This explosion immediately triggered a chain reaction. With this metal puppet as the center, circles of destructive ripples spread out in all directions. The ancient battlefield turned into a sea of crystal fragments. "Kacha Kacha" sounds of shattering echoed across the vast and boundless icy land.
Even the strongest magical equipment and creatures could hardly resist the erosion of time after thousands of years. The magnificent ancient battlefield was like a castle on a beach. It was obliterated into nothingness in the blink of an eye under the impact of the tides.
But at the edge of the battlefield, clusters of weird auras were rising slowly.
"They are …"
Li Yao adjusted the resolution of the crystal camera to the highest. He activated the potential of the nerves in his retina with his spiritual energy and temporarily improved his eyesight by five times.
At the edge of the battlefield, several demon beasts that had been frozen like ice sculptures did not fall apart like the other demon beasts. Instead, the ice covering them cracked, revealing their dark bodies, which looked like dried octopuses.
Also, they were expanding slowly.
The demon beasts were at the edge of the ice torrent. Since they had entered the hibernation state in time, they were not dead yet.
Their demonic energy waves, in the detection mode of the crystal camera, were like weird flames that were raging and burning more and more fiercely.
Very soon, the dozens of demon beasts expanded to the maximum like tumors that had been pumped full of air.
Every demon beast was three to five meters in diameter. They slowly floated to a height of five meters. Hundreds of messy tentacles dangled from their bodies, each of which was full of thorns.
The ball-shaped demon beasts had no eyes. Their bodies, which looked like air sacs, were full of wrinkles and holes. Their tentacles wriggled and intertwined with each other, constituting a gray net hundreds of meters in diameter.
"Judging from the appearance of the demon beasts, they should be a type of 'floating jellyfish' in ancient times.
"Such demon beasts. They can absorb a lot of air, compress it to the minimum, and shoot it out from the holes and wrinkles on their bodies into 'air blades'. Their power is not to be underestimated.
"Especially in places like Mystic Glacier where the air is corrosive. It is also a killing ground for them. "
"Swallow," Yan Yangtian said quickly.
"Don't be nervous, everyone. These demon beasts are not high in level. At most, they are a group of middle-level and high-level demon generals. Furthermore, they have been hibernating for thousands of years. Their body tissues must have been seriously damaged.
What Hong Tong said was mostly for Li Yao, the newcomer.
Although the other party's demonic energy fluctuation was not too strong, and he had just woken up from hibernation. His body was extremely weak.
But in the end, it was still a demonic beast from thousands of years ago. No one could say for sure what kind of mysterious methods it had.
Li Yao took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down. He moved his right hand inch by inch and grabbed the Boiled Blood Wind Slashing Saber silently.
The rest of the team members also followed the strategy that they had practiced countless times and spread out silently.
Dozens of demon beasts formed a tentacle net. Like a strange gray cloud, it floated in the air for a long time. It sensed the presence of humans and quickly floated in their direction.
The way they moved was the same as the Soaring Roar. They used the holes behind their bodies to eject a strong airflow to propel their bodies forward. Its speed was incomparably fast.
A fierce battle was about to break out.
In the blink of an eye, the nearest demon beast was less than fifty meters away from Li Yao.
Li Yao could clearly see the barbs on every tentacle. The Boiled Blood Wind Slashing Saber was shivering violently in the sheath, too, as if it was eager to have a try.
Suddenly, an ear-splitting shriek came from his left. A streak of brightness pierced into the body of the demon beast brutally.
It was a flying sword!
The floating jellyfish demon beasts were all gas inside their bodies. When the flying sword cut a long and narrow wound on their bodies, they immediately shriveled and shriveled.
The rest of the jellyfish demon beasts were greatly shocked. They waved their tentacles and formed a tight defense net.
Li Yao was dazed for a moment, too. The flying sword didn't come from his side. It came from the northeast, the edge of the ancient battlefield.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! "
The earth was trembling.
The first thing that caught everyone's eyes were dozens of crimson crystal cameras in a triangle. They were emitting brutal brilliance in the gray fog.
Soon, dozens of metal puppets walked stiffly into the battlefield with incomparable firmness.
Their arms had been modified into chainswords and vibration sabers. They were also carrying thick, thick, and black honeycomb-type flying sword launchers, which were shooting out flying swords as they marched forward.
Many of the puppets had been frozen to the point that their joints were broken while they were walking, causing them to fall to the ground.
But the rest of the puppets didn't even bother to look at them. They stepped over their companions and marched forward unswervingly.
As for their companions, as long as their mainframe crystal processors weren't frozen yet, they were waving their hands and crawling toward the demon beasts, too.
"They are the metal puppets of the Star Ocean Imperium.
"Some of the puppets will enter the hibernation state when they are in an extreme situation. They will only wake up when they detect intense demonic energy and scan for demon beasts nearby before they launch attacks automatically."
Captain Hong Tong explained.
While they were talking, the army of metal puppets rushed into the gray net made of the demon beasts. A bloody battle without a single drop of blood broke out!
The metal puppets shot out a lot of flying swords from their honeycomb-type launchers and cut the demon beasts apart. Then, they waved their chainswords and vibration sabers and chopped the tentacles of the demon beasts into pieces.
The demon beasts didn't want to be outdone, either. From the wrinkles and holes on their bodies, a lot of high-pressure air blades were launched and chopped off the limbs of the metal puppets brutally.
