Thousand-Beam Pulsed Scorching Beam

"They plan to observe for a while first; the hundred thousand public beta slots might not bypass them after all.

If they truly are bypassed, they intend to find someone to talk with this city lord in order to secure some slots belonging to Spirit Hall.

Overall, they still hold a wait-and-see attitude toward Purple Heaven City."

"This group of hesitating old things.

That Purple Heaven City lord has clearly excluded Spirit Hall and even intends to seek a reconciliation with others—what a joke.

Since when has my Spirit Hall become so pathetic.

Going on at this rate, Spirit Hall will decline sooner or later!"

The speaker was Bibi Dong, her words filled entirely with disdain for these old fossils: these old fossils sought stability in everything, which in reality meant dragging their feet. How could they ever accomplish anything!

"Since their hearts have already aged, let me be the one to test this Purple Heaven City lord.

Daring only to hide their head and tail, they are ultimately no hero.

With such heavy ambition, I must see whether you actually possess that kind of strength!

I shall send him a generous gift on the day of the public beta."

Bibi Dong's expression remained serene and noble, not truly taking this Purple Heaven City seriously.

In her view, Purple Heaven City's methods were indeed somewhat miraculous, but their function was merely to gather the wealth of the world. They could not gather momentum, and they posed little impact on Spirit Hall's grand plan, nor could they threaten Spirit Hall's position.

However, things like this outside their control were naturally best eliminated.

It might seem that this Purple Heaven City was built inside a Dream and thus could neither be tracked nor attacked, but did it truly have no weaknesses?

A flash of dismissive amusement appeared on Bibi Dong's exquisite and peerless face.

On the other side, Li Ming was watching the panel before him with intense focus, a trace of tension and anticipation welling up in his eyes.

After a few days, the Satellite AI had calculated the proportion of energy injection when firing the Pulsed Scorching Beam. By injecting energy in complex, batched stages, the requirement for Soul Power was greatly reduced.

What was needed now was to conduct an actual test.

Li Ming watched the panel nervously. The panel strikingly featured several screens displaying different scenes, with a few lenses aimed at the orbit and a few lenses targeted from various directions at the subject of this experiment.

To avoid drawing any prying eyes, Li Ming set the target on an uninhabited island out at sea.

For the sake of ritual, there was even a red button on the screen.

Of course, the actual launch relied on him giving orders to the Satellite AI.

At this moment, all satellites were already fully prepared, and virtually all of them had their solar energy reserves fully charged, ready to be called upon at any time.

This time, he would test the actual power of the Pulsed Scorching Beam corresponding to the energy reserves of fifty, one hundred, and one thousand satellites.

As everything fell into place, Li Ming wore a solemn expression, stared at the screen above, and pressed the red button.

After the press, lines of text emerged on the panel.

Calibrating launch azimuth...
Correcting rotational drift compensation...
Detecting whole-system device integrity...

Comparing target initial data...
Injecting solar energy and Soul Power...

Li Ming then saw a satellite on the screen light up its Soul Rings: two yellows and one black.

This very satellite was the launch unit for this Pulsed Scorching Beam.

Target locked...
Launch countdown...

Li Ming stared intently at the screen, waiting for the countdown on it to end.

A blinding flash of light swept across the screen in an instant.

At the exact same time, a violent explosion erupted on the ground of the island in the other screen!

Hiss!

Li Ming drew a sharp breath, his eyes widening. Even with mental preparation beforehand, he was still shocked.

This was the terrifying speed of the Pulsed Scorching Beam!

It could hit the enemy the moment it was fired!

The entire view of the island was engulfed in smoke from the explosion, and it wasn't until a while later that the smoke slowly dissipated, revealing the trauma inflicted by the strike of the Pulsed Scorching Beam.

A gigantic crater five to six meters in diameter abruptly appeared on the ground, covered in scorch marks with the site in complete ruins.

Was this the power of fifty pulsed beams?

Li Ming was still shaken by this level of power, and instantly, intense excitement surged in his eyes.

And this was only the power of fifty satellites.

What would one hundred be like!

Following his command, the launch system went into operation once more.

This time, a different launch unit was chosen, and the energy injected was the solar energy gathered by one hundred satellites.

When the countdown began, Li Ming watched the screen nervously.

As the screen once again emitted a dazzling light, the map on the other side likewise suffered a violent explosion.

This explosion also emitted a dazzling white light, and it took quite a while for the white light to recede, revealing the terrifying damage blanketing the entire small island.

The ground had an unnatural glassy sheen where the surface sand and stones had been instantly melted into vitrified crystals. These crystals spread for a full twenty-plus meters, leaving a massive deep pit at the center, with flames still leaping at the edge of the pit.

Li Ming stared blankly at this scene, certain that this power would pierce straight through any unprepared Spirit Saint or Spirit Emperor, leaving absolutely no possibility of survival.

He looked at the screen without speaking, his gaze glowing brightly.

After a moment, he began the third test: the thousand-beam-level pulsed beam!

He looked at the red button above. This time, he felt his hand was somewhat heavy, and finally, he pressed down on it slowly.

The interface entered the launch state once again.

Li Ming's feeling this time was completely different from the previous few. Watching the text continuously emerging, his heart felt as if it had sunk to the bottom, only to leap to the highest point with the changes, his gaze strange and complex.

An ordinary, very small satellite in near-Earth orbit suddenly lit up with three Soul Rings, among which that black Soul Ring was clearly glowing with a faint light.

Countless streams of solar energy were currently being transmitted continuously through the connections among the various Martial Soul Satellites.

It began to swell visibly to the naked eye, growing larger and even exceeding the size of a satellite.

Then the entire satellite swelled along with it, abruptly bloated by the energy.

Warning! Satellite has accumulated excessive energy, risk of damage. Continue execution of launch program?
Current progress... 89%

Seeing this, Li Ming was somewhat speechless, not expecting that the Martial Soul would also carry the risk of being unable to bear the solar power.

Yet things had already reached this point; naturally, he had no intention of giving up and chose to continue execution.

The Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring continued to swell, like an overinflated balloon, still having gas pumped into it continuously, and it could reach its critical point and burst at any moment.

Li Ming stared closely at that number.

He watched that number keep jumping upward.

96%

97%

99%

100%

It didn't blow up!

Li Ming couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief; it had held on after all.

As charging concluded, it entered the launch countdown.

When the countdown ended, a dazzling laser, much thicker than before, shot directly out from space. The moment it was fired, that satellite burst apart instantly.

The pulsed beam reached the ground in an instant, crashing fiercely like a pillar of light into the nameless island.

In a split second, the entire world was enveloped in a blinding light, and a massive explosion rang out. At the same time, very distinct ripples arose on the surrounding sea surface, and a terrifying shockwave spread outward. Immediately afterward, a series of deafening blasts erupted across the water, hurling towering waves into the air that continued for several thousand meters before stopping.

Li Ming stared at this astonishing sight, his mouth already agape. Compared to the terrifying high temperature of the pulsed beam, this shockwave was even more awe-inspiring.

After only a short while, many fish carcasses floated to the surface of the sea.