"What is it exactly?"
Every hair on Li Yao's body was standing up as if he had been electrified.
He noticed that the 'super plasma torrent' had been completely separated from the atmosphere of the ancient giant star. Like an energy storm in the shape of a giant crab, it raged and charged at the battlefield.
The hideous appearance did not look like a naturally-occurring weather or astronomical phenomenon at all, but more like a living fiend or a bunch of 'electric devils'!
"Yan Liren, isn't your sword said to be able to slay the gods and devils, and that it can even slay lightning easily?"
Li Yao's voice changed. "Are you interested in weighing such a thick bolt of lightning?"
"I am a sword maniac, not a moron."
Yan Liren refused without any hesitation. "The diameter of the plasma storm is at least a thousand kilometers. It is enough to swallow an asteroid. How do you want me to slash it? Not interested! "
"What about you, Your Majesty?"
Li Yao continued asking Li Jialing, "Aren't you the most valiant person in the army, claiming that you will be the emperor of the universe and the dominator of the universe, and that billions of stars, as well as white dwarfs and black holes, will submit to you? Right now, everybody is following your lead! "
"… My lord, you must not raise an army in anger."
Li Jialing swallowed hard. "I feel that the super plasma torrent is too weird to be fought head-on. It is better to avoid it and figure it out. Or maybe, Black Wind King, you are the real best expert in the Divinity Branching Stage. Even I admire you very much. Why don't you go first and unveil the mysteries of the weird energy body for us? Not long ago, you said in person that you would devote your limited life to the infinite exploration of the universe. Even if we are just a tiny speck of dust, we must march forward fearlessly when we are faced with the boundless grand universe, right?"
"Fine. I did say that. Of course, strategically speaking, we do not need to be scared of the tiny universe, but tactically speaking, well, well, we cannot be careless. So …"
Li Yao took a deep breath and roared at the top of his voice, "Cut the crap. Run at full horsepower!"
Run! Faced with the overwhelming torrents of plasma, the Colossi, the Crystal Suit, the space shuttles, and the space warships could do nothing but run!
Unfortunately, it wasn't that easy to escape even if he wanted to.
The difference in speed between the two parties was obvious. The super plasma torrents were energy bodies, and they certainly spread a hundred times faster than the starships and the Colossi. Even though the two parties were hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from each other in the beginning, it was already too late when everybody 'saw' the lightning dashing out of the atmosphere.
Li Yao watched the super torrent of plasma split into a couple of branches and snatched at the fast attack warship closest to the ancient giant star like the claws of devils that had opened their fingers. After a series of dazzling electric arcs and fireballs dashed out, the spiritual shield of the fast attack warship cracked and disappeared like a layer of sugar that was as thin as a cicada's wing. The turrets, the power units, and the protruding parts on the shell were all melted, and the previously dark plate armor was burnt orange.
The power of thunder was so terrifying that a mere claw was enough to completely paralyze a fast attack ship.
"Guild Prestige Ship! Guild Prestige Ship! "
Li Linghai called the fast attack warship that was surrounded by electric arcs and sparks in the communication channel in vain. What she heard was nothing but the noises of electromagnetic interference. All the parameters of the starship, including the remote monitoring, were also reset to zero, indicating that the enemy had completely left the battle network and that all the crew members had probably been killed.
"Attack freely. Hit them hard!"
Li Linghai gritted her teeth and gave the order. While the starships dashed crazily in the stone belts, they unleashed burning torrents behind them and stabbed thousands of colorful spears of light at the super plasma torrents brutally.
However, the thousands of spears of light that pierced into the super plasma torrents were like mud that sank into an ocean. Not only did they fail to destroy the shape of the enemy, they even made the enemy clearer and larger. The enemy's' brutality 'was even triggered, as it extended thousands of lightning tentacles and attacked the exploration fleet from all directions. BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Dozens of starships were hit by the lightning instantly.
The energy contained in the split lightning tentacles was much lower than before, but they were still shaking the spiritual shields of the starships and could perish at any moment.
The invisible radiation and high-energy particles also penetrated through the spiritual shields, the plate armor, the shells, and the cabin walls, stirring the vitality field of every crew member brutally. Their hair was standing on end, their fingernails were exploding, and their clothes were spluttering with sparks bursting out.
The intense spiritual and magnetic interference also disrupted and paralyzed the mainframe crystal processors of every starship. Even the communication channels were filled with roaring wind, lightning, and thunder. Everybody had to shout desperately in order to be heard by other people.
