The central area was the focus of the competition between the Cultivators and the Immortal Cultivators. Most crystal warships and Grand Illusionary Soldiers were gathered there.
Most of the Grand Illusionary Soldiers were taller, taller, and faster. The spiritual shields and exhaust flames around them were brighter, and the flying swords and mystic rays that they triggered were more aggressive, faster, and more destructive!
Li Yao even saw dozens of Grand Illusionary Soldiers launch almost eight hundred flying swords at the same time, riddling a crystal warship with holes in the blink of an eye and depriving it of all its combat ability!
"Those are the best products produced by the Grand Illusionary Group at a great cost. They are incomparable to the miscellaneous goods produced by the major sects at the periphery!"
The Grand Illusionary Soldiers in the central area were not only of better quality, but also in greater number. They were no longer thin tornadoes but wriggling black clouds that were swallowing space nonstop.
Some of the smaller crystal warships were even enshrouded by the Grand Illusionary Soldiers. When the Grand Illusionary Soldiers dispersed, the previously glamorous starships turned into broken, lackluster remnants!
The scene was both like a school of piranhas biting the prey that had fallen into the water crazily and like an army of ants marching on the ground. Wherever they went, all the creatures would be reduced into piles of bones!
It was needless to say that, protected by millions of Grand Illusionary Soldiers, Heavenly Phantom, the flagship of the Immortal Cultivators dozens of kilometers long, was intimidating the entire space zone like a magnificent emperor in silver armor!
"The main gun of Heavenly Phantom was developed by the Star Fighters' Alliance, the Grand Illusionary Group, and more than ten sects that are adept at crystal cannons over three years. It is known as' Heavenly Might Cannons'!
"The Heavenly Might Cannons has ninety-nine round turrets. All the turrets are not fixed to the surface of Heavenly Phantom but floated around Heavenly Phantom through the electromagnetic force. They can move in any trajectory, like ninety-nine satellites that are orbiting Heavenly Phantom!
"The ninety-nine 'Heavenly Might Cannons' can be evenly distributed around Heavenly Phantom. If they attack separately, they can move to the same angle and form a super cannon, which will unleash unparalleled power.
"One cannon is all that is needed. It was enough to vaporize a crystal warship!
"The Heavenly Might Cannon is the strongest attack magical equipment of the Flying Star Sector. No other cannon can compare to it!
Li Yao gazed into the distance. Using his amazing eyesight, he discovered that almost a hundred tiny light spots were flying around Heavenly Phantom, which was dozens of kilometers long.
Each of the Heaven's Might Cannon's turrets had a diameter of about a hundred meters. They were perfectly round and translucent. Looking from afar, they looked like shining pearls.
The glamorous brilliance that they were emitting carried unbelievable lethality, which was as powerful as the main guns of regular crystal warships. Furthermore, the cooldown time was extremely short, and it could be fired continuously without any gaps!
Under the influence of the electromagnetic force, the ninety-nine floating turrets rotated rapidly around the Heavenly Phantom. There was not a single blind spot!
There were no blind spots, no gaps, and they were powerful. One, two, or even more turrets could be mobilized to increase the damage of the attack according to the defense of the target. This was the Heavenly Might Cannon that countless refiners of the Flying Star Sector had crafted with their blood, sweat, and tears!
In the most critical battlefield supervised by Xiao Xuance in person, every crystal warship had been locked onto by the Grand Illusionary Soldiers. Even the empty shells that had lost their momentum would not stop until they were torn into shreds!
Sparkle could not bluff its way through with camouflage anymore!
"Then, we have no choice but to attack by force!"
Deep inside Li Yao's eyes, flames were burning. The bloody flames were flowing freely, and Li Yao couldn't help but put on an excited smile. "Leader Si, please issue an order to the starships that still belong to the Cultivators on the battlefield and ask them to stall the enemy at all costs. We are about to launch the final charge!
"Professor Mo, Leader Si has sent the structural design of Heavenly Phantom to the mainframe crystal processor of Sparkle just now. Now, let's move forward at full speed with the bridge of Sparkle as our target!"
Si Koulie exclaimed in shock, "The bridge? The bridge is the heart of Heavenly Phantom, and the star brain is right behind the bridge! When we were building Heavenly Phantom, the defense of the bridge was the strongest! If we choose the bridge as our target, we will certainly suffer the fiercest attacks from Heavenly Phantom! "
Professor Mo Xuan smiled. "Then, please sit in the buffer rune arrays, everybody, because there may be some … bumps ahead!"
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The souls of Professor Mo Xuan and the other four star spirits were completely melted into the mainframe crystal processor of Sparkle.
All the camouflage on the periphery of Sparkle was peeling off one layer after another.
The rusted, bumpy plate armor was gone, replaced by a glittering, translucent, and perfect body in bright gold!
"Hiss!"
When all the Cultivators saw the real appearance of Sparkle on the light beam, they all gasped in shock.
Si Koulie was so excited that his body was trembling, and he was almost out of breath.
The starship in front of them was no more than nine hundred meters long. Compared to the super starships that could easily be more than twenty kilometers long, it was nothing at all.
However, the small, delicate starship was like a brilliant diamond that was emitting dazzling brilliance to all directions. Everybody's attention was immediately attracted by it!
Even on the other side of the light beam, Li Yao could sense its raging eagerness, as if it were not a crystal warship but a ferocious beast that had traveled from the primeval era to modern times and dominated the sea of stars!
Si Koulie couldn't help but compare Sparkle with Heavenly Phantom, which he had refined in person.
Although the two starships were vastly different in size, like a mouse and an elephant, the aura and brilliance of Sparkle were as splendid as Heavenly Phantom's, if not even slightly better!
It was like a firefly suddenly bursting out infinite flames that were trying to burn down the sun!
