MTLNOVEL Chapter 624 - 624: 621, 2010 Credit_1
Chapter 624: 621, 2010 Credit_1
Next, following the advice of Prime Minister Cao, Blue Star’s cultivators were divided into six teams.
The Kunlun Mountain runs from northwest to southeast overall, with Gonggeer Peak being located at the far northwestern end.
Interestingly, four large Spring Eyes are essentially located within the same northwestern region of the Kunlun Mountain.
Alyssa, Tina and Morning Star, leading three teams of sixth-level cultivators, started from the northwestern end, randomly clearing all Spring Eyes in the northwestern region. (Randomness was adopted to prevent the Skru people from predicting their location.)
Su Yu and Elder Yang flew to the southeastern end of Kunlun Mountain and swept small Spring Eyes from southeast to northwest.
Prime Minister Cao, relying on his own strength, attacked the large Spiritual Spring Eyes, while also taking care to look after the nearby teams of cultivators.
With the efforts of the Blue Star cultivators and the assistance of Alyssa, Tina, and Morning Star, the entire Kunlun Mountain cleanup operation officially began!
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Actually, the cleanup of the small Spring Eyes is relatively straightforward.
Ever since the conclusion of the “Gravitational Funnel” incident, the Skru people have understood that it’s impractical and unnecessary to defend the small Spiritual Spring Eyes, especially those within the Huaxia Nation’s boundary.
So, from that time onwards, the Skru expeditionary forces have gradually abandoned little Spring Eyes.
The initial Skru expeditionary force deployment for small Spring Eyes involved: one commanding officer (4-5 tier strength), an army of 200-1000, 4-16 strategic starships, and N Spiritual Energy transport ships (depending on the scale of the Spring Eye).
But now, most of the small Spring Eyes have seen their commanders, armies, and strategic starships all withdrawn, leaving only about 50 old and weak personnel to maintain the base’s operations.
If the bases’ defensive systems weren’t so good, even the Blue Star’s army could easily sweep away these small Spiritual Spring Eyes.
In fact, if Su Yu hadn’t kept the military equipment for 200,000 soldiers that he stole from the Beak Country to himself, the Blue Star United Government might have already begun planning to attack the small Spring Eyes.
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After separating from the main force, Su Yu used the Spell of Teleportation and immediately arrived at the southeasternmost small Spring Eye on Kunlun Mountain – “Kun 102” – in an instant.
He didn’t waste any time and brazenly flew towards the heart of the Spring Eye base.
By now, there were no combat starships in this “Kun 102” base, only two Spiritual Energy transport ships parked on the apron.
Manina’s “Explosive Mining” plan hadn’t been implemented yet, so there wasn’t much Spiritual Energy to be transported, making the two Spiritual Energy transport ships more than adequate.
Upon detecting Su Yu’s arrival, an ear-piercing alarm sounded throughout the small Spring Eye base, filling the base with flashing warning red lights.
The base was sent into a flurry.
However, rather swiftly, a Skru Elder on duty ran out from the command room and knelt down towards Su Yu in the sky, shouting: “Respected Blue Star powerhouse, we are ready to surrender!”
Under his command, all defensive measures of the base were quickly lifted.
Su Yu glanced at him dismissively.
He loudly addressed the entire Skru base: “Everyone in the base, gather in front of the Spirit Energy Collection Factory immediately. Anyone who doesn’t arrive within 5 minutes will die!”
His voice, amplified by his magic, quickly permeated the entire base.
Very quickly, all the people in the base raced toward the position that he pointed out, so as to avoid dying tragically for not reaching in time within 5 minutes.
Su Yu didn’t care about these Skru people on the ground. He was multitasking, constantly monitoring the movements of the Space Cracks in the sky while speaking into thin air:
“Excellency Lin Ke, now that these Skru people have surrendered, can you remove this Space Crack above me?”
A while later, he didn’t hear any response from the War Inspector, Lin Ke.
However, 10 seconds later, a teleportation gate of light purple color lit up not too far in front of him, and a body of azure energy shot out from the gate, hitting the Space Crack.
Under the effect of this azure energy, the originally eerie and flickering Void Energy Space Crack disappeared quickly, as if erased from existence like pencil writing by an eraser.
Seeing the Space Crack disappear, Su Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief, considerably less anxious.
But the light purple teleportation gate that Lin Ke released didn’t disappear immediately.
About 20 seconds later, a brown wooden box flew out from the gate and landed in Su Yu’s hands.
Only then did the light purple teleportation gate gradually disappear.
Su Yu opened the box and saw a copper-made and a gold-made plaque respectively lying inside.
The number “10” was on the copper plaque (Su Yu obtained this place too easily this time, so the learning credits he got were less), and the number “2000” was inscribed on the gold plaque.
The “10” learning points were the reward he received for securing this small Spring Eye, while the “2000” should represent the reward he got for participating in taking down the giant Spring Eye earlier.
Su Yu nodded in satisfaction and carefully stored away the two plaques.
The learning points of the Holy Silver Court of Secrets came in rather handy. For instance, he had once used 500 learning points to make Lin Ke do something significantly helpful.
“It seems that I also need to speed up!” Su Yu turned his head towards the northwest, slightly squinting his eyes. “Just occupying a small Spring Eye gives 10 learning points, by occupying more I can earn more learning points. Who wouldn’t love learning points for free, right?”
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Five minutes later, all the Skru people inside the small base beneath Su Yu were gathered outside the Spiritual Energy Collection Factory.
They raised their hands in fear, looking up at Su Yu trembling, as if they were staring at the Grim Reaper who would decide their fates.
Fearing that Su Yu might misunderstand, none of them brought weapons or equipment and were basically empty-handed.
Using his mental power, Su Yu made a thorough scan of the entire base on the surface as well as underground and detected no traces of biological activity or any dangerous weapons like time bombs.
“Ice Sealing Thousands Miles.” Su Yu released a large-scale ice attack spell.
Crack crack snap!
A wide-scale ice ring exploded beneath the feet of the Skru people, spreading from the centre to the outskirts. Within a few seconds, all the Skru people were hit by the ice and turned into ice sculptures within a minute.
Su Yu’s large-scale freeze attack was measured. He didn’t intend to kill these Skru people.
If he truly wanted to kill these people, he could just use a fire range spell to incinerate them all after they gathered together.
He froze them, so that they could be thawed out after the Blue Star United Government sent them to a special prison. This way, they became prisoners of the Blue Star.
Prisoners are definitely more useful than dead people.
Before the war begins, he could use these prisoners to create diplomatic pressure on the Skru people, forcing them to redeem their prisoners.
The Skru people could only choose to redeem their prisoners at high costs. Because if they refuse, anti-war organizations like Cindy Doppler’s would take advantage of the situation, instigating an anti-war wave in their nation, which would be extremely detrimental to their war efforts.
So, Su Yu wouldn’t typically choose to kill the Skru people, he would rather capture them as prisoners.