Chapter 325 At least we can drag the world down with us!

The scales of victory have rapidly tipped in China's favor.

Inside the massive, mountain-like headquarters mothership of the Descent Legion, Ning Yao's face turned ashen as intelligence on battlefield damage was continuously reported.

"Heavenly Venerable..." A subordinate knelt on the ground, cold sweat pouring down his face.

"The combat analysis department, intelligence department, reconnaissance department, and so on have all done their best, but... but they still can't determine what that suddenly appeared aircraft is. Its technological level is far superior to ours..."

Ning Yao stared intently at the screen in front of her. "Activate level one attack and shoot that thing down."

"You mean—Descending Sigh?!" the subordinate hesitated. "But our legion hasn't withdrawn yet. If we launch Descending Sigh now, I'm afraid..."

Ning Yao roared, "By the time the legion retreats before launching, that thing will be right in front of me!"

The subordinate said tremblingly, "The Descent Sigh is our ultimate weapon. Although it is extremely powerful, its energy consumption is also terrifying. A single launch consumes a third of our energy. If—"

"Stop wasting my time with your nonsense!" Ning Yao commanded forcefully, "Activate it immediately!"

"Yes, yes, yes!" The subordinate dared not say any more and hurriedly left.

At this moment, thousands of aerial combat motherships and tens of thousands of air combat aircraft of the Descending Legion were scattering and fleeing, most of them soaring to an altitude of 10,000 meters.

Meanwhile, the shuttle-shaped mining ship relentlessly pursued them, reaping rewards along the way like the Grim Reaper.

The aerial combat force of the Descending Legion only now felt what fear was. Before, they were the ones who slaughtered others, but now they were being utterly defeated by a seemingly ordinary aircraft.

At an altitude of 20,000 meters, the Advent Legion's headquarters mothership, which was as large as half a city, emitted a muffled roar, and waves of energy distorted the air around it.

As energy gathered, the pyramid-shaped headquarters mothership glowed with golden light. Within seconds, all the golden light condensed at the bottom of the mothership, and then suddenly burst forth with hundreds of dazzling beams of light, heading straight for the mining ship.

Each beam of light was over a hundred meters in diameter, containing terrifying energy, and tearing the space itself open with countless black cracks wherever it went.

All the beams simultaneously and precisely struck the mining ship, creating a massive focal point in the sky that was many times more dazzling than the sun.

The energy overflowing from the focal point even instantly vaporized the descending legion's aircraft within a radius of several kilometers. Even on the ground battlefield thousands of meters below, both sides had to hurriedly seek cover to avoid being burned to ashes by the spreading heat.

"Surely that thing should be gone by now?" Ning Yao stared intently at the screen.

As the attack of the Descending Sigh ended, the sky slowly returned to normal, and the screen was no longer a deathly white.

When Ning Yao saw the image, her face turned even paler than when she saw the screen.

Because the shuttle-shaped aircraft was completely unharmed!

On the contrary, the already halved air combat force of the Descent Legion was reduced by half again.

The shuttle-shaped aircraft hovered in place, silently displaying its power.

"Fire again...fire one more shot!" Ning Yao roared furiously, her eyes bloodshot.

The subordinate beside him hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, please calm down! Even one Sigh of Descent couldn't destroy that aircraft, and a second one will have no effect either. Please don't waste any more energy! If we fire again, we'll only have a third of our energy left, and then we won't even have enough power to open the spacetime tunnel for evacuation..."

"Who said I was going to fight that monster again?" Ning Yao's forehead veins bulged, and her eyes were terrifyingly vicious. "I'm going to attack the ground. The tens of millions of surviving Chinese people are there. One shot is enough to wipe them all out! I don't believe that monster can protect them!"

"Heavenly Venerable..."

"Beat him! Or I'll kill you right now!"

"It is... Heavenly Venerable."

The dull rumble sounded again.

Another descending sigh was launched, heading straight for the earth.

From the sound of the roar to the launch of the Descent Sigh, there was less than five seconds of reaction time.

In such a short time, the mining spaceship flew from ten thousand meters above the ground and deployed an invisible energy field shield as the Descent Sigh approached.

A blindingly large beam of light crashed down, filling the world with another blinding, pale light.

In the distance, Xiao Qidi had one arm around Ning Jinli's shoulder and the other raised to create a transparent protective shield around them using his inner strength.

A shockwave, many times more powerful than a nuclear explosion, struck in the blink of an eye.

The two remained motionless inside the protective shield, while outside, the mountains collapsed, the earth cracked, and sand and rocks flew everywhere.

