"Trump card?"
Li Jialing bulged his eyes and looked at Li Yao's fire that was gradually dying out in the iron torrent. He mumbled to himself in disbelief, "His soul is almost dry, and his Colossus is on the brink of destruction. Even though he still has a few Crystal Suits, they lack enough spiritual energy to power them. Does Brother Yao … really have any trump cards?"
…
"Huff! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Huff! "
Li Yao, who was sweating profusely, naturally did not hear Li Jialing's murmur. He simply bulged his bloodshot eyes and stared at the battle puppets that were still surrounding him after passing the remains of their companions, as well as the Immortal Cultivators who were hiding behind the battle puppets, hoping to take advantage of the situation.
At such a close distance, he could clearly see the hideous grins of those cultivators and understand their insatiable greed.
These jackals and hyenas must have thought that he had run out of oil, right?
"Hehe."
Li Yao spat out a mouthful of thick blood and said to the other side in his heart, "You seem to be very quiet. This is not your style. Why didn't you persuade me?"
"Is there any use in persuading you?"
The mental devil sighed. "We've been fighting for such a long time. Do you think that I don't know you? I've already given up on treatment. Do whatever you want!
"Besides, the doctrines of Nepenthe are in direct conflict with my beliefs, too. Don't forget that I am your mental devil, and I am more inclined to the side of the 'extraterrestrial devils'. I live on intense feelings and desires. Naturally, I do not want to see everybody 'carefree and desireless'!"
Li Yao smiled. "So, you'll help me?"
After a brief silence, the mental devil sniffed. "But only for this battle!"
Before his voice even fell, a small blood-colored bud emerged from the center of Li Yao's eyebrows, which was also the pineal gland — the location of the Spirit Root. In a flash, it expanded and split, enveloping his entire body in a boundless blood-colored radiance.
"Ahhhhhhh!"
Li Yao let out an inhuman roar. The dim golden spirit flames around him turned into an even more dazzling red. Like a demon in the deep sea, they extended their tentacles and erupted again!
The broken crystal suit completely disintegrated, and he put on a brand-new, bloody crystal suit. Sixteen bloody wings that looked like bat wings were extended to the maximum. He truly looked like a ferocious ghost from the deepest level of hell who had crawled out of the bottomless abyss and returned to the human world for revenge!
"What?!"
All the Immortal Cultivators who had left their hiding places were dumbfounded. Their minds were completely consumed by Li Yao's brutality. They could barely stand on their feet and were about to collapse!
"Exalt-Exalted Immortal!"
Some of the smarter Immortal Cultivators immediately fell to their knees, pretending that they were surrendering to Li Yao instead of ambushing him. But it did not affect their ending at all. Before their regret and fear spread to their entire body through their nerves, they had already been swallowed by the storm of blood!
Five minutes. In the next five minutes, Li Yao's body turned into a streak of crimson brilliance that refracted nonstop within the range of the Great Iron Plants. Wherever he went, the battle puppets would explode into the tiniest pieces, and the Immortal Cultivators would turn into blood blocks mixed with metal scraps. His attacks were even more aggressive and brutal than before. Even the Immortal Cultivators who were crouching in the corners were found and crushed by his bloody claws!
Under the illumination of the underground fire, the entire Great Iron Plants was flowing with blood and corpses everywhere, turning into a real hellish battlefield. The so-called 'hellish' could only be one, and that was Li Yao!
One person slaughtering a thousand people!
At this moment, Li Yao seemed to have been boosted by the blood and courage of all the martyrs of the Xing Yao Federation in the past hundreds of years. He was invincible!
…
"Brother Yao really has more trump cards. He — he — he is too awesome!"
Li Jialing jumped high and waved his arms in excitement. He did not know why he was so excited, but when he saw Li Yao marching in and out unstoppably, one sentence echoed inside his head and his chest nonstop. "That's what a real man should do!"
Long Yangjun, however, looked more and more awful. She suddenly fell on one of her knees and opened her fingers, sensing the quakes that were getting more and more intense.
"Li Minghui is back, and so is his main force."
Long Yangjun mumbled to herself, "This time, what cards does your Brother Yao have left to play?"
…
Li Yao had indeed played all his trump cards.
When the first armed penetrator crawled out of the rocks above the Great Iron Plants, even the mental devil had exhausted all its strength.
Li Yao and the mental devil were two sides of the same soul in the first place. They were bound to each other for good or ill. Now that the fierce battle against Blackstar the Great had seriously damaged Li Yao's soul, the mental devil was naturally affected, too. The brief outburst just now was like the last radiance of the setting sun.
After the last radiance of the setting sun, one would only be even more hollow. It was already not easy for one to stand still with one's saber.
