Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Boom! Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!

When the Draconic Phoenix rushed out of the rear of the arsenal warship that looked like an iron hedgehog, it was immediately enveloped by more than ten rings of fireballs. The fireballs expanded and spread out, turning into destructive blasts mixed with the melted debris of the starship.

The blasts spread out very fast, and the remnants were on a rampage on the battlefield like a meteor shower, greatly affecting the normal cruise of the starships nearby and stopping their attacks. Even their spiritual shields were rippling like ponds.

When she first met Li Yao, Ding Lingdang had been slightly condescending because she was stronger than him in almost every respect. When did the feeling of ‘big sister looking for little brother’ change?

Was it when he struggled to his feet while screaming time and time again under her stormy attacks? Was it when he grew stronger and stronger and finally became an excellent Exo as strong as herself after the adventures on Thunderous Sound Mountain? Was it the unforgettable night when she recalled her parents’ unfortunate death and her childhood tragedies, but he showed up in time and let her cry in his arms?

The messy thoughts in her head did not hinder Ding Lingdang from deciding on her third target the moment she broke out of the arsenal starship, which was a comprehensive supply starship more than three kilometers long and was heavily guarded by more than ten arsenal starships, shield starships, and hundreds of crystal suits.

Although the comprehensive supply starships did not boast immense firepower or defense ability, they had enormous maintenance workshops and warehouses of crystals and ammunition, which made them the cores of every branch fleet.

Without the support of the comprehensive supply starships in the rear, both the arsenal starships and the shield starships, as well as the crystal suits and the space shuttles, would run out of supplies very soon after being engaged in a battle.

Having blown up two starships in a row in the blink of an eye, she had obviously become the center of attention on the battlefield. Mystic rays, space torpedoes, and bullets of spiritual energy interweaved into a gapless web of fire in front of us.

But the Draconic Phoenix charged forward relentlessly against the fiery web!

The enemy’s firepower was too fierce. Despite the interferential and defensive rune arrays of the Colossus, it was inevitable to be hit in the front with abnormal fireballs erupting out.

The moment before the fireball consumed the Colossus, a series of runes on the surface of the Draconic Phoenix glittered and turned into a glamorous protective shell, absorbing most of the damage and transforming it into colorful exhaust flames that spurted into the vacuum. At first glance, it was even astoundingly beautiful.

But still, the massive blast of spiritual energy shook her brain violently, allowing her to recall more things of the past.

Neither she nor Li Yao were romantic. Perhaps because their goals were too big and far away, they sometimes neglected the present.

However, even such an unromantic guy like Li Yao had once done a romantic thing, which was taking her to view the most splendid sunrise in the universe on a satellite.

However carefree she usually was, her heart had almost melted at that moment.

Boom!

The Draconic Phoenix broke out of the shell of fireballs, reborn. The nine dragons of spiritual energy attacked furiously at the same time and blew up dozens of crystal suits and space shuttles in a row like skewers. Her momentum was not reduced at all, and she looked more magnificent than anything.

Even the most fearless Immortal Cultivators were shocked to stillness briefly under her overwhelming strength.

Taking advantage of the gap, she penetrated the comprehensive supply starship!

On the control interface of the Draconic Phoenix, the runes from the primeval era shined one after another. Ding Lingdang compressed her intense feelings and soul waves into a quickly shivering spell. The two arms of the Draconic Phoenix disintegrated all of a sudden, revealing the most complicated and precise components inside, which then combined in front her into a highly dangerous cannon.

Infinite flames of spiritual energy burst out like a volcanic eruption and enshrouded the disintegrated arms before they spread out and turned into a furiously burning war falcon.

The fiery war falcon was practically tangible. Flapping the wings, it was moaning in impatience, with intimidating auras spreading out, as if a primeval beast had really travelled through time and landed on the arm of the Draconic Phoenix.

When Ding Lingdang observed from a different perspective, the fiery war falcon turned into a plane that did not have any thickness.

A very familiar feeling grabbed her.

It almost seemed that she had retrieved an ‘absolutely superficial’ falcon of flames from the boundless void by controlling the hands of the Draconic Phoenix.

It was exactly the ultimate technique that Li Yao had once performed on Kunlun a hundred years ago and eventually slayed a giant of the Pangu Clan with—the Phoenix Demolisher!

After a hundred years of maintenance, strengthening, and Ding Lingdang’s repetitive practice, and now that the left arm of the Colossus had been reshaped, making it possible to use the technique with both hands, the technique was ten times more powerful than when Li Yao activated it with only one broken arm of the Colossus years back!

Shua!

The falcon flapped its wings and soared out, cutting in from the bridge of the comprehensive supply starship and piercing through the maintenance workshops, the arsenals, the warehouse of crystals, the space jump units, and the engine compartment. The internal space of the comprehensive supply starship was dissected into an upper half and a lower half by the brute force.

Although the dissection of space was brief, the objects that had been cut in half could never be recovered. The spiritual shield generators and the engine compartment were the first to explode, followed by the highly unsteady marrow crystals inside the warehouse of crystals. The minor explosions then led to a chain reaction. The flames rushed out like a flood, vaporizing countless Immortal Cultivators within the moment!

