Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 193 The Era of Great Confrontation

Solar System Fleet, Age of Warriors, Lunar Battleship, Solar System Defense System, Wandering Mercury Project.

Luo Qing carefully examined all of the good corpse's memories and gained a basic understanding of the outside world.

Then came a war that he focused on, a war in which the benevolent corpse himself was involved.

In the year 188 of the Crisis Era, the Solar System Fleet and the Devouring Empire clashed for the first time in a war on the outskirts of the Kuiper Belt, known as the Kuiper Belt Campaign.

In this battle, the vanguard fleet of the Devouring Empire, consisting of 1500 Devourer ships, departed from the Devourer Ring and headed towards the Kuiper Belt at 2% of the speed of light, but was immediately met with a pinpoint attack from the Solar System fleet.

After realizing that the Devouring Empire's main means of observation was optical observation, humanity adopted a strategic concealment strategy, hiding nearly three hundred star-class warships near the Kuiper Belt. This was humanity's first main interception force. If the vanguard was defeated, the Solar System Fleet would immediately commit its entire fleet strength to intercept them.

In this battle, the five dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt region—Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Haumea, and Makemake—became the main outposts for humanity's solar system defense system.

Humans have even prepared for the loss of outposts.

But what humanity did not expect was that this war was surprisingly simple.

Based on the post-war wreckage classification and intelligence regarding the large teeth and captured dinosaurs, humanity gradually deciphered the composition of these 1,500 Devourer ships.

吞食者入侵舰队由暴君级战斗舰（700艘）为主力、腕龙级母舰（150艘）为远程主力、迅猛龙级突击艇（200艘）为骚扰战主力、剑龙级火力支援舰（250艘）为支援主力、翼龙级侦察舰（100艘）为侦查主力，三角壁垒级防御舰（200艘）为掩护主力，组成的混编星际战舰作战群。

The way dinosaurs categorized interstellar warships does indeed show that they were very skilled in interstellar warfare and likely encountered interstellar civilizations like human civilization, which possessed the ability to resist.

Unfortunately, this seemingly powerful Devourer invasion fleet was almost completely slaughtered by the Solar System fleet.

Upon entering the Kuiper Belt, the 1500 Devourer warships were immediately ambushed by humans.

People realized that the Devourer civilization was not only extremely weak in intelligence gathering, but also had a very superficial understanding of interstellar warfare 'strategy', leaving humanity far behind in terms of tactics.

A fleet of 1500 dinosaur warships huddled together, drifting and swaying haphazardly as they flew over.

Numerous interstellar nuclear mines were scattered around the Kuiper Belt, causing enormous losses to the dinosaurs that ventured in.

After the dinosaur fleet fully entered the Kuiper Belt, a total of 300 stellar hydrogen bombs were detonated. More than half of the 1500 Devourer warships flying in dense formation were destroyed in this space nuclear explosion. Nearly half of the Devourer ships lost their combat capability in this interstellar nuclear explosion and meteorite turbulence and became interstellar wandering wreckage.

Before the battle even began, the number of dinosaur warships had already decreased by 50%.

The remaining dinosaur warships were ambushed by the Solar System Fleet. Three hundred star-class warships suddenly appeared behind the five dwarf planets and used gamma laser beams to launch a light-speed weapon attack on the dinosaur warships 100 million kilometers away.

The first round of gamma laser strikes destroyed nearly three hundred dinosaur warships. Most of the dinosaur warships were equipped with gamma laser beam weapons. Unfortunately, lasers are sophisticated technology, and the dinosaurs' understanding of laser weapons was far inferior to that of humans. Whether it was power, charging speed, or even the aiming system, they were far inferior to human warships.

The gamma laser rays from these dinosaurs had very limited effect on the nanocomposite armor of human warships, merely melting a portion of the hull, not even qualifying as 'minor damage'.

As for the interstellar nuclear missiles subsequently launched by the dinosaurs, they were completely unable to catch up with the human warships in [Advance 3] state.

Even in the [Advance 3] state, a stellar-class warship can maintain a cruise speed of 2% of the speed of light. Human warships have maintained a speed of 2% of the speed of light for maneuvering since the beginning of their existence.

This once again widens the technological gap between the dinosaur warship, which had to brake before attacking.

The laser sniping contest ended in a human victory. Facing a dinosaur warship 100 million kilometers away, humanity did not use the slower-moving star-type nuclear missiles, but instead deployed electromagnetic railguns with higher initial velocities.

However, the Solar System Fleet was surprised to find that the dinosaurs did not seem to have explored the electromagnetic kinetic energy weapon technology. Faced with electromagnetic projectiles hurtling towards them from space at 3% of the speed of light, the dinosaurs had no choice but to accelerate and maneuver to dodge.

