Chapter 325: At least we can still drag this world to mutual destruction!

The scales of victory have already swiftly tilted toward the Huaxia side.

Inside the Descent Legion's headquarters mothership, as reports of battlefield damage kept arriving, Ning Yao's face turned deathly pale.

"Heavenly Sovereign…" a subordinate knelt on the ground, cold sweat pouring.

"The battle analysis division, intelligence division, reconnaissance division, etc., have all done their best, but… but we still cannot determine what that suddenly appearing flying object is; its technological level is far above ours…"

Ning Yao stared fixedly at the screen before her, "Activate first‑level attack and shoot that thing down for me."

"You mean… Descent Sigh?!" the subordinate hesitated, "But our legion hasn't withdrawn yet; if we fire Descent Sigh now, …"

Ning Yao roared, "If we wait for the legion to withdraw before firing, that thing will already be right in front of me!"

The subordinate stammered, "Descent Sigh is our ultimate weapon; although its power is immense, its energy consumption is also terrifying—firing once would use up a third of our energy, and if—"

"Stop wasting time with nonsense!" Ning Yao commanded sternly, "Activate it immediately!"

"Yes yes yes!" the subordinate dared not say more and hurried away.

At this moment, thousands of the Descent Legion's airborne combat motherships and tens of thousands of aerial fighters were scattering and fleeing, most soaring to an altitude of ten thousand meters.

And that shuttle‑shaped mining ship pursued relentlessly, reaping like a god of death.

The Descent Legion's airborne combat forces only now felt what fear was—previously they were the ones slaughtering others, but now they were struck helpless by a seemingly ordinary flying craft.

At an altitude of twenty thousand meters, the Descent Legion's headquarters mothership, half the size of a city, emitted a dull roar, and waves of energy distorted the air around it.

As energy gathered, the pyramid‑shaped mothership glowed golden all over; within a few seconds all the golden light converged at its base, then burst forth in hundreds of piercing beams aimed at the mining ship.

Each beam exceeded a hundred meters in diameter, containing terrifying energy; wherever it passed, space itself was ripped open with dense black fissures.

All the beams struck the mining ship simultaneously with pinpoint accuracy, forming in the sky a blinding focus many times brighter than the sun.

The energy overflowing from the focus instantly vaporized Descent Legion aircraft within a radius of several kilometers, and even the ground battlefield far below ten thousand meters forced both sides to scramble for cover, lest they be reduced to ash by the spreading heat.

"Surely that thing must be destroyed now?" Ning Yao stared fixedly at the screen.

When the Descent Sigh attack ended, the sky gradually returned to normal, and the screen finally ceased being a blinding white.

But when Ning Yao saw the image, her face turned even paler than the screen had been.

Because that shuttle‑shaped flying craft emerged completely unscathed!

On the contrary, the Descent Legion's airborne combat force, already reduced to half, was cut in half again.

The shuttle‑shaped craft hovered in place, silently displaying its power.

"Fire… fire another shot!" Ning Yao's eyes turned blood‑red as she shouted in fury.

The subordinate beside her hurriedly said, "Heavenly Sovereign, please calm your anger! One Descent Sigh couldn't destroy that craft, and a second would be just as useless—don't waste energy pointlessly! If we fire again, we'll have only a third of our energy left, not enough even to power the spacetime portal for retreat…"

"Who said I'm still aiming at that monster?" Ning Yao's veins bulged on her forehead, her gaze terrifyingly sinister, "I'm targeting the ground—where the surviving tens of millions of Huaxia people are—one shot would wipe them all out! I refuse to believe that monster can shield them!"

"Heavenly Sovereign…"

"Fire! Or I'll kill you right now!"

"Yes… Heavenly Sovereign."

A dull roar sounded again.

Another Descent Sigh was launched, heading straight for the earth.

From the roar's onset to the Descent Sigh's launch, less than five seconds elapsed.

Yet in that brief span, the mining ship flew from ten thousand meters altitude to the ground and, as the Descent Sigh struck, deployed an invisible energy‑field shield.

The blinding giant beam slammed down, again flooding heaven and earth with a searing white glare.

In the distance, Xiao Qidi put one arm around Ning Jinli's shoulder and, with the other hand raised, gathered Internal Strength nearby to form a transparent shield.

A shockwave many times more powerful than a nuclear explosion struck in the blink of an eye.

Inside the shield the two remained unmoving; outside, mountains collapsed, earth split, sand and stones flew.

