Chapter 173: Endless Terrans

The Mechanical Sage finished speaking and hurried away.

Only Leishande remained standing, silently watching the group of delirious oil guys.

But when Leishande looked back at the projection, watching the insect swarm go wild, the Dream Illusion Vessel still steadily pushed toward Terra.

He again felt the Mechanical Sage's words weren't wrong.

Because aside from Om Messiah, Leishande truly couldn't think of anything else to explain what he was seeing.

If Om Messiah hadn't manifested, with humanity possessing the technology to build such warships, why would they need to mutter words like "despair" and "cold" every day?

His mother unified the galaxy long ago, not waiting for the Terrans to strike, but striking first!

Leishande silently watched the projection, then suddenly heard a crowd's gasp at his ear.

The eyes that had been fixed on Aolake finally all shifted back, turning to Terra.

Leishande was startled; curious, he looked at the crowd and saw a group of people looking up at a projection overhead, constantly reaching out and shouting.

Leishande followed the gaze, then couldn't help but slightly squint.

The Terran ancient warship that had been circling Terra was slowly leaving its orbit, swinging its massive body toward Xisi, who was drawing nearer in the void.

At the same time, the projection covering the entire solar system constantly echoed surprised calls from the besieged worlds.

"Retreat!"

"Terrans have been repelled by us!!!"

Neptune, Pluto, Mars, Mercury, and even several of Jupiter's moons, everyone excitedly sent Terra news of their "total victory".

At that moment on the projection, the Terran insect swarms from those worlds were retreating wildly across the heavens.

Amid this retreat, all the gritting‑tooth defenders believed their defense finally took effect.

But in the Command Hall on Terra that could view the whole picture, Leishande, watching the projection of the solar system's wildly shifting swarms, could not regard it as a victory.

He could not even see it as a "withdrawal".

Seeing the dense swarms covering the entire solar system, Leishande saw that as the ancient warship turned, the whole Terran tentacle mass lunged toward Xisi!

"This isn't a retreat..."

"This is the final battle!"

Leishande murmured while gazing at the scene.

Not only had the swarms that reached the solar system turned to face Xisi, but even behind that slender tentacle, more bio‑ships kept pouring in.

Although he often joked, at this moment Leishande truly doubted that the Terran bio‑ships outnumbered Xisi's Cannonballs!

"Should we provide support?"

A company commander of the Imperial Fist hesitated to speak, and genuine worry flashed in his eyes.

No one understood the Empire's actual situation better than these Terra close guards.

They all knew that if the support force before them were annihilated, Terra—and humanity—would be doomed!

Because this war could fail in countless ways, but there is only one failing outcome.

That is the Divine Emperor rising from the Golden Throne!

And once the Divine Emperor stands, not only will the sealed netways beneath him violently tear reality, but all human souls will become nourishment for his ascension.

Therefore Terra cannot afford any loss, so Kiriman and Tulazhen would rather let Xisi lead the army that once served Bai Shou to rush to Terra, and not abandon resistance.

Only when the Imperial Fist company commander spoke, Leishande widened his eyes seriously, then helplessly shrank back.

Then he stared at his own projection map, where the Terra defense fleet was almost nonexistent.

"What support?"

Leishande whispered feebly, and the Imperial Fist company commander, after a moment of silence, reluctantly withdrew his suggestion.

They had thought the situation already dire, but at this moment on Aolake's Bridge,

Using Dead Spirits detection technology, Xisi's Bridge could also monitor the entire solar system in real time.

When Leishande realized the Terrans were concentrating all effort to clash with Aolake, Xisi on the Bridge also discovered it.

Moreover, not only the information Leishande possessed, Xisi even had more, and it was more terrifying.

"Not only are the insect swarms from nearby Neptune, Mercury, Mars and other non‑key worlds rushing toward us."

"Even the swarms besieging Terra have changed direction."

"Especially that ancient warship, which spawns over a hundred million bio‑cannonballs every hour!"

Fanluosi, holding the reports constantly gathered from the Bridge's various deputies, no longer had the excitement of Aolake's earlier display of might.

Only the Terrans opposite were so numerous that it was terrifyingly speechless.

But when Fanluosi walked up from the spacious Command Hall beneath the Bridge, before him Bai'er, Xiulun, and even Tulazhen were all staring intently at a single image in the projection alongside Xisi.

Fanluosi was startled, craned his head over Tulazhen's massive body, and the scene he saw made his already furrowed, speechless expression even more stunned.

The image showed a huge gas giant, the solar system's largest planetary body—Jupiter.

As a gas giant that once spanned boundlessly, capable of holding a massive sea of Earth‑like atmosphere, it was now densely covered, "crawling" with black, fine, ferocious giant beasts.

Jupiter's entire surface seemed to sprout "rashes"!

And under Xisi's deadened gaze, these "rashes" continuously burst from Jupiter, converging into the already massive chitinous fleet beside him!

Recalling the swarms besieging other worlds and redirecting the tentacle's main target to Xisi wasn't enough.

Terrans even directly hatched fleets in Jupiter's nutrient‑rich gas sea, surging forward toward Xisi.

At this moment, beyond Aolake's fire range, Xisi watched countless small bio‑ships dragging the wreckage of the bio‑ships he had blasted across the void, then hurling them all into Jupiter, causing those destroyed bio‑ships to undergo "filthy earth rebirth"!

Terran individual combat power will indeed never match that of the same level.

But Terrans…

Endless!

The Bridge beside Xisi was silent.

It was still not as good as the Imperial Fist Company Commander in the Terra Command Hall, who at least could give a somewhat unsound suggestion.

The people on the Bridge, who now understood the whole picture better, even Tu Lazhen could not figure out how to fight this.

Everyone could only remain silent, wordlessly watching the almost hopeless scene before them.

And this was only a thin tentacle after a long-range raid; if the two killing ones from the Sanctum Star were let loose as well, even Xisi could only try to run as far as possible before the Divine Emperor gets up.

But if, at this moment, five tentacles active throughout the galaxy were to converge, that would be a scene too terrible to even imagine.

Probably there would be no need for Xisi to go to the Eye of Fear and strain to pull people; the Four Gods themselves would have to find a way to make the Empire "Great Again"! First, deal with the Terran, then talk.

In the end, the one who broke the silence on the Bridge was still Xisi, who had struggled to pull out this reinforcement.

"No matter what, we must go to Terra first."

The others subconsciously wanted to nod at the words, but as they turned their gaze back to Xisi, this time not only Fanluosi but even Xiulun, Tu Lazhen and the others finally sensed something was wrong.

As Xisi drew ever closer to Terra, how could his own superior…

Radiating golden light all around?!