Chapter 497: Divine Might of the Xuangui Baxia

The fleet of the Coordination Civilization faced the rapidly approaching Xuangui Baxia.

They were forced to engage in battle.

Most of their starships were in the one-to-two-kilometer class.

Facing the planet-sized Xuangui Baxia, the disparity in size was extreme.

However, as one of the oldest civilizations in the Galaxy.

They had naturally long since mastered weapon technologies capable of destroying a planet.

Facing the menacing star-beast, the captains of the Coordination Civilization all prioritized the deployment of Gravity Bombs.

In an instant, tens of thousands of black, spherical objects about one meter square were released into the nebula.

And after Xuangui Baxia approached, they exploded one after another, turning into pitch-black vortices resembling small black holes.

Terrifying spatial winds raged in all directions.

Sufficient to crush even those starships that had luckily dodged the blast radius into fragments.

This attack by the Coordination Civilization already involved a certain scope of time and space.

In the Cultivation World, that would be a grand technique that could only be unleashed by those above Dao Integration in coordination with innate divine weapons, Top-tier Arrays, or Supreme Treasures.

Yet at this very moment, it was wasted on Xuangui Baxia as if it were mass-produced cannon fodder.

Unfortunately, the Xuangui Baxia of today was no longer the same novice it once was.

Naturally adept at defense, it ignored the spatial vortices generated by these Gravity Bombs that could tear apart asteroids.

Without slowing its speed, it charged toward a starship of the Coordination Civilization.

A pale blue Low-temperature Plasma Shield erupted from the body of that Coordination Civilization starship.

In other interstellar civilizations, this was a Black Technology device that required rare heavenly treasures to manufacture.

On this starship, however, it was a cutting-edge product of the civilization's standard output.

Because of this, a full twelve of these shield generators were installed on this ship.

However, under the impact of Xuangui Baxia.

The beautiful shield collapsed at the first touch.

The generators exploded one after another, causing fire to erupt inside the ship first.

Then, before the captain on the ship could take any other action.

Xuangui Baxia's front claw had already descended, smashing this Coordination Civilization starship to pieces on the spot.

It then continued its momentum, charging toward the area where the Coordination Civilization starships were most densely packed, and slowly opened its massive mouth.

The moment Xuangui Baxia opened its massive mouth.

In the virtual world, the captains of the Coordination Civilization all shuddered in unison, unexpectedly sharing an intuition that something terrible was about to happen, that disaster was imminent.

They were all Elite individuals of their civilization and naturally sensed their respective anomalies immediately.

Although they felt such an anomaly was truly somewhat mysterious and strange.

They all chose to trust this instinctive intuition.

For a moment, except for one starship chosen by lottery that hid behind the others and began to activate its Curvature Engine.

The other starships opened fire with full force, engaging in a desperate struggle.

The largest Coordination Civilization starship even had its forward hull transform, the entire ship turning into a cannon, firing a deep red beam of light at Xuangui Baxia's mouth.

Under normal circumstances, this strike would be enough to burn a planet the size of Water Blue Star into a glass bead.

However, after this strike entered Xuangui Baxia's mouth, it was like a stone sinking into the Dahai, without causing a single ripple.

As for those Gravity Bombs that kept exploding—even causing the Coordination Civilization's own ships to be affected by the resulting spatial storms—they did not even wear down Xuangui Baxia's skin.

These details caused the captains of the Coordination Civilization to reveal expressions of despair.

The captain acting as the Abbot sighed and made the decision to have their ship self-destruct.

The other captains echoed the sentiment, all preparing to self-destruct their Curvature Engines together to turn this patch of starry sky into a field of Time-Space Turbulence.

However, at the very moment they made up their minds.

The star-beast that was unbelievable in their eyes was clearly still some distance away from them...

It suddenly began to close its massive mouth at high speed.

Seeing this action from the star-beast, the Abbot felt a flash of inspiration and secretly thought, "Oh no."

Unfortunately, though the mind had thought it, there was not enough time for him to issue the order.

Xuangui Baxia took a bite into the Void.

Across a distance of hundreds of millions of kilometers.

It swallowed almost all of the Coordination Civilization starships distributed across an area of tens of millions of cubic kilometers in one gulp.

After these starships were swallowed into Xuangui Baxia's body.

They immediately became like frozen time, losing all power to resist.

And the only survivor.

Was the one remaining escape ship, about two thousand meters long and entirely gray-white, which was in the middle of the prelude to curvature travel.

The captain of this ship saw the fate of their companions and was so terrified that they disregarded the risk of potentially damaging the Curvature Engine.

They increased the output power, causing the entire starship to appear translucent.

Roar!

