After clearing the battlefield, Liu Changxu did not linger. He immediately led the Human Race army away aboard the Ruyi Sky-Patrolling Battleship.
More than twenty days later, the Ruyi Sky-Patrolling Battleship appeared above the vast, boundless Marsh Lake. It gleamed an oily green beneath the sunlight, with rotting aquatic plants and dead branches floating on its murky surface. A damp, rank odor permeated the air.
Countless enormous blood-red mosquitoes circled above the marsh. The hum of their wings converged into a heart-chilling tide of sound, and from afar, they resembled flowing blood mist. This was the stronghold of the Blood Mosquito Race, their target for this attack.
Liu Changxu, Jin Haonan, and the others stood on the deck of the Ruyi Sky-Patrolling Battleship, gazing into the depths of the marsh.
Suddenly, a piercing shriek rang out from deep within the marsh. Though brief, it possessed tremendous penetrating power. Even at this distance, it shook everyone's blood and vital energy into turmoil.
Soon, eighteen enormous blood-red mosquitoes abruptly appeared in the distance. A closer look revealed that every one of them had reached the ninth tier or higher. They then hurtled toward the battleship.
At the same time, the ordinary blood mosquitoes swarming across the sky received orders from the Blood Mosquito Insect Emperors. They wheeled around and surged toward the Ruyi Sky-Patrolling Battleship like a blood-red torrent.
As the distance between the two sides narrowed, the shrieks of the eighteen ninth-tier Blood Mosquito Insect Emperors grew increasingly terrifying. Even Liu Fuyang and the others at Great Perfection Tribulation Transcendence felt their heads splitting under those dreadful sound waves.
Seeing this, Liu Changxu did not hesitate. He immediately brought everyone with lower cultivation on the deck inside the Ruyi Sky-Patrolling Battleship, then said to his daughter, Liu Fuyin:
"Yin'er, stay aboard