"You're not Han Tuhu?"
A high-pitched voice came over from the other side. "Tell me what happened after you got in touch!"
Li Yao frowned. The enemy's voiceprint turned into a few rigid straight lines on his chip.
It was the result of manipulating the muscles of the vocal cords with a certain piece of voice-changing magical equipment.
The enemy's voice had been disguised. It was impossible to lock onto anyone.
Duanmu Ming told everything that happened after he got in touch with Li Yao as fast as he could. The enemy listened to him quietly without making a sound.
"Twenty-five seconds … Twenty-six seconds …"
On Li Yao's retina chip, the map of the capital city was enlarged nonstop. The rough coordinates were turned into a series of data, and the specific location was about to be locked onto.
At this moment, Duanmu Ming had already reached the part where Li Yao lunged at him, created chaos, and took the opportunity to escape.
The enemy suddenly raised his voice and shouted, "Wait. You may have been fooled. Change into a Crystal Suit now!"
"Shua!"
The enemy cut off the communication quickly!
Li Yao secretly spat. He was two seconds away from locking onto the enemy's specific location. Right now, he had only tracked the enemy to one block.
However, having locked onto seven Children of the Nether World in a row, as well as the guy lurking in the depths of the capital city who was suspected to be Abyss, was already a big harvest.
Next, he would have to find a way to escape from the Grand Desolate Plateau and go to the inland to find someone that he could really trust!
Li Yao waited patiently, just like twenty years ago, when he was lurking in the depths of a stinky garbage dump and waiting for a garbage ship that was loaded with treasures to arrive.
As the commander of the Dragon Horse Legion, Duanmu Ming was certainly not an idiot. After the enemy's advice, he soon came back to himself and changed into a Crystal Suit while cursing.
When the two Crystal Suits were switched, it would be the best opportunity for Li Yao to attack. If he had attacked at that time, he was ninety percent confident that he could have killed Duanmu Ming.
However … But he did not do anything.
Duanmu Ming was the best evidence. He still needed Duanmu Ming alive to prove the existence of the Children of the Nether World. The dead could neither speak nor confess.
Besides, if he assassinated Duanmu Ming right now, his identity as an 'assassin of the demon race' would be further confirmed. The water would be even more muddy, which would be detrimental to his future plans.
Let him have his head. Leave it on his neck for a few more days and wait for the real trial to see the proper punishment!
The Black Wing Sword was still rushing towards the south. After Duanmu Ming changed into a brand new Crystal Suit, he also rushed towards the south. The Stone Forest Ruins, which had been bustling with noise and excitement, instantly became empty.
Li Yao waited for five minutes. After confirming that there were no more spiritual waves around, he jumped out of the dust and fled northwest without looking back!
He did not deliberately conceal his existence. Instead, he was blowing out tremendous spiritual energy with all his might. Like a cannonball with springs, his every stomp left a giant pit several meters deep on the ground. He was hundreds of meters away after a single leap. In the blink of an eye, he was hundreds of kilometers away.
Naturally, he was discovered very soon. In less than twenty minutes, Duanmu Ming realized that he had been tricked. He gathered a large number of troops, changed the direction, and chased after Li Yao in the northwest.
No matter how fast a cultivator was. It was impossible for them to be faster than crystal warships for a long period of time. After all, crystal warships consumed spiritual energy in their bodies. A crystal warship, on the other hand, could store tons of crystals and deliver them to the engine compartment incessantly.
In the meantime, Li Yao had not summoned the real Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit yet. The Blood Demon Type was no match for a crystal warship with only one breath of spiritual gas and two fleshy feet.
In less than half an hour, he was almost caught up by a large batch of the Union Army.
Li Yao gritted his teeth and ran as fast as lightning. On the horizon behind him, overwhelming smoke was surging. Dozens of crystal warships large and small, hundreds of elite Exos, and thousands of armed shuttles were interconnecting with each other in colorful exhaust flames. The cloudless sky was almost on fire!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
As translucent stun grenades smashed into the ground next to him, the ground around Li Yao was suddenly rising high and collapsing, with bottomless gaps appearing!
Li Yao was like a mouse fleeing desperately in a landslide. His speed and agility were multiple levels higher than when he was fleeing for the first time. The overwhelming blasts had all turned into his wings and helped him accelerate time and time again, allowing him to dash between the abysses and the cliffs!
Even so, the distance between the crystal warships and him was still shrinking bit by bit. Very soon, he would enter the accurate shooting range of the main gun!
Li Yao sensed clearly that dozens of kilometers behind him, intense spiritual waves were condensing like volcanoes that were about to erupt.
The Union Army was like a giant crab with sharp pincers extending from its two flanks. It was slowly approaching him and shrinking his space of activity bit by bit.
But in front of him, it was …
Dark clouds were rolling, lightning was flashing, and thunder was rumbling!
Ahead of him was the thunderstorm area!
Li Yao roared and pressed forward against the thunder and lightning!
