Chapter 2449: The Art of Concealing Strength
On a battlefield of shattered stars within the Chuangjie Daxu, an unprecedented great siege was unfolding!
Planets were broken, corpses scattered across the fields!
And this was precisely the battlefield where Xiao Chuihuo, Zhao Dezhu, and their Sunset Red Heavenly Group were!
Opposing them was the most powerful legion of the Chuangjie Daxu—the Divine Spirit Legion!
It was composed of the Hidden Spirit Clan, Parasite Entities, the Lumu Clan, the Star Soul Clan, the Demon God Clan, and other strong races with extremely high sequence rankings!
Among them, the Hidden Spirit Clan and Parasite Entities even had the qualifications to compete with the Angel Void Clan for the top ten sequences—absolute powerhouse races!
Originally, the Divine Spirit Legion already numbered over a million, and even more terrifying, there were nearly four million insect soldier troops on the field!
Of course, the Insect Race did not openly participate in the siege of the human team; all these four million insect soldiers had been parasitized by Parasite Entities, becoming their parasitic beasts!
Belonging to the Parasite Entity faction, a single Parasite Entity, given enough bodies, could even split and parasitize infinitely, shaping an entire parasitic muscle legion from one person!
These insect soldiers were naturally "snatched" from the Insect Race by the Parasite Entities in order to eliminate the human team!
In this way, the Insect Race escaped suspicion of attacking humans!
However, the Divine Spirit Legion also did not want to attack humans, because they simply couldn't gain any benefit at all!
Obviously, they were forced—if they didn't attack the human team, they would immediately be besieged by the great races and collectively kicked out of the field!
To continue surviving in the Grand Hunt and live a little longer, eliminating Xiao Chuihuo and the others was the only path!
Fight they must!
Fortunately, they didn't have to deal with Jiangnan; up to now, Jiangnan had not appeared!
On the battlefield at this moment, torrents of skills bloomed everywhere, explosions and roars visible and audible everywhere!
The million-strong Divine Spirit Legion, with each sequence forming its own unit, had organized an ultra-large battle array, the outer layer wrapped with over four million blood-red parasitic beast insect soldiers as cannon fodder!
The Star Soul Clan released super-strong star soul power, like a brilliant galaxy waterfall, enveloping the entire legion to suppress the void!
This prevented Xiao Chuihuo's Eastern Myth domain from teleporting and breaking into the legion's interior for close combat!
Then, using the legion's overall firepower, they launched fatal bombings on Xiao Chuihuo and the others. Guerrilla hit-and-run tactics were ineffective against the Divine Spirit Legion!
Humans could only continuously use teleportation to move Eastern Myth, preventing themselves from being bombarded by the legion's combined attacks!
Otherwise, even with the Hundred Domain Grand Fusion, they wouldn't last long before being directly broken through!
After more than an hour of battle since the start, they had only eliminated hundreds of thousands of parasitic beast cannon fodder, reducing the legion's numbers by less than 50,000!
Among the hundred or so humans on this side, a dozen or so newcomers had encountered life-threatening danger in battle, ate Little Cherries, and crushed their life tokens to withdraw!
Both sides suffered losses!
The Hidden Spirit Clan leader, Hai Yin, looked utterly miserable!
(￢益￢ꐦ) "Damn, so hard to deal with. A hundred-person team, and after over an hour, we've only taken down a dozen? If not for the fusion domain, we'd have taken them already. Damn it! They didn't tell me about the fusion domain when I came!"
If not for being coerced by the great races, he wouldn't take this thankless and difficult task!
The Parasite Entity leader, Si Nue, squinted and said, "Stop complaining! With the Star Soul Clan's galaxy protective belt, they can't teleport in!"
"Things have come to this—do we have a way back? As long as we tear apart their fusion domain's defense, it's enough to clear them out!"
"No matter how abnormal their fusion domain is, it has limits. Organize the third wave of attack; if we take them down like this, our losses will be minimal!"
