Chapter 2739: Taking Action
Inside the tower, a stunningly beautiful woman rushed over and stared off into the distance. "Great Elder!"
Far away, people with the strength of Semi-Progenitors were fighting relentlessly. One side was from Aeternus, while the other was a native of the Lilliput Universe. He was their great elder.
"Retreat! Greentea Planet can't last any longer! Leave through the second portal!" the great elder shouted, his back to the woman.
The woman's eyes filled with tears. "Great Elder, this is our home!"
"If we don’t leave now, it will be too late. The second elder has already been transformed into a corpse king and can use Aeternus’s battle techniques. I can't do anything to stop him anymore. At best, I can only stall him for half an hour. Flee now! Join the humans and make your way to the Sixverse Association."
In front of the great elder, a pair of scarlet eyes stared at him. They belonged to someone who had once been the second elder, but they had since become one of the Aeternals’ Semi-Progenitor level experts. "You can't escape."
"Ling Shi, do you really want to eliminate the Lilliputians?" the great elder roared.
Ling Shi spread his arms wide, and from behind him, all the Lilliputians who had been transformed into corpse kings released their hands. A thick rain of arrows was loosed, shattering the void as they swept through the sky. Corpse kings, humans, and Lilliputians all swept away by the rain of arrows.
"The Aeternals are the only race that can live forever. What's wrong with joining them? Ling Neng, you are simply too stubborn."
As soon as the corpse king finished speaking, the black wind overhead was pulled downwards by an arrow, like an inverted cyclone.
In front of Ling Shi, Ling Neng gritted his teeth and also pulled on the gravity wind.
Around the two small figures, cultivators from different universes of the Sixverse Association retreated one after another. Not only did they have to protect themselves from the Aeternals, but they also needed to be on guard against the black gravity wind. The twin dangers had caused the entire battlefield to be littered with corpses.
The gravity wind that covered Greentea Planet seemed to flip the planet upside down as two inverted tornadoes drew everyone's attention. Both humans and Aeternals fell back, none daring to get close to the center of the battlefield.
Ling Neng’s arm shook. He had already suffered a grievous injury, which made it difficult for him to fight against Ling Shi, let alone use such a draining and difficult technique.
"Qiqi, leave now! Listen to me—I cannot block this next arrow. It will definitely kill me, but that does not mean that Ling Shi can use this attack easily. I will endure as long as possible, so hurry up and escape now," Ling Neng softly urged the woman in the tower.
Light was constantly flickering about her hands as she tried to offer some of her energy to Ling Neng, but she was much weaker than the great elder, and it was impossible for her efforts to have any effect at all.
When she heard his orders, the woman could only wipe her tears away as resolve firmed upon her face. "I understand, Great Elder. Be careful!"
She then immediately turned around and headed back inside the tower. All of the Lilliputians near the battlefield received their own orders, and they flooded towards the tower. All of them escaped into the tower, and their reinforcements from the Sixverse Association did the same.
There were only a few hundred reinforcements from the Sixverse Association active on the battlefield. There had been more, but all the others had died long ago.
On the Endless Frontier, the Sixverse Association was one of the two dominant forces, but because they had to split their forces between the sixty-two parallel universes, the Sixverse Association only took direct command in the universes that were hostile to them. In all the others, the natives acted as the commanders, directing the cultivators from the Sixverse Association. This was why the reinforcements all listened to the small people.
Even so, the Sixverse Association sent countless cultivators to reinforce the various parallel universes across the Endless Frontier. It was simply that too many had died during this particular battle.
People did not want to die, but during this battle, their only options were to either surrender to Aeternus, or fight to the death against the corpse kings. There was no escape.
Anyone who fled from the Endless Frontier would suffer a truly miserable fate as soon as their actions were discovered, and the Sixverse Association would always discover any such deserters.
All of the Lilliputians and their reinforcements from the Sixverse Association retreated into the tower.
Ling Shi looked upwards. "It seems that you can't endure any longer. Are you going to send the queen away for them? Then..."
Overhead, a figure slowly descended from the gravity wind, and its appearance caused the scarlet-eyed elder's scalp to go numb and his face to turn pale. He understood very well what it meant for this corpse king to emerge from the gravity wind—this corpse king possessed an unimaginably powerful body.
