Chapter 188 : Chapter 188
Chapter 188: Liang Family Disciples, Hear My Command! Activate the Blade-Ringing Grand Formation!
By the time Li Mu bought the thirtyfold Heavenly Might, the cost to light up each entry had already reached 10,000 points.
Li Mu prepared to stake everything on one move and directly throw all 80,000 points into Heavenly Might.
However, before the added points appeared, the random bonus effects from the three previous activations arrived first.
[Listen Close: The effectiveness of automatically activated defensive cultivation arts has increased to 230%.]
[Mountain-Bearing Art: Gain the strength of one dragon.]
[Divine Weapon Art: The range of divine weapon flying strikes has increased by 8 meters.]
Afterward came the strengthening of Heavenly Might.
The costs were 10,000, 15,000, 15,000, 20,000, and 20,000 respectively, lighting up five enhancements.
[The pressure of Heavenly Might has increased to 40 times Divine Weapon Art.]
[The pressure has increased to 50 times Divine Weapon Art. All enemies within the covered range have their movement speed reduced by 80%!]
[The pressure has increased to 60 times Divine Weapon Art. The duration of the pressure has increased by 2 seconds!]
[Cooldown reduced to 45 seconds. After activating Heavenly Might, you may freely blink once within two meters.]
[Cooldown reduced to 30 seconds. After activating Heavenly Might, you may freely blink once within fifty meters.]
Freely blink?
Impressive!
In other words, one Heavenly Might now carried 810,000 tons of pressure.
The key was that after three Heavenly Might strikes, he could blink directly beside the enemy and attack with his cudgel.
Paired with Immobilization Art...
Would that not make it hit every time?
Immediately afterward, the five randomly gifted skills also arrived.
[Bronze Head and Iron Arms: After activation, 50% of the effect remains for one minute.]
[Wine-Borrowed Might: The effect produced while drinking alcohol is enhanced by three times.]
[Divine Weapon Art: The range of divine weapon flying strikes has increased by 15 meters.]
[Immobilization Art: When attacking an enemy affected by Immobilization Art, attack power is increased by 50%.]
[Somersault Cloud: Maximum speed has increased to 4,480 kilometers per hour.]
Just as Li Mu finished adding points, he felt a chill coming from behind him.
Li Mu looked back.
In the distant sky, enormous ice flowers flickered in and out of existence.
Each time they appeared, they moved several hundred meters closer, like a series of ice-flower footprints rapidly approaching.
In the blink of an eye, they arrived beside him and revealed a figure. It was Old Man An!
Immediately afterward, more than a dozen figures also rushed over from every direction, drawing closer at high speed.
Li Mu inwardly praised them. These people were truly not slow.
Each of them had their own methods.
“Old Man An, you can go back. Call an Earth Rank over for support!”
“An Earth Rank Abyss human has appeared.”
Li Mu quickly explained to An Xing.
An Xing’s expression changed, and he said urgently, “Earth Rank? Linyuan City has no other Earth Rank! Old Shui is the only Earth Rank expert here.”
Li Mu’s heart could not help sinking.
Linyuan City actually had only one Earth Rank?
However, An Xing still said, “Do not worry. Earth Rank experts are strongest only within their own domain. Once they leave their own territory, they will be restricted!”
This was the first time Li Mu had heard such an explanation.
He had no understanding of how powerful the Earth Rank truly was.
At this moment, the other Profound Rank experts also arrived one after another.
When everyone vaguely saw the spatial breach in the distance, they were all stunned.
“It’s the damned Heaven Society. They’re trying to open Stage Three early!”
Li Mu said loudly, “Since there are no other Earth Ranks, only we are left!”
“Let’s go, everyone. Hold back the Earth Rank monster and find a chance to destroy the stone tablet!”
An Xing answered loudly, “Move!”
Then he charged out first.
Everyone followed closely behind.
This group of Profound Rank experts seemed to have returned to the days of youthful campaigning.
They all drew their weapons and flew back into the battlefield.
Without any unnecessary words, they quickly scattered and attacked the green-armored giant from every angle.
However, the green-armored giant’s strength was truly terrifying.
Seeing twenty Profound Ranks attack, green light spread from its body.
In an instant, dozens of tree-branch tentacles more than a hundred meters long grew from it!
They unfurled with a boom, like a tree-shaped octopus monster that had suddenly grown to full size.
They blotted out the sky, and the visual impact was utterly shocking.
