by <unknown>
Chapter 797: Brilliant Sparkle! |
The central area of Heavenly Saints City was the focus of the Immortal Cultivators. The majority of their crystal warships and Grand Illusionary Soldiers had been gathered in this place.
Most of the Grand Illusionary Soldiers there were larger, faster, and protected by brighter spiritual shields. The flying swords and mystic rays that they triggered were more agile and destructive, too!
Li Yao even saw dozens of Grand Illusionary Soldiers shoot out almost eight hundred flying swords, which riddled a crystal warship with holes immediately and made it lose all its combat ability!
"They are all the masterpieces crafted by the Grand Illusionary Group themselves without bothering about the cost. They are far better than the inhomogeneous products that other sects refined!"
The Grand Illusionary Soldiers in the central area was not only better in quality but also larger in quantity. Instead of thin tornadoes, they formed wriggling black clouds that consumed the sky.
Some of the smaller crystal warships were completely wreathed by the Grand Illusionary Soldiers. When the Grand Illusionary Soldiers dispersed, the glamorous-looking starships turned into broken, lackluster debris!
The scene was both like a shoal of piranhas biting the prey that had fallen into the water crazily and an ant army marching on the ground, turning all the creatures in their way into bones!
Protected by the millions of Grand Illusionary Soldiers, Heavenly Phantom was like a majestic king in silver armor, aweing the entire space zone!
"The main gun of Heavenly Phantom was developed by the Star Fighters' Alliance, the Grand Illusionary Group, and almost twenty other sects that are famous for their crystal cannons," Si Koulie said in an almost desperate tone. "It is known as 'Heavenly Might Artillery'!
"The Heavenly Might Artillery has ninety-nine ball-like turrets. However, the turrets are not fixed on the surface of Heavenly Phantom but floating around Heavenly Phantom, connected by the electromagnetic force. They can move along any trajectory, like ninety-nine satellites that surround Heavenly Phantom!
"The ninety-nine turrets can either be evenly distributed around Heavenly Phantom and attack individually or move to the same location and constitute a super cannon whose damage is unimaginable.
"One shot is enough to vaporize an entire crystal warship!
"The Heavenly Might Artillery is the strongest aggressive magical equipment in the Flying Star Sector. No cannons are a match for it!"
Li Yao observed from afar and, thanks to his amazing eyesight, indeed found almost a hundred light spots that were circling around the body of Heavenly Phantom.
Every turret of the Heavenly Might Artillery was around one hundred meters in diameter. They were round, translucent, and looked like glittering pearls from a distance.
The glamorous brilliance they shot out, however, boasted unbelievable damage. It was as powerful as the main gun of regular crystal warships. Moreover, the cooldown of the turrets was extremely short. They were shooting almost consecutively without a break!
Pulled by the electromagnetic force, the ninety-nine floating turrets moved around Heavenly Phantom quickly. There was not a blind spot at all!
No break, no blind spot, and extremely powerful. According to the defense of the target, one, two, or even more turrets could be gathered together in order to increase the intensity of the attack. This was the Heavenly Might Artillery, a super weapon that the refiners of the entire Flying Star Sector had worked hard on for a long time!
In the most crucial battlefield that was supervised by Xiao Xuance in person, every crystal warship had been locked onto by the Grand Illusionary Soldiers. Even if they had become empty shells and lost all momentum, they would not be let go of until they were completely ripped apart!
Sparkle could not fake its way forward now.
"We can only break in by force now!" Bloody flames were flowing crazily inside Li Yao's eyes. His lips curled in excitement as he said, "Leader Si, please give a command to the starships in the battlefield that are still under the control of Cultivators. Ask them to stall the enemy no matter what the cost is. We are about to launch the final charge!
"Professor Mo, Leader Si has sent the structural design of Heavenly Phantom to the mainframe crystal processor of Sparkle. Now, let's march forward at full speed with the bridge of Heavenly Phantom as our target!"
