Chapter 496: Coordinating Civilizations

The Interstellar Security Alliance's greatest trump card, the Planet Cannon, opened fire.

A thick, crimson beam of light erupted from the cannon's muzzle, crossing hundreds of thousands of kilometers in the blink of an eye, appearing as if it were about to strike the Human Civilization fleet formation summoned by Su Ping's Avatar.

A streak of Five-Colored Divine Light flew out from the sleeve of Su Ping's Avatar, instantly transforming into the phantom of a massive, blank Huijuan.

Then, the crimson beam from the interstellar cannon struck the center of the Huijuan, immediately blooming into a brilliant, blinding halo of light at the point of impact.

The Huijuan seemed to be absorbing the energy of the crimson beam as it continuously resisted the strike.

Red halos also began to emerge and spread across the blank portions of the Huijuan itself.

When this attack concluded.

Only two-thirds of the blank space on the phantom Huijuan had been stained and covered by the red halos.

Clearly, it was far from reaching its absorption limit.

And after blocking this trump card of the Planet Cannon.

Regardless of how unsightly the expressions of the high-ranking members of the alien civilization inside the Planet Cannon were at this very moment.

With a thought from Su Ping.

The phantom Huijuan had already transformed into a streak of Five-Colored Divine Light, brushing back out to strike the Planet Fortress where the Planet Cannon was located.

Suddenly, that Planet Fortress, which had been fashioned from a modified asteroid, vanished entirely from the Interstellar Security Alliance's fleet formation in an instant.

It disappeared so silently and soundlessly, yet it was more shocking and morale-shattering than a massive explosion.

Very quickly, the fleet formations of the two forces began to engage.

Having made his move, Su Ping's Avatar did not continue to intervene, but instead observed the combat situation on the side of Human Civilization.

Generally speaking.

Even with Su Ping's help in leveling up and absorbing a large number of professional talents and accumulated knowledge from alien civilizations, the Water Blue Star Human Civilization.

Was ultimately unstable at its roots; in the area of Interstellar Warships, it was clearly evident that their foundation was insufficient.

Their stability, flexibility, and offensive and defensive capabilities were all a notch inferior to the warships of the several civilizations on the opposite side.

If not for the help of the transcendent beings and Dharma Artifacts blocking attacks on critical areas.

Relying solely on warship combat, they would likely have been routed at the first touch.

Correspondingly, in terms of individual combat units, the Water Blue Star Human Civilization held the advantage.

Those Mecha Warriors, under the control of transcendent pilots, were completely crushing the enemy's equivalent units.

As for the weakness of insufficient firepower when facing large warships under normal circumstances.

It was also compensated for by Talismans, Dharma Artifacts, and the like.

Getting close to an enemy warship and using a specialized, large-scale, high-damage Talisman.

Usually achieved good results, taking effect within dozens of breaths to paralyze or even destroy the combat capability of one or even multiple enemy warships.

There were also warships from veteran civilizations that possessed Black Technology devices that happened to counter curse Talisman attacks.

For example, a ten-thousand-meter-long, butterfly-shaped interstellar mothership.

The faint blue light generated by its wings actually absorbed the Talisman curses unleashed by the approaching Mecha Warriors.

After the Mecha Warrior was stunned for a moment, he immediately requested support.

Then, dozens of Human Civilization warships immediately aimed their targets at this special mothership and fired Electromagnetic Cannons reinforced by large Dharma Arrays.

When the shells fired by these Electromagnetic Cannons approached the mothership, they were likewise blocked by the faint blue light.

With their energy absorbed, the shells lost their velocity and Dharma Power, thereby losing their might; they could only lightly "bang" against the mothership's hull before being deflected away even faster.

This scene caught the attention of Su Ping's Avatar.

However, he did not need to deal with it himself.

A Nascent Soul realm Spirit Beast had already noticed the opponent.

This was a Spirit Beast that was a lizard turned demon; it had already taken human form, was clad in a suit of silver-glittering armor, and held a halberd in its hand.

It was just that its head remained a lizard head, which looked a bit terrifying.

This transcendent lizard rushed to the vicinity of that mothership in the blink of an eye.

It first swung the halberd a few times to unleash a shockwave.

Seeing these shockwaves absorbed without any surprise.

The transcendent lizard chuckled and retracted its supernatural Dharma Power.

Then, relying entirely on its physical body, it charged toward the mothership like a missile.

Within a hundred-meter range of the mothership.

The transcendent lizard felt a numbness throughout its body.

Its Dharma Power was drained away.

However, after it used its Divine Sense to check its Storage Spirit Tool and found that the Spirit Pills and medicines inside were all normal.

