150: Lu Chen is king!

Ignis was immediately placed into the medical instrument in the corner of the medical bay by Lu Chen; new Balrog patterns could be seen writhing under her skin with the naked eye.

These patterns were clearly different from her previous ones.

Lu Chen gently stroked her trembling back.

He felt a deep ache in his heart.

But things were not over yet; Lu Chen's golden compass showed that Earth was receiving abnormal pulses from Betelgeuse—the same inscriptions that Ignis's ancestors had carved into the core of Mercury at that time.

After Shelley glanced at Lu Chen and Ignis, she turned and quickly went to the engine center, directly injecting the sand of time into the engine. She looked at the crew members there and said:

"We have twenty-three minutes to escape the gravity well; we must hurry!"

Morning Dew used her remaining magic to perform Holy Light Restoration, constantly helping to repair the damaged exterior.

At this moment, the crew members on the bridge received an encrypted message from Earth—!

This encrypted message made them feel a bit chilled.

In the video, Ning Xiwei was actually crying in front of a bronze coffin, with Lu Chen, who had turned into a crystal sculpture, behind her.

Suddenly, in the next moment, everyone in the image spontaneously combusted.

The final scene of the video was ashes spelling out four words: —Do not return!

A crew member said with a trembling voice:

"Quickly go report to Chief Lu—!"

At this time, Betelgeuse was erupting with a magnificent stellar spectacle.

In that ocean of lava, wreckage of Cultivation Mechas from ten thousand years ago floated, and rusted Flying Swords were stuck in the storm.

An afterimage of Tianyong City composed of dark matter floated between the solar prominences, with ancient Talismanic Incantations carved on the pillars.

The eyes of plasma organisms reflected real-time images of Earth, synchronized with the sky screen of Earth at this time.

With the help of the sun's projection, the refracted shadow of a sailing ship seemed to shuttle through its pupils.

Lu Chen, who was accompanying Ignis in the medical bay, gazed at the starry scenery outside the window.

Unexpectedly, along with the sound of the medical bay door opening...

A crew member responsible for observation on the bridge suddenly burst in!

Shouting: "It's bad, Chief Lu!"

...The stellar wind of Betelgeuse roared outside the porthole, and the nano-alloy hull of the "Civilization Tinder" rippled like water.

Cultivation Runes flickered like breathing, leaving a cyan-gold trail in the dark Universe.

Lu Chen's fingertips slid across the holographic star map, and the starlight of Orion reflected a strange angular difference on the golden compass—!

Seven days had passed on the return journey, but only three hours had elapsed in Earth time.

Looking at the time on his watch, Lu Chen had as many doubts as everyone else.

Space-time turbulence, heavenly dao contamination.

It was even more serious than imagined.

As the saying goes, a day in heaven is a year on earth.

Now, however, it was a day in heaven and an hour on earth.

"Warning! Gravity well abnormality!"

Suddenly, the alarms blared!

The emotionless mechanical alarms rang incessantly.

At this time, Shelley's voice came through the broadcast, "I am stabilizing the Formation!"

Shelley's cold voice broke the peace of the rest area.

Ignis, who had fully recovered, sat in the lounge, the magic energy liquid in her hand sloshing out of the cup, condensing into red beads in the next moment.

She was full of displeasure!

It was truly annoying!

In the next moment, a beam of Holy Light instantly spread out a defense net.

Ready at any moment!

Lu Chen was also prepared at the bridge.

Ahead, thirty Mirrored Starships tore through the Void Realm, the twelve golden men reliefs on the bows flowing with asphalt-like black substance.

Ning Xiwei gazed at these strange things and said: "Their Soul frequencies are actually the same!"

As soon as she finished speaking, this Mirror Fleet simultaneously lit up Cultivation Runes, with blood-vessel-like scarlet patterns mixed in the cyan-gold light.

As expected, they were nothing good!

"Fire—!"

Ignis gave a loud shout; she was in charge of the front-line defense!

She directly deactivated the protective shield!

Standing on the deck, she became a Balrog Incarnation.

Balrog tattoos spread across her entire body.

In an instant!

The starship's own defenses were also activating!

All plasma cannons were fired!

But when they touched the enemy ships, they refracted weirdly, actually burning a melting hole in their own left-wing shield.

Fortunately, Shelley's ice crystals urgently sealed the gap. Absolute Zero magic and the extreme heat of lava exploded into a brilliant red and blue aurora outside the porthole.

—Beautiful and magnificent!

Ignis watched this scene, gnashing her teeth in anger! She wished she could tear them apart!

At this moment, a hand gently pressed on her shoulder!

Lu Chen had arrived by her side at some unknown time!

Lu Chen pressed down on Ignis's trembling shoulder and said softly:

"Don't be provoked; they are absorbing emotional energy."

In the next second, Lu Chen released the golden compass, projecting ten thousand rays of divine light.

Wherever the divine light reached, the mirror starships immediately surged with asphalt-like biomass!

But they were not immediately destroyed; instead, they were greedily sucking the killing intent on the battlefield.

Morning Dew's voice rang in everyone's ears through the communication frequency, "Lu Chen!!! An Earth signal has been detected!"

In an instant, a news broadcast actually sounded in everyone's headsets:

"...The abnormal brightening of Betelgeuse has triggered global panic. The Huaxia Magic City Planetarium has observed..."

At this point, the sound suddenly stopped.

Even all the screens on the starship responsible for receiving Earth signals jumped into garbled code.

These screens one after another oozed asphalt substance, and even the quantum communication port connected to the dedicated Earth line spewed out strange black substance.

"Purifying Flames—!"

Ignis no longer hesitated!

She flew up and spun, slashing out lava Sword Qi!

However, these lava Sword Qi were struck back the moment they touched the pollutants.

The powerful force was somewhat difficult for Ignis to withstand!

The Balrog tattoos carried the power of her ancestors!

Causing her power to suddenly go out of control.

But a strange pattern also condensed at her collarbone—a totem like a star.

An energy chain shot straight towards Ignis!

Lu Chen's tianwen sword struck in time, cutting off the energy link. The air current brought by the sword's edge blew open Ignis's collar—under her snow-white skin, lava patterns were outlining a star map of Betelgeuse.

Lu Chen glanced quickly; there was no time to think about these issues now.

However, Ignis obviously knew what this was!

"They are turning me into a beacon..." Ignis panted as she crashed into Morning Dew's Holy Light Barrier.

Morning Dew flashed outside the starship in the next moment, her nun's palm pressing against Ignis's heart. Holy Light and lava intertwined into a spiral, "It shouldn't be as simple as a beacon! No, it's not contamination either—it's an awakening! Yes! Stellar coordinates are hidden in your Bloodline!"

Shelley's Ice Crystal Matrix quietly enveloped the enemy ships. Absolute Zero made the asphalt substance reveal its true form—countless miniature bronze coffins were piecing themselves together.

At this moment, Ning Xiwei's Bone Legion officially attacked. These bones carried Undead Fire, charging towards those assembled things with constant self-explosions!

The Undead Fire continuously burned the ancient characters on the surface of the coffins, which were Hexagrams from the book of easy change from lian shan that were even older than the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty.