Chapter 282: Endless Wine In The Cup, Endless Northern Graycloaks To Kill?
“Our group will try first.”
Ye Qinglu took the initiative to step forward, looking at the guard robot with a hint of expectation in her eyes.
Ever since stepping into the Bone Forging Realm, her strength had skyrocketed, especially after learning Li Ranxing’s gigantification and, using the super quantum computer with the sword formation as the foundation, deducing the Ninefold Thunder Fang. She felt that even the Initial Stage Blood Coagulation leader in the Mountain of the Dead might no longer be her match.
Now, facing a boss whose body was invincible and who could kill dozens of Domain City team npc experts with a single move was definitely the best target to test her sword.
If it were not for the boss’s locked health, she would have wanted to try a solo strategy guide so that all the rewards would belong solely to her.
“Then our group will go second,” Fang Zhen said as well. “Our four groups will go up in turns to test the waters first. The others should observe the boss’s attack pattern so that it will be easier to endure the one-hour resurrection time later.”
“That is indeed feasible. As long as each of our teams can hold for fifteen minutes, we can keep grinding down this boss. The others can fill in the gaps for each team,” Lu Fanchen nodded, very much approving of this playstyle. This way, their four teams would not suffer at the boss settlement reward stage, and they could also use this to see the current overall strength of each group.
“Then let’s begin. The earlier we wear down this boss, the earlier each of our groups can start free exploration here.” Luo Wu Shang looked at the guard robot, which had almost finished killing the npc members of the two major teams, her fighting spirit surging as she watched with a trace of expectation in her eyes.
After cultivating like crazy for so many days and even using the quantum supercomputer multiple times for simulation and deduction, she was also somewhat curious how long her sword could last in front of a Blood Condensation Realm boss.
If it could last long enough, then she could start going deep into the Mountain of the Dead to hunt those catastrophe grade bosses in the wilderness, instead of, like before, where the moment they saw a monster, the entire team was slapped out of existence.
Right after Luo Wu Shang finished speaking, Ye Qinglu led dozens of members of the Azure Sky Defense Group and charged straight at the guard robot.
This scene was quickly noticed by Xie Feina and Precia in the distance, and both looked in puzzlement at Lin Qi, who was guarding the courtyard gate.
“What exactly does the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall intend to do?” Precia stared at the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples who sent only a few dozen people to challenge, filled with confusion. “That prisoner alone can wipe out a top tier team. They plan to send only those dozens?”
In her view, since Lin Qi was so confident, he was likely planning to rely on a numerical advantage to grind down that prisoner.
But now the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had sent up only a few dozen people, and there were only three Bone Forging Realm martial artists among them, with the rest all being advanced martial artists. Even if each could use transformation and had the strength of a top Bone Forging Realm expert, it was still not enough to fill that prisoner’s teeth gap.
She completely could not understand what Lin Qi was thinking.
“Maybe the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall has some method,” Xie Feina glanced at Lin Qi, who was standing unmoved at the courtyard gate. Although she was also puzzled, she felt Lin Qi must have some degree of certainty.
In an instant, they saw Ye Qinglu, who was charging toward the guard robot, have her life aura suddenly surge. The terrifying vitality made even a super genius like Xie Feina involuntarily tremble.
Immediately after, they saw the sword box on Ye Qinglu’s back open. Long swords flew out one after another, as many as one hundred in total. Ye Qinglu’s long hair and clothes moved without wind as she stepped on one long sword, while the other ninety-nine long swords flew and spun around her, making her look like a banished immortal descending to the mortal world.
This scene left not only the members of the two teams who were desperately fleeing stunned, but even Xie Feina and Precia in the distance were dumbfounded.
“Is this the martial skill of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall?” Xie Feina was shocked by the grand scene as she watched Ye Qinglu, who looked like a banished immortal descending.
She had seen countless martial skills with astounding might in Domain City, including sequence extraordinary martial skills, with qi and blood phantoms over a hundred meters tall, but she had never seen a technique like the one Ye Qinglu was displaying now.
One person controlling over a hundred long swords, each sword seeming to have its own will, one person becoming a hundred, one person equal to an army, and each long sword gave the impression of power far surpassing the Bone Forging Realm.
At this moment, Precia, who had witnessed this once before, was slightly better off, but still deeply shaken.
