According to the time on the surface of the planet, it was already the middle of the night.
The underground mine that had been abandoned for hundreds of years, however, was ablaze with lights and voices. The sounds of metal collisions and splashing sparks were echoing nonstop.
Li Yao lurked deep inside the cave and released his soul to cover the entire mine like ripples while he observed the final preparations of the resistance warriors of Starlight in silence.
To be more precise, the resistance warriors who called themselves' Cultivators' were not the same as the Cultivators of the Xing Yao Federation.
They did not have perfect theories or beliefs, and they had never thought about how to create a brand-new world. They were merely the descendants of the Cultivators in the past who were struggling in the hopeless, desperate situation with their instincts of survival and revenge.
However, if Li Yao were in their shoes, Li Yao was not certain that he could do better than them and the 'Cultivators' such as Zuo Jingyun.
This was the greatest counterattack of the underground branch of Starlight in the past hundreds of years. Li Yao could tell from their glittering eyes, their rapid breathing, and their hot sweat that all the resistance warriors could not have been more excited.
Their commander-in-chief, Wei Longtao, took the lead and hoisted the most majestic earthly dragon head into the air with a gantry crane and hinges. Then, he climbed up and down and personally added combat units one after another. Every now and then, he would wave the maintenance tools to cheer the warriors around him.
Illuminated by the dazzling lights, his white teeth and his eyes that were brimming with dreams were particularly eye-catching.
"Are you all ready? After hundreds of years of cowardice below the ground, we are finally going to have a great battle today. You all failed me at the critical moment!"
Wei Longtao burst into laughter. "Let those wretched Immortal Cultivators open their eyes and see what a real Cultivator is!"
Hundreds of resistance warriors bashed the earthly dragon with their chainswords and vibration sabers, roaring in agitation.
Some of the resistance warriors were playing instruments that were similar to harmonicas nearby. After Wei Longtao took the lead, everybody began to sing a passionate, soul-stirring battle hymn. While they were singing, everybody's eyes were brimming with tears as they looked at the dark rocks around, as if their eyes had pierced through the vexed world and brought them to the final battlefield.
Li Yao observed everything in silence and added every detail into his deduction model. His soul was clearer and clearer, and he was more and more … infuriated.
Right then, Li Yao sensed extremely feeble quakes on the dark wall above their heads.
Gaps that were invisible to the naked eye quickly appeared on the wall, sprinkling dust that was as tiny as sand.
"They're indeed here!"
Li Yao thought of something and sent two aggressive waves into the brains of Han Te and the Coloured Glaze. "Wake up. Take all the food, medicine, and ammunition and be prepared to leave with A Boxing Champion!"
A Boxing Champion stuck his metal palm to the wall of the cave softly. He sensed something, too. Ominous brilliance beamed out of his crystal camera. "Intruders?"
"Exactly."
Li Yao said coldly, "Intruders who dug through the ground!"
Hardly had he concluded his sentence when devastating alarms echoed.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Enemy attack! "
"The penetrators of the Immortal Cultivators are approaching us from above. They are only three kilometers away from us!"
"With such a high vibration index, it must be a super drill of an enormous size. Also, there is no pause or adjustment at all. It's obvious that they have discovered our precise coordinates!"
Panicked cries of alarm rose and fell one after another, mixed with waves of alarms that were louder than the previous one, causing everyone to be even more terrified, especially those bandits and villains who had just been absorbed into the underground. If it weren't for the fact that this was an underground mine with no way out, they would have simply covered their heads and fled in panic.
"Don't panic, everybody. Listen to my command!"
At the critical moment, Wei Longtao roared like a giant bell. "Eighty percent of the earthly dragons have completed the final upgrade and the loading of ammunition. The rough location map of the 'temple' has been sent to your crystal processors, too. There's no time to waste. All the captains, set off right now and search for the precise coordinates of the 'temple' according to the original plan!
"As for this place …
"I'll cover your retreat. I won't allow any Immortal Cultivator to catch your tail!
"The final war has come. Let's go, warriors of Starlight. We'll meet again in the 'temple'!"
Wei Longtao's voice seemed to boast amazing magic. It was filled with the power to make other people trust and calm.
Under the roars, the chaotic atmosphere was entirely gone. All the resistance warriors jumped to their feet as if they had been fully wound and filled with fuel.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! The drilling systems in the shape of drills in front of the earthly dragons uttered deafening noises and slowly revolved, unleashing unstoppable mystic rays and high-frequency shock fields that were enough to shatter the hardest rocks and minerals.
Countless warriors jumped out of their respective caves and jumped into their own earthly dragons quickly on the chains and rails as if they were walking on the ground.
"This place is about to be breached!"
