Chapter 270

The massive amount of biochemical beasts, skeleton legions, elemental creatures, and steel constructs that had long been ready to go were like a flood breaking a dam.

They let out deafening roars, scrambling to surge toward the deep, dark, circular passage entrance.

They were the pathfinders thrown into the unknown world, and also cannon fodder to consume the enemy's strength.

Watching most of the cannon fodder and wizards already drill in, Jie Ming took a deep breath and stopped hesitating.

He piloted the two tall black giants, following closely behind the vanguard flood, and plunged into the spatial gate that seemed to be able to swallow all light.

The crossing process was far more difficult than expected.

Dionysius Spencer had already informed him that there seemed to be some kind of powerful seal or suppression field on the other side, hindering the full expansion of the spatial gate.

He needed to control the power of the floating city to continuously resist and expand the passage, but in the early stages, those who crossed first would likely encounter some "small trouble."

Jie Ming soon knew what the so-called "small trouble" was.

The moment he stepped into the passage, Jie Ming felt a powerful stickiness coming from all directions, as if moving in glue; the surroundings were not the flowing light and color of ordinary spatial passages, but filled with chaotic darkness and twisted energy turbulence.

These turbulences were mixed with broken spatial fragments and alien energy, continuously impacting the travelers in the spatial gate.

Bang!

Egg·—. —.

Dense energy turbulence hit the black giants' massive bodies, emitting various strange sounds.

However, after more than thirty years of warfare, the black giant body-refining method had continuously adapted and evolved, giving it extremely high resistance to spatial distortion damage related to wind elements.

And those energy impacts, as long as they did not exceed a certain critical threshold, were instead absorbed and converted by the black giants' special body structure, becoming insignificant supplies.

Jie Ming stood steadily on the black giant's shoulder, his body shrouded in a faint protective shield, blocking the sporadic attacks that leaked through.

He was like a reef in a torrent, under the protection of the black giants, advancing firmly toward the darkness at the other end of the passage.

He didn't know how long it had been, perhaps just an instant, or perhaps a long, agonizing wait, when the resistance in front suddenly lightened!

"Arrived!"

Jie Ming's spirit lifted; he controlled the black giants to accelerate violently, breaking through that final spatial membrane.

However, the moment his feet stepped onto the alien land, even with Jie Ming's calmness, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

The scene of the vanguard legion and the native creatures fighting fiercely as expected did not appear.

What came into view was a grand scene that was incredibly magnificent yet eerily silent—a huge altar, and around the altar were densely packed humanoid creatures resembling a combination of mantises and lizards, extending to the horizon!

They seemed to be in a silent period of some collective ritual, and countless eyes were focused on the uninvited guests who had just "broken in," carrying surprise, confusion, and rapidly rising hostility.

And he himself, along with the two black giants, had unexpectedly become the only alien focus in this silent ocean.

Jie Ming reacted immediately; because he and the black giants had obtained powerful resistance to spatial power through the body-refining method, they were the least affected inside the spatial gate.

Although they were among the later batches to enter the spatial gate, they were the first to cross the teleportation.

The massive vanguard legion flood seemed to be still struggling in the narrow and unstable spatial passage, unable to follow up in time.

Even though Jie Ming's mind was tough, facing this scene of hundreds of millions of eyes, clearly enemies rather than friends, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch slightly.

The "declaration" he had subconsciously made out of excitement during the crossing moment now seemed particularly abrupt.

"This time—the fun is big." He thought helplessly.

"Looking on the bright side, does this mean my spatial power resistance ranks first in the entire Expeditionary Force?"

While comforting himself by finding joy in sorrow, Jie Ming was also quickly looking for a way to break the situation.

His gaze quickly swept across the audience, finally fixing on the four storm-eye-shaped cloud vortices above the altar that exuded heart-palpitating pressure.

"The creatures in front are easy to talk about; the real threats are likely those four—"

As his thoughts raced, Jie Ming did not hesitate at all.

While maintaining his outward composure, he even deliberately let the ghostly blue flames in the black giants' eyes burn more vigorously to bolster his momentum.

At the same time, he silently connected to the Magic Network terminal through mental power, sending out a set of extremely intense spatial coordinate signals like signal fires!

This signal would guide the wizard legion still struggling in the passage, letting them accelerate and rush toward this breakthrough point that had just been "pried open."

Facing the enemy alone, what he needed to do was hold this bridgehead, even if only for a moment.

The thirty-meter-tall black giants were like two pitch-black iron towers, standing on the altar of the alien world, and the visual impact they brought was unparalleled.

Hundreds of millions of Holy Servants below looked up at these behemoths, whispering in a mix of wonder and fear.

Even those Holy Spirits who were usually high and mighty were solemn at this moment.

From these two silent black giant statues, they felt a sense of oppression far beyond their own level; it was a kind of power pressure close to... god-level!

As for Jie Ming standing on the black giant's shoulder?

His relatively "tiny" body and "weak" energy fluctuations were, in the eyes of the Holy Servants and Holy Spirits, just insignificant appendages on a powerful creature, perhaps even some kind of "parasite," and he was directly ignored.

The essence of the wizard's path lies in using knowledge to pry power, and its inherent terror is often difficult to detect when faced for the first time.

Of course, most living beings and civilizations do not have the opportunity to face it a second time.

"A new world! It must be a new world!" After the initial shock, a Holy Spirit's eyes burst with fiery greed.

