While Heiye Ming was dwelling in the conversation with Lu Qingchen in the deepest part of his brain, and his soul was being cleansed by the wind from the four-dimensional space, a lot of weird things were happening on the bridge of Black Swirl, too!
Although the source of the interference was not found, all the light beams on the crystal processors of the Chief Advisor, the Chief Mate, the analysts, and the fire control officers were bouncing crazily, with zigzag ripples popping up.
The ripples were dancing weirdly as if they were alive. They were like fiends that had snuck into the crystal processors and bared their sharp tusks.
In the meantime, weird shrieks were echoing deep inside the crystal processors, which penetrated through the blockage of all the defense rune arrays and plate armor. Not just the commanders on the bridge, even everybody in the cabins of the enormous warship was scourged by the shrieks. Their head was dizzy, and they felt that ten thousand ants were crawling inside their ears!
"Ew!"
The hominoid slave soldiers whose spiritual roots had not been awakened were the first to collapse. Many of them fell to their knees and vomited hard. What they vomited was neither blood nor undigested food, but some black liquids that were as thick as ink.
Even the Immortal Cultivators could not help but blink quickly, as if countless black bugs were flying crazily on their retinas.
On the bridge, inside the tactical command capsule, Heiye Ming was shivering violently in the middle of boiling bubbles. Black air was spreading out of his skin that was exposed to the air, condensing into a network that resembled nerves at the center of his eyebrows and his temples!
Before everybody realized what was going on, the anomaly was gone.
The zigzag ripples and the shrieking noises were all gone. Heiye Ming stopped cramping and struggling, too. He slowly opened his deep, black eyes inside the command capsule.
Black fire was burning furiously deep inside his eyes, as if a brand-new universe was burning in them!
"Chi —"
The neural interaction liquids inside the command capsule dropped quickly. Heiye Ming walked out slowly and came to the front of the mainframe crystal processor on the bridge.
The Chief Advisor, the Chief Mate, and his personal attendants were all looking at him in fear. They all saw something unusual in Heiye Ming's smile and eyes, as if their commander had undergone a certain drastic change in only a few minutes.
Heiye Ming stared at the light beam attentively, watching the fleets that were interweaving, entangling, and even crashing into each other.
"We are completely entangled with the enemy. Our speed has been reduced to the minimum, and we can't find an undisturbed route."
The chief of staff of the Black Wind Fleet said helplessly, "The Burning Prairie Fleet, the Great White Fleet, and the enemy's Colossi are all attacking the star beacon troops behind us, forcing us to launch the ugliest chaotic battle without any battle formation.
"We boast the most elite starships and the strongest warriors of the entire Imperium. Naturally, we are not scared of a melee, but we are marching into the enemy's heartland on our own after all. Every starship that is blown up will mean one less starship, and every Immortal Cultivator that perishes will mean one less starship. Such a battle of attrition is not a solution. Should the enemy's reinforcements arrive and our space gate cannot be established in time, we will be in a rather passive situation!
"Right now, Burning Prairie, the enemy's flagship, is in a rather forward position, and the firepower is slightly disconnected. Should we deploy all the remaining Colossi and fight together with Black Swirl, trying to destroy Burning Prairie in one go? Commander, please give the order! "
"The ugliest free-for-all? That's exactly what I want to see! "
Heiye Ming smiled and said, "Ask all the remaining Colossi to run the final tests and be ready to be activated at any moment. But before that, pass my order. Open all the ports on the mainframe crystal processors of the Colossi, all the starships of the Black Wind Fleet, and all the mainframe crystal processors of the Crystal Suit. Everybody is to enter the deep integration state with the crystal processors."
The chief of staff of the Black Wind Fleet and the chief mate of Black Swirl were both greatly surprised. They found it hard to believe their ears. "W-What? Open all the ports on all the crystal processors? That's almost — "
"We have been deeply entangled with the enemy for such a long time. The battle of the Spiritual Nexus has reached the peak, too. The interferences and intrusions of each other are too many to count. The super powerful interferential warships are unleashing storms nearby!
"Even right now, blocked by all kinds of defense rune arrays and firewalls, our tactical network is still under bombardment and may fall into chaos at any moment. If all the ports on the Spiritual Nexus are opened, won't —"
The chief of staff was halfway through his sentence when he saw Heiye Ming's chilling eyes. He could not finish his sentence at all.
"Carry out the order."
Heiye Ming patted the chief of staff's shoulder softly and looked at the guy's flashing eyes. He said, "I'm going to speak to everybody in the Black Wind Fleet."
Even if the highest commander was going to lecture everybody in the fleet, there was no need to open all the ports on all the crystal processors.
However, under the burning gaze of Heiye Ming, both the chief of staff and the chief mate wisely ignored the problem.
Military law was merciless. In the world of the Immortal Cultivators, there was no mercy for the weak who disobeyed the orders of the strong.
Heiye Ming's order was soon carried out dutifully. Very soon, most of the starships of the Imperium, as well as the Crystal Suit and the space shuttles that were blossoming in the sea of stars, opened all the ports on their crystal processors.