Both parties had been hibernating in the frigid environment for thousands of years. They had been blown to pieces by the frigid wind. After several collisions, they would be torn into pieces together.
But neither the demon beasts nor the metal puppets knew what fear was. They simply completed their mission methodically.
Ten minutes later, the bloody battle that had been delayed for thousands of years came to an end.
All the demon beasts and the metal puppets had been turned into broken limbs. They looked like a broken picture on the gray ground.
Only one flying sword was left. It was spinning in midair in confusion, but it couldn't find a target. In the end, it flew toward Li Yao and the rest of the team.
Li Yao swallowed. His right hand was still holding the hilt of his saber tightly.
"Don't be nervous. The flying sword should have the ability to distinguish between friend and foe automatically. We are all human beings. It won't attack us."
Captain Hong Tong said.
The flying sword flew half a circle above their heads. Li Yao saw clearly the cracks and the rust caused by the corrosion of the acid. He also saw the Red Dragon Swallowing the Sun emblem on the body of the sword.
It used to be the proudest emblem of human beings. It was flying everywhere in the sea of stars.
The tip of the sword shivered for a long time like a hunting dog sniffing its prey. After confirming that they were all human beings … The flying sword flew all the way to the west into the gray mist and soon disappeared at the end of the horizon.
"Where is it going?" asked Li Yao.
"Although we are not demon beasts, we don't have the identification tattoos of the Star Ocean Monarch Team on our bodies.
We are probably mistaken, "said Captain Hong Tong.
"It's going to look for the real Star Ocean Monarch Team or a demon beast to attack."
Li Yao was dazed. He asked, "What if we can't find them?"
Captain Hong Tong replied, "If we can't find them, we'll keep flying until we run out of spiritual energy."
A picture popped up in Li Yao's head.
A lonely flying sword. It flew and flew on the barren and lonely land for an unknown amount of time, but it did not find a single comrade or enemy. Its flying speed became slower and slower, and more and more rust spots appeared on its body. Occasionally, it would even stagger in mid-air, but it did not feel tired at all. It didn't know how to give up until the last drop of spiritual energy was exhausted. Flying, flying, flying …
"Little Black, are you also looking for companions or enemies like this flying sword?" Li Yao asked the Black Wing Sword on his back via telepathic thoughts.
Black Wing shivered. Li Yao soon understood what it meant.
"I've found a comrade."
"Alright. Let's cheer up, everybody. Such battles between ancient demon beasts and puppets are not unusual in the Occult Orbs! "
Captain Hong Tong bellowed, "Vulture and Mute, clean the battlefield and see if there are any trophies that are worth taking back. Swallow and Bell. Let's form a two-man scouting squad and search the mountains nearby. Since this is a battlefield, there must be mines nearby. Shell and I will be on alert! "
Leng Ziming chose a good sniping spot and set up his sniper rifle to monitor the entire battlefield.
Li Yao and Ba Weiqi jumped down and entered the ancient battlefield, which was full of crystal pieces.
Most of the ancient flying swords, Crystal Suit and metal puppets had been reduced to powder. Some of them were still intact, but they were crumbling at the first touch.
Li Yao could only scan them with mystic rays and store them in his crystal processor, hoping that they would be of some help to the design of magical equipment of the Heaven's Origin Sector.
But many of the metal puppets that had just been through a fierce battle were still intact.
Li Yao studied them carefully. The limbs of the puppets and the honeycomb-type flying sword launchers were not advanced enough for the Tian Yuan Realm. They were of no value to be taken back.
But the hibernation system that could keep the puppets for thousands of years was quite delicate. Li Yao had never seen any similar magical equipment in the Tian Yuan Realm.
The jellyfish demon beasts were not large in size after they released all their gas. Li Yao picked the smallest body and covered it with 'Corpse Condensation Liquid'. Then he threw it into his Cosmos Ring together with the hibernation core of the puppet.
He was quite lucky to have found a brand-new magical equipment and a brand-new species of demon beasts in his first exploration of the Occult Orbs. A lot of contribution points had been earned!
Good news came from the scouting squad, too. Swallow and Ding Ling Dong had found the entrance of an intact mine five kilometers to the west of the ancient battlefield.
Five minutes later, the six of them gathered at the entrance of the mine.
They were at the bottom of a cracked rock. After a long time, Cyclops Mushrooms had been growing in the crevices. They were swaying in the wind and emitting feeble fluorescence.
The cave was more than three meters in diameter. It was so dark that there was no telling where it led to.
There were obvious traces of man-made chiseling on the surface, but they had been eroded by the passage of time.
Li Yao took out a round magical equipment and knocked it hard on his head. Immediately, the round pillar began to crack and explode.
He threw the bead into the depths of the cave.
With a muffled sound, a beam of green mystic light flashed from the depths of the cave and scanned every single detail in every direction.
On the light beams of the six Crystal Suit, a 3D map of the underground of the cave was displayed at the same time.
The magical equipment was named 'Light Wave Thunder'. It could emit spiritual waves that were similar to soundwaves to scan the unknown space and provide feedback to the crystal processor immediately. The result would then be drawn into a 3D map. It was a must-have magical equipment for wilderness exploration.
"This mine leads to 430 meters below the ground. There are twelve working surfaces. It seems that a lot of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures are stored here!"
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