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The spirit giant's destructive power was indeed formidable. No one could withstand its mental impact; anyone touched by it would die instantly, beyond any hope of recovery. However, as the group increased their speed, it became increasingly difficult for the spirit giant to catch them, especially given the vast battlefield. Wherever the spirit giant passed, all the fighter jets scattered like startled fish. Although its speed and agility allowed it to catch a couple of unfortunate individuals, the effectiveness of its powerful soul force was becoming increasingly limited.

The eldest son realized this as well. So the spirit giant's form began to change. Weapons appeared in the giant's hands, initially conventional swords, spears, and halberds, increasing his attack range and allowing him to hit more people with sweeping attacks. He quickly discovered that this method was actually quite ineffective, and the shape of his weapons began to change. The weapons, originally spears, began to lengthen, growing longer and longer, while the spearheads also began to enlarge and become rounder.

Through continuous evolution, it transformed into the shape of a giant fly swatter, proven in actual combat. This gigantic weapon, resembling a fly swatter, was perfectly suited for the spirit giants to leverage their strengths. The giant fly swatter was much larger than the spirit giant itself, condensing the majority of the eldest son's soul power. Because it had almost no mass, it could be swung at extremely high speeds, and being hit by it essentially meant instant death. With this wieldable weapon, the spirit giants' attack range increased dramatically, to the point that even after the mass of the various legions was reduced, their agility was no less than that of the spirit giants, resulting in a significant increase in casualties.

The eldest son possessed exquisite control over his soul power. He continued to extend his soul power, expanding the fly swatter to a larger size. While this increased the attack range, it also diminished the instant kill effect. The warriors inside those special fighter jets were equipped with equipment that provided considerable mental protection, and their own mental will was extremely tenacious. If the released soul power was too weak to achieve an instant kill, there were ways to rescue these individuals.

Previously, the eldest son had tried extending the fly swatter over a hundred miles. With a single swipe, tens of thousands of soldiers were hit and plummeted from the sky. However, very few perished. The vast majority survived. During their fall, the Eleventh Legion activated its power. Previously, Lan Cheng had revealed his command skills to the entire legion. Now, every individual in the legion could act as the core of this skill, unleashing a small-scale time reversal.

Although rewinding time for tens of thousands of people simultaneously is time-consuming, with sufficient energy supplies from logistics, they only needed a brief moment to rewind the fallen comrades to their state just seconds earlier. Those who were originally severely damaged in spirit and on the verge of death were almost instantly restored. The attack resulted in virtually zero casualties. The eldest son himself suffered some loss of soul power, which made him realize that if a soul attack couldn't be instantly killed, it was actually a losing proposition. Time rewind can revive the dying, but if someone is already completely dead, whether they can survive in a time rewind depends on luck. Most people don't have that luck; their bodies might recover, but most of the time their consciousness will be blank or even chaotic.

This is also why the eldest son limited his fly swatter to a range of several kilometers and did not expand it further. This size is just right to kill the opponent instantly. The probability of a warrior who is instantly killed being able to revive intact is less than 10%, so the soul attack is very cost-effective.

The various legions were helpless in this situation. Not all attacks could be dealt with through pre-planned strategies. Some deadly attacks could only be withstood by relying on their numerical advantage. Some casualties were unavoidable. The soul domain was inherently the eldest son's area of ​​strength. No matter how much foresight was taken, it could only compress this advantage at best, not reverse the tide.

He Cheng not only has no way to counterattack, but also needs to quickly maneuver his fighter jet to avoid being locked onto by the enemy. If he were instantly killed, the loss of the commander-in-chief would plunge all the legions into temporary chaos. This would undoubtedly affect the progress of the subsequent plans, so even if it might affect the morale of the entire army to some extent, he must relocate.

The battle has now reached a fever pitch. Both sides are pulling out all the stops. Facing the spirit giants, the various legions are loading up their soul ammunition, using sheer numbers to wear them down. While it's unlikely they'll be completely wiped out, weakening them even a little is better than nothing.

Soul ammunition is essentially the collection of souls from dead domesticated animals. These souls are then crafted into ammunition using special insects. This ammunition can directly attack the soul. However, the manufacturing process clearly indicates that this type of ammunition is extremely expensive. Even though animal husbandry is quite common, the difference in soul strength between animals and humans is vast. Harvesting hundreds or thousands of chickens would yield a soul power roughly equivalent to that of an average adult human. Therefore, even though these ammunition can be obtained through animal husbandry, their value is exceptionally high.

But now, in order to deal with the eldest son, they're scattering these munitions like they're free. To the immortals watching, these munitions are nothing special. If they wanted to make them, they could produce them in large quantities. They might even be able to create better munitions. But that would require a bloodbath. Even among the demonic immortals, few could achieve that.

The amount of ammunition unleashed from the underground base was simply too vast. In just a few minutes, the equivalent of tens of thousands of souls were expended; a day's combat at this scale would be utterly devastating. Theoretically, these munitions could be made from the souls of livestock, but in the eyes of our ancestors, collecting the weaker souls of animals was far too tedious. It required countless people and complex procedures. It wasn't something that could be accomplished by simply grabbing someone; that person would need a certain level of knowledge, which was far too troublesome for them.

Even if the entire civilization were to unleash its full power, these bullets would only inflict superficial wounds on the eldest son. For a spirit giant, this level of damage would at most slightly slow it down. After all that fighting, his damage was less than one ten-thousandth. If his soul power were converted into a health bar, all that resources consumed over such a long time would be equivalent to whittling away a thin layer of skin—a mere speck invisible to the naked eye on a screen.

