Chapter 686

Chapter 686: Striving for Progress

In the sky, Cao Ying kept falling due to gravity, she needed to use her spiritual power to balance. This consumed a lot of her energy. She kept refining the pills inside her body and outputting them, causing her great pain as her internal injuries worsened.

Until someone appeared, Cao Ying smiled. When her waist was held, she completely relaxed and focused on suppressing her injuries.

"Open your mouth."

Lin Jiang said, then he put a red pill in Cao Ying’s mouth.

Lin Jiang knew Cao Ying was injured, so he came to help her. Luckily, after entering the atmosphere, her locator system was still working, otherwise Lin Jiang wouldn’t have found Cao Ying.

"Even the Demon Queen is hurt."

"I know, the missile has been launched, but it probably won’t work. Lin Fanghua has the natural advantage of being Rufu."

"True. It’s a pity. If only we had used the silk thread earlier."

"The silk thread may not be able to restrain it. The demon clan has many inheritances, perhaps there is a way to counteract it."

"Yes, it’s only effective if we catch them off guard."

Cao Ying mentioned that the silk thread left by Lin Die is not all-powerful. Lin Die herself is very skilled, that’s why it worked. Catching Lin Fanghua off guard is the key to success.

Lin Jiang took Cao Ying back to Haigang City directly. Cao Ying went into seclusion, while Lin Jiang returned to the office. In the video, Zhou Yuan and others were lying on the ground, panting and covered in injuries.

"Are you all okay?"

"We’re alright for now, but the suicide squad is gone, we saw it."

Zhou Yuan said, they just went through a fierce battle, even though they had eight people forming a formation against the Fire Scale Demon Emperor, who wasn’t even the most powerful Demon Emperor. It almost broke their formation, slaughtered them one by one, the difference between Void Achieving and Tao Achieving was too great.

"It’s good that you’re okay, guard the base well."

Lin Jiang said, he already saw that the base was under fierce attack by the monster clan at the moment. The artificial intelligence kept sending data on the base’s defense formation, the pressure was immense, dozens of Formation Masters were working hard to maintain the formation to avoid being breached.

The monster clan’s assault couldn’t last much longer, Lin Jiang had already used a large number of missiles, even though they didn’t use nuclear weapons, various other weapons took turns entering the battle, many monsters were slain. Eventually, the Demon Emperor had to retreat, if not, the Demon Emperor might be besieged to death by tens of thousands of cultivators.

A day later, the monster clan retreated, both sides began to lick their wounds. The battle lasting less than three days caused unbearable casualties for both sides.

Three days later, a video conference was held between Lin Jiang, the Space Administration, and the Spiritual Energy Research Institute. Lin Jiang ordered them to cooperate and manufacture a brand-new spacecraft together.

The first task was to repair all the destroyed satellites. The role of various satellites was extremely important and needed to be restored as quickly as possible.

The second thing is to make the spacecraft more powerful, improve the space station quickly, create space-based weapons as soon as possible. Then, improve some satellites to have enough power to withstand attacks from demon clan. Ideally, turn spacecraft into magical items so they can all withstand attacks like magical treasures.

The third thing is to build Space Battleships. This plan has been around for a while, and now Lin Jiang wants to speed up the progress. Lin Jiang will provide them with more funds. If there is no money, they will make some money from the stock market, so no need to worry about that.

Lin Jiang’s role now is to gather resources. If they need funds, Lin Jiang provides them. If they need materials, Lin Jiang will find them. If they need talents, Lin Jiang will arrange it. Except for specific technical matters, Lin Jiang can meet all their needs.

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"Heavenly Fox Demon King, are you hurt?"

In Fangzhang Continent, the Demon Queen looked surprised at the injured Heavenly Fox Demon King. How did he get hurt? Shouldn’t he be well protected?

"Demon Queen, I’m fine, just a minor injury."

Heavenly Fox Demon King felt embarrassed. The human army launched a fierce attack on the demon clan, including many suicide squads. They rushed in with a lot of firepower behind them. Heavenly Fox Demon King got hit by an incendiary bomb because there were many high-ranking Demon Kings around him. Although he may not have died, his fur was burned, which looked pretty bad.

