Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, page 1627
After a long silence, Boss Bai looked at Li Wuji.
Li Wuji was almost laughing aloud.
Delightedly, he walked to Boss Bai's side as well as Song Changlie's sight.
"Marquess Yongchun?"
Song Changlie was slightly dazed. "Why are you not on your own flagship but on your subordinate's? Where's your fleet?"
Marquess Hushan immediately grew alert, but it was already too late.
"You will know it very soon, Marquess Hushan."
At the same time, thousands of streaks of gold brilliance burst out from the rear of Song Changlie's fleet, piercing into the rather rigorous battle formation like scorching, glittering spears. Countless turbulences of destruction were raised!
As it turned out, Boss Bai paved the lone warships that he subdued in the past day in the front, distracting and deceiving Song Changlie.
The main force of the real "Coalition Fleet of Pyromaniacs", on the other hand, detoured to the rear of Song Changlie's fleet, launching an attack when the guy was most arrogant and unprepared.
Song Changlie could never have dreamed that Boss Bai, a humble space pirate, was bold enough to fight him under such circumstances.
When the destructive mystic rays glowed around his flagship, what they illuminated was his dumbfounded face that was beaded with sweat.
Song Changlie was perhaps a qualified, experienced commander.
But what he commanded right now was not entirely his own subordinates. Most of the starships were the random starships that had been temporarily jumbled.
Those people did not have a high fighting will in the first place or any cooperation with him. Since even he did not foresee Boss Bai's sudden attack, it was even less possible for those people to be braced for it.
The combat ability of the "Coalition Fleet of Pyromaniacs" was multiple times higher than the temporarily jumbled fleet, and it was attacking all of a sudden. How could the enemy put up any resistance?
Immediately, Song Changlie's fleet collapsed like a fortress made of glass. The Coalition Fleet of Pyromaniacs split into dozens of transparent scalpels that were as thin as paper, conducting the most accurate dissection. Very soon, Song Changlie's fleet was separated.
The dreamy scene was not only beyond the expectation of the soldiers in Song Changlie's fleet but also took the fleet commanders who joined Boss Bai's fleet in the past day unprepared. They did not expect that the mission Yun Xuefeng gave to Boss Bai was to fight the people on their own side. Dumbfounded and in a trance, they completely lost the ability of thinking.
"What are you waiting for? Those people are not connected to our command chain. They are not 'allies' at all. Lock onto Song Changlie's 'Tiger Roar' and blow it up!"
Boss Bai commanded all the starships that were forced to join him. "This is the secret mission that 'Commander Yun' has entrusted to us. We are the supervisors of the battle. All the cowards who waver in the battle shall be executed immediately!
"You don't need to have any concerns. Just fight with me. All the consequences will be taken care of by Commander Yun or even bigger shots than him!
"Otherwise, just use your idiotic head to think, how could I have been bold enough to attack Marquess Hushan as a space pirate?
"Besides, I've sent the information of all your starships to Song Changlie just now. He has remembered your names! If you don't kill him now, are you waiting for him to return to the Song family and take down each one of you later?
"One wrong decision will turn you into bones, and one right decision will make you a lord. You don't have a choice at all. Let's go and kill!"
In Boss Bai's almost twisted roars, all the fleet commanders seemed to have been woken up from a dream. Thinking quickly for a moment, they made the same decision.
Of course, the decision was in the spirit of the Immortal Cultivators' usual selfishness.
"Let's go and kill!"
The random warships on Boss Bai's side seemed to have been injected with excitants. Even the warships were on fire as they charged at the broken battle formation of Song Changlie's fleet fearlessly.
The random warships in Song Changlie's fleet, on the other hand, also received the message that Boss Bai sent over via the public channel half a minute later.
"Song Changlie, Marquess Hushan, has violated the martial law by wavering in the battle. His crime is unpardonable!
"In the name of 'Commander Yun', I am inspecting the battlefield and supervising the situation, and I have been authorized to enforce punishment before reporting it to the superior!
"Song Changlie's head will hit the ground soon. Are you going to resist idiotically and die together with him?
"Get away from Song Changlie's command, exit the battlefield, lower your spiritual shield, and wait to be regrouped into my fleet. This is your last chance. Those who stay in the hotspot three minutes later will die together with Song Changlie!"
Those random warships were dizzy at first because of the ferocious barrage of the "Coalition Fleet of Pyromaniacs". They were then scared out of their wits by Boss Bai's most cold and cruel declaration.
Many smart Immortal Cultivators had immediately realized that it was a power struggle between the Yun family and the Song family or even an extension of the competition about the choice of the new emperor. There was simply too much involved in it.
A fight between the Yun family and the Song family was not something that the small fries like them were qualified to participate in.
They were not connected to Song Changlie's command chain, and they were not commanded by him until several hours ago. Seeing that Boss Bai was obviously ten times stronger than Song Changlie, how could they die for Song Changlie for no good reason?
Those who suited their actions to the times were wise. They might as well listen to the warning and save their own lives first!
