One Punch!
The conversation between the two made the Star Spirit Race female captain, who was standing nearby, feel a sudden jolt in her heart.
Something's not right!
This conversation, and the almost palpable tension... clearly, this was no ordinary rendezvous!
What kind of support team, knowing there's a formidable enemy blocking their path, wouldn't rush to regroup and head home, instead using a tone like "I'm afraid they won't come"?
She remained outwardly calm, but her gaze subtly swept across her surroundings.
Soon, she spotted a high-ranking deity of her own race among the Pan-Spirit Alliance's support team a short distance away.
The other person seemed to notice her gaze and nodded slightly in acknowledgment.
Very good!
She immediately Soul Transmission: "By the stars above, Erila, it's me, Beifi. What on earth is going on?"
The Star Spirit Race opposite her, known as "Erila," was also somewhat surprised that Beifi was with Lin Yi, but she quickly guessed the reason and immediately replied, "Beifi... In short, the evacuation point's assessment is that the Abyss Race and Devouring Race will definitely take advantage of Lin Yi's return to ambush him, so they've gathered their main forces to provide support. Lord Lin Yi... his combat strength has been clearly assessed as reaching the level of a high-ranking deity. This battle is very likely to be the Decisive Battle concerning the ownership and survival of the evacuation point!"
High-ranking deity!
Decisive Battle!
... I just arrived, and the Decisive Battle is already upon us?
She turned her head sharply and looked at the black-haired figure in front of her who was facing away from her and communicating with Yan Long.
So that's how it is! No wonder the evacuation point was set up with such a grand display! Lin Yi... this "First Heavenly Prodigy of the younger generation" who rose to prominence in just over ten thousand years has actually already possessed the combat power of a high-level god?
This... this can no longer be described as "the bearing of a supreme ruler." Perhaps even the greatest sovereigns standing at the pinnacle of the universe were no more than this in their youth?
After the initial shock, a strong sense of relief welled up in Beifi's heart.
Thankfully... thankfully, during the previous journey, their team was friendly and cooperative enough, and did not show any contempt or arrogance towards the other party just because they were "juniors".
It could even be said that this trip was quite enjoyable.
After this battle, regardless of the outcome, Beifi and her team had developed a certain bond with Lin Yi.
A thousand thoughts raced through Beifi's mind, but she quickly regained her composure, though her gaze towards Lin Yi's retreating figure held a newfound reverence.
Lin Yi paid no attention to Beifi's emotional turmoil behind him. He quickly exchanged a few key pieces of information with Yan Long, then nodded to Yan Long and Taikasha: "In that case, let's proceed according to plan."
"Those troublesome fellows, I'll leave them to Lin Yi!" Yan Long said in a deep voice.
He knew very well that once the battle broke out, Lin Yi would be their irreplaceable pillar of strength.
After a brief exchange of pleasantries and confirmation of tactics, both teams quickly regrouped.
Lin Yi four companions, along with four members of Beifi's team, were assigned to the core defensive perimeter of the support team.
The fleet restarted and continued sailing towards the evacuation point.
Time passed slowly in a subdued calm.
Every deity was on edge, divine power flowing silently within their bodies, laws appearing and disappearing around them, and various detection methods operating at maximum power, scanning every inch of the surrounding void.
A standard year and a half, which is but a moment in the life scale of higher deities, seems exceptionally long at this moment.
Finally, on this day, piercing alarms blared simultaneously inside all the spaceships and in the consciousness of the gods.
"A large-scale high-energy reaction has been detected! More than 150 standard divine energy units are approaching at high speed!"
The Machine Race responsible for monitoring quickly issued an alert.
"They're here!"
Inside the flagship, Yan Long's rock-like face showed no surprise. He sneered and then said, "Everyone, proceed according to the plan, deploy your formation, and charge!"
The command was transmitted instantly.
The seventy-nine deities, who had been on high alert, did not hesitate at all. In an instant, they transformed into streaks of light and rushed out of the cabin to meet the terrifying enemy torrent head-on!
Meanwhile, at the forefront of the enemy camp, inside a Devouring Race warship covered in dark purple biological armor, an Devouring Race deity with compound eyes flashing with cold purple light was coldly observing the reaction of the Pan-Spirit Alliance.
"The brats of the Pan-Spirit Alliance, they actually don't run away? They even dare to face us head-on?"
Its sharp voice echoed within the warship, tinged with doubt, "Did they guess our plan? Or... is it a trap?"
Beside him, a Abyss Race deity covered in thick scales growled, "So what if it's a trap? Those alien races just had an internal battle; they don't have the ability or the guts to take advantage of us anytime soon! Right now, it's just us and the Pan-Spirit Alliance around here! Even if they think the same way we do, what can they do..."
It exchanged a glance with the leader of the Devouring Race, both seeing the determination in each other's eyes.
The leader of the Devouring Race said coldly, "You're right. The Pan-Spirit Alliance may have a few more high-level peak cultivators, but we have the overall advantage! Most importantly... we also have that great one overseeing us! That's enough to deal with that high-ranking god of the Human Race!"
"Excellent, the advantage is on our side! If that's all they have, we'll wipe them out. If they all dare to come out, it'll save us the trouble of attacking their carefully constructed evacuation points!" The Abyss Race leader exuded murderous intent. "Everyone, charge forward, force out their backup plans, and then... annihilate them in one fell swoop!"
"Roar!!!"
Kill them all!
A ferocious fighting spirit ignited in the hearts of every god through the soul network, and the speed of the more than 150 streams of light increased by another three percent.
Soon, the distance between the two sides rapidly closed.
"Now!"
Yan Long sensed that the distance was about right, close enough that the enemy wouldn't have time to escape the pursuit, and immediately gave the order.
In an instant, the Pan-Spirit Alliance battle formation, which originally consisted of only seven thousand nine gods, expanded in size more than twenty times, like an inflated balloon!
One after another, figures exuding powerful auras surged forth from the open gates of the Divine Kingdom like a floodgate opening!
Holy radiance, spiritual light, rock crystals, metallic coldness, the verdant green of life, the gray desolation of death... the light of various attributes and races intertwined and shone, instantly converging in the void into a dazzling, yet terrifying and murderous ocean of gods!
More than 1,600 high-ranking deities!
This represents almost all of the Pan-Spirit Alliance's combat-ready forces currently gathered in the evacuation zone, except for a small number of troops left behind as a diversionary force.
"Is this your backup plan?"
The Abyss Race, far from being angry, was delighted. Its roar echoed through the starry sky, "Let them see who truly rules this cosmos!"
Almost simultaneously, the void behind and to the flanks of their camp also twisted violently, and Divine Kingdom fluctuations erupted.
The combined forces of the Abyss Race Devouring Race, which originally consisted of over 150 deities, have expanded even more dramatically!
Dark black demonic energy, dark purple corrosive power, scarlet blood energy, and hideous bone armor and insect bodies...
Countless figures, exuding a violent, cold, and chaotic aura, roared as they charged into the starry sky!
More than two thousand four hundred high-ranking deities!
In terms of numbers, they clearly had an overwhelming advantage over the Pan-Spirit Alliance!
In just a few breaths, this star field, which was about to erupt into a small-scale conflict, suddenly transformed into a battlefield where more than four thousand high-level gods had gathered!
In the void, on one side was the Pan-Spirit Alliance forces, their battle formation as solid as a mountain.
On the other side was the Abyss-Devouring Allied Forces, their killing intent surging like a tide.
The two sides took their stances, but instead of immediately engaging in combat, they tacitly maintained a brief distance between each other, standing in a stalemate.
The chilling killing intent emanating from the more than four thousand gods was like a tangible blade, slicing through every inch of the void.
In the suffocating silence, three figures slowly flew out from in front of the Abyss-Devouring Allied Forces.
On the left is a deity of the Abyss Race, covered in thick, dark gold scales, resembling an ancient tyrannical dragon, exuding a wild and violent aura.
On the right is a mantis-shaped Devouring Race God whose compound eyes gleam with a cold purple light, its body emanating a chilling and sharp aura of the laws of death.
In the center is a deity of the Abyss Race, whose entire body is covered in black and purple crystal armor, and whose shape is similar to a human, but who has a long tail covered with bone spurs trailing behind him.
Its size wasn't particularly large, but it was surrounded by a powerful fluctuation of laws that caused the surrounding space to tremble slightly.
"Hahaha!"
The figure in the middle, clad in black and purple crystal armor, was the first to let out a sinister laugh. Its soul voice was as piercing as countless grains of sand rubbing together, "Don't think you're the only ones with high-ranking deities. Since you dare to show yourselves from your shells today, you'll all stay here!"
Its face, covered in crystalline armor, turned towards the Pan-Spirit Alliance formation, its soul fluctuations filled with condescending mockery and killing intent. "I, Omaba, have been a High God for three thousand standard years! Today, I will use you Pan-Spirit Alliance scum as a sacrifice for my advancement to the next level!"
"Tsk, so this is the legendary pre-battle verbal sparring..."
Lin Yi, standing in the Core Zone of the Pan-Spirit Alliance battle formation, calmly swept his gaze over the three figures, especially the high-ranking deity in the middle who called himself "Omaba".
He had participated in many battles involving deities, but this was the first time he had personally experienced a situation like this, where thousands of deities were involved and both sides were arrayed for a large-scale Decisive Battle.
However, even if you haven't eaten pork, you've seen pigs run.
According to his knowledge from the Pan-Spirit Alliance's public database and his usual exchanges with veteran deities, in large-scale battles where the difference in strength between the two sides is not particularly large, unless one side is confident that it can quickly crush the other, there are actually not many situations where they directly start fighting.
More often than not, like now, a "pre-battle exchange" will take place first.
The objective is simple: to demoralize the enemy and undermine their morale.
After all, gods are also intelligent beings, and they also have emotions and thoughts.
Or perhaps, because they have lived long enough, the gods are better able to assess situations and may conserve their strength or adopt a conservative approach.
Therefore, this kind of "verbal warfare" is essentially a form of psychological warfare.
It's just a pity...
Lin Yi could clearly sense that, although many gods in his own battle formation did experience brief fluctuations in their auras upon hearing that the enemy had a high-ranking god who had entered this realm three thousand years ago, they quickly regained their composure and even... revealed a mocking emotion.
Within the temporary communication network deployed by several Machine Race and covering the entire battlefield, messages were being exchanged rapidly. "A high-ranking god? Three thousand years? Ha... does it think it's so powerful?"
"I bet they still think Lord Lin Yi is that guy from ten thousand years ago who just barely reached the level of a high-ranking god?"
"Of course. If it were me, I wouldn't have guessed that Lin Yi could advance so much in just ten thousand years."
"I wonder how Your Excellency Lin Yi will entertain this Omaba later."
"I bet that within five standards, my brother will be a high-ranking god. Even among high-ranking gods, there are different levels, and the differences between the different levels are enormous!"
"Five standard hours? How dare you underestimate our First Heavenly Prodigy Human Race! I bet it won't be more than three standard hours!"
"By the way... what exactly is Lord Lin Yi's strength now? He sent word back that he had made some progress. With his talent, his progress on the new law should be over 50%, otherwise he wouldn't have said that. I just don't know if it's 70% or... more?"
Clearly, the Pan-Spirit Alliance deities who participated in the rendezvous plan were generally aware of Lin Yi's strength, at least knowing that he was no ordinary novice who had just reached the threshold of advancement.
Faced with the provocation of a high-ranking deity with only three thousand years of history, they naturally felt little fear, but rather found it somewhat ridiculous.
At the forefront of the battlefield, Yan Long and Taikasha stood side by side.
Hearing Omaba's shouts and threats, Yan Long's rocky face showed no anger. Instead, he turned to Taikasha and said with a smile, "They think they've got us cornered."
Taikasha's seven-colored eyes flashed, and she replied with a smile, "It seems their understanding of Lord Lin Yi is still based on the intelligence from that ambush battle ten thousand years ago. In that case..." She paused, then turned to Lin Yi at the core of the formation, "Lord Lin Yi, this Omaba on the other side seems very confident. Would you... like to show off a little and put their arrogance to a halt?"
At the heart of the formation, Lin Yi glanced at Taikasha.
He understood perfectly well that although Taikasha only said to suppress their arrogance, there was actually a deeper meaning behind it: she wanted to reassure his side.
Lin Yi didn't seem to mind.
After all, any progress he made before was just talk; he never actually demonstrated it.
Even so, the key figures at the evacuation point still placed their full trust in him, leading almost all their forces out in force. Now, making such a small request to put his mind at ease and at the same time suppress the morale of the other side is not unreasonable.
Thinking of this, Lin Yi raised his eyes and looked again at the three figures in front of the enemy formation.
One is from the Abyss Race, and the other from the Devouring Race; they are clearly leaders of their respective clans, in addition to a high-ranking deity-level being named "Omaba".
"Just showing off a little bit..."
A cold smile curved Lin Yi's lips as he glanced at the three figures and the more than two thousand enemy gods behind them.
His mind raced.
Large-scale battles between gods differ from low-level legion warfare.
Because individual gods are incredibly powerful and their laws vary, he has never heard of a battle formation capable of effectively controlling the power of gods.
Therefore, once the fighting starts, it will basically be a long-range exchange of fire between the two sides, and then it will most likely turn into small teams fighting independently, with intertwined formations and a mix of friend and foe.
By then, even if the Source Treasure is used, its full power will be difficult to unleash due to the entanglement between friend and foe.
But now...
In order to defend against the first wave of ranged attacks, the enemy's formation was relatively concentrated, especially at this moment when the leader in the front row was shouting and the army in the rear was obeying orders, and they had not yet completely dispersed.
This is... the perfect opportunity to maximize the destructive range of the Source Treasure!
Once a real battle breaks out and everything is in chaos, there won't be such a good opportunity to use it.
With my current level of power, I can instantly infuse nearly a third of the divine power into the Yuanbao, and then suddenly do this to them, the gains will surely be substantial.
Moreover, the enemy is currently indulging in a false sense of security, believing that "they have a superior deity to protect them and a huge advantage in troop strength," and their vigilance is not at its highest.
"Now, it's just right."
Lin Yi's eyes sharpened.
Since they've come to him so readily and are standing so neatly, he shouldn't be so impolite.
In such a large-scale battlefield, the fluctuations of laws intertwine and entangle, forming an extremely chaotic natural barrier. Even Space Law deity would have to expend more than a thousand times the usual effort to break through space for short-distance teleportation, let alone teleport people.
Now the two sides are practically face to face. Even if they discover they have the Source Treasure, it will be too late for them to run away!
Therefore, Lin Yi chuckled and said in the communication channel, "Since the other side is jumping around so enthusiastically, then I'll show everyone... what I've got to do."
Before he could finish speaking...
Lin Yi's figure suddenly disappeared from the Core Zone of the Pan-Spirit Alliance battle formation.
The next moment!
In the central void between the two opposing sides, space rippled gently like water.
Lin Yi's figure appeared out of thin air!
He stood alone, hovering between the armies of thousands of gods from both sides, facing the combined forces of the Xiangyuan Devouring Race Abyss Race.
At that moment, his right hand was already raised and clenched into a fist.
Between his tightly clenched fingers, a deep, intensely blue light was uncontrollably emanating, as if he were holding a miniature blue star about to explode in his palm!
A vast and heavy primordial energy, seemingly capable of encompassing and crushing all things, erupted from the center of his fist.
"What?!"
Omaba, who was closest to the incident, was the first to realize something was wrong.
Its face, covered in blind purple crystal armor, twisted instantly, and crimson light flashed wildly in its compound eyes. A sense of impending doom, originating from the depths of its soul, instantly overwhelmed it like ice!
It was just about to open its mouth to let out a terrified roar or a question...
But it was too late.
Lin Yi Yigenxian didn't waste any words, nor did he give the other party any time to react.
Appearing, fist clenched, divine power surging... Punch!
The movements were executed in one fluid motion, as swift as lightning!
Lin Yi, facing the Abyss Race and Devouring Race forces directly in front of him who were somewhat stunned by his sudden appearance, especially the three in the front row, clenched his right fist and suddenly punched forward...
The immense power of the Origin Law emanating from the "Heart of the Abyss Sea" transformed into a beam of azure light that seemed to contain a vortex of billions of starlight. It erupted instantly, silent yet swift as light, shooting straight ahead!
Where the blue light was directed, the void became incredibly heavy and viscous, as if it had been instantly dragged to the bottom of an endless abyss, with time and space exhibiting strange stagnation and distortion.
The first to be affected were the three bandits.
Before the ferocity and bloodlust on the faces of the leaders of the Abyss Race and the Devouring Race could even turn to astonishment, the protective divine power and defensive treasures on their bodies instantly melted away when the azure light containing the power of the Origin Law swept past them.
Immediately afterwards, their divine bodies began to disintegrate from the smallest particle structure, and the seven-colored protective light of the secret realm burst out uncontrollably from their bodies, instantly engulfing their figures, leaving only the large amount of treasures that each of them had exploded out, floating in the void.
This condensed fist-shaped beam of light continued unabated, shooting straight into the depths of the enemy formation with unstoppable force!
Along the path of the light cave, regardless of whether they were at the peak of high-level deities, when that blue light Dao Resonance the Origin Law of officialdom swept past, they all encountered a fate almost identical to that of the two leaders.
Protective divine power, defensive secret techniques, life-saving treasures... all struggles seem pale and powerless in the face of Origin Law.
The light tunnel cut through the relatively dense formation of the Abyss Race Devouring Race allied forces, leaving behind a clear and straight "vacuum destruction zone"!
Nearly four hundred high-level gods located in this zone of destruction were "sent" out of the secret realm by this condensed Origin Law fist aura before they even had time to react or escape.
In an instant, nearly four hundred beams of seven-colored light lit up the enemy formation, like a dense burst of fireworks suddenly blooming in the night sky, dazzling yet cruel.
The light dissipated, leaving behind only hundreds of piles of valuable treasures and a void that instantly became empty and desolate.
Only the Abyss Race expert who called himself "Omaba" and had been a high-level god for three thousand years, at the critical moment when the light acupoint was about to strike his body, relied on his stronger divine power foundation and high-level god-level law foundation to unleash all his power, condensing a heavy shield of death and darkness intertwined with the laws of darkness in front of his high purple crystal armor, in an attempt to resist.
However, in less than half a breath, the shield, like metal melted by high temperature, revealed a rapidly expanding hole in its center.
The light surged through the void, crashing fiercely against Omaba's divine body. Its body surface, covered in blinding purple crystal armor, flickered wildly, attempting to resist the all-pervasive erosion of the Origin Law.
Click, click...
A fine, teeth-grinding cracking sound emanated from its divine body covered in crystalline armor.
Countless azure cracks, like a spider web, instantly covered its entire body and spread rapidly throughout the village.
Its compound eyes, filled with horror and disbelief, stared intently at Lin Yi's fist, which he had just retracted and which was still wreathed in a faint blue light. With its last strength, it squeezed out a terrified scream from the depths of its soul, "It's... a Source Treasure!!!"
As the words fell, a seven-colored light finally burst forth from its divine body, which was covered with blue cracks, completely enveloping it. Then, with a flash of light, the figure disappeared.
Where they stood, all that remained was a pile of treasures several times richer than those of the previous two leaders, and a turbulent energy current that was extremely unstable due to the erosion of the Origin Law aura.
The condensed azure fist beam, after piercing through the entire "Destruction Belt" and annihilating nearly four hundred enemy gods, including high-ranking deities, continued to shoot away towards the boundless, deep, dark starry sky behind the enemy formation. Before long, it was beyond the perception range of the gods present and completely disappeared.
One punch.
Just one punch.
Before the combined forces of the Abyss Race Devouring Race, the allied forces of both clans, including high-ranking gods, and nearly four hundred high-ranking gods... were all annihilated!
The starry sky was deathly silent.
Only the gradually dissipating azure light trail and countless treasure-like specks floating in the void remained, silently recounting everything that had just happened.