Daqin Zhentiansi

Chapter 699 Void Rift!

Li Yu's voice revealed an uncontainable joy, and the master craftsmen around him cheered with delight.

The lightning in the sky was stirred up and gathered like a tide.

The lightning surrounding the charging Thunder Rocs was absorbed, and their attack power was greatly reduced instantly.

At this moment, the soldiers on the deck had already formed ranks and charged forward.

The battle raged fiercely amidst lightning and stormy winds.

The Thunder Roc is not only incredibly strong, but its attacks also possess the attribute of lightning paralysis, and its reaction speed far surpasses that of other creatures of the same level.

Lower-ranking soldiers often find their attacks evaded or countered by the enemy before they can even land.

A small Thunder Roc dodged three bone-corroding fishbone arrows like a ghost, its sharp claws crackling with electricity as it slashed at the face of a new army sergeant.

They were about to succeed!

At this critical moment, a faint arc of electricity seemed to flash deep within the sergeant's pupils.

Instead of instinctively leaning back to dodge or block as usual, he twisted his body at an incredibly small angle, and at the same time, the trajectory of his goose feather knife changed strangely, as if he had anticipated it, and he struck first even though he was behind!

"Pfft!"

The blade precisely sliced ​​into the roc's outstretched neck joint!

Blue-purple Peng blood splattered with lightning!

Although it was also grazed by the edge of the claw wind, tearing its armor and causing its skin to rip open, it managed to avoid a fatal blow!
The squad leader retreated rapidly, enduring the excruciating pain and numbness, but his eyes were filled with joy: "It works! It's...it's the effect of the Thunderclap Powder! I feel...I'm faster!"

His left eye was a recently transplanted "demon eye" that was now shimmering with a faint golden-blue light.

That extraordinary reaction just now was precisely due to the special medicine that the Secret Medicine Division had recently deployed to the battlefield—

"Thunderclap Powder" is made from the essence of the marrow of the captured Thunder Roc!
Yao Puti's voice came through the amplification array: "All soldiers equipped with 'Thunderclap Powder' and Electric Demon Eyes, pay attention to recording sensory changes and neural response data!"

On the deck, several powerful members of the Secret Medicine Division looked ahead with excited expressions.

The Marquis has revealed that after this battle, he will form an indestructible army by using soldiers trained by the Secret Medicine Division and the Ministry of Works in weapon forging and medicine refining.

"They are the cornerstones of the 'Thunderbolt Guard' that the Marquis spoke of." Poisonous Lady stood beside Yao Puti, her eyes full of anticipation.

The battle lasted for about half an hour.

Without Zhang Yuan actually intervening, the massive Thunder Roc horde was finally defeated thanks to the New Army's impenetrable defenses, the Sword Sect's strangling sword net, the Spirit Array Division's binding and guiding abilities, and the perfect coordination of the Ministry of Works and the Secret Medicine Division's latest technologies.

Several Roc Kings were killed by the combined efforts of the powerful figures, while the rest cried out in fear and disappeared into the depths of the thunderclouds.

As the thunderstorm subsided, the surviving fleet began to clean up the battlefield.

The biggest gain came from the corpses of those powerful Dongxuan Peng Kings.

From the depths of their hearts, the apothecaries of the Secret Medicine Bureau carefully dissected out several brilliant crystals, each the size of an infant's fist, entirely azure blue, with what appeared to be liquid lightning flowing and dancing within.

Thunder Core!

"My lord! This is a gift from heaven!" Li Yu's hands trembled as he held the Thunder Core. "This core contains pure thunder essence, and its surging vitality far surpasses that of inanimate thunder crystals!"

"This treasure is placed in a specially made lightning-absorbing formation. It can not only serve as an instantaneous burst of energy for my Zhenhai Ship, but also slowly absorb the lightning spiritual power between heaven and earth to replenish itself. It is enough to support the warship to sail at full speed for ten days without worrying about spiritual energy depletion!"

"This is a brand new, living 'heart of the storm'!"

As a master craftsman in the Ministry of Works, Li Yu saw many treasures in the Refining Hall.

However, even in the weapon-refining hall, such lightning crystals are rare.

