On the bridge, fire was soaring to the sky. Debris of magical equipment was splashing everywhere. Translator: XephiZ Editor: DOCuinn
Thankfully, those who were qualified to stay on the bridge were all seasoned experts. They had encountered many situations where the bridge had been hit directly by the enemy. After a moment of chaos, they immediately began to extinguish the fire and repair the bridge in an orderly manner.
"What's the situation now?" Lei Dalu roared in the communication channel.
"The mainframe crystal processor has lost 5% of its computational ability. There was an explosion in the engine compartment. Two power rune arrays have been destroyed. However, Master Xiong is organizing the repair team. The decline of the power has been stopped for now! The spiritual shield cabin is in the worst situation. It was hit by a meteoroid shower. The cabins around have been torn apart. The pathway is blocked by debris. It is under serious spiritual interference, too! "
His face gloomy, Bai Kaixin said quickly, "The communication between us and the spiritual shield cabin has been cut off. We cannot reach out to Bai Ze. The pathway is blocked. We are short of hands. It will take at least half an hour for the road to be cleared!
"The intensity of the spiritual shield has dropped to 52%, and it is still dropping. If things go on like this, we will lose the spiritual shield completely in fifteen minutes. We will have to resist the attack with our plate armor. We won't be able to resist it for more than three minutes!
"The worst thing is that we have been captured by the gravity sphere of the True Fusion!
"Our speed is too slow to resist its gravitational force. We will only fall into the core area and become a small spark like Ghost Jail!"
"The force of the True Fusion is too powerful. Not to mention that we have already blown up two of the main power rune arrays, we will not be fast enough to get rid of the gravity even if the power is maximized!"
Bai Kaixin's words cast the communication channel into weird silence. The only thing that could be heard was everybody's desperate breaths. Their heartbeats were heavy.
Lei Dalu was silent for a long time. Then he suddenly chuckled until everybody felt that their blood was freezing. He said softly, "Forward."
"What?" Bai Kaixin bulged his eyes, thinking that he had misheard.
"I said, forward! Activate the power rune arrays to the maximum. Follow the swirl of the True Fusion and move forward at full speed! "
Lei Dalu's voice was shivering. There was no telling whether it was out of fear or excitement. "Our spiritual energy is running low. The structure of the starship is fragile, too. Even if we retreat at full speed, we will not be able to resist the gravity of the True Fusion!
"In the end, either the starship is torn into pieces because of the limits of its structure, or the spiritual energy runs out. All the power rune arrays have been blown up. Losing the power, they are slowly being dragged into the depths of the swirl!
"Since there's no way to retreat, I might as well give it a try!"
"This space vortex is more than a million kilometers in diameter. We are still at the edge of it. The gravitational force is not very strong."
"And it is spinning at a high speed, swallowing all the psionic energy and matter. Will be accelerated by it, in the form of a spiral. It slides down to the center in circles. "
"If we move forward at full speed, we will draw an arc. Under its acceleration, we will gain even higher speed!"
"When our speed reaches the limit and is able to resist the gravitational pull, we will change our direction slightly. You will have a chance to rush out of the whirlpool! "
Bai Kaixin was dazed. All the blood in his body surged to his head, and even his white eyebrows turned bright red. He gritted his teeth and said, "Yes. That's right. The space vortex can indeed help us accelerate. This may be our only chance! "
"However, there is only one chance!"
"When we move forward helically, our speed will be higher and higher, but we will sink deeper and deeper into the space vortex and be bound by the gravitational force that will be stronger and stronger!
"Therefore, we must seize the best timing when we change our direction. If we change our direction too early, we won't be able to gain enough speed. If we change our direction too late, although we have enough speed, the gravitational force will be too strong. It is very possible that we will still be smashed into smithereens after a long stalemate!
"Also, the plan has very high requirements for the engine compartment and the spiritual shield compartment!
"It's needless to say about the engine compartment.
"Our spiritual shields will be put to a great test, too! It is not strong enough to withstand the tearing force and the collisions of more meteoroids deep inside the space vortex! "
Lei Dalu breathed for a moment and said firmly, "I believe in you. We can do it!"
"Now, let's stop retreating and move toward the core of the space vortex. Move forward, move forward, full speed ahead!"
…
In the spiritual shield compartment …
Li Yao fixed Bai Ze and his Crystal Suit to the wall with the super attractive magnets. He then added a defense rune array around him before he finally turned around and cleaned up the mess.
On the dome, a lot of foam spurted out of the messy tubes and condensed into solid gray materials in the vacuum, barely blocking the holes that were riddled with holes.
The crazily dancing scraps of magical equipment finally calmed down and fell to the ground in spluttering noises.
The scene in front of his eyes was like a handful of freezing rune arrays had been stuffed into Li Yao's pants. A chill was rising from his abdomen and flowing through his entire body, freezing almost all his nerve endings.
The sixteen metal plates that constituted the spiritual shield generator were all over the place. Many of them had been blown up by the meteoroids. A lot of scorching meteoroids had been embedded in them, destroying countless rune arrays.
The few spare components that were left had mostly been absorbed into the vacuum. The rest had been blown into a mess and scattered in every corner, too.
The main shaft standing at the center of the generator was emitting weird mystic rays, too. The speed of its rotation was getting slower and slower.
