Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, page 1165
On the other hand, it was further proof of the accuracy of the teleportation. They were like burning daggers that were stabbed into the bottom of the Black Wind Fleet!
Sensing the sudden arrival of the Colossi, the Imperium's starships that were already agitated by the Big Bai Fleet became even more anxious.
Dark spurts appeared on all the starships of the Imperium. A large batch of crystal suits and space shuttles swarmed out like bugs, forming a dense, deadly nebula. The few Colossi that were dealing with the Big Bai Fleet far away also abandoned their previous targets and lunged aggressively at the new arrivals.
It would be quite troublesome for a space fleet when the crystal suits or the Colossi cut into the interior.
Compared to starships, both the crystal suits and the Colossi were small and weak in spiritual energy, but they were too swift and agile, which made it difficult for them to be locked onto and destroyed.
Besides, every barrage of the main guns of a starship would consume astronomical crystals and ammunition. Even if they could destroy a few crystal suits after several shots, the cost would outweigh the gains.
Dealing with the crystal suits at a close distance with starships was almost like shooting mosquitoes with cannons. The efficiency could be very low, and the effect might not be satisfactory at all.
Also, in the case of dense battle formations, friendly fire had to be taken into account, too. Generally speaking, without the disturbance of an enormous gravitational source, the trajectories of the mystic-ray weapons were almost always straight lines. However advanced the Imperium's technology was, they could not make a beam of destructive rays turn at the speed of light. The attacks might hit the enemy, but what if the friendly starships were right behind the target? If the friendly starships performed emergency evasion, the whole battle formation would be disrupted.
Therefore, to some extent, only crystal suits could deal with crystal suits, just like how only Colossi could deal with Colossi!
If the space was classified into eight quadrants with Ding Lingdang as the base point, the sparkly light of the Burning Prairie Fleet had already appeared in the seventh quadrant.
So, their mission was to dig deeper into the wound in the soft belly of the Black Wind Fleet together with the Big Bai Fleet before the Burning Prairie Fleet arrived, not giving the wound the chance to 'heal'.
Ding Lingdang had never been good at giving motivational speeches. In most cases, she liked to ask her fists to speak for her!
"Kill them!"
The Draconic Phoenix led the charge with flames of light almost a hundred meters long surging out. Nine raging dragons of spiritual energy rested around the Colossus. The strongest God of War of the federation charged at the group of Exos from the Imperium under the protection of the dragons, as if she was a living Rising Dragon of the Nine Stars flag!
The flag was utterly invincible wherever it reached. Neither the crystal suits nor the space shuttles could survive one round under her attacks. They were wiped out like chickens and dogs. She was not even interested in stopping for a moment to destroy more crystal suits but simply shoved away the annoying crystal suits around unstoppably, lunging at the nearest shield starship!
The federal army had long become used to the tactics of the 'Blazing Tyrannosaur'. The other eight Colossi and more than two thousand crystal suits flooded in through the gap that she had just opened, pushing forward relentlessly. Like three hundred soldiers assaulting the camp of a hundred thousand enemies at night in ancient times, courage and determination mattered more than tactics and equipment.
Faced with the Draconic Phoenix, the shield starship of the Imperium was like a defenseless city.
No matter how crazily it activated its counteroffensive measures and spiritual shield, there was no stopping the Draconic Phoenix from turning into a streak of crimson brilliance and approaching quickly.
The arsenal starships were either affected by the crystal suits of the two parties that were engaged in a fierce fight or blocked by the shield starship itself. They could not find an appropriate route of attack at all.
Even if they could find an appropriate attack route, the stealth and disturbance units on the Colossi that far exceeded this era made it difficult for them to be locked onto by regular weapons.
A Colossus was right next to the warship, the furious flames from it were even clearly visible to the naked eye, but the fire control system in the crystal processors could not determine the location and distance of the target at all. It was not unusual in space battles at all.
Boom!
