ccnovels #260 - Mercury pouring out
#260 - Mercury pouring out
Wonderful! Delightful!
Wang Jixuan looked at the hoops within hoops, his Dao heart filled with joy, his nascent soul wondrous beyond words.
The surrounding Blade Beasts had already begun their charge towards this radiation-filled space, the shells of the two Sub-King Blade Beasts converging once more.
Wang Jixuan glanced at the remaining door materials, feeling a tinge of regret, but he was not one to be greedy, understanding the principle of knowing when to stop.
When the wind is strong, take to your heels!
His battle puppet suddenly turned around, its eyes behind the mask fixed on the body of a Sub-King Blade Beast, and with a fierce stomp on the door, it pounced forward, creating two sonic booms in the underground cavity.
The heavily injured Sub-King Blade Beast was just about to meet the attack when Wang Jixuan unleashed a flurry of sword light.
The outer shell of the Sub-King Blade Beast, already mostly melted, offered no protection whatsoever, its inner crystal core empty, its spiritual energy unable to surge forth, and it was struck by the sword light, causing shallow green blood to spurt from its body.
Wang Jixuan exchanged his sword for a spear, thrusting forward with explosive force, his figure piercing through the Sub-King Blade Beast's body like a bullet!
When he emerged, he was already clutching a massive crystal core, directly refining the remnant soul of the Blade Beast within, and absorbing its spiritual power into the body of his battle puppet.
The spear trembled lightly, the beast blood on its surface already evaporated.
Afterward, he glanced at the remaining Sub-King Blade Beast, deliberately choosing not to kill it, and plunged into a passage ahead, seemingly heading towards the battlefield of the Blade Beasts and spirit thralls, but in reality, he only rushed out eight or nine hundred meters before finding a rock crevice to cast a遁术, his figure rising straight upwards.
As expected, the Sub-King Blade Beast relayed the wrong information to the Blade Beasts.
The remaining Blade Beasts once again launched a fierce attack on Old Sophie's location, continuing to serve as expendable resources to deplete Old Sophie's spirit thralls' spiritual energy.
"Retreat quickly!"
Wang Jixuan's battle puppet jumped out of the ground, immediately shouting at the top of its lungs.
The underground Blade Beast swarm was continuing to riot.
But an awkward scene unfolded.
They had been launched over using electromagnetic catapults, and Wang Jixuan had acted too quickly; the transport aircraft to pick them up was still on its way, expected to arrive in the area in about ten minutes.
Daoist Wang's smooth rhythm was interrupted.
He wasn't worried, as the underground Blade Beast tide was still attacking Old Sophie, and he continued to cast concealment magic, hiding his and Number Five's aura fluctuations.
The Daoist was taking stock of his gains when Peony hurriedly reported.
"Commander! The Blade Beast-specific detection satellite has issued a warning! On the outskirts of D2, the closest main Blade Beast force is awakening! This main Blade Beast force includes three King-level Blade Beasts and twenty-nine Sub-King-level Blade Beasts! Among them is also a massive Ultra-King-level Blade Beast!"
"They all belong to the Sixth Pillar!"
Wang Jixuan: … …
Can't take a loss?
Are these Blade Beasts unable to accept defeat?
The Daoist clearly remembered that the Pillar-level Blade Beast slumbering on the outskirts of the D5 Comprehensive War Zone was the Ninth Pillar.
This Sixth, Ninth, etc., are also the numbers given to the Pillar-level Blade Beasts by the human world; they are just numbers and do not represent their strength ranking.
"Wow," Number Five smacked her lips a few times, "the Blade Beasts are enraged; they're willing to pay any price to come and destroy you."
Wang Jixuan asked, "Price?"
"The main Blade Beast forces you speak of are actually extensions of the Pillar-level Blade Beast command system; they should have awakened along with the Pillar-level Blade Beast."
Number Five crossed her arms, leisurely explaining:
"This kind of forced activation naturally comes at a price; they must have sacrificed the souls of a batch of Blade Beasts to gain temporary power to resist the slumber circuit."
