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

Chapter 241 Meteor Shower (Part 2)

Nascent Soul, Golden Core, Sea of ​​Consciousness—concrete and abstract—everything that could be thrown out as a bomb was thrown out by Shan Qing.

Shanqing also regressed to a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator because he lost his Golden Core.

He then degenerated from a Foundation Establishment cultivator to a Qi Refining cultivator.

The twelve Godzilla dragons have been completely destroyed by the self-destructing golden core.

Since Shanqing was already exhausted and unable to even fly, the commander of the Great Ring was no longer in a hurry to kill him. He kept sending small groups of dinosaur troops to wear down the dying pseudo-god worm.

He wanted to see just how far this pseudo-god worm could go.

Sure enough, after Shanqing had nothing left to throw, he immediately broke off his finger and smashed it against the nearest dinosaur tank.

The finger exploded, and the dinosaur tank, the size of a small building, was destroyed, becoming yet another plume of smoke on this battlefield.

Then came more fingers.

After all ten fingers were thrown out, Shanqing dislocated her thigh, threw out her five toes first, then grabbed her ankle, swung her thigh, and hopped forward.

The thigh smashed 15 dinosaur tanks and the heads of hundreds of dinosaurs in succession. Finally, the thigh completely melted and disappeared in a high-powered particle beam attack from the giant ring.

Without any hesitation, Shanqing dislocated her left arm, waved it, and hopped forward again.

This completely self-destructive fighting style silenced the commander of the Great Ring, and the surviving dinosaur officials who had come to watch the battle nearby also watched this scene in silence.

All the dragons were filled with a strange reverence for the pseudo-divine insect before them.

The fact that the opponent could fight to this extent was already very much to the dinosaurs' aesthetic tastes—dinosaurs praised species that could fight.

If it weren't for their differing stances and the fact that the other side had killed the emperor of the empire, leading to this irreconcilable conflict, the dinosaurs would have been quite willing to befriend this pseudo-god worm.

The commander of the Great Ring is on site right now.

Shanqing had already discovered this extraordinary dinosaur. During this week, it was this dinosaur that, after devouring the emperor's death and the annihilation of the ministers, briefly gathered all the power of the Devouring Giant Ring, preventing the empire from falling into full-scale internal strife. It even organized a dinosaur army to attack him.

He is a ruthless and ambitious dragon.

Although he had spotted the enemy, he was powerless to eliminate it, as the Commander of the Great Ring was tightly protected by a large army of dinosaurs. He had charged several times, but was blocked by the impenetrable dinosaurs.

Shanqing swung his left arm, killing one charging dinosaur after another, then climbed to the top of the dinosaur carcasses and threw his left arm toward the direction of the large ring commander.

boom!
His left arm seemed to explode, but the explosion was blocked by the dinosaur's pre-prepared electromagnetic deflection shield. The dinosaur commander was unharmed, merely staring at him with amusement.

Shanqing fell silent. Facing the endless hordes of dinosaurs, he removed his last leg.

His left leg was swung around, repelling wave after wave of attacks and charges from the dinosaur army. This battle continued until the dinosaur fighters fired dozens of high-explosive missiles, blasting his thigh to pieces before finally ending.

Shanqing pulled out another handful of hair, which transformed into gleaming needles that pierced the dinosaur soldier's head and shredded it to pieces.

But hair is finite. Eighty thousand hairs were pulled out, leaving only a bald man named Shanqing who had lost both legs and his left arm but was still fighting.

Faced with yet another massive charge from the dinosaurs, in a desperate situation, Shanqing threw out his last remaining right arm, blowing the dinosaur upside down.

He then squeezed his abdomen forcefully, and his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys scattered like homing missiles, successfully hitting five low-flying dinosaur gyroplanes in the sky, causing five more explosions.

Then Shanqing twisted his head a few times and threw out the empty shell of his torso. The torso once again blasted a huge hole in the charging dinosaur armored group, and a mushroom cloud formed in the sky.

The overall quality of the clean water also decreased from 1% to 1‰.

With only his head remaining, Shanqing bounced on the ground like a cannonball, constantly rushing to tear at the heads of one dinosaur after another.

Faced with this terrifying sight, the morale of the dinosaur army was thrown into disarray for the first time. They began to feel fear, and some dinosaurs, facing the dinosaur that was devouring human heads, disobeyed their superiors' military orders and fled in terror.

Even the threat of being shot by the supervising dragon was useless.

