Their nearly collapsing energy shields immediately exploded into light rain and scattered. The main cannons directly hit their hulls.
On the dozen or so warships whose energy shields had shattered, a thick black mist suddenly appeared. Several thick high-energy beams flew into the mist and vanished without a trace, while the warships continued to fly forward completely unharmed.
"You've inscribed Dark Shelter Magic Arrays on these warships! No wonder I sensed a dark aura; I thought it was the scent from these little guys! Are all these warships inscribed with magic arrays?"
Inside the main control room of the South Heavenly Gate-class flagship, the Old Demon Dragon, with a slicked-back pompadour so shiny a mosquito would slip on it, looked curiously at Kane, who stood in the captain's control room wearing a sharp military uniform.
Kane wore a military uniform resembling that of a WWII Nazi military officer, making him look like the nightmare of the circumcised.
Through the porthole, Kane's sharp gaze swept over the Protoss warships thousands of kilometers away, seemingly able to clearly see their movements even across that distance.
The insignia on his chest, clearly different from Nazi ones, and the general's stars on his shoulders, flashing with golden light, proved his identity.
Human Empire Fleet Cobra Commander, military rank Vice Admiral!
However, no one knew why this hero, who had risen to fame in the Empire and defeated the Zerg forces multiple times over the past decade, would appear in this remote star zone and even engage in conflict with the Protoss fleet.
"These Great Tang-class warships are just a batch of experiment products. Inscribing magic arrays on all warships would be too great a cost!"
"Very difficult?" The Old Demon Dragon observed the warships whose protective shields had shattered, from which black mist and white light were rising up.
Similarly, their protective shields had shattered, but unlike the warships emitting black mist, three Great Tang-class warships simultaneously spewed dazzling white sacred light. The thick white light almost solidified on the warships' hulls. Three golden angels, composed purely of light energy, condensed above the warships.
"Holy Light Protective Array, and the intensity is at least equivalent to the empowerment of dozens of Main Gods working together!"
"It's not a matter of difficulty," Kane glanced back at the Old Demon Dragon. "These warships are experiment products from the Heavenly Craftsman Hall. Currently, a total of three hundred have been manufactured! They are all Tier 2 Great Tang ships that we manufactured ourselves!"
"Every Holy Light Protective Array and Dark Shelter Magic Array requires a large amount of rare metals and consumes a lot of the strength of divine personnel. The parts of Tier 2 or higher warships are too detailed. If we superimpose enough magic arrays on them, we would have to sacrifice some of the warships' performance. This requires weighing the costs and benefits!"
Kane brought these three hundred Great Tang ships because he was entrusted by someone to test the true effect of these modified Great Tang ships in actual combat.
If the combat data is satisfactory, then the subsequent North Heavenly Gate-class Tier 3 warships and South Heavenly Gate-class Tier 4 warships, which will be officially deployed in the Heavenly Court fleet, will have their design drawings replanned.
"It seems the batch of Amda Crystals we seized is very important to these Protoss! Otherwise, they wouldn't be fighting so desperately!"
Kane watched the Protoss fleet recklessly launching attacks against their own fleet and shook his head.
He then issued an order for the three hundred Great Tang-class warships to advance and engage the enemy, while simultaneously ordering the warships' artificial intelligence to record all combat data of the Great Tang ships.
Just as the three hundred Great Tang-class warships activated their side engines, propelling them to carve out a massive arc in space to meet the Protoss warships...
Kane suddenly froze, taking out a jade talisman. Looking at the jade talisman flashing with golden light, Kane swept it with his divine sense, and the stern expression on his face changed.
"Kane, my boy, what incident occurred?" Beside him, the Old Demon Dragon, seated properly in the command seat, noticed the change in Kane's expression and unhurriedly put down the deep red wine in his hand.
Kane suppressed the joy on his face and said lightly, "The Boss has emerged from seclusion! He's currently preaching the Dao in the High Heaven Treasure Palace and doesn't have time to be bothered with them!"
Upon hearing the information about Tang Song emerging from seclusion, the Old Demon Dragon's hand trembled, and the wine in his cup spilled directly onto the ground. After hearing the information about Tang Song preaching the Dao, he leaped up even higher and roared loudly:
"The Boss is preaching the Dao! We can't miss this opportunity, hahaha! Kane, let's personally take action and destroy them!"
"No need for you or me to take action!" Kane stood in the command room and said lightly, "Experiment plan canceled. Destroy them!"
In the subspace overlapping this star zone, thousands of South Heavenly Gate-class warp spaceships belonging to Kane, one of the Six Sovereigns of the Thirty-Three Heavens and the Western Supreme Palace Heavenly Emperor The Great Emperor, had completed charging. Their main cannons were ready for a full-force strike.
Simultaneously, tens of thousands of black hole missiles were also poised and ready in subspace.
With Kane's order, countless beams of radiance illuminated the entire star zone as if it were daytime. When the dazzling white light dissipated, the Human Race and Protoss fleets that had rushed over saw only devastation remaining. Hundreds of planets that were originally within this star zone had vanished into thin air, leaving behind a massive black hole several light-years in diameter in their place.
