Feeling severely insulted and mocked by Dream Jia, the Destroyer first readjusted his position to keep his buttocks out of range of Dream Jia's long spear. Then he spoke harshly, "Hmph! A bunch of ignorant fools! Fine, since you refuse to submit obediently, I'll crush your queen first, and then let you enjoy the taste of death!"
"You bastard, how dare you disrespect Her Majesty! Take your life!" Hearing the Destroyer's arrogant words again, General Iron Blade shouted.
As General Iron Blade was now close to the Destroyer, the latter carefully assessed this exceptionally brave Eternal Muxing general as Iron Blade loudly reprimanded him. Then, as if realizing something, the Destroyer suddenly burst into laughter, "Oh! So, you're Tie Ta's father, huh?"
General Iron Blade didn't understand why the Destroyer suddenly said this, but before he could ask, the Destroyer continued with feigned regret, "Ah, that idiot Tie Ta! Why was he so impulsive back then? Otherwise, he would have grown into my most loyal assistant instead of being blown into a cloud of blood."
The Destroyer vividly described how Tie Ta was killed by the demonized Earl. Then, teasingly, he suggested that consuming Earl was also a way of avenging Tie Ta. Therefore, rounding it up, he felt that General Iron Blade needed to be thanked for seeking vengeance on behalf of his child.
In fact, when the Mastanians occupied Yongxing, General Iron Blade lost contact with Tie Ta and assumed the grim reality of Tie Ta's fate. Even so, upon hearing the news of his son's tragic death, he still fell into a frenzy of grief. If not for the guards around him holding him back, General Iron Blade would have commanded the flying boat to rush towards the lightning-filled teleportation channel and attempted to fight the Destroyer to the death.
"Hmph! Don't be so impatient! Since you're so eager to die, I'll definitely fulfill your wish later. Of course, that's if you manage to survive until then." The Destroyer, utterly unconcerned about his grief over losing his son, continued to loudly insult General Iron Blade, casually speaking. At the same time, he continued to wield his enormous sword to destroy the celestial shield and attempted to summon more giant lightning strikes, creating more openings on the cracked surface of the celestial shield.
The people who had flown to the vicinity of the celestial shield naturally did not want to see the Destroyer continue to wreak havoc there. However, they were temporarily unable to break through the celestial shield to stop the Destroyer and had not yet found a way to prevent the teleportation channels from continuing to transport Mastanians. Dream Jia, in the simplest manner possible, tried to prevent the continued transport of Mastanians by directly destroying the lightning pillars used as teleportation channels. However, the results were disappointing as these lightning pillars seemed unusually sturdy, with Dream Jia's energy blasts failing to damage them.
Seeing the failure of Dream Jia and Dao Lao's attempts to destroy the teleportation channels again, General Iron Blade, still immersed in anger over his son's death, slapped his thigh and decisively ordered, "Damn it! Since we can't destroy these teleportation channels, let's block them instead! Listen to my command! Immediately attack the teleportation channel in the one o'clock direction! Use the No. 6 flying boat on the left wing to block it!"
Although the elite flying squadron accompanying General Iron Blade to the border of the celestial shield possessed formidable aerial combat capabilities, they were still forced to fight outnumbered due to their proximity to the teleportation channels, suffering continuous losses in the dogfight. It was precisely because of this that General Iron Blade ordered the nearly combat-ineffective No. 6 flying boat, which had already suffered extensive damage and lost most of its crew, to block the exit of the extremely small teleportation channel in the one o'clock direction. According to General Iron Blade's plan, rather than wait for this almost disabled flying boat to be completely destroyed by the Mastanians, it was better to use it to plug the exit of the teleportation channel and vent his frustration.
The elite flying squadron, coordinated with General Iron Blade, Dao Lao, and Dream Jia, immediately turned their attention to helping clear the griffins flying towards the one o'clock direction and escorted the elite flying squadron to the teleportation channel that was just large enough to accommodate a large spaceship carrying the elite flying squadron.
To be honest, Dao Lao and Dream Jia did not think General Iron Blade's method would be effective. However, considering General Iron Blade's rush to find a target to vent his grief over losing his son, and the fact that they couldn't think of another way to stop the teleportation channels from continuing to transport Mastanians at the moment, they decided to give it a try. They also planned to escort General Iron Blade back to the Palace of Eternal Stars immediately after he completed this attempt.
After all, the defense forces of Eternal Muxing still needed this great general to command them. Dao Lao and Dream Jia couldn't allow him to continue staying in such a dangerous area so close to the Destroyer. In fact, Dao Lao and Dream Jia didn't even understand which nerve had caused General Iron Blade to make such a risky decision to personally lead the troops into the sky to fight the enemy.
Due to the small size of the standard teleportation channel opened by General Iron Blade, only one griffin carrying Mastanian soldiers could be sent into the celestial shield at a time. Plus, with Dao Lao and Dream Jia's assistance, General Iron Blade's flying squadron easily controlled this teleportation channel. Therefore, after Dao Lao and Dream Jia once again emptied the griffins intending to fly out of the teleportation channel, General Iron Blade immediately ordered the soldiers steering the heavily damaged No. 6 flying boat to directly block the exit of the teleportation channel.
Although this flying ship successfully and robustly blocked the exit of this teleportation channel, Dao Lao and Dream Jia were not particularly affected. They believed that General Tie Dao's approach, aside from venting his anger, had little practical significance. After all, as long as the Mastanians emerging from the teleportation channel destroyed this flying ship, the channel could be restored for use.
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To everyone's surprise, the ship blocking the exit of the teleportation channel was not destroyed by the Mastanians inside. Instead, after blocking the channel's exit, it caused an energy overload inside the channel due to the inability to discharge energy normally. This overload led to the collapse of the lightning-resistant pillars that formed the teleportation channel, exploding in mid-air with a loud bang, splitting into two sections.
