CSMCDB - Chapter 160
Chapter 160
After displacing to the rear of the battlefield, before Wen Yuncheng could even breathe a sigh of relief, the three Star Emperors from the Fu organization struck simultaneously!
The very instant they unleashed their power, Wen Yuncheng swapped places with Number Two, whom she had positioned on the other side of the city gate! Wen Yuncheng patted her chest, her heart still pounding with fear. Those three Star Emperors hadn't forced her to use her third displacement. The reason was simple—Chu Han and the others had made their move.
Five against three, they directly surrounded the three Star Emperors.
Wen Yuncheng didn't dare get close to the battlefield, but she hesitated for a moment before canceling the monitor on a low-ranking soldier and randomly placing it on one of the Fu Star Emperors who had appeared. It was just a gamble, after all. Wen Yuncheng had no idea if a five-on-three fight would result in all three Star Emperors being killed or captured alive.
The damage from the instantaneous explosion of thirty energy cores blasted that entire section of the fortress into smithereens! The nearby wounded, along with some soldiers who had been close to the fortress trying to stop Wen Yuncheng, were all wiped out in one wave. Wen Yuncheng's experience bar shot up, and she instantly completed the 200-kill phase.
The aerial combat mech, Gale, was still causing chaos on the battlefield. But it was precisely because of this chaos that Lin Jinyu and the Imperial soldiers were able to retreat so smoothly.
Host: Wen Yuncheng
Race: Human
Age: 22
Class: Mechanical Overlord
Level: 64
Experience: 50635/89000
Points: 13576
This one wave had directly killed over fifty people. With Airstrike Support and Gale cleaning up, she had killed nearly thirty Huanling people, and Wen Yuncheng's experience had risen to over fifty thousand.
"The big fish from the Fu organization have all been lured out," Wen Yuncheng said, watching the three Fu Star Emperors in the sky. They were being pummeled by five opponents and were struggling to defend themselves, trying to find a way to escape. The two Huanling generals were also being tied down by five Star Emperors. However, they had not yet ordered a retreat.
"What a grand play," Lin Jinyu, who had retreated with the soldiers to the base of the city gate, responded in a low voice. Her gaze followed Wen Yuncheng's—the Huanling soldiers, their eyes red with rage, not only hadn't retreated but were now charging after them.
Are they trying to storm the city?
Wen Yuncheng had Number Three temporarily wait inside the city gate. She looked at Lin Jinyu. "Help me stall for a little~ time. Two minutes will be enough."
These pursuing soldiers had clearly never suffered the brutal beatings of the Star Cannon and the Air Wing!
"Honestly... still a little short." Wen Yuncheng couldn't help but sigh as she watched the Huanling soldiers flee in disarray. When the three Star Emperors from Fu were pinned down by the Empire's five, the two Huanling generals had already begun to consider retreating. Upon realizing that the three Fu Star Emperors couldn't even save themselves, they endured Madman Di's reckless, life-risking fighting style and fled.
Once the generals began to retreat, the Huanling soldiers also lost their will to fight. Unfortunately, the first squad of soldiers had charged too quickly. Lin Jinyu used a sword formation to delay them for a moment, which was just enough time for Wen Yuncheng to set up her Star Cannon. The Air Wing also provided aerial suppression, reaping another wave of kills.
It wasn't that the Empire's soldiers didn't want to help; Wen Yuncheng had refused their assistance. The Star Cannon and her other weapons were prone to friendly fire, and having the soldiers advance would only hinder her bombardment.
Standing at the base of the city gate, Wen Yuncheng watched the fleeing Huanling soldiers and sighed. If she could withstand an attack from a half-step Phantom Saint or even a Star Emperor, she would never have let so much experience get away. Ah... but then again, if Wen Yuncheng were really that powerful, she'd dare to blow up even a Phantom Saint.
As soon as the Huanling generals fled, the five Star Emperors from the stronghold immediately went to support Chu Han. Di Feng, spitting blood, rushed over. "Give me one! Quickly, my Blood Demon Transformation is about to end!"
"You're already so heavily injured. You should cancel the technique and recuperate." With the Huanling forces in full retreat, Chu Han relaxed slightly. He freed up a hand to toss a bottle of pills to Di Feng, showing no intention of sharing an opponent.
The three Star Emperors from the Fu organization had lost all will to struggle. Even without the heavily injured Di Feng, they were now being besieged by nine Star Emperors! They were just ordinary Star Emperors, the strongest among them only at the third layer, and none had comprehended the power of a Star Saint.
"I've sacrificed a defensive spirit treasure to seal this entire area. They won't be able to escape even if they self-destruct their treasures." The Star Emperor from Xuancheng Academy formed a complex hand seal and threw out his battered, nearly shattered small bowl. With a crack, the bowl disintegrated into thousands of fragments, but they were bizarrely held together by Star Power, fixing themselves in the surrounding space to form a sealing and suppressing formation.
"Yo, you're willing to part with that?" another Star Emperor couldn't help but tease.
"It was already so broken. I might as well refine a new one." The Xuancheng Star Emperor laughed heartily. "The Empire is footing the bill anyway."
A cheerful atmosphere spread among the joking Imperial Star Emperors. Only the three surrounded Fu members had ashen faces, unable to muster a smile.
Wen Yuncheng watched as the three Fu Star Emperors were captured by the Empire, feeling frustrated. If she had known, she wouldn't have canceled the monitor. Damn it... What was worse, of the two targets she had marked previously, one had actually died.
Hmm, it seemed he was killed by her own explosion. But the one who died was the squad leader she had marked; the one who survived was a common soldier. Wen Yuncheng watched as the dot on the monitor's mini-map grew fainter and fainter before the words "Unable to pinpoint location" appeared. She sighed.
