The magnificent black Mecha was slaughtering the Zerg Race with brutal, bloody violence, radiating a vicious aura.

It possessed the fiercest and most formidable combat power, which also made it the primary target for the Zerg swarms.

Surprisingly, Jiang Zheyu no longer felt any fear.

The vicious aura they had forged through daily battles with the Zerg Race was all to protect the vast universe behind them.

Jiang Zheyu was just about to focus and attempt to attack one of the Zerg.

Suddenly, a head popped into her line of sight.

Pink hair and red eyes.

Jiang Zheyu’s spiritual power wavered, as if a spell she was casting had been interrupted mid-incantation.

’Who is this? How did I not notice him?’

"Well now, so the female is here!" the man said, a faint smile playing on his lips.

Jiang Zheyu scanned him with her spiritual power but detected no fluctuations.

’This must be a Beastman controlling a Biorobot with his spiritual power.’

The man reached out to grab Jiang Zheyu’s arm, but his hand closed on empty air.

Jiang Zheyu quickly sidestepped his grab, spun around, and broke into a run. ’This guy is obviously up to no good!’

But before she could get far, she heard a rush of wind behind her.

The next moment, a hand seized the back of her collar.

’I can’t outrun him. I can’t outrun him.’

The man leaned in close, his voice dripping with malice. "Alas, my spiritual power has been damaged. I’m afraid I’ll have to ask you to come with me, female, and heal it for me!"

With her collar in his grasp, Jiang Zheyu couldn’t run any further.

The next moment, she spun around and slapped him across the face.

SMACK! The crisp sound of a slap echoed.

A red handprint immediately appeared on the man’s face. His expression froze, as if he couldn’t believe the female before him had actually dared to slap him.

He was completely stunned.

So much so that his grip on Jiang Zheyu’s collar loosened slightly.

Jiang Zheyu struggled with all her might, wrenching her clothes from his grasp and immediately bolting forward.

’This damned low Combat Power!’

She knew she couldn’t win a direct confrontation, so her only plan was to catch him off guard with a slap.

And just as she’d hoped, he was stunned by the completely unexpected slap.

Jiang Zheyu ran toward Shan Xun, shouting at the top of her lungs, "Captain Shan! Help me!"

Meanwhile, a vicious glint flashed in the pink-haired man’s red eyes as he charged after Jiang Zheyu again. "Damned female! No one has ever dared to slap me before!"

Shan Xun, tangled in mid-air combat with the Zerg Race, immediately noticed Jiang Zheyu’s plight. He gave a cold command to several nearby Mechas, "Get over here and hold off these Zerg for me."

The Mechas moved in concert. As Shan Xun’s Mecha pulled back, the others swiftly moved to form a wall in front of him, blocking the oncoming Zerg.

Watching Shan Xun’s Mecha fly toward her, Jiang Zheyu’s heart began to beat a little faster.

Just as the man behind her was about to catch up, Shan Xun’s Mecha slammed down in front of him. The pink-haired, red-eyed man skidded to a halt.

The fist of Shan Xun’s black Mecha hammered down heavily on the pink-haired, red-eyed man.

The man tried to leap away, but he was a step too late. The Biorobot’s body was instantly smashed to pieces with a tremendous CRUNCH.

A mechanical arm snapped off, falling in several pieces to the side, while other components scattered in all directions.

「Somewhere in the universe, at a Star Thief Gang’s hideout.」

The man cried out as a searing pain shot through his mind, forcing him to retract his spiritual power from the machine.

"Damn you, Shan Xun!" the man snarled.

His spiritual power, which had already been in poor shape, was now even weaker. In a fit of rage, he smashed his entire laboratory to smithereens.

"Release all the Zerg," the man ordered into his Light Brain.

Back on the battlefield, Shan Xun had just finished pulverizing the Biorobot.

Suddenly, another massive wave of Zerg appeared in the sky, swarming toward the Research Institute’s base.

Many unfamiliar Mechas also flew in, charging straight for him.

Shan Xun immediately realized this was a deliberate attack. ’And their target,’ he thought, ’is probably the young female by my side.’

Without a moment’s hesitation, Shan Xun scooped Jiang Zheyu into his Mecha’s palm.

The moment he moved her, several unfamiliar Mechas launched an attack, striking the very spot they had just occupied.

Jiang Zheyu clung tightly to the Mecha’s enormous finger. It felt like being on a pendulum ride with no safety harness. One moment they were soaring into the sky, the next they were flashing to another location, with a constant barrage of attacks chasing them from behind.

The Zerg swarmed after them, and the unfamiliar Mechas moved to encircle them. In an instant, the situation became critical.

Ignoring the dizzying sensation of being flung through the air, Jiang Zheyu focused her spiritual power and attacked a Zerg that was flying toward them.

The Zerg instantly exploded into smithereens right before her eyes.

Because Shan Xun was focused on protecting Jiang Zheyu, he couldn’t engage the other Mechas or the Zerg head-on. He was afraid he might accidentally harm the female in his hand during the fight, so he was constantly evading.

As he executed these high-speed evasive maneuvers, Jiang Zheyu focused her spiritual power, relentlessly attacking the Zerg one after another.

"Not bad," Shan Xun’s voice transmitted from the Mecha.

"Thanks," Jiang Zheyu replied, her expression turning serious. "Just make sure you protect me and don’t let me fall."

"Alright. Just tell me how you need me to position us," Shan Xun’s voice replied.

"Just keep the attacks off me. That’s all the protection I need," Jiang Zheyu answered.

"Got it," Shan Xun replied.

He agreed so readily because he’d seen that the female could kill the Zerg far faster than he could.

Therefore, he decided to focus on coordinating with her to take them down.

This was a large-scale, planned Zerg offensive.

The surrounding Beastmen could clearly sense that the number of Zerg was increasing.

’What kind of Beastman could possibly be breeding so many Zerg?’

Meanwhile, Jiang Zheyu focused her mind and unleashed her Spiritual Domain.

This time, she wasn’t just targeting a single Zerg. She wanted to expand her entire Spiritual Domain and see if she could annihilate every last Zerg within it.

Shan Xun felt an immense wave of spiritual power expand outward.

Before he could even process what was happening, the swarms of Zerg that blotted out the sky were crushed into fragments in a single instant. It was as if a rain of blood had begun to fall from the gloomy heavens.

Every Mecha froze in mid-air, completely stunned. Even the unfamiliar Mechas stared in shock at the scene.

’What just happened? How could so many Zerg be crushed to pieces in an instant?’

No one had ever witnessed so many Zerg being completely pulverized in a single moment.

’Just how powerful must that spiritual power be?!’