The Draconic Phoenix smashed at the head of the shield starship that was almost one kilometer long. Two crimson flames suddenly appeared on its arms, which then immediately turned into two enormous drills that blew up the super alloys, the strengthened porcelain, the reflective glass, the soft heat-proof layer, and the defense rune arrays embedded among the layers.
Once the Draconic Phoenix entered the shield starship, its doom was inevitable.
Most starships had their own anti-invasion systems, but such systems were only prepared for the enemy's crystal suits. It was impossible to stop the Colossi.
No matter how much the internal fire points bombarded the Colossus, and no matter how many soldiers jumped at the Colossus carrying their chainswords and vibration sabers, they were as useless as the stinging of a needle.
Flames almost a hundred meters long surged out from the Draconic Phoenix blatantly, congregating into tentacles that looked like magma in the narrow cabins and pathways. All the crew members that did not have the time to escape from the starship, be they wearing a mustard-seed combat suit or not, could not avoid their fate of being turned into ash.
Over the past ten years, from the Imperium's captives and the debris of the Imperium's starships retrieved in the Battle of Firefly, the federation had deduced the structures of a lot of Imperium starship models, which allowed Ding Lingdang to know the location of the bridge, the arsenal, the crystal warehouse, and the engine compartment.
The Draconic Phoenix went forward unstoppably and broke into the bridge, which was the brain of the shield starship, as easily as a burning stone sinking into a piece of tofu.
The nine dragons around its body rushed out, transforming the scorching magma into even more violent tornadoes. After only one moment, the crystal processors and commanders on the bridge were obliterated. The whole 'brain' was melted and burned!
When the Draconic Phoenix finally broke out of the shield starship from the rear, what was floating behind her was nothing more than an empty iron coffin.
When did she gain special feelings for Li Yao?
It was probably the time when he suffered heavy wounds during the Limit Challenge Competition on Devil Flood Dragon Island, fell into a coma, miraculously woke up, and gritted his teeth to work hard without giving up hope although his spiritual root was ripped apart and his Cultivation hit rock bottom, right?
Ding Lingdang had once had a similar experience. She saw herself inside Li Yao. Perhaps she looked at the silly boy in a different way because of the sympathetic feeling.
To this day, she could still recall the time they flew into the clouds to eat and drink. Whenever she thought about it, she felt like laughing.
However, she could almost swear that she did not have any 'evil thoughts' at that time. Well, probably?
The Draconic Phoenix suddenly performed an unbelievable dodging movement, shooting out almost a hundred red shadows in all directions. Dozens of dazzling mystic rays arrived without a sound and minced all the blurred shadows, but they could not stop the real Draconic Phoenix from jumping up in the gap of mystic rays and lunging at the source of the rays, an arsenal starship that had been armed to the teeth. Before the second round of mystic rays surged out, she dived into the arsenal starship and began a new slaughter!
Chapter 1805: Sweeping the Enemy! |
Boom! Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!
When the Draconic Phoenix rushed out of the rear of the arsenal warship that looked like an iron hedgehog, it was immediately enveloped by more than ten rings of fireballs. The fireballs expanded and spread out, turning into destructive blasts mixed with the melted debris of the starship.
The blasts spread out very fast, and the remnants were on a rampage on the battlefield like a meteor shower, greatly affecting the normal cruise of the starships nearby and stopping their attacks. Even their spiritual shields were rippling like ponds.
When she first met Li Yao, Ding Lingdang had been slightly condescending because she was stronger than him in almost every respect. When did the feeling of 'big sister looking for little brother' change?
Was it when he struggled to his feet while screaming time and time again under her stormy attacks? Was it when he grew stronger and stronger and finally became an excellent Exo as strong as herself after the adventures on Thunderous Sound Mountain? Was it the unforgettable night when she recalled her parents' unfortunate death and her childhood tragedies, but he showed up in time and let her cry in his arms?
