The Last Sentinel

The sea of ​​clouds was deep and mysterious, and lightning like dragons and snakes spread around the Mongols warship.

"Report! Sir, our follow-up troops have been intercepted! Only the vanguard has broken through the second line of defense!"

"Reporting, sir! The central army and rear camp request reinforcements! The enemy's offensive is too powerful. We didn't even detect their movements before they destroyed us! Moreover, due to the defense of the Flower Fruit Mountain's primordial will, our Heavenly Net cannot be deployed..."

One announcement after another echoed in Tiannu's ears. Each one was like a blunt object, striking his taut spine.

Compared to his arrogant demeanor with Tian En and Tian Chou in the military tent, Tian Nu was much calmer now. However, the veins on the back of his hand holding the battle report were bulging, his knuckles were white, and a drop of cold sweat slid down his temple, into his collar, making his back go numb with cold.

He stared intently at the Heavenly Court's overall battle map. Only the forward camp, shaped like an arrow, was lit up. The central and rear armies, represented by the arrow shafts, had almost disappeared. The points of light representing the fleet were extinguishing one by one, like candles being extinguished one by one.

It would be a lie to say that Tian Nu wasn't flustered. He subconsciously licked his chapped lips, his Adam's apple bobbed twice, and he reached for the teacup, but his fingertips trembled so much that the tea rippled outwards.

He'd come thinking that even if he didn't behead Qi Tian, ​​he could at least find out how many legions were stationed and defending Huaguo Mountain. But in the end, the enemy didn't fire a single shot and even let him directly into the heart of Huaguo Mountain. Silence. Too much silence. So silence that even the clouds seemed unreal, a silence that sent chills down his spine.

There are only two possibilities now.

Having determined that Qi Tian was an amateur and that his intelligence work had failed, it was now up to him to dominate the battlefield, and Qi Tian would be at his mercy.

Secondly, Qi Tian is very strong. He deliberately let me in so that he could fight me one-on-one.

Consider that Qi Tian's IQ is second only to Ye Feng's among carbon-based life forms.

The result was practically written on the cards.

Tian Nu's face gradually darkened, as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over him from head to toe, even the fierce light in his eyes turned cold.

Qi Tian, ​​he, he deliberately let me go there!

Qi Tian wanted to execute himself in front of everyone!

Qi Tian is different from the Sentinels. The Sentinels don't care about the means when they kill you, but Ye Feng might even give you a whole corpse if he's in a good mood.

As for Qi Tian, ​​his sister was killed by the Heavenly Court, so no one knows better than Qi Tian what it means to humiliate an opponent.

Thinking of this, Tiannu took out a jade pendant from a celestial being and activated it.

No matter how much Tian Nu exerted his power, the jade pendant did not react at all!

"asshole!"

"Damn it!"

"We can't contact Lord Furious either!"

"Not a single one is reliable!"

Tian Nu slammed his fist into the command platform, the hard surface caved in, and blood seeped from his fist, but he didn't stop. His eyes widened in fury, his chest heaving violently, like a cornered beast, he roared, "A mortal as insignificant as an ant dares to challenge the dignity of the Heavenly Court! Have you forgotten the suffering they endured when the Heavenly Court toyed with them?"

Behind him, the lieutenant cautiously said, "Sir, the one you're talking about is the ancient Heavenly Court. This is the new Heavenly Court. The new Heavenly Court has never actually fought a direct battle with these unruly commoners—ah!"

Heavenly Wrath slapped the lieutenant so hard he flew through the air, half his face instantly swelling up. The lieutenant crashed through two pillars, shattering them, and rolled a considerable distance in the dust. "Do I need your correction? These ants must witness the majesty of the Heavenly Court! Let them know what divine might is like, and divine grace like the ocean!"

Before Tian Nu's voice had even faded, the deputy general's body blurred slightly, then shattered into a mosaic before his swollen face could even freeze in terror before turning into a cloud of fine dust, silently dissipating into the wind without a drop of blood spilling out.

"This, this is! An enemy attack!"

Tian Nu tried to shout out the words "enemy attack," but the words wouldn't come out. His throat felt like it was being choked, leaving only hissing sounds swirling between his teeth.

Tiannu's eyes widened as he saw the invisible assassin who was about to kill them!

It's a line!

A very thin, very thin, very thin line!

Even Tian Nu, a fifth-tier Nascent Soul Realm cosmic warrior, could only see a reflection of light on this line, and that reflection vanished in an instant! He didn't even have time to judge whether the line was horizontal or vertical, up or down; he only felt a sharp, cold pain between his brows.

Its flagship is moving forward!

And these very fine lines form a net!

This net was mercilessly spread out in front of his own ship, and he ran headlong into it!

The fine net sliced ​​through everything in its path. Ships, their crew, and countless celestial soldiers—before they even saw the enemy—were shredded into countless particles by this merciless net. There were no screams, no struggles, not even blood—they simply vanished layer by layer, like sand art smoothed out by the wind.

