148: Space Battle 1
However, those scattered light beam attacks
were all intercepted and annihilated by the shield-type Spells the warriors had activated in advance.
Although the shield strength of the other warriors was far inferior to Song Xian's, they remained unharmed under the protection of three to five layers of stacked shields.
In an instant, the distance between the warrior cluster and the massive fleet had closed to within a hundred kilometers!
At the same time, the warship hatches swung open, and dense swarms of bionic combat robots poured out like a plague of locusts.
The great battle exploded with a bang!
Song Xian's figure suddenly blurred, and space seemed to be torn apart—three identical figures stood out boldly!
This time, he had fused the power of his three Clones in advance.
"Moon Slash: Thunder Sky Net!"
The three bodies formed hand Seals simultaneously!
Piercingly cold moonlight blades, like an erupting stellar ring, surged wildly from two of the Clones;
the other Clone raised its hands high, summoning violent thunder snakes that wove into a destructive electrical net covering the Void Realm!
"Heh, imitating my Thunder Moon Slash? Interesting!" Zhang Sheng's eyes narrowed slightly as he watched this earth-shaking scene.
Thirty thousand Cultivators roared in unison!
Golden light pierced the air with unstoppable sharpness;
Thunder Dragons roared, tearing through the darkness!
Majestic metal-element and thunder-element offensive Spells converged into a destructive torrent, slamming into the enemy formation!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
One by one, the high-speed bionic robots were instantly dismembered and crushed, turning into silent explosions of metallic fireworks that bloomed in succession as blindingly bright lights in the dead silence of deep space!
Countless Spells accurately hit the massive warship armor, triggering chain explosions!
Blazing fireballs and shockwaves raged across the freezing hulls.
To everyone's surprise, the opponent did not immediately deploy those mysterious black spheres.
Tens of thousands of miles away, at the core of the massive spaceship.
omega "watched" the fierce battle with great interest. "Tsk, I thought these humans were hiding some trump card? It seems I worried for nothing." Its cold conscious waves carried a hint of mockery.
Immediately, an invisible, ultra-high-frequency command electromagnetic wave was secretly transmitted from the ship.
The very same millisecond the command arrived!
The engines of one hundred and thirty-six warships suddenly erupted with blinding blue flames, shifting sideways in perfect unison to evade!
The undersides of the hulls split open, and pure black spheres five meters in diameter—like the deepest voids in the Universe—were violently ejected!
Two per ship, totaling two hundred and seventy-two black spheres!
Once the ejection was complete, the fleet immediately accelerated to retreat into deep space!
A heart-stopping chill instantly gripped the hearts of all the Earth warriors!
They understood that the true test had arrived!
"Thunder-element Spells! All targets—the black spheres!" Song Xian's Divine Sense transmission exploded in everyone's minds like a thunderclap!
Among the thirty thousand Cultivators, several thousand elites specializing in thunder arts instantly formed hand Seals!
In an instant, the pitch-black Universe was completely illuminated!
Thunderstorms filled the sky!
Countless thick purple and white lightning pythons wove into a boiling sea of thunder, standing between the Cultivators and the black spheres!
The violent current, under the precise guidance of thousands of Divine Senses, slammed into those eerie black spheres like billions of piercing spears!
If these black spheres were pure technological creations, an energy impact of this scale would be enough to instantly paralyze any electromagnetic protection... However!
The moment the destructive thunder touched the surface of the black spheres—all the violent electrical light was swallowed as if by a black hole, vanishing... silently!
The two hundred and seventy-two black spheres were unharmed; their speed did not decrease but instead increased as they simultaneously began to spin at frantic speeds!
An invisible, hair-raisingly unique force field was about to take shape!
"Water-element! Ice-element! Control the field! Fast!" Song Xian's transmission carried an unprecedented urgency!
The command was like a mountain!
Thousands of Cultivators instantly switched their Spells!
Enormous waves emerged from thin air, and extreme freezing Qi swept across the starry sky!
Water Binding entangled them, Freeze Spells imprisoned them, and Breath of Frost covered them... Every high-speed rotating black sphere was individually encased in a cage made of ice and torrents!
Under the erosion of the extreme cold, the movement and rotation speed of the black spheres slowed down visibly to the naked eye!
That imminent destructive force field was forcibly suppressed!
The window of opportunity was fleeting!
"Follow me! Destroy the enemy ships!" Song Xian let out a sharp cry and led the charge, taking thousands of elite Cultivators with him as they turned into streaks of light and pounced toward the retreating warships!
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
Long-range attack Spells fell like torrential rain!
The warship engines instantly became the focus, and the flames of consecutive explosions lit up the path of their retreat!
One after another, the massive steel beasts disintegrated completely in the flames of engine explosions before they could even accelerate, turning into cosmic dust!
