At this moment, Capital Nest was burning furiously. XXIII XXIII XXIII ().
The largest city on Spider Den had never been scourged by major battles since the battle to protect Spider Den five hundred years ago. But in only five years, it had been reduced to rubble.
Li Yao moved upward along the spiral channel. Wherever his eyes reached, countless tunnels and caves had collapsed. Countless buildings had been reduced to twisted debris. There were traces of fire and fierce battles in many places. Even half of the rocks had collapsed, revealing the bare, ugly rock stratum.
While he was thinking about capturing a space pirate for interrogation, hasty alarms suddenly echoed above his head. He raised his head, only to see dozens of white pillars of smoke in the sky outside of the mines, as if dozens of shooting stars had just passed by the broken sky.
Brilliance was vaguely flowing inside Li Yao's eyes. He raised his hands, and Neltharion, which had been deeply refined by him, dashed into the sky without a sound. It entered the stealth state immediately and observed the ground from hundreds of meters above the ground.
The surface of Spider Den was a mess, too. The ground near Capital Nest seemed to have been hit by hundreds of meteorite showers. It was full of craters, and smoke was popping up from many of them. The colorful pillars of smoke seemed to have been frozen and did not disperse for a long time. The top of the smoke dispersed in the shape of a mushroom, making the place look like a weird forest.
Hundreds of 'shooting stars' streaked across the sky, but hundreds of sword auras and light pillars were rising from the ground and darting toward the 'shooting stars' overwhelmingly, as if some sort of defense array was functioning.
However, the trajectories of those 'shooting stars' were highly unstable, as unpredictable as dry leaves in a storm. Also, there were defense rune arrays outside of the 'shooting stars', too. Even if they were hit by the sword auras on the ground occasionally, the periphery would ripple out broken waves of light, and the 'shooting stars' would continue crashing to the ground without any damage.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Countless shooting stars hit the ground, raising smoke hundreds of meters high.
Very soon, spluttering noises echoed from the smoke. Whooshing sounds could be heard as streams of silver-white metal flowed out of the smoke like flowers scattered by a celestial maiden. They dispersed and crawled into the various mines of Capital Nest.
"Grand Illusionary Soldiers!"
Li Yao's pupils constricted violently. From the perspective of Neltharion, he could clearly see that the metal torrents were made of metal. They were silver war puppets with complete limbs and heads, but they were only about 1.67 meters tall. They did not look like Crystal Suit but could only be Grand Illusionary Soldiers!
The Grand Illusionary Soldiers that were put into real battles were entirely different from the test subjects that Li Yao saw in the Meeting of the Next Millennium five years ago.
Their level of refinement was higher, and the glyph arrays engraved on their bodies were more detailed and gorgeous. Under the illumination of the setting sun, their bodies glowed faintly. It also showed that the materials used to refine them were of a higher grade.
The Grand Illusionary Soldiers have started the assault on Spider Den, and the Temple of Immortals and the space pirates are on the defensive. It seems that the Immortal Cultivators are in a bad situation.
"A lot of crystal warships of the Cultivators must have gathered on Spider Den.
The Grand Illusionary Soldiers needed the Spiritual Nexus to connect them to the enormous database of the Grand Illusionary Group in order to unleash their full combat ability. Five years ago, the Spider Den Space Zone did not have the Spiritual Nexus.
Therefore, in the space above his head … Quite a few crystal warships of the Cultivators must have established a temporary network as the nodes of the Spiritual Nexus.
Now that the Grand Illusionary Soldiers had invaded Capital Chao, the Grand Illusionary Soldiers were everywhere around Capital Chao. Countless soldiers of the Immortal Army and the space pirates jumped out. The two parties were soon caught in a chaotic battle.
"The Grand Illusionary Soldiers are very strong."
Li Yao observed the battle calmly.
Compared to the test subjects five years ago, the Grand Illusionary Soldiers were more agile and had more choices of tactics. Li Yao even observed that they were performing the classic tactical movements of the ace Exos. They were almost like tiny souls crouching inside metal puppets.
The common Grand Illusionary Soldiers could often withstand a couple of head-on bombardments from the crystal cannons. Some of the brighter Grand Illusionary Soldiers were even protected by multiple spiritual shields and were on par with the Building Foundation Stage Cultivators among the space pirates.
"Such a force, if there are more than a million of them, will be horrifying!"
Li Yao continued climbing upward, searching for a suitable target. It was XXXXXXXXXX.
Very soon, he found a burning ruin and a few dead bodies of space pirates that were lying on the ground.
Li Yao opened his fingers. His spiritual energy surged toward the few dead bodies like tides, making them float in midair.
As he opened and closed his fingers, the Crystal Suits on the few dead bodies were dissected into the most fundamental components after a 'huala' sound.
Hundreds of thousands of components condensed into a metal storm that was revolving rapidly in midair.
Li Yao curled his finger softly. A metal storm surged toward him and covered his entire body. After a while of cracking sounds, it was assembled into a brand-new crystal suit. The redundant components were automatically shot in all directions like bullets, hitting the rocks in cracking noises and deeply embedding themselves into them.