Xuangui Baxia let out a roar, its eyes widening as if it had noticed this one fish that had slipped through the net.

Watching the star-beast open its massive mouth once more, the captain was so scared that their soul was nearly frightened out of their body.

Fortunately, the moment the star-beast closed its mouth again.

The captain discovered that they had already entered the state of curvature travel.

The spaceship was moving away in curvature space from the star system that had left the captain with a terrifying memory he would never forget for the rest of his life.

Xuangui Baxia watched the other party leave, let out a few gurgling sounds, and then turned its head to look at the surrounding nebulae.

Its large mouth opened once more and sucked in fiercely.

It shockingly swallowed the entire nebula into its belly.

Then, it seemed to feel that it was still not enough.

Xuangui Baxia moved its body and appeared on the nearest giant planet as if by teleportation.

It began to feast heartily.

As for the Coordination Civilization.

It was not in a hurry.

It, Xuangui Baxia, also possessed tactical thinking.

That Coordination Civilization spaceship that had just slipped through the net was one it had intentionally let go.

The purpose was naturally to follow the vine to find the melon and locate the Coordination Civilization's lair.

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Near the Andromeda Galaxy, in a marginal region where, in a certain sense, the nebulae of both sides had already begun to touch.

In a young star system.

Because of the geographical environment.

This star system had very few Space Nodes. There was only one Space Node leading to the neighboring star system.

And the neighboring star system that this node led to.

Naturally, various monitoring equipment had long been properly deployed there.

This ensured that the Coordination Civilization's home star, developing within this young star system, would not be disturbed by unexpected visiting alien civilizations.

The Coordination Civilization had long ago transformed its home planet, and even transformed more than a dozen planets in its home star system.

It made them into planetary homes that could migrate together.

Upon reaching a star system worth researching and resting in, the Coordination Civilization would transform that star system to facilitate the insertion of its planetary homes, obtaining the most suitable living environment.

After the Curvature Engine technology was perfected, the Coordination Civilization proactively controlled its population scale to fluctuate at a very low level.

Although they possessed vast resources and their material life was extremely abundant, their total population was only over one hundred million.

And nearly two-thirds of them lived in a virtual world for long periods.

Leaving only a physical body lying in a nutrient pod.

The highest institution of the Coordination Civilization was the Xie Tiao Li Shi Hui, and because of the war that had broken out between Human Civilization and many interstellar civilizations.

They had not all lain down in nutrient pods, but were instead handling affairs and arranging various schedules in reality.

The Xie Tiao Li Shi Hui had also already received the message initially transmitted by the fleet.

It knew that the Human Civilization fleet had already gone to war with the Interstellar Security Alliance.

And it learned that even with the help of some Black Technology devices.

The incredible means of that Human Civilization were still effective, occupying a great advantage on the battlefield.

Looking at these messages, the members of the council all had a very strong sense of crisis.

They began to debate whether to increase technological aid to the observed civilizations to let them rapidly improve their military technology.

Just when the members of the Xie Tiao Li Shi Hui were evenly matched in support and opposition, and neither side could convince the other.

Following the detection of a curvature reaction at the edge of the star system.

Unmanned equipment immediately took action, deploying a Curvature Protection Shield to allow the spaceship within the curvature space to return steadily to the reality of the starry sky.

The members of the Xie Tiao Li Shi Hui looked at the monitoring screen in unison and discovered that only one spaceship had returned.

A bad premonition arose in their hearts.

Soon, they confirmed the correctness of their terrible premonition from the intelligence provided by the escape ship.

The fleet they, the Coordination Civilization, had sent to observe the battle had actually been attacked by a star-sky giant beast and was almost completely wiped out!

What was even more terrifying was the analysis from the final footage.

That star-sky giant beast could not only swallow an entire fleet from a distance.

Its own shell was also nearly immune to the Coordination Civilization's conventional means of attack.

This caused the Xie Tiao Li Shi Hui to be greatly terrified, and it unanimously passed a resolution to unseal the special weapons their civilization had kept in storage.

The Coordination Civilization, accustomed to observing the joys and sorrows of civilizations, would not be hypocritically hesitant until the moment of life and death for their civilization to remember they still had trump cards unused.

It could be said that the Xie Tiao Li Shi Hui had already done very well.

Various preparations were all very swift.

It was just a pity that they had encountered an opponent from another dimension.

When the Xie Tiao Li Shi Hui had pacified the captain of the escape ship and was preparing to have him go to the home planet to recuperate.

That spaceship, which appeared somewhat dilapidated due to the hasty curvature voyage, at the moment it entered the Spaceport.

First, Su Ping's Primordial Spirit Avatar appeared there.

Then, following that.

The massive form of Xuangui Baxia also appeared above the Spaceport as if by teleportation.

