LWGP - Chapter 275
Chapter 275: Burial
Three teams, totaling eight hundred seventy-five people—half with average attributes over 300,000, the other half over 200,000—unleashed a combined attack.
A gap was torn open. As for how far it could stretch... Spirit power was burning, and so was blood.
Three hundred meters, five hundred meters, eight hundred meters, one thousand three hundred meters...
They were engulfed by the overwhelming tide of creatures. Even the attacks from the distant starships couldn't reveal them, for there were simply too many, and their numbers kept swelling. Just as Saling had judged, their expansion was growing exponentially.
And would Xie Lu and the others succeed?
"It's no use. There are too many ahead. They know what we're trying to do and are all moving this way."
"Our attacks can't cut through such a thick layer of creatures."
"Damn it, they've gathered to a thickness of seven or eight hundred meters. Do these creatures look like beetles?"
"Zerg Meteorite Iron Armor. Their carapaces can nullify a portion of an attack, convert it into their own energy, and solidify their shells into something like meteorite iron."
"We can't blast through!"
Suo Nu and the others felt utterly powerless. They believed that if their respective emperors were present, their millions in combat power could surely have opened this gap. They wouldn't even need the empire's energy bombs to annihilate the swarm of space geckos.
But that wasn't the case.
They weren't here.
Of course, they didn't blame them. It was simply a feeling of helplessness, a profound realization of the impact that top-tier combat power, exceeding a million, had on the grand scheme of things.
If... if the one from the first spacetime were here, the battle would surely be going much better.
In reality, there were no "ifs." Despair could strike in an instant, but hope was also something people created.
Suo Nu was about to suggest activating one bomb first, while the others with average attributes over 700,000 prepared to defend. After the explosion, the survivors would have to seize the moment to charge out and deliver the final bomb to the space gecko swarm.
But before she could voice her proposal, she saw the Heiyan Marshal's composed expression. Logically, he should have thought of such a tactic and implemented it decisively. His silence meant... he must have another plan!
Sure enough, in the next second, Suo Nu saw a faint light emanating from Xie Lu and the others—the group from the Huaxia region and Gobi.
In that instant, even she felt a spiritual jolt.
Genetic suppression.
Xie Lu and the others activated it without any warning.
A direct gene combination, and their bodies fused.
It was a tree.
The Old Lady's soul talent was tree-shaped to begin with, so she was familiar with this. The Myriad Phenomena gene combination she had adjusted for everyone also took a tree as its overall form.
Genetic Heavenly Wood, Myriad Phenomena traversing. In that instant, the pressure it unleashed reached the million-level, and the combined average attributes naturally surpassed that as well. She had managed to make 1+1 greater than 2.
Everyone's average attributes were stacked. While not all could be retained, they still managed to preserve an average attribute of one and a half million.
The Heavenly Wood's roots pierced through, and thousands of vines crisscrossed...
Wang Shu: "I'm familiar with this attack. My Master uses it often."
Suo Nu: "Wang Jiu?"
Who else could it be? But the Old Lady certainly hadn't learned it from Wang Jiu... Was it a family inheritance?
Everyone's consciousness was present, each controlling thousands upon thousands of roots and vines, effectively sharing million-level destructive power.
"Ahhh, this is awesome!" Wang Shu was thrilled. It was like someone used to driving a Santana suddenly getting behind the wheel of a Lamborghini. It was just too incredible!
The Heavenly Wood surged forward, finally piercing a gap through the seven-to-eight-hundred-meter-thick swarm. The Heiyan Marshal had no time to marvel at how a native region like the third spacetime could produce such incredible gene technology; he was already carrying two bombs, preparing to go out and blast the geckos.
The Genetic Heavenly Wood, guided by Xie Lu and the others, sheltered him and the rest as they rapidly approached the space gecko swarm.
The spatial rift had already expanded several-fold, with more and more creatures pouring out, but the appearance of the Genetic Heavenly Wood was still beyond what they could handle.
The Heiyan Marshal was perfectly calm. He leaped into the air, preparing to activate the two bombs.
But in that very instant, a colossal, thousand-legged centipede suddenly emerged from behind the spatial rift. Its head was as large as half a football field, and before its body had fully emerged, it shot a bolt of lightning from its mouth directly at the Heiyan Marshal.
A legendary-grade underground creature BOSS with two million average attributes, just one step away from the ancient grade.
"Holy crap!!"
Wang Shu and the others were stunned, inwardly cursing how terrifying these creatures were.
Suo Nu and the others were horrified. The group wanted to fly over and protect the Marshal, but they weren't nearly fast enough.
The Heiyan Marshal had no way to resist, but… a dense web of roots and vines converged, forming a defensive net.
BOOM!!!
The web broke, but it had bought them time.
The Heiyan Marshal activated the bombs and yelled, "Protect them! Retreat!"
Protect who? Who were "they"?
As Suo Nu and the others were ensnared by roots and pulled into the protective canopy, the Heiyan Marshal was engulfed in the blast. No matter how strong the giant centipede BOSS was, it couldn't deploy a defense vast enough to shield the space geckos. It was clever, though, flying straight out of the rift to make room for the creatures behind it.
BOOM!! The space gecko swarm was annihilated by the brilliant explosion. Amidst a sea of red, two shadows—one large, one small—shot out from the twisting, closing spatial rift.
Their pressure was even greater than the centipede's.
Especially the smaller one—its pressure had reached the Ancient Emperor grade.
"Quick, run!!"
Without a second thought, Xie Lu and the others tried to flee with Suo Nu's group.
But it was no use. The space ahead distorted.
A spatial barrier! They were sealed off!
