Ten thousand I am across the heavens

The Seventh Army rushed back to the battlefield as quickly as possible, aiming to return before intelligence could be relayed back and before the enemy could find a way to counter them. Their goal was to find another unfortunate foe and keep him off the battlefield.

Their first target was the Jade Purity Dripping Wind Bamboo Building, the strongest force on the battlefield. If they could clear it from the battlefield, even if they could only hold it there for a short while, it would be enough to completely turn the tide of the battle and buy them time to kill one of the enemy soldiers.

However, after these elite warriors concentrated all their strength and attacked the shield, they quickly discovered the problem.

Although the Jade Purity Dripping Wind Bamboo House was affected by their relentless bombardment and was blasted thousands of meters away, its speed was far from that of an individual powerhouse being sent flying.

Even with their extremely high attack frequency, the distance the building was propelled was quite limited. In fact, after flying a certain distance, the building activated its thrusters, and propelled itself back towards the battlefield. Although it was occasionally pushed back a short distance, the overall tendency remained towards returning to the battlefield.

After several attempts, they quickly realized the problem. If their opponent was too large, they wouldn't be able to easily drive them off the battlefield with their current strength.

The Immortal Gu Houses are often hundreds of meters tall. If one landed on the ground, it would be a skyscraper. Only a very few models are relatively small, about the size of an ordinary house. And large size naturally has its advantages. The enormous size brings enormous mass. And the kinetic energy required to accelerate this thing to extremely high speeds is also immense. Even the Seventh Legion's soldiers, with their high speed, could hardly accelerate him much under continuous attacks. Conversely, he could use his immense strength to propel himself forward, directly activating his thrusters. He stubbornly withstood the shield, enduring the thrust from the Seventh Legion, constantly pushing himself back.

It's clearly unwise to prioritize building capacity over output power. Therefore, after the encirclement and division tactic failed, they immediately switched targets. The Emerald Cloud Fireworks Ship was obviously unsuitable. While slightly lighter, it was still a behemoth. Although much smaller than some mechanized super-battleships at sea, it was much faster. Even if it were forced into a two-day voyage specifically designed for that purpose, it wouldn't take long to return. In fact, given its speed, whether the Seventh Legion's attack could even knock it off the battlefield was questionable. It was highly likely that the speed at which it was blasted away wouldn't be as fast as someone else's return.

This leaves only one suitable target on the battlefield: Xiao Li, the zombie being brutally suppressed and overwhelmed by the Eleventh Legion.

After transforming into a zombie, his strength decreased drastically. He had only just reached the threshold of the eighth rank, and now his strength had further declined. He had fallen to the level of a gatekeeper at the eighth rank. The Eleventh Legion, being one of the strongest legions facing individual powerhouses, was completely suppressed by another legion. If it weren't for his diverse means of survival, he might have already been killed.

An enemy who is already suppressed is obviously the easiest to drive off the battlefield.

The soldiers of the Seventh Army quickly made contact with the Eleventh Army, requesting their help to temporarily seal off the enemy. If they could seal them off for even a moment, they would have a way to remove the enemy from the battlefield, or even send them to a very distant location.

If they could seal the enemy for even a few seconds, they could send him thousands of kilometers away. While direct teleportation wasn't possible—the greater the individual's strength, the more difficult it was, even a burden for them—as long as he was far from the battlefield, before the enemy could react or understand what had attacked him, they could potentially take him even further. If possible, they even wanted to take him to the heart of the Icebreaker Alliance, where several powerful legions were stationed. These legions, while extremely strong, couldn't immediately reach the battlefield due to the need to guard against attacks from local strongmen and maintain a strong deterrent. If they were fast enough to bring the enemy to their allies, even if the battlefield on their home turf caused some damage, they could relatively easily eliminate him. This would drastically reverse the balance of power, making the outcome of the battle clear.

The 11th Legion already held the advantage, so sealing off the enemy wouldn't be difficult. Especially since the troublesome Wu Yong had been sent high into the air, it would take at least a few minutes for him to return. During those few minutes, all the weakening abilities of the regular legions could be applied to Xiao Li, completely weakening him to the point where he had no offensive capabilities, only the ability to defend and survive.

On the battlefield, 2 experts displaying sixth-tier strength unleashed their signature sealing techniques, swiftly closing in on their opponent. Chains, entanglements, freezing, and so on—physical, conceptual, and mental seals—tens of thousands of seals were applied simultaneously, rendering him virtually lifeless. Had he not strengthened his body, specialized his defenses, and mastered his self-healing abilities, ensuring his extreme rarity, he would likely have been unilaterally killed. Unfortunately, the Eleventh Legion had already tried this several times in previous battles.

This guy was almost instantly killed before, and as a result, he was terrified. After transforming into a zombie, he devoted almost all his abilities to defense and survival, to the point that he enhanced his defense and regeneration to a terrifying degree. Even after being blown into a cloud of smoke, he could recover completely. It seems that only by completely destroying every single cell in his body, and completing this process in an extremely short time, could he possibly be truly killed. But his sturdy body is already difficult to penetrate, let alone destroying all the cells in it.

But since we can't kill him, we can just throw him somewhere far away so he can't come back for a while. Since this guy has already become so conservative that he's practically given up attacking and focused entirely on defense, we can just ignore him.