Li Yao put his left hand behind his back casually and extended the index finger of his right hand. Soon, a dazzling 'sun' was condensed on his index finger.
Immense spiritual waves were contained in the light ball, which was soon perceived by the Grand Illusionary Soldiers.
They were like a bunch of sharks that had smelled a drop of blood.
Seven Grand Illusionary Soldiers immediately lunged at him.
Li Yao shook his right hand. The light ball of spiritual energy vanished into thin air. The surface of the Crystal Suit was covered in a thin spiritual shield, allowing the Grand Illusionary Soldiers to bombard him crazily.
He discovered that the seven Grand Illusionary Soldiers were a tactical squad. They were long-range shooters, melee fighters, snipers, and tanks. They cooperated well with each other and were well-trained.
The performance parameters of the Crystal Suit that had been temporarily jumbled were plummeting like a broken mercury column.
Bathed in the sword auras and the barrage of cannons, Li Yao was deep in thought as he recorded the changes of thousands of data.
In less than half a minute, the Crystal Suit on his body had been riddled with holes and could not have been more ragged.
The crystal cannons hit his bare skin directly, but they did not cause any damage to him at all.
"The battle data is almost collected."
Li Yao extended his right hand again. He curled his index finger and snapped it softly.
A streak of brightness immediately darted out of his fingernail and blew up the head of a Grand Illusionary Soldier immediately, before it lunged at a second Grand Illusionary Soldier.
It was not until the heads of three Grand Illusionary Soldiers were blown up that shrieks echoed in the sky of the battlefield.
"I wonder what the internal structure of the suit is like?"
Li Yao opened his right hand and pressed down. The remaining four Grand Illusionary Soldiers seemed to be suppressed by invisible mountains. No matter how hard their joints were squeaking and sparking, they could not move at all.
On Li Yao's right hand, almost a hundred threads of spiritual energy appeared like vipers and slithered toward a Grand Illusionary Soldier. It was not until they circled the Grand Illusionary Soldier three times that they found the first gap. Shua!
Shua! Shua! Shua!
The threads of spiritual energy flew up and down around the Grand Illusionary Soldier. Five minutes later, the entire Grand Illusionary Soldier was dismantled into the most fundamental components.
"The structure is quite precise. The design concepts of the five classic Crystal Suit models have been incorporated. The key components are all made of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. It is a piece of perfect magical equipment.
Li Yao's eyes were like two crystal cameras with a very high resolution. The broken components turned into miniaturized structural designs and disappeared deep inside his brain.
He dismantled the other few Grand Illusionary Soldiers that were of different purposes in the same way.
"According to different tactical purposes, the Grand Illusionary Soldiers for sniping, melee, and heavy firepower have different designs. The commander's crystal processor has been added with a strengthened telepathic thought reception rune array to ensure that it can receive a lot of information even when the Spiritual Nexus is unstable and share the information with its' subordinates'."
"Pa!"
Li Yao clenched his right hand softly. All the components floating in midair were compressed together by invisible spiritual energy. They were kneaded and squeezed like plasticine until they turned into a giant, smooth iron ball in the end.
Watching the iron ball fall into the deepest part of the cave casually, Li Yao thought to himself, "It seems that the technology of the Grand Illusionary Soldiers has been greatly improved over the past five years. Such a squad of Grand Illusionary Soldiers cannot pose a real threat to Cultivators above the Core Formation Stage, but they are still a great threat to the general Cultivators.
"If there are thousands of them, even a Core Formation Stage Cultivator will have a headache.
"Since the Grand Illusionary Soldiers are being used in public, they are not necessarily the strongest weapons in Xiao Xuance's hands. Chances are that he is refining even more powerful Grand Illusionary Soldiers in secret!"
Wearing the ragged Crystal Suit, Li Yao patrolled the battlefield in search of a suitable target for interrogation. He was desperate to know what had happened in the outside world during the five years that he had been training below the ground.
He did not want to find common space pirates, because those space pirates were just cannon fodder and would not know much inside information.
He did not want to find the strong Immortal Army, either. Those Immortal Cultivators might know a lot of information, but they were usually the most fervent believers and would not be easily pried open.
Very soon, he found a target.
It was a team of space pirates wearing the emblem of a bloody raindrop on their Crystal Suit. It was the emblem of Storm Prison.
"Since Fengyu Zhong is the new Pirate Potentate that the Temple of Immortals intentionally raised, his subordinates must know more than other people.
"The space pirate who is leading is at the peak of the Building Foundation Stage. He must be a core member of Storm Prison.
"That's the one!"
Li Yao moved and turned into a streak of brightness. When he began to accelerate, the whole world seemed to have been frozen by a cluster of invisible glue. The Immortal Army, the space pirates, and the Grand Illusionary Soldiers were all slowed down. He was the only one who was still moving as fast as lightning!
"Shua!"
Li Yao rushed to the center of the battlefield. The ragged Crystal Suit on his body had been shattered into pieces. His target turned out to be a brawny man more than two meters tall. After he put on the heavy Crystal Suit, he was even more than 2.5 meters tall.
Li Yao, on the other hand, grabbed the space pirate's neck easily with his right hand and dragged him out of the battlefield instantly! (To be continued.)
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