"Block it!"
Li Yao's and Li Linghai's roars echoed in the bridge of every starship at the same time.
Although they did not understand why Lu Qingchen was sacrificing the Dry Wood Battle Fortress to push a gargantuan meteoroid at the ancient giant star instead of "Gu Shisan", which was much more fragile and less massive, Li Yao, Li Linghai, and all the experts at the peak of the Yuanying Kingdom and the Divinity Transformation Stage felt that the sharpest alarms were echoing in their heads at the same time.
Lu Qingchen would never shoot for no reason. What they saw must be his most aggressive attack.
There was no time.
Lu Qingchen had calculated every detail and even captured their subtle mentality precisely. He predicted that the exploration fleet would focus their attention on the two fortresses "Mirage Ocean" and "Sharp Gold", as well as "Gu Shisan", and they would not notice the boundless vacuum on the side of the ancient giant star at all.
On second thought, it did make sense. The ancient giant star was the king of the planetary families. Although it had suffered a lot of losses in the two supernova outbreaks and was in the active phase of structural instability, it was still not something that the fortresses of human beings that were as insignificant as dust could shake.
Therefore, none of the fast attack warships were deployed near the gravity sphere of the ancient giant star to block the Dry Wood Battle Fortress's crazy march.
In the blink of an eye, thousands of colorful light spears were released from the hundreds of fast attack warships, darting toward the Withered Wood Battle Fortress as fast as lightning. However, the distance between the warships was too far. When the violent energy exceeded the effective range, the magnetic field controlling the warships was soon gone, and the fatal light became scattered and blurred.
Even if they could hit the Dry Wood Battle Fortress, the Supreme Fortress had always been best known for its thick skin and high defense ability. Just now, it took quite a few hours for the dozens of Colossi led by Ding Ling Dong to destroy the defense system of the fortress. They had not completely opened the iron wall of the fortress yet. It was needless to say that at such a long distance, the weapons of spiritual energy could only tickle the armor of the Dry Wood Battle Fortress.
As for the weapons that boasted real entities such as the bullets of spiritual energy and the space torpedoes, they were too far away and too slow to catch up with the Dry Wood Battle Fortress at all.
Besides, even if they caught up with the fortress, so what?
So what if the Withered Wood Battle Fortress was riddled with holes by the light beams and explosive shells? So what if it completely collapsed? Its acceleration had reached the limit, and it resonated strongly with the gravitational field of the ancient giant star. It was like an unstoppable giant wave that returned to the vast ocean, and nothing could stop it.
Li Yao, Li Linghai, Li Jialing, Boss Bai, Long Yangjun, Ding Ling Dong … All the experts could only watch the thousand spears of light explode behind the Dry Wood Fortress in glamorous fireworks, which seemed to have added some acceleration to it and pushed the meteorite faster and faster. In the end, it turned into a red spot of light that pierced into the atmosphere of the ancient giant that was full of hydrogen, helium, and methane!
The landing point of the Withered Wood Fortress happened to be one of the most eye-catching 'Great Red Spots' on the ancient giant star.
The so-called Great Red Spot was the most enormous cyclone in the atmosphere of the ancient giant star. It could be more than ten thousand kilometers in diameter. It was the most intimidating and energy-releasing weather change on all the planets that had atmospheres.
Because the atmosphere of the ancient giant planet contained a lot of red phosphorus and methane, the high-speed friction of the storm cyclones would release a burning red glow. Therefore, when observed from the synchronous orbit, it looked like scarlet bloody mouths all over the ancient giant planet.
When the Withered Wood Battle Fortress pushed the meteorite into such 'bloody mouths', it was like an insect that fell into a swamp. At first, it did not cause any splash at all.
"That's it?"
Li Yao and the other experts looked at each other in bewilderment on the light beam, not understanding what the strategy was.
If the Supreme Battle Fortress was pushed to 'Gu Shisan', it was possible that the structure of 'Gu Shisan' would be completely changed in the fierce collision, and the violent energy stored at the core of 'Gu Shisan' would be activated, resulting in a new collision. Then, the attack aimed at the Great Red Spot of the ancient giant star would be like tickling a dinosaur with a blade of grass. There would be no reaction at all.
However, after only ten seconds, they knew that they were wrong.
The Great Red Spot that swallowed the Withered Wood Battle Fortress suddenly spread out a hundred new arms at a visible speed. It seemed that a certain dynamic balance that had lasted for hundreds of years had been broken, and its speed of rotation was increased by five times all of a sudden.
Then, hundreds of deep purple 'threads' surfaced deep inside the Great Red Spot, entangling, tearing, and merging with each other, like a bloody eyeball that was full of twisted blood streaks.
When the blood streaks were gathered to the maximum, they became unstoppable like a volcanic eruption and soared into the sky, tearing apart the atmosphere and the gravitational sphere as they darted toward the battlefield precisely!
