The holographic projection showed a lone figure charging toward ten thousand battleships, reflected in everyone's eyes.
"A madman. He's a madman."
"Open fire! Blast him to death!"
An Imperial Guard commander roared himself hoarse, his eyes bloodshot.
But before he could order a second volley, something even more terrifying happened.
Lin Feng left a golden trail through the void. His charge was so fast that it exceeded even the limits of the battleships' fire-control radar.
The bridge AIs sounded their alarms simultaneously.
"Warning. Space has been forcibly locked. Unable to turn. Unable to leap."
Every commander went deathly pale.
On the vast cosmic battlefield, having their spatial coordinates locked was like being tied to a chopping block. They could do nothing but take the blows.
"Activate the Divine Court Wall! Combined shields, now!"
The fleet's supreme commander practically screamed the order.
Hum!
The battleships' energy matrices went into overdrive.
Silver array patterns appeared on their hulls, linking together as their light converged.
A massive energy shield spanning millions of kilometers, formed entirely from immortal law, materialized before the fleet with a thunderous roar.
The shield was as solid as a star, silver energy radiance flowing across its surface.
"It worked."
"This combined defense can withstand a full-power strike from the ninth rank of immortality."
Hope returned to the faces of the council members in the command center, which had been deathly silent moments before.
Pei Yuan also scrambled up from the floor and stared fixedly at the screen, a vicious gleam flashing in his eyes.
As long as it held, there was still a chance!
Lin Feng's gaze did not linger on the radiant shield stretching across the sea of stars for even half a second.
As the space around him warped violently, the system displayed a notification.
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