Chapter 42

Li Yao gazed into the distance, and saw a huge light screen slowly rise between the surging clouds, rapidly expanding in all directions, quickly covering dozens of kilometers in length!

What appeared in the light screen was a battlefield of blood-red sunset, raging storms, and over a thousand crystal warships interweaving, colliding, tearing, devouring, and exploding in a tragic scene!

"This is the 'Blood Sea Battle' from five hundred years ago!" Li Yao's spirit was invigorated.

The scene of the battlefield in the light screen soon advanced to the tragic moment when the Liao Yuan fiercely collided with the Tian Ye.

The Tian Ye was the flagship of the Dongji Demon Kingdom, said to be condensed from the corpses and skeletons of over a hundred giant underwater demons through decades of demonic cultivation, forming an incredibly huge skeletal warship.

It was over twenty thousand meters long and weighed 190 million tons, like an ugly mountain floating in the sky, giving an impression of invincibility.

In front of it, even the Liao Yuan seemed like a trivial small boat, which would shatter into pieces with just a light collision.

However, in the face of such a powerful enemy, the Liao Yuan accelerated without hesitation, continuously speeding up, charging towards the most solid front deck of the Tian Ye with all its might.

The Tian Ye clearly detected the Liao Yuan's intention, and its countless acid sacs, demon light cannons, and poison glands all fired, shooting out hundreds of acid, poison, and demon light beams, bombarding the Liao Yuan's spirit shield.

The Liao Yuan was shaken to the brink of collapse, its spirit shield flickering, on the verge of breaking.

Many human warships, seeing this, rushed forward without hesitation to shield the Liao Yuan from the Tian Ye's attacks.

These crystal warships were smaller in tonnage and had weak defenses, most of them completely corroded after a few acid and poison attacks, falling into the sea, with all crew members perishing.

But more human warships, as if mad, fearlessly filled the gaps, forming the most solid shield for the Liao Yuan!

Finally—

There were only five hundred meters between the Liao Yuan and the Tian Ye, for two such massive warships, this was the distance of a single hair!

The Liao Yuan completely abandoned its spirit shield, channeling all its spirit energy into the propulsion array, and a fierce red glow burst from the warship's rear, its speed suddenly increasing another notch, piercing through the Tian Ye's demonic shield!

"Zzzzz—"

Like a meteor entering the atmosphere, the Liao Yuan and the demonic shield produced intense friction, generating a large amount of light and heat, the red glow enveloping the Liao Yuan, turning it into a—shining spear!

It was too late!

No matter how the Tian Ye tried to evade, it was too late!

No matter how the Tian Ye poured firepower onto the Liao Yuan, it was too late!

No matter how the Dongji Demon Emperor roared, howled, and cursed the extremely疯狂的人类 with the most vicious demonic words, it was too late!

The shining spear pierced the front deck of the Tian Ye with the momentum to pierce the sky, until two-thirds of its hull had penetrated the enemy ship, the propulsion array at the rear of the Liao Yuan continued to operate at overcapacity, bursting into brilliant light like fireworks, ultimately completely entering the enemy ship!

Then came the earth-shattering chain explosions.

The mighty and invincible Tian Ye, like a soulless shell, began to smoke and leak fire everywhere, its skeletal structure collapsing and disintegrating, falling into the sea one by one.

...

As the battle entered its final stages, the light screen gradually dissipated, and the blood-stained sea turned back into a blue sky and white clouds.

In the final scene of the light screen, the sunset and blood gradually coagulated, forming three lines of crimson text:

"In this battle, 13,250 officers and men of the Liao Yuan, including 300 Qi Condensation cultivators, 15 Foundation Establishment cultivators, and the ship's captain, a Core Formation cultivator, all perished, with no survivors!"

"Along with them, 110,000 officers and men and 4,352 cultivators also perished!"

"They created a powerful human nation—the Star Glory Federation!"

Against this backdrop, a vast red flag fluttered in the wind, slowly unfurling, with a golden dragon with bared fangs and outstretched claws at its center, coiled around a translucent crystal sphere, inside which were nine shining five-pointed stars.

The national flag of the Star Glory Federation—the Nine Star Ascending Dragon Flag!

The nine stars represent the nine cultivation sects that initially founded the federation; the dragon represents the grand ambition of human civilization to dominate the starry sea and conquer the universe!

Seeing these three sentences and the blood-red national flag, all the young people felt their hearts surge with excitement and their blood boil. Someone shouted first:

"Long live the Federation!"

"Long live the cultivators!"

"Brilliant human race, battling in the star sea! Long live human civilization!"

"We humans are the strongest fighting race in the endless star sea! We will always be the masters of this universe, and no existence can stop us! Whoever dares to stop us, we will fight to the death with them!"

"Long live the Federation! Long live the cultivators! Long live human civilization!"

Before long, all the young people on the eight floating boats shouted together in excitement.

Sensing the pure courage and will of the young people, the Liao Yuan, which had been silent like a tombstone, suddenly trembled slightly, a faint golden glow surging from its body, transforming into a golden spear, and fiercely stabbing towards the Demon Dragon Island!

"Whoosh!"

The golden spear precisely struck the "head" of the Demon Dragon Island, causing the entire black sea to tremble slightly, as if a faint cry came from the depths of the sea, and the whirlpools surrounding the Demon Dragon Island froze for a moment.

Whether it was an illusion or not, Li Yao felt the air suddenly become fresh.

"Born as a dragon, die as a monument, forever guarding the national gate, forever stabilizing the mountains and rivers!" These sixteen words appeared in Li Yao's mind.

"It seems the legend is true, this eternal flagship of the Federation, the Liao Yuan, has indeed been refined into a giant magical treasure, forever standing by the East Sea, suppressing the fortunes of the Dongji Demon Kingdom!"

Looking at the increasingly larger Liao Yuan, Li Yao suddenly felt a strange sense of emotion.

"Before, I never knew what a 'master alchemist' should be like, but now I know. Only by refining a national treasure like the Liao Yuan can one truly be called a master alchemist!"

"If I could personally refine such a magical treasure... even if it's just participating in it, doing some simple maintenance work, it would be the supreme honor for an alchemist!"

"I want to become such an alchemist, to refine such a magical treasure!" Li Yao's heart surged, his hands gripping the railing so tightly that sweat seeped through his palms, as if his palms were burning!