The messy thoughts in her head did not hinder Ding Lingdang from deciding on her third target the moment she broke out of the arsenal starship, which was a comprehensive supply starship more than three kilometers long and was heavily guarded by more than ten arsenal starships, shield starships, and hundreds of crystal suits.
Although the comprehensive supply starships did not boast immense firepower or defense ability, they had enormous maintenance workshops and warehouses of crystals and ammunition, which made them the cores of every branch fleet.
Without the support of the comprehensive supply starships in the rear, both the arsenal starships and the shield starships, as well as the crystal suits and the space shuttles, would run out of supplies very soon after being engaged in a battle.
Having blown up two starships in a row in the blink of an eye, she had obviously become the center of attention on the battlefield. Mystic rays, space torpedoes, and bullets of spiritual energy interweaved into a gapless web of fire in front of us.
But the Draconic Phoenix charged forward relentlessly against the fiery web!
The enemy's firepower was too fierce. Despite the interferential and defensive rune arrays of the Colossus, it was inevitable to be hit in the front with abnormal fireballs erupting out.
The moment before the fireball consumed the Colossus, a series of runes on the surface of the Draconic Phoenix glittered and turned into a glamorous protective shell, absorbing most of the damage and transforming it into colorful exhaust flames that spurted into the vacuum. At first glance, it was even astoundingly beautiful.
But still, the massive blast of spiritual energy shook her brain violently, allowing her to recall more things of the past.
Neither she nor Li Yao were romantic. Perhaps because their goals were too big and far away, they sometimes neglected the present.
However, even such an unromantic guy like Li Yao had once done a romantic thing, which was taking her to view the most splendid sunrise in the universe on a satellite.
However carefree she usually was, her heart had almost melted at that moment.
Boom!
The Draconic Phoenix broke out of the shell of fireballs, reborn. The nine dragons of spiritual energy attacked furiously at the same time and blew up dozens of crystal suits and space shuttles in a row like skewers. Her momentum was not reduced at all, and she looked more magnificent than anything.
Even the most fearless Immortal Cultivators were shocked to stillness briefly under her overwhelming strength.
Taking advantage of the gap, she penetrated the comprehensive supply starship!
On the control interface of the Draconic Phoenix, the runes from the primeval era shined one after another. Ding Lingdang compressed her intense feelings and soul waves into a quickly shivering spell. The two arms of the Draconic Phoenix disintegrated all of a sudden, revealing the most complicated and precise components inside, which then combined in front her into a highly dangerous cannon.
Infinite flames of spiritual energy burst out like a volcanic eruption and enshrouded the disintegrated arms before they spread out and turned into a furiously burning war falcon.
The fiery war falcon was practically tangible. Flapping the wings, it was moaning in impatience, with intimidating auras spreading out, as if a primeval beast had really travelled through time and landed on the arm of the Draconic Phoenix.
When Ding Lingdang observed from a different perspective, the fiery war falcon turned into a plane that did not have any thickness.
A very familiar feeling grabbed her.
It almost seemed that she had retrieved an 'absolutely superficial' falcon of flames from the boundless void by controlling the hands of the Draconic Phoenix.
It was exactly the ultimate technique that Li Yao had once performed on Kunlun a hundred years ago and eventually slayed a giant of the Pangu Clan with—the Phoenix Demolisher!
After a hundred years of maintenance, strengthening, and Ding Lingdang's repetitive practice, and now that the left arm of the Colossus had been reshaped, making it possible to use the technique with both hands, the technique was ten times more powerful than when Li Yao activated it with only one broken arm of the Colossus years back!
Shua!
The falcon flapped its wings and soared out, cutting in from the bridge of the comprehensive supply starship and piercing through the maintenance workshops, the arsenals, the warehouse of crystals, the space jump units, and the engine compartment. The internal space of the comprehensive supply starship was dissected into an upper half and a lower half by the brute force.
