Chapter 626: Means to Turn the Tide

He could hear Heckler roaring as if he wanted to eat him alive.

Li Ming's reaction was very calm. He just lowered his head and looked at him quietly, as if waiting for Heckler to finish speaking.

He was a little surprised to find that the other party was so angry that he could only utter these words. "Is this the end of his anger?"

Heckler's breathing became heavier upon hearing this. He suddenly felt as if he had been slapped in the face. He stared at Qinglong coldly, "Do you think I would scold you like a shrew, or wag my tail and beg for mercy?"

"That's not the case. You have the courage to draw on the power of the Eternal Abyss, so it shouldn't be that serious." Li Ming shook his head indifferently, "I just thought you would shout a few words, saying that you accept defeat and that a gentleman can be killed but not humiliated."

Heckler paused, but he sensed a certain unspoken meaning in Qinglong's tone, and immediately said, "Are you surprised that I'm drawing on the power of the Eternal Abyss?"

"It's a bit unexpected." Li Ming nodded, but then sighed, "What a pity... If it lasted a little longer, you might have succeeded."

Heckler gritted his teeth and said bitterly, "We really should let the power of the Eternal Abyss completely submerge this place!"

Even if they let the power of the Eternal Abyss submerge the Holy Castle and let it be controlled by the Eternal Abyss, they might still not be able to obtain the Crown of Digras.

But it is better for both sides to suffer losses than the current situation.

Heckler resented Costat in his heart. If that guy hadn't reacted so strongly, he wouldn't have destroyed the Spear of Judgment in such a hurry.

"There are two options now." Li Ming looked down at him, "Do you want to die or live?"

The twisted muscles on Heckler's face were repairing themselves, and the words "A gentleman can be killed but not humiliated" almost came out of his mouth.

But thinking of what Qinglong had just said, he forced himself to hold it back.

"He wants to live, wants to live..." Before Heckler could respond, a voice came from the side.

Hines, who was held in the hands of King Yutian, shouted repeatedly, fearing that Heckler would say something wrong and anger Qinglong.

Li Ming turned around with interest and stretched out his hand. Heins was swept up by an invisible force and floated in front of Li Ming.

"Qing... Lord Qinglong." Hines forced a smile on his face. Even though he had boasted to Qinglong many times in secret, now that he was facing Qinglong, he had only one thought in his mind, and that was to survive.

"Heinz?" Li Ming looked at him for a while and remembered this guy's name. He had seen this guy at the meeting of the United Organization of Higher Life Forms.

According to the scattered information provided by Abel, this guy is also the deputy commander of the joint combat command of the three major civilizations, representing the Federation.

"Yes, it's me..." Hines nodded repeatedly and explained, "Mr. Heckler is extremely angry and his words are irrational. Please don't take them to heart."

Heckler sneered, but his eyes kept glancing towards the small black dots in the distance.

Their plan went awry, but it didn't mean they were out of luck.

Costat, please don't let me down...

"Does he want to live or do you want to live?" Li Ming asked slowly, his eyes flashing slightly.

Hines hesitated for a moment, thinking that he would appear too cowardly in front of so many prisoners.

Even if they were released, they would probably be punished, so he said something else: "There's absolutely no need to kill us."

"Although we are hostile to each other, it is actually due to various factors. There is no deep hatred in essence."

"These individuals are all X-level life forms cultivated with great effort by the three major civilizations. You can demand a ransom from the three civilizations, just like the ones you captured in the Chaos Star Gap last time."

"That seems to make some sense." Li Ming thought thoughtfully.

Hines breathed a sigh of relief. In his opinion, there was a high chance that they would survive. He was about to strike while the iron was hot and continue to persuade them, but he heard Qinglong ask slowly:

"But I do have a question."

"You ask, you ask." Hines responded quickly.

"Tell me, what actions will the remaining people take when they find out that you have an accident?" Li Ming looked at the Holy Castle Base in the distance.

In order to avoid accidents, the bases of the three major civilizations are quite far away from the Holy Fortress.

Li Ming could only barely see the general idea, which was basically the horizontal battleship array line. After the combined shield, he could not see anything.

"What action?" Hines was slightly stunned and asked cautiously, "Do you think they will rescue us?"

"It's possible, but the probability is too low." Li Ming shook his head, "Think about it again..."

