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"The Electromagnetic Ray Cannon seemed only to tickle it, while only the Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon could truly inflict damage, especially the Mixed Hollow Extreme Yang Sword Intent Divine Light."

Staring at the fierce wound atop the alien queen's head, a ghastly gash of over ten meters long oozing scorching purple viscous fluid incessantly, Song Chi murmured to himself.

Besides the wound on its head, there were no other serious injuries on its body. Even its abdomen, swollen like a balloon, displayed only sparse purple bloodstains.

These bloodstains were the work of the Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon. As for the Electromagnetic Ray Cannon, the electromagnetic thunderballs couldn't leave a mark on its purple crystal skin.

Seeing this, Song Chi was not in a hurry. He didn't approach the creature but continually fired the Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon from a distance.

The spot he targeted was the massive gape on the alien queen's head, carved open by the Mixed Hollow Extreme Yang Sword Intent Divine Light. The defense of its purple crystal skin was terrifyingly strong. Even the Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon, enhanced to Third Rank, could only leave shallow wounds of a few dozen centimeters, trivial compared to its kilometer-sized body.

However, attacking the wound carved by the Mixed Hollow Extreme Yang Sword Intent Divine Light was different; there was no purple crystal skin protection within the wound, allowing the Pure Yang Sword Light to cut deep into its flesh with each strike.

Song Chi believed that after several more rounds, the wound would undoubtedly continue to enlarge, and eventually, slaying this Third Rank alien queen would not be difficult.

Hiss Hiss Hiss!

Suddenly, seeming no longer able to withstand the torment, the alien queen roared out from thousands of meters away, and its bloated abdomen began to shudder violently.

"Laying eggs!"

Song Chi made the judgment instantly, and with preparations in place, he swiftly turned the muzzle of the Electromagnetic Ray Cannon. Simultaneously, the Cang Qiong moved to the side, and upon adjusting to a suitable firing angle, the cannon fired abruptly.
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The thunderballs, about a meter in diameter, did not target the alien queen's body but aimed straight for the row of ovipositors at the tip of its tail. As a shipborne secondary weapon, the Electromagnetic Ray Cannon indeed struggled to damage the Third Rank alien queen much, but when it came to destroying these freshly laid eggs, it was more than suitable.

The lightning arc splash feature allowed it to spread over and devastate many eggs at once.

Gurgling Gurgling Gurgling!

From the alien queen's abdomen came a bizarre noise followed by tens of thousands of eggs spurting out.

Sizzling Sizzling Sizzling!

Under the bombardment of the Electromagnetic Ray Cannon, most of these surging eggs were incinerated before the hatchlings inside could emerge.

Seeing this, Song Chi aboard the Cang Qiong smiled with satisfaction, pleased with the result, but his vigilance towards the alien queen did not lessen one bit. After all, it was a Third Rank lifeform, and considering the small size of this relic space, if it approached too close, the Cang Qiong might risk sinking.

Yet, just as Song Chi braced for the alien queen's potential rampage and maintained high alert, the queen's reaction once again surprised him. It continued to circle closely around that Crystal Box without any sign of moving away.

Song Chi's eyes narrowed. No matter how he looked at it, it seemed as if the alien queen was guarding the Crystal Box.

"Could it be that there's some Starry Sea Oddity within this Crystal Box that's extremely important to it?"

Amid the doubts, the alien queen underwent another transformation. The purple crystal skin on its body suddenly shimmered with dazzling purple light. As Song Chi stayed vigilant for whatever significant move it might make, the trembling of its abdomen intensified further. Then, an even more terrifying number of eggs spewed forth.

Sizzling Sizzling Sizzling!

Aboard the Cang Qiong, the Electromagnetic Ray Cannon was still firing at full strength. However, the amount of eggs the alien queen was expelling this time was staggering—tens, hundreds of millions, and even the cannon could not clear them all.

Gazing at these eggs, Song Chi felt somewhat relieved. The eggs were only about the size of a child's fist. Even if all of them hatched, they should not pose a big threat to the Cang Qiong. Moreover, considering the clearing speed of the Electromagnetic Ray Cannon, as long as the queen didn't continuously lay more eggs, these surplus eggs would soon be eliminated.

But just as he thought of this and before he could rejoice, Song Chi's expression soon darkened.

Crack Crack Crack!

Those eggs that had not been immediately cleared by the cannon quickly cracked open. Small insect creatures crawled out one after another.

That was far from the key point. Upon emerging from the eggs, they quickly started to nibble on the eggshells. Once they devoured these shells completely, Song Chi could clearly see the creatures had grown significantly larger.

Yet that seemingly wasn't enough for them. They began to further consume the half-destroyed eggs around them, like a swarm of monsters that knew no satiety, devouring everything in sight.

Seeing this, Song Chi intuitively felt something was wrong and turned his cannons towards these still-few insect creatures, yet this was still only a temporary solution. As he left the spurting eggs alone, more and more small insects emerged from the shells. In just a short time, tens of thousands of them had appeared by the alien queen's side.

Looking at those insects that had hatched first, which were now few in number, their bodies had swollen to several meters in length, and the energy fluctuations they emitted had reached the peak of Zero Rank.

Realizing this, Song Chi's expression fluctuated, his understanding of the toughness of this alien queen deepening anew.