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Chapter 1188 The Goddess of Nature Has Gone Wrong Again

Chu Fei has run away again. How many times has he run away now?

Chu Fei gazed at the "pitch black" void in the distance and fell into deep thought.

It seems I'm constantly on the run, each time covering farther distances than the last. This time, I'm going to run from the Evergreen Sky to the Desolate Lands, roughly tens of thousands of light-years away. Considering the unevenness of the Inner World and the various dangerous areas I need to navigate, the actual distance will be even greater.

The violent scenes that Chu Fei and the Goddess of Nature are seeing now are being transmitted back via frontline detectors and quantum communication technology.

Due to the limitations of the speed of light, the fleet could not directly see the artistic scene of the explosion, nor could they feel the gravitational impact of the explosion.

The fleet was still accelerating, and the space jump technology had been activated, ready to enter a state of faster-than-light travel at any time.

But besides the man-made black hole, the state of the goddess of nature also determines the fleet's actions.

The birth of a black hole theoretically alters the laws and environment of the Everlasting Heaven; this change in the laws and environment will lead to a change in the "saintly positions," causing all saints to fall from their positions.

At this moment, Chu Fei was communicating with the Goddess of Nature, judging the changes in the laws within the Evergreen Heaven domain through continuous communication.

Meanwhile, the Rising Dragon Palace also possesses detection technology capable of measuring changes in the laws of heaven and earth.

Whether it's a quasar or a black hole, their appearance signifies that the "flat continent" structure and corresponding laws of the Evergreen Sky have faced unprecedented challenges and impacts.

There may be many laws governing a world, but gravity is undoubtedly one of the most decisive. Now, the change in the law of gravity is directly causing the collapse of the entire law system of Changqingtian.

As the entire Youyun District continent completely collapsed, reaching its peak impact, the collapse speed of the Changqingtian Law also reached its peak.

The "sacred position" of the Goddess of Nature began to collapse, and Chu Fei faintly sensed that the Goddess of Nature's aura was declining.

In the past, the goddess of nature was one with heaven and earth, and even when she sat in front of Chu Fei, he felt as if she were far away.

But now, Chu Fei felt that the Goddess of Nature seemed to have become real. To be precise, the dimension had dropped, and he could vaguely touch her.

This feeling only lasted a few minutes before the aura of the Goddess of Nature intensified again, quickly becoming elusive once more. Only, the aura was subtly different.

At this moment, the goddess of nature also conveyed her feelings to Chu Fei:

The Heavenly Punishment methods of Changqingtian have become largely ineffective, the Saintly position has also disappeared, and even the Heavenly Dao will of Changqingtian has become chaotic.

The saints fell from their sainthood, began to swim naked, and regained their quasi-saintly abilities;

Previously, those saints had used supernatural powers and laws to lock onto the goddess of nature, but now those methods have also disappeared;

The Goddess of Nature has also lost her holy position in Changqingtian and now barely manages to form a 'holy position of faith'—far inferior to severing the three corpses.

The Nature Goddess's "new holy position" is more like a "magical artifact" forged with the power of faith under extreme conditions. This artifact is called the "holy position." It can be understood as a cheat code. The Nature Goddess's foundation is still that of a peak quasi-saint, but she has the cheat code of a holy position, and this cheat code itself is also a condensation of the Nature Goddess's foundation.

This is probably at the level of Quasi-Saint or above, but not yet a Saint.

To truly transcend the realm of the Everlasting Heaven and attain sainthood, one must at least be a true saint who has severed the three corpses. The Goddess of Nature ultimately relied on shortcuts, resulting in many shortcomings in her abilities.

Now that Changqingtian's holy position has been removed, the Goddess of Nature can no longer "see" what's happening in the distance, nor can she sense the situation of those saints and chaotic divine beasts. They are all invisible to each other.

Chu Fei then relayed the Goddess of Nature's feelings to everyone, especially the think tank, who were engaged in a heated discussion.

The main issue everyone is discussing now is—should we just leave, or fire a shot first and then leave?

According to the original plan, everyone hoped to capture a Chaos Beast.

Pixiu Xuanxiao also needs Chu Fei to capture a Chaos Divine Beast for research.

Xuanxiao needs the Ascending Dragon Palace to investigate whether these unawakened Chaos Divine Beasts still have a chance to awaken, and what methods those powerful beings used—their methods for modifying Chaos Divine Beasts (Chaos Devouring Beasts) are also constantly improving.

