"Why?"
The arrival of the Fire Ant was even more shocking for Lu Wuxin and the rest of them than the glamorous arrival of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit.
Lu Wuxin's eyeballs were protruding out of their sockets. The bloody streaks almost tore his eyeballs apart.
He could not figure out how the Fire Ant had escaped from the restraint of the Venomous Scorpion Bone Biting Shackle. The best piece of confinement magical equipment of the Xing Yao Federation was too lousy!
Not to mention, a Demon Emperor and a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator were together. Such a powerful combination was terrifying no matter how one thought about it!
The combination of a demon emperor and a Yuanying was not as simple as one plus one equals two. With the cover of a super expert, the other super expert would have a lot of time to catch his breath and cool down his magical equipment. His combat ability would be improved by more than three times!
The situation right now was rather delicate.
On the Nether World Watch's side, they still had advantages in number and average capability. A lot of soldiers of the Nether World Watch were still in formation at the south of the lone island. Their battle formation was not disrupted, and they had enough ammunition.
More soldiers of the Nether World Watch were trapped in the 'Nether World'. However, since the teleportation arrays and the lifts had been shut down by Li Yao, they had to crawl to the ground through the emergency channels.
As time went by, they would eventually reach the ground, and another batch of soldiers of the Nether World Watch would break into the control center and reactivate the teleportation arrays and the lifts.
On the captives' side, after the brutal battle just now, they had suffered heavy casualties and were hanging on by their last breath. They could not hold on for long.
However, in terms of high-end combat ability, the captives had more advantages.
Li Yao had Jin Dan, the ultimate level. After putting on the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, his combat ability was above the middle level of the Yuanying level. The Fire Ant, on the other hand, had stagnated in the demon emperor level for decades. He definitely had abundant battle experience!
On the Nether World Watch's side, 'Swirl', the Phantom Butterfly, was only a 'demi-demon emperor' with the help of the demon core. Although Lu Wuxin was in the beginning level of the demon emperor level, he was best at medicine and modification. In terms of battle experience, he was slightly worse than the Fire Ant.
Besides, Li Yao had a devilish warship under his control, which could provide firepower support at any time!
A delicate balance of power. Thus, it was formed.
But in the next second, it was broken by crazy shouts!
The sky-hunting warship of the Blade of Chaos did not hover in midair but slightly tilted the head of the warship, venting the fury that had been pent up for a long time on the ground.
The target of the attack was not Lu Wuxin but the defense line of the Nether World Watch in front of the captives!
The soldiers of the Nether World Watch were deeply stimulated by Li Yao's shocking performance. They were already scared out of their wits. The defense line that existed only in name collapsed completely under the attack of the sky-hunting warships.
The captives of the Blood Lion Battalion and the Flying Tigers Legion led by Chao Long and Han Tuhu took the opportunity to launch a counterattack!
Li Yao was not a commander after all and did not know much about tactics. The Fire Ant did not have any experience in commanding a regular army, either. Therefore, they only wanted to stall the Nether World Watch on their own so that the captives could retreat.
But it never occurred to him how long it would take for the thousand captives to retreat to the sky-hunting warship.
If they wanted to retreat, they had to attack first!
Suo Chaolong and Han Tuhu were two of the best middle-level commanders in the Blood Demon Sector and the Heaven's Origin Sector. Knowing that very well, they grasped the opportunity keenly. While Li Yao was on a killing spree in midair, they asked the lightly wounded to retreat to the sky-hunting warship with the heavily wounded, while they gathered all the weapons and armor that they had looted and launched a suicidal counterattack with almost a hundred captives who still had some strength left!
The situation was reversed in only one moment.
When it rains, it pours. Luck was truly not on the Nether World Watch's side today. The first defense line of the Nether World Watch happened. When the defense line collapsed under the counterattack of the captives, the devilish warship that had been shot down by the Frost Storm Flowers finally exploded violently. The blast swallowed almost a hundred soldiers of the Nether World Watch who had scattered to the side. The fire enshrouded the narrow, long area at the center of the island, dividing the island into two parts that were blocked from the north and the south!
Of course, there were a lot of experts who were adept at flying in the Nether World Watch.
However, it was difficult for them to keep a neat formation when they were in midair.
Formation was the most important thing in a battlefield. Unorganized soldiers who were exposed to a warship that was brimming with killing intent without formation and cover were no different from cutting off their own heads and delivering them to the enemy!
"Kill them!"
Li Yao and the Fire Ant were both keen-eyed. Although they did not see it coming at first, when Han Tuhu and Suo Chaolong lunged forward like hungry dogs that had been freed from the cage, they keenly grasped the weakness of the Nether World Watch keenly, too.
The two of them looked at each other and turned into two streaks of brightness at the same time, piercing into the formation of the Nether World Watch in midair!
Slash, gather, blow, and explode!
Almost a hundred black auras of saber were triggered around Li Yao at the same time. After countless slashes, crimson mystic rays dozens of meters long were vaguely dancing around the saber auras. They were not Li Yao's spiritual waves but the blood and broken souls of the soldiers of the Nether World Watch, which had been tightly bound to the auras of his saber!
As if possessed by the God of Killing, Li Yao became crazier and crazier as he killed. As his spiritual energy was consumed crazily, he entered a brand-new transcendent state. In the end, he did not even need to wield his saber and could already lock a soldier of the Nether World Watch in midair with his intimidating killing intent alone, making it impossible for him to move!
"Shua!"
The space in front of him was suddenly empty. The seemingly tangible killing intent could not find any target anymore. In the airspace hundreds of square meters nearby, there was not a single soldier of the Nether World Watch that was still alive except for clusters of intense blood mist!
Lu Wuxin and Swirl did not have the courage to confront him. They fled to the south of the island where the soldiers of the Nether World Watch were still in a strict formation!
Huchi! Huchi! Huchi!
It was not until this moment that Li Yao sensed that his trachea and lungs were seriously torn apart because of the high-speed breathing. His shoulder blades were seriously worn out because he had waved his saber a thousand times in only a few seconds. His arms were fractured because of the intense collisions. His heart was on the verge of exploding because of the overload!
Fire Ant slowly flew to his side. He breathed heavily, and his hands and feet were not much better than Li Yao's.
After all, Fire Ant had just been tortured by Lu Wuxin. He was only hanging on because of the strengthening drugs that had drained his life.
The two of them looked at each other and decided to stop while they were ahead.
At the south of the island, the battle formation of the soldiers of the Nether World Watch was not disrupted. The defense line was still very tight, with a lot of biochemical beasts deployed. If they marched in recklessly, it was very likely that they would be mired.
Also, the captives who were charging in the opposite direction were showing signs of exhaustion when they reached the location where the devilish warships exploded.
They were too tired after all, and they had tried too hard. At first, they had been electrocuted by the super high-voltage electric arcs. Then, they had to resist the longswords and armor of the soldiers of the Nether World Watch with their bare hands. Many of them had almost ten flying swords and a few battle sabers stabbed into their bodies. While they were charging, they left a long trail of blood behind them. Some of their guts had even been blown out, but they simply stuffed them back with their hands and continued moving forward!
Many of them fell to the ground while they were charging and never woke up again.
Some of them stabbed their sabers into the chests of the soldiers of the Nether World Watch and grabbed their enemies' necks, turning into gray statues together with their enemies.
Besides, three devilish warships were docked at the dock!
Li Yao's Cosmos Rings were not bottomless holes after all. The crystal bombs that he could craft had their limits, too. Back in the 'Nether World', too many crystal bombs had been consumed in order to open the control center. By the time they reached the dock, the remaining crystal bombs were not enough to blow up all three devilish warships at all.
Therefore, he planted all the remaining crystal bombs on the floating ice around the dock as camouflage so that they would blow up and drown the dock.
The damage would only be temporary. The enemy would repair the dock very soon or directly enter the devilish warships from the deep sea.
Once the enemy was supported by the powerful firepower of the devilish warships, it would be troublesome. The sky-hunting warships of the Blade of Chaos were no match for the warships of the Nether World Watch in terms of firepower and tonnage.
"Let's retreat!"
Under the cover of Li Yao and the Fire Ant, Han Tuhu and Suo Chaolong commanded the remaining captives to board the sky-hunting warship in an orderly manner.
When the sky-hunting warship took off again, the two of them were still floating above the island, locking onto the enemy at the south of the island with their intimidating killing intent.
After the sky-hunting warship flew almost a hundred kilometers away, the Fire Ant retreated first.
After all, he was barely hanging on with the strengthening drugs. If he was too exhausted, it would be very difficult for him to recover later.
Li Yao was the only one left. He was still hovering above the island quietly, facing the thousands of soldiers of the Nether World Watch at the south of the island.
The red cape that was burning furiously like fire was still pointing at the sky like a crimson arrow, telling the soldiers of the Nether World Watch, "I'm right here!"
"The captives … have escaped!"
Swirl struggled to speak, looking at the crimson 'arrow' in the sky in the north.
"I know."
Lu Wuxin gnashed his teeth. The world was still swirling around him.
Twenty minutes ago, he had received another piece of shocking news.
When the enemy left the control center, they had done something and turned off most of the defense rune arrays in the laboratory of the Demon God Virus in the deepest part of the 'Nether World', allowing all the uncontrollable mutants caged there to escape.
Right now, the picture inside the 'Nether World' was beyond his imagination!
Lu Wuxin had to summon a lot of manpower to enter the 'Nether World', take back the control center, and suppress the uncontrollable mutants.
Faced with such a mysterious, sordid Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator, what could he possibly do?
Send hundreds of soldiers of the Nether World Watch to capture the enemy?
What a joke!
The only outcome of such an action would be that the enemy would be able to kill dozens of soldiers of the Nether World Watch with his super high speed and leave!
Who could catch up with a Yuanying in a Super Crystal Suit on an ocean where there was no shelter and the only thing that mattered was the absolute speed?
Therefore, Lu Wuxin could only watch Li Yao swagger away without doing anything.
It was not until the flame-like cape disappeared into the gray sky at the end of the ocean that he shuddered violently and vomited a mouthful of black blood!
"One person — one person has turned the entire Nether World upside down!"
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