As expected, it doesn't work across planes, does it?
[If you go to the Huanling Continent, you can reactivate this point,] 1947 explained. [It's still useful.]
Wen Yuncheng: ?
Go to the Huanling Continent? Her? By the time she was strong enough to cross planes and settle scores in Huanling, she'd have to be at least level ninety, if not max level, right? How many years would that take? The war might already be over by then. Besides, if she really went to the Huanling Continent, what damn use would locating a common soldier be?
1947 was so thoroughly refuted that its system operations momentarily glitched, and it couldn't think of a comeback. By the time it wanted to argue back, that damn brat was already holding Lin Jinyu's hand and asking the Protector about their next move.
"We'll first escort these three back to the Imperial Capital," Chu Han said to Wen Yuncheng. The three Star Emperors were bound by special spirit treasures, completely unable to resist. After all, their storage rings and spirit treasures had been confiscated, leaving them with nothing but the clothes on their backs. "Rest assured, if they try to escape, we will kill them on the spot. If they prove to have no value back in the Imperial Capital, we won't let them leave the city alive."
"I think we should head to the last stronghold immediately," Wen Yuncheng shared her thoughts. "We can catch them off guard that way. If we wait too long, they'll surely regroup and plan something. After all, there's only one stronghold left."
"Then let Di Feng and the others take the three back to the Imperial Capital," Chu Han quickly decided. "We'll set out tomorrow. Will you be traveling by air, or...?"
If they were in a hurry, the speed of a Gugu Bird was too slow.
Wen Yuncheng considered the consumption of her Floating Magnetic Disk and said, "Let's travel by air." Besides, even if she didn't have the disk, she still had the little fox.
Xiao Shi'er was so plump now. When she grew larger, she was still chubby and would be very comfortable to ride. Unfortunately, Xiao Shi'er adamantly refused to be a mount, claiming that no one from the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox clan had ever served as a mount. So what if they hadn't? Couldn't she be the first mount-fox?!
Thinking of Xiao Shi'er, Wen Yuncheng remembered that the little creature was still sleeping with the Gugu Birds at the flying post.
After deciding with Chu Han to depart early the next morning, Wen Yuncheng and Lin Jinyu hurried to the flying post—if that little creature woke up hungry, it would be bad if she ate the station's Gugu Birds.
On the way to the final fortress, the five Star Emperors flew through the air, maintaining the same speed as Wen Yuncheng's Floating Magnetic Disk. Along the way, Chu Han glanced at Xiao Shi'er, who was being held in Lin Jinyu's arms, and suddenly said as if he had just remembered, "The Celestial Fox King has gone to the Imperial Capital."
"What?" Wen Yuncheng was stunned for a moment, thinking she had misheard due to the strong winds on either side. She and Lin Jinyu were together on the Floating Magnetic Disk, though Wen Yuncheng had hesitated for a good while about her positioning. Finally, caught between the difficult choice of being held by Lin Jinyu but having to hold Xiao Shi'er, or holding Lin Jinyu but not being held by her, she chose one and wrapped her arms around Lin Jinyu from behind.
"The Celestial Fox King and the Rainbow Phoenix King have declared their stance. They've shown goodwill to the Empire and brought many young demonic beasts who have taken human form. However, the Empire doesn't have the extra resources to settle them right now, so they've all been housed at Star Academy," Chu Han explained. "With the current chaos, many students are away from the academy, so it's quite empty. It's a suitable place for those two and their clansmen to live."
They... actually declared their allegiance to the Empire? Wen Yuncheng fell silent. She hugged Lin Jinyu tighter, rested her chin on Lin Jinyu's shoulder, and glanced at the ball of white fur in Lin Jinyu's arms, which was now visibly excited. "Just those two sovereigns?"
"It seems so," Chu Han said. "The Black Abyss King and the Black Tortoise King don't want to get involved, but that's normal. Given their racial attributes, they can avoid these conflicts simply by hibernating."
"...What's the point? If the Empire really loses, they won't be able to avoid it," Wen Yuncheng said, exasperated. Wasn't that just taking things as they come? But if Huanling really succeeded in conquering the Starry Sky Continent, with the Fu organization involved, they wouldn't get away so easily. "If this fortress mission goes smoothly, let's head back to the Imperial Capital. Xiao Shi'er must miss her old man."
"I don't," Xiao Shi'er mumbled, burrowing deeper into Lin Jinyu's embrace. "If that old fox doesn't look for me, I'm not looking for him."
"...! Where are you nuzzling? You get over—" However, Wen Yuncheng's attention was completely captured by Xiao Shi'er's movements. Her hand shot past Lin Jinyu's waist to pull the damn fox away, but Xiao Shi'er clung to Lin Jinyu's arm and refused to let go, letting out pitiful "ying ying ying" cries.
The tips of Lin Jinyu's ears turned slightly red. On one hand, she had to soothe Xiao Shi'er and tell her not to get worked up; on the other, she had to calm Wen Yuncheng and tell her not to move around so much, but it had no effect. In fact, Wen Yuncheng's hands would touch places they shouldn't. Finally, Lin Jinyu couldn't take it anymore. She left the Floating Magnetic Disk to fly on her own, stuffed Xiao Shi'er into Wen Yuncheng's arms, and continued on her way, her ears burning red.
"Eh?!" Wen Yuncheng looked crestfallen. "Jinyu? Flying on your own is so tiring. Come with me, Jinyu?" She helplessly watched the Little Ice Mountain's retreating back, knowing full well that Lin Jinyu was embarrassed. Wen Yuncheng pressed both hands on Xiao Shi'er's head and began to rub it vigorously. "This is all your fault, you perverted fox."
Comments
Post a Comment