Wuying Lan rushed forward crazily in the central area of "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" like an infuriated crystal train.
A lot of people had learned the news that the beehive prison was out of control and that a lot of prisoners and mutated beasts had escaped. The central area was already a mess. The Immortal Cultivators were no longer condescending and controlling everything. They were all ants on a hot pan.
It couldn't be helped. Those people were all honorable guests invited by Wuying Lan. They were the leadership of the major families of the Imperium and even the military. It was impossible for him to block the news in front of them.
Besides, with their keen senses, they could more or less hear the explosions and roars far away.
Some prisoners and mutated beasts had even just escaped to the area and were fighting the Immortal Cultivators fiercely.
Both the defenders of "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" and the honorable guests who had come from afar were duty-bound to join the battle and beat the prisoners back.
Wuying Lan closed his eyes in pain and forced himself not to think about the dim future while he reached the energy core as quickly as possible.
If "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" was considered to be a blossoming bloody flower, the energy core would be on the "stamen".
The defense system, the spiritual shield, the heavy turrets all over the space fortress, and the anti-gravity system were all based on the energy core.
Once the energy core was destroyed, the space fortress would turn into a cold, dead city. It could not even support its own weight and would fall to the ground after dissecting into enormous debris.
He could not allow such a thing to happen!
Wuying Lan ran into an overwhelming tide of prisoners on his way.
Tens of thousands of prisoners passed through the narrow passageway, howling as they madly charged forward. It really did look like the end of the world was approaching.
As it happened, not only did they boast tusks, claws, and hard fists, but also the most advanced magical equipment looted from the arsenals and the Immortal Cultivators. Having made it to this place, the firepower of the prisoners was already as good as that of the Heavenly Eye Army.
Wuying Lan finally got away from the furiously burning tides of flesh and blood with all his might.
However, the guards who were acting together with him were almost all caught in the flames and swallowed by the prisoners.
In every direction, the corridors were filled with prisoners. These murderous fellows did not care whether they were facing nobles of the Empire, high-ranking officials, Jin Dan, or Yuanying.
Even if they died, they would smear their blood on the faces of the cultivators. If they could bite a piece of the cultivator's flesh, they would never let go until they were completely turned into ashes.
Wuying Lan had never seen such a terrifying army before. He never thought that such an infuriated army would be created by himself.
After tearing apart hundreds of prisoners in succession, his breathing gradually quickened.
When he finally killed a bloody path and arrived at the energy core with great difficulty, the entire energy core cabin was already shrouded in raging flames and thick black smoke.
The continuous explosions suggested that the heart of "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" was taking the most brutal blow.
Below his feet, the bodies of the Immortal Cultivators were scattered everywhere. Among the broken Crystal Suits, the mangled bodies were barely recognizable at the beginning. The faces that could not have been more twisted were still brimming with fear even though they had been deformed.
The eyes whose pupils were unfocused and only had paleness left made Wuying Lan's heart palpitate.
He knew the importance of the energy core cabin very well.
Those who were stationed here were all the elites of the elites of the Heavenly Eye Legion.
However, it was not hard to tell from the miserable death of the "elites" how vulnerable and vulnerable they were under the enemy's attack.
Who are they exactly?
Wuying Lan's pupils constricted violently. The intense explosions behind him completely blew up the channel through which he entered the energy core cabin, blocking his retreat and delaying the arrival of the reinforcements.
In the black fog up ahead, dozens of crimson countdowns were vaguely popping up. Some of the countdowns only had several seconds left, and some had several minutes left.
Boom!
Every time the countdown reached zero, a certain critical unit near the energy core would have an earth-shattering explosion. Colorful exhaust flames would spurt out and turn into a splendid fountain in the middle of the black fog.
A time bomb?
Wuying Lan found it hard to imagine what kind of terrifying enemy and what kind of lunatic would play such a dangerous game with him in such a place.
The blast raised by the explosions slightly dispersed the smoke. Wuying Lan saw that at the center of the energy core cabin right in front of him, which was the shell of the super-enormous crystal reactor, a gargantuan crystal bomb more than three meters in diameter, or rather, a device that was suspected to be a crystal bomb, had been attached to it tightly.
A hideous countdown was popping up on the device, too. There were only five minutes left!
