Chapter 732: Star-piercing Spear!

The war has entered a white-hot phase.

The Seventh Star Field's defenses are no longer merely the Alliance's defenses.

Three alien civilization fleets have been temporarily transferred to the battlefield, and together with the Alliance fleet, they block the ever-expanding pollution tide ahead.

At the forefront is the Holland Expeditionary Force.

They come from a civilization renowned for large-scale energy technology; their fleet adopts a ring-shaped shield structure, with dozens of massive motherships linked together, directly turning the entire starfield into a slowly moving shield.

They are not skilled in close combat, but they possess the second-strongest long-range firepower in the Star Sea.

Each volley of the main guns can temporarily create a vacuum zone in the pollution tide.

But.... that vacuum is quickly refilled.

As soon as the Holland Expeditionary Force's guns cease fire, the black mist sea surges back from the edge of the vacuum.

Like demons crawling out of hell, endless and chilling.

No natural disaster has ever been this horrifying in scale—never before!

The second fleet comes from the Novas Star Field; it is the overlord of that star field and counts as one of the two supreme great civilizations.

They are a civilization specialized in heavy armor and space-folding technology.

Their warships, even any random one, are several times larger than the Holland mothership and possess extremely thick multilayer phase armor.

But the Novas warship at the very front has already been almost half-covered by pollution.

The hull's outer plating is covered in black lumps of flesh, the armor constantly cracking and resealing.

Yet it does not retreat; space technology keeps the pollution at bay, standing firm—but this cannot last long.

The Novas fleet is like a row of iron mountains nailed into the starfield, using its own hulls to stubbornly hold back the pollution tide, buying time for the fleets behind to withdraw.

The third fleet comes from the Huanhuan World Civilization.

This is a civilization whose core is spiritual observation technology.

They lack strong forward firepower, and their ships are not equipped with giant main guns like other civilizations.

Each Huanhuan warship is composed of hundreds of silver observation rings.

Those observation rings can pierce the pollution and directly perceive the flow of high-dimensional energy.

On the battlefield, wherever there is a pollution core, a line about to collapse, or a potential new pollution node, the Huanhuan observation ships always detect it in advance.

But their fleet is also the most fragile.

Once pollution approaches, the observation rings shatter like glass in large numbers.

At this moment, the three fleets each perform their duties: the Holland Expeditionary Force handles long-range suppression, and the Novas fleet bears the front.

The Huanhuan World Civilization continually seeks the location of the pollution core.

As for the Alliance, its fleet is not here at all!

But rather, it is inside the pollution tide!!!

The number of Alliance fleets that have entered is not large.

Specifically, only a dozen or so warships followed Zhang Jie charging into the pollution depths.

They did not fire together with the main force, nor did they wait for support behind the Novas fleet; instead, they forcibly cut into the pollution tide using coordinates provided by the Huanhuan World.

Around the fleet, black flesh and blood constantly surge, while the golden Crimson Vajra leads the way at the very front.

Each swing of Zhang Jie's sword cuts a passage through the pollution tide.

The rushing flesh seas cannot approach; wherever the golden flame passes, all pollution is purified.

Zhang Jie does not look back.

His target, from the very beginning, was not these pollution monsters.

But the deepest part of the pollution tide, that black heart beating incessantly.

The observation results of the Huanhuan civilization have been sent back—it is a massive pollution node.

It connects to several nearby star fields, absorbing the scattered spirit, energy, and life from the battlefield.

As long as it continues to grow, the pollution tide outside will not cease.

It will even spread along the star routes to even more distant places.

The scope of this war has already far exceeded anyone's expectations.

Found it.

Lin Ran sits in the copilot seat of the Crimson Vajra, staring at the gradually emerging black silhouette ahead.

It is a huge black star.

Countless blood vessels pierce deep into the void, like an inverted forest.

Each beat causes the surrounding pollution to swell.

Zhang Jie controls the Crimson Vajra to come to a halt.

Alliance fleet, withdraw from the node's range.

Leader, what about you?

I'll go in.

The pollution concentration inside is too high!

Execute the order.

Zhang Jie gives the order, while Lin Ran beside him fastens a peculiar-looking helmet onto her head, which looks like a small steel helmet.

This is a temporary willpower-boosting device made by Zhang Jie and Yuan.

The pollution shield on the Crimson Vajra activates simultaneously, keeping external pollution outside the cockpit.

Zhang Jie himself does not need these; he is innately immune to pollution, but Lin Ran lacks that ability.

"Lin Ran, ready, Star-piercing Spear!"

Good!

Lin Ran nodded, without hesitation raising the blood-colored spear in her hand.

Disaster Breath undulated with an invisible wave, then was suddenly hurled forward.

As the spear left her hand, a flash of light streaked across the chest armor of the Crimson Refined Vajra.

Boom!!!

Thick streams of light accompanied by blood-colored lightning burst forth from the chest of the Crimson Refined Vajra! Directly aimed at the pollution node!

All tentacles attempting to block the way were torn apart by terrifying force before they could get close.

The pollution node's center didn't even get a chance to react before being pierced by the Star-piercing Spear, beginning to collapse in place.

Zhang Jie stared at the scene before him, suddenly feeling a sense of familiarity.

Boom!!!

Before the blood-colored light arrived, a powerful impact instantly flung open the black flesh on the node's surface.

Countless blood vessels snapped apart, like a black forest torn apart by a raging wind.

After the spear pierced the core, its momentum undiminished, it carried the entire pollution node backward for several kilometers, crushing all contamination along the way into ash.

The black star contracted violently.

Immediately afterward, it let out a low roar so deep it could shatter the starry sky.

Roar!!!

The shockwave exploded outward.

The little steel helmet on Lin Ran's head was knocked askew by the blast.

"Does this count as our hot-blooded combo technique?"

She quickly reached out to hold it down, excitedly watching the node as it began to crumble.

Fortunately, it didn't fall off.

"Call the fleet, the pollution node has been cleared; prepare to recover the core remnants."

From the comms channel came the response of Alliance soldiers: exactly, Zhang Jie's reason for coming here was to recover the core remnants.

As for its purpose? Surely it's to feed the blue sapphire!

It's not just because this node poses the greatest danger.

"The surrounding pollution seems to be dissipating."

Lin Ran said as much, and the mysterious flesh that had appeared from nowhere now vanished like a tide.

Behind them, the fleets of three civilizations gradually came into view.

What they saw was an unstoppable Alliance fleet, and that golden Crimson Refined Vajra.