LRAB Chapter 377 Hidden Plan, Worst-Case Scenario
Chapter 377 Hidden Plan, Worst-Case Scenario
Chapter 377 Hidden Plan, Worst-Case Scenario
"The methods of this Senior Qingfeng are truly astounding," said Tianxian Xingjun, wiping non-existent cold sweat from his forehead.
The Star Lords were both amazed and puzzled, as none of the many peak Star Lords in the Immortal Alliance possessed similar abilities.
So—who exactly is this person?
Before they could think any further, they saw arrows flying from the direction of Jianhe Palace in the distance, locking onto Ye Yang and unleashing endless killing intent!
The arrow carried a power akin to the might of heaven and earth, its strength immense yet its sharpness unparalleled. Its boundless power was concentrated into a single point, making it quite eerie.
"Jianhe Palace has made its move!"
Jingliu Xingjun's pupils contracted sharply; the power of that arrow made him feel extremely apprehensive.
Let alone his immortal body, even if you transported a blue dwarf star that he had refined to the Source River World and directly faced this attack as a star, he would probably be torn apart, his origin shattered, his soul scattered, and his Great Dao destroyed.
"The four major defensive cities and the River Palace are interconnected defensive structures, which the native inhabitants of the Yuan River have managed for countless years, claiming they will never fall—in history, a powerful force once gathered 102 Yuan Emperors to besiege the Linghe Palace, and as a result, more than 60 Yuan Emperors of the attacking side perished in that battle!"
The star deities all had solemn expressions.
Without True Monarch-level combat power, they have almost no chance of breaking through any Ancestral-level River Palace!
Linghe Palace was breached from within, Yehe Palace was defeated by True Lord Jili, and Tinghe Palace was abandoned voluntarily by the local forces.
"Hmph, it's too late."
Ye Yang sneered. The golden sun had already fallen, triggering an endless release of light and heat that incinerated all the rivers and weak creatures within millions of kilometers!
Fortunately, the area around the Ancestral River Palace is inhabited entirely by high-level cultivators, who have all been conscripted as garrison soldiers or have long since left to avoid conscription. Therefore, most of the weaker creatures in the vicinity are not human.
The next moment, the scorching sun vanished abruptly, as if it had never existed. If it weren't for the evaporated hot water vapor and the melted island land that testified to the disaster, everyone would probably have thought it was just an illusion.
Within the dilapidated Qicheng, there was no longer any trace of a powerful figure.
Before reinforcements from Jianhe Palace arrived, the fortified city had already fallen.
Facing the sharp arrows shot from Jianhe Palace, Ye Yang transformed into a dragon, his body covered in countless scales formed by secret patterns, which flowed and amplified his power.
He reached out and grabbed the sharp arrow that was powerful enough to kill any peak Star Lord immortal body.
It looks incredibly relaxed and carefree.
But Ye Yang was slightly surprised:
"This Source River World still possesses considerable strength. If I hadn't refined the Primordial Essence, even with the support of a True Monarch's Great Dao, I would have struggled to withstand this arrow relying solely on the Taiji Immortal Power."
Looking at the arrow in his hand, he saw that the arrow was made of a fairly tough material, and it only deformed slightly despite being gripped by Ye Yang's immense strength.
"I'll return it to you."
He leaned back and then suddenly threw it out!
After a tremendous roar, a meteor traveled hundreds of millions of kilometers and struck the enormous, ethereal palace shrouded in mist in the distance.
It seemed to have pierced through some kind of barrier and collapsed a towering building.
"We're entering Qi City!" Twelve Star Lords led a Five Elements Dharma Formation army into the ruined city.
They had agreed beforehand that after capturing the first fortified city, a group of people would be stationed there.
The four defensive cities and Jianhe Palace were connected as one, which enhanced each other's defensive capabilities.
However, once a fortified city is captured, a gap will appear in this system, causing the defensive effectiveness to plummet.
However, that's not enough—it would be too time-consuming and laborious to attack Jianhe Palace directly now. It would be more efficient to first capture and occupy the other three garrison cities and dismantle the outer defense system of Jianhe Palace.
This approach can also create an encirclement, leaving the powerful Origin Emperor inside with nowhere to escape!
With the remaining three Five Elements Dharma Formations and the various Star Lords, Ye Yang arrived at the second city.
"It's a bit strange, given the hatred the resistance army has for us, they should at least make a sound, but when they attacked that Lacquer City just now, the two Source Emperors were completely silent, without any angry or desperate roars."
"Senior Qingfeng's two moves both seemed to contain extremely powerful mental attacks. Perhaps it was because he was hit that he couldn't make a sound."
