I Have Infinite Skill Points-Chapter 483: Breaking Through to the Star Sea Realm
"Hurry, the Ice Cliff is just ahead, hurry!"
"Captain, let’s rest for a while. The brothers just went through a big battle, and now after marching for so long, we’re all exhausted."
"Rest my ass! We did just fight a battle, and we’re indeed half dead from fatigue. But the Green Maple Pioneer Legion held off the beast tide for two hours, two whole hours. Didn’t you hear the division command’s message? Chaos Mist had no less than a hundred thousand Exotic Beasts hitting Ice Cliff, but the defense line there wasn’t breached until we completed the campaign. They fought to death to buy us those two hours and secure victory; they are the true heroes of this battle. What we’re doing now is racing against the beasts for time, and being a minute faster could mean saving a few more lives. Listen up everyone, march at full speed. Even if the entire Green Maple Team is wiped out, we must take over their defense line and continue to resist the beast tide until the main force arrives."
"Yes—"
A large Pioneering Legion of nearly a thousand men sprinted along the route previously taken by the Green Maple Pioneer Legion. They weren’t an unorganized Pioneer Team like the Green Maple Team, but a properly structured Pioneering Legion belonging to the Pioneer Space Headquarters. Orders are military orders, and military orders must be completed at all costs, even if it means total annihilation.
In a frenzied rush, they covered thirty kilometers in less than half an hour, all thanks to the Green Maple Pioneer Legion having cleared the way of Exotic Beasts. If they were in the same situation as the Green Maple Team at the outset, no matter how strong they were, it would have taken them at least two hours to advance.
From afar, Ice Cliff was tranquil, without the anticipated surge of Star Power or the fires and sieges of battle. The pace of the Pioneering Legion inevitably slowed, and the overall commander pulled out a telescope to look toward Ice Cliff.
The camp wasn’t destroyed; there are no signs of battle. Could the intelligence have been wrong, and there was no beast tide? But it was urgent information sent from headquarters, how could it be incorrect? Headquarters wouldn’t make such a major mistake, right?
When they received the intelligence, the Hundred Regiments Battle Plan had already been activated. Modes of communication in Pioneer Space were primitive, relying solely on Star Martial Warriors to deliver messages. Even at the general command, there was only one hummingbird capable of long-distance communication, and its contacts were limited to a few Titled Strongmen. Ordinary division commands didn’t have access. Moreover, in a division, the distance between each team was vast, and a single action could affect the entire operation. This battle plan, prepared by the division command for over a month, couldn’t be halted once it started.
One could only imagine the despair the division command felt when they saw the headquarters’ report. All the teams were coordinating to eradicate the Exotic Beasts within their jurisdiction, and suddenly a beast tide of a hundred thousand struck, instantly disrupting the carefully laid plans and scattering the forces into disarray. Afterwards, under the encirclement and interception of the Exotic Beasts, fewer than one in ten managed to survive. Out of fifty thousand Pioneers, would even five thousand remain? The consequences were too severe, and no one could bear them.
The division commander sat in the command center, at a loss, anticipating the arrival of bad news. However, what came instead were reports of success. The Hundred Regiments Battle continued methodically.
If not for this beast tide, this battle would have been Commander Lin Yao’s greatest accomplishment during his service term. With this victory, even a promotion to major general wasn’t out of the question. But... it was all over.
After Commander Lin waited anxiously for an hour, still no information about the beast tide came, and the Hundred Regiments Battle had already achieved its mid-stage goals and started to combine forces. This was the most brilliant part of Commander Lin Yao’s battle plan. Once a hundred Pioneering Legions reached their designated positions and secured the defense line, each team would become a delicate chess piece influencing the entire battle. Combining forces and striking from all sides, the Exotic Beasts within the region would be trapped and besieged from every direction.
