HCB Chapter 478 - 298: Finding the Top-Ranked Big Sister
Chapter 478 - 298: Finding the Top-Ranked Big Sister
Just as Zou Feng and the others began to feel that this Outer Realm was barren, Jiang Wanzhao’s voice suddenly rang out, clear for all to hear.
"Attention, all disciples. An enemy attack is imminent!"
"Channel your True Qi and Spiritual Qi at once! Power the Flying Celestial Ship!"
’An enemy attack?’
Just as everyone began looking around, wondering where the attack was coming from, a dense swarm of tiny black dots appeared on the distant horizon.
’They can fly?’
Sure enough, within moments, the small black dots grew clearer.
Zou Feng left his room and stepped onto the deck. Focusing his gaze, he saw that the black dots were, in fact, a horde of winged lizards.
Even from so far away, the ferocious and violent aura radiating from the lizard monsters was so palpable it felt like a physical assault.
Zou Feng did a quick count. The number of lizard monsters speeding toward them was at least in the tens of thousands.
If these lizard monsters were to swarm the Flying Celestial Ship, their sheer weight alone would be enough to make it plummet from the sky.
Unfortunately for them, the Flying Celestial Ship was a strategic weapon of the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect. It was designed for more than mere transportation.
The next moment, a dazzling light erupted from the Flying Celestial Ship.
Strange waves of energy radiated outward like ripples on a pond.
The lizard monsters at the front of the swarm, caught in these "ripples," were instantly sliced in two. They fell from the sky in a ceaseless rain of flesh.
From then on, the Flying Celestial Ship became a meat grinder, constantly emitting massive blades of light that sliced and diced the lizard monsters.
Yet despite this, the lizard monsters remained fearless, continuing their charge wave after wave.
These creatures did, in fact, have a ranged attack: they spat deep blue "water arrows" from their mouths.
They looked highly venomous.
However, the overwhelming volley of water arrows was completely blocked by the Flying Celestial Ship’s defensive Array, unable to advance even an inch.
This sight put many of the disciples at ease.
They all felt they had the situation under control. The lizard monsters, despite their numbers, seemed to pose no real threat to the Flying Celestial Ship.
But no sooner had that thought crossed their minds than an exceptionally large lizard monster, a hundred meters long, abruptly materialized directly above the Flying Celestial Ship.
Then, amidst the behemoth’s thunderous roars, a jet of blue flame erupted from its mouth.
"Vile beast! You dare show off your parlor tricks before me?"
With a sharp cry, Jiang Wanzhao took action.
She hovered above the ship’s highest point and made a simple motion, pressing her palm downward.
With just that simple "press of a small hand," the giant lizard monster was struck from above by an invisible force, its massive body exploding in midair.
The power of a True Disciple from the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect was truly on another level.
But the Alien Race of this region was not so easily dispatched.
High above, dozens of even larger lizard monsters soon materialized out of thin air.
Furthermore, faintly visible directly above these giant lizards, was a monster that resembled a jellyfish.
Jiang Wanzhao grinned, clasped her hands behind her back, and slowly ascended into the sky.
The other two True Disciples, Gu Yuankai and Ye Chenhua, would naturally not stand idly by. They immediately unleashed their own unique abilities and soared into the sky after Jiang Wanzhao.
As Ye Chenhua struck, hundreds of doppelgängers instantly appeared around him.
The aura of each doppelgänger was nearly identical to his own.
As for Gu Yuankai, he suddenly threw out a pile of Magical Treasures.
The Magical Treasures expanded as they flew through the air, rapidly assembling into a suit of ferocious-looking heavy armor.
Once encased in the heavy armor, Gu Yuankai looked as if he were piloting a mecha.
Zou Feng watched with a hint of envy.
Yet even with the True Disciples in action, the assault from the smaller lizard monsters below did not let up.
The Flying Celestial Ship’s defensive Array was being put to a severe test.
After all, the True Disciples weren’t omnipotent. Some of the blue flames spewed by the giant monsters inevitably slipped past them and slammed into the Flying Celestial Ship.
RUMBLE...
Amid the massive explosions, the Flying Celestial Ship, once steady as a rock, finally began to lurch.
The shield of light formed by the defensive Array also began to flicker erratically.
"Quickly, everyone, channel your Spiritual Qi!"
Someone shouted again—Zou Feng couldn’t tell who—and he suddenly found the Spiritual Qi in his body being forcibly and invisibly drawn out of him.
Under normal circumstances, the Flying Celestial Ship was powered by a massive amount of spirit stones.
But in a crisis like this, spirit stones alone were clearly not enough.
Besides, the Flying Celestial Ship couldn’t use its full power output. It had to conserve enough energy for the return journey.
Thus, in a situation like this, all the disciples on board had to act as "batteries" to power the Flying Celestial Ship.
’So much for "channeling your Spiritual Qi to power the Flying Celestial Ship"...’
’It’s being forcibly drained whether I channel it or not!’
Though he grumbled internally, Zou Feng didn’t really mind. After all, if the Flying Celestial Ship went down, he would go down with it.
He took a moment to assess the drain. ’This loss of Spiritual Qi is nothing to me.’
’After all the Heavenly and Earthly Treasures I absorbed when I broke through to the Spiritual Energy Realm, how could there be no effect?’
With his current reserves of Spiritual Qi, he had more than ten ordinary Inner Sect Disciples combined.
Before long, thanks to the combined efforts of the "human batteries," the number of small lizard monsters dropped sharply, the once-dense swarm dwindling to a scattered few.