In the energy conversion pool, Celestial Origin Energy's remnant consciousness was completely absorbed into the Tai Chi formation. Long Ye was still floating in the air. At the same time, he used his hand to open the air, and a dense fog screen immediately appeared. The screen was the space of the Zeta Tu Star Field.
At this moment, a surge of air suddenly appeared in the star field behind the Devouring World army. Strictly speaking, space was distorted, but space was deep and dark, and it was very difficult to tell if one didn't look carefully.
Long Ye controlled the Void Spirit Ray to slowly retreat. This action couldn't be hidden from the rest of the army.
The Devouring World didn't have mirror projection technology, so only a dignified male voice came from above the furnace space. "Long Ye, you moved the formation without permission. Why is that?"
Long Ye sighed and said, "Giant, the city leader is seriously injured. I'm preparing to return."
The leader of the Great Octopus obviously wasn't fooling around. "You just sent the city leader and those few humans back to the teleportation formation. What is the meaning of this?"
Long Ye said, "If it weren't for that human blocking the Federation's starships, the city leader's soul would have been destroyed."
The leader of the Great Octopus sneered. "A human who can block the cannons of a planet destroyer is an Origin Energy expert. He must be a fugitive from the Federation. You want to recruit him?"
Long Ye sighed and said, "If you want these people, you can come and take them."
The leader of the Great Octopus seemed to be thinking. After a long time, he said, "The enemy is right in front of us, so I won't argue with you. Now, I order you to return to the formation and maintain it. If you continue to retreat, don't blame me for being impolite."
Although he said this, Long Ye still commanded the Void Spirit Ray to slowly retreat.
Not long after, the leader of the Great Octopus's voice sounded again. "How dare you, are you rebelling?
Hurry up and stop. "
At the same time, a rather strange scene appeared on the central screen of the mothership. The leftmost Void Spirit Ray of the Devouring World army was retreating, and immediately, two more Void Spirit Rays in the formation were retreating.
The staff member was puzzled. "They seem to be retreating?"
Haodong stared at the screen. He also felt strange. It was reasonable to say that the other side didn't need to fear the two planet destroyers. What did they mean by retreating?
"It's Ding Meng!" Ling Xingwen reacted quickly. "He must be trying to escape."
Her judgment was completely correct. The two Void Spirit Rays quickly moved behind Long Ye, as if they wanted to cut off his path of retreat. At the same time, the two giant beasts opened their jaws, revealing huge and ugly flesh tubes. They looked like human intestines and looked extremely disgusting.
This was the main weapon of the Void Spirit Ray, designed to deal with human starships. Two huge clusters of green pus suddenly spurted out from the inside of the tube. The pus splashed on Long Ye's body and formed a bone plating layer, trapping Long Ye's Void Spirit Ray immediately.
Haodong and the others looked at each other. Why were the people from the Devouring Realm fighting among themselves? Was this an internal conflict?
It was at this moment that the star field behind them lit up. The surging airflow had finished gathering energy, and a ring-shaped hole immediately appeared in the starry sky. It looked like a rock had been smashed into a calm lake, and a large hole quickly appeared on the surface of the water.
The staff member explained, "The Void Gate?"
Haodong nodded. This was the unique method of the Devouring Realm to open the four-dimensional space. It was not as good as the starship passing through the space-time tunnel, but the effect was the same. The two Void Spirit Rays in the back did not expect Long Ye to use this method. Everyone thought that Long Ye's source spirit was already very weak, so he did not have the energy to open the Void Gate, so he did not care about what was behind him.
Under everyone's watchful eyes, the two Void Spirit Rays were sucked into the four-dimensional space's cosmic storm.
The Great Octopus Leader's voice changed. "Bastard, you traitor, you actually disguised yourself so well."
How was this a disguise? It was clearly the Divine Light Energy given by Ding Meng that could achieve this effect. The moment Long Ye opened the Void Gate, his image in the energy pool immediately faded. His figure became blurry and dim again, and the mirror image was incomplete.
Xian Yuan sighed inwardly. Senior Long Ye was truly loyal and devoted to the Sacred Domain. He didn't hesitate to damage his own soul to send away three giant beasts. If he wanted to restore his soul, he would have to ask Ding Meng for help.
Before anyone could react, the imprisoned Void Spirit Rays were also sucked in with a "hu la" sound. The Void Gate immediately closed and the starry sky returned to normal.
The Great Octopus Leader could not make a sound, he was probably stunned.
Inside the Void Spirit Ray, Long Ye's figure turned into the ghost face again. Xian Yuan sighed and said, "It's been hard on you, senior Long Ye."
Long Ye's voice was very excited, "Sir Xian Yuan, we've already entered the space-time tunnel. I've already sent the other two giant beasts to the edge of the Zeratul Star Field, so they won't affect our course. Our Sacred Domain will have to rely on you and sir Ding Meng in the future. Should we return to the Poison Cloud Demon Sea now?"
Xian Yuan said in a deep voice, "We definitely have to return to the Poison Cloud Demon Sea, but we don't need to return to the Sacred Domain headquarters."