Chapter 2565: Iron Ball I! |
Faced with the scourge of the ferocious barrage, those starships boosted their power units to the maximum without any exception, fleeing to all directions in panic.
Boss Bai's fleet did leave the escaping starships alone and focused the firepower on the starships at the center of the enemy's battle formation.
The starships that were lingering in Song Changlie's battle formation mostly belonged to the Song family, the Li family, and the Dongfang family. Some of them were even the warships of the Yun family.
The warships of the Yun family were the most befuddled ones of all, having no idea if Boss Bai was really supervising the battle under Yun Xuefeng's instruction.
However, the situation was too emergent for them to think or decide. Before they could react, they had been locked onto by the warships of the Song family that were right next to them. Even though the fire of destruction had not been spurted out of the warships of the Song family yet, their coldness and hostility couldn't have been more apparent.
When two warships had locked onto each other, their mutual destruction would only be a matter of time.
There was no telling who opened fire first, but all in all, before Boss Bai's fleet reached near, the warships of the Song family and those of the Yun family had already started to fight.
The warships of the Li family and the Dongfang family, on the other hand, decided to not get involved in the mess after a brief hesitation. Together with other random warships, they fled as quickly as possible, implying that they had given up their resistance and were waiting to be recruited by Boss Bai.
"How dare you!"
In only half an hour, an enormous fleet had fallen apart, and the starships were dancing and sparkling like burning fireflies. Song Changlie was fuming in fury as he watched it.
He tried to stop the starships that were escaping from him, but almost all the starships shut down the communication with him and ran further and further without looking back.
Even some of the warships of the Song family had secretly left the hotspot, abandoning him!
To this moment, Song Changlie still felt that he was in a most absurd nightmare, finding it impossible to believe what was happening before his eyes at all.
Boss Bai was merely a lowly space pirate who was only good at adulating his master Li Wuji, and Li Wuji was only good at adulating Yun Xuefeng. That was how the guy became the commander of "National Protection Army".
The starships around him should've been temporarily gathered and couldn't have been the original team of the "National Protect Army". How could he command them so neatly, and how could they have such a high combat ability?
Besides, how was he intrepid enough to launch lethal attacks on a marquess of the Imperium from the Song family? Was he not scared of the thunderous fury of the Song family? Was he not afraid that the alliance of a million starships would fall apart, and the trust and cooperation among the four families would suddenly be gone?
It was a battlefield of paramount importance. The Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors' army, which had been cornered, was ready to launch a desperate counterattack anytime. How was he cold enough to do this?
Song Changlie couldn't have been more baffled.
"You're out of your mind. You're truly out of your mind!"
Song Changlie roared, "After I catch you, skin you, and toss you to Yun Xuefeng's front, let's see how you are going to explain it to the four families!"
Together with his roar, the three Colossi, Song Changlie's last trump cards, finally showed up. In three streaks of rushing brilliance, they darted at "Alloy Virus", Boss Bai's flagship!
"Hehehehe, even though you control more starships than I do and you've launched a shameless ambush, what can you do after I capture your flagship and dig you and Li Wuji out of your nest?"
Song Changlie was aware that Li Wuji had a Colossus.
However, Li Wuji was not purely a battle-type Immortal Cultivator. He was more of an admin-type one who was better at the conspiracies within the family as well as the construction and command of fleets.
The users of the three Colossi under Song Changlie's command, on the other hand, were out-and-out battle-type Immortal Cultivators. They were among the tough warriors even in the entire Imperium!
In the past half an hour, Song Changlie did not idle by but had been trying to locate and lock onto "Alloy Virus". At this moment, after the enemy was clearly located, he released the fatal weapons!
The light from the three Colossi immediately eclipsed the battlefield that was brimming with fireworks.
Every Colossus was unleashing the tides of spiritual energy tens of thousands of meters tall, which brushed the detection magical equipment of all the starships in huge noises.
Even the fleeing starships, after sensing the arrival of the Colossi, couldn't help but slow down their escape, doubting if the scales of victory would be tipped to Song Changlie's side.
The starships that Boss Bai had browbeat into his side did not have a strong fighting will either. Seeing that the Colossi were coming, they hurried to back off, exposing "Alloy Virus" to the enemy. Or rather, "Alloy Virus" had pressed forward on its way and exposed itself to the three aggressive Colossi!
From "Alloy Virus" and the few starships of the "Coalition Fleet of Pyromaniacs", tremendous battle puppets that were specifically designed for the zero gravity in space were deployed.
Those battle puppets did not have hands, feet, or any limb. They were purely round iron balls that were dashing briefly with the dozens of spouts all over their bodies. However, they could also be assembled with each other through the magnetic field. The form came from one of the "Hyper Spirits" that Extraterrestrial Devil Mo Xuan designed. Li Yao and Long Yangjun had once fought similar battle puppets in space.
Xiaoming and Wenwen originated from the "Hyper Spirits" in the first place. Naturally, they inherited the relevant design and construction data. After being comprehensively upgraded and strengthened by the Fist King, they became the new generation of "Colossus Killer"!