When Kane and the Old Demon Dragon hurried back to the Heavenly Court through the Samsara Palace, the discussion in the hall had already ended.
Black Solar Yang Qi and White Lunar Yin Qi intertwined, forming a massive Tai Chi Qi Cyclone. Within the Tai Chi Qi Cyclone, Frank and Lane were fighting one-on-one.
One revealed his Zhu Yan True Form, his entire body burning with blazing crimson flames. The other was enveloped in cloud mist and water vapor. One held an extremely heavy Dark Gold Great Staff, the other held a four-foot longsword.
The two attacked each other within this Tai Chi Qi Cyclone. With each collision of their weapons, large splashes of firelight erupted, emitting ear-piercing metal and iron roars. Getting into the fight, Frank simply unleashed the Divine Ability of three heads and six arms. The Dark Gold Great Staff in his hands also transformed into six, striking towards Lane.
From within the cloud mist, a dragon's roar resounded through heaven and earth. A dragon claw about the size of an mu, bringing out dozens of afterimages, met the Dark Gold Great Staff Frank struck with.
Cloud Dragon Probing Claw. Upon each claw shadow of these dragon claws, azure electric light was attached, forming large thunder orbs.
Lane surprisingly abandoned his magic treasure and directly unleashed close combat moves.
The Dragon Race dominates the Four Seas and are naturally born divine beasts. Their physical bodies and nascent divinities are unparalleled in their power. Otherwise, that master who walked the Divine Demon Path back then wouldn't have specifically imitated the True Dragon body to create the Black Water True Method.
Especially the Black Water True Method cultivated by Lane, its origin imitates a true primordial black dragon. That was an existence that, even without using divine abilities, could tear apart normal Golden Immortals just with its powerful dragon body.
"Haha, good! I want to see whether your True Dragon body is more formidable or my Zhu Yan True Form is stronger!"
Seeing Lane abandon his magic treasure, Frank simply shook his body and waved his hand, putting away the Dark Gold Great Staff. His six arms let out a series of crackling sounds as he clenched his fists and smashed a barrage of wild punches towards Lane's head and face.
Their fists and claws met. Frank's red fur all over his entire body stood on end from the electricity, but the thunder orbs in Lane's claws were also completely shattered. Frank endured the tingling sensation of the Kui Water Divine Thunder striking his body. He grabbed Lane's two claws with two arms, while his other four arms reached into the cloud mist, grabbed fiercely downwards, and forcefully grabbed Lane's two horns on his head and pulled!
Lane coiled his body, and his long dragon body instantly coiled up Frank's Zhu Yan True Form, which was hundreds or thousands of zhang tall. He sprayed out a mouthful of icy cold breath attack.
With that mouthful of breath attack, goodness, it almost extinguished the Zhu Yan Divine Fire on Frank's body. The two giant creatures wrestled together in the Yin and Yang Tai Chi Qi Cyclone. Goodness, the true bodies they revealed were completely no less than pure-blooded adult true dragons and Zhu Yans. They clearly already possessed the cultivation base of True Immortals.
It was precisely because this Tai Chi Qi Cyclone was transformed from Boss Tang's Taiji True Form Diagram that it could withstand them fighting freely. Otherwise, the commotion from their actions would likely tear down even this recently built Heavenly Court.
It wasn't just Frank and Lane. During the one hundred and twenty years Tang Song cultivated in seclusion, the strength of everyone in the Heavenly Court, from top to bottom, saw significant improvement.
Even the normal Heavenly Soldiers, the weakest among them, had the strength of demigods. These Heavenly Soldiers weren't the Yellow Turban Warriors Tang Song created using the power of faith, but Fanatics and elite soldiers selected from various worlds.
These existences who were chosen to become Heavenly Soldiers included those whose souls were drawn into the Circulatory Heaven Immortal Registry after death, and also living beings who were selected into the Heavenly Court.
Fanatics who died would be provided with powerful clones by the Heavenly Medical Hall.
According to the departments and functions they were assigned, the available physical bodies included Hulk clones (Thunder Department), Titan clones (Dou Division), weakened Superman bloodline (Heavenly General), and weakened Doomsday bloodline (Heavenly General). This new Heavenly Court department, the Heavenly Medical Hall, was led by the Hive Laboratory and integrated thirty-four biological research bases.
Originally, Lane planned to incorporate this department into the Plague Department and have Professor Connors be responsible for it, but this proposal was rejected by Professor Connors!
After all, releasing plagues as a deity title looks like bad luck no matter how you see it.
Professor Connors, in the Heavenly Court's Divine Immortal Registry personally compiled by Tang Song, was at least ranked among the Ten Directions Heavenly Venerates and was High-level Staff. Lane definitely gave him respect.
Thus, it was under Professor Connors' suggestion that the Heavenly Medical Hall was established.
