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However, the Nether World Watch, whose soldiers were all embedded with the demon cores, were certainly the most terrifying special forces that Li Yao had seen in his life, not even 'one of'!
Forcing the extremely unsteady demon cores to output energy stably and melding them with the body of flesh and blood perfectly, such a biotechnology is definitely among the most cutting-edge ones even in the Blood Demon Sector!
Such a biotechnology must be supported by an enormous organization!
Elder Nether Spring was determined to explore the secrets of the Mausoleum of Chaos and even established the Nether World Watch in secret. What is he up to exactly?
Li Yao recalled the words of Ning Zhongze, an elder of the Blade of Chaos, again.
It was said that the item they retrieved from Elder Nether Spring's laboratory could potentially change the fate of the Blood Demon Sector and the Heaven's Origin Sector.
And Jin Xinyue had turned from a demon into a human being after absorbing the mysterious liquids!
What had Elder Nether Spring been studying and planning exactly?
No. After going through all the trouble to get in touch with the core secrets, I cannot escape at this moment. If I don't seize a great opportunity such as right now, it will be practically impossible for me to uncover Elder Nether Spring's secrets in the future!
Then, what about fighting against Elder Nether Spring with the Fire Ant King?
Li Yao thought quickly and ran another series of crazy calculations. Countless glass shadows exploded inside his brain, turning into the most brilliant diamond dust!
For a moment, he was about to rush out.
However, Neltharion detected keenly that quite a few strong opponents were still lurking in unknown locations.
The scent that slowly leaked out from the darkness stung Li Yao's pupils like needles. He narrowed his eyes to the minimum.
Elder Nether Spring has backup plans!
Even if I go out and fight side by side with the Fire Ant King right now, since we have never cooperated before and we don't understand each other's strengths, the odds of success are no higher than 11%!
If the odds of success were above 30%, Li Yao might have decided to take his chances.
However, according to the calculations based on Elder Nether Spring's current form, even if Li Yao showed up and butchered a lot of soldiers of the Nether World Watch, the odds of success were only 11%.
It was not a figure that was worth the risk. The smartest hunters and gamblers were often the most patient ones.
Since the two options were both inappropriate, he could only choose the third approach!
While the two demon emperors were fighting fiercely, Li Yao adjusted the position of Neltharion without alarming anybody, partly to observe the battle from a better angle, and partly to make preparations for his next move.
A life-and-death battle between two demon emperors was not something that everybody had the privilege to appreciate. Every collision between the Fire Ant King and Elder Nether Spring seemed to have turned into translucent data streams that flowed into Li Yao's brain through Neltharion. He felt that he was enjoying a great meal and could not have been more satisfied.
Inside the underground temple, the charges of the Fire Ant King were all pushed back by the clones of Elder Nether Spring. Except for the numerous ants that were wasted during the endeavors, neither of them made significant progress.
However, the elites of the Blade of Chaos that the Fire Ant King had brought with him had almost been entirely suppressed by the Nether World Watch!
The Fire Ant King was more than infuriated and lost his patience. The fire giant behind him was finally melded into his real body, which was wearing the armor of flames, before he turned into a roaring dragon and dashed toward the dome of the temple!
Po! Po! Po!
Seven clones of Elder Nether Spring stood in his way, only to be destroyed unstoppably, turning to shivering smoke while the burnt bodies of ants fell to the ground like a storm.
The Fire Ant King finally got rid of the harassment of Elder Nether Spring's clones and rushed toward the dome that had been drilled through by his brother. He seemed to be planning to escape through the dome.
However, the moment he was closest to the dome, the head of the fiery dragon suddenly exploded, and a shooting star darted out of the head toward the east side of the temple rapidly!
The cicada had gotten out of its shell!
The fiery dragons made of countless Thousand Ghostly Fire Ants continued crashing toward the dome of the temple, forming furiously burning clouds in midair.
