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Sure enough, just as I had expected, the moment we began retreating, the space ahead fell into an explosive collapse. It had been triggered by a dead star detonating, but the consequences were catastrophic. Not only did the Blood Sea surge in, but the entire surrounding area became a whirlpool. The Blood Sea boiled like rolling water, and more than a dozen scout ships sent to investigate were all swept inside. After that, they vanished without a trace!
I sucked in a cold breath. Honglong Duke truly lived up to his reputation. If I had been even slightly careless, this battle would have wiped us out in one fell swoop. Losing more than a dozen warships now could already be considered lucky!
"We checked it out. Honglong Duke was truly vicious. He used boundary-thunder bombs modified from the Blood Sea warships he obtained from us back then, burying them in the places that needed to be detonated and blasting apart an entire region of space. Absolutely despicable! This isn't even their territory, yet they struck so ruthlessly. With such a huge breach in the Blood Sea, we don't even know how to repair it. Even if we can, who knows how many lives we'll have to fill it with!" Chi Saint raged.
I gritted my teeth. Honglong Duke's methods were indeed savage. He had actually used twenty Divine Tortoise warships to lure me in. If I had led all our warships in a general assault at the time, we would certainly have been dragged into that spatial vortex. Even if the warships could withstand the Blood Sea for a year or two, we would have lost the Ghost Path Central Court by missing the proper opportunity. After all, once swept into the Blood Sea, I couldn't even calculate how