Suddenly, circles of twisted ripples spread out in the void, as if a stone was thrown into the water surface, spreading outward layer by layer.
These ripples did not dissipate. Instead, they seemed to be pulled by an invisible force and quickly converged towards one place, instantly tearing open a dark crack - which was actually the entrance to the turbulent flow of the void.
A small ship happened to pass by nearby, and the powerful suction force instantly pulled it towards the crack, and the hull of the ship made a harsh metallic groan.
“Oh no!”
The soldiers on the bridge cried out in surprise. The engines were running at full capacity, but it was like being stuck in a quagmire, unable to escape.
Just when the ship was about to be swallowed, a golden Behemoth rushed over with a loud roar, and its huge arms grasped the hull like an iron clamp, dragging it back from the edge of the turbulence.
Before he could recover from the shock, more ripples appeared in the void, and were about to condense into a new entrance to the turbulent flow.
Martin's eyes darkened, and he shouted to the other golden behemoth, "Smash them!"
The Golden Behemoth responded and moved, smashing its giant fist towards Lian Yi with the force to collapse mountains and split rocks.
What was strange was that the moment the ripples broke, clear human screams were heard from them, so shrill that it made people's scalps numb.
"Keep going!" Martin's face was solemn, signaling the Golden Behemoth not to stop.
Fists fell again and again, ripples continued to break, and screams followed one after another.
Sometimes it was the wailing of humans, sometimes it was the roar of strange beasts, and even the screams of some unknown creatures, as if countless lives were being torn apart by an invisible force.
Martin looked at the emerging ripples with a frown.
These sounds were by no means accidental, but rather some kind of sacrificial ritual that was ongoing—using the pain and death of countless lives to tear apart the void and create turbulence.
"Subsystem, detect fluctuations in void energy. Have you found any traces of the sacrificial formation?" He ordered in a deep voice.
"Master, the energy reaction is extremely chaotic, but there is indeed an energy circulation in the core area similar to that of a sacrifice... These ripples are probably the spatial rifts caused by the sacrifice!"
Martin's fingertips ran across the star map, his eyes as sharp as a knife.
If it was really a sacrifice, were those main gods crazy and digging their own graves - they would use so many believers in exchange for the power to tear the void.
Martin suddenly raised his hand to signal a pause, and then gave orders to the two golden behemoths.
"Secure this area. Break every ripple that appears immediately."
He wanted to see how many believers the other party could sacrifice to support this method - if they really used the lives of believers as sacrifices, what would be consumed in the end was their own foundation.
More importantly, he couldn't allow these void ripples to continue tearing apart his fleet. The result would be a complete destruction of both sides, and the ones who would be lost would be the knights who had fought hard for him, which would go against the original intention of the expedition.
The Golden Behemoth obeyed the order, standing like two iron towers in the void, and swung out with its giant fist.
Every ripple that had just formed was shattered in an instant. The screams continued to be heard, but no turbulence that could threaten the ships was formed.
Half a day passed quietly, and when the Golden Behemoth shattered the last ripple, the void became completely quiet, and no new ripples emerged.
Martin was frowning and thinking when suddenly, a series of dull explosions came from a distance.
He suddenly looked up into the depths of the void, and saw small planes that were originally marked on the star map.
Without warning, a blinding light flashed, and then it disintegrated in a violent explosion, turning into drifting stardust.
“These lunatics!”
Martin clenched his fists, his nails almost digging into his palms. A surge of anger rushed to his head, and he almost burst into curses on the spot.
The other party obviously saw that the sacrifice was ineffective and chose the most extreme method - he would rather destroy all the planes with his own hands than let him get a single cent.
But he quickly suppressed his anger, and a cold look flashed in his eyes.
Anger cannot solve the problem. Since the other party is willing to perish together with us, we must speed up and never let them succeed.
"All troops, listen up and speed up!" Martin's voice spread throughout the fleet through the communicator.
The Void Dragon Emperor roared, shaking the universe. The fleet shot through the void like an arrow, speeding towards an unknown star region.
The debris of the destroyed planes gradually moved away behind him, but they were like thorns piercing Martin's heart.
The rest of the journey was just as Martin expected.
Every time the fleet arrived at a plane and broke through the barrier to launch an attack, that plane would detonate its core without warning.
It was shattered into pieces in the violent explosion, leaving no chance for anyone to occupy it.
"In that case, there's no need to hold back."
Martin's eyes turned cold, and he simply gave up the idea of complete occupation and gave orders to the two golden behemoths.
"When you encounter a small or intermediate plane, you will take direct action. After breaking through the barrier, seize the core immediately. Never give them the chance to self-destruct!"
The Golden Behemoth received the order, and the moment its giant fist blasted open the plane barrier, it would probe into the core area and grasp the plane core in its palm with thundering means.
The remaining believers who tried to initiate the self-destruction program often did not have time to react.
As the core was extracted, it lost its resistance. After losing its core support, the entire plane silently collapsed into stardust.
Advancing all the way towards the heart of the divine realm, Martin had the star map mark the coordinates of all the hidden small planes one by one. Any that appeared near the route would be ruthlessly destroyed, and only the core would be taken.
Behind the fleet, there was a hollowed-out plane of wreckage left behind, but the light spots representing the core on the star map were becoming more and more dense.
As we gradually approached the central area of the Gods' Plane, the largest superior plane, the God's Realm, finally emerged on the star map.
Martin looked at the area wrapped by the thick energy barrier, his brows furrowed, with no intention of moving forward rashly.
"Your Majesty, are you ready to break through?" Eric asked.
Martin shook his head: "If this higher plane were to self-destruct, the power would be incomparable to the previous smaller plane. Even a golden behemoth would be seriously injured, let alone us."
Although he knew that the upper plane carried the final foundation of the gods and the possibility of self-destruction was extremely low, he did not dare to gamble with his own life and the lives of his legions.
"Pass the order down. The fleet will set up camp at a safe distance." Martin said in a deep voice, "No one is allowed to act rashly until we know the situation clearly."
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