In the Bloody Plateau in the Land of Sins …
This place was different from the 'Thousand Lakes Area' where the Village of Peace was located.
The Thousand Lakes Area had been bombarded by countless powerful penetrators, leaving enormous craters riddled with holes on the cities and the wilderness. After hundreds of years, the craters had turned into lakes. That was how the place got its name.
The Bloody Plateau was not scourged by so many penetrators, but it also suffered a catastrophe that could destroy everything. It was a certain kind of fungus that gnawed on all the creatures and induced extreme mutations in the genes of the creatures.
As far as one's eyes could see, the entire wilderness of the Bloody Plateau was covered in a thick carpet of fungi. Hazy red mist was floating in the air, too, with a sweet, stinky smell, making one feel that they were in the middle of an ocean of blood.
That was how the 'Bloody Plateau Area' got its name.
The impenetrable fungi killed most of the crops and the plants that human beings relied on for survival. The extinction of the plants triggered a chain reaction that led to the collapse of the entire ecosystem. The docile animals that were native to the Martial Meritocrats Sector were almost all gone.
Those that could survive in such an extreme environment, eat the fungi as food, tear apart their gene strands, and trigger all kinds of bizarre mutations were the most ferocious, ferocious monsters.
The weak monsters fed on the fungi and fought each other like bugs. Then, even stronger monsters were raised. They wandered on the Bloody Plateau in packs and even attacked the towns and fleets of human beings fearlessly.
Of course, some human beings were greedy for the cores, stones, and cores condensed inside the bodies of the monsters and actively hunted the monsters.
Human beings and beasts had been fighting each other on the Bloody Plateau for hundreds of years. The bones that covered the Bloody Plateau were telling the gory story of the hundred years of fighting.
The largest skeleton was as tall as four or five floors. Just the tusks that were pointing at the sky were like giant swords that had not decayed for hundreds of years. They were piled up in different places on the Bloody Plateau. According to their shapes, they were eye-catching coordinates.
Li Yao, Han Te, and the Coloured Glaze had defeated dozens of waves of mutated beasts and slain hundreds of bizarre-shaped, hideous mutated beasts on their way.
However, no matter how hideous and terrifying the ferocious beasts were, the most dreadful thing in the Land of Sins would always be human beings.
This was the depths of the Bloody Worlds. After the news that 'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie was going to attack Liberty City, the largest city in the Bloody Plateau Area, the entire Bloody Plateau was seething. All the gangs and lone bandits were on the move.
Before the clash between Lei Zonglie and Xiahou Wuxin had even begun, their vanguards had already clashed viciously, turning the Bloody Plains into a vortex of destruction.
In order to steal the invitation cards of A Boxing Champion or the leader of Liberty City, or in order to weaken the enemy's side, or perhaps because they had sworn grudges in the past and decided to take the opportunity to put an end to them … Hundreds of fierce battles broke out on the Bloody Plateau at the same time. Countless sinners were killed in the wilderness, their flesh and blood swallowed by the fungi. In only a few days, they were reduced to dry bones.
Li Yao, Han Te, and Coloured Glaze, the seemingly weak, unattractive adventure squad, were inevitably involved in the turbulence now and then.
"Kill them all! Kill them all!"
On a shuttle that looked like an iron-armored rhinoceros, three tough bandits whose hair stood up like cockscombs, whose eyes were flashing green, and whose faces were smeared with messy paint charged at Li Yao, Han Te, and Coloured Glaze in hideous laughter.
It was already the third time that they had been attacked that day.
There was no need for more reasons. Were the two little fellows, who were walking on the Bloody Plateau alone with only an unattractive spiritual puppet next to them, not the best prey?
"Here they are again!"
Han Te heaved a sigh.
"Isn't this a good thing?"
Li Yao smiled. "It's a good opportunity for you to practice the Cultivation arts that I taught you a few days ago and integrate them in a real battle."
"Speaking of which, Grandpa Yao is truly awesome!"
Coloured Glaze licked her lips, her big, watery eyes glittering. "Not only have you corrected the shortcomings in our Cultivation arts, you have also taught us such awesome mental arts that can be melted with our natural techniques. I feel that I am even stronger than yesterday when I wake up every day!"
"Chances are that you were the best expert of the Martial Meritocrats Sector in the past, Grandpa Yao. Even right now, you are still the strongest 'old grandpa' in the Land of Sins!"
Han Te opened the linen bandage on his arm, revealing the nine metal rings that were embedded inside.
Boosted by the dazzling electric arcs, all the metal rings were revolving rapidly in humming noises.
The young man grinned and mumbled, "Why are those tough bandits so stupid? Now that two seemingly harmless little fellows have made it to the depths of the Bloody Plateau, they can't be simple!"
Hardly had he concluded his sentence when the young man's arm was already raised high like a crystal cannon. Aiming at the 'iron-armored rhinoceros' that was diving from the sky, he roared, "Seventh level of the Lightning Strangle, Heavenly Thunder Cannon!"
"Zi, zi, zi, zi!"