The last time she saw Ye Qinglu in the Mountain of the Dead, Ye was only an advanced martial artist. Even after transformation, she was only at the level of the Extreme Bone Forging Realm. But now, as a Bone Forging Realm Initial Stage Martial Artist, Ye Qinglu’s transformed panel strength exceeded twenty-seven tons, with actual strength over forty tons, only slightly below the standard of an Initial Stage Blood Coagulation martial artist.
Especially since Ye Qinglu was controlling a hundred long swords, each with similar strength. This terrifying martial skill, just watching from afar, made Xie Feina, who was also in the Bone Forging Realm, feel powerless.
“As expected, no matter how many times I see it, it is shocking. Control system truly is a late-blooming path; the further it goes, the stronger it gets. She already controls a hundred swords at Bone Forging Realm. Later she might reach a thousand. I wonder when they will buff us strength system users,” Fang Zhen said with emotion as he watched the hundred swords dance.
“Right now, in terms of strength, Ye Qinglu feels even stronger than Captain Chen after developing the new martial skill. As expected, a Sword Saint of Pilgrimage level is no ordinary expert,” Saiwai Qiangke nodded beside him.
“That is not certain. Until they fight, no one knows who is stronger,” Li Ranxing watched the long swords flying across the sky, his fighting spirit surging. He had not expected that while he was improving, other experts in this game were also progressing like crazy.
While the players sighed in amazement, the guard robot, which had just killed two people, also noticed Ye Qinglu, with a trace of surprise in its eyes.
“I did not expect your low-level civilizations to possess such a martial skill. Unfortunately, your spirit is too weak to fully draw out this technique’s power. Otherwise, you might be qualified to fight me,” the guard robot said as it watched Ye Qinglu control a hundred flying swords. It thrust its greatsword into the ground, charged for less than the blink of an eye, then raised it toward the sky.
With a single slash, a wall of storm blasted toward Ye Qinglu, its terrifying power making the ground tremble within a radius of several kilometers.
“So strong!”
Seeing the sword qi like a massive wall crashing toward her with no way to dodge, Ye Qinglu instinctively felt the threat of death and almost instantly used her newly created martial skill, the Ninefold Thunder Fang.
“Go!”
In an instant, nine long swords merged into one. A total of eighty-one long swords, under Ye Qinglu’s touch, fused in sets of nine into greatswords, and under the guidance of the formation, they became like a roaring thunder dragon descending from the sky, crashing straight into the oncoming sword qi wall.
Boom!
Thunder light exploded, and the enormous sound echoed for more than ten kilometers around.
Immediately after, everyone present saw a figure blasted away for a full kilometer before crashing heavily to the ground.
This scene stunned everyone, even the guard robot.
“Not dead?” The guard robot looked at Ye Qinglu slowly climbing out of the large crater, inwardly extremely shocked.
It knew better than anyone how powerful that slash had been. Under the blessing of the energy domain, even Palius or Kalad of the hundred beasts, unleashing a Sequence Transcendent Martial Skill, would inevitably die.
Yet Ye Qinglu was only injured and still able to stand. The toughness of her body was simply inconceivable.
The others on the scene, however, were shocked in a way completely different from the guard robot.
Including Xie Feina, they could all feel how terrifying Ye Qinglu’s earlier strike had been; its power was not inferior to a Sequence Transcendent Martial Skill. But Ye Qinglu had still been blasted away by a single distant strike. The strength of the guard robot was utterly despair-inducing.
“Sis, how are you?” Yi Ye Fu Yun asked worriedly as he saw Ye Qinglu finally struggle to her feet.
He had thought that after using her trump card, Ye Qinglu would at least be able to block one blow from the boss head-on, but he had not expected her to be blasted a kilometer away in one strike. Without activating the Transcendent State, she would probably have died.
“I am fine, just broke a few ribs. I will recover in a dozen seconds,” Ye Qinglu wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, her gaze toward the guard robot growing even more fervent.
Though she had lost miserably in that exchange, the guard robot’s slash had also revealed her own shortcomings.
Facing that wall-like sword qi, the power of her one strike was still lacking. If it were the Ten Heavens Thunder Fang, she might have been able to penetrate that sword qi wall and truly possess the strength to confront a Blood Condensation Realm boss head-on.
“Again! You all support my attack from a distance!” Ye Qinglu said, then leapt up once more.
Within less than fifteen minutes of battle, even with Ye Qinglu, Yi Ye Fu Yun, and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang using transformation one after another, they were still all slain by the guard robot.
