The priests have descended; you ants, feel despair!

Lin Yuan's casual remark, "The warm-up is over, time to clean up the trash," still echoed in Su Li's ears.

Before she could even ponder the deeper meaning of those words, a terrifying pressure capable of freezing the Soul suddenly descended from the core of the sea ahead!

Right in the center of the area surrounded by Bone Warships, where the magnetic field was most chaotic.

Space was violently torn open as if by an invisible giant hand!

A pitch-black, bottomless crack appeared out of thin air!

Then, a dark golden light, millions of times more dazzling than the sun, suddenly burst forth from the crack!

Against the backdrop of that light, three figures appeared, clad in dark golden, luxurious divine robes and surrounded by visible, terrifying black lightning.

Slowly, they stepped out of the crack, walking on air!

They just floated quietly in mid-air, doing nothing.

But an indescribable, terrifying aura, as if from ancient gods and demons, instantly pressed down on everyone's hearts like billions of tons of seawater!

In the United Fleet, the movements of all the powerful warriors engaged in fierce combat suddenly stiffened at this moment!

Whether it was the ordinary soldiers fighting bloodily or the proud prodigies from various countries, everyone felt an absolute suppression originating from the very level of their existence!

If the previous Bone Warships were ferocious wolves...

Then these three figures appearing now were Dragons looking down upon all living beings!

“Hua... Huagang Realm!!”

In the Oulu Alliance's fleet, the beautiful face of Saintess Isabella instantly lost all color!

She stared fixedly at the leading Divine Priest, her emerald eyes filled with unprecedented horror and despair!

As a master of Mental Energy, she could most clearly perceive the other's terror!

The energy surging within the leading Divine Priest had completely surpassed the scope of “Juyuan” and had sublimated into a new, even more terrifying Realm!

Protective Aura shielding the body, immune to all arts!

That was the legendary “Huagang Realm”!

And the other two Divine Priests behind him, though their auras were slightly weaker, had also reached the terrifying level of the Peak of the Origin Gathering Realm!

This information exploded in the hearts of all the powerful warriors like a heavy bomb!

It's over!

These two words surfaced in everyone's hearts.

One must know that although the “God-Slaying Expeditionary Force” assembled this time was claimed to be the global elite...

The vast majority of the young prodigies' strength hovered around the “Meridian Opening Realm.”

Only a few standing at the top of the pyramid, like Yan Wu Xiaolie, Ice Sword Cold Moon, and Ivan, had barely touched the threshold of the Early Stage of the Juyuan Realm.

An Early Stage of the Juyuan Realm was as fragile as an infant before a Peak of the Origin Gathering Realm.

Not to mention, the opponent also had a “Huagang Realm” powerhouse who stood above the Juyuan Realm like a deity!

This wasn't a war at all!

This was a complete and utter massacre!

Just as the United Fleet fell into a deathly silent despair, the leading Huagang Realm Divine Priest slowly raised his head.

His eyes, hidden in the shadow of his hood, were cold without a trace of emotion, like a high-and-mighty deity looking down at a group of lowly ants.

“You ants, how dare you trespass into the Divine Domain where my Lord slumbers?”

His voice, cold as iron, wasn't loud, but it clearly reached everyone's ears.

“Very well.”

“Since the elites are all here, today, I shall let your entire army perish here as the first sacrifice for my Lord's awakening!”

As his voice fell!

He moved!

He casually raised his right hand and gave a light wave toward the United Fleet.

A thousand-meter-long, massive pitch-black blade of light instantly condensed!

There was no energy fluctuation on that light blade, yet it emitted a terrifying aura capable of cutting through space and annihilating all things!

“No—!!”

“Quick, get out of the way!!”

Piercing screams exploded in the fleet's communication channel!

However, before that black light blade capable of cleaving heaven and earth, the pinnacle of human technology appeared so fragile.

“Rip—!”

A soft sound.

Three White Eagle Country “guardian” class frigates at the very front of the fleet...

Couldn't even hold up their energy shields for a second before being sliced cleanly in two by that black light blade, like cutting through tofu!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Violent explosions soared into the sky from the sea!

Three giant steel ships, carrying over a thousand soldiers, turned into three brilliant yet tragic fireworks right before everyone's eyes!

One strike!

Just one single strike!

Three frigates and thousands of elite soldiers were wiped out!

This terrifying scene made everyone feel as if they had fallen into an ice cellar, their hands and feet cold!

