Douluo Star.
Outside the atmosphere.
The originally dark and deep starry sky curtain suddenly twisted into a vortex shape.
The space was like a piece of silk cloth twisted by an invisible giant hand. Purple-black cracks radiated from the center of the vortex, and the air was filled with the smell of decaying sulfur.
“So soon?”
Xiao Hongchen was fiddling with his fingers out of boredom, but his eyes glanced outside the warship. In the black vortex, there was a strong devouring aura faintly emanating.
There is no doubt that it is the Abyss Plane that Ah Cheng mentioned before!
"Everyone, alert!" Xiao Hongchen's voice resounded throughout the fleet through the ninth-level amplified soul guide. He stood on the command platform of the main ship, and nine soul rings, one purple, five black, and three red, slowly floated up from his feet. The three hundred thousand year soul rings emitted a strange red light.
The spatial vortex suddenly expanded tenfold, and the first abyssal creature stretched out its sharp claws. It was a centipede-like monster over ten meters long, with barbs all over its carapace, and each segment of its body had a strange pattern resembling a human face.
It let out a sharp scream like a baby crying, and the sound waves caused faint cracks to appear all around it.
Immediately afterwards, the second and third abyss creatures, tens of thousands of them, poured out like a broken dam.
A school of piranhas with bat wings, a spider woman with a bloody mouth split open on her abdomen, a giant elephant made of bones...
The most horrifying thing is the aura they exude - the weakest is equivalent to a human Soul King, and the three leading gorgons with bone wings on their backs exude the pressure of a Titled Douluo level.
They are the vanguard of the Abyss Plane and also the first battle launched against the human race.
"Anomalies in spatial coordinates detected!" The adjutant's voice was trembling, "The energy fluctuations of these creatures are completely different from the characteristics of life forms on the Douluo Continent!"
“Don’t panic…”
Xiao Hongchen narrowed his eyes.
"Has their strength reached that of a god?" he asked softly.
The adjutant's face recovered a little: "No, no, the strongest one is just the strongest one among the three snakemen, about the level of Super Douluo. According to the deduction of artificial intelligence, they are likely to have the characteristics of fusion soul skills..."
"It's normal to fear the unknown, but when the firepower is sufficient, it will be enough to tear everything apart, including the slander of gods." Xiao Hongchen smiled.
"They are just a bunch of miscellaneous soldiers. They are not worth the trouble for the Sun-Moon Empire."
"…You are right, I am confused."
The adjutant looked ashamed.
Faced with unknown creatures from the universe, he was indeed a little flustered.
“…”
Xiao Hongchen waved his hands without changing his expression.
Ah Cheng went to the underworld, the designated captain Xu Lexuan was still receiving training on the ground, and Grandpa also returned to the ground temporarily to prepare for the handover of the dean. Elder Kong was also on the ground preparing for the upgrade and transformation of the interstellar battleship with Elder Cheng...
Currently, the only one left in the starry sky is him and the newly formed reorganized fleet, totaling more than 3,000 soul mentors.
Perhaps, this is the first time that the Sun-Moon Empire faces a war in the starry sky.
This is the thought.
Xiao Hongchen turned on the communicator.
There was a slight chaos in the fleet's main frequency. The four frigates fought on their own without a commander-in-chief. Although they killed the abyss creatures that approached the warships one after another, they seemed to be in disarray...
After all, no matter how much theoretical knowledge you have learned, you will still be overwhelmed when facing your first real combat in space.
"I am Xiao Hongchen..."
He coughed twice.
The main channel fell silent for a moment.
"Next, I will serve as the temporary supreme commander of the four frigates. I will issue the first order - activate the soul barrier! The frigates will form a diamond formation!"
"Yes! 001 frigate received!"
"002 frigate received!"
“…”
Soon, the main communication channel became orderly.
Under Xiao Hongchen's command, an effective counterattack was launched and the situation instantly became orderly.
A magic array with a diameter of 100 meters was deployed at the bottom of the main ship, and twelve silver metal pillars rose from the deck, interweaving into a hemispherical light shield. The four frigates lit up their soul guide thrusters at the same time, and the level 9 energy cannon at the bow began to charge.
The abyss creatures had obviously discovered something was wrong with the fleet. The three gorgons hissed shrilly, and all the monsters suddenly turned around and rushed towards the main ship like a black tide.
The way they move is extremely strange. Xiao Hongchen can even discover that some abyss creatures are making short-distance space jumps.
"What the hell?" Xiao Hongchen's mouth twitched.
Ah Cheng didn't say this!
"Not only do these things have the power of [devour], they can also control [space jump]?!!"
Even if it’s just a short distance, no, short distance is best studied!
Xiao Hongchen's eyes lit up.
