132: Chapter 132: Legion Special Effects [Legion Bone Fusion]

On the purplish-red wasteland, six figures moved rapidly, hugging the ground.

Wren walked at the very front, his body pressed extremely low.

The five team members behind him were all Diamond Tier powerhouses.

At this moment, however, they were pushing caution and stealth to the extreme.

On the left side of the team, the Sword Cultivator Li Xuan, from the cultivation system, kept his life-bound Flying Sword, which had drunk countless blood, tightly suppressed deep within his Dantian.

He circulated his Turtle Breathing Technique, locking every one of his thirty-six thousand pores, and forcibly slowed his heartbeat to once per minute.

On the right, the mechanically modified cyborg "K" cut off the micro-nuclear fusion power core within his body.

He activated the most primitive clockwork backup energy source, and the sound of gears meshing was perfectly masked by the sound-dampening coating on his body surface.

His mechanical electronic eyes scanned the surroundings, but he dared not release any active detection waves.

At the rear of the team, the Necromancer Morgan compressed his Death Qi into the white bone staff in his hand, his entire person wrapped in a grey-black cloak, his breathing completely stopped.

The Elemental Mage Ayla and the Body Cultivator Gangku followed closely behind, both of them suppressing all energy fluctuations, stepping in Wren's footprints as they moved forward.

These six people represented the core combat power of the Time Demon Race.

Picking any one of them would allow them to walk sideways in ordinary low-tier Divine Domains.

But here, they didn't even dare to breathe loudly.

"Captain, is the direction correct?" Li Xuan used voice-line projection, his voice ringing in Wren's ear.

"Look at those trees." Wren also responded using voice-line projection, "The further toward the center we go, the higher the density of the dark red small trees, and the thicker the dark abyss spiritual energy in the air."

"The antidote must be in the place where the spiritual energy is most concentrated."

The six continued to sneak forward.

A dense rustling sound suddenly came from ahead.

Wren waved his hand to signal, and all six stopped, like six lifeless black rocks.

At the end of their line of sight, a patrol of over ten thousand Nether Uranium Beetles was crawling past rapidly.

Wren secretly observed this group of insects.

He could sense that the strongest individual strength among these insects was only Gold Tier, but they exuded a strange sense of unity.

As long as one was moved, an invisible mental link would detonate the entire swarm.

The sky suddenly darkened.

The six looked up.

High in the sky, over ten thousand Demon Vultures with wingspans exceeding fifteen meters dove down from the leaden-grey clouds.

Their target was the swarm on the ground.

A brief and bloody slaughter erupted a few kilometers away.

The Demon Vultures' sharp claws tore open the insects' carapaces, and the swarm crushed the Demon Vultures' bodies.

Screams, chewing sounds, and the sound of breaking bones mixed together, shaking this wasteland.

"Go around." Wren withdrew his gaze and gave orders to the group.

They had huge psychological trauma regarding the sky of this Divine Domain.

The storms and hail they encountered when arriving had already shattered their courage to take to the air.

They would rather crawl on the ground like rats than mimic a flying race and become living targets in the sky.

Relying on their super strength and caution, the six avoided several waves of insects and flying creatures without incident.

Two hours later, they stopped.

Stretching out before them was a black river thousands of meters wide.

The river water was as black as ink, the surface so calm it had no ripples.

There was no sound of flowing water, no steam rising.

The entire river was like an abyss, dividing the wasteland into two.

"This water... it's not right." The Necromancer Morgan gripped his bone staff tightly.

"I am a guy who plays with Death Qi, but the concentration of Death Qi in this river makes even me feel palpitations."

"It is devouring the surrounding light and energy."

The Mechanic K crouched down, picked up a fist-sized metal Ore from the ground, and threw it hard toward the center of the river.

The Ore traced a parabolic arc and fell into the river.

There was no splash, no ripples, not even the sound of it hitting the water.