Si Koulie lost his cool. "Bridge? The bridge is the heart of Heavenly Phantom. Besides, the star brain is right behind the bridge! When we devised Heavenly Phantom, the defense of the bridge was the highest priority! We are definitely going to suffer the most brutal attack from Heavenly Phantom if we choose that place as our destination!"
Professor Mo Xuan smiled. "Then, please sit in the buffer rune arrays, everybody, because the remaining part of our journey might be a bit… bumpy."
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The souls of Professor Mo Xuan and the other spirits completely melded into the mainframe crystal processor of Sparkle.
All the disguises outside Sparkle was taken off during the acceleration.
The rusted and dented plate was gone, replaced by a splendid, translucent body that was immaculate!
Hiss!
When the Cultivators saw Sparkle's real form through the light beam, they all gasped in shock.
Si Koulie was so thrilled that he found it hard to breathe.
The starship in front of their eyes was less than nine hundred meters long. Faced with the super starships that could easily be more than ten kilometers long, it seemed to be insignificant.
However, the neat and delicate starship was like a brilliant diamond emitting dazzling brilliance that immediately attracted everyone's attention!
Although they were merely observing the starship on the light beam, every Cultivator could feel the untamable urges of Sparkle, as if it was not a crystal warship but a ferocious animal that had travelled from the primordial era to the present day!
Si Koulie could not help but compare Sparkle to Heavenly Phantom, which he refined in person.
Although the sizes of the two starships were vastly different, one of which looked like an elephant and the other a mouse, the aura and brilliance of Sparkle were as daunting as Heavenly Phantom, if not more!
It was like a firefly suddenly emitting endless flames and trying to burn the sun up!
"Please sit down, everybody. We will now distribute most of the spiritual energy and the computational ability to the power rune arrays and the defense rune arrays. We won't be able to ensure the stability of the starship!"
Professor Mo Xuan's voice, which was generated by the vibrating metal patches, sounded quite excited. "Sparkle, move forward. Target: Heavenly Phantom, the flagship!"
Hiu!
In the next moment, all the Cultivators seemed to be bashed hard right in their faces. Even the Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators fell into the buffer rune arrays all of a sudden and did not adapted themselves to the high speed for a staggeringly long time.
The shining starship was immediately noticed by Xiao Xuance.
After analyzing the speed, agility, and the spiritual waves it released, the star brain determined Sparkle to be the most dangerous enemy!
"Block it!" Xiao Xuance bellowed.
Within a breath, commanded by the star brain, whose computational ability was as vast as an ocean, countless Grand Illusionary Soldiers and crystal warships under the control of the Immortal Cultivators crowded toward Sparkle.
In the meantime, forty-one out of the ninety-nine turrets on Heavenly Phantom locked onto Sparkle!
Zi! Zi! Zi! Zi!
Deep purple brilliance flashed on the forty-one turrets at the same time. Then, forty-one bolts of lightning flashed across space and split into a storm of lightning!
Many Cultivators and crystal warships that were standing in the way of the lightning were torn apart ruthlessly.
Some of the Grand Illusionary Soldiers were unfortunate enough to be captured by the lightning storm, too. T
hey all turned into broken, empty shells after spluttering sparks.
However, defense shields that looked like golden scales appeared around Sparkle, turning it into a dragon that had soared into the sky. It rushed forward in the dazzling lightning, completely undamaged. Even its speed was not affected at all. The starship turned into a streak of brightness and moved forward!
Two crystal warships controlled by the Immortal Cultivators blocked Sparkle's way, one on the left and the other on the right. They planned to force Sparkle to change its direction, only to be crushed immediately like a dark cloud that was torn apart by sunlight!
Sparkle leapt out of the cloud and split the darkness of the universe like a golden sword!
There was no need to mention the Grand Illusionary Soldiers. In front of Sparkle, which had accelerated to the highest speed, they were like thousands of ants trying to stop a sprinting crystal train. The only possible outcome for them was to be crushed into smithereens instantly!