Even with only a head left, he could still fight on—that's Shanqing!
The real battle is over!

"Surely he has nothing left to blow up, right? Once his head is blown up, he's gone."

The commander of the Great Ring muttered to himself as he looked at the chaotic battlefield.

"Pah!" Shanqing cursed.

A tooth hurtled towards them at an extremely high speed. Due to its small size and incredible speed, the tooth broke through layers of defense and pierced directly into the heart of the Great Ring Commander.

However, the Great Ring Commander did not die easily. Even if such a small penetrating wound appeared on the heart, it would not easily kill a dinosaur. The medical care of the Devouring Empire was very advanced. When the medical dinosaurs around him helped him up, the Great Ring Commander was still able to muster his breath and let out a roar.

Damn bug, since you're going to fight to the bitter end, then let's wipe you out completely!
At this roaring call, the last batch of dinosaur reserves entered the battlefield. This elite group of Tyrannosaurus Rex opened their blood-red maws and bit down on the head.

Shanqing fearlessly fought back, biting the dinosaur. He was swallowed by the dinosaur, but he bit through its belly and flew out, spitting out his teeth as bullets to attack the dinosaur.

More than 20 teeth were quickly used up, and not a single eye, nose, ear, throat, or tongue remained.

Just when that head was almost completely empty except for a brain, the sky suddenly darkened.

The dim light seemed to be caused by overcrowding among the numerous devouring fleets within the inner ring of the giant ring's cosmic space. "This is..."

Shanqing's physical body was almost completely destroyed, leaving only an extremely transparent spiritual body. This spiritual body was his mental form and had no ability to cause harm. At this moment, this spiritual body raised its head and looked up at the sky.

Before my eyes, the space was still filled with layers upon layers of dense dinosaur space fleets, with at least 60 dinosaur warships drifting in the inner ring of space. This was all thanks to Shan Qing, who had attracted almost 90% of the armed forces of this Great Ring Empire.

The commander of the Great Ring also looked up at the scene before him, seemingly somewhat puzzled.

It suddenly thought of something: at this moment, the main force of the Devouring Fleet is concentrated in the space inside the Great Ring, so who will meet the human fleet that is on its way to the Great Ring?
[Fleet Commander, what happened?]

The commander of the large ring called out to the fleet commander.

[Fleet Commander, please respond!]
Dead silence.

There was no reply; only the vacuum noise of electromagnetic waves could be heard in the communicator.

Suddenly, a surge of electromagnetic waves came in, but it wasn't using the Devouring Empire's communication channels, and the language wasn't even Devouring Language.

[Zero...This is...the advance fleet, Zhang Beihai, vice-captain of the Natural Selection...Zero...Calling Shan Qing...Calling Shan Qing...Repeat, this is the advance fleet, Zhang Beihai, vice-captain of the Natural Selection...Zero...]

A layer of blurry, shortwave, high-frequency electromagnetic information descended from a certain direction in the universe.

Shanqing's spirit was somewhat bewildered, but after analyzing the electromagnetic wave information, it suddenly became clear.

[Unfortunately, Mr. Shanqing's biological information was not detected... The advance fleet's operational objective has been changed—to destroy the Devouring Fleet/Devouring Giant Ring.]

The next electromagnetic wave message suddenly turned cold, echoing chillily across the area.

The spirit Shanqing grinned; he smiled.

The commander of the Great Ring realized something, but it was too late.

High above it, in a certain space region on the massive structure of the Great Ring, twelve gamma laser beams illuminated the sky from all directions, sweeping across the dense Devouring Fleet. The Devouring Fleet in the Great Ring region vanished as quickly as snowflakes.

The Devouring Fleet reacted in extreme chaos, as if its command had been completely decapitated. However, the Devouring Ring's self-defense and counterattack system was activated. In the outer ring of Devouring, the thick armor layers slid open silently like flower petals, revealing the deep, cold cannon muzzles beneath.

At least 360 more ferocious gamma laser beams erupted from every angle of the outer ring of the Devouring Giant Ring, heading straight for the direction of the enemy's attack. The counter-attack beams were aimed directly at the direction of the human vanguard fleet commander's attack.

But for some reason, when these 360 ​​gamma laser beams, which were fired at various points in the ring, passed through the area where the enemy was located at the speed of light, they all hit empty space!

The giant ring's outdated electronic computer fire control system completely miscalculated the true location of the human star-class warship!