After the Ore touched the water surface, it melted and disappeared directly, not even a bubble emerged.

The six gasped.

"Captain, make a decision." The Body Cultivator Gangku said in a muffled voice.

There was a disagreement within the team.

The Elemental Mage Ayla pointed to the other side of the river: "Take the waterway. We will mimic aquatic creatures and sneak along the current; it's the fastest."

"There are more and more insects on the ground; that patrol just now had thousands. If we keep going forward, we will be discovered sooner or later."

"The water is better than facing that group of perverted insects."

Li Xuan shook his head, his brows locked tight: "I object. This river water is extremely evil."

"My Sword Heart is warning me. This water can definitely isolate Divine Sense. Once we go down, we will be blind."

"If we encounter danger, we won't even be able to run."

Both sets of eyes turned to Wren simultaneously.

Wren stared at the river surface, then looked back in the direction they had come from.

At the end of the horizon, there was faintly the dust raised by a large number of insects moving.

In the sky, tens of thousands of even larger mutated Demon Vultures were circling, searching for prey on the ground.

"Go into the water." Wren made the final decision, "The dangers on the ground and in the sky are obvious; we cannot afford to waste time."

"Although it's strange in the water, as long as we mimic the creatures here, we can avoid the repulsion of the aquatic environment itself."

The captain had made the decision, and the others said no more.

The six walked to the riverbank, the Time Demon Race Origin surging within their bodies.

Their bodies began to expand and elongate, and fine black scales grew on their skin.

To adapt to this river, they chose to mimic a type of aquatic insect form with hard armor.

"Splash! Splash!"

The six figures jumped into the Underworld River one after another.

As soon as they entered the water, extreme cold and terrifying gravity were added to their bodies.

"The density of this water... is ten times higher than mercury!" K's mechanical transmission rang in the team channel.

Li Xuan tentatively released his Divine Sense, it had just left his body less than half a meter.

It was ruthlessly devoured by the surrounding dead water, and a sharp pain came in his mind.

"Total blindness. Everyone stay close, use biological sound waves to communicate!" Wren gave the order.

The six quickly went back-to-back, forming a circular defensive formation.

Before they had time to adapt to the underwater environment, a sudden change occurred.

Deep in the pitch-black water, dense, eerie blue light spots suddenly lit up.

These light spots had no fluctuations of life breath, nor did they emit any Killing Intent.

They were like ghosts at the bottom of the water, approaching silently.

Until they were less than ten meters away, the six saw clearly what they were.

Bone Fish.

Over a thousand strange fish with body lengths exceeding six meters, their bodies consisting only of pale white bones.

Eerie blue Soul fires burned in their eye sockets, and their mouths were filled with interlocking bone spurs.

These Bone Fish were not very strong; most were at the Gold mid-tier, and the strongest ones were only Platinum high-tier.

For a Diamond Tier Time Demon Race team, they wouldn't usually even glance at monsters of this level.

But now, the situation was completely different.

The Bone Fish school had already completed an encirclement formation underwater.

"Swish! Swish! Swish!"

Hundreds of Bone Fish launched a charge simultaneously.

They did not wag their tails, relying entirely on controlling the hidden force of the water current, their speed as fast as lightning.

Sharp bone spurs aimed directly at the six people's vital points.

"Looking for death!" Li Xuan snorted coldly.

The life-bound Flying Sword Qingming inside his Dantian broke out of his body, turning into a brilliant cyan sword light, slashing toward the Bone Fish charging at the very front.

However, the Flying Sword that could easily level a mountain on a normal day had its speed reduced by 70% in this high-density Underworld River water.

The sword light slashed on the Bone Fish's skull, emitting a harsh friction sound.

Just by cutting off three bone spurs, the Flying Sword's spiritual power was corroded by the dead water until it was dim and lusterless, flying back into Li Xuan's hand.

Li Xuan's face changed drastically: "The water resistance is too great! Spiritual power consumption is increasing exponentially!"

