Chapter 492: Dimensional Strike!

After the Water Blue Star Human Alliance realized that they would follow in the wake of the transcendent Great Ability into the depths of the starry sky, and that they would in all likelihood come into contact with other alien civilizations and even erupt into war,

human experts began to research how to fully utilize their advantages to offset the potential technological gap with alien civilizations.

Considering that the outer shells of alien starships were very likely made of high-performance alloys that Human Civilization had not yet been able to develop,

the five-element techniques among the transcendent arts that involved direct destruction were clearly not applicable.

Fortunately, besides the five-element techniques, there were many Side-Door Path arts, and a large number of legacies involving curses and soul-related techniques had been brought over by Su Ping.

Because of this, the Talismans carried by the Mecha Warriors of the vanguard exploration team were primarily focused on curses and special attacks against the Divine Soul.

On the battlefield, a fifteen-meter-tall Chixiao Mecha that had approached its target took out a specially crafted, large-scale Talisman.

Sensing a crisis through battlefield intuition, the pilot suddenly shifted their body, moving sideways by a hundred meters to let a crimson beam of light graze past the mecha.

This left the members of the Qixie Jiandui who were firing feeling incredulous.

The weapons they had just utilized had reached the speed of light.

At such a distance, the opponent could still dodge?

Shouldn't they have already been hit the moment the opponent saw it?

These crew members failed to understand that transcendent intuition existed in this world.

It could provide early warning the moment they aimed at the opponent.

And allow for a reaction to be made in advance the moment they pressed the firing button.

Thus, there was no need to be faster than the beam of light; one only needed to predict and act faster than the rotation speed of the launcher.

The crew members quickly recovered from their shock and, under the captain's orders, began to re-aim at the opponent.

They also felt extremely uneasy in their hearts.

Although the crew members had never seen or understood the strange object taken out by the humanoid mecha, they felt fear due to the unknown and did not want to give the opponent time to deploy it.

However, while their thoughts were good, reality did not permit this notion to be realized.

As the large-scale Talisman in the humanoid mecha's hand bloomed with a ghostly light,

the Talisman instantly dissipated in the mecha's hand.

An invisible ripple crossed a distance of several hundred kilometers and struck the imperial starship.

The tens of thousands of crew members on this starship

felt goosebumps rise all over their bodies at the same time.

Following that, one crew member after another felt dizzy and heard ringing in their ears, only to fall to the ground as the world spun before their eyes.

In the command room, the captain and his adjutants were similarly struck and lost their ability to act.

"What is going on?"

"Ship J122! What kind of situation have you encountered!"

"Damn it, I need all their previous data! Now, organize it immediately!"

Inside the flagship of the Qixie Jiandui, the high-ranking members of the fleet quickly discovered the abnormality of this ship through monitoring.

Astonished, they immediately thought of various Black Technology weapons.

In their understanding, only Black Technology weapons could kill a large number of personnel inside a starship without damaging the outer shell or triggering the ship's alarms.

"The Smart Brain's preliminary analysis shows no abnormalities; we are currently re-examining it."

The experts also quickly produced a report and were about to guess what weapon the opponent had used.

Yet they were suddenly shocked once more by the changes in the target starship.

Inside the starship hit by the Talisman,

the crew members' discomfort was only the beginning.

This was a Talisman that had been crafted with the participation of Golden Core and even Nascent Soul powerhouses.

Even though certain compromises had been made to allow entry-level Cultivators to use it, it was not something that aliens without a shred of transcendent ability could resist.

The crew members' discomfort was merely a side effect of the curse invading their sea of consciousness.

What followed was the terrifying start.

The batch of crew members with the weakest souls were the first to show abnormalities.

Their Divine Souls were polluted and twisted into evil spirits, then stripped away from their bodies.

Following that, these translucent evil spirits, which could still be seen by the naked eye, rushed toward the living beings around them.

After rushing into the target's body as if they had no physical form,

they would cause the target to let out a heart-wrenching howl.

And very quickly, the target would turn into a dried corpse.

Then, an evil spirit with an extra head would float out from the dried corpse to seek the next target.

Before long, there was not a single living being left on the starship.

Only dozens of translucent gray-black evil spirits remained, possessing hundreds of heads and appearing bloated yet moving with incredible speed.

The appearance of the evil spirits clearly challenged the worldview of the fleet's high-ranking members and experts.