In order to conceal themselves, Xuanxiao had no way to directly capture a Chaos Divine Beast.

But now the problem is a bit serious, because the Goddess of Nature's current holy position has also fallen considerably, and her combat power has decreased significantly.

According to the Goddess of Nature, she has only just reached the level of a saint and is probably unable to fight against the current Chaos Beast.

Previously, the Chaos Divine Beast was restricted by the laws of heaven and earth of Changqingtian, and many saints could also control the power of heaven and earth to restrain the Chaos Divine Beast, which greatly reduced the Chaos Divine Beast's combat power.

Now that the sage has lost the power to control the laws of heaven and earth, the will of the Heavenly Dao of Changqing Heaven is in chaos and can no longer restrain the Chaos Divine Beast. It is estimated that the Chaos Divine Beast's combat power has now reached its full potential.

It's very dangerous to try and capture a Chaos Beast now.

Because of the confusion caused by the heavenly secrets, Chu Fei and Zhao Weiguang's communication was also cut off. Occasionally, a signal would come through, but it was always intermittent and garbled. Presumably, what was sent back was the same.

Is it possible to capture a "former" sage?

Oh, now we can only call them "peak quasi-saints." Without the blessing of sainthood, they're all swimming naked.

Although the position of the Goddess of Nature seems somewhat precarious now, it is still a sacred position!

As it stands, the Goddess of Nature may be the only saint within the Changqingtian realm—the Chaos Divine Beast is a beast.

However, the discussion quickly came to a conclusion – leaving was the best option.

The Goddess of Nature was ultimately not one of their own. Moreover, the Goddess of Nature only guaranteed Chu Fei's safety; Chu Fei had no way to directly order the Goddess of Nature to do this or that.

Human relationships are finite.

Of course, if the goddess of nature were to actively hunt down those "naked saints," that would be a different story. But right now, no one can see what's ahead.

During the discussion, an alarm sounded, indicating that a gravitational shockwave and gamma-ray burst were about to catch up with the fleet. The fleet immediately initiated faster-than-light travel and quickly disappeared into the distance.

The fleet was speeding along, but it wasn't running aimlessly. They already knew the approximate locations of the Chaos Beasts and the "former" Saints, and the fleet was approaching those locations.

Whether I'll encounter it or not is unknown, but if I do and have the opportunity, then I'll pull off a heist.

The fleet raced at breakneck speed, while the Goddess of Nature constantly surveyed the surroundings. Being a sage, her reconnaissance abilities remained incredibly powerful.

The Goddess of Nature now possesses a somewhat "Great Dao Saint" aura, having grasped a few laws and capable of surveying a range of one light-year, though with some delay, lasting up to tens of minutes. Furthermore, her large-scale reconnaissance is very inaccurate, only able to sense powerful beings. However, it's sufficient for detecting chaotic divine beasts.

The Rising Dragon Palace mainly employs two reconnaissance methods: one is to launch faster drones to scout ahead of the fleet; the other is radar technology, which is essentially an "astronomical telescope," primarily used to scan the surrounding void and receive and analyze various light rays, electromagnetic waves, gravitational waves, etc.

However, this radar method is somewhat insufficient in the realm of advanced cultivation. This is because powerful individuals can achieve faster-than-light travel, or use techniques such as "Thousand-Mile Talismans" and "Great Teleportation" to achieve it.

Even the current movement speed of the Rising Dragon Palace fleet is faster than the speed of light.

Drones are expensive and easily detected.

Only when these two methods are combined do they have a certain degree of practicality.

In addition, the Rising Dragon Palace also has some vacuum energy and quantum field detection methods, but they are not yet mature and can only be used as supplementary methods.

The combined reconnaissance efforts using multiple methods were very effective. The fleet advanced rapidly for a little over a year and a half, speeding forward by about 150 light-years. The unmanned probes at the forefront traveled 10 light-years more than the fleet, and some probes discovered traces of the Chaos Beast.

Those chaotic divine beasts were also moving at faster-than-light speeds, leaving behind only hazy, scattered, and dimly discernible remnants of light.

As more detectors converged, they continuously scanned the blurry images, then layered and supplemented them to obtain some barely usable images and the trajectory of the Chaos Beast.

These pictures only show a group of chaotic mythical beasts; the Heavenly Emperor and other "former" sages are nowhere to be seen.