"In simple terms, this batch of main Blade Beasts won't last too long… three to five Earth days?"
Wang Jixuan shook his head: "Have faith in the military power of the D2 Comprehensive War Zone; let's go deal with Old Sophie first! Peony! Get the transport aircraft over here as quickly as possible! If necessary, unload some of the supplies!"
"Yes!"
Peony thought for a moment: "Or, Commander, I could carry you and your battle puppet over there! According to my calculations, it would be a few minutes faster than the transport aircraft going back and forth and transporting you."
That wasn't entirely impossible.
This wasn't the time to care about appearances.
Wang Jixuan decisively nodded.
Peony gave a soft shout, shouldering Wang Jixuan's main body, gesturing for the battle puppet to go ahead, and casually picked up the battle puppet.
Torn between two options, Peony turned to look at Number Five, winking at this spirit cultivator adult, extending an invitation to get on her back.
Number Five pursed her lips and frowned, muttering: "I can fly myself; this is too unrefined."
Wang Jixuan's main body chuckled: "Save your spiritual energy, hurry up and transfer; don't you want to snatch Old Sophie's core circuit, cultivate a new spirit cultivator, and join forces to fight against the three traditional conservative old spirit cultivators of Spirit Energy Capital?"
"Alright then, since you sincerely invited me."
Number Five frowned and pursed her lips, jumping onto Peony's back with a look of disdain, hooking her arms around Peony's neck.
The group of semi-human mechs that had come to protect them, but hadn't played much of a role, silently used the photography equipment on their mechanical arms to capture this scene.
The mechanical eyes of the high-level mechanical bodies flickered with a faint red light.
"Hold on tight."
Peony said softly, then her body leaned forward slightly, and several halos appeared on the armored parts covering her calves, her dark golden pigtails fluttering backward.
Whoosh—
Her forward rushing figure was so fast that only afterimages remained, and she activated a teardrop-shaped protective罩 to reduce resistance, leaving behind a series of cracks on the ground where she passed.
From a distance, a yellow line of flying smoke and dust appeared in this wilderness.
This cutting-edge combat force of the D5 Comprehensive War Zone was heading straight towards the land filled with Buddha's light!
… …
At the same time.
Ten thousand meters in the sky, behind the command platform of a certain aerospace carrier.
Fu Jian leaned back in the command chair, his mechanical prosthetic eye and original eye both staring at the screen in front of him.
The Commander-in-Chief rarely showed a smile.
Wang Jixuan turning Xing Tian into a battle puppet naturally couldn't be hidden from Fu Jian;
But Fu Jian hadn't expected that the battle puppet could exert such an astonishing effect.
There was no need for the commando team and semi-human mechs to risk their lives going underground to place nuclear bombs; the battle puppet could rush down by itself, ignoring terrain and obstacles, and quickly retreat after placing them.
遁术 plus nuclear bombs; this was simply the nemesis of the Blade Beasts.
How would the Blade Beasts evolve next?
Ji Xiao in the Buddha Hall squad, under the blessing of Spirit Cultivator Number Five, also had S-level strength; according to the newly released assessment report, Ji Xiao seemed to be able to achieve the operation of placing nuclear bombs underground and then escaping.
This was also good news.
Although Ji Xiao himself was full of blemishes, Fu Jian didn't care; as long as Ji Xiao detonated King-level Blade Beasts a few more times and no longer committed evil in the future, Fu Jian would naturally not pursue the matter.
The Commander-in-Chief never lacked flexibility, especially when dealing with such rare talents.
Fu Jian also knew that Wang Jixuan's遁术 was likely to be taught to other spirit energy users.
He had been thinking about how to get Wang Jixuan to let down his guard and share this technology.
In this way, they would gain more initiative in underground combat, which could greatly alleviate the pressure humans faced when confronting the Blade Beasts… …
The difficulty still lay with Spirit Energy Capital.
Because Spirit Energy Capital was evil and unjust, intending to control the entire human world, and was a mortal enemy with the Black Storm, and had planted spies in all major war zones;
These magical spirit energy utilization technologies, if taught to frontline spirit energy users, would inevitably lead to traitors, or the technology being 'bought' by Spirit Energy Capital at a 'high price'.