The seal was even more effective than expected; this guy's will to survive was simply too strong. His ability to break free of the seal was significantly reduced. After being sealed layer upon layer, he couldn't escape for a short time. It seemed he could even be sealed for a minute or two. The soldiers of the Eleventh Legion hadn't expected this. If they had known their opponent was so cowardly and could be sealed for so long, they would have chosen to use the sealing method to deal with him much earlier. A minute or two is enough to decide many things on the battlefield; with good luck, they might even be able to kill an immortal.

Having successfully sealed their opponent, the Seventh Legion decisively launched their attack. All warriors capable of entering super-speed mode unleashed a furious barrage of attacks at incredible speed and density against the cocoon-like enemy. Although the attacks felt like mere scraping, the kinetic energy was undeniably transferred, propelling the cocoon to ever-increasing speed. Because there was no resistance whatsoever, their speed became absurdly high. They flew directly from the east of the Northern Plains towards its west.

These objects span a distance of eight million kilometers, making it highly unlikely they could reach the other side before the seal is broken. However, covering even 1% of that distance is achievable. In just one minute, they had already covered tens of thousands of miles—80,000 miles to be precise. On Earth, that would be enough to circle the equator twice. Their high-speed flight even created a bright trail of fire through the atmosphere. If it weren't for the atmospheric resistance limiting their acceleration, they could probably have flown even further. Now, after reaching a certain speed limit, further acceleration is virtually impossible due to atmospheric resistance. After all, the relationship between air resistance and speed is cubic. Once the speed increases to an extremely high level, the geometrically increased drag makes the atmosphere as hard as steel. They were able to maintain such high speeds only because a special group of people were assigned to create a vacuum zone ahead of their flight path.

In addition, another point is that a section of vacuum tunnel was used during the flight. This was a conventional underground transport pipeline. Since the enemy was sealed and unable to retaliate, this was a perfect opportunity to throw them into the vacuum tunnel. Utilizing the vacuum tunnel's ability to accelerate infinitely, similar to space, they were accelerated to an unbelievable speed, covering over 8 li in just one minute.

They continue to accelerate within the vacuum tube. They can fly even further before the seal is broken, because the speed increases with acceleration, much like approaching the speed of light in space. Once the speed is increased, there's no tendency for it to decrease.

So at 1 minute and 30 seconds, they had already flown out of the underground vacuum tube. Two hundred thousand kilometers later, when they sensed that the seal was about to be broken, it was already a little over 2 minutes later.

By this time, they had flown 320,000 kilometers at an insane speed, reaching a point of utter madness.

When the seal was completely broken and Xiao Li regained his senses, he was utterly bewildered by his current situation. He couldn't see his surroundings clearly at all; the objects around him were moving so fast. The only thing he could sense was that he was in a vacuum, seemingly in a very dark space, with what appeared to be long, thin lines of light around him. It took him a moment to realize that those long, thin lines of light were afterimages left in his vision because he had moved so fast, or because the light sources had moved so fast.

After all, in uniform linear motion, a person cannot feel that they are moving.

During the time Xiao Li was confused about his situation, no one attacked him, because he was essentially flying at high speed in a vacuum. The longer he remained dazed, the farther he was from the battlefield, and he wasn't even aware that he was flying at high speed, unaware that he was moving away from the battlefield at an extremely high speed.

In this environment where he can neither feel gravity nor his own acceleration, he would only feel as if he had been thrown into a bizarre and fantastical seal. Given his current fear of death, he would likely be extremely cautious, testing the waters before attempting to break through the seal and discover that he is actually moving at high speed.

As it turned out, the soldiers of the Seventh Legion had indeed made the right gamble. It took Xiao Li a full 10 seconds to even begin to grasp his situation. And with his current incredible speed, those 10 seconds had already propelled him over 50,000 li (approximately 25,000 kilometers). By the time he wanted to stop, he was nearly 400,000 li (approximately 200,000 kilometers) from the battlefield.

This is already on an astronomical scale, exceeding the distance between the Earth and the Moon. Such a vast distance would take even immortals a considerable amount of time to reach. In familiar territory, they could use teleportation or other facilities to quickly traverse the distance, but this is clearly not familiar territory. Normally, they would have to rely on conventional methods to fly back. And to fly back such a vast distance, even at full speed, would likely take hours. Even if they could fly back in half an hour, by then it would be too late.

At this point, the Seventh Legion's mission was essentially complete. Little additional work was needed. Taking advantage of the enemy's momentary lapse in attention, they launched a series of attacks, further accelerating the enemy's advance.

They then proceeded like they were playing billiards, or perhaps more accurately, like throwing curling stones, trying to keep their opponent on a straight line. They continued to accelerate within the vacuum tube, flying farther and farther away. Even if they activated their own supersonic mode, it would take them several minutes to fly back. Let alone Xiao Li, whose speed was far less exaggerated than theirs.

By the time he fully realized that a high-speed target was attacking him, rather than suffering some kind of backlash, he was already sixty or seventy kilometers away from the battlefield. By the time he finally stopped, he would be nearly a hundred kilometers away. The main issue was that he needed time to decelerate. Even if he had crashed headfirst into the ground, relying on the resistance of the earth to slow him down, it would still have taken him through tens of thousands of kilometers of earth layers before he finally came to a complete stop.

Fortunately, his body was extremely tough; otherwise, traversing tens of thousands of miles through the earth's strata would have already obliterated him.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the battlefield, Wu Yong transformed into a cyan orb of light and rushed back to the battlefield, only to find, to his dismay, that one of his comrades was missing. The Eleventh Legion, along with the Yeti Legion and the Burning Legion, was brutally beating one of his family's heirs…

[To be continued]

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