At a moment that should have been one of celebration, nobody could find it in themselves to cheer, until another half-hour passed and the situation in the southwest region was under control. Only then did Commander Lin Yao snap out of his trance as if his soul had returned to his body.
The battle ended successfully, unaffected by the beast tide. There could only be one reason for it— the Green Maple Pioneer Legion successfully held Ice Cliff, and all the Exotic Beasts from the Chaos Mist were repelled. Anyone else would find this hard to believe. Was it possible? Absolutely not. How could a mere Pioneer Team of five hundred hold off a hundred thousand Exotic Beasts? But the Green Maple Team had Wang Lan, which made it plausible. Commander Lin Yao of the Cloud Sea Pioneer Space, one of the five division commanders, was aware of Wang Lan’s presence—a man who, nominally just an intern god, could rival the Titled Strongman of Jade Country’s top experts. A man with the cultivation level of the Galaxy Stage, but revered as a god. With him there, it was truly possible that Ice Cliff faced no threat. Because Commander Lin believed that even if all the Pioneers of Green Maple Cliff were to perish, Wang Lan would definitely make it back alive.
Therefore, as soon as the battle concluded, he immediately dispatched his most elite Pioneering Legion to reinforce at Ice Cliff. Against a hundred thousand Exotic Beasts, even if the Green Maple Pioneer Legion really did hold the line, it must have been incredibly tough.
The Poison Sting Pioneer Legion slowly approached, finding the whole camp without a single soul. If not for the well-ordered state of the camp, they might have thought that Green Maple Pioneer Legion was completely annihilated.
"Captain, look quickly, the gateway to Ice Cliff."
The Poison Sting Legion immediately rushed towards the gateway of Ice Cliff. The Gate of The Underworld there had been withdrawn, allowing a clear view of the exterior of Ice Cliff, where scattered Star Martial Warriors were searching for something.
Could it be... that the intelligence was wrong? There was no beast tide?
"Hey, are you... Poison Sting?" Duan Qingfeng noticed the Poison Sting Pioneer Legion and quickly came over. "Captain of the Green Maple Pioneer Legion, Duan Qingfeng."
"Captain of the Poison Sting Pioneer Legion, Li Yi."
"Captain Duan, we received intelligence from the headquarters that a beast tide was attacking Ice Cliff within the Chaos Mist... Could the intelligence be wrong?"
"Captain Li, what do you think of the terrain outside Ice Cliff?"
"Huh?" Li Yi did not quite understand what Duan Qingfeng meant, but still answered the question. "There is a significant variation in elevation, uneven and irregular... Didn’t the intelligence say that outside Ice Cliff it is supposed to be an expanse of mountains and ice fields? That doesn’t match the intelligence."
"When we arrived at Ice Cliff, it was indeed an expanse of mountains and a thousand-mile ice field," Duan Qingfeng said, his eyes filled with fervent emotion.
If before this battle, Wang Lan was merely considered an unparalleled genius, an individual so powerful that he defied all common logic in Duan Qingfeng’s eyes, then now, in Duan Qingfeng’s heart, Wang Lan had become a god. A god forever!
"What?" Li Yi stared at Duan Qingfeng, bewildered. Only when following Duan Qingfeng’s gaze to the mountain of Soul Beads did his expression gradually turn into one of horror.
"A beast tide of a hundred thousand broke out of the Chaos Mist, and Wang Lan stood alone at the pass, where a hundred thousand Exotic Beasts met their demise. A single person slaughtered a hundred thousand Exotic Beasts, I ask you, who else in the world can perform such a feat? After this battle, Wang Lan’s name will certainly shake the world!"
"A hundred thousand... Exotic Beasts? One person... slaughtered them?" Li Yi opened his mouth in shock, unable to speak for a long time.