And this was only the beginning!

“Roar! I'll fight these bastards to the death!”

Ivan, the giant from the North Bear Country, had bloodshot eyes. He sent a Bone Warship flying with a hammer strike and then charged toward those three Divine Priests!

However, one of the Peak of the Origin Gathering Realm Divine Priests just glanced at him coldly and lightly clenched his hand toward Ivan's direction.

“Spatial Distortion.”

“Hum!”

Ivan only felt the scene before him shift; the surrounding space seemed to turn into a rag being kneaded at will!

His heavy warhammer, clearly aimed at the Divine Priest, strangely struck the empty sea, kicking up a massive wave!

He was trapped!

Trapped within a distorted, bizarre space!

“Damn it! Break for me!”

Ivan roared madly, swinging his warhammer again and again, but every attack hit empty air, unable to touch the enemy in the slightest!

On the other side.

“Yan Wu! Are you crazy!”

Su Li's startled cry rang out in the command cabin.

Yan Wu Xiaolie, the moment he saw those three frigates destroyed, seemed to burst into flames!

This time, it wasn't just fire!

There was also his own essence blood!

“Blood Burning Secret Technique! Boiling Battle Intent!”

At the cost of burning his own life force, he forcibly boosted his strength from the Early Stage of the Juyuan Realm to a level approaching the Late Stage of Gathering Essence Realm!

“Die!!”

He turned into a blood-red streak of light, recklessly charging toward another Peak of the Origin Gathering Realm Divine Priest!

However, seeing this desperate strike, that Divine Priest showed a cruel smile, like a cat playing with a mouse.

“Your courage is commendable, but unfortunately, you are still an ant.”

He didn't even use any powerful Move, simply raising his hand and striking with a palm!

“Boom!”

Xiao Lie's flaming spear, which condensed all his strength and life force, shattered inch by inch before that seemingly ordinary palm!

An unmatched force slammed heavily into his chest!

“Pfft—!”

Xiao Lie was struck as if by lightning, coughing up a mouthful of blood. He flew back like a broken kite, crashing heavily onto the deck of the “Kunpeng,” his aura instantly withering!

One Move!

Even after burning his life, he was still heavily injured in a single Move!

“Frozen for a Thousand Miles!”

Ice Sword Cold Moon's cold shout rang out. She brandished her long sword, and endless cold air swept out, attempting to freeze the Huagang Realm Divine Priest's movements to buy time for the others.

However, that Divine Priest just impatiently swung another black light blade.

“Crack!”

The ice wall in front of Cold Moon, which was enough to freeze the sea, shattered instantly like paper!

The light blade, its momentum undiminished, brushed past her shoulder and flashed by!

“Hiss!”

A groan of pain.

The Alloy Pauldron on Cold Moon's left shoulder was instantly sliced open. A deep wound showing the bone appeared on her fair shoulder, and blood immediately stained her white dress red.

It's over!

Completely over!

In less than a minute, the United Fleet's strongest combatants—Ivan was trapped, Xiao Lie was heavily injured, and Cold Moon was wounded!

The other prodigies, though they had formed battle arrays and were launching frantic attacks, couldn't even cause a ripple on the faint dark golden Protective Aura surrounding the Divine Priests!

The gap!

This was a despairing, chasm-like gap!

“Commander-in-Chief! Quick! Give the order! Use the ‘heavens punishment’ main cannon!”

Inside the command cabin, Su Li's face was pale. She stared fixedly at the Holographic Star Map and shouted at the technicians beside her with all her might!

“It's no use! Deputy Commander! The enemy's Bone Warships have released a special energy barrier. Our fire control radars are all being interfered with! We can't lock onto the target at all!”

The technician's despairing reply, tinged with a sob, became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Su Li's body swayed violently, almost unable to stand.

She slowly and with difficulty turned her head.

She cast her gaze, filled with despair and a final glimmer of hope, toward the figure who had stood motionless in front of the porthole from beginning to end.

Toward her last and only hope.

And Lin Yuan finally made a Move at this moment.

He casually threw the finished bottle of cola into the nearby trash can.

Then, he turned around, glanced at the three arrogant Divine Priests on the screen, and then at the “prodigies” on the deck who were either heavily injured or in despair.

Finally, his gaze fell upon Su Li's paper-white face.

He frowned slightly, seemingly dissatisfied with the chaotic scene before him.

“Does it really take this long to deal with a few pieces of trash?”