Song Xian tried to use his storage ring to collect intact warships or robot wreckage, but an invisible repulsive force obstructed the spatial power, so he could only helplessly pull the flying metal fragments into it.
At the core of the battlefield, the spiritual power of the thousands of Cultivators maintaining the ice and water cages was draining at an unprecedented rate!
Their faces grew visibly pale!
"Talisman support!" In the rear, those Cultivators who had just recovered a bit of spiritual power roared, pulling thick stacks of spirit Talismans from their specialized alloy backpacks!
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
Hundreds of Ice Arrow Talismans were activated simultaneously!
Densely packed ice spikes whistled toward the temporarily controlled black spheres, reinforcing the ice Seal layer by layer!
The original casters took the opportunity to step back, racing against time to absorb spirit beads and recover.
The thirty thousand Cultivators were efficiently divided into five echelons.
Aside from the assault team led by Song Xian responsible for annihilating the enemy ships and robots, the other four teams took turns to go on the offensive, going all out to suppress and attempt to destroy those eerie black spheres!
The battle reached a fever pitch in the blink of an eye!
Over a hundred warships, along with the overwhelming robot army, were quickly cleared out under the Cultivators' violent concentrated fire.
On the surface, the Earth Cultivators seemed to hold an overwhelming advantage.
However, the two hundred-plus ice-sealed black spheres did not stop resisting!
They vibrated and struggled violently within the ice cages, and every impact caused the spiritual power of the Cultivators maintaining the Spells to gush out!
The consumption was enormous, but it wasn't without discovery!
Several Cultivators with special fire Talents found that their Origin fire could actually cause substantial damage to the black spheres!
The crimson-gold flames conjured by one of them actually melted a third of the surface of a black sphere!
Zhang Sheng noticed this person, whose face was already as pale as paper, clearly suffering from severe Mental Energy overextension—without reaching the Transcendent level of their Spirit Refining Cultivation Technique, the price of forcibly activating one's Talent was immense.
Even so, destroying a single one proved to be incredibly difficult.
Zhang Sheng thought of Zhao Xue's Nine Revolutions True Flame and sighed with regret.
The former Sequence Members, aside from having a slightly higher starting point for their Talents, no longer had a significant advantage over ordinary Divine Breath Realm Cultivators in the current battlefield where spiritual power was king.
Zhao Xue was obsessed with the Dao of Alchemy, Xiao Yu was cultivating spirit fir trees, and Lu Zhuo was assisting the Dean with Federation affairs... Now, the only ones still active on the front lines of life and death seemed to be him and Song Xian.
With the desperate assistance of several individuals with special Talents, one black sphere was finally completely destroyed!
The moment the black sphere shattered, omega's consciousness core inside the spaceship jolted!
But it immediately returned to its cold state: "Humph! There are only a few people who can destroy the Mo Yao Pearls, and they are all at their wits' end... What are the analysis results?"
The ship's superbrain immediately provided feedback:
"The target group's energy consumption rate is extremely high, and the effectiveness of controlling the Mo Yao Pearls is decaying.
It is estimated that after the humans' energy is exhausted, the Mo Yao Pearl force fields will fully expand, and the survival probability of the target group is less than 0.01%. Losses of warships and robots are negligible."
To omega, those warships and robots were merely mass-produced consumables.
And these black spheres called 'Mo Yao Pearls' were the true treasures—refined from the star core essence after its home planet was destroyed!
...Zhang Sheng's eyes were as sharp as knives.
Continuing this stalemate was nothing more than a slow death!
Once their spiritual power was exhausted, everyone would be crushed by these eerie black sphere force fields!
His thoughts turned like lightning!
An ancient, dark-gold long spear, carrying a hum that tore through space, suddenly appeared in Zhang Sheng's hand!
His eyes were as calm as an ancient well as he held the spear with one hand, and the crimson heart palace inside his body rang out with a boom! A surge of blood-qi power, as majestic as a tsunami, rushed forth and instantly poured into the spear's body!
Buzz—!
A layer of ultra-refined crimson spear-intent, like burning lava, completely enveloped the long spear, and terrifying energy was compressed at the tip, held back but ready to strike!
"Hoo—"
Zhang Sheng moved! His figure left a faint afterimage where he stood; although he only used ten percent of his speed, it was already several times faster than his peers!
His target was a black sphere that was ice-sealed and struggling frantically!
"Extreme Strength—Mountain Collapse!"
The spear thrust out! No flourishes, only ultimate speed and power!
The ultra-compressed crimson spear-intent condensed into a cold gleam that tore through cosmic dust, accurately striking the core of that black sphere!
Crack—! Clang—!!
A tooth-aching cracking sound exploded! The surface of that indestructible, thunder-swallowing black sphere was instantly covered in spiderweb-like cracks, like fragile glass,
and it blew apart!