While Li Yao's brain was boiling like a volcano eruption with a hundred strengthening drugs as the accelerants, and his vitality was surging out, the battle between Long Yangjun and Wuying Qi in the deep ocean was reaching the climax, too.
The two parties' domains, the crystal and the black fog, interweaved and intertwined with each other, like two ferocious primeval beasts biting each other's necks.
"Heavenly Crystal" and "Hellstar", the two Colossi, were both locked onto by each other's domains and could not move at all.
However, the flames of spiritual energy that surged out of the two parties were like the most violent undercurrents at the bottom of the ocean. Hundreds of vortexes were created in all directions and even affected the undersea plain, causing dense cracks that looked like spider webs to appear on the undersea plain that had been solid in the beginning.
Around the crater where the "Gold Vulture" had collapsed, countless interconnected gaps were spreading out nonstop on the walls that were not solid at all.
Li Yao took the opportunity to release invisible saber auras to loosen the structure of the rock stratum and expand the range of the gap.
Very soon, after a dull explosion, the rocks around his head all collapsed and covered the "Gold Vulture" tightly.
Mud and sand also rose to the sky and dispersed slowly like a mushroom cloud at the bottom of the ocean, both blocking the vision of the two Colossi above his head and interfering with the senses of the two unparalleled experts.
Long Yangjun and Wuying Qi were both focused on each other. Neither of them expected that Li Yao's vitality would be so tenacious that he could still fight under such circumstances!
"Hehehehe. Old fart Black Star, don't think that I, 'Vulture Li Yao', am truly useless!"
The veins all over Li Yao's body had expanded to the maximum. In the next moment, it was his skin that was cracking. However, there were no bloody muscles in the wounds that were blossoming. Instead, orange brilliance burst out, as if it were not flesh and blood that made up his body but the purest, craziest, and most explosive energy!
Li Yao roared crazily and stood in midair in the cockpit. He opened his arms and legs, and his fingers and toes were straightened. Orange spiritual threads darted out of the broken wounds toward every unit of the "Gold Vulture" incessantly. The "nervous system" of the Colossus was ten times richer than before, and the amount of information that could be transmitted was higher than ever!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The four Cosmos Rings that were embedded to the shoulder blades and the hip bones of the Gold Vulture immediately glowed. Under the intense quakes, tremendous super-enormous strengthening components were spurted out.
His spiritual energy surged out, and his telepathic thoughts soared. Purple, blue, white, and red electric arcs rose from the strengthening components spontaneously. The electric arcs, like living veins, absorbed the strengthening components one by one, before they were absorbed to the plate armor of the Gold Vulture!
Having lost one of its legs, the "Gold Vulture" could only stand on one of its knees with the help of its hands.
However, it did not stop it from putting on brand-new golden armor in only five seconds. Its body size soared, and its aura was astonishing, as if it were a gold giant that had crawled out of the depths of the ocean!
The original height of more than thirty meters didn't increase by much, but the width had more than doubled. Especially on the two shoulders, there was an incomparably domineering shoulder-mounted cannon. The spiraling inwards energy-gathering bombardment disks were like two huge eyes, full of anger and fighting spirit as they stared at the battlefield above them.
The golden wings on the back had already turned into flying swords and attacked Wuying Qi. Even the bare skeleton had been shattered and minced by "Hellstar". However, eight pairs of golden wings that were even longer and more glamorous had been added. At the end of the wings, there were also conductors that looked like phoenix tails, emitting colorful brilliance under the dancing electric arcs.
Although the "Gold Vulture" had lost one of its legs, the unprecedented "Ares Extension for the Colossi" boasted supporting components in the first place. Like the eight legs of an enormous spider, they pierced into the rocks at the bottom of the ocean and fixed the entire body of the Colossus, melding it with the undersea land.
What was most eye-catching of all was the thirty-six flying swords that were hovering around the Colossus.
Each of the flying swords was more than thirty to forty meters long and surrounded by crackling electric arcs. They were also continuously lengthened under the effect of the rune arrays and the spirit energy magnetic field. Fifty meters, sixty meters, eighty meters, one hundred meters!
The surface of the flying swords that were a hundred meters long was carved with dense rune arrays. There was barely any blank space. However, if one observed more carefully, they would discover that the rune arrays were not just carved on the surface but all the way down to the core of the flying swords. "Marvelous" was not enough to describe them. At the core of every flying sword was a "core" that was made of marrow crystals. Li Yao had been insane enough to carve attack rune arrays on the marrow crystals!
No, those 'flying swords' were too long and were not suitable for rapid flight and instantaneous change of direction at all. Also, the excessive rune arrays carved on them had seriously damaged their hardness and rigidity, making them extremely fragile and crumbling at the first touch. It was truly not the shape that a qualified flying sword should have.
