The moment the storm of green ants was launched, more than ten aggressive electric arcs slashed out between the two halberd horns on the head of the 'Beetle Bull' that Li Yao mentioned, which condensed into sabers, spears, swords, axes, hooks, and forks in midair, bombarding the Fire Ant crazily.
A large cluster of powder suddenly fell from the colorful wings of the Phantom Butterfly, which turned into dozens of agile phantoms and harassed the Fire Ant, too.
The Fire Ant roared nonstop. The last bit of the remaining Thousand Phantom Fire Ants were condensed on his palms and smashed at the storm of green ants brutally, breaking it apart. However, the broken storm seemed to be alive vines that tied up all the Thousand Phantom Fire Ants.
The more than ten lightning weapons of the 'Cylophus Bull' bombarded the Fire Ant King overwhelmingly. The Illusionary Butterfly's shadow, on the other hand, enshrouded the Fire Ant King's facial orifices like a haunting ghost!
The Fire Ant grunted and slowed down again. The antennae on the top of his head were stained with a lot of powder, which made them shiver more and more slowly.
"He!"
The 'Beetle Bull' opened his arms. The demon core on his chest, which was even larger than Li Yao's head, was glittering, as if the main gun of a crystal warship had been charged with maximum spiritual energy. After a deafening roar, a gray pillar of light suddenly exploded from his chest at the Fire Ant!
Haunted by the weird dreams, the Fire Ant did not feel anything at all. Hit by the head-on attack, the skin and the shell all over his body cracked, burned, and evaporated!
At the same time, Elder Nether Spring condensed nine clones with the Phantom Green Ants again and darted toward the Fire Ant from all directions!
The clones pierced through the Fire Ant's body dozens of times as if they were ghosts without real bodies.
After every 'piercing', the Fire Ant's aura would be weaker. After dozens of times, the Fire Ant was already riddled with holes and barely resembled a human anymore. He fell from the sky helplessly.
"Lock!"
Elder Nether Spring's fingers blossomed like lotuses and made dozens of gestures in the blink of an eye. He snapped his fingers, and dozens of tiny 'seeds' rushed out. It shot into the body of the Fire Ant.
A moment later, the "seed" took root and sprouted, producing bright green "veins".
These blood vessels pierced through the Fire Ant's internal organs and joints, especially the vital parts such as his shoulder blades and knees. It even pierced through the Fire Ant's body several times, wrapping tightly around his limbs.
There were even many blood vessels that climbed onto the Fire Ant's head like poisonous snakes and drilled into his mouth and nose.
As Elder Nether Spring breathed and breathed, the 'veins' were fluctuating, too. Green liquids were vaguely flowing inside, but there was no telling whether they were blood or venom!
As a Demon Emperor, the Fire Ant's life force was extremely tenacious. Although he had been hit by the thunderous strike of the 'Bull Beetle' and pierced by Elder Nether Spring's clones, he was soon woken up.
However, the weird 'seeds' and 'veins' were like the most solid shackles. They made him unable to move and moan in excruciating pain.
Li Yao's face was red, and his blood was boiling, as he watched from the second floor of the basement.
This was the first time that he had seen an unparalleled expert in the level of demon emperor go all out. Fighting with one's life!
Compared to the Cultivators, the demons' utilization of spiritual energy was much more sordid and unpredictable. They had all kinds of attack methods and all kinds of bizarre biochemical beasts. They were all things that Li Yao could never have imagined in the past.
The 'seeds' that Elder Nether Spring shot out contain weird toxins that can transform the Fire Ant's blood into fatal venom and restrain the Fire Ant's strength!
Li Yao secretly clicked his tongue.
The mental devil, however, sneered. "Petty tricks. Not worth mentioning at all. I'd like to taste them right now. The taste of the 'seeds'! "
Li Yao immediately rejected the idea and focused all his computational ability on Neltharion.
Sticking to the wall of the temple, Neltharion moved upward quietly.
After the Fire Ant was captured, the resistance of the Blade of Chaos was over, too. The Nether World Watch soon took control of the place.
His hands behind his back, Elder Nether Spring glanced at the underground temple casually. When he saw the magnificent statue of the Pangu at the center of the temple, his eyes became extremely deep and gloomy.
Dozens of green beetles were hovering around the two commanders of the Nether World Watch. The abdomens of the beetles were translucent and embedded with crystals. Quite a few delicate serial rune arrays had been carved inside the crystals, too.
Sounds were echoing from the abdomens of some of the beetles, which turned out to be the sound-transmitting insects for communication.
'Beetle Bull' gave orders to more than ten sound-transmitting insects. "Team one, you have three hours to clear the entire Mausoleum of Chaos and search for the remaining Blade of Chaos. Make sure that you are safe!
"Team two, set up a camp for captives in the southwest of the underground temple. Detain all the captives and identify them.
"The Blade of Chaos has stolen a large batch of our specialists from Bone Sand City. Find them out and make sure that they are safe!
