thefictionvixens Chapter 111: Blockade
Chapter 111: Blockade
Inside a temporary cave deep underground, Hong cut off communication with the virtual universe and exhaled a long breath of stale air.
He turned around and looked at Thor, Luo Feng, and the others, who had different expressions.
"It's done."
"The people at Sanfu Mountain have agreed to all our conditions."
Upon hearing this news, Thor's tense nerves finally relaxed, and he plopped down on the ground, grinning from ear to ear.
"Haha, that's great!"
"Brother Hong, your trick of shifting the blame is brilliant. I want to see what kind of expression that Ninth Prince Brolin is making now."
Luo Feng also withdrew the probing cloud vine, a smile appearing on his face.
At this moment, the realm within a realm has become a living hell.
After learning that Three Axe Mountain had interfered and seized the second layer of the inheritance code, Ninth Prince Brolin went completely mad.
To secure the right to redeem the final password, he completely dropped his pretense and no longer cared about saving face.
"Pass on my orders!"
Brolin, his eyes bloodshot, roared at the commanders below.
"Clear the entire combined forces of the Imperial Martial Corps and the Hundred Tiger Tower indiscriminately."
"If you encounter any independent martial artists who are still mining boundary ore, or any teams from other small or medium-sized forces, kill them on the spot, leaving no one alive."
"They handed over all the boundary ore in their spatial rings."
This inhuman and bloody order spread throughout the entire Realm Within a Realm.
Nearly a million elite ninth-tier Hengxing warriors formed an unstoppable force and launched a massacre against those independent individuals and small factions who were still dreaming of getting a share of the spoils.
In an instant, blood flowed like a river in the ancient forest.
This atrocity has driven smaller, hesitant factions to the brink of despair.
"Damn it, let's fight them!"
"If the Imperial Martial Corps doesn't give us a way out, we'll fight them to the death!"
Seizing the opportunity, Marshal Jiang Tianchen personally ordered Sanfushan to form an alliance with Beilongcheng, which was also oppressed, to openly resist the atrocities of the Imperial Martial Corps.
Seeing that they had become targets, the neutral factions, including the Black Cloud Society, did not hesitate to lead their members to join the Three Axe Mountain faction.
More than two million star-level troops launched a frenzied slaughter in this ancient forest.
Fighter jets chased each other in the sky, and occasionally one of them exploded, trailing long plumes of black smoke as it fell to the ground.
Various colored beams of energy and laser rays intertwined, instantly evaporating swathes of ancient trees.
The ground was littered with severed limbs and the metal wreckage of warplanes, and thick blood had stained the dark red soil a swampy, dark purple.
Countless powerful beings, even those at the highest star level, perished here like mere blades of grass.
In this brutal battle, the Imperial Martial Legion, led by the Ninth Prince Brolin, managed to raise the ten million World Ore needed to exchange for the third layer of the code, thanks to Hargrave's costless replenishment of troops from the rear and his enormous financial resources.
The moment the required amount was collected, Brolin's eyes turned bloodshot.
Ignoring the fierce battle raging outside, and with the desperate cover of dozens of peak ninth-tier Hengxing guards, he braved the concentrated fire of the Three Axe Mountain allied forces and charged into the black giant tower.
Inside the grand hall of the giant tower, the intelligent life form Mist looked at the Ninth Prince, who was covered in blood, and a mocking smile appeared on its silver giant face.
"Oh? You've gathered them all so quickly? Looks like quite a few people have died outside."
Brolin ignored the taunts and squeezed out a few words through gritted teeth in a hoarse voice.
"The third layer of code."
Under the mocking gaze of the fog, Brolin got what he wanted.
Holding the first and third codes in his hands, Brolin's face flushed red, but he knew in his heart that without the second code of Three Axe Mountain, these two codes were useless.
He immediately contacted his maternal grandfather, Hargrave, the ruler of his realm, through the virtual universe.
At this moment, in a specially opened conference room in the virtual universe, Hargrave's negotiations with Marshal Tianchen of Three Axe Mountain have reached a stalemate.
"Jiang Tianchen, don't go too far!"
Hargrave's virtual projection fluctuated violently due to anger.
Jiang Tianchen's projection remained as steady as Mount Tai. He held a cup of tea, slowly blew on it, and spoke in a calm tone.
"Hargrave, you can't say that."
"You're the ones in a hurry, but Sanfu Mountain isn't. These are the conditions; take it or leave it."
Meanwhile, Hong's team, who had been hiding deep underground, keenly sensed that the war outside had firmly tied down the forces and attention of all the major powers.
"Now."
Hong made a quick decision and addressed the crowd.
"Everyone, be alert and prepare to evacuate."
"The outside world is in complete chaos right now, which is the perfect opportunity for us to take advantage of the confusion and leave the inner world."
He immediately contacted the Iron Guard squad at Three Axe Mountain.
Under the secret instructions of the higher-ups at Sanfu Mountain, Tie Wei quickly led three thousand Hengxing-level ninth-tier warriors to secretly evacuate Hong Xiaodui's five-person team via a relatively safe route.
"Set off."
At Hong's command, the five-man team did not linger.
Luo Feng's cosmic-level cloud-piercing vines carved out a brand new passage deep underground.
This five-person team, returning with a full load, mingled among the three thousand Hengxing of Sanfu Mountain. With the help of Luo Feng Moyun Vine's underground travel ability and Hong's domain cover, they avoided the battlefield and silently made their way to the broken space barrier where they had entered the Realm Within a Realm, which was also the only exit to the Thunder World.
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After receiving instructions from his grandfather Hargrave, the Ninth Prince Brolin issued a death order.
"All warriors of the Imperial Martial Corps and the Hundred Tiger Tower, listen to my command!"
"Crush the Three Axe Mountain Allied Forces' positions!"
"Whoever can retrieve the second layer of the password will be rewarded with one trillion Black Dragon Coins!"
Driven by the generous reward, the already bloodthirsty Imperial Martial Corps army unleashed unprecedented fighting power.
The sky above the realm within a realm was dyed blood red by the flames of the explosion.
The massive clash between the two sides, involving millions of star-level troops who disregarded casualties, caused the entire space to tremble.
At this moment, after traveling underground for five days, Hong and the others arrived at the edge of the exit without any major incidents.
When the Moyun Vine silently broke through the ground, the scene before them made everyone's hearts sink.
Although Brolin had gone mad, he had not completely lost his mind tactically.
He had long anticipated that some people would try to slip away through the exits during the battle.
At the exit of the space barrier, a fleet of thousands of fighter jets had been deployed to form an impenetrable blockade.
Countless laser gun muzzles, flashing with eerie light, completely blocked off that exit area.
Any life form that dares to approach will be instantly blasted into cosmic dust by concentrated fire.
What made Thor and Luo Feng even more uneasy was that at the core of that tight defense line, on top of a huge flagship, stood a burly figure wearing the armor of a Royal Martial Corps general.
An immense pressure, far exceeding that of a star level, emanated from him, pressing down on everyone's hearts.
"Cosmic-level Tier 1..." Babata exclaimed in surprise.
Brolin actually stationed a cosmic-level powerhouse at the exit.