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Chapter 1180 and Chapter 119: Re-contact

Under Chu Fei's control, 160 warships charged into the battlefield once more. At the same time, the Heavenly Emperor also dispatched his avatars to assist.

The Heavenly Emperor's avatar stood beside Chu Fei, looking at him with some surprise and asking, "You actually came in your true form? Aren't you afraid of death? Although you have the life-saving means given to you by the Goddess of Nature, even I, in my avatar form, cannot guarantee absolute safety when facing these chaotic divine beasts."

Chu Fei: "Senior, how did we perform before?"

The Heavenly Emperor's avatar gave Chu Fei a deep look, "Are you risking your life for money?"

Chu Fei: "Responsibility comes first. Life comes second."

The Heavenly Emperor's avatar looked at Chu Fei intently for a long time, then nodded slightly. "Your performance was very good. Although I didn't like the way you acted when negotiating prices, your performance was indeed excellent. You accomplished something that even top-tier quasi-saints couldn't do."

A sage is a sage; he still has this much magnanimity.

Chu Fei: "Then let's talk about the next phase of the transaction. We've already obtained the 129,600 spells from the Heavenly Book, and we still have 300 Daoist spells and 3,000 righteous laws."

We previously agreed that one second-generation warship would be exchanged for 200 spells; one hundred spells are equivalent to one righteous law.

That means one second-generation warship for two Zhengfa.

The Heavenly Emperor's avatar immediately shook his head, "Your warships are indeed good, but they can only delay the Chaos Beast for a few days. They're not worth the price!"

The "several days" mentioned by the Heavenly Emperor are clearly not the time standard used by the Rising Dragon Palace.

Chu Fei: "As agreed, our warships will fight to the very end. No matter how we cooperate in the future, we will fulfill this agreement to the end."

Chu Fei didn't continue haggling. To get a higher price, he needed to demonstrate sufficient value. That would depend on his subsequent performance.

If they perform well, Chu Fei will take the opportunity to raise the price; if they perform poorly, then there's nothing more to say.

160 warships traced complex trajectories in the void, skillfully dodging the attacks of the Chaos Beast.

The Chaos Beast's attacks remained spatial strangulation, and their accuracy continued to improve. After all, the Chaos Beast was a Saint-level life form, and its learning ability was incredibly fast.

After realizing that spatial fluctuations affected attack accuracy, the Chaos Beast even learned to actively control these fluctuations. This caused Chu Fei considerable trouble.

Chaos Beasts are Saint-level life forms, capable of easily disrupting spatial fluctuations. Saint-level life forms are world-level life forms; disrupting spatial fluctuations is as easy for them as paddling through water.

Chu Fei and the warship could only react passively. Although they could gain some initiative with vacuum energy bombs in extreme situations, their response speed, range of influence, and intensity of spatial fluctuations were far inferior to those of the Chaos Beast.

The Heavenly Emperor's avatar saw everything clearly. After much restraint, he finally couldn't help but ask, "Do you need my help to influence the space?"

"No need. Senior's intervention would add extra variables. Right now, we only have two sets of variables: myself and the Chaos Divine Beast. If we add Senior's data, there will be three sets of variables, at least doubling the calculation difficulty."

The Heavenly Emperor's avatar sensed the strength of the warships and couldn't help but say, "But it seems that those first-generation warships are struggling to hold on."

Chu Fei also knew about the first-generation warship.

First-generation warships could reach lengths of tens of thousands of kilometers, while second-generation warships are only three thousand kilometers long. The enormous size of first-generation warships meant they were subjected to greater impact forces—these impact forces consisted of two parts: external impact forces and the pressure on their own structure (internal stress). As a result, the hulls of many first-generation warships are now beginning to deform.

With the same material strength, the larger the volume of the structure, the greater the internal stress and the lower the overall strength. Ultimately, the material will collapse under its own weight.

Compared to the first-generation warships, the second-generation warships used even more advanced materials. In terms of structural strength alone, the second-generation warships were at least twice as strong as the first-generation warships. Therefore, the hulls of the second-generation warships are now virtually undamaged.

However, second-generation warships need to withstand greater recoil, especially their weaponry and power systems, which significantly reduce their lifespan. These problems stem from insufficient technology coupled with forced upgrades. But the issues are minor; everything is proceeding according to plan.

The fleet is currently clashing with the Chaos Beasts across three to four billion kilometers, or more accurately, it's taking a beating.

