Chapter 1757 - 1756: Can’t Hold On Much Longer!
One month.
Although the King of Wilderness was no longer a threat to them long ago, the devastating blow he dealt them at the beginning was impossible to make up for.
Of the 750,000 people they had planned for, after suppressing the King of Wilderness, only 200,000 were left to operate the Array.
Far fewer than planned.
So, if they wanted to pierce through the Desolate World as quickly as possible, these 200,000 people had to exert three times their full strength, making use of every single bit, every single second of time!
This directly led to every single one of them being utterly exhausted over the past month.
To the point that—
More than half of them had completely lost consciousness, only mechanically maintaining their infusion of power into the center of the Array.
The power being infused was all channeled by the Array Masters led by Baili Qiurong.
But the Array Masters also couldn’t endure such a massive workload.
Just twenty days ago, they too finally collapsed completely and fell to the ground.
Qin Feng wanted to treat them and those who had been severely wounded by the King of Wilderness’s power earlier, but he had been in the state of constantly infusing power and could not move even a fraction.
There was nothing he could do.
The power infused into the center of the Array afterward could only be supplied by Old Lady Liang personally feeding Spirit Stones to those 200,000 people without pause, then triggering the Spiritual Energy within the Spirit Stones to help them absorb it.
At this moment.
Old Lady Liang finally couldn’t hold on anymore either, collapsing to the ground, her eyes a blur as she could only vaguely see the wall of qi leading to the heavens, mumbling, "Hold on, we must hold on..."
With no more supply of power from the Spirit Stones.
Soon, tens of thousands of people finally burned out all their strength and collapsed to the ground like the others.
The 200,000 people, at this moment, fell in patches as if a plague had swept through them.
Old Lady Liang watched, her heart twisted like a knife.
They were just about to succeed, yet fell at the final moment.
It was truly impossible to accept.
Very soon.
Those still maintaining the Array’s operation numbered less than ten thousand.
And more and more people were still collapsing.
Seeing this, Qin Feng’s brow also furrowed tightly.
Zuoqiu Feng, beside him, was equally pale as she said to Qin Feng, "Judging by the time... outside, the sun has probably already set..."
They all knew.
Once the sun set, that would be when the Great Catastrophe descended!
"We... should give up..."
Zuoqiu Feng forced the words out with great difficulty, "Right now, maybe we still have a tiny bit of strength left to get the wounded here out. If this goes on, I’m afraid everyone will die, and the Array’s operation is clearly still not enough..."
She was not someone who gave up easily.
But.
In the face of a Great Catastrophe, the only thing they could do was minimize the losses.
Get these people back to Hua Country.
Hua Country had the Soul of the Country, which could temporarily fend off the impact of the Catastrophe Beasts.
Although activating the Soul of the Country would release an extremely powerful cosmic radiation, capable of shattering the Dantian of all Cultivators, turning them into complete cripples.
At least their lives would be spared.
"Let’s... go back!" Zuoqiu Feng spoke again; because she had pushed too hard while infusing power earlier, her internal organs had also been shaken, and a trace of blood seeped from the corner of her mouth.
Qin Feng turned his head to look.
People lay collapsed all over the ground; General Shi had long since fallen unconscious.
The 750,000 people who had formed the Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram around the center of the Array were now down to only three thousand, and more were still collapsing.
"Hold on a little longer!"
Qin Feng gritted his teeth, directly slashed open his palm with a blade, and let a large amount of the Dragon Emperor’s Blood drip onto the wall of qi.
Then Qin Feng circulated all the power in his body and abruptly activated the Second Level of his Dragon Emperor Bloodline!
"Qin Feng!!"
Seeing him radiating golden power all over, Zuoqiu Feng was filled with worry, "You’ve already reached your limit. If you activate the Second Level of the Dragon Emperor Bloodline again, you’ll die!!"
Qin Feng’s expression was extremely grim as he turned to Zuoqiu Feng and said, "Take them away..."
Obviously.
He meant for Zuoqiu Feng to lead the hundreds of thousands lying unconscious around them and evacuate all of them from the Desolate World, back to get treatment.
"No!!"
Zuoqiu Feng shook her head, "We’ll stay and help you!!"
Even though she had already reached her limit.
She still refused to leave Qin Feng, wanting to do everything she could to help him, to let him bear a little less pain and pressure.
Seeing that he couldn’t persuade her, Qin Feng turned his head toward Wan Jun of the Dragon Bureau not far away, Chi Lian of Dragon Teeth, and Ming Ying of the Dark Department, and said, "You three stop, and take them away!"
"But..."
The three of them looked haggard and torn.
Qin Feng continued, "If you stay any longer, your power will be meaningless."
"..."
The three exchanged a glance at his words and couldn’t help but sigh heavily.
Indeed!
They had already held on for a month.
By now, there were only a little over a thousand people still able to operate the Array, and compared to the hundreds of thousands from before, it was like a drop in the bucket.
And people were still collapsing without stop.
"Take them away!"
Qin Feng continued.
Wan Jun, Dragon Teeth, and Ming Ying finally gritted their teeth, stopped operating the Array, and preserved the very last trace of their strength.
Then they immediately used Spirit Stones and Elixirs to rouse Baili Qiurong and the other Array Masters.
Once awakened, Baili Qiurong also unleashed the last of their strength.
But at this moment.
Qin Feng said to them again, "Aside from those who’ve fallen, everyone who still has any strength left, go help, and then you all evacuate together!!"
"Huh??"
Everyone was stunned.
Zhiyun, Yu Xing’er, and the others who still had a sliver of strength left and were fully operating the Array shook their heads, "No, we can still help a little bit..."
However.
Just as they finished speaking, the Spiritual Energy in their bodies was already exhausted.
There was nothing they could do.
Their Spiritual Energy had long been depleted; what they had been using all this time was the power from Spirit Stones previously infused through Baili Qiurong’s Array and Refined by Old Lady Liang.
Now that even Old Lady Liang no longer had any strength.
Naturally, there was no new supply of Spiritual Energy.
This was also why so many people were collapsing nonstop.
"So stop forcing yourselves; it’s useless! Leave it to me!!"
Qin Feng gritted his teeth and shouted.
He turned again to look at Baili Qiurong and said, "By my order, take everyone away!!"
At this moment Baili Qiurong’s expression was incomparably grave as well; he knew that giving up now was the most rational choice. The power the remaining people were channeling, compared to the support the Second Level of Qin Feng’s Dragon Emperor Bloodline was giving the Array, was almost negligible.
And the remaining people’s Spiritual Power was at the very end of their rope.
Saving their strength to leave was the correct path.
He gritted his teeth.
Baili Qiurong led the awakened Young Master Bai He and the other Array Masters, quickly forming hand movements, and shouted, "Universe Limitless, Teleportation Talisman, explode!!"
In an instant.
Everyone here—whether lying down, collapsed, or still maintaining the Array—vanished one after another with a "bang" from where they had been.
Including Old General Shi, including Zhiyun and Yu Xing’er, including the reluctant Zuoqiu Feng, including Old Lady Liang...
In the blink of an eye.
Only Guang Qinfeng remained here.
And Ni Chang, Liu Li, Mei Niang, Ning Tingxue—these five Immortal Power Inheritors.