Chapter 187 : Chapter 187
Chapter 187: Battling an Earth Rank!
After the old man finished speaking, every officer in the military district answered in unison.
The Overall Commanders of each military district began deploying their forces.
Across the three great military districts, including the Commanders-in-Chief, Deputy Commanders-in-Chief, and other officers, there were over a hundred Profound Rank experts.
The old man had said that powerful enemies were attacking Linyuan City aboveground.
They could not send everyone out.
Twenty experts above the Profound Rank Fourth Grade were deployed from the various military districts to destroy the stone tablet.
More than thirty others were sent aboveground to maintain order in Linyuan City.
The remaining experts below the Profound Rank Fourth Grade stayed behind to guard the military districts, so they could respond in case any other variables appeared.
Very soon, the voice of Chen Chong, the Overall Commander of Wanren Military District, sounded from Li Mu’s watch.
“Head Instructor Li, you’re fast. Please head to the stone tablet’s location as quickly as possible too.”
One of the duties of every military district’s Overall Commander was to clearly understand the strength of the various experts in the military district.
Otherwise, how could they command them as smoothly as moving their own arms and fingers?
Although Li Mu was only at the Ninth Grade Peak, he had single-handedly beaten a crowd of leaders from Thousand Victories Military Academy.
That had included Wu Tailin, who was at the Profound Rank Third Grade. This meant Li Mu’s true strength was at least above the Fourth Grade.
“Received!”
Li Mu responded, then quickly flew to the top of Greedy Snake’s head.
The moment he appeared, Wang Yinhuan threw herself tightly into Li Mu’s arms.
Although she had not heard Li Mu’s mission, a powerful premonition made her almost certain that Li Mu would definitely go.
She was extremely afraid of this.
That was because her father, Wang Longcheng, had nearly died at the hands of the Heaven Society back then.
The more Wang Longcheng refused to mention it afterward, the more Wang Yinhuan understood how sinister and powerful the Heaven Society was.
“I’ll go and come back soon! Wrap the cloak around yourself properly!”
Li Mu directly draped his Size-Shifting Cloak over Wang Yinhuan.
“Be careful!”
Wang Yinhuan leaned against Li Mu’s chest and spoke in a trembling voice.
Li Mu answered, then gently pushed Wang Yinhuan away. He leaped into the air, transformed into a flying bird, and flew toward the target Teleportation Gate.
Only Wang Yinhuan remained behind, her face streaked with tears as she tightly clutched Li Mu’s cloak.
At this moment, An Xing and the others also arrived at the Teleportation Gate one after another.
An Xing stepped into the Teleportation Gate one step ahead of Li Mu.
After entering the Teleportation Gate, his vision suddenly brightened. He had already arrived in the boundless towering jungle of the Verdant Abyss.
Li Mu summoned the Somersault Cloud and flew toward the target location.
This place was still over a thousand kilometers from the target. Even flying at full speed, Li Mu still flew for nearly half an hour.
Just as Li Mu approached the coordinates, a terrifying power surged toward him head-on.
It made his heart palpitate in waves.
Li Mu looked into the distance with all his strength.
He saw that the land within several kilometers around the coordinates was completely bare.
It was as though all living creatures had been shattered into dust by some kind of force, covering the surrounding trees in a layer of white.
Within the boundless forest, a large patch of brown earth had gone bald.
And several dozen meters above that brown earth, an enormous space of a different color had shattered like a mirror!
The huge hole seemed to be covered by an invisible membrane.
Countless monsters on the other side of the membrane were frantically ramming against it.
They left one horrifying head-shaped bulge after another on the membrane.
Beneath this mirror-like space, dozens of people were surrounding the rune-covered boulder, seemingly casting some kind of formation.
The boulder emitted waves of light and connected to the shattered spatial mirror, as though it were continuously helping expand the mirror’s surface.
Li Mu abruptly increased his speed.
Just then, behind the membrane, a huge hand suddenly grabbed a monster’s head and fiercely pierced through the membrane!
In the process, it dragged the monster’s head into this space.
Then the huge hand smashed the monster’s head against the outer wall of the space beside it.
The monster’s head exploded with a boom. The huge hand took advantage of the momentum to grab onto the outer wall, and the entire body rapidly passed through the membrane.
It descended into this world!
A powerful aura unique to the Earth Rank instantly spread out.
Li Mu inwardly cursed that things were over.
At this moment, he had happened to fly right in front of this monster.
