Lu Yao was interested in the full body Mountain Ridge Demon Statue, but the current Rock King was really hard to say, wanting brains without brains, wanting damage without damage.
It had the same Old God Curse lv99 of Song Shiyi and Lianzhen Star Monarch on it.This was the handiwork of the Dark God, and there was nothing like a progress bar behind it at all, and Lu Yao couldn’t forcefully break it with the power of faith.
Gotta follow the rules.
To lift the seal, one had to develop the Four Directions Kingdom, first developing the population to 1 million.
This was a ridiculously large number, making Lu Yao feel that there was very little hope.
The Yao World’s population is only 800,000 now, so even if they all moved here, they wouldn’t be able to make up for this number.
Considering that the fourth and fifth floors were not connected regularly, the newborn population here would continue to be consumed, just like a leaky pool that could never be renewed.
After calming down and thinking about it repeatedly, Lu Yao found a breaking point – the curse appeared to be invulnerable in the abyssal environment, but the Yao Clan had a solution.
The sealing requirement was: one million population of transcendent beings.
As long as they were Transcendent Beings, they counted.
An excellent species came to Lu Yao’s mind.
[Killing Flying Locusts].
This group was more aggressive, but in terms of survivability alone, they were stronger than the intelligent [Bully Locusts].
They had the four traits of [Endurance] [Swarming] [Rapid Reproduction] and [Binge Eating], were small, had a short life cycle, and were able to increase their numbers in a short period of time by frantically exploding their troops.
Surviving in the harsh environment outside Crystal City for a long time in the past, the Killing Flying Locusts have developed a habit: if they have something to eat, they will feed and reproduce frantically, and if they don’t have any food, they will burrow into the ground and slumber and play dead.
It was a perfect match for the Rock King’s current needs!
Lu Yao immediately asked Yin Shabel to coordinate and transfer the Killing Locust clan, and had all the cities send over large amounts of food and various supporting materials.
At times like this, the sound and perfect infrastructure of the Yao Clan’s several large cities showed their power. In an extremely short period of time, a steady stream of materials were transported from the five large cities to the set channels, crossing mountains and seas to reach the abyss.
The entire fourth level of the abyss then evolved into a peculiar scene, a large number of flying locusts began to spread all over the ground and walls, they began to feed frantically after being given permission, their numbers skyrocketing in a short period of time.
The magnificent scene of a sea of insects churning over caused the monster inhabitants of the Four Directions Kingdom to all have question marks on their heads and fearful expressions appearing.
Hai Fold made an official announcement in response, “…… Don’t worry, the new ones that have migrated over are all Yao Clan’s Transcendents, and they are now classified into the Sinister Legion to function as engineers.”
Lu Yao thought about it when he dispatched. The Clay Corpse Demons were extremely strong in single combat, specialised in blasting enemies in a short period of time, and their success rate in hunting Demigods was not low, but the number of Sinner Legions was still too small.
The killing flying locust’s strongest competitiveness was its numbers and survivability, serving as an auxiliary soldier was the best. Including scouting, laying down defences, testing, cleaning up the battlefield and most of the tedious matters, they could do it well.
Lu Yao watched the size of the locust swarms abroad in the four directions while observing the number of transcendent creatures in the fourth layer in real time through the background.
The number of flying locusts quickly broke through to 100,000, causing numbers to surface for the first time after the curse on the Rock King.
[Old God Curse lv99] (10/100)
[Curse of the Old Gods lv99] (11/100)
[Curse of the Old Gods lv99] (12/100)
……
The number of locust swarms was growing with the naked eye.
Lu Yao stared at the progress on the screen.
15/100
16/100
……
22/100
25/100
……
As the base of the locust swarm increased, the growth in numbers further accelerated.
Lu Yao had a few regrets in his heart.
It was a pity that after possessing [Wisdom], the instinct to reproduce life would be suppressed by a certain degree of self-consciousness, and thinking would begin to control instincts. Otherwise, the Yao Race’s population wouldn’t have grown so slowly.
One could only say that it was hard to have both quantity and quality.
He had gone off the deep end slightly, and the number of transcendent beings on the fourth level had broken through 500,000.
The locust swarms were still frantically ingesting and instinctively giving birth to offspring in a big way.
88/100
94/100
101/100
Condition reached!
A caption surfaced from the simulator.
[The Rock King’s Old God Curse has been lifted.]
Lu Yao looked towards the Mountain Range Demon Statue in the centre of the city.
This Thinker Apocalyptic Plastic-like Demigod had black chains like tattoos floating on his body at the moment, and these chains gradually snapped in the white light.
The Rock King’s body surface peeled off many crumbs, revealing an ancient Roman-style upper body silhouette and muscle lines inside. It had a thick facial moustache, a square mouth and a broad nose, and below the waist and abdomen it was clad in a wide skirt and armour, rather like the temperament of the heroic dead of the classical era.
Its eyes were golden and inwardly focused, and its arms were covered by broad golden armour, especially the fists below the wrists, as if it was wearing two heavy and huge metal gloves.
“The …… curse is lifted?”
The Rock King subconsciously looked at his fists, and then looked in the direction of the screen.
“O mighty god watching over this place, were you the one who rescued me from the Dark God’s Old God Curse?”
As soon as the curse was removed, its brain came back at once.
Lu Yao clicked to view it and found that the Mountain Range Demon Statue’s data panel had also steeply changed.
……
[Mountain Range Devil Statue lv98] Rock King – Batfleet
Life Value: 99087/99087
Mana: 10511/10511
Damage: 478
Defence: 477
Speed: 22
[Wisdom lv30
[Firmament]
Spell Insulator
Petrifying Mystery lv5
Rock Fist lv4
[Batfleet’s Exclusive Ability] When Batfleet uses Rock Fist, he will redistribute damage and defence, switching between offensive and defensive stances freely, and the duration of Rock Fist is related to the level of the ability.
