I Picked Up Talents in the Interstellar Battlefield

chapter 374 - Safe Retreat Big Explosion


The sealing of the spatial passage was successful, and the mission was finally completed, but how to safely escape from the encirclement of tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, of demons, remained a formidable challenge for the United Army.Oriental Feather stood at the top of the Thousand-Hand Wooden Statue, his soul power connecting with Qin Tian like a thread: "Qin Tian, the upcoming evacuation requires your full cooperation.""Alright," Qin Tian's response was concise and firm.For the million-strong army to safely leave the Dark Demon Realm, their ultimate reliance was still his spatial teleportation ability.The moment the spatial passage disappeared, the demons, deprived of the cosmic aura's pull, fell into a complete frenzy.The life aura emitted by millions of humans now became the most stimulating bait, and they, like ignited powder kegs, surged towards the United Army with even greater ferocity than before, the grating sound of their claws scraping the black stone ground converging into a terrifying wave of sound."Contract the formation! Clear out the remaining enemies on the flanks!" Oriental Feather's command spread throughout the army via Psychic power.The United Army quickly tightened their defensive line, systematically eliminating the low-tier demons that had infiltrated the gaps in the battle group.At this moment, their objective was no longer to kill demons, nor to break out—the Dark Demon Realm was filled with demon lairs, so no matter where they fled, it would be the same desperate situation.The only chance for survival was to rely on Qin Tian's spatial teleportation.The battle instantly escalated into a fierce struggle.Xiong gripped a giant axe the size of a door panel with both hands, its blade wreathed in blood-red Psychic energy; each swing brought a tearing whoosh through the air. He spun violently and brought the axe down, the axe head shattering the skulls of three ghouls, its momentum undiminished as it cleaved through the black stone ground, sending up a spray of shattered rock mixed with dark green foul blood.Deep, bone-deep wounds were torn into his broad shoulders by bone claws, and blood streamed from the gashes, yet he seemed oblivious, only a dull growl rumbling in his throat.Seeing a bone claw demon climbing up the ancient wood [N O V E L I G H T] barrier, he hurled his great axe, the handle striking the demon's back of the head with precision. He then strode forward, pulled his weapon from where it was embedded in the stone ground, and with one swing, minced the limp demon into a pulpy mess, a deafening roar erupting from his chest.Terrida held his decapitating saber with one hand, its blade gleaming with a cold, hard light amidst the demonic energy. The flame demon tattoo on his chest was burning incredibly hot, as if it would scorch through his flesh and bore into his bones and blood. Surging vital energy flowed down his arm into the saber, and each swing trailed crimson flames.Shadow arrows shot by the Lich Mage struck the blade, instantly burning to ash in the flames."Hold the breach! Buy time for the boss!"He roared in the Barbarian tongue, brandishing his great saber like a wheel of fire. Flames surged along the blade, forming a ten-foot-long tongue of fire, simultaneously bisecting a Tier 5 Demon and igniting swathes of surrounding low-tier demons.The Barbarian legion formed a flesh-and-blood defensive line. Their bare torsos were also covered in flame demon tattoos, and without Psychic energy augmentation, they relied solely on their Steel Bone to directly confront the demons. As their war hammers and great axes swung, they carried the brute force to split mountains and shatter stones, like moving battering rams, pushing back the charging demon horde step by step.A Barbarian giant, over two meters tall, was simultaneously pounced upon by three Night Stalker Demons. Their sharp claws tore open his back, and their fangs bit into his shoulder, yet he roared, embracing the most ferocious one and smashing it hard into the ground, hot bloody foam gushing from the wound torn open in his chest.Even as his throat was pierced by sharp claws, in his dying moments, he used all his strength to smash his heavy hammer into the skull of another demon. The moment the red glow of his tattoo extinguished in his eyes, a final burst of scorching heat wave erupted.Further away, a young Barbarian warrior had his entire left arm bitten off by a demon, and blood gushing from the gaping wound stained half his body. Yet, he gripped his great axe with his remaining right hand and, with raw strength, cleaved open the chest of a ghoul.There was also a one-eyed Barbarian, his eye socket stuffed with a blood-soaked rag, judging the demons' positions solely by sound. Each swing of his war hammer landed precisely on a demon's joint.The wounds on their bodies continued to increase, but their roars grew even louder; pain only ignited fiercer savagery.Other battle groups were also fighting to the death.The Psychic Mage Corps stood at the rear of the formation, forming hand seals to condense countless fireballs and ice cones, which rained down on the demon horde like a meteor shower. The bursting energy ripples continuously cleared out large areas; the warriors, on the other hand, formed a circular bulwark. Clad in heavy armor, they swung long sabers and broadswords, slaying close-range demons. The scratches on their armor grew denser, yet they maintained a neat formation.A warrior with