In front of Xiao Yu, the number of various spaceships, weapons, star system’s defense system, and so on had already reached an innumerable level. Under such circumstances, his weapons did not even need to aim. He only had to pour fire forward. The firing of space weapons was the same. Every spatial rift would at least hit hundreds or thousands of targets. Among those hundreds or thousands of targets, some could not withstand the tremendous destructive power of the space weapons and were split entirely in two, while others barely resisted the attack of the space weapons, with only their shields flickering for a moment.

The spaceships destroyed by space weapons exploded immediately, and the empty spots were instantly filled by new ships, which, together with the surviving ships, launched a fierce attack on the intruder before them. Such ferocious attacks strained even Xiao Yu’s Continent-Class spaceship. Certain damage had already appeared inside the three Continent-Class ships, a few tiny sparks began to sputter, and a tense atmosphere spread within the ships.

Fortunately, supply ships kept coming through the flying shrapnel of war, continuously replenishing all kinds of energy for the three Continent-Class ships that bore the mission of spearheading the attack. The internal repair mechanisms of the ships were fully activated, patching up the fine damages everywhere and preventing them from accumulating. Fortunately, many other ships, under the cover and support of the three Continent-Class vessels, did their utmost to share the pressure for them, and only then did Xiao Yu barely hold on.

This was a head-on collision of pure hardness against hardness. In this battle, there were no techniques and no flourishes at all. It was a direct clash between levels of technology and the combat strength of warships.

Amid such difficulties, Xiao Yu’s fleet pressed forward with iron resolve. The path ahead was perilous, full of thorns and obstacles, but with these three Continent-Class ships present, Xiao Yu was fearless.

“In this galaxy, there are many existences that can block the combined advance of my three Continent-Class ships, but I believe that in that list, you are absolutely not included. I will advance. Who can stop me?” Xiao Yu thought proudly, and once again gave the order, “Continue forward.”

The firing rate of the space weapons accelerated again. The power modules supporting the operation of the space weapons had reached maximum output. At every moment, a large amount of energy was produced, then consumed by the space weapons, finally forming streaks of black lines that slashed violently forward. Every moment, large numbers of ships were destroyed. Among these ships, some belonged to Xiao Yu, and some to the Pegasus Civilization. In the pitch-black starry sky, the destruction of every ship appeared incredibly heroic.

At this distance, the distant star was about the size of a teacup lid, and the light it emitted was about as bright as a full moon. It watched coldly from afar, observing these insignificant beings fighting to the death here. At such a level of war, it should have remained aloof, but unfortunately, in this war, as the side of the intruders, the ultimate target was it.

Xiao Yu knew that as long as he destroyed this star, the star system would completely collapse. All the star system’s defense system would entirely fail. Without the star system’s defense system, the ships of the Pegasus Civilization before him would be like mongrels in his eyes, to be killed at will.

At this moment, the stellar cannon was fifty billion kilometers from the primary star. In the previous five days, Xiao Yu’s fleet had advanced a distance of one billion kilometers. Amid the endless ships and flying artillery fire, the Asia took the lead, followed closely by the Europe and the America. The three Continent-Class ships formed a sharp triangle, like a keen dagger, leading nearly ten million warships behind them and pushing forward all the way.

If not for the Four-Dimensional shield, even the Asia would already have suffered severe damage by now. If not for the space weapons, under such dense and ferocious attacks, Xiao Yu’s fleet would not have been able to advance even half a step. Even with these two advanced tools, Xiao Yu’s progress could still only be described as slow.

Faced with such powerful defensive strength, even space weapons within the scope of a Level 6 Civilization still felt somewhat inadequate.

“We must accelerate our advance. If reinforcements arrive from the rear, my situation will become even more passive.” Xiao Yu thought, making a new decision. “Increase advance speed by thirty percent. If anything dares to block the way, ram straight through.”

Making this decision showed that Xiao Yu had truly brought out his full strength. Because this meant that after the war ended, the Asia, the America, and the Europe, the three Continent-Class ships, would very likely suffer certain damage.

“If there is damage, then we will repair it during the journey to another star system. At worst it will consume more supplies and cost me more computation.”