It felt relieved in its heart, and its entire body slammed into the mothership's hull with a "boom."

It immediately smashed a large dent into the sturdy hull!

The crew inside the mothership were all startled, but they also secretly rejoiced that they had reinforced the hull and installed multiple layers of armor before coming.

Even if the opponent was a monster from myths and legends, it would be hard to break through relying solely on its physical body, right?

Just as they were thinking this.

They suddenly saw on the monitor that the lizard-man monster suddenly took out something and swallowed it in one gulp.

After being stunned for a moment, a certain bad feeling welled up.

Sure enough, bad premonitions always come true!

On the monitor, the transcendent lizard's entire body erupted with pure white light.

This light generated for a moment.

It seemed that having confirmed it had left that range, using Dharma Power would no longer be suddenly drained away.

The extraordinary lizard grew bold, let out a low roar, and its muscles bulged, causing its armor to visibly deform.

The blood-Qi and Dharma Power on its body merged, forming a Dharma image over fifty meters tall that looked like a physical entity.

This Dharma image was not its limit; the extraordinary lizard was merely worried about triggering a reaction from that Black Technology device, so it held back a little bit of strength.

However, this was enough to terrify the crew members inside the mothership.

They even disregarded that they were also inside the mothership and fired a large number of missiles and Drones at the extraordinary lizard.

However, before their death throes could take effect.

The condensed-to-the-limit Dharma image of the extraordinary lizard had already thrown a punch at the dented area.

It was just a single punch.

The multi-layered armor, dozens of meters thick, was punched through in one blow.

The shockwave rippled out from the point of impact, causing a large number of malfunctions in various systems within the mothership.

Alarm sounds immediately rang out inside the mothership.

However, the panicked and uneasy crew members did not wait for the captain and high-ranking officials to think of a solution.

As the outer shell was broken.

These people ran to the escape pods at the first opportunity.

And facts proved they were right.

After the extraordinary lizard entered the interior of the mothership through the breach.

The tens of thousands of crew members combined were not enough for a single bite for this extraordinary lizard.

In less than a few dozen breaths.

This mothership was already completely paralyzed and had become a captive.

And the high-ranking officials of the civilization who had escaped did not run for long before they were captured by the Human Civilization fleet.

At the same time, the Interstellar Warship, which looked like a Planet Fortress and was difficult for other civilizations to resist.

Even with the help of Black Technology equipment, it could not resist the Talisman attacks used by the Mecha Warriors approaching from all sides.

As long as one place failed.

The power of the curse would immediately spread there, paralyzing a large area in an instant.

Compared to ordinary civilization warships, they just took a little longer to fall.

At the edge of this Star system, deep within a nebula where electromagnetic interference was severe and observation was difficult.

A fleet with a sci-fi design, filled everywhere with technological aesthetics, was lurking there.

This fleet did not belong to any of the many civilizations of the Interstellar Security Alliance.

The fact that they could appear at the edge of the Star system rather than near a Space Node proved that their technological strength far exceeded those alliance civilizations.

In fact, the Interstellar Security Alliance was able to unite so quickly and form a certain combat capability.

It was actually them who deserved the most credit behind the scenes.

They called themselves the Coordination Civilization and were one of the first ancient civilizations in the Galaxy to survive to this day in the true sense.

They were also a rare technological civilization that had mastered warp navigation, thereby being able to move quickly between Star systems without relying on Space Nodes.

This technological civilization, after experiencing countless man-made and natural disasters that forced them to start over.

The Coordination Civilization learned to hide itself, learned that rather than ruling other civilizations, it was better to hide behind the scenes to observe and even make fine-tuned adjustments when necessary.

Through observation, they sought out their own subsequent scientific research paths.

As for resources? Population conflicts?

Hehehe, the Galaxy is so vast; once a civilization's technology reaches the level of the Coordination Civilization, where it can travel across Star systems without the aid of Space Nodes, resources are never a problem.

Population is even less of a problem.

Every individual of the Coordination Civilization is already bred and cultivated through machines.

It is even entirely possible to mass-customize experts with the talents required by the civilization according to the needs of the entire civilization.

Several civilizations in the Interstellar Security Alliance with more Black Technology devices were all objects of observation and research for this Coordination Civilization.

And because of this, they could also know about their encounters at the first opportunity.

And the sudden emergence of the Water Blue Star Civilization.

Made this Coordination Civilization feel deeply uneasy.

Although they could not monitor the entire Galaxy.

They did scan various Star systems from time to time to ensure that they could detect any civilization comparable to them at the first opportunity.

After all, according to their research, a civilization that wants to completely step out of its Star system must reach a certain level of efficiency in utilizing its own Star.

