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Cardinals were very rare and precious, but if you thought about it carefully, you would find that what was really precious was not the cardinal itself, but the contract.
Even if the cardinal died, the contract could still be continued, just like Luo Sha of the Heavenly Feather Clan, who inherited the contract of the Great Long Feather.
There might be many candidates who could grow into cardinals, but there might only be one contract.
Therefore, the life of the cardinal was very "pitiful". The people below were waiting for it to die so that they could take over the position, just like Asio. The people above, the Spirit Lord, only treated it as a contract slave, and he could change it at any time. He didn't care whether it died or not, he just wanted a cardinal.
Only when it reached the Source Gate, its life itself had value, and it would be completely separated from the people below, and it would not be easily abandoned.
But among all the cardinals, how many of them could break open that Origin Gate?
For thousands of years, the cardinals of the five nations had struggled between the first and second god state, and they were far away from the Source Gate. They could be abandoned at any time.
Hu Er didn't understand the fear in the hearts of the cardinals, so in its view, the cardinals were eternal rulers.
Right now, in front of Chu Yunsheng, three cardinals died at once, and the three major fleets didn't even blink. It was not that the cardinals were not important, but the life of the cardinals itself was too "cheap".
Of course, cardinals were very important, and they were very important. The difference between the fleets with cardinals and those without cardinals was too big. Not to mention other things, just the previous attack of the "mini black hole", the fleets with cardinals could at least protect themselves.
But the important thing was the contract, and the cardinals themselves were eaten as "food" by the life of the Source Gate, and even their life force was not wasted.
Chu Yunsheng didn't have a contract. Even if he did, he would not sit and wait for himself and the First Hall Master to be eaten as food. No cardinal would do that.
His counterattack was not hesitant. With a wave of his sword, he and the First Hall Master of the Sea Kingdom formed a corner. If the other party continued to press on, he would merge into his insect body and start the battle!
"If we really fight, you first destroy the thrusters of the three major fleets, so that they have to fight the enemy to the death, and then quickly join the fleet and retreat. We can't fight the Source Gate."
Chu Yunsheng quickly sent a message to the first temple lord of Hai Kingdom. At the same time, his sword Qi had already cut off the light that was being extracted from the life force of the coalition forces.
He knew that the other party could see him. The Origin Gate battlefield was its territory. Even the slightest movement could not escape its' eyes'.
After a while, it seemed to have stopped moving and did not lash out again.
Chu Yunsheng looked at his own fleet that was following Fu Xi's fleet. They were almost at the edge of the battlefield. If it wasn't for the fact that they needed to follow Fu Xi's fleet, they would have already run ahead of them.
The speed of their fleet was not ordinary. Among the allied forces, it was still outstanding.
The three allied forces probably didn't expect their cannon fodder to run so fast. In a moment of carelessness, the Cold Star fleet ran to the edge.
Seeing that the vitality of the Source Gate on the coalition army's side was no longer being extracted, Chu Yunsheng was not stupid enough to take the initiative to attack it. At this moment, the flames of war were raging in the starry sky. The Source Gates of both sides suppressed each other and attacked each other's battlefield, so that the fleets of both sides had to engage in close combat to destroy each other's thrusters.
As long as the thrusters were destroyed, it would be like a coffin in the starry sky. It would not be able to run away, nor would it be able to catch up.
Chu Yunsheng still followed the command of the three major fleets and rushed to their newly designated battlefield with the first temple lord of Hai Kingdom.
On the battlefield, all kinds of weapons and traps were crisscrossed, and Yuan Qi was chaotic. If they did not follow the command of the three major fleets, they might suffer more damage.
The value of cannon fodder had been used, now it was time to use the value of cardinals.
The three major fleets acted as if nothing had happened. They did not give any explanation, as if they had never thought of tricking them.
Soon, under the command of the first temple lord of Hai Kingdom, Chu Yunsheng and the first temple lord of Hai Kingdom approached the edge of the battlefield controlled by their own Source Gate.
Their task was to wait for the moment when the Source Gate snatched the opponent's battlefield, then rush to attack and destroy the opponent's warship thrusters that invaded the battlefield.
As long as the Source Gate did not attack them, it would be relatively safe on their own side of the battlefield.
This was also the first time that Chu Yunsheng had encountered this kind of special war. Obviously, the Source Gate on both sides did not want to risk their lives here. They were competing with the speed and combat power of the cardinals of both sides.
