Chapter 1107
Spirit Arrows cut their way through subspace not to improve their speed but merely to make it more difficult for Zaur Beridze to dodge. Alva saw how quick he could be once threatened, and his movement patterns were nearly impossible to predict. He could move speeds in atmosphere that even Augmentation cultivators could only achieve in space, and he had the awareness and control to actively avoid any threats.
However, he still stopped eventually- and if he didn’t know an attack was coming Alva could hit him. Which was about as effective as if she had tried to shoot down a castle when she was twelve. But… she was slowly chipping away at his energy. She just had to keep up the pressure along with everyone else.
Then, her attack missed. Not because her accuracy was off, or because Zaur dodged out of the way… but because he simply stopped existing. Or rather, he stopped existing in a single piece. His body had transformed into light and it just… lost cohesion. A wave of Domination energy spread at unbelievable speed, but the structure of the planet itself was protected by the quick reactions of the formation masters, limiting the destruction to the size of a small country.
Many surrounding cultivators were vaporized on both sides, though he had moved away from the densest area of battle. Nobody was really prepared, as nothing had happened on their end of space. Which meant the assault team had been successful. Their plans had worked.
Not that Xankeshan wasn’t still in a shaky situation. They’d intentionally focused on the fleets, but there were still vast numbers of enemies remaining.
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Before Zaur died, Aconite had been engaged with a very large and uncomfortable ship. Nothing was strictly wrong with it, but it smelled problematic. When she tried to claw it open, she realized what it was. She tried again in a different spot just to confirm, but only managed to hurt her ego and didn’t cause a scratch.
The entire ship was made out of worldheart. Aconite hadn’t been there, but she had seen footage of the ‘planets’ left in the lower realms. They’d had worldheart ships there too… but they were much smaller. Perhaps this explained where the rest of their various systems’ materials went.
Aconite backed away, worried about the needles the ship cultivators were preparing. She wouldn’t want to touch those with her paws. As for the ship… it wasn’t melting.