“What is Hall Master Lin trying to do? Why not step in to save them?” Precia looked at the completely wiped-out Azure Sky Defense Group, full of confusion. “He just watched them get annihilated. Is he insane?”
She could overlook the deaths of the other members of the Azure Sky Defense Group, but in her eyes, Ye Qinglu and the other two were absolute super geniuses. Even if Leader Palius did not fight within a domain, he might not be much stronger than them. Yet Hall Master Lin Qi of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had watched such super geniuses fall without intervening. It was simply incomprehensible.
But before Precia could recover from her shock and confusion, dozens more Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples who had been watching rushed out again and launched another siege on the guard robot.
This time, the Machine God Defense Group displayed astonishing combat power.
Li Ranxing transformed into a giant over eight meters tall, each punch carrying power far beyond that of an Initial Stage Blood Coagulation expert. Even within the guard robot’s energy domain, his normal attacks could contend with the guard robot.
Meanwhile, Chen Ya in the team split into eight bodies outside the energy domain, firing wildly at the guard robot, making it very difficult for the robot to lock onto her.
After the two sides fought for nearly fifteen minutes, they were ultimately wiped out when their transformation energy ran dry.
“Our turn.” Luo Wu Shang watched Fang Zhen’s team get wiped out and led her team into the charge.
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“Insane! The Obsidian Martial Arts Hall is completely insane!” Precia watched as the hall’s super geniuses were killed again and again, her heart aching. “Those are all super geniuses! Does the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall really not care about their lives?”
At this moment, it was not only Precia whose heart and mind were shaken. Xie Feina was also incredibly shocked as she looked at Lin Qi.
First, she had not expected the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to have such a foundation, with so many super geniuses whose strength rivaled hers.
Second, these were super geniuses that even Domain City would value greatly. If it were just for tempering, losing two or three, Domain City could barely accept it. But with the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall losing so many, Domain City would probably go mad.
After all, cultivating super geniuses was not easy, and they were not like cabbages that could grow in endless batches. Yet the hall master, Lin Qi, seemed not to care, letting these super geniuses go to their deaths.
What shocked her even more was the attitude of those super geniuses heading to their deaths. From their behavior, she could sense that they were not being forced to fight. Instead, they genuinely wanted to fight the guard robot, not caring even if they died.
And those who came later were practically wishing the previous wave would die faster so they could take their place.
Madmen.
The entire Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, from top to bottom, was full of madmen.
But even that was not the most shocking thing. What truly stunned Xie Feina was the hall’s foundation.
When one wave of 197 grey-robed disciples was almost completely wiped out by the guard robot, another group of grey-robed disciples from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall arrived and quickly joined the battle.
This group of grey-robed disciples, though only numbering a few dozen, still included three super geniuses who could steadily pin down the guard robot.
After the guard robot had fought wave after wave of them for over ten rounds, not only had Xie Feina gone numb, but even the guard robot was shocked.
“Just what faction are these grey-clothed people from? How do they have so many experts entering here?” The guard robot gazed at yet another wiped-out batch of players, full of astonishment.
In the past, the factions he faced would be doing well if they could send one team. The stronger ones might send two. But he had no idea what was going on with these grey-clothed people, appearing wave after wave, each accompanied by experts.
After he had killed so many of them, the grey-clothed people were still coming, and each new wave was stronger than the last, growing increasingly familiar with his attacks.
At the slightest movement, they seemed to know what he was going to do and prepared in advance, making his kill speed slower and slower.
By this point, the later waves of grey-clothed people had even started waiting for him to finish killing the previous wave before continuing to fight him.
“Everyone, give it all you have. This boss seems to be panicking. Looks like its energy is almost exhausted,” Fang Zhen shouted excitedly to the players as he watched the guard robot begin to retreat toward the outside of the courtyard.
The players lining up noticed that, just as Fang Zhen said, the guard robot was indeed slowly retreating out of the courtyard, though it could not break away for the moment due to being entangled by other players.
“Sixth Senior Sister, that prisoner’s energy seems nearly exhausted. It is preparing to flee.” Precia watched the withdrawing guard robot in utter shock.
In the Mist Mountain Prison Lower District, that prisoner ranked among the top tier in strength and alone could wipe out one or two top tier teams. Yet now, this prisoner had been forced to the point of retreat by the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s grey-robed disciples, who threw themselves at it wave after wave until it was worn down. No one would believe it if they heard this.
