Chapter 1406: Summon, Heavenly Mandate Battle Armor! (1/2)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
”Hurry and leave this place! It's now very dangerous, and the formation's core has been activated, sending even stronger attacks toward this place. In twelve seconds, a Stop Gate will be passing through the northwest. Once you enter there, your combined strength should be able to hold out while the formation gate takes you to the edge of the formation, allowing you to escape this disaster!”
Wang Chong's voice resounded, and then, clap! Wang Chong pressed down his palm, sending a vast stream of Stellar Energy into the middle-aged martial artist, rapidly restoring his reserves.
”Here are a few pills to help you out. You'll have to depend on yourself for the rest.”
Wang Chong threw over several white pills the size of pigeon eggs and turned to leave. Time was short, and Wang Chong was confident that he would have to face even greater dangers if he wanted to reach the core and break the formation.
Not only would more martial artists die, even he and his master would find it difficult to survive.
”Brother, wait a moment! What is Brother's honored name?”
The middle-aged martial artist tried to stop Wang Chong, but in a flash of light, Wang Chong was gone into the next formation gate. The martial artist was left stunned and speechless.
”Big Bro, I recognize him…” said a whisper at his ear. ”That man was the fake Young Master Qingyang, Zhang Wenfu's disciple and also the Great Tang's King of Foreign Lands, Wang Chong!”
”What? The King of Foreign Lands? That's him?!”
The words of his sworn brother had Zhang Shangwu flabbergasted.
”The one that Freeman Wujin told us to go and join…”
”That's him!” the unaffiliated martial artist firmly said.
The group became speechless, an eerie silence reigning.
……
Wang Chong continued on his way deeper into the core of the formation, but his steps gradually began to slow.
The closer he got to the core, the more dangerous it became, and the stronger the traps.
Boomboomboom!
Stone pillars struck the ground with a thunderous momentum.
This was no longer a simple physical attack. Wang Chong could sense intense ripples of energy from the stone pillars. The energy in the air was pouring endlessly into the pillars, massively boosting their offensive power.
”Aaaah!” With a scream, an unaffiliated martial artist was crushed into pulp by one of the stone pillars.
There were far too many martial artists coming under attack in the formation. Not even Wang Chong could worry about them all.
”Follow me!”
Wang Chong activated the Great Yinyang Heaven Creation Art and pulled on those martial artists caught in the formation, rescuing them from death and tossing them into nearby formation gates.
Wang Chong didn't even have time to explain or treat their injuries. Every extra moment spent in these formation gates would increase the danger by that much.
I'll just save who I can. They'll have to depend on themselves for the rest, Wang Chong quietly said to himself.
On the way here, he had seen the corpses of far too many martial artists, and there were probably many more who were still struggling for their lives. The only thing Wang Chong could do was to get to the core as quickly as possible and destroy the formation.
On the way, Wang Chong could only save as many as he possibly could.
Keekee!
As Wang Chong stepped into the next formation gate, avoiding a rain of arrows and stones, he heard a metallic chirping.
The nearby golden beetles, as if attracted by something, threw aside their original opponents and flew at Wang Chong.
Unlike the golden beetles Wang Chong had first encountered, these ones had a golden glow around them while thick pulses of energy came from inside their bodies.
And they were clearly much larger.
They must have gotten this way from eating the Stellar Energy of martial artists, Wang Chong supposed.
These golden beetles could absorb a significant amount of Stellar Energy from each martial artist they killed, making them much stronger. The clearest manifestation of this was the glow around their bodies.
For these golden beetles to have such thick and dazzling glows, they had probably killed numerous martial artists.
Pa! Pa! Pa!
Wang Chong fired off three bolts of Sword Qi at one of the beetles, but to his consternation, this time, his attacks only tore apart the glow around the beetle, and the beetle itself continued to charge unabated.
Wang Chong's heart shivered at this sight at how much stronger these golden beetles had become. He would now probably need five or six bolts of Sword Qi to kill one golden beetle.
Keekee!
The air resounded with sharp chirping as the numerous golden beetles charged in a frenzy at Wang Chong.