Chapter 212: Making Things Easier
After the negotiations on interest distribution were completed, the main forces of the multinational coalition, having already prepared various contingency plans, began to advance towards Sa Qia Si Ji's location.
To prevent the opponent from fleeing upon sensing a disadvantage and thus allowing the encirclement to fail, countless blockade lines were erected around the periphery of the designated battlefield.
Yet, Sa Qia Si Ji remained as if oblivious, sitting steadfastly at the center of the encirclement, waiting for them to fully set up the sealing formations and all other preparations.
Before the main forces commenced their assault, the scattered individuals observing from the surroundings naturally wouldn't stick their necks out to die. Their aim was to fish in troubled waters, seizing whatever gains they could.
To ensure the smooth execution of this encirclement and the subsequent spoils distribution, various nations brought forth some of their ultimate trump cards. They also brought a large number of troops whose role was to provide post-battle cover and not directly participate in combat, to prevent the fruits of victory from being snatched by orioles, and as a guarantee for the implementation of the pre-battle allocation plan.
Many greedy hyenas lurked hidden in the vicinity, and among them were numerous desperate individuals who cared nothing for state-sanctioned pursuit. As long as immense profit was involved, they would dare to seize anything from anyone.
Nearly eighty percent of the world's ability users at the peak of the Unmelting Realm had gathered here, fighting to seize this sliver of opportunity for a breakthrough.
Accustomed to lives as superiors, they found it difficult to accept the reality of becoming subordinates to even stronger individuals, yet they were reluctant to leave the system and become isolated figures.
In contrast, beings like Bai Mo, who had always drifted on the fringes of the system, did not possess such an urgent desire for power. Unburdened by the daily pressure of being surpassed by subordinates and having his authority seized, he could quietly observe the spectacle.
"I didn't expect you to be here," the black-robed avatar said, finding Hua Taishan in the Huaxia Federation's camp.
"Where's your true body? Do you intend to just send an avatar here to join the fun?"
"Is there a problem with that?" Bai Mo retorted.
"That's not like you at all."
"No human will in the Huaxia Federation is strong enough to serve as my whetstone anymore. I hope it doesn't disappoint me," Hua Taishan continued.
Bai Mo offered no further reply. He wasn't particularly capable of understanding the martial artists' behavior of constantly challenging stronger opponents and engaging in cross-tier battles.
Furthermore, long before the army's departure, all live broadcasts had been halted under the pretext of preventing the leakage of military secrets, thus ending the connection between this spectacle and the ordinary populace.
"Finally, you're all here. Chasing you down one by one across the entire planet is a hassle. It's much easier to kill you all together." Facing an encirclement of openly over a hundred powerhouses, Sa Qia Si Ji's first words shocked everyone.
"What gave you the delusion that Earthlings are easy to bully?" someone retorted, unwilling to yield.
Without further preamble, both sides immediately plunged into battle.
The space within a hundred meters around Sa Qia Si Ji suddenly began to glow faintly red, as countless amorphous life forms, composed of a strange substance, continuously crawled out of the air, then surged forth in a mighty tide, killing towards the crowds in all directions.
"What are these things?!" Hundreds of almost entirely transparent monsters charged towards the encircling forces.
Although none of them were particularly strong—aside from being difficult to discern with the naked eye and fighting fearlessly—they posed little threat to the leading top powerhouses, who could generally finish a battle within ten moves.
But what truly inspired despair was that every time one was cut down, its corpse would quickly dissipate into the air, and immediately thereafter, a new monster would materialize from behind, making them seemingly inexhaustible.
"Our power cannot be wasted on these things. Leave them to those behind us to hold off; our target is it!" A few minutes later, the vanguard, who had already eliminated nearly ten thousand monsters, realized that these creatures were truly endless, and continually engaging them would only be a waste of Spirit Energy.
"Come, come, come, all of you, come meet your demise!" Sa Qia Si Ji, seeing the opponents charging directly at him, immediately changed tactics, causing all the monsters under his control to vanish.
"Feel the deepest despair, Fa Tian Xiang Di!" With his command, a two-hundred-meter-tall translucent monster, composed of the same unknown substance, appeared.
Through its translucent body, Sa Qia Si Ji's true form could be seen constantly moving around near the monster's core.
"No wonder it's so confident it can kill all of us..." Many people in the rear began to grumble inwardly after seeing a monster of this size.
"Mere illusion! Watch me break it!" None of the leading ability users were pushovers; they naturally wouldn't give up so easily.
"Boom!" A massive impact left a terrifying wound over thirty meters long on the monster's body, but it was meaningless; the wound had completely healed within seconds.
"It seems somewhat similar to those Ghost Kings, possessing an immortal body composed of strange matter." Bai Mo's avatar, currently standing on the front lines of the battle, immediately noticed this point.
"Up until now, it hasn't even begun to use its own abilities. Or, perhaps its abilities are merely embellishments compared to this pure might?"
"No need to worry. Such an immense size is bound to affect its speed. We'll stick to our plan of guerrilla tactics." Before formulating their strategy, everyone had, to varying degrees, referenced information about Ghost Kings that had existed in various places, and naturally had corresponding countermeasures.
"Bang! Bang!" No sooner had he spoken than a barrage of extremely fast heavy blows from Sa Qia Si Ji landed squarely, delivering a painful lesson. Several ability users who reacted slightly too slowly and failed to dodge the giant palm strikes were instantly sent flying, severely wounded.
"This is unscientific! How can it possess such terrifying agility at this size! That last blow even surpassed the reaction speed of some individuals." With a single palm strike, even more people began to fall into disarray.
"Just as I wished!" Far from being disheartened after witnessing the opponent's might, Hua Taishan instead summoned his White Tiger Dharma Body to envelop himself, and began to clash head-on with the monster.
Led by Hua Taishan, a group of individuals who had originally intended to seek an opportunity for a breakthrough during the battle rushed forward, each choosing a direction from which to attack.
They refused to believe in an immortal body that came without any cost; there had to be a limit. As long as that limit could be broken, the myth of immortality would inevitably be shattered.
"The Ghost King of Tianzhou died from multiple saturated nuclear strikes; it won't be an exception!" shouted an ability user from the Huaxia Federation military.
"Use attacks imbued with spiritual force; it will regenerate much slower." Hua Taishan, whose every punch carried a mental shock to temper his will, quickly discovered this.
"Divine Art, Hymn of the Heavens!" The Pope of the Luminous Holy Church personally intervened, wielding a jeweled scepter and releasing a strange attack that shimmered with scattered points of light.
This attack lacked the stunning impact of an energy surge; instead, it was a gentle, pervasive infiltration, continuously dissolving any matter it passed through.
"The Faith Power condensed from the prayers of countless believers is the most potent spiritual edification; it will surely convert the Lord's enemies!" The Pope watched with a devout expression as, wherever this radiance touched, all the strange matter seemed to melt like ice and snow, transforming back into air.
"Disgusting charlatan! In the end, it's just brainwashing countless sentient beings through their unified thought currents, yet he insists on adding a heap of rhetoric." To block such a core-targeting impact, Sa Qia Si Ji continuously compressed the density of the anomalous matter surrounding the radiance, attempting to erode away this troublesome force.
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