269: Chapter 271 Empress: For Father God, I will burn my divine blood!

"Boom—!!!"

Accompanied by a deafening blast that could almost tear the soul apart, the destructive beam from the God-level Civilization, like a fountain of death erupting from the depths of hell, struck directly at the shield generator of the luan niao starship.

The originally stable, swirling deep-blue energy shield, the moment it touched the beam, seemed like plastic pierced by a red-hot branding iron, emitting a shrill screech before beginning to dissipate, collapse, and completely dissolve at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Is this the true power of a Level 6 civilization?

There was no need for tactics, no need for encirclement, no need for complex logic; only the purest, most violent high-dimensional strike was needed to treat all three-dimensional defenses as nothing.

The control panels in the command room were exploding with noise, and various alarm lights were flashing wildly like disco neon lights. Academician Chen Shuyin pressed her hands firmly onto the console, her knuckles turning a sickly pale white from the excessive force.

"The shield... the shield has completely failed!"

"Energy leakage! The hull structure is being eroded by high-dimensional radiation! If we don't think of a way, we'll turn into a pile of sludge in the next second!"

Academician Chen Shuyin's voice was filled with unprecedented terror, but she did not stop; instead, she concentrated all her computing power onto that newly generated, untested "Law of Causality" control box.

Jiang Chen did not look at her; his eyes were locked firmly outside the command cabin window.

In that dazzling light of destruction.

The Empress, who should have been guarding the console, had somehow completely disappeared at this moment.

"Wanqiu?!"

Jiang Chen's heart hammered wildly; the panic of losing control made him feel as if his whole being was about to explode.

The next moment.

A figure, like black lightning, rushed without warning out of the warship's side hatch that had not yet fully closed.

Jiang Wanqiu.

She was not wearing that set of lightweight tactical soft armor, nor did she carry any defensive equipment; she was only wearing that old, tattered black battle armor that Jiang Chen had brought out of the Wasteland, holding only the broken alloy blade that had accompanied her in conquering the Wasteland.

Like a lioness desperate to protect her territory, she defied the light beam capable of vaporizing atoms and launched a final... suicidal charge toward the core of the God-level Civilization's mothership.

"That idiot!"

Jiang Chen roared, his eye sockets instantly splitting.

He understood her intention.

This woman, she never intended to survive.

She wanted to use her own high-purity energy field as a "God-favored One" to forcefully withstand that high-dimensional beam capable of erasing everything, in order to buy the luan niao starship a final three seconds of breathing room!

"Wanqiu! Get your ass back here!"

"I forbid you from dying! Do you hear me! I forbid it!!!"

Jiang Wanqiu did not look back.

Her long hair danced wildly in the terrifying energy storm, every strand igniting with eerie, blood-colored flames.

Her originally clear red eyes were now completely ruptured from overdrawing her life force, streaming two lines of blood tears as hot as magma.

"For the Father God."

Her voice lacked its usual tenderness; it held only an ancient and sacred chant that transcended life and death.

The voice pierced through the roar of energy and exploded directly in Jiang Chen's mind:

"Wanqiu's life was lived in the darkness of the Wasteland."

"It was you who gave me my first full meal, it was you who gave me the meaning of existence, and it was you who let me see the color named 'Hope'."

"This grace, even if my soul is burned to ashes, can never be repaid."

"Father God, please... continue to move forward."

"As long as you are there, the dawn of that plane will never sink."

"Wanqiu, takes the first step."

"With divine blood, ignite the heavenly fire!"

"Boom—!!!"

The moment this crisp female voice fell, Jiang Wanqiu's body completely bloomed.

She did not turn into dust like other warriors.

Every genetic particle in her body seemed to be forcibly activated at this moment, undergoing a nuclear fusion-like explosion in a violent manner.

She turned herself into a "sun."

A deep red energy tide, filled with a will of destruction, erupted from her petite body, transforming into a massive red phantom that could blot out the sky.

That was Jiang Wanqiu's Dharma form.

It was the phantom of an empress holding a giant sword, standing at the summit of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

The moment this phantom appeared, even the high-and-mighty mothership of The Sweepers produced a noticeable lag, as if its system hadn't expected that such a low-level plane could possess this level of soul power.

Jiang Wanqiu's battle armor shattered.

The broken alloy blade also snapped inch by inch in the high-dimensional radiation.

But she did not retreat in the slightest; even before dying, she turned her head and, toward Jiang Chen's direction, revealed the brightest, most innocent smile of her life.

It was the smile of the young girl who had just picked up "God" in the Wasteland, the first time she saw him.

Pure, clean, untainted by dust.

"Thud!"

That was the sound of a flesh-and-blood body colliding with the rules of reality.

In front of this energy tide capable of destroying a galaxy, Jiang Wanqiu's petite body, like a brilliant star, forcefully crashed into the beam capable of tearing space apart.

She turned herself into fire, forcefully withstanding that God-level attack capable of completely vaporizing the luan bird.

"Aaaaaah—!!!"

Jiang Chen let out a beast-like howl in the command room.

He felt as if his heart had been crushed into pieces by an invisible hand. The feeling of suffocation made him almost unable to breathe; every cell in his body was screaming wildly, trembling violently for the fall of this woman.

Why be so foolish?

Why always carry everything alone?

"Wanqiu!!!"

The scene before his eyes seemed to be frozen into a black-and-white painting.

Jiang Wanqiu's gradually transparent, gradually shattering figure became the last touch of red in this boundless universe.

That was her divine blood.

It was the final hymn she bloomed by burning away all cause and effect, all life, and all pride to protect the so-called "Father God."

"No... it cannot end like this."

Jiang Chen's whole body was convulsing, the veins at the corners of his eyes bulging from rage. He looked at those "The Sweepers" who were mocking and slowly repairing their cannon muzzles to prepare for a second round of attacks; the last shred of reason in his eyes was completely extinguished.

He turned his head and looked at Academician Chen Shuyin.

That look of madness, which made even Academician Chen Shuyin tremble, made her instantly understand what Jiang Chen wanted to do.

"Chen."

Jiang Chen's voice was terrifyingly steady; it was an emotion that had reached the extreme of coldness after experiencing extreme pain. "Are you ready?"

Academician Chen Shuyin stood up, trembling.

She looked at the rusty Law of Causality controller in Jiang Chen's hand, then looked at the alien fleet in the distance that was preparing to carry out a new round of slaughter.

She did not stop him.

She didn't even hesitate.

She walked to Jiang Chen's side, reached out her slightly pale little hand, and placed it over the red button.

"It's not just energy injection."

Academician Chen Shuyin bit her lip, the fire named "Revenge" also burning in her eyes:

"If the Law of Causality is not enough."

"Then add my computing power too!"

"Crank it to the max! I want to make these bastards—completely disappear from this star sector!"

Jiang Chen felt the warmth coming from the back of his hand, looking at this woman who was also driven mad by heartache.

He didn't say much.

He just nodded fiercely, his thumb pressing firmly onto the already scalding button.

"Then let's do it together."

"For..."

"Jiang Wanqiu!"

"Go to hell! You bunch of The Keeper!!!"

Jiang Chen crazily pressed that ultimate switch.

At that moment, this space-time, because it carried too much anger and causality, actually forcibly...

Split open.

All logic was rewritten, all rules were trampled, and all anger turned into a bolt of black lightning that pierced through the galaxy, striking fiercely toward that massive mothership.

Even if it is a god.

Today, you will have to lose a few pounds of flesh for me!