The battle line was very long, and it was three-dimensional. In the deep space below Chu Yunsheng's position, a coalition cardinal had just failed to attack and retreated. He was seriously injured.
The opponent's fleet was not weak either. The starships that could survive the polar ladder attack were not simple.
While waiting for the opportunity to attack, Chu Yunsheng was also constantly on guard against being suddenly attacked by the Source Gate on his side. It could be said that there were enemies on both sides.
He did not know what the three major fleets were thinking. In this way, the cardinals would inevitably be distracted and could not fully focus on the enemy. Was this a normal thing?
Chu Yunsheng had never participated in a joint battle with Source Gate, so he naturally did not know.
In the end, the starry sky was cruel. Those who could survive, who would not be careful?
The cardinals could only pray that they would not be eaten. Otherwise, if the Source Gate's life force was defeated, they would still die.
Chu Yunsheng gradually understood that if the battle situation was not good, the Source Gate would definitely need to draw the cardinals' life force as a supplement. They would first draw the opponent, then draw their own people. As long as the Source Gate was not defeated, the battle would not completely collapse.
Therefore, attacking first was also a dangerous thing to do. Once the opponent's Source Gate took back the battlefield, they would be waiting to be slapped.
A corner of the battlefield in front of Chu Yunsheng and the First Temple Master was finally invaded. Without the command of the three major fleets, Chu Yunsheng immediately rushed in like lightning.
Although he had not yet integrated into the warship, his speed was still extremely fast, even faster than the speed of the First Temple Master.
The two of them, one above and one below, attacked a round warship that was retreating urgently.
The realm of the First Temple Master was higher than his body, so he immediately attracted the opponent's main firepower and became the opponent's main target.
Under the black liquid's mist, the round warship struggled to resist, forming a gray light curtain above it, reflecting the invasion of the mist particles.
In a short period of time, they had fought more than a dozen rounds with the First Temple Master, and they gradually began to gain the upper hand!
It was not that the First Temple Master's realm was not high enough, but the opponent seemed to be faintly restraining his power, and he could not use all of his cardinal power. If he had not reached the third Divine Realm, this restraint would have been even more powerful.
But it did not matter, Chu Yunsheng was the main attacker.
Taking advantage of the situation, he immediately opened the way with the most penetrating sword style, forcibly penetrated the opponent's armor, crossed over, and came out from above.
He did not use the purple sword, but the dark long sword forged by the spear. In the starry sky, there was no light, but it was as cold as the god of death.
"You retreat first!"
Quickly rising to the side of the First Temple Master, Chu Yunsheng took out the Life Source Punishment Token, and rushed in again without looking back.
"Be careful!" The mission of the First Temple Master had already been completed. After saying this, he immediately flew to the depths of the battlefield.
The round warship suddenly became a bloody storm. When he rushed out again, the warship behind him launched a desperate attack.
But in the end, it did not form. Under the control of the Source Gate, it struggled tragically for a while, and then exploded together with its warship.
Immediately, the battlefield controlled by the Source Gate was like a shadow of death, closely following behind Chu Yunsheng and counterattacking.
This was just a corner of the battlefield. The time it took to attack was less than a moment, and the opponent could quickly notice it and counterattack. If it were not for the rapid and powerful cooperation between Chu Yunsheng and the Sea Temple Master, they would not have been able to attack successfully.
It could be seen from the direction of the battle line in the starry sky that the opponent's combat power should be stronger than theirs.
At this time, both sides were no longer in a neat formation. Chu Yunsheng had never seen such a scene in a battleship battle.
The battle line was no longer a line or a plane, but twisted into a complex geometric solid. The two sides were nested together. The front was the enemy's battlefield, the back might also be their own battlefield, and the back of the enemy's battlefield was their own battlefield.
So everyone was very careful. If they accelerated, they might rush into the opponent's battlefield and die.
The seemingly cumbersome warship moved with difficulty in the narrow three-dimensional twisted belt. At this time, the advantage of the smaller the warship was, the better it was.
Chu Yunsheng flew back and passed under a huge warship on his side. Because the twisted space belt was too narrow, and it was too huge, one end and one end were placed in the opponent's battlefield.
Naturally, the enemy would not let go of such a good opportunity. Two battleships easily concentrated fire and pierced through it!
Chu Yunsheng and the temple master could not rescue them. If they ran into the opponent's battlefield and got beaten up, it would be suicide.
