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Chapter 142 Negative Energy Strike is Too Effective

A terrifying black hole attack suddenly descended upon the celestial realms.

Although countless powerful psionic beings in the Celestial Realms had more or less guessed that the Astral Realm would launch an attack on the Celestial Realms long before the war began, they never expected that the Astral Realm's methods would be so ruthless and decisive.

In the past, the Astral Realm and the Celestial Realm fought each other with extremely high intensity, but there was never a situation where a quarter of the Celestial Realm's mass collapsed into a black hole.

Actually, it's not that the member civilizations of the Cosmic Union haven't considered using black holes.

However, the black holes they used mostly contained mass. After the initial black hole attack, they discovered that the psychic powers of the myriad realms could use psychic energy to restrain the black holes and transform them into usable mass within the myriad realms.

They abandoned the idea of ​​attacking black holes, believing it would be a meaningless act of gifting mass to the G universe civilization.

With fewer black hole strikes being used in the Astral Realm, the defensive vigilance of the Celestial Realms in this regard has also decreased. After all, if there are no tanks on the battlefield, anti-tank weapons will naturally be used less.

If tanks were to be eliminated from the battlefield one day, tactical commanders would probably not even consider them when making command decisions.

In addition, the wormhole-like attack launched by the Babel swarm resulted in the complete annihilation of more than a quarter of the psionic civilizations in the unprepared celestial realms.

Half of the psionic civilizations paid a heavy price to isolate the expanding cosmic-scale black hole, separating it into an independent universe.

The races and civilizations of the heavens have barely recovered from this man-made catastrophe. While they have survived the calamity, they are also filled with extreme anger at being pushed to the brink of extinction.

Life is often hypocritical. When it comes to annihilating others, it feels justified and reasonable, but when it comes to annihilating oneself, it manifests extreme anger and resentment.

The powerful psionic beings who remained in the myriad realms quickly made a decision.

The plan is to have countless races and civilizations within the myriad realms first hide in their own microcosms, and then have each race allocate its resources to form an expeditionary army to attack the source of this black hole attack.

Offense is the best defense, and the Babel bees understand this, as do the celestial realms.

The powerful spiritual beings of all races in the myriad realms gathered in the central plane of the myriad realms. The weakest among them would be an absolute supreme powerhouse in any small plane, but here in the central plane, they could only serve as a pawn.

More powerful psionic beings will not be present in person, but will send their avatars to participate in this attack.

The low-level psionic beings living in the central plane, seeing such a large number of supreme psionic beings gathered from who-knows-where, felt nothing but awe, pride, and hope.

With such power, what could possibly rival it?

That Star Realm, which is at odds with all the heavens, is probably doomed soon, isn't it?

In the midst of a war where every second counts, there was little time for pleasantries or discussions. After a quick headcount, the organizers of the expeditionary force shouted with their psionic powers.

"The war begins now! Everyone, please follow me to open the dimensional gate and flatten the other side!"

"kill!"

In a fierce response, countless powerful psionic beings opened wormholes that spanned the cosmic barrier, brazenly invading the microcosm that the Babel swarm was using as a springboard for their attack.

With no attackable targets detected nearby, an incredibly powerful spiritual energy, strong enough to flatten and reshape a galactic black hole, immediately constructed a void defense that deflected all matter.

Break in, establish a foothold, and use the property of psionic energy to ignore material barriers to dismantle all of the enemy's technological creations in the microcosm.

If no target is found, prioritize maintaining the strongest defensive posture to prepare for subsequent reinforcements.

If an attack target is identified, launch an attack first, as offense is the best form of defense and containment.

This was the battle plan of this expeditionary force.

It was simple and brutal, but also very effective. The civilizations of the Cosmic Union that attacked Universe G suffered heavy losses because of this characteristic of psionic energy.

Unfortunately, this time, these powerful psionic beings from all realms were facing the Babel swarm, which had a thorough understanding of psionic energy.

Psychic power?

Sorry, we're too familiar with this thing, and we know its weaknesses very well.

The moment the expeditionary force of the myriad realms constructed the void defense that deflected matter, the Babel Tower swarm learned what kind of defense the enemy had adopted through the movement and changes of atomic life forms in the microcosm.

Without any command from Lu Shang, the planetary beings spontaneously constructed the small universe that connected and stored the negative quanta, using wormholes to bypass the void defenses and allow the negative quanta to bloom inside.

Negative energy can easily reach speeds exceeding the speed of light, and many powerful psionic beings die as soon as they realize that a microscopic wormhole has opened up around them.

Within minutes, those inexperienced, overconfident, or physically invincible psionic powerhouses in the expeditionary force who had not prepared any life-saving trump cards for themselves perished one after another, leaving no trace of their remains.

Negative energy neutralizes energy, causing matter to return to nothingness. No matter how strong the bodies of these psychic beings are, even if they can withstand the Big Bang, it's useless. As long as it's matter, it will inevitably be neutralized by negative energy and return to nothingness.