Throughout the entire history of the Lilliput Universe, never once had anyone been capable of surviving within the gravity wind.
Inside the tower, the woman was also staring blankly at the corpse king which had appeared high in the sky. How is this happening? Are we Lilliputians really going to be destroyed today?
She was aware that a similarly powerful corpse king had been destroyed in their universe before, but at a very steep price, one of which had been the great elder’s current injuries. After that, Ling Shi had appeared on the battlefield, and with his knowledge of his former race, he had led the Aeternals all the way to Greentea Planet. Now, in addition to Ling Shi, another incredibly powerful corpse king had appeared.
Even if the Sixverse Association sent two Ascendants as reinforcements, they would not be able to stop the powerhouses sent to destroy the Lilliput Universe!
There was no longer any escape.
In one corner of the battlefield, two people escaped into the shadows at the same time, glancing at each other in surprise.
"You also want to escape?" one of the two asked softly, not daring to draw anyone else’s attention.
The other person replied, "Of course I want to escape! What? Should I wait here to die?"
"What about those reinforcements who just arrived??"
"If I’m going to die anyways, what is there to fear?"
"Then let's go. These people are all going to die."
No one cared about the two cultivators at this moment. Everyone was nervously looking at the slowly descending corpse king, the shadow of death completely shrouding them.
Then, the spiritual energy and spiritual energy arrows were released at the same time.
The two arrows pulling at the gravity wind shot towards each other, tearing away the black gravity wind overhead as they crashed into each other.
The sky trembled, and Greentea Planet itself cracked as massive tears appeared in the void, spreading into the distance.
The power of the clash between two Semi-Progenitor-level experts terrified countless people.
As long as a peak powerhouse was not present, cultivators at the Semi-Progenitor level were practically invincible.
How many peak powerhouses were there in the entire Sixverse Association? Those with the strength of Semi-Progenitors were generally regarded as powerful enough to change the flow of a battle even on the Endless Frontier.
Two arrows slammed into each other in the sky. With the added power of the gravity wind, the impact created a visible shockwave that rippled out in every direction. The ground shattered as the shockwave passed by, and it kicked up a wind that swept across the entire battlefield, tearing many corpse kings in the sky into shreds as blood rained down.
An entire layer of the surface of the planet was stripped away, and a number of nearby planets were completely shattered.
The spatial fractures spread out like a spider web.
Finally, one of the two arrows shattered, and the other shot towards Ling Neng.
The old man saw the arrow approaching, but he knew that it was impossible to avoid it. This was truly his limit.
In the tower, the woman screamed, "Great Elder–!"
The old man’s heart dropped completely. This was really the end. He had never thought that he would end up dying to an arrow from another member of his race.
The arrow roared through the air, only to shatter the moment it was about to pierce Ling Neng’s head.
The great elder felt confused; why had the arrow shattered?
Across from Ling Neng, Ling Shi was similarly confused. His arrow should have killed Ling Shi, so why had it shattered?
At this same time, the corpse king who had startled the entire battlefield by emerging from the gravity wind fell to the ground. Two little people and two larger humans appeared from behind where that corpse king had been standing in the sky. It was Lu Yin and the others.
Everyone had been distracted by the clash between Ling Neng and Ling Shi, so they had not noticed the arrival of the four people. Upon seeing the newcomers, everyone on the battlefield was stunned.
Within the Lilliput Universe, the gravity wind was an unstoppable astral phenomena. In fact, this black wind was the reason why the natives of this universe had such small sizes. Over countless years, they had shrunk down from a normal height to only being the size of a person’s palm, just so that they could avoid the gravity wind. However, ordinary sized people could easily be destroyed by the gravity wind when they arrived in the Lilliput Universe.
The sight of a corpse king that was able to move about within the gravity wind had startled the people on the battlefield as much as the arrival of someone with the strength of a Progenitor.
However, how had such a powerhouse been killed so silently?
Lu Yin lifted a foot and stepped past the fallen corpse king. He had to admit that this particular corpse king had possessed an impressive level of physical strength, and he had needed to exert a good deal of effort to deal with it. Even so, it was completely incomparable to the corpse king that had ambushed him in the Sixth Mainland.
