571: Chapter 571 It's all over

Above the floating island, Winter had completely lost his strength. Being carried on Jiang Liu's back, he had become a total burden.

As gaps appeared in the area where the two were located, the monsters became increasingly ferocious. As the saying goes, it never rains but it pours; a massive arm climbed up over the edge of the floating island.

It was a creature resembling a flood dragon, except it had no head. In place of its head was a flower-like mouthpart that split into four.

With a roar, it charged toward the crowd like a truck, crushing most of the monsters in its path to death; they had no power to resist.

Such a monster held absolute dominance in terms of tonnage, and the crowd, whose stamina was gradually failing, could no longer hold it off.

"Roar!"

The monster let out another roar, suddenly kicked off the ground, flew into the air, and pounced downward.

Just at this moment.

"Lower your heads!"

Bai Ling instinctively lowered his head, feeling a wave of intense heat and a bit of moisture pass above his head.

When he raised his head again, the monster had already been sent flying backward, half of its body melted away.

Looking at the others, some had lowered their heads upon hearing that command and were completely unharmed.

There were also rebellious ones like Aleph who got splattered with blood and were now busy wiping their faces.

"I told you to duck."

Lv Yang was holding a short gun, followed by Li Hua, who was carrying the unconscious Li Heng on his back.

Seeing Lv Yang arrive, everyone present showed expressions of surprise.

They really hadn't expected that Lv Yang, who had run away as soon as the battle started, would actually come back to save them now.

And what surprised them even more was the Li Heng that Li Hua was carrying on his back.

They didn't know what had happened, but knowing that Lv Yang had a gun and that this gun was very effective against the monsters was enough.

In fact, Lv Yang and Li Hua had initially only planned to hide in the base.

In Lv Yang's view, the battle outside was a place where one would die upon entering, regardless of whether it was for him, a Mortal, or Li Hua, a Cultivator.

Since this base could accommodate those powerful experts, it likely wouldn't be weak; hiding inside was definitely safe enough.

The two hid there for half a day. They had expected to be besieged by the people inside, and Li Hua had even prepared to fight at any time, but surprisingly, no one bothered them.

Seeing that no one was around for a long time, Li Hua became restless. Having made up his mind, he decided to venture deep into the base to look for his father.

Lv Yang thought that although this boy was from the Demonic Sect, his filial piety was commendable, and he didn't intend to stay in this place for long, so he followed along to help look for Li Hua's father.

The two searched like this, only to find corpses along the way, and the more they searched, the more their scalps tingled.

It wasn't until the Victory Knight exploded and Li Heng fell out that the two realized Li Heng had been inside the Victory Knight all along.

After all, one sees further from a high vantage point. After the two successfully rescued Li Heng, they naturally saw the ocean of monsters pouring in before anyone else.

Thus, they rushed down from the base without stopping, which allowed them to rescue everyone in time.

After Lv Yang joined, he dual-wielded his short gun and a pistol, spreading a net of firepower across various gaps, which gave the exhausted crowd hope.

Even Li Hua, who was carrying Li Heng, fought with remarkable results using his blood-colored sword. Based on his sword techniques alone, even while carrying a person, he was stronger than many people present.

With the continuous efforts of both sides, they managed to fight for half an hour, dragging it out until Shi Suiyan arrived.

Upon seeing Shi Suiyan, they were all nearly exhausted, and even Lv Yang was low on ammunition.

The monsters were wiped out, with only small groups still wandering the city, but Yuan Chenling had already led people to clean them up.

When Shi Suiyan saw the people from the Truth Cult, she decisively apprehended them. They didn't have much strength left, so they naturally didn't plan to resist.

By this time, the real Li Heng had mostly woken up, leading to the scene where he beat Gongsun Heng black and blue earlier.

After finally managing to hold Li Heng back, Lv Yang curiously asked what exactly had happened to Li Heng.

The truth slowly unfolded.

Li Heng looked at Gongsun Heng, his eyes full of anger, but he still forced his rage down and said.

"I was originally invited by King Dong to come and save the situation. Because I am not a member of the Truth Cult, the Truth Cult naturally wouldn't fully trust me, so they sent another person."

"At that time, this guy disguised himself as someone else, gained my trust, and backstabbed me at a critical moment."

"In my despair, I had no choice but to seek help from other members in the plan."

