"Halt, fiend, prepare to die!" Zhao Yi, gripping the Gold Dragon Halberd, swept it through the misty clouds, unleashing countless beams of golden light. Several disoriented Crystalmen were swept by the formation directly before Zhao Yi. A heavy strike from the halberd shattered their skulls, spraying tens of thousands of crystal splinters as they fell, dead. Two banners, pitch black and embroidered with the shape of the Black Tortoise in silver thread, swept in from the flank, enveloping the fractured bodies of the Crystalmen in the thick fog.

A Purple Crystalman suddenly burst forth, dragging several others along, and caught Zhao Yi mid-swing as he cleaved a Cyan Crystalman in half at the waist. The Purple Crystalman roared in fury, purple light flashing in its eyes, opening its massive mouth to attack. A swirling mass of purple cloud gathered overhead, and dozens of lightning bolts as thick as water vats roared down, smashing the Crystalman until countless crystal shards exploded from its body, forcing it to stagger backward. Before it could even discern what entity attacked from above, Zhao Yi brought the halberd down in a decisive chop.

With a deafening clang, nearly a third of the Purple Crystalman’s torso was pulverized, though its head remained intact. The Purple Crystalman’s body proved significantly more resilient than the others. Zhao Yi erupted in rage. His right hand moved the Gold Dragon Halberd with blurring speed, raining down blows like a shower of rain, one hundred and eight strikes landing all over the Purple Crystalman’s form. The rapid assault sent crystal fragments flying everywhere. After a moment of high-pitched lamentation, the Purple Crystalman finally disintegrated into dust.

Supported by the Absolute Immortal Array, every strike Zhao Yi delivered concentrated the entire essence and spirit of every Dao Alliance disciple maintaining the formation—equivalent to the full power of over two hundred disciples at or above the Jupiter Level. The already formidable offensive power, amplified by the array, granted each blow the strength to cleave mountains. How could these powerful Crystalmen withstand Zhao Yi’s continuous onslaught?

In just over ten minutes, the hundreds of Crystalmen that had breached the array were utterly decimated. Peng Hua and the others, humming cheerful tunes, began loading the struggling, mangled Crystalmen littering the ground into specialized alloy containers. Small transport shuttles continuously landed and took off from the hunting vessel overhead, ferrying the spoils of war aboard.

The last Purple Crystalman trapped within the great formation looked around in confusion. Zhao Yi stood directly before it, and all its kin beside it had been captured.

The Purple Crystalman’s body began to tremble. It shrieked hoarsely, “Earthlings… bandits, thugs, butchers! You have come here today, and you will die!”

Zhao Yi remained silent, bringing the halberd down upon the Purple Crystalman in a killing blow. The Crystalman glared fiercely at the descending golden light, and suddenly, a blinding flash of intense light erupted from its body. Terrifying energy fluctuations swept in all directions. In an instant, this Purple Crystalman had focused all its energy into the crystal sphere in its chest, detonating in a self-destruction using its utmost strength.

A mass of fierce purple light engulfed the surroundings. Zhao Yi, caught off guard, urgently commanded the array to shift. Thick fog rolled in from all directions in the west, tightly wrapping the purple light within. Countless extremely fine streaks of purple light shot out from the fog, all converging upon the Gold Dragon Halberd in Zhao Yi’s hand. Zhao Yi’s body shuddered violently as he forcibly controlled the massive energy being disassembled by the array and directed toward him. Finally, when the Gold Dragon Halberd turned a near-translucent purple, he could no longer contain the force.

With a single gesture, a beam of purple light, a hundred meters thick, erupted from the Gold Dragon Halberd, piercing straight toward space along the trajectory of the beam.

The bearded Captain directed the hunting ships in a messy evasion. The purple beam grazed the hulls of several ships, and the resulting ionization field stripped away large sections of external armor plating, causing billows of thick smoke to immediately erupt from several vessels.

Fortunately, their armor was incredibly thick. Although nearly forty meters of armor plating were stripped away, their main hulls remained unharmed.

The purple beam spewed forth for a full dozen seconds before gradually dissipating. The bearded Captain screamed hoarsely over the comms channel, “Good heavens, what kind of monster is that? The energy from that single blast was equivalent to the total energy output of a thirty-five-megaton nuclear explosion! Sweet mercy, how are you alive?”

A thirty-five-megaton nuclear explosion? Every disciple within the array simultaneously gasped, a wave of uncontrollable lingering fear washing over them. Even Peng Hua broke out in a few drops of cold sweat. He managed a dry chuckle to Siren beside him, “That seemed… quite deadly, didn’t it?”

Siren wiped the sweat from his brow, also chuckling weakly, “Extremely.”

The Purple Crystalman’s self-detonation generated vast quantities of intense electromagnetic waves that warped the local space. Zhao Yi had opened the array to vent the enormous energy residue from the explosion outside the perimeter. The electromagnetic pulses surged out through the gaps intentionally left open in the array, instantly propagating outward along the beam's path.

It took only a few minutes before the bearded Captain shrieked again over the comms: “Detectors show a massive influx of high-energy aggregates heading your way.” Right next to the Absolute Immortal Array, one transport shuttle had deployed two large-scale energy detectors. These detectors were aimed directly at the tunnel through which the Crystalmen had emerged, transmitting all data back to the hunting vessel in real-time.

Within minutes, the so-called massive high-energy aggregates appeared. A Black Crystalman, leading ten Purple Crystalmen and over two hundred Blue Crystalmen, charged frantically out of the tunnel ahead. They streaked over the lava lake where the Blazing Qilin rested, leaving trails of light that flashed towards their position with lightning speed. This Black Crystalman ran the fastest. As soon as it cleared the lava lake, it swept its hand toward their location, launching a beam of dense black light, nearly a meter thick.

The strong light, almost tangible, tore through the void with loud crackling sounds. It sliced straight across the several-hundred-meter-long passage and slammed directly into the white mist generated by the Absolute Immortal Array. Several flag gates within the array shuddered violently, and swirling halos of light rose from the white fog, fiercely blocking the black light. Amidst the roar, the halos produced by the great array were breached by over thirty layers under the force of the black light, which then plunged directly into the formation diagram. Fortunately, Zhao Yi reacted instantly, and dozens of Dao Alliance disciples rotated the formation, causing the white mist to roll in successive layers, slowly engulfing and dissolving the black light.

The Black Crystalman advanced in great strides. Just as it was about to rush into the Absolute Immortal Array, it suddenly halted its mad dash. Its bald, hairless face displayed a remarkably human-like expression of suspicion. It cautiously paced along the edge of the white mist for several steps, examining the area closely. Seeing the Black Crystalman’s hesitation, the ten Purple Crystalmen and over two hundred Blue Crystalmen also rapidly halted their advance outside the main array, forming a crescent shape directly facing it.

“Uh? They got smarter?” Peng Hua exclaimed in surprise, watching the hesitant Crystalmen.

Siren frowned, waving a hand, causing two three-meter-tall Silver-Winged Angels, radiating dazzling silver light, to soar into the sky. The Silver-Winged Angels wielded two-meter-long energy blades, slicing downward towards the Black Crystalman with piercing shrieks as they cleaved the air. Their twin energy blades projected sword auras several meters long—the attack from the two Silver-Winged Angels had reached the level of high-end Mars Class. Reminder: Mid-match break

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