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Chapter 1024: Consuming Realms

What was squeezed out was the volatile effect of this pale grey liquid, and what was absorbed would be the energy from this pale grey liquid.

"Asteroid Assimilation!"

Qin Feng's internal force surged forth as one of his frozen stars began to turn, forming a vortex.

The surroundings quickly became the liquid form of energy that swirled around him as it was being integrated into his dantian.

However, that was only the shifting of one star.

"More!"

The second frozen star began to turn and the absorbing force doubled.

Then the third, the fourth, the fifth…

One by one, the frozen stars began to rotate as the suction got increasingly stronger. This kind of power caused the world around them to stir.

This was not an exaggeration, the pale grey liquid around Qin Feng was originally stagnant but as it gradually began to flow it began to resemble a whirlpool.

Under such circumstances, the entire internal space began to churn.

This situation was like a tsunami that continued to gather an ever increasing force. Qin Feng did not know this, but the world above, due to these vibrations, the ground began to quake until cracks began to appear as the entire planet experienced a massive earthquake.

The crust began to shift and stones began to rise up high. In a world without gravity, a bunch of them had already broken off and flown into the cosmos.

This realm was unable to bear it and began to collapse upon itself.

At this time, Qin Feng encountered a critical moment while he was still within the core.

The liquid was increasing in amount and it blended into Qin Feng's nine frozen stars, irrigating them. However, these energies had too many impurities in them and it was not even as good as the one from the realm he went to during the peace contest.

"Absorption."

The dark starglobe descended as it absorbed away the liquid and removed all the impurities. What was left was only the transparent color that water had.

As a result, the energy immediately lost four-fifth of its volume.

Only one fifth was left.

At this moment, the eight meter in diameter planet core began to move under the constantly shifting water as it was being moved by the powerful force of the Asteroid Assimilation technique.

Crack!

A chip of stone broke off and followed the flowing water into Qin Feng's dantian.

This was a completely solid internal force, and once it entered the absorption force of the dark starglobe, it began to scour it until all that was left was a transparent internal force stone before it was integrated into the frozen star.

Crack, crick-crack.

That was the sound of the planet continuing to break apart.

In such a noise, Qin Feng's internal force stars began to get stronger.

Boom!

The internal force star could not bear the force of the constant turbulence of the water and the strong suction of the Asteroid Assimilation technique, so it ended up exploding.

The suction force began to frantically grab onto the spreading internal force and Qin Feng's frozen stars began to visibly expand.

Five centimeters… six centimeters… ten centimeters…

Twenty centimeters… thirty centimeters… one meter.

All nine stars grew together and after all the broken internal force stones were absorbed, Qin Feng's frozen stars actually grew up to two and a half meters.

It was not just one star that was two and a half meters, it was all of them.

As the planet's core disappeared, the water also began to dissipate.

Boom boom boom!

Qin Feng noticed that a large chunk of rock was crashing down toward his head, and cracks burst through the surrounding earth as the whole world came crumbling down.

This realm was about to fall apart and disappear.

All this occurred in a matter of five hours.

Although other people did not have the capabilities that Qin Feng had, at the same time, he understood one thing. As people got stronger and stronger, then the chances of the realm they were on surviving would become more fragile.

Spatial beasts were the greatest enemy, but there were other ultra beasts that had capabilities to ruin a realm as well.

"Bai Li, the next realm!"

Since these realms did not have humans on it, for the Human Alliance it was more or less just a resource to be consumed. As a result, he was going to help himself to them!

Among the inferior realms, the largest core among them was roughly around ten meters in diameter and the smallest ones would be around five to six meter in diameter.

After Qin Feng had used his Absorption Ability to take it all, what was usually left would be around one fifth of the size.

In the first realm, his frozen stars changed from being four centimeters to two and a half meters, but as they got larger the volume required to make a significant change also increased.

Plus, the energy spread out amongst the nine starglobes that Qin Feng had so at the end of it all he barely reached about ten meters in diameter.

But that was enough.

Internal force stars were different to ability starglobes and it directly affected the rank.

The Asteroid Assimilation technique could be improved.

Of course, those in the past that practised Asteroid Assimilation were not as insane as Qin Feng was. He had gathered nine frozen stars. The conditions needed to even reach that level were difficult enough, much less find the amount of energy needed to improve them. His strength had increased by nine times and his internal force level had completely reached SS-tier!

"I'm not sure if my strength now would let me take on an SSS-tier or not!" Qin Feng's eyes glinted with a faint light.

He thought of Shao Dongfeng, but he was still calm and did not immediately think about going back to teach Shao Dongfeng a lesson. Instead, he called out to Bai Li.

"Take us to the Insectoid realm!"

Cultivation must continue. Qin Feng had a feeling that this particular realm was something that the Human Alliance would conjure up plenty of excuses just to have a look at. However, with him as the owner, they could not say anything about it.

In truth, did he actually own the realm? No, he was just given the right by humanity to develop it. The ultra beasts surely did not care whose realm it was.

If someone wanted to sabotage him by luring a few spatial beasts here, it would mean that Qin Feng would have to avoid getting crushed as a result.

This time, after passing through the spatial passage, Qin Feng and Bai Li once again stepped into the realm of the Insectoids' base camp.

This realm was very large, hundreds of times compared to that of the Blue Star. The pressure inside this realm was very high, as a result the liquid energy under this planet's crust would be very powerful.

Qin Feng and Bai Li inspected it and unsurprisingly found that this planet was what a wood-type Immortal would turn into after their deaths.

That was why the entire planet was covered in trees, but because it was home to multiple kinds of Insectoids it was a place full of toxic bugs.

Qin Feng's consciousness swept out, covering one percent of the planet's surface with that incredible range.

He did not know how many Insectoids were present and how many creatures were still gestating

His face did not show any sympathy as his eyes burned with the regard for these as nourishment for his growth.

He quickly unleashed his consciousness and the center of his brow opened up. A dark star had entered this dangerous realm.

Soon after, a billowing darkness spread all over the creatures on the surface at a frenzied pace.

Insectoids died in great numbers. After they died, their corpses dried up and their physical energy went along with the vast consciousness that covered the land as it flowed into Qin Feng's body and nourished his body.

Slaughtered a world, strengthened the body!

Chapter 1025: SSS-tier's Threat

A month later, the entire planet was already riddled with holes and it might be able to readjust itself. However, within a year the entire planet would not be able to return to its original state.

Before, if it did not feel like constant springtime here, then it would be lush with shady trees.

Now, all that was left was the ruination left by the corrupting darkness.

Qin Feng slaughtered the creatures in the entire realm and absorbed their life energy and strengthened his own body. In the end, his physical body improved four times in a row, reaching up to S5 tier.

As such, on the surface he was only an S5-tier aptitude user.

Meanwhile, his internal force had reached the standard of an SS tier, so did his ability cores. The only difference was his physical strength and the strength of his consciousness.

"Looks like we still need to go to the Human Alliance and see if there are any missions to hunt down void beasts!"

Void beasts did not necessarily mean all spatial beasts. All creatures that could swim around in the violent radiation of outer space were called void beasts.

They were very powerful creatures, a great destructive threat to the planet of the realm as they invaded realms to consume planet cores. Just one S-tier void beast deity would be enough to destroy the realm.

And so, in order to deal with creatures like them the Human Alliance continued to fight back on the realms they were aware of and even issued missions for aptitude users to step forward.

When Qin Feng first joined the Human Alliance, Hu San warned him to not accept such tasks. They were too dangerous for him.