Although the black giants were strong, compared to the four Holy God pressures in the sky that were like incarnations of the world's will, they seemed to be a notch behind.

A world that could nurture such creatures, how rich must its resources be?!

Many peak Holy Spirits were even more active in their minds; if they could kill or even capture these two giant beasts, perhaps they could find the opportunity to break through to the god level from them!

As Holy Spirits who had risen through countless battles, they had their own pride.

They firmly believed that even if the enemy was stronger, relying on skills, numbers, and the four gods standing in the sky, they would be enough to cope.

"Suffer! Wail! Repent! Because of your mistakes, your world will be conquered by us!" A hot-tempered Holy Spirit laughed wildly.

The bone blade on his arm ejected, and wind power wrapped around it, turning into a ten-meter giant blade.

His figure turned into a cyan stream of light, crossing a thousand-meter distance, and slashed fiercely at one of the black giants with an indomitable momentum!

And then·—

Splat!

Just like casually swatting a pesky fly, the black giant's huge palm, at a speed completely inconsistent with its size, struck first and accurately slapped the cyan stream of light.

The exploding blood mist and bone fragments were like small fireworks.

Jie Ming picked his ear and muttered in a low voice: "Gibberish, can't understand—·Holy crap! Are they this brave?!"

He really couldn't understand where a guy whose energy level was clearly a notch lower got the courage to launch such a suicide charge.

"However, if the other side is full of such reckless people, defending will be even more troublesome—." Jie Ming frowned.

Looking at this group of humanoid monsters with an average height of five meters below, he worried that their crazy charge regardless of casualties would affect the stability of the spatial gate.

Fortunately, things did not develop as he had imagined.

The other Holy Spirits' expressions changed when they saw this; they didn't expect that the Holy Spirit, who had quite a reputation, couldn't even withstand one move against that black monster.

Several Holy Spirits exchanged glances and immediately understood each other's meaning: "Attack together!"

They all ejected their bone blades and tacitly besieged the two black giants.

Seeing more than a dozen monsters launching an attack on him together, Jie Ming thought for a moment and conveyed an order to the two black giants under his feet through a soul contract:

"Hold back, entangle with them, and try to stall for time!"

The black giants roared, and then began to pretend to go back and forth with these bugs.

At the same time, high above, the divine senses of the four Holy Gods were communicating rapidly.

"Just a moment ago, I thought 'that one' had awakened!" A divine sense fluctuation containing fear came.

"Calm down! Their life structures are completely different; they are not from 'that world,' and 'that one' cannot be revived." Another relatively steady divine sense comforted.

"Could it be that the spatial gate has mutated due to long-term closure, connecting to an unknown domain?" The third divine sense speculated.

"Regardless, the unfamiliar is dangerous." The last divine sense carried a decision, "Clear them, reinforce the seal, and ensure nothing goes wrong. We are already standing at the peak; there is no need to take risks."

A brief exchange reached a consensus.

Immediately, a calm but supremely majestic voice, like a heavenly decree, resounded in the depths of the souls of all Holy Spirits and Holy Servants:

"Kill him."

The simple three words were like lighting a powder keg!

"Oracle! It's an oracle!"

"For the Holy God!"

Hundreds of millions of Holy Servants boiled instantly, and fanatical faith overwhelmed the fear of the black giants.

The dozen or so Holy Spirits who were still observing cautiously also had their eyes instantly filled with determination and killing intent!

The oracle had been issued; it was unquestionable!

"Attack together!"

A dozen powerful auras erupted, wind power surrounded them like a substantial vortex, and the bone blades flickered with deadly cold light.

The Holy Spirits unleashed their trump cards, from different angles, with exquisite coordination, besieging the two black giants like a net cast from heaven and earth!

This time, they held nothing back.

However, their offensive had not yet fully unfolded—

Hum. ·

A strange hum sounded, and Jie Ming, standing on the black giant's shoulder, had thousands of crystal runes appear behind him at some point.

They were stacked layer upon layer, arranged into a huge, complex, slowly rotating brilliant light wheel—"Great Da Guang Xiang"!

The next moment, like a broken star river!

Energy light bullets, dense to the point of being indescribable, gushed out from the "Great Da Guang Xiang," each one accurately locking onto a charging Holy Spirit!

"No!!!"

"What is this?!"

In the horrified eyes of the Holy Spirits, their wind power shields, which they were proud of, shattered like paper, their condensed attacks were instantly disintegrated, and their bodies were torn and evaporated in the brilliant and deadly light flow·

In just one volley, more than a dozen powerful Holy Spirits were wiped out!

At this moment, all Holy Servants, including the four Holy Gods in the sky, locked their eyes tightly on Jie Ming.

They finally realized that the "little one" they had ignored was the truly terrifying existence!

But the oracle was like a mountain!

Driven by fanatical faith, the Holy Servant army, like a boundless ocean, let out a roar that shook the sky and earth.

Like a flood breaking a dam, they charged fearlessly toward the center of the altar, toward Jie Ming and the two black giants!

Facing the impact of this sea of hundreds of millions of people, the slight casualness on Jie Ming's face disappeared, replaced by an absolute calmness.

The light of the "Great Da Guang Xiang" behind him became more and more intense, preparing to meet this tough battle.

Suddenly, the corners of his mouth curled into a slight arc.

Because, behind him, the huge circular spatial gate again sent out violent and stable fluctuations.

Auras like an iron flood were surging out from within!

The wizard's legion had arrived.