Chapter 409 Vehicle Destroyer Su Zhou (First Update, 5000)

On the gloomy firmament, dark rain clouds churned like swirling ink.

Fine rain drizzled, dampness permeated the air, and a cool autumn breeze brushed over the streets and sky, weaving through the countless towering pagodas that stood amidst the clouds.

The pagoda bodies were octagonal prisms, featuring classical-style eaves, vermilion railings, and blue-green tiles. Unlike the typical forty or fifty-meter-high classical Zhen Country pagodas, these pagodas pierced the sky, extending through the clouds, each exceeding seven hundred meters in height. They were constructed from metal and polished jade, their surfaces emitting a cyan-blue glow, occasionally flashing with arcane rune patterns.

In the dim, rain-soaked day, the city comprised of countless such pagodas was so orderly, each metal pagoda nearly identical in size. The city, composed of these pagodas, resembled nails on a nail board, standing tall between heaven and earth, sturdy and stable, as if they had stood for hundreds or thousands of years.

In reality, they had indeed stood for over a thousand years.

"It's like a graveyard... Each Zhenling Pagoda is the tomb of hundreds of thousands of people."

Gazing from afar at the city at the edge of the sky, the fox-eared youth standing on the mountain peak cradled his helmet and muttered to himself.

Even from a thousand miles away, he could see the blue spiritual light of the countless Zhenling Pagodas reflected on the dark clouds, and sense the wails of countless souls within.

The fox-eared youth possessed handsome features, with long silver hair and碧bi-colored eyes. He wore a set of dark-cyan cloud-patterned steel armor, engraved with dense Zhenfa (orthodox law) talismans.

However, it was evident that the cloud-patterned steel armor was covered in bloodstains and scars, even bearing several penetrating holes that pierced the fox-eared youth's abdomen. His face was pale, his eyes dull, clearly indicating that he had lost too much blood and suffered internal injuries.

The weakened youth stared blankly at the spiritual light of the High tC City, until a gust of cold wind mixed with icy rain struck his face, causing the youth to regain his senses and awaken.

--Damn it, the injuries are too severe, to the point that my focus is starting to scatter…

Now is not the time to think about these things, he still has a mission to complete.

So he resolutely turned around, put on the masked full-coverage helmet, then activated the Dao armor on his body, catalyzed spiritual magic to fly into the sky, and stumbled towards the other end of the mountain range at high speed.

Since the departure of the immortals and gods, and the surge of evil spirits sweeping across the world, internal traitors assassinated the Qingqiu (Green Hill) Country Lord, causing the vast Qingqiu Country to collapse, one thousand three hundred and fifty-one years had passed.

From that time on, the entire world fell into chaos and war, and all order vanished.

Gu Zechuan was not clear about that history filled with blood and rust. He was born twenty-seven years ago, in an era where everything had settled.

He only knew that he had lived in an underground shelter deep in the mountains since birth, and from the age of ten he had to learn how to cultivate, drive Dao armor to fight, and resist the invasion and siege of ‘evil spirits’.

And this time, as one of the elite armored warriors of the 'Gu Clan' shelter, the reason Gu Zechuan left the shelter he was guarding was to seek help from other shelters before the others.

Just like all purebred ancient quasi-Dao countries, in Qingqiu Country, seventy-seven percent of the land residents are Qingqiu foxes, also known as 'Heavenly Fox' bloodlines.

This bloodline is not good at fighting, but excels in wisdom. Every Qingqiu fox clan member with more than six tails after adulthood can have better-than-average thinking ability, calculation speed, and soul talent—and the nine-tailed Heavenly Fox, if its cultivation can reach the Earth Immortal realm, then any Celestial Venerable's power is willing to accept its joining.

The Qingqiu foxes are proud of this talent, to the point that they ignore traditional warfare techniques. This was acceptable in the era of immortal and god protection, but in the chaotic era, facing the attacks of evil spirits, the Qingqiu foxes, who were good at research and development, and discussing profound doctrines, suffered heavy casualties in the first instance. They were directly driven out of the cities by a large number of evil spirits and had to enter the deep mountains to eke out a living.