Therefore, Fu Jian fully understood Wang Jixuan's caution.
This was a chain of interconnected links.
Only by completely suppressing Spirit Energy Capital, disintegrating the Six Elders' Spirit Management Council, and supporting the natural faction to control the spirit energy system, would Wang Jixuan possibly share some of his technology… …
"Commander-in-Chief!"
A young communications soldier suddenly called out from the side:
"The awakening index of the Sixth Pillar-level Blade Beast is rapidly increasing! It is about to reach the 51% warning line!"
"Commander-in-Chief! The Commander-in-Chief of the D2 Comprehensive War Zone is calling!"
Fu Jian nodded and said in a deep voice, "Connect the call."
… …
From afar, Wang Jixuan could see the phantom of a great Buddha, constantly chanting scriptures in the sky.
That was the phenomenon triggered by the Seven Star Sword Formation of the Buddha Hall squad.
Not bad, not bad.
Without teaching the art of吐纳 or the Zhou Tian method, only using the existing spiritual energy of the spirit energy users for resonance, relying on the spiritual energy mobilization of the sword formation itself, it could already exert good combat power.
The path of the Buddha Hall squad could be considered the right one.
Approaching the place of intense battle ahead, Wang Jixuan had Peony put him down.
Didn't the Daoist need face?
The battle puppet and Number Five were about to rush up to help, but at this moment, Peony was in a dilemma.
She asked softly: "Commander, how should I carry your main body? Can I princess carry you? Although it would damage your heroic image."
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"Are there any other poses?"
"I can do this, this, and this."
Peony casually posed her commander's main body in positions such as koala, underarm carry, and holding the buttocks with both hands.
Wang Jixuan: … …
He had a feeling that this guy was taking the opportunity to take advantage of him!
"Put me down!"
The Daoist gritted his teeth and took out a circular spirit release array with a diameter of one meter, his main body sat cross-legged on it, letting Peony hold it overhead or carry it in front of her.
"Just carry me like this!"
Peony pouted unhappily.
Number Five stared at the phantom of the great Buddha in the air and muttered softly: "Another weird thing beyond my cognitive range."
"How can you call it a weird thing?" Daoist Wang's battle puppet said in a deep voice, "Don't you want to take action? Let me see your skills, so I can have a clear judgment of your combat power."
"Who? Me?"
Number Five smiled with narrowed eyes:
"Just a pseudo-SS-level spirit thrall; does it really require me, a spirit cultivator, to personally take action?
"Wouldn't it be better for me to directly shut down his circuit?"
"You can do that?"
"We have plenty of ways to deal with spirit slaves," Number Five shrugged. "Especially after the Blade Beasts' betrayal, they've added dozens of methods to directly kill spirit slaves."
"Then I'll leave it to you."
The battle puppet lowered its head to the ground, performed a sword gesture, and used earth遁, rapidly disappearing.
"Hey? Where are you going?"
Wang Ji Xuan's main body spoke: "Ambush, eliminate some of Old Sophie's spirit slaves, lure the remaining Blade Beast tide to attack forward, forcing Old Sophie to use more of his remaining strength, making it easier for us to deal with him."
Having said that, Wang Ji Xuan's main body began to recite Buddhist scriptures, and wisps of golden light surrounded him.
The great Buddha above gained a bit more strength.
Peony lifted Wang Ji Xuan's main body, along with the plate, above her head, and quickly ran forward.
Number Five's expression was a bit complicated.
She clearly wanted to take the opportunity to ask for a few 'little sugar pills' just now, how did she get roped into this by this guy! It's not even the right time to speak up now.
So annoying!
Closing the circuit also consumes power, especially for spirit slaves not under her jurisdiction.
This is also very taboo, and is equivalent to directly starting a war with the other party's spirit cultivator.
'Alright, taking Old Sophie's circuit isn't bad either.'
Number Five stretched out her small hand towards the battlefield of the Seven Star Sword Formation and the Demonic being from afar, gently clenching it, her eyes flashing with gray divine light.
