Not far ahead of him, 'Leader of Liberty City' Xiahou Wuxin and 'Fist King' Lei Zonglie, the two sworn enemies half a day ago, were confronting each other in silence in the dirty water that had been deposited for hundreds of years, having lost everything and had nowhere else to go.
"A Boxing Champion?"
Xiahou Wuxin had been blown up by Li Yao and dragged below the ground. In his dizziness, he did not know what had happened yet.
However, although A Boxing Champion had changed his iron body, the release model of the crystals that were shattered into spiritual energy did not change much. Xiahou Wuxin immediately sensed it.
"Do you want another fight with me, or do you want to fight the 'angels' together?"
A Boxing Champion did not deny it but asked straightforwardly in a cold, mechanical tone.
Xiahou Wuxin narrowed his eyes, his face that was covered in blood cramping.
"Master!"
At this moment, Xin Xiaoqi had also been rescued by Han Te and Coloured Glaze in the chaos. She lunged at him in tears of joy.
Hearing the voice of his most beloved disciple, Xiahou Wuxin's killing intent immediately vanished. After a long sigh, his expanding body quickly shriveled like a balloon that had lost all its air, and he turned into the slender, grey-haired old man again. Looking at A Boxing Champion and then at Li Yao suspiciously, he asked, "And this senior is …"
Although he did not see what happened on the ground with his own eyes, he could easily tell that Wei Xiaotian and his gang must have been beaten back since everybody had appeared in this place safe and sound.
A Boxing Champion's strength was on par with his. Perhaps he could wield overwhelming combat ability when he controlled an enormous body like 'Great Iron City', but the body that had been jumbled up temporarily was definitely no match for Wei Xiaotian.
Then, there was only the weird-looking … senior left.
Li Yao smiled. "Is it important? If I were an Immortal Cultivator, I wouldn't have gone through so much trouble at all. I would've had a hundred ways to force you to tell me all your secrets."
Xin Xiaoqi added, "Master, Han Te and the Coloured Glaze are both good people. My instincts tell me to trust them!"
Pondering for a moment, Xiahou Wuxin glanced back at the battlefield and made up his mind. "Fair enough. Let's go. I'll take you to a secret warehouse for you to rest for a while!"
Having been the leader of Liberty City for decades, Xiahou Wuxin was an out-and-out local tyrant. He knew the ruins deep below the ground and the connecting tubes like the back of his hand.
With him leading the way, the speed of everybody's progress was multiple times faster. Even in the seemingly dead lands, he was able to grope for hidden doors on the walls that were covered in dust and rust.
Sometimes, he would lead the group from the dark abandoned elevators, grab the steel cables, and slide hundreds of meters down.
After moving forward in silence for half an hour, they had already reached the pitch-black darkness where they could not see or hear anything.
"The Land of Sins was known as the 'Martial Meritocrats Planet' hundreds of years ago. It was a highly-developed, deeply developed planet. Not just the footprints of human beings on the surface of the planet, even hundreds of enormous cities had been established hundreds and thousands of meters below the ground. Those underground cities were like enormous ant nests and beehives. They were also connected to each other and formed an underground world that was even more prosperous than the surface of the planet."
Xiahou Wuxin lit a light stick and illuminated the rugged space around into a green ocean. While identifying the direction carefully, he coughed and said in a low voice, "By the time 'Judgment Day' arrived, all the cities on the surface of the planet had been razed to the ground. Most of the underground cities had even been blown into ruins by the 'penetrators'. However, it was impossible to dig apart the surface of the planet after all. Therefore, a lot of underground cities were still preserved. At the very least, they were not as badly destroyed as the cities on the surface of the planet.
"The supply of assets in the underground world relied heavily on the surface of the planet. Now that the surface of the planet had turned into a wasteland with serious pollution and radiation everywhere, naturally, there were no resources that could be supplied to the underground world. Therefore, the people who were hiding in the underground ruins during 'Judgment Day' gradually died, but a lot of channels, facilities, and secret warehouses were left behind, which was a great boon for us who came here hundreds of years later."
While talking, Xiahou Wuxin stood next to a wall that was full of crimson fungi. Drawing a dagger from his boot, he scratched the fungi carefully, revealing a few straight gaps. Then, he pried open a cover with the tip of the dagger.
Inside the cover was an unlocking device of a certain mechanical structure.
Xiahou Wuxin manipulated the gears and knobs quickly. Very soon, mechanical noises echoed deep inside the wall. Then, the entire wall collapsed, revealing a long, narrow channel that was spurting out cold air. There was no telling where it led to.
"Come on."
Xiahou Wuxin made a "please" gesture and was the first to walk in.
Li Yao followed him. Thankfully, the channel was quite spacious for the convenience of the transportation of assets. With his enormous body size right now, he could more or less pass through while rubbing against the wall.
Everybody walked down in the channel for one minute. Up ahead, there was another iron gate that had been blocked by barriers.
