Chapter 109: Dead Spirits Holy Relic

Author's note: I have something to do today, so I'll post one chapter now; the remaining two chapters will be released at 6 o'clock today.

Everyone can wait until 6 o'clock and watch together!

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The bridge is quiet.

No!

The bridge is dead silent!

Fanluosi, who was about to ask Bai'er, froze in place, and the crowd around who heard this fell into instant silence.

To be honest, becoming a spiritual energy wielder in this galaxy is not exactly a good thing.

Bunoke even recalled the "spiritual energy batteries" he had previously seen with Xisi at the Oumia Star Language Court, and his back went cold.

But the one Bai'er is questioning now is Xisi, a person bearing the Seven Gods Blessing, who can press Abadon's face onto a warship's surface and rub it.

Although they had never heard of awakening spiritual energy later in life, the one speaking now is Bai'er, and they didn't immediately doubt him.

They only subconsciously thought that if Xisi truly awakened spiritual energy, it would indeed mean a new mortal demigod would be born in the galaxy.

Unlike those Subspace Evil Gods whose power wanes when they leave Subspace, Xisi will become a true "god" of the real universe!

Fanluosi's heavy breathing was the first to break the bridge's dead silence.

Then that breath seemed contagious, instantly spreading throughout the bridge.

Even Xisi above put away his displeasure at Bai'er for causing such a huge trouble, and looked seriously at Bai'er.

Even outsiders couldn't see it, but in Xisi's heart a far more violent, towering wave rose.

Because deep down he thought of two words more than anyone else…

"Hundredfold!"

He even slid his Adam's apple a bit; Xisi couldn't keep his face calm, instead he lowered his head slightly and slowly uttered four words at his mouth:

"Hundred, fold, spiritual, energy......"

Seeing even Xisi look heavy‑hearted, Bai'er who said this had a smug glint in his eyes.

Because this was already an unknown number of times he had deceived his "teammates".

Although he wasn't speaking nonsense—relying on the Dead Spirits Holy Relic in his arms, he could indeed make someone awaken spiritual energy later in life—he had never seen anyone endure the awakening process.

But now, looking at the Xisi before him, after repeatedly scanning, his mouth gradually widened, his eyes fixed on Xisi, and he stuck out a dark‑red tongue to lick his lips.

Bai'er's partner, and also his test subject on the operating table!

The bridge's atmosphere was eerie; everyone waited for a chance to break the silence.

And as the crowd watched Xisi finally straighten slightly, ready to speak and break the silence, the breaker came from outside the ship.

Macro Cannon, Gauss, Evil Energy.

The fire from the Empire, Dead Spirits, and Chaos fleets bombarded the ship simultaneously.

Huge tremors accompanied by flickering red light, and a shrill alarm turned the entire bridge into scalding boiling water.

Xisi suddenly snapped to attention, too late to acknowledge the equally regretful Bai'er below; Xisi turned his head toward the projection in the center of the bridge.

At that moment, beside his own small cluster of fleet light points, there were three dense clusters converging into a massive, glaring red spot resembling a giant whale.

Compared to that, his own small cluster was like a school of fish awaiting predators.

Worse still, he was a single small fish being hunted by three of the opponent.

"Immediately retreat and increase distance; all warships, retreat behind my flagship as far as possible."

Xisi hurried to the command station and gave orders; the crew below immediately began bustling, while Fanluosi stared at Bai'er, leading twenty Black Watch members to escort him to the other side.

Seeing these plainly mortal figures, yet the Black Watch imposing pressure far greater than Astat's, Bai'er unusually refrained from making any small moves.

Xisi's fleet began to rapidly increase distance, and as Xisi glanced at the projection and the void outside the port window, he closed his eyes briefly to sense, then reopened them with a furrowed brow.

Because the eyes constantly watching Xisi finally reduced from seven pairs to six.

"The Divine Emperor finally bypassed those six."

Xisi felt a sigh deep inside; it was precisely because the Divine Emperor finally found a chance to seek Kiriman that the Four Gods immediately employed all means, intensifying their assault on Xisi.

All hoped to seize this final chance to push Xisi completely to the opposing side of the Empire.

In fact, no one knows what the Four Gods actually did, and the Empire's strike fleet truly was the most aggressive of the three.

The Empire fleet, almost bearing the fire of the other two sides, was single‑mindedly intent on blasting Xisi to death.

Not only were dense Macro Cannons and Light Spears constantly striking the shield, but also numerous escort and destroyer ships forced through the three sides' fire nets, approaching Xisi's assault cruiser and then executing massive jump‑bridge maneuvers.

Facing the void shield's constantly rising waves and the densely packed jump‑bridge red dots on the hull, Xisi could only organize a counterattack on one hand while retreating as much as possible on the other.

Fortunately, the three opposing sides were not united; when they came close enough to each other, a fierce melee erupted among them.

At this moment, the void held over a thousand warships, desperately tilting fire at each other within a massive web of countless shells, rays, and Light Spears.

Several fighter craft pierced the shattered hulls of debris, intersected with jump‑bridge ships moving north and south, then, under a sky of close‑range fire, turned into clusters of blazing flames.

While the three sides poured fire at each other, they hardly forgot the main objective of this sortie.

The Empire needed to hunt the traitor, Washituoer wanted to reclaim the fragments, and the Dead Spirits sought to ensure Bai'er met a terrible death.

Thus, even though the three sides seemed to be acting like dogs with their brains exposed, they still poured even more ferocious fire onto Xisi's tiny fleet.

Even with Xisi at the front, the escort and destroyer‑heavy fleet behind began to be smashed and disintegrated one after another.

Among them, the fully‑crewed vessels and newly recruited soldiers were, in terror, swept into the void, mixing with the wreckage to become a sea of human bodies.

Then fierce explosions rang out, shockwaves roiling in the void, and Xisi stood on the bridge, watching the rolling corpses blowing in through the port like waves.

The vast majority were humans, mixed with many mutated crew members.

And then came Astat and the Dead Spirits' rib‑bones, also being dragged and repeatedly "thud‑thud" striking the port.

Xisi shifted his attention from the corpse sea that was becoming a swamp, turning to the battle's center, where the Dead Spirits' tombship was using exaggerated Gauss fire to tear apart the Imperial battlecruiser that attempted to charge at Xisi.

At the same time, they continuously poured fire at each other with the Ominous Sign Ark, both sides causing massive explosions and splintered debris on each other's hulls.

After that came the jump between the two giant vessels, with hardly a moment's pause.

Only as the Imperial battle group at the front was brutally beaten, the Tomb Ship and the Ominous Sign Ark began to shift their fire, and countless shells started to concentrate on the strike cruiser that outmatches any battle cruiser; Xisi finally clenched his teeth and withdrew his gaze.

He couldn't even consider whether Bai'er could actually do it, how to do it, or whether after doing so he would resort to some petty tricks.

Xisi could only, with the rippling Void Shield behind him that, even after a Hundredfold, was already trembling, gaze at the Old Chinese Medicine Doctor in the corner!

"I will awaken the spiritual energy!"

"Now, I will!!!"