Not only him, but also the master craftsmen from the Ministry of Works standing nearby all had their eyes full of anticipation.

If they hadn't accompanied Marquis Qingyang on a hunting expedition in the East Sea, how could they have obtained such a treasure, or had the opportunity to participate in the forging of such a treasure?

For those who cultivate the Way of Weapons, only through extensive practice can they truly find the path to cultivation.

Zhang Yuan glanced at the Thunder Core, his expression calm, and nodded slightly: "Select a flagship to test it immediately." "The value of this item is enough to offset ten times the losses in this battle."

“Keep a few more to send back to the capital.”

Glancing at the slain, massive Thunder Roc, Zhang Yuan narrowed his eyes: "Send one complete Thunder Roc to the imperial city, the rest—"

He turned his head and looked at Yin Jiuyou, who had a hint of excitement on his face.

"Soul transfer and body possession".

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The Thunder Rocs dwell in a huge nest made of naturally suspended magnets deep within the thunderclouds.

While clearing out the remaining Peng birds and plundering precious lightning-struck wood and Peng feathers, a team of elites from the Nine Yang Sword Sect, led by Pei Lie, discovered an ancient stone platform that had mostly collapsed in the most secluded and strongest core area of ​​the Peng Nest.

The stone platform was covered with runes that they had never seen before, twisted like star trails.

The material of this stone platform is neither gold nor stone, but more like a product of solidified energy, emitting extremely weak yet exceptionally stable spatial fluctuations.

There is a depression in the center of the stone platform, which seems to have been inlaid with something.

"Elder Pei, this...this looks like..." A knowledgeable elite disciple's voice was filled with disbelief, "...a lost...long-distance...interdimensional teleportation array?"

Pei Lie crouched down to examine it carefully, his fingertips touching the runes and sensing the distant spatial aura: "It's too incomplete, the base of the runes is broken, but such a structure and such residual aura are definitely not found in Yongtian Continent."

"Its direction seems to lead to an endlessly distant... outer realm?"

He suddenly looked up at the depths of the still churning thunderclouds above, and his heart trembled.

A battlefield in outer space?

Is the Peng clan guarding only a broken exit?

The glow of the teleportation array flickered rapidly on the magnet altar, each flash accompanied by a piercing sound of crystals shattering.

Sweat poured down the forehead of the craftsmen from the Ministry of Works as their fingers flew across the array of runes: "The rune base is more than half melted! It can only last for three breaths at most—"

Before he finished speaking, Zhang Yuan stepped into the center of the formation.

"Follow."

Two words shattered the thunderous roar, and the heads of the Three Departments of Zhentian and the three elders of the Nine Yang Sword Sect shot in!

Several powerful figures followed closely behind, stepping directly onto the stone platform.

The moment the blazing white light engulfed everyone, the magnetic altar exploded into dust!
The sky collapsed and the earth trembled; all five senses were lost.

Yin Jiuyou felt as if he had been thrown into a chaotic vortex, and his soul was almost torn apart.

The Demon-Locking Tower on Lu Tianchu's shoulder groaned and dimmed, its nine rune chains cracking inch by inch!

The nine-tailed demon shadow behind Bai Zhi howled and shrank back into its true form.

Pei Lie's true form, the Crimson Sky Sword, which transformed his body into a sword, flickered and was about to go out like a candle in the wind.

"Void Rift!" Xue Dingyue roared, but his voice was shattered by the gale.

A pitch-black crack stretching across the starry sky, like the bared fangs of a primordial beast, spews out a dark torrent that annihilates all things!
"Retreat!" The Star-Fixing Disc in Zhen Xuan's hand exploded with spiderweb-like cracks, and the starlight that had just formed a barrier was swallowed up by the darkness.

That force is not something that can be controlled by true essence.

Its power is overwhelming and unstoppable, its essence is primordial and uniform.

The Dao foundations of everyone trembled violently, their spiritual platforms became clouded, and they even had the thought of bowing down and submitting!
"puff--"

Pei Lie coughed up blood and flew backward, his Taoist robe igniting with invisible Taoist flames.

(End of this chapter)