Chapter 996: The First Battle of the New Dao (II)

Just as Li Hao and the others busied themselves with research.

Outside Skystar City, the reaches of the Skystar Sea.

The void rippled as a group of people looked beyond the sea. A supernatural who appeared to be a scholar widened his eyes. “I see clouds of killing intent...”

“I sense incomparably mighty strength.” A lecherous old man next to him trembled violently. “It’s not just one person, but many!”

“How many?” Lin Hongyu had purposefully brought these two with her on this campaign. They were supernaturals of special attributes selected from the City of Supernaturals.

“Fourteen entities of black killing intent!” The scholar swallowed hard.

“They are too formidable to be fathomed.” The lecherous old man’s ears twitched and he shook like a leaf. “They’re stronger than even the city lord!”

Lin Hongyu’s expression changed. Fourteen incoming! There was no need to guess, they certainly did not have friendly intentions.

Fourteen unknowns with killing intent, heading straight for Skystar City. What more needed to be said? They were certainly here for Li Hao!

Thankfully, she had thirty students with her. Lin Hongyu’s face flickered through a variety of changes as she looked at those around her. “Mobilize the Demon Hunters and utilize the void shield and void chain. Additionally, fire the energy cannons in a full spread at our enemies! Have the sky canopy record everything so it can be educational material later on. This will also show enemies just how strong the Skystar Commander Office is!

“All seniors and students are to change into Demon Hunter armor!”

The Evenround Martial students didn’t mind the order. That armor was Battle Heaven armor to begin with. In fact, they were all very excited!

Fourteen... they’d been worried that there would be too few enemies to go around. But now, it was the more the merrier! Would there be anyone they knew among the crowd?

But their dean had said that they could ignore all else after leaving the ruins. They just needed to follow whatever Li Hao arranged, there would be no problems. For a group of lawless and reckless imperial descendants, their dean had just rubber-stamped any course of action.

It didn’t matter who it was in front of them! They would kill all of the enemies!

Lin Hongyu was also slightly agitated. This was her first time commanding so many powerhouses against a group of ancient existences. Even though she was most likely facing their core origin replicas and not their primary bodies, the impending clash still made her quail.

She quailed with eagerness and anticipation!

Her opponents were martial masters, supernaturals, the nine ministries, and royal family when she ruled the City of Supernaturals. Ever since joining the Skystar Commander Office, however, she felt that her life had changed.

It was the ancient powerhouses who were her opponents now! This was the kind of life to live! Such were the goals of the strong, were they not?

“Deputy Zhou, you’ll be in charge of command.” Lin Hongyu looked at the deputy with some embarrassment. “I’d like to personally test these people’s strength and see if six element Arcanus, as well as 144 acupoints, can hold their own against some of these core origin replicas!”

She wanted to take the field herself! Deputy Zhou was rather resigned by the request. Martial masters... were martial masters in the end. Lin Hongyu seemed calm and steady in regular times, but wished to be in the thick of action at critical moments.

“Be careful, we haven’t notified the commander about this development.” Deputy Zhou didn’t say anything otherwise. “Try to take at least one of them alive. They won’t die if their core origin replicas are destroyed, but it will be a significant blow to their primary bodies. These people will self-detonate only when they lose all hope! Therefore, it’s best if we get one of them before they fully despair...

“The heavyweights from Battle Heaven may be arriving behind them. We must be fast and prevent anything else arising from Battle Heaven’s side. After we take care of the first group, we need to prevent the second group from entering the city! No matter what happens, we need to wait for the commander and rest to emerge.”

“I understand.” Lin Hongyu nodded.

Off to the side, Chen Zhongtian only shifted with some excitement. Meanwhile, Chen Yao weakly transmitted, “Old man, we’re about to go against some ancients, right? Can we actually do that?”

“What are you afraid of?! So what if they’re ancient powerhouses?? You’ve got a ton of strength on your side! Everyone can underestimate Li Hao, but we cannot! The young man has ample and strong troops under his banner now. If it wasn’t for his attention being elsewhere, it wouldn’t be that easy for the three great organizations to withdraw!

“The other side has sent about a dozen ancient powerhouses and thinks this will be enough to take care of the young man. Just look at how we’re responding—Li Hao’s primary battle strength isn’t even in play. Lin Hongyu is only holding down the fort, but she’s thinking of eradicating the enemy and claiming first glory in everyone’s service to the young man!

“The primary bodies of these guys is the key. Li Hao probably won’t be able to sit still with this group’s mobilization. It’d be one thing if the enemy didn’t take action. Will these Silver Moon folks be able to keep it to themselves after someone’s come knocking on their door? Therefore, seize this chance to make something of yourself and earn some merits. This is the only way you and I will be able to find our footing! If not, we’ll be left in the dust soon enough!”