Standing on the bridge and looking at Sparkle, which was charging close, Xiao Xuance was lost for a moment.
The thousands of light beams on the bridge were displaying bad news on the ground incessantly.
It had been three hours since the New Era Plan was initiated. However, the Immortal Cultivators had not taken over the hall of the Meeting of the Next Millennium and the few important warehouses of magical equipment in the first space ring.
The qi-trainers who jumped out of nowhere and the elites of Flying Star University and Heavenly Saints Institute, who had organized themselves much faster than he had expected, had all caught him unprepared.
But so far, those difficulties were all conquerable.
Although the battle was stagnant right now, the Cultivators would be tired and wounded, and they needed rest. After all, their bodies were made of flesh and blood.
After two hours of high-intensity combat, the spiritual energy of most Cultivators was already running dry.
With the help of Heavenly Phantom, he had basically suppressed all the crystal warships above the central area of Heavenly Saints City.
Most of the crystal warships had either been taken over by the Immortal Cultivators or utterly broken apart!
In half an hour, the battle would be completely under his control. He would be able to spare his hands and suppress the central area with Heavenly Phantom.
If it was necessary, he could aim the Heavenly Might Artillery at the hall of the Meeting of the Next Millennium and bombard it directly. He would be glad to find out how many strikes that defense rune array of the great hall could resist exactly.
Despite all the unfavorable circumstances, Xiao Xuance had thought that the balance of victory was slowly leaning toward him.
However, at the most crucial moment, an unbelievably cutting-edge starship jumped out of nowhere. According to the calculation of the star brain, the starship did not hide its target at all. It was darting directly toward the heart and the head of Heavenly Phantom!
"Deploy three times, no, five times more Grand Illusionary Soldiers to defend the bridge. I want the bridge and the chamber where the star brain is placed filled with Grand Illusionary Soldiers until nothing can pass through!
"Turn all the turrets to the left side of Heavenly Phantom and aim them at the target together!"
Chapter 798: Instant Movement, Breaking In! |
Shua! Shua Shua!
The ninety-nine turrets that were evenly distributed around Heavenly Phantom now all glided to the left side.
Ninety-nine giant 'marbles' that were perfectly round and smooth were piled up high. Starting from the foundation of the tower, every turret glittered suddenly and transmitted surging spiritual energy forward.
When the spiritual energy of different marbles was concentrated to the front of the giant artillery, it seemed to be a bright purple solar prominence that contained endless power and could stab a hole in the universe!
"The spiritual energy is charged. The ninety-nine turrets have been adjusted to the same frequency!"
"The trajectory of the target has been locked. It does not change its course at all and simply comes straight at us!"
"Prepare to open fire in three seconds!"
For all the Cultivators and Immortal Cultivators inside Heavenly Saints City, those were perhaps the longest, most painful three seconds of their life.
Everyone who was placed in the battlefield, be they Cultivators or Immortal Cultivators, could not help but slow down their attack. They gazed at the streak of gold that was darting at Heavenly Phantom at a high speed with scorching eyes.
Even the Grand Illusionary Soldiers became somewhat inert because the star brain had shifted a huge amount of computational ability to control the Heavenly Might Artillery and analyze Sparkle's path.
It felt as if everything in the entire universe except for Heavenly Phantom and Sparkle halted for three seconds!
The mainframe crystal processor of Sparkle sensed that the starship had been locked onto, but it had no intention of decelerating or dodging.
The speed of the starship had been brought to the maximum. It was impossible to slow down or take down. Not only would a great amount of time and fuel be wasted, the starship would risk being harassed by the Grand Illusionary Soldiers again.
Although Sparkle could paralyze the Grand Illusionary Soldiers with the electromagnetic defense system, it would have to consume a lot of spiritual energy. When it was drowned in an ocean of Grand Illusionary Soldiers, there would be no way to accelerate again.
Therefore, Sparkle could only take the chance. It moved faster and faster, leaving a magnificent blurred shadow trailing behind!