Zi! Zi! The nine metal rings were revolving at the highest speed. Hundreds of electric arcs interweaved into a lightning storm in front of the young man's arm, mixed with countless metal scraps that were as thin as paper, smashing at the enemy overwhelmingly.
Coloured Glaze, on the other hand, was behind Han Te. She opened her fingers and aimed at her temples. Her eyes seemed to have turned into two small suns. An invisible telepathic thought rushed out and hit the lightning storm that Han Te unleashed precisely, increasing the intensity of the lightning storm by ten times!
BOOM!
The 'iron-armored rhinoceros' was pierced through by the lightning storm and disintegrated in midair into tens of thousands of pieces.
The three bandits on the shuttle were all riddled with holes and wounds, but they were not dead yet. Instead, while they were howling, their bodies expanded nonstop, and hair that was as hard as iron needles grew on their bodies. Their lower jaws protruded nonstop, and their tusks grew inch by inch. They turned into monsters that were half human and half wolf, except for the few tufts of hair that looked like cockscombs on their heads that were still standing high.
"It hurts. It hurts so much!"
"Little b * stards, I'll kill you!"
The three half-human, half-wolf monsters landed heavily. Electric arcs were still dancing on their needle-like hair, but they did not seem to care at all as they roared crazily.
The bandits on the Bloody Plateau indeed had a high combat ability. Such weird mutations were both the techniques of the body fundamentalists and the obvious traces of the demon race. There was no telling what kind of mysterious drugs the Immortal Cultivators produced had done the trick.
"Coloured Glaze, give me a hand!"
Faced with the three aggressive monsters, Han Te was not scared at all. The nine metal rings continued spinning, and he bent his fingers and 'absorbed' the lightning storm, which formed an enormous claw of lightning before him and snatched at the three monsters brutally.
However, he was not familiar with the usage of the claw of lightning yet. It was inevitable that such a huge movement was delayed for a moment, which left him wide open.
The three monsters still retained the wisdom of human beings. Naturally, they would not let go of the perfect opportunity. They all squatted, trying to dodge Han Te's claw of lightning and lunge at his chest.
But out of their expectations, the Coloured Glaze behind Han Te sent three streams of sharp telepathic thoughts into the brains of the three monsters after a grunt!
The Coloured Glaze was highly talented, and her brainwaves were multiple times stronger than normal people's in the first place. After the careful tutelage of Li Yao, an expert of mental warfare, she had also grasped the basics of 'Fear Bomb', one of Li Yao's earliest techniques in mental warfare!
For a moment, the three monsters seemed to have seen the most unbelievable and horrifying scene. Not only were they paralyzed, they were also unable to dodge in time. Some of them even stood up, only to be hit by Han Te's claw of lightning. Immediately, they were cut into more than ten pieces in screams and died on the spot!
If it were half a month ago, Han Te and the Coloured Glaze would've frowned at such a gory scene.
However, after half a month of bloody training on the Bloody Plateau, they were already used to it and simply ignored it.
After Li Yao's cruel training, the two little fellows could more or less be counted as' elite bandits'. They had also practiced a few powerful joint attacks with Li Yao, allowing them to deal with the experts in the Core Formation Stage or even in the Jin Dan stage without exposing Li Yao's real identity.
If Li Yao had blown up his soul to the maximum, he would've been able to slay the Yuanying without the help of the two little fellows.
However, this place was not a remote village in the Desolate Worlds like the Village of Peace. According to the analysis of Li Yao and the mental devil, the battle between 'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie and Xiahou Wuxin, the leader of Liberty City, should've been a 'battle of focus' intentionally arranged by the Immortal Cultivators in order to attract the fatal experts in the entire Land of Sins to the same place and test the most powerful techniques and magical equipment.
Therefore, the Immortal Cultivators must've monitored the Battle of Liberty City closely. It was unlikely that Li Yao would attack blatantly like he did in the Village of Peace and the Double Dragons Valley.
Bringing the two little fellows with him was a perfect disguise. Otherwise, it would've been quite strange for a spiritual puppet to wander on the Bloody Plateau on its own.
"We should be arriving at our destination very soon."
It was a rare day where the sky was clear and the bloody mist was thin, and the visibility was very high. Han Te raised the telescope and searched the horizon carefully for a while. Suddenly, he pointed at the distance and exclaimed, "Look. It's right there. That's Liberty City, the Elysian World!"
Li Yao looked at the direction that Han Te pointed at. Before he saw the city itself hundreds of kilometers away, he saw an extremely thin thread vaguely standing between the sky and the earth. Or rather, it was a high tower that extended from the ground to the sky.
Below the high tower was a pyramid-shaped base. Countless hazy buildings were unfolded around the pyramid, forming a splendid city.
The high tower extended all the way up from the tip of the pyramid into the clouds and melted with the Heavenly Rails that were barely visible.
From such a perspective, it looked like a pillar that supported the sky.
It was the channel of assets and personnel that maintained the transmission between the Heavenly Rails and the Land of Sins.
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