Fierce Space Battle

The black saucer-shaped spaceship transformed into a streak of light, swiftly breaking through Earth's atmosphere and entering outer space.

Inside the spaceship's control room.

Luo Feng stood expressionless before the control panel screen, with his slave, Difan, standing slightly behind him. Their alloy battle suits reflected a distinctive sheen under the control room's lighting.

“How long until they arrive?” Luo Feng asked the control panel screen.

The impish avatar on the screen replied, “At the speed that D3-class spaceship is maintaining, it will take approximately 8 hours and 49 minutes to reach Earth.”

“8 hours and 49 minutes?” Luo Feng smiled faintly. “Then let’s go meet them!”

“Understood!”

The entire spaceship immediately entered acceleration mode. Although the spaceship's acceleration was astonishing, the internal automatic gravity regulation system ensured that the gravity within the ship remained at one standard Earth gravity.

The spaceship flew in the direction away from the Solar System!

Meanwhile, Dewen, the former Patriarch of the Nuolanshan Family, and Baikaluo, the Nuolanshan Family's most outstanding disciple, were flying towards Earth in their D3-class spaceship.

The distance between them rapidly closed!

...

Inside the control room of the streamlined, axe-shaped D3-class spaceship.

“Senior Brother, have you informed Master?” Baikaluo, cloaked entirely in a black robe, asked coldly.

“Yes, Ancestor was very pleased to hear we’ve reached the Solar System.” A faint smile appeared on Dewen’s handsome face. “Ancestor also said… he would remain online on the Virtual Universe Network, awaiting our good news.”

“Hmm.”

Baikaluo nodded.

“Beep!” “Beep!” “Beep!”

A piercing sound echoed in the control room, causing Dewen’s expression to change slightly.

“Warning, warning! Navigation and detection system has detected a spaceship approaching us! Approaching us!” A loud, sharp voice reverberated through the control room.

“What?!” Dewen’s face paled.

“A spaceship?” Baikaluo was also shocked.

The universe was too vast. A spaceship, with its size, would be like a speck of dust in space if the distance was too great. Baikaluo and Dewen couldn't possibly spot a hundred-meter-diameter ship from tens of thousands of kilometers away with their naked eyes.

...

In the control room of the saucer-shaped spaceship, Luo Feng calmly watched the control panel screen.

“Railgun activated,” Luo Feng commanded.

“Understood!” The impish Babata on the screen immediately began the activation sequence.

Instantly, on the upper front section of the spaceship's hull, beneath the energy shield covering the ship's surface, the alloy hull automatically retracted. A menacing, silver-gray cannon barrel, six meters thick, emerged. The barrel slowly extended forward, protruding beyond the ship's energy shield.

Whoosh—

The muzzle of the cannon underwent a subtle change; a faint glow shimmered deep within it, and the surrounding space seemed subtly distorted.

“Energy activated, countdown: 60, 59, 58, 57… 10, 9, 8, 7… 3, 2, 1! Activation complete!”

The voice from the control panel echoed in the control room.

“Babata, seize the opportunity and blast it to smithereens in one go!” Luo Feng ordered.

“Haha, leave it to me!” The impish avatar on the screen looked extremely smug.

A railgun!

This was one of the gifts Luo Feng had prepared for the Nuolanshan Family. Because he had detected in advance that it was a D3-class spaceship, Luo Feng had spent a colossal sum of 260 billion cosmic currency over the past two years to acquire a D5-class railgun.

A D5-class railgun!

Any technological weapon reaching C-class was considered restricted-class, making it difficult to acquire through regular channels! Moreover, the price of such technological weapons was incredibly exaggerated. Although purchasing such weapons at an upcoming auction might be cheaper, Luo Feng couldn't wait.

So—

He went through the highly influential super-company, Qi Wu Zhai, and spent 260 billion cosmic currency to buy this D5-class railgun!

A galaxy, like the Milky Way Galaxy, would be considered well-priced at 260 billion cosmic currency.

This illustrates the immense amount of money Luo Feng spent! It was also because Luo Feng had made enormous purchases from Qi Wu Zhai before that the company was willing to help him acquire this D5-class railgun. Without his previous colossal spending, Qi Wu Zhai would not have helped Luo Feng obtain such a restricted-class weapon.

That colossal spending…

Was for the incredibly precious materials Luo Feng bought to cultivate the Ben Zun Tian Di technique!

The money spent on those materials far exceeded the cost of the D5-class railgun!!!

Many Golden Horned Beasts only manage to cultivate the first stage of Ben Zun Tian Di even after reaching their death, which shows how expensive it is to cultivate this technique! Golden Horned Beasts are typically peak Sector Lords and possess three clones! So, Luo Feng, being able to purchase materials through the human world, naturally understood how to create a 'human clone' to buy metals in human society!

With their 'peak Sector Lord' strength, their wealth was astonishing, yet they usually only managed to cultivate the first stage!