"Attention! Keep all those abyssal creatures that have made space jumps for me! They are all excellent research materials!"
The interstellar battleship's space jump formation is too advanced.
I don’t know where Ah Cheng got it from, which makes it very difficult for the Sun-Moon Empire to study it. However, this natural, “initial” stage of space transition can definitely promote the Sun-Moon Empire’s understanding of space!
"The rest of you are free to fire!"
As Xiao Hongchen gave the order.
The four frigates simultaneously ejected soul beams with a diameter of five meters, plowing out four vacuum zones in the monster group.
The abyss creatures that were hit were vaporized instantly, but the monsters at the rear immediately filled the gap. Thirty-six launch ports were opened on the side of the main ship, and hundreds of level seven tracking soul-guided shells whizzed out with tail flames, drawing a brilliant arc of death in space.
The roar of the explosion shook the atmosphere like clouds, causing it to shatter slightly.
But the real threat had just emerged. Three gorgons appeared right above the main ship. Their long hair turned out to be countless tiny venomous snakes, which were now frantically gnawing at the protective shield. The oldest gorgon suddenly opened her mouth and spit out a jet of dark light.
"Dark attribute attack!" The adjutant's eyes narrowed suddenly.
The protective shield shook violently, and a crack appeared on one of the metal pillars.
"As expected of the advance team... there's something there."
Xiao Hongchen sneered and stopped the adjutant from mobilizing the eleventh-level soul guide cannon. He pressed the button on the command desk, thinking it was a waste of time.
The deck behind the command platform suddenly cracked, and a fifty-meter-tall silver mecha "Hongchen Jueying" rose in the steam.
A tenth-level soul guide core is embedded in the chest of the mecha, and its arms are deformable energy cannons and high-frequency particle knives.
This idea came from Acheng, so he adopted it without hesitation.
It is really cool to use.
"I leave this to you."
Xiao Hongchen jumped into the cockpit of the mecha. As the nerve connection was completed, the mecha's eyes lit up with scarlet light, and the six pairs of metal wings behind it bloomed like petals.
The terrifying soul power of the ninety-five-level Super Douluo was injected into the mecha through the soul amplifier, causing patterns on its surface that were exactly the same as Xiao Hongchen's soul ring to appear - a true soul guide device.
The mecha soared into the sky, smashed the protective shield and rushed towards the enemy. The three gorgons were about to dodge, but found that their bodies were imprisoned by some force - Xiao Hongchen's mecha had an additional skill - "Hongchen Imprisonment", which covered the designated target within a diameter of 100 kilometers.
The high-frequency particle knife on the mecha's right arm drew a graceful arc, and three hideous heads flew up at the same time.
But the creatures of the abyss were far more bizarre than one could imagine. The fleshy whiskers stretched out from the neck of the headless banshee and reattached her head. They dispersed, two of them entangled the mecha, and the other rushed straight to the command tower of the main ship.
"Start the Dragnet."
Xiao Hongchen gave orders calmly in the cockpit.
Thirty-six chains shot out from the bottom of the main ship, and at the end of each chain was a ninth-level binding soul guide. The chains wrapped around the approaching banshee like a living thing, and the terrifying soul power instantly burned her to a charred black.
On the mecha side, Xiao Hongchen manipulated the body to suddenly deform, and the chest armor slid to both sides, revealing the muzzle of the ninth-level energy cannon, which only took 0.3 seconds to charge - this was Mingdetang's latest "instant fire" technology.
After the blinding white light, a banshee was blasted to pieces with only half of her body left. But what was even more shocking was that the remaining part began to devour its own kind crazily to evolve!
"Damn, it's quite troublesome..." Xiao Hongchen shook his head helplessly.
A Super Douluo of level 95, who kills and comes back to life, comes back to life and kills again, it's really endless. And its devouring properties, no wonder it's what Ah Cheng has been thinking about all the time, it's quite disgusting.
"Attention all units, the creatures of the abyss have the ability to devour and evolve!" Xiao Hongchen's voice spread throughout the fleet, "Immediately implement Plan B!"
The four frigates suddenly changed their formation and projected silver metal pillars in four directions on the battlefield. These pillars immediately unfolded after landing, forming a cubic barrier with a side length of one kilometer.
This is the [barrier] developed by my grandfather, which comes with a series of negative BUFFs.
Within the [barrier], the movements of the abyss creatures were noticeably slower.
Xiao Hongchen seized the opportunity and manipulated the mecha to perform the ninth soul skill "Red Dust Extinction", which is a soul skill condensed by the mecha that has been integrated with life and the "God-given Soul Ring".
The mecha put its hands together, and nine soul rings lit up at the same time, condensing into a red ball of light on its chest.
