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

Chapter 232 The Sword Rises, Devourer

Ten days of bloody battle.

The Devouring Empire's Giant Ring—this steel ring forcibly formed from the remains of gnawed planets—has lost its former peaceful and natural appearance under the moonlight, becoming grotesque and terrifying.

The giant ring is accelerating its rotation, and at the same time, a structure resembling a human-made 'planetary engine' on the edge of the ring is emitting plasma beams tens of thousands of kilometers long, propelling this prehistoric behemoth toward the solar system.

The battlefield has shifted from the imperial capital, which had been destroyed by macro-fusion, to another barren area.

This is the "Anvil" assembly area, and also the connecting and dividing area between Zones 4 and 5. It is the surface of the specially reinforced inner ring of the giant ring, which is so vast that it can accommodate several mountains. There is no soil or buildings; it is the pure, bare body of the giant ring, thus presenting a barren, gray-black appearance.

As for why it is the dividing line between Zone 4 and Zone 5, it is because Zone 1, Zone 2 and Zone 3 have been completely destroyed by Shan Qing. A total of 112 dinosaur noble cities have been reduced to ruins, millions of noble dinosaur armies have been directly wiped out, and the number of high-level carnivorous dinosaurs that have died has reached a terrifying tens of millions.

After the noble city in District 4 was overrun, Shan Qing began his journey to District 5. The temporary command headquarters of the Devouring Empire was located in District 5, so this pseudo-god worm must not be allowed to enter District 5.

It was precisely because of this that the intensity of the war suddenly escalated, and this steel plain was now completely submerged.

It was buried under the remains of dinosaur armored forces, the wreckage of crashed spaceships, and the corpse of the 'Godzilla' mountain dragon.

The thickness of these various corpses and remains was being frantically piled up by the low, thunderous breathing sounds, and by the vertical pupils of a million reptiles, burning with a pure desire for destruction.

The dinosaurs were in a frenzy, a species brimming with martial spirit and adept at fighting in a state of madness. Banners avenging the emperor were now flying all over the Great Ring.

The dinosaurs' counterattack was so reckless and massive that Shanqing had been stationed in the "Anvil" assembly area for two days and two nights, where he had exhausted all of his macro-electrons on this steel plain.

Another blue sun was born; this was the last macro-atom in Shanqing's hands.

This blue sun was of moderate size, similar to the one that had previously engulfed the main body, with a diameter of 200 meters. The blue sun completely engulfed the dinosaur's giant ground war machine, and incidentally swallowed a 'Godzilla'-class mountain dinosaur next to it.

Subsequently, the selective release of macro-fusion began. This was a macro-fusion targeting flesh and blood molecules, and it was also the most lethal macro-fusion to dinosaurs.

An invisible quantum resonance wave began to spread at the speed of light. Wherever it passed, whether it was a velociraptor charging with firearms, a dinosaur hiding in an armored unit, or a pterosaur flying in the sky, all of them were rapidly annihilated into a quantum state in this quantum resonance wave.

The armored formations that were surging in the "Anvil" assembly area and the various aircraft flying in the sky were all completely out of control due to the instantaneous disappearance of their pilots. The quantum resonance wave of macro-fusion spread for a full three thousand kilometers, directly annihilating at least 40 dinosaurs participating in the battle into quantum superposition states, and then disappearing instantly before the observers' eyes.

Only after enough flesh and blood molecules collapsed did the macro-fusion triggered by this macro-atom exhaust its energy and disappear completely.

The newly assembled main force of noble dinosaurs suffered another devastating blow.

The enormous ring, with its noble dinosaur army of only 1000 million, has lost no less than 600 million noble dinosaurs in the fierce battle with Shanqing. This time, the macro-fusion attack has caused an overwhelming defeat for the "Anvil" battlefield.

The first-class and second-class dinosaur armies were completely unable to stop the high-speed advance of Shanqing due to their inferior equipment.

Three gamma laser beams from various parts of the giant ring erupted simultaneously, their intense brilliance converging at a single point, instantly striking Shan Qing.

The White Dwarf Sword blocked one of the beams, while the other two beams, which contained extremely terrifying energy, were completely blocked by Shan Qing's spiritual energy shield. Although these gamma laser beams, which were powerful enough to change the landscape, were immensely powerful, in the cultivation world they were no more than the power of a Nascent Soul Realm offensive formation.

After completely withstanding the gamma laser bombardment, Shan Qing had reached the edge of the "Anvil" assembly area. A few more steps ahead was Zone 5.

Once the five-zone defense line collapses, it will be difficult for the dinosaurs to organize an effective defense in the remaining areas. No matter how powerful the Devouring Ring is, it is ultimately an outward-facing force.

The main purpose is to devour the giant ring. From the very beginning, such a war situation was never considered. At this moment, the armed forces that Shanqing is facing, apart from the giant ring's laser weapons and the dinosaur space warships in the sky of the giant ring, are essentially the internal stabilization forces of the dinosaur empire.

