Chapter 260: Two Races Unite

Lu brother, take it slow~

Look, that's Lu Xun.

Papapa~

When they saw Lu Xun about to leave, President Wu specially flew over to see Lu Xun off.

Below, someone also recognized Lu Xun, and burst into warm applause.

As several hundred thousand people woke up, the news that Lu Xun had saved the whole of Rong Cheng spread quickly through the city.

Everyone who knew was moved to tears of gratitude toward Lu Xun.

Thus, amid applause, the flying vessel carried Lu Xun away from Rong Cheng and shot up into the sky.

The crisis in Rong Cheng was basically resolved; after a slight repair, the city‑protecting grand formation could still be used.

The crises in other cities remained unresolved, but this time Lu Xun did not prepare to go support other cities; instead, he went into outer space.

On the ground, things are merely chaotic; with the overall strength of the East, it is still generally controllable.

The key is the space battlefield.

If we cannot hold here, then everything is over.

Even with Lu Xun's current strength, there is not much he can do, but every bit of strength adds a bit of hope.

As time passed, the demon star had already descended more than halfway.

Even on the surface of Lan Xing, lifting one's head reveals the enormous demon star.

Before the demon star appeared, because there was no major gravitational source nearby, Lan Xing had been speeding through space.

After the demon star appeared, under its gravitational influence, Lan Xing's trajectory changed, and its speed sharply dropped.

This demon star is far more massive than Lan Xing.

Its own gravity is likewise far greater than that of Lan Xing.

This leaves Lan Xing unable to escape.

On the flying vessel, Lu Xun took out Dark Energy and quickly recovered.

In the battle for Rong Cheng, his consumption was enormous.

Fortunately, Lu Xun's recovery speed is extraordinarily fast; his process of absorbing Dark Energy is like a giant whale swallowing the sea, with vast energy surging ceaselessly within him.

"Lu Xun, you fought fiercely."

Chu Youqing raised her head to look at the sky.

In space, clusters of sparks were continuously exploding.

From afar, these sparks looked like just a single cluster.

In fact, each cluster of sparks covered an area of at least several thousand li in radius.

These are the shells of the Star‑Annihilating Cannon.

The Star‑Annihilating Cannon's attack on the demon star itself is actually not very effective.

Used against an ordinary celestial body, one shot can shatter a body the size of a moon.

Placed on a spirit star, its destructive power is not so terrifying.

This involves the strength of heaven and earth, as well as the spirit‑energy barrier.

The higher the grade of the spirit star, the greater the strength of heaven and earth, and the stronger the spirit‑energy barrier.

The spirit‑energy barrier is invisible and intangible, yet it exists on every spirit star.

For example, the shell of the Star‑Annihilating Cannon that rushes into the demon star's interior, when it explodes, its power can cover only an area of a few hundred li in radius.

But when placed in space, those sparks can reach a radius of several thousand li.

That is the function of the spirit‑energy barrier.

On Lan Xing, too, a spirit‑energy barrier exists.

After the strength of heaven and earth increases and a spirit‑energy barrier appears, even dropping a nuclear bomb on Lan Xing would destroy an area more than ten times smaller than in the old era.

The same principle applies: cultivators' attacks in space are noticeably more destructive.

Because there is no spirit‑energy barrier in space.

At this moment in space, besides the Star‑Annihilating Cannon, there are also light and flames from battles between powerful beings, which visually are not so exaggerated.

In battles between top‑tier experts, nobody worries about visual effects; power is extraordinarily focused, and not even a trace is wasted.

This is not the same as fighting the dark beasts.

"A meteor?"

In the distance, a meteor blazed with fierce flames, dragging a long tail as it slammed into the ground.

"It is the demon race's fruit!"

Lu Xun stared and saw that it was not a meteor, but more like a huge fruit.

He moved his body, and several spatial shuttles blocked beneath it; raising his hand, a string of fireballs exploded upward.

"Boom boom boom~"

The fruit was blown apart, and a vast amount of demon seeds burst out.

These demon seeds were like smaller fruits; when they burst, demonic power erupted, and each one bared fangs and claws, charging at Lu Xun.

"Boom~"

Lu Xun's expression unchanged, he directly released Southern Ming Separation Fire, sweeping them all away.

"Lu Xun, what is this?"

Chu Youqing asked curiously.