Every tentacle emitted powerful might. With casual lashes, even the surrounding space seemed to wail and mourn.
An Xing’s weapon was a long spear.
The icy-blue spear shaft emitted a bone-chilling light. An Xing raised his Protective Gang Qi and pierced through the air like a meteor, charging straight toward the green-armored giant.
A tentacle lashed toward him!
The instant An Xing’s spear tip touched the tentacle, both the spear shaft and An Xing disappeared.
At the part touched by the spear tip, blue ice crystals rapidly condensed backward in a spraying pattern!
In the blink of an eye, that section of the tentacle froze. The freezing force passed through the tentacle and froze the air itself, spreading rapidly toward the giant’s body like a beautiful fountain of ice flowers.
An Xing’s figure flickered in and out within that rapidly spreading ice-flower fountain.
Unfortunately, before he could reach the giant’s body, a small tentacle shot out from one of the thick tentacles with a boom!
It was so fast that only a faint afterimage could be seen.
With An Xing’s reaction speed, he was actually unable to dodge it at all. The ice-flower fountain was shattered, and An Xing was sent flying as well!
The other Profound Rank experts were in more or less the same situation.
While attacking, they had no way to guard against the sudden attacks of the smaller tentacles.
The closer they got to the giant’s body, the closer they were to the roots of the tentacles, and the deeper they fell into the tentacles’ encirclement. Once those small tentacles sprang out, there was simply no way to defend against them.
In just one exchange, more than ten Profound Rank experts were injured and forced back.
Power!
Extreme power!
So-called overwhelming force could break through ten thousand techniques. Before the most primal terrifying strength and speed, the gap between the Profound Rank and the Earth Rank was so obvious.
At the same time, Li Mu was rapidly approaching the rune stone.
As expected, the green-armored giant was determined to guard the rune stone with its life today. Several tentacles blocked Li Mu completely.
Li Mu directly threw another Heavenly Might onto the green-armored giant’s head!
BOOM!
Heavenly Might at sixty times Divine Weapon Art smashed down!
The green-armored giant actually used three tentacles at the same time to resist it.
The terrifying explosion shockwave threw all the Profound Rank experts several dozen meters backward.
The three tentacles more than a hundred meters long were all crushed into dust the moment they came into contact with Heavenly Might.
The green-armored giant let out an earth-shaking roar!
“PAIN!”
The green-armored giant seemed unable to fully adapt to verbal expression, so it directly shouted out what it felt.
Immediately afterward, it went berserk!
All of the green-armored giant’s tentacles whipped wildly!
The tentacles lashed violently against the ground, truly making the earth shake and the mountains tremble. The ground began cracking and collapsing madly.
Aside from the area around the rune stone tablet, which was not greatly affected, everything within a hundred meters instantly turned into a hellish battlefield.
All the Profound Rank experts were flung out and could not approach within a hundred meters at all.
Just then!
Crack, crack!
Crack, crack, crack!
The space of a different color above shattered and expanded again!
The spatial membrane, thin as a cicada’s wing, was instantly pressed downward like a balloon by countless monsters!
It was as if the next moment, countless monsters would break through the skin and burst out!
“There’s no time!”
“We absolutely cannot let Stage Three descend early!”
“Destroy all its tentacles and create an opportunity for Tiger Marquis Li!”
“Damn it, we’re going all in!”
All the Profound Rank experts roared at the same time!
Humanity was not yet prepared for Stage Three of the Abyss, and Linyuan City was even less prepared!
Even if a Stage Three breach had to open here, it had to wait until enough Earth Rank experts could be mobilized from other cities!
Just one Earth Rank expert had already beaten them so badly they could barely tell north from south.
If Stage Three descended here, the tens of millions of people in Linyuan City would be annihilated in an instant!
By the time Earth Rank reinforcements from other cities arrived, Linyuan City would likely already be a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
Right now, the only one who seemed capable of hurting the giant was Li Mu’s Heavenly Might.
An Xing and the others went mad!
They fiercely wiped the blood from the corners of their mouths and charged into the wildly dancing tentacles as though they were ready to die.
Every one of them brought out their trump cards and held nothing back.
Yu Ye, the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Red Horse Military District, held a giant saber nearly three meters long.
His body moved like a drifting leaf, yet his saber carried the weight of ten thousand jun!
As he shifted and flickered, a streak of crimson saber light swept across and severed one tentacle with a single slash!
Immediately afterward, another tentacle swept past the back of his neck, but a smaller tentacle emerged from it.
