177: Chapter 177 is the Tianyu Federation!

The ten extraterrestrial mech pilots were locked tightly in their pilot seats, their bodies completely paralyzed.

They couldn't move their limbs, turn their necks, or blink their eyelids; even the breathing in their chests was forcibly suppressed by spatial power, leaving them as stiff as statues.

However, their brains were fine; their thoughts, perceptions, and radio communications were all normal.

The exclusive team brainwave channel instantly exploded.

"What the hell is happening! The mechs are completely out of control! There's absolutely no response to the controls!"

"It must be this Yao Race's ability! A spatial force field! We've been fixed in mid-air out of thin air, completely unable to move!"

Four of the pilots panicked first, and a stream of urgent, chaotic messages flooded the screen.

Previously, their entire team had been incredibly arrogant, relying on their advanced mech technology. They had looked down on this Secret Realm from the bottom of their hearts, believing it to be an ownerless, primitive resource point, and were preparing to forcibly tear open the barrier, plunder the Origin, and seize the territory.

Yet in the blink of an eye, the entire team was imprisoned in mid-air by an unknown force, with no room for resistance whatsoever. Their earlier arrogance had completely turned into bone-chilling fear.

Panic spread rapidly throughout the team; no one knew if they would die next or be completely destroyed.

Just as everyone fell into despair, the ten mechs frozen in mid-air, without any human control, automatically activated their highest-level emergency protocol.

The cockpit screens of every mech instantly flared with light, and cold System prompts sounded in unison.

"Detecting high-Rank spatial imprisonment force field."

"Judgment: Rule-level seal, manual control completely disabled."

"Highest-level desperate situation protocol automatically triggered."

"Antimatter core forcibly awakened."

"Antimatter limit mode activated!"

Red warning subtitles flashed by, and the appearance of the mechs began to undergo a visible, frantic transformation.

The originally uniform, silver-white, plain-looking exploration mechs instantly surged with deep blue energy streams from within, quickly coursing through their entire frames along the skeleton.

The originally smooth, flat metal shells began to autonomously reorganize, harden, and thicken. Dense, three-dimensional energy patterns popped out on the surface, with blue light veins crisscrossing, looking technologically explosive and incredibly oppressive.

The mech shoulder armor grew and expanded outward, sprouting double-layered angular armor with sharp blue light edges, looking several times heavier and fiercer than before.

The hidden melee blades in the arms automatically popped out, lengthened, and hardened, with fine annihilation electric arcs wrapping around the blades, capable of tearing through metal at a touch.

The thrusters, originally folded and stowed on their backs, fully deployed, tripling in size. The nozzles were deep and glowing, fully charged with violent energy.

The originally sealed energy slots on the mech bodies all popped open, constantly exhaling faint dark blue mist. The entire mech had completely changed its appearance from the inside out.

This was no longer the ordinary model used for exploration and reconnaissance; it had completely switched into a genuine limit slaughter form.

The next second, a thick, dense dark blue energy shield burst open, tightly wrapping around each mech like a hard blue light barrier.

"Antimatter shield formed!"

"Energy countering spatial imprisonment!"

"Forcibly breaking the wall, removing rule-level lockdown!"

The low-pitched energy roar made the air tremble, and the spatial imprisonment force field that had been tightly suppressing the mechs began to twist and crack violently.

The invisible spatial barrier was forcibly torn apart and dispersed by the violent antimatter energy.

The cracking sounds of space breaking rang out one after another.

The ten mechs shuddered violently, bit by bit breaking free from the spatial shackles. Finally, with a violent jolt, they completely regained their freedom and hovered steadily in mid-air.

All powered-down propulsion, weapon, thruster, and radar Systems rebooted, and the entire unit entered a full-load combat readiness state.

The pilots' ecstatic brainwave messages popped up frantically.

"We broke free! We actually broke through the imprisonment!"

"The mechs upgraded directly! Combat power soared!"

"It's the desperate hidden mode! It can't be opened without triggering a dead end!"

"We turned a misfortune into a blessing! We are now more than twice as strong as before!"