Thousands of unattractive iron balls, congregating into a bloodcurdling torrent, swept at the three Colossi.
The great headache that once haunted Li Yao and Long Yangjun now harassed the Immortal Cultivators of the Song family.
The iron balls were massive in number and extremely fast. Also, they had spouts all over their bodies, and there were no patterns in their movements at all, making it terribly difficult for them to be locked onto or destroyed.
Also, the powerful magnetic fields that they brought attacked the Colossi like a storm from all directions. Sometimes, they were even attached to the surface of the Colossi, unleashing intense electric arcs, releasing strident interferential waves, or even exploding directly. All the three Colossi were in a flurry as they dealt with the enemy.
In the meantime, Boss Bai's starships were not idling by. Including Alloy Virus and Steel Mouse, the main warships with strong firepower locked onto the three Colossi and almost emptied their entire arsenal.
Thousands of surging fiery snakes piled an overwhelming fire wall that even the magnificent Colossi could not pass!
It was the ideology that supported the "Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships" that the extreme firepower, together with battle puppets and drones commanded by the state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, was able to compete with the Colossi. At this moment, it was preliminarily tested on the Coalition Fleet of Pyromaniacs.
Of course, Colossi were still the invincible ultimate weapons in space.
Xiaoming, Wenwen, and the Fist King's attempts in "unmanned war" were still in the phase of exploration and experimentation too.
The firepower suppression from Alloy Virus and Steel Mouse was also far from the Adamantine Super Arsenal Warships.
Therefore, after paying a price of almost half of their spiritual energy reserve, the three Colossi still tore apart the seeming indestructible fire wall and appeared before Alloy Virus magnificently.
"You're screwed!"
On "Tiger Roar", Song Changlie gnashed his teeth and bashed the control panel so hard that it was sparking and smoking while his own hands were bleeding too. "Bai and Li, both of you are screwed!"
"The 'Iron Ball I Fully-Automatic War System' is indeed still deeply flawed!"
On the bridge of Alloy Virus, Xiaoming and Wenwen, who existed in all the broken battle puppets as well as in the command chain at the same time, sighed gloomily. "Although our idea to use the computational ability of the idle crystal processors on all the starships and control all the iron balls remotely is good, we have underestimated the interferences on the battlefield and the instability of the network. At least 40% of the iron balls cannot be controlled precisely. Even those which are controlled precisely are too rigid. They are not half as agile and swift as real human beings."
"Let's take it slowly. Even the information lives have to abide by the law of evolution too. 'Iron Ball II' that is still being experimented with will certainly be better than 'Iron Ball I'. Perhaps it will be dozens of iterations later when the battle puppets or drones of such a model can be finalized!"
The Fist King's calm voice came over. "It took hundreds of years for me to evolve into who I am today. I don't mind waiting for another several hundred years. Time is the most worthless thing of all for us."
"So, are you done chattering?"
Long Yangjun's impatient voice chimed in. "If you're done, it will be my turn, right?"
"Thank you for your trouble, Aunt Long."
Xiaoming and Wenwen said, "We will control the remaining iron balls to provide fire support and battlefield assistance. It will be the best if the intactness of the three Colossi is ensured as much as possible. Those Colossi will be very suitable for the experts from the federation, like 'Sword Maniac' Yan Liren, after preliminary modifications! I believe that they will hone his unstoppable blade and make it even sharper than before, right?"
"Yan Liren…"
Long Yangjun smiled. "I had almost forgotten about the 'Sword Maniac' if you didn't mention him. I truly wonder, how strong will the guy be after he is equipped with a more advanced Colossus? Will it be possible for him to slash the gods in the universe in one attack?"
Smiling, Long Yangjun stepped onto the battlefield casually in her super Colossus,
"Heavenly Crystal",
When she appeared behind the Colossi of the three Immortal Cultivators without a sound under the cover of the overwhelming iron balls, the battle did not have any more suspense.
Chapter 2566: It's All Commander Yun's Order! |
Everybody on the battlefield saw the most unbelievable scene.
"Heavenly Crystal", the transparent Colossus that seemed to be carved out of a whole piece of diamond, danced the splendid death of dance while it dragged the other three Colossi into its rhythm.
The three Colossi were like marionettes that were under its control, cramping and colliding with each other.
Countless iron balls were darting close from all directions and attached to the three Colossi. Other than locking the Colossi with the magnetic fields, they also spurted out highly-sticky glue that stuck themselves to the Colossi, as if countless burdens that weighed thousands of kilograms had been added to them.
The burdens were also spurting out flames of light to all directions, making the Colossi completely out of control at the mercy of the iron balls.
In the end, "Heavenly Crystal" dug open their spiritual residence and blew the users inside into smithereens without any mercy!
The heated battlefield a moment ago turned into disheartening silence.
Of course, it was Song Changlie who was disheartened.
"You-You-You—"
Song Changlie stepped back and fell to his own command chair. His lips trembled nonstop, and he could not even say a whole sentence.