Hines frowned slightly. "The plan failed. Either we save it, or give up, or..."

"Think of another way..." Hines seemed to have thought of something, his throat rolling, but he saw Qinglong looking at him with a smile.

"Think it through, then tell me if you've figured it out."

Hines's face changed. The plan they had prepared for a long time had failed. The higher-ups would definitely not be willing to accept this.

But the strength of this mimicking life form is obvious to all. It had previously severely injured the Black King.

Even if there are speculations afterwards, they are only special measures and cannot be sustained for a long time.

But no one dares to try rashly unless they have the means to guarantee victory.

Is there?

There really is a way to kill forbidden life forms.

Qinglong wanted to know what other means the higher-ups had to deal with him.

When Heins realized this, he felt even more depressed because the confidentiality level of that matter was extremely high and he didn't know about it either.

"Don't want to say it?"

Li Ming looked at the other party's dilemma, raised his hand, and an infinite heavy hammer appeared.

In a flash, he appeared in front of a detained X-level life form. The other party had fallen into a dazed state, and the whole person seemed to have turned into a slice of time.

Without hesitation, he raised his hand and swung the hammer down with tremendous force, hitting the opponent's head directly.

The moment the hammer touched the skull, a high-frequency shock wave erupted, and the cranial cavity was like tinfoil crumpled by an invisible giant hand.

The eyeballs vaporized into blood mist crystals in their sockets, the skull bones fractured radioactively, and the splattered blood formed a blood-red star ring surrounding the hammer, which was then shattered to the particle level by the violent energy, forming a luminous mist.

This X-level life form was imprisoned and unable to resist at all. The energy aftermath was suppressed by Li Ming before it could spread.

By the time everyone reacted, the brainstem tissue, which had not yet stopped functioning, was already bouncing on the ground, still continuously releasing bioelectric currents that caused muscle spasms, causing the headless torso to twitch and strike strange dance postures.

Hines' heart seemed to be gripped by a pair of huge hands. Looking at the headless corpse, fear swept through his body. He just wanted to kill him.

That was a Federation X-level life form, clearly a warning to him.

Hines didn't dare to hesitate and said immediately, "I...I don't know."

"Huh?" Li Ming glanced at him, and Hines' scalp tingled. He hurriedly explained, "This is top secret. Only a few people know about it. We are not responsible for this matter. We just hear about it occasionally."

"Is that so?" Li Ming looked a little disappointed, but Hines pointed at Heckler and said, "He, he must know. He and Costa are both princes of the Empire. The Empire's secrets cannot be hidden from them."

This is due to institutional reasons.

Feeling Qinglong's gaze, Heckler wanted to kill Hines.

"Your Highness, you are indeed very valuable. Are you interested in talking about it?" Li Ming asked politely.

Heckler remained silent. Li Ming sighed, and there was another muffled sound.

Heckler's eyelids twitched as another headless corpse fell to the ground. This time it was from the Empire, a Class X life form from his lineage.

"You..." Heckler was most surprised by something else. "Aren't you a mimic body? How can you still pause time?"

He didn't notice the one who died before, but the one who just died obviously entered a strange state when Qinglong took action.

Heckler saw at a glance that it was a state of suspended time.

But this body was clearly just a mimic created by the Holy Castle for his temporary activities. How could it possibly use the power of the Star of Eternal Silence?

Heckler really couldn't figure it out, and Li Ming didn't respond to him, so he continued to persuade him:

"According to my estimation, I will most likely face that kind of tactic next. In other words, I know it's only a matter of time, so why should so many people die just to conceal this short period of time?"

"Yes, Prince Heckler, he will know sooner or later. What's wrong with you telling him in advance?" Hines also echoed.

"Heh..." Heckler was silent for a long time, then sneered, "You...are afraid too?"

Hines' face looked extremely ugly. This Heckler was really crazy. Wasn't he afraid of death?

"Afraid? I always like to be prepared." Li Ming shook his head, and his figure floated behind another X-level life form of the empire.

The remaining four X-level life forms were silent as a mouse, and it was difficult for them to remain calm in the face of life and death.

The big shots who were able to call the shots outside are now being killed at will like chickens.

"This Lord Schiller can be considered as your good friend." Li Ming has long been familiar with the Empire's X-level life forms.

With a hand on Schiller's shoulder, this X-level life form had a tense expression on his face. After all, he had been in a high position for many years and did not look too embarrassed.

