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

Song Chen saw that the light bands vaporized the moment they touched the light sphere, but their sacrifice brought about a brief pause.

The orb of light paused for half a second in front of the third layer of shield.

In that half-second, heavy artillery on both sides of the city opened fire simultaneously.

Song Chen then realized that the garrison commander, Zefar, had never intended to rely solely on his shield to withstand the attack.

Just as the orb of light was blocked by the third layer of shield, a row of dark gray turrets on the east and west sides of the city lit up simultaneously.

Those cannons had extremely short barrels, and they fired a nearly transparent spiral projectile.

Dozens of spiral projectiles struck the same point on the surface of the light sphere, like a dozen chisels hitting the same spot at the same time, and cracks began to appear on the light sphere.

The fourth layer of pale gold shield expanded outwards on its own, pushing the light sphere outwards. Then, the light sphere exploded.

The light from the explosion was brighter than the first strike, but also shorter.

The shockwave spread outward from the point of impact, blowing away more than a dozen turrets on the outskirts of the city, with metal fragments flying backward like pieces of paper.

Song Chen heard a piercing, twisting sound emanating from the building beneath him, and a thin crack appeared in the deck beneath his feet.

But when the light faded, the city was still there, the spatial nodes were still there, and the shield still had four layers remaining.

"That's impressive!"

He sighed.

This war is not about who has the bigger fist, but about who can seize the opponent's weakness in a round of fire.

Song Chen turned his gaze back to the enemy fleet in the northern starry sky, a very clear thought rising in his mind: this is not Blue Star; every shot fired here is trading the accumulated wisdom of ten thousand years of civilization for a second of advantage.

The second wave was smarter than the first.

The vertical mouth in the center of that rotting, fleshy behemoth opened slightly, spitting out several volleyball-sized clumps of gray flesh.

Those fleshy balls didn't fly very fast, like a few pebbles that were tossed around at random.

Song Chen frowned, not understanding what these inconspicuous little fleshy balls could do.

The answer will be revealed soon.

Those gray fleshy spheres unfolded simultaneously when they were still more than 400 kilometers away from the city.

Each fleshy ball transformed into a flat, fleshy disc, no more than a few tens of meters in diameter, its surface covered with luminous patterns.

They began to spin rapidly, emitting a psionic frequency that could not be heard but could be felt.

Song Chen felt his star core tremble violently, and his spiritual energy surged uncontrollably to his limbs before quickly receding.

"This is a jamming tower... a biological jamming tower!"

"They can disrupt psionic resonance; our turrets can't lock them down!"

A female officer from the Huiyang Civilization shouted out over the communications channel.

Once the jamming towers were deployed, the turrets that had already been damaged by the first wave of attacks from the giant serpent warships became completely blind.

Several close-in weapon systems began firing randomly, and psionic barrages were hitting everywhere, failing to form a barrage wall at all.

Amidst the chaos, the oracle-like behemoth unleashed a green corrosive ray.

All the rays were concentrated on the east side of the city. Millions of green lines, like a dense green net, cut in from the same angle and hit the already half-damaged eastern district fortress.

Song Chen witnessed a six-gun emplacement being covered by a green net. The metal surface quickly dented, bubbled, and turned black, as if it had been splashed with strong acid, and finally the entire emplacement collapsed from its base.

"The eastern defense line has been breached!" Virian's voice shouted over the channel.

"Don't panic, activate the magnetic storm ring," Zephyr's voice rang out.

Song Chen couldn't see where the magnetic storm ring was, but he could feel a strong electromagnetic pulse suddenly coming from the bottom of the city. His hair and body hair stood on end, and a thin layer of silver light floated on the surface of his Silver Armor.

A visible blue-white electric ring exploded from the city's outer edge, spreading out in all directions.

The electric ring swept across the eastern district, shattering the green light that was drilling into the ruins of the fortress.

The gray interference disks floating in mid-air were hit head-on by the electromagnetic pulse, and one by one they lost their luster, drifting away limply like umbrellas with their bones removed.

Immediately afterwards, the uninterrupted turret group in the western area completed a neat salvo.

Hundreds of psionic beams converged into a golden torrent, rushing straight towards the oracle-like behemoth.

The colossal oracle ship had no time to retract its green rays and was struck solidly by the golden torrent.

Song Chen saw that a large section of its shell on its left front had been burned through, revealing the grayish-white biological tissue that was still writhing underneath.

The giant ship suddenly retreated a short distance, and large amounts of green gas spewed out of the craters on its surface, as if it were extinguishing a fire.

"Well done!" someone cheered.

Song Chen didn't shout along; his attention remained fixed on the giant serpent warship.

It was too quiet; it led the charge in the first wave, but just watched from the sidelines in the second.

It moved again during the third wave.

Just as the breach in the eastern district was barely plugged, countless red dots suddenly lit up on the surface of the giant serpent warship, numbering over a thousand from head to tail.

The points of light, in pairs, formed a dark red net of light on both sides of the ship.

Immediately afterwards, thousands of red beams shot out simultaneously.

The beams of light came in different directions; some went straight toward the front of the city, some circled around to the sides, and some even slashed down from above.

They zigzagged through the air as if they were alive, intersecting with each other and blocking all escape routes.

Song Chen saw the beams of light fired from the West District turrets attempting to intercept them, but they were no match for the thousands of red beams that pressed down on the node defense line like a blood-red cage that covered the entire world.

"All units are free to evade!" Zefar's voice carried an urgent tone for the first time.

Song Chen didn't dodge; he just watched as the overwhelming red beams of light fell from above.

Three of the seven-layered shields above the city were destroyed in the first wave, leaving only four layers.

This time, there was no decreasing effect from layer to layer, because the beams struck every part of the shield simultaneously.

Of the remaining four layers of shield, three were torn apart like paper.

The last layer of gray-blue shield held up the remaining power of all the beams, but Song Chen saw that the color of the light pillars had turned dark red, and the rune flow was intermittent, like an engine that was about to stop.

The city's lighting system flickered a few times, and half of the lights went out.

Then, the rotten flesh behemoth opened its vertical mouth once again.

Upon seeing this, Song Chen's heart tightened, and this time what spewed out was a huge blood-red sac.

As the vesicles fly, they expand, and the membrane on their surface peels off continuously. Each time a layer is peeled off, it creates a fan-shaped shockwave.

The shockwaves swept away the remaining coalition warships on the perimeter like fallen leaves, and the Moonshadow Clan's escort ships rushed forward desperately, using their hulls to ram the cyst.

Song Chen saw three silver warships crash into it simultaneously, and the explosions obscured the vesicles for a few seconds.

But when the firelight died down, the vesicles were still flying, only now they had a few charred holes on their surface.

Then Zephyr made his move. He rose from the center of the city, his figure appearing tiny under the shield, but the moment he raised his right arm, the entire node beam of light rotated with him.

The energy leaking from the beam of light was forcefully grabbed by his hand and compressed into a golden ball of light the size of a fist in his palm.

He pushed forward, and the ball of light flew out.

It collided with the blood-red vesicle without making an explosion.

Song Chen only saw two spheres of energy devouring each other, the black dot in the middle expanding larger and larger until it finally absorbed everything around it.

Space was torn open briefly at that point, then quickly closed again.

The crimson vesicle disappeared, and Zephyr fell back to the ground.