In the meantime, the Fire Ant King turned into a streak of brightness and flew into the pathway that he came from.
The rest of the clones of Elder Nether Spring and the soldiers of the Nether World Watch were mostly blinded by the burning clouds, and their senses were disrupted. They did not have enough time to stop him!
The Fire Ant King was about to successfully escape when three streaks of brightness darted out of the path and hit him one after another!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
It sounded like that the main guns of a devilish warship and a crystal warship had leaned against each other and opened fire three times brutally. The collision was so powerful that Li Yao suspected that the underground temple might have collapsed.
Airwaves that looked like ripples resulting from the collisions swept across the temple each replacing the last like a tide!
The first two streaks of brightness were both knocked away by the Fire Ant King, but the third one blew him backward heavily like an iron hammer.
Then, three streaks of brightness hovered around him rapidly like three satellites and knitted into an impenetrable cage!
The first streak of brightness was black. It was a brutal warrior more than six meters tall who looked like a hybrid of a Hercules beetle and long-horned beetle. The black, lumpy shell of the warrior was even more magnificent than the biggest Ares Extension. What was more terrifying was that spluttering electric arcs were dancing on all the black lumps on his body, as if every bump of his body was a powerful electrode.
Just like the other soldiers, the warrior was embedded with dense demon cores. His breastplate that looked like a door plank was even installed with a demon core even bigger than Li Yao's head.
Li Yao found it hard to imagine what kind of demon beast such a huge demon core belonged to and how long it had taken for the demon beast to condense it.
On the head of the brutal warrior that looked like a titan, two horns were grown like two long spears. Thick electric arcs were being generated between the horns and triggered a super intense attack every few seconds like the most powerful Taiyi Lightning Railgun, which slashed at the Fire Ant King like the auras of a saber or a sword!
The second streak of brightness was colorful and agile. At first glance, it was an attractive beauty. Although she was only slightly more than one meter tall, there was not the feeling of discordance of the dwarfs in her. On the contrary, she seemed to have been shrunk to half the size of the most beautiful girl.
She was wearing colorful soft gauze, and her bosoms could be vaguely seen and were almost jumping. The gauze folded into two enormous butterfly wings on her back. All kinds of flowers were flourishing on the wings, making them exceptionally glamorous. The dazzling colors were also flowing slowly both like a kaleidoscope and like a splendid swirl!
The butterfly demon was dancing elegantly, leaving clusters of colorful powder anywhere she reached. Li Yao noticed that the Fire Ant King was weirdly slowed down the moment he touched the powder although his speed was rather high in the beginning. He also had an indescribable, fascinated expression on his face, as if he had been grasped by hallucinations!
Those two must be the captains of the Nether World Watch. Judging from their speed and strength, they both boast the combat ability of beginning-level demon emperors!
Besides, the teamwork of the two captai
ns is quite neat. The bull-like warrior boasts tremendous physical strength and damaging abilities, but his speed and frequency of attacks are slightly low.
Meanwhile, the butterfly demon is good at creating an environment with the powder where she could perform mental attacks. Even though the Fire Ant King could resist the mental attacks, he would still be slowed down and is more likely to be hit by the first captain!
If I have to deal with the two captains of the Nether World Watch, I will have to keep them apart and cannot fight against them at the same time!
Li Yao only thought briefly about the plan before the third streak of brightness had hit the Fire Ant King hard!
Without the enhancement of the Thousand Ghostly Fire Ants, and after fighting the clones of Elder Nether Spring for such a long time, the Fire Ant King was already reaching his limits. Besides, the capability of his enemy was higher than his in the first place. After the blow, all the fire on his body faded away!
In midair, the streak of green brightness condensed into Elder Nether Spring's real body. He took a deep breath, and his eyes suddenly bulged as he blew out an overwhelming storm of green ants from his mouth toward the Fire Ant King!
