The orbital bombardment from Near-Earth Orbit began—the suppression barrage formed by countless foxfire meteors struck the planet's surface before Huli's true body came crashing down.
The countless flames coiling around Huli split apart the instant they entered the atmosphere, transforming into tens of thousands of miniature spheres of light that scattered across the ground. The dense "fire meteors" burned violently through the atmosphere, instantly evaporating every cloud along their reentry paths. A thousand bright streaks turned into a torrential downpour, triggering an astonishing chain of explosions the moment they struck the crystal jungle.
The entire crystal jungle began to tremble violently. Thunderous booms rose from deep underground, interspersed with unsettling cracking sounds and eerie resonances.
Yu Sheng instantly sensed the chaotic howls in his mind and felt the changes in the crystal jungle. He whipped around to look deep into the forest, only to see the center of that crystal "sea" rapidly bulging upward. Countless "giant trees" fused together as they grew, birthing a crystal mass from the thicket that was larger than all the previous Yun Qingzis combined.
As it bulged upward, it constantly changed shape. At times it resembled an old man with his beard and hair bristling in fury; at times it was a towering giant tree; and at times it became a living cluster of crystals with no discernible logic, seemingly caught in a state of continuous collapse and reassembly. Deep within this rapidly rising crystal mass, there was... an enormous energy reaction.
"Damn!" Yu Sheng's expression changed the instant he sensed that energy reaction. Without another word, he opened a door back to the center of the forest and charged through, leaving Eileen with only one sentence: "I'm going to shut down its air defenses!"
Eileen had yet to figure out what was happening when