Chapter 426: Killing Spree! |
Shua!
Every auxiliary fin on the Dragon Scale Extension was trembling rapidly, while Li Yao turned into a streak of greenness and pierced toward the demons!
"What is this crystal suit? Why is it so intimidating?!"
"Beware!"
All the demons felt unprecedented pressure. The seawater seemed hundreds of times thicker. Despite the assistance of the biochemical beasts, they still found it hard to breathe.
The demons were all frightened and shunned away.
But two demons were in Li Yao's path and had been locked onto by Li Yao's sharp killing intent. All the cells inside their bodies seemed to have been frozen into ice, making them rigid for a moment. The time window for running away had passed, and they had no choice except to grit their teeth and fight the incoming enemy the hard way.
One of the two demons was reining a biochemical beast in the shape of shark that was more than four meters long, with three sharp headbutting horns on its head.
The other demon was hiding inside a biochemical beast that resembled a giant lobster that was more than five meters long. Its two claws opened and closed in clattering noises.
The two demons charged at Li Yao, one from the left and the other from the right!
BOOM!
The furiously burning greenness crashed into the two demons. Thousands of green streams flowed out and wreathed the shark-shaped biochemical beast within a moment, before they were stirred brutally!
"Ahhhhh!"
The middle-level demon general inside the shark-shaped biochemical beast could do nothing but cry out before he was minced into pieces together with the flesh and blood of the biochemical beast. A cluster of bloody mist suddenly exploded in a boom.
A middle-level demon general had been slain by Li Yao within a second!
"The horror. Oh, the horror!"
The other high-level demon general was so panicked that he completely lost his fighting will. While his companion was being pulverized, he hurried to run away!
"Run away, now! Such a monster is too much for me to deal with!"
Rushing forward more than a hundred meters in a breath, the high-level demon general was greatly relieved sensing that Li Yao didn't come after him.
But when he turned back his head, he found that everybody was looking at him in a daze.
The high-level demon general was finally grabbed by an ominous feeling, as if he had stepped onto nothing into an abyss. The pores all over his body shrank at the same time!
Behind his back, a weird green shadow had appeared without him knowing. The proudly-standing strike cannon on the chest of the Dragon Scale Extension was adorned with splendid stripes of blood. The light ball in the mouth of the dragon was more and more dazzling and, before he was able to react, exploded abruptly!
A pillar of brightness as wide as a bowl jetted out of the mouth of the dragon and pierced through the solid shell of the biochemical beast, similar to a chopstick stabbing through a cooked egg.
Luminescent blood flowed out of the gap of the shell. After a 'BAM', the two eyes of the giant lobster exploded simultaneously. It struggled for a moment and dropped dead.
The high-level demon general hiding inside of it was pierced through by the pillar of brightness without even being able to grunt. His internal organs were all vaporized, resulting in his instantaneous death!
After several seconds, two elite demons had been slain by Li Yao as if they were harmless chickens!
"Vulture Li Yao has become so formidable now that he's put on such a weird crystal suit!"
"We are no match for him!"
"We are all going to die here!"
Witnessing Li Yao's invincibility, the demons were terrified again and sent into chaos.
"Li Yao, where did you find such a powerful crystal suit?!"
Wang Ji's eyes were blood red. His fury was almost burning his pupils through. He couldn't hate it more!
"This is… an Ares Extension! The most formidable one-off strengthening plug-ins in the era of the Star Ocean Imperium!"
"Li Yao has miraculously found an Ares Extension. No wonder he is so brutal today!"
"We are saved!"
The Cultivators were overjoyed; their morale couldn't be higher.
Staring at the glamourous Dragon Scale Extension covering Li Yao, Yan Jun was caught in mixed feelings.
A few months ago, when he first met Li Yao, Li Yao was merely a rookie who had just ascended to the Building Foundation Stage. He didn't bother to look at him after all and thought that he would hamstring the Children of Occult Orbs in the missions like the rest of the outside-world Orb Patrollers did.
He didn't expect that the guy would make so much progress in several months and even save his own life someday.
Right then, a telepathic thought was sent to him. His crystal processor received a request to share the communication channels. Team Blue Bronze had docked their communication channel to Team Thunder Soul's.
"Yan Jun! The Ares Extension that I am wearing is a one-off expendable, and it won't last long! Crush them while the demons are in a mess right now!" Li Yao bellowed in the communication channel.
Yan Jun was dazed for a moment. He took a deep breath. The complicated expressions on his face were replaced by fervent fighting will. His eyes glittered while he laughed.
"Alright! Let's talk later!
"Right now, let's just kill!"
Thirteen Cultivators, from three Star Teams, charged into the crowd of demons like thirteen sabers, slashing everything in their way apart.
The demons still outnumbered them in the field. But Li Yao was the sharpest blade edge wherever he went. He led the attack and stirred the formation of the demons into further chaos.
Barely any demons could survive one strike from him. Once they were engaged with him, their biochemical beasts were often seriously injured and had to be abandoned, if they were not killed instantly on the spot.
The other thirteen Cultivators were greatly encouraged by Li Yao's valiance. They exerted all their might and followed him closely.