When the blinding light dissipated and the devastating shockwave subsided, Ning Jinli finally breathed a sigh of relief, because she saw that, under the protection of the mining ship, the base had suffered almost no damage.

On the contrary, before this terrifying attack arrived, a large number of surrendered legion and descending legion marines who had fled outside the stronghold area were turned into blood mist by the spreading shock wave.

Inside the mothership of the Descent Legion headquarters, Ning Yao let out a furious and extremely angry roar.

"ah!!!"

The moment the roar erupted, dozens of tentacles burst forth from her body, smashing the four walls of the command hall where she was located to pieces, and even destroying all the control instruments and display screens in front of her.

Dozens of subordinates and high-ranking commanders of the legion hurriedly lay down to avoid the attack, but some of them were unable to escape in time and were pierced through by the tentacles, dying instantly.

After venting her anger, Ning Yao slowly retracted her tentacles.

The subordinates lay prostrate on the ground, not daring to lift their heads.

This second-generation Celestial Venerable is truly... terrifying. His temper and personality are even more violent than that of the first-generation Celestial Venerable Lord Ning, who founded the Descent Legion, and he is far less composed and calm than Lord Ning.

"Again! Hit me again!" Ning Yao roared, her eyes bloodshot.

One of the high-ranking officials, steeling himself, said, "Celestial Venerable, we can't fight anymore... We only have one-third of our energy left, not even enough to open a spacetime portal to evacuate this world..."

"Oh? So what's your strategy?" Ning Yao looked at him with bloodshot eyes.

The high-ranking officer, drenched in sweat and trembling, said, “With the last third of our energy, our headquarters mothership can escape… no, evacuate to the moon. Although almost all of the Advent Legion’s combat forces have been wiped out, we still have millions of people on our headquarters mothership. We can build a base on the moon to mine energy, recuperate, and rebuild our strength before launching another attack.”

"Foolish!" Ning Yao cursed. "Do you think we can escape with that shuttle-shaped aircraft's capabilities?!"

The senior executive who was providing the strategy seemed to have his throat gripped by an invisible hand, unable to utter a single word.

Everyone else present fell into a deathly silence.

Judging from the recent battle, they probably have no chance of survival.

"How about... surrendering?" a high-ranking official whispered from the corner.

Whoosh!

A tentacle flew out from Ning Yao's shoulder, its tip piercing directly through the chest of the high-ranking official who had surrendered.

Before he could even beg for mercy, he was entangled and twisted by tentacles, breaking into several pieces that fell to the ground.

"Is there anyone else who wants to surrender?" Ning Yao looked down at the others with a cold, sharp gaze.

No one spoke again; they even held their breath.

“Alright, it seems no one wants to surrender,” Ning Yao said, her expression regaining its composure, but a more terrifying madness surged in her blood-red eyes. “My father once founded the Descent Legion in a parallel world, which has swept across the globe for a hundred years without ever losing. The word ‘surrender’ doesn’t even exist for them! Even if I can no longer fulfill my father’s wish to rule this world, at least I can drag this world down with me!”

After he finished speaking, the hearts of everyone else present sank to the bottom.

“I don’t want to die… I still have family,” a high-ranking official said through gritted teeth. “We all originally wanted to come to this world with the Celestial Venerable and enjoy a new life, but this outcome… is not what I wanted!”

Ning Yao's face was as cold as ice. "What, are you going to defy me too?"

The high-ranking official slowly stood up and said defiantly, "Although you are Lord Ning's biological daughter, you are not worthy of being the Heavenly Venerable. You may not have a family, but we still do!"

"Hahahaha!" Ning Yao threw her head back and laughed loudly. "Family? Now you're trying to play the victim with me and say you have family? Since the beginning of the Descent Legion, who hasn't taken thousands or tens of thousands of lives? Which of you high-ranking members didn't rise to your current positions step by step through slaughter? How many people have you killed and how many so-called families have you destroyed? And now you're trying to pull this stunt on me?!"

The high-ranking official who had argued back was rendered speechless by the rebuke, and in a fit of rage, roared, "Anyone who doesn't want to die, come and fight her with me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he drew his sidearm and pulled the trigger at Ning Yao.

At the same time, more than a dozen high-ranking officials also pulled out guns and fired.

The extremely destructive bullets rained down on Ning Yao, riddling her with bloody holes.

The higher-ups knew it wouldn't be so easy to kill her, so one of them, skilled in close combat, drew a dagger and rushed forward with lightning speed, severing Ning Yao's head with a swift stroke.

