Mu Ye Xingchen's face was grim as he looked at the people in the surrounding holographic screens, a hint of killing intent in his calm eyes.
Just moments ago, the news of Longka Wanyou's defeat had reached the rear command of the Black Star Empire's Shanhai City.
The entire Longka Wanyou army, one hundred thousand combat mechs, and countless engineering mechs and warships had been wiped out by a single shot from Xianxia.
The defeat was as swift as a mountain collapsing.
With only twenty thousand soldiers, including many engineering and civilian mechs, the Xianxia defenders had routed the remaining forces, leaving them in disarray.
Even more bizarre was Longka Wanyou's disappearance.
Everyone lowered their heads in silence, the excitement and pride of the initial general offensive gone.
If Xianxia could achieve victory with a single shot, then other war zones could do the same, especially with their world-leading Cyber Mechanic technology and the legendary Liang Yuwei.
With Black Star's technology, it felt like a skill tree that had gone awry.
In terms of combat, although Xianxia had its War Gods to hold the line, they were still stretched thin against a vast number of enemies.
As for the Ao Ying Third Team, which had annihilated over fifty high-tier Black Star mechs, Mu Ye Xingchen had only paid them slight attention. According to intelligence, the captain of Ao Ying Third Team was the young man named Gu Ya, a clone of Gu Xingchi. This young man had been exceptionally active lately, his strength increasing by leaps and bounds with each appearance. His growth was terrifying!
But that was all. Powerful enemies were naturally dealt with by more powerful subordinates. Moreover, Mu Ye Xingchen had several mech pilots under his command whose strength rivaled the top nine War Gods of Xianxia.
Now, Mu Ye Xingchen had another, more important matter.
He was awaiting a battle report from Honglian Zhiwu.
...
One day earlier.
"Beep!" A piercing communication sound rang out, followed by a man's faint voice: "General, Longka Wanyou's army has launched a full-scale offensive on Yonggu Zhi Lan. The main attacking forces in other Xianxia war zones are also reinforcing and advancing steadily. Particularly in the Huangji Zhi Ge war zone, allied forces from several neighboring countries claim they can defeat the defenders within a week. According to reliable intelligence, Xianxia Zhi Ding war zone has less than forty thousand combat personnel, with most of them having been redeployed to other war zones."
After ending the communication, Honglian Zhiwu's charming face showed a trace of triumphant smile. Now, all she needed was an order to lead her thirteen thousand troops to charge out from the sea, advance along the long defensive line of Kuanghai Zhi Feng and Yonggu Zhi Lan, penetrate deep into Xianxia's inland, and finally attack Xianxia City!
The situation in both these war zones had reached a fever pitch, leaving them with no time to deal with the large number of enemy forces that had suddenly appeared on the border defense lines.
This was the tactic Mu Ye Xingchen had formulated years ago.
Mu Ye Xingchen had ordered all war zones to increase their troop strength but maintain the same pace of advance precisely to maintain pressure on the Xianxia war zones, preventing them from focusing on other matters.
Everything he had done was to pave the way for Honglian Zhiwu's invasion of Xianxia.
In other words, the encirclement of Xianxia's various war zones by seven to eight hundred thousand troops was all a staged performance for the upcoming surprise attack on Xianxia City.
They were all "actors" invited by Mu Ye Xingchen, unknowingly playing the role of extras.
As Honglian Zhiwu was replaying the strategy in her mind, the badge on her chest lit up, and a message appeared within it: "Dragon Slayer."
Honglian Zhiwu's charming smile grew more excited, and she declared with fervor, "All troops, advance!"
As soon as her voice fell,
Deep within the ocean, something began to stir.
A colossal submarine searchlight flickered on, its crimson beam piercing the water medium and projecting into deeper waters.
Then, a second, third, fourth, fifth...
Countless searchlights illuminated the seabed in this reef-less area, and the entire ocean floor was bathed in a crimson glow.
Under the illumination of these searchlights, innumerable colossal beings from the deep sea let out terrifying roars and began to slowly surface.
Looking down from the sea surface, patches of eerie, terrifying crimson light suddenly appeared in the fluctuating, hazy depths of the mysterious seabed, as if a thousand-eyed ancient god from Lovecraftian mythology had awakened.
The crimson light from the seabed gradually intensified, and the calm sea surface continued to undulate, with immense waves appearing out of nowhere, signaling the imminent birth of a leviathan from the sea.
Suddenly, a slender, spear-like metal object pierced the sea surface, followed by more and more such objects.
The waves raged, and the blue ocean churned with white, giant waves. Beneath the white surf, a vast expanse of dark shadow gradually enlarged.
A colossal, cylindrical metal behemoth, sharp at both ends, slowly rose from the sea, its size so immense it was enough to drop jaws, reaching hundreds of meters in length.
Water cascaded from its dark, black back.