But that Water Blue Star Civilization clearly took an unconventional path.

Even though it had not reached the same level of technology.

It somehow managed to achieve all sorts of incredible feats.

Especially that large-scale space jump in an instant.

This was something the Coordination Civilization, which had mastered warp navigation, could not do.

This made the Coordination Civilization exceptionally curious about the Water Blue Star Civilization, while also becoming increasingly cautious.

"Brother, are we just going to watch like this?"

In the Coordination Civilization fleet, each ship only required one individual of the civilization.

They communicated in the virtual world through the fleet communication channel.

At this moment, in the virtual world, they were watching the almost one-sided battlefield on the monitoring screen together.

An individual of the civilization who had observed a certain civilization for a thousand years asked again with some reluctance.

"The Xie Tiao Li Shi Hui has rejected your proposal."

The individual addressed as brother spoke again:

"We cannot expose our existence."

"Remaining hidden behind the scenes is the greatest advantage of our Coordination Civilization."

"Although our spaceships are technologically superior to the other side's."

"The Council still hasn't been able to figure out the principles behind the opponent's attacks to this day."

"Before developing targeted weapons, we only need to remain quiet and keep observing."

"..."

The inquiring individual lowered their head, intending to complain about something.

Suddenly, the virtual world issued an alarm, and red light flooded most of the area.

The attendees all revealed expressions of surprise and looked toward the host of this virtual world.

"The observation ship has detected abnormal Space Fluctuation."

"Let me see... this is impossible!"

"How could there be such intense Space Fluctuation! And so close to us!"

"And this gravity fluctuation, what is the situation? Could a planetary celestial body have performed a space jump to the vicinity of the nebula I am in?"

"This is unscientific!"

The host exclaimed aloud.

The other individuals were stunned for a moment, then proceeded to process their own ship data and projected images of the abnormal location into the virtual world.

Instantly.

The Coordination Civilization captains present were all struck dumb, standing there like wooden chickens.

Because at the edge of that Star system, near the location of their fleet.

A Star beast comparable to a medium-sized planet had appeared!

That Star beast carried a thick shell on its back, with a head, four limbs, and a tail that looked small compared to its body.

Although they instinctively felt it was impossible, looking at the monster in the projection whose size was comparable to a planet.

They could all be certain that this was a living creature, a giant beast that looked real in every way!

"Star beasts have only ever appeared in works of fiction; I never thought we would actually see one today!"

"It's just that I have a bad suspicion: this Star beast has discovered us."

"Perhaps its appearance was intended to deal with us from the start."

"I think so too."

"Certain observation data on this Star beast is very similar to some anomalies of the Water Blue Star Human Civilization."

"We have reason to suspect that the other side is in league with that Human Civilization."

"Host, attack or retreat?"

"Do you think we have a choice?"

"Attack!"

"We have no choice left."

"..."

The other civilization individuals trembled slightly, then nodded.

Because they saw that the Star beast had already turned its head toward their direction and closed the million-kilometer distance between them in the blink of an eye.

"So fast!"

"Prepare to fire!"

The Coordination Civilization captains were all shocked by the speed of this Star beast.

And the Star beast that appeared here.

Was naturally Su Ping's spirit pet, Xuangui Baxia.

During this time, Su Ping had naturally gone Fishing for Juvenile Xuan Turtle many times.

Su Ping did not choose to start cultivating others from scratch, but gave them all to Xuangui Baxia to enhance itself.

At this very moment, Xuangui Baxia.

Had already reached the peak of its Bloodline, the Xuan Turtle Saint Sovereign bloodline.

At the same time, it had gained two more Juvenile Xuan Turtle, which it refined into unique Xuan Turtle Primordial Spirit Avatar.

These two Xuan Turtle Primordial Spirit Avatar each had their own specialties, just like Su Ping's Sword Dao Avatar and Taiyi, and could each have their own strengths.

Xuangui Baxia refined an alloy Xuan Turtle Avatar that devoured massive amounts of copper, iron, and other materials.

As well as a Sun Xuan Turtle Avatar that devoured massive amounts of Sun True Fire and relied on Su Ping's help to be granted Sun Divine Light.

The main body gained the blessing of two great Avatar divine abilities, and it had also eaten massive amounts of heavenly treasures along the way with Su Ping.

It even had innate divine weapons taken from the Cultivation World.

Its current comprehensive combat power was already no less than that of Chiyuan Xianren.

It had come this time because Su Ping's Avatar had discovered traces of the Coordination Civilization.

After realizing that this was a high-level civilization.

He sent Xuangui Baxia to deal with it individually.