High Martial Arts: Slay enemies to become stronger, forge invincibility from billions of corpses.

Ten days later.

Deep in the void, Song Chen opened his eyes and sensed that the communication terminal vibrated.

Upon opening it, the terminal projects a holographic image, which is a starry sky scene labeled "Real-time Battlefield Monitoring".

The footage was taken from the outer reaches of the Milky Way, with a background of sparse dark matter halos and a few dying red dwarf stars.

At first glance, Song Chen couldn't see anything; all he could see was a silent void, with a few wisps of pale purple interstellar dust drifting by occasionally.

Then the dust started to move.

It turned out that the dust was a fleet, a fleet that covered the sky.

The image zooms out, expanding the field of view from millions of kilometers to light-years.

The biological warships of the Blood Erosion Civilization were densely packed around the spacetime wormhole, so numerous that they covered the entire background starry sky.

The entrance to the wormhole resembled a gigantic, blood-red eye tearing through the universe, with dark red energy tides surging around its edges. Each inhalation and exhalation would send out hundreds or even thousands of biological warships.

Those biological warships came in various shapes and sizes. Some resembled arthropods magnified a million times, their shells covered with breathing holes from which swarms of blood-corroded life poured out, like a bee colony protecting its nest.

Some resembled twisted deep-sea creatures, with tentacles hundreds of kilometers long swaying slowly in the vacuum, each sway creating psychic ripples in the surrounding space.

There are also dozens of enormous biological motherships, too large to be described in words. Their size is close to that of small celestial bodies, their surfaces are covered with still-pulsating fleshy structures, and their interiors emit a ghostly green light, like living planetary fortresses.

Among these biological fleets, Song Chen saw more details.

Countless blood-corroded life forms of the seventh rank and above formed a dense formation and poured out of the mothership like cells dividing.

Some super life forms, several kilometers in size, floated at the forefront of the army formation, their blood-red flames, formed by the overflowing energy from their bodies, illuminating the surrounding tens of thousands of kilometers.

Deeper inside, several enormous "unknown mass entities" were slowly passing through the wormhole, their outlines blurred, but even through the holographic image, the oppressive feeling caused Song Chen's star core to tremble slightly.

After the video ends, the communicator automatically plays a voice message.

"Order from the Galactic Command of the Joint Defense Council: The main force of the Blood Erosion Civilization has arrived. Song Chen, you have been added to the combat sequence of the Moon Shadow War Zone."

"You are hereby ordered to proceed immediately to the outer defense line of the Black Dimension Nebula. Your coordinates have been sent to the navigation system. This is a mandatory conscription order. You must not delay or leave the order without authorization. Violators will be treated as deserters."

"Repeated violations will be treated as desertion."

Song Chen stood up, his spiritual energy erupted from his feet, and his figure disappeared from the meteorite, appearing next to the Shadow Bee, which was parked not far away.

The hatch slid open silently, and he slipped into the cockpit.

The navigation system automatically receives the coordinates of the Black Dimension Nebula.

Soon, the Shadow Bee slowly turned, and space seemed to be pierced by a thin needle as the ship silently disappeared into it.

Upon his first leap out, Song Chen encountered countless military units.

Thousands of warships of various sizes passed through a million-kilometer radius around the Shadow Bee in a loose formation.

There were silver fleets of the Moonshadow Clan, prismatic light ships of the Radiant Sun Civilization, ice-white frigates of the Frostmoon Civilization, and some civilizations whose logos Song Chen couldn't recognize. The ship shapes were all bizarre, but they all had in common that they were all moving at full speed in the same direction.

One after another, the captain's broadcasts came through the communication channel, with various languages ​​from different civilizations intermingling. The automatic translation system converted each command and reply into the Great Xia language.

"The Third Fleet of Huiyang is accelerating; we've fallen behind."

"The Sixth Moonshadow Garrison has encountered psionic turbulence and requests a reduction in warp frequency."

