by <unknown>
His two hands immediately turned into a cluster of humming grey mist.
Two seconds later, he opened the cap. Spiritual gas as intense as steam immediately soared to the ceiling and condensed into splendid clouds there in hissing sounds.
Inside the bottle, the liquid was in various colors. Bubbles were popping up nonstop as if it was boiling.
Three Flowing Brightness Crystal, with the highly-purified strengthening drug concentrate and the high-frequency vibration, led to drastic chemical reactions, even though Flowing Brightness Crystals were known to be extremely mild and stable Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
The corner of Li Yao's eyes twitched violently. Gritting his teeth, he craned his neck and drank the bottle of concentrate in three mouthfuls.
BOOM!
He felt that ten thousand crystal bombs had exploded in his stomach at the same time, or that a giant tree was rooting and sprouting in his gastrointestinal system. The roots pierced through his gastric wall, mingled with his veins and nerves and spread to his limbs. Poisonous thorns seemed to be growing from the roots which tore his internal organs apart and ripped open his every cell!
"Art of the Swallowing Whale, activate!"
Like a crazy devil, Li Yao held back the excruciating pain while his gastrointestinal system melted the magma-like spiritual energy flowing out of the Flowing Brightness Crystals with his soul. His flesh and blood were not able to withstand the raging spiritual energy and there were holes all over his body, but he couldn't care less about it!
Strength. It was strength that he needed!
At this moment, there was thirty-nine seconds to go.
Hoooooo!
In an earsplitting roar, Li Yao rushed to the captain seat and sat on it majestically. Thousands of light beams appeared in front of his eyes again, while the telepathic thoughts overly-triggered by the Flowing Brightness Crystals and the strengthening drug concentrate were transmitted to every corner of Sparkle through his hundreds of spiritual threads.
Sparkle was bathed in brilliance all of a sudden. The scale-like plate armor on its shell all stood up high like that of an infuriated dragon. Every magical equipment unit was roaring and yearning for blood and killing!
"Excellent! The manipulability of Sparkle is more than 10% for me right now. Sparkle will be even more powerful than before!"
Li Yao's lips curled. His teeth were like dozens of interconnecting battle sabers, while his hair was standing up like needles tousled by spiritual energy. The tip of his hair was as red as blood!
It was the ultimate sign that a Building Foundation Stage Cultivator had reached their limits in undying fighting will!
At the tail of Sparkle, the eight power rune arrays in a circle sent out astounding exhaust flames in earsplitting noises, driving Sparkle several kilometers away almost instantly at a speed bordering on its maximum!
Li Yao's consciousness, soul, and senses were all minced to pieces by the unexperienced power. The hideous expression on his face would terrify even the most daring devil. There was only one thought in his head that he knew: to rush over and drill through it!
At this moment, more than half a minute had gone.
There were only twenty-one seconds left.
"Drill of mystic rays, activate!"
A third of Li Yao's hair had turned blood red. His skin was chapping, his veins bulging. Countless round steel pebbles seemed to be rolling inside his veins toward his brain.
The thousands of light beams in front of him were blinking. Information was flooding down rampantly as if a dam had been breached.
Nine mystic colors suddenly surged out in front of Sparkle and interweaved into a cone-shaped cluster of brightness that looked like a giant drill. It grew brighter and brighter and eventually became eye-dazzling, while its rapid revolutions stirred up the seawater with awe-inspiring roars!
Seventeen seconds to go!
A thousand meters away from Skeleton Dragon!
Skeleton Demon also sensed that a great danger was coming. Its nine arms were waving at a much higher speed than before, and the water streams that it ejected from its bottom were getting more and more forceful. Its body was still like a monolithic mountain, but it was somewhat unpredictable now, as if it was overlapped by countless blurred shadows.
"It is trying to dodge. Stop it now!"
"We must hold it there for the full minute!"
"Seed explosion! Seed explosion! Seed explosion! Whoever still hasn't detonated your spiritual seed, now is the time!"
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
Three Cultivators suddenly turned into light balls that were even more blazing than the sun, while they exerted strength almost equal to the Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators' and crashed into Skeleton Dragon's three arms brutally like three sprinting falling stars.
The giant skulls at the front ends of the three arms exploded at the same time!
Nine seconds to go!
Sparkle was five hundred meters away from Skeleton Dragon!
"Ho! Ho! Ho!"
Skeleton Dragon groaned in shock and anger. Its nine arms turned into thousands of phantoms, whipping, striking and biting!
The mental attack unleashed by its true body was brought to maximum, too. The brains of all the Cultivators were filled up with squeaking noises and plagued by invisible tides!
"One minute!"
The crystal suit on one of the Cultivators had almost been entirely battered. The plate armor in the chest fell off, revealing the ragged mustard suit inside.
Blood was spurting out of his chest like a fountain.
But he still roared and rushed toward the giant skull that was apparently too fearsome to be coped with by him.
"One minute!"
A Cultivator's flying swords and sabers were all broken. His crystal cannon had run out of spiritual energy. But he simply climbed up a giant skull with all fours and fought against the tusks inside barehanded!
"One minute!"
Ding Lingdang and Yan Jun had cut in above Skeleton Dragon's body and attacked its true self at the risk of being tied up by its transparent tentacles!
Three seconds to go!
Sparkle was only eighty meters away from Skeleton Dragon!
Li Yao's telepathic thoughts almost compacted into a real, visible thing. They crowded into the mainframe crystal processor in thousands of lasers. The mainframe crystal processor was functioning at the maximum, while the drill of mystic rays expanded yet again. Thousands of runes appeared on the surface of the drill and revolved as well, vaporizing the seawater nearby into an overwhelming smoke of brightness!
Three seconds, two seconds, one second!
Fifty meters, thirty meters, the last ten meters!
There was nothing that could stop it now.
Even if a god or Buddha were to appear in Sparkle's way, Li Yao would drill them through easily!
In soul-stirring screams, Skeleton Dragon mustered all its silver bones to the center of its body where the strongest defense was constructed.
Li Yao had no time to adjust the course, nor did he plan to.
In the very last second of the minute, he roared with all his might and drove Sparkle into Skeleton Dragon's thickest defense brutally!
Chapter 431: Spiral Thrusting! |
The underground ocean was raging, raising waves that were about to consume the sky. The blast spread out in white halos. All the Cultivators were blown hundreds of meters away!
In the middle of Skeleton Dragon's chest, silver brightness burst out. Its monolithic body was moved dozens of meters backward.
However, the unstoppable strike of Sparkle finally came to a stop because of the piled-up silver bones.
"Didn't drill into it?"
All the Cultivators were upset, with desperation brimming in their eyes.
Inside the cockpit of Sparkle, Li Yao stood with his head held high. There was no sadness or delight in his face. His messy hair was suddenly prolonged and cov
ered his shoulders. Two thirds of it turned blood red, drifting in the air although there was no wind and burning like furious fire!
Deep inside his brain, his spiritual energy condensed into countless transparent pearls which bombarded the glittering light spot in the center of his brain.
Spiritual seed!
It was the spiritual seed of Iron God Yan Ba, a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator!
BOOM—
Under hundreds of collisions per second, the glittering light spot suddenly shrank, and then unleashed endless brightness and heat, as if a supernova had exploded inside Li Yao's brain. The dominating storm of spiritual energy swept over his body instantly and swallowed all his cells!
The power that originated from the primordial creatures in the beginning of evolution and buried in the deepest parts of the cells was awakened!
Li Yao's every cell seemed to have undergone a lightning-like evolution from plankton to trilobite, to shark, to sarcosuchus, and to tyrannosaurs.
The ancient gate that had been sealed for millions of years was pushed open. The primeval force was set free!
"Hoooo!"
Li Yao raised his head and roared to the sky. His soundwaves seemed to have consolidated into a real thing, as if he had just spat out a cluster of black ink. His body size grew suddenly, and dark gold stripes appeared on his skin. Gold brilliance was also appearing in his bloodshot eyes.
His brain cell activity rushed beyond 1000% as soon as he entered the seed explosion state!
Countless dark gold giant creatures, draconic sharks, sarcosuchus, hydras, tyrannosaurs… The once ruthless dominators in the history of evolution appeared behind Li Yao, overlapping one another!
Hua! Hua!
Around the cockpit, the crystal wires that were as thick as boas suddenly ridded themselves of the fixation shelves and danced crazily around Li Yao!
The dark gold giant shadows behind Li Yao turned into thousands of streaks of gold and span around the crystal wires. At the command of the mainframe crystal processor, they lunged at the mystic ray drill.
Gold spirals suddenly appeared on the surface of the drill, whose speed was higher than it had ever been!
"EXPLODE!" roared Li Yao.
BOOM!
After an earthshaking explosion, the mystic ray drill battered the silver bone armor on Skeleton Dragon's chest into smithereens with the enhancement of the primeval force and dug into the hole!
"Stab! Strike! Through!"
The mystic ray drill was marching forward continuously, irrespective of how the tensile and weird soft body tried to block it. The redness in the center of Skeleton Demon's body seemed to realize that it was in peril. It shrank and shivered like a candle in the blowing wind.
At the critical moment, Skeleton Dragon's nine arms retreated suddenly and smashed Sparkle's shell brutally without bothering about the rest of the Cultivators.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The shell of Sparkle hadn't been entirely repaired from the erosion of thousands of years. Against Skeleton Dragon's full-strength strikes, it was soon full of breaches. Cracks, and even giant holes, were appearing in many places!
Skeleton Dragon's arms pierced into the interior of Sparkle like a dragon diving into the sea.
Gritting his teeth, Li Yao sealed all the compromised cabins and abandoned them on the crystal processor.
Skeleton Dragon's arms couldn't breach into the cockpit for a moment. Therefore, they simply pushed Sparkle away.
Forward and backward!
The two unimaginable forces were at an impasse. Sparkle was under so much pressure that its structure was uttering blood-freezing screeching noises as if it was going to break up any second!
Li Yao opened his arms. His heart was pounding like a drum, while his fire of life was burning more furiously than ever and drove the mystic ray drill forward without bothering about anything else!
Ten meters! Seven meters! Five meters!
The drill of mystic rays penetrated deep in and was only five meters away from the red core!
The dozens of ancient magical equipment stored inside Skeleton Dragon's body were all triggered crazily.
Four pieces of shield-like magical equipment stood in the path of the mystic ray drill quickly.
Seven flying swords scraped the drill of mystic rays brutally, producing colorful brilliance.
Two pieces of gourd-shaped magical equipment, on the other hand, was spurting purple and crimson venomous gas nonstop.
The other magical equipment simply crashed into the drill like moths darting into flames!
The drill of mystic rays continued marching forward!
The shield-like magical equipment exploded!
The seven flying swords were broken!
The both pieces gourd-shaped magical equipment were shattered to pieces!
Four meters! Three meters! Two meters!
"Sprint! Sprint!"
The Cultivators who were observing the situation in the periphery all launched attacks again now that Skeleton Dragon's nine arms were occupied by Sparkle.
But they were well aware that their attacks were merely scratches to Skeleton Dragon.
The key to the victory depended on Li Yao!
At this moment, there was only one meter between the drill of mystic rays and Skeleton Dragon's red core!
However, blocked by the nine arms of bones and countless pieces of ancient magical equipment, Sparkle was moving more and more slowly.
Inside the cockpit, Li Yao was breathing heavily; his eyes appeared hollow. Black blood was leaking out of every pore on his body.
He stumbled and fell to one knee. Craning his head, Li Yao gazed at the weird redness in the middle of the light beam and ushered the last bit of his fire of life and the remaining momentum of the power rune arrays to push Sparkle forward, forward and forward!
Two meters, one meters, half a meter!
Every centimeter forward meant hundreds of collisions with the ancient magical equipment. The drill of mystic rays was finally dampened. The speed of Sparkle was lower and lower, until it was stuck by more than ten scraps of a broken shield and came to a halt when it was only half a meter away from the red core of Skeleton Dragon.
"S—Stopped!"
All the Cultivators felt that their blood was freezing.
Too shocked to restrain himself, a seriously wounded Cultivator was invaded by Skeleton Dragon's mental power and exclaimed desperately in the communication channel, "All in vain! Our endeavors were all in vain! Skeleton Dragon is an ancient deadly demon from forty thousand years ago. We Building Foundation Stage Cultivators stand no chance against it at all! Absolutely no chance!"
As if to prove what he had said, Sparkle was pushed back inch by inch after trembling crazily for a minute in the competition of the two formidable forces.
The drill of mystic rays was still revolving rapidly, but the power rune arrays of Sparkle had exploded one by one. The remaining rune arrays were far from enough to provide sufficient impetus. Therefore, Skeleton Dragon was pushing it back slowly but surely!
Inside the cockpit, components and units exploded one after another, and more and more light beams fell into complete darkness.
The overall structure of Sparkle had been under tremendous pressure, too. It would crumble in less than five minutes.
Doggedness was beaming out of Li Yao's eyes as he tried to stand up. But he still fell to the ground after shivering for a moment and vomited a mouthful of black blood.
"Limit. This is… my limit!
"I can't defeat it. It was an unparalleled deadly demon forty thousand years ago and must've been far stronger than Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators when it was at its peak. I can't defeat it even though it has only several percent of its original capability!"
Li Yao was in a trance. His self-doubt was immediately detected by Skeleton Dragon, who launched immense mental waves scourging his brain.
Once again, Li Yao was faced with a hell on the earth.
/> Floating Spear City, his hometown, and the Grand Desolate War Institution, his mother school, were mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
All his family and friends and everybody he knew, Ding Lingdang, Yuan Manqiu, Peng Hai, Guan Xiong, Meng Jiang, Jiang Shaoyang, Principal Mao, Grandpa Wang, and so on were all crying and screaming in the seas of blood, before they turned into piles of bones.
An irresistible thunder rumbled inside his brain over and over again.
"You are just an ant at the Building Foundation Stage, and you dare to hurt me like this? Very soon, these scenes will become reality to your world, your home, you family and your friends!
"In the meantime, you will be melted and become part of me. The great chaos and slaughter will be started by you in person! Haha. Hahahaha!"
"Hu… Hu…"
Li Yao was breathing heavily. Two streams of blood were dribbling from his eyes.
The cruel scenes did not terrorize him but triggered the remaining fighting will in the deepest parts of his body.
It was all he had left right now.
'No…
'I will not let it go your way. I will not allow you to ruin my home, my family, my friends, my compatriots, and my civilization!
'What do I do? The impetus of the power rune arrays is not sufficient. My seed explosion state is about come to an end. The spiritual energy of the warship is running out. The hardness and revolution speed of the drill is diminishing. There are no other weapons on Sparkle. I can't even self-detonate and perish together with it!
'What do I do?! What do I do?!'
Li Yao buried his head in his hands painfully. He resisted Skeleton Dragon's mental attack while he quickly searched the inventory of magical equipment on Sparkle, hoping vaguely in the overwhelming desperation to find a hidden fatal weapon!
Suddenly, his body was frozen as if he had been hit by a lightning.
Ecstasy burst out of his eyes.
In a moment, Li Yao turned tranquil, somewhat frighteningly.
Sparkle was still being pushed away by Skeleton inch after inch. Another power rune array had exploded, resulting to a loss of impetus of 7%. The warship was obviously lopsided now.