Listening to the conversation of the star lords behind him, Ye Yang also felt strange.
The power of the "Shaking the Sea" attack contained a powerful illusion, which even managed to make the illusion real. Ye Yang could feel the consciousness of thousands of powerful beings that he had dragged into the illusion, but the consciousness of the two Origin Emperors was very strange.
He doesn't seem like a normal person.
More like some kind of puppet!
To verify this feeling, when Ye Yang attacked the second city, he first tore a huge crack in the city with a claw, and then his powerful divine soul power probed into the crack, directly dragging the city's experts into an illusion.
In the endless, cyclical corridor, they endlessly reincarnate within fragments of their own lives—
Ye Yang, however, was focused on two experts at the Origin Emperor realm.
"Genius — cultivated all the way to the Half-Emperor realm — failed to break through — tried again, failed again —"
A person who is relatively talented, but not quite a genius.
He was stuck at the threshold of the Origin Emperor Realm and could not break through, feeling extremely unwilling!
Until he was summoned by Chao Di, the spiritual leader of the resistance alliance —
"Lost consciousness—and then, breakthrough successful!"
Ye Yang narrowed his eyes; he already knew part of the answer.
"These guys, although they successfully broke through through some unknown means, seem to be very incompatible with their own power. The power of the Origin Emperor Realm is devouring their original power, causing wear and tear between them and creating defects. Obviously, they don't have long to live."
"Moreover, it seems that Emperor Chao also secretly used some kind of magic to cause these powerful individuals to experience emotional fluctuations after their breakthroughs."
Self-will has completely disappeared, leaving only a simple belief in obeying all of Emperor Chao's instructions for the survival of civilization, and some mechanical thought responses.
"So this is how they created a batch of human-machine robots to hold us back?"
"No, not entirely. A simple puppet can at most control complex defensive facilities at the level of a citadel, but a system as vast and complex as the Ancestral River Palace would require the cooperation of two true Source Emperor level experts!"
"So, that Emperor Chao has probably set up about 18 puppet Source Emperors, as well as 2 Source Emperors who truly rose through the ranks on their own, to hold us back here—what does he want to do?"
Previously, the Immortal Alliance development team estimated the number of Source Emperors in the resistance forces of the Source River World to be between 30 and 35.
However, now that this situation has arisen, the high-level forces of these resistance groups need to be reassessed.
"We must find out the true purpose of that Emperor Chao, and where the other Source Emperors who rose through the ranks on their own have gone!"
Ye Yang's expression turned serious, and he no longer had the idea of using these cities to practice his skills.
With a sweep of his powerful divine soul, he instantly injected a thought algorithm into the consciousness of 90% of the strong individuals in this city. This algorithm would allow them to summarize all their memories of "Emperor Huang" and other Origin Emperors within the past hundred years, which would then surface on the surface of their minds and be quickly copied away by Ye Yang's divine soul.
After that, the algorithm will erase all their memories, thought patterns, and self-perception!
These 90% of the powerful individuals displayed fierce resistance within Ye Yang's illusion. They were completely unable to accept the Immortal Alliance, could not be assimilated, and could only be eliminated.
Besides, the remaining 10% who still had the potential for naturalization were dragged into a deep slumber by Ye Yang.
"Send some men to take over this citadel! The rest of you, follow me!"
Ye Yang said in a deep voice, while informing the star lords and senior military staff of the information and speculations he had collected.
"Based on the intelligence we gathered in the Tingzu River Basin, as well as the intelligence sent from headquarters, those true Origin Emperors are probably carrying out their Fire Seed Project."
This is what the intelligence adjutant who accompanied the expeditionary force said.
Ye Yang frowned: "The territory of the Source River World is limited. After losing the main stream of the Ancestral River and the tributaries of various major rivers, they simply have no chance of making a comeback!"
"Hiding and fleeing among the minor branches of the local population is undoubtedly a slow death. Their true strength has not yet suffered significant losses, and they still have the power to fight! It is unreasonable for them to give up resistance and begin their exile."
The adjutant nodded: "Yes, it's very unreasonable."
"Therefore, after eliminating all impossible answers, the only remaining possibility is that the plan of those Origin Emperor realm cultivators to flee with the fire seed is a smokescreen!"
Everyone frowned.
"To pay such a high price just to cover up the real purpose, then this real purpose must be extremely important. In fact, in the eyes of the resistance forces, this is the only hope, the only way to break the deadlock!" Tianxian Xingjun said with deep concern.
"Hmph, break the deadlock? We are about to occupy the last ancestral river basin, and the main streams of the four ancestral rivers will be in our hands. Next, we can use the will of all living beings to distort the will of heaven and transform the will of the great river spirits! What do they have to break the deadlock with?"
