In the communication projection, Song Fu’s deep voice rang out.

"The growth of the Star Devouring Vine is based on the complete destruction of chunks of Starry Sea Floating Land. The emergence of a high-rank Star Devouring Vine often signifies the collapse of multiple high-level Starry Sea Floating Lands. Therefore, among the various Starry Sea civilizations, this type of space plant is also infamous, second only to the Insect Race and the Void Demon."

Upon hearing this, Song Chi felt deeply.

Take Torch Human Civilization for instance. Although it too is a civilization with great expansiveness and aggression, Torch Ship Captains tend to only plunder the resources from resource points while deliberately avoiding the destruction of the external environment that produces these resources.

In this way, given enough time, these resource points will regenerate their resources, which... could also be considered a form of sustainable development.

However, the Starry Sea Insect Race, Void Demon, and Star Devouring Vine are completely different; wherever they go, they turn the areas into absolute desolation, the extreme of extremes.

"Alright, get ready for the moment, and in five minutes we’ll make our move. We don’t have much time left!"

After a brief introduction, Song Fu directly issued the specific order to act.

However, just after finishing speaking, he added another word of caution.

"By the way, let me strike first. Remember to go a step slower. This flagship has a fourth-rank enhanced purple main cannon that can add a 10% Armor Break status to the target."

Song Chi was somewhat surprised. This was like an unexpected blessing. A 10% Armor Break might not be much, but for the Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon that did not have Armor Break attributes, it undoubtedly added a significant advantage.

Five minutes later, the bows of the two warships began to converge with light one after the other.

The bow of Song Fu’s ship featured two light spheres, each several hundred meters in diameter, while Cang Qiong had a nearly two-thousand-meter-long Mixed Hollow Sword Intent Divine Light beam.

In the main control room of Song Fu’s ship, even with a life of five hundred years, his heart couldn’t help but tremble involuntarily. His instinct told him that the giant sword phantom condensed at the bow of Cang Qiong might possess a might several times that of Song Fu’s two main cannons.

While he was still in shock, a crisp voice suddenly came from behind him.

"Great-great-uncle, with such a commotion, what do you think is the quality of the main cannon on the other ship?"

Upon hearing this, Song Fu turned his head to glance at the girl behind him and said in a deep voice:

"It’s at least of the Orange Level, and with a high probability, enhanced to fourth rank!"

Having said that, he added:

"Now, be quiet. This operation is related to whether your great-great-uncle can have the chance to strike for the fourth rank. Don’t make a fuss!"

He was already a bit annoyed that this girl had stubbornly insisted on coming along, and now that they were at the crucial moment of action, she diverted his attention with her questions, which made Song Fu reprimand her softly.

Hearing this, the girl stuck out her tongue and asked no more questions. Instead, she quietly watched the impending battle as an observer.

Of course, the main focus of this battle was, from start to finish, Cang Qiong off to the side.

After a brief charge-up, the two main cannons on Song Fu’s ship fired first, their beams shooting straight at the Star Devouring Vine millions of meters away.

You heard right; the positions of the two warships were millions of meters away from the Star Devouring Vine.

There was no choice; the roots of such space plants have astonishing lengths. While the physical body of the Star Devouring Vine is less than four thousand meters tall, its roots can easily extend tens to hundreds of millions of meters, reaching deep into the crust of the Floating Land to devour and absorb various energies.

To avoid being affected by the tendrils, the two warships maintained a sufficient distance.

With his full attention and ability to multitask sixfold, Song Chi’s response speed needed no explanation. If Song Fu said to go a step slower, then he would do just that; in the instant following the burst of the two main cannons on Song Fu’s ship, he also activated his fully charged Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon.

The terrifying Mixed Hollow Extreme Yang Sword Intent Divine Light roared out, crossing the distance of millions of meters in an instant, reaching the vicinity of the Star Devouring Vine. As the two columns of light bombarded the vine’s green body, the Sword Intent Divine Light also fiercely struck it.