In the Void Realm, Mo Yufei's figure slowly emerged, his robes fluttering gently with the airflow. He casually released a large-scale purification skill, returning all the frenzied exotic beasts to normal, and ordered them to retreat.

When Mo Yufei saw the earth-shattering changes in the mechs' appearance and sensed the terrifying energy levels of the mech bodies that had soared several times over.

He couldn't help but curse inwardly: "Holy crap, the mechs upgraded? Don't tell me they're going to activate some hidden back-up energy next!"

He had truly learned something new today; his spatial imprisonment hadn't crushed the opponent but instead forced out the mechs' trump card hidden form.

The desperate crisis had directly triggered the ultimate evolution of the mechs, leading to a qualitative change in offense, defense, power, and rule resistance.

The ten mechs, having completed their extreme transformation, were surrounded by deep blue light. Their armor was sharp and heavy, energy patterns constantly flickered across their bodies, and their Aura was extremely fierce.

Their engines hummed at a low frequency, their muzzles glowed with blinding blue light as they charged up, and all weapons entered a standby-locked state, aimed dead-on at Mo Yufei in the Void Realm.

The mech squad, having escaped death and unexpectedly upgraded, saw their Battle Intent fully maxed out. Their previous fear was completely replaced by the excitement of a comeback.

"The rule-based imprisonment has been broken by us! Now it's our turn to counterattack!"

"So what if it's the Secret Realm's rules! Antimatter limit mode hard-counters all rules!"

"All members lock onto the target! Prepare for a one-hit kill!"

The ten mechs adjusted their combat stances in unison, energy charging at maximum, ready to launch an all-out attack at any moment.

But just one second before the counterattack, a huge black shadow crushed the clouds on the distant horizon of the Secret Realm, rapidly enveloping the battlefield.

The roaring sound of massive floating engines rolled in, making the entire airspace hum.

A giant airship shaped like an inverted crescent moon broke through the clouds and slowly sailed over the battlefield.

The airship's hull was matte silver-white with sharp, smooth lines. It was immensely huge, and its underbelly was densely packed with energy close-in weapon Systems, all muzzles aimed downwards, gleaming with a chilling light.

Right in the center of the airship, a pale blue emblem engraved with star patterns was striking and dazzling—the Tianyu Federation insignia, recognizable at a glance.

On the airship deck, a group of combatants was fully lined up.

Benboba, who had evolved into a humanoid bird form, stood at the very front with wings spread, his feathers sharp and his eyes as keen as knives.

The Abyss Spirit Dog, Xiao Hei, crouched at the edge of the deck, its body pitch black, spreading its full-domain perception to the maximum, locking onto the energy signals of every single mech.

The Double-Winged White Tiger, Da Bai, spread its huge bone wings, with a murderous airflow rolling around its body, its Aura majestic.

The combat robots were lined up in neat rows, their metal bodies cold and hard, with heavy suppression weapons mounted on their shoulders. Countless red aiming dots instantly locked onto the ten mechs below, covering their bodies densely.

In front of the airship's command cabin, the Robot Commander stood quietly, steady and cold, indifferently overlooking the battlefield.

The extraterrestrial mech squad, which had just been poised and ready to counterattack, instantly froze in all their actions.

The boiling, excited team brainwave channel went deathly silent in a second.

The ten pilots' pupils constricted, their minds went blank, and they were all completely stunned.

After a full half-second of stupefaction, the team channel completely exploded.

"Tianyu Federation airship?! This is standard Federation military equipment!"

"The emblem is definitely real! You can't forge this kind of star-patterned standard insignia!"

"And there are high-Rank exotic beasts, standard robot formations! This is a regular combat legion!"

Extreme astonishment instantly crushed everyone's Battle Intent. The ecstasy of their recent upgrade and comeback was completely wiped out, leaving only a panic that chilled them from head to toe.

One pilot's brainwave carried an unbelievable tremor.

"What the hell... the Secret Realm we risked our lives to invade has already been occupied by the Tianyu Federation?"

This sentence directly shattered the entire team's psychological defenses.