The Chaos Beast can easily project its attacks to a distance of three to four billion kilometers, with an attack delay of only a few seconds. Now, the Chaos Beast has also learned to predict and actively control spatial fluctuations.

In contrast, the Rising Dragon Palace's fleet seemed to be running around in circles.

In the void, divine powers descended around the fleet, followed by spatial explosions that created a powerful spatial crushing force. As space distorted, all matter was torn apart.

Chu Fei maneuvered his spaceship, dodging and weaving, managing to avoid the core of the attack but unable to escape the aftershocks of the explosion. After all, the Chaos Beast's attack traveled faster than light.

Under constant impact, the outer shell of the first-generation warship began to give way, and gradually the outer shell of the spaceship collapsed and fell off, exposing the steel beams underneath.

As the fleet continued to advance, maneuver, and approach the Chaos Beast, large amounts of metal debris appeared behind it.

The scene was spectacular. After all, 90 early-generation warships, with a combined length of tens of thousands of kilometers, were now equivalent to 90 planets gradually disintegrating.

However, more than an hour later, the Heavenly Emperor's avatar suddenly discovered that the fleet's speed and agility seemed to have improved.

After observing carefully for a moment, the Heavenly Emperor's avatar's expression turned strange. The warship's hull had indeed fallen off, but its performance seemed to have improved.

The Heavenly Emperor (his clone), who had spent decades in the Rising Dragon Palace, quickly learned the reason—without the outer shell, the overall mass of the spaceship decreased, and the engine efficiency increased.

However, the hull still has its advantages, as a large amount of weaponry and equipment is housed on it. If the hull is lost, the warship's reconnaissance capabilities will likely be rendered useless, and most of its weaponry will be lost.

Without its outer shell, the warship's core components, such as its propulsion system, are reduced by half. Only its internal defense system remains, directly bearing the impact of space.

However, the increased speed and maneuverability of warships can compensate for some of the defensive losses.

Given a fixed power system and control system, a warship's defense and agility are in a state of mutual struggle, with one increasing as the other decreases.

The attack of the Chaos Beast caused the space around the fleet to resemble a raging storm, with the void stretching for billions of kilometers in turbulence. Yet, the 160 small warships traversed the void, occasionally exploding vacuum energy bombs to gain a pitiful amount of initiative.

Suddenly, a group of chaotic divine beasts launched a massive attack, unleashing dozens of spatial divine powers that caused the void to boil like ocean waves.

The fleet immediately detonated a large number of vacuum energy bombs, evaporating the seawater (space) before the "giant wave" arrived.

The warships escaped the direct impact, but not the aftershocks. A massive wave swept across the fleet. Despite their best efforts to evade, more than thirty of the original warships succumbed to the attack, turning into twisted metallic wreckage that tumbled through the air.

The remaining warships continued forward, their trajectories becoming increasingly unpredictable, and they dispersed, with the distance between them widening to two or three hundred thousand kilometers.

At this distance, the Chaos Beasts' area-of-effect attacks were ineffective. It was like skirmishers fighting against artillery barrages.

To counter this skirmisher tactic, precision strikes are required. However, with distances exceeding hundreds of millions of kilometers and intense spatial turbulence, even a saint could not achieve precise targeting.

The current situation is: the Chaos Beast is guessing how to attack, while Chu Fei is guessing how to dodge; it's a matter of who can "guess" more accurately.

The fleet raced through the void. As the distance closed, the warships' movements became increasingly intense. However, the first-generation warships eventually couldn't keep up with the maneuvering tactics. Occasionally, some of the first-generation warships fell behind and were hit by the Chaos Beast's divine power, turning into twisted metal wreckage.

Faced with attacks of saint-level quality, both first-generation and second-generation warships are fragile and will die if they can't dodge.

But Chu Fei's confidence in his charge did not come from the first-generation warships, but from the more advanced second-generation warships.

The reasons for producing the first-generation warships were twofold: firstly, to ensure a minimum production level, as the technology of the initial second-generation warships was not mature; and secondly, to simply meet quotas. For long-range attacks, the first-generation warships were quite effective, and given a sufficient number, they could play a significant role.

But now they're prepared to fight to the death, and with the Chaos Beasts quickly learning how to deal with these warships, the first-generation warships are starting to falter.

In this intense environment, the gap between the first-generation and second-generation warships is clearly visible.

