The plan could no longer be described as audacious. It was crazy. Extremely crazy.
Xin Hongde and Jing Yong both fell silent.
Jing Yong was only in his sixties, which was a very young age for a Core Formation Stage Cultivator. He couldn't help but ask, "The power rune arrays of the three starships on our side have all been seriously damaged. Without enough spare components, they will not be able to return to their top speed in a day or two. How can we catch up with the enemy?"
Fengyu Zhong had been bold enough to chase after the enemy without caring about anything because he had made careful calculations. He knew that the three starships on the Great Horn Exo Society's side were all old and broken. There was nothing he could do even if he wanted to counterattack.
With a mysterious smile, Bai Kaixin blinked and said, "Of course, it is impossible to maintain all three starships. But what if all the usable units and components in the engine compartments of the three starships are gathered on one starship?
"We are short of hands in the first place. Three starships will be a waste. Therefore, we might as well use the units and components on two starships to repair the last one, which is our Gold Horn.
"It will definitely be able to return to a certain speed in the shortest amount of time.
"Then, we will leave all the wounded on the remaining two starships and wait for reinforcements.
"All the troops will be gathered on Gold Horn. We will launch an assault and catch the enemy unprepared."
Jing Yong gasped and said, "The space pirates have four starships, and we only have one."
Bai Kaixin squinted and sneered, "But time is on our side.
"This is the most dangerous gamble. What we are gambling on is time.
"Think about it. Fengyu Zhong is chasing after the Cultivator at his full speed. His starship must be consuming fuel crazily.
"When he discovers that the last starship has been chased by us, he will be caught in a dilemma.
"If he wants to turn around, he will have to decelerate the starship that is rushing at a high speed and reset the trajectory. Twice as much fuel will be consumed, and a lot of time will be wasted, too.
"When the time comes … Our reinforcements may arrive at any moment. Fengyu Zhong will have to leave enough fuel for his escape. If he cannot finish us quickly, he will be stalled by us. Do you think he will take the risk?
"With Fengyu Zhong's personality, he cherishes his life more than anything else. He will not dare to turn around and fight us. His only choice is to abandon the starship to save himself. Give up the last starship! "
"This is our plan. Of course, it is very risky, but we cannot watch the Cultivator fighting on his own and do nothing when he is besieged by space pirates.
"It doesn't matter if the Flowing Flower Sect and the Soaring Eagle Sect are too weak to fight anymore, as long as the usable components inside your engine compartments are dismantled. For us to repair Gold Horn. "
"Just stay here and heal your wounds. We'll handle the rest ourselves."
"Time is precious. Please make a decision quickly. We still have to catch up with our brothers and fight alongside them."
Xin Hongde and Jing Yong fell silent.
The flames in his eyes burned brighter and brighter.
That flame was sticky and solidified. It didn't seem like fire, but rather like the hot blood that had just flowed out of the cultivators of the two factions.
…
In the boundless sea of stars, a weird chase and escape took place.
Those who were at the front of the group were fleeing in panic. It was just a tiny escape capsule. Bright exhaust flames were spurting out of its butt, but it was nothing more than an insignificant speck of dust in the bleak universe.
Behind the speck of dust, however, were four aggressive, raging starships. They were all in a straight line. Thousands of mystic rays emanated from their power rune arrays tore apart the dark vacuum like the roars of ferocious beasts.
One of the starships that was as sharp as an arrowhead was in the lead. It was getting closer and closer to the escape capsule.
Li Yao was half lying inside the escape capsule casually. He was analyzing the speed and other parameters of the pursuers behind him through the scanning of his crystal cameras.
Being chased by four starships and almost a thousand Exos led by a Jin Dan expert, he put on a weird smile, as if he was enjoying the thrills.
Inside the sealed escape capsule, voices from the Tian Yuan Realm were echoing. It was a popular song named 'Conquer the Universe', which was very popular in the Tian Yuan Realm.
"Look at the dark clouds that can't block the flow of the galaxy.
"The endless darkness will disperse. The stars in the universe will ignite the light of life.
"Whenever I feel desperate, a song will be sung from the bottom of my soul.
"You will be as strong as fate is mean to you."
The bouncing numbers on the light beam indicated that the pursuers behind him were getting closer and closer. The giant beast had opened its bloody mouth and was about to launch a fatal attack at him.
Li Yao smiled. He triggered a spiritual tattoo softly with a telepathic thought.
…
On the bridge of Blood Rain, Fengyu Zhong and the advisor were observing the changes of the battle through the most advanced probe magical equipment, too.
After half a day of crazy pursuit without considering the consumption of fuel, the distance between them and the escape capsule had been significantly shortened.
Squid, which was in the lead, was almost catching the tail of the escape capsule.
"General Feng, one of the power rune arrays of the enemy has exploded."
On the light beam, the fuzzy light spot that represented the escape capsule suddenly glowed.