After Xiahou Wuxin unlocked the barriers and the gate slid into the rocks on the two sides, Li Yao specifically scanned it, only to discover that every gate was more than one meter thick.
Inside the gate was an enormous warehouse.
Boxes of crystals and high-energy food, countless guns and magical equipment, and crystal bombs that had been piled up in every corner were all piled up like a hill, emitting lackluster brilliance without a sound.
Han Te, the Coloured Glaze, and Xin Xiaoqi all exclaimed in shock. Even A Boxing Champion's crystal cameras were glittering.
"Stop looking. It's just a disguise," Xiahou Wuxin said expressionlessly.
Xiahou Wuxin, however, said emotionlessly, "When we are running for our lives, it is impossible for us to carry much of such heavy assets."
He walked straight to the corner where the crystal bombs were piled up and asked Li Yao and A Boxing Champion to help him move all the crystal bombs away. Then, he groped on the ground for a long time and finally determined the location. He pressed his hands against the ground softly, and dazzling brilliance flashed between his palms and the ground. Hundreds of silver threads suddenly emerged from the ground and spread out like mercury. As if they were alive, they entangled and interconnected into an enormous rune array in the end.
"A teleportation array?"
Li Yao's eyes glittered. Speaking of which, it was true that he had never seen facilities such as' teleportation arrays' in the Land of Sins before.
Xiahou Wuxin was not in a hurry to upload the teleportation array. Instead, he set up the crystal bombs that had been moved aside.
A hundred crystal bombs, each with a tiny hole at the top, shot out crimson mystic rays and aimed at the entrance of the warehouse.
The mystic rays interweaved like an impenetrable net. Anybody who entered the warehouse would certainly be hit by one of the mystic rays.
Li Yao knew the trigger mode of such crystal bombs. As long as one of the mystic rays was blocked by the intruders, a serial explosion would immediately be triggered. Not only would the teleportation array be destroyed, the entire warehouse would be blown up.
Xiahou Wuxin, the cunning 'old dog', was truly brutal!
"Come on."
It was not until all the arrangements were done that Xiahou Wuxin finally put on a gloomy smile. "Be careful. Don't stand before the crystal bombs. This is a gift that I've specially prepared for Wei Xiaotian and the 'angels'. Don't open it in advance."
Shua! Shua! Shua!
Shua! Shua! Everybody was teleported to another secret warehouse not far away through the teleportation array.
Han Te, the Coloured Glaze, and Xin Xiaoqi had never used a teleportation array before. Naturally, they were all amazed.
Li Yao, on the other hand, secretly praised Xiahou Wuxin's thorough planning. He had hidden the real secret warehouse below the 'fake secret warehouse' on the surface, playing an unpredictable trick that would delay the Immortal Cultivators from finding the place as much as possible.
Compared to the 'fake secret warehouse' just now, the real secret warehouse was not large in scale. However, as far as one's eyes could see, the marrow crystals displayed in the frozen cabinets around were the best of the best. Emitting glamorous, colorful brilliance, they illuminated the underground secret warehouse as if it were a paradise on earth.
Judging from the quality of the marrow crystals that he had collected after all the trouble, it was obvious that Xiahou Wuxin had been preparing for a desperate struggle for many years after he lost his value.
"A Boxing Champion, and this senior, since you showed up at the last moment at the perfect moment, you must've basically heard my conversation with Wei Xiaotian, haven't you?"
Xiahou Wuxin asked. "So, you know the truth about the Land of Sins and Manjusaka, too?"
"Yes."
A Boxing Champion said coldly. "We only know more than you do, and … before you."
Xiahou Wuxin was slightly dazed. He nodded and said, "In that case, you should know that the so-called 'Battle of Liberty City' is essentially a trick directed by 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'. In fact, you and I are nothing more than chess pieces on the chessboard. We are just toys that breathe and have heartbeats."
"I don't breathe, and I don't have a heartbeat."
A Boxing Champion continued speaking in a mechanical voice. "However, I don't want to be anybody's toy, either."
Xiahou Wuxin frowned again. He felt that the A Boxing Champion in front of him was subtly different from the A Boxing Champion who had fought against him earlier. But it was not the time to dwell on the details. He went on. "Then, I think that our goal is the same for now, which is to break out of the siege of the angels and escape from Liberty City, right?"
"Wrong."
A Boxing Champion refuted his theory again. "We are not just going to break out of Liberty City. We are also going to march to Manjusaka and blow down the City in the Sky."
"Well —"
Xiahou Wuxin did not expect A Boxing Champion to be so ambitious. He was dazed for a moment.
"Great!"
Xin Xiaoqi, on the other hand, exclaimed aloud. She was so excited that she almost burst into tears. She was almost hugging A Boxing Champion's iron body. Her voice was shivering as she asked, "Master A Boxing Champion, do you want to destroy Manjusaka, too?"
"And us!"
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