Biochemical Martial Arts: Supreme Heavenly Venerate

At the moment the earthquake struck, Lin Rui's expression changed drastically.

"Xuanyi, Xiaoying, keep an eye on the prisoners."

Ji Xueying knew what was happening yet didn't hesitate to draw her sword and leapt onto Zhu Tiantang's prison cart.

Knowing her acting skills were insufficient, she simply put on a fierce and terrifying demeanor, glaring furiously with wide eyes at the Dragon Guards of the two Divine Envoy candidates as if considering them suspects.

Shangguan Tianyi, however, was clueless about the situation, genuinely thinking there was a problem in the Demon Suppression Forest. She too drew her sword and looked sharply around, vigilant of her surroundings.

The eleventh Divine Envoy candidate, Shentu Rong, and the twelfth, Situ Xiu, abruptly stood up and leapt into the sky, reaching a thousand feet in height.

When they saw the situation in the distance, their faces turned ashen.

Eighty li southeast of the Demon Suppression Forest, four areas were experiencing violent explosions.

The explosions caused such intense tremors that not only did they propagate into the Demon Suppression Forest, but they also stirred up huge mushroom clouds in the sky.

What was more terrifying was that, about sixty li to the south, a large number of Heavenly Demon missiles were flying through the air.

Spread over a fifty li wide arc, these missiles seemed sparse but were actually numbering in the thousands, with some even equipped with cloaking capabilities, mingling with the smoke from the explosions.

The experienced eleventh Divine Envoy candidate, Shentu Rong, recognized that these missiles were the powerful so-called "medium-sized nuclear fusion missiles."

"Damn it!"

Shentu Rong first grunted angrily, then his expression changed drastically again.

"Their target isn't the Demon Suppression Forest, but the surrounding ley lines!"

Indeed, the ley lines had already been damaged.

The four explosion sites were all located where ley lines converged. Shentu Rong guessed that someone had buried nuclear fusion bombs at these sites and detonated them remotely.

While Shentu Rong was speaking, he had already darted out.

The twelfth Divine Envoy candidate, Situ Xiu, did not dare to delay either and flew towards the southeast.

Previously, when Lin Hao was attacked, neither left the Demon Suppression Forest to intervene.

But now, both were restless.

If those ley lines were to be extensively destroyed, it could lead to unpredictable consequences within the Demon Suppression Forest.

Those consequences would be far more severe than Lin Hao being killed by a group of Outer Heaven Demons or those Heavenly Demon prisoners being taken away!

Outside, the Imperial Colonel Song Yingwu and the Strategic Colonel Wei Tianqing saw this scene and their expressions changed drastically too.

Both thought these Outer Heaven Demons were utterly insane!

They had already made a huge scene over the Sky Suspension River, which nearly alerted the gods, and now they were at it again? Was this never-ending?

This was the height of recklessness! The Commander of the Spy Detection Bureau, Lin Hao, had killed so many of them, yet it had not dampened their spirits.

The two second-ranked imperial guard generals did not hesitate to draw their weapons again and soared into the sky.

"Everyone listen to my command! Intercept the Heavenly Demon missiles with all your might."

They were far from those missiles, and the affected arc was wide, so their subordinates' arrows could only reach up to twenty li.

Thus, they could only allow their subordinates to act independently.

In fact, the Demon Suppression Forest was surrounded by three districts of the Demon Suppression Army to the left and right of the forest!

In the Great Song military system, one district contains ten thousand troops!

Though the Demon Suppression Army could not compare to the Sky Pond's four armies each numbering in the hundreds of thousands, their elite forces were no less formidable.

At this moment, the soldiers of the Demon Suppression Army had already reacted and began intercepting.

Yet, both imperial guard generals harbored suspicions about the Demon Suppression Army, maintaining a vigilant attitude towards them.

They wondered why these Demon Suppression soldiers had allowed the Heavenly Demons to bury nuclear fusion bombs within the ley lines?

Had they not detected anything beforehand?

And those Heavenly Demon missiles, they must have been launched from about a hundred li away, and were most likely from pre-established missile bases rather than cloaked starships.

Were all these Demon Suppression soldiers dead?

They had overlooked the four Heavenly Demon starships and submarines before, as those ships' cloaking devices were indeed top-notch technologies from the Outer Heaven Demons, and even they, two cultivators of the Eighth Realm serving as imperial guard generals, had only discovered them when they approached to a certain distance.

But what about those bombs and nuclear fusion missiles? What was the deal with them?

Both instinctively suspected that there was an issue within the Demon Suppression Army; otherwise, it wouldn't have come to this.

At this moment inside the Demon Suppression Forest, Lin Rui's lips curved slightly upward.

This plan was going much smoother than he had anticipated.

But now was not the time to act.

Although those two Divine Envoy candidates had been drawn away by the recent explosion and missiles, their Dragon Guards were still there.

They were suspended hundred zhang above the Demon Supression Forest, vigilantly monitoring every unusual movement around.

At that same time, Xue Lingxue, far a hundred li away, was hiding in a temporary base, observing the changes around the Demon Suppression Forest through the tactical detection devices they had set up within a hundred li radius.

She knew the time had come and pressed the button on a detonator in her hand without hesitation.

At that instant, the riverbank near the Demon Suppression Forest and beside the "Sky Suspension River" suddenly exploded with a deafening shock, flinging vast amounts of mud and river water into the sky, forming a gigantic mushroom cloud.