[Sigils] [Sigils] [Sigils] [Sigils] [Sigils
……
Lu Yao looked at it with a groan!
Rock Fist is against the heavens.
It can actually redistribute points, which means that if he wants to, he can turn into the extreme output mode of Defence 0 Damage 955, or switch to the absolute defensive stance of Defence 955.
It was no wonder that it had received the Darkness God’s evaluation of “a buildable talent” and refused to fight for the Darkness God, making this Lord God more or less furious.
Batfleet did indeed combine both immediate combat power and strong potential.
Lu Yao looked greedy as well.
After the Rock King recovered, a dialogue box surfaced above its head, in which various words and symbols kept skimming by at a rapid pace, seemingly reviewing everything that had happened since entering the Abyss.
After about a minute, the Rock King looked off-screen, “At the risk of asking, has the Dark God fallen?”
Lu Yao typed above its head, Yes.
This was what the Forest God had confirmed many years ago.
“Indeed.”
The Mountain Ridge Demon Statue added, “You rescued me from the prison of ignorance and allowed me to think freely once again, no reward will ever be enough to repay your kindness …… Before I repay you, I have a small request.”
“Could you please save the Lady Nature I follow, who is trapped in the depths of the Abyss …… For this, Batfleet comes to offer you my loyalty and my life.”
Winnie the Nature Lady?
Wasn’t that the tyrant and Yinsabel’s best sister?
Coincidentally not.
Lu Yao didn’t realise that the Mountain Ridge Devil Statue was still a henchman of Lady Nature.
But thinking about the names of these two, Lady Nature, Mountain Ridge Devil Statue, it looked like they were related.
Lu Yao agreed.
However, he also said that Lady Nature was on the ninth level, and that the exploration of the abyss needed to be gradual, and a lot of preparation and patient preparation was needed to reach the ninth level.
“As long as I have your promise, I believe that this day will not be too far away, you can open the Abyss to unseal me, and you can also awaken Lady Nature from her lonely slumber.”
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“In the name of Truth, Batfleet hereby pledges his allegiance to you, your will is my mission, your enemies are where my fists are directed, and the fire of your faith, is what I fight for.”
The Mountain Range Demon Statue raised its head, and a strange character appeared on top of its head, “Please Lord Grace give a seal, or inscribe your divine name.”
Lu Yao gave the whole thing a miss.
This Demon Statue’s process of recognising the Lord didn’t seem to be the same as the other Demigods before.
Forget it, it was better to go the traditional way.
He dragged the Apostle’s Seal onto the Rock King and instantly became one with it.
No matter what, having the seal guarantee was reliable.
Afterwards, Lu Yao realised that the Devil Statue clan was rather special, and that gaining their complete allegiance didn’t require an Apostle Seal. As long as they were recognised and the name of a certain god was written on their foreheads, they would be permanently loyal unless uncontrollable factors such as destruction or abandonment by that god were involved.
After this set of rituals was completed, Lu Yao looked at this Apostle Number Nine (after vacating his slot from Silkworm Bush) and liked how he looked at him.
Batfleet came to be synonymous with extreme output and defence!
What was even more outrageous was that it was also immune to spells!
Another top tier hitter on the apostle team, and it’s got a great brain, too, with a lv30 Wisdom that’s second only to Slymod and Yinsabel, a rare type of talent that can stand on its own.
Thank you, God of Darkness.
Lu Yao also had a new understanding of the Abyss.
The seal that was the Godhead was difficult to obtain, and excluding the random selection of new players to obtain a simulator, one would have to be at the level of a Lord God to be qualified to create it.
That was why the Gods imprisoned in the Abyss were well aware that it would be difficult for them to obtain the God Frames again, and were more thirsty for freedom and the lifting of the seals.
Lu Yao was interested in Batfleet’s experience, and from it, he might be able to get some information about Lady Nature.
“I was originally a very ordinary mountain demon statue …….”
Suddenly, as if he had discovered something, Batfleet turned around to face the western path of the Sifang Kingdom.
“Lord, there is an enemy coming across the territorial border in the west, please issue a battle order and Batfleet will execute the incoming enemy.”
Lu Yao approved.
The Mountain Ridge Devil Statue’s body flashed, turning into a yellow flash of light as it rushed towards the West Road, instantly entering combat with the incoming enemy.
Immediately after that, the legions of Sins led by Hai Fold also rushed all the way to the front line to help in the battle.
On the west road at the same time, the Wisdom Insect shaped like a small panda was also present.
A sweaty expression emerged from the top of its head and waved its arms, ”Quickly, quickly! The ambush mayflies are here, I’ve attracted them for you! Quickly help, the Rock King can’t hold up ……”
However, it soon froze, a large question mark appearing on its head.
“What’s …… going on?”
“It’s not right, it’s not right, it shouldn’t be like this …… The Rock King clearly doesn’t have any damage ability …… How is it possible …… This isn’t the Rock King, it’s not, who is this?”
Lu Yao entered the battle scene.
As soon as he entered, he saw Batfleet fighting ambush mayflies.
The strangely shaped Curse Worm was being hit by the high-speed iron fists swung out by the Mountain Ridge Devil Statue in a crazy flurry of strikes, causing red damage values to pop up crazily on the top of its head.
-274
-274
-274
……
Lu Yao couldn’t help but follow the Demon Statue’s example and swing his fist as well.
That’s it, f*ck it, Ola Ola Ola!
