Chapter 438 - 416: Army at the Gates, Giant Mechanical Divine Soldiers
WHOOSH!
Over a dozen Fallen Immortal Bombs, trailing vapor, shot out with a howl!
In the blink of an eye, they accelerated to several times the speed of sound, becoming pure white streaks of vapor!
According to their design specifications, each of these missiles was powerful enough to sink a Tier 3 spirit warship!
With so many, even a Tier 4 spirit warship couldn’t just ignore them... right?
Filled with hope, Mr. Li looked up at the sky.
However, reality was cruel.
SWISH!
A black and red meteor streaked across the heavens!
A black and red shield materialized around the hull of the Ghostly Flood Dragon!
At the same time,
Su Ye, aided by his Divine Sense, unleashed a volley of Plasma Bombs to intercept them!
The Fallen Immortal Bombs detonated one after another like a grand fireworks display. These superweapons, which had cost millions of Spirit Stones to create and maintain, were completely ineffective!
"Even for a Golden Core... this is too much..."
Mr. Li was stunned, his mind in turmoil.
Just then,
as if enraged by this provocation,
the Ghostly Flood Dragon changed course, diving out of the Gangfeng Layer!
It turned toward the Flame Alliance fleet and, like a meteor, plummeted toward the sea, wrapped in a terrifying pressure of Spiritual Power and countless faint cyan Gang Winds!
"This is bad!"
The color drained from Mr. Li’s face!
"Quick!"
"Activate the Protective Array."
"All ships, take evasive action!"
But
the Ghostly Flood Dragon’s maneuverability
completely surpassed that of the ordinary warships.
There was no time to react.
In just ten breaths,
the black and red meteor was upon them!
The ferocious yet elegant exoskeleton armor covering its hull, its pitch-black and towering size like a mountain, the terrifying spiritual pressure emanating from countless plasma streams and Gang Wind vortexes!
Coming face to face with the Ghostly Flood Dragon, many soldiers’ minds simply broke!
"No!"
"Mama, I want to go home!"
Faced with such might, many soldiers’ minds simply broke!
They forgot military law, jumping overboard and diving into the water in an attempt to escape!
Such an act,
technically, could be considered desertion.
The military police could execute them on the spot according to wartime military law.
But now, unfortunately, no one was there to enforce it!
There was nothing to be done. The military police had run off too!
For a monthly salary of three thousand, why would you risk your life?
"Run for your lives!"
SWISH!
The spiritual pressure boiled!
The black and red meteor closed in at incredible speed!
Just as it was about to collide,
countless people held their breath, their hearts filled with terror!
Then,
even time itself seemed to freeze for a moment.
HUMMM!
The hull of the Ghostly Flood Dragon came to a sudden halt.
A moment later,
it changed direction and ascended once more!
In an instant, its engines went to full power, increasing its flight speed several times over!
The effect of something with the Ghostly Flood Dragon’s mass accelerating so suddenly?
BOOM!
A deafening roar erupted!
WHOOSH!
The Gang Wind surged!
Above the sea, a shockwave swept out, kicking up a terrifying waterspout!
Wherever the tempest passed, ships capsized. Giant vessels weighing tens of thousands of tons were tossed about and destroyed as easily as toy boats in a swimming pool!
Mr. Li’s flagship was no exception.
The Tier 3 giant ship flipped completely over and plunged into the water!
Mr. Li was thrown into the air!
In mid-air,
he tried to fly, mobilizing his Qi Sea Magical Power to stabilize himself.
But the tempest contained the Power of Rules, and even as a Crystallization-stage cultivator, he found it difficult to fly!
On the contrary,
his cultivation base was like a firefly in the night, drawing the tempest’s attention!
The hurricane swept over him, and the backlash from the Power of Rules sealed away his cultivation!
SPLASH!
Mr. Li plummeted into the sea.
The frigid water made him shudder.
Fortunately, he was a good swimmer.
After swallowing a few mouthfuls of seawater, he stabilized himself, looked up, and broke through the surface.
"Gasp..."
His proud fleet was already capsized.
It was reduced to a field of wreckage and floating planks!
Most of the Tier 2 spirit ships were even snapped in half at the keel, like a torn oil painting!
This terrifying reality was like a bucket of ice water dumped over his head, extinguishing the passion in Mr. Li’s heart and leaving only a bone-chilling cold and a profound sense of powerlessness.
He trembled, his face a mask of bewilderment.
’An existence like that?’
’How could we possibly resist?’
"All I can say is..."
"Thankfully,"
"this Mr. Su isn’t bloodthirsty..."
Mr. Li sighed, seeming to age a dozen years in an instant.
The fleet was destroyed, but the number of dead and injured crewmen was small.
Su Ye’s action was a show of force, not an attempt to make new enemies. Aside from the Chu Family, he had no intention of carrying out a massacre.
...
After destroying the Flame Alliance fleet,
Su Ye looked at his panel as experience point notifications frantically scrolled across it!
After a few breaths,
the panel interface finally stopped flashing.
With a thought, Su Ye tallied up his total gains!
[Destroyed enemy ships. [Pastor of the Sea] experience +51,812]
"Fifty thousand points!"
"The Flame Alliance is so generous... Time to level up."
Looking at the full experience bar,
Su Ye chuckled and clicked the ’+’ icon to upgrade.
[Class: Pastor of the Sea Lv. 11 (0/110,000)]
[Class Attribute Bonus: Damage +66, Defense +46, Evasion +33, Mystery +33]
The upgrade was complete.
Su Ye raised an eyebrow, feeling a subtle change.
’It seems that after my class level increased, my speed of comprehending the Power of Rules—of comprehending the ’Law’—has quickened a little?’
’Why?’
He pondered for a moment.
Su Ye’s gaze returned to the panel.
He scanned over the [Damage], [Defense], and [Evasion] attributes with a questioning look... and his eyes finally landed on [Mystery]!
’The Mystery attribute... huh.’
The answer surfaced in Su Ye’s mind.
The Mystery attribute bonus could increase a cultivator’s speed of comprehending the Power of Rules!
A glint appeared in his eyes!
"Excellent!"
This was a huge deal!
In the Golden Core Realm, the main focus of cultivation, aside from accumulating Magical Power, was comprehending the Power of Rules and the ’Law’!
This was what he had inferred from the descriptions in several Cultivation Techniques from the Cyan Profound and Spirit sects—techniques that, while unsuitable for his own practice, pointed directly toward the Nascent Soul Realm.