When the blinding light faded and the devastating shockwave subsided, Ning Jinli's anxious heart finally settled, for she saw that, protected by the mining ship, the outpost had suffered hardly any damage.

On the contrary, prior to this terrifying attack, large numbers of surrendered troops and Descent Legion ground forces who had fled beyond the outpost's perimeter were struck by the diffused shockwave remnants and turned into a blood mist.

Inside the Descent Legion's headquarters mothership, Ning Yao let out a hoarse, exhausted roar of extreme fury.

"Ah!!!"

As the roar rang out, dozens of tentacles burst from her body, tearing the walls of the command hall she occupied to shreds and destroying every control instrument and screen before her.

Dozens of subordinates and high‑ranking legion commanders present threw themselves to the ground to dodge, but some failed to evade in time, were pierced through by the tentacles on the spot, and died violently.

After venting, Ning Yao slowly retracted her tentacles.

The subordinates lay on the ground, not daring to lift their heads.

This second‑generation Heavenly Sovereign is… truly terrifying; her temper is far more violent than that of the first‑generation Heavenly Sovereign Ning who founded the Descent Legion, and she lacks Ning's grave composure.

"Again! Fire again!" Ning Yao yelled, glaring with blood‑red eyes.

A high‑official, steeling himself, said, "Heavenly Sovereign, we can't fire anymore… we have only a third of our energy left, not even enough to activate the spacetime portal to flee this world…"

"Oh? Then what's your plan?" Ning Yao's blood‑red eyes turned to him.

That official, sweat pouring down, trembling, said, "With the last third of our energy, our mothership can first… oh no, first retreat to the moon; although the Descent Legion's combat forces have almost all… all fallen, our mothership still holds several million people, who can build a base on the moon to mine energy, rest and recuperate, regain strength, and then attack again."

"Foolish!" Ning Yao snapped, "Do you think we could outrun that shuttle‑shaped craft given its endurance?!"

The official who had offered the strategy felt as if an invisible hand had seized his throat, rendering him speechless.

Everyone else present fell into a death‑like silence.

Judging from the recent battle, they likely had no way out.

"Perhaps… surrender?" a high‑official in the corner whispered.

Swish!

A tentacle shot from Ning Yao's shoulder, its tip piercing the chest of the official who had suggested surrender.

He couldn't even beg for mercy before the tentacle coiled and snapped him, breaking him into several pieces that fell to the ground.

"Anyone else want to surrender?" Ning Yao looked down from above, her cold gaze sweeping over the rest.

No one spoke anymore, even their breathing was held.

"Fine, it seems no one wants to surrender," Ning Yao's expression returned to calm, but her blood-red eyes swelled with even more terrifying madness, "My father once founded the Descending Legion in a parallel world; for a hundred years he swept the globe undefeated, and the word 'surrender' never existed! Even if I cannot fulfill my father's wish to rule this world, at least I can drag this world down with me to mutual destruction!"

After she finished speaking, the hearts of everyone else present sank to the bottom of a valley.

"I don't want to die... I still have family," a high-ranking member gritted their teeth and said, "We originally just wanted to follow the Grand Heavenly Venerable to this world to enjoy a new life, but this outcome... is not what I wanted!"

Ning Yao's face turned icy, "How dare you, you also want to defy me?"

Although you are Lord Ning's beloved daughter, you are utterly unworthy to be the Heavenly Venerable; you have no family left, but we still do!

"Hahahaha!" Ning Yao threw her head back and laughed, "Family? Now you're trying to win sympathy by claiming you have family? Since the Descending Legion's inception, whose hands haven't been stained with thousands, even tens of thousands of lives? Which of you high-ranking members didn't rise to your current status step by step through slaughter? How many people have you killed, how many so-called families have you destroyed? And now you come at me with this?"

The high-ranking member who talked back was left speechless by the scolding, then, ashamed and enraged, bellowed, "Those who don't want to die, come with me and fight her!"

As his words fell, he took the lead, drew his sidearm, and pulled the trigger at Ning Yao.

At the same time, another dozen or so high-ranking members also drew their guns and fired together.

The extremely destructive Bullet instantly poured onto Ning Yao, riddling her with bullet holes.

The high-ranking members knew it wouldn't be so easy to kill her, so those skilled in close combat drew daggers and lunged like lightning, chopping off Ning Yao's head with a swift strike.

Blood spattered everywhere, the scene a bloody mess.