As only a small portion of the leviathan's back was exposed, a thin slit opened in its center, and with a "swish!" a massive amount of gas erupted from the opening.
After a few seconds of pause, the gas jetting sound subsided, and the slit began to widen and expand!
As the leviathan gradually emerged from the sea, the seam on its back widened, gradually revealing its internal structure.
The first section of its back retracted into its armor, and numerous locking mechanisms arrayed on the armor hooked onto the first section of the back. Following this, the armor, along with the first section of the back, continued to retract into the armor below.
With half of the behemoth's body surfacing, it had transformed into a massive submarine aircraft carrier. Beneath its spine and on its deck stood rows of prepared black mechs, shoulder to shoulder. The deck was densely packed with black mechs, numbering at least three hundred.
As the first submarine aircraft carrier surfaced, a second carrier emerged from behind it, several nautical miles away.
Immediately, a third submarine carrier appeared further behind, then a fourth on the flank, followed by a fifth, sixth...
The entire ocean, as far as the eye could see, was occupied by an immeasurable number of colossal submarine aircraft carriers, transforming the sea into a mosaic of black and ocean blue.
More submarine carriers continued to surface from the rear, and the mechs from the first carrier had already begun to move.
The first mech positioned itself in the center of a dedicated launch bay, its boosters erupting with flames as it ascended. The second mech had already moved to the second launch bay, slowly activating its mech engines, its boosters firing fiercely as it shot into the sky. The third mech followed suit.
Countless mechs launched from the decks of the carriers, forming a mech allied force in the air.
The mech allied force grew, gradually obscuring the sky, forming a black steel torrent in the air.
Once all the mechs from the first submarine aircraft carrier had launched, numerous large bubbles suddenly emerged from the sea area beneath the carrier, the bubbles increasing until they surrounded the carrier.
With a few loud "clank, clank, clank!" sounds, the submarine carrier's armor sprang open.
At the sharp head of the carrier, numerous connected locking mechanisms separated, and the head bent downwards, pressing into the sea. At the clean fractured edge, a giant mech head slowly emerged.
The head's face was oriented towards the sky, level with the deck.
A muffled blast of booster flames suddenly echoed from the seabed: "Boom!" Huge white waves and countless bubbles surged from the depths to the surface.
Propelled by powerful booster flames, the submarine carrier's upper body slowly rose from the sea, forming a cylindrical mech standing upright in the ocean.
Thirty meters below the mech's head, hundreds of thousands of locking mechanisms on the deck disengaged, and a large "工" shaped crack appeared in the center of the deck. The empty deck on both sides of the "工" shaped crack began to rotate on an axis, and the flat deck retracted into the center of the carrier, compressing tightly.
Following this, below the deck, the armor that had been submerged in seawater sprang open, and two metal arms slowly extended outwards.
The two boosters that had propelled the carrier to stand upright from the sea were now positioned on either side of the two metal arms, serving as auxiliary boosters.
The parts still submerged in the sea had their side armor suddenly spring open, and from within, two mech lower limbs slowly protruded outwards.
The original sharp lower armor split into two halves, moving to the knee joint of the mech's lower limbs, forming knee guards.
The boosters originally lined up vertically on the carrier's bottom now became the mech's back boosters. Together with the two boosters on its upper limbs, they simultaneously unleashed powerful, scorching heat waves, pushing the mech to slowly lift out of the seawater.
The mech allied force formed in the sky, with every thousand mechs forming a phalanx, flew towards the Xianxia continent.
The carriers in the sea gradually transformed into giant flying mechs, following behind the mech grand phalanx as they flew towards Xianxia's inland.
From the entire ocean, mechs continuously took off from the submarine carriers, and carriers transformed into giant mechs, flying into the sky.
Within a mere four hours, the entire Black Star carrier fleet, which had been hidden beneath the sea, had launched and was heading towards Xianxia's heartland.
A surprise attack had quietly begun.
At this very moment, in Xianxia City, the highest command had just received news that a massive Black Star allied force had suddenly appeared between two Xianxia war zones and was flying at full speed towards Xianxia City.
The highest command was shocked!
Dozens of combat orders were issued consecutively, demanding reinforcements from other war zones.
Meanwhile, the giant cannon tactics at Yonggu Zhi Lan were still proceeding in an orderly fashion, with one hundred thousand enemy aircraft fiercely attacking Yonggu Zhi Lan.
The Kuanghai Zhi Feng war zone was also suffering unprecedented blows. Regardless of how the war zone adjusted its strategies, all attempts ended in failure against the overwhelming, suffocating numbers of enemy aircraft.
The Xian Zhi Bei Sai war zone managed to hastily dispatch ten thousand mechs to support Xianxia Zhi Ding.
The Huangji Zhi Ge war zone was under siege by several neighboring countries and was struggling to protect itself.