While Song Chi was easily crushing his opponents, the battlefield where his elders were fighting was exceedingly fierce. The lower ranked members of the Blood Blade Star Thieves, due to their inferior status, were generally allocated very few resources, resulting in their flagships having generally weak combat power.

However, these Second Rank Torch Ship Captains were different. As the absolute upper echelon of the Star Thieves, even though the lion's share of the spoils from each plunder needed to be handed over to the Moruo Royal Family, the smaller portion divided among these few was still terrifyingly significant.

Aboard the Qingkong, Song Chao's expression was grim:

"Each of their flagships averages more than two purple components, and even the main cannon, engine, and energy shield on the Blood Wolf are purple components, along with one more special purple component. They're excessively luxurious, making it difficult for us to end this battle within four hours."

In the communication channel, Song Hai, Song Yang, Zhao Hongxue, and others also had serious expressions. The Second Rank Torch Warships of the Blood Blade Star Thieves far exceeded their initial estimates, prolonging the fight that was supposed to be quick and decisive.

If there were no other limitations, it actually wouldn't matter much since they still had Chen Lixia acting from outside, and the longer the time dragged on, the scales of battle would inevitably tip in their favor.

But the problem was that the effect of the "Void Prison" spatial blockade could only last for four hours. If they couldn't end the battle within this time frame, there was no telling what kind of chain reaction that might trigger.

"Let Li Xia join the battle. The kids are not bad, especially Little Chi. Those remnants of the Star Thieves pose no great threat to them!"

"Good!"

After agreeing, the Dragonfly, which had been hovering outside the battlefield, quickly joined in. With the addition of an escort ship, the balance of the battlefield was finally broken. The six escort ships of the Blood Blade Star Thieves gradually fell into a disadvantage, and for the Song family, the situation began to improve.

Tens of thousands of meters away, three kilometer-long warships were exchanging fire. The horrifying Third Rank ship cannons fired with a terrifying ring of energy, creating new spatial cracks at their points of impact.

Although this space was temporarily sealed by orange components, the continuous spread of spatial cracks and spatial currents over the past thousands of years had significantly weakened the space in this region. Under the onslaught of Third Rank ship cannons from within, it couldn't hold on, despite the sealing effect of the orange components.

Inside the main control room of the Blood Blade, the fierce visage of Blood Knife flashed with a bloody hue as he activated a special component on the warship.

As a ring of light passed over the Blood Blade, the two cruisers, Furious Lion and Mountain, opposite it, jerked simultaneously, then uncontrollably collided with each other.

Within the Furious Lion, Song Mingsong's eyes flashed with a sharp light.

"It's a magnetic field, boss, activate the Steadfast Aura!"

As his words fell, rings of light similarly appeared on both cruisers, forming two invisible auras encompassing both the Furious Lion and the Mountain.

With the appearance of these auras, the two warships were no longer controlled by the Blood Blade's magnetic field and continued to fire relentlessly at the Blood Blade.

It was only because the energy shields on the Blood Blade were of orange quality that they hadn't collapsed under the continuous attack from the two cruisers.

Seeing that the magnetic field was ineffective, Blood Knife once again activated another special component on the warship.

As a Torch Ship Captain who had lived for nearly six hundred years, Blood Knife had handled too many strange objects. As a result, the 44 special slots on the Blood Blade were already full a hundred years ago, providing the Blood Blade with numerous tactical options.

Suddenly, a clanging metallic sound emanated from the front of the Blood Blade. In an instant, the two main cannons at the bow were retracted into the body of the warship. In their place appeared a sharp protrusion made of Yuejin Metal.

"Ram Horn, be careful of the enemy's close approach!"

Song Mingsong, having seen and known a lot, immediately recognized the Yuejin Ram Horn and alerted the Mountain in time for it to react.

As soon the Yuejin Ram Horn appeared, the Blood Blade transformed into a blur. It seemed to activate some sort of engine burst feature, rushing towards the Mountain with terrifying speed.

With the shrewd eyes of Blood Knife, he naturally discerned which of the two cruisers battling him was stronger, opting to strike at the slightly weaker Mountain as his target.

Clang!

After a violent metallic collision, a huge dent appeared on the front side of the Mountain.

In such physical ship-to-ship collisions, energy shields were useless.

However, Blood Blade was far from happy about this result; he was actually extremely angry because the Mountain had reacted in advance, generating a special metal shield on the surface of the ship's body. Ninety percent of the damage inflicted by Blood Blade had landed on that metal shield.

Whoosh!

On one side, Song Mingsong naturally wouldn't miss this excellent opportunity. Both main cannons fired simultaneously, attacking the surface of Blood Blade's energy shield, with the second shot having a special shield-breaking effect.

Of course, it was only one of the purple main cannons that possessed the shield-breaking trait, and it could not completely shatter Blood Blade's orange-quality energy shield. Nonetheless, after so many rounds of focused fire, the shield had dimmed to its limit and was on the verge of collapse.

As Blood Blade drew near, the Mountain seized the opportunity, with one of its main cannons firing in succession.

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Just as Song Mingsong and Song Shan thought Blood Blade's tough "turtle shell" was about to break, a cold sneer came from the Blood Blade's main control room.

A blue-quality device designed for energy shield regeneration was timely activated, and the shield value, which had been less than 5%, recovered to nearly 50%.

After doing all this, Blood Blade still did not pull away from the Mountain. Instead, he broke from the norm and charged at the Mountain once again.

Inside the Furious Lion, Song Mingsong's eyes widened in shock. The metal shield outside the Mountain had failed, and without the extra defense, how could the ship's body, equipped with only a standard purple warship armor, withstand a direct hit from the special ram horn?

Clang!

After the second sound of metallic collision, as expected, the front side of the Mountain's hull dented completely. This time, it wasn't just some outer metal layer that was damaged, one of the two main cannons was also completely destroyed in the collision.

[Warning, warship armor damaged by 20%, hull integrity compromised by 14%, please conduct repairs immediately.]

On the side, all main and secondary cannons of the Furious Lion fired with full force, but how could the orange energy shield, still at 50% capacity, be so easily shattered?

Soon, a third piercing collision sounded, further aggravating the damage to the Mountain.

[Warning, warship armor damaged by 38%, hull integrity compromised by 26%, please conduct repairs immediately.]

Inside the Mountain, a sense of urgency crossed Song Shan's face as he tried to control the Mountain to retreat backwards, but the ship was bound by a special device on the Blood Blade, and the Mountain's purple engines alone could not break free.

Inside the Blood Blade, Blood Blade was cackling maniacally, knowing that just two more hits and the cruiser before him would completely lose the ability to move. Without its support, the ship that remained at the side would be no match for Blood Blade.

For a moment, the situation involving these three cruisers caused the state of the entire stellar battlefield to become complex and unpredictable.

Onboard the Furious Lion, Song Mingsong's Spectral Energy involuntarily erupted due to intense emotion, filling the entire main control room with a strong Third Rank might.

At this moment, a ruthless glint flashed in his eyes, and with a fierce thought, a slight tremor came from beneath the Furious Lion. If Song Chi were here at this moment, he would see a familiar special device that had popped out from under the Furious Lion.

On this device dangled a nuclear missile over several tens of meters in length.

Indeed, this device closely resembled the external deep space torpedo launcher that had been equipped on Shen Qing's "Dragonfly" and was clearly another type of external launching device.

Inside the Furious Lion, Song Mingsong fiercely pressed the fire button.

"External nuclear missile launcher, blast this bastard to smithereens!!"

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