Ning Yao's head rolled to one side, her body limp like a lump of rotting flesh on the ground.

"We... killed her?"

The high-ranking members who launched the mutiny found it hard to believe.

Someone kicked Ning Yao's head with their foot, found no reaction, and burst into cheers.

"Heh... fools... all fools..." Ning Yao suddenly let out a cold laugh.

Everyone present instantly felt their hairs stand on end.

But before they could move again, Ning Yao's body erupted with dozens of blood-red tentacles, which in an instant ensnared all the high-ranking members and tore them into chunks of flesh.

Even among those high-ranking members were super-strong genetically modified individuals, yet before Ning Yao's attack they had no power to resist.

After tearing the crowd apart, Ning Yao used her tentacles to devour all the bloody flesh and blood on the ground, then quickly reassembled her own body, as if she had never been injured.

Since the last time, in a state of lost reason, she devoured Ning Hai and Lu Xingfeng, she discovered that devouring others can strengthen herself.

Even Lu Xingfeng's profound abilities accumulated over more than a hundred years entirely became hers.

Now, in one gulp, she swallowed dozens of the Descending Legion's high-ranking members, likewise absorbing their powerful genetic mutation abilities.

"Tsk... if I devoured the several million people aboard the headquarters mothership, who knows how powerful I would become..." Ning Yao licked the corner of her mouth, her eyes filled with excited, maddening, distorted light.

She activated the top-tier energy shield defense layer of the headquarters mothership, then walked out of the main control hall naked, took the elevator, and headed to other areas.

At an altitude of twenty to thirty thousand meters, the headquarters mothership hung motionless, with a visible layer of energy undulation surrounding it externally.

The remnants of the Descending Legion, having lost contact with the headquarters, turned into headless flies and were quickly annihilated single-handedly by the mining ship dispatched by Xiao Qidi, using a ramming tactic.

As for the defeated surrendering legion, they decisively abandoned resistance and all chose to surrender to Huaxia Guo.

The tens of millions of survivors from Huaxia Guo all came to the ground, began clearing the battlefield and scavenging usable supplies; among them, the Huaxia high-ranking members took charge of leadership and organization, handling surrender matters on one hand while preparing to contact the many legions from parallel worlds coming to offer support on the other.

From the current situation, the great battle is drawing to a close, and Huaxia's victory is already a foregone conclusion.

Only the Descending Legion's mothership, hovering tens of thousands of meters above, remains to be dealt with.

Xiao Qidi piloted the mining ship upward, attempting several rams, but failed to break through the mothership's energy shield defense.

"It seems their mothership is still a bit tougher than my mining ship," Xiao Qidi said with a smile, "I need to switch to a combat-ready craft."

Having said that, he recalled the mining ship and soon procured a combat aircraft shaped like a battle-axe.

The battle-axe aircraft, with just a single energy blast, tore open a gap in the Descending Legion mothership's energy shield defense.

"Jinli, do you want to destroy it outright, or do you have another plan?" Xiao Qidi asked Ning Jinli for her opinion.

Ning Jinli gazed at the vast shadow in the sky, "Destroying it would be wasteful; it would be better to keep it for future research."

Xiao Qidi chuckled lightly, "Sure, although it's a bit behind the times, it's still decent research material for you."

Ning Jinli added, "I suspect there are still many people inside, and their ruler, the Descending Heavenly Venerable, is surely among them; I want to go in first to see the situation."

"No problem, I'll take you there." Xiao Qidi said, then directly embraced Ning Jinli tightly; his aura surged, and with a whoosh he shot straight up into the air.

Before Ning Jinli could react, she had already arrived beside the headquarters mothership of the Descending Legion.

Previously, seen from the ground, this pyramid-shaped flying object was already huge enough to leave one gaping; now, up close, it felt like standing at the base of a towering mountain peak, and even looking up with strained eyes one could not see its top.

Xiao Qidi brought Ning Jinli in through the gap in the energy shield defense, then, using some unknown method, he opened a hole in the mothership's hull, and the two went in one after the other.

After entering, the place where they stood was an unfamiliar high platform.

"This isn't an aircraft; it's practically a moving city capable of holding tens of millions of people..." Ning Jinli gazed from the platform, and upon seeing part of the interior scene of the mothership, she couldn't help but exclaim in astonishment.

As far as the eye could see, aside from countless massive machines of unknown purpose, there were dense skyscrapers and intertwining roads like tangled roots.

Strangely, not a single human figure was visible.