Over a hundred years of time, under the research of the various laboratories in the Heavenly Medical Hall, there were not only dozens of types of clones available for the Heavenly Soldiers who had lost their physical bodies to choose from...
...but the types of various serum also expanded to hundreds. Even the bloodline exchanges on the Samsara Palace's list were stocked from the Heavenly Medical Hall.
Those who achieved godhood with their physical bodies (Heavenly Soldiers listed in the sub-register of the Circulatory Heaven Immortal Registry while alive) could also receive one free bloodline modification opportunity.
As for why the Superman bloodline and Doomsday bloodline were only weakened versions, according to the Presider of this project, Rocket Raccoon, it was due to a lack of critical data and experiment materials.
A codex that recorded the natural evolution of the Kryptonian gene!
The people of the Heavenly Medical Hall naturally knew who had these things. Some fanatical genetic experts had coveted this codex for a long time.
With it, plus a complete Kryptonian gene cloning system, to some extent, the Heavenly Court could even organize a military built by Superman.
These fanatical guys even sent emails on the Heavenly Court's intranet to Lane, the Central Ziwei Emperor, jointly demanding that the Heavenly Court march into the DC Universe and capture Clark Kent alive.
Their request was ultimately rejected by Lane. Even without mentioning that Clark Kent had fought for several years in a dangerous world for Boss Tang, he was still considered one of their own people.
The DC Multiverse was also one of the universes that the Boss had strictly ordered them not to enter before cultivating in seclusion.
However, even in the absence of the Kryptonian codex, these mad scientists still manufactured weakened versions of Superman clones.
This was also thanks to the development of a certain world. In that world, named The Boys by the Samsara Palace...
...the Samsara Palace successively had over a dozen batches of Reincarnators suffer heavy losses. Later, the Samsara Palace again mobilized several batches of Reincarnators to infiltrate that world. It was only after a period of investigation that they discovered...
...that world had a guy named Homelander, who possessed super vision and hearing similar to Superman.
Among the second batch of Reincarnators who infiltrated that world, one person accidentally let something slip. Their conversation was overheard by Homelander, who was less than five kilometers away.
This guy then searched the entire world for these suspected intruders and even arranged for the news media to report extensively on it.
There was no need for deliberate investigation. Newspapers, media, turn on the television, and it was all front page headlines about Homelander defeating alien invaders again.
Later, after investigation, it was discovered that the Reincarnators defeated by this Homelander were secretly imprisoned by a company named Vought and used for human body research.
When the information reached the Heavenly Court, Lane was furious! Scoundrels, dare to offend Old Master Tang!
Lane successively sent out five batches of manpower, totaling over ten thousand people. Even Frank personally took action and completely took down that world.
One of the biggest obstacles among them was that Homelander who was clamoring for them to pay the price! He was smashed by Frank's Dark Gold Great Staff, breaking his limbs, and dragged back to the Heavenly Medical Hall like a dead dog.
After pacifying that world, the Heavenly Medical Hall obtained a type of Compound V agent, as well as a large number of experiment subjects.
After analyzing the Compound V and conducting dissection research on Homelander and Soldier Boy, they successfully manufactured the current Superman serum.
Heavenly Generals who received this Superman serum injection saw their strength advance by leaps and bounds, leaping to become existences comparable to Thor in his peak period. In various divine pantheons, they could all be called Main Gods!
"Lane, Frank, what are those two doing?"
Kane arrived at the High Heaven Treasure Palace and immediately saw the massive Tai Chi Qi Cyclone in the sky. Looking at the two people fighting within the Qi Cyclone, who seemed to have transformed into an ink wash painting, Kane furrowed his eyebrow and looked towards the several people laughing and joking to the side, placing bets.
Deadpool Wade, Ivan Vanko, and a group of people were gathered in front of the High Heaven Treasure Palace. Wade Wilson was calling out to the crowd. In front of him were piled high with various heavenly materials and earthly treasures, agents, and spiritual fruits. Some rare treasures of heaven and earth that people in other worlds would fight tooth and nail over were piled up like small mountains, treated as bargaining chips.
"Boss Kane, we're betting on who will lose and who will win between Lane and Frank! I'm the bookie, do you want to place a bet!" Wade Wilson's eyes instantly widened round when he saw the figures of Kane and the Old Demon Dragon. He raised his hand and called out.
Kane glared at Wade Wilson. "Wade Wilson! What's going on? Why are those two fighting?"
"Sparring, they're just sparring. The Boss wants to see the results of their recent cultivation!" Wade Wilson looked at Kane's face, which was imposing without being angry like a poker face, and couldn't help but flinch.
Compared to Lane, who coordinated the overall situation for Tang Song, Kane's prestige among the group of people under Tang Song's command was the highest, second only to Tang Song himself. Even the always grinning and joking Wade Wilson was a little afraid of him.
Seeing Kane's stern expression, he hurriedly gestured with his mouth towards the direction of the Heavenly Craftsman Hall, indicating that the culprit was over there.
(end of chapter)