These chaotic divine beasts are currently speeding at approximately 10 times the speed of light, heading directly towards the direction of the previously known Youyun District continent.

Looking at the blurry images before him, Chu Fei seemed lost in thought, while the strategists of the Ascending Dragon Palace were also analyzing the situation.

"We can't see the Heavenly Emperor and other saints now. They may have been captured by the Chaos Beast, devoured or sealed by it."

"They may have groveled and become slaves or lackeys. Although they lost their holy positions, they did not lose their minds. We must not underestimate the wisdom of these saints."

Considering that the Chaos Beasts are still advancing towards the Youyun District continent, I conclude that these saints have probably been defeated.

"We can now see that the Chaos Beast's movement speed is only ten times the speed of light. That's not right. The Chaos Beast also charged towards the Sun God's temple before, covering hundreds of light-years in half a year, which scared the Sun God into quickly returning to defend."

When the Chaos Divine Beast entered the Evergreen Heaven, it was over a hundred light-years away from the Profound Yang Domain, yet it arrived in just three or four months.

"Our initial assessment is that the celestial secrets are confused, making it impossible to discern directions. The methods used by top-tier cultivators to determine direction are completely different from ours."

Don't forget, the world is in motion. Now that the secrets of heaven are in chaos, it's already quite remarkable that the Chaos Beasts and the Heavenly Emperor can still find their way.

The Chaos Beast was unfamiliar with Changqingtian. And the Heavenly Emperor and other saints, who previously relied on supernatural powers and saintly laws, had suddenly lost their saintly status; they were likely half-blind.

"Is that so? Well, that makes sense. So, the Chaos Beast is still quite dangerous, as it can still discern directions even after the heavenly secrets are confused."

"Based on current data calculations, we'll most likely just miss the Chaos Beast at a distance of 2.2 light-years. Do you all think we should try to provoke it?"

"Didn't we agree before that retreat was the best option? I suggest we change course now. This isn't like before when we were testing and supporting the Celestial Court, the battlefield was far from home, and if the warships were destroyed, so be it. Now, the warships are carrying hundreds of millions of people, each one a hope for the future."

...

Amid the argument, the fleet adjusted its course, preparing to "brush past" the Chaos Beast.

However, Chu Fei and the others ultimately underestimated the methods of the Sage. To be precise, they underestimated the methods of the Chaos Divine Beast.

Previously, the Chaos Divine Beast was restrained by Chang Qingtian and interfered with by the Sage, thus limiting its overall strength. But now, the Chaos Divine Beast has broken free of its restraints.

The fleet had only adjusted its course less than a week ago when a piercing alarm sounded.

"We've been locked on! Parameter retrieval... it's a technique of the Chaos Beast!"

The news reached Chu Fei immediately, who was startled, his face turning grave and then ashen.

The Ascending Dragon Palace had previously fought the Chaos Beasts at the Celestial Court twice, collecting a considerable amount of data on them. Based on this data, they have now determined that the fleet has been locked onto by the Chaos Beasts.

The Chaos Beast's locking distance is... six light-years!

At this moment, the fleet's overall forward speed is about 100 times the speed of light, the Chaos Beast's forward speed is about 10 times the speed of light, and the relative speed between the two is 110 times the speed of light.

At this moment, the two sides are six light-years apart, and the laws of Changqingtian are still somewhat chaotic. It is under these circumstances that the Chaos Beast has locked onto the fleet!

In a normal environment, wouldn't the Chaos Beast be able to lock onto an existence ten light-years away?

Jin Tierong's voice echoed in the virtual space: "It was my fault. We underestimated saints and saint-level life forms! We had previously discussed that the maximum movement speed of the Chaos Divine Beast might exceed 150 times the speed of light, and perhaps even be faster."

After a slight pause, Jin Tierong began to make serious arrangements: "Everyone, we are not as fast as the Chaos Beasts, so prepare for battle!"

Everyone has it. Now we're entering decisive battle mode. Prepare... Tactic 121, slight adjustments needed.

Once the order was given, the entire fleet sprang into action.

Before the fleet set sail, the General Staff had conducted countless simulations, formulated hundreds of main tactics, and devised tens of thousands of corresponding variations. It can be said that they had basically considered all the crises that might be encountered during the migration.

There's no need for discussion now; just state the tactical designation.

