"Then, I'll go with you!"
Ding Ling Dong said without any hesitation, "The two of us will distract it together. Should anything go wrong, we'll be able to make up for it!"
"That's unnecessary. You've seen its speed and energy level. If my calculations are correct, one of us will be enough to distract it. If … my calculations are wrong, it won't matter how many of us there are."
Li Yao smiled and said, "You've just advanced into the Divinity Transformation Stage. You are one of those who soar into the sky. Although the spiritual energy stored inside your body is immense, your control over it is not good enough yet. It will be easy for it to detect the feeble ripples of spiritual energy that are leaking out. It is the same for all of you. Nobody is a match for me in terms of the delicate control of spiritual energy.
"Therefore, you'd better focus on your mission. After I distract it, try your best to control the starship, enter the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum, and capture Lu Qingchen. This is also a mission of paramount importance.
"As for me, hehe. Not that I'm bragging, but as the best expert in the universe of Pangu, when I want to flee in panic, even the billions of deities and devils in the universe will not be able to stop me!"
After saying that, Li Yao cut off the communication quickly without giving Ding Ling Dong or anyone else any chance to argue.
Interconnected fluorescent red lines popped up on the surface of the Colossus "Arsonist" again. All the red lines were gathered in the eyes of the Colossus, emitting glamorous colors.
The airtight door below the activation platform slid open without a sound. After a brief fall, the weightlessness that he had been used to enshrouded him. Standing in the deep, dark sea of stars again, Li Yao could not have felt more free and refreshed.
The stars were his true home.
Fighting a torrent of plasma that was more than a thousand kilometers in diameter and had a central temperature of more than ten thousand degrees on his own was a battle that deserved his courage, his life, and all his wisdom!
Of course, before the battle began, he would have to borrow some tiny "toys" from "Falcon" and the few rapid-attack starships nearby.
…
Under Li Yao's suggestion and Li Linghai's order, all the commanders of the starships in the exploration fleet gritted their teeth and stopped all the functions of the starships.
It could not be helped. In the mysterious and dangerous unknown space, the intuition of a Divinity Branching Stage expert was perhaps the only weapon they could rely on.
The spiritual shields and force fields of the starships were instantly gone. The glittering power units that had been everywhere on the starships dimmed, too.
Inside the cabin, the artificial gravity field had been canceled. The fully-armored crew members were all floating in midair, fixing themselves to their posts with the soft belts and the buffer gel. But they could not stop the cups, mini crystal processors, and all kinds of daily necessities from flying everywhere.
The Spiritual Nexus and the tactical data links among the starships had been cut off, too. Every pathway and every cabin was mired in darkness. People could only adjust the emergency lights to the dimmest brightness, illuminating each other's fuzzy shadows. They prayed silently in the darkness, praying that Li Yao's judgment was correct and that the shell of their plate armor was solid enough to resist the meteoroid shower that was getting more and more intense.
BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!
BAM! BAM! BAM! Without the neutralization of the spiritual shields and the interference of the force fields, the meteoroid shower immediately hit the shell of every starship brutally like hailstones, raising crisp and creepy sounds. Now and then, earsplitting squeaks could be heard, which were the moans of the dying struggles when the shell, keel, or girder of the starship was bearing the tremendous blast and reaching the limits of metal fatigue. If they were unlucky, they could even hear the noises of spluttering, which came from an unknown place. The shell of the starship had been torn apart, and the gas inside the cabin was leaking out quickly.
The universe was boundless, and the stone belts were chaotic. Billions of tons of materials were spurting out of the broken crustal structure of "Gu Shisan" every second and rushing into space like a landslide. The starships of human beings were nothing more than dry leaves in the landslide. Having lost their impetus, they were unable to control their own fate at all and were soon dispersed, losing their direction.
The sweeping super plasma torrents, on the other hand, formed a terrifying acceleration field in the stone belts, which equaled to the creation of powerful "electromagnetic cannons" out of thin air. The meteoroids, which were already moving fast in the first place, were not only significantly faster after the electromagnetic acceleration, but they were also rotating dozens of times faster than before.
Like a raging drill, they drilled through the shells, cabin walls, pathways, and even the entire starship without the slightest effort.
The spluttering noises were even more ear-splitting. Many starships quickly lost pressure and cooled down. A thin layer of frost appeared on the mainframe crystal processors and magical equipment units immediately. Some of the more unlucky starships were hit in the fuel tanks, and tremendous liquid fuel and coolant flowed out like blood.