"The demon‑seed fruit: once its demon seeds enter a person's body, they rapidly absorb the person's flesh and blood to grow; looking at this, the Star‑Protecting Grand Formation must have a loophole."

While speaking, Lu Xun formed hand seals and controlled the flying vessel to shoot upward at high speed.

Babala had told Lu Xun about these monster seed fruits.

If they were to flood into Lan Xing in large numbers, it would cause Lan Xing an unknown number of billions of casualties.

The casualties would be many times greater than those caused by this wave of monster vine outbreaks.

The outbreak of monster vines mainly aims to create chaos and drain Lan Xing's energy and strength.

If Lu Xun hadn't noticed the monsters' plot, some of Lan Xing's strong ones might have been taken down.

By then, the invasion of Yao Xing would become even easier.

Now that Lu Xun has noticed it, the Martial Manor has previously recalled some cultivators to the ground, so overall it's still controllable.

"Yuheng Fortress is over there."

The flying vessel flew straight toward Yuheng Fortress.

From time to time, one could see meteors streaking across the sky.

These are all monster seed fruits that have broken through the Star-Protecting Grand Formation.

Lan Xing's Star-Protecting Grand Formation is still somewhat weak in defensive power.

From this, it seems that Lan Xing's finest formation master is not particularly high in rank.

Not long after, an extremely huge space fortress appeared in the field of view.

This is Yuheng Fortress.

It is located near the Grand Void Secret Realm.

This fortress is several times larger than the Heaven's Right Fortress that Lu Xun visited before, with a diameter exceeding twenty kilometers.

The Star-Annihilating Cannon on it is also exceptionally large.

Lu Xun and the two others activated their identity badges, thereby passing through the curtain of the Star-Protecting Grand Formation and flying all the way to Yuheng Fortress.

Yuheng Fortress has already faced some monster race attacks.

Because they need to use the Star-Annihilating Cannon, these space fortresses will not activate their defensive formations.

Thus, cultivators and weapons are needed to resist the monster race's attacks.

This is also Lan Xing's tactic.

Lure the enemy onto the space fortress to eliminate them, preventing the enemy from entering Lan Xing's interior and causing destruction.

The destructive power of battles between strong ones is truly immense; even if Lan Xing has spiritual energy barriers inside, they can easily destroy cities.

"Humans!"

As Lu Xun's flying vessel approached, a flock of bird monsters attacked.

With a thought, Lu Xun unleashed a barrage of flying swords, shredding those bird monsters into fragments.

"They're reinforcements!"

"Be careful, monster races above the Six Realms can take on our appearance!"

"He has no monster aura... huh, that's Lu Xun..."

"Lu Xun... quick, let him through!"

At the fortress's edge, some soldiers, upon seeing Lu Xun, hurriedly maneuvered their weapons to avoid his approach.

Thus, Lu Xun successfully reached the fortress.

"Lu Xun."

Fuyue appeared.

"Teacher Fuyue, how's the situation?"

Lu Xun asked.

"The current defensive pressure isn't great, but the monster race's main force will arrive soon."

Fuyue looked toward the starry sky.

Because there is still a considerable distance between the two planets, the earlier battles mainly took place in outer space and have not yet spread on a large scale to the vicinity of Lan Xing.

But soon, the monster race's main force will cross interstellar space and reach the surface of Lan Xing.

"Huh?"

Lu Xun's gaze suddenly narrowed.

Because when he used the Myriad Miles Eye, he saw countless insect ships swarming.

These insect ships were frantically charging toward Lan Xing.

"Insect race..."

These insects actually came to join the fun at this time.

"Teacher, the insect race has come too!"

Lu Xun said in a deep voice.

"Insect race?"

Fuyue focused her gaze and soon made a discovery.

Countless insect ships appeared in her field of view.

Among these insect ships were mixed large quantities of fruit, as well as a uniquely shaped monster vessel.

This is a warship of the monster race.

Although the monster race is not technologically advanced, they have obtained some warship manufacturing technology from the ancient road nodes, and have produced some monster vessels for transporting troops and the like.

In combat power, they are far inferior to the space warships built by humans.

"These two races have actually joined forces!"

Seeing that the insect ships and monster ships were not attacking each other, but instead were all charging toward Lan Xing together.

Fuyue certainly knows that the monster race and insect race appear to be cooperating with great tacit understanding.