"Tongtian, keep walking."
All the Runes propelled by Formation Ship lighted up, and the ship slowly accelerated in the Sea of Bitterness channel.
It took half an hour to sail.
Yang Jian's Heavenly Eye suddenly jumped.
"There are signal sources approaching from behind, the number..."
His voice paused for a moment.
"Too many, Heavenly Eye count has exploded again."
Nezha's Fire-Tipped Spear was put down from the shoulder, and the tip of the gun was pointed at the pipe wall behind the Sea of Bitterness channel.
"Scavengers?"
"It should be that the signal characteristics are different from Insect King and Tide-Devouring Insect, and the single energy fluctuation is around Immortal Emperor Level."
The voice of Kelān came from Magic Formation.
"Scavengers is very fast. They move in the Boundary Sea without being affected by space distortion. Once they lock on to the target, they will chase it until the corpse is eaten clean."
The advancement speed of Zhao Gongming's Sea of Bitterness channel has been increased to another level, and the black material on the tube wall flows like a surging river.
"Eat it clean? Insect King's corpse has been thrown out. They can just eat the pile of rotten meat. Why are they chasing us?"
"Insect King's Scales and Skeleton was taken away by you. For Scavengers, those are the most nutritious parts."
Nezha's expression changed.
"Are they coming for the pile of scales in our cabin?"
"Yes."
"Doesn't that mean that as long as we don't throw the scales out, they will keep chasing us?"
Kelān was silent for two breaths.
"That's the theory."
Nezha turned to look at the podium, Gu Changqing was still sitting there with his fingers on the armrest, and Xiaotian Dog was lying at his feet snoring.
"Master, do you want to throw out part of the scales?"
Gu Changqing tapped his fingers on the armrest twice.
"Don't throw it away."
"Then what if they catch up?"
"Fight if you catch up."
Nezha's gun barrel poked on the deck.
"Okay, then I'll wait."
Yang Jian and Heavenly Eye locked on the signal source behind them, and the light between their eyebrows was maximized.
"Their speed is still accelerating, and they are expected to catch up with the rear of Formation Ship within two quarters of an hour."
Tongtian called up the Battle Formation deployment diagram of the entire army in Main Battle Core.
"The rear Battle Formation are ready for defense. After the first batch of Scavengers rushed into the channel, the 96th to 108th Battle Formation intercepted it."
There was a response from Magic Formation.
Among the one hundred and eight Battle Formation, the last thirteen Battle Formation Heavenly Soldier began to adjust the array, all the protective masks were activated, and the magic weapons were unsheathed and neatly aimed at the pipe wall behind the Sea of Bitterness channel.
Two quarters of an hour passed quickly.
Heavenly Eye by Yang Jian captures the silhouette of the first Scavengers.
Not an insect or a beast.
It is a group of gray-white mist-like objects, each group is between ten and fifty miles in diameter, has no fixed shape, and looks like a moving smoke.
Some black lines can be vaguely seen squirming in the foggy object, like the appearance of some kind of nerves or blood vessels.
They gush out from the depths of Chaos, so fast that Yang Jian and Heavenly Eye can only capture afterimages.
The first batch of Scavengers hit the wall of the Sea of Bitterness channel.
The pipe wall was not shattered, but the gray-white mist-like object penetrated directly through the pipe wall and penetrated into the channel like water seeping into sand.
Zhao Gongming looked back at the bow of the ship.
"Can this thing penetrate Sea of Bitterness?"
Kelān's voice came out from Magic Formation, with a hint of exhaustion.
"Scavengers has no entity. They are the agglomeration of polluted residues from the Boundary Sea Origin. Sea of Bitterness has no blocking effect on them."
"Then how to fight?"
"Attack with energy, physical attacks have no effect on them."
Nezha's Fire-Tipped Spear and Samadhi True Fire skyrocketed.
"Energy attacks, right? I'm best at this."
The first batch of Scavengers has penetrated the pipe wall and poured into the channel. The gray-white mist-like object rushed towards the Battle Formation at the tail of Formation Ship.
The 108th Battle Formation and Heavenly Soldier all raised their magic weapons.
"Let it go!"
A piece of magic light shot out from Battle Formation, and thunder, flames, ice cones, and wind blades all densely hit the gray-white fog.