Back then, he did not have the strength to participate, but things were different now.

He returned to the Human Alliance and checked the major tasks, but as soon as he turned on his communicator notifications came pouring in.

Countless people have been looking for him for more than a month.

Whether it was the Huaxia Alliance's strongest, Long Kong, or the one who he had hostile interactions with, Shao Dongfeng, they had all left him messages.

"Qin Feng, I am currently in Blue Star Town, would you like to come out and meet me? I'm only giving you seven days, if you don't respond then I'll go to your realm and have a look around," Shao Dongfeng's last message came into view.

That was a blatant threat.

Qin Feng looked at his feed and saw that the message was received about nine days ago, so that meant that Shao Dongfeng was still about one day away.

His face shifted into a cold expression.

"Heh, don't know if my current strength is enough to kill him?" Qin Feng's dark ability did not improve, but he could probably confuse Shao Dongfeng for a moment.

When he first saw Shao Dongfeng, he activated his Stygian Abyss before turning away and running. He also believed that he was not strong enough to defeat Shao Dongfeng, not even the Supreme Long Xiao could do it.

Now, his strength has improved again. With his nine frozen stars having reached ten meters, that meant his combat potential was terrifying.

He did not know what aces Shao Dongfeng had up his sleeve but in terms of internal force he felt that he was not necessarily worse than Shao Dongfeng.

This time, he had his own trump card.

With that in mind, he did not think of escaping.

He looked for the area left behind by Shao Dongfeng and left his villa, moving onward.

Blue Star Town was the small town they were in. There was a bar here, all the service workers were machines but if aptitude users wished to exchange information they would sit here. Overtime, it became relatively lively.

After Qin Feng joined the Human Alliance, due to his low tier but high combat effectiveness, he had a vague idea of what this place would be but never really came here.

What he did not expect was his first time to be like this.

He pushed past the door. The inside of the bar was quiet, but the moment Qin Feng stepped in, he realized that there were a number of people there.

Not just a number, a high number.

There were at least seventy to eighty people.

No doubt these were people all above S-tier in strength but there were actually SS-tier aptitude users sitting at the very front.

Long Kong, Li Yuan, Arus, Seinakawa, Rick and so on were all here

At this time, nobody dared to move. Some closed their eyes and composed themselves, others had anxiety flashing across their eyes.

There was only one person sitting at the edge of the bar and even though their back was defenselessly facing these aptitude users, nobody dared to attack.

This was the force of an SSS-tier aptitude user.

As Qin Feng entered, the eyes of the others suddenly shifted. Among them were people who naturally anticipated Qin Feng's arrival, but at the same time it had been six days and they felt hopeless. Nobody knew where he went.

Now that he was here, the moment they saw him it was just like finding a life-saving rice straw.

"Qin Feng!"

"He's finally here."

"Alright, I guess I won't die."

These people felt a great sense of relief. These past days, Shao Dongfeng kept them here in order to find Qin Feng and even used these people to coerce him.

Now, he succeeded.

"Here I was thinking that you weren't coming?" Shao Dongfeng smiled.

Qin Feng's expression was cold, there was nothing to smile about.

"I just came back from the realms I was awarded. I'm not sure why the SSS-tier Master Shao wants to see me?"

Shao Dongfeng heard Qin Feng's voice that had a mocking tone, his originally smug smile faded, and his gaze became imposing and threatening.

"Qin Feng, I'm not sure if you know when to shut that mouth of yours. Don't you know what I am here for?"

"For those realms?"

"Smart, it's good that you know. In fact, I wanted to help you before, so that everyone on both sides would win, wouldn't that be better? There was no need to make things so concrete."

Qin Feng snickered. Sakyaey, the Dark Coalition member, chose rank-up items that were extremely precious. Shao Dongfeng gave Qin Feng an elixir with a massive side effect, not because he wanted to help him, but to cheat him.

How could someone like that still be blustering about?

Just because he was an SSS-tier meant that he could do whatever he wanted?

Qin Feng suddenly burst into laughter and said, "Then perhaps Master Shao would be disappointed. I've absorbed the energy core of those realms and they have now become ruins."

Shao Dongfeng did not believe that at all, but looking at Qin Feng's expression made him solidify the disdain on his own face as he stared dead at Qin Feng.

"You can't be for real?"

"How can it not be real? These realms aren't inhabited by humans, nor do they have many resources. If the core is absorbed, then strength can be quickly increased. So, why not?"

"Bullsh*t, even if you absorb a realm that would take you ten to a hundred years and you absorbed nineteen realms? Qin Feng, don't fool me, you'll bite off more than you can chew!"

However, these kinds of threats were ones that Qin Feng did not take seriously.

"If Master Shao doesn't believe me, then why don't we both go and take a look?"

He proceeded to take out the spatial stones issued to him by the Human Alliance, holding it out as an invitation to Shao Dongfeng.

Chapter 1026: Whatever the Strong Say Goes

Shao Dongfeng stared at Qin Feng.

The surrounding people also stared at him.

These people had not seen an SSS-tier for many years but they had never had any hostile interactions with SSS-tiers

Now, Shao Dongfeng was stirring up conflict with them and among those who were present, there were people who had not slept or had proper rest for seven whole days.

"What's wrong? Master Shao doesn't want these realms?" Qin Feng asked.

What Shao Dongfeng originally planned to do in the beginning was to gain something of value without doing much in return. Although Qin Feng's strength was impressive, he was not even an S9-tier aptitude user. In the end, even if he did not die, Shao Dongfeng would only lose out on one realm.

However, Qin Feng did not know how to appreciate favors and rejected joining Shao Dongfeng's plot, instead he wound up killing off Sakyaey. When he obtained those seventeen realms, Shao Dongfeng thoroughly intensified that devil in his heart and desired to snatch away Qin Feng's resources.

Now, his plan had basically succeeded as Qin Feng really did succumb as he had wished.

The problem was that Shao Dongfeng felt a little uneasy.

He could not figure out where this uneasiness came from.

"I know you can't pull tricks out of this one!" He let out a snarky laugh before opening up the spatial doorway and stepping through.

Qin Feng sneered before looking at the rest.

"You guys didn't tell Shao Dongfeng about our realm, right?" he asked.

Long Kong said in a hushed tone, "We know the severity of this matter, how could we?"

Seinakawa was very unhappy, no matter how she looked at Qin Feng she could not find a reason to like him and could not help but accuse him. "You only think about being popular. Great, look where that got you. Troublehas rolled up to your door. Not only did you not want to cough up the things you got, you also riled up this big of a mess."

Qin Feng responded with a sneer, "Then I should be like you, mediocre and passive for the rest of my life? Maybe someday, when our realm gets directly destroyed or conquered by other aptitude users, and people get sent off to worse realms to slave away on hard labour, that would be fine, right?"

"You're just coming up with excuses for being irrational!"

Li Yuan could not stand this anymore. As a member of the only family that ever birthed an SSS-tier, he knew the most about what an SSS-tier represented. Qin Feng's strength, in a matter of a few years, might really reach the SSS-tier.

When that time came, their realm would be assuredly safer.

Although this SSS-tier was not directly from the Li family, they knew one thing for sure: They were intimately interdependent. If Qin Feng had a hard time, then other people would have a hard time, and there would be no safe environment.

Li Yuan scolded with a serious tone, "What are you saying? Whatever the strong say goes. Qin Feng, if Shao Dongfeng really wants to occupy the realms and deprive you of resources then you can report this to the Human Alliance. I also know a few SSS-tiers, all that's needed is to allocate them some benefits, then I can give you a head start."

