Chapter 4760: Encirclement, Boiling the Frog in Warm Water
The Calamity Great Venerate knew that Lin Moyu could summon undead, and what he knew came from the Fate Venerate, who had once told him during a future deduction.
Later, the Calamity Great Venerate had also paid attention to the skeletal undead Lin Moyu summoned.
Although the numbers were astonishing, their combat strength was not particularly high, so he had not taken them too seriously.
In his understanding, any spell had an upper limit.
Perfect Chaos Realm was that limit.
Even if Lin Moyu could summon hundreds of millions of undead at the peak of the Chaos Realm, it still meant little in his eyes.
At his level, if the gap in strength was too large, numbers ceased to matter.
But now, what Lin Moyu had summoned were a million undying spirit soldiers at the quasi–Great Venerate level.
Quasi–Great Venerate just how many such beings existed in all of heaven and earth combined?
Even counting them all together, they did not exceed twenty.
Twenty quasi–Great Venerates naturally were nothing to him, and even if that number were multiplied tenfold or a hundredfold to two thousand quasi–Great Venerates, he could still easily slaughter them.
But this was one million.
Even if they could be killed, it would take real effort.
The million quasi–Great Venerate–level undying spirit soldiers shocked everyone.
They formed battle formations, standing in front of Jin Great Venerate, completely separating him from the heaven-and-earth venom bug.
Powerful attacks rained down, and the Bug Stele shone with glittering light as Jin Great Venerate barely managed to block the blows.
In single combat, the undying spirit soldiers were not as strong as Jin Great Venerate, but their numbers were simply too great.
Under the group assault, Jin Great Venerate could only rely on the Bug Stele to barely hang on.
It was impossible for him to charge through.
Once he left the protection of the Bug Stele, his chances of survival were almost zero.
Endless waves of attacks turned into countless overlapping storms, completely engulfing him.
The offensive was inexhaustible, with no beginning and no end, as though it would not stop until Jin Great Venerate was slain.
The heaven-and-earth venom bug attempted several times to charge over, but each time, it was beaten back by the Desolate-Shadow Insect Mother.
With the rules of heaven and earth continuing to unleash thunder upon it, its injuries were growing worse.
This battle would not take long before Jin Great Venerate was utterly defeated.
The Calamity Great Venerate's gaze flickered as he remained motionless, as if still calculating something.
The might Lin Moyu had displayed surpassed his expectations.
He stared at the Calamity Scepter in Lin Moyu's hand and realized he had truly underestimated him.
He did not know to what extent Lin Moyu had mastered the Calamity Scepter.
Back then, even he could not activate the gems on the scepter, but Lin Moyu could now use the power of the gems.
For the moment, he did not dare to act.
Without seeing clearly the depths of Lin Moyu's power, the Calamity Great Venerate became extremely cautious.
The Chaos Desolation Dragon and "Dao" exchanged a glance, and it seemed they had reached a decision as they moved at the same time.
The two of them had been ranked first and second in the ancient era and had known each other since time immemorial.
They appeared to be rivals, but no one truly understood their actual relationship.
From their previous reactions, Lin Moyu had judged that they were enemies yet also friends opposed to each other, but able to stand united against an outside foe.
Their relationship was extremely complicated.
Now, using the Calamity Scepter as bait, Lin Moyu had clearly told them that if the Calamity Scepter fell into the hands of the Calamity Great Venerate, they would be doomed.
So they would definitely strike to seize the Calamity Scepter, and at the same time they had to guard against the Calamity Great Venerate.
They had two people and thus held the advantage in numbers.
Furthermore, their strength was enough that even a million undying spirit soldiers could not stop them.
But were a million undying spirit soldiers all Lin Moyu had?
The Chaos Desolation Dragon instantly rushed in front of Lin Moyu, its gigantic dragon claw slapping down from above.
Lin Moyu casually raised the Calamity Scepter and swept it across.
"Do not clash head-on!"
"Dao's" urgent shout rang out.
The Chaos Desolation Dragon reacted with incredible speed, immediately withdrawing its claw to avoid colliding with the Calamity Scepter.
"Space Prison!"