And at the moment of its appearance.

Because of the terrifying gravity generated by its massive body.

It instantly tore apart the Spaceport beneath its feet.

And then, it merely shook its body.

It caused the surrounding Coordination Civilization artificial structures to deform and explode.

Many starships, not even having time to leave the port, were shattered under the claws and tail of the Xuangui Baxia.

"That star-beast that attacked our sub-fleet!"

"It... how did it appear inside our port!"

"There is a problem with that starship!"

"It was used! The civilization behind this star-beast must have mastered some kind of point-to-point space teleportation technology!"

The members of the Xie Tiao Li Shi Hui were not stupid; they quickly figured out the situation.

However, figuring out the situation could not provide much help for their current predicament.

A star-beast that had suddenly appeared inside, and a star-beast with such fierce combat power at that.

In an instant, it caused the Coordination Civilization to suffer heavy losses.

Even though starships quickly rushed over to help.

All kinds of Gravity Bombs, ultra-high temperature, and ultra-low temperature energy impact beams were thrown over as if they cost nothing.

Yet the opponent seemed immune to these attacks, not even deigning to dodge.

Instead, it would bite into the Void from time to time.

It directly swallowed their fleet into its mouth.

"Hurry and activate the Space-Time Storm Generator!"

"Now is not the time to argue about whether it will endanger ourselves."

Facing the unreasonable power of the Xuangui Baxia, the Xie Tiao Li Shi Hui quickly made a decision.

In the deepest Safe House of the home planet, which was sealed layer by layer.

Among the crystallization of the Coordination Civilization's technology.

What could be considered a Black Technology weapon of this level for the Coordination Civilization, a weapon that looked like a large radar station, was brought out.

It was immediately connected to a power source, and the matching, most critical heavenly materials and earthly treasures were installed.

After the muzzle was aimed in the direction of the Xuangui Baxia.

They did not care about the possibility of accidentally injuring friendly forces.

As soon as it locked on, the Xie Tiao Li Shi Hui issued the order to fire.

Suddenly!

An invisible ripple shot out from the muzzle of the generator, approaching within a thousand meters of the Xuangui Baxia at the speed of light.

It actually triggered the Protective Spiritual Light reaction of the Xuangui Baxia.

Immediately, this ripple erupted at the position where it was blocked, instantly forming a Space-Time Storm that spread in all directions!

This ultimate move made Su Ping's Primordial Spirit Avatar slightly surprised.

He did not expect this technological civilization to actually possess such a weapon.

This Space-Time Storm, if placed in the Cultivation World, would be enough to severely injure a Great Ability of the Great Vehicle Realm.

Of course, the premise was that the Great Vehicle Great Ability was foolishly staying in place, not dodging or evading, and insisting on taking it head-on.

Even so, for a technological civilization to reach this step, it was truly not bad at all!

The Xuangui Baxia saw the expanding Space-Time Storm.

After letting out a low roar, it turned around with incomparable agility, then drew an afterimage and stretched out its neck.

With a bite of its big mouth, it shockingly swallowed this mass of Space-Time Storm as well.

This scene left the members of the Xie Tiao Li Shi Hui stunned.

They knew the power of this trump card.

It was precisely because they misused this weapon back then that it caused an out-of-control Space-Time Storm, destroying the ecological environment of their home Star system.

It brought their civilization to the brink of extinction.

Only then did their Coordination Civilization have to embark on the path of transforming the major planets of the Star system and taking them to other Star systems.

Yet they did not expect that this weapon of mass destruction that almost wiped out their civilization.

Would be swallowed so easily by that star-beast in one bite?

This... how could they accept this!

And just as the Xie Tiao Li Shi Hui was in shock.

The Xuangui Baxia raised its head and let out a loud roar.

It shockingly split into two Primordial Spirit Avatars of the Xuangui that looked exactly the same, only with slightly different colors.

Then these three star-beasts, which looked identical to the Coordination Civilization.

Each charged toward a space base of the Coordination Civilization.

In the blink of an eye, they completely wiped out the traces of the Coordination Civilization in those places.

It also indirectly proved that these two suddenly appearing star-beasts were by no means any illusion or trickery.

One was already difficult to deal with, let alone the fact that there were now two more!

When the main body of the Xuangui Baxia smashed a planetary-level mothership that was half its size.

And then, after aggressively approaching the atmosphere of the Coordination Civilization's home planet.

Watching the star-beast, which was two-thirds the size of their home planet, begin to open its large mouth.

The Xie Tiao Li Shi Hui, unable to withstand this terrifying pressure.

Finally represented the entire Coordination Civilization and issued a public broadcast.

Requesting the mysterious unknown civilization to stop fighting!