In the battle of the soul, even with the underground base employing every trick in the book, they were at a significant disadvantage. However, in the contest of material resources, the advantages for both sides gradually began to reverse. The eldest son, originally relying on his massive size, should have been invincible. But in the extreme cold, replenishing resources became a major problem. As a result, the eldest son's size shrank continuously with each battle, and occasionally, his brain core was even shattered on the spot.

If it were an ordinary individual powerhouse, relying on the complex and numerous underground tunnels, they might have been able to achieve something similar initially. However, as the eldest son continued to destroy these tunnels, the space for maneuvering shrank, inevitably leading to their demise. Yet, the underground base deployed a large engineering force. As soon as a tunnel was destroyed, it was immediately rebuilt, ensuring that these tunnels remained almost constantly in place. Most areas remained intact, and relying on the vastness of this world to fight against a planet-level entity, they were actually continuously consuming the enemy's size. In terms of battle losses, the eldest son's side was actually at a disadvantage. Their physical bodies were being constantly worn down; their volume was now only 81% of its initial size. While the eldest son couldn't fully explore the underground base's reserves, the energy cores he destroyed currently only accounted for 15% of the underground base's resources. If the subsequent reinforcements were included, the overall loss was only about 8%. This widening gap in output power between the two sides meant that the eldest son's disadvantage in terms of material resources would only increase. Although the underground base's technology was somewhat primitive... However, it did elevate this battle to the level of an interstellar war, employing the most rudimentary yet unsolvable tactic in interstellar warfare: directly depleting the enemy star's resources until they were completely exhausted.

The eldest son was able to calculate his fate if the fight continued in this manner. As the gap widened, the disparity in strength between the two sides would grow increasingly larger, until he was eventually worn down and killed.

He also began to calculate how to deal with the disadvantage of having most of his physical body destroyed.

Based on the eldest son's observations of the people in the underground base, it's not hard to see that these humans aren't as powerful as they appear. They simply played to their strengths and avoided their weaknesses in the war, perfectly utilizing their advantages. Their biggest weakness lies in their inability to withstand the infiltration and sabotage of exceptionally strong individuals. The fact that the spirit giants could gain the upper hand demonstrates this. However, soul power isn't adept at destroying matter. While they could selectively eliminate the personnel on the ultra-fast-moving energy cores in the underground pipes, the energy cores, relying on their own intelligent programming, could still operate autonomously for a period of time, waiting for subsequent personnel to arrive and take control again.

However, if the eldest son were to unleash an individual with combat power comparable to an immortal, entering the underground vacuum tunnels to launch an attack, that would be a different story. Under such circumstances, with all legions going all out and targeting the enemy specifically, they could indeed defeat an immortal. But if this individual powerhouse didn't engage the legions in direct combat, instead using infiltration tactics to specifically sabotage the underground base, then the situation would be entirely different.

His massive size has always been the eldest son's trump card. It was the foundation of his invincibility from birth. But now it seems that his massive size has become a hindrance, preventing him from launching targeted attacks flexibly. Instead, he is being held back by the opponent's numerical and productivity advantages.

Upon realizing this, the eldest son began making changes. His brain, the nerve center within his body, began fusing with the energy alloy within his body. Cocoon-like structures began to form inside his body, and within these thousands of cocoons, thousands of powerful individuals were slowly being nurtured. One of these cocoons was particularly enormous, containing an ultimate life form far beyond the comprehension of humanity in this world.

However, the more complex and sophisticated the life form, the more difficult it is to nurture. If the eldest son had realized his certain flaws in this world a month ago and begun the process of nurturing, the underground base would have no chance of winning now. At least a week will be needed for these powerful issues to fully materialize. During this time, his physical body will be reduced to an unprecedentedly weak state.

A truly terrifying boss often has multiple stages. Clearly, the eldest son is currently developing his third stage. He doesn't want to abandon his massive physical body, but he has no choice but to. Therefore, he might as well concentrate all its essence to nurture an extremely powerful individual. A portion of this essence will remain to fight the underground base to the death. If they win, once the ambient temperature rises slightly, the fragments of his physical body can quickly assimilate back. For an ultimate being like the eldest son, his enormous size is perfectly capable of coexisting with elite individual powerhouses. He wouldn't abandon his massive physical body unless absolutely necessary.

If they can't win, these super-lifeforms will scatter and flee in all directions. The massive barrier can stop the large eldest son, but it may not be able to stop the more concentrated individuals. These beings can easily disguise themselves as humans and hide in the human world. Given a chance, they could always make a comeback.

After the soldiers in the underground base detected the high-energy environment beginning to develop within the eldest son's body, a large-scale attack was launched, actively targeting the incubation chambers located within the eldest son's body. However, these chambers were more heavily guarded than the brain core. Even if concentrated firepower could destroy a few, calculations showed that 80% of them would still successfully hatch once they were fully developed. As for the ultimate creature that the eldest son had created by exhausting his life essence, no one could say for sure what kind of power it would possess. At this point, both sides could only react to each other's moves. Like exhausted beasts, they used their last strength and fangs to engage in the most brutal battle.

"Gentlemen, you are already aware of the danger our eldest son is in. We admire your willingness to stand up against this natural disaster at the first opportunity. Now is the perfect time to eliminate him, and we hope you can lend us a hand." At this point, He Cheng had no choice but to seek help.

[To be continued]

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