The monster stretched its body fiercely, and its aura locked directly onto Li Mu.
It was called a monster, but seventy percent of its appearance was human!
It was more than three meters tall and extremely muscular.
It wore no clothes, but the surface of its body was covered in armor with a wooden sheen and grain.
There was even faint moss growing on the surface of that armor.
Its four limbs were more or less similar to a human’s, but its black and hard skin looked like wood grain no matter how one looked at it.
Even its face was covered in wrinkles like tree bark.
It had no hair. Two unfinished ram-horn-like protrusions curved backward from the front of its head, only about a finger long and as thick as a wrist.
The strangest thing was that after it appeared, some green points of light, like fireflies, inexplicably appeared around it and circled its body.
Among the crowd manipulating the formation and operating the rune-covered boulder, a man who looked to be around forty retreated while laughing wildly.
The green-armored giant glanced at that man, then looked at the dozens of people maintaining the formation around the rune-covered boulder.
It reached out.
The green points of light around its body quickly enveloped one of them.
That person actually turned into a pool of rotten water amid cries of agony!
The others maintaining the formation seemed not to see it at all. Their eyes remained lifeless as they continued sustaining the formation.
Then the green-armored giant turned its pair of ghostly green eyes toward Li Mu.
It spoke in a hoarse voice.
“You... wish to stop the descent from happening?”
Li Mu had no time to argue with it.
He instantly activated External Incarnation, and ten incarnations charged toward the green-armored giant at the same time.
His true body transformed into a Flying Mosquito and rushed straight toward the people casting the formation around the boulder.
Unexpectedly, the green-armored giant stomped heavily!
BOOM!
In an instant, the earth shook and the mountains trembled.
Layer after layer of dark green shockwaves spread outward from its body with a deafening crash.
Before the ten External Incarnations could even approach, they were all cut in half by the dark green shockwaves.
Moreover, it was not just one shockwave, but wave after wave.
At different heights, they spread outward with booming force.
Li Mu’s true body was nearly struck by the shockwaves too. He was forced to reveal himself and could not approach the group of casters at all.
He was not even within range for Heavenly Might. Enraged, Li Mu backhandedly threw one straight at the green-armored giant’s head!
“Heavenly Might!”
A heaven-shocking pressure crashed down.
Yet the green-armored giant merely raised a hand and supported it upward.
A dense, powerful energy rising from the ground violently collided with the force of Heavenly Might.
Sand and stones flew everywhere, and the momentum was astonishing.
When his strike failed, Li Mu did not hesitate at all.
He summoned the Somersault Cloud and flew backward at high speed!
However, because Li Mu retreated too quickly, he did not notice that at the moment Heavenly Might collided with the green-armored giant’s hand, its hand had sunk slightly.
A flash of divine light appeared in the green-armored giant’s eyes as it looked at Li Mu’s fleeing back.
Li Mu quickly pulled several dozen li away!
Facing an Earth Rank expert alone, Li Mu had not reached the point where he would act tough and throw his life away.
He had to wait for An Xing and the others to arrive.
At the same time, he opened the system.
Now was the time!
His backup points had been saved precisely for this moment.
If he wanted to win today’s battle, he absolutely had to catch the enemy off guard. The things capable of reversing the situation were, first, Heavenly Might, and second, Immobilization Art!
In addition, the opponent’s attacks were far too powerful. He first had to protect his life! Bronze Head and Iron Arms had to be upgraded too.
Thus, Li Mu first spent 28,000 points on Heavenly Might, lighting up three entries.
[The weight of Heavenly Might’s pressure has increased to 20 times Divine Weapon Art!]
[The weight of Heavenly Might’s pressure has increased to 30 times Divine Weapon Art!]
[After casting Heavenly Might three times, the first weapon attack will gain additional power equal to the sum of the last three Heavenly Might pressures.]
Li Mu’s heart trembled.
Thirty times? That meant one Heavenly Might carried four hundred thousand tons!
If the weight of five aircraft carriers smashed straight down, could an Earth Rank withstand it?
After three Heavenly Might strikes, the first attack would be able to unleash 1.2 million tons of force.
However, the third entry still required him to attack in close combat.
That danger was too high!
As long as he threw Heavenly Might accurately, what would adding a few more aircraft carriers matter?
Then he could hold off on upgrading Immobilization Art and Bronze Head and Iron Arms for now!
“System, put the remaining 80,000 points into Heavenly Might!”