Chapter 128

Chapter 128

Although Sun Fushan had just upgraded and released an S-class large turtle shell, his psychic energy was still relatively abundant.

Seven S-class grey petrels had been killed, but a large number of lower-class grey petrels and other mutated sea birds were about to arrive.

The fighter jets couldn't handle this number of flying beasts; forced interception would only result in the destruction of the jets and the loss of pilots. If left unchecked, the dense swarm of flying beasts would join the land-based beast tide in attacking the protective shield, significantly reducing its holding time. Therefore, whenever flying beasts approached, each base would first send psychics to clear the skies, then deploy fighter jets to strafe the beast horde outside the shield, coordinating with the ground forces.

Each beast tide lasted only three days. As long as each layer of the shield held long enough, the hope of the base surviving was higher.

"Can one person block them?"

Senior General Dong Mingliang asked Sun Fushan through the command channel.

Feeling the state of his psychic being, Sun Fushan replied, "Yes!"

Dong Mingliang immediately ordered, "All fighter jets and psychic beings outside the shield, return to formation!"

They were all well-trained soldiers; those piloting the jets returned at once, and the soldiers with released psychic beings completed the return task with just a thought.

From this point on, only Sun Fushan, propelling his battle armor to hover, remained outside the shield.

The mutated bird swarm was getting closer. Seeing the base's shield ahead, the birds automatically split into two groups, encircling the shield from a distance before flying towards it simultaneously.

Sun Fushan flew to the top of the shield, waving his right hand high into the sky. A towering mountain tens of meters high suddenly appeared. Before the massive shadow could crash down and destroy the shield, the seemingly indestructible mountain disintegrated into countless equally indestructible earthen arrows, which shot towards the flying beasts in all directions centered on Sun Fushan.

If Sun Fushan had been using the surrounding earth elements to condense the earthen arrows, he would have had to divert some of his psychic energy to aim. But this mountain was part of his psychic being. Just like the small green turtle could receive Sun Fushan's intentions, the countless earthen arrows from the disintegrating mountain also carried Sun Fushan's intentions. Thus, each arrow automatically targeted a flying beast, and even if the flying beast tried to escape with speed, the S-class earthen arrows could chase it down with higher speed and complete the kill.

When there were not enough flying beasts to kill, the remaining earthen arrows automatically shot towards the land-based beasts below. The earthen arrows targeted the larger, higher-level mutated beasts.

As the last earthen arrows vanished, the night sky returned to its quiet calm, with only Sun Fushan's battle-armored figure standing tall and imposing.

Dong Mingliang looked up high with both pride and envy. Why couldn’t his brown bear carry something useful, like a barrel of syrup? Then he could use the psychic being to trap a group of mutated beasts with it.

The brown bear, unable to fully manifest due to its owner's severe psychic energy depletion, extended a broad bear paw from Dong Mingliang's shoulder and slapped him on the face.

From now on, it would be up to Sun Fushan to handle the newly appeared S-class sea beasts and flying beasts in Wen City. By 5 a.m., Dong Mingliang and Lin Jingan were fully rested and back at peak condition.

Lin Jingan said to Dong Mingliang, "With me and Fushan guarding here, it should be enough. You should go and check on the five bases to the north and provide support when needed."

Before the last beast tide arrived, each coastal base could still station three senior generals. After the beast tide ended, the main base could only dispatch twelve senior generals.

Sun Fushan's AOE ability was both effective and relatively psychic energy-saving, with the S-class turtle shell defense as a guarantee. Lin Jingan was confident that the two of them could defend Wen City Base, so sending Dong Mingliang out could potentially reduce the sacrifice of senior generals at other bases.

Dong Mingliang said, "Alright, I'll go now."

He piloted a fighter jet and departed.

A few minutes later, Dong Mingliang arrived above the Taizhe Base, over a hundred kilometers away. The two senior generals stationed there had psychic beings that were an S-class electric eel and an S-class frigate bird, respectively. The S-class electric ability could handle large swathes of the beast tide on land, sea, and air, while the frigate bird's extremely fast flying speed and S-class wind ability allowed it to handle large numbers of flying beasts easily.

Another psychic from the base, Yang Bainian, whose psychic being could still level up, was also in Taizhe. His psychic being, the horned lizard, had already upgraded to a gold and earth dual A-class ability, with both offensive and defensive capabilities, and might even break through to S-class before the beast tide ended.