Cultivating Ben Zun Tian Di allows the Golden Horned Beast's body to shrink, while bone density, muscle density, and other attributes drastically increase, boosting its strength. Generally, it's slightly easier for younger beasts to cultivate, similar to how children's flexibility is easier to train. The stronger the physical body, the harder it is to shrink.

Therefore…

For a Universe-level Golden Horned Beast, the cultivation threshold is slightly lower. But even so, Luo Feng still lacked two types of the vast amount of precious materials needed to fully cultivate the first stage.

These materials were truly expensive and incredibly rare!

Luo Feng's colossal spending at Qi Wu Zhai for these precious materials was so immense that Qi Wu Zhai naturally valued him as a super-client! That's why they were willing to help him acquire that D5-class railgun!

“Railgun!”

“Fire!”

Babata’s excited roar echoed in the control room.

...

In space.

The D3-class spaceship had already detected the black saucer-shaped spaceship continuously approaching.

“It’s a C9-class spaceship.” Dewen frowned slightly. “Can we shake it off?”

“Master, we are flying towards Earth, and it’s flying from the direction of Earth. No matter how we change direction, they can easily approach us. We cannot shake them off!” The intelligent optical computer’s voice came from the control room screen. “Moreover, changing our speed would also require a significant amount of time.”

While a spaceship could reach the speed of light, that was only after a prolonged period of continuous acceleration to finally achieve the 'speed of light,' the ultimate speed in the original universe.

However, lateral acceleration or deceleration couldn't happen instantaneously.

This made it easy for the opponent to approach!

“If we don’t go to Earth, we can shake it off,” the intelligent optical computer stated.

“Ignore that spaceship!” Baikaluo said coldly. “A C9-class spaceship cannot affect us.”

“This spaceship should belong to Luo Feng’s subordinates,” Dewen frowned. “Now, they probably already know of our arrival. Ancestor commanded us to quietly obtain the Mechanical Race’s spaceship.”

“Since we’ve been discovered, there’s no need to hide,” Baikaluo said indifferently. “Continue towards Earth.”

Only a few seconds after Baikaluo and Dewen finished their argument.

“Boom!”

A railgun shockwave, barely perceptible to the naked eye, left a faint spatial ripple in space before instantly striking the D3-class spaceship at the speed of light. Completely unprepared, under the impact of this light-speed railgun… the D3-class spaceship’s navigation and detection system signal transmission was also only at the speed of light!

At the exact same moment the D3-class spaceship received the detection signal, the railgun blast struck the spaceship!

“Pfft!”

The streamlined, giant axe-shaped spaceship was instantly torn open with a large hole from its side, piercing through its entire belly and emerging from the other side, lower-lateral section. This caused the high-speed spaceship to completely break apart, scattering a large amount of alloy debris in all directions, adding a significant amount of space debris to this region of the Solar System.

From a section of the ship’s wreckage, which included the control room, two figures swiftly flew out.

They hovered in space.

It was Dewen and Baikaluo.

“How is this possible?!” Dewen’s eyes were wide with shock.

“We’ve been hit by a cannon, what’s impossible about that?!” Baikaluo roared angrily from within his black robe.

“A light-speed long-range weapon exceeding D3-class, this, this is definitely a restricted-class weapon! Its price is comparable to 5th-tier psychic weapons or primal energy weapons! Even Sector Lord powerhouses… are generally unwilling to waste money on a cost-ineffective D-class railgun!” Dewen shook his head repeatedly, his face filled with disbelief. “How could Earth have a D-class railgun that even Sector Lords are reluctant to buy?”

While Sector Lords could afford D-class railguns, they rarely bought them. This was because a casual strike from a Sector Lord could exceed the power of a D-class railgun.

And those without Sector Lord strength who could afford a D-class railgun were extremely, extremely rare!

“Impossible!” Dewen’s face was filled with anxiety.

“Don’t bother with that. Without a spaceship… it will take us more than half a year to fly to Earth!” Baikaluo transmitted his voice coldly.

Booming sounds~~~

A streak of light rapidly approached from a distance.

“Dewen, the enemy is here!” Baikaluo transmitted, shouting.

“Huh?” Dewen looked up.

He saw a black saucer-shaped spaceship bearing down on them. But strangely… the spaceship continuously decelerated, finally stopping just a few hundred kilometers away. At the same time, the ship’s hatch automatically opened, and a figure swiftly flew out, rapidly approaching them.

A few hundred kilometers, and the opponent arrived in the blink of an eye!

It was a man in a black battle suit, with a bald head and thick lips, seemingly simple and unsophisticated.

“So fast,” Dewen exclaimed in shock.

“Boom~~”

A crescent of silver blade light tore through the void, striking with such speed that Dewen, a mere Universe-level 6th-tier, had no time to dodge. His eyes were wide with terror.

“Pfft!”

His head exploded!

Dewen Nuolanshan, the second-generation Patriarch of the Nuolanshan Family, perished!

The silver blade light’s speed barely diminished, sweeping directly towards the black-robed Baikaluo.