Li Ming said to Heckler, "You don't want to see your old friend die because of a secret that he can only keep for a short while."

Heckler's expression changed as he uttered a few words: "You can't imagine what kind of surprise you will face soon."

"Tsk..." Li Ming sighed, Schiller's pupils contracted, and then suddenly exploded, and the purple hammer head smashed out from the back of his head.

He no longer cared about the ransom of one or two X-level life forms. He was more curious about what other methods the three major civilizations had hidden.

However, Heckler's persistence surprised him.

"I am surprised by your tenacity." Li Ming stepped over the headless corpse on the ground.

Hines' body trembled slightly, and he wanted to strangle Heckler's neck and make him speak.

"Your Excellency Qinglong..." Hines opened his mouth cautiously, but before he could finish his words, a purple light fell, penetrated his body, and exploded into a bloody mist.

Heckler stared at Hines's body, his heart filled with sadness, but he said harshly: "You killed him like this, I'm afraid he is pretending not to know."

"It doesn't matter." Li Ming shrugged.

Heckler was confused and asked provocatively, "Why, are you planning to escape from here?"

"You don't seem to be afraid of death. You are indeed worthy of being a prince of the empire." Li Ming thought for a moment and said, "If that's the case, then let you be a witness."

"Witness what?" Heckler demanded.

Li Ming did not respond, but glanced at the Holy Castle base in the distance.

…

“…How could this happen…Qinglong…why…”

In the command ship, Schmidt looked at the screen in front of him, which was the remotely monitored scene of the Holy Castle. He found it difficult to understand why the other party was here.

"Now is not the time to marvel at Qinglong's amazing methods." Holmes frowned.

"That's right..." Schmidt reacted and said hurriedly, "Mr. Holmes, hurry up and rescue those people up there."

"No." Costat said in a deep voice, "Don't move. Be careful not to get caught in it."

Schmidt disagreed, "This is just Qinglong's mimic body. In other words, he can't use abilities other than his original body."

"With only his main body, Lord Holmes holding the Void Anchor, wouldn't he still be a match? I almost exiled him last time."

"No..." Costat shook his head, staring at the screen. "I have a bad feeling this isn't going to be that simple."

"Then try it from a distance," Schmidt further said.

"It's useless." This time it was Holmes who spoke. "It's just a simple spatial adjustment. Azure Dragon can destroy it in advance."

"This won't work, and that won't work. We can't just sit here and wait." Schmidt said in a deep voice.

Kostat's pupils narrowed slightly, and he saw that Qinglong had already started killing people on the Holy Castle.

First he killed a Federation man, and then a member of the Empire, executing him without mercy.

Schmidt's face turned anxious, and Holmes's face also looked unhappy.

"We can only... let that guy come." Costat took a deep breath.

"Who is that guy?" Schmidt couldn't help but ask.

Holmes looked quite worried. "Letting him come and get the Diglas crown might not be a good thing."

Schmidt couldn't help but be surprised. It seemed that as long as that guy came, he could get the Crown of Diglas?

He quickly realized what was happening and said hurriedly, "This is the method to kill Istaniel. He is actually a living being? An ultimate life form?"

Faced with his series of speculations, Costat did not respond, but simply said, "Report first. If we want to transfer him here, we need the approval of the three leaders."

…

"Failed again?"

Adam received an urgent report from Costat, and learned that something had happened in the Holy Castle and that Qinglong had tricked him. He was immediately shocked and confused.

"But..." He hesitated to speak, wanting to ask why Qinglong could still come in a mimic body if the Holy Castle's external communications had not been cut off.

But when I think about the fact that the other person already has many unexplainable problems, there is no point in exploring this further.

Costat said helplessly, "I'm even wondering if Qinglong is deliberately using us to destroy the Holy Castle's outer barriers so he can move."

"It doesn't matter now." Adam sighed and shook his head helplessly. "The only thing we can do now is to transfer Morris over. Only he can turn the tide."

Costat hesitated slightly and asked, "Is the strengthening of Lord Tandin finished?"

"No." Adam knew what he meant. "Qinglong's methods are cunning. Even if he only has a mimic body, he should not be underestimated."

"This time, we can't let any more accidents happen. Let Morris go. I will call a summit meeting right away."

Costat nodded silently.

(End of this chapter)