Thunderstorms and tornadoes were common weather phenomena on the Grand Desolate Plateau. As the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector melded, the Dark Desolate Domain was expanding. Thunderstorm areas appeared more frequently on the Grand Desolate Plateau outside of the Dark Desolate Domain!
Li Yao had flown Neltharion to an altitude of thousands of meters just now partly to observe the movements of the Union Army and partly to search for the largest, fastest, and most active thunderstorm area in the thousands of square kilometers nearby!
In the thunderstorm area, thunderstorms were mixed with tornadoes, and tornadoes were mixed with lightning. Crazy turbulence of spiritual energy was everywhere. If a piece of large magical equipment such as a crystal warship barged in recklessly, it would easily attract lightning and become the target of the thunderstorm. There was even a risk that it would crash!
However, for Li Yao …
Thunderstorms were his home, and tornadoes were his paradise!
Shua! Shua! Shua!
Shua! Hundreds of flying swords pierced through Li Yao from all directions in glamorous arcs!
However, Li Yao, who had been pierced through, gradually became blurred, split, and dispersed, revealing the essence of a blurred shadow!
The real Li Yao had dashed into the thunderstorm area in advance!
In front of him, the tornadoes had absorbed billions of tons of sand and rocks from the Grand Desolate Plateau and condensed them into almost a thousand violent tornadoes. At the end of every tornado was a cluster of dark clouds. The thunderbolts in the middle of the clouds were blown into the depths of the tornadoes, before they were torn apart into electric arcs while they were swirling rapidly and rushing out of the tornadoes, interweaving into an overwhelming electric net!
Li Yao burst into laughter, feeling quite comfortable. He stretched his arms and legs in the middle of the storm and summoned the Blood Demon Form of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit from his Cosmos Ring. It was not until then that the Blood Demon Form of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was covered on his body like a living black demon!
"Shua!"
Right now, the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was still brimming with demonic energy and looked somewhat hideous. To cover the demonic energy, Li Yao revealed the hundred-meter-long streamer that he had used in the Flying Star Sector!
The bloody streamer was draped over the shoulders of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit. It hovered around the body of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit and absorbed more than half of the demonic energy. Then, it flew backward abruptly and sprayed out hundreds of meters away like a crimson river of lightning!
Narrowing his eyes, Li Yao took a deep breath. The air mixed with sand and electric arcs made his lungs so excited that they were about to explode!
Li Yao remembered that when he first learned to use the Crystal Suit, he had trained crazily in the thunderstorm area in the middle of lightning and tornadoes. Eventually, he had created his first killing move, 'Thunderous Tornado Saber Art'!
His saber could slay even a tornado!
"Come on!"
Li Yao jumped into one of the tornadoes in the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, only to be pushed upward by the tornadoes until he reached the clouds. Thousands of black wings attracted infinite electric arcs and condensed them into an enormous saber that was covered in interconnected electric arcs, pointing it at the pursuers behind him.
The pursuers had long detected the highly-active thunderstorm area. They hesitated for a moment. A moment later, the light crystal warships and the military shuttles driven by ordinary soldiers all stopped outside of the thunderstorm area. Only a few heavy crystal warships opened all their spiritual shields and barged into the thunderstorm area.
Around the heavy crystal warships were dozens of glittering light spots, which were the seasoned Cultivators and elite Exos of the Union Army.
They were the only ones who had the courage to barge into the thunderstorm area.
They were also the main force of the pursuit of Li Yao. If they were taken care of, half of the problem would be solved.
Li Yao smiled and raised his saber high. Spiritual energy surged out of his body like a volcano eruption and interweaved with the billions of lightning bolts triggered by the saber, triggering an aura of saber hundreds of meters long. It slashed out brutally like a giant axe!
Not at the pursuers, but at the center of the thunderstorm area!
Infinite energy had been condensed at the center of the thunderstorm area. It was supposed to be released slowly over several days. But Li Yao's earth-shattering attack was like a spark that fell into a barrel of explosives. All the energy was triggered!
For a moment, the wind was blowing furiously, and the thunder was roaring. The intensity of the thunderstorm and the tornadoes was exponentially higher. The sky and the earth seemed to be falling apart in the flying sand and pebbles. The whole world was swallowed by the thunderstorm!
The Exos of the Union Army were flying crazily in the tornadoes like kites whose strings had been cut. Even the heavy crystal warships were shaking violently in the thunderstorm. The spiritual shields covering the warships were flickering, like candles in the wind that could die out at any moment!
In such a harsh environment, not to mention hunting the enemy, it was barely possible to keep oneself stable!
BOOM!
Two heavy crystal warships deviated from their course in the tornadoes and crashed into each other. Thankfully, they had both condensed solid spiritual shields and did not break the shells of the warships. However, the conflicts between the spiritual shields pushed them away and made them even more out of control.
One of the heavy crystal warships fell to the ground and plunged into the sand. The power rune arrays behind it died one after another. All the tubes were blocked by sand and dust.
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