"Please sit tight, everybody. Next, we will allocate most of our spiritual energy and computational ability to the power and defense rune arrays. We will have no time to care about the stability of the space inside the starship!"
Professor Mo Xuan's voice, which was generated by the vibration of the metal plates, sounded excited. "Sparkle, target. Heavenly Phantom, flagship. Go forward!"
"Hiu!"
For a moment, all the Cultivators felt that somebody had punched them right in the face. Even Yuanying fell into the buffer rune arrays and did not get used to the speed of the starship until he staggered for a long time!
It was a shining starship. Xiao Xuance immediately captured it.
After analyzing its speed, mobility, and the intensity of the spiritual waves it released, the star brain determined that Sparkle was the most dangerous enemy!
"Stop it!"
Xiao Xuance bellowed.
Within a breath, under the distribution of the immense computational ability of the star brain … Countless Grand Illusionary Soldiers and crystal warships under the control of the Immortal Cultivators swarmed toward Sparkle.
In the meantime, Heavenly Phantom had mobilized forty-one of the ninety-nine Heavenly Might Cannon Towers and locked onto Sparkle!
"Zi Zi Zi Zi!"
Zi! Zi! Deep purple brilliance flashed on the forty-one cannon towers at the same time. Then, forty-one bolts of lightning flashed across the sea of stars like real lightning. Their front ends were branching and congregating into a storm of lightning!
Many Cultivators and crystal warships that stood in the way of the lightning were torn apart mercilessly.
Even the Grand Illusionary Soldiers, unfortunately, caught by the storm of lightning, turned into broken, empty shells after the spluttering sparks.
However, around Sparkle … Defensive shields that looked like golden scales popped up. Like a dragon soaring into the sky, Sparkle was dominating in the middle of the thunder and lightning. Not only was it not damaged at all, its speed was not reduced at all. It turned into a streak of bright gold brightness and rushed close!
Two crystal warships under the control of the Immortal Cultivators stopped in front of Sparkle, one on the left and the other on the right. They were trying to force Sparkle to turn around. But they immediately disintegrated, like dark clouds that had been torn apart by sunlight!
Sparkle leaped out of the dark clouds and slashed the dark universe apart like a golden sword!
It was needless to mention the Grand Illusionary Soldiers. Faced with Sparkle, which had been accelerated to the highest speed, they were like thousands of ants trying to stop a rushing crystal train. The only outcome was that they would be crushed into smithereens!
Standing on the bridge, Xiao Xuance looked at Sparkle that was rushing close. Xiao Xuance was dazed for a moment.
The thousands of light beams around the bridge were transmitting bad news from the ground incessantly.
Three hours had passed since the New Era Plan was activated. But the Immortal Cultivators hadn't occupied the hall of the Meeting of the Next Millennium and the few important warehouses of magical equipment in the first space ring yet.
The qi-trainers who had popped up out of nowhere and the elites of the Flying Star Academy and the Heavenly Saints Academy that had been organized quickly caught him unprepared.
However, they were all surmountable difficulties.
Although the war was still intense, Cultivators were all made of flesh and blood. They would feel tired, hurt, and needed rest.
After two hours of high-intensity fighting, most of the Cultivators' spiritual energy was running dry.
Thanks to Heavenly Phantom, he had basically suppressed all the crystal warships in the sky of the central area.
Most of the crystal warships had either been captured by the Immortal Cultivators or blown apart!
If he had another half an hour, he would have been able to take control of the situation. Then, he would have been able to suppress the central area with Heavenly Phantom.
When necessary, he would have been able to bombard the hall of the Meeting of the Next Millennium with the Heavenly Might Cannons. Let's see how many of his attacks the defense rune arrays on the ceiling of the hall could resist!
Xiao Xuance still felt that the scales of victory were slowly tilting to his side.
However, at the most critical moment, such an unbelievably advanced starship had popped up. Also, according to the calculations of the star brain, the starship did not disguise its target at all. It was aiming at the heart and the brain of Heavenly Phantom!
"Triple, no, quintuple the number of Grand Illusionary Soldiers guarding the bridge. Stuff the bridge and the star brain to the brim!
"Gather all the Heavenly Might Cannons on the left side of Heavenly Phantom and launch the strongest attack!"
Seeing that some of the readers were discussing the deduction of the battle, many of them felt that the combat ability of the Yuanying was too weak and that it was impossible for tens of thousands of Grand Illusionary Soldiers to stop the Yuanying.
Some of them calculated that if Li Yao slashed dozens of Grand Illusionary Soldiers with one attack, then ten attacks would be hundreds of Yuanying, and ten attacks would be thousands of Grand Illusionary Soldiers …
Here, Old Bull reiterated that the biggest difference between the book and other Cultivation books was that:
Firstly, in the book, the skills of the Cultivators cost their mana. When their mana was depleted, even the most awesome Sorcerer would be helpless.
Secondly, in the book, the skills had cooldowns. Cultivators, magical equipment, and starships all had cooldowns. The only difference was that the cooldowns of the experts were relatively shorter.
Thirdly, in the book, all the weapons had wear and tear. Any magical equipment would be more worn out and sluggish the more it was used.
After understanding the three points and reading the book again, one would realize that certain tactics, strategies, and choices were reasonable.
For example, if Xiao Ming could eat an apple in one minute, how many could he eat in one hour?
Sixty? No. Xiao Ming would probably be stuffed to death after eating more than twenty.
Therefore, although Li Yao could slay dozens of Grand Illusionary Soldiers in one attack, it did not mean that he could slay thousands of them in a hundred attacks.
It was possible that his saber would be broken after the twentieth attack, that he would not be able to maintain his best state after the thirtieth attack, and that he would be exhausted after the eightieth attack.
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