When the ball of light expanded to a diameter of thirty meters, the mecha pushed it toward the center of the barrier.
There was no explosion, no shock wave.
Wherever the light ball passed, the creatures in the abyss weathered and dissipated like sand sculptures. This was an attack that directly affected the source of life, and it didn't even have time to perform devouring evolution. Finally, the Gorgon screamed unwillingly, and its body suddenly swelled up.
"Nima, there's more?"
"Everyone protect themselves!" Xiao Hongchen waved his hand.
He doesn't care, but don't damage the frigates. Every frigate is the hard work of the Sun and Moon Empire, and he would feel sad even if they were damaged.
The shock wave generated by the banshee's self-explosion caused cracks in the barrier, but it did not break.
When the smoke and dust cleared, only a few weak abyss creatures remained on the interstellar battlefield, struggling to survive.
"It can be regarded as a reminder to Riyue."
Xiao Hongchen looked at the battlefield.
He curled his lips.
The threat from the Abyss Plane...I'm afraid it will last less than a year.
…
Abyssal plane.
A broken crystal core was suspended above the blood pool, containing the last image sent back by the vanguard before its destruction - the huge silver ship across the sky was emitting a beam of annihilation light, and the diamond-shaped battle formation formed by four frigates cut the abyss creatures into pieces.
“Your Majesty.” The twelve pairs of compound eyes on the carapace of Emperor Longniu shrank at the same time, and his sickle-shaped forelimbs rubbed uneasily. “The broken crystal core sent from the front shows that there is an energy form in this plane that we have never seen before…”
"According to our previous predictions, they advanced too quickly and were able to easily defeat the advance troops."
The figure on the throne slowly raised his hand, and the dark red sky of the tenth layer of the abyss plane distorted.
The long hair of the Abyss Saint moved without wind, and the ends of his hair flowed with black mist that swallowed the light. He lightly tapped his fingertips, and the blood pool immediately boiled and surged, reorganizing the broken picture into a three-dimensional projection... The fluctuations that flashed when the eleventh-level soul guide cannon of the Sun and Moon Empire's main ship was charged made his eyes flash with a strange color.
He doesn't care about anything else.
But this strange thing... posed a vague threat to him.
By utilizing some kind of tool, the energy is compressed into it, and then explodes into an astonishing existence that is almost comparable to that of a demigod in the universe.
"Interesting." The Holy Lord's voice was indifferent. Fear rippled in the eyes of the Abyss Lords kneeling under the throne.
He suddenly stood up, and the Heart of the Abyss embedded in his chest burst out with purple-black light, and the rock formations of the entire plane began to tremble.
"They are progressing very quickly, but fortunately, we will arrive in just one year. By then, the Abyss Plane will devour the entire planet and complete a certain level of advancement..."
"As long as I can advance the Abyss Plane to the God Realm, I will be the God King!"
The projection screen switched to the "Hongchen Jueying" mecha controlled by Xiao Hongchen. When he saw the energy fluctuations on the chest of the mecha, the pupils of the Saint Monarch suddenly shrank into two vertical lines.
He stretched out his hand to grab the projection, and at the moment the mecha was torn apart by the invisible force, the picture was strangely frozen on Xiao Hongchen's sneering face - this human had actually used some kind of technology to perfectly integrate this device with a biological organism.
This so-called "tool" seems to be what these ants rely on...
However, all of them rely on external forces.
He is not afraid of these.
“Your Majesty!” The Soul Devouring Queen who controlled the seventh floor suddenly screamed. Hundreds of eyes on her spider abdomen were bleeding at the same time. She looked quite miserable. “My children are wailing! Those metal creatures are decomposing the energy of the abyss! They are trying to use the energy of the abyss and use it for themselves. They are eyeing... the power of space!”
The space behind the Saint Lord shattered, revealing the coordinates of the plane where Douluo Star was located. He stared at the space vortex above Douluo Star that had not yet dissipated, and suddenly laughed out loud.
The laughter caused the sulfur sea on the tenth layer to raise a thousand-meter-high wave, and countless dormant abyss creatures exploded and died in the sound waves.
Everyone was confused and looked at the almighty king with fear.
"What are you afraid of?"
The Holy King stepped out of the throne, leaving burning footprints on the rock with every step, "We are just a group of ants holding up glowing stones, trying to survive in this vast universe, but what are we?"
"We will be the predators who extinguish their hopes!"
"Pass the order down. Everyone from the first to the ninth floor should be on alert. We will speed up and tell those abyss dragons hiding in the shadows that it's time to repay the debt for raising them."
"When the Abyss swallows up that planet, it will be our time of true strength. Becoming a god will be just around the corner!" (End of this chapter)
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