In the end, Wang Guannan couldn't bear to watch any longer. She grabbed Gao Luanqin and pulled her away, lest she interfere with Shi Zunhou's gunnery.
If he accidentally went "a little too far" and beat that Star-Bearing Vine to death,
that would be a truly terrible outcome.
Fortunately,
what Gao Luanqin feared never came to pass.
After inflicting enough damage on the Star-Bearing Vine,
Shi Zunhou gradually slowed his rate of fire,
keeping it within a certain range—
just enough to exceed the Star-Bearing Vine's self-healing speed,
but not enough to inflict irreparable, permanent damage.
Meanwhile,
Wang Dong activated the Dream Crystal's ability at just the right moment, beginning to draw the Star-Bearing Vine into the Eternal Dreamscape.
It was indeed no easy task.
Although the Star-Bearing Vine had completely lost the ability to resist,
Wang Dong still had to try dozens of times.
It took him dozens of hours
before he finally succeeded in using the Dream Crystal to pull the Star-Bearing Vine into the Eternal Dreamscape!
The next moment,
nothing seemed to change on the surface.
Yet the Star-Bearing Vine, which had been struggling nonstop, suddenly fell silent.
The vines that had just regenerated and eagerly lashed out at the Sky Peng Horizontal also settled down.
Wang Dong, who remained deeply linked to the shipboard Kindling, sensed it clearly.
Under the influence of the Eternal Dreamscape,
the Star-Bearing Vine's self-awareness was rapidly sinking into the dream!
About half an hour later,
a faint glimmer flashed across the Dream Crystal's surface.
At the same time, with the help of the Sky Peng Horizontal's shipboard Kindling, Wang Dong could begin to influence the Star-Bearing Vine's self-awareness!
He didn't need to take on the Vine's perspective as a mere human.
All he had to do was issue commands from on