178: Chapter 178 The alien army approaches Qinglong City
Outside Azure Dragon City, a violent wind howled.
Lin Fan, dressed in a black robe with his hands in his pockets, hovered in the air ten thousand zhang high.
The earth below had been completely hollowed out. In just ten days, under the blessing of Lin Fan's supreme power in the Great Saint Realm, a peerless array covering a hundred miles in radius had been completed. This array precisely connected the fifty-four remaining base cities on Blue Star.
Massive amounts of resources—steel, alloys, spirit stones, beast bones...—flowed through the array's teleportation channels and piled up frantically at the designated location outside Azure Dragon City.
At a glance, the supplies were piled up like an ocean, blotting out the sky.
Wu Chongguo stood on the walls of Azure Dragon City, his lone arm gripping the parapet tightly, his breathing ragged.
"What exactly is Saint Lin trying to do?" Wu Chongguo swallowed hard, his voice trembling.
Chu Tianxing stood to the side, his face equally filled with shock: "The entire assets of the fifty-four base cities have been emptied. The quantity of these supplies is enough to fill the entire East Sea! Is Saint Lin actually planning to use this scrap metal to block the Alien Saint?"
Lu Tingting, dressed in white, possessed a temperament as cold as an iceberg. She looked up, her beautiful eyes rarely showing turbulent waves: "Just watch. The methods of a Great Sage are simply not something we can fathom."
Wang Linlin hugged her ancient zither, her eyes filled with stars, jumping up and down in excitement: "Brother Lin Fan is the best! He must be about to perform a super magic trick!"
Just as everyone was discussing it in shock.
Lin Fan, in mid-air, moved.
He slowly withdrew his hands, his fingers forming seals rapidly in front of him.
"Rumble—!!!"
The world trembled violently.
A terrifying aura, transcending all Daos, surged from within Lin Fan's body into the sky.
Immediately after, in the eyes of countless citizens who were shocked to the extreme, the sky above Azure Dragon City completely changed color.
A vast, boundless scroll of Splendid Mountains and Rivers slowly unfurled across the sky. Mountains, rivers, the sun, the moon, and the stars were vivid and lifelike within this scroll, exuding a Saintly might that suppressed the ages. At the very top of that Splendid Mountains and Rivers, a brilliant golden sun shone in tandem with the boundless blue sky!
A Saintly Phenomenon!
"This... what kind of Phenomenon is this?!" A human Grandmaster was so frightened that his legs went weak, and he knelt directly on the ground.
Lin Fan looked down at the hundreds of millions of tons of materials piled up like mountains, his thin lips opening slightly.
"The Great Sun is the fire, the world is the furnace!"
Hum!
The golden sun above the sky descended a golden pillar of fire that pierced through the heavens and the earth.
This was no ordinary fire, but the ultimate Dao fire that had fused with the origin of fire from the Three Thousand Great Daos!
The golden pillar of fire fell into the endless mountain range of supplies.
There was no deafening explosion, only the scalp-tingling sound of melting.
"Sizzle, sizzle—"
Under everyone's terrified gaze.
Those hard alloys and spirit stones, piled as high as mountains and weighing hundreds of millions of tons, did not even last a second under the scorching heat of this Dao fire before being melted into boiling liquid!
Hundreds of millions of tons of materials were transformed into a rolling sea of metal magma, hovering in the air outside Azure Dragon City!
The high temperature distorted the space.
"Good heavens..." Chu Tianxing collapsed to the ground, his eyes nearly popping out of his sockets. "Melting hundreds of millions of tons of materials in an instant? Is this still a human? This is simply a creator god!"
Wu Chongguo gritted his teeth, his whole body trembling: "Infrastructure maniac... this is the true infrastructure maniac! Saint Lin is treating the world as a steel furnace!"
Lin Fan stood above the sea of fire, his expression unchanged.
"Condense!"
He shouted, and his extremely powerful divine sense burst out from his body.
This divine sense transformed into an invisible and extremely precise giant mold, directly covering the boiling metal magma sea below.
"Rise!"
As Lin Fan lifted his hands upwards.
That vast sea of metal magma churned violently, following the guidance of the divine sense mold, frantically climbing, intertwining, and cooling!
A hundred meters! A thousand meters! Ten thousand meters!
In just a few hours.
In the eyes of fifty billion human beings, it was unbelievable.
Nine magnificent satellite cities, towering into the clouds with walls hundreds of meters thick and the entire body shimmering with cold metallic light, rose abruptly from the flat ground!
They were arranged in the formation of the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, guarding the main city of Azure Dragon City in the very center.
"The... the city is built?!"
A veteran of the City Defense Force rubbed his eyes and slapped himself hard: "In a few hours, nine super satellite cities were built?! Am I dreaming?!"
But it wasn't over yet.
Although the cities had taken shape, in Lin Fan's eyes, this was just a rough embryo.
The next three days.
Lin Fan sat cross-legged in the high heavens, without sleep or rest.
He transformed the perfect Three Thousand Great Daos laws within his body into countless golden runes, which poured down.
"Engrave for me!"
Lin Fan waved his hands frantically.
Every rune that fell was deeply branded into every inch of the walls of the nine satellite cities and the main Azure Dragon City.
Spatial formation patterns, gravity formation patterns, damage reflection formation patterns, spirit gathering formation patterns...
Three days later.
When the last rune was branded.
The entire Azure Dragon City, along with the nine satellite cities, erupted with nine-colored divine light that soared into the sky. The surface of the hard metal walls shimmered with water-like Dao rhyme luster.
This had been completely refined by Lin Fan into a massive, supreme divine weapon that integrated both offense and defense!
"The city is complete!"
Wu Chongguo shed old tears, shouting excitedly to the sky: "Long live Saint Lin! Long live the human race!"
"Long live Saint Lin!!!"
Fifty billion humans erupted in cheers that shattered the clouds.
With the help of the array, the fifty billion humans moved in grand fashion, successfully settling into this indestructible final line of defense. Everyone's faces were filled with the joy of surviving a disaster and a fanatical faith in Lin Fan.
However, in this cruel Great Calamity of Ten Thousand Races, peace is always short-lived.
The peaceful days only lasted for two months.
On this day, inside the highest command center of Azure Dragon City, a piercing blood-red alarm sounded without warning, its shrill noise breaking the peace of the entire city.
"Bang!"
The door to the command center was kicked open.
A commander of the reconnaissance unit rushed in, scrambling and crawling, soaked in cold sweat, having even lost his military cap in the rush.
"Report—!!!"
The reconnaissance commander's voice cracked, and he roared with extreme despair: "Elder Wu! Saint Lin! Something big has happened!"
Wu Chongguo's heart skipped a beat, and he stood up: "What's the panic! If the sky falls, Saint Lin will hold it up! Speak, what happened to the front line?"
"The spatial rift... the restraint of the spatial rift has completely weakened!"
The reconnaissance commander lay on the ground, trembling all over, tears streaming from his eyes: "The follow-up main force of the Alien army has arrived! Their numbers are growing exponentially!"
Chu Tianxing grabbed him by the collar and roared: "How many have come?!"
The reconnaissance commander swallowed, trembling as he held up one finger.
"From the initial one billion... it has surged to... fifteen billion!"
"The overwhelming black tide of troops is already pointing directly at our Azure Dragon City!"