"We did it! These things are indeed not invulnerable! All soldiers, obey! Immediately organize all large flying ships into formations and attack the teleportation channels on the sky shield! We only need to block the exits of these channels to destroy them all and prevent more Mastanians from teleporting over!" Watching the teleportation channel successfully blown up by his unexpected move, General Tie Dao cheered excitedly, immediately ordering the soldiers of Yongmu Star to change tactics from full defense to securing ground defenses while avoiding Mastanian griffins in the air, turning to attack their teleportation channels.
The Mastanians obviously did not expect their teleportation channels to be destroyed in this manner by the people of Yongmu Star, leaving them somewhat panicked. Moreover, unsure whether to continue attacking Yongmu Star's ground defense forces or to turn back to protect their own teleportation channels, they became somewhat chaotic for a short time. Taking advantage of this momentary confusion among the Mastanians, the people of Yongmu Star struck hard at their airborne combat units. Meanwhile, under the leadership of General Tie Dao and with the initiative from Dao Lao and Dream Jia, the elite flying squadron quickly followed up and destroyed another Mastanian teleportation channel using the same method.
Seeing the Mastanians in disarray due to the chaos, the Destroyer angrily rebuked, "Fools! Useless bunch of idiots! What are you all standing around dumbfounded for?! Immediately form a defensive formation to protect the teleportation channels!"
The Destroyer's thoughts were clear at this moment—to distract Yongmu Star's control firepower with some of the Mastanian griffins while others withdrew to defend, ensuring that dozens of other teleportation channels would not be destroyed again. In addition, he would continue to create new teleportation channels to bring over more Mastanians. Soon, they would shake off the temporarily unfavorable situation and regain the initiative in this battle.
It had to be said, the Destroyer's ability to control the situation was extremely strong. Under his rapid adjustments, the Mastanians quickly regained their composure from the confusion and once again faced off against Yongmu Star in the air. Combined with the fact that the Yongmu Star's anti-air giant crossbows could not reach the height of the sky shield, these giant crossbows were unable to directly threaten the teleportation channels or effectively support Yongmu Star's flying ships approaching the height of the sky shield. Thus, although Yongmu Star had found a way to destroy the teleportation channels, they could not easily break through the well-prepared Mastanian griffins to attack the teleportation channels inserted into the sky shield again.
However, due to the disparity in strength, Yongmu Star could not break through the defensive formation formed by the Mastanian griffins in the air. But for Dao Lao and Dream Jia, these griffins were still like a mirage. Therefore, with their joint assistance, General Tie Dao's elite air combat squadron was still able to successfully break through the airborne defenses formed by the griffins several times without paying too much of a cost, and then, using the blockade tactic, successively destroyed multiple teleportation channels.
Seeing this, the Destroyer naturally could not continue to calmly dismantle the sky shield, while also taking advantage of the flaws discovered on the sky shield to create new teleportation channels. Because, judging by the increasingly proficient blockade tactics of Dao Lao and his group, it was estimated that soon, their speed of destroying teleportation channels would surpass the Destroyer's speed of creating them.
Therefore, gritting his teeth, the Destroyer said, "Hmph! You two annoying flies! I want to see what Yongmu Star can use to fight me after I swat you both dead!"
After speaking, the Destroyer withdrew the thorn giant sword that had already inserted most of its blade into the sky shield, leaped into the air next to a lightning pillar forming a teleportation channel. Then, with a swift motion, he directly split this lightning pillar into two sections. As the lightning pillar burst into a sky full of electric flowers, this teleportation channel completely collapsed. The Destroyer then followed the gap left after the teleportation channel disappeared, jumped into the sky shield, and immediately, with the help of a pair of wings formed by numerous tentacles growing on his back, swiftly flew towards Dao Lao and the others.
As Dao Lao and the others prepared to launch an attack on another large opening of the teleportation channel, the Destroyer arrived swiftly and wasted no words, raising his hand in a swift strike. A crescent-shaped black energy wave formed by a powerful sword qi swiftly cut towards Dream Jia, who was leading the charge, and accurately shot her griffin down.
"Dream Jia! Watch out!" Dao Lao, following closely behind, immediately warned. Dream Jia, experienced in combat, almost simultaneously retracted her vitality-spirit and swiftly flipped downwards in mid-air, narrowly evading the Destroyer's attack.
However, not everyone could react swiftly to evade the Destroyer's deadly blow. While Dream Jia and Dao Lao managed to dodge the attack in time, several griffins entangled with them were unable to evade and were all cleaved in half by the energy wave. General Tie Dao wasn't any luckier. Since his flying ship closely followed behind Dao Lao and the others, it couldn't evade in time and was split in half by the black energy wave, exploding into fragments in mid-air. Though General Tie Dao managed to jump out of the ship the moment it was hit, he was still blasted away by the massive shockwave from the ship's explosion.
"General Tie Dao!" Fortunately, Dream Jia reacted swiftly. Boosted by the dual flight capabilities of her cloak and battle armor, she possessed extraordinary flying skills. This allowed her to evade the Destroyer's strike and immediately turn around to catch General Tie Dao, who was sent flying in a parabolic trajectory. She then dove down and delivered General Tie Dao back to the Palace of Mu Xing.
At this point, General Tie Dao had already fallen into a state of unconsciousness. His entire body was blackened by the thick smoke released from the explosion of the flying ship, and his heavy armor was shattered by the powerful shockwave unleashed by the ship's explosion. What's worse, several debris from the ship's explosion were embedded in General Tie Dao's body. Luckily, his heavy helmet had extremely high defense, mitigating most of the damage from the ship's fragments. Otherwise, General Tie Dao's situation would have been dire.