"Even if you do this, what would the difference be?" Qin Feng looked at the people present. He knew that these people could only do that because they were not strong enough, so they had no other way.

"Still, that Shao Dongfeng shouldn't be let off so easily!" Arus huffed. He had just recently become an SS-tier and that was a huge boost to his ego. Although he was not ranked the highest in the entire Human Alliance, he also bade farewell to a lower status.

And now, reality had viciously slapped him in the face.

Qin Feng had a solemn expression, but he was not as indisposed as everyone present. That was because he had confidence and knew of a better way to deal with Shao Dongfeng.

"I indeed believe that whatever the strong say goes!"

After he said this, he turned on his heel and began to walk through the spatial door.

Everyone was shocked.

"Qin Feng, what are you doing?"

"He, he couldn't be…"

They found this unbelievable, this kind of thinking was too bold.

At this moment, Long Kong also started to step forward and entered the rift.

The others were taken aback, and then Li Yuan also followed after him.

At this time, the others quickly snapped out of it. No matter what happened, would they not find out if they went ahead to look?

The conversation had only gone on for two or three minutes and Shao Dongfeng was still in that realm, staring at the shattered surroundings in a daze.

Soon, Qin Feng appeared in front of him.

In the void, there were countless broken continents floating around, along with the constant presence of violent cosmic energy that could seep into their bodies without hindrance.

With this kind of force pressing down on, it would not take long for these bits of planet to crumble away and degenerate back into runes before scattering off into other realms.

That place had become completely empty, would it still be called a realm? Perhaps, now that there were no more resources left, there would only just be the void.

Shao Dongfeng saw that Qin Feng still dared to enter, and his eyes ignited with fury.

"Qin Feng, you've really got some nerve to have destroyed this realm!"

"You call this destroy? I just absorbed the realm's core to let myself get stronger. Isn't that a normal thing to do? There weren't any humans in this realm either, so why not just absorb it?"

The Human Alliance could not consume other realms at will if it was inhabited by human beings, but there was nothing said about the absorption of other realms. Not to mention, the realm they were in never had much value to begin with.

For Shao Dongfeng, even if it had been consumed, there should still be a slice of the pie. Qin Feng instead consumed everything and encroached on his interests.

How could he let this stand?

"What about the other realms?"

"Ate those too, you wanna have a look for yourself?" Qin Feng snickered before throwing out seven or so spatial stones. The spatial stones were instantly activated and turned into spatial gates. These were all the realms destroyed by his Asteroid Assimilation.

Shao Dongfeng watched Qin Feng's demeanor and found this hard to believe. With how casually he just threw them out, it meant that these realms must be gone as well.

"Impossible!" Although he knew it in his heart, Shao Dongfeng could not believe it and did not want to believe it.

It had only been a month since Qin Feng disappeared. How did he do it?

"Nothing is impossible. Since you don't seem to believe it, Master Shao, I'll prove it!"

As Qin Feng spoke, a massive frozen star floated up behind his back.

The frozen star was flawless and obviously different from the white jade formed by other internal forces. The heavenly and earthly energies had no color, true internal force was transparent. However, other kinds of stuff existed within such energy, like the violent energy of the cosmos, and once absorbed that would change the color.

When Qin Feng's frozen star was released, people could only feel that it was the purest form of power and it was also the most dangerous kind of energy.

With such a pure internal force, when other people wanted to exert their internal force to have an effect on things, they would have to use five times the internal force Qin Feng would use.

Besides that, it was not over yet.

Behind Qin Feng, more frozen stars appeared one by one.

The frozen stars were ten meters in diameter, just like the core of a low-level realm. That was shocking enough, but now that all nine cores had been revealed, it made people feel an immense amount of pressure.

Qin Feng's sights were locked onto Shao Dongfeng.

"Master Shao, if I remember correctly… your strength seems to be only at SSS1-tier, right?"

Chapter 1027: Ahn Ping Prime

Once someone became an S-tier aptitude user, one of the measurements of power would be the size of their internal force frozen star.

The further one got in S-tier, the harder it was for one to become even stronger. The biggest reason for that was the massive gaps between the levels.

When an S-tier aptitude user had just ranked up, through practising, they would quickly realize that their one centimeter in diameter internal force starglobe would quickly become a ten centimeter in diameter internal force starglobe. At this time, ancient warriors would be S9-tier, but if they wanted to become SS-tier then they would need a one meter internal force starglobe.

With that, how wide was the gap?

Terribly big.

The moment they reach SS-tier, the requirement for reaching the next step would be easy. All they needed was to increase their internal force starglobe by ten centimeters.

The moment they achieve an internal force starglobe of two meters, their strength would have already reached SS9 tier.

When they wanted to reach SSS-tier, then they would need to get an internal force starglobe that was ten meters in diameter.

The internal force starglobe of an SSS-tier would be ten meters in diameter, and the internal force starglobe of an SSS1-tier aptitude user was eleven meters.

That was the size that Shao Dongfeng had within his body now, roughly at about seven hundred cubic meters of power.

How was Qin Feng's, though?

Each internal frozen star had about five hundred twenty three cubic meters, and he had nine internal frozen stars.

Not counting the transparency of the frozen stars, if Shao Dongfeng wanted to be stronger than Qin Feng's internal force he needed at least seven internal force starglobes, but did he have that?

Not even seven, his dantian only had one internal force starglobe.

Even if it was a genius like Ming Tianhao, the reason someone would have so many stars would be to make energy easier to break down when they have reached SS-tier.

Those who had reached SSS-tier did not need so many. In fact, in order to become an Immortal, only one starglobe that had reached one hundred meters in diameter was enough.

Thus, when Shao Dongfeng reached the SSS-tier he had never thought about how many internal force starglobes he needed to support himself, but what was he seeing now?

Qin Feng had nine internal force starglobes behind him. No, to say that they were behind him was not accurate. With how big these starglobes were, Qin Feng looked like he was standing on top of a planet.

At this moment, his power made people redden with shame.

"Master Shao, now, do you believe it?"

The way Qin Feng asked his question was in fact him asking Shao Dongfeng to make the decision on whether or not he still wanted to rob Qin Feng's realms.

He still had realms he had not absorbed and he definitely would not agree to cooperate with Shao Dongfeng.

The veins on Shao Dongfeng's forehead throbbed. When facing the issue that was Qin Feng, he really wanted to say he did not believe it, but at this point, the situation was far beyond him.

He knew that he had just kicked a steel wall.

If he said he did not believe it, how would he still force Qin Feng? What could he force him with? Strength? His strength was not enough to match Qin Feng's.

"I believe it!"

Shao Dongfeng gritted his teeth as he unwillingly spit out the words.

This meant that he had given up on looking for trouble with Qin Feng.

"Oh, since Master Shao believes my words then I won't say much. There will be much time for that later, perhaps we can reconvene next time, and talk about the past over a drink!"

There was something in his words that seemed to indicate to Shao Dongfeng that Qin Feng remembered his arrogant claim in bringing oppression to the people in his realm. He would not forget it.

After he finished speaking, he did not continue nagging. They were all members of the Human Alliance, he did not have plans to strike out and cause a big scene right now.

The next time there was a chance, he would not let that go.

He stepped into the doorway he previously came through and left the realm.

Long Kong, Li Yuan and the others who had come through thinking that there would be some big battle realized that what happened was a display of martial prestige, but there was still that brow-raising, breathtaking feeling despite it all.