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Boom boom boom!

The land covered with yellow sand trembled violently; it was due to the Star Devouring Vine itself sustaining severe damage. Underground, a dense mat of roots writhed tumultuously, resulting in what seemed like an amplified version of earth dragons turning over – a scene reminiscent of an apocalyptic catastrophe just before the collapse of heaven and earth.

A sky full of yellow sand obscured everything, and Song Chi had no idea how much damage their attack had actually caused to the Star Devouring Vine. In the sweep of the fourth rank level energy shockwave, an area spanning hundreds of thousands of meters around the Star Devouring Vine was completely engulfed in thick dust and smoke.

The two could only rely on the radar map to continue bombarding the dusty area with sustained firepower.

Fortunately, in those areas not covered by the dust, they could still see many vines emerging from underground, thrashing about chaotically to either side, which allowed them to judge whether the Star Devouring Vine hidden in the dust was still alive.

"Continue the attack, don’t stop. Our first round must have caused it significant damage; otherwise, the Star Devouring Vine wouldn’t have such an exaggerated stress response."

Before this, Song Fu had dealt with this Star Devouring Vine many times and was very clear that the opponent’s response was more intense than ever before. Therefore, he was certain that the first round of attack had dealt it a heavy blow.

And so, the two continued their assault.

Main cannon, secondary cannons... various methods of attack kept firing.

Several minutes later.

Swoosh swoosh swoosh!

Numerous vines spread rapidly, surging toward the direction of the two Torch warships. Clearly, the Star Devouring Vine had located the two Torch warships.

However, when the spreading reached nearly two million meters, the vines seemed to hit their limit. They emerged from underground, stretching continuously toward the Vault of Heaven, directly pointing at where Cang Qiong and Song Fu’s ships were located.

But no matter how they struggled, these vines were limited in length and could not reach the position of the two Torch warships.

About ten or so minutes later, the firepower from the two warships still hadn’t stopped, continuously bombarding the main body of the Star Devouring Vine within the dust cloud.

Suddenly, the vines that had originally retracted underground drilled out again. Just when Song Chi thought it was stubbornly trying to reach the warships above the Vault of Heaven again, these maximally spread vines abruptly began rapidly entwining with each other.

One wrapped around two, two wrapped around four, four wrapped around eight… In the blink of an eye, thousands of vines twisted into a giant vine dragon hundreds of meters thick.

Roar!

A sharp cry emanated from the center of the giant vine dragon, as if from a pitch-black gaping maw.

The next second, a strong devouring force burst forth from what appeared to be the mouth of the vine dragon, and under the envelopment of this powerful devouring force, the two Torch warships in the sky began to gradually fall. Even as they tried to activate their engines, they were startlingly unable to break free from this inexplicable devouring force.

About this, Song Chi could somewhat guess.

The Star Devouring Vine hadn’t completely mastered the Law of Devouring; otherwise, it wouldn’t have been so severely injured by that first wave of attacks.

Given the nature of the Law of Devouring, most cannon attacks, which are a form of energy, would also fall within the scope of its devouring powers and would not cause significant damage to its main body.

However, with the staggering number of roots combined, even if they hadn’t completely mastered the Law of Devouring, a preliminary use of these devouring forces was still achievable.

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Inside Song Fu’s ship, Song Fu reopened the communication projection with a calm expression. He wasn’t surprised by this sudden surge of devouring power; just as he was about to ask Song Chi if he needed help, he noticed that Cang Qiong, which had been by his side, had suddenly vanished without a trace.

When he finally tracked down Cang Qiong again, he found that it had somehow moved tens of thousands of meters away.

Looking at Cang Qiong, who had used the Void Escape Orb component to escape the range of the devouring gravity, Song Chi launched another attack on the remote main body of the Star Devouring Vine.

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Source: Webnovel.com, updated by Aunomay Read