"Let me!" The Mechanic K raised his right arm, his palm split open, revealing an eerie blue plasma cannon barrel.

"Boom!" A high-energy plasma light sphere blasted out.

As soon as the light sphere left the cannon barrel, it was forcibly compressed and assimilated by the surrounding dead water.

An attack that would normally be enough to melt a spaceship only exploded into a fist-sized bubble in the water.

"Energy weapons are ineffective; this water can devour a large amount of high-energy reactions!" K yelled.

The Bone Fish school gave them no chance to breathe at all.

The first wave of attacks was thwarted, and the second and third waves followed one after another.

The Body Cultivator Gangku roared, his muscles surging, his fists smashing out like heavy hammers, forcibly smashing a few Bone Fish that were approaching.

But the Bone Fish had no sense of pain at all; even if their bodies were broken in two, the remaining half still opened its big mouth full of bone spurs, biting onto Gangku's arm.

"Get off!" Gangku shook his arm hard, but tore off a large chunk of his own flesh.

The Necromancer Morgan tried to control these Bone Fish using Death Qi, but was surprised to find:

"Their Souls are so weak they are negligible; my magic is ineffective against them!"

The Elemental Mage Ayla released extreme cold freezing, trying to freeze the water current.

But the Underworld River's dead water didn't buy it at all; as soon as the freezing Law formed, it was forcibly shattered by the corrosiveness of the dead water.

Frustrated.

Extremely frustrated.

The dignified six Diamond Tier Starry Sky Wanderers were actually beaten so they couldn't lift their heads!

They had sky-reaching and earth-shattering skills, but they couldn't even utilize one-tenth of them in this strange Underworld River environment.

On the other hand, the Bone Fish took full advantage of the time and geographical conditions.

Every impact carried the water pressure of the entire river, and every bite was accompanied by the corrosion of the dead water.

Wren swung the appendages transformed from his arms, cutting off two approaching Bone Fish.

His expression was unusually ugly.

"Captain! Think of a way! We can't keep dragging this out!" Li Xuan's Flying Sword's light was getting dimmer and dimmer, and there were already a dozen wounds of varying depths on his body.

Wren gritted his teeth.

How could he not want to get rid of this group of troublesome monsters!

The Time Demon Race's core life-saving method was to set up a Veil of Time to isolate space.

But in this high-density dead water, the space Law was greatly compressed, and he couldn't open the curtain at all.

What was even more fatal was that the Time Demon Race's Mimicry talent required deep analysis of the opponent's genes and energy circuits.

This required time, and required bearing the opponent's Origin attacks at close range.

And in this chaotic battle of being attacked by a group, he didn't even have the time to lock onto one Bone Fish to analyze it.

"Back off! I'll open the path!"

Wren's eyes widened in anger, finally deciding to use his trump card.

In this Divine Domain where energy could not be replenished, using a big move meant being one step closer to death, but he had no other choice.

The Diamond Tier Origin within his body burned, and the power of the space Law erupted from his body.

"Space Vibration Slash!"

Wren crossed his arms and swung forward.

The water area ahead was shaken open.

A hundred-meter-long half-moon-shaped grey light blade appeared out of thin air, forcibly pushing aside the surrounding high-density dead water, and with the power to destroy everything, it blasted into the Bone Fish school.

"Boom!"

A muffled explosion echoed underwater.

This strike consumed nearly 30% of Wren's Origin energy.

The effect was also extremely significant.

The hundreds of Bone Fish that bore the brunt were turned into sky-filling bone powder under the influence of the space Law.

The remaining hundreds of Bone Fish were also blown away by the shockwave, falling into deeper waters.

The water area around the six was finally cleared.

"Quick! Swim upstream! Leave the water!" Wren yelled, his face looking a bit pale due to energy overdraft.

The teammates had just breathed a sigh of relief and hadn't had time to praise the captain's Divine Might.

