Chapter 72: Breaking Free

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

The silver-gray spacecraft took advantage of the chaos it caused to break through the encirclement, instantly bursting past the first wave of interception.

Under Babata's all-out burst, the spacecraft rapidly accelerated to sub-light speed, then fled swiftly into the distance.

However, those adventurers blinded by treasure would not give up so easily.

"Damn it! After them! Space is turbulent in the Secret Realm — they won't dare travel faster than light speed. They can't escape!"

Aboard the silver-white small warship, a young man whose face was covered in green secret patterns angrily issued orders.

The small warship changed direction and rapidly gave chase.

"The Kahuns Adventurer Team has caught up — let's go too!"

A full thousand assorted small spacecraft immediately followed behind them.

However, because Zhou Yang and the others had reacted earlier, they had accelerated to sub-light speed one step sooner.

Without entering the Dark Universe, the pursuing spacecraft could at best maintain a constant distance from them — catching up was impossible.

"C9 laser cannon charging — shoot them down!"

On the pursuing silver-white small warship, a pitch-black aperture lit up, and enormous energy fluctuations began to build within.

The next second, a massive white Light Column erupted forth, instantly striking the fleeing small spacecraft ahead.

"Boom!"

A crystalline energy shield blocked the attack.

However, the tremendous impact force sent the silver-gray spacecraft shaking constantly, and its speed slowed somewhat.

The pursuing small warship behind had taken the opportunity to close the gap by a large margin.

At the same time, a new round of charging began in the warship's energy weapon!

"Damn it, sons of bitches — if the Yunmo Star weren't unusable right now, Lord Babata would tear your crappy spacecraft to pieces!"

Babata quickly stabilized the spacecraft, his little face filled with fury.

"Zhou Yang, this won't do — from that last hit, the spacecraft shield's energy was depleted by at least 15%. At this rate, we won't hold out until the designated location!"

Zhou Yang's expression was also grim.

"Open the cabin door — leave the rest to me!"

As his words fell, extremely thick purplish-red vines rapidly extended from his hands.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh~"

Countless purplish-red vines surged out of the opened cabin door, then layered and transformed behind the spacecraft.

Very soon, layer upon layer of heavy vine-armor shields formed outside the energy shield.

"Bzzt~"

Green radiance instantly spread out, enveloping the entire Mo Yun Teng within.

Under the augmentation of the Wood Law Domain, the Mo Yun Teng's vitality and resilience rapidly increased.

Then, the special ability "Vitality" activated! Life Yuan Power was likewise injected!

A special Gene primal energy, accompanied by a large amount of green radiance, surged through Zhou Yang's arms into the thick vines, and a powerful life aura erupted in an instant.

The Mo Yun Teng's defensive capability reached its current extreme state!

Just as Zhou Yang finished all this, blinding light bloomed once more from behind — the second energy attack arrived in a flash!

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle~"

Intense white light bombarded the layers of heavy vine-armor shields, and vines were instantly torn apart and scorched.

However, during this process, rich green radiance erupted, and the broken vines rapidly repaired and regenerated.

Although the repaired vines were instantly shredded again by the ensuing laser, it greatly consumed the energy of this strike.

"Boom!"

In the end, after the blazing white Light Column shattered all the vine-armor shields, it once again struck the spacecraft's shield.

However, this time the spacecraft's energy shield only fluctuated slightly before easily blocking the attack.

"Haha, Zhou Yang, the Mo Yun Teng did it — it withstood at least two-thirds of the attack! This time the shield energy consumption was only five percent, and the impact force on the spacecraft was much less too!"

Babata's cheers rang out in the spacecraft. "Just like this — hold on, we'll reach the designated location very soon!"

"Good!"

Zhou Yang took a deep breath, frantically injecting Gene primal energy and Life Yuan Power into the Mo Yun Teng. The broken vines rapidly regenerated, recovering to their original state in the blink of an eye.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh~~~"

Thick vines suffused with hazy green light rapidly coiled around, once again forming a massive vine-armor shield!

"Sizzle!"

"Sizzle!"

"Sizzle!"

The attacks from the small warship behind continued to arrive without cease.

However, after being weakened by the Mo Yun Teng shield, the residual attacks with less than one-third of their original power were easily blocked by the spacecraft's energy shield.

Aboard the pursuing small warship, the young man whose face was covered in strange patterns now wore an extremely ugly expression.

"Why, why — a small adventurer's spacecraft, how can it withstand so many consecutive laser cannon attacks!"

However, the question in his heart was destined to remain unanswered.

"We're here, we're here — Zhou Yang, you few get ready!"

Amidst the continuous pursuit, the silver-gray spacecraft ahead rapidly approached an enormous spatial vortex.

This was one end of the entrance to a special space that adventurers in the Soul River Secret Realm frequently used as a "transit station."

"Whoosh!"

The silver-gray spacecraft instantly plunged into the spatial vortex ahead, while Mo Yun Teng wrapped around four figures and burst out from the craft, then swiftly disappeared into the exit on the other side.

Meanwhile, the abandoned silver-gray spacecraft rapidly erupted with violent energy fluctuations.

"Rumble rumble rumble~~~~"

The instant the small warship entered the spatial vortex, the silver-gray spacecraft violently self-destructed!

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle~~~ Crack!"

The vortex routes of these small spaces were inherently the weakest points in space.

Under the impact of the enormous explosive energy, the spatial vortex shook violently, and even faint sounds of space fracturing could be heard.

"Quick, quickly activate the warship shields, maximum power, prepare to withstand the spatial storm impact!"

The young man's frantic shouts rang out inside the small warship.

The next second, the enormous spatial vortex instantly shattered, and the space around the vortex disintegrated like a mirror.

The pitch-black spatial rift instantly swallowed the warship along with over a dozen small spacecraft that had been following close behind.

The densely packed adventurer spacecraft that had followed from behind desperately turned away, narrowly escaping the fate of being swallowed by the spatial rift.

After a long time, the shattered space gradually repaired itself, and everything returned to calm.

However, there was no longer any trace of that spatial vortex, nor those warships and spacecraft, to be found here.

"Damn, these people are too ruthless, they actually destroyed an entire small space!"

"That Khamus adventure team is finished this time."

The adventurers who had been lucky enough to survive the disaster watched this scene with lingering fear, cold sweat breaking out in their hearts.

Meanwhile, in another region of Xingkong hundreds of millions of kilometers away, four figures swiftly ducked into a disc-shaped black spacecraft.

The black spacecraft then did not pause for a moment, instantly accelerating away into the distance.

(End of this chapter)