When Chu Fei controlled the fleet to rush to the Chaos Beast's location a billion kilometers away, of the 70 second-generation warships, 62 remained; of the 90 first-generation warships, only 27 remained.

Several early versions of the second-generation warships had technical problems and malfunctioned during intense battles.

A distance of one billion kilometers becomes quite dangerous. At this point, the Chaos Beast's attacks are extremely accurate, and the attack "delay" is less than a second, which significantly increases the pressure on Chu Fei.

"I'm ready to sprint!" Chu Fei said to the Heavenly Emperor clone beside him, "Let me see which Chaos Divine Beast team is suitable... This one will do."

Chu Fei pointed to a squad of Chaos Beasts. This squad had 35 Chaos Beasts and was an elite squad among Chaos Beast squads, belonging to the so-called mobile squad or firefighting squad.

Seeing what Chu Fei was pointing at, the Heavenly Emperor's avatar pondered for a moment and said, "I've already notified my main body, and they will cooperate with you. The Chaos Beasts are indeed a bit arrogant, and we need to suppress their arrogance. But how confident are you?"

If the attack fails, it will only embolden the Chaos Beast.

Chu Fei: "I'm prepared to fight to the death, what do you think?"

The Heavenly Emperor's avatar chuckled twice and said dismissively, "If everything could be accomplished by risking one's life, there would be no difficulty in the world."

Chu Fei smiled and said nothing more, throwing himself into the battle and calculations—for those who cultivate big data, ninety percent of the battle is calculation.

That concludes Huang Youlong's strategy for Chu Fei. Now it's up to Chu Fei to perform. Sending Chu Fei to attack the most powerful Chaos Beast team isn't about sending him to his death, but rather gambling on the Chaos Beasts' carelessness.

In reality, the Heavenly Emperor's avatar was unaware that the damage to those warships earlier had an element of feigned weakness.

Chu Fei kept calculating in his mind. Suddenly, the fleet adjusted its direction again. He could only see the remaining 89 warships scattered irregularly in a space of millions of kilometers, but there seemed to be some kind of pattern. There was an indescribable feeling about them.

Before the Heavenly Emperor's avatar could analyze the situation carefully, the warship began to circle.

The warship activates its space technology, flashing intermittently. Each flash spans thousands to hundreds of thousands of kilometers, and each flash lasts only a few milliseconds. During these flashes, in addition to releasing vacuum energy bombs, it also releases almost useless "illumination flares."

Twinkle, twinkle, little star...

Amidst the flashing lights, 89 warships, in conjunction with a large number of flares, vacuum energy bombs, and other light-emitting methods, formed a super "array" with a diameter of over three million kilometers—an array that even a Heavenly Emperor's avatar couldn't comprehend.

However, the Heavenly Emperor's avatar could see that the Chaos Divine Beast's attack had missed its mark!

The Dragon Palace fleet had clearly entered a state of full-scale attack, and the Chaos Beasts had also launched wave after wave of attacks, but their accuracy was... zero!

"What is this?" the Heavenly Emperor's avatar couldn't help but ask.

“A visual illusion diagram!” Chu Fei replied casually. “We calculated the perception frequency of the Chaos Beasts, their reaction speed, and their perception accuracy, and based on this, we deduced a visual illusion diagram targeting the Chaos Beasts, which also used some creation techniques.”

It can be understood as a kind of illusion array.

In fact, according to our current research, almost all illusion arrays and illusions contain the logic of visual illusions.

The frequency of this visual illusion is currently out of sync with the Chaos Beast's perception frequency, making it difficult for the Chaos Beast to pinpoint its location.

"Oh." The Heavenly Emperor's clone nodded, actually not understanding at all, but was too embarrassed to ask.

The Dragon Ascension Palace always presents some strange and unusual techniques, quite different from traditional cultivation methods. To understand them, one must undergo systematic learning. Now is clearly not a good time to learn, and the Heavenly Emperor's avatar can only suppress his doubts for the time being.

The fleet circled and accelerated, and the first-generation warships gradually fell behind. Chu Fei then abandoned them. Using the first-generation warships as cover, the second-generation warships increased their speed by 50% in a very short time!

The remaining second-generation warships' sprint speed soared to 150 times the speed of light in an extremely short time.

As the warships increased their speed, the Chaos Beasts' experience became ineffective. Combined with the effects of the visual illusion and the cover provided by the first-generation warships, the 62 second-generation warships charged towards the most powerful group of Chaos Beasts.

