149: Space Battle 2
"Speed Peak—Rainbow Piercer!"
The muscles in Zhang Sheng's right arm bulged as the dragon horn crushing gold spear tore through the air, turning into an afterimage barely visible to the naked eye!
The tip of the spear was pointed directly at that eerily floating black sphere!
Boom—!
Subjected to a second impact, the black sphere burst apart!
A faint ripple of Soul Power at its core was instantly annihilated without a trace.
Zhang Sheng's mind raced as he attempted to control the splashing black fragments—upon contact, they were as heavy as star-fallen meteoric iron!
To his surprise, these high-density fragments could be directly collected into his storage ring!
From his sudden violent attack to the disintegration of the black sphere, only a lightning-fast moment had passed.
The battlefield fell silent for a split second, only to erupt into a heaven-shaking uproar!
The fire of burning hope ignited in everyone's eyes!
The second one!
The third one!
The fourth one...!
Zhang Sheng did not cast any Spells; relying solely on the High Grade Rank 2 dragon horn crushing gold spear in his palm and consuming his own blood-qi power, he lunged forward in one bold thrust after another!
Every time the spear tip pierced a black sphere, his arm bones emitted an overwhelmed creaking sound.
The muscles on his face were taut, and the veins on his temples bulged like coiling dragons. His eyes were as fierce as a Vicious Beast pushed to the brink, as if every strike squeezed out the last drop of power in his body!
In the distance, Song Xian, who had just finished his own fight, was swinging a giant sword the size of a door to hack at another black sphere.
Every time the giant sword fell, it carried immense weight, sending sparks flying, yet he could only manage to chip off a small fragment with great difficulty.
Though he was horrified by Zhang Sheng's inhuman blood-qi brute force, doubts began to surface in his heart.
"This guy... why isn't he using Spells?" Song Xian was absolutely certain that once Zhang Sheng's Spells were unleashed, they would surely shake the heavens and earth.
He stared intently at Zhang Sheng's movements, his knuckles turning white from his grip.
"Unless... he can't? Or he doesn't dare?"
"This... what kind of method is this?!" In the core of the spaceship, omega's cold mechanical voice rareley showed a hint of fluctuation.
The images sent back by the sensory module startled it—that suddenly erupting human had not only destroyed its precious Obsidian Beads, but the fragments had vanished into thin air without leaving a trace!
"A bizarre weapon! A bizarre fighting style!"
"Countermeasure! Generate a countermeasure immediately!" Its Intelligent Machine core overclocked, and its quantum processor sparked with an eerie blue light, frantically calculating countless possibilities!
"Warning: Target's vital signs are abnormal! Energy fluctuations are continuously decaying!"
"Haha! Just as I thought!" omega's synthesized voice carried a hint of cold mockery. "The bodies of low-level carbon-based organisms are, after all, frail cages! Their energy reserves are so limited!" The conclusion was reached instantly.
The massive ship's engines suddenly lit up, spewing blinding blue flames, like a waking cosmic beast, as it pressed down ruthlessly toward the ant-like battlefield below!
The cold mechanical voice echoed through the bridge:
"Annihilation order confirmed. Target: 30,001 human individuals. Annihilation success rate: 99.8%."
On the battlefield.
Starting from the moment he shattered the hundredth black sphere, Zhang Sheng consciously began to restrain the surging blood-qi power within him.
With every swing of the spear, his power decayed by an imperceptible margin.
In the eyes of others, this was a sign of his exhaustion—his movements were no longer as swift as they were at the start, and the speed at which he destroyed the black spheres slowed down visibly.
When only the last ten black spheres remained suspended in mid-air—
"Not good! That monster ship is charging over!" Song Xian's sharp roar instantly exploded in everyone's Sea of Consciousness through a secret technique!
He immediately followed up with a private transmission to Zhang Sheng, his voice urgent: "Zhang Sheng! What do we do?"
"What else can we do? Run!" Zhang Sheng's voice remained calm. "However, the two of us have to stay behind to cover the retreat!"
Song Xian did not hesitate, and the command instantly spread through the entire army.
