Chapter 687

At that moment, a black giant priest beside him spoke in a deep voice:

“Master, analysis complete.”

“The enemy is using energy resonance to assault the plane barrier. They are preparing to force a breakthrough.”

Jie Ming tilted his head slightly. After receiving the formation’s analysis data, he immediately made his judgment:

“For an ordinary plane, this method would indeed be effective.”

He gazed toward the distant golden light wall, his expression calm.

But the Infernal Sulfur Plane…

had never been an ordinary plane.

Even before the Incense Fire Divine Dao was constructed, the entire plane had already undergone multiple rounds of deep modification.

And ever since the Incense Fire Divine Dao system was integrated into the plane’s rules, the world’s underlying structure had been completely rewoven by him.

An energy resonance of this degree did not even qualify to damage the plane barrier.

However…

Jie Ming suddenly smiled.

“Let them open it.”

The black giant priest was stunned. “Master means…”

“Actively lower the barrier’s strength.”

Jie Ming’s tone was as casual as if he were giving instructions to adjust the temperature.

“Synchronize the oscillations with their resonance frequency.”

“Then… find the right moment.”

“Open a door for them.”

The black giant priest lowered his head. “Understood.”

In the void.

The fleet continued its output.

As the energy frequencies gradually synchronized, the ripples on the surface of the plane barrier grew increasingly violent.

The probe data fluctuated wildly.

The next second.

The adjutant suddenly raised his head.

“Success!”

“The barrier’s strength is continuously declining!”

“The enemy’s energy system must have collapsed!”

The commander’s eight crystalline eyes lit up simultaneously.

As expected.

This world was already on its last legs.

Immediately after, the faint golden light wall trembled violently. A small crack appeared, then rapidly expanded!

It was as if an invisible giant hand had viciously torn open the entire plane barrier from the inside!

Boom!!!

Violent energy gushed out from the edges of the rift.

Moments later, once the energy subsided, a massive passage wide enough for several capital ships to pass through at once stabilized completely.

“Plane passage confirmed safe!”

“Joint shields can pass through normally!”

The operator’s tentacles danced with excitement.

The commander swung his tentacle down decisively.

“Advance according to the predetermined plan.”

“Third capital ship, lead a detachment to secure the void anchor point.”

“Remaining fleet…”

“Enter the plane.”

He paused for a moment, thought briefly, then added, “Do not rush to destroy the surface. The life samples of this world still hold research value.”

“Yes!”

Inside the Infernal Sulfur Plane.

The sky was torn apart.

A massive spatial rift stretched across the firmament, pouring down distorted prismatic light like a torrential rain.

One silver-gray warship after another slowly sailed in.

Their steel hulls blotted out the sky.

The sulfur-colored sunlight reflected off their cold mechanical lines, casting an suffocating metallic chill.

The believers on the ground raised their heads and saw a steel torrent descending from the heavens.

It was like an avalanche covering the entire world.

At the same time.

Jie Ming slowly opened his eyes.

Great Void Step… fully deployed.

In an instant.

His existence shifted from “ethereal” to “vanished.”

The entire invaded airspace was instantly covered by the spatial perception of the Incense Fire Divine Dao.

Every single warship appeared in his perception as a precise point of light.

The position of the flagship “Deep Root” was particularly dazzling, like a lighthouse in the dark night.

Jie Ming’s gaze shifted slightly.

With a mere thought, distance lost all meaning in space.

Thanks to the Incense Fire Divine Dao’s complete control over the entire world, Jie Ming did not even need to cast any spells.

It was as if space itself had become part of his body.

To him, it was merely one step.

As his vision shifted, Jie Ming silently arrived inside the flagship “Deep Root.”

Then… the Causal Trace Shadow Technique activated.

Countless faint golden threads of karma surged out from his vertical eye, instantly wrapping around the Deep Root.

All traces of information inside the entire capital ship were exposed in an instant.

Data flows.

Energy trajectories.

Main brain structure.

Emergency self-destruct devices…

All information was rapidly analyzed by the Five Aggregates Rainbow Mirror.

Almost the same moment he entered, Jie Ming moved.

Light God Transformation activated.

His entire body transformed into an uncapturable stream of light, freely roaming within the warship.

Inside the bridge.

Countless crew members didn’t even have time to react.

They only saw a blazing white light trace streak across the hull.

Then…

All self-destruct nodes failed simultaneously.

Safety fuses melted.

Energy interrupters vaporized.

Short-circuit reset modules were directly evaporated.

Even the alarms had no time to trigger before the entire flagship lost all ability to resist.

At the same time.

Jie Ming’s spiritual power slammed into the flagship’s main brain like a heavy hammer.

Relying on his own exaggerated computational power, the flagship’s main brain firewall collapsed instantly.

Star maps, navigation routes, communication logs, home star coordinates, technological databases…

Through the spiritual connection, all encrypted information was copied by the Five Aggregates Rainbow Mirror in an almost violent manner.

It seemed like Jie Ming had done many things, but from the moment the Deep Root entered the Infernal Sulfur Plane to the completion of all this, only a single blink of an eye had passed.

Only now did the first alarm finally sound inside the Deep Root.

At this moment, the other warships had not even finished scanning the surface.

The communication channels were still transmitting orders to “deploy suppression formation.”

Then…

All the tentacle trees watched from their screens as the massive sixth-level capital ship Deep Root suddenly erupted thick smoke from multiple sections simultaneously. The entire warship lost power in the blink of an eye and began tilting slowly like a heavy piece of scrap metal.

Then, trailing smoke and flames, it plummeted downward.

Rotating as it fell from the sky with a completely incomprehensible sense of absurdity.

The entire fleet channel fell into dead silence.

No one knew what had happened.

No one had time to think.

At that moment, the alarm systems of all warships began screaming frantically at the same time.

“Ultra-high energy reaction detected!!!”

“Energy level exceeds detection limits!!!”

“Spatial structure is being locked!!!”

“Anchoring equipment failing…”

The alarms stopped abruptly.

All the warships fell silent inside at once.

Because… time had stopped.

The entire fleet—from the capital ships to the escort vessels, from the falling Deep Root to the reserve fleet waiting outside the plane…

All froze at the exact same moment.

Propulsion exhaust flames stopped flickering, radio waves halted, smoke solidified.

The entire battlefield was frozen like insects sealed in amber.

Then, Jie Ming’s thousand-meter Dharma Form slowly emerged between heaven and earth.

His dark golden body obscured half the sky.

Two faces looked down upon the fleet simultaneously.

The refined face in front slowly swept its three eyes across the frozen warships.

The cold, hard face behind gazed toward the reserve fleet outside the plane.

Under his gaze, both the fleet inside the plane and the one outside were frozen in time.

Jie Ming nodded slightly. “Lucky. This civilization’s research into the time domain is not deep.”

He looked at the completely motionless fleet and smiled gently.

“One time stop…”

“Is enough.”