Only when Qin Feng was there did they feel more at ease. Now that he had left, leaving them to face Shao Dongfeng, these people did not dare stick around as they quickly returned to the Human Alliance's bar.

The only one left was Shao Dongfeng, who wiped sweat from his forehead as he noticed the seven or so spatial stones that Qin Feng had left behind.

These kinds of spatial stones were the exact ones issued by the Human Alliance as reward.

"I still don't believe it, did he absorb all these realms?"

He waved his hand and took these spatial stones into his grasp. In fact, he thought that Qin Feng did not take them back just to show him.

Perhaps, Qin Feng really did do it but Shao Dongfeng was unconvinced, he still wanted to see it with his own eyes.

The spatial doorway opened up, and Shao Dongfeng entered a realm. The broken landmass had been bombarded by cosmic rays, and without a stable planet the current realm had already collapsed.

Another spatial doorway was opened, Shao Dongfeng continued his investigation.

The third, the fourth, the fifth…

He looked through all the eight realms in one go, and in each realm the core of these planets or land masses had already been destroyed.

The more he looked, the more fear Shao Dongfeng felt.

That was because if Qin Feng did all of this by himself, how powerful would he become in the future?

If Qin Feng had more time or if he had more resources, would he then reach the SSS-tier? At this point who would be able to stop this man? Would Qin Feng retaliate against him when he got stronger?

Shao Dongfeng inevitably fell into a state of panic after realizing he had offended someone who should not be offended.

He immediately returned to the Central City of the Human Alliance.

After thinking for a moment, Shao Dongfeng gritted his teeth and turned on his communicator.

There was an aptitude user of particular note, and this would be Shao Dongfeng's biggest trump card.

Among the Human Alliance, there were many SSS-tier aptitude users. With how important something like the peace contest was, the fact that Shao Dongfeng could participate meant that strength was secondary. The most important thing was actually the background.

His communicator had the number of one of the Human Alliance's Immortals.

This Human Alliance Immortal was ranked number seven, named Ahn Ping. People called them Ahn Ping Prime.

This Prime was someone who was around the same age as Shao Dongfeng. To be precise, they were classmates and when their strength was low they were saved by Shao Dongfeng.

Now, An Pring Prime had become an Immortal and Shao Dongfeng was greatly elevated above the rest as he naturally gained a lot of benefits.

Shao Dongfeng felt that he had caused himself a blunder and had to seek out Ahn Ping.

He must get rid of Qin Feng.

Having appeared on the communicator, Ahn Ping Prime had a very ordinary face and wore ordinary clothes. All in all he looked like your average Joe.

"So you want me to go and get rid of the recent champion of the peace contest that brought a huge contribution to the Human Alliance?"

Shao Dongfeng knew that what he was doing was a bit excessive. "But if this person gets to grow, he would also threaten your status. Better to avoid future troubles."

Ahn Ping Prime said, "I'm asking you, are you sure you want me to do something? If I make a move, then after this I'm done dealing with you!"

Throughout all these years, Ahn Ping Prime had given Shao Dongfeng many things.

As time went on, Shao Dongfeng became more and more unreasonable.

"Ahn Ping, this is just one little thing, why are you…"

"If it's just one little thing then you can do it yourself!" Ahn Ping said coldly.

Chapter 1028: Mission Assignment

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Shao Dongfeng immediately realized that Ahn Ping Prime wanted to take the incident as an excuse for him to not provide help anymore. However, when he thought about Qin Feng's growth and the realms that he had torn down, Shao Dongfeng clenched his teeth and made up his mind to exterminate Qin Feng.

"Alright, deal!"

Ahn Ping looked closely at Shao Dongfeng, reminiscing their close ties for all those years that seemed to have slowly disappeared from his memories.

"I will get rid of him, and I have nothing to do with you anymore."

Ahn Ping Prime ended the call, leaving Shao Dongfeng in a state of loss. But he did not regret his action, Qin Feng's threat was too big.

***

Meanwhile, Qin Feng returned to the bar and met with the other aptitude users. They no longer recognize Qin Feng as a junior.

They knew that Qin Feng's capability was more powerful than theirs. Upon certifying himself as an SS-tier, Qin Feng would be the most powerful person in the realm.

"Qin Feng, are you really planning to just let Shao Dongfeng get away like this? He might not go easy on you. He works for Ahn Ping Prime, and some say that Ahn Ping owes him a favor!"

"Oh?" Qin Feng was surprised. He did not expect Shao Dongfeng to have ties with a prime figure.

However, Qin Feng did not reveal his true intention in eliminating Shao Dongfeng through his words. He was obeying the rules, as they both belonged under the Human Alliance.

The others who were offended by Shao Dongfeng were hoping that the worst would happen to him. With Qin Feng's capability, he could absolutely slaughter Shao Dongfeng and leave no chance for him to defend himself.

But some of them still managed to stay calm.

"Why not just seek help from the upper echelon of the Human Alliance and resolve this? Shao Dongfeng will not disturb Ahn Ping Prime just because of this. It would be better for other SSS-tiers to intervene and mediate the situation!" Long Kong suggested.

However, Qin Feng immediately shook his head and shrugged it off.

"Just let him come if he wants to. But all of you may report Shao Dongfeng. Or else, he might continue to do whatever he wants and vent his anger on all of you!" Qin Feng warned.

"Worst comes to worst, we can just not come back to the Human Alliance!"

"That's right, this is better. With our capabilities, we are still a little weaker than the other members of the Human Alliance. Better for us to return to our own realms."

"Qin Feng, if you were to advance to the SSS-tier, things will be different for us."

All of them looked at Qin Feng with high hopes.

"I'll make it quick!" Qin Feng was only concerned about how fast he could achieve it, but not how hard he had to try. The reason was because Qin Feng already knew he could advance to the SSS-tier very soon.

It was because of his Asteroid Assimilation and Absorption Ability.

Then, Qin Feng parted with them. Now, the only thing he had to do was strive for constant improvement on his capability within the shortest time. There was nothing Shao Dongfeng could do about that.

As soon as he had attained the legendary capability, he would no longer fear anyone.

Qin Feng returned to his own villa. He looked through his communicator, quickly found the contact of a person and sent his message across.

Qin Feng had sent a message to Ming Tianhao.

Ming Tianhao was not weak at all, just that he was a king-tier aptitude user trained specifically for the peace contest. His poor performance in the battle was due to Qin Feng's dominance in killing everyone else in it.

In the end, Ming Tianhao only managed to obtain five realms and the realms were not that good either. The SSS-tier aptitude user who had cultivated him was very disappointed by it. Most importantly, Ming Tianhao had brought disgrace to himself.

But Qin Feng had a reason to look for Ming Tianhao. It was because Ming Tianhao was backed by an SSS-tier that was definitely different from Shao Dongfeng.

Ming Tianhao was notified by Qin Feng's message and immediately returned with a call.

"Are you sure you want to sell off these three realms?"

The message that Qin Feng just sent across informed Ming Tianhao about his intention to sell off three of his realms. They were filled with inferior resources, but it was still possible for improvement through continuous cultivation.

"Of course, why would I look for you then?"

"That's the same question I had, why would you look for me?!" Ming Tianhao suffered a major loss to Qin Feng. However, come to think of it, they had no grudges with each other. It was only Ming Tianhao who had suffered a slight drop in his reputation.

It might seem like Qin Feng had offended him. Instead, Qin Feng had saved him. Both of them were in an awkward situation, and Ming Tianhao could not understand the reason why Qin Feng was looking for him.