The materials science technology of the dinosaur warships was also limited to the molecular level. Those dinosaur warships, which were several kilometers in diameter, had no protection against electromagnetic kinetic energy projectiles with powerful kinetic energy.

Even the most robust Triangle Barrier-class defensive ships can only withstand a few hundred electromagnetic kinetic energy projectiles before being completely penetrated and disintegrated.

You can only hide, not fight.

However, the electromagnetic kinetic energy projectiles of the ambush fleet had their trajectories precisely calculated by MOSS, so how could the dinosaur warships escape? A rain of artificially released meteorite shells with a radius of up to 50000 kilometers bombarded the area where the dinosaur warships were gathered.

Electromagnetic kinetic energy projectiles inflicted massive damage on the dinosaur warships, second only to nuclear landmines.

By the time the surviving dinosaur warships emerged from the barrage of electromagnetic cannon fire, only one-tenth of the 1500 dinosaur warships remained.

Whether it's the so-called Triangle Bulwark-class defensive ship or the Tyrant-class combat ship, humans didn't perceive any difference during the war.

The only difference is that the pyramid-shaped triangular fortress defense ships are more durable, while the Tyrant-class battleships can launch more nuclear missiles in retaliation.

These chaotic, famous dinosaur spaceships were utterly slaughtered by human solar system warships.

When the remaining 150 dinosaur warships burst out of the meteor shower and tried to escape in the direction they came from, they encountered a human-like insect whose body traversed space and who held a piece of iron.

It is the kind-hearted Luo Qing.

On the shoulder of the kind-hearted Luo Qing, there sat a Bojiang crystal, which belonged to the Bojiang girl.

The kind-hearted Luo Qing begins his revenge for the Bojiang civilization.

He smiled apologetically at the dinosaurs with the girl from Pojiang, twirled his iron sword in his hand, and with a casual swing, unleashed a sword light that swept across tens of thousands of kilometers, instantly annihilating dozens of dinosaur warships.

Where had the dinosaurs ever seen this?

A human-like insect floating in space, wielding a small piece of metal, slaughters an interstellar fleet?

The panicked remnants of the dinosaur warships attempted a nuclear counterattack, but most of the incoming nuclear missiles were easily destroyed by the benevolent Luo Qing. The few nuclear missiles that did manage to detonate posed no threat to Luo Qing himself. The dinosaurs' nuclear weapons were still at the level of human hydrogen bombs from the early Crisis Era, with an average yield of approximately 1000 megatons of TNT.

This level of hydrogen bomb posed no immediate threat to the kind-hearted Luo Qing. In the subsequent war, while protecting the Bojiang girl, the kind-hearted Luo Qing even dared to traverse the nuclear explosion's epicenter, rushing towards the dinosaur remnant fleet like a demon amidst a white ball of nuclear fusion.

The laser weapons of the dinosaur warship could only force out Luo Qing's protective spiritual energy, but could not even break through his defenses.

Neither of the two weapon systems available had any effect on the kind-hearted Luo Qing.

And so, with his kind-hearted Luo Qing moving at 1% of the speed of light, he single-handedly and with his sword spent more than an hour annihilating the surviving dinosaur warship.

All 1500 dinosaur warships were wiped out.

Tens of thousands of dinosaur carcasses drifted in space and were frozen into ice blocks by the low temperatures. Many more dinosaurs were destroyed and their remains were lost when the warships exploded. Some of the better-preserved dinosaur warship wreckage was towed back to Earth by humans.

Humans will try to extract some scientific and technological knowledge from these outdated dinosaur warships that they do not possess.

Thus, the Kuiper Belt campaign ended in a complete victory for humanity.

In this battle, the human fleet suffered minimal losses due to its reliance on the five dwarf planets for cover. Only a very small number of human warships were attacked by laser weapons mounted on the Brachiosaurus-class motherships, resulting in varying degrees of melting and damage to the fleet's armor.

But that was all; the human fleet suffered no further losses. (The Titanic, which ran aground, doesn't count.)

The range, speed, and power of the Stellar-class warships, as well as the MOSS's auxiliary command system, far surpassed the vanguard of the Devouring Empire's fleet. These accumulated advantages allowed humanity to achieve generational dominance over the dinosaur fleet.

After the war, according to the assessment of the chairman of the Joint Conference of the Solar System Fleet, the average combat power of the dinosaurs' warships was even inferior to that of human planetary-level spaceships.