In the void, the fleet began to change.

The 70,000 third-generation warships are actually "destroyers";

The 30,000 large warships are quite complex in composition, mainly consisting of three parts: warships, motherships, and spaceships.

Warships are heavy-duty, heavily armed main warships, numbering over ten thousand, with most being around ten thousand kilometers long.

Motherships, which transport industrial equipment and have mining, production, and maintenance capabilities, range from 10,000 to 30,000 kilometers and number more than 5,000.

Spaceships, mainly living quarters for accommodating personnel, range in size from 10,000 to 30,000 kilometers, and number less than 5,000.

In fact, all three types of spaceships are designed as "warships," but with slightly different focuses. The "mothership" and the "spaceship" are not very different, except for slight differences in their internal design.

Finally, there is the "Temple" super mothership, a super spaceship with a length of 70,000 kilometers, which can be said to be the pinnacle of the current technology of the Rising Dragon Palace.

With the order given, a massive formation was deployed.

With the Temple as its core and 100,000 warships as its "base", a "grand formation" covering an area of ​​three million square kilometers was formed.

The 100,000 warships were arranged in three tiers.

The inner layer consists of fewer than 5,000 spaceships, the middle layer consists of more than 15,000 warships and motherships, and the outermost layer consists of more than 70,000 third-generation destroyers.

In particular, these destroyers were divided into 500 groups of 60 to 65 ships each, and then three or four groups were combined into a larger group, which in turn combined to form a whole.

This division into teams and groups is based on scientific principles.

A team that is too small or too large is not good. Too small a team will lack combat effectiveness, while too large a team will lead to chaos in management.

Large team collaborations are generally best done in two or three groups; if there are four groups, then they should be split into two groups of two.

This combination is relatively simple and flexible, making it easy to command in practice. If the basics are too complex, it will lead to confusion in command.

In fact, this simple principle is fully demonstrated in computers. There are only a few basic logics in a computer, but countless simple logics combined together form a complex system.

The think tank of the Ascending Dragon Palace has also been influenced to some extent by the practice of big data. And the practice of big data itself draws heavily on computer technology.

With so many teams combined, they've formed a unique "battle computer." I wonder if this counts as a formation.

This formation itself is a super formation; the warships of the Ascending Dragon Palace possess creation technology. This can be considered a formation upon formation, forming a nested structure.

The fleet continued forward at its original speed, feigning ignorance of the Chaos Beast. Everyone was, to some extent, hoping that the Chaos Beast wouldn't change course.

However, reality is always harsh.

At the crucial moment, the Goddess of Nature found Chu Fei, and surprisingly, she was somewhat embarrassed despite being a saint.

Chu Fei's heart skipped a beat. Oh crap, you're not going to mess things up at this crucial moment, are you?

Then the Goddess of Nature said shyly and with a slight stutter, "Chu Fei, um... I've been locked onto by the Heavenly Emperor's magic weapon."

Although they no longer hold holy positions, we are now too close, and they know me too well, especially since the sun god and the sky god are both deities we worship; there is a connection between us.

Chu Fei gazed at the endless void and sighed softly, "Senior, do you know what I'm thinking about?"

"what?"

Chu Fei: "In terms of being disappointing, you never disappoint."

"..."

The Goddess of Nature was furious at Chu Fei's "nonsense," for no one had ever dared to speak to her like that before. But after thinking it over, she ultimately remained silent.

The Dragon Palace fleet had already adjusted its course, preparing to move away from the Chaos Beasts. However, the Goddess of Nature was targeted by her "kindred spirits."

After only a moment of silence, the Goddess of Nature suddenly snorted coldly, "The fleet had many directions to choose from, but you chose to face the direction of the Chaos Beast. Putting aside the facts, don't you bear any responsibility?"

Chu Fei rolled his eyes. "The truth is, we need to find the location where the Chaos Divine Beast entered Changqing Heaven and leave from there."

"Oh...I see..."

But Chu Fei immediately comforted the Goddess of Nature: "However, we do bear some responsibility. We underestimated the range of the Chaos Beast's perception and also underestimated the methods of those sages."

"Alas, this is our first time truly facing a Saint-level being; we are severely lacking in experience."

The goddess of nature remained silent for a moment before saying, "Is it possible that you have become too arrogant lately?"

Chu Fei: ...

Impossible, absolutely not, don't make wild guesses! (End of Chapter)