Chen Yao nodded thoughtfully.

......

At the same time, large numbers of Demon Hunters alighted from an earth driller and quickly fanned out. Huang Yu led them instead of Liu Long. He brandished a spear, waiting for further commands.

This was the Demon Hunters’ first large-scale operation against ancient heavyweights. Although they were just the supporting cast, they would demonstrate the army’s impressive bearing nonetheless.

“We only have one mission—seal off the void and don’t let anyone get away! There are two groups of enemies. The first is a batch of ancient powerhouses, the second is the same and we actually know them—the Battle Heaven Army! This is the real Battle Heaven Army. I’ve brought all of you with me today to witness the true might of the real Battle Heaven Army!”

Huang Yu outright viewed the Battle Heaven Army as the enemy when he received word of the army’s movement. This was what an army officer should do. Regardless of whether the other side was friend or foe, it was best to treat them as a foe first to prevent losing one’s guard.

Shudders ran through the thousands of Demon Hunters on site. They wore Battle Heaven armor and were aware of the Battle Heaven Army; it was time to personally meet these legendary characters today! How could they not be keyed up?

The group held a very complex view of Battle Heaven and the Battle Heaven Army. But if the two were truly to clash in battle, the Demon Hunters didn’t think they would come off any worse for the wear.

......

Ripples shook the void again and again. More than a dozen powerhouses with blurry figures sped forward. They were wholly unafraid as they didn’t think that there was anyone at present in the outside world that could stand against them.

They were invincible!

And it wasn’t just one of them, but fourteen. If it wasn’t for a desire to cover their tracks so that certain Silver Moon powerhouses wouldn’t be aware of their existence, they would just outright land next to Skystar City and demand that Li Hao present himself for execution!

“Hmm? There seems to be a lot of people nearby...”

“There are, but there’s no need to pay attention to them. I sense them too, they’re a bunch of pathetic ants...”

The first group sensed a bit of what lay in wait ahead of them as soon as they set foot into the Skystar Sea. However, the obstacles were so weak and so far away that they might as well not exist, despite their high numbers.

What a bunch of weaklings!

To the first group, anything below Apex was an insignificant worm. Their primary bodies were more than the Apex level. If it wasn’t for the disappearance of core origin and suppression from the world, they wouldn’t mind the appearance of true Apexes.

“Oh? They seem to be coming for us.” The group’s leader was a bit surprised. A grunt traveled into their ears—someone seemed to have given an order as a massive shield blinked into existence, blotting out the sun!

“A void shield?”

A chain with thousands of rays of blood qi snaked through the air and sealed off the four sides. Shield and chain appeared at the same time, sealing off the world.

“Battle Heaven Army equipment?” asked a surprised heavyweight.

“The ants dare ambush us! Did they learn of our movements ahead of time, or did they accidentally come across us?”

“Who cares, just kill them all!”

“Kill!” Someone punched the void, splitting it open! However, what greeted them was just a shield.

The one who’d struck sniffed with disdain. If the Battle Heaven Army of old had sent out one thousand soldiers, they really would be able to deter any enemy. But these poor excuses of imitations were just a joke if they wished to imitate the real Battle Heaven Army!

Although blood qi had melded into the items, the heavyweight’s blow would vibrate these follows to death, if not outright smash the shield.

“Fire the cannons!” echoed an order within the armor communication system.

Ten supernatural cannons appeared and let loose with a barrage.

KABOOM!

Explosions rocked the void!

The fourteen figures all took corresponding action. Someone snorted, “Save this for other weaklings. What use are these against us?”

Boom!

Bomb after bomb exploded, but were also instantly extinguished! Some punched back, others flourished swords. The void shattered into pieces as the imprint of a fist appeared on the massive shield as well.

Countless Demon Hunters were shaken to the point of losing their focus and blood qi. They fell to the ground, vomiting blood!

The scene caused many frowns across the defenders’ faces. Upon the shield, both Lin Hongyu and Deputy Zhou looked on solemnly.

“The Demon Hunters are still too weak. Even though their equipment is the best, it is hard for them to withstand a true Apex!” Lin Hongyu transmitted.

“Mmhmm, there’s too few of them.”

“We can’t help that, we only have so many sets of armor. Of course, we’re producing more as fast as we can...”

The Mu father and son were stunned by the transmitted conversation. It was their first time participating in this kind of battle and frankly, they were already shocked. What they saw was more than a dozen premier heavyweights being stopped by a group of weak Demon Hunters. The ancients were being kept over the sea!

Any one of these people had stronger presences than them. This was a stunning outcome! Were these the enemies that Li Hao was up against?

No, perhaps the young man didn’t care about them. So the gap between the nine ministries and Skystar Commander Office was this pronounced. No wonder the nine ministries hadn’t been able to fight back and were immediately defeated!