"Just assume that I have nobody else to look for. So, do we have a deal? If you do not have enough resources yourself, you can have others develop it along with you. But I do not have such patience." Qin Feng explained.

Actually, Ming Tianhao could not decide for himself. He had even handed over those five realms that he had to the SSS-tier that cultivated him and he was left with no resources at all.

However, if it was a deal, perhaps the SSS-tier would value him differently, and Ming Tianhao thought that it was worth looking into it.

"How will this work?"

"Three inferior realms for ten junk realms."

"Alright, let me ask for permission. I will get in contact with you again in an hour!"

Instead of an hour, Ming Tianhao came back to Qin Feng within half an hour. He agreed to the trade with Qin Feng.

"These are the junk realm waymarks for you. We promise that we will not set foot in them anymore!" Ming Tianhao offered.

The major problem of engaging in such a trade was the dispute of ownership after the deal was done. Nobody would want the previous owner to come back and claim for the ownership and benefits associated with it. Ming Tianhao offered his assurance and hoped that Qin Feng would also offer the same to him.

However, it was not necessary to have his assurance either. As Ming Tianhao was backed by an SSS-tier aptitude user, someone else would take action against Qin Feng if he failed to comply.

Qin Feng answered, "Never mind. After all, I will absorb all of these realms very quickly. The core continent will collapse instantly. There will be nothing left for you all."

Ming Tianhao was uncertain if Qin Feng did not understand what he meant, or he was just pretending.

After the deal was done, Qin Feng and Ming Tianhao parted ways. But soon, Qin Feng was surprised by a notification.

"Aptitude user Qin Feng, it has been a while since you have joined the Human Alliance. Contributing to humankind is a necessary quality to have in every aptitude user. This is a special recruitment for you to join the Mangled Crater Realm in defending against the Void Insectoids. Time limitation, within seven days!"

"Mission assignment???"

Qin Feng read the notification and immediately closed his eyes.

To him, it felt like it was more than a coincidence.

Because of the incident that happened with Shao Dongfeng, every aptitude user of the Blue Star Realm had returned to their own realm. Perhaps all of them would not return to the Human Alliance anytime soon.

Qin Feng acknowledged the notice. Most importantly, Qin Feng was not given a chance to decline it.

Upon activating the spatial entrance, Qin Feng returned to Fengli City.

Qin Feng opened his communicator and questioned Long Ting who had parted ways with him earlier.

"Is this mission assignment for everyone? I have just received an assignment to go to the Mangled Crater Realm, is that a very dangerous place to be at?"

Long Ting listened to the chain of questions from Qin Feng without butting in. With Qin Feng's current capability, Long Ting would have to comply even if Qin Feng were to assign her to secretarial tasks.

Chapter 1029: Mangled Crater Realm

"There are definitely mission assignments, but most of them Are assigned to aptitude users that are in their first year of joining the Human Alliance. The main reason is for the expropriation of their combat energy. As for the Mangled Crater Realm… I have never heard about it before!"

Long Ting knew nothing about the realm. But she doubted that it was a trap.

"Qin Feng, just hold on. Let me check on this!"

Although Long Ting only had average capabilities that seemed a little weak among those Human Alliance members that were above S-tier, there were still connections and intelligence sources that the Long family could use. After all, they had been in the Human Alliance for two hundred years.

In less than half a day, Long Ting returned with news.

"Qin Feng, I was just informed that this is a new realm battle. Surprisingly, apart from you, a large number of aptitude users were also recruited. Perhaps this is just a coincidence."

The name Mangled Crater Realm seemed to be describing something related with aerolites. It was filled with raging cosmos energy and a variety of aerolites. As the aerolites that descended at high speed were embedded with large amounts of rare mineral resources, it was categorised as a top-tier resource realm.

Nobody knew who had control over the realm. But it had already been opened up to everyone. The reason was because of the appearance of large amounts of Void Insectoids.

Qin Feng had definitely not recruited himself into it.

If anyone else had been recruited, it might seem like a coincidence. However, Qin Feng would never assume that it was just a coincidence. His intuition told him that it was a trap.

But it was merely his gut feeling. Qin Feng did not have to tell Long Ting.

After ending the call with Long Ting, Qin Feng changed his plans.

"Bai Li, how long will it take for you to go to these realms, devour the cores and advance to SS-tier?"

Realm core was different from energy core. Although it was highly sought after, not everyone could get their hands on one. Not everyone was capable of entering into the realm core and devouring at high speed.

That was for humans, but for void beasts, or even Bai Li who was a spatial beast herself, it was as easy as pie.

The time required for advancement was even shorter than the time required to achieve S-tier.

"If I were to perform absorption and transform within the secret territory, it would not take more than a month!"

As Bai Li had absorbed a large number of spatial runes from the Runic Galaxy Realm, her capability had spiked, and the time required for her advancement was greatly shortened.

Perhaps for many others, advancement of aptitude users would become more difficult when they had achieved greater heights. But for Qin Feng, it had become simpler as he got closer to his end goal.

"Take those realms for your advancement. This assignment is too much of a coincidence. In other words, my advancement journey has been obstructed again, and I can only deal with this head on. I will try not to put myself at risk for a month. Until you are out in a month's time, nobody can stop us anymore."

"Alright!"

Bai Li agreed to it. She went ahead to devour all ten realms that were obtained through the exchange. She entered into the realm and lay dormant where time flowed rapidly.

Qin Feng took a rest for several days and did not go to the Mangled Crater Realm. Until the seventh day, he finally went to the headquarters of Human Alliance and entered through the glowing entrance of the mission.

Upon his arrival, the secret plot that was aimed to kill him began to be unveiled.

***

As soon as Qin Feng stepped out from the glowing entrance and entered the Mangled Crater Realm, he was welcomed by the freezing air from the surrounding area.

The whizzing cold air diffused soil and grit across the land. The ground was in steel-grey color. There were some buildings around the glowing entrance and everything seemed to be built with simplicity.

It was a newly established small-sized colony. Of course, it was populated with aptitude users above S-tier.

Sha sha sha…

Qin Feng heard something with his sharp hearing. Before releasing his consciousness, Qin Feng knew that the noise was not naturally formed.

They were Insectoids.

"Enemy attacks!!! Prepare for battle!"

An SSS-tier aptitude user walked out from a house in the colony. His combat fatigues were already covered in ashes, and there were even some scratches and traces of damages.

There was only one reason for that. For him to suffer such damages, his internal energy shield or self-protective ability must have already shattered multiple times.

Other aptitude users seemed exhausted from the battle. They were forced to remain vigilant amid the tiredness as a slight amount of fear was noticeable in their eyes.

Obviously, the energy was much more powerful than expected.

"What are you looking at? Get out there, stop fooling around!" An SSS-tier aptitude user who saw Qin Feng standing still on the ground while observing the others immediately yelled in dissatisfaction.

Qin Feng immediately reacted and ran out along with the others.

Soon, Qin Feng saw the enemy creature that he was about to face. At first glance, he took a deep breath.

Surprisingly, these creatures were approximately twenty meters in height and a hundred meters in length. They were covered by black metal carapace like a giant cockroach.

"Void beast armored star!"

It was an ultra beast from the roach species. With their large number and extremely powerful defence energy, the armored star would devour soil and mineral resources from every realm. Most importantly, each of them from the massive tribe had the capabilities of beast generals, beast kings, and beast emperors.

No wonder everyone was panicking.

Meanwhile, everyone braced themselves against the beasts that were pressing forward.

Moo…

The animal call of the armored star sounded like a bull. Then, twelve of its legs began to move and run wild toward the colony. Even the legs were lined with hangnails that looked extremely vicious.

