Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 944 - 780: Ultravacuum Bubble_2

Chapter 944: Chapter 780: Ultravacuum Bubble_2

Yet this mechanical general had been guarding this immortal palace for fifty-three thousand four hundred years.

Li Xuan’s lips twitched slightly as he wondered what they meant by saying there were ’no losses’ in the South Heaven Palace?

It was just over two years ago that he and Lv Qiluo had joined forces to take the Seven Orifices Exquisite Furnace, along with the innate gourd vine and Jiutian Xirang from this place.

But at that time, the Taichong Yuanchen didn’t consider him and Lv Qiluo as invaders.

Li Xuan then nodded expressionlessly and swept his big sleeve.

"I understand! There’s no need for you to guard this place any longer. From today onwards, you will serve as my personal sword attendant," he said.

According to Lv Qiluo’s instructions, his position as the ’Heaven Emperor’ was not secure, and he wasn’t the creator of Taichong Yuanchen. The core forbidden spell to control the Heavenly Court’s mechanical generals was known to several others as well.

Hence, Li Xuan was always at risk of losing the mechanical general.

It was best to keep it close at all times, preventing any opportunity for others to tamper with the mechanical general.

Upon hearing the command, the Taichong Yuanchen silently put away the silver white longsword in front of him and took his place behind Li Xuan to stand by.

The next step was to take over the immortal palace, with the four Divine Generals and two from the Extreme Heaven working together to lift the floating palace and forcibly send it into Tianxingtai.

Inside Tianxingtai at this time, there were Luo Yan and Xue Yunrou, Yue Qianqian, and several hundred spellcasters recruited by Li Xuan to guide them.

It was at this moment that Li Xuan’s expression subtly changed as he looked towards the sky.

Above the clouds, a gigantic ’eye’ had opened, casting its gaze toward the direction of the valley.

It was the same ’eye’ that Li Xuan saw when he had left last time, taking up about one-fifth of the sky, with a huge gold-threaded eyeball moving within it.

Li Xuan remembered two years ago, feeling dizzy and icy cold throughout his body after glancing at this gold-threaded giant eye from six hundred li away.

But now, he felt no particular reaction, even as he was stared at directly by the gold-threaded giant eye.

After all, he had faced Randeng himself, and while the owner of this eye was on the same level as the Randeng Buddha, he was not like the Randeng at that time, who had descended his power into the mortal realm.

Taichong Yuanchen, sensing the threat, glanced up into the sky. Then, twenty-four pure white Sword Qi of Gengjin emanated from around it, shooting upwards towards the gold-threaded giant eye.

With just one strike, the eye was shredded and split apart.

"Who is this person?" Ao Shuying, now in human form, stood beside Li Xuan, looking up into the sky with a mix of surprise and concern, "Such a formidable pressure; could it be some great emperor’s presence?"

"It’s Gouchen Emperor," Li Xuan said with a slight smirk, then answered in an indifferent tone, "Don’t worry, I can handle it."

The legendary ’Ziwei Emperor’ and ’Gouchen Emperor’ were kin, and these two would definitely be wary of him—a man with great ambition aiming for the throne of Heaven Emperor.

Yet, the power of the Gouchen Emperor couldn’t reach the mortal realm for the time being.

The brothers also had a more powerful and fearsome adversary, the Zhenwu Emperor, leaving them little leisure to be concerned with others.

Moreover, in the eyes of the Gouchen Emperor, his own act of a mortal striving for the grand position of Heaven Emperor was most likely seen as ignorant arrogance and, furthermore, laughable, right?

His expression grew slightly concentrated as he turned to Ao Shuying, "It was you who had just come from the East Sea, wasn’t it? There are still some hidden injuries on you. Could it be that your East Sea Dragon Palace has again entered into conflict with those Deep Sea Monsters? Or was it the Kunpeng Emperor?"

This was a gigantic demon self-proclaimed as the ’Emperor,’ appearing abruptly in the depths of the ocean.

Lv Qiluo suspected that this person might be the incarnation of a powerful being from ancient times who lurked in the mortal realm.

Those Deep Sea beasts were originally leaderless and disorganized.

However, ever since the ’Kunpeng Emperor’ made his appearance, he had pulled together a vast number of Deep Sea Monsters into a formidable force, creating within the East Sea a tremendously powerful faction that even began to threaten the rule of the East Sea Dragon Palace.

Ao Shuying’s brows furrowed slightly, and then she gave a slight nod, "Indeed, there had been an intrusion of three million Deep Sea beasts before my departure, and they were only repelled just before I had come here."

What worried her was that in this battle, the Dragon Palace had suffered casualties of over two hundred thousand soldiers and generals.

Although the East Sea Dragon Palace also had many tigersharks and crab-like creatures among its ranks, there weren’t many that could be employed as soldiers—they from the East Sea Dragon Palace, could not hold on much longer.

Li Xuan’s eyes flickered slightly, "Do you want me to send in troops to help with the battle?"

He genuinely wanted to help; the emergence of the ’Kunpeng Emperor’ had caused the empire’s budding maritime transportation and trade, which had not yet flourished, to grind to a halt.

For both the Great Jin Dynasty and the Heavenly Court, the sooner this chaos in the East Sea could be resolved, the better.

Ao Shuying’s expression shifted, but then she shook her head, "Forget it, your firearms are of no use underwater, and going there would be of no help."

She had originally intended to seek Li Xuan’s aid, but these past few months, the seemingly endless surge of aquatic clan members from the deep sea, had caused Ao Shuying to change her mind.

Given the current situation, no amount of additional military power they could send would suffice.

She thought Li Xuan had with difficulty amassed these thousands of heavenly soldiers and could not allow them to perish in the water just like that.

Moreover, their Dragon Palace already had a retreat path to the North Sea. If things came to the worst, they would simply relocate their clan to the north.

Li Xuan, on the other hand, thought that this might not necessarily be the case, as normal firearms and bullets obviously couldn’t be fired underwater.

Even heavy firearms like sniper rifles had a range of less than five meters underwater, and their velocity was pathetically slow.

However, the item referred to in the future as ’super-cavitating bullets,’ which used bubbles to wrap the bullets, allowing them to maintain a super-cavitating state underwater, had a range of up to twenty-five meters.

And the reason this kind of bullet couldn’t travel any farther was because these ’bubbles’ could not be sustained for long; twenty-five meters was their limit.

But in this world, there were forces like techniques and runes. They could completely rely on the power of runes to keep the bullets in a super-cavitating state for an extended duration, achieving a range of five to six hundred meters, or even farther.

The problem was that such bullets were extremely expensive and difficult to manufacture, requiring a lot of preparation time.

Apart from bullets, artillery shells could also employ super-cavitation technology.

At this moment, Peacock Manor was in the midst of speeding up trials—

Just then, Li Xuan noticed that the celestial palace in front of him had already merged with Tianxingtai. He smiled faintly and changed the subject, "Let’s head back to Tianxingtai, Shuying, you can pick one of those pavilions later on, to serve as your residence in the Heavenly Court,"

Ao Shuying’s eyes lit up immediately, her expression brimming with excitement and joy, "Really? Can I also have one?"

She knew that Jiang Hanyun, Luo Yan, and Xue Yunrou all definitely had one to themselves.