The advisor exclaimed in excitement after he focused his computational ability and enhanced the picture multiple times.
Fengyu Zhong sneered. "Of course. The enemy is just an escape capsule after all. After rushing at the highest speed for such a long time, the power rune arrays must've exceeded the fatigue limit. It is perfectly normal that they would explode.
"Even if the power rune arrays were fine, I'm afraid that he will run out of fuel soon. He will be ours in no time.
"Ask Squid to release the assault team and stall the enemy."
Almost a hundred Crystal Suit soldiers suddenly swarmed out of the arrowhead starship in the lead as if a beehive had been poked.
They were on special cylindrical magical equipment named 'assault rockets'. Bright orange exhaust flames spurted out of the rear of the magical equipment as they darted toward the escape capsule at the highest speed.
The main cannons around the starship were glittering, too, which was a sign that spiritual energy was being condensed. Once they entered the best attack range, they would be able to open fire without any concern.
Right then, from the tail of the escape capsule, which should have run out of spiritual energy and lost most of its power due to the explosion of the power rune arrays, a dazzling flower of spiritual energy suddenly blossomed. Seven-colored mystic rays spurted out in spirals, granting the escape capsule an unbelievable speed.
The escape capsule escaped again the moment it entered the best attack range of the starship.
On the bridge, the advisor was dumbfounded. He tapped on the light beam crazily, sweat popping up on the tip of his nose. "It's impossible. The enemy's instantaneous acceleration and top speed are far beyond the limits of the Spiritual Butterfly escape capsule. How can he be so fast?"
"Don't you see it?"
Fengyu Zhong closed his eyes and breathed heavily. He gritted his teeth and said, "The enemy has modified the escape capsule a long time ago. Its speed and acceleration have been improved, but it has been pretending to be a common escape capsule in order to lure us to chase after him.
"According to his latest speed, it is very likely that he will escape into the stone belts around Iron Plateau before we catch up with him."
The advisor hesitated. "Then, should we suspend the chase?"
Fengyu Zhong grinned hideously. "After such a long time of careful planning, after such a huge consumption of resources, and when we were so close to success, it has all been disrupted by the mysterious guy.
"The hatred of the son and the humiliation is absolutely irreconcilable.
"We have chased him so far. How can we give up halfway? Chase after him. Keep chasing him. Don't stop even if you run into the stone belts. Stall him at any cost.
"This time, I'm going to chop off his head myself."
The advisor's heart shuddered.
Fengyu Zhong, the expert of Jin Dan, was preparing to take action in person.
The next five hours were almost a duplicate of this moment.
The escape pod was always hanging at a distance from the Squid.
Its speed was not very high. Every time Squid moved forward at full speed, the distance between the two parties would be shortened bit by bit.
However, whenever the main guns of Squid were charged with spiritual energy and the Exos were released for the fierce battle, the escape capsules would accelerate abruptly after an unbelievable outburst of flames, and they would dash forward a lot more.
Before they knew it, the two parties were chasing each other deeper and deeper. Gradually, they entered the heartland of the Iron Plateau Space Zone near Iron Plateau.
…
Li Yao couldn't help but hold his breath at the gorgeous scene in front of him.
The Iron Plateau that slowly appeared in front of him seemed to be a planet hundreds of times larger than the Heaven's Origin Planet.
However, with a closer look, he discovered that it was just a halo made of hundreds of stone belts around Iron Plateau that was emitting dazzling brilliance.
Planetary rings were made of the tremendous materials that revolved around a planet. Generally speaking, they could only be produced when the planet had an enormous gravitational force. Also, a planet usually only had one planetary ring.
The planets that were suitable for human habitation and had a normal atmosphere were usually too small in mass to produce planetary rings.
Iron Plateau, on the other hand, boasted enormous planetary rings. Also, there was not one but almost a hundred of them, which constituted a magnificent super ring system that looked like the most solid armor. At first glance, it seemed that the size of the planet had expanded by a hundred times.
"Such intense spiritual waves. Also, the spiritual waves are very regular and do not seem to be emitted by common meteoroids."
From the hundreds of overlapping planetary rings, Li Yao sensed a mysterious yet irresistible force. He immediately realized that …
The planetary rings were not natural. They were a piece of enormous defensive magical equipment around Iron Plateau that had been refined by Cultivators with unparalleled techniques thousands of years ago.
It was a piece of real planetary-level magical equipment, if not a piece of 'quasi-stellar' magical equipment.
"A piece of quasi-stellar defensive magical equipment made of hundreds of planetary rings. It is indeed splendid and unbelievable.
"The Flying Star Sector did boast an astonishing level of Cultivation civilization in the past.
"Was such a piece of magical equipment designed to defend against the apocalypse that Huangpu Xiaoya mentioned? It is a pity that it did not. More than half of Iron Plateau was destroyed anyway. "
Li Yao snuck into one of the planetary rings without any hesitation. To be continued …
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