"As it turned out, whether it was the School of Physics that arrived early, or that damned Ma Hao, they were all his people. I had practically walked into the tiger's den and was captured by them."

"At first, I thought they were just trapping me because they wanted some benefits. Who knew this damned guy would join forces with that Ma Hao to steal most of my power, and on top of that, stuff me into that big iron box, nearly causing me to perish!"

The other members of the Truth Cult looked at each other, thoughts in their minds, but they didn't voice them.

Although they were surprised that Gongsun Heng, a wanted criminal of the Truth Cult, was still alive, they didn't find it strange that Li Heng had been backstabbed.

Some of them, like Winter, spent all year in the laboratory and only knew of Li Heng's existence, not knowing if he was a member of the Truth Cult at all.

But they were all too familiar with their own sect; such backstabbing was, in their opinion, very common. It was Li Heng's own stupidity, and he couldn't blame others.

But now that the situation was against them, they didn't dare to say it out loud.

Originally, they had planned that since the fake Li Heng had caused such a big mess, regardless of whether the plan succeeded or not, someone would have to pay with their life.

So, they had reached a consensus way back when they left the base: the moment the plan succeeded, they would gang up on Li Heng and kill him.

Now that the mastermind wasn't Li Heng, and the plan had likely failed, they would just keep their mouths shut and be prisoners.

In any case, they had executed the plan with extraordinary performance; it was just that all these guys had caused trouble, so if it failed, it had nothing to do with them.

They didn't think this group of people would really dare to kill all of them; at the very least, they were high-level members of the Truth Cult.

"Alright, now you better explain why they can't use their power."

Lv Yang grabbed Gongsun Heng and pressed his gun against his chin.

"You ask me? I don't know either. You wouldn't really think we were all of one mind, would you?" Gongsun Heng smiled bitterly.

"How could people who joined forces not have their own little agendas? If I had to say, perhaps only Yun Mingtian was acting out of friendship for Li Heng, and Cen Xiu is just purely naive."

"You don't need to ask anymore; I've already understood the situation."

Just as Lv Yang was about to finish off this culprit who knew nothing with a shot, Zhou Yan walked out unhurriedly.

"I was still worried about you all; luckily, you are all safe."

"Zhou Yan!"

"Senior Brother Zhou!"

"Junior Brother Zhou!"

"Ace!"

...

Seeing the newcomer, half the people exclaimed, their faces breaking into smiles.

Because they knew that when Zhou Yan appeared, it meant everything was over.

Except for Li Hua.

"What's the situation with Zhou Yan? Isn't it Ace? Is this fake too?"

No one paid attention to Li Hua, who was doubting his life. Even Li Heng looked at this young man with curiosity.

"I have already understood the situation. It was a guy named Isaac from the Truth Cult who attempted to resurrect the first Venerable of the Truth Cult, Niu Qi, but it seems he failed."

Zhou Yan spread his hands with a look of helplessness.

"Fortunately, I arrived in time to deal with him. Ma Hao was there too, although I don't know where his true body went. But I imagine it's not a big problem anymore; we have won this war."

Hearing what Zhou Yan said, everyone let out a sigh of relief. This time, it was a crisis beyond imagination: first, the terrifying knight above the Void Refinement Stage descended, and then that great sun prohibited all magic power.

They had truly been tortured, but fortunately, the knight had disintegrated before it could act, and this sun seemed to be a failed product as well.

"How are we going to restore our cultivation? We won't have to stay like this forever, right?"

Bai Ling was a bit anxious; he had only just regained his Dao Heart and didn't want to start from scratch.

Zhou Yan curved his lips into a smile and walked toward Shi Suiyan.

"Don't worry, I have my own way to solve it, but I'll need to trouble Junior Sister Shi to lend me the Hun Tian Yi."

"I still have some power to activate it. As long as I can restore this surrounding Domain to the state before the sun rose for a short time, we can use our Law Divine Ability within it."

"Then there will be a way."

Zhou Yan placed his hand on Shi Suiyan's shoulder, channeling some magic power to her so that Shi Suiyan could open her spatial ring and take out the Magic Treasure.

After receiving the magic power, Shi Suiyan directly took out the Hun Tian Yi.

But as soon as the Hun Tian Yi was taken out, Shi Suiyan noticed a problem.

"How did you know I had the Hun Tian Yi?"

Zhou Yan pressed his hand onto the Hun Tian Yi and revealed a smile.

"Guess?"