"Kill!!!"

"Stop them!"

"Be careful!"

Screams were heard from the crowd, and everyone moved forward. Although the armored star was dangerous, the creature was packed with all sorts of treasures throughout its body.

People would often be tempted to take the risk for an unimaginable amount of fortune. It would not change even if it was a giant moving piece of fortune.

Qin Feng did not care about those items, and he did not want to compete with the others.

Although he did not want to compete, it did not mean that the armored star would not look for him. After all, there would still be some careless mistakes when people were running for their lives.

A giant armored star rushed toward Qin Feng; it almost had the capability of an S5-tier beast general. It was a gigantic one, with about twenty-five meters in height. It had already opened its mouth wide when it saw that Qin Feng was just a small and weak human.

The giant mouth was filled with sharpened serrated teeth. It was not aligned horizontally but in a ring formation that seemed to have circled into more than ten rings. It was crucial for them to chew and break down sandy and rocky minerals.

It was absolutely disgusting to have such an ugly mouthpart being aimed at Qin Feng.

Qin Feng raised his finger while a concentrated black spot lit up on it. It had only lasted for a short moment before a pitch-black light ray was shot directly toward its target.

The thickness was measured at about a meter.

"Finger of Death!"

A strong presence of death exploded and instantly hit on a deadly spot inside the giant mouth of the armored star.

The glowing light penetrated through the armored star and shot out from the backend of its throat, as if there was no restriction at all.

Chapter 1030: Drafting Manpower

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

For Qin Feng, it was as easy as pie to take down such an ultra beast.

While the others were still in their battle of life or death, all Qin Feng did was just raise his hand to kill those ultra beasts. It was almost impossible to miss such an overwhelming scene.

Everyone present were aptitude users of S-tier and above, and their consciousness was all over the battlefield. There was nothing that they would miss out on at the scene.

Qin Feng did not care about others' views. The only thing he cared about was the massive amount of energy embedded within the body of the armored star. It was being devoured and merged into his body.

Qin Feng was tempted.

"This armored star only had its physical development maxed out, and its body is as sturdy as steel. After absorbing it, the result is surprisingly good."

Of course, it was just one armored star. But it was already equivalent to the level of absorbing physical energy from ten other Insectoids.

But Qin Feng knew that he just needed to start small and accumulate to a greater amount. Only then, he would be able to enhance his physical capability. The only way was to kill, nothing else.

The greater the physical capability, the more energy required. The absorbed energy would then be refined. It was no longer like before when core absorption could be used to directly enhance physical capability.

He needed more kills, more fresh blood and flesh for his Absorption Ability.

With that in mind, Qin Feng expanded his consciousness.

There were at least a thousand armored stars detected via his consciousness. Of course, there were still members from the Human Alliance that were stationed here. There were about five to six thousand of them that were assigned for the mission there.

However, all five to six thousand of them were positioned close to the colony to defend against the attacks of the armored stars. There were still more armored stars that were blocked by the others in the front line from moving forward, and they were totally ignored.

Qin Feng noticed the situation and immediately took action without any intention to conceal it. His capability was already close to that of S2-tier, but his combat energy could already pose a massive threat to an ordinary SSS-tier.

The stronger he became, the less he cared about restrictions.

"Stygian Rush!"

Qin Feng's shadows maneuvered through the dark at visible speed. He left his original spot and entered into the massive army of armored stars.

There were more than two hundred armored stars around, densely crowded around the greyish-black ground. Qin Feng then appeared in the centre.

Dark stellar was activated, while an array of horrifying dark presence shrouded around the area of thousands of meters.

Compared to the body sizes of the massive ultra beasts, Qin Feng was just a small and weak figure. But his explosive combat energy dropped a bombshell.

"Dark wall!"

Qin Feng had only released the most commonly seen death wall, but it would already be enough to invade the bodies of the armored stars with an unidentified amount of overwhelming dark presence.

Despite the extreme defence energy and impenetrable carapace that the armored stars had, they were totally useless when shrouded by the mighty dark presence.

Under the influence of dark presence, all the armored stars fell dead on the ground.

Qin Feng absorbed energy from the flesh and blood of those armored stars.

"This is still not enough…" Qin Feng was still dissatisfied, and he continued to release his dark ability.

It was safe to say that the combat energy of Qin Feng's abilities was on par with an SSS-tier. Battles that would have lasted for a day were completed in less than half an hour.

But there were too many of them. Without Bai Li, Qin Feng did not want to clean up those armored stars. Hence, they were all sold to the headquarters of the Human Alliance.

Just like when it was at the Omnesflores, military accomplishments were redeemable using ultra beasts. Also, the Mangled Crater Realm allowed item exchange sourced from the realm with military accomplishments.

Undoubtedly, the place was in abundance with minerals.

Now that Qin Feng has already obtained SS-tier materials from the Broodmother Bloodlust Centipede, he only needed more precious minerals to upgrade his Verdant Emperor Saber.

By then, his Verdant Emperor Saber could be upgraded to SS-tier.

Several days later, Insectoid invasions were constantly exploding within the Mangled Crater Realm. Humans were unable to move far and they were trapped within the colony. If the spatial entrance was not present, it would be as if they were being trapped in an isolated island.

Meanwhile, an SSS-tier aptitude user felt troubled while remaining hidden in the dark.

The SSS-tier aptitude user was Zhao Ge. He was assigned by Ahn Ping Prime to take down Qin Feng.

However, he was shaken up by the overwhelming performance from Qin Feng.

From the last several attacks of the Insectoids, Qin Feng did not make any mistakes he could take advantage of. Furthermore, with the number of ultra beasts that he had killed, his military accomplishments had already entitled him to a lot of SS-tier minerals.

After all, Qin Feng alone had more kills than the thousands of others in the battlefield combined.

"With such capabilities, it is impossible to wait for him to make a mistake. Seems like I have to take a different approach."

The next day, Zhao Ge opened his communicator and ordered a draft.

Hence, every aptitude user from the colony stood at the central space and waited for Zhao Ge's order.

"It has been a while since we came. Every invasion into other realms that we had would always have problems with clearing out the natives. Seems like we are now facing a major hindrance."

"The armored stars are not formidable creatures, but they are have a powerful capability to reproduce. I am planning to draft out some aptitude users to directly take down the armored star broodmother. I believe this will free us from this bottleneck situation."

"Now, I expect active participation from everyone. I have decided to fork out a part of the SS-tier minerals available to reward the person that can take down the broodmother at the end."

Zhao Ge's term was extremely tempting. But there were still many that remained uninterested.

"Master Zhao Ge, apart from the promised reward, allow me to ask, will you still participate in the battle? Or will you stay away from it?"

Zhao Ge had only proposed a drafting. But he did not mention about leading the team himself. Perhaps he would still remain in the colony and contribute nothing to the fight!

Throughout the past few days, Qin Feng had demonstrated his horrifying capabilities on the battlefield. Everyone had unequivocally acknowledged that he was as good as an SSS-tier aptitude user. Qin Feng dedicated himself toward the battle, instead, Zhao Ge was not involved at all.

For Zhao Ge, he would rather leave the task of hunting down those creatures for the lower-class laborers that were ready to be sacrificed. Qin Feng was the only highly capable person that the others referred to as a comparison against Zhao Ge. Hence, everyone else had extremely low confidence in Zhao Ge.

"I will definitely join in, of course. I am extending my sincere invitation to everyone. Oh yes, Qin Feng, are you in? In my opinion, you are definitely capable of taking down the broodmother, and we need a powerful figure like you."