"Falcon Hunter has been hit. 30% of the impetus has been lost temporarily. It is estimated that the spiritual shield can sustain two attacks of the same level!"
"Stainless Mouse has been hit. 25% of the impetus has been lost temporarily. Damn it. What is this thing? It is burning up my mainframe crystal processor!"
"Alloy Virus has been hit. This is too weird. How did it lock onto us exactly? It was as easy as hitting a lightning rod! "
Screams were echoing in the communication channel.
Nobody knew what the terrifying torrent of super plasma, or rather, the thunderstorm, was exactly.
In the next second, it performed an even more unbelievable and appalling change in front of everybody.
It was like a gargantuan jellyfish floating at the edge of the stone belt gloomily. The thousands of lightning bolts that made up its' body 'were wriggling and dancing crazily in a certain weird pattern, turning it into a certain form that was well-organized and seemed to have been made by someone.
"The Dry Wood Battle Fortress!"
Gasps were echoing in the communication channel.
Yes. The 'living lightning', or 'electric devil', turned into the appearance of the Dry Wood Battle Fortress after a moment of wriggling. The slender main body of the fortress and the hundreds of 'roots' were all clearly visible. Except for the fact that it was entirely made of bouncing lightning, it was almost identical.
Furthermore, through the scanning of the high-resolution surveillance cameras, the experts could see that countless tiny blue light spots were floating around the 'Dry Wood Battle Fortress' that was surrounded by lightning. Every blue light spot had limbs and a head. They were apparently tiny figures made of electric currents and magnetic fields.
The deep blue figures made of thousands of electric currents were floating in the dark vacuum and staring at the collapsed exploration fleet. Such a scene would never happen even in the most absurd nightmares.
"Is it … the army of ghosts?"
Seeing such a terrifying scene, it was hard not to wonder if Lu Qingchen had grasped a certain evil technique and sacrificed the lives of all the crew members in the Dry Wood Fortress to a certain devil lurking on the ancient giant star, turning the living soldiers into ghosts. Even the Dry Wood Fortress had been "energized" and turned into a "fortress of pure energy"!
In the Pangu universe, ghosts were objective existences. Ghosts were a group of waves in the first place. It was not entirely impossible to restrain them with magnetic fields and further energize them.
"Are you kidding me? It's absolutely impossible!"
Li Yao found it impossible to accept such a speculation.
Even if the soul of a human being could be energized and boast the power of lightning, how could Lu Qingchen command the 'energized puppets' to attack the exploration fleet? Were the 'soldiers' and 'workers' of the Holy League, whose bodies had been obliterated, supposed to listen to Lu Qingchen's command?
Also, even if the soul of a human being could be transformed into … the shape of lightning, how could such an enormous fortress be transformed into a gigantic ball of lightning?
It was impossible for Lu Qingchen to control everything. The best that he could do was to discover a certain weird thing made of lightning lurking in the atmosphere of the ancient giant star by accident and come up with a way to make use of it.
Then, what was it exactly? Some sort of life form? Some sort of 'energy life form' made of lightning that lived in the atmosphere of the ancient giant star?
Such a life form was far beyond Li Yao's imagination.
It was not because he was narrow-minded and could only accept carbon-based intelligent life forms, but even if he could accept the existence of energy life forms, and he was even evolving toward energy life forms himself, the foundation of energy life forms was always carbon-based life forms, and they should live in places where the spiritual and magnetic environment was more stable.
The ancient giant planet was engulfed in storms all year round. Lightning flashed and thunder roared, and the raging atmosphere was truly not a paradise for life. At least, it was not a paradise for intelligent life.
"Then, let's consider you a certain ferocious beast made of lightning. You should only have the instincts of hunting and swallowing but not 'wisdom' in the conventional sense, right? Because if you did, we would've all been killed! "
Li Yao's forehead was soaked in sweat as he mumbled to himself, "Why are you in the form of the Dry Wood Fortress and the crew members? Did you analyze the transmission lines of the Dry Wood Fortress and the vitality field of the crew members after you swallowed them and simulated their appearance? Why? Are you … learning? What do you want exactly? How did you discover and lock onto us, you bastard surrounded by electric arcs? "
It was a very important question that would decide whether or not the exploration fleet could escape from the hunting range of the 'electric devil'.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
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