The one that had activated the spatial blockade, sealing them in, was a BOSS with four million average attributes—the smaller, upright, six-winged insectoid creature. Its body resembled bamboo segments but had a metallic texture. It let out a shriek.
The spiritual bodies of Xie Lu and the others nearly shattered, but the soul-protection shield the Old Lady had given them broke first.
It saved their lives.
The bamboo-segment BOSS narrowed its eyes, about to shriek a second time.
Xie Lu and the others could only manage a bitter smile.
Back in the empire and the city, Saling, Qing He, and the others witnessed this scene, feeling utterly helpless.
But then they suddenly noticed that the Old Lady had left the city, charging into the swarm of creatures at the front, which was now less than five hundred meters away.
Why? A suicide mission born from despair?
Could it be?
Cai Wujun was leading Xie Jiang and others in battle before the walls of Huaxia City. Seeing the commotion in the distance, he suddenly said something that was overheard by Chen Xiaohu, who was fighting beside him.
"They're back."
Which was to say, she was back.
Why did Cai Wujun think so?
Because he saw the Old Lady post a message in the group chat: "Prepare to continue the evacuation."
And just after he said that, Chen Xiaohu saw a sea of crimson fire at the far end of the cavernous space.
Two beams of light instantly shot into the swarm. The centipede BOSS and another top-tier legendary BOSS were taken down.
Mo Ran and Xing Yao had arrived.
Elsewhere, Buddhist light descended upon the battlefield.
The injuries of the legions on the battlefield healed rapidly, and their HP began to regenerate.
But in addition to the Buddhist light, a pink, poisonous gas also descended from the sky.
The swarm of creatures: "!!!"
Holy shit, holy shit, what is this gas? I feel so weak, I really want to...
As Xie Lu and the others reeled in shock, they suddenly realized they hadn't been wiped out by the bamboo-segment BOSS's soul attack.
Instead, the bamboo-segment BOSS was hovering high in the air, seemingly in a daze.
It was dazed for only a moment before it let out a muffled grunt, coughed up blood, and fell from the sky... only to be ensnared by millions of azure threads that erupted from the earth. They frantically pierced its body, devouring its flesh.
Its flesh and blood vanished, and its soul was devoured along with them.
Don't ask who it was. The answer is a figure in black.
Unlike the stunning sea of crimson fire that accompanied Mo Ran, she was alone, standing in the no-man's-land between the swarm and the warriors. Her left hand pointed at the countless corpses littering the battlefield, making no distinction between the creatures and her own side.
With a point and a crook of her finger, whoosh—nearly ten million corpses sat up as one.
They stood, raised their blades, and charged!
Her right hand faced the swarm, controlling millions of azure threads that surged skyward like a tidal wave, slaughtering the creatures in the air.
After sweeping across the sky and ground, she slaughtered over a hundred million creatures in one go, and the carnage continued.
But compared to the enemy's total of several billion, it still wasn't enough.
With such vast numbers, some oblivious creatures were bound to charge toward the Old Lady.
She clasped her hands, touched her index fingers to the point between her eyebrows, and activated a secret art she had gained after successfully transcending her Ghost Dao tribulation.
The ground in an area ten thousand meters in diameter split open, and countless pale, ghostly claws shot out, dragging down the creatures on the surface.
Once grabbed, there was no letting go. They were pulled down, and the earth automatically shifted to seal the ground solid.
Oh? They were underground creatures to begin with. Couldn't they just burrow through the soil?
Apparently not. Because as the ghostly claws held them fast, the soil itself writhed, and the crushing pressure of it sealing shut squeezed the creatures into paste.
"Like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves. Cleaned up in an instant," Huai En remarked with emotion, habitually adding an "Amitabha."
Long Aotian couldn't help but ask, "Master, what's this move called?"
Wang Jiu: "Burial."
Long Aotian: "..."
After a second of silence, Long Aotian laid on the praise. "So simple and unadorned. It really highlights my master's low-key luxury and profound substance."
In the distance, Wang Shu was so excited he looked ready to start dancing on the spot. But seeing Long Aotian, his expression turned strange. Who is this guy? He looks incredibly annoying.
Huai En's expression didn't change. "Good thing it's not called the Coffin Dance. The Buddha is merciful..."
The war's outcome had been decided the moment Wang Jiu and her group arrived. Their side was so relieved they wanted to cry. The Young Prince touched the mecha he was wearing. Watching his father and future wife on a killing spree below, he couldn't help but speak up again.
"Saling, I want to go down and fight with them."
Saling expressionlessly piloted the ship. "No, you don't."
The Young Prince: "..."
The reason I'm so useless is because none of you ever give me a chance!!
The heavily injured Heiyan Marshal was pulled to safety by Suo Nu. With a point of her finger, Mo Ran stabilized his HP. "You did well. Prepare to leave."
The Heiyan Marshal, still breathing, looked at his empress with eyes full of supreme loyalty. He gave a military salute, then immediately began to organize the remaining troops and consolidate their forces.
On the other side, the Xingyao Empire did the same.
As for the third spacetime, the Old Lady and her group had already finished their count. Fifteen million dead, countless wounded. But now was not the time for grief.
In the Spacetime Alliance group chat, Wang Jiu came online and said one thing: "Give me the teleportation authority."
Saling transferred it.
Wang Jiu changed the previous teleportation location, setting a new fixed point. She didn't have the others channel their spirit power again; it was too slow.
Mo Ran and Xing Yao tossed the two legendary BOSS corpses to her. She pierced and devoured them, and then… Wang Jiu took sole control of the entire group's teleportation.
Voom!
In just three seconds, the teleportation activated. The destination—Earth's Northern Polar Ice Plains!
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