And the so-called evil spirits have no actual physical form in essence. It's like being possessed by some kind of ghost, which will make a normal person suddenly become violent and unfamiliar, and then start attacking their relatives and friends... and the number of evil spirits that possess them is actually not large, but their power is exceptionally strong. Over hundreds of years, they gradually suppressed most of the cities of the Qingqiu people.

In order to fight against evil spirits, the Qingqiu people who are not good at fighting invented the 'Dao Armor'. They wanted to use this powerful composite magic weapon to protect themselves, and indeed achieved many victories—but even so, because they suffered too many losses at the beginning, the Qingqiu people, whose vitality was greatly damaged, could not reverse the strategic decline at all, but only delayed the time of total collapse.

In fact, if the spiritual energy had not been cut off for thousands of years, I am afraid that the entire territory of Qingqiu would have fallen long ago.

Because the spiritual energy was extinguished, the movements of the evil spirits stopped for thousands of years. They no longer tried to capture the Qingqiu people. Instead, they built huge 'Zhenling Pagodas' all over the world, and stuffed all the Qingqiu people under their jurisdiction into them. Apart from this, there were no other actions.

The Qingqiu people originally breathed a sigh of relief for this. After all, even living deep in the mountains was better than being captured by evil spirits and sent to the Zhenling Pagoda. They could continue to wait, waiting for the return of the immortals and gods, and protect their country as they had done for the past hundreds of thousands of years.

But, thousands of years have passed, and the immortals and gods have not returned.

On the contrary, because of the gradual recovery of spiritual energy, the evil spirits began to move again, and began to carry out the gradual annihilation of Qingqiu shelters all over the world.

The shelter where Gu Zechuan was located was the target of this annihilation. The Gu Clan, who learned of the evil spirit's action plan in advance, prepared to migrate and transfer, and also dispatched several elite armored warriors to nearby shelters to seek help, and warned the other party of the arrival of the evil spirit army.

This is the responsibility of mutual assistance between shelters.

However, on the way to another shelter, Gu Zechuan was ambushed by a team of elite evil spirits and was seriously injured.

This is not considered anything—for every armored warrior who vows to wear armor and fight against evil spirits, injury is just commonplace.

What really made the big stone in Gu Zechuan's heart sink straight down was that the target shelter he wanted to seek help from was likely to have fallen. Not only could he not get reinforcements, but the Gu Clan shelter was also likely to be besieged by two or even more evil spirit troops.

"I can't just go back to the shelter like this... That team of evil spirits is still chasing me. I must find a way to shake them off, or solve them."

At this time, Gu Zechuan, who was flying rapidly in the rain, was still thinking rapidly about a solution. The cyan-black spiritual light was flowing on the Dao armor, and the strong spiritual power allowed him to move in the atmosphere at several times the speed of sound, but this could not help him think of a way to solve the problem, and would only worsen his already fragile injured body.

Just as the fox-eared youth was upset, he suddenly sensed a huge spiritual power fluctuation coming from afar, and then subconsciously turned his head to look in the direction from which the fluctuation came.

Immediately afterwards, he was stunned.

In the distance, at the end of the sky.

Above High tC City, as vast, sea-like spiritual power condensed in a magnificent array, the churning幽you-blue spiritual flames condensed into light, then transformed into a sharp arrow, carrying the ripples of torn air, piercing through the thick clouds and firmament, and directly shooting into the distant universe, leaving a long-lasting band of light in the planetary atmosphere.

Immediately afterwards, there was the second, the third, and even dozens, hundreds of them.

For a time, an arc area on one side of the entire planet lit up with continuous spiritual light giant arrows. They continuously shot straight into the sky, deep into the universe, dividing the entire heaven and earth into clear and visible light bands, making the entire gloomy and dark sky seem to have been smeared with cyan-blue brushstrokes, appearing noisy and chaotic.

"That is... what?!"

Gu Zechuan stared at the firmament without blinking. He opened his mouth in shock, but forgot to close it for a long time... The youth could confirm that each of those spiritual lights was comparable to an all-out attack from a peak Human Immortal, and even a few of the spiritual light giant arrows had a power that could be said to be comparable to an attack from an Earth Immortal Dharma Lord!

