Demon Cultivator in Abyssal Era

Chapter 365: Chapter 197: The Power of the Nuclear Bomb

”Are you out of your damn mind?!”

Watching Chu Xiu rapidly approaching, Qin Xiang’s face was full of disbelief, his thick eyebrows and big eyes filled with deep shock and anger.

What the hell does this mean? Coming here to die?

This is a chance for survival that I fought so hard to get with my life!

But before Qin Xiang could curse, he saw Chu Xiu reach out and grab Li Zhan, who strangely did not resist but instead began chanting some kind of spell. Mysterious ripples started spreading around him, forming shields.

This made Qin Xiang pause slightly, then instantly realize something.

In that brief moment of thought, Chu Xiu, riding atop the rapidly flying Flying Corpse, had already rushed to Qin Xiang, grabbing him.

Qin Xiang also did not resist, instead withdrawing the restriction on Wen Feiyan. However, at that moment, the Buddha Statue’s body had already completely curled up, without a single gap in the Golden Body, so even without Qin Xiang’s restraint, Wen Feiyan couldn’t leave.

And at this moment, Chu Xiu, carrying a King Tier in each hand, charged headlong towards Wen Feiyan’s location!

Seeing this, Wen Feiyan was only slightly taken aback before instantly making a decision, opening a small gap in the earlier defense she had set up to let Chu Xiu and the others in.

Allowing a powerful figure like Qin Xiang to get close was undoubtedly courting death, but in the extremely short window, the three King Tiers understood the current situation and made a rational decision!

None of them alone could withstand a nuclear attack. To maximize their survival chances, they had to cooperate fully!

So, without any verbal communication, the four who had been fighting fiercely against each other immediately began to harmoniously set up a defense together!

As soon as they entered Wen Feiyan’s shield, Qin Xiang and Li Zhan simultaneously deployed their strongest defense skills, starting to construct layers of defensive lines!

Li Zhan took out a four-cornered box, and as his left Demon Arm grasped it, a massive amount of energy instantly poured in, causing the box to expand in the blink of an eye into a cube over ten meters in diameter, with gaps quickly filled by countless palm-sized metallic scales.

King Tier [Perfect] Artifact [Black Prison], commonly used by patrol guards in the [Asura Purgatory] world.

It was a cruel world of extremely high level, inhabited by many Purgatory Demons, the weakest of which possessed General Tier strength as adults, and each one naturally mastered powerful Destruction Spells.

The [Black Prison] was a tool used for capturing wild demons as slaves.

It could transform typically destructive energy into a solid cage, and with enough destructive power infused, the prison’s strength could reach dozens of times that of super steel, making it a perfect fit for Li Zhan’s Demon’s Hand.

Originally a remarkably powerful restraint control artifact, it was very suitable for the current defense.

Qin Xiang also took out his lifesaving trump cards, tossing out various treasure artifacts without care.

Energy-absorbing shields, attack-deflecting barriers, energy-reflecting copper mirrors, and so on, causing Chu Xiu to click his tongue silently.

As for Chu Xiu himself, he stood calmly at the center of the three King Tiers, directing ghosts to use their bodies to build defenses around, while the Iron Armor Corpse’s hardened shell rapidly spread in all directions, forming a defensive sphere.

Li Zhan glanced sideways, quickly transmitting, ”Chen Ce, you can’t just hide in the middle, use your ghosts to form a defense on the outside.”

”Now is not the time for scheming; we don’t know how many nuclear missiles are here, or their yield. Even with the four of us together, there’s no guarantee we can withstand a nuclear explosion!”

His transmission was extremely fast, and Wen Feiyan quickly added support, ”That’s right, if you don’t send out your ghosts, then my shadow will only protect myself. Whether to cooperate fully or still harbor suspicion now, think it over!”

The two of them were indeed experienced King Tiers, quickly making the best decision even then.

No one knew if their defense could withstand the impact of the nuclear explosion; all the four could do was deploy their strongest defensive measures.

However, this didn’t mean the two King Tiers were solely focused on defense without thinking ahead, for King Tiers were not short-sighted individuals.

Even in this life-and-death critical juncture, the two quickly realized one key point—although they were cooperating now, once the crisis was over, they’d return to hostility immediately.

Therefore, preserving their state and abilities was very important.

And clearly, the ones deeper inside had a higher probability of preserving their trump cards.

For example, if the outermost layer was Li Zhan, followed by Wen Feiyan, and then the other two, and the nuclear blast’s power was stopped at them, the inner ones’ artifacts would be preserved, meaning Li Zhan and Wen Feiyan would suffer a great loss.

More importantly, defending against a nuclear missile would consume a lot of energy, and if a battle erupted afterward, having exhausted their defensive means and consumed too much energy, they would be at a great disadvantage.

Therefore, the most reasonable decision should be for the four to arrange in staggered layers, so no one would have an advantage.

Yet now, Chu Xiu had all his ghosts huddle in the innermost layer, obviously trying to reserve strength, which Li Zhan and Wen Feiyan wouldn’t allow!