Dense ripples spread across the energy barrier, and alarms rang through the asteroid's interior passages.
The Feathered Human soldiers stationed there rushed out of their barracks. The beating of their wings made no sound in the vacuum, but their panicked movements made the extent of the chaos plain.
The engines of two transport ships started simultaneously as they tried to take off and escape. But they were too slow. Just as the ships lifted off the asteroid's surface, Xu Wuyi arrived.
He drove his right fist out from his waist.
He did not put his full strength into this punch. He did not even use Break. It was nothing more than a casual punch.
Pale blue light burst from his fist and condensed in the void into a beam less than a meter across. The beam struck the nearest transport ship.
The transport ship's shield shattered the instant it touched the beam.
The beam punched straight through the middle of the hull. Dark golden flames poured from the breach, erupting into a massive fireball in the void.
Fragments flew in every direction, striking the asteroid's surface and kicking up a dense shower of shattered rock.
The second transport ship tried to turn and flee, but Xu Wuyi's second punch had already arrived. The same pale blue beam, the same penetration, the same explosion.
Within seconds, both transport ships had become burning wrecks, slowly falling deeper into the asteroid belt.
The Feathered Human soldiers stationed there rushed out of the mining facility, their dark golden wings beating in the void. There were plenty of them, at least a battalion's worth, but not one dared fly toward Xu Wuyi.
They had seen those two punches.
Two transport ships fully loaded with energy crystals had failed to withstand even a single punch from