Long Ye was stunned, "Why?"
Xian Yuan said, "If we leave now, the Specter Clan might come looking for trouble. My Immortal Aperture hasn't even recovered yet, so we have to find a place to hide first."
Long Ye said, "Then where should we go to the Poison Cloud Demon Sea? Sir, please tell us."
Xian Yuan said, "I know a place, let's go now!"
The Poison Cloud Demon Sea was 22 light years away from the Zeratul Star Field. This distance was much farther than the 7.5 light years between the Norse Empire and the Black Frog Clan, but it was not absolutely far. If the Federation's interstellar fleet wanted to attack, they could arrive on a large scale in just a few months. However, if they did not attack, they would be very far away. Therefore, the danger of the Zeratul Star Field in terms of celestial bodies was self-evident.
The Poison Cloud Demon Sea was a vast star field with an extremely complicated environment. It stretched for hundreds of light years. Flying from the direction of Zeratul, one could see that the edge of the star field was similar to the Pandora Star System's poisonous miasma. This was caused by the early development of the Devourer World. It was full of toxins and filth. These planets gave birth to the low-level life forms of the Devourer World. This was the so-called "Poison Cloud". Looking from space, it really looked like a colorful and confusing poisonous gas.
Every planet in the Poison Cloud had millions of low-level life forms. They no longer had any natural resources to strengthen themselves, so they could only evolve by devouring each other to become high-level life forms. It could also be said that every planet could give birth to at most one surviving life form. These people were usually at the level of Commander or Daemon General. Once they had a certain level of strength, they would go to the depths of the star field and improve themselves in the same way. Therefore, the deeper they flew into the star field, the more they would see normal planets because there were fewer elites. From this point of view, the law of survival in the Devourer World was far crueler than that of the human world. Every person who survived in the end was an elite who had been baptized by mountains of corpses and seas of bones.
Flying deeper into the star field, these planets were sparsely populated. Only Elders and Elders had the ability to survive. This was because although these planets were natural planets, there were all kinds of natural treasures, precious resources, and rare beasts mixed together. Some of the alien beasts were hard to resist even for Elders and Elders. These monsters also hunted the people of the Devourer World for a living. These places could be said to be a place where demons roamed freely, so it was called the "Demon Sea".
This was how the name of the Poison Cloud Demon Sea came about. Even though the Devourer World had thousands of years of development, the exploration of the Poison Cloud Demon Sea star field had not even taken up an eighth of the entire territory. This was also a great advantage of the Devourer World. Experts at Xian Yuan's level did not have to fight to the death like the Empire and the Frogmen for resources in the Fertile Chalk System.
A hundred years ago, when Zeratul was defeated in the war of the Devourer World, why did the Frogmen want to go around the Fertile Chalk System and launch a large-scale attack? Their goal was to covet the places in the Poison Cloud Demon Sea that had never been explored before. To explorers, the word "unknown" meant opportunity and wealth. Of course, these places were not suitable for the weak humans to develop. The Yao race's adaptability was stronger, and the development of society in the Devourer World was becoming more and more Yao. Perhaps the Yao race was the most balanced race in the universe.
The long journey was undoubtedly long. During this process, Ding Meng and the other two were in a state of cultivation. Using Lan Bing and Lan Bing as carriers to share the burden, Ding Meng not only recovered from his injuries, but also cast the first eight points of the Diamond Form. It could be said that he had reached a true bottleneck. Because Little Rascal and Little Love were not by his side, he could not break through the foundation of the technique. Without casting the new points, he could only strengthen the previous points.
Eisendell was facing the same problem. After the eight-star technique raised her origin energy index to 20 billion points, she could not break through no matter what. Lan Bing, on the other hand, had experienced a rocket-like improvement. She had successfully mastered the "Indestructible Cold Body" and cast the first seven points of the "Diamond Astral Technique". Just these two alone had raised her origin energy index to 7 billion points, and she had become a mid-level Battle-Saint.
In fact, these two techniques conflicted a little. The "Diamond Astral Technique" was more suitable for thermodynamics, and it was not impossible for ice. However, Ding Meng did not teach her the eighth point. This was because the eighth point had too much of an impact on the overall trend of the "Diamond Astral Technique". It was related to the cultivator's memories, emotions, beliefs, and other values and rationality.
Ding Meng could see through the telekinesis model that there was almost nothing positive in Lan Bing's memories. They were all painful experiences, which led to many of her views being extreme, cold, dark, and even sinister.
One of the messages made Ding Meng feel a little guilty. In Lan Bing's emotions, she had decided to follow Ding Meng from now on. She did not care if he had multiple wives or concubines, but if Ding Meng did not treat her well, she would first kill Ding Meng, then kill everyone related to Ding Meng, and finally commit suicide.
Building the eighth point of origin with such thoughts in mind?
It would be strange if she did not go crazy. Once the eighth point of origin was successfully built, it was unknown whether Lan Bing would become a she-devil or a demon. Considering the big picture, Ding Meng decided not to teach her. Lan Bing had improved a lot, and she needed time to upgrade her various techniques, secret manuals, scriptures, and combat skills.