Showdown, my deck is from the East.

Chapter 1252 The First Trial: The Battle of Forgotten Reef
The first to receive news of this massive launch were the Eksos swarm, the nomadic insect swarm closest to Yanzhou.

The northern nomadic swarms of Exus won their civil war, captured a queen, gained production capabilities, and received support from the Upper Realm.

In a short period of time, Exus built an expensive reconnaissance system.

They created ecosystems suitable for the "enchanted fireflies" to live on 1400 planets and produced 1400 photon emission sources that can move under the influence of gravity.

The area was monitored using the principle of active phased array, but previously, due to the shading of the Yanzhou sun-blocking banner, very little useful information was obtained.

However, the power of the Peng-class destroyer to launch a large fleet of warships into the deep waters of the river of time cannot be hidden from the firefly ecosystem.

"High-energy emission from Baiyujing detected, SSS-level optical anomaly, analyzed as a super-large-scale spacetime disturbance event. We are currently checking the integrity of our historical records!"

Upon receiving the message from the forward observation post, the infected machine race's AI immediately processed the information.

This was originally an extremely advanced air defense system for the Mech race, but it has now fallen into the hands of Exus.

The four infected superbrains integrate a massive phased array insect swarm network, specifically designed to prevent hyperspace landing operations and analyze the location of faster-than-light fighters. It can instantly identify where the problem lies from a large amount of data and historical documents, such as which corner of history has a new alien story.

Soon, the supercomputer came to a conclusion: based on energy level analysis, Bai Yujing did not launch a dimensional descent operation or a faster-than-light fighter raid, but instead launched an unprecedentedly large trans-space fleet into an unknown time.

Bai Yujing is currently carrying out a large-scale fleet amphibious landing operation plan.

Lu Cheng did not attack existing history, but instead went to conquer the unknown of antiquity.
The enormous insect received the news immediately, and its mountain-like body shook off the rocks on its body as it laughed wildly.

"Just as I expected, history is written by the victors, which is exactly what it says!"

"Commander, should our army take this opportunity to advance south as planned?"

"No, I've changed my mind. Order a news blackout and give him more time!"

"Insect Commander? You... uh!"

The lieutenant's question was pierced by a huge barb, pus splattering everywhere, and he was clearly going to die.

"I don't like subordinates who think they know best questioning my decisions. Someone, put it back into the ovary of the insect queen so it can be reincarnated!"

Sea of ​​Time: Unknown Sea Areas in Modern Times

Paradox Storm Level: Calm

The Xuanwu has all-directional armor and will withstand the oncoming spacetime turbulence at the forefront of the fleet.

Lu Cheng stood on Xuanwu Mountain, feeling the sea breeze tearing at his skin.

As a card player, he has already played his cards and completed his mission, but as a soldier of the Imperial Guard and the head of the Heavenly Crafts Bureau, his mission has only just begun.

Yanzhou is 98% developed, and Yunzhou is also facing resource depletion. Under such circumstances, they barely managed to withstand the first wave of the demon race's offensive. If they do not expand into new territories or seek new energy sources, they will undoubtedly face certain death.

The Demon race has an immense advantage; new energy sources are almost impossible to find, but they can look for "old" energy sources.

Lu Cheng's "old" energy strategy began with the discovery of the law of time.

Because they were so poor, they wanted to acquire every resource they could, but they couldn't. Their longing for it drove them almost to madness, so crazy ideas naturally emerged.

Most elements in the universe decay. Decay doesn't make matter disappear, but its form changes drastically. Since the Big Bang, countless elements have vanished into the annals of time, and their decay products are now possessed by the demon race. What was the ancient world like?
No one knows for sure, but Lu Cheng guessed that it was the ultimate treasure of the universe, a rich mine that would be astonishing!

How can we bring back these elements that have already decayed, spanning countless time spans?

The answer is the near-eternal substance that Lu Cheng has been researching—immortal energy.

The rich minerals of the past were mined and transformed into eternal gas that has been released into the universe and preserved to this day!

Everything was planned in advance.

If we can truly occupy the past and build a sacred mountain with an absorption and release array, the immortal energy will not disappear, and a large amount of elements in future generations will be transformed into immortal energy.

A true immortal class for all eternity!
The Demon Lord looked at his territory, which was surrounded by immortal energy, and wondered what he was thinking.

"Commander Lu, have we ever won a landing operation?" The clanging of armor behind him interrupted his thoughts.

"No way, I remember back in Troy, I was almost thrown into the sea, hahaha." Lu Cheng looked at Huo Qubing as he approached and casually handed him a flask of wine.

"Drunken Immortal," Huo Qubing swayed slightly, "Aged Wine."

“No.” Lu Cheng shook his head: “The new wine I brought with me when I left has already aged.”

Huo Qubing looked at the surrounding immortal mountains. It was clear that the mountain structure had already shown a lot of signs of weathering, and the colorful immortal magic was repairing the damage caused by the disorder of time and space one by one.

"Oh, so this wine is newly brewed? It tastes pretty good."

"Drink less. Our route this time has absolutely no hydrological data and is completely different from the stable canal basin. You need to stay sober," Lu Cheng reminded him.

"We would have fed the fish long ago if you hadn't reminded us," Huo Qubing said with a smile. "We've already prepared everything overnight based on these past few days of simulations. Take a look."

Lu Cheng took the jade slip handed to him by Huo Qubing, which turned out to be a nautical chart.

The fleet is currently located in the near sea, where the waters are calm and outside the demons' reaction time, posing no danger. However, based on the available information, the command speculates that as time progresses, a large amount of torn fragments of spacetime will accumulate in this area, which will be named the Forgotten Reef.

This is the first test the fleet will face.

Due to the defeat on the eastern front and the predicament of the vanguard, the Demon race reacted somewhat late to special operations.

By the time they realized they were going against the tide, a month had already passed.

Due to the impact of the Golden Crow bombing on overall shipping, the Demon Clan took another four days to assemble their fleet.

The Demon race does not possess super-large space carriers and cannot launch large fleets to the spacetime channel at any time, but it still assembled three bubble sac carriers capable of carrying super gap worms and sixteen Plague Race destroyers with tunneling capabilities to intercept them.

The mothership itself cannot enter the spacetime channel; it can only launch hyperspace interceptor swarms.

Overgrowth operations consume enormous amounts of energy, have limited operational radius without the support of large platforms, and even if overgrowth resupply is possible, they can basically only operate within their own timeline and surrounding sea areas.

The Yujing Lone Ship Fleet was already operating outside of their known historical dimension, and they would soon be unable to catch up!

According to data calculations, the Demonic Brain Worm is about to arrive at a shattered spacetime zone.

The best interception point at present is Forgotten Reef.