Spiritual Energy Revival: Transform Into a Divine Phoenix, Automatically Upgrade

100: Chapter 100 Dark Clouds and ThunderOn the outskirts of Jianghai City.

Originally, the five squadrons had planned to form a large net from five directions to surround Divine Phoenix Mountain, but they had now gradually joined forces to collectively defend against the beast tide’s attacks.

The current situation made it completely impossible for them to operate separately.

Everywhere one looked, there were massive carcasses of beasts and the remains of comrades; the thick trees were covered in shell marks and streaks of blood.

From time to time, agile beasts would flicker through the hail of bullets, get close, snatch comrades from their ranks with their large mouths, and dash off into the dense forest in the distance.

Hiding behind thick trees, they would tear their comrades apart and devour them alive with a pack of beasts.

”Damn it! A bunch of animals!”

Hearing the painful cries of their comrades, the soldiers let out shouts of fury!

”Brothers, get out of the way!”

Boom!

Many soldiers who were tackled to the ground by powerful beasts did not choose to wait for death; instead, they pulled the pins on their grenades to perish together with the beasts!

Such tragic scenes occurred frequently, as this was the only way to inflict fatal damage on these powerful, agile beasts that ignored bullets.

Before long, the beasts seemed to fear the danger posed by these delicious two-legged beasts and gradually retreated.

A large number of soldiers collapsed onto the ground, physically exhausted. They had been fighting continuously for several hours; this high-intensity, long-duration combat was an immense burden on both their bodies and minds.

A squadron leader, covered in black bloodstains, had his chest heaving violently, with hot white steam venting from his mouth.

He scanned his surroundings; the soldiers were covered in a thick layer of blood—blood that belonged to themselves, the beasts, and their comrades...

”There are fewer than two hundred people left who can still maintain combat effectiveness...”

”We still need to escort the wounded to the medical unit in the rear...”

Several squadron leaders gradually gathered together, resting to recover their strength while beginning to check their equipment and personnel casualties.

The status of the team was soon tallied: only 185 soldiers retained full combat effectiveness. As for equipment, there was no need to worry; ammunition was plentiful.

”Huff... I never imagined that in my entire life, I would be forced into such a state by these beasts, with so many of my men dying!”

”Sigh, who’s to say otherwise... These beasts are truly wicked; they are far more powerful than the beasts on the outskirts of other cities, and their numbers are ridiculously high!”

”Fortunately, we are less than twenty miles from Divine Phoenix Mountain now, and our mission will soon be complete...”

”That’s good...”

”ROAR!!!”

Just then, a tremendous roar, like a thunderclap, erupted from the distance!

The roar was incredibly loud and carried a terrifying aura, making all the soldiers here tremble in fear. Even with their strong mental fortitude, they could not help but feel a powerful sense of dread.

This sense of dread seemed to evoke in their minds the trembling that ancient humans felt when facing powerful beasts. It was a fear automatically preserved in their bloodlines through biological evolution, meant to help descendants avoid dangerous creatures that emitted such roars for the sake of survival!

All the soldiers sat dumbfounded on the ground before slowly rising and quietly watching the squadron leaders.

The squadron leaders exchanged glances. ”Let’s go! Let’s take a look!”

Their mission in coming here was to reach Divine Phoenix Mountain, and the direction ahead was precisely where the mountain was located; they could not avoid it.

The sound of this thunderous roar was immense, attracting the attention of the soldiers in the forest, the live-streaming helicopters in the sky, and even the three shadow fighter jets high in the distance.

No one noticed a white shadow rapidly charging into the dark clouds.

...

”Notification: Through the efforts of the Supreme Aura Cells within your body, your latent energy has been potentially activated!”

”Notification: The Supreme Aura Cells within your body have been operating at ultra-high load; energy is exhausted, and they have fallen into a deep sleep.”

Above Divine Phoenix Mountain, thick, rolling dark clouds completely obscured Ye Yang’s figure.

Ye Yang listened to the system notification in his mind, feeling the golden energy flowing within him. If anyone were to notice his appearance now, they would see countless golden electric currents darting across his body.

”Supreme Aura Cells...”

Although he did not know if the Supreme Aura Cells possessed life, he silently expressed his gratitude in his heart.

His golden pupils peered through the pitch-black clouds, clearly seeing the Great Xia Kingdom army approaching from the ground.

At the same time, a familiar aura on the ground was rapidly rising.

”I didn’t expect Big Brown Bear Xiong Da to level up... This is truly heaven helping me...”

If not for the roar of Big Brown Bear Xiong Da, which attracted the attention of everyone, including the shadow fighter jets high above, he would have been unable to fly into this patch of dark clouds without anyone noticing.

As for why he flew into the dark clouds, it was because the golden energy within him had not been fully activated.

The powerful strength contained within the golden energy was not something he could activate on his own right now. With the help of the Supreme Aura Cells in his body, he had only achieved a half-activated state, which was the latent activation.

He then looked at the dark clouds; at this moment, golden electric arcs flickered continuously on his body, gradually causing the clouds to shimmer with layers of thunderous light, which meant that lightning would soon appear within the cloud layer.

This patch of dark clouds was created by him exerting his golden energy to the fullest. It sounded magical, but he had actually done it. As for the reason, now was not the time to think about such things.

His golden pupils looked toward the lightning leaping within the surrounding dark clouds.

”Success or failure hinges on this one move...”

The powerful electromagnetic field was drawn in, gathering around Ye Yang, and bolts of lightning that illuminated the heavens appeared within the high-altitude dark clouds...

On the ground.

It was pitch black; the sky had long been covered by dark clouds, and a light rain began to fall!

Rumble!

Thunder flashed continuously, as if an angry God of Thunder were venting his fury!

However, the soldiers on the ground paid no heed to this, continuing to advance toward the location where the roar had originated.

The roar had vanished, but that feeling of palpitations constantly rising in their hearts, that sensation of a mountain pressing down on their chests, became increasingly heavy.

”Hurry! That’s the direction!”

”It’s thunderstorm weather now! There’s thunder! These beasts have all run far away! Heaven has eyes and is helping us!”

Throughout their march, the beasts that had been attacking them previously had vanished without a trace. Many soldiers attributed this to the current thunderstorm weather; after all, animals’ instincts made them fear lightning.

What they did not know was that while this group of animals feared the thunder in the sky, they feared the rapidly rising aura of the Big Brown Bear even more!

When the one hundred and eighty-plus soldiers arrived at the scene, they were met head-on by a pair of red eyes the size of light bulbs, along with that greedy malice!

An eight-meter-tall Big Brown Bear was eyeing them covetously, drooling as it watched them...