Cang Bi looked across the battlefield, particularly noting Ling Neng’s condition, which scared the Semi-Monarch a bit. This was the Endless Frontier, and despite the small old man clearly being an expert equal to Cang Bi, he had been pushed to his limits and would have died if Lu Yin had arrived even a single moment later.
Cang Bi was thrilled that Lu Yin had accompanied him to the Lilliput Universe, as if Cang Bi had come alone, he would have been absolutely no match for the corpse king and the transformed expert from the Lilliput Universe. This would have most likely been the end of Cang Bi.
"Alright, let's clean this up!" Lu Yin suddenly shouted as he stared at Ling Shi.
Ling Shi raised a hand and shot out another arrow. His strength was equal to a Semi-Progenitor’s, which meant that he could instantly destroy someone as strong as an Envoy. Lu Yin’s cultivation was clearly inferior to Ling Shi’s, and therefore, he should not be the elder’s match. However, Ling Shi fled the moment he released his arrow.
He was fully aware of just how powerful the corpse king who had just died must have been. This stranger had managed to defeat that corpse king, which meant that Ling Shi could do nothing against this person.
Lu Yin reached out and casually grabbed the arrow. He crushed it and then released a palm strike. His Hollow Palm had always been an invisible attack, but after gaining the ability to perceive spatial lines, using them meant that almost no one could evade Lu Yin’s attacks anymore.
The Hollow Palm slammed into Ling Shi’s back. Nothing had stopped or hindered the attack, and Ling Shi spat out a mouthful of blood. Cracks appeared across his entire body.
The tiny old man was horrified. He had somehow managed to endure the attack, but at a cost of terrible injuries, and a second attack appeared right after the first, smashing Ling Shi into the ground.
Lu Yin had only released two Hollow Palms, but this transformed elder from the Lilliput Universe was not particularly powerful for his level, and he was incomparable to someone like Xia Ji, let alone the Semi-Progenitors from the Heavens Sect era, such as Lu Buzheng. On the other hand, Lu Yin could fight against Progenitors.
Two palm strikes were all it took to destroy Ling Shi.
Ling Neng and others on the battlefield were badly startled, and they stared at Lu Yin in a daze. Had a peak powerhouse arrived?
The moment that Ling Shi died, the rest of the corpse kings quickly fled from the battlefield.
"Cang Bi, deal with them," Lu Yin calmly ordered.
Cang Bi respectfully acknowledged the command, and the power of a Semi-Monarch swept across the battlefield, eliminating all of the corpse kings. Cang Bi’s power meant that dealing with the corpse kings was a simple matter.
Lu Yin moved towards Ling Neng.
Tuo Mu and Tuo Qu hurried over to help Ling Neng. "Great Elder, are you alright?"
Ling Neng waved their question away, but he used their help to stand and face Lu Yin so that he could bow to the newcomer. "I am Ling Neng, the Lilliputians’ Great Elder. I’m very happy to see you, Senior."
Lu Yin saw how serious the little man’s injuries were, and he pulled out a pill to give to the man. "I am not your senior."
Ling Neng gratefully took the pill and swallowed it without asking what it was.
The pill was huge for his tiny body, and after taking it, his face took on a rosy hue. He let out a murky breath and thanked Lu Yin again. "If you hadn't arrived in time, my Lilliputians would have been in grave danger. I didn’t expect any reinforcements from the Sixverse Association, but I’m grateful to receive such a powerful ally.”
A group of people emerged from the distant tower, and they stared across the battlefield.
Ling Neng turned to them and said, "Why don't you clean up this battlefield?"
Everyone rushed out to eliminate any enemy stragglers, only to discover that there was no need. Cang Bi had already used his monarch essence to kill every last surviving corpse king, and the Semi-Monarch’s strength stunned the people, even Ling Neng. When had the Lilliput Universe ever hosted such powerful cultivators, let alone two of them?
A small woman stepped out from the crowd and bowed to Lu Yin. "Princess Ling Qi of the Lilliputians thanks you for saving her life."
"Thank you, Senior, for saving our lives."
All of the Lilliputians bowed, as did the cultivators from the Sixverse Association. "Thank you, Senior, for saving our lives."
Lu Yin waved their thanks away. "There’s no need for thanks. This is a battlefield."
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