This was the most critical part of Xue Lingxue's plan, to truly shake the Array of the Demon Suppression Forest with a nuclear fusion bomb buried at the southern riverbed of the "Sky Suspension River."

The Detection Buoys they had previously cast into the Sky Suspension River were essentially to detect the presence of powerful Martial Cultivators in the vicinity, ensuring the safety of Fei Yunlai and his Battle Dragon during the underwater construction and while locating the bomb placement site.

Wang Tianwu's Illusion Technique was already extremely sophisticated, and combined with the hallucinogens provided by the BOSS, the effects were truly miraculous. Moreover, with Fei Yunlai's ability to remain invisible and submerged, this special tactics squad was virtually unstoppable.

The court's arrangement near the Demon Suppression Forest was originally flawless.

Discovering those submarines through the prearranged Detection Buoys was an unexpected delight!

At this moment within the Demon Suppression Forest, several Dragon Guards were in panic! They all looked toward the direction of the Sky Suspension River with eyes that devoured.

"What happened?"

"How dare they! Do they wish to die?"

"What kind of Heavenly Demon is this, so audacious!"

However, their more pressing issue now was to suppress the turmoil within the Demon Suppression Forest.

They each landed in a corner of the Demon Suppression Forest, doing their utmost to smooth and suppress the intensely fluctuating Primordial Qi tides, to prevent further collapse of the Array's structure and Runes within the forest.

Lin Rui, at the moment when the Array's structure within the Demon Suppression Forest was most fragile and the elemental power most turbulent, contacted the Battle Spirit Ring with his consciousness.

"Ring Spirit, help me capture the Armored General, Huang Fuqing!"

At that instant, a vortex imperceptible to the naked eye once again appeared on the surface of the Battle Spirit Ring.

Lin Rui felt a very strong, cold, and fierce aura being sucked into the vortex.

The Ring Spirit quickly responded.

Notification: Capture of the Battle Spirit successful. You may now check the Skill list for the third Battle Spirit!

Lin Rui's heart pounded excitedly.

Capturing Huang Fuqing's Battle Spirit not only meant that his two sisters might have a chance to survive, but his own cultivation strength was also bound to advance by leaps and bounds.

Lin Rui then looked deeply into the large metallic coffin in the pit ahead.

He was secretly alarmed.

Just at the moment of the most intense explosion, a slight aura had leaked from that metal coffin.

Lin Rui caught only a fleeting glimpse, yet he saw something incredible.

But then his expression became heavy, his brow deeply furrowed, with one hand on his sword, maintaining a vigilant and defensive posture.

Although he appeared to stand motionless, he was actually busily and discreetly absorbing those spiritual power tendrils, integrating them into his own Abyss Source Core.

It wasn't until about two minutes later that Luo Wangshu and the Second Divine Envoy reappeared above the Demon Suppression Forest.

Both of them were frowning intensely, their expressions a mix of shock and rage, furiously beyond measure.

Neither of them expected that just after leaving this place, these Outer Heaven Demons had again stirred up trouble, and on such a grand scale.

Lin Rui had no choice but to stop absorbing. He discovered that only by covering his skin and the surface of his brain with his Abyss Source Essence could he prevent the spiritual power tendrils from invading, thus allowing his Abyss Source Core to draw no more.

The Eleventh Candidate Divine Envoy, Shentu Rong, and the Twelfth Candidate Divine Envoy, Situ Xiu, returned one after another.

Both of their complexions looked terrible, their expressions a mixture of suspicion, annoyance, and helplessness.

The Second Divine Envoy asked bluntly with a blue face, "What happened? Why has the pursuit lasted so long? Have you found any trace of the enemy?"

Situ Xiu responded sullenly, "The enemy has a group of so-called snipers among the Heavenly Demons, who used Battle Dragons and sniper cannons to shoot at us from over two hundred miles away. By the time we got there, they had already escaped. They have an extremely skilled Illusionist who can confuse our senses—"

Before she could finish, the Second Divine Envoy interrupted her: "In other words, you are incompetent. You can't even properly guard the Demon Suppression Forest."

The two candidate Divine Envoys widened their eyes, angered.

"Enough, the main issue is more pressing." Luo Wangshu was most concerned about the status of that giant metallic coffin; they must check it as soon as possible to eliminate hidden dangers.

She immediately brushed her sleeve, "Hao, you wait outside first!"

The object inside this metal coffin was not something Lin Hao could come into contact with now.

Lin Rui frowned as if reluctant.

However, he still performed a gesture of respect filled with reluctance, escorting the two girls beside him out of the Demon Suppression Forest.

Just after Lin Rui walked out of the Demon Suppression Forest, he immediately opened his Quantum Communication and directly transmitted the high-definition images he had recorded inside the Demon Suppression Forest to the First General, Li Xianglong.

This First General had added him as a friend not long ago, but despite his superior's arrogance of never initiating conversation after adding him, Lin Rui transmitted the video at a high data cost. The First General responded immediately.

Li Xianglong: You're inside the Demon Suppression Forest? What exactly is that?

Just then, in the office of the Security Bureau headquarters, Li Xianglong abruptly stood up, his eyes wide, staring intensely at the video on the screen.

He had recognized what was inside the metal coffin!

This Alien Agent, infiltrated into the core layer of the Great Song, had secured an extremely crucial piece of intelligence for the Earth Federation!

Just with this video, this image alone, Lin Rui justified every resource Li Xianglong had invested in him.