Then the Demon God Clan leader, Hua Feng, roared: "Divine Spirit Legion, heed my command! Organize the third wave of attack until Eastern Myth is broken!"
As soon as he said this, a wave of lamentations arose from within the legion—again?
The first two times hadn't broken through; would the third time work?
But they had no choice but to attack!
Hua Feng raised both hands high: "Demon Spirit Domain—Demon God Descends! Invoke the God!"
At this moment, all Demon God Clan warriors roared, endless demonic power surged from their bodies, converging into a massive totem war drum in the starry sky!
The war drum beat, the horn sounded long, and as demonic power gathered, phantom images of grotesque starry sky giant beasts emerged!
And a huge eight-armed demon god stood above the Divine Spirit Legion!
Compared to the enormous demon god, Zhao Dezhu's ancient star god body seemed tiny, only reaching the knees of the eight-armed demon god!
Ten fierce beasts sat beneath him, the eight-armed demon god dominating the sky!
To supply this demon god, who knew how much power from the sequence races was consumed—using the Demon God Clan as the foundation and the other sequence races as support, such a magnificent attack was launched!
Meanwhile, the Hidden Spirit Clan also began executing a combined technique!
Hai Yin held a spirit staff and roared to the sky: "Spirit Energy Breakthrough—Summon the Eternal Four Divine Artifacts!"
Layers of dazzling spirit light bloomed in the starry sky. As the light converged, a bow, a staff, a sword, and a shield suddenly condensed into form, radiating extremely brilliant spirit light!
The bow was drawn like a full moon, gathering a bright blue energy arrow, aiming at Eastern Myth!
The sword-type artifact pointed its tip at Xiao Chuihuo and the others, while the shield flew in front of the eight-armed demon god!
And the huge staff flashed with spirit light!
"Greater Healing Art! Greater Critical Art! Greater Defense Art! Greater Strengthening Art! Greater Purification Art! Greater Berserk Art! Greater Spirit Armor Art..."
One large-scale blessing skill after another rained down, buffing the entire Divine Spirit Legion, even affecting the eight-armed demon god phantom!
The third wave of attack was about to strike!
At this moment, inside the Eastern Myth world, the members of the Sunset Red Heavenly Group were all silent, eyes bloodshot, as if holding back a surge of power!
Xiao Chuihuo squinted: "Da Lei! Hit them with another wave! Everyone attack together!"
Wang Dalei clenched his steel teeth: "Forbidden Art—Crazy Big Coin Toss!"
Handfuls of fate coins were thrown out by Wang Dalei; all the fate coins distributed to the Sunset Red Heavenly Group were used by him!
At this moment, Wang Dalei had who knows how many layers of lethal heavenly punishment stacked on him!
Under the coin toss, whether the thunder struck the enemy or Wang Dalei himself, it was all attracted to him!
Within the rolling black clouds, as the heavenly punishment furiously struck, the black thunder dragon soul grew larger and larger!
With the posture of destroying stars and ending the world, it opened its bloody maw toward the Divine Spirit Legion!
"Fate Divine Punishment—World Destruction!"
"Rumble!"
The thunder roar, aggregating nearly a thousand lethal heavenly punishments, struck like a pitch-black celestial sword!
This attack was not just a single hit, but a continuous assault!
Seeing the thunder blast, even the Divine Spirit Legion dared not be careless!
The stacked power of this heavenly punishment was terrifying to the point of explosion. Wang Dalei's strength did not depend on how strong he himself was, but on how much thunder descended!
An amount that almost drained the Thunder Star Domain—one could imagine how terrifying it was!
The Lumu Clan leader, Pu Lulu, shouted delicately: "Lumu Clan! Defense! Raise the Lime Crystal Curtain!"
All Lumu Clan members united, directly raising a huge and thick jelly curtain in front of the Divine Spirit Legion's battle array!
"Rumble!"
The moment the Fate Divine Punishment exploded on the crystal curtain, countless thunder forces were dispersed and absorbed by it!