It struck him squarely in the chest!
Pfft!
Yu Ye spat blood and flew backward, but his left hand suddenly reached out. His five fingers formed a claw and dug deeply into the root of a nearby tentacle.
He stopped his retreat, then raised the saber in his right hand and slashed again, cutting off another tentacle.
His body was once again sent flying by a small tentacle, and the protective golden light around him was shattered by the strike.
“I can still cut!”
Yu Ye clenched his steel-like teeth, his mouth full of blood, then turned back and struck with another slash. The saber light extended several zhang!
It directly severed one and a half tentacles.
However, the long saber became stuck in the remaining half of the wooden tentacle. The tentacle suddenly twisted.
Crack!
The long saber actually snapped from the middle.
Yu Ye himself was struck flying again. He lost consciousness in midair, flew several hundred meters away, and crashed heavily to the ground, his life or death unknown.
At this moment, every Profound Rank expert was Yu Ye.
All of them used a fighting style that traded life for life to bombard the tentacles.
The good news was that the green-armored giant’s tentacles truly could not regenerate.
As the tentacles continued decreasing, the giant became increasingly berserk and furious. Clearly, severing the tentacles truly posed a threat to it.
The bad news was that all the Profound Rank experts were injured.
And there were still twenty to thirty tentacles left!
Li Mu could only use Heavenly Might once every thirty seconds. If he had to rely on himself to destroy all the tentacles, it would take at least several more minutes.
At this moment, Li Mu could only stake everything on one move and use Gather Form and Scatter Qi, which could only be activated once per hour.
He instantly vanished and rapidly approached the rune-covered boulder.
“Heavenly Might!”
Almost the instant Li Mu released the scattered Qi state, he activated Heavenly Might.
At the same time, the final Profound Rank expert was also sent flying. The tentacles had no way to provide support.
But the middle-aged man who had laughed wildly before laughed again.
Golden light burst from his eyes.
An aura of the Profound Rank Eighth Grade erupted from his body. He actually soared into the air and slashed out with a sky-flooding golden saber radiance toward Heavenly Might.
However, Heavenly Might’s power had clearly exceeded his expectations.
The middle-aged man’s expression abruptly changed. The long saber in his hand trembled violently, like a red-hot blade cutting through ice.
It could cut through, but extremely slowly!
At the same time, the middle-aged man’s long saber was crushed inch by inch by Heavenly Might. His entire body seemed to be pressed down by a heavy compressor.
Amid his screams, he was crushed into a puddle of mangled flesh!
But that Heavenly Might!
It had actually been cut apart by his strange cultivation art and fell to both sides.
It crushed several casters on either side, yet it alone failed to harm the rune stone tablet!
“Damn it!”
Li Mu roared in despair. At this moment, he did not even have time to use the blink after Heavenly Might before he was struck by a wooden vine tentacle.
The Lin-Character Seal instantly blocked it, but it was shattered as easily as dry weeds and rotten wood!
Li Mu felt as though he had been struck head-on by a train. He flew backward, and the surrounding scenery blurred for an instant.
Fortunately, the Lin-Character Seal had blocked that strike. Otherwise, he would have suffered severe injuries.
Only then did he have time to blink several dozen meters away and escape the tentacles’ range.
But his body still flew a long distance under the force of inertia.
Li Mu clutched his agonizing chest and abdomen, his brows twisted tightly as he looked below.
The Profound Rank experts were either severely injured or unconscious. All of them had lost their combat strength.
There were still twenty tentacles left.
Moreover, they were now heavily protecting the rune stone tablet.
The mirror-like space in the sky continued to expand.
A trace of despair even rose in Li Mu’s heart.
But at that moment...
Behind him...
Waves of powerful auras rapidly approached.
More than a hundred people were flying through the air!
Li Mu turned back, and his pupils suddenly contracted.
He recognized the person leading them.
The Liang Family!
Liang Jianxin!
Damn it!
Could the Liang Family also be members of the Heaven Society?
Had they truly been deceiving him before?
Had they come to kick him while he was down at this critical moment?
But before Li Mu could think further, Liang Jianxin’s voice had already come from afar.
“Tiger Marquis Li!”
“One hundred and thirty-two members of the Liang Family have come to support you!”
Immediately afterward, an even more dignified elderly voice rang through the heavens and earth.
“Liang Family disciples, hear my command!”
“Profound Ranks, advance! Yellow Ranks, spread out! Activate the Blade-Ringing Grand Formation!”