Chapter 143: Tiger Roar’s “Running Men” Squad
Things were moving at full speed on Tiger Roar Camp’s side.
And the Divine Elephant Nation had not been idle either.
The closer it got to the day of Huaxia’s so-called “military sanctions,” the more frantically the Divine Elephant Nation camps accumulated troops.
By the afternoon of the twenty-fourth day, the outermost Divine Elephant Nation camp had already stockpiled 5,000 soldiers.
The other camps had long since put away their Treasure Vault warehouses as well, so as to avoid being robbed again.
Inside the camp command post, a group of officers was in the middle of a meeting.
The two highest-ranking Profound Rank officers both stood with their arms folded across their chests, heads tilted back as they let the others talk.
The muscles on their bare arms bulged in thick knots.
One of them was even wearing sunglasses.
“Tomorrow is the day Huaxia claims it will launch military action.”
“Our camp now is like an iron bucket with no weakness.”
“It is packed full of soldiers as solid as steel.”
“I truly cannot imagine where they could possibly find a point to break through—”
Before he finished speaking, the two Profound Rank officers both reacted at the same instant.
They hurried outside.
The others had no idea what was going on and could only rush after them.
The moment they stepped out of the barracks, everyone followed the gaze of the two Profound Rank experts and looked up.
A white auspicious cloud was flying in from the sky at incredible speed, almost arriving before them in the blink of an eye.
Then a terrifying pressure suddenly appeared above the camp.
It roared like a falling mountain.
The expressions of the two Profound Rank experts changed drastically, and they sprinted toward the Golden Elephant.
Unfortunately, they were already too late.
The crushing pressure had descended.
Boom!
With a thunderous explosion, the teleportation area around the Golden Elephant in the camp was smashed into a giant crater more than three hundred meters across!
The horrifying shockwave was no less violent than a missile detonation. It swept everything around it into the air and filled the area with rolling dust.
As for the one or two hundred people and more than a dozen elephants inside that crater, there was no need to take memorial portraits for them anymore. If you hung up their remains, that would already count as a photo.
By sheer luck, the Golden Elephant happened to be right at the edge of the crater. It let out a panicked trumpet, shrieked, and bolted in terror, but it was not crushed to death.
It looked as though the missile had narrowly missed its target.
One of the muscle-bound officers rushed to the Golden Elephant’s side.
A visible Profound Rank domain spread outward. A faint golden phantom wrapped the surrounding several dozen meters like a massive protective barrier.
The other Profound Rank officer, the one in sunglasses, shouted something in the Divine Elephant language.
Then he yanked out a Flying Carpet and dragged it into the sky in pursuit of that white cloud.
Even while standing on the Flying Carpet, he did not forget to keep his arms folded in his self-important pose.
The fierce wind whipped through his hair and snapped at the corners of his clothes.
One look at him, and anyone could tell the background music in his head had to be deafening.
Meanwhile, the white cloud fled rapidly into the distance.
Only after they had risen into the air did the officer in sunglasses see clearly that there really was a person standing on the cloud.
It was Li Mu.
At that moment, Li Mu stood atop the cloud, glancing back from time to time, looking somewhat flustered.
His speed was not especially fast, about the same as the Flying Carpet, and it even allowed the sunglasses officer to gradually close the distance, giving him the feeling that he was about to catch him.
He had only chased him for a few dozen li or so before Li Mu gave him a mocking smile and waved.
Then the white cloud beneath his feet suddenly flipped in a wide arc through the air and reappeared directly behind the officer in sunglasses.
It started flying back!
The sunglasses officer cursed and immediately turned around to chase again.
Only then did he discover that Li Mu’s white cloud had suddenly accelerated. In an instant, it became nothing more than a tiny black dot.
Its speed had jumped by more than ten times compared to before!
And in the blink of an eye, it had vanished without a trace.
Back at the camp, when the officer guarding the Golden Elephant saw Li Mu return again, he immediately braced himself beside it in vigilance.
Who would have thought that Li Mu’s target was not the Golden Elephant at all, but the area where the ordinary elephants were most densely gathered?
Another Heavenly Might came crashing down!
Boom!
More than twenty elephants were caught under Li Mu’s Heavenly Might and were crushed apart like rotten mud!
Li Mu sped away once more.
Standing atop the Somersault Cloud, Li Mu spoke into his radio earpiece. “Bomber mission completed!”
Song Chuhe’s voice came through the earpiece.
“Received! Bomber, proceed to Camp Four. Everyone else, carry out the Lure-the-Wolves-In tactic!”
Putting away the radio, Li Mu immediately turned the Somersault Cloud and flew toward the fourth Divine Elephant Nation camp he had already scouted out.
This round of strategic strikes covered all five of the Divine Elephant Nation’s camps.
So they had been assigned numbers in advance. The camp closest to Huaxia’s border was Camp Five.
Then, following the line back toward the Divine Elephant Nation, came Camps Four, Three, Two, and One.
Beyond Camp One, farther inward, was the Divine Elephant Nation’s main base.
As Li Mu flew through the air, he still could not suppress the excitement in his heart.
The Somersault Cloud—this was the divine ability he had longed for day and night for an entire month.
