"Wait!"
When the starship passed a cluster of debris that looked like a hill of garbage, Li Yao suddenly shouted for it to stop.
At this moment, the entire coastal area was already brimming with fire and smoke. Roars and gunshots were echoing everywhere. Fire and smoke were soaring to the sky, tearing it apart.
It was true that dozens of starships of the Immortal Cultivators had descended from the sky in the middle of the fiery clouds that looked like tides, breaking into the atmosphere, trying to control the chaos.
However, faced with such an enormous planet that was more than twenty thousand kilometers in diameter, and the main continent alone had an area of more than fifty million square kilometers. Even the comprehensive supply starships that were more than five kilometers long and qualified to be called "super starships" were still nothing more than a grain of sand in the ocean. How could they suppress the entire battlefield instantly?
The sinners in the Land of Sins were all ferocious and fearless existences. When they were starving, they were bold enough to lunge forward and bite off a piece of meat even if they were faced with the supreme deities in the universe.
It was true that the Immortal Cultivators had maintained absolute dominion over the Land of Sins in the past. Many sinners were in awe of the high and mighty "angels".
However, that was only because "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" was hanging high in the sky and suppressing the sinners.
Right now, even "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" had been blown down. Realizing that the Immortal Cultivators had a weak side, the fear hidden deep inside the blood of the sinners in the Land of Sins was immediately replaced by brutality.
They were not scared of anybody. If the Immortal Cultivators dared to descend, they would be bold enough to fight the Immortal Cultivators!
In many places, the fleets of the Immortal Cultivators under Li Lingfeng's command had engaged in small-scale exchanges of fire with the sinners in the Land of Sins, but the suppression was not going well.
The main purpose of Li Lingfeng's operation was to annihilate the space fleet of Starlight. He did not care about the puppets and chess pieces in the Land of Sins at all.
Therefore, the fleet that he brought was mainly the type that was suitable for space battles in the zero-gravity vacuum environment.
In the words of the Xing Yao Federation, it was a standard "Deep Sky Fleet".
A battle in the zero-gravity vacuum environment was completely different from a battle in the atmosphere of standard gravity or even high gravity.
A powerful starship specially crafted for a space battle environment might not even have the courage to cut into the gravity circle and atmosphere of a planet. Once it did, the anti-gravity rune arrays would be completely wasted. Many starships were not installed with anti-gravity rune arrays at all. Also, their internal structure, which was more or less vulnerable, couldn't adapt to the gravity. They would be crushed by their own weight before the battle started.
After all, in the battle environment designed, they would be drifting in the zero-gravity universe for the rest of their lives. Why did they need the cumbersome "anti-gravity units"?
It was like an omnipotent killer whale in the deep sea. Once it was out of the buoyancy of the high-density seawater and stranded on the beach, it would be unable to move. It would be suffocated by its own weight, or even explode from the inside out. It was the same logic.
Li Lingfeng's subordinates, on the other hand, had a batch of planetary warships that were specifically designed for assault and landing battles in the atmosphere.
It was a pity that those planetary warships were all docked in the spaceport of "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" and crashed to the ground together with the enormous space fortress.
Chances were that they had already fallen into the hands of the sinners.
Therefore, the Immortal Cultivators, who had enormous starships but could barely enter the atmosphere to fight, were caught in a dilemma. How could they have any time to consider the existence of Li Yao and the rest of them?
Li Yao had planned to bring Han Te, the Coloured Glaze, and A Boxing Champion to the debris of the few spaceports that he had locked onto earlier.
But it seemed that they were half a step too late.
A lot of gangs that were active in the coastal area had already set their eyes on the enormous debris. They had invaded it and collected the resources as if they were familiar with it. Many of them were even fighting each other.
If Li Yao, A Boxing Champion, Xiahou Wuxin, and the rest of them were free to loot, the tough bandits would naturally be no match for them.
But if they did, the noises would be too loud, and they might really be detected by the Immortal Cultivators.
As it happened, Li Yao sensed intense metal reactions more than thirty kilometers to the east of the earthly dragon. He released his telepathic thoughts and scanned the outline of the object. It looked like an enormous starship, but no gangs had discovered it yet. Therefore, he made up his mind quickly and asked Zuo Jingyun and A Boxing Champion to change the direction and move toward the east!
"This is —"
They passed through a rugged mountain of rocks and found the ragged metal hill in a small basin. They could not believe that it was a starship even if they were beaten to death.
Everybody rubbed their eyes for a long time before they finally managed to tell that it seemed to be a broken starship that crashed into "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" brutally. As a result, it was deeply embedded inside, unable to move at all, and fell together with the space fortress. In the end, it disintegrated into the most gargantuan debris and landed in this place.