"This is —"
Including Li Yao and Ding Ling Dong, all the experts felt that their blood was freezing, and their hearts had stopped beating.
Such a terrifying thunderstorm and torrent of plasma was similar to the extreme weather environment that they encountered when they rescued 'Iron Fist' earlier. However, the energy released this time was a hundred times more powerful than last time.
Think about it — Tens of thousands of bolts of lightning, each of which was at least tens of thousands of kilometers long and hundreds of kilometers in diameter. The range of their devastation was immeasurable, but when they were all gathered together, they would explode into a series of dazzling electric sparks or balls of lightning!
The brightness, the radiation, the magnetic interference, and the high-energy particles released were almost like the tongues of fire that a star shot to the entire galaxy.
It was exactly the unbelievable and destructive scene that Li Yao and the exploration fleet were faced with.
"It's impossible. Such intense magnetic interference and energy release can only be seen when a super enormous meteorite hits a planet. The mass and kinetic energy of the Withered Wood Battle Fortress and the enormous meteorite are still far from enough to trigger such a destructive thunderstorm!"
"It doesn't make sense. The magnetic field released by the energy this time is too weird. It seems to be coming at us directly. Why? The atmosphere is the most suitable environment for lightning. Why would the lightning be condensed into a torrent of plasma and soar into the vacuum of space? It doesn't make sense! "
"Eight thousand kilometers! Ten thousand kilometers! Thirty thousand kilometers! Fifty thousand kilometers! Good heavens. The torrent of plasma is so high that it is beyond the calculation of all our lightning models. Is — is it really lightning? "
All the astronomers, meteorologists, and psionicists shrieked in horror.
The torrent of plasma in the operation to rescue 'Iron Fist' just now had already shaken their edifice of faith, but the super torrent of plasma that was a hundred times more powerful and had completely broken away from the atmosphere of the ancient giant had completely shattered the 'unbreakable truth' that they had created through their studies, observations, and calculations in the past hundred years!
"Watch out! It's not lightning!"
Several meteorologists screamed at the same time.
What could it be if it was not lightning?
Nobody knew, and nobody had the time to calculate or infer it.
It was because, while everybody's attention was attracted by the "super torrent of plasma", the remaining "Phantom Ocean Fortress" and the "Sharp Gold Fortress" exploded violently at the core as expected.
Ding Ling Dong, Boss Bai, and the rest of them had been prepared. All the Crystal Suit and space shuttles that had relatively weak defense had been hiding behind the spiritual shields of the starships or the enormous meteorites. The users of the Colossi had also sensed the high-energy reactions at the core of the Supreme Fortress in advance and escaped before the explosion reached them.
The self-detonation of the two Supreme Fortresses did not deal any heavy damage to the exploration fleet. It was even safe to say that the two self-detonations that Lu Qingchen directed in person were not meant to deal the most damage in the first place.
Under the savaging of the powerful torrents of energy, the shells of the two Supreme Fortresses collapsed deeply at first before they bulged violently. After a few repetitions, tens of thousands of twisted gaps appeared. Tremendous purple flames spurted out of the gaps and enshrouded the two Supreme Fortresses without leaving any gaps. They also released purple ripples that spread out to the entire battlefield and painted the spiritual shields of all the starships in the exploration fleet with a layer of vague purple.
"Sir, the defense magnetic field of our starship has been seriously interfered with by the enemy's self-detonation. Our spiritual shield is very disordered, and there is no sign of a decrease in our defense. It is impossible to determine the form and model of the interferences. Urgent calculations are being carried out!"
"Same goes for our starship. Our spiritual shield has been interfered with, too, but the interferences did not damage our defense at all. How odd!"
"Not just us, but the entire battlefield is filled with weird ripples of spiritual energy. It's almost like Lu Qingchen sacrificed 'Phantom Ocean Fortress' and 'Sharp Gold Fortress' to release all their energy and 'dye' the entire space zone purple. However, the ripples of spiritual energy are not aggressive at all. It is impossible to find a frequency to neutralize them and completely eliminate them!"
All the starships sent in their reports one after another.
The ripples of spiritual energy that were not aggressive were like the radiation of the stars that existed forever in the sea of stars. Since they were not particularly sharp, it was difficult to find a way to completely neutralize them and make them disperse.
Although the Psionic Ripple itself was not aggressive, it had a fatal attraction to the Super Plasma Torrent that burst out from the ancient giant star. When the Super Plasma Torrent sensed the existence of the Psionic Ripple, it was like a shark that had smelled blood. Its speed became faster, and its direction became more precise. Without any deviation, it lunged at the battlefield.
"This … lunatic!"
It was not until this moment that Li Yao finally learned all of Lu Qingchen's plans.
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