Blood splattered everywhere, leaving a scene of utter devastation.

Ning Yao's head rolled to the side, and her body slumped to the ground like a lump of rotten flesh.

"We...killed her?"

The high-ranking officials who launched the rebellion found it hard to believe.

Someone kicked Ning Yao on the head, and when there was no reaction, they cheered.

“Heh… idiots… all idiots…” Ning Yao suddenly let out a cold laugh.

Everyone present felt their hair stand on end instantly.

Before they could make another move, dozens of blood-red tentacles shot out from Ning Yao's body, instantly wrapping up all the high-ranking members and tearing them into pieces.

Among these high-ranking individuals were also incredibly powerful genetically modified individuals, but they were utterly powerless against Ning Yao's attacks.

After tearing everyone to shreds, Ning Yao used her tentacles to devour the corpses and blood on the ground, and then quickly reassembled her body as if she had never been injured.

Since she devoured Ning Hai and Lu Xingfeng while in a state of irrationality last time, she discovered that devouring others could strengthen herself.

Even Lu Xingfeng's profound skills accumulated over a hundred years were all transferred to her.

Now, it has swallowed dozens of high-ranking members of the Advent Legion in one go, and has also absorbed their powerful genetic mutation abilities.

"Tsk... If I were to devour all the millions of people on the headquarters mothership, I wonder how powerful I would become..." Ning Yao licked her lips, her eyes filled with a twisted light of excitement and madness.

She activated the top-level energy field defense layer of the headquarters mothership, then walked naked out of the main control hall, took the elevator, and headed to other areas.

At an altitude of 20,000 to 30,000 meters, the headquarters mothership remained stationary, surrounded by a layer of visible energy fluctuations.

The remaining forces of the Advent Legion, having lost contact with their headquarters, were like headless flies and were quickly annihilated by the mining ship sent by Xiao Qidi, which rammed into them single-handedly.

As for the routed surrendering army, they decisively gave up resistance and all chose to surrender to the Chinese nation.

The tens of millions of survivors from the Huaxia Kingdom all came to the ground and began to clear the battlefield and collect usable supplies. Among them, the high-ranking members of Huaxia were responsible for leading and organizing, handling surrender matters, and preparing to contact the legions from many parallel worlds that came to support them.

Judging from the current situation, the great battle is nearing its end, and China's victory is a foregone conclusion.

The only thing left to deal with is the Advent Legion mothership, which is hovering tens of thousands of meters in the air.

Xiao Qidi maneuvered the mining ship up and attempted to ram it several times, but failed to break through the mothership's energy field defense.

“It seems their mothership is still a bit more powerful than my mining ship,” Xiao Qidi said with a smile. “I need to get a combat-ready one.”

After saying that, he ordered the mining ship to return to port and quickly brought in a combat aircraft that resembled a tomahawk.

With just one energy blast, the Tomahawk aircraft tore a hole in the energy field defense layer of the Advent Legion mothership.

"Jinli, do you want to destroy it directly, or do you have other plans?" Xiao Qidi asked Ning Jinli for her opinion.

Ning Jinli looked at the huge shadow in the sky and said, "Destroying it would be too wasteful. It would be better to leave it so that we can study it later."

Xiao Qidi chuckled, "Hmm, it's alright. Although it's a bit outdated, it's still pretty good research material for you."

Ning Jinli added, "I estimate there are still many people inside, and their ruler, the Heavenly Venerable, must be among them. I want to go in and check the situation first."

“No problem, I’ll take you there.” After saying that, Xiao Qidi hugged Ning Jinli tightly, his body surging with energy, and he suddenly rose into the air.

Before Ning Jinli could react, she had already arrived next to the Advent Legion's headquarters mothership.

From the ground, this pyramid-shaped flying object was already astonishingly large. Now that we're closer, it feels like we've arrived at the foot of a majestic mountain. Even looking up and gazing into the distance, we can't see its top.

Xiao Qidi led Ning Jinli through the gap in the energy field's defensive layer. Then, using some unknown method, he opened a hole in the mothership's hull, and the two of them went in one after the other.

Upon entering, you are placed on an unnamed high platform.

"This isn't just an aircraft, it's practically a mobile city that can accommodate tens of millions of people..." Ning Jinli exclaimed in amazement as she looked out from the high platform and saw part of the scene inside the mothership.

Looking around, in addition to a lot of huge machines and facilities whose purpose is unknown, there are also dense high-rise buildings and a tangled network of roads.

Strangely, not a single person was seen.