Although the dissection of space was brief, the objects that had been cut in half could never be recovered. The spiritual shield generators and the engine compartment were the first to explode, followed by the highly unsteady marrow crystals inside the warehouse of crystals. The minor explosions then led to a chain reaction. The flames rushed out like a flood, vaporizing countless Immortal Cultivators within the moment!
The Draconic Phoenix simply strode forward in the 'flood' that was burning and exploding, not bothering to look for pathways or gates at all. Whenever it encountered a wall or plate armor, it would just punch at the blockage to create a way. Absolutely nothing could stop the march of a Colossus, unless—
The crystal processor uttered a series of ear-splitting alarms. From the front, a cluster of spiritual energy reactions that were as powerful as the Draconic Phoenix's were approaching at a high speed. It was a Colossus from the Imperium!
Flames were rolling like infuriated tides. The maintenance warehouse where Ding Lingdang happened to be at was quite spacious, making it the best arena for a deadly fight.
Together with a round of earthshaking quakes, a dark Colossus gradually revealed itself in the ocean of fire.
Its body was even thicker than the Draconic Phoenix. The back of the Colossus was slightly hunched because of the two enormous honeycomb-type launchers on the shoulders, which made it seem to have three heads at first look.
From the enormous shoulder blade, three arms dangled down from each side. It was a 'three-headed and six-armed' Colossus.
It was a 'special-shaped Colossus', which was slightly different from the regular body of human beings.
The Colossus was the strongest weapon that the Nuwa Clan carefully crafted for the human warriors to resist the Pangu Clan who were enormous in size, but such a weapon was not invented based on nothing. Their prototypes were mostly the armor of the Nuwa Clan and the Pangu Clan.
Both the Nuwa Clan and the Pangu Clan boasted a lot of bizarre-shaped and enormous species. Human head and snake body, three heads and six arms… Nothing was unusual for them.
Therefore, the armor of the Nuwa and the Pangu civilizations had various different models, too. So, it was not strange at all that the Colossi, which were modified based on that armor, would have three heads and six arms.
Humans had only two hands. Their nervous system had evolved for the manipulation of the ten fingers on both hands, too. Although it was possible to remotely control more limbs with spiritual energy, those foreign objects were not naturally-born.
Therefore, it was much more difficult to control the 'special-shaped Colossus' than to control a regular Colossus. Without years of hard training, it was barely possible to make use of the weird body parts of the Colossus as fluently as using one's own arms and hands. They were more likely to be a redundancy than help.
However, if somebody really got the hang of it, the special-shaped Colossus could present weirder tactics and a much more powerful performance than a regular Colossus could.
It was exactly so for the Immortal Cultivator of the Imperium who was using the three-headed and six-armed Colossus.
Green flames were vaguely flowing on the surface of the dark armor. The six arms were holding six different weapons. Chainsword, starship-slashing saber… Only in the hands of such an iron giant did the 'starship-slashing saber' really deserve its name. Nobody would have any doubt that it could really slash a starship in half after one attack!
The Draconic Phoenix, on the other hand, was barehanded without any weapons.
As a body practitioner, Ding Lingdang had never been a fan of blades. Even after she became a pilot of the Colossus, she did not carry too many weapons with her but focused all the technical upgrades on the fists of the Colossus.
The Draconic Phoenix's fists blossomed slowly like lotus flowers. Then, they revolved at such a high speed that they seemed enough to drill two holes in the universe!
Hiu! Hiu! Hiu! Hiu! Hiu! Hiu!'
The honeycomb-type launchers on the enemy's shoulders opened fire first, like two volcanoes erupting at Ding Lingdang. The Draconic Phoenix took action at the same time, too, right toward where the firepower and the blades were densest.
She could sense the enemy's shock and confusion, which made her even more high-spirited. Her soul burnt crazily, and she was completely melted with the Draconic Phoenix, exactly like Li Yao on Kunlun a hundred years ago.
