In space.
Ye Yang stood atop the Light Emperor Battle Dragon.
He quietly watched the giant frigate ahead break apart in the Vacuum Universe.
Flames blazed, then quickly vanished in the vacuum.
Chunks of massive metal wreckage and fragments of blue-and-white mechas would drift eternally through the boundless universe.
"Let's go. Back to Earth."
Ye Yang gave the dragon an order in his mind.
Just as the dragon turned, carrying Ye Yang around—
Whoosh!
A massive silver beam of laser energy flew past, nearly grazing the top of Ye Yang's head.
The Light Battle Dragon stopped.
Its imposing mechanical dragon head turned to look back.
Ye Yang turned around as well.
He saw a massive cross-shaped battleship over five kilometers long at the center.
Twenty pure-black, whale-shaped escort ships were arrayed around it.
The battle line they formed stretched over fifty kilometers.
And—
With his keen perception, Ye Yang could clearly see—
Energy cannons protruded from all over the hulls of the battleships.
They were all aimed squarely at his position.
"Ugh, what a pain."
Ye Yang sighed inwardly.
The next instant—
A rain of energy blasts filled the sky and surged toward him.
The resulting barrage resembled a gigantic triangle,
over fifty kilometers wide at its base,
with Ye Yang at the "tip" in front.
Facing the barrage from the fleet of starships,
Ye Yang wasn't afraid.
After all, he was now the Ultimate Emperor Hero, and the Ultimate Battle Dragon stood beneath him.
He could unleash terrifying movement speeds that surpassed the speed of light at any moment.
Dodging the barrage would be easy.
But—
The laid-back Ye Yang
didn't plan to hold back this time.
He might be laid-back, but he wasn't a coward or an idiot.
These guys had attacked him without asking questions.
They definitely needed to be taught a lesson.
"Emperor Battle Halberd!"
Ye Yang combined the Aurora Sword and Aurora Shield in his hands.
They transformed into a mighty halberd.
Ye Yang swung the imposing halberd around.
He sent a thought to the Light Battle Dragon:
"Move at superluminal speed and pierce through them."
Roar!
A dragon's cry answered in his mind.
The next instant—
Whoosh!
Carried by the dragon, Ye Yang entered the realm of superluminal speed.
The sensation was incredible.
It was as if the entire universe had stopped.
Even the torrent of energy pouring toward him like the Milky Way
was frozen in place.
As he approached one of the battleships,
Ye Yang could even clearly see through its portholes
the movements of the blue-and-white armored aliens inside.
Then—
With the Light Battle Dragon's superluminal speed and the Emperor Battle Halberd's sharpness and strength,
Ye Yang, the dragon, and the halberd
became one.
Like a golden blade, they darted back and forth through the formation of starships stretching over fifty kilometers.
In just one second,
all twenty massive escort ships exploded, broke apart, and scattered!
Patches of flame burst into view in the vacuum of space, then vanished almost instantly.
When Ye Yang brought the Emperor Battle Dragon to a stop
and hovered directly in front of the massive Cross Vanguard battleship that had been at the center of the formation,
a thin layer of pale-blue energy blocked their way.
He struck it with the halberd.
Ripples in the shape of blue honeycombs spread across it.
"What is this?" Ye Yang wondered.
While Ye Yang examined it—
Inside the control room of the massive cross-shaped battleship,
Xiong Lu, Feng Lei, and the Taotie Warriors were still on edge.
"Huh?"
A Taotie Warrior seated at a control computer let out a confused cry.
"Why have the other ships lost contact with the main ship? What about you?" the warrior asked.
Then—
Every Taotie Warrior in the control room realized
that all the escort ships had lost contact with the main ship's control room in an instant.
After all, Ye Yang had moved faster than light and completed the entire sequence.
To everyone else,
it might have seemed like only a second had passed.
"Oh no! Look outside the portholes! All our ships have been blown apart!"
A Taotie Warrior pointed at the enormous wreckage drifting past the windows and cried out.
At once,
all the Taotie Warriors in the command room looked over.
They were stunned:
"H-How is this possible?! Twenty escort ships—in an instant!"
"The entire line has collapsed!"
"We've been ambushed! Commander, the Super Seminary ambushed us!"
Xiong Lu and Feng Lei were even more shocked.
They hurriedly gave their orders:
"Retreat to the Great Wormhole Bridge!"
"Contact King Shi Hao at once!"
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