After a brief exchange of information, Dong Mingliang took off again and arrived at the Ning City Base. The two senior generals stationed there were Senior General Lao Fu, with an S-class bow psychic being, and Junior General Xiao Zhu, with an S-class flashlight, both with extremely powerful area-of-effect ultimates, so they didn't need assistance for the time being.

Further north was the Qiantang Base, where 200,000 guard troops were stationed. As Dong Mingliang's jet approached, he saw Wei Jian's powerful ultimate move, "Icebound Miles," which instantly froze a large number of low-level sea beasts in the frozen sea. The sea beasts behind them climbed onto the ice layer and rushed towards the land at an even faster sliding speed.

As snow fell from the sky, many more were frozen to death.

Dong Mingliang landed to find that Yuan Changhai was resting, presumably having been responsible for the previous wave of attacks.

Wei Jian said, "We can hold on here for a while longer. You should go check on the Haishi Base."

Stationed at the Haishi Base was Yuan Changhai's eldest daughter, Yuan Jing, who possessed an S-grade Great White Shark spiritual entity, along with General Xiao Fan, who had an S-grade Golden Eagle spiritual entity.

Dong Mingliang hurriedly flew to the Haishi Base and saw five flying mutated beasts attacking the dimly glowing S-grade Golden Eagle. In the sea, the S-grade Great White Shark was also battling three S-grade sea beasts. From the speed and intensity of the attacks, it was clear they were nearing their limits.

Dong Mingliang retracted his fighter jet, whistled, and the Golden Eagle immediately flew over and carried him on its back. As Dong Mingliang and the Golden Eagle coordinated to take down the flying beasts, his S-grade Brown Bear spiritual entity jumped into the sea, killing two S-grade sea beasts with a swipe of its claws. The last one was torn apart by the Great White Shark, splattering blood all over the bear.

The brown bear shook its head in the water, killed a circle of sea beasts, and quickly returned to its host.

After the battle, back inside the Haishi Base's protective shield, Dong Mingliang told the pale-faced Yuan Jing and General Xiao Fan, "Rest. I'll hold the line for a while."

Yuan Jing frowned and asked, "How is the Wen City Base?"

Dong Mingliang proudly explained the situation.

Her sister, Yuan Yue, urged her, "It's good to hear you're safe. Go to sleep. You need rest to continue fighting."

Dong Mingliang admired the Yuan sisters, who were famous for their fierce spiritual entities. He asked, "Is Chen Min training with you guys? How is she doing?"

Yuan Yue waited until her sister had taken her sedative before leading Dong Mingliang to the shield monitoring center. She tapped on a screen, and it displayed Chen Min's battle footage.

The seventy-year-old Chen Min had upgraded to A-grade the previous night, her short knife evolving into a long blade, cutting through sea beasts with ease.

Dong Mingliang envied her and said, "When I was a kid, I always dreamed of awakening a large blade as my spiritual entity."

Just as he finished speaking, he received another swat from the bear's paw.

After staying until the two generals had recovered, in the afternoon, Dong Mingliang finally arrived at the South City Base under the jurisdiction of the Southeast Base. The two generals stationed there had S-grade Tiger and S-grade Squid spiritual entities, respectively. Additionally, there were three A+ grade Phoenixes led by Lin Wenguo and several A+ grade turtles led by Sun Jintang.

The tigers and turtles handled the land beasts, while the squid and phoenixes dealt with the flying beasts and sea beasts. They worked in perfect harmony, but like other bases, they were holding on with great difficulty.

When he learned that his youngest son had reached S-grade, Sun Jintang smiled modestly and said, "He’s still a bit slow. If we had followed his grandfather's wishes and sent him to the coastal base for training half a year earlier, he might have reached S-grade before the beast tide."

Dong Mingliang: "..."

Lin Wenguo didn't say anything, but his Phoenix spiritual entity appeared and asked with a flame, "How is Meng Li? How is Xu Qiao?"

Having been repeatedly reminded, the Phoenix couldn't solely express concern for his daughter, so he also included her best friend.

Dong Mingliang pretended not to understand and said, "I'm only responsible for supporting the coastal bases. The central base is full of talented people; they should be fine."