They gaped, unable to comprehend the scientific principles behind all of this even if they racked their brains.

Let alone finding any way to break it.

And after this, the curse attack still had not ended.

After merging the souls of all the living beings on the entire starship,

the evil spirits were instinctively still incredibly hungry, craving more companions to merge with themselves.

Thus, as the heads that grew out of the evil spirits opened their mouths, they began to call out names they were familiar with.

Those names often belonged to their former friends and family.

At the same time, just like them, they were all on this Qixie Jiandui at this very moment.

On a ten-thousand-meter-class mothership.

An elderly crew member belonging to the Empire suddenly felt a palpitation in his heart.

He felt dazed for a moment and nearly fell over.

Fortunately, as an Imperial officer, he was steadied in time by several people beside him.

"Sir! Are you alright?"

Several younger crew members looked at their superior with some concern.

They were in the middle of a war now; if they dropped the ball at a critical moment, their entire squad would not have a good outcome.

The elderly officer panted a few times, shook his head, and was about to indicate he was fine and tell his subordinates to get back to their duties.

To be responsible for operating the various logistics Drone units within the mothership.

So as to resolve transport failures that the Smart Brain could not judge or handle for various reasons at the first opportunity.

A face that looked as pale as only a corpse's could appeared in the elderly officer's mind.

This gave the elderly officer another shock.

Afterwards, the elderly officer suddenly felt that this face was quite familiar.

That was... his youngest son!

The youngest son who served in this fleet with him, whom he had warned and cautioned a thousand times before the expedition not to take risks and to remember the escape routes!

The elderly officer had a premonition; not knowing the specific battle situation, his lips trembled, and he had a bad guess.

The elderly officer thought it was telepathy and was about to shed tears of an old man.

But he felt the face appearing in his mind become even clearer.

And the familiar yet strange voice of his youngest son rang in his ears:

"Help me, Father!"

"Father, I'm in so much pain, hurry and help me! Help me!"

In a trance, the elderly officer gave a response.

Instantly!

The light around the elderly officer suddenly dimmed.

Following that, a huge evil spirit emerged from the elderly officer's back, instantly occupying the small logistics maintenance room.

The elderly officer's subordinates did not have time to react at all; it was as if they had fallen into water, unable to breathe or make a sound within the evil spirit's body, feeling nothing but pain as they widened their eyes.

They could do nothing else.

Then, the bodies of these subordinates and the elderly officer turned into dried corpses.

This caused several more heads to appear on the evil spirit's body.

Relying on the connection of Bloodline.

The evil spirits left the picked-clean spaceship and arrived inside a new warship.

Just like cancer cells, they constantly proliferated, destroying everything.

And this method of action by the evil spirits.

Once again shocked the Imperial fleet's high command and experts.

And very quickly.

As the fighting continued on the battlefield.

There were always humanoid mechs that broke through the defenses, approached to an effective distance, and then took out Talismans to attack.

Some of these Talismans were the same as before, creating a batch of evil spirits inside the spaceship that could teleport by tracing Bloodline.

Others caused all the crew members in the spaceship to lose their minds, turning into madmen who began to kill each other and actively destroy the ship's hull.

There were also spaceships where the crew directly turned into Xuerou Guaiwu, staging a battle royale inside the ship.

And no matter which effect the Talisman had.

As long as it successfully hit.

It meant that the crew of that Imperial spaceship were basically beyond saving.

The spaceship itself could only wait for death.

"Absurd! This is too absurd!"

"How could the enemy possess such an incredible weapon!"

"Ignoring our ship's hull, ignoring our alert protocols, a single strike can destroy one of our warships!"

"It's not just one; those translucent monsters are very troublesome. Aside from knowing that the places where they perform spatial jumps usually have the victims' friends and family nearby, we know nothing else."

"We don't even know if their spatial jumps have any limits on frequency or time."

An Imperial expert wiped the sweat from his brow and said in a low voice:

"If there are no limits, I think we have already lost this skirmish."

"The opponent can just withdraw from the battlefield now and watch us be slowly destroyed by those monsters."

Hearing the Imperial expert's words, as the commander-in-chief of this fleet.

He had originally wanted to refute it to boost morale.

But a report broke his operation.

It was that the flagship had also been discovered to be experiencing an invasion by the translucent monsters.