A sound of bone friction suddenly came from the deep water area.

"Click! Click!"

The Bone Fish that fell into the deep water were not all dead.

Those broken bones and incomplete bodies, under the traction of some strange Law, actually began to assemble and fit together.

One Bone Fish's skull got stuck into another Bone Fish's spine, and a third Bone Fish's ribs turned into outer armor.

In just a few seconds.

The remains of over a thousand Bone Fish combined in the deep water into a super Bone Fish with a body length of over a hundred meters!

In the eye sockets of this super Bone Fish, two huge black-blue Soul fires burned.

Every bone spur on its body was like a sharp long spear, and the aura exuded from its whole body was climbing at a terrifying speed.

Platinum Peak... half-step Diamond... faintly touching the barrier of the Diamond Tier!

This was the endless years of the Bone Fish race in the Underworld River.

To resist the predation of creatures in the sky and the brutal beatings of the insect race underground, they evolved a new characteristic [Legion Bone Fusion].

The super Bone Fish swung its tail bone, forming a vortex of the surrounding dead water.

It opened its huge mouth, enough to swallow an elephant, let out a roar, and charged straight at the six people above.

"F*ck!"

The cultivator Li Xuan couldn't help but curse.

He had cultivated the Dao for hundreds of years and had never seen such an absurd creature.

Can't beat them, so you use Body Integration?

What kind of unreasonable Divine Domain Law is this!

"What kind of hellish place is this! Are we even allowed to play!" The Mechanic K beat his own chest armor, his electronic eyes full of anxiety.

In times of danger, the combat literacy of the Starry Sky Wanderers was displayed to the fullest.

They knew very well that in this environment, they must not be dragged down by this super Bone Fish.

Once entangled, their energy would be drained alive.

"You go first! I'll stay behind!" Wren roared, not retreating but advancing, charging toward the super Bone Fish.

"Captain!"

"Stop talking nonsense! After you go up, set up a Veil of Time to guard against the Demon Vultures in the sky!" Wren didn't look back.

Li Xuan and the other five bit their tongues and swam frantically upward.

"Bang!"

A muffled sound came from below.

The super Bone Fish's huge tail struck Wren's body solidly.

The black scales on Wren's body exploded inch by inch, and large mouthfuls of blood gushed out, dyeing the surrounding water red.

Borrowing this huge reaction force, Wren's figure shot upward like a cannonball.

"Splash!"

The five team members were the first to rush out of the water.

They didn't care about adjusting their breath and joined hands to cast a secret technique.

A greyish Veil of Time unfolded over the water surface, isolating their aura.

Immediately after, Wren broke out of the water and slammed heavily onto the purplish-red soil on the bank.

He was covered in blood, his chest was sunken in, and his aura was extremely withered.

"Captain!" The five rushed forward, scrambling to take out healing potions.

Wren raised his hand, stopping their actions.

He gasped for breath, spitting the blood in his mouth onto the ground.

"Don't worry about me. This injury won't kill me." Wren struggled to stand up, looking at the calm river surface.

"Captain, you were too impulsive! You could have completely dodged that blow just now!" The Body Cultivator Gangku said with red eyes.

Wren wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, a ferocious smile appearing on his pale face.

"Dodge? Why would I dodge?"

He slowly raised his right arm.

Under the shocked gaze of the five team members, the muscles of Wren's right arm began to squirm.

The flesh and skin receded, and in its place was a pale, bone-spurred skeleton.

The material, texture, and even the Death Qi fluctuations exuded by this bone were exactly the same as the Bone Fish underwater!

"We've wasted too much time." Wren's voice was hoarse, but it revealed an inexplicable excitement.

"The Time Demon Race's Mimicry can only perfectly analyze the opponent's genes and energy circuits at the moment of bearing their Origin attack."

He turned his head, looking at the five dumbfounded team members.

"I have already figured out the bottom line of this group of bones. Now, we can cross this river without any hindrance."