Zhao Ge sounded like he was negotiating. However, was it even possible for an SSS-tier aptitude user to accept rejection? As soon as Zhao Ge had proposed the plan, it was already as certain as the sun that rises.

Qin Feng blinked and instantly felt that the entire plot to set him up had gone smooth as silk. It was absolutely flawless.

Zhao Ge's proposal was absolutely necessary to tackle the crux of the matter. Although there were still risks, as long as the armored star broodmother was an SS-tier beast deity, Zhao Ge's presence should already suffice to put it to bed.

However, would Zhao Ge persevere until the end? Would he be a turncoat and abandon Qin Feng when he was hunting down the broodmother?

With that being said, how could Qin Feng grant Zhao Ge's wish so easily?

It would take another twenty days before Bai Li was out. Even if Qin Feng were to play for time, he would still have to drag it on for twenty days.

"Of course, I will join. But it is not that easy to get to the broodmother. In my opinion, let's clear off part of the armored stars. We will then launch our attack against the armored star lair a month later!"

Chapter 1031: Best Not to Hold Off

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Zhao Ge immediately frowned, an indication that he did not agree to Qin Feng's proposition.

"We have no time to lose! If we miss this chance, who knows what would happen in another half a month!" Zhao Ge said.

Qin Feng explained further, "But how is now our chance? Mr Zhao, we don't have the faintest idea of the location of the broodmother and its nest. We don't know how many Insectoids are out there too. It would be unwise to head out there without a plan!"

"Qin Feng, don't tell me you're scared? So, are you not with us?" An SS-tier ability user who was standing next to Zhao Ge stepped forward to provoke Qin Feng.

However, there was no way Qin Feng would fall for his taunt. Besides, if he was really unwilling to go, no one would be able to stop him from staying put.

"My god weapon requires a few more materials to refine. I want to get some more minerals to complete the refinement process. I'm sorry but I don't intend to fight in a war where I do not have enough winning chips in my hand. I'll need just one more month to prepare."

Zhao Ge raised an eyebrow and glared at Qin Feng. He thought that this was a bluff.

"Alright, how about this? What materials do you need? Just tell us. I could provide you with whatever you need to complete that refinement. You can repay me with the combat scores that you earn by killing the broodmother later. Will this do?"

This was a good deal. It was quite reasonable, so there was no reason to refute.

"Yes, this will do!" Qin Feng nodded. He was smirking in his mind. Heh, if this excuse was not enough, he would still come up with another.

Seeing that Qin Feng had conceded, Zhao Ge thought that Qin Feng was actually trying to bargain for a tiny bit of merit from the hunt, making the young man appear to be quite petty. This made Zhao Ge's view of Qin Feng a rather lowly one from thereon.

Still, enough with the acting. Zhao Ge had also invited other ability users to be in the team. Well, in reality, there were only three ability users that were really on his side—they all knew what the real plan was. When things go south later, they would only protect Zhao Ge and each other, leaving the others to die together with Qin Feng on the battlefield.

'If you want to blame, blame Qin Feng, you fools!' Zhao Ge thought to himself.

A few moments later, Zhao Geng's underlings walked away from Qin Feng with grim faces—Qin Feng had asked for top-tier minerals. They had to take them out from their vaults for Qin Feng before they themselves got to use them.

"Oh, and remember I still need time to refine my weapon. With these here, I don't need a month's time now. But I would still need about 20 days. I'm very sorry for causing this much trouble to everyone's schedule. So, to make up for it, I'll handle the defenses in the colony for the next 20 days. I'll help out in clearing out the armored stars too! Would this do?" Qin Feng asked.

Zhao Ge's face turned even grimmer. "Qin Feng, you can't do that."

"I did say refining my weapon would require time. I thought I mentioned that just moments ago." Qin Feng said while glinting up a confused look. "If you're in a hurry, Mr Zhao, it's okay to depart first. Don't worry. I'll catch up with you later. In fact, I'll do my best to kill all the armored stars too to repay your minerals."

Zhao Ge was extremely pissed.

"Don't push it, Qin Feng! Know your place!"

Seeing that Qin Feng and Zhao Ge were about to start a fight, the others started to gather together to calm both sides down.

"Mr Zhao, having Qin Feng improve his weapo would objectively make the fight easier. Waiting for him has merit."

"We don't need to take on the broodmother right now. It would be better if we wait for another month and get more allies."

"If we could get rid of some armored stars in the area, it could ease our minds when we handle the broodmother later."

Everyone seemed to agree to wait for another month.

Qin Feng was able to earn himself quite the reputation from the Human Peace Contest. Not only that, Qin Feng had also been working hard when facing off against the ultra beasts on the battlefield here.

Thus, with both his reputation and actions spoken loudly to everyone here, the public was speaking in favor of Qin Feng. Besides, they believed that Qin Feng's proposition was within reason. Not only that, Qin Feng had aslo volunteered to defend the base.

And there was indeed no need to rush it. Waiting for another month was not a problem for them.

However, Zhao Ge had an unspeakable secret agenda; so, he began to panic.

"It's best to not hold this off. I can't wait for a month. Make it half a month." Zhao Ge tried to concede to a compromise.

There was no way he would wait for a whole month. If he did that, he could not answer to Ahn Ping Prime.

"Sure, this would do too." Qin Feng, too, had conceded.

Half a month was good enough a compromise for him. If things were to go south, he could still try to ask for another rain check. Besides, Zhao Ge could not openly kill him in public anyway.

After reaching an agreement, Qin Feng brought the minerals to his quarters and took out the Magical Tesseract.

"After upgrading to SS-tier, I wonder if the Verdant Emperor Saber could still be upgraded."

Despite how powerful the Magical Tesseract was, it was bound to have a limit. The question was not whether it had a limit but just how far its limit was.

Qin Feng took out his Verdant Emperor Saber and tossed it into the Tesseract. Then, he took out the materials of the Bloodlust Centipede and void beasts and threw them into the Tesseract together with the minerals he received from Zhao Ge.

A short moment later, the Tesseract was able to separate most of the materials' unimportant substances.

At this rate, the Magical Tesseract should be able to complete the refining process in another three months.

Qin Feng did not have three months.

However, he had other means to deal with this dilemma—he tossed the Magical Tesseract into a realm that was moving faster in time.

A few moments later, the Tesseract came back; and a saber reflecting with crimson glints could be found inside the Tesseract.

"Good!"

Qin Feng took out the Verdant Emperor Saber with his consciousness.

Vooooom!

The Verdant Emperor Saber let out a loud vibrating noise while unleashing a gush of bloodthirsty aura. The saber had evolved into a devilish saber.

"Now, with this saber with me, even the SS-tier Broodmother wouldn't stand a chance against me."

Qin Feng wielded the Verdant Emperor Saber in his hand as he thought to himself.

Now, all he needed to be aware of was Zhao Ge.

In that half a month, there was a new ability user who had joined their ranks. This one was an SSS-tier; not only that, it was the Blooming Lord Petalbrook.

"Hey, Qin Feng! We meet again!" Petalbrook spoke to Qin Feng warmly.

Right now, Petalbrook was in a different position. Back then, Petalbrook was the protector of her own realm at Omnesflores. Although she was renowned for her beauty, her real reputation came from her leadership. She was a capable general on the battlefield; and to her, Qin Feng was like a brother-in-arm who she had once fought alongside.

