289: Remove the firewood from under the cauldron

He stretched out his hand and lightly tapped the holographic star map. The image quickly zoomed in, passed over the chaotic battlefield, and finally settled on the core area where the energy storm erupted.

There, beneath the energy currents so violent they could tear apart gods, a faint, almost imperceptible, yet incredibly condensed point of light flickered in and out of existence.

"When the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman profits."

Su Lei chuckled softly: "But what the true fisherman wants is never the two battered snipe and clam, but the pearl they fight over."

"Dean Li."

Su Lei's gaze turned to the research director beside him.

"Yes, Governor!"

"Has the structural analysis of that energy spring been completed?"

"It has!"

Dean Li immediately brought up a complex three-dimensional structural diagram, his face filled with fervent excitement: "According to our remote detection and energy spectrum analysis, that is not a natural energy spring at all!"

"Beneath it is buried a high-purity World Heart energy crystal left over from the previous epoch! It is the heart of the entire energy spring!"

"And it is precisely because the battle between the two sides damaged the crystal's external stable structure that this energy storm was caused!"

He used a vivid analogy: "They are like two fools fighting over a nuclear bomb, unaware that they could detonate it themselves at any moment!"

"Very good."

Su Lei nodded, his gaze turning to Li Xue凝 and the twelve Royal Guards behind her, dressed in the latest silver-white power armor, their presence as unmoving as mountains.

"Xue Ning."

"Here!"

"I need you to lead the Royal Guards, piloting the Ghost-class assault ship, Nightingale, to infiltrate the edge of the energy storm."

Su Lei's index finger pointed precisely at the model of the energy crystal.

"Your mission is not to retrieve it; that's unrealistic."

"You have only one mission: upon reaching the designated coordinates, immediately launch the resonance beacon, and then, at all costs, survive until the beacon is completely destroyed by the storm."

This mission was tantamount to sending themselves into the heart of a meat grinder, yet Li Xue凝 and the Royal Guards behind her showed not the slightest hesitation.

"Mission accomplished!"

Ten minutes later, the Ghost-class assault ship Nightingale, entirely covered in a pitch-black energy-absorbing coating, glided silently out of the dock like a phantom.

After several precise short-distance spatial warps, the Nightingale appeared on the outskirts of the energy storm.

As soon as it appeared, the violent energy currents, like billions of invisible hands, furiously tore at the Nightingale's shields, and the entire warship groaned under the strain.

"Arrived at designated coordinates!"

Li Xue凝 gripped the command chair tightly, barking orders: "Launch the resonance beacon! All ship energy to shields! Prepare for impact!"

A beacon was launched, releasing a special fluctuation, originating from Su Lei's Divine Soul, the moment it touched the energy storm, and was then completely swallowed by the violent energy.

And at this very moment.

"Found it."

Su Lei opened his eyes and gently clenched his hand in the Void Realm.

This clench was not an outpouring of power, but a resonance of Law.

Using his Soul Core as a guide, he precisely injected a supreme Law containing order and stability, like the finest embroidery needle, into the most core and fragile node of the energy storm.

Tens of thousands of kilometers away, on the battlefield.

The energy storm, capable of destroying continents, along with the energy crystal on the verge of complete detonation, all strangely paused at this instant.

Then, on the Nightingale, to the unforgettable sight of Li Xue凝 and others, the connection between the massive energy crystal and the surrounding violent energy storm was forcibly severed by an invisible force!

The storm, having lost its power source, quickly attenuated and subsided like a machine unplugged from power.

And the mountain-sized energy crystal was enveloped, compressed, and condensed by an unseen force... Finally, everything transformed into an energy sphere, only the size of a fist, yet containing a brilliant galaxy within, silently hovering in front of the Nightingale.

He dismantled the entire natural disaster with his own power.

After all this was done, Su Lei's calm, unruffled voice slowly echoed in Li Xue凝's mind.

"Retrieve it, then come home."

His figure had never left the Cradle of Creation by even half a step... Under the distant starry sky, the Star Lord and the Gravekeeper Legion, who had just retreated to their respective temporary bases, sensed almost simultaneously that the energy fluctuations in that battlefield were rapidly subsiding at a speed that completely defied the Law of physics, until they completely disappeared.

"What's going on! The energy storm, it stopped?"

The Star Lord was completely unable to comprehend this at the moment!

"Commander, energy readings in the target area are zero, energy crystal has disappeared."

Arbiter 07 reported the equally unbelievable intelligence to its superior.

None of them knew what had just happened under their very noses.

They only knew that the fat prize, that mountain of gold, which they had paid a heavy price to contend for, had simply vanished into thin air right before their eyes!

An unparalleled anger and humiliation, as if they had been played for fools by a third party, simultaneously ignited furiously in the hearts of both major factions.

They had fought in vain.

And the true winner had never even set foot on that bloody battlefield from beginning to end.

Su Lei's return did not cause any ripples in the Cradle of Creation.

Aside from a few core high-ranking officials, no one knew that their Governor had just completed a monumental theft worthy of being recorded in history.

The World Heart, which had condensed the entire energy spring, was immediately sent to the core energy conversion center of the dock.

This powerful heart would provide a continuous stream of power for the entire Federal Fleet, completely freeing them from worries in this game of gods, which was destined to be a protracted war.

Li Xue凝 and her Royal Guards were sent to the highest-Rank medical pods for recuperation.

Although there were no direct injuries, the shock from the Law they endured merely by being on the edge of the energy storm still caused them considerable internal injuries.

After all this, Su Lei went alone to the observation deck at the highest point of the dock.

He looked down at the vast base operating at high speed below, where brand-new, upgraded warships were undergoing final debugging on automated shipyards.

Countless engineering robots, like diligent worker ants, moved back and forth, converting the newly acquired energy into standard energy blocks, replenishing the warehouses of every warship.

The entire Federal Fleet, like a war machine infused with infinite power, was filled with unprecedented vitality and strength.

However, Su Lei's face showed no sign of relaxation.

The victory just now was merely an opportunistic appetizer.

Neither the unfathomable technological foundation of the Gravekeeper nor the mysterious and unpredictable biological fleet of the Star Lord was something the current Federation could directly contend with.

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