Jingliu Xingjun scoffed, "Do you think they can flip the table?"
Immediately, everyone's eyes turned to him.
Jingliu Xingjun's expression stiffened: "It can't be that bad, can it?"
"Even for a True Lord, destroying the entire Source River World wouldn't be easy, would it? Besides, we have two True Lords blocking our way. Even if they could trigger a complete upheaval in the Great River Spirits, they still couldn't overturn everything—"
Ye Yangfei, standing at the front, frowned deeply: "Perhaps. But we must always prepare for the worst."
"Now I need to quickly destroy Jianhe Palace and clear away the last obstacles. Then you all need to immediately assign tasks to all the strategists to search for clues in the newly occupied areas. The intelligence department also needs to be given the highest priority."
"As for those Source Emperors who might flee to various places, let's leave them alone for now and let them cause some more trouble."
Within half a day, Ye Yang had wiped out the resistance forces of the four major cities. After feeling the depletion of the primordial energy in his body, he turned his attention to Jianhe Palace, which had become a "commander without troops".
Inside, twelve auras of the Origin Emperor realm intertwined and shone brightly. This should be the most advanced array formation technique in the Origin River World.
Unfortunately, although the gap in quantity can be caught up, the difference in quality cannot be overcome.
Ye Yang made his move.
Now, he divides the combat methods of the True Monarch realm in the myriad worlds into three categories: local combat methods, Dao-imitating combat methods, and Dao-derived combat methods.
Local tactics are tactics that fully comply with the laws of the local world and are suitable for use in worlds of level eight or higher.
In ultra-high-level worlds like the main world and the Devouring World, Ye Yang cannot distort the underlying laws of the world, so he can only follow the operation of the laws and use local combat techniques.
The Dao-imitating Battle Method and the Dao-derived Battle Method are applicable to worlds of level seven and below. The True Lord's Great Dao Domain can easily reject and distort the underlying laws of these worlds, take over everything, and create a law system according to his own will.
This leads to two distinctions: one is to imitate or simulate the law system of a high-level world and rely on this advanced world's law system to fight.
Secondly, one can follow one's own will and the foundation of one's own Dao to develop a new system of laws that has never appeared in the myriad worlds before, and then rely on it to fight.
Both have their advantages and disadvantages. One can have a very high upper limit if the simulated world level is high enough, even surpassing one's own realm. The other can perfectly match one's own Great Dao and perfectly exert one's own strength.
In the Yuanhe World, Ye Yang's main focus was on practicing the Dao Simulation Battle Technique and the Dao Evolution Battle Technique.
The Dao imitates the laws of the main world, and its techniques have the lowest power.
Dao Yan's combat was flawless, with all his unique skills displaying balanced power. However, the upper limit of his spacetime techniques was not as high as when Dao Yan devoured the laws of the world.
This largely illustrates Ye Yang's emphasis on cultivation.
Previously, Ye Yang always used the Dao Evolution Battle Technique, which consumed the least amount of resources.
At this moment, facing the impregnable Jianhe Palace, Ye Yangdao planned to devour the world's law system and unleash his strongest attack!
"Gentlemen, I never imagined that the foreign Great Spirit level expert would be so powerful. It seems that we will be resting here forever today."
"You yellow-haired bastard, are you scared?"
"Haha—what's there to be afraid of? Everyone dies eventually. Rather than running away in panic all day, it's better to die in battle."
"It's a pity we can't buy Emperor Chao more time for his plans."
Inside Jianhe Palace, the three Yuan Emperors were talking, showing no fear of death and facing it with heroic spirit.
However, the next moment—
Without a sound, two of the three had already stopped responding.
"Hmm?" The Source Emperor, whose yellow fur resembled that of an otter beastman and was jokingly called "Yellow Mongrel," was taken aback.
Only then did he realize that of the twelve Emperor-level combatants—three Origin Emperors and nine Pseudo-Emperors—remaining in Jianhe Palace, eight had already departed.
He was left alone, along with three other false emperors.
Most of Jianhe Palace also vanished into thin air, as if it had never existed.
The cross-section is incredibly smooth.
"I?"
He looked at the coiled dragon shadow that had appeared in his field of vision with astonishment and fear. He couldn't tell what color it was; perhaps it had no color, or perhaps it contained all colors.
Its body surface, layered with endless, intricate patterns, resembled flowing tadpoles; upon closer inspection, it was also composed of countless scales, drawing the viewer's consciousness in, as if to be forever lost in its endless swirling motion.
Suddenly, an eye appeared from beneath the countless scales.
Huang Mao Yuan Di's consciousness stopped instantly.
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