Li Yao secretly cursed.
The main shaft was the core of the cooling pool. With the rotation, the sixteen metal plates would be cooled down in the cooling pool.
Once the main shaft was damaged, the coolant around the sixteen metal plates would soon boil and evaporate. It would not be able to cool them down at all.
In several minutes, the metal plates would begin to melt, and the hardness of the spiritual shield would plummet to rock bottom!
He tried to contact the bridge in the communication channel, only to hear nothing but noises.
Ten out of ten light screens were either pitch-black or had snowflakes on them.
The light beams that could barely be displayed were cut off from the mainframe crystal processor, too.
He had completely lost contact with the bridge.
The starship, on the other hand, was slowly turning around in the swirl and rushing toward the depths of the swirl.
Destruction seemed to be the inevitable outcome.
Li Yao took a deep, deep breath. His lips curled into a crazy smile, which was exactly the same as the smile on Lei Dalu's face right now.
"Until this moment. I'm still alive.
"Even if I'm going to be destroyed in the next second, at least I'm still alive right now!
"If I'm alive, I have to fight! I have to fight for every second that I'm alive. I can't give up until the last bit of my soul disperses into nothingness!
"Ding Ling Dong is still waiting for me. The Xing Yao Federation is still waiting for me. The Tian Yuan Realm is still waiting for me! How can I die in such a place, in the middle of an insignificant True Fusion?
"I've slain lightning and tornadoes before. It won't be difficult for me to blow up a space swirl again!"
Li Yao bit his lips so hard that blood flowed out of the corner of his mouth. His eyes were almost burnt through by his fighting will.
He took out a lot of strengthening drugs from his Cosmos Ring.
The strengthening drugs had been prepared by Fengyu Zhong for the training of Fengyu Ming, his only son. They were enough for several years.
Li Yao didn't even blink. He swallowed all the strengthening drugs that were enough for common Cultivators for three to five months!
A series of explosions immediately took place between his chest and abdomen. His skin was cracking. Magma was flowing inside his veins!
His spiritual energy had run dry. He needed strength right now. He needed unparalleled, unparalleled strength!
"Whale Swallow. Activate! "
Li Yao was crazily absorbing the spiritual energy contained in the strengthening drugs with the 'Whale Swallow', a basic technique of the Hundred Smelting Clan from forty thousand years ago.
In the meantime, he turned his palm over. More than ten fragrant flowers appeared in his hand.
Heart Locking Flowers, a rare treasure from Boneyard. They could lock onto a Cultivator's soul and maintain the tranquility of their brain. They would not be mentally deranged no matter how perilous the situation was.
It was also the biggest reason why Li Yao had swallowed dozens of strengthening drugs at the risk of swallowing them.
Otherwise … Even if his body, which had been tempered a thousand times, could bear it, his brain would certainly be deranged under the blast of the excessive spiritual energy and be burnt into an idiot!
Li Yao swallowed the Heart Locking Flowers without caring about anything else. He managed to suppress his boiling brain and entered the super perceptive state again!
His brain cell activity soared to the maximum!
"Hoooo!"
The spiritual energy in the strengthening drugs exploded. Dozens of invisible tentacles seemed to have extended out of Li Yao's body and swept over all the usable components in the debris, forming a crazily revolving metal storm!
Li Yao gritted his teeth and turned into a streak of gray brightness, jumping into the cooling pool that was about to boil!
…
On the bridge, all the light beams were showing the terrifying scenes of the fiery devils raging in the core of the True Fusion.
Gold Horn had completely changed its direction and was accelerating, turning into a leopard that was sprinting at the sun!
According to the performance parameters on the light beam, the intensity of the spiritual shield was still decreasing bit by bit. Several parts of the shell had been blown apart by the meteoroids. Alarms were ringing in many areas, too.
"No. The intensity of the spiritual shield is only 40%! But the temperature is getting higher and higher. The spiritual energy of the fire class is getting more and more violent! We won't be able to persist for three minutes! "Bai Kaixin shouted.
"Keep moving forward. Bai Ze will definitely fix the spiritual shield!" Lei Dalu gnashed his teeth.
"But there is no time. There are only three minutes left. The intensity of the spiritual shield has dropped to 38%!" Bai Kaixin shouted desperately.
"Forward. Keep moving forward. Full speed ahead!"
Lei Dalu simply closed his eyes and stopped looking at the crazily jumping numbers. With a casual smile on his face, he said, one word after another, "The most important thing for Cultivators is trust! The Great Horn Exo Society has made it to this day because of trust, too!
"I trust every one of you. I believe that Uncle Xiong will be able to adjust the power rune arrays to the best state. I believe that Bai Ze will be able to fix the spiritual shield. I believe that the brothers on the bridge will be able to calculate the most accurate sailing route. I also believe that the rest of you will be able to fix every loophole and make Gold Horn sturdy enough to blow up the surging waves!"
"You, on the other hand, trust me. You trust every crazy decision that I make!
"Therefore, keep moving forward and charge at the True Fusion. We will either be smashed into pieces or be reborn from the ashes!"
Bai Kaixin was rendered speechless. He was dazed for a long time, when he suddenly noticed that a number on the light beam was bouncing feebly.
He opened his eyes wide and looked again. Yes!
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