Chapter 4786 — A More Terrible Presence
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Oda Ba had no time for further explanation and issued his orders straight into the transmission array: "All squads to your stations! We have only three hours. When those three hours are up, our spiritual energy will be spent and we'll be able to do nothing at all. So before dawn breaks, we must grind every last piece of trash to dust. When day breaks, I, your captain, will toast every single one of you and commend your deeds!"
"Aye!" The crew's voices carried a killing resolve that brooked no retreat, as though warriors marching to war—either to return in triumph, or to die on the field.
Even as he spoke, a monstrous shockwave of unprecedented force came surging outward from the ancient warship, that vast leviathan, as its point of origin. Without the slightest warning, it heaved up towering waves hundreds of feet high. Those weaker Nascent Soul sea beasts were instantly blasted away by the shockwave—when it came down to real business, they weren't even fit to serve as cannon fodder.
Wei Zhao stared in shock at the scene before him. Whether it was an illusion or not, he could have sworn every star in the heavens had suddenly grown much brighter—before, they had been mere scattered pinpricks; now they shone like lanterns, clear and distinct.
At the same moment, what left Wei Zhao even more dumbstruck was the table before Oda Ba. It had been utterly bare, and now a dreamlike astral chart of light and shadow had appeared upon it. A closer look revealed that this luminous chart matched the starry heavens with absolute fidelity, not the slightest discrepancy anywhere.
"Let's begin. They're using the Mountain-Seat Whale as a meat shield, are they? Then we'll smash that meat shield of theirs to pieces—call it our opening greeting!" A savage grin spread across Oda Ba's face as he issued his command with icy resolve: "Lock onto the Mountain-Seat Whale. Starfall Formation—fire!"
As the words fell, his finger moved lightly across the astral chart, and the star point he touched blazed with sudden, blinding radiance. Before Wei Zhao could look closely, a thunderous boom shook the heavens outside—a colossal pillar of light came crashing down from the sky, and the darkness-shrouded night was in an instant turned bright as day. Everything in sight was drowning in searing white light.
In the blink of an eye, the heaven-shaking white light faded. Wei Zhao looked upon the scene and could not suppress a sharp gasp—that mountain-like Mountain-Seat Whale had been blasted apart, torn into countless pieces by that single beam of white light. As far as the eye could see, the waters were strewn with chunks of flesh the size of hills.
Wei Zhao couldn't help but swallow hard. A sea overlord mighty enough to stand at the Mountain-Opening stage, gone in a single strike—this was the ultimate killing move of an ancient warship: the Starfall Formation!
Oda Ba and the crew were unmoved by this awe-inspiring spectacle, but the sea beasts outside were utterly stunned. Not only were the Xuan-Sheng sea beasts trembling, but even the four Mountain-Opening beasts—the Abyssal Berserker Shark, the Netherworld Ghost Mother, the Soul-Hooking Monstrous Fish, and the Thousand-Legged Overlord Crab—involuntarily fell back several li.
Had they been on their own, having witnessed this display of killing the chicken to warn the monkey, they might well have known better than to press on. The Mountain-Seat Whale was the thickest-skinned and most heavily armored of them all, and even it had met such an end—if any of the four were struck by that white light, their fates would only be worse.