This may not be the fault of the dinosaurs. In the past 6500 million years of wandering, the interstellar fleet that the Devouring Empire brought out could have easily wiped out a planetary civilization, but now it can't even break through the gate of the solar system.

Human civilization, sharing the same roots on Earth, was the most formidable enemy the dinosaurs ever encountered.

In order to reassess humanity's resistance capabilities in the solar system, the emperor of the Devouring Empire ordered the Devouring Mothership to begin its deceleration process ahead of schedule. The ten-year deceleration process began, and the Devouring Mothership finally managed to dock successfully in the interlayer region between the inner ring of the Oort Cloud and the outer ring of the Kuiper Belt in Crisis Era 199.

The Devouring Empire began to recuperate.

Then, using the Fitzroy-Ringer 3 space telescope, humanity got a close look at this enemy lurking on their doorstep.

Humanity also truly witnessed the terrifying scale of the Devouring Empire.

Nearly one million dinosaur warships, comparable in size to those used in the Kuiper Belt campaign, were evenly distributed around the Devouring Empire's mothership, like a super swarm guarding the mother hive.

This dark cloud pressed down on people's nerves, and Kuiper's joy of great victory vanished without a trace.

Faced with immense pressure from the Devouring Empire, humanity mobilized all its space power. The Solar System Fleet even neglected the Trisolaran fleet probes that were about to enter the Solar System, placing all its warships directly in front of the Devouring Empire.

Solar System Fleet VS Devouring Empire
The era of great confrontation has begun.

...

Having absorbed all the memories of the benevolent corpses, the kind-hearted Luo Qing slowly stood up.

Wherever his gaze swept, the four sophons collapsed into a quantum state and became ineffective, while the light gray that fell from his body turned into light and disappeared.

The remaining Sophons have fled Earth in terror.

During these eighty years of seclusion, the Trisolaran world sent many new sophons, at least twenty of which were distributed in the solar system and five in the Devouring Empire. But it doesn't matter, the end of these sophons is coming soon.

Luo Qing is determined to make sure that the Sophons survive beyond 200 years of the Crisis Era. It's time to break the scientific blockade on humanity. However, before dealing with these Sophons, he has other things to do.

With his spiritual sense, Luo Qing saw a celestial-level nascent soul in his dantian that was becoming increasingly solid, surrounded by immortal energy with every move it made, and sitting on a cloud of auspicious flowers above its head. Luo Qing hesitated to speak.

For the past eighty years, this nascent soul has been extremely stubborn, preventing him from completing the most crucial step of 'shattering the nascent soul' and hindering him from transforming himself into a god and entering the realm of godhood.

"It must be a problem with the energy system. Although the energy density of vacuum zero-point energy is high, it ultimately lacks some immortal spiritual energy. Without enough spiritual energy from my hometown to temper me, it is ultimately impossible to transform myself into a god. In other words, I will probably never be able to break through to the Nascent Soul stage..."

Luo Qing murmured to himself, his sound waves shattering the nearby gas molecules into individual atoms, so that the sound could not spread. In fantasy terms, this space could no longer contain his words, so that no being could hear the murmured 'truth'.

It took Luo Qing a while to regain control of her voice.

"Based on the dinosaurs' combat performance, I should be able to take down the Devouring Empire now. If I were to appear on the Devouring Empire's giant ring, I should be able to dismantle it within ten years... I wonder if my current strength is enough to deal with the Trisolaran fleet. The Trisolarans' science and technology are definitely far superior to those of Earth and the dinosaurs. After all, neither humans nor dinosaurs can build sophons. As for the Trisolaran fleet's speed... I guess the Trisolarans haven't focused their technology on speed."

"The development of science and technology is endless, and I cannot imagine what a war between higher-level civilizations would look like. However, we can get a glimpse of it from the ideal black body of the Risk Eliminator. In the future, we should keep a low profile and be more cautious. We must not underestimate the enemy unless we are 98% sure."

"Moreover, the Devouring Empire must have some trump cards; they could never have gotten this far by relying on nuclear weapons."

"Luo Qing, remember the Wallfacer principles you set for yourself. You must never be arrogant, you must never allow it."

"Ultimately, it's just a matter of not being used to the local environment. Traditional cultivation methods have limited effectiveness here. If only I had enough spiritual energy..."

Luo Qing looked at her palms, then looked up, her gaze passing through the pristine white wall before her, her thoughts drifting uncontrollably into the distance.

He didn't notice that just moments before, a wisp of spiritual energy had appeared in his palm without any wind, but it vanished instantly as the Wallfacer's thoughts shifted elsewhere.

"Tsk, get up, let's go fight dinosaurs."

(End of this chapter)