"As I flew into space this time, I realized how important those satellites are to the human clan. If we use this to our advantage, we can defeat human clan experts and wipe them out."

The Demon Queen told the other demons that since Cao Ying risked her life to stop her, she understood the importance of things from space to humans. She decided to launch another attack, this time bringing along other Demon Emperors to ambush them.

"Demon Queen, if you take the Demon Emperors, what will happen to the Demon God Temple? If the humans send out all their main forces like they did last time, we may not be able to handle them."

The Heavenly Fox Demon King said he was still fearful of the recent battle. They didn’t know how crucial space was to humans, so it was just a test. But the humans sent out all their main forces, almost leading to a decisive battle.

Although they didn’t suffer losses in the end and even gained some advantage, it was mainly because the Demon Emperors were with them. If the Demon Emperors left, they wouldn’t be able to withstand the humans’ heavy attacks, especially when nuclear weapons were involved.

"Demon Queen, why don’t we attack the Shen Continent directly? With our strength, and just one Cao Ying, the humans won’t be able to stop us."

The Divine Martial Demon Emperor said he still harbored resentment from the previous incident; the injuries he sustained were too severe.

"Not a good idea."

The Demon Queen rejected the idea directly. The Demon Emperors could also be worn down. The human cultivators numbered in the millions or even tens of millions, forming battle formations that could slowly wear them down.

Bringing a large number of high-ranked Demon Kings would likely not withstand the humans’ nuclear weapons. Reckless tactics of targeting key figures would not work.

"Demon Queen, this is not good, we need to come up with a plan. Our monster clan is always on the defensive, the human weapons can be launched from thousands of miles away, we can’t even detect them with our powers. If we don’t change this, our clan will be defeated."

"Demon Queen, may the heavens bless our monster clan, our descendants are stronger than us, but even if they are strong, they can’t grow up fast enough to withstand a few cannonballs from humans. We can’t compete against humans at all…"

"Demon Queen…"

Several Demon Emperors and Demon Kings were discussing, they are elite members of the monster clan and are well aware of the difficult situation their clan is facing.

May the heavens bless our monster clan, many powerful descendants have been born, but they need time to grow. Humans launch countless missiles and kill many monsters every day, while we can’t even touch them. It feels frustrating.

"I know what you’re talking about. Heavenly Fox Demon King, didn’t you organize a group of human elites? What did they say?"

Demon Queen, aware of the situation of the monster clan, found it challenging to come up with a solution. Now she is putting her hopes on the human elites they captured.

"Demon Queen, they did give some suggestions, but it’s hard for us to follow through."

"What did they say?"

"It’s similar to what we’ve done before. The most important thing is to break the unity of the human race. The human race is led by Huaxia on the Shen Continent, but Huaxia also oppresses other regions of the human race greatly. We can support other regions of the human race and disrupt the human race’s industrial areas and so on."

The Heavenly Fox Demon King said that they have tried many things, but failed. For example, sending spies into the human race, they were all caught.

"Heavenly Fox Demon King, these elite humans can’t just talk. Let’s do this: whoever suggests something, let them handle it. We plundered many human cultivation techniques before, give them to them. If they need resources, provide for them. Let them work within the human race. If they succeed, I will reward them generously. If they fail, we kill them."

"Demon Queen, is this a good idea?"

"What’s wrong? Only the human race that benefits us deserve to live. Those useless ones are just wasting food."

The Demon Queen said coldly, "These captives can’t be given technology or weapons. If they can’t offer good advice or do anything, why keep them?"

Seeing the Demon Queen’s point, the Heavenly Fox Demon King agreed. In Fangzhang Continent, they have many captured humans who are said to be elite, but they haven’t shown much strength.

So the Demon Queen’s suggestion is good. They gained many cultivation techniques when they invaded the human race in the cultivation era. They control Fangzhang Continent, have enough resources, and all conditions are met. If they still can’t achieve anything, they deserve to die.

"Let the sea demon tribe also launch attacks in different places. It shouldn’t just be us and the human race fighting."

The Demon Queen casually mentioned that the ocean territory is ten times larger than Fangzhang Continent, and there are countless sea demon tribes. She decided to send them to attack and weaken the human tribe’s power.