Without a doubt, Gu Zechuan could clearly see that these attacks came from evil spirits, from the cities where those Zhenling Pagodas were located... But when did the evil spirits have such strong power?

And most importantly, what exactly are those evil spirits attacking?

Soon, the confused Gu Zechuan knew the answer to this question.

Rumble—

The sound had not yet arrived.

However, at the highest point of the sky, a burning meteor lit up, dragging a long tail flame, drawing a golden arc in the sky, and rapidly falling towards this land.

Even from a distance, Gu Zechuan seemed to still be able to feel the scorching heat. He stared at the burning meteor, but for some reason, its falling speed began to gradually slow down, and an uncontrollable thought suddenly jumped into his mind.

--That's it!

--That is the target that the evil spirits were attacking before!

At first, Gu Zechuan thought that this object falling from the sky should fall into the distant Wing Sea, but soon, as a seven-tailed fox's ability to calculate in his mind, he quickly calculated the final landing point of the meteor based on the falling arc and speed, and then his heart skipped a beat.

"Right, nearby?!"

The face that was originally pale due to blood loss suddenly became even whiter due to fright, and his 碧bi eyes also narrowed slightly.

But before Gu Zechuan could re-examine his calculation results, a sudden alarm bell rang in his heart, and then he quickly controlled his Dao armor to flip and fly, dodging towards the lower right.

And the next moment, a 玄xuan-black sword light tore through the atmosphere where he had been, and slashed on the mountain peak not far away, blasting out a huge ditch hundreds of meters long and tens of meters deep.

Since then, several figures wrapped in漆qi-black armor emerged from the rain, as if they had been waiting there for the youth's arrival.

Evil spirits.

"Damn... have they caught up..."

Without time to think about anything else, Gu Zechuan reached out with a pale face and covered the gap in his waist armor, from which鲜xian-red blood was dripping—the wound penetrated in the last battle was torn because of the previous rapid dodging, and the injury was even more serious.

"No way." His eyes turned, and against the background of the meteor falling from the sky, the youth gritted his teeth and looked around at the six Xuan armor figures that appeared in front of him, and then showed a sad wry smile under the armor: "It seems, I can only fight to the death."

Some time ago.

Earth time, October 9, 2017.

After a not-so-long voyage, the Yuanwang (Long View) reached Qingqiu III, which is the 'Qingqiu Country' in the traditional sense, between Qingqiu Star and the Earth-Moon orbit.

Qingqiu Star is a life planet with a mass of one and a half times that of Earth. It has a moon, and sixty-five percent of the planet's surface is ocean, while most of the remaining land is lush forest.

In the ancient books left by the immortals and gods, Qingqiu is a beautiful and prosperous world, and many strong people and well-known Heavenly Foxes were born here.

However, in the lens of the current Yuanwang, the current Qingqiu Star is shrouded in漆qi-black clouds.

The originally recorded azure-blue ocean has long turned into a deep墨mo-cyan color, and in the central part of the ocean, the sea water has even turned漆qi-black. Huge storms and clouds rage there and move towards the entire world, bringing continuous rain and陰yin clouds.

"Seriously, I'll bet my luck with women that this planet is absolutely terrible!"

In the captain's cabin, Liu Wuxin's face was as漆qi-black as Qingqiu Star's ocean. He pointed to the Qingqiu Star enlarged by the intelligent Ai and expressed his intention, saying in an exaggerated tone: "Can't you see? The environment of the entire planet has become like this. It's doubtful whether there are any living people on it!"

"You can't gamble with something that doesn't exist."

Lin Chengde, who had a serious expression on the side, said casually. The disciple of the Agricultural Saint pushed his glasses and said in a heavy tone: "But at least you didn't say something wrong—this place is indeed terrible. I feel that there is a big problem with the ecological cycle on this planet."

At this time, Su Zhou was communicating with Ketaren. It could be seen that the Talin captain shook his head like an Earthling, and Su Zhou also sighed, then turned his head and looked at Liu Wuxin and Lin Chengde on the side.

"The situation on this planet is too bad."

