Chapter 306: Chapter 301: Something's Not Right_1
"Protect Madame Xuan at all costs! That beast is probably running out of energy! Once its frenzy is over, we'll kill it with all our might! Just hold on a little longer!"
The battlefield in the sky had already been divided into four layers, the outermost layer consisting of soldiers from around the world continuously arriving to join the battle, who were fighting against the void beasts pouring into the sky.
The third layer was made up of human warriors who had arrived at the battlefield first, and the initial wave of void beasts that had fallen. However, the combat power at this level had reached its weakest point, leaving only the strong ones fighting amongst themselves, their energy nearly exhausted.
The second layer was the main combat force of the human battle zones, almost all were top cultivators from the various battle zones, generals, district chiefs, and even included family heads from some of the great Tianjiang families.
The reason they stayed at this layer was to protect Mu Huanqing, who was in the first layer, and some array masters assisting in suppressing the black eight-headed snake. It was precisely because there were so many experts in this layer that the combat power of the human warriors in the outer layer was unbalanced, causing them to suffer losses far quicker than the void beasts.
But the main combat force could not leave this place, for once they left, and the formation broke, the ninth-order void beast breaking free would be tantamount to all previous efforts going in vain.
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While the great battle raged on above the sea, inside the small room of a submarine below, it was very quiet.
Fang Ren felt himself leaning against the edge of the bed, feeling weaker and weaker. He could endure pain that was hundreds, even thousands of times more intense than an ordinary person, but he was helpless against this numbness.
"What else do these guys have up their sleeve... Bai Qi has already completed his advancement..."
Even if Fang Ren racked his brains now, he could only roughly guess that Indra Sky would continue to use him for Bai Qi's advancement, but as for the specific methods, he had no idea.
As time ticked away, a slight feverish sensation began to rise in Fang Ren's body, making him somewhat irritable.
"The Seed Project..."
Suddenly, Fang Ren recalled a phrase he had overheard while he was unconscious.
From the sound of it, one could guess it was about leaving a 'seed' for some follow-up plan, but what this 'seed' was exactly...
"Damn it! It can't be..."
As the heat in his body intensified, Fang Ren suddenly realized why these people had locked him and Bai Qi in such a secluded room: it was clearly to leave a child between him and Bai Qi as a safeguard for their subsequent plan to shatter the void!
"That sneaky old man Bai Chaojin really came up with something!"
Fang Ren struggled once again to stand up from the edge of the bed. He couldn't stay here, or else something terrible would surely happen.
"Ugh..."
However, just as he was about to get up, Bai Qi's voice came from the bed behind him. He instinctively turned his head to see Bai Qi, dressed in white, frowning and holding her head while slowly sitting up from the bed.
"This is bad..."
Seeing this, Fang Ren's entire body stiffened, as the components of some drug in his body were ignited upon seeing Bai Qi and began to rapidly spread, constantly numbing his nerves and encroaching upon his sanity...
"Bai Qi..."
Bai Qi had just woken up and was only able to feel a sharp pain in her head. Before she had a chance to observe her surroundings, she heard a male voice close to her ear.
Bai Qi immediately turned her head to see Fang Ren sitting beside her bed; he was leaning on the bed with his hands splayed out, looking at her.
"How... are you here?"
Bai Qi was first taken aback, surprised and confused. Then, as she carefully observed her surroundings, she realized that this was not the large laboratory from before, but a sealed small room.
"Where is this?"
As Bai Qi spoke, she tried to turn around and get off the bed, but as soon as she moved, she found her body somewhat uncontrollable.
Her eyes, it was her eyes, she couldn't look away from Fang Ren.
Hum——
In an instant, her mind went blank.
She didn't even have time to think whether she had become stronger or if she had reached the Xuanyang realm her grandfather had told her about. Instinctively, she moved closer to the man in front of her.
Unable to think about anything.
And Fang Ren beside her was the same; at the glance of her, his mind turned to nothingness.
Thump——
A sound emanated from the small room's bed, and the scientists outside the iron door all showed relieved smiles and discreetly left the vicinity of the door.
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Boom——
In the skies over the North Sea, the blue array that had enshrouded kilometers of the sea surface was finally torn open by the black eight-headed snake, and immediately its black aura began to corrode the crack ceaselessly.
"Suppress it!"
Seeing the black eight-headed snake about to escape the formation, more than a hundred silver light rays shot out from the silver wheel behind Mu Huanqing, transforming into various weapons midair and stabbing toward the crack in the formation.
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The generals who were at the second level of the battlefield surged forward and launched a fierce attack at the crack in the Formation. The Black Eight-headed Snake hadn't managed to escape from the Formation when it was suppressed back by the combined Cultivation Techniques of the generals.
However, cracks had ultimately appeared on the Formation, and even though the generals could temporarily keep the Void Beast inside, the Large Formation was already difficult to repair.
