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Chapter 251: The Battle between the Fiery Sun and the Immortal
One after another, fanatics, burning their remaining lives, rushed towards the direction of the artillery fire while holding ten kilograms of explosives with a power comparable to TNT.

Many of them, stimulated by the pure energy of the scorching sun, burst out with the combat power of the late first stage, and can run at a speed of nearly 100 meters per second when in extreme state.

The distance between the two sides was only a hundred meters.

In addition, the continuous shock waves of the explosion interfered with the Knight Commander's vision and judgment, but there were still many agile and crazy cultists who rushed to a distance of less than ten meters in front of the position.

With the explosion point so close, ten kilograms of black powder with a power equivalent to TNT explosives is enough to completely cover the area within a radius of ten meters and achieve effective killing.

As expected, after being accurately shot in the head by the Knight Commander, this fanatic did not fall to the ground directly, but continued to move forward by using the inertia of his body running at full speed.

As he flew forward, he detonated the divine power of the scorching sun in his body, spontaneously combusting with a dazzling white light, and at the same time ignited the explosive pack in his arms.

At this moment, his severed body was less than five meters away from the Knight Commander and others.

Within five meters is the complete killing range of the explosion, where all damage will be incurred. The power is comparable to that of two 155mm howitzers.

Generally speaking, the amount of explosives in a howitzer is about 15 percent of the weight of the shell.

The 155mm howitzer weighs 40 kilograms and has a 6 kilogram charge.

However, the howitzer's killing power comes only to a small extent from the shock wave generated by the explosion, and more of it comes from the shattered shell casings, which produce large and small fragments.

Driven by the energy of the explosion, it penetrates armor and kills the target at several times the speed of sound and ultra-high temperature.

The metal jets formed by many bullets are a perfect interpretation of this principle.

The fanatics' explosive packs at the moment are at most mixed with some old rusty nails and iron sheets. They have a certain killing power against ordinary enhanced people or low-level evolvers, but they are not worth mentioning at all against the fully armed second-level Templar Knights.

The effect of the attack was blocked by the shield and isolated by the whole body's Undead Holy Armor, making it almost negligible.

Unless it is a direct hit or a close-range explosion, it is difficult to hurt a second-level evolver wearing armor.

But the strong shock wave, like a heavy punch, hit several people all over their bodies.

An apprentice knight who was charging head-on was blown away by the impact.

The force is no less than a punch weighing dozens of tons.

Moreover, it falls on every corner of the body without any dead angle. Unless it crawls to resist, no second-level life form can stand and withstand it.

As the trainee knight was pushed to the ground, the formation of the Templar squad was disrupted.

There were only two apprentice knights, which were not enough to guard the central knight in all directions. Soon, a defensive loophole appeared on one side, and it was constantly hit by explosions and secondary damage from flying rocks.

But compared to these impacts, a greater crisis is gradually approaching with the self-destruction of those cultists.

That was the fracture of the entire underground shelter structure. The vibration caused by the explosion not only caused the ground to crack, but also caused the thickened baffles above everyone's heads to collapse.

These shelters were originally designed to withstand a magnitude 12 super earthquake, but even if they could withstand a magnitude 12 super earthquake, they could not withstand the erosion of time and the impact of the current series of explosions.

As area after area began to collapse, a circle of fault zones appeared within a radius of 100 meters around where the Knights Templar were located.

In the area where they were, there were only four or five one-meter-thick load-bearing pillars. Under the tremendous pressure, they were already crumbling, making subtle but sharp creaking sounds as if they could not bear the weight.

The Knight Commander quickly noticed this and immediately pulled up his fallen subordinate, then shouted:
"Our shelter is about to collapse! Get ready to block it with your shields. If we break out now, we'll definitely be targeted. We'll just have to hold on!"

The sound of violent explosions kept getting closer, but fortunately the Undead Holy Armor's built-in communication system was able to convey the command.

And as the last fanatic, after the five-minute countdown ended, ignited himself, detonating the explosive pack, the circular wall with a diameter of seventy to eighty meters above his head, along with the accumulated mud, sand and dust on the surface, and the ruins of the old city...

With a loud bang, it collapsed.

On the surface, the high priest was guarding the area with two mid-level second-order priests and six early-level priests, a total of nine people including himself.

The ruins of the ancient Zhengzhou city before our eyes, accompanied by a series of explosions and vibrations, revealed a circular sinkhole area with a diameter of more than 50 meters.

The target everyone was waiting for was right in the center of the collapsed area, completely buried by thousands of tons of concrete walls and dust and mud.

If an ordinary second-level evolver encountered such a desperate situation, he would be seriously injured if not killed under the heavy pressure. If he was rescued, his internal organs would be ruptured and his body would be broken. Even if he was rescued and recovered, he would still be left with serious sequelae.

