Under Pei Lingsu’s soothing, the remaining pained expression on Brother Hero’s face gradually disappeared, as if he had truly fallen into a peaceful sleep.
"This guy, he’s quite tenacious, huh."
Beside Pei Lingsu, another purple-haired woman spoke; it was Ziwei.
Brother Hero’s efforts paid off; people from the Star Alliance had received his call for support, and Ziwei and Pei Lingsu brought over a hundred Dark Spirits through teleportation immediately.
"Oh? That guy isn’t dead yet?"
Ziwei suddenly looked at a certain spot on the ground, where the mech drone had risen again, beside it, the remnants of the previous giant Destroyer had been completely scavenged, which was why it was able to regain its strength.
"Aunt Pei, you go help them, I’ll deal with this guy!"
After greeting Pei Lingsu, Ziwei rushed out, her fist blazing with purple light, slammed into the mech drone, knocking its body, which had barely managed to stand, back down again.
Meanwhile, Pei Lingsu moved to the side of those Awakener who were closing the dimensional rift, setting up a new defense array first, and then established a spiritual connection with them, providing them with passive immunity to spiritual harm, allowing them to absorb the dimensional rift without enduring the pain.
The newly arrived Dark Spirits hurriedly formed a new defensive line, resisting the continuous emergence of drones from the dimensional rift.
"Watch out! Another big one is coming!"
Meanwhile, a massive black limb extended from the dimensional rift, with a simple sweep it shattered the grand formation arranged by the Star Alliance’s Dark Spirits.
"Divine Domain! It’s a Transcendent level!"
Pei Lingsu shivered; the unparalleled force she sensed was reminiscent of the power sequence of the Divine Domain she had felt from the Black Soul.
And this time, unlike before, it was no longer a drone, but a Desert Worm.
A Transcendent-level Desert Worm, that’s an Ancestor Worm!
Everyone present had a change of expression; they hadn’t expected that besides drones, there were also Desert Worms coming through, what was going on at the other side of the dimensional rift, could it be the battlefield where the Bellier Clan was fighting against the Desert Worm Clan?
However, they didn’t have the luxury of pondering further, because that Ancestor Worm could come at any moment, and if it got here, none of them might escape, and Karon Star would be destroyed.
At the very breakneck moment, a purple figure shot across the sky, it was Ziwei.
Ziwei, who had gone down to fight the mech drone, quickly dismantled it into a heap of scrap.
Now, after a second awakening through the Advanced Enlightenment Array, Ziwei had an extremely powerful Dark Spirit communication talent, and after decades of cultivation, she had reached the Peak Control Level.
In her prime state, facing an opponent of the same level but weakened, achieving victory was a given.
At this moment, seeing an Ancestor Worm about to break through the dimensional rift, she instinctively charged forward, activating all her Star Pattern powers, fearlessly crashing into the Ancestor Worm’s body, then dragged both herself and the worm into the other side of the dimensional rift.
In the next instant, the dimensional rift closed, space returned to normal, only leaving behind some Insect Race remnants struggling futilely across the sky.
"Ziwei, she..."
Pei Lingsu clenched her teeth, her face full of sorrow.
It all happened too fast; from the Ancestor Worm’s appearance to Ziwei shoving the opponent back, they barely had time to react before it was all over.
Karon Star was saved, but just thinking about Ziwei now being in dire straits, Pei Lingsu could not feel happy, she secretly clenched her fists, thinking she couldn’t just sit and wait, she must find Ziwei, alive to see her, or...
"No, she isn’t dead. Ziwei has a Random Teleportation Talisman, even if she couldn’t defeat the Ancestor Worm, she’ll still be fine!"
Pei Lingsu turned to leave, she needed to return to the Star Alliance immediately to report this news to others, especially Ziwei’s father, finding Ziwei now cannot afford any delay.
...
The events on Karon Star served as a warning to everyone, in the face of the Great Fusion, nowhere is absolutely safe.
Though Karon Star is the Star Alliance’s base on the Phantom Spirit Star System front line, it is also where the Beller Star Domain and the Insect Domain intersect, once the fusion over there is complete, probably the entire Karon Star will no longer be suitable for habitation.
In fact, they don’t have to wait until then; now Karon Star already frequently experiences drones or Desert Worms fusing over, even though the Star Alliance works hard to clear them out, these threats are hard to guard against, leading to increased threats on the planet, making people dare not to venture out casually.
The mercenaries are pleased though, with more tasks regularly cropping up, their earnings have increased significantly.
The battlefield in the Phantom Spirit Star System is still not optimistic; with the further expansion of the Desert Worm Clan’s numbers, their influence range is growing, which in turn compresses the difficulty of frontline operations.
Unfortunately, another Godslayer-level drone cluster has fallen, which happened while covering the main force’s retreat, while facing two Ancestor Worms at the same time, which further deteriorated the Star Alliance’s situation on the Phantom Spirit Star System battlefield.
Noteworthy is that there’s now a new super slayer in this battlefield, that is Zi Kuang.
After his granddaughter rushed into the dimensional rift, this old man rabidly started searching, but given the vast universe, how hard it is to find one person, coupled with Ziwei not returning on her own, leads everyone to think her chances are slim.
A Peak Control Level person, alone entering the insect swarm’s domain, where there’s even a Transcendent-level Ancestor Worm, such circumstances are almost a sure death, it’s hard to believe she could turn the situation around.
Thus, Zi Kuang vented all his fury on the Desert Worms of the Phantom Spirit Star System, for five years he virtually spared no rest, slaughtering Desert Worms, even feeding on insects when hungry, managing singlehandedly to pull back some of the Star Alliance’s frontline disadvantages.
Now, the senior levels of the Star Alliance have a dispute on whether to continue holding the Karon Star frontline, with some suggesting withdrawal to safeguard the base, since Karon Star is frequently attacked, it’s no longer suited as a frontline base.
Meanwhile, others argue that although Karon Star often experiences battles, the combat intensity isn’t overly extreme, it serves well as a training ground for novices, if the frontline were too far back, support and supplies for the front would face enormous constraints.
But soon this debate became unnecessary, for after another spatial distortion, over five sixth-level insect swarms descended upon this region, pushing the remaining Star Alliance forces back toward the vicinity of Karon Star, making withdrawal from here a necessity.
Although the Star Alliance has drone clusters as auxiliaries, that batch of drones was snuck back by Zhang Xiaoman from the Second Universe, having constantly been expended without replenishment, now only less than a hundred clusters remain.
"Yadun, I understand that Karon Star holds your hopes, but with the Insect Race approaching, staying here is meaningless, you still have many tribesmen to protect, Karon Star is just a planet, as long as the tribesmen live, the Phantom Spirit Clan will not perish."
In Karon Star’s Central Court Square, Su Changqing personally arrived, before him stood the bowing High Priest Yadun.