They were not flying swords at all but rails that were part of the crystal railgun. They were only prepared to flash once after they were produced. As long as they were fired, they would not hesitate to be blown into pieces!
The thirty-six rails made of marrow crystals were all congregated on the chest of the Gold Vulture in the berserk state, constituting an indestructible super railgun! Chi! Chi!
Chi! Chi! Chi!
Li Yao's soul was burning furiously. His fury penetrated through the mustard-seed combat suit, the crystal suit, the Colossus, and the strengthening extension, dissecting the seawater around into tides of bright gold and crimson that surged to his head crazily.
The infinite energy stored inside the marrow crystals was ignited by Li Yao's fighting will. The thirty-six rails became translucent at first and then almost transparent, as if they could not bear the overwhelming energy and were about to be melted.
In the narrow, long space in the middle of the thirty-six rails, bright silver spots began to appear. They were both like countless glowing plankton that were attracted by the magnetic field and a whole galaxy that appeared in front of Li Yao out of nowhere!
Even Li Yao's own eyes, one red and one black, were stung by the brilliance of the galaxy. It was also the first time that he had improved the power of the strengthening extension of the Colossus to such a destructive level!
It was certainly not an easy task to design an Ares Extension for the Colossus. It was not something that could be done overnight. Even with Li Linghai's generous support with the resources from the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum, Li Yao's progress was not smooth at all.
There was no way for him to solve the problems of the large-scale movements of the super-enormous strengthening components and the integrity of the structure during the movement. To put it more frankly, even if he could produce such a "super-enormous Ares Extension" and put it on the Colossus, it would be at the cost of reducing the mobility of the Colossus to the minimum.
The Colossus would barely be able to move after putting on the super-enormous Ares Extension. Such a design was unacceptable in any case.
Li Yao racked his brains for a long time but failed to solve the problem. There were too many obstacles in engineering and design. It might take a team of over a hundred specialists to tackle the problem for three to five years before they could see any results.
Li Yao, who had broken into the Imperium on his own, naturally did not have so much time and so many specialists. Therefore, he simply decided to do the opposite. Since the mobility of the Colossus had been reduced to the minimum, and it could barely move anymore, he might as well abandon the treatment and simply improve the factor of "firepower" to the maximum, transforming the Colossus into a semi-automatic, super-enormous turret. Would that work?
Of course, it was a very absurd idea.
Therefore, Li Yao never intended to put the so-called super-enormous Ares Extension into a real battle at all. It was just a cutting-edge research to accumulate the test data and performance parameters for the fundamental tests to build the special enhancement components for the "real" Colossus in the future.
Even if he wanted to put the Ares Extension, which had not finished all the tests, into a real battle, it would be impossible because the time to charge the railgun was too long. Unless it was to bombard a fixed target, the experts in the Yuanying Stage and the Divinity Transformation Stage would've either fled or charged forward and knocked down both the Colossus and the turret!
However, right now, all the obstacles had been cleared, and none of the problems were problems anymore.
Long Yangjun stalled Li Yao hard, giving him precious time to charge his strength perfectly!
"Long Yangjun!"
Li Yao roared desperately in the communication channel, "Lock him up. Whatever the cost, lock him up for another three seconds!"
"What?"
Long Yangjun was slightly surprised. She did not expect that Li Yao, who had just been beaten black and blue, could still be so vigorous. When she sensed the astonishing energy leaking out of the rocks deep inside the mud, she was even more shocked. Then, she was overjoyed. "I knew it!"
"Vulture Li Yao, what kind of monster are you exactly?"
At the same time, Blackstar the Great also sensed the ripples of spiritual energy below his feet like a volcanic eruption, as if a ferocious beast that had hibernated for a thousand years had been woken up. He did not expect that Li Yao's soul would be so tough. Normal trainers would've been in a coma for a couple of days after being penetrated by his most intense mental attack, but Li Yao was perfectly fine and could counterattack so quickly!
"Hellstar" rolled quickly. Wuying Qi wanted to dodge it, but there was no time.
Long Yangjun's domain of crystals was multiplied all of a sudden, condensing walls of crystals around "Hellstar".
Deep inside the rocks at the bottom of the ocean, hundreds of Li Yao's telepathic thoughts dashed out and crawled into the gaps of "Hellstar", as if they were going to drag Li Yao's soul underground and die together with him.
On the chest of the "Gold Vulture", the "galaxy" made of starlight among the thirty-six rails was boiling.
"Even the entire Milky Way cannot extinguish the fire in my heart!"
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