For a moment, the silver ocean turned red. More than ten demons had been slaughtered mercilessly one by one!
"Li Yao!"
Wang Ji was furious. Demonic energy surged out of his body and condensed into countless bubbles around him before they all exploded suddenly!
The bone tail waved. He dashed forward and reached Li Yao in the blink of an eye.
"Go to hell!"
Almost a hundred sharp bone spurs protruded out of the bone tail, and it slapped at Li Yao at more than three times the speed of sound, tearing the seawater in between apart.
Li Yao squinted. Every muscle on his body was constricted as much as possible, making him seem smaller than he actually was. Then, like an elastic spring that had been compressed to minimum, it bounced back all of a sudden. All the strength inside his muscles flooded into his right arm like thousands of rivers gathering into an ocean, providing spiral explosive power, before he punched the tip of the bone tail!
The Dragon Scale Extension had enveloped Li Yao's fists in a thick layer of green plate armor that was covered in scales and sharp thorns. After the punch, the seawater around was pushed away, and a spacious waterless chamber was formed, like an invisible fist more than one meter in diameter had punched in advance.
BOOM!
The iron fist and the bone tail collided brutally. The immense blast caused a giant swirl in the seawater.
Li Yao barely moved, while Wang Ji was blown backward more than ten meters with a scream!
Tiny cracks were appearing on the fist part of the Dragon Scale Extension.
But half of the bone tail of Wang Ji's biochemical beast had been blown off. The remaining half of the tail was smooth without any bone spurs anymore, cramping.
His nerves had been connected to the brain of the biochemical beast. The pain of the tail being cut off was excruciating, but he was so astounded that he almos
t ignored it.
"His strength is even higher than mine!
"How can that be! How is it possible?!"
Two years ago, when they encountered in the Thunderous Sound Mountain, Li Yao was but a Cultivator at the Refinement Stage. Under the pressure of the prince of the Kingdom of Lion Butchers, he could only hide here and there like a rat in a ditch, and only got away because of luck.
One year ago, when the two of them met again in Red Lotus City, Li Yao was merely at the peak of the Refinement Stage and wouldn't have defeated him without the sordid tricks.
But right now, Li Yao had completely suppressed him in a face-to-face confrontation!
Regretful!
Wang Ji couldn't be more regretful!
Had he foreseen what was going to happen today, he would have cut Li Yao into pieces at whatever cost, even letting go of the Mutated Lion Dragon in the Thunderous Sound Mountain two years ago!
But it was a pity that the past could not be altered. Who could've anticipated that a Mr. Nobody as humble as an ant before would soar to the sky and overturn the world one day?
"Wang Ji, I'm going to avenge Captain Hong!" Li Yao roared and sprinted again.
Gritting his teeth, Wang Ji turned into a cluster of blackness and dashed forward, too.
The two clusters of brightness crashed into each other heavily, raising a blast that resembled an overwhelming tsunami.
The Ares Extension that Li Yao carried was one-off magical equipment in the first place. Therefore, he was not afraid of the impact at all. The plate armor on his shoulder was shattered, but a large part of flesh was torn off from Wang Ji's biochemical beast, too.
"Ahhhhh!"
Wang Ji felt that he was going to be killed by the agony. The biochemical beast suddenly spat out a cluster of black mist, which quickly spread out in the silver ocean like ink.
Run! Run! Run!
Wang Ji fled without bothering with anything else.
Shua!
Li Yao broke through the black smoke, only to find that Wang Ji was escaping in a rush toward the undersea town.
"You want to run away?"
Li Yao sniffed. The power rune arrays of the Dragon Scale Extension spurted out streams of water, pushing him into a streak of greenness again closely behind the enemy.
One was running and the other was pursuing. The two of them left the battlefield quickly and both dived into the undersea town.
The pavilions and buildings in this place were extremely delicate. However, there was no sign of any creature wherever they went. No fish, no coral, and no shellfish, as if they were too intimidated by Skeleton Dragon to come close to his old home.
Even the undercurrents did not dare to intrude into the town. The seawater here was absolutely still, but the environment was extremely creepy. It seemed to be a town of ghosts in the deepest level of the hell.
In the middle of the town stood a conical, splendid building in a completely different style to the rest of the architectures in the town. It appeared to be both a den of a great demon beast and a dead volcano.
It was Skeleton Dragon's residence.
Wang Ji swam toward the residence like a stray dog.
In the middle of his pursuit, Li Yao suddenly had a palpitation. He sensed that a great danger was coming and halted all of a sudden.
An abrupt change took place right at this moment!
Almost a hundred giant clusters of brightness burst out from the entire undersea town, including Skeleton Dragon's residence.
The intense blast demolished more than half of the undersea town like a volcanic eruption and swallowed Li Yao momentarily.
"This is—"
Li Yao was caught in the middle of the blast and the turbulences. Although the Dragon Scale Extension absorbed most of the blast, his head was still quite dizzy.
On his light beam, redness was blinking nonstop. The durability of the Dragon Scale Extension was dropping fast. Many components had been blown into pieces!
As it turned out, Wang Ji had planted a huge amount of crystal bombs in the undersea town!