A single person slaughtering a hundred thousand Exotic Beasts, any of the Five Emperors could do it, but for Wang Lan, it seemed a bit exaggerated. There were several important factors that allowed Wang Lan to slaughter a hundred thousand Exotic Beasts. Firstly, it was due to Wang Lan’s super S-grade Star Martial Skills. Especially the Heaven and Earth Millstone and Heaven Rupturing Earth Splitting, such wide-ranged Star Martial Skills, were specifically designed for the battlefield. Although they did not inflict strong damage on individual targets, they excelled in the number of attacks. Next, with his back to Ice Cliff, the terrain on one side of Ice Cliff was open, yet it formed a bottleneck shape at the mouth of Ice Cliff’s valley. Behind Ice Cliff lay Sunstones, preventing the Exotic Beasts from bypassing Ice Cliff and entering from elsewhere. The Exotic Beasts’ assault could only congest at the mouth of Ice Cliff’s valley, allowing Wang Lan to bomb blindly without missing a shot. Moreover, this group of Exotic Beasts was charging under the command of the Snow Demon, and after receiving orders, they would not innately seek benefit and avoid harm. Even though the Snow Demon had intelligence, it wasn’t particularly high. This was equivalent to cornering a hundred thousand Exotic Beasts in the range of Wang Lan’s artillery, allowing him to bomb them at will. As long as the Star Power was sufficient, it wasn’t just a hundred thousand; even two hundred thousand could be wiped out. Therefore, although the outcome of the battle was astonishing, it was indeed amplified. Even if it weren’t Wang Lan who had come, but another Titled Strongman with wide-ranged super S-grade Star Martial Skills, they could also achieve the same result. However, there were no ifs, and all fortuitous events would be overshadowed by this extraordinary feat.
"For successfully defending Ice Cliff, rewards: 200,000 experience points, 20,000 skill points.
Kill count tally complete, rewards: 5,000,000 experience points, 200,000 skill points..."
For completing the mission, a reward of 200,000 experience points was given, but the experience points for kills amounted to an overwhelming 5,000,000. For the first time, the proportion of experience points Wang Lan received was turned on its head. But thinking about it, it actually made sense: a hundred thousand Exotic Beasts, averaging fifty experience points each. These were all at the Star Cloud and Galaxy Stage, some even at the Star Sea Stage—the rates were practically a discount. Hearing the reward notification in his mind, Wang Lan licked his lips greedily, wondering if such an opportunity would come again. Could he have a few more chances?
Wang Lan was already at Galaxy Stage Nine, with his experience bar already half full. Five million experience points poured in, instantly maxing out his experience bar.
BOOM—
Suddenly, a wave of Star Energy Fluctuation rippled out and shot straight into the sky.
Everyone was startled by the sound and looked up at the war god on the summit of Ice Cliff. Wang Lan was surrounded by surging Star Power, as the Star Power from heaven and earth rushed toward him in a frenzy.
"Is Wang Lan going to..." Duan Qingfeng hesitantly opened his mouth to ask.
"Galaxy becomes the sea... Is he breaking through to the Star Sea Stage?" Li Yi, an expert at the Star Sea Stage, naturally recognized the prelude to a breakthrough to the Star Sea Stage.
But, casting a glance at the mountain of Soul Beads, even though combat could loosen the constraints of the Star palace, to break through, he should at least absorb the Soul Beads first, right? With so many Soul Beads, it seemed like he hadn’t even started working on them, yet he was already attempting to break through.
The Star Energy Fluctuation spread like a heartbeat, and gradually, everyone realized what Wang Lan was about to do.
He just completed an epoch-making battle, and now he was about to make a public breakthrough? Truly worthy of you, War God!
BOOM—
Auspicious clouds suddenly converged above Wang Lan’s head, with his Star palace appearing above him. The river formed by countless converging starlights suddenly exploded, and stars churned into surging tidal waves.
Gradually, the turbulent Star Sea calmed down, and Wang Lan slowly opened his eyes, the light from his pupils shooting out of his sockets into the sky.
Character, Wang Lan.
Level, Star Sea Stage, LV1.
