The sudden alarm startled Chen Rui. He hurriedly activated the Heavenly Eye for surveillance. Because the Heavenly Eye was badly damaged, he could only see part of the area: towering giants, and at their feet countless humanoid figures wrapped in whirlwinds—Titans and wind elementals!
Chen Rui immediately understood. Could the restoration of the central life crystal have alerted the Titan Giants?
From the logs, he had learned that Doluda had attempted to eliminate the uncontrollable Titan Giants, prompting the Titans to rebel. Doluda's capture of wind elementals for experimentation had likewise enraged the Wind Elemental Monarch, who led the wind elementals in an assault on the "Celestial Wheel." Perhaps because they had fused with wind elemental cores and shared a common enemy, the Titans and wind elementals had formed some sort of alliance. Together, they slew Doluda and destroyed this Alchemical Civilization city.
That was why, the last time Chen Rui had used a similar spiritual imprinting power on the Titans, he had provoked their extreme fury.
Now that the Titans sensed the central life crystal reviving, they surely thought that hateful ruler had come back to life. So they had brought the wind elementals, intending to destroy "Doluda" once and for all.
Chen Rui had taken an arrow to the knee for no reason, shouldering Doluda's blame. He immediately used the connection system to appear in an instant before the city's damaged gates.
The distant Titans and wind elementals advanced step by step, their numbers astonishing—very likely their entire forces were here. Chen Rui had already experienced the Titans' combat prowess. Add to that the incredibly swift wind elementals, and in his current condition, even with Shura's avatar, he would be no match for them in a direct fight unless he opened the Stellar Gate and fled.
Yet Chen