Chapter 352 The Earth-Moon Joint Defense Takes Shape

"Click—Sizzle!"

The shrill whistling sound of the high-pressure valve exhaust echoed along the two-kilometer vacuum defense line.

Chen Ge grabbed a brand-new canister of high-concentration extreme yang fuel and slammed it into the slot on the back of the mecha. With a low mechanical clicking sound, the reactor, which was on the verge of shutting down due to overload, suddenly burst into a blinding orange-red flame. The deflated armor on the mecha's chest was forcefully pushed back into place by the renewed spiritual pressure inside.

"Third team! Old Li, your left leg's hydraulic hose is leaking! Don't try to tough it out, get to the back and change the hose!" The deputy captain's voice boomed over the public channel, mixed with violent coughing and spitting blood. "Where's the engineer? Spray some quick-drying gel on his broken leg! Everyone else, turn all the purification fluid valves all the way up! If you're going to use enough, don't be stingy!"

"Roger that! I'll go get them right away!" Old Li cursed as he maneuvered his wrecked mech backward, casually grabbing two brand-new heavy swords from a passing transport ship.

Above the dark and deep Aitken Basin, five hundred surviving defenders were undergoing an extremely rapid battlefield change of clothes.

There was no sadness, no relief at surviving a catastrophe. Everyone was frantically attaching any usable weapons to the mechs and shoving the pipelines for the extreme yang purification fluid directly into the reactor core.

Amidst the chaotic clanging of steel...

"Boom—"

In the abyss below, the black door, from which Gu Qing had drained the first wave of extreme yin essence, began to writhe violently once more.

This time, there were no low-level monsters probing.

With a violent distortion of space, a colossal entity, over thirty meters long, covered in sharp bone spikes and compound eyes, burst forth from the black gate like a giant whale crashing through the water. Behind it, countless dark shadows surged upwards like boiling asphalt.

"The Void Force is coming!" the radar operator shouted, watching the screen turn red instantly.

Chen Ge suddenly pulled down his mask, raised the Star Iron Ship-Slaying Blade burning with three feet of golden flame with one hand on his left arm, and pointed the blade directly at the thirty-meter-long behemoth.

"Everyone, get it! Great Sun Sword Formation! Burn it!"

"boom!!!"

Five hundred Xuanwu armored vehicles are simultaneously operating at full power.

With a continuous supply of purified liquid from Earth, the cultivators no longer needed to engage in hand-to-hand combat using the mass of their mechs as before. Five hundred thick streams of Extreme Yang True Fire, mixed with the dazzling sword energy cleaved by the heavy sword, intertwined in the vacuum to form an extremely violent golden fire net, crashing down on the newly emerged bone-spiky behemoth.

"Sizzle—!"

The deafening clash of energy reverberated in the vacuum. The high-dimensional behemoth, capable of tearing dozens of mechs apart under normal circumstances, didn't even have time to utter a scream before being instantly vaporized into a cloud of black ash by the unreasonable saturation of firepower!

"That felt good! Fuck you, monster!"

Roars erupted from the defensive line. The sharpness of the new sword and the abundance of fuel transformed the remnants of the army, who had been pent up for hours, into the most frenzied butchers.

……

Earth. 700 meters underground in Kyoto, in the joint control room.

"Slurp—"

Lin Feng held a box of bloated braised beef noodles in his hand, swallowing it in large gulps while his eyes were fixed on the large screen in front of him that was split in two.

On the left is the impregnable, undisturbed, bluish-gray Nine Provinces Barrier; on the right is the meat grinder defense line on the Moonlit Battlefield, almost illuminated by the Extreme Yang True Fire into daylight.

"The lunar defense line's real-time energy consumption is 400% over the limit. The Taiyi Furnace is already operating at full capacity, using local materials to forge heavy swords." Lin Feng reported vaguely while chewing noodles, "Professor Wang, the thirteen heavy industry sectors on Earth are sending two thousand tons of ammunition and fuel to the moon every minute via interstellar teleportation arrays."

The military representative stood aside, watching the fierce battle on the moon, his brow furrowed as he stroked the stubble on his chin.

"Old Wang, since Earth's Nine Cauldrons Barrier has locked down space, preventing even sight from getting in, why don't we withdraw all the troops from the Guanghan Base? Wouldn't it be safer to defend inside the barrier? These lads have suffered too much."

Wang Mingyuan slammed the chipped teacup onto the table, turned around, and stared intently at the military representative.

"Withdraw? And then hand the moon over to the void monsters as a springboard?"

Wang Mingyuan walked to the holographic star map, pointed to the Earth wrapped in a cyan shield, and then pointed to the lonely moon next to it.

"A barrier is a shield; a shield can only be used to defend against attacks, not to kill enemies."

Wang Mingyuan's voice was cold and hard, carrying an unquestionable strategic determination: "If we dismantle the Guanghan Base, the Void Monsters will be able to establish anchor points on the moon without any hindrance. They will turn the moon into a super siege tower, relentlessly eroding the array patterns of the Nine Cauldrons day and night."

He slapped the projection of the moon with his palm.

"Therefore, the Guanghan Base not only cannot be withdrawn, but it must also be transformed into a steel nail forever driven into the eye of the Void Monsters!"

"As long as that black gate opens on the far side of the moon, our army will bleed them dry there! Earth, in the safest environment, will provide unlimited production capacity for mass production; the moon, in the most brutal way, will keep the monsters firmly pinned down 380,000 kilometers away!"

Wang Mingyuan turned around and looked around at everyone in the control room.

"This is our Earth-Moon joint defense system."

"The moon is our spear, and the nine tripods our shield. As long as our Earth, this industrial machine, keeps turning, the swords in Chen Ge's hands will always be burning hot!"

The military representative paused for a moment, then snapped to attention, a glint of fervor in his eyes: "Understood! I'll immediately coordinate with the third batch of reserves, ready to be deployed via the teleportation array for rotation at any time!"

……

The far side of the moon is deep in the sky.

The battle has reached a fever pitch.

Deep within the Black Gate, monsters were no longer pushing their way out one by one.

The space at the bottom of the entire Aitken Basin is undergoing a violent collapse.

"Beep beep beep beep—!"

The wide-area radar inside Chen Ge's mech suddenly emitted an extremely dangerous beeping sound, and the red dots on the screen had become so numerous that they could no longer be displayed, turning into a blinding blood red.

"Captain Chen! The energy reaction at the Black Gate is wrong!" The vice-captain had just cleaved a Void Hound in two with his sword when the mech's thrusters suddenly stalled. "It's spewing out a... black mist! The spotlight can't penetrate it!"

Chen Ge stopped swinging his sword and looked down into the abyss.

At the edge of the crack, the void entities that were frantically surging forth suddenly ceased their attack. They piled up eerily, allowing the defenders' sword energy to shred them, while behind their corpses, an extremely dense black substance, seemingly containing the concept of pure destruction, was slowly rising.

380,000 kilometers away, Earth's main control room.

The instant noodle box in Lin Feng's hand fell to the ground with a "thud," splashing noodle soup all over his shoes.

He lunged at the keyboard, his voice shrill: "The lunar far-side probes are sending back high-dimensional frequencies! Those void entities are merging masses! They... they're accumulating a supersonic mass impact!"

Wang Mingyuan suddenly looked up at the terrifying black tide gathering on the far side of the moon on the screen.

The black tide did not rush towards Chen Ge and the others who were waiting in ambush two kilometers away. Instead, it suddenly turned at an extremely strange angle in the vacuum and aimed at the Earth, which was emitting a bluish-gray light, 380,000 kilometers away.