The brutal "killing one to warn the others" had left the crews of the five remaining Star Destroyers belonging to the Li Family Chamber of Commerce cowering in silence.
What came next was simple.
After another strike from the Four Symbols Origin Crystal, the five remaining Star Destroyers belonging to the Li Family Chamber of Commerce lost all morale.
No amount of encouragement from their commander helped. They were all adults, after all, and the situation on the battlefield could hardly have been clearer.
Surrender or die!
The commander had initially wanted to take a gamble and see whether Wang Dong and the others really had the nerve to sink a Star Destroyer belonging to the Li Family Chamber of Commerce.
After all, a Star Destroyer was worth far more than a battleship. Sinking one belonging to the Li Family Chamber of Commerce would leave Wang Dong and the others with no room to make peace with them!
And as it turned out,
the Bell Tower Phantom Thief, which had appeared out of nowhere, really did have the nerve to do it!
A few hours later,
the area was littered with lifeboats and escape pods launched from the five remaining Star Destroyers belonging to the Li Family Chamber of Commerce.
Under the Sky Peng Horizontal's assault team's practiced hands,
the five remaining Star Destroyers belonging to the Li Family Chamber of Commerce were swiftly stripped of all nonessential and rear structures.
The bare hulls, with their propulsion and weapon systems locked down, were loaded into several enormous cargo bays aboard the Sky Peng Horizontal.
They even salvaged the wreckage of the Star Destroyer they had sunk!
Meanwhile, all the crew members from the Li Family Chamber of Commerce's ships were confined in special holding compartments aboard the Sky Peng Horizontal.