Prodigy Star's outer orbit.
A Spatial Rift tore open, and a giant hand covered in golden patterns reached out from the void, its five fingers gripping the edge of the atmosphere.
Crack!
Space across several thousand kilometers was forcibly frozen. Floating rubble hung motionless in midair, and even the light twisted out of shape.
Augustus's true body had descended.
He no longer bothered to disguise himself. The pressure of an Immortal Realm Second Order expert erupted without restraint.
The entire Prodigy Star trembled.
Layer upon layer of defensive formations around the main city lit up, dazzling curtains of light shrouding the urban districts.
Billions of living beings looked up at the sky, their eyes filled with terror.
"Has the Second Fleet commander gone mad? Using his true body on Prodigy Star?"
"This means war!"
Inside the central control hall, Zhou Tong lay sprawled on the ground, staring fixedly at the screen.
From tens of thousands of kilometers away, Augustus spoke coldly.
"Lin Feng, do you think destroying one warship can change your fate?"
"The evidence in your hands, the Divine Source Crystals you devoured, everything you brought out of Meteor Abyss—it all belongs to the Empire."
Lin Feng stood atop the Abyss-Armored Earth Dragon's head and raised his halberd toward the heavens.
"Then I'll package you up and send you back to the Empire too."
Augustus was utterly enraged.
He raised his hand and pressed down with his palm.
That single palm covered heaven and earth, blazing golden light exploding from its center.
Prodigy Star's outer atmosphere suddenly collapsed beneath the force of the palm. The air within several thousand kilometers was compressed into a transparent barrier visible to the naked eye, and violent shockwaves thundered outward in every direction.
Lin Feng activated the Myriad Tribulations Heavenly Halberd and slashed