a broken leg leaned behind a comrade, single-handedly stabbing a short knife at demons that slipped through the gaps, until he collapsed from exhaustion, still biting fiercely at a ghoul's neck.Just then, a tsunami-like Psychic energy fluctuation suddenly erupted around Qin Tian.Silver spatial ripples spread out from him as the center, and then, two Gate of Void, hundreds of meters long and wide, abruptly appeared in the center of the United Army' formation. Within the gates, stars revolved, emitting a stable spatial aura."Retreat!" Oriental Feather's roar was like a clap of thunder.The central battle group, already prepared, instantly split into two teams, like two torrents, pouring into the Gate of Void.The Wind Mage Corps once again released dozens of azure wind belts, lifting the soldiers and sending them horizontally into the two gates, maximizing the spatial gates' carrying efficiency.As the battle groups entered in sequence, the United Army' formation, like a contracting ring, continuously converged towards the center.The demons grew even more frantic; they seemed to sense the humans' intentions, and their attacks became even more reckless.A Shadow Demon Dragon, nearly a hundred meters long, swooped down from the clouds. Wherever its dragon breath passed, the wooden statue's vine barrier instantly withered; three Death Archons wearing bone crowns arrived amidst black mist, and with a swing of their death scythes, dozens of warriors were stripped of their life essence, turning into mummies; there was also a group of blade demons shaped like mantises, their forelimbs sharper than alloy combat knives, actually able to carve deep marks into the wooden statue's trunk.New demons continuously surged from the darkness, yet the United Army' strength was constantly diminishing. Fighting more enemies with fewer people, the pressure was like an increasingly heavy boulder, suffocating everyone.Casualty numbers climbed rapidly; entire squads were swallowed by demons from time to time, and screams echoed across the battlefield.Qin Tian maintained the two Gate of Void, his face as pale as paper, beads of sweat the size of beans rolling down his cheeks.Maintaining such a massive spatial passage consumed an unimaginable amount of Psychic energy. Even with Zyra continuously supplying energy, his Psychic energy was on the verge of depletion.The demons clearly sensed his importance; several high-tier demons broke through the defensive line and charged directly at him.But by now, a human wall had already formed around Qin Tian—Lan Qiancheng and other Golden Bloodline geniuses wielded divine weapons, the light of their bloodline burning like flames around them; over a dozen Silver Bloodline powerhouses formed a battle array, their Psychic energy weaving into an impenetrable protective net.They formed the last barrier with their bodies, determined to block any threats, even if their flesh was torn by demon claws.Seeing this, Oriental Feather unhesitatingly took out a crimson-gold pill from his storage ring and swallowed it.The power of the Sacred Green Wood Blood raged within him, pouring into the Thousand-Hand Wooden Statue like a breached river.The wooden statue suddenly rose from the ground, its size swelling to that of a mountain. Thousands of hands simultaneously slammed onto the ground, raising towering waves of flying vines.These vines were covered in thorns, and upon landing, they quickly took root and sprouted, instantly growing into a thorny jungle spanning a thousand meters, blocking most of the demons outside.The giant eye at the top of the wooden statue shot out two green light beams. Wherever they passed, the Shadow Demon Dragon's wings were instantly entangled by vines, and the Death Archons' black mist was purified completely.The battle group was still evacuating rapidly, the remaining numbers dwindling, until finally only about twenty thousand remained.The Gate of Void controlled by Qin Tian also shrank accordingly, eventually merging into one. His face was as pale as paper, his lips having lost all color, but a hint of relief flashed in his eyes.For him, fewer people meant an easier evacuation.The last of the warriors formed a circular array, back to back, protecting the Gate of Void with their bodies, awaiting the final moment of evacuation. However, the demons, still charging frantically, clearly wouldn't let them leave easily.Dark Psychic energy surged into Qin Tian's body like a tide. Zyra on his wrist glowed with a vibrant green light, continuously replenishing his depleted energy.Qin Tian took a deep breath, his soul power connecting with Oriental Feather: "Next, leave it to me."Before, he had to control his Psychic energy consumption to preserve enough power to maintain the spatial gates. But now, he could finally unleash his destructive power without reservation.One must know that in this Dark Demon Realm, he was the true emperor.No sooner had he spoken than a pressure several times stronger than before erupted from Qin Tian's body, as if a Night Emperor had descended upon the world.The surrounding demons instantly felt a fear originating from the depths of their souls; the energy circulation within their bodies became sluggish, and their charging momentum abruptly halted.Immediately after, Qin Tian spread his arms, and the Demon King Domain explosively unfurled.Within an area of hundreds of kilometers, the already pitch-black world completely became an abyss—dark elements condensed into a viscous, inky fluid, slowly flowing on the ground; the night sky was like a tangible canopy, completely