The Phoenix said, "Why don't you check on them?"

Dong Mingliang released his brown bear, which scratched its butt and then wiped its paw on the Phoenix's magnificent wings.

The Phoenix immediately disappeared.

Southeast Base, the twenty-second day of the twelfth lunar month, noon.

It was time for the reserve forces and the guard troops to rotate shifts again, while the fifteenth layer of the protective shield could only hold on for another five minutes at most.

Marshal Lin Lie ordered the frontline reserve forces to abandon their posts and retreat to the fourteenth layer of the shield, where the relieving guard troops were standing by inside the shield.

Within a half-kilometer range of the fifteenth layer, the rear medical points and wounded were evacuated first. Among the frontline combat soldiers, the C-grade gunners retreated first, while the A-grade and B-grade psychics covered the rear as they withdrew.

As the generals either rested from exhaustion or joined forces to deal with the flying beasts in the sky, an A-grade mutated boar attacking the shield from the west, along with other land beasts, suddenly grew in size. Its massive thirty-meter body lunged forward, tearing a huge crack in the protective shield.

Inside the base, Sun Dagui was dealing with three nests of ants attacking the shield from underground to the north, including six S-grade ants, leaving him no room to be distracted.

Lin Lie, Lin Kunshan, and the Class A Phoenixes were battling the newly arrived winged mutated insects three kilometers away in the outer ring, and they probably hadn't noticed the sudden enemy situation here.

In this critical moment, a Class S Phoenix spiritual entity flew over from the direction of the unengaged reserve forces, diving toward the gradually expanding gap in the windscreen shield and spitting lines of Phoenix fire.

The Phoenix fire temporarily halted the advance of the beast tide, but the Class S wild boar, with its superior defense and speed, charged out of the firelines, ignoring the sparks on its fur. The Class S boar headed straight for the retreating reserve forces.

A fire scorpion spiritual entity over a dozen meters long suddenly descended from the sky, landing on the boar's back, its tail spike stabbing with full force into the boar's round abdomen.

The wild boar fell to the ground, attempting to crush the spiritual entity that posed a threat to it with its weight.

Before the boar hit the ground, the fire scorpion flapped its wings and flew back into the air. As the boar looked up, Meng Li, perched on the fire scorpion's back, shot two pitch-black wind arrows into the boar's eyes.

The timing was precise, and the wind arrows, imbued with A+ grade scorpion venom, deeply penetrated the boar's brain cavity.

Before Meng Li could breathe a sigh of relief, a sudden surge of vibrations from the beast tide came from behind her. She turned back just in time to see the Phoenix spiritual entity being dragged into the beast tide by a mutated python.

The nearest group of high-level psychics turned around and once again unleashed their powerful psychic abilities. Another group of high-level psychics, ordered to guard the 14th layer windscreen shield, flew in from above to hold back the beast tide, providing cover for the retreating lower-level reserve forces.

Just as these psychics were about to be overwhelmed by the meters-high beast tide, the sky suddenly darkened.

The sudden change in the sky caused the psychics to look up in surprise, and the rushing beast tide also raised their heads.

In countless eyes, the same scene was reflected.

The round sun in the sky was blocked by a massive and slender shadow in the shape of a giant scorpion. Blazing white light poured down from above, outlining the nearly hundred-meter-long, hardened Phoenix wings of the giant scorpion with a red-black glow.

The next second, the giant scorpion with Phoenix wings dove down, spitting out an even thicker and hotter wave of flame, incinerating all the mutated beasts that had entered the gap in the windscreen shield into ash.

The giant scorpion stood vertically in the air in front of the psychics, flapping its wings. The strong wind it generated blew all the remaining ash of the mutated beasts out through the crack in the windscreen shield.

Lin Kunshan, who had just finished dealing with the winged mutated insects and returned above the windscreen shield, happened to witness this scene.

With a single glance, he estimated the length of the fire scorpion’s wings to be longer than the wings of any of the Lin Family’s Class S Phoenixes.

Phoenix feathers were supposed to be soft, but the fire scorpion’s hardened wings inherited the S-grade defense of a scorpion’s shell, rivaling the S-grade defense of Sun Dagui’s tortoise shell.

Sensing something, Meng Li looked up but only caught a glimpse of a rapidly departing figure.

She quickly refocused on the battle at hand.