He stated: "Most of the area is not ocean, but is covered by陰yin clouds. It is difficult for us to find a suitable landing point for the spaceship in a short period of time, and then conduct an investigation of the planet."

"Also, there are people on this planet, and there are quite a few of them—the Scarlet Firmament Sword Qi is not just for show. It is now vibrating in my pocket like an alarm clock."

"Then, execute Plan B, launch reconnaissance satellites, and then send an elite team down to investigate?"

Liu Wuxin didn't mind this. Although he was cautious, he was not afraid, but just wanted to avoid meaningless danger.

"Or Plan D—we launch a few satellites first, and then send drones down to investigate."

This was Lin Chengde's opinion: "After all, Qingqiu Star is too abnormal. We can't take too much risk."

"Either way, but let's scan it with a spirit energy radar first."

Su Zhou personally preferred Plan D, which was to send drones to see the situation first. But after all, it was related to the Bingzhu (War Master) seal. Who knew if the Bingzhu would happen to be completely unsealed during the time they wasted? In order to avoid this possibility, they had to conduct an on-the-spot investigation as soon as possible before making a judgment.

"Tang Yuan, start scanning."

"Received."

Hearing the command from Su Zhou, Tang Yuan, who was taking care of the ice fox on the side, immediately stood up. He returned to the radar cabin, deployed spiritualization and connected to the module, and then activated the spirit energy radar to conduct guided scanning.

Immediately, invisible spirit energy fluctuations turned into beams and swept across the distant planet.

Ordinary spirit energy scanning with a non-high-performance radar is not easy to use for a life planet, because there are too many targets with spirit energy on it, making it difficult to accurately map the general landforms of the planet—but similarly, spirit energy scanning can at least help the scanner determine the area with the most intelligent life on a planet in the first instance.

As the spirit energy beam swept over Qingqiu Star bit by bit, countless data began to be transmitted to the Yuanwang captain's light curtain with the assistance of Ai, and Tang Yuan, as the guide, could also vaguely sense this huge amount of information.

"Eh, how come the life in this place... is so dense?"

But soon, Tang Yuan discovered little from this information—the results of the spirit energy scan showed that in some areas on Qingqiu Star, there were extremely large amounts of spirit energy reactions, and that magnitude was like stuffing the population of a country into a city, with a density that was shockingly high.

What was even more surprising was that, apart from these dense life gathering places, there were actually not many intelligent life forms with spirit energy left on the entire Qingqiu Star... Of course, they may have shielded the exploration, or they may be living underground, but this extreme aggregation of life made it difficult for Tang Yuan to understand.

Just as the somewhat confused Tang Yuan continued to guide the radar to scan the ocean, suddenly, he froze for a moment.

Because, he saw that in the center of the seas, in a majestic and magnificent giant pagoda, a pair of ice-cold eyes seemed to pierce through time and space, and stared at him remotely through the connection of the spirit energy radar.

In an instant, it was like a flame igniting along the wires, and finally detonating the explosives at the source. As the stability of the spirit energy beam was destroyed by an unknown force, the entire spirit energy radar directly entered an overloaded state, and then stopped operating in a burst of short explosions.

"Not good, Minister—"

Standing up immediately, opening his eyes, the materialized Tang Yuan raised his head with a panicked expression. He did not hesitate, opened the communication light curtain in the first instance, then forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, and said urgently: "He has discovered us!"

"Who is he?" In the captain's room, Su Zhou frowned tightly at this time. He was serious because the spirit energy radar stopped working. Facing Tang Yuan's warning without context, the youth was a little confused: "What discovered us?"

"There is a person... no, I don't know if it's a person or..."

Tang Yuan originally wanted to repeat what he had seen and heard.

But it was too late.

Because in the next moment, on Qingqiu Star, countless cyan-blue spiritual light arrows broke through the陰yin clouds and pierced straight into the sky, shooting straight towards the Yuanwang suspended between Qingqiu and the Earth-Moon orbit.

Streams of light filled the sky, filling the universe.

Countless spirit arrows flew towards them, mighty and majestic, like a meteor shower from bottom to top.

Suddenly, everyone, including Su Zhou, changed their expressions drastically.

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