During the rapid sprint, a bright streak of light appeared on the surface of the warship.

The shimmering light on the surface of the warship is due to the friction caused by its high speed and the dust and gas in the air.

Although this is the void, after a century of continuous battles, it is now filled with dust. The clash of saints leads to the collision and dimensional reduction of laws, which in turn generates matter; previously, four quasi-saints also perished, and some laws decayed into matter.

Sixty-two warships raced through the void like sixty-two shooting stars, which twinkled and flashed. Combined with the "algorithm" of the visual illusion, from the direction of the Chaos Beast, it looked like sixty-two paintbrushes sketching a dazzling and dreamlike starry sky.

However, this star chart was somewhat hazy and unpredictable. The chaotic divine beast's continuous attacks only made the "star chart" more distorted and elusive.

Although the star chart was constantly attacked, the 62 warships that served as the "paintbrush" perfectly evaded the attacks. And as long as the "paintbrush" remained, the star chart could be continuously repaired.

At the same time, the Heavenly Emperor himself was also attacking this group of chaotic divine beasts. Streams of divine power and magical treasure light pierced through the void, drawing a circle on the ground to imprison these chaotic divine beasts.

At this moment, two teams of Chaos Beasts nearby also discovered that the fleet's target was heading straight for their strongest squad.

At this moment, the other sages also launched a frenzied attack, doubling the intensity of their attacks. Vast and mighty sword energies and wildly twisting lightning stretched across the void, relentlessly attacking the Chaos Beast. Furthermore, barriers formed by laws sliced ​​through the void, hindering the Chaos Beast's attacks.

The chaotic divine beasts from the vicinity converged here, but were intercepted by the attacks of the sages.

Clearly, the fleet's previous performance had earned the trust of the saints, and everyone was hoping that Chu Fei's death charge would bring some results.

In the midst of the fierce battle, the void was distorted and cracked, and a shattered mirror effect appeared in the void.

The saint's attacks were straight and frenzied, piercing directly through the distorted space. Or perhaps formations or seals descended, suppressing and freezing entire areas of space.

The chaotic beast spewed chaotic flames, burning the void, its claws tearing through it, trying to escape the saint's attack. In the fierce collision, divine powers and formations shattered, causing the space to become even more chaotic.

In this chaotic void, Chu Fei had no choice but to activate the spaceship's creation function, forcefully forcing his way into the chaotic void. He used warp technology and creation technology alternately, making the distorted space barely passable, and approached the Chaos Beast.

In such a chaotic space, the only way to deal a fatal blow to a Chaos Beast is to attack it at close range.

But as they closed in, some warships were eventually destroyed.

25 seconds later, the fleet forcibly traversed approximately 10 billion kilometers of distorted void, finally arriving at the Chaos Beast, three million kilometers away.

At this point, only 42 second-generation warships remained.

Another 42 warships!

All the warships instantly pushed their power to the limit, but this time they didn't use extreme ultraviolet lasers. The Chaos Beast had already found a way to deal with concentrated attacks from extreme ultraviolet lasers.

At this moment, Chu Fei used "quantum-level high-power microwave radiation," which should now be called "high-power quantum pulse," specifically targeting creation methods.

This is the latest technology from the Rising Dragon Palace. Chu Fei dared to launch the Death Sprint, so he must have a trump card.

The chaotic beast roared, and a simple spatial domain emerged from its body, preparing to defend against concentrated laser fire. This domain required no special abilities; a transition layer a thousand kilometers thick was sufficient. The focal range of the concentrated laser fire was very narrow.

But the Chaos Beast misjudged the attack.

The high-power quantum pulses from 42 warships combined to create an attack area far exceeding that of lasers, more like a field energy.

All Chu Fei could see was the chaotic beast locked onto by the warship; half of its body suddenly turned red-hot, then collapsed like a volcanic eruption, with endless fragments swirling in the void. Faintly, Chu Fei could see ribs.

Screams and roars echoed from the void, the sounds of pain traveling through the shattered space and its laws.

The attack on the warship immediately changed, and a wave of concentrated laser fire was about to come.

High-power quantum pulses are of the field energy nature, and their attack depth is insufficient. They can only tear through the Chaos Beast's defenses; to severely damage or even kill the Chaos Beast, concentrated laser fire is still required.

But at that moment, the Heavenly Emperor's avatar exclaimed, "No! How is this possible? Retreat!"

Before he finished speaking, the Heavenly Emperor's avatar had already disappeared.