"The Frostmoon Task Force has arrived at the northern edge of the Blackwing Nebula and is establishing forward positions."

"This is the Rock Iron Civilization Heavy Armor Division. All ground combat units of Tier 7 and above have boarded the ship."

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After listening for a few minutes, Song Chen turned off the public channel and initiated the next leap.

The second jump involved an even larger fleet, including several mobile war fortresses towed behind the giant ships, so large that they caused noticeable spacetime tremors in the jump tunnel.

After the third leap, the Black Dimension Nebula became visible to the naked eye.

It was a gray-black nebula band stretching across the void at the very edge of the Milky Way, spanning light-years, containing eerie blue ionized dust and young stars in the process of birth.

The edge is dotted with a large number of asteroids, which form a natural defensive barrier.

The Shadowbee has completed its final jump.

Song Chen looked up and saw the entire defensive line surrounding the Black Dimension Nebula.

He admitted that the imagery exceeded all his previous understanding of the word "war".

Tens of thousands of colossal war fortresses are scattered like chess pieces around the nebula, connected by thick energy grids, forming a three-dimensional defense line surrounding the Black Dimension Nebula.

The psionic light emanating from the energy grid illuminated the edge of the entire nebula, tinting the gray-black dust with a bluish-green hue.

Nearby, a "Winter Fortress" of the Frostmoon civilization floats at the forefront of the defense line.

The main body is an artificially modified frozen planetary satellite, its surface covered with hundreds of super-large caliber psionic main cannons, the diameter of which is large enough to fit the entire Shadow Bee inside.

Its defensive barrier is a semi-transparent, prismatic crystal, and its thickness is visible to the naked eye.

Hundreds of ice-white support ships lined up on both sides of the Arctic Winter Fortress, like a group of cubs surrounding a mother beast.

In the distance, even larger, is a "solar prominence fortress" of the Radiant Sun civilization.

Song Chen couldn't see its full form at all; he could only see a mass of artificially restrained stellar matter burning in the center of the defense line, surrounded by twelve ring-shaped structures, each ring filled with launch hatches and energy collection arrays.

The light emitted by that artificial star even penetrated the Shadow Bee's filtering system, illuminating the cockpit brightly.

Further away are the Moon Shadow Civilization's "Moon Ring" defense platform complex, with twelve enormous silver rings linked together in a chain-like structure, and almost transparent spatial energy flowing between the rings.

Their core firepower is hidden inside the ring; it's a dimensional weapon specifically designed to cut through space and tear apart biological warships.

Further back, there were tens of thousands of heavy fortresses whose civilizations Song Chen could not recognize.

Some slowly rotate like giant metal flowers, some are pieced together from countless hexagonal modules like a honeycomb, and some are planetary fortresses that have been hollowed out halfway. They are planetary fortresses that use the planet's core as an energy furnace.

These fortresses are also home to tens of millions of main warships, supply ships, medical ships, and troop transport ships, forming a dense network of warfare.

However, what caught Song Chen's attention the most was not these fortresses.

Instead, it was a massive, greyish-white city in the center of the defensive line.

It hovered directly above the edge of the nebula, its walls immeasurably high, and beneath its foundations gushing forth beams of psionic energy so powerful they had become tangible.

The city walls were filled with people, all of whom were high-level ground combatants sent by various civilizations.

Song Chen glanced around and saw that there were tens of thousands of figures standing on the city wall alone, their auras mixed together, making one's chest feel suffocated.

All of this is the Tian Shu defense line jointly built by the major civilizations of the Milky Way.

The communicator vibrated again.

This was a targeted encrypted message from the Cangxing Civilization's Operations Department. After automatically recognizing the Shadow Bee's alliance identity, it directly connected:

"This is the Cangxing Alliance Operations Department. We have detected the approach of the Punishment Department's combat units. Please proceed immediately to assemble with our fleet."

Song Chen immediately replied: "Received."

He reached out and changed course, and the Shadow Bee slowly sailed toward the Sky Pivot defense line.