Chapter 131: A Great Harvest

Sensing the terrifying power radiating from Leona, the Taotie officer dared not be careless.

"Although this is an antimatter hexagonal shield—immune to all physical damage and possessing a degree of magical resistance, serving as the vanguard weapon of the Styx Legion—I feel that something beyond our expectations must have happened to Leona. This astonishing energy might be enough to shatter the antimatter hexagonal shield directly!" the Taotie officer declared.

Though some felt the officer might be overthinking it, they ultimately followed his orders and increased the power supply to the shield.

Boom!

A deafening explosion erupted above Tianhe City, turning the entire world back into broad daylight in that fleeting instant. The Taotie Legion's warship was enveloped in blinding light. As the antimatter hexagonal shield reached its peak state, the Taotie officer watched in shock as cracks began to spiderweb across its surface.

These cracks were only the beginning. In the span of a breath, they spread outward like shattering glass.

Boom!

Ultimately, the Taotie Legion’s fiercely confident antimatter hexagonal shield disintegrated into fragments. Without its protection, the entire warship was completely obliterated within the terrifying energy fluctuations.

"It is indeed much more powerful. Lin An did not lie to me!" Leona whispered to herself.

When she returned to the Lieyang galaxy and displayed this move, she would make Pan Zhen see for himself—who said she could only learn the "tacky" fashion sense he despised while on Earth? She could also master techniques even he could not teach her. At this moment, Leona felt her trip to Earth had been immensely rewarding.

"If the Taotie Legion's flagship isn't destroyed, Taotie soldiers will continue to pour out like locusts; they are endless. Therefore, per General Du Kao’s orders, everyone in the Black Tortoise Squad must exert their full strength to destroy the flagship!" Du Qiangwei’s voice echoed through everyone’s communication devices.

Ge Xiaolun and the others nodded upon hearing the command. Although Leona’s earth-shattering move had destroyed one Taotie warship, it had little overall effect; Taotie soldiers continued to emerge ceaselessly, the vast majority pouring out from that very flagship.

Thus, to defeat the Taotie Legion for the time being, the flagship had to be destroyed.

"What’s so hard about that? Watch me split it in two with one sword strike!" Ge Xiaolun, brimming with confidence, flapped his wings and bypassed the heavy defenses, reaching the warship in the blink of an eye.

A brilliant beam of sword light tore through the sky, carrying terrifying power as it struck directly toward the flagship. Unfortunately, the strike was blocked by a shield. Ge Xiaolun slashed several more times, but to no avail. Soon, Taotie soldiers swarmed him, and Ge Xiaolun had no choice but to engage them in mid-air.

"Ge Xiaolun’s method won't work. We must do as before: infiltrate the interior of the Taotie Legion to have a chance at destroying this ship!" Du Qiangwei said.

Within the clouds above Tianhe City, the cross-shaped Taotie flagship loomed. Under the cover of Zhao Xin, Qi Lin, and the others, Du Qiangwei finally reached the flagship’s massive hexagonal mirror shield. With several Void Warriors offline and seven or eight auxiliary super-ships destroyed, and the remaining low-level Taotie soldiers occupied on the ground, there was no one left to stop her.

The antimatter-based hexagonal shield was invisible to the naked eye, revealing itself only the moment it was struck. Extending her hand, Du Qiangwei touched the empty air; the shield manifested briefly under the external pressure before vanishing again.

"This distance is enough for me to use wormhole traversal," she mused.

A transparent portal opened before her, rippling like water. Du Qiangwei leaped through, bypassing the shield's protection.

"Successfully breached the Taotie interior. Requesting the South Sea Fleet to coordinate fire for a simultaneous strike," Du Qiangwei signaled the Shenhe channel. The message reached the command center of the Juxia, and simultaneously, the warships in the South Sea launched a barrage of shells that soared into the sky, converging above the Taotie flagship.

"Now!" Du Qiangwei opened a massive wormhole in the sky, funneling the entire volley of fire inside the hexagonal shield. The shells bombarded the flagship, blowing it apart until it began to plummet toward the ground.

In the central square of Tianhe City, the surroundings were a scene of ruin—buildings collapsed and asphalt roads fractured by deep, bottomless fissures. Du Qiangwei arrived via a micro-wormhole, watching the flagship descend in a display of "fireworks." Her delicate brows relaxed, and she let out a long breath.

"Well done, Qiangwei!" Di Leona arrived, a smile on her face.

Soon, Sun Wukong, Ge Xiaolun, Liu Chuang, Zhao Xin, Rui Mengmeng, and Cheng Yaowen converged from all directions. The morning sun was just beginning to rise, bringing all things back to life; a golden orb broke the horizon. With the destruction of the flagship, the sudden assault on Tianhe City had come to an end.

Lin An had not intervened much, content to observe their slaughter of the enemy from the shadows. Although the battle had lasted only one night, it provided Lin An with a million soul points. The large-scale attacks—whether from Leona or the artillery from the Juxia—had easily wiped out countless Taotie soldiers, including many God-Slaying Warriors, each worth tens of thousands of soul points.

"It seems that war truly is the fastest way to collect soul points!"

This was the first time Lin An had collected soul points on a real battlefield, and the final harvest exceeded even his own expectations. This was only after a single night; if the conflict were to last longer, he suspected the Yama Palace could be upgraded before long.

A ray of dawn light dispelled the haze that had shrouded Tianhe City for a day and a night, bathing every member of the Black Tortoise Squad. It made them appear sacred, heroes who brought hope to the people—the kind of honorable protectors worth fighting for.