Facing the intruder fleet that suddenly accelerated, the defensive forces of the Pegasus Civilization showed a brief moment of panic, but only for an instant. After that instant, what greeted Xiao Yu was even fiercer artillery fire. Some ships even disregarded life and death. After being damaged to a certain degree, they resolutely activated their remaining propulsion and slammed directly toward Xiao Yu’s fleet.

Most of these ships were directly destroyed by Xiao Yu’s forces, preventing them from getting close to the Continent-Class ships on Xiao Yu’s side. Such actions, in fact, had little practical meaning. Even so, they still made Xiao Yu secretly shocked. He began to imagine such a scene. When a civilization was about to perish, countless passionate citizens and soldiers stood up to make a final effort to save their civilization. For this goal, they could abandon everything of themselves.

If these damaged ships had chosen to withdraw from the battlefield and return to the rear for rest and repairs, the soldiers inside would still have had some chance of survival. But they did not do that. They chose to use their lives to interpret the meaning of loyalty. They gave everything for their civilization.

Xiao Yu deeply respected these people, yet he still did not intend to show mercy. Emotion and reason had always been two different things. Between civilizations there was no so-called right or wrong or morality. What was beneficial to one’s own civilization was right, even if that thing was to completely exterminate another civilization, including all the lifeforms and people of that civilization.

“Eliminating you is beneficial to my Divine Ark Civilization, so what I am doing now is right.” Xiao Yu thought silently. “I am very sorry. I once gave you a chance, but you made the wrong choice. Therefore, for my civilization, I must destroy you, even though I hold great respect for you in my heart.”

Xiao Yu slaughtered madly. Though the steps of Xiao Yu’s fleet were difficult, they were extremely firm. The powerful obstruction from the Pegasus Civilization could slow his advance, but could not make him stop completely. Under such circumstances, the distance between the stellar cannon and the system’s primary star shortened at a speed that was despairingly slow.

Four billion kilometers. Three point nine billion kilometers. Three point five billion kilometers.

No amount of frenzy could make up for the current gap in strength. Xiao Yu kept advancing and never stopped.

Finally, the number shrank to three billion. At this moment, the straight-line distance between the stellar cannon and the star was two billion nine hundred ninety-nine million kilometers.

In the despairing gaze of the Pegasus soldiers, the pitch-black launcher of the stellar cannon still emitted a faint purple glow. They knew very well that this was the sign of negative matter torrents condensing. A vast amount of negative matter, enough to hollow out the interior of the star, was converging here. When the amount of negative matter reached a certain level, it would enter the star’s interior in an instant and take this star’s life away.

In despair, they launched a final attack, trying to destroy the stellar cannon and stop Xiao Yu’s move. But it was useless. Xiao Yu’s fleet blocked their last counterattack before death. More ships placed themselves along the straight line between the stellar cannon and the star, trying to use their own hulls to block the advance of the negative matter torrent. Unfortunately, this was of no use at all. The special negative matter tachyons fired by the stellar cannon would only react with matter whose density exceeded a certain threshold, and that threshold would not be lower than 150 grams per cubic centimeter, a density nearly ten times that of steel. The density of the ships was too low. They were not even qualified to react with this negative matter. After being fired, the negative matter tachyons would pass through like wind through a gauze window, encountering no obstruction.

“Stellar cannon, destroy this star.” Xiao Yu glanced at the Pegasus Civilization fleet that had fallen into madness and calmly issued the order.

Xiao Yu’s emotions could not affect his reason in any way. Destroying this star had been decided from the very beginning.

The purple glow on the stellar cannon’s launcher condensed to the extreme, like a faint ghostly flame burning in the pitch-black universe, weak and barely noticeable, yet within it lurked a colossal power sufficient to destroy a star.

The negative matter torrent was finally fired. At a speed that even Xiao Yu could not measure, it took only an instant to travel from the stellar cannon’s launcher to the star. The material density at the star’s periphery was relatively thin, so it did not react with the negative matter torrent at all. Only when the torrent reached the star’s interior did the reaction occur in an instant.

In the despairing eyes of countless intelligent beings of the Pegasus Civilization, the star exploded in an instant. Its brightness increased by at least several tens of thousands of times in that moment, dazzling and impossible to look at directly. The immense energy swept across the void of the universe like an unstoppable, overwhelming flood.

In this dark universe, the star was like a brilliant firework.