Chapter 289: Know Thyself and Thy Enemy (1/2)

The two Armored Trolls were already trapped by Jiang Li's Dragon Imprisoning Lock, although they could not be killed in a short period of time.

However, it was wishful thinking to escape.

Jiang Li temporarily paid no further attention to them and looked towards the other places on the battlefield.

Not far from him, two Golden Core cultivators of Benevolent Travel Temple were attacking a Armored Troll.

A golden fist the size of a clay pot smashed into the Troll like rain.

The layer of tough scales was broken, but the Troll acted as if it could not sense anything and attacked unaffected.

Its attack pattern was different from the previous two Trolls.

Its body was obviously much larger than the other Trolls. The head covered in armor had a sharp horn that was curved backward. Every time it pulled some distance away, it would use the horn to charge towards the enemy with unstoppable momentum.

If one was hit by that horn, even a mountain would have a hole.

Jiang Li discovered that other than the uniform bone armor, the appearance, size, combat style, and habits of these Trolls were vastly different.

It was as if they had not evolved from the same species.

One had to know that 90% of intelligent creatures' recognition mechanisms for individual characteristics were targeted at their own kind.

For example, when humans of different races interacted, it was very common to be unable to recognize and differentiate some facial traits.

There was no need to talk about other species.

If Jiang Li looked at a hundred Scaled Demons, he would most likely feel that they looked almost identical.

This was because when humans conducted cross-species identification, they would usually first identify racial characteristics, not individual characteristics.

However, this group of Armored Trolls gave Jiang Li a strange feeling, as if they were evolved from different ancestors.

They grew in all shapes and sizes as they pleased.

Before he could think about it, another change occurred.

”Wait, what's that sound?”

Jiang Li was just about to quickly deal with the two Trolls and reinforce his companions.

From the distant shore, the sound of liquid surging suddenly sounded.

He stepped on the air a few times. After rising a little, he looked at the distant shore.

In his vision, a white line was advancing rapidly in their direction.

”Damn it! It's a tsunami! They can actually trigger a tsunami!”

”Everyone return to the city to defend!”

Jiang Li did not believe that this tsunami was a coincidence. This group of Armored Trolls had left too deep an impression on him.

He roared down. If it was only a tsunami, it would be fine, but along with the tsunami, there were countless ferocious sea beasts.

If they continued to fight outside the city, the lives of the Great Mountain Alliance cultivators would be wasted on these damned sea beasts.

This was clearly something that Jiang Li could not accept.

”Stop fighting. The disciples can't defend the Mechanism City!”

After reminding the higher-ups that were pursuing the Armored Troll again, Jiang Li dragged the Dragon Imprisoning Chain Ball and landed on the city wall of the Mechanism City.

”This group of damned Trolls. No wonder so many Eastern Region sects were defeated by them. What a group of terrifying monsters!”

If they wanted to resist such a sea beast tsunami, just relying on the cultivators present would exhaust them to death.

He hoped that the Mechanism City under his feet could be more reliable.

Jiang Li flipped his palm, and a pure white spiritual ball that outsiders were unable to see appeared in his hand.

Thousand Mechanisms Sphere, go!

Jiang Li took out the original city core, Thousand Mechanisms Sphere, and then directly sent it into the core location of the Mechanism City.

Originally, it would have required 9,000 Mystic Gate cultivators to control it together in order to unleash its power. However, after the Thousand Mechanisms Sphere entered the core, the entire city seemed to come alive.

All the defensive mechanisms no longer needed to be controlled and were activated automatically. After accurately aiming at the white tsunami, they began to launch fierce long-range attacks.

The attacks like Sea King Fork, Flood Dragon Lightning, and Spirit Qi bombs landed on the white wave, causing a large amount of blood-colored waves to appear at the point of impact. This was because a large number of sea beasts had been torn apart by the long-range mechanisms.

Fifty nautical miles from the tsunami line, a strange mechanism suddenly rose on the muddy beach.

It was a simple mechanism that was shaped like a fan shell and opened at a 45-degree angle.

After the surging current washed over, the edge of the fan shell was forcefully closed under the pressure of the current.

The closed mechanical fan shell automatically opened under the effect of the elastic device and then closed again under the effect of the current.

In this region of 50 nautical miles, there were such mechanisms everywhere. If one looked down from the sky, they could only see countless scallops that were constantly opening and closing.

These mechanisms did not have offensive or defensive effects.

However, under the effect of these scallops, the speed of the tsunami that entered this range clearly slowed down. The waves decreased more and more. When they approached the Black Reef Island, the tsunami was only left with a small wave of more than ten meters that slapped the hard rock.

That kind of mechanical fan shell was actually called a tide energy accumulator. It was a basic device that could borrow the power of the tide to accumulate energy for the entire mechanical city.

As the mechanical fan shell opened and closed, every foot that the tsunami advanced, its energy would be absorbed a little. After crossing the 50 nautical miles, the waves on the island no longer posed any threat.

This was a magical mechanism created by Ink Sect's previous Ink Child in this desert terrain, under the circumstances that they were unable to borrow the power of the earth vein.

Normally, it could be used to accumulate energy. In critical situations, it could also be used to resist the tsunami like now.

As a result, the mechanical city that had accumulated a large amount of energy roared fiercely at those who were swept close by the waves.

However, there were still too many sea beasts rushing over like waves. The higher-ups of the Great Mountain Alliance, who were fighting in the air, could only put down their opponents and release large-scale killing techniques at the sea beasts below to reduce the pressure on the city.

However, this also gave the Armored Trolls a chance to catch their breath. They did not engage in battle and fled into the sea without a trace.

Clearly, the beast tide this time was cast by the Armored Troll hiding in the distance to help his companions escape.

As for the Great Mountain Alliance, who was stuck in the city by the tide of the sea beasts, they did not dare to pursue them at all. If they were lured away again, their base that had yet to be warmed up would really be finished.

Fortunately, the Armored Trolls had control over the beast tide.

Two hours later, the sea beast was no longer so determined and fearless.