The Demonic being, who was fiercely fighting with Wu Man and the others, suddenly trembled, and gear-shaped halos appeared on his back. These halos flickered and then simultaneously extinguished…
Seeing this, Wu Man and the others decisively launched a fierce attack, and the Seven Star Sword Formation erupted with dazzling sword light, like a comet striking the earth!
Wu Man and Ji Yale passed by the Demonic being on the left and right, their long swords piercing through the Demonic being's neck and heart. The sword bodies were not stained with any blood, and then Wu Man and Ji Yale raised their hands to grasp them.
The other five followed like shadows, following the changes in the positions of the two, standing in the positions of the Seven Stars, and then three people rushed forward according to the trend of the sword formation, and then stopped abruptly, staring at the motionless figure in front.
The Demonic being's body leaned forward slightly;
His body, covered in sword marks, began to rapidly dissipate demonic energy, the pupils in his eyes scattered and then slightly condensed, and he turned around with some difficulty, staggering two steps, staring at Wu Man and the seven others.
The dissipated demonic energy was drawn by the Buddhist Dharma, turning into wisps of golden rain, falling on the Buddhist Hall Squad and Wang Ji Xuan's main body who came from behind.
Everyone's strength had a slight improvement.
Wang Ji Xuan's Soul Force rose again slightly.
The Demonic being's multiple eyes and fangs slowly receded, revealing a pale and bloodless face.
He seemed to see something, raised his right hand, as if wanting to grasp something, and then slowly knelt down.
滋.
Wu Man's armor plate separated left and right, revealing a young face.
He walked to the front of this clone, staring calmly, with his sword on his back in his right hand and a single Buddhist salute in his left hand, reciting the Rebirth Mantra in a low voice.
Wisps of golden light gathered from Wu Man's forehead into this person's forehead, and a shallow phantom appeared behind this person.
The phantom was obviously a bit dazed;
He quickly understood something, looking at Wu Man's face, his eyes seemed to have many questions to ask, but in the end, they turned into a bit of sadness, a bit of peace, and a bit of loss.
The phantom bowed slightly and exploded into fluorescent light.
"Take care, friend."
Wu Man whispered, then closed his faceplate and looked up at Peony and Number Five who were running towards him.
A transport plane had already chased from the horizon, rushing towards here at the fastest speed.
Wang Ji Xuan's battle puppet jumped out from underground, surrounded by layers of black gas, throwing seven or eight heads on the ground, and throwing out a flame to ignite them.
He used the battle puppet to ambush, still ambushing the dried corpse spirit slaves who were fighting with the Blade Beasts and whose consciousness was eroded by demonic energy, with absolutely no difficulty.
In the underground battlefield, a part of the Blade Beast swarm had already broken through the spirit slaves' defense line.
The black gas above the snow mountain constantly surged, seeming to have a tendency to shrink inward. The demihuman mecha team led by Ling Tong and Shen Hai had already arrived at the predetermined position, and began to drop earth-penetrating missiles above the black clouds.
In the extra-textual space that Wang Ji Xuan and the others couldn't see, Fu Jian and the D2 Integrated Theater Commander had reached some kind of agreement.
The D2 Integrated Theater had prepared a large number of earth-penetrating missiles, which were expensive for them, and could be launched at the Snow Mountain Base at any time, and would send a suicide squad to support the D5 Special Forces from the air.
It's just that the D2 Integrated Theater Commander, the old demihuman mecha who was more than thirty years younger than Fu Jian, had a complicated expression when he saw the name of this D5 Special Forces.
Codename: Little Electronic Temple.
"Commander! The transport plane is here!"
"Jump straight on! Save time!"
Wang Ji Xuan gave a shout, the battle puppet's left hand opened its five fingers, and with a push and a pull, the figures below were pulled up by his mana and brought into the transport plane's tail compartment.
In the meantime, the Star Breaking Gate and the Demon Extinguishing Envoys moved like mercury pouring down, smoothly and naturally.
"Go to the Snow Mountain, seal the demon today!"
"Yes!"