The very next second after they saw the Monata split in two by an indigo sword beam, the light of an explosion followed.
Gazing at this "brilliant firework," formed from the pride of the Mona people, the white-robed Mona fell flat on his rear, his whole body frozen as if turned to stone.
In fact, in Mona mythology, the Monata was somewhat similar to the Tower of Babel in human religious stories.
The difference was that humans had built the Tower of Babel to challenge divine authority, while in Mona mythology, they had built the Monata to meet the great gods.
Of course, after the Mona people entered the interstellar age, they named their first interstellar warship equipped with a curvature engine the Monata. It wasn't because they hoped to meet the gods; it was simply a beautiful aspiration.
As technology advanced, the Mona people naturally increased their investment in interstellar colonization and built more interstellar warships equipped with curvature engines.
By now, the Monata was more symbolic than practical.
If that had been all there was to it, the white-robed Mona before him would still have been shocked by the power Lu Bai had displayed, but he wouldn't have been left as utterly lost as he was now.
The reason was that the Monata was the only interstellar warship the Mona people had stationed near Earth.
After all, with the various weapons aboard the Monata, it could theoretically suppress all of humanity on Earth, with power to spare.
Under those circumstances, there was naturally no need to deploy more forces to Earth.
Who could have guessed that such an aberration as Lu Bai would suddenly emerge among humanity, able to withstand the Monata's attacks head-on—and even destroy it on the spot?
The vastness of astronomical distances hardly needed explaining.