The fog exploded under the bombardment of spells.
But it didn't disappear.
The exploded fog clusters re-condensed in mid-air, and the number changed from one cluster to three clusters, with each cluster shrinking in size to one-third of its original size.
Nezha's eyebrows jumped.
"Can it still be divided?"
The voice of Kelān rang again.
"Scavengers will split after being attacked. The split individuals will continue to attack. Unless their energy is completely exhausted, they cannot be killed."
"How to use it up?"
"Continuous high-intensity energy output, or some kind of power that can restrain pollution Origin."
Nezha looked at his Fire-Tipped Spear.
"Does Samadhi True Fire count?"
"Fine, but you can't burn this much by yourself."
The gray-white fog had already arrived in front of the 108th Battle Formation, and the black lines in the fog suddenly thrust outwards, piercing towards Heavenly Soldier's protective mask.
The mask was punctured.
After the black lines penetrated the mask, they continued to drill into Heavenly Soldier's body. Heavenly Soldier's body stiffened for a moment, and a layer of gray-white frost began to appear on the surface of the armor.
"Withdraw!"
Battle Formation The commander roared, Heavenly Soldier stepped back, but those who had been touched by the black lines were too late.
Gray-white frost seeped from the surface of the armor, and Heavenly Soldier's body began to become transparent, as if it had been hollowed out from the inside by some force.
Tongtian Main Battle Core's face darkened.
"Scavengers is devouring Divine Soul. Any Heavenly Soldier that is touched will take Soul-Protecting Pill immediately. Others will move back Three Thousand Li and do not get close to them."
There was a panicked response from Magic Formation.
The 108th Battle Formation retreated, but Scavengers was faster. The gray-white mist poured into the channel like a tide, and the number continued to increase.
Heavenly Eye of Yang Jian sweeps behind.
"The second batch of Scavengers has entered the channel, and the quantity is more than three times that of the first batch."
Zhao Gongming pressed his hand on the mouth of the box. The advancement speed of the Sea of Bitterness channel has been stretched to the limit. The tube wall has become translucent under the high-speed flow. You can see more gray-white fog approaching in the Chaos outside.
"Tongtian, tell Battle Formation not to withdraw. They can't withdraw. The whole army will turn to defense and wait until they catch up to Formation Ship."
Tongtian's finger connected several nodes on Formation Diagram.
"The entire army shrinks its array and builds a three-layer defense circle with Immortal Slaying Formation Battleship as the core."
A neat response came from Magic Formation.
One hundred and eight Battle Formation began to gather in the direction of Formation Ship. The array of fifty million Heavenly Soldier was compressed into a huge circular array in the Sea of Bitterness channel, with Formation Ship in the center and Battle Formation surrounding it.
Scavengers's mist surged up from behind, and the gray-white mist spread in the passage, like a thick layer of haze.
Nezha stood on the right wing, Fire-Tipped Spear moved forward, and Samadhi True Fire sprayed out from the gun body, forming a Dao Fire wall between Formation Ship and the fog.
The moment the fire wall burned, the gray-white mist exploded when it hit the flames. The number of mist exploded from dozens to hundreds. The size of each mist shrank, but the speed was faster.
Nezha's face turned dark.
"If you burn it, it will lead to more?"
Kong Xuan's Five-Colored Divine Light was spread out from the middle of the hull, and the light curtain was attached behind the fire wall. After the gray-white mist hit the light curtain, it was brushed into an unknown space by Five-Colored Divine Light.
"Nezha, your fire can only burn their energy, but can't stop the division. Let me do it."
The coverage area of Five-Colored Divine Light continues to expand, extending from the middle section of the ship to the front and rear, and soon the entire Formation Ship is covered.
After the gray-white mist hit the light curtain, it was all swept away, and the pressure in the passage dropped sharply.
Nezha took Fire-Tipped Spear back and looked at Kong Xuan's colorful light curtain.
"Old Peacock, you are pretty good at it."
Kong Xuan's tail feathers trembled.
"Five-Colored Divine Light restrains the existence of all energy forms, but it cannot last long. My current Cultivation cannot sustain such a large range of continuous output."
"How long can it last?"