Of course, enhanced humans or low-level evolvers have no chance of survival at all. They will be crushed into a pool of meat paste on the spot by the tremendous force.

But at this moment, the priests of the Fiery Sun Cult were not facing ordinary second-level evolvers, nor were they the strongest among the second-level ones, but the top-level second-level strongmen specially cultivated by the church in order to save the cost of governance.

They possess the strongest physical fitness and the most sophisticated weapons and equipment. They are also the armed force with the most combat experience in this desolate wasteland.

To underestimate them will only put yourself in a desperate situation.

As expected, under the watchful eyes of the nine priests, when the dust rising from the sky was blown away by the roaring scorching heat wave...

Amidst the scattered ruins, only a loud noise was heard coming from the center of the collapsed area!

Immediately afterwards, a fist blasted away the dust on the surface, creating a large hole in the 1.5-meter-thick concrete wall at the bottom, which also shattered the nearby wall panels, forming a cracked pit, as if a carnivorous plant had bloomed in the desolate ruins, spitting out several white figures.

The owner of that ground-breaking punch was none other than the commander of this Templar brigade, the most powerful 26th-level Templar Knight.

At this moment, the power of the holy spring surged throughout his body, and the powerful life force was released in his body. Even his eyes were almost covered with a layer of white light.

The other three apprentice knights also entered a state of explosiveness, and the high-level holy spring water in the Undead Holy Armor was continuously injected into their bodies.

Stimulating the proliferation and replication of the holy spring cells in the body can not only repair the internal injuries that have just been subjected to heavy pressure, but also bring strength beyond the limit.

They are all veteran knights. Although their evolution level is stuck at level 23, with the help of the holy spring water, they are able to exert the combat power of the mid-second stage.

Even when facing a mid-second-stage strongman, such as Li Hao, the head of the Li family in Oasis Town, he is still able to fight.

But what the four of them are facing now are the cultists of the Fiery Sun with the most bizarre methods. They are a group of lunatics who aim to sacrifice everything to the Fiery Sun and are also fanatics who like arson.

People like this are not even afraid of death.

You can't even call it a human being.

They are just a group of puppets controlled by the curse of the scorching sun.

If they had not attacked the survivors crazily, they would have died one after another under the curse of the scorching sun if they had been left to fend for themselves.

The followers of the Cult of the Fiery Sun would only end their miserable lives through the most tragic and painful spontaneous combustion.

It’s a pity that this inescapable fate of despair will bring greater despair to the cursed.

This is also the reason why they are keen on attacking them, or spreading the faith of the Fiery Sun and developing believers.

In addition to extending his own pitiful lifespan, he also wants to drag others into the abyss of hell and let them feel the fear of facing death.

Therefore, all major forces treat the Fiery Sun Cult and the innocent people cursed by the Fiery Sun equally.

There is only one word, kill!

"Kill!" Led by the Knight Commander, three apprentice knights who were already prepared had fire burning in their eyes. After a roar, they tightly grasped the spears in their hands and charged towards the nearby Sun Priest!
Two mid-level second-order priests and six early-level priests then engaged in a fight with the three Templar Knights.

The leading High Priest of the Sun faced directly the enemy's highest commander, the Templar Knight who had entered an explosive state!
At this moment, the high priest had taken off his hood, revealing his old face full of scars and cracks, with only a pair of red eyes emitting the radiance of the sun.

He stared at the Knight Commander with his eyes piercing.

The two sides looked at each other!

Although they were each other's lifelong enemies, their eyes were unusually calm, as if this battle was just an ordinary test or exchange of ideas.

But at the moment of fighting, he gave it his all.

In the Knight Commander's hand, there was a spear made of tungsten alloy, with a diameter of eight centimeters and a density of an astonishing twenty grams per cubic meter. It was two and a half meters long and weighed two hundred and fifty kilograms!

Combined with the terrifying sixty tons of force and the speed of nearly two hundred meters per second that the Knight Commander unleashed at this moment, the force of this shot could even directly break through the outer ceramic steel of the Rock Horse armor of the same level.

The force of the blow, concentrated on the tip of the gun, is hundreds of tons!
Not to mention human evolvers, even the original owner of the Rockhorn Armor, the patriarch-level second-order Rockhorn Horse, would definitely not be able to withstand this attack!
But the high priest who was in such a dangerous situation just narrowed his eyes, and in an instant, an extremely dazzling light like the sun burst out from his body.

At the same time, with the release of the scorching sun energy, a strong radiation energy shock wave hit the built-in system of the Undead Holy Armor in front of him at the speed of light.

At this moment, all the sensory modules installed on the Undead Holy Armor, whether it was the visual camera, the thermal sensor display, or the Knight Commander's own perception ability, all went blank.

The Knight Commander felt as if the person standing before him at this moment wasn't just an old man on the verge of death...

But it is an unshakable sun.