Right at that moment!
Zhang Sheng took a deep breath, and his entire body's blood-qi erupted one last time, like a final surge of life!
The dragon horn crushing gold spear let out a piercing shriek, turning into a crimson-gold rainbow that tore through space and slammed into the core of the final black sphere!
Boom—!
Fragments flew like ink rain!
The main force turned into streaks of light, fleeing for their lives toward the distance!
Zhang Sheng and Song Xian's three Clones, however, moved against the tide, like four fireflies charging toward a meteorite!
"How can our speed possibly outrun that eight-hundred-kilometer space fortress?" One of Song Xian's Clones turned to look at Zhang Sheng, his tone grave.
"Later, don't forget my storage ring!"
"Huh? An eight-hundred-kilometer steel beast, and you're so certain I'll survive to collect your 'inheritance'?" Zhang Sheng raised an eyebrow in mock exaggeration.
"Stop playing dumb!" Song Xian's Clone rolled its eyes. "You're desperately feigning weakness just to lure it down, afraid it would turn around and run, aren't you?"
As the acknowledged second-strongest person on Earth, Song Xian had spent more time studying Zhang Sheng than he had studying himself.
The depth of this man had always been a mist shrouding the entire planet.
"Perhaps today... the veil will finally be lifted?" Song Xian thought to himself.
A faint, barely perceptible curve formed at the corner of Zhang Sheng's mouth.
Song Xian was right. What he feared most was not the ship's firepower, but its terrifying interstellar travel speed!
Once it pulled away and the opponent grew enraged, firing a star-destroying cannon from light-years away... that would be the true catastrophe!
Although the probability was extremely low, Zhang Sheng would never allow such a "what if" to happen.
As for being unable to win? Zhang Sheng was never worried.
Intelligent Machine lifeforms acted with rigorous logic; if they truly had the power to crush Earth, they would have invaded with a massive army long ago. Why bother testing the waters?
The power of the cultivation system was a brand new, unknown, and terrifying variable to them!
The massive shadow loomed over with an unmatched momentum!
The eight-hundred-kilometer-long steel mega-structure was like a moving continental plate, blotting out the sky. The shadow it cast was enough to swallow mountain ranges!
The closer it got, the more its cold metallic texture and labyrinthine external structures became apparent.
The massive main engine nozzle, over ten kilometers in diameter...
The dense, hive-like array of turrets, the giant hangars constantly spewing small fighters...
And the massive energy shield generators covering the hull... all radiated a suffocating sense of pressure!
Distance entering the three-thousand-kilometer critical point!
Zhang Sheng abruptly halted his movement!
He turned sharply, standing tall in the Void Realm like a javelin, facing the crushing steel firmament without a shred of fear!
"Song Xian! Listen up!" Zhang Sheng's voice was resolute. "Your Clones must disable its engines at any cost!"
"Understood!" A light of determination erupted simultaneously in the eyes of the three Clones!
Zhang Sheng and Song Xian's three Clones instantly turned into four streaks of blazing rainbow light that tore through the sky, boldly lunging toward the sun-blotting steel beast!
Inside the bridge, omega's sensory modules locked onto these four "tiny dots," its cold logic judging them as nothing more than moths to a flame.
Buzz—!
The giant hangar gates swung open, and thousands of combat robots flashing with metallic cold light poured out like a swarm of bees!
At the same time, hundreds of Mo Yao Pearls shot toward the targets like lethal black comets, trailing eerie light!
Even more heart-pounding was that the dense turret arrays on the ship's surface had instantly completed their aiming calibration. Hundreds of high-energy particle beams, capable of melting gold and iron,
wove into a destructive net of death, instantly covering the airspace where Zhang Sheng and the other three were!
The rainbow lights wove frantically through the dense beams!
Layer upon layer of Profound Light Shields instantly lit up around Zhang Sheng, enduring the destructive energy impacts!
Every time a shield was pierced, a new light shield would regenerate almost at the same moment it was annihilated!