Chu Fei also wanted to retreat, but it was too late.

Suddenly, 32 vortexes appeared in the void, followed by 32 chaotic divine beasts. These chaotic divine beasts carried an aura that suppressed the void, and the vortexes quickly merged into one, transforming into a small world.

This small world covered the surrounding banners, blocking the saints' attacks and encompassing all the warships.

The domains of the 32 chaotic divine beasts overlapped layer upon layer, directly surrounding and suppressing Chu Fei and the 42 warships.

There were also 27 Chaos Beasts within the area. They turned to look at the 42 spaceships, and mad Chaos Flames rolled from the mouths of the Chaos Beasts.

Chu Fei felt a loud bang in the surrounding space, and then he and the spaceship were "imprisoned"!

At this moment, Chu Fei had this thought: I am just a quasi-saint, what merit do I have to make 59 saint-level chaotic divine beasts join forces?

Then a thought popped into Chu Fei's mind: I'm going to die! I'm really going to die!

This underestimates the "beasts".

Countless thoughts flashed through Chu Fei's mind in an instant, but he wasn't completely desperate. If all the warships exploded immediately, there would still be a glimmer of hope. Moreover, the superposition of the Chaos Beast's domains wasn't perfect; in fact, there were conflicts between them.

The requirements for perfectly overlapping domains are extremely high, beyond imagination. After all, each top cultivator is an independent and unique individual.

In addition, there are 17 other first-generation warships outside, which Chu Fei can still contact.

Before Chu Fei could make a move, a voice rang in his mind:

"Chu Fei, it's me. Chu Lei's mother! Do you remember the fragment of the Berserk Law I gave you?"

Chu Fei's eyes widened instantly, and his heart skipped a beat.

Chu Fei recalled that before version 10.0, the first Mother Nest he came into contact with, and during his struggle against the Mother Nest, a top-tier expert secretly approached him.

Now, it's all done secretly again!

There must be a story behind this, and why is it myself?

Chu Fei had almost forgotten about Chu Lei, that little juvenile Pixiu.

Then Chu Fei recalled the image of Chu Lei's mother, the adult Pixiu, which was projected directly into Chu Fei's consciousness space: 'She' was standing on a planet, her scales shimmering with the light of stars, and her wings echoing the distant Milky Way.

"Chu Lei's mother" is similar to the chaotic divine beasts before her, but upon closer inspection, they are not entirely the same. She seems more agile, more spiritual, and more "human"! The chaotic divine beasts before her, on the other hand, feel more like "beasts."

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, and Chu Fei finally asked, "Why me?"

Chu Lei's mother: "Time is tight, so I can only leave a mark in your consciousness space. We can have a detailed discussion after you go back."

Chu Fei hesitated for a moment, then immediately said, "Okay."

Then a faint glimmer of "spiritual light" appeared in Chu Fei's consciousness. This light was very weak; Chu Fei had a feeling he could swallow it whole. It seemed there was no problem.

Along with the spiritual light came a glimmer of hope: the "encirclement" formed by the 32 chaotic divine beasts surrounding him contained a "path to survival" that Chu Fei could just manage to escape from.

Chu Fei didn't have time to think. He detonated all the warships. The crazy explosions revealed a "way out," creating an escape route.

Chu Fei's figure flashed as he rushed out of the escape tunnel. He then activated the life-saving technique given to him by the Goddess of Nature, and his figure directly left the battlefield, appearing billions of kilometers away. Without any pause, he continued to run.

Chu Fei had absolutely no trust in the Heavenly Emperor and his ilk. The Heavenly Emperor's clone could have easily taken him with it when it ran away! But that guy never even considered taking him with him.

Now that they've finally escaped, and with so many secrets in their hands, they absolutely cannot face the Heavenly Emperor. As the old saying goes, of the thirty-six stratagems, running away is number one.

Using the divine power of the goddess of nature, along with his own methods, Chu Fei's figure flickered more than a dozen times. Guided by the signal, he found an escape ship—more than a dozen escape ships had been launched previously, but only one escape ship had taken Huang Youlong and the others away.

It wasn't until he entered the escape spaceship that Chu Fei felt a lingering fear.

Then it dawned on me that the sudden appearance of the last 32 chaotic divine beasts was probably controlled by "Chu Lei's mother" from behind.

Then Chu Fei stared intently at the spiritual light in his consciousness space. (End of Chapter)