The high priest who transformed into the messenger of the scorching sun simply released his divine power and instantly blocked all the perception abilities of the great knight.

If it weren't for the isolation of the Undead Holy Armor and the divine protection of the Lord of the Holy Spring, just facing the scorching sun at this moment would have caused the Knight Commander to be cursed by the scorching sun and even be directly ignited by the scorching sun's energy...

The vigorous vitality in his body is like dry grass and firewood. Once it is exposed to the fire of the scorching sun, it will become like a cancer attached to the bones, tormenting the Knight Commander for the rest of his life and causing him no peace.

Fortunately, the holy spring water in the body prevented the scorching sun energy from invading.

But the deprivation of perception is equally deadly.

The high priest knew very well that his frail body was completely unable to resist the opponent's physical attacks. He could only dissolve the attacks and could not resist them head-on.

After using the power of the scorching sun to achieve his goal, the high priest immediately dodged to the side, avoiding the sharp blade of the spear that was slashing towards his shoulder, and then grabbed the opponent's wrist and pushed forward.

Then, with his other hand, he raised his glowing palm and pushed it towards the Knight Commander's back.

If one wants to use the power of the scorching sun to directly defeat the opponent in battle, he must inject it into the target's upper body, especially near the brain or heart.

In this way, the scorching sun energy will quickly enter key organs along with the body's metabolism, and begin to cause cells to spontaneously combust, releasing more scorching sun energy like a virus, causing fatal effects.

It’s a pity that the Undead Holy Armor has strong protection on these key parts, and the Knight Commander’s special position also makes it difficult for the High Priest to succeed.

Unless you risk getting close.

So the high priest had to settle for the second best and chose to attack the back of the target's neck. The cervical vertebrae and spinal column here have a complex nervous system, which is also closely connected to the brain through the pituitary gland.

As long as enough Fiery Sun power is injected, or the Fiery Sun energy is accumulated and spread, the high priest can use the cult's sacrifice method to trigger the Fiery Sun Curse and kill it.

Just when everything was about to happen, the Knight Commander, whose senses were blocked, reacted instinctively and turned the spear in his hand.

Sweep to the side in the form of a stick swing.

The high priest who released the curse of the scorching sun was unable to dodge and was directly knocked away.

Fortunately, at this moment, he has entered the state of being possessed by the scorching sun, which is an ability that only a third-level divine messenger can use.

A layer of scorching sun energy shield appears all over the body, which can resist most external damage and even achieve short-term flying and gliding in the area covered by the scorching sun.

With just one jump, you can fly hundreds of meters away, but before your flying speed exceeds the speed of sound or you can fly to a height of a thousand meters, you will only become a sitting duck if you rashly take off into the sky.

After all, changing direction in the sky is hundreds of times more difficult than on land.

Many third-level kings will not waste energy pursuing this kind of mid-air gliding of hundreds of meters before touching the space or airflow related fields.

But in battle, it allows the user to quickly find a position that is beneficial to him. For example, the high priest who was knocked flying stopped in the air in the ruins dozens of meters away.

However, the state of being possessed by the scorching sun was too heavy a burden to force open for a high priest of only level 29.

Almost every minute and every second, he was burning away his remaining vitality.

Fortunately, the previous blow of the scorching sun palm had successfully sent the scorching sun curse through the Undead Holy Armor and into the body of the Knight Commander.

The Knight Commander on the opposite side also felt something strange coming from behind him, as if he was being burned by fire.

A long time ago, he would have been at a disadvantage and would have had to return to the camp, or even the temple, to recuperate under the protection of his teammates.

It will take more than ten or even several decades to completely eliminate them, and after that, you are not allowed to approach the Lieyang Forbidden Zone or face the existence of Yang Xie directly.

At the same time, he must immediately use all the power of the Holy Spring in his body to suppress the expansion of the Scorching Sun Curse.

But at this moment, he looked at his subordinates who were retreating step by step nearby.

It was still too much for three apprentice knights to deal with eight second-level Fiery Sun Priests...

If I don't break the deadlock here, this operation will end in failure.

The enemy had only deployed one-third of their forces, leaving the remaining two-thirds to intercept the teammates escorting the apprentice away...

Thinking of this, the Knight Commander's eyes narrowed and his aura suddenly changed.

The divine power from the Lord of the Holy Spring is flowing into the brain, trying its best to keep consciousness clear.

And an equally holy power is gushing out from the beating of the heart.

The high priest was stunned upon seeing this.

This is clearly a special power that only a late-stage second-order Templar can master.

The power from the bloodline of the Immortal Saint.

The legendary passive attribute known as the Phoenix...

The next moment, the Knight Commander's entire body strangely calmed down, but his eyes, which were glowing white, were extremely firm!

At this moment, he successfully released the power that he had not yet fully mastered...

The immortal battle from the immortal saint!

In the next minute, he will not be afraid of death!
(End of this chapter)