"A quarter of an hour."
Tongtian looked at the number of fog groups coming from behind on the Magic Formation screen on Main Battle Core, and connected dots with Runes on Formation Diagram.
"A quarter of an hour is enough. Can the Zhao Gongming and Sea of Bitterness channels still be accelerated?"
"Yes, but the pipe wall will become so thin that it may break at any time."
"Break it, break it, break out of Scavengers's encirclement first."
Zhao Gongming pressed both hands into the box, Sea of Bitterness's black substance surged, and the advancement speed of the channel increased to another level.
The speed of Formation Ship in the Sea of Bitterness channel is so fast that the surrounding Chaos space begins to deform, like a knife cutting a straight mark in the soup.
A quarter of an hour passed quickly.
Kong Xuan and Five-Colored Divine Light began to darken, and the luster on the tail feathers changed from bright to dull.
"I can't hold it anymore."
Heavenly Eye of Yang Jian sweeps ahead.
"Thirty thousand miles ahead, the signal source density of Scavengers begins to decrease."
"Hold on for another half-quarter of an hour and it will be safe to rush out."
The layer of light in Kong Xuan's bird's eye flashed twice, and Five-Colored Divine Light expanded outward again, but the thickness of the light curtain was obviously one layer thinner.
Gray-white fog began to seep in from the weak points of the light curtain, and black lines pierced towards the nearest Battle Formation.
Nezha's Fire-Tipped Spear moved again. Samadhi True Fire no longer sprayed into a wall of fire, but condensed into lines of fire that accurately penetrated every ball of mist that penetrated.
The line of fire pierced the fog, and the fog exploded and split into smaller individuals, but Nezha's line of fire also split, chasing each small fog group and continuing to burn.
Yang Jian pulled out a short sword on the left wing. The sword did not have the power of Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force attached to it, but was covered with a layer of pale golden light.
Heavenly Eye Light.
He swung his sword forward, and a pale golden light shot out from the blade, sweeping through a gray-white mist.
After the fog was swept by the light, it did not explode, but directly dissipated, as if it was erased from existence by some kind of force.
Nezha glanced at Yang Jian's knife.
"What's your trick?"
"Heavenly Eye Light can destroy illusions. Scavengers is essentially a false agglomerate of pollution residue. When exposed to Heavenly Eye, it will return to Origin."
"Then you should have told me earlier, my hands are sore from the heat."
"You didn't ask."
Half an hour later.
Formation Ship broke out of the encirclement of Scavengers, Yang Jian's Heavenly Eye swept behind, and the gray-white fog still lingered behind the Sea of Bitterness channel, but they did not continue to pursue it.
Kong Xuan's Five-Colored Divine Light went dark completely, the light curtain disappeared, his bird body shrank into the groove in the middle of the hull, his head was buried in the wings, and his breathing became slow and heavy.
"I'm so exhausted."
The Sea of Bitterness channel of Zhao Gongming returned to normal speed, the tube wall thickened again, and the flow of black material stabilized.
Tongtian counted the battle damage at Main Battle Core.
"The 108th Battle Formation lost three hundred and twenty people, of which one hundred and seventy people were devoured by Scavengers Divine Soul, and the rest were injured after the protective mask was shattered."
"The wounded were sent back to the cabin for treatment. Divine Soul was swallowed..."
Tongtian's voice paused for a beat.
"Divine Soul Can the swallowed one be saved?"
The voice of Kelān came from Magic Formation. This time, there was no fatigue left, only a kind of numbness.
"It's hopeless. The Divine Soul swallowed by Scavengers will be assimilated into a part of Origin that pollutes it, and there will be no chance of reincarnation."
Tongtian's finger rested on Formation Diagram for three breaths, and finally pressed it.
"Record the list of those killed in action, report it to Ruined Temple after returning, and handle it according to the highest pension standard."
There was a low response from Magic Formation.
On the podium, Gu Changqing's fingers were still resting on the armrests and had not moved.
Xiaotian Dog was lying at his feet, his tail swept the ground, and he raised his head to look at Gu Changqing's face.
Gu Changqing lowered his head and touched its head.
"Boundary Sea It's harder to leave than you think."
Xiaotian Dog snorted, as if in response.