Otherworldly Desert Dust

Oxygen streamed down, restoring breath and vitality to all things once again.

Yet facing the Tyrant Tiger Beetle Army, which was consistent even to the last armor spur, people could not help but shudder.

This felt like a steel legion stepping into a tribe armed with spears and wooden shields, although the tribe was evolving, the methods varied so widely they had yet to form a complete system.

They dared not contemplate, without the suppressive Nuwa Law, in what form their struggle would end.

"So many... why didn't they appear when we stayed in Red Port before?"

"Could it be that Red Port is, in fact, a massive nest?"

"Could our small team defeat at least one of them?"

"I heard that Tyrant Tiger Beetle ranks as Third-class Heavenly Brilliance. Back during the battle at Red Palace, it took a lot of collaborative effort from many Human Clan Forces just to barely deal with a thousand of the Tyrant Tiger Beetle."

Without fighting, they were already trembling terribly.

Many among mankind took pride in surviving from desperate situations in Otherworldly Dust, thinking themselves unique whenever they gained some evolutionary factors, unaware of the terrifying dimensional strikes that forever existed in this top unseen food chain world.

The human camp had gathered a large number of elite teams and also assigned them numbers.

But the numbers only went up to slightly over five thousand, and these elite teams' strength could barely compete with Sixth-class Heavenly Brilliance, considered after evaluations...
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The strength of Tyrant Tiger Beetle was now also suppressed from Third-class Heavenly Brilliance to around Sixth-class Heavenly Brilliance; however, their combat mechanism is nearly perfect compared to the human elite squads that were often patchworked, some with insufficient perception skills relying purely on brute force; some lacked combat power, basically scavenging Yuan You by clever tricks, others lacked defensive or offensive capabilities, and some teams formed hastily without full trust in each other.

Thus, while estimating the combat capabilities of these elite teams, Shen Wenhai reduced the figures and allowed three elite teams to form a group.

Each group's task was to limit the Tyrant Tiger Beetles as much as possible.

It was also fortunate that after stepping out of the Divine Python Earth Vein from Nuwa God End, their homeland birthed Spiritual Charm and several Spirit Awakeners, who, with the experience of their predecessors, significantly reduced the mortality rate in Otherworldly Dust and even mastered some clever tactics to obtain pure Yuan You from some low-level predators, enhancing their strength more quickly and efficiently...

Compared to the Pioneers, their path was easier, especially since many of them had studied before entering Otherworldly Dust, even having trained in some locations in the homeland where Spiritual Factors had emerged.

The new generation was destined to be more solid, their collective strength also stronger...

Of course, the Frontiers still alive today were absolutely among the best of the billions in the human homeland, their adaptability, their personal strength, the intelligence they displayed against various predators, and the skills they now possessed were hard for the later generation to surpass.

Frontiers, Top-level Individuals, Elites, Risers, Recoverers...

To give Wu Hen a clearer understanding of the current overall strength of mankind, Wang Yan and Shen Wenhai simplified and categorized the human Spirit Awakeners in this manner.

The top-level individuals were those whose personal strength had reached the Heavenly Brilliance Crown Realm; many of these top-level individuals operated independently, but those who were a team with everyone reaching Heavenly Brilliance, their combat power was astonishingly strong, far more than individuals fighting alone combined.

These human top individuals and elites were the main force against the Tyrant Tiger Beetles, awoken from billions in recent years, one could say each was one in ten thousand.

Naturally, among them, there were not a few with arrogance; however, once the Tyrant Tiger Beetle shattered all the ribs on their chests with a punch, they would sober up even quicker... Nothing brings clarity faster than this kind of pain.

In Wu Hen's field of vision, there was a human elite team of about twenty years old, likely wanting to show off their exceptional strength in front of the leaders in the fortress, they charged to the forefront.

Within the myriad of armies, a Tyrant Tiger Beetle drew out that Red Rhombic Blade, which flared up like molten lava, instantly annihilating the elite team.

The information about the Tyrant Tiger Beetle had been made public to all Spirit Awakeners participating in this campaign, probably during the past year of battling with the White Wormhole, many up-and-comers who had killed some Alien Insects had fixed their understanding on them, mistakenly thinking that Tyrant Tiger Beetle and Silver Winged Mantis were like those cockroaches, Ghost Mosquitoes, disregarding the myriad cautions in the information material, and all their arrogance and conceit turned to ashes!

"Foolish!!"

"Tyrant Tiger Beetles, in the external world, rank as Third-class Heavenly Brilliance, even if their strength is suppressed by the Law, their combat realm is still far beyond Sixth-class Heavenly Brilliance!"

Wang Yan cursed angrily.

In the end, some people living in information cocoons thought that the lower predators encountered in Otherworldly Dust were not as dreadful as rumored, naively believing that Red Zhe Insects were just ordinary monsters for humans to farm for leveling up.

