"Marquess of Qiao!"
The wooden crates held by Lu Benwei and others instantly slipped from their grasp, falling to the floor and splitting open. Xiannv coins rolled around the cabin.
Everyone else instinctively looked at the holographic screen. After confirming that the lost signal belonged to Chai Shao, they were at a loss for what to do.
That was the Duke's father-in-law!
And a Duke of Great Tang!
The Emperor's brother-in-law!
And the Crown Prince's uncle-in-law!
This was the highest-ranking officer casualty that the Skyfire Army had personally experienced since its establishment.
How would they report this incident to the Duke and the Emperor?
Would the Emperor execute them all to be buried with the Marquess of Qiao?
They felt a chilling fear and palpitations for no reason.
On spaceship No. 119, Li Xiuning and the several female generals accompanying her were also stunned.
After a long while, a female general behind her pointed to the holographic screen and murmured.
"Master...!"
"Madam, Master he..."
"Hiss... exhale..."
Li Xiuning lowered her head, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled, then began to pilot the spaceship in combat.
After continuously destroying several enemy ships, she slowly said.
"If he's dead, then he's dead. Anyway, he was already an old man."
"I've been tired of him for a long time!"
"There are so many parallel worlds. When An Zhi returns, I'll have him bring me another 18-year-old!"
"Don't stand there staring, get back to what you should be doing!"
"This..."
The female generals even wondered if they had heard correctly. Were these words coming from their own princess?
But as they turned away, no one noticed that on Li Xiuning's resolute face, tears were streaming down like a broken string of pearls, dripping down her chin.
On the other side, Cheng Yaojin couldn't help but curse loudly.
"Damn old Chai dog!"
"We agreed whoever lost would streak naked!"
"If you can't afford to lose, then die. You're cheating!"
"You've had your fun, but how am I supposed to explain this to the Emperor and An Zhi!"
Xi Tong's expression also turned as grim as water. With Chai Shao dead, it wasn't just Cheng Yaojin who couldn't explain, but she herself didn't know how to face Fang Er.
"I'm leaving the spaceship to you!"
"Once I'm out, I'll go support the others as quickly as possible! Also, notify them to protect their eyes in thirty seconds!"
After saying that, she stuffed the mobile phone controlling the spaceship into Lu Benwei's arms, then put on her space suit and rushed out of the cabin.
The next moment, thousands of nuclear bombs appeared before her.
Seeing this, Lu Benwei was almost scared to death on the spot. Without any hesitation, he immediately controlled the spaceship to rush towards Li Xiuning's location.
Chai Shao was gone, she couldn't afford any more accidents!
As they left, Xi Tong also stepped on her axe and moved away from the cluster of nuclear bombs.
Although the enemy discovered these nuclear bombs immediately, before their attacks could reach, the nuclear bombs detonated in place.
Silence... voiceless...
Like the sun, intense light illuminated everything around.
Everything enveloped by the strong light seemed to have been paused.
Then, with the center of the explosion as the origin, the enemy ships were violently blown away by the debris generated by the explosion.
"Boom..."
The aliens within those ships, after a series of intense impacts, disintegrated into the void along with their ships.
Lu Benwei and the others, having been warned by Xi Tong, had taken protective measures in time, so they were not significantly affected.
But they still dared not stop. Light radiation was only the first wave of damage; there was also ionized radiation that could instantly disable their ships!
After everything subsided, seventeen ships regrouped.
And of the nearly thousand enemy ships, only less than three hundred were still capable of movement.
The rest were either destroyed by the Great Tang forces in combat or affected by ionized radiation, losing control and flying towards the depths of space under inertia.
A 70% casualty rate!
"Escape!"
In the enemy fleet, it was unknown who shouted this first.
Immediately after, the remaining three hundred Warrior-class ships frantically retreated backwards.
This style of combat was something that not only Li Xiuning and Cheng Yaojin, but even they themselves from other civilizations, had never witnessed before.
That creature stepping on missiles was simply comparable to a Dreadnought-class battleship!
No, she was even more ferocious than a Dreadnought-class battleship!
Her body was so small in space that even the ships' fire control systems couldn't lock onto her, only able to predict attacks in advance.
"Go find Elder Chai and Zhou Yanxi!"
"We need to find them alive or dead!"
Seeing the ships retreat, Xi Tong, after dropping these words, stepped on her axe and pursued them.
They committed evil and now wanted to run, bastards!
Everyone present hurriedly split into two groups, heading towards the areas where Zhou Yanxi and Chai Shao were previously located.
At this moment, a glimmer of hope arose in their hearts.
Perhaps, their ships were just damaged...
A thousand miles away, on the flagship of the Galactic Enforcement Agency, the commander, who had watched his ships being blown up one by one, had already planned to destroy Earth at all costs.
But just as he was about to issue the order, he was stopped by the person next to him.
"Commander, we absolutely cannot destroy Blue Star. This has been repeatedly emphasized by our superiors!"
"Although the Yanhuang clan has retreated to the constellation Cygnus, this does not change the fact that Blue Star is their mother planet!"
"Once they discover that their mother planet has been destroyed, it might trigger a full-scale war between the two galaxies!"
"We cannot bear this responsibility!"
But it was at this moment that they witnessed Xi Tong releasing nuclear bombs with a wave of her hand.
The intense glare, even from a thousand miles away, made them feel the blinding light even with their eyes closed.
Their thin eyelids were utterly useless against such strong light!
"Spatial technology!"
The commander's expression shook. The previous team's report did not mention this!
After the bright light, he pointed to Xi Tong's figure on the holographic screen and ordered.
"Relay the order: the mission has changed. First, bring me that Yanhuang woman!"
"No matter the cost!"
"Alive!"
"Yes!"
As the order was transmitted, countless dark shadows rushed out from the surrounding Dreadnought-class battleships.
They were flight mechs!
Dense and numerous, even more so than the previous Warrior-class ships!
There were at least three thousand of them!
Although the attack capabilities of the mechs were somewhat inferior, they were much more agile than the Warrior-class ships.
These mechs, spaced over a hundred meters apart, like a massive wall, advanced towards Xi Tong.
"Are they planning to engage in close-quarters combat with me?"
"Who gave them the courage!"
Xi Tong shouted, and with a wave of her hand, a thirty-meter-tall colossal armor from the Wan Qu Realm materialized beside her.
"Kill!"