Yes, at Zhang Beihai's insistence, the advance fleet spared no expense, expending nearly half of its nuclear fusion resource reserves to complete an unprecedented cosmic drift in the vast expanse of space.

The original 12 ships that were heading straight for the Empire in a simple formation were dispersed in batches at different arc angles before reaching the Great Ring. They took an extra three days to reach 12 directions 2 million kilometers (one astronomical unit) away from the Great Ring, directly encircling the entire Great Ring.

It precisely locked onto all 12 time zones of the giant ring!
Most importantly, Zhang Beihai did not allow the previous fleet to slow down, but instead made the warships accelerate continuously. At this moment, the human warships were constantly climbing at 10% to 13% of the speed of light, heading diagonally towards the opposite direction of the giant ring!

Within a short time, the human 12 star-class warships had surrounded the central giant ring and the nearly 90 devouring warships from 12 directions!
Zhang Beihai's strategic objective has always been simple and clear: [Move forward at all costs!]

With Shan Qing drawing fire, the Devouring Fleet was almost entirely squeezed into a small cosmic space within the inner ring of the Devouring Giant Ring, which was less than 4 kilometers in diameter. This made the density of warships extremely high.

To inflict as much damage as possible on the devouring fleet in such an extremely dense environment, the only option is to use humanity's most powerful weapon—the stellar hydrogen bomb.

However, the initial velocity of the interstellar missiles of the stellar hydrogen bombs is actually quite limited. In order to avoid interception by the self-defense laser defense weapons on the large ring, Zhang Beihai directly put the warships into a state of maximum acceleration and ordered the 12 stellar-class warships to launch all 960 stellar hydrogen bombs in stockpile within 10 minutes! Utilize the initial velocity of the warships to maximize the initial velocity of the stellar hydrogen bombs!

The previous 12 laser strikes were merely an appetizer to attract the giant ring's counterattack.

在巨环的火控瞄准系统还在寻找12艘恒星级战舰的位置时，共计960颗爆炸当量为200亿吨的恒星型氢弹，正在以12%乃至13%的光速朝着巨环的空心处疯狂滑行！

Just 30 minutes later, 960 stellar hydrogen bombs, traveling at 13% of the speed of light, had already breached the lowest strike zone of the giant ring's gamma laser beam defense system, consuming the Empire's lagging computer technology and ensuring that they would inevitably suffer this earth-shattering blow.

Now, all the dinosaurs on the Anvil Plain can see that in the center of that giant ring, beyond the densely packed, hovering dinosaur warship cloud, are 960 exceptionally dazzling artificial meteors!
After completing all this, the 12 human star-class warships did not hesitate at all, and flew over the front and dark sides of the giant ring in a way that the 12 lines converged at one point. The closest distance between the Natural Selection and the front of the giant ring was less than 15 kilometers. It flew past the giant ring almost touching it, at 13% of the speed of light.

Fortunately, all the gamma laser beams fired by the giant ring's outdated electronic fire control system miscalculated the enemy spacecraft's intended flight trajectory.

The Devouring Empire had never had any experience fighting an enemy with such high speed.

Thirty minutes later, all 12 star-class warships accelerated to 15% of the speed of light, creating a distance of 81 million kilometers between themselves and the Devouring Ring. This distance was close to half an astronomical unit. Even if the Devouring Ring used its super gamma laser cannon to launch an accurate light-speed attack again, the warships would have ample time to maneuver and evade.

This epic space raid lasted only an hour. After the stellar-class hydrogen bomb strike was completed, the 12 stellar-class warships began their return journey towards Earth without any hesitation.

During this period, the vanguard fleet did not use any electromagnetic kinetic energy cannons, infrasonic hydrogen bombs, or high-energy particle beams. Apart from initially using gamma laser rays to disrupt the Devouring Empire's perception, at Zhang Beihai's request, the only real weapon used by the vanguard fleet was the stellar hydrogen bomb.

If not used, then not used; but if used, then with overwhelming force.

Space warfare is never a turn-based game of back and forth, nor is it a duel between equally matched knights. The side with higher speed and stronger technology can launch a devastating attack on the enemy in a very short time. This is the war theory that Zhang Beihai has always trusted.

He completed his first practical application of space warfare theory.

Looking at the sky filled with destructive meteors, and amidst the stunned gazes of the dinosaurs including the Great Ring Commander, Shanqing's spirit spoke softly.

"Everyone, since things have come to this, let's watch the meteor shower together."

(End of this chapter)