Song Xian's Clones also displayed their own Divine Abilities, either dodging or tanking, making difficult progress through the rain of light and the encirclement of robots!
However, more and more combat robots and Mo Yao Pearls joined the hunt, greatly compressing their space to dodge!
"Zhang Sheng! What are you waiting for?!" One of Song Xian's Clones narrowly avoided a high-speed spinning Mo Yao Pearl that was about to release a chaos field, his voice tinged with anxiety.
Once trapped in the field, the Clone would be annihilated in an instant!
"Hold on! Not close enough!" Zhang Sheng's voice remained clear even during high-speed movement.
His powerful Divine Sense precisely calculated the distance from the ship's main body—four hundred kilometers... three hundred kilometers... two hundred and fifty kilometers!
Just as the nearest batch of Mo Yao Pearls accelerated their spin to the limit,
and the chaos field was about to form!
Zhang Sheng's Divine Sense transmission exploded in Song Xian's Sea of Consciousness like a thunderclap:
"Now! Do it!"
Boom—!
The spiritual energy within the two of them erupted like a volcano that had been dormant for ten thousand years!
Their speed instantly soared to a terrifying degree!
"Water Binding · Frost Congeal!"
With a thought from Zhang Sheng, a vast amount of water-attribute spiritual energy swept out!
Surging undercurrents instantly emerged out of thin air in the Void Realm, precisely entangling every high-speed Mo Yao Pearl!
Almost at the same moment, extreme cold erupted!
The rushing water, along with the Mo Yao Pearls within, was instantly frozen into massive ice crystals solidified in the Void Realm!
The high-speed spinning came to an abrupt halt!
This was the terrifying control of a Perfected State Spell!
But this was just clearing the way!
A sharp light flared in Zhang Sheng's eyes!
He grabbed Song Xian's three Clones and turned into a crimson-gold meteor that tore through the firmament!
Sixty times the speed of sound!
Even faster!
Terrifying spiritual energy burned frantically at a rate of thousands of points per second!
The foundation brought by the Perfection of the Nine Calamities Secret Codex - Qi Sea Chapter was revealed in full at this moment!
Within his Dantian Qi Sea, 8,991 massive spirit suns rotated slowly like stars, each containing a staggering 9.99 million points of vast spiritual energy!
At this moment, these "stars" were releasing terrifying energy at an unprecedented speed!
The two sides charged toward each other!
In less than a minute, Zhang Sheng had boldly fought his way into the spaceship's immediate vicinity!
"Profound Light Shield · Nine-Nine Return to Origin!"
His mind shifted again!
Eighty-one layers of thick light shields, condensed into substance and flowing with profound runes, instantly wrapped around him and Song Xian's Clones in layers!
Countless high-energy particle beams bombarded the light shields like a rainstorm, exploding into a sky full of light debris!
But the regeneration speed of the light shields far exceeded the speed of their destruction!
Zhang Sheng and the Clones were like spirits dancing amidst the death beams, dodging and weaving through the dense fire, avoiding lethal concentrated attacks.
Surprisingly, he still had not unleashed any offensive Spells!
Inside the spaceship's core command hall.
A piercing alarm suddenly blared!
Red lights flashed frantically!
"Warning!
Warning!
Detected abnormal surge in energy index of target individual (Marker: Zhang Sheng)!"
"Increase ratio: 1,000%... 2,000%... 3,000%... continuing to soar!
Threat Level: Star-Destroyer Class (MAX)!"
In its programming, the Star-Destroyer Class represented energy sufficient to destroy a planet!
On the massive main screen, Zhang Sheng's cold face was magnified,
beside which was a blood-red energy graph that jumped frantically, nearly overflowing the screen!
Atop the metal throne, the black egg-shaped core known as "omega," its smooth liquid metal shell rippled violently,
like the surface of water into which a stone had been thrown,
clearly reflecting the severe shock its core logic module was experiencing and... a hint of a cold, personified emotion called "panic"!
"Damn it! This is impossible! What on earth is his energy source?!" omega's synthesized voice showed an uncontrollable, almost distorted fluctuation for the first time.