At such a speed of damage, they would definitely not be able to persist for forty-five minutes to an hour.
It was already their best to persist for half an hour.
But other than gritting their teeth and enduring the damage in silence, there was nothing they could do, because the torrent of super plasma that was enough to destroy the world was right next to them, eyeing them covetously!
…
"What an … unparalleled brute!"
Perhaps only those who floated in the sea of stars on their own, like Li Yao, who had no barriers between them and the torrents of super plasma except for the vacuum could truly sense the soul-stirring beauty and danger of the torrents of super plasma.
It was truly like a sun that had just been born, a certain creature that had broken out of its cocoon and become a butterfly. Billions of lightning outlined its nerves, veins, nerves, bones, and muscles, and every bolt of lightning was jumping and changing into billions of forms every second, trying new ways of entanglement and condensation. It was … mutation and evolution. Thousands of mutations and evolutions were breaking out every second, turning every swirl of lightning on its body into a kaleidoscope that was ever-changing.
With a diameter of at least a thousand kilometers, it was even more splendid and magnificent than the largest and most violent tides. However, because it was too far away from each other, it gave it a certain 'light' and 'slender' feeling. It was a tornado, a tide, a tsunami, a thunderbolt, a newborn star, a butterfly, a catkin, a smoke, a dream, and the most perfect work of art that the hand of the universe could create.
Li Yao was deeply dwelling in the highly-dangerous blue dream, unable to free himself. At some point, his eyes were dyed blue and purple.
As he expected, the super plasma torrents were indeed searching for prey based on energy waves.
Or rather, their instincts drove them to search for the objects that contained intense energy and seize all the energy in order to prolong their 'life'.
For the objects that had run out of energy, such as the rapid attack starship that had been paralyzed in the vacuum just now, it was meaningless and even against their 'instincts' to completely shatter them at the cost of their precious energy.
It was the same logic that a ferocious beast would not attack a solid rock in vain.
In the vacuum of the universe, every drop of energy was more precious than the water in the desert. Even though it seemed so splendid and beautiful, it would gradually disperse and eventually perish as time went on, wouldn't it?
It had to seize enough energy before it perished in order to be counted as a successful 'hunt'.
At this moment, it was hesitating, as if it were deeply troubled by the sudden disappearance of the prey.
Even though Li Linghai, Ding Ling Dong, and Boss Bai could turn off all the units of the starship in time, it was impossible for the remaining ripples of spiritual energy to disperse instantly, and the temperature of the starship itself was spreading radiations to the surroundings incessantly.
The ripples of spiritual energy and the thermal radiation were all keenly sensed by the super plasma torrent. It was just … "calculating" whether or not it was worthwhile to launch an attack at the cost of a tremendous amount of its own spiritual energy in order to suddenly lower the energy source by several levels.
Li Yao could not wait for it to 'realize' what was going on.
He had to help it make a choice.
Li Yao snapped his fingers softly.
Around the Colossus "Arsonist", almost a thousand bullets of spiritual energy from the main guns of the starship were floating. They were all specially made to dig through the enemy's heavy armor that was more than ten meters thick and even to attack the underground fortresses that were hidden hundreds of meters deep on the planetary bases. The smallest of them was even larger than Li Yao himself.
They were exactly the 'toys' that Li Yao used to attract the super plasma torrents.
The first bullet of spiritual energy exploded without a sound.
Although soundwaves and blasts could not be transmitted in the vacuum, colorful ripples of spiritual energy still spread out like tides, as if the most splendid fireworks were blossoming in front of Li Yao.
"Come on, big guy. Consider me your prey. Let's have a bet on whether or not you can catch up with me!"
Licking his dry lips, Li Yao mumbled to himself with a weird smile on his face, like a gambler who had wagered all his bets.
The super plasma torrents were indeed attracted by the explosion of the cannonballs.
For a moment, the millions of electric arcs that made up its body all raised their heads and stared at Li Yao at the same time like the hibernating vipers that had sensed the temperature of their prey.
Even the vivid "blue warships" that were outlined by lightning also aimed their "heads" at Li Yao's direction.
It could be clearly seen that the electric arcs attracted abundant meteoroids and dust from all directions, burning them into deep purple and deep blue flames in the high-speed friction, making the "warships" even more hideous and aggressive.
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