Zuo Jingyun appeared in front of Li Yao and the rest of them again and extended her hands to Han Te and the Coloured Glaze. "Let's go to my 'Cloud Penetrator' now!"
Several earthly dragons had long finished the maintenance and modification. They had been on standby in their respective tunnels. Now that they had set off, the tracks all over their bodies revolved crazily and soon disappeared into the depths of the earth.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! After they drove into the depths of the tunnels, the tunnels were all blown up by the crystal bombs that had been planted in advance. Materials similar to gels had also been mixed in the crystal bombs, which glued the collapsed parts together and made them as hard as iron. It was barely possible to drill through the tunnels from where they came.
In the meantime, unpredictable explosions were echoing from all directions deep below the ground, too.
They were the sources of interference that Starlight had set up.
In the pursuit thousands of meters below the ground in the sunless rock stratum, vision was almost of no use. It was all about soundwaves and the perception of the quakes of the enemy's drills and tracks to lock onto the target.
At this moment, the earthly dragons of Starlight were busy running for their lives. Naturally, they had to boost the performance of the drills and tracks to the maximum. How could they have the time to care about the anti-vibration and noise?
Therefore, detonating the crystal bombs that had been planted everywhere in advance to create interference quakes so that the Immortal Cultivators would not be able to tell which one was the real earthly dragon. That was the only solution.
Crack. Crack! Crack! Crack!
Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Countless resistance warriors did not board the earthly dragons. Instead, they entered the half-fixed turrets that boasted the most ferocious firepower but had lost all their mobility because of that. Gritting their teeth, they aimed the turrets that were even thicker than their waists at the wall above.
Hundreds of interconnected gaps had appeared on the wall above their heads at some point. Broken stones and dust were pouring out nonstop, as if they were the breath of a certain ferocious beast below the ground.
Right now, everybody could sense the bone-numbing quakes coming from everywhere.
The rocks and dust continued to fall on the turrets, producing clanking noises, which made people extremely impatient.
"This is the day of glory that belongs to us!"
Wei Longtao surfaced from the black fog in the deepest part of the cave again. Right now, he was covered in a bronze Crystal Suit, which was also equipped with strengthening accessories that were similar to the Crystal Suit. At first glance, he looked like a bronze gorilla almost five meters tall. His eyes were bloodshot, and the white smoke popping up from his head was even more intense than the exhaust spurted out by the earthly dragons. His voice had been raised to a higher level and was filled with the power to ignite everybody's heart. "Hundreds of years of passivity, hundreds of years of fleeing, hundreds of years of suffocation below the ground have made everybody, including ourselves, almost forget the name, the proud and glorious name!
"But after today's battle, whether we win or fail, nobody will ever forget us! With the stars as my witness, everybody in the sea of stars will always remember that there used to be a bunch of fearless warriors named Cultivators! "
"Cultivators! Cultivators! Cultivators! "
All the resistance warriors roared in the hottest and loudest voice that was mixed with blood!
"Cultivators …"
After sending Han Te and the Coloured Glaze into the carriage, Zuo Jingyun looked at the fellow Cultivators who had stayed behind to cover the retreat in a trance, her teeth biting her lips hard. "We will certainly find the temple. I swear that we will!"
On the wall above their heads, the gaps were expanding nonstop like wounds that had been torn apart by ferocious beasts. The falling rocks grew larger and larger. At first, they were the size of fingernails, then the size of fists, then the size of heads, and eventually the giant rocks almost five meters in diameter. They fell around the forsaken mine and smashed the messy metal facilities into a mess.
"They're coming. They're coming. They're coming!"
Orange brilliance vaguely spread out from the center of the interconnected gaps. It was the mystic rays from the super enormous drill that was drilling from the top to the bottom and the flames caused by the friction! Chi! Chi!
Chi! Chi! Chi!
The earsplitting sounds of friction and shattering savaged everybody's ears like the hideous laughter of devils.
"Prepare for battle!"
Wei Longtao bellowed and drew two extremely thick revolving cannons from his waist. He aimed the cannons at the dome and shouted, "Let's fight them!"
Huala!
Finally, when the hideous laughter of the devils couldn't have reached the most earsplitting, the dome was pierced through by a super enormous drill!
The drill was at least ten meters in diameter, and its surface was covered with bumpy giant teeth and crushed lumps. It was still spinning at a high speed, turning the gravel and dust into orange-red flames.
Like an enormous meteorite from outer space, it smashed into the depths of the forsaken mine in earsplitting noises, raising blasts and tides that felt like tsunamis.
The black fog in the depths of the abandoned mine was dispelled. Explosions rose and fell one after another like magma eruptions. The orange light reflected on the faces of every resistance warrior, and the bean-sized beads of sweat were clearly illuminated.
Hum! Hum! Hum! Hum!
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