The Lumu Clan's ability was precisely the absorption and release of various energies, almost ignoring most energy attacks!
Even physical attacks could be ignored, absorbing the impact!
Yakeli inherited some of the Lumu Clan's abilities, allowing him to absorb and convert energy and absorb physical impacts!
Of course, everything had limits; when that limit was exceeded, no matter how well one absorbed, it was useless!
In less than thirty seconds, the crystal curtain suddenly burst open. All Lumu Clan members became energy saturated, their bodies flickering with black thunder!
Their originally translucent jelly-like bodies turned black, vomiting jelly in large mouths!
"Tsk, can't hold! Leaving it to you!"
The Fate Divine Punishment broke through the crystal curtain and headed straight for the galaxy belt suppressing the void!
At that moment, the eight-armed demon god stepped forward and grabbed the huge Eternal Divine Artifact shield!
Shoved it forward!
"Boom!"
The Fate Divine Punishment struck the Eternal Divine Artifact shield, exploding thunder light all over the sky, diffracting in all directions!
It even pushed the huge eight-armed demon god backward, but it ultimately held!
And the scattered attacks from Xiao Chuihuo and the others were also blocked by the legion one after another, achieving no significant results!
Wang Dalei said anxiously: (･ˇ益ˇ･ﾚﾍ) "Xiao Ye! Uncle Ye! This won't work at all! This Divine Spirit Legion is clearly not comparable to the small legions we fought before!"
"Their methods are too diverse, and each race has its own signature skills—coordinated offense and defense!"
"If we can't tear apart that galaxy belt, we can't break through their battle array and fight inside the legion. Our attacks aren't doing anything!"
"Now we've already endured two attacks and eliminated over a dozen people. If this continues, we really won't be able to take them. We still have so many power-ups not used—why not use them and fight? Isn't there still a chance?"
Yet Xiao Chuihuo just watched the Divine Spirit Legion organize the third wave of attack, not panicking at all!
His expression was calm!
"Young man, don't be so impatient. What's the rush? Some losses are expected! Don't dwell on it! No one lost their lives!"
"In battle, it's all about courage! At the first drum, morale rises; at the second, it declines; at the third, it's exhausted. When their morale is exhausted and ours is high, we overcome them. What the textbook taught isn't just classical Chinese prose to memorize!"
"We do have power-ups, but it's not yet time to use them!"
Ye Zhenguo chuckled: "Little Lei? I told you not to be impatient. When two sides fight, and the enemy is strong while we are few—if you reveal all your strength and trump cards right at the start and clash head-on with the enemy!"
"The battle will instantly become white-hot, reaching the most intense state. In that case, not to mention whether we can win, at least our side will lose more people than now—uncontrollable losses!"
"But when their morale is exhausted and ours is high, the situation is completely different. With minimal losses, we achieve maximum victory!"
"Power-ups can indeed enhance our strength, but the timing of their use is also important—we need to maximize their effect!"
Wang Zong grinned fiercely: "When they think we only have this much strength and no more tricks, that will be the beginning of their destruction!"
"Have you heard of playing the pig to eat the tiger? If the third wave of attack still can't take us down, their morale should be pretty well crushed by then!"
"At that time, it will be our moment to hunt! In team battles, it's not just about raw strength, but also tactics. Sometimes, hiding one's strength is an art!"
Wang Dalei opened his mouth wide, looking at Zhao Dezhu, Luo Jiaoyang, Li Kai, Liu Cuicui, and the others!
Sure enough, each of their eyes held a suppressed force—a fierce desire to ravage the enemy freely, but it wasn't time yet!
All of them were holding back!
Wang Dalei swallowed his saliva—these guys were the real old sly foxes, weren't they?
First show weakness to the enemy, master their methods, wait until their morale falters and their spirit wanes, then open the power-ups and take them down in one go? Destroy the enemy's will and body completely?
Achieve the greatest results with the smallest losses?
Holy crap! I directly holy crap!