"Team three, start building large-scale temporary floating islands in the Star Swallowing Sea. Search the five hundred square kilometers nearby and the nearby White Silver Death Desert in case the remaining members of the Blade of Chaos are hiding in the Star Swallowing Sea or the desert!"
Beside him, the Illusionary Butterfly Demoness was also methodically issuing orders to the Sound Transmission Winged Insect, "Team Four, set up a temporary research lab in the southeast corner of the underground temple, and start analyzing and researching there."
"Team five, follow Team one. Excavate everything inside the Mausoleum of Chaos as soon as possible while ensuring our safety!
"Team six, take action together with Team five. Pay attention. Demonic artifacts and viruses that are still alive are likely to be hidden inside the Mausoleum of Chaos. Isolate and extinguish them when they are discovered!"
"Elder!"
After the two of them finished their orders, they said to Elder Nether Spring respectfully, "In three hours, the Mausoleum of Chaos will be ours!"
"Excellent!"
Elder Nether Spring nodded slightly. "Despot, Swirl, you have done a good job. Now, take the Fire Ant to the starship. A lot of things that will be of great use to us are hidden inside his head!"
"Understood!"
"Understood!"
Despot and Swirl moved the Fire Ant, who looked like a walking corpse, onto a full metal stretcher. Then, they added almost twenty iron chains carved with spiritual stripes to the stretcher and sent the Fire Ant to the surface in person one after the other.
"Now is the time!"
On the second floor of the basement, Li Yao's temples were bouncing crazily. He bit his lips so hard that they were almost broken. His heart was almost breaking his ribs when he made the gamble. It was the riskiest gamble!
He stealthily maneuvered Neltharion to follow Despot and Swirl!
Although Despot and Swirl were not real experts in the demon emperor level, with the enhancement of the demon cores, they were very close to each other. Their senses were extremely keen. One moment of carelessness and he would be discovered by them.
However, the two of them were entirely focused on the Fire Ant. After another clean victory, he had let down his guard a little and didn't notice it at all.
Elder Nether Spring did not expect that, other than the demon emperor Fire Ant, such a freak as Li Yao was hiding in the Blade of Chaos and that he had Neltharion, a piece of magical equipment from the peak of the Star Ocean Imperium.
All his computational ability was devoted to planning what to do next. He did not notice that a tiny 'super-tiny starship' was wandering stealthily in the invisible void, either! …
Despot and Swirl. They slowly ascended to the ground through the hole on the dome of the temple.
Neltharion followed them closely, like their shadow.
The space inside the hole was very narrow. There was no room for him to dodge at all. Although Neltharion was in the stealth state, as long as Despot and Swirl were slightly suspicious, they would be able to detect him immediately by blowing out their demonic energy.
Thankfully, the two of them were commanders of the Nether World Watch. They were very busy with their work. Flying insects were flying around them incessantly, sending the feedback of their subordinates.
The two of them sent out orders one after another like running water. But they had no time to care about the absolute safety behind them.
At the end of the hole was an upward soft tube. Li Yao estimated that the soft tube was connected to a devilish warship, too.
As he expected, a moment later … They appeared inside a devilish warship.
The warship was more than ten times larger than the sky-hunting warship of the Blade of Chaos. There were countless channels around it that were as complicated as a maze.
Neltharion followed Despot and Swirl through the solid defense line made of dozens of soldiers of the Nether World Watch after zigzagging for a long time and reached a special prison cell at the end of the pathway.
The prison cell was like the stomach of a certain enormous demon beast. It was sticky, wet, and filled with green corrosive liquids. It was blocked by bars that looked like tusks.
Li Yao saw that Swirl rubbed a piece of pink meat next to the prison cell softly like a feather. The tusks immediately retreated, revealing a hole that was large enough for one person to pass through.
"Could it be that there's a living creature in this cell?"
Li Yao remembered the special way that Swirl rubbed the meat.
Despot and Swirl threw the Fire Ant into the prison cell together with the stretcher.
Countless tentacles immediately appeared from all directions of the cell and fixed the stretcher in midair.
The tentacles were similar to synthesized nerves. They were packed with neurons and were extremely sensitive. They would be able to detect the slightest disturbance.
The lower half of the Fire Ant's body was soaked in acid, which was uttering spluttering noises. Green smoke was even popping up from the acid.
Half a day ago, the man had been fantasizing about leading the Blade of Chaos to rise. But right now, he had been reduced to a prisoner.
Compared to the frustration on his face, his heart seemed to have been greatly ravaged. He had lost all his fighting will. His head was lowered, and the two tentacles dangled on his forehead helplessly, like a piece of rotten wood.
The moment the tusk cage was about to close, Li Yao maneuvered Neltharion into it!
There was no response from the tusk cage. Despot and Swirl did not show any abnormal reactions, either. They simply summoned a team of soldiers of the Nether World Watch and left after giving them some instructions.
It appeared that they were very confident in Elder Nether Spring's skills in barriers.
Li Yao took a long breath in relief. The most dangerous step had finally been accomplished without any mishap.
Right then, he heard the fulminating noises of the lifts leading to the second floor of the basement.
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