Chapter 1032: The Dishonorable Plotter

Qin Feng smiled. "Wow, I never thought that I'd meet the fabled Blooming Lord again. And here of all places. Are you here to hunt down the broodmother too?"

Petalbrook was stunned when she heard this. She was not here to take on the Insectoid leader. In fact, she visited this place because she heard that there were a lot of minerals in this area. As such, she was there to bring some soil back to nurture some unique plants.

"You want to participate in that hunt? What kind of broodmother is it?" Petalbrook asked.

"I heard it's an SS-tier Armored Star Broodmother."

Qin Feng was not entirely sure himself. However, now that he had become this strong, he was not afraid of an SS-tier beast deity. Of course, there was also a chance that Zhao Ge had kept the actual strength of the broodmother a secret; this would mean that Zhao Ge had intended to send him and the others out to die.

As such, when putting these into consideration, Qin Feng was indeed not sure just how strong the broodmother was.

"Oh, if it's just an SS-tier, I could help."

Thus, Petalbrook went to talk to Zhao Ge. Naturally, Zhao Ge did not want to involve Petalbrook; but if he rejected her help now, it would seem as though he was being unreasonable. As such, he reluctantly agreed.

"We'll depart in a few days."

Now that more and more ability users had joined the campaign, Zhao Ge had no choice but to make sure that he completed his mission—to kill Qin Feng.

Meanwhile, Qin Feng had also hunted down a lot of armored stars too, enhancing his physical power to nearly S6-tier. He needed just a few more physical essences to actually ascend to S6-tier though.

If he could kill the broodmother, Qin Feng's power would surely be enhanced to that level.

A few days later, it was finally time to depart.

There were now about one thousand ability users in the team, including two SSS-tiers in their ranks. About two hundred of them were SS-tiers.

With this many capable fighters, killing an SS-tier beast deity should not be a problem.

"Depart!"

Zhao Ge gave out the order with a grim face.

He had a lot to answer to if the whole team were to get wiped here.

Still, things had developed to this stage, so he could not go back on his plan. As such, he had to go on with the plan and allow this many people to die.

Of course, Petalbrook was quite capable herself so he was sure that she would survive. And he was confident that his plan was so solid that she would not be suspicious of him.

Thus, Zhao Ge boarded his battleship with his mind at ease.

The battleship then traveled through the grey landscape for five hours before arriving at a massive crater. The crater was about twenty meters in width. It was weird but not too remarkable—there were about hundreds of craters like this one about hundreds of meters away.

These craters were the nests of armored stars.

Zhao Ge scanned the area and said, "There aren't any other bigger craters in the area. This means that the broodmother is dwelling underground now. You should know, the broodmother of the armored stars is very gigantic in size. When it has evolved underground, it tends to get stuck underground. This is good news because we can focus on wiping out the armored stars in the area first, taking her reinforcement away before we get to her."

Everyone nodded after listening to Zhao Ge's analysis. They knew this was how void beasts worked. When they could grasp its habitat and natural habits, they could definitely grasp its weakness.

"Everyone! Spread out and clean up the armored stars in the area!"

Zhao Ge split the groups and ordered them to wipe out the armored stars in the craters in the area. He had also assigned Petalbrook to be in a different group while he had Qin Feng in his own team.

Zhao Ge picked a crater and led his team into it.

These craters had tunnels that were big enough for armored stars to move about one by one; but when a human travelled through it, it seemed so wide and big that they could fit in eight hovertanks.

Zhao Ge picked an entrance and ventured through it. Qin Feng studied the place carefully but did not notice anything peculiar. When he saw that Zhao Ge was so confident in walking onward, Qin Feng began to get cautious as he tagged along.

Vooom Voom Voom!

Loud vibrating noises could be heard from within the deeper parts of the tunnel as rocks started falling from the tunnel's ceiling. Apparently, there were armored stars moving toward them.

"Qin Feng, use your dark ability to weaken the armored stars' defenses." Zhao Ge ordered.

Qin Feng did not object. If Zhao Ge wanted to double-cross him, this was not the best time. Thus, he advanced forward and faced the oncoming foe.

The armored stars had advanced toward the group, facing Qin Feng and the team. It widened its mouth with its razor fangs, prepared to bite their heads off.

"Finger of Death!"

Without hesitation, Qin Feng dealt a fatal blow onto the armored star with his dark ability.

"Good work! Qin Feng, you'll be in the front, opening up paths for us." Zhao Ge praised.

'Huh, Zhao Ge is probably trying to waste my conscious energy.'

However, Qin Feng had a large pool of conscious energy. If he kept on doing the same attack for ten straight days, he would still have a lot of conscious energy in him. Besides, killing these armored stars would actually replenish his conscious energy instead of exhausting it.

Of course, Zhao Ge did not know about Qin Feng's real capabilities. His plan was to have Qin Feng be off guard when getting all the glory of being the hero first before leading him to a tight spot where he would be completely trapped in the Insectoid nest.

A few moments later, they had reached a bigger space like a huge underground lobby. More importantly, the place was crawling with armored stars.

"Be careful! It's a sub-hive."

The armored stars tend to reproduce at an insane speed. As the adults grew stronger from eating the resources in the nest, they would push all the weaker ones out of the nests—this meant that the armored stars that the humans faced on the surface were all defectives that could not compete for food in the nests.

In other words, the armored stars in the nests here were much stronger than the ones they find out there. Each of them had the power of at least a beast king, about the strength of an S5-tier!

"Get ready. If this is a sub-hive, then the main hive where the broodmother resides should be nearby." Zhao Gao ordered as he pulled out his sword.

"Deca Kendo Stroke!"

Zhao Ge unleashed over thousands of slashes at the enemies ahead in less than a minute.

Qin Feng had seen this martial art before it was a martial art that Liu Chong had used before. The Deca Kendo Stroke was an S-tier martial art that was rather well-known amongst the Human Alliance.

However, the Deca Kendo Stroke that Zhao Ge used here felt quite different from the one Liu Chong used.

As the thousands of sword slashes hit the armored stars, they began to get agitated.

"Qin Feng! Use your dark ability now! Use a Dark Wall!" Zhao Ge ordered.

It was then, Zhao Ge accumulated a surge of internal energy and pushed it onto Qin Feng's back.

Qin Feng frowned.

So, Zhao Ge had finally shown his true colors.

Chapter 1033: The Armored Star Broodmother

After being pushed like that, Qin Feng fell straight into the nest.

Zhao Ge's Deca Kendo Stroke was only unleashed with a slight portion of his own power, giving these armored stars only a tickle—to provoke them to be alert. Then, he proceeded with his real motivation—to push Qin Feng down to his death.

However, he had miscalculated one thing—these armored stars were actually no match for Qin Feng at all. Well, Qin Feng, as he fell into the nest, did not intend to kill these armored stars at all though.

"Dark Shadow!"

In a split second, Qin Feng's body was shrouded with his Dark Shadow. Having lost their sights on Qin Feng, the armored stars moved straight toward Zhao Ge.

Qin Feng did not bother to check on these people. In fact, he did not really want to go through this hunt together with them at all.

By focusing his consciousness to scan the walls of the nest, Qin Feng was able to find a crack that had winds blowing through it. Without hesitation, he stepped through it.

Zhao Ge could backstab him anytime. As such, this was the exact incident that he needed to use as an excuse to leave him.

Besides, if this broodmother was indeed an SS-tier beast deity, with his newly upgraded Verdant Emperor Saber, he could slay it with ease. And by doing that, he could claim the rewards of slaying the broodmother all to himself.

Thus, Qin Feng continued on exploring through the nest tunnels. Two hