Liu Zhi had already begun making preparations when the Sun Boat started moving.
By the time they reached this position, the Mind-Flayers below had also noticed the Skyfire, but they did not regard it as any important enemy.
As far as they were concerned, even if something was flying in the sky, they could still affect it. In fact, the higher it was, the less damage it could do to them.
The attacks that could be launched from the sky were nothing more than missiles, lasers, and similar weapons. At most, there might be spells like fireballs. As spellcasters, Mind-Flayers feared these things the least.
Surely they could not use some completely different kind of magic in the sky.
So when the Skyfire flew over, they did not pay much attention to it.
That gave Liu Zhi an opportunity. He had made his preparations on the way here, and the moment he saw the enemy, he locked onto his target.
His target was not the Mind-Flayer elder who had stepped out, but the astral battleship's core.
That thing was equivalent to the Mind-Flayers' hive and central brain. It was where all the Mind-Flayers lived. If one of the bodies they used died by accident, they could return there and emerge again in a new body.
If the battleship's core were destroyed, their connection to the true Mind-Flayer central brain would be severed. By then, they would be trapped here forever. Once they died, they would truly be dead.
That was Liu Zhi's target.
Aboard the Skyfire, Liu Zhi raised the Soul-Devouring Eye staff and pointed at the astral battleship roughly three thousand meters below.
The Soul Extraction ability activated. A huge hand invisible to ordinary people descended from the sky and grabbed directly at the astral battleship.
Although the Mind-Flayer