Walker Of The Worlds

Chapter 2526  Close To Detonation And Changing Tides

The stopping of the particles improved the defense of the ship in a different way than expected. As it flew, it affected all the air particles that came in its range and stilled their moment, essentially turning them solid. And since it was moving, the ship left a trail of solid particles all along the way, thereby making walls after walls behind it!

'This might just be able to delay the explosion or dull its impact.' Lin Mu thought to himself as he saw the skill being executed. "Senior Jiao, spray water up here." He quickly shouted knowing how to take the best advantage.

~ROAR~

The Flood Dragon surfed through the water below them and splashed water into the sky, which also froze because of Mei Nienzhen's skill. Wall after wall of solid air and water were created as the flying ship tore through the skies with the Flood Dragon following along.

Lin Mu was a bit surprised that the Flood Dragon could match the ship's speed right now too.

'I suppose in the water he is unhindered due to his affinities.' Lin Mu thought to himself as he observed.

He could faintly see that the Flood Dragon wasn't just moving through the usage of Qi, but rather the ocean itself was pushing him ahead. It was another method of applying elemental control and was somewhat similar to the Bending Will Fists that Lin Mu had practiced as well as the Cloud Dragon Stride that he was learning.

~WOONG~WOONG~WOONG~

In the one minute that had passed since the ship had started moving, the Atlantean Neptunium had finally charged up. Beams of energy were shot towards the golden cage kept above the central pillars as the power of the Atlantean Neptunium was shown.

Beam after beam joined in targeting the Golden cage and it was soon being targeted by twenty beams. But the beams didn't fully penetrate it and were actually stopped a few millimeters before it. The energy of the beams started to collect over the Golden Cage and began intersecting.

"It's getting stronger. Once all the beams are there, the power would be amplified enough to destroy everything in over a thousand kilometers of radius." Xukong assessed.

"We need to be faster." Lin Mu knew, but they were limited in that too. Little Shrubby would be faster than this, but the number of people he could carry on his back was limited, not everyone would be able to be taken away by him not to mention they wouldn't have the same level of defense they did right now.

Still, within two minutes of their jump start, they had already managed to come over three hundred kilometers away. This was being done at the expense of overloading the Ship's arrays and it was going to damage them once they finally stopped.

But this was something they couldn't avoid if they needed to overcome this.

"Everyone that can spare the effort, pour your Qi into the ship!" Lin Mu knew if they could squeeze out a bit more if they all contributed their Qi to it.

The increase might not be massive, but even a percent or two percent increase could be the difference between life and death.

~SHUA~SHUA~SHUA~

Several people, including Lin Mu, sat down as they poured Qi into the ship, while Crown Prince Feng Shun guided it to the array and controlled it to run as fast as possible. At the same time, Lin Mu thought of some alternatives and quickly contracted someone that might be able to help them.

'Saintess, we need you right now.' Lin Mu tried contacting her.

He just hoped that she was not cultivating, or at least close enough to respond in time.

~WOONG~WOONG~WOONG~

But just as Lin Mu had done that, more beams of energy were concentration at the Golden Cage and now over ninety beams were targeting it!

The golden cage couldn't even be seen and seemed to be fully hidden within the mass of energy that was convalescing around it. The sheer energy fluctuations that were coming from it could be felt all the way where Lin Mu and the others were, nearly four hundred kilometers away!

"It's going to blow!" Crown Prince Feng Shun sensed.

~BOOOOOOOO—~

Just as the energy sphere had brightened up to a blinding level though, it suddenly became restrained as if sinking back down.

"YOU DARE!?" A loud shout was heard while strong spatial fluctuations were felt at the same time.

"Saintess?" Lin Mu wondered if she had appeared, but then he sensed a familiar aura that made him frown. "No…" He looked in the direction of the Atlantean City and saw that massive spatial rifts had appeared all around it. Not just that, but copious amounts of dark energies were flowing out of it and covering all the Atlantean Neptunium statues.

"Withering Dao Energy!" The others sensed it by now, too.

"How is it here?!" Crown Princess Shang questioned.

"Yao Changying… She's here." Lin Mu said as a frown appeared on his face.

He then saw a large flurry of black petals raining down from one of the rifts right above the golden cage and cover it. The petals seemingly ate away at the energy beams and freed the Golden Cage and the Soul Fragment that were about to be destroyed.

"She stopped it!?" Crown Prince Feng Shun was stunned.

~BOOM~

But the woman's effort wasn't fully effective, as some of the statues simply overloaded and exploded regardless.

~BOOM~BOOM~BOOM~

It seemingly triggered a chain reaction and like a set of dominoes, they all began to explode in a circle!

~WOOOOOOOOOOOONG~

It released a massive wave of devastating energy that sent shock waves across the ocean.

These might not be as strong as the full power of the self destruction, but they were still more than enough to kill most people. ~CRACK~CRACK~CRACK~CRACK~

Thankfully, the defensive measures that Lin Mu and the group had taken were now coming in handy. The first ones to work were the frozen air and water particles that had been made due to Mei Nienzhen's Dao Skill.

This, combined with the distance they had gone, managed to dull the power of the explosion but at least half. ~RUMBLE~

With those gone, the shockwave finally stuck the ship and all the defensive arrays as well as the skills the people on it had cast came into effect. "BRACE!"

The flying ship shook and creaked nonstop as the shockwave hammered it.

~SHATTER~

~CRACK~CRACK~CRACK~

Several of the weaker defensive skills broke apart from it on impact and only the strong ones were let.

~CRUMBLE~

The fort of thorns made from Crown Princess Shang's skill was the next one to break as it seemingly crumble away from the power contained within the shockwave. It could be seen that the unstable property of the Atlantean Neptunium was being carried within the wave.

The one to go after that was the ship's own arrays that were being reinforced by Lady Kang's 88 constellation series skill.

Still, the arrays actually managed to reduce the impact greatly and reduced it to within a single digit!

The final one to bear the impact were a few more miscellaneous skills as well as Monk Hushu's skill of Golden Vajra Illumination.

This finally contained the shockwave and neutralized it all, leaving everyone alive.

"We… we did it!" Daoist Chu rejoiced.

"WE DID IT!"

"WE'RE ALIVE!" the others couldn't help but shout in joy as well.

But Lin Mu and some of his companions were not as joyous, for they had known about the arrival of their foe.

The flying ship slowed down as the arrays on it flickered shut before it was finally shut down and forced to land.

"Dammit, the ship's out of order." Crown Prince Feng Shun cursed. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Who's that woman?" The Flood Dragon controlled the wave to make the ship move before questioning.

Blood continued to trickle down from his scales, showing the damage he had sustained from the explosion but had managed to withstand it with his own skills.

~HUALA~

As if to answer him, a wave of ominous aura spread and covered an area of five hundred kilometers within a few seconds. "The owner of that Soul Fragment." Lin Mu answered him, making the Dragon's eyes narrow.

"It cannot be…" The Flood Dragon frowned, his fangs jutting from his mouth, making him look menacing. His aura also flared as it combated against the ominous aura.

"NONE OF YOU CAN LEAVE ALIVE!" A furious shout was heard as another wave of energy spread. The energy wave didn't have that much impact, but one would feel weak when it washed over their body.

"The Withering Dao Energy… Its Yao Changying no doubt." Ziran said as he created vines from his hands.

A second later though, a dome of darkness spread from the sky quickly covering the entire area of roughly six hundred kilometers within it.

"Looks like we can't leave without a fight." Lin Mu said as he steeled his mind.