isolating this space from the outside. Qin Tian, within the Domain, had all his attributes surge, and the black-gold Demon King Wings slowly flapped behind him, exuding a suffocating majesty.As for the demons covered by the Domain, they seemed to be deeply mired in a swamp. The demonic energy and power within their bodies were frantically devoured by the dark elements, dissipating rapidly like ice and snow meeting a raging fire.The skin of low-tier demons even began to fester; the mental shock brought by the "Night Emperor's pressure" caused countless weak-willed demons to directly collapse, falling to the ground and trembling.Even demons accustomed to traversing the darkness lost their ability to see in this absolute darkness; only endless void remained before their eyes.For a time, the demon horde fell into unprecedented panic, with roars and crashing sounds echoing one after another.In the darkness, Qin Tian's figure moved like a phantom.With a thought, the surrounding shadows began to condense into various weapons: countless dark chains burst forth from the ground, like living giant snakes, precisely piercing the heads of hundreds of demons, pinning them to the ground; dense shadow arrows rained down like a torrential downpour, shooting towards the demon horde with sharp whistling sounds, instantly riddling swathes of demons like sieves; and countless tiny blades spun at high speed in the darkness, forming death grinders that sliced approaching demons into fragments.In this dark domain, Qin Tian could manipulate shadows at will, transforming them into any form of weapon, freely harvesting the lives of demons.The demons could not see their enemy; their ears were filled with the roars and screams of their companions, and they scurried around like headless flies.In the chaos, they began to trample and kill each other, completely unable to distinguish friend from foe, the scene a complete pandemonium.Just then, dozens of small spatial gates quietly opened beneath the feet of the remaining twenty thousand-plus warriors. The warriors, as if falling into a cavern out of thin air, instantly vanished one by one.Finally, only Qin Tian remained on the battlefield.He floated in mid-air, overlooking the chaotic demon horde within the Domain, a cold arc curving at the corner of his mouth.Next, let me treat you to my Explosion package.He retrieved all the explosives he had prepared before entering the Demon Suppression Abyss from his storage space—a thousand iron spheres, each 10 meters in diameter, filled with super explosive energy, their iron walls emitting a fiery red glow.Under the control of his soul power, these iron spheres scattered like a celestial maiden scattering flowers, precisely landing in the densest areas of the demon horde. Having completed all this, Qin Tian turned and stepped into the spatial gate behind him.One second after the spatial gate closed, the first iron sphere detonated."Boom!"The first Explosion was like a sudden clap of thunder, instantly illuminating the entire Dark Demon Realm.A terrifying energy shockwave spread outwards; wherever it passed, demons were instantly vaporized, and the ground was torn into massive ravines.Immediately after, the powerful energy impact triggered the adjacent, already energized iron spheres, quickly initiating a series of chain reactions.The second wave of Explosion expanded its range several times over the first, and its power was even more terrifying, shattering the surrounding black stone ground and forming a massive crater.The third and fourth waves of Explosion continuously expanded like a snowball, with their destructive range and power level steadily increasing, forming a breathtaking Explosion storm.Each Explosion was accompanied by dazzling light and a destructive shockwave. The Dark Demon Realm was completely dispelled by the light of the Explosions, and even the demonic energy in the sky was dispersed. The energy flow generated by the Explosions swept across the entire battlefield like a tsunami, throwing countless demons high into the air. They were torn apart by the scorching energy in mid-air, or had their bones shattered by the shockwave, then slammed back to the ground, turning into pools of indistinct flesh and blood.When the aftermath of the last Explosion dissipated, the once bustling battlefield fell silent.A giant crater, tens of kilometers in diameter, appeared on the ground, filled with charred remains and melted rock. The air was thick with the smell of gunpowder and residual energy.Within the deep crater, hardly any living demons could be seen. Occasionally, a few faint moans emanated from beneath the charred debris, and only by digging through layers of shattered flesh and rock could a few barely breathing demons be found. Outside the deep crater, countless demons gathered at the edge, hesitant to proceed.They stared from afar at the massive crater that had swallowed countless of their comrades, feeling the terrifying energy fluctuations that had not yet dispersed in the air, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.Whether it was low-tier ghouls and skeleton soldiers, or high-tier Lich Mages and Death Knights, the frantic charging momentum they had displayed earlier had vanished without a trace, replaced by a profound fear of death.They had witnessed that world-destroying Explosion firsthand, watching countless comrades turn to ash in the energy flow. That shock and fear, originating from the depths of their souls, prevented them from taking another step.

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