A gigantic eye appeared above Lin Moyu's head, and an unseen mighty force descended as space transformed into a prison that tightly bound him.
Lin Moyu's movements froze and he seemed unable to move.
"Dao" excelled at manipulating space, and his Space Prison was extremely solid; even an existence at the same realm would find it hard to break out.
The Chaos Desolation Dragon attacked again, another claw lashing out like lightning.
In that instant, Lin Moyu's body shook, and the Space Prison binding him shattered.
He once more swung the Calamity Scepter, smashing it toward the Chaos Desolation Dragon's claw.
The Chaos Desolation Dragon let out a strange cry, instantly pulling back its claw and retreating at great speed.
"This is impossible!"
A voice full of disbelief sounded.
"Dao" simply could not believe that Lin Moyu had broken free of his space restraints.
Lin Moyu chuckled lightly.
"There is nothing impossible."
Snap.
With a crisp sound of fingers snapping, undying spirit soldiers surged forth like a tide, densely packed and filling the whole sky.
"So many!"
The astonished exclamation came from "Dao," and from his voice it was clear he had lost his usual composure.
The undying spirit soldiers were simply too numerous.
Lin Moyu had summoned over a hundred million undying spirit soldiers, instantly surrounding the Chaos Desolation Dragon completely.
The Chaos Desolation Dragon roared, its colossal body sweeping about and crushing massive numbers of undying spirit soldiers in an instant.
Even quasi–Great Venerate–level undying spirit soldiers were nothing before the Chaos Desolation Dragon.
But there were simply too many.
Batch after batch was slain, and each time they died they instantly revived and rejoined the fight, impossible to eradicate.
The undying spirit soldiers raised their blades and attacked as one.
Wave after wave of strikes swallowed the Chaos Desolation Dragon.
Its defense was terrifyingly strong, and their attacks were unable to injure it.
However, it was just as hard for it to break out.
No matter how many undying spirit soldiers it killed, their numbers did not diminish in the slightest.
The Chaos Desolation Dragon roared as its scales all stood on end.
A massive power swept out, killing countless undying spirit soldiers on the spot, but immediately even more surged forward and once again encircled it.
Time and again, the Chaos Desolation Dragon tried to break out, but no matter which direction it charged, the undying spirit soldiers locked it in on all sides.
"Dao's" gigantic eye floated in the void, within which countless spaces were born and destroyed.
He saw the crux of the matter and said in a low voice, "You idiot dragon, stop killing. I will handle this."
In an instant, space was sliced up into countless Space Prisons that trapped the undying spirit soldiers.
In the next moment, space shifted, and the prisons instantly teleported away, taking the undying spirit soldiers with them.
He had realized that the undying spirit soldiers could not be killed and would revive the moment they died.
Since they could not be killed, he would not kill them; he would simply trap and banish them.
Lin Moyu laughed softly.
"Do you think that will work?"
The undying spirit soldiers that had been banished vanished in an instant as he recalled them, and in the very next heartbeat he summoned them again, sending them surging forward like a tidal wave once more.
The encirclement did not change at all, and the Chaos Desolation Dragon still could not break out.
In Lin Moyu's eyes, "Dao's" methods were completely useless.
Just one hundred million undying spirit soldiers were enough to trap the Chaos Desolation Dragon; if they knew that Lin Moyu had trillions of undying spirit soldiers, their jaws would drop.
That was, if they still had jaws to drop.
The Chaos Desolation Dragon bellowed, "Your way is useless. Let me do it!"
The power it unleashed grew stronger and stronger, and with every breath countless undying spirit soldiers died, yet their total number did not decrease at all.
Naturally, Lin Moyu did not intend to merely encircle it and leave things at that.
He was steadily draining its strength.
The Chaos Desolation Dragon had already partially merged with this heaven and earth and was borrowing its power, giving it almost limitless strength with no fear of exhaustion.
This was why it could be so unrestrained.
But Lin Moyu could alter the rules.
He had already begun making minor changes, while the Chaos Desolation Dragon had yet to notice that the amount of power it could continuously draw from the world was gradually shrinking.
It was just like boiling a frog in warm water.
By the time it realized something was wrong, it would already be too late.