"Can … Can the starship still be activated, fly out of the atmosphere, and even perform a space jump?"
Everybody looked at Li Yao suspiciously.
Li Yao did not say anything. Narrowing his eyes, he extended his telepathic thoughts into the debris and scanned the structure of the starship carefully.
He discovered, to his surprise, that the starship was as sturdy as a rhinoceros and as solid as an iron block. Although the shell of the starship was broken and seriously twisted, the main structure of the starship was still intact after such an intense blast!
Also, there were feeble signs of life inside!
Li Yao did not hesitate anymore. He slightly opened his legs and dug his toes into the ground softly. He extended his arms and opened his fingers, aiming at the pile of garbage that had been dug deep into the ground.
Everybody was about to move forward and explore, but they did not understand what Li Yao was up to. However, when they sensed the flames of spiritual energy rolling over from his body like a tsunami, they all gasped and could not help but take a few steps back!
Some of the resistance warriors were still mumbling just now, judging from Li Yao's "honor" and "style", was he really the legendary "Cultivator who had been lost for a thousand years" and whether or not "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" had been stabbed down by him?
However, after witnessing the next scene, all the people who smashed their chins hard on their feet no longer had any doubts about Li Yao!
"Ha!"
Li Yao bellowed. The veins all over his body protruded from his skin, as if a hundred dragons were entangling his body that could not have been stronger.
His skin suddenly turned crimson. Translucent beads of blood leaked out of his pores, only to be vaporized into intense red mist by the flames of spiritual energy.
A bloody image almost five meters tall seemed to have leaped out of his body!
The hard ground was like a piece of tofu pudding. His legs sank deeply into the ground, and ripples were set off on the ground. Huge concentric circles appeared one after another.
Every resistance warrior nearby sensed the intense quakes below their feet, as if ten thousand ferocious beasts were about to break out of their shells from below the ground!
Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!
In front of them, the metal debris that looked like a hill was dissecting and peeling off nonstop, as if pairs of invisible hands were dismantling them. However, when they observed more carefully, they discovered that the starship that was deeply embedded in the debris was not damaged at all. Only the garbage that tangled it had been stripped away.
Then, a scene that made countless people's hearts beat faster and their breath stop unfolded!
Li Yao's soul surged, and his flames of spiritual energy soared. He carried out the technique of remote manipulation to the maximum and 'plucked' the enormous starship that had crashed into the ground by brute force. He moved it hundreds of meters away and slowly put it on the ground!
Looking at the crater that was almost a thousand meters in diameter on the ground and the starship that was as large as a mountain, everybody felt that they were in a dream. They could not control themselves at all.
It was a technique that could move mountains and seas. It was an approach that belonged to the deities and deities. It was so 'strong' that they could not imagine at all!
"I can't believe that such a strong man exists in the world!"
"Is — Is he really a human being?"
"Don't be silly. This is a Cultivator who has been lost for a thousand years. It's — it's only natural!"
At this moment, however hard Li Yao denied it, all the resistance warriors had reached an irrefutable answer in secret. Li Yao was their legend, their hope, and the 'Cultivator who had been lost for a thousand years' that they had been looking forward to!
For a moment, everybody felt that the dark clouds in the sky had dispersed. They could all see the glittering path in the sea of stars!
"Excellent. The starship's structure is extremely solid in the first place. Also, after it dived into 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky', the messy structure of the space fortress became its best buffer when it crashed into the ground. Therefore, the main structure of the starship is still intact. Most of the crew members inside are still alive, too."
Restraining his spiritual energy, Li Yao grinned. "Judging from the shape, it is a modification of a civil mining starship. Also, the lightning trident emblem of the Imperium or the symbol of Li Lingfeng is not painted on the shell. It should be a starship of Starlight without a doubt. Let's save them!"
…
Half an hour passed.
The crew members inside the civil mining starship were all rescued by the resistance warriors.
Li Yao's guess was indeed correct. It was an armed mining starship named 'Great Mountain' that belonged to the coalition fleet of Starlight. It had used too much force when it was charging at 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' and drilled deep into the shell of the space fortress with its exploration drill. As a result, it did not have the time to break free and simply went deeper and accelerated at full speed to buy more time for its companions to retreat. In the end, it crashed together with the space fortress.
The debris of the space fortress absorbed most of the blast. Most of the crew members on 'Great Mountain' were not killed, but they were still dizzy and would be back to normal after a brief rest.
Knowing that the person who had rescued them was the fellow Cultivator they had been thinking about and the descendant of the 'real' Starlight from the bottom of the Land of Sins, Gao Kangda, captain of Great Mountain, and all the crew members were naturally overjoyed. They almost roared at the sky to express their delight.
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