Li Yao looked into the distance and saw dozens of particularly tall tanks in the team of the Giant Axe Tribe. Hundreds of drums were being played on the tanks. Countless muscular men who were bare-chested were beating the drums at the same time!
The heavy drumbeats, together with the noises of spiritual gas, allowed the qi-trainers of the Giant Axe Tribe to summon their spiritual gas at the same time. The thousands of people were marching forward slowly but unstoppably like an iron army made of hundreds of thousands of people!
Li Yao secretly complimented them. The qi-trainers of the six tribes of Iron Plateau each had their own features. However, the battle formations of all the tribes were well-organized and orderly. Many of their battle formations were even better than those of the Cultivators of the Tian Yuan Realm.
The Cultivators of the Heaven's Origin Sector joined the battle with the 'war system'. Essentially, they were trying to increase the strength of their individual combat ability to the maximum. It was not the real art of battle formations.
How to make the Cultivators with high combat ability join the orderly battle formations so that they could bring out the strength of the army without hindering the ability of every Cultivator to release their techniques freely was a headache for the entire world of Cultivators. Neither the Tian Yuan Realm nor the Flying Star Sector had an easy solution.
The qi-trainers on Iron Plateau, on the other hand, had found a unique path.
The leaders of the three tribes, including Xiong Wuji, charged at the three teams on the opposite side.
From the three tribes, however, countless young qi-trainers dashed out. Riding agile single chariots, they ran back and forth beside the army of the Furious Bears Tribe, shouting and yelling arrogantly, as if they were trying to provoke the Furious Bears Tribe.
Li Yao glanced at Wu Mayan suspiciously.
Wu Mayan explained, "This is the tradition of the six tribes of Iron Plateau. Every battle of the apocalypse is a day when the experts of the six tribes gather. As long as they distinguish themselves in the battle of the apocalypse, they will be famous on Iron Plateau!
"Therefore, before every battle, countless unknown qi-trainers will come out to show off. They will provoke the other tribes, especially the 'landlords', and tell them that although this is our territory, they will still claim the greatest credit!
"The six tribes of Iron Plateau. Courage is the most important thing in the world. Such provocation must be countered brutally. Consider it a warm-up before the battle of the apocalypse! "
Wu Mayan's eyes turned red. He stared at the single chariot in front of him that was flying at high speed.
Li Yao narrowed his eyes and looked over. Behind the chariot was a battle flag of the Burning Sun Tribe.
It seemed that Wu Mayan still remembered clearly how the three tribes had come to the Furious Bear Tribe and asked them to expel him and Sha Yulan.
The knight of the Burning Sun Tribe was quite good at driving. His single chariot was like a willow in the wind, moving from left to right while his saber splashed out thousands of silver streaks. He even drove under the heavy chariot of the Furious Bears Tribe many times and crawled out from the other side of the chariot. This attracted a sea of cheers.
Wu Mayan roared and accelerated abruptly, darting toward the knight of the Burning Sun Tribe. He waved the flag in his hand and crossed it with the enemy's flag!
He was using such a method to respond to his opponent's provocation!
"Boom! Boom! "
Furious white smoke spurted out of the backs of the True Qi chariots of the two parties at the same time. Flames were vaguely mixed in the smoke. The noises of the chariots were even louder than those of the heavy chariots.
At first, they were running side by side. Then, they were competing with each other. When the chariots moved forward, the exhaust gas was spurted to the enemy's body.
It was a sign that the two parties were ready to compete with each other!
More than a hundred thousand aggressive qi-trainers had gathered on the desert. Many of them were young and aggressive. For the ambitious people who were faced with a life-and-death crisis, their fighting will had soared to the sky. Such minor conflicts couldn't have been more normal.
Such competitions had been going on for hundreds of years. It had long become a tradition. As long as no one was killed, it would be a great help for the morale of the two parties.
While the winner of the competition would be in high morale, the loser would also feel frustrated and determined to win back their dignity in the battle. Therefore, they would be particularly brave in the battle.
Even for the bystanders, it was beneficial for them to relieve the pressure before the battle when they appreciated the blood-boiling competition.
It was the precious experience passed down from generation to generation after hundreds of years of resistance against the apocalypse. Not only was nobody stopping them, everybody was cheering for them when they saw that they were going to compete. The drums and gongs of the Giant Axe Tribe were roaring and playing blood-boiling war tunes, too!
Wu Mayan and the knight of the Burning Sun Tribe were moving faster and faster. Soon, they surpassed the vanguard and left the dust in their wake on the desert.
Dangers lurked in every corner of the wilderness. The seemingly endless ground was actually very likely to have been eroded by underground monster beasts, leaving behind countless cavities. It was even more likely that the ground had been torn apart by heavenly tribulation. The seemingly solid ground was actually just a thin layer of rock, and below it was a bottomless abyss!
The anti-gravity rune array technology of Iron Plateau was very primitive. Most of the tanks had to be driven close to the ground. The super large tanks weighing hundreds of tons would be destroyed if they fell into a pit or an abyss.
Therefore, there was a group of vanguards in front of the team. They were driving single tanks that were equipped with special bombardment magical equipment. They bombarded the ground nonstop and judged whether or not the ground was solid enough for the team to pass by by the echoes.
It was a very dangerous job. Many times, they would be bombarded into the underground cavities.
Also, weird tempests often existed inside the cavities, which would generate a strong attraction force that could suck people into the ground like the swirls in an ocean.
Therefore, only the most agile warriors with the keenest senses were qualified to be the vanguards.
Wu Mayan and the knight of the Burning Sun Tribe, on the other hand, bypassed the vanguards and rushed into the depths of the desert that had not been explored yet.
The gap in capability between the two parties was obvious. Wu Mayan's level was definitely not as high as that of the knight of the Burning Sun Tribe, and his driving skills were not as good as the knight's, either.
The desert seemed to be flat from afar, but after thousands of years of weathering, it was rugged and full of ravines. Countless jagged rocks were standing on the ground. Once in a while, they would run into the skeletons of enormous demon beasts.
The knight of the Burning Sun Tribe was zigzagging among all kinds of obstacles and dodging agilely as if he were walking on the ground.
Wu Mayan, on the other hand, was like a fearless desperado. He could not see any obstacles in his eyes. He simply aimed at the apocalypse cloud and charged at it. However bumpy the vehicle was, it did not make him change his direction at all!
His opponent was dodging all the time, but he was rushing forward without bothering about anything. His opponent's advantage in driving skills was temporarily equalized by his reckless determination.
However, everybody could tell that he was risking his life. The exhaustion for both himself and the single tank was too high. One moment of carelessness, and both the tank and the passengers would be killed!
All the qi-trainers were deeply awed.
The competition before the battle was more or less a show after all. It was just a game between the young people of the six tribes, not a grudge. Few of them would risk their lives for real. Nobody knew why the knight of the Furious Bears Tribe was so intense.
Swoosh!
Wu Mayan's True Qi tank simply drove on the rib of an enormous demon beast. It turned half a circle on the round rib and dashed high into the sky. Six thick streams of white smoke spurted out of the back of the tank, as if it had grown wings. It accelerated to the highest speed and surpassed the knight of the Burning Sun Tribe for the first time.
The knight of the Burning Sun Tribe seemed to have been awed by his aura. He braked abruptly and came to a halt!
Wu Mayan burst into laughter and did not land until he leaped almost five hundred meters. Sparks were spluttering everywhere on the single tank!
The moment he hit the ground, a lot of dust was suddenly raised. The earth collapsed abruptly, with almost a hundred enormous holes appearing on the ground!
"Not good. It's the nest of the Iron Ore Worms!"
The expressions of some of the experienced qi-trainers immediately changed greatly.
The Iron Ore Worms were experts at digging holes in the desert. They lived on the trace elements inside the rocks. Their bodies could secrete a special digestive acid that could turn the hardest rocks into loose sand.
For the rest of their lives, they had been swallowing rocks and excreting loose sand nonstop.
A single Iron Ore Worm could dig holes on the ground within thousands of square meters and turn it into an underground maze.
But this place turned out to be the nest of the Iron Ore Worms. Perhaps the underground of the place was rich in the trace elements that the Iron Ore Worms liked the most. Judging from the collapsed area, dozens of Iron Ore Worms had considered the underground as their nest.
They had been digging holes and swallowing the rocks day and night, turning the hardest rocks into the softest sand. Many places were completely hollow, with only a thin shell at the top left!
Wu Mayan's heavy crash, on the other hand, shattered the shell that looked like an eggshell instantly, exposing the nest of the Iron Ore Worms.
Dozens of Iron Ore Worms were wriggling crazily below the ground and shrieking. Their mouthparts, which were full of sharp teeth and acid, were opened to the maximum and could swallow Wu Mayan together with the tank!
Wu Mayan dashed left and right among the holes and dodged the attacks of quite a few Iron Ore Worms at the most dangerous moment.
One of the Iron Ore Worms spurted a storm of iron sand at his back brutally. A lot of sparks were popping up from the back of the tank, which then turned into bouncing flames!
Several single tanks jumped out of the camp of the six tribes of Iron Plateau, trying to rescue Li Yao in the nest of the Iron Ore Worms.
Several experts of the Fierce Wind Assault Team of the Furious Bears Tribe were diving at a high speed, too.
However, a single tank that looked like a scorpion rushed into the nest of the Iron Ore Worms ahead of everybody else.
The flag of the Furious Bears Tribe was on the back of the single tank, but the knight's driving skills were even more precise than the knights of the Burning Sun Tribe's. He was galloping on the collapsed ground and dodging the storm of iron sand that the Iron Ore Worms shot at him. He even raised the front of the tank and rushed to the back of the Iron Ore Worms!
The moment before Wu Mayan was devoured by the iron worm, the scorpion chariot arrived. The rider swiftly grabbed Wu Mayan and put him behind his chariot.
After a crack, Wu Mayan's single tank was bitten by two Iron Ore Worms at the same time and torn into pieces!
BOOM!
The broken single tank exploded violently, because the knight had thrown quite a few Wolf Fangs at the single tank in the blink of an eye!
Smoke was spreading out, and flames were soaring to the sky. The scorpion tank was as fast as lightning and dashed among the infuriated Iron Ore Worms agilely, rushing out of the nest in the blink of an eye! (To be continued.)
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