This is a physical property and has nothing to do with strength.

"There are still survivors, that's unexpected." Lu Shang exclaimed in surprise. The negative energy attack was the most destructive attack he had ever seen, one that even the universe could not escape.

Despite such a blow, so many psionic beings still survived.

Lu Shang asked in the swarm network, "Why are they still alive?"

The mastermind Grana reported: "Based on the intelligence analysis from atomic biological detection, some of these psionic beings use principles similar to those of planetary beings, hiding their true forms in their microcosms while displaying a phantom image in the open. Others... we still can't understand them."

Lu Shang nodded. If it was a phantom, then it could indeed defend against negative energy attacks.

The purpose of the illusion is to mislead the enemy into thinking it is the real thing, which is something that does not exist in the first place. Negative energy only works on matter, and it is naturally ineffective against non-existent illusions.

Negative energy attacks cannot yet reach the level of causality; attacking the illusion can also incidentally attack the real entity.

Lu Shang instructed, "If you don't understand, it means the enemy has something the swarm can learn from. Figure out these ways of using psionic energy."

After a pause, Lu Shang added, "The cosmic barrier will block the spread of psionic energy for those psionic beings who use illusions. There must be microscopic wormholes in the illusions. We need to find a way to get atomic beings to break through the wormholes, obtain the coordinates of the enemy's microcosms, and then notify planetary beings to directly launch negative energy attacks on those microcosms."

According to Lu Shang's idea, they should solve the easy problems first, and then study the rest thoroughly before dealing with them.

"OK."

Grana disconnected.

Then, the planetary creatures made some unusual movements. Immediately afterward, one after another, phantoms constructed of psychic energy, realistic enough to fool even the most discerning eye, vanished, as if the delete button had been pressed, simply and straightforwardly annihilating the enemy.

At this moment, the psionic powerhouses, realizing they could not sit idly by and wait for their doom, dispersed and traversed the wormhole to search for attackable targets within the swarm's microcosm.

They knew that if they could not find a target to attack and retaliate, they would soon be wiped out by the enemy in this small universe.

The swarm noticed this and thoughtfully created a terrifying phantom image for these psionic beings invading from the G universe at the center of the microcosm.

A complete ball of flesh, covered with all sorts of eyes, tentacles covered in viscous liquid, and gaping maws bursting open from between the fleshy crevices.

In short, any living being who sees this illusion will immediately think, "This thing is no good."

In order to lure these psionic beings into attacking the illusory image at the center of the microcosm, Lu Shang had the planetary beings hide their microscopic wormholes within this illusory image.

The microscopic wormholes of billions of planetary creatures converged into the illusory image, and the powerful psionic reaction made it feel like the ultimate boss to psionicists.

They successfully lured the powerful psionic beings from the various realms, as well as those psionic beings from the various realms who subsequently invaded the microcosm, to launch a fierce attack on the illusory image at the center of the microcosm.

These attacks are naturally meaningless, since fake things cannot die because they do not exist in the first place.

How can something that doesn't exist die?

Meanwhile, the Babel beehive continuously used negative energy attacks to eliminate waves of powerful psionic beings from the celestial realms, operating like an assembly line.

The key point is that these psionic beings seem to be on stimulants, recklessly charging forward to engage in meaningless battles with the phantoms.

Lu Shang didn't know if he could be considered smart, but he was 100% certain that the commander on the enemy's side in charge of the collective operation was definitely not very bright.

……

Toby is the chief god of the Universal Divine Dynasty who was invited to participate in the war, and he holds the highest position in the Universal Divine Dynasty.

Having survived a cosmic black hole attack, being abandoned by his own divine dynasty and home plane like a stray dog, Toby, deeply aware that the dignity of the strong cannot be dishonored, accepted the invitation to join the expeditionary force of the myriad realms.

Before setting off, Toby was full of confidence. The expeditionary force was full of strong men, and there were many who were so powerful that they were beyond his comprehension.

All the powerful beings from the heavens gathered in this expeditionary force, and once Toby realized this, he had no doubt about their victory.

However, after passing through the wormhole and invading the enemy's microcosm...

Toby realizes he's terribly wrong.

Those beings that he considered too powerful to comprehend vanished without a trace in an instant.

He survived only because his comrades blasted him away with a psionic shockwave.

When Toby awoke from his unconsciousness, he had the privilege of witnessing a scene he had never imagined since birth.

Countless god-emperors, supreme gods, and holy emperors—legendary beings he looked up to—crossed the boundary gate and attacked from the other side of the heavens. They were enveloped in terrifying spiritual energy and fought against the great terror that was covered in tentacles, had a hideous face, and was nauseating.

The terrifying, indescribable thing withstood the blows, yet remained standing. The countless god-emperors, supreme gods, and holy emperors who came from all the heavens would suddenly and inexplicably disappear, just like the comrades-in-arms beside Toby back then.

What exactly are we fighting against?

Such a question arose in the mind of Toby, the chief god of the Universal Divine Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)