Chapter 427: Ancient Demon |
Li Yao's head was dizzy, his throat filled with blood. But he was not sure whether he should laugh or cry.
The scenario was quite familiar, albeit with the bomber and the bombed swapping their roles.
Before, he was the one who had set up a myriad of traps in order to survive when he was hunted by strong enemies; today, he was the one doing the hunting, while Wang Ji, a renowned demon, had been forced to flee like a rat with his head in hands and resort to bomb traps to struggle against him.
'I was too careless. I thought that I was invincible with the Ares Extension. But Wang Ji is much more cunning than before!
'As a bomb expert, I was negligent and fell for the trap. This is really a terrible mistake!'
Li Yao frowned. By analyzing the situation, he reached the conclusion momentarily that the explosion was a quite powerful one. If the bombs had been planted in the right locations, the entire undersea town might've been demolished.
The Ares Extension was a one-off expendable after all. Affected by the blast, one component after another lost its functionality and detached from the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, sinking to the bottom of the ocean.
Li Yao's crystal suit was immediately shabby again, the previous splendor gone.
But he was more concerned about the situation inside Skeleton Dragon's residence.
'This moron… Don't play with the bombs when you don't know how to use them properly!'
Gnashing his teeth, Li Yao furrowed his brow. He had anticipated a lot of things, but never did he expect that Wang Ji would be so crazy as to open Skeleton Dragon's residence in such a violent way.
"Haha. Vulture Li Yao, you didn't see this coming, did you? I learned a lot of things from you after the tremendous failures I suffered against you. Explosive magical equipment is your favorite. How does it taste?"
Wang Ji's cocky laughter came over from a dirty undercurrent. "You've lost your Ares Extension. What can you rely on to fight against me right now?"
Li Yao's eyes were glittering. He completely ignored Wang Ji's provocation and extended his telepathic thoughts to the undersea town.
More than half of the undersea town had been utterly demolished. The seabed was full of craters as if it had been bombarded by a meteor shower for three days and three nights.
Wang Ji stood right in front of Skeleton Dragon's residence, more arrogant than ever.
Li Yao was greatly alarmed. He stared at Skeleton Dragon's residence carefully.
The cone-shape architecture was carved with dense rune arrays, but in two completely opposite styles.
Some of the rune arrays were crude, simple, and askew, as if a wild animal had engraved them with its claws and teeth forcefully. They were brimming with viciousness and bloodthirst. One would feel terrified just looking at them.
But the other runes were square and upright, full of astounding dignity.
The rune arrays in two different styles were engaged in a fierce battle like two formidable armies.
However, because of the intense explosion, a lot of stones were blown off the cone-shaped architecture. The rune arrays were all mottled. Many of them were even completely destroyed.
'Not good!'
Li Yao's heart was pounding. He found a crack that was more than half a meter long but thinner than a hair on the surface of the building!
'Was this crack originally in this place, or was it caused by the explosion just now? Does it affect the inside of Skeleton Dragon's residence?'
Cold sweat was appearing on Li Yao's forehead. He gazed at the crack, not even blinking, only to discover that the crack thinner than hair was growing, splitting and spreading as if it were a living fungus. Very soon, it covered more than ten square meters. A spider net of cracks had formed on the surface of Skeleton Dragon's residence!
"Go away!
"Leave Skeleton Dragon's residence right now!"
Wang Ji's face color changed. He was so furious that he laughed, while he gnashed his teeth.
"Vulture Li Yao, without the Ares Extension, we are very alike to each other in capability. Do you still think you are the sure winner right now?
"I have sworn in the Pantheon of Demons to all the demon spirits that I will not stop hunting you until I die. You will beg me more mercy, but I will—"
Before Wang Ji was able to complete his sentence, a weird aura leaked out through the spider-net gaps on the surface of Skeleton Dragon's residence, which interrupted Wang Ji's egotistical declaration.
LUM DUM!
Li Yao suddenly heard a clear heartbeat in the depths of his brain.
The feeling was extremely strange. The sound seemed to be from Skeleton Dragon's residence, but it exploded directly inside Li Yao's brain, completely overlooking the distance in between.
At the same time, somebody seemed to clench his heart, press it hard, and let it go abruptly. He felt extremely uncomfortable.
LUM DUM! LUM DUM!
Heartbeats echoed like dull drumming neither too fast nor too slowly. But the frequency and the pitch were becoming higher and higher.
LUM DUM LUM DUM LUM DUM LUM DUM LUM DUM LUM DUM LUM DUM!
In several seconds, the beating heart already turned into a raging storm, raising a chaotic tsunami in Li Yao's brain and chest.
Li Yao felt like his head was exploding. His eyes were crimson. The bloodiest scenes were unfolding in front him.
He saw countless Cultivators and ordinary people crying in burning flames, tens of thousands of years ago.
Many other Cultivators were fighting the demons on flying swords.
But after a weirdly drifting breeze, the blood and flesh of the ordinary people, the Cultivators, and the demons were all corrupted, turning them into bare bones.
A moment later, the bones stood up robotically and constituted countless hideous killing machines. Then, they spread out in various directions like a swarm of locusts.
