141: Chapter 141 The Battle Belonging to the Primarch

If the interception by Chu Xinghe and his team before was like an orderly air defense drill, then now... it was a wild, uninhibited special effects battle.

A rainbow-colored Progenitor with six wings—each a different color of the rainbow—flew into mid-air and spread its arms.

The next second, centered on it, the airspace within a radius of over twenty kilometers began to rain fire.

Fist-sized lava fireballs condensed from the void and then poured down like a torrential rain, crashing into the Zerg Swarm and triggering chain explosions.

It didn't end after the fireballs fell; a typhoon began to whip through that area, with wind speeds fast enough to twist flying dragons into pretzels.

Another heavy-armored Progenitor, with a bloated figure and skin like rock, chose a more violent method.

It flew to the densest area of the Zerg Swarm and then... began to glow.

It wasn't ordinary light, but the "Petrification Light" produced when high-concentration Earth-element energy is condensed to its limit.

Wherever the light touched, the surface of all Zerg units began to rapidly cover with a layer of grayish-white stone shell, then stiffened, cracked, and crumbled into powder.

The coverage of this move wasn't large, only about fifteen kilometers, but the effect was outstanding—after clearing an area, the Progenitor even looked down at its "work," nodding as if quite satisfied.

There was something even more exaggerated.

A slender female Progenitor with translucent aqua-blue skin and long hair flowing like seaweed hovered in the air, her hands held in a virtual embrace.

The space around her began to twist, and countless water droplets condensed in the air, gathering into streams, which then formed water tornadoes.

Three giant water tornadoes with diameters exceeding five hundred meters formed around her, then charged into the Zerg Swarm like meat grinders.

Wherever the water tornadoes passed, Zerg units were torn apart, pulverized, and finally left with nothing but scraps.

That wasn't all; after the water tornadoes dissipated, blinding lightning suddenly burst from the remaining mist—this thing actually had a conductive effect.

Li Yuan's eyelids twitched as he watched: "These Progenitors... can they perform skill combos?"

"It seems so," Chen Jingyi's voice came over the channel, "Monitoring data shows that although their method of energy usage is crude and brute-force, there is indeed a prototype of elemental combination. Holy Brilliance Purity's gene fusion technology... is more advanced than we imagined."

"Advanced is one thing," Chu Xinghe muttered in the aerial combat channel, "but this art style is too mixed, right? Look at that one over there—"

Following the direction he pointed, everyone saw a Progenitor with jet-black bat wings on its back but a halo of holy light above its head.

This guy was rubbing a shadow orb with his left hand and firing a holy light arrow with his right, shooting two attacks—one black and one white—simultaneously, which spiraled together in the air and then... "purified" an unlucky Corruptor directly into elementary particles.

"I think I get it now," Luo Lan pushed up his glasses, "Holy Brilliance Purity's design philosophy is—don't worry about whether it makes sense, just piece together anything that looks cool and powerful."

"Cool or not is one thing," Sai Wei's voice cut in, "but the efficiency is truly high."

It was indeed high.

One hundred thousand Tier 4 to Tier 5 Progenitors unleashing their ultimate moves simultaneously—the scene could no longer be described as just "spectacular."

The entire sky was filled with colorful skill effects that never stopped—gold, wood, water, fire, wind, lightning, light, dark, poison—every element you could think of was here.

The Metal-element Progenitors waved their hands to create a sky full of flying swords—although those "swords" were actually high-density metal particle streams shaped into swords, the visual effect was very much like sword-controlling techniques.

The Wood-element ones were even more outrageous, directly cultivating a floating forest in mid-air.

Vines, roots, man-eating flowers, spore clouds... various plant-based attack methods emerged one after another; any Zerg that crashed into them was like entering a meat grinder.

Needless to say, the Fire-element ones used various fireballs, fire walls, fire dragons, fire rain, and fire storms, burning half the sky red.

The Water-element ones requisitioned all the water molecules in the atmosphere, condensing them into water blades, water arrows, water tornadoes, and some Progenitors even conjured giant water spirals over a kilometer in diameter, wrapping the Zerg inside and twisting them into pretzels—although theoretically, the Zerg didn't need to breathe, high-density, high-speed fluids also possessed immense mass and traction.

The Wind-element ones played with flair. Some Progenitors manipulated airflow to form vacuum blades, others created tornadoes, and a few were even more extreme, playing with "air pressure differentials"—instantly dropping the air pressure in an area to near-vacuum, then instantly raising it to hundreds of atmospheres. Under this drastic pressure change, the Zerg units simply exploded.

The Lightning-element ones were the simplest and most brutal, just releasing lightning. Ball lightning, chain lightning, thunderclouds, and some even conjured an afterimage of Thor's Hammer, smashing down with one blow to clear a large area.

The Light-element ones either fired holy light cannons or played with light-speed movement, and one Progenitor was even more extreme—it turned itself into a humanoid sun; wherever it flew, it blinded everything, and the Zerg's compound eye systems were basically rendered useless in this intense light.

The Dark-element ones excelled at stealth, assassination, and curses. Shadow tentacles, corrosive mist, mental shocks, space cutting... all sorts of underhanded tricks emerged one after another.

The Poison-element ones were the most disgusting. They didn't attack the Zerg directly but released large-scale neurotoxic mists, corrosive spores, and gene-disintegration viruses. Once the Zerg inhaled or came into contact with them, their nerves would go out of control, causing them to kill each other, their bodies would fester and turn into pus, or their gene chains would simply break, causing them to die on the spot.

These skills, covering areas of over ten kilometers, shone brightly in the sky, forming a grand and eerie fireworks display. The Zerg's biological weapons fell like dumplings; corpses, severed limbs, body fluids, shell fragments... rained down, so densely that one could hear the "pitter-patter" of impacts on the ground.

"I say," Chu Xinghe swallowed hard in the channel, "can we... take a break now?"

They certainly could.

Under the violent clearing of one hundred thousand Gene Primordial Bodies, the number of Zerg units that could break through the defense line and land on the ground was pitifully small. The occasional straggler was quickly taken care of by ground turrets or Trial-Takers.

Li Yuan looked at the radar map, where the density of red dots representing the Zerg was decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye. He stroked his chin: "Chen Jingyi, how is the shield pressure?"

"Shield energy remains at 95.8%, fluctuations are stable." Chen Jingyi's voice was as calm as ever, "Also, some news that counts as good news: the Zerg corpse recycling system is already running at full capacity."

"Full capacity?" Li Yuan was stunned, "So fast?"

"There are too many Zerg corpses." Chen Jingyi brought up real-time data, "On average, over fifty million tons of biomass land on the shield every minute, and the processing speed of the recycling system has reached 170% of its design limit. Yimoku is organizing a temporary expansion."

Before she could finish, Yimoku's excited voice cut in: "Li Yuan! Li Yuan, did you see that! We're rich! We're super rich!"