"Asshole …"
Wuying Lan could not imagine what would happen if the seemingly complicated, compact device was really a crystal bomb and exploded in five minutes.
The shell of the super-enormous crystal reactor was, of course, indestructible.
However, the shell of the energy relay station of the beehive prison was equally indestructible. Had it not been destroyed by the mysterious enemy in the end?
Cold sweat was popping up on Wuying Lan's forehead. His gloomy and cold eyes scanned the black fog around.
"Are you desperate?"
An unpredictable, unpredictable voice suddenly came over from the black fog. "Such desperation is what all the ordinary people in the 'paradise of sins' are tasting every day. Right now, you should savor the feeling well!"
"Who are you exactly?"
The cold sweat on Wuying Lan's forehead was condensed into ice pearls. He asked hoarsely, "Who sent you here? Do you know who you are against?"
Chuckles came over from the black fog.
"Of course I do. I am against the entire Imperium of True Human Beings, but so what?"
The voice in the black fog said casually, "I am just a common Cultivator. Isn't it only natural that I am against the Imperium of True Human Beings?"
"Cultivator?"
Wuying Lan never dreamed of such an answer.
Whether the guy was on the queen's side, from the other three Kurfürst families, from someone who did not want the Heavenly Eye Group to soar and intended to swallow their entire media network, or even from the Holy League, Wuying Lan would not have been so surprised.
"Cultivator!"
Wuying Lan bellowed, "Nonsense! How is it possible? The Cultivators are already faded flowers that are not worth mentioning at all. How could they have raised such an expert like you?"
"Exactly."
The voice in the black fog said, "This is a very, very long story. If you are interested, you can sit down and talk with me. However, I need to remind you that you don't have much time left."
BOOM!
The count of another crystal bomb reached zero and exploded right before Wuying Lan's eyes brutally. His heart was almost frozen by the explosion.
"Do — do you know the consequences of sabotaging the energy core?"
Wuying Lan bellowed, "The entire 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' will lose the support of energy and crash into the Land of Sins from the outside of the atmosphere like a broken shooting star. By then, everybody will die together!"
"This is exactly my purpose."
The voice in the black fog was unmoved. "I never thought that I could escape from the heavy siege of the Imperium's fleet in the first place. I am here to die together with 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'. Look at the countdown. You have wasted one minute and thirty-two seconds. There are three minutes and twenty-eight seconds left. Twenty-seven seconds. Twenty-six seconds!"
"Gotcha!"
Wuying Lan grinned hideously and turned into a streak of brightness, rushing into the black fog like a tornado.
After every step he took, his body would undergo drastic changes. Sharp spurs protruded out of his handsome face that was as beautiful as marble. His muscles were more like 'bouncing' than expanding. His skin that was as smooth as jade turned into a gray shell. Even his glittering eyes turned into two clusters of green fire!
His overwhelming aura was more violent than ever, too. A raging image was almost condensed outside of his body that was as enormous as a mountain. After a breath, the image enshrouded more than half of the energy core cabin and forced Li Yao out of the black fog.
BAM!
Wuying Lan and Li Yao punched each other without any fancy moves. Wuying Lan took three steps back, and Li Yao flew back into the black fog again.
"Unparalleled strength close to the peak of the Yuanying Stage. If you are really a Cultivator, you must be the strongest expert of Starlight in the past hundreds of years. What a great oversight that the intelligence department did not notice your existence!"
Wuying Lan looked at his fist that had all the bones broken, but a vicious smile popped up on his face. "With such strength, no wonder you were bold enough to sneak into 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' on your own and to release those wretched prisoners.
"However, you are trying to play tricks in front of me with only such strength. Cultivator … You are too naïve!"
Wuying Lan bellowed. Thousands of streaks of brilliance dashed out of the Cosmos Rings that were deeply embedded into his flesh, covering his abnormally expanded, magnificent body in a Crystal Suit that was even more hideous.
The hideous Crystal Suit that had integrated the features of multiple insects was the culmination of the magical equipment development of "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" for hundreds of years. It was more like an Ares Extension than a Crystal Suit. Wuying Lan, who had entered a certain berserk state in the first place, was almost an iron giant that was even more enormous than "A Boxing Champion Lei Zonglie" after he put on the super Crystal Suit!
"Cultivator? Witness the real strength of 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'! "
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