710 Refining Venus! (2/2)
The blue light blasting from the Never-Ending Clan Death Dao Battleship turned black instantly. A sea of black, vaster than the sea of blue, was unleashed in the cosmos. It surged past the Dao Palace and Federation cultivators, the lines of defense, and appeared right above Venus. Then, it transformed into an enormous seal that blanketed Venus from above and fell heavily onto the planet!
Venus shuddered violently. The Anti-Spirit Bombs buried deep in the planet were overpowered by the seal's force, their explosions stopped midway!
Duan Muque shook. A crazed look colored his eyes as he and Li Xingwen formed hand seals and activated Venus' final trump card!
Deep underground on Venus, there was a prison that had been built at the beginning of the Spirit Inception Era. It held every criminal who had committed serious offenses since the start of the Spirit Inception Era, the old lady from the Galactic Dusk Sect being one of them. There were also beasts from Earth imprisoned there!
Most of them were at the Core Formation realm and hadn't posed a great danger. However, Duan Muque had given a secret order that led to Zhao Yameng's father, Zhao Pinfang, personally modifying an Anti-Spirit Bomb that was eventually planted inside these prisoners' bodies. These were Anti-Spirit Bombs with stellar source as their core. Each was as powerful as a blow from a Nascent Soul realm cultivator. An array formation had also been set up around these prisoners, with every hundred prisoners coming together to form a mini array formation. These mini array formations came together to form an enormous array formation!
This array formation… was directly linked to the planet's stellar source. The self-destruction of the prisoners would, therefore, trigger the collapse of the stellar source and the destruction of Venus!
This was the double-layered strategy that the Federation had prepared!
As the array formation was activated, every mindless criminal in the Venusian prison began to shake violently. Beams of light erupted from their bodies, forming waves of destructive energy that affected the planet's stellar source. The entire planet began to shudder, seemingly on the verge of blowing up again!
”So that's your trump card!” Daoist You Ran laughed lightly. His right hand formed a series of hand seals, then pointed. The black seal hovering above Venus released countless black flames immediately. The flames burned fiercely, swept around, and surrounded Venus like a gush of strong wind. The planet was enveloped entirely in flames. The black flames became the second seal that caused the Federation's final trump card to fail. As the flames burned, they began to refine the planet!
Venus' third line of defense collapsed instantly, with its second line of defense melting away rapidly!
Fury rushed up Duan Muque's body and emerged as blood was spat out from his mouth. His eyes were red. Bitterness flooded his heart. Li Xingwen was in the same condition. He was swaying slightly on his feet, his face pale. Meanwhile, the other Federation cultivators fell into a deathly silence!
”If I hadn't required your assistance to blow up Venus so that its stellar source could fully expose itself and be accessible for my collection, I would've refined all of you earlier,” Daoist You Ran said as he smiled. His aim wasn't simply to destroy Venus, it was to make use of the Federation to stir the planet's stellar source into an active state. This wouldn't only perfect his refinement, it would also provide a great source of energy to repair the Death Dao Battleship he had fused himself with on a larger scale.
He had made it seem as if he had been forced to bring the Death Dao Battleship into the fight with Wang Baole, the lunar stronghold, and the Night Immortal King, but that had been a trap. His aim had been to lure the Federation into blowing up Venus.
”Wang Baole, I want you to watch the planet that you've tried so hard to protect be slowly eaten away and turn into nutrients for my battleship.” Daoist You Ran raised his face skyward and laughed out loud. His eyes fell on Wang Baole, who remained encased in ice on the Night Immortal King's shoulder.
Wang Baole was trapped and frozen to a spot, but he was still alive. No one knew what he was thinking. However, Daoist You Ran could see the anxiety in Wang Baole's eyes clearly.
”Now, let the feast begin!” Daoist You Ran's spirits soared at the sight of Wang Baole's anxiety. He laughed. With another wave of his hand, the sea of fire that surrounded Venus burned through the planet's second line of defense. The defensive array formation shattered. The Dao Palace cultivators were all struck dumb by the power that was on display. However, in the end, greed prevailed. After realizing that the black flames posed no danger to them, they rushed excitedly through the fire and began fighting.
The self-destruct mechanisms had failed, and the planet's lines of defenses were falling, it seemed that defeat was inevitable. Duan Muque laughed bitterly. He was about to send the orders to abandon Venus and instruct the troops to escape to Mars via the Solar System Array Formation—they would reorganize the remaining troops on Mars.
It was then that Wang Baole, encased in ice and frozen to the Night Immortal King's shoulder, stared deeply into Daoist You Ran's eyes. A black flame suddenly erupted from his body. It seemed similar to the one that Daoist You Ran was using to refine Venus, yet was completely different in essence. The flame passed through the ice, melting it at an astonishing rate. Wang Baole's voice boomed across the cosmos.
”Does that mean you have no cards up your sleeve now as well?”