The middle cabin of this poor huge warship opened, and the escape ships rushed out of the fire inside one after another. In the chaos, the escape ships that did not have time to adjust their direction and plunged into the enemy's battlefield were turned into ashes in an instant.
The escape ships that were lucky enough to be in their own battlefield moved carefully, trying to fly to the deeper Source Gate battlefield along the twisted space belt.
"This place is going to be penetrated."
Chu Yunsheng looked at the burning warship and the battlefield twisted space belt that was getting narrower and narrower. He estimated that they would not be able to get through. While talking to the temple master, he followed the escape ships to the other side.
"The front is also going to be penetrated!"
The temple master had been paying attention to the two directions with Chu Yunsheng, so he said quickly.
"Rush over!"
Chu Yunsheng suddenly accelerated, passed the escape ships that had also begun to desperately escape, and rushed toward the opening of the twisted space belt with the temple master.
On the side, on both sides, up and down, left and right, the enemy's battleships and cardinals were staring at them covetously. They were only separated by a thin layer of space belt, and they were so close that even their faces could be seen clearly. It seemed that they were waiting for their battlefield to be penetrated and then kill them all.
The mouth of the bottle in front was getting smaller and smaller. The Source Gate venerables seemed to be trying their best to save it, but it was useless. The mouth of the bottle was still shrinking at a visible speed.
A large number of escape ships were blocked here, and the "people" behind them were so anxious that some people even opened fire to attack their own people.
At this time, everyone knew that if they could not get through, they would stay here forever.
In the chaotic collapse, there was no order and organization. Everyone seemed to think that it was better for their race to survive.
But there were also escape ships that retreated to the side and no longer participated in the fight for the opportunity to escape.
Chu Yunsheng and the temple master ran in the front. Because they were small, they knocked away a few escape ships and got through.
After they got through, the mouth of the bottle became even smaller, and eventually it was pierced through.
Behind them, there was a "bubble" that had broken away from the twisted main belt. There were still a large number of escape ships in the bubble, waiting for them to die.
Those who were lucky enough to escape hurriedly flew to the location where the Source Gate was located.
On the way back, Chu Yunsheng and the temple master cooperated with each other to attack five battleships according to the information sent by the three fleets. Chu Yunsheng did not kill all the enemies on each battleship and obtain all the life force in order to buy time to retreat.
But a total of six battleships in total also allowed him to obtain a lot of life force. Unfortunately, he could not take away the energy bodies, nor did he manage to attack the opponent's cardinal position. The Source Gates of both sides were probably always staring at the position of the opponent's cardinal position.
Although they attacked another five battleships, the situation of the whole battlefield was getting more and more clear. The front line of the coalition forces was in danger.
The twisted battlefield space belt was getting more and more compressed. There were several times when Chu Yunsheng and the temple master had to forcibly empty the mouth of the bottle to get out.
Although he was used as cannon fodder, his speed was the fastest.
On the way back, he saw a cardinal trapped in a bubble that was getting smaller and smaller. He tried to rush out, but in an instant, his life force was sucked away by the two Source Gates at the same time.
He also encountered the life force of his own fleet in spacesuits, only a few meters away from them, separated by a bubble layer, looking at them pleadingly, but no one stopped to try to save him.
He also encountered the Origin Fire left by a dead cardinal, floating outside the twisted belt, mixed with the wreckage all over the sky, as if he could reach out his hand and grab it.
Chu Yunsheng did not go over. It looked more like a trap. The other party's Source Gate might be waiting for the cardinals in the coalition fleet to go in and die.
The defeat was inevitable, and the coalition forces almost collapsed.
When Chu Yunsheng and the temple master cooperated and retreated to the back passage opened by the three fleets and the Source Gate, they saw the local battleships advanced together, and many cardinals rushed out, completely destroying the coalition forces behind them.
In the battlefield filled with debris, many of the opponent's battleships' thrusters were also paralyzed by the coalition's cardinals and powerful battleships.
In front, on the interstellar chain leading to the second battlefield, there was only the lonely shadow of the Leng Xing fleet. Only then did Chu Yunsheng realize that the ambushed fleet was not really escaping, but was responsible for guarding the retreat passage.
And they were the ones who were really escaping.
He thought that he would be despised by the coalition forces again, but Chu Yunsheng did not care. He looked at the lonely figure in the local fleet behind him indifferently.
Perhaps in the second battlefield, he and the Leng Xing fleet would fight with this figure!
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Supplement No. 24
^ (To be continued.)
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