The issue is that the reason these up-and-comers didn't find their first foray into the perilous Otherworldly Dust so frightening was because they had already undergone one or two evolutionary transformations using resources accumulated by their predecessors...

The first batch of people who stepped into Otherworldly Dust did that relying on their mortal flesh to resist the predators, the weakest ghosts and demons in the desert dust could easily tear a person apart, yet the up-and-comers already possessed some form of superpower.

Even if it's one in ten thousand, with such a large base, there were still some who survived so far just by luck.

The tyrant tiger armor seemed like a quality inspector for humans...

Whether facing individual humans or human teams, if there was any flaw in these people or any weakness in the teams, the tyrant tiger armor would toss them into the furnace of life for remaking, like garbage!

"Hmph, I want to see just how formidable these beetles are!" included among those high-spirited and proud was Cai Ni, a disciple of the Holy Sect.

Of course, after the ordeal with Jiao Zhu, Cai Ni had actually matured quite a bit. She didn't rashly rush into the ranks of the tyrant tiger armor but chose to attack one that had been surrounded by an elite squad yet remained undefeated for a long time.

Her strength was also suppressed by the Nuwa Law, and the power of the Holy Decision was not as usual.

Luckily, the Holy Sect had many magic formulas, one of which could penetrate solid objects with the Holy Spear.

After shattering the armor of the tyrant tiger armor, a smile appeared on Cai Ni's face.

"Impressive, you must be Miss Cai Ni of the Holy Sect?"

"The armor of this tyrant tiger armor has a defensive strength comparable to our toughest refined metal... Without your intervention, it would take us quite a while to take it down."

This elite squad was all quite young, aged between eighteen and twenty. They clearly had a very excellent teacher who had taught them how to work together in combat and how to stay calm when facing predators.

"Don't get distracted, the tyrant tiger armor has another form!" said a young man in his twenties with short hair, who was obviously the commander of this team.

Indeed, after the tyrant tiger armor's shell broke, it became faster, its whole body turning bright red and its muscles bursting with terrifying speed, making all surroundings seem incredibly blurry due to its fast movement!

Cai Ni panicked inside, realizing that this molted-form of tyrant tiger armor was charging right at her.

She raised her palm, forming a Holy Tower wall, but this defense, composed of suppressed Holy Power, was easily shattered by the tyrant tiger armor!

Cai Ni retreated hastily, but she overlooked that this was the battlefield of the tyrant tiger armor, not a hunt for a single one.

Behind her in the sky, seven tyrant tiger armors appeared, collectively wielding red rhombic blades, slashing down a magma waterfall-like blade brilliance from the air!

"Hmph, a bunch of hard-shelled insects!"

A person snorted coldly, his figure bursting into a brilliant golden glow. He stretched out a hand, and his golden palm, huge like a raincloud, heavily slapped the seven tyrant tiger armors in the air.

The seven tyrant tiger armors flew towards the ground, turning into seven pools of flesh and blood.

In the fortress, tens of thousands of human elites were using various superpowers to contend with the tyrant tiger armors, yet all their combined efforts still made it exceedingly difficult to kill even one. Naturally, they were astonished to see someone could kill seven with a single slap.

"Master, you really have to keep your cool. You must believe Cai Ni can handle this situation herself, otherwise, she'll never grow up," Wu Hen glanced at Cai Huang who had acted prematurely, with a tone of criticism.

"I'll kill as many insects as there are, don't compare me with them!" Cai Huang was equally proud, not taking these Red Zhe insects seriously at all.

The human elite camp was caught in a fierce battle.

And this battle was bound to be devastatingly bloody.

Wang Yan had thought that their tens of thousands of elites could kill at least about thirty percent of the tyrant tiger armors, only to find that their numbers were unceasing, and this fortress seemed more like a bastion for the tyrant tiger armors, with the Spirit Awakening Radiance released by humans overwhelmed by the terrifying Red Radiance of the tyrant tiger armors.

Seeing this, Wu Hen also felt powerless.

Indeed, even overcoming a single tyrant tiger armor not long ago had been challenging for him, even though the Nuwa Law had suppressed the strength of these tyrant tiger beetle army to just ten to twenty percent, it was still too cruel for the human elite camp!

"Let the top-level personnel take action, otherwise the casualties will be too heavy," Wu Hen said to Wang Yan.

"But doing so would make it very difficult for our living forces to last until Nuwa escapes the Dark Domain," Wang Yan replied.

Sacrifices were inevitable; they aimed to resist for a significantly long time, so they had to witness this heroic death.

"Don't worry, leave the rest to me. If the casualties are too high, our future path will also be difficult," Wu Hen said.

"Alright... Alright," Wang Yan nodded.

At that moment, Cai Huang, puffing up his beard and glaring, said irritably, "What did you just say?? Now it comes to you and you don't know how to conserve energy, you have to believe these people can handle the situation, otherwise, they'll never grow up."