The Draconic Phoenix simply strode forward in the ‘flood’ that was burning and exploding, not bothering to look for pathways or gates at all. Whenever it encountered a wall or plate armor, it would just punch at the blockage to create a way. Absolutely nothing could stop the march of a Colossus, unless—

The crystal processor uttered a series of ear-splitting alarms. From the front, a cluster of spiritual energy reactions that were as powerful as the Draconic Phoenix’s were approaching at a high speed. It was a Colossus from the Imperium!

Flames were rolling like infuriated tides. The maintenance warehouse where Ding Lingdang happened to be at was quite spacious, making it the best arena for a deadly fight.

Together with a round of earthshaking quakes, a dark Colossus gradually revealed itself in the ocean of fire.

Its body was even thicker than the Draconic Phoenix. The back of the Colossus was slightly hunched because of the two enormous honeycomb-type launchers on the shoulders, which made it seem to have three heads at first look.

From the enormous shoulder blade, three arms dangled down from each side. It was a ‘three-headed and six-armed’ Colossus.

It was a ‘special-shaped Colossus’, which was slightly different from the regular body of human beings.

The Colossus was the strongest weapon that the Nuwa Clan carefully crafted for the human warriors to resist the Pangu Clan who were enormous in size, but such a weapon was not invented based on nothing. Their prototypes were mostly the armor of the Nuwa Clan and the Pangu Clan.

Both the Nuwa Clan and the Pangu Clan boasted a lot of bizarre-shaped and enormous species. Human head and snake body, three heads and six arms… Nothing was unusual for them.

Therefore, the armor of the Nuwa and the Pangu civilizations had various different models, too. So, it was not strange at all that the Colossi, which were modified based on that armor, would have three heads and six arms.

Humans had only two hands. Their nervous system had evolved for the manipulation of the ten fingers on both hands, too. Although it was possible to remotely control more limbs with spiritual energy, those foreign objects were not naturally-born.

Therefore, it was much more difficult to control the ‘special-shaped Colossus’ than to control a regular Colossus. Without years of hard training, it was barely possible to make use of the weird body parts of the Colossus as fluently as using one’s own arms and hands. They were more likely to be a redundancy than help.

However, if somebody really got the hang of it, the special-shaped Colossus could present weirder tactics and a much more powerful performance than a regular Colossus could.

It was exactly so for the Immortal Cultivator of the Imperium who was using the three-headed and six-armed Colossus.

Green flames were vaguely flowing on the surface of the dark armor. The six arms were holding six different weapons. Chainsword, starship-slashing saber… Only in the hands of such an iron giant did the ‘starship-slashing saber’ really deserve its name. Nobody would have any doubt that it could really slash a starship in half after one attack!

The Draconic Phoenix, on the other hand, was barehanded without any weapons.

As a body practitioner, Ding Lingdang had never been a fan of blades. Even after she became a pilot of the Colossus, she did not carry too many weapons with her but focused all the technical upgrades on the fists of the Colossus.

The Draconic Phoenix’s fists blossomed slowly like lotus flowers. Then, they revolved at such a high speed that they seemed enough to drill two holes in the universe!

Hiu! Hiu! Hiu! Hiu! Hiu! Hiu!’

The honeycomb-type launchers on the enemy’s shoulders opened fire first, like two volcanoes erupting at Ding Lingdang. The Draconic Phoenix took action at the same time, too, right toward where the firepower and the blades were densest.

She could sense the enemy’s shock and confusion, which made her even more high-spirited. Her soul burnt crazily, and she was completely melted with the Draconic Phoenix, exactly like Li Yao on Kunlun a hundred years ago.

You are just a minor Immortal Cultivator. How can you understand the strength hidden deep inside the Draconic Phoenix?

This is a Colossus that once killed a real ‘god’!

Three minutes passed.

At the periphery of the comprehensive supply starship, the most distinguished Exos of the federation and their tough opponents from the Imperium were engaged in a fierce battle. The reverberation of fighting will of the qi-trainers raised tides of hot blood even inside the soundless vacuum.

But during those three minutes, everybody slowed down subconsciously because they saw that a Colossus from each party had crawled into the depths of the comprehensive supply starship, one from the head and the other from the rear.

On the federation’s side, it was ‘Blazing Tyrannosaur’ Ding Lingdang, the pillar on the battlefield. On the Black Wind Fleet’s side, it was a well-known expert, too!

The competition of two Colossi might not be enough to decide the outcome of the entire battle, but at this moment, all the Cultivators and Immortal Cultivators could not help but pay their attention to it!

The comprehensive supply starship exploded nonstop. Fireballs rose up and moved to the center of the starship like crimson monsters. The starship was about to completely fall apart. Everybody’s heart was grabbed as they stared at the battle.

“Argh!”

Thousands of cries echoed on the communication channels of both parties at the same time.

A Colossus rushed out of the enormous fireballs. The deep black shell and the additional heads and arms were clearly visible. It was the Imperium’s!

However, before the Immortal Cultivators of the Imperium could cheer in the communication channel, somebody noticed some anomalies. The six arms of the Colossus were all dangling helplessly, as if the joints all over its body had been blown up. The power rune arrays were dimmer than ever, too.

At this moment, a dazzling streak of redness jumped out of the debris of the starship and rushed to the above of the first Colossus, punching the enemy with fists like two shooting stars—no, two meteor showers that consisted of thousands of shooting stars!