"Open fire!" Xiao Xuance said coldly.
"Activate!" Li Yao shouted, with veins bulging on his face.
There was no sound. In the universe of silence, a silver dragon mixed with purple electric arcs spurted out and exploded into billions of crazily dancing snakes, sweeping the more than ten cubic kilometers on the left side of Heavenly Phantom.
All the Exos, Grand Illusionary Soldiers, and crystal warships within range were torn apart and obliterated into scorching torrents of particles. Pushed by the billions of dazzling snakes, they congregated into a sea of destruction and lunged at Sparkle!
However, Sparkle was still marching forward, like a lone warrior on the battlefield who was charging toward the barrage of ten thousand sharp arrows!
Many Cultivators who saw the scene closed their eyes sadly, unwilling to witness the doom.
Inside Sparkle, quite a few Cultivators who were wreathed in the buffer rune arrays exclaimed in shock, too.
However, the next second, Sparkle disappeared!
The surging tsunami of spiritual energy and the heated torrents of particles only tore Sparkle's golden blurred shadow into pieces!
Including Xiao Xuance, no one realized what had happened.
The star brain, on the other hand, calculated Sparkle's location at the earliest chance—It was now on the right side of Heavenly Phantom!
Instant movement!
Sparkle had performed an instant movement, or rather, a super short-distance space jump, in the last second.
Although space jump was a mature technique in the Flying Star Sector, the super long-distance jumps across Sectors and the super short-distance jumps were both problems that had baffled the scientists for a long time.
Super short-distance space jumps were especially troublesome. Because the distance was too short, it had a high demand on the instant changes between the three-dimensional universe and the four-dimensional universe. It was like sewing on a cell and had been an impossible conundrum!
Besides, for normal space jumps, the starships had to warm up for a few hours while remaining absolutely still before they performed one if they intended to arrive at a specific location.
Otherwise, the outcome of the starships would be exactly like when Li Yao jumped together with Skeleton Dragon. They would not be able to set their destination, and there would
absolutely be no telling where they would end up.
But right now, Sparkle had performed an incredible high-precision instant movement while it was at a rushing speed against the bombardment of immense spiritual energy!
Such a technique had far exceeded the highest of the Flying Star Sector!
"It's impossible!" Xiao Xuance's face had become twisted. He roared, "Stop it! Stop it now!"
"It's impossible!"
All the Cultivators who saw the scene, on the other hand, were all overjoyed and exclaimed in disbelief.
In their earnest eyes, Sparkle crawled out on the right side of Heavenly Phantom, as if it had just passed through an invisible wormhole. Its speed was not in the least affected. Moreover, crimson flames in the shape of a torch flooded out of the head of the starship and revolved rapidly into a giant drill that seemed to be able to blow up the sky!
Right now, the tip of the drill was less than ten kilometers from Heavenly Phantom.
Given the velocity of starships, the distance was shorter than the width of hair.
Nothing could stop the assault of Sparkle now.
Swoosh! Swoosh!
The ninety-nine turrets quickly glided to the right side of Heavenly Sparkle. Intense brightness was beaming out while they were on their way, indicating that they had been recharged before they arrived at their destination.
However, before they condensed into an enormous artillery again, Sparkle had already pierced through five layers of the spiritual shields of Heavenly Phantom, as easily as an awl stabbing through five pieces of paper.
Before the surging spiritual energy in the turrets was triggered, Sparkle had already drilled the artillery apart. All the turrets were swinging in various directions crazily!
The drill of mystic rays penetrated through the solid plate that was dozens of meters thick. Sparkle had stabbed into the head of Heavenly Phantom!
Although there was no sound in space, all the Cultivators who saw the scene seemed to hear earsplitting noises. They felt that their heads aching, as if something had drilled a hole in their skull brutally!
Heavenly Phantom, which was more than thirty kilometers long, and Sparkle, which was hundreds of meters long, were two extremities. They were like an elephant and a mouse.