The next moment, Tian Nu suddenly turned around and sped away towards the back of the spaceship! He exerted all his strength, creating sonic booms under his feet, his cloak fluttering wildly, cold sweat covering his entire face, and his heart pounding as if it would shatter his chest.

We can't go any further with the spaceship, or we'll be chopped into mincemeat!

The flagship army continued its mighty advance. Before the bow, hull, silver-armored celestial soldiers, and generals of the spaceship could react, they were sliced ​​into countless particles by the fine net. The entire front half of the ship was rapidly being annihilated... The gleaming silver hull was being devoured piece by piece by an invisible behemoth, collapsing inch by inch, without a sound.

As Tian Nu fled, his mind raced, recalling information about carbon-based life forms in an attempt to find a solution. His pupils darted around, veins throbbing on his forehead, like an overloaded machine frantically searching for information. Finally, a flash of inspiration cleaved through the chaos.

"I remember now!"

"During the Three-Body Era, Earth once launched a nanowire-blade offensive called Operation Guzheng in the canal."

"It utilizes nanoscale flying filaments, employing pure physical cutting to kill enemies!"

"This move is exactly the same as the guzheng's!"

Tian Nu felt a sense of relief, as if he had grasped a lifeline, and a sinister smile even appeared on his lips. But before this bit of luck could even take hold, it was crushed by the voice above him.

At that moment, a long sigh came from above Tiannu's head: "That's not entirely true, General Tiannu."

"During the Three-Body Era, the civilization of my Blue Star was still in the primitive 1.5 stage, and nanowires could only achieve nanometer strength, which is molecular strength."

"Earth has now reached the 3.0 limit, just one step away from entering the 4.0 civilization! And our femtofil cutting strength has broken through the nanometer, angstrom, and picometer levels, reaching the femtometer level! What is a femtometer? It's a cutting technology at the atomic nucleus and proton level! It's cutting at the Planck length unit!"

The voice was unhurried, as if recounting an ordinary history, but every word struck Tian Nu's ears like a thousand pounds, freezing the sinister smile on his face inch by inch.

"In words you can understand, what you call spiritual energy is nothing more than the length of a proton. The femtometer cutting mesh can restore your existence to the original spiritual energy unit."

"Of course, Femis also has limitations. It can only physically cut, but cannot cut abstract existences at the level of spiritual power and soul. Therefore, if there are old monsters above the Nascent Soul stage on your ship, they can still survive. Your Nascent Souls are immune to this level of physical cutting."

Tian Nu abruptly stopped, looking up at the sky. His back was drenched in sweat, and the tiger's mouth gripping the knife trembled uncontrollably, yet he forced himself to raise his head, his throat bobbing, and uttered each word slowly and deliberately: "Qi Tian! I know it's you! Come out, let's fight to the death!"

"A brute."

A magnificent golden-blue pillar of light descended from above, its brilliant blue-gold ripples dissipating. Aquarius Gold Saint Qitian stepped out of the holy light, his deep purple cloak billowing against the fierce wind, his gilded Saint Cloth shimmering, the two corners of his helmet elegantly raised, his breastplate subtly engraved with a vase pattern. His boots slammed into the earth with a thunderous crash, and spiderweb-like cracks appeared in the sky as an attack hurtled towards Tiannu!

Upon seeing Qi Tianliang's origins, Tian Nu suddenly summoned his immortal weapon, the treasured sword, and unleashed a powerful slash. The sword's momentum was like a mountain falling from the sky! The sword light stirred up a storm of clouds, roaring as it tried to crush the golden figure, body and soul, into dust.

"What era are we living in? Why are you still using such energy-inefficient and cost-effective methods?"

Qi Tian didn't even look. He raised his left hand and pointed his gold and blue tactical glove. The blue and gold distorted beam of light suddenly cracked and turned into layers of quantum ripple patterns. As the quantum ripples spread out, various mathematical and physical formulas, coordinates, principles, and structures could be vaguely seen spreading out!

In an instant, Qi Tian completely shattered the offensive principles of the Immortal Weapon Sword. The sword's momentum seemed to have been stripped of its soul, freezing in mid-air for a moment before crumbling inch by inch, turning into countless fragments of light.

Qi Tian slammed his right hand down, and Tian Nu's body in mid-air was blasted into layers of afterimages. Each of these afterimages was wrapped in a spacetime barrier, as if countless versions of Tian Nu from different timelines had been blasted away by Qi Tian.

Tiannu was completely dumbfounded. This attack was beyond his understanding of magic and supernatural powers!

What kind of demonic magic is this!

How could this happen!

Even though he had fought against some mechanical calamities, they had never treated him like this!

The completely unknown underlying logic of the battle overturned the structure of the powerful flying bricks, and the battlefield entered a stage that Tiannu could not understand. He held his knife, but did not know where to strike, like a drowning person who could not grasp anything.

We are at their mercy, like fish on a chopping board.

Fear gripped Tiannu's heart, his arrogant and domineering personality vanished instantly, and survival became his only thought.