Even now, riding on it still felt dreamlike.
【Somersault Cloud: Ride the clouds through the sky. Current top speed: 2,480 kilometers per hour. No True Qi consumption.】
And even that speed had only been reached because Li Mu had separately spent another 14,000 Triumph Points on it.
When the Somersault Cloud had first been unlocked, its speed had only been 1,080 kilometers per hour.
Every 10 Triumph Points could increase its top speed by 1 kilometer per hour.
Li Mu already felt it was immensely worth it.
The Somersault Cloud was like a private airplane.
Just buying the plane itself for 108,000 points already felt like a bargain to Li Mu.
Not to mention that it consumed no True Qi at all!
Which meant that even if he were in a desperate situation and completely exhausted, the Somersault Cloud could still carry him away.
Previously, when Li Mu transformed into an eagle, his maximum speed was only around 380 kilometers per hour.
Now it was six times that.
Originally, Li Mu had intended to keep increasing it further, but then he discovered that his body could not withstand it...Once he broke past 1,224 kilometers per hour, Li Mu felt tremendous resistance battering his body during flight.
The pressure soared sharply!
His vision, his brain, his skin, his internal organs!
Li Mu could only rely on his physical body to withstand the sound barrier head-on.
As a Martial Artist at the peak of the Seventh Grade, and now with the Mid-Grade Heavenly Immortal Art, Li Mu endured it.
But when he pushed the speed even higher, up to 2,450 kilometers per hour, he felt as though his brain itself were buzzing.
His physical body was resisting twice the speed of sound by brute force!
Every cell in his body trembled!
And under those conditions, Li Mu had broken through the peak of the Seventh Grade and stepped into the early stage of the Eighth Grade.
But during one flight, Li Mu had slammed into a flying bird.
He had been going too fast to react at all.
The strange bird crashed into his left shoulder and nearly knocked him straight off the cloud!
The bird was smashed apart on impact, and one of its sharp bones pierced Li Mu’s shoulder.
If he had not been treating High-Grade Body-Solidifying Pills like snacks and swinging weapons weighing over ten thousand jin around for fun, that collision alone would have cost him half his life.
Even so, Li Mu’s left shoulder had still been injured, and it had taken two days to heal.
So now, when Li Mu rode the Somersault Cloud, he would only fly at around 2,000 kilometers per hour unless absolutely necessary.
And he had to keep his body protected with True Qi at all times and use Fiery Eyes and Golden Gaze to watch the way ahead.
At that speed, Li Mu only needed one hour to travel from Tiger Roar Camp to Divine Elephant Nation Camp Five.
As for the soldiers of Tiger Roar Camp, they had only needed half a day to run there.
That, too, was thanks to Li Mu’s newly mastered Divine Ability.
【Bimawen: Your mount becomes the lead horse. When other horses run behind it, their speed and endurance become equal to the lead horse’s.】
Since Li Mu was riding the Somersault Cloud, he had naturally left Yaogu below for Song Chuhe to ride temporarily.
That was because, in the long-range raid tactics unfolding below, both Yaogu and Song Chuhe were core elements.
At that moment, Divine Elephant Nation Camp Five had already descended into utter chaos.
People cried out as they dealt with the corpses of the dead.
Of course, what truly enraged the Divine Elephant soldiers was not that Li Mu had killed people.
It was that Li Mu had killed elephants!
With those two Heavenly Might strikes, Li Mu had killed at least thirty-five elephants!
That was nearly half the camp’s total!
Still, within that misfortune, there was one stroke of luck: Li Mu had missed!
The two Profound Rank experts were convinced that Li Mu’s true target had been the Golden Elephant.
It was only because they had protected the Golden Elephant in time that Li Mu had been forced to kill the ordinary elephants instead.
They were certain Li Mu would come again, so neither of them dared leave the Golden Elephant anymore.
A camp like this had no anti-air grand formation.
And there was no Earth Rank expert stationed here either.
Only the two of them could withstand Li Mu’s Heavenly Might.
But just as they were starting to breathe easier, the ground suddenly began to tremble with a heavy rumble.
“What is it? Go look! Over there!!”
The officer in sunglasses shouted as he pointed toward the southern wall.
The soldiers climbed up onto the southern wall and looked out, and their scalps instantly went numb!
A vast tide of monsters, black and endless like a rolling sea, was surging toward them!
“Monsters!! So many monsters!!”
The soldiers shouted frantically.
There was no trace of calm in their response.
Some officers began directing the flustered soldiers to prepare for battle.
And at the very front of that black tide were nearly two hundred soldiers of Huaxia’s Abyss-Suppressing Army!
Nearly every one of those soldiers was over 1.89 meters tall, and quite a few were over two meters.
Relying purely on their physical bodies as they sprinted, they were somehow able to leave every monster behind them with ease, no matter how fast those monsters were.
When they were still over a thousand meters away, those Huaxia soldiers suddenly accelerated.
They shook the monsters behind them loose.
Then, just as they neared the camp, they suddenly split apart!
They ran around both sides of the camp instead of attacking it.
And all the monsters behind them immediately locked onto the camp before them as their new target...