To prevent Shanqing from breaching the defense zone, the dinosaurs dropped three nuclear bombs with a yield of at least one megaton. The three nuclear fusion suns suddenly erupted, their light brighter than the blue sun of macro-fusion. These three nuclear bombs blasted Shanqing back to the anvil zone alive.

Fortunately, the anvil area, as the core splicing structure of the giant ring, possesses extremely high structural strength. Even if a nuclear explosion of similar scale were increased hundreds of times, it would not threaten the giant ring's structural body. The dinosaur command center seemed to have given up entirely, with more and more nuclear missiles raining down from the sky. These missiles were not part of the giant ring's nuclear defense system, but were launched from above by those space warships.

The nuclear defense system of the Great Ring is terrifying, no less than the nuclear arsenal of human star-shaped nuclear bombs. If used in large quantities, it could easily affect the structural safety of the Great Ring itself.

After being bombarded by dozens of space nuclear bombs several times, Shan Qing gradually became annoyed. He looked up at the thousands of dinosaur warships floating on the top of the inner ring area.

If these warships are not dealt with, he will probably be bombed with nuclear bombs indefinitely. Dinosaurs were initially hesitant to use nuclear bombs, but after suffering heavy losses in their regular army, they have gradually begun to increase the frequency of nuclear bomb use.

Taking advantage of the time the nuclear bombs delayed, another batch of first-class and second-class dinosaur troops, driven from who-knows-where, filled the gaps in the defense zone caused by the casualties of the macro fusion.

The dinosaurs' space fleet seemed to have tasted success, and high above the atmosphere, they continued to bombard Shan Qing with conventional firepower. Faced with these laser beams and conventional missiles falling like rain, Shan Qing set up his defensive formation.

A transparent film expanded rapidly, completely covering an area of ​​several hundred meters in radius.

As if afraid the dinosaurs would miss, a red cross star appeared in the very center of the dome of this transparent film, as if reminding the dinosaurs to aim.

More and more space weapons streaked through the atmosphere and crashed down, and space warships had replaced the dinosaur ground forces within the ring as the main force to block the enemy.

However, just as this relentless bombardment was underway, a faint light suddenly appeared at the edge of the ring, at the boundary between the ring's atmosphere and the universe.

This faint light did not arrive at 120 times the speed of sound as the dinosaurs were familiar with, but rather at 10% the speed of light, flickering almost continuously.

Some of the quick-reacting dinosaur warships noticed this faint light. This weak point of light against the dark backdrop of the universe was not the light of a star, nor the exhaust of a thruster. It was a pure, cold, white point of light that seemed capable of freezing the soul.

The point of light silently magnified, like ink dripping into clear water, quickly spreading into a hazy field of light. At the center of the field of light, a figure clearly emerged.

It is good and clear.

Without any protective suit or propulsion system, he simply appeared out of thin air in outer space, hundreds of kilometers away from the fleet assembly area.

A long, white robe fluttered slightly in the extremely cold, near-vacuum environment, defying the laws of physics. This scene evoked a sense of absurdity in the dinosaurs. They couldn't comprehend how their opponent could evade all radar detection and teleport into outer space amidst this violent bombardment filled with steel.

What are they doing bombarding that target so diligently?
The ethereal figure, seemingly out of place amidst the fleet of warships, gently raised his hand, grasping the sword hanging at his side. The sword's blade was ancient and its entire body possessed a warm, almost translucent white hue. Even from a distance of hundreds of kilometers, the dinosaurs could still recognize it as the white sword transformed from a white dwarf starfish.

What would happen if a tiny, indestructible 60-ton vessel capable of flying at extremely high speed appeared in an impenetrable fleet?
The tip of the sword unconsciously pointed at the dinosaur warship before him, which was boiling with a desire for destruction.

"Lock on him! The four-dimensional fragment is about to be pulled over by the gravity of the Great Ring. Use all ranged firepower units for saturation coverage! Tear this pseudo-god worm apart!" a dinosaur fleet commander roared.

Because Shanqing appeared in space, the defensive weapons of those giant rings were finally released, and countless dazzling beams of death exploded on the cold back of the giant rings.

The bombardment of various particle beams and laser beams lasted for several seconds, enough to evaporate any matter hundreds of millions of times. Even the white dwarf sword, due to absorbing a massive amount of energy, triggered an explosion of electron degeneracy, thus losing a significant amount of mass, decreasing from 60 tons to 40 tons.

The sword remains, but the person has completely vanished.

Like the semi-circular formation on the ground, the white dwarf sword was also a target to attract the firepower of the large ring. The real Shan Qing had already entered the limit of 10% light speed and disappeared into the nearby group of warships.

Two hundred years ago, the original body did something similar, destroying a dense array of human naval forces through high-speed impacts. Now, he will emulate the original body and implement a second 'impact' tactic.

Crack! Crack! Crack!
One by one, the dinosaur warships began to crack. Because the gravity of the large ring was relatively weak, there was a small amount of gas in the inner ring region of space. This small amount of gas facilitated the propagation of sound, and dense, spiderweb-like cracks instantly covered a large number of warships.

A real massacre has officially begun.

(End of this chapter)