Among all the people present, only Mu Huanqing understood this type of Formation, after all, it was acquired from the fruit of Fang Ren and no one on Earth had seen it before.
"There's something off about this Void Beast!" a general shouted.
"The Formation that Madame Xuan cast this time is almost comparable to the Anti-Void Array in the first area! Normally, a Ninth Order Void Beast can't last this long inside it!"
"Indeed! Our earlier guess wasn't wrong; this thing isn't just a Level Nine Void Beast! It has surpassed the ninth order!"
"Damn! No wonder it could bring so many high-level Void Beasts!"
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Boom!
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A loud noise erupted from the sea, and a crack appeared on the blue seal in Mu Huanqing's hand, followed by the disintegration of the kilometer-scale Formation she controlled. It dissipated as blue light waves scattered across the sea.
The enormous Black Eight-headed Snake instantly burst out of the Formation's protection, its pitch-black silhouette sweeping across the sea, breaking through the defensive formation of the generals, and tearing apart the flesh of tens of thousands of Array Masters.
"It's over!"
Blood spurted from Mu Huanqing's mouth as the blue seal in her hand shattered completely.
This Blue Array was the fastest and most powerful Large Formation she could deploy at present, yet the Void Beast had emerged from it unscathed!
Although she possessed even more powerful Formations, she simply had no time to set them up. If she had started with the strongest Formation she controlled, how many more soldiers would have to die before buying her enough time?
"It's heading to the Central Island! Stop it!"
A swarm of Human warriors surged forward, trying to block the Black Eight-headed Snake in this sea area, but the power they believed to be strong enough to contend with Seventh or Eighth Order Void Beasts was nothing in front of the Black Serpent.
The breath from the Serpent swept across the sea, annihilating dozens of early-stage Xuanyang realm experts as if it were as trivial as crushing a group of ants.
"How... how should we fight this battle..."
Countless Human soldiers in the sky saw this scene and felt their hearts enveloped by layers of gray despair. Humanity's finest warriors were so vulnerable before the Void Beast; if the soldiers were all to die... what power would they have to resist?
"To arms!"
Mu Huanqing gritted her teeth, the Silver Wheel behind her in motion, as she took a long spear and charged towards the Black Eight-headed Snake.
Following her, tens of thousands of female soldiers from the Nine Heavens Corps also rushed forth, desperately bombarding the Black Eight-headed Snake with their Cultivation Techniques.
Yet, the Snake paid them no attention, heading straight for the Central District Command. Anything in its path was torn to shreds.
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On the island of the Central Area, Jiang Ling was covered in wounds, one arm twisted, and blood soaked his entire body.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Central Area, Xia Mo, wasn't in much better shape, one lower leg broken off, and the aura fluctuations about him were not as strong as when he emerged from seclusion.
"Jiang Ling! Today, if I don't kill you, will you surely kill me!?" Xia Mo roared in anger.
"Without handing over Fang Ren, don't even think about living!"
Jiang Ling wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, holding a long sword in his twisted arm as he swung it again towards Xia Mo. The black sword Qi instantly split the earth, cleaving the Central Island in two.
"You're nothing but a parasite in the Human world! You're ruining the grand plans for Humanity!" Inside, Xia Mo's fury was hellish, unable to comprehend why, with such a threat looming over Humanity, Jiang Ling would obsess over Fang Ren!
Currently, Fang Ren was the sole key to empowering Bai Qi; at such a critical moment, how could he be allowed to see her?
Their war had rendered the Central Island an ashen waste, no remaining trace of buildings, only a massive pit, as sea water flowed in from all directions.
Just as they were about to unleash their killer moves in what was seemingly their last burst of life, the sky above them suddenly darkened.
Both stopped immediately, Jiang Ling frowning as he looked towards the horizon where countless battles between Humans and Void Beasts raged at sea.
"You parasite! Now do you see what you've done!?" Xia Mo bellowed in rage, his white beard trembling with fury: "I told you Humanity was in crisis! And you didn't believe me!"
Jiang Ling was momentarily stunned, watching the Black Eight-headed Snake flying towards them from a distance. His pupils contracted sharply – he couldn't sense the level of this Void Beast!
"Hand over Fang Ren."
Jiang Ling looked at Xia Mo again, earnestly saying, "Give him over, and I'll join the battle immediately."
"Nonsense!" Xia Mo roared: "You mad girl!"
He couldn't fathom, even at this point, that Jiang Ling would still demand Fang Ren from him!
Could it be... did Fang Ren spoil this mad girl thousands of times? Could she really be so desperate to settle her score with him?
"Go find him yourself! If you harm our own kind in this war, I swear, you will not die a good death!"
Xia Mo, with a shout, turned away and rushed to the battlefield at sea, no longer paying any attention to Jiang Ling.
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