One, two, three … More and more armed penetrators that were wearing heavy armor and looked like hybrids of rhinoceroses and beetles crawled out of the crags, followed by thousands of battle puppets that looked like iron torrents, as well as the tough Immortal Cultivators who were mostly in the Building Foundation Stage and the Core Formation Stage despite their small number!
Li Minghui was able to reign supreme in the underground world for decades not only because of his ability to flatter others and acknowledge others as his godfather, but also because he had raised a group of ferocious demons under his command. They were all people who killed people like flies and were full of evil.
Those people were obviously not on the same level as the old, weak, sick, and disabled that he had left to watch over the Great Iron Plants. Also, most of them had been given shares of the Black Iron Group. Their lives were tied to this place, and they were very determined to fight.
"What's going on exactly?"
Li Minghui was still dozens of kilometers away, but he saw everything that happened in the Great Iron Plants through the tactical network. He was so angry that he roared crazily, "Who is he? Kill him! Kill him! "
Thousands of battle puppets that were in the shape of spiders occupied the rocks above the Great Iron Plants densely. At the same time, they lowered their bodies like springs and lunged at Li Yao abruptly.
The Immortal Cultivators followed closely and dispersed unhurriedly, clearing the Nepenthe believers nearby and blocking all the possible avenues of escape for Li Yao.
Li Yao vomited blood and smiled miserably. Retrieving the last saber from his Cosmos Ring, he raised the two sabers high and charged at the first battle puppet that lunged at him.
"Do you want 'Vulture Li Yao' to flee in panic? You scumbags are not qualified to do that! "
…
"Sister Long!"
Li Jialing's eyes were red, making him look like an angry calf, but his voice was so hoarse, as if his throat had been burnt through by fury. "Brother Yao, you have played all your trump cards. Are you really not going to help?"
"What if I am?"
Long Yangjun glared at Li Jialing. "Let me give you a piece of advice. Li Yao's cunningness and sordidness are far beyond your imagination. Who knows if or not he has more trump cards? If he does not have any, you will only be killed if you go down there! You are still young, and you have a promising future ahead of you. Why do you want to die with this guy and his idiotic beliefs? "
"I — I don't know."
Taking a deep breath, Li Jialing shook his head hard and said, "You're right. I'm still young, and I don't know who's right and who's wrong about the beliefs that you're talking about. I just — I just suddenly feel that I've been living a cowardly life in the past, and I suddenly want to have a great battle like Brother Yao! If I miss the battle and watch Brother Yao die in front of me, I will certainly regret it for the rest of my life. I won't be able to eat or sleep anymore. How can I have a promising future if that's the case? "
Long Yangjun was almost of a mind to dig open the silly boy's skull and see if it was the same as Li Yao's. "I really don't understand it. Do you all want to be heroes so badly — heroes who are about to die?"
"Heroes …"
Li Jialing's furry face blushed again. Thankfully, it was covered by the golden hair, and it was not obvious. "Maybe. Who doesn't want to be a great hero who changes the world when they are young? It's just that many people don't have the courage to admit it!
"They crave to be heroes but don't have the courage. In order to cover their cowardice and hesitation, they claim that there is no such thing as' heroes' in the world at all, that everybody who wants to be a hero is an idiot, and that it is only mature and rational to protect oneself. That is exactly the excuse that many people use to deceive themselves, isn't it? That's what Li Lingfeng and Wuying Lan told me in the past, too.
"At that time, I thought that they were right, that the world was truly so dark, and that heroes truly did not exist.
"But today, I've seen a real hero with my own eyes, and I've discovered that what they said was bullsh * t. If heroes do exist, perhaps the world can be less dark?
"Death? Hehe. Did you know, Sister Long? Death is the last thing that I'm scared of. I lived a miserable life for more than ten years in Li Lingfeng and Wuying Lan's laboratory, and I prayed for death countless times. At that time, if Li Lingfeng had allowed me to die 'magnanimously', chances were that I would've kneeled and kowtowed to him.
"Besides, didn't Sister Long and Brother Yao say that Blackstar the Great was looking for me and intended to use me as a carrier for his possession and rebirth? If it weren't for Brother Yao, I don't think that I would've been able to get away from him. Instead of falling into the hands of that old fart and being processed in weird ways to turn my body into unimaginable ugliness and evilness, I might as well fight side by side with Brother Yao here. This is my body. Nobody can control it except for me! "
Long Yangjun was shocked by the golden brilliance beaming out of the young man's eyes.
She suddenly realized that, other than Li Yao, her young and naive brother, Li Yao, was not to be underestimated, either.
"Sister Long, if you can't help me, just leave now. It will be terrible if you are surrounded by Li Minghui's team!"
Li Jialing smiled and clenched his fists. "There's no need to persuade me. Brother Yao needs me. He and I are brothers. This is our war. I have no reason to retreat.
"Brother Yao, hang in there. I'm coming!"
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