Aiming at that translucent monster, the surrounding crew and Drones immediately used various weapons available within the cabin.

Electromagnetic and high-temperature weapons could play a certain role.

But the limit of weapons available inside the cabin could not eliminate the opponent.

And the opponent could often react very quickly.

He let his semi-transparent body pass through the floor, ceiling, or walls, suddenly popping out to attack the crew and Drones.

This made the resistance forces increasingly weak.

The high-ranking officials of the Empire shouted with their mouths that they should not be afraid and to continue fighting for the Empire.

Yet their bodies were very honest, taking more than ten small spacecraft with the experts to abandon the flagship.

After being invaded by evil spirits, even the flagship could no longer provide a sense of security to these high-ranking officials of the Empire who had observed enough cases.

The fleet commander sat in the escape spacecraft, watching the light constantly blooming in the starry sky on the panel.

The commander sighed:

"Fighting this kind of battle is too disadvantageous."

"Release all Drones to delay the enemy."

"For the remaining ships... those suffering from unknown intrusions are to initiate self-destruct procedures, and the crew is to escape."

"Those without abnormalities are to retreat immediately and enter the Space Node."

After issuing this difficult order.

The commander's body suddenly shook, having seen fire appear on a nearby spacecraft that had also escaped.

Then, that spacecraft broke apart from the middle.

Revealing an evil spirit inside covered in heads.

Following that, the broken spacecraft exploded due to the self-destruct procedure, turning into a large fireball that engulfed the evil spirit.

The fleet commander opened his mouth wide, his body trembling slightly:

"Those monsters have caught up?"

"How exactly did they come? Can they really perform continuous space jumps?"

In panic, the commander's body suddenly stiffened.

He heard his adjutant not far away suddenly tilt his head, muttering a confused sound in his mouth:

"Help you? How do you want me to help you?"

"..."

"Open fire, kill him!"

The fleet monitoring footage the commander had seen flashed through his mind.

Suddenly moved by a thought, he immediately opened his mouth to issue the order.

The guards nearby also raised their weapons without hesitation, turning the adjutant into a hornet's nest.

It seemed that doing this was correct.

The commander felt the surrounding temperature return to normal, and he gasped while revealing a smile.

And just as he intended to broadcast this method.

Dense screams suddenly came from the rear of the ship.

The commander's body stiffened again, and he turned his head to look at the rear cabin door.

As the movement inside quieted down.

After a few breaths.

Just as the commander was about to have the two guards go with him to the escape pod location.

A semi-transparent black shadow suddenly rushed out from the left wall.

It instantly grabbed the commander and the remaining crew in the cabin.

"No!"

"I am a general of the Galactic Heart Empire!"

"I can represent the Empire to negotiate with your civilization!"

"Save me! Save me!"

This commander let out a cry of alarm at the final moment.

Then... he was completely swallowed by the evil spirit.

And soon became a dried corpse.

The flagship was attacked, and the lives of the high-ranking officials were unknown.

The morale of the other ships in the Qixie Jiandui wavered, and their fighting spirit declined.

Many ships ignored the risk of being attacked, braving the artillery fire to flee.

Other ship captains contacted some escape spacecraft and learned the truth.

Then, knowing that the commander's escape spacecraft had lost contact and was in grave danger.

They saw humanoid mechas approaching rapidly and breaking through the blockade.

Before the humanoid mechas could make an attacking move.

The captains of these ships decisively issued the order to broadcast a surrender message.

"Surrender?"

"The other side chose to surrender?"

A pilot of a Chixiao Mecha looked at the message coming from the spacecraft about to enter effective range.

He opened his mouth, struggled for a moment, but still decided to report it and issued an order for the other side to cease fire.

And the other side was indeed not bluffing; they truly chose to cease fire and became a target ship.

Qingzhujun circled at the Time-Space Node.

It looked down at the battlefield, and nothing could escape its Dharma Eye.

It saw that the extraordinary Talisman had an outstanding effect, which could be called a dimensionality-reduction strike.

Qingzhujun also felt much more at ease in his heart.

Afterwards, he saw the remnants of the Qixie Jiandui fleeing toward him.

Qingzhujun grinned and manifested his Green Giant Snake Dharma Form.

Suddenly, in front of the crew members of the remaining fleet.

On the only path they had to take to escape.

A star-devouring beast with a body size exceeding ten thousand meters appeared abruptly!