Most of the Immortal Cultivators were in the "Half-step Grand Illusionary Land" state that was used for battle assistance in the first place. Before their eyes, data was falling like a waterfall, and information flooded into their brains incessantly.
Their souls had been deeply integrated with the crystal processors since a long time ago. There was no need to change anything.
"Open all the ports. Please give your order, commander!"
The chief of staff was anxious, but his absolute trust in Heiye Ming, which had been accumulated in the hundreds of years of battles in the sea of stars, and Heiye Ming's confidence at this moment, allowed him to finish the job at the highest efficiency.
"Very good. Then, next …"
Heiye Ming grinned. His white teeth were a sharp contrast to his dark eyes. "Let's welcome our reinforcements!"
In the next moment —
Before the chief of staff and the chief mate figured out what "our reinforcements" meant exactly, an invisible black tide spurted out of the cabin at the rear of the starship where Lu Qingchen was locked and swept across the entire starship as fast as lightning!
Black Swirl truly seemed to be entangled and enhanced by clusters of enormous black lightning. Every hominoid slave soldier and Immortal Cultivator on the starship was enshrouded in an invisible black fog. Black blood streaks appeared inside their eyes, which gradually interweaved into something similar to a neural network before they flooded into their brains and disappeared!
Their feelings and desires were all surging and condensing into a feeble force named 'tenebrum energy', which stimulated their nerves and brain cells, making their brains clearer, their spirits more excited, and their computational ability higher!
Through the fully open Spiritual Nexus, the weird force from the extraterrestrial world swept across the entire fleet instantly. The same scene was happening on every starship of the Imperium and even on every Immortal Cultivator who was fighting fiercely in a Crystal Suit.
Compared to the soldiers who were sitting on the starships, the Exos in the frontline were more deeply affected. Their desire for slaughter and destruction was boosted infinitely. Tremendous clusters of black air were spurting out of their nostrils and mouths. Burning their life crazily through the tenebrum energy, they unleashed unparalleled strength, speed, and computational ability!
Lu Qingchen had found the key to hack the mainframe crystal processor of the Imperium's starships through the memory pieces of Su Changfa and the star child in the first place.
During the space jump, he had implanted some tiny "gifts" into the brains of the key persons of the Black Wind Fleet, including Heiye Ming.
At this moment, the Federation's fleet and the Black Wind Fleet had been engaged in a fierce battle for a long time. Everybody was exhausted, and their soul had been burnt to the maximum. Also, they had been riddled with holes by the enemy's attacks and could not put up any resistance at all.
For a moment, the entire Black Wind Fleet, as well as most of the Immortal Cultivators including the pilots of the Colossi, were enshrouded in an invisible black fog!
It was not a regular "arrival of extraterrestrial devils" but a "tenebrum energy outburst" that Lu Qingchen had carefully planned and calmly controlled. While he controlled all the mainframe crystal processors of the Black Wind Fleet, he slightly stimulated the brains of every Immortal Cultivator through the Spiritual Nexus so that their "upper limit of exhaustion" would be slightly increased.
They would be more bloodthirsty, brutal, and crazy for now, but they would not lose their memories and self-awareness. They would still be able to manipulate the most precise magical equipment and carry out the predetermined missions.
On a battlefield, it was very common for people to go berserk and go on a killing spree without knowing it. Also, with Heiye Ming as the highest commander at the center, nobody would notice the minor changes.
Even if they were suspicious, what could they do in such a fierce battle?
For the Federation's fleet, the situation was entirely different.
At this moment, the Federation's fleet and the Black Wind Fleet were deeply entangled. The two parties were almost at each other's throats.
Lu Qingchen had summoned countless devils from the extraterrestrial domain. Other than the precise "tenebrum energy outburst" that boosted the morale, combat ability, and desire of the Immortal Cultivators on a large scale in the Black Wind Fleet, a lot of invisible devils lunged at the fleets of the Federation, too!
After the crystal processor virus attack and the Spiritual Nexus crashed, the Federation's fleet had fully activated the backup Spiritual Nexus and blocked it from the outside world.
However, the defense of the backup Spiritual Nexus was limited after all. Under the bombardment of the Black Wind Fleet, it was inevitable that loopholes would appear.
Besides, Lu Qingchen did not intend to fully control the crystal processors of the Federation's fleet this time. All he needed was for the unpredictable devils to sneak into the Crystal Suits, space shuttles, and starships of the Federation and cause major and minor interference to the Cultivators. That would be enough!
"Ahhh!"
A pilot of the Federation, who was flying up and down in a space shuttle and dodging the enemy's attacks, suddenly 'saw' a worm that had tusks all over its body lurking inside his cockpit and spurting fatal venom at him. He could not help but scream and raise his hands to block it.
While he was dazed for a moment, he had already been locked onto by the armed shuttle of the Imperium and blown into a fireball.
"This is —"
Another Exo of the Federation was fighting the enemy wholeheartedly when he suddenly felt boundless fear rising from the depths of his brain. His nerves were more feeble than ever, and he was almost running away in fear. He could not even hold his magical equipment anymore. Naturally, the enemy seized the opportunity and slashed him in half.
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