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The moment the hurricane of the green ants blew out, more than ten sharp electric arcs also spurted out of the two spear-like horns of the Hercules beetle, taking the shape of various kinds of blades in midair and bombarding the Fire Ant King nonstop.
In the meantime, a large cluster of powder was shaken off the colorful wings of the butterfly demon and split into dozens of mirages that looked like agile ghosts, harassing the Fire Ant King.
The Fire Ant King bellowed and focused whatever was left of his Thousand Ghostly Fire Ants on his hands. He then bashed the hurricane of green ants hard, breaking them apart. However, the split green ants simply tied up all the Thousand Ghostly Fire Ants as if they were branching vines.
More than ten marvelous weapons that were the lightnings of the Hercules beetle hit the Fire Ant King overwhelmingly. The mysterious shadows created by the powder of the butterfly demon covered the facial organs of the Fire Ant King like a haunting ghost.
The Fire Ant King grunted and was slowed down. The antennae on his forehead were shaking at a lower and lower speed because of the corruption of the powder.
"Ho!"
The Hercules beetle opened his arms, the demon core on his breastplate that was even larger than Li Yao's head shining brilliantly like the main gun of a fully-charged crystal warship. After an earsplitting roar, a lead gray pillar of light suddenly burst out of his chest and darted toward the Fire Ant King straightly!
Harassed by the mysterious illusions, the Fire Ant King sensed nothing of the incoming attack and was hit precisely. His skin and shell were all broken apart, burnt, and vaporized!
In the meantime, Elder Nether Spring condensed nine clones with the phantom green ants and dashed toward the Fire Ant King from various directions!
The clones appeared to be ghosts without entities. They passed through the Fire Ant King time and time again.
After every 'pierce', the aura of the Fire Ant King weakened a little bit. Not long later, the Fire Ant King was already riddled with holes and fell down from midair, barely recognizable.
"Lock!"
Elder Nether Spring's ten fingers blossomed like a lotus and made dozens of hand seals within a breath. He snapped his fingers and sent almost a hundred tiny 'seeds' into the Fire Ant King's body.
A moment later, the 'seeds' rooted and sprouted, growing into bright green veins.
The newly grown veins pierced through the Fire Ant King's internal organs and all his joints, especially the critical parts such as the shoulders and the knees. They even pierced in and out multiple times in order to tie up the Fire Ant King's limbs tightly.
Some of the veins even climbed on the Fire Ant King's head like vipers and crawled into his mouth and nose.
Along with the pace of Elder Nether Spring's breath, the 'veins' were fluctuating with green liquids that could have been blood or poison!
As a demon emperor, the Fire Ant King had extremely strong vitality. Despite the thunderous strike of the Hercules beetle and the repetitive piercing by Elder Nether Spring's clones, he was back to himself quickly.
However, the weird 'seeds' and 'veins' were like the strongest shackles, rendering him unable to move and grumbling in excruciating pain with his eyes almost bulging out.
Li Yao felt that his blood was boiling while he observed the battle from the lower floor.
This was the first time that he had ever observed two unparalleled experts in the demon emperor level fighting unreservedly!
Compared to the Cultivators, the demons were utilizing the spiritual energy in a cunning and weird way. The eye-opening methods of attack and the bizarre-looking biochemical beasts were all unimaginable for Li Yao in the past.
The 'seeds' that Elder Nether Spring shot out turned out to contain weird poison that could transform the Fire Ant King's blood into a lethal venomous liquid. The Fire Ant King would be restrained by himself!
Li Yao secretly clicked his tongue.
However, the mental devils imply sneered. "Petty tricks. Not worth mentioning at all. I would very much like to know the taste of the 'seeds' right now!"
Li Yao immediately disapproved of the idea and concentrated all his computational ability on Neltharion.
Neltharion stuck close to the wall of the temple and slithered upwards without anybody noticing.
The capture of the Fire Ant King marked the end of the Blade of Chaos' resistance. Very soon, the Nether World Watch had the situation under control.
His hands behind his back, Elder Nether Spring glanced over the underground temple casually. His eyes were particularly deep and dark when he stopped at the magnificent statue of the Pangu Clan at the center of the temple.
Dozens of dark, green beetles were hovering around the two captains of the Nether World Watch. The beetles all had translucent bellies that were embedded with crystals and carved with multiple neatly-made serial rune arrays.
The bellies of some of the beetles were uttering sounds, indicating that they were messengers.
The Hercules beetle was issuing commands toward almost ten communication bugs. "Team A, you have three hours to clean up the entire Mausoleum of Chaos and search for the remnants of the Blade of Chaos to ensure the safety of the place!
"Team B, set up a camp in the southwest of the underground temple and lock up all the captives after identifying them.
"The Blade of Chaos kidnapped a lot of our specialists from Bone Sand City. Find out where the specialists are and make sure that they are properly treated!
"Team C, build a temporary floating island on the Star Swallowing Sea right now and search the water area and the White Silver Death Desert five hundred square kilometers around us, in case the remnants of the Blade of Chaos are hiding in those places!"
Next to him, the butterfly demon also issued orders to the communication bugs calmly. "Team D, set up temporary research rooms in the southeast corner of the underground temple and start analyzing and studying on the spot.
"Team E, follow Team A and excavate everything inside the Mausoleum of Chaos while making sure that you are safe!
"Team F, stick together with Team E. Note that active demonic artifacts and viruses might still exist in the Mausoleum of Chaos. Isolate and extinguish them immediately should you find any!"
"Elder!" After giving out the orders, the two captains bowed to Elder Nether Spring respectfully. "In three hours, the Mausoleum of Chaos will be ours."
"Excellent!" Elder Nether Spring nodded. "Despot, Swirl, job well done. Now, escort the Fire Ant King to our warship. A lot of stuff in his head will prove to be very useful for us!"
"Understood!"
"Understood!"
The Hercules beetle named 'Despot' and the butterfly demon addressed as 'Swirl' moved the Fire Ant King, who was no better than a cor
pse, to a metal stretcher. They then imposed almost twenty chains carved with spiritual stripes upon the stretcher before personally carrying the Fire Ant King to the surface, one in the front and the other in the back.
Now is the time!
On the second floor, Li Yao's temples were bouncing crazily, and his heart was almost breaking out of his ribs. He decided to make the riskiest gamble!
He maneuvered Neltharion and tailed Despot and Swirl secretly!
Despot and Swirl were not really two demon emperors. However, after the enhancement of the demon cores, they were very close to the stage, and their senses were extremely keen. He might have been discovered by them if he was careless for one moment.
However, their attention was focused on the Fire Ant King, and their vigilance was lowered after a clean, crushing victory. They did not notice that they were being followed at all.
Elder Nether Spring also did not expect that a weirdo named Li Yao was hiding in the Blade of Chaos besides the Fire Ant King, who was a demon emperor, with a piece of magical equipment from the peak era of the Star Ocean Imperium named 'Neltharion'.
His whole computational ability was dedicated to his current plans. It also escaped his attention that a super tiny starship was slithering stealthily in the air!
Despot and Swirl slowly ascended to the ground through the holes on the dome of the temple.
Neltharion closely followed them like their shadow.
The vertical holes only had limited space. There was no room for dodging at all. Although Neltharion was in the stealth mode, Despot and Swirl would certainly detect it if they sensed something wrong and blew out their demonic energy for scanning.
Thankfully, as the captains of the Nether World Watch, they were both occupied with administrative affairs. Communication bugs were flying to and from them all the way, carrying their subordinates' feedback and their instructions.
While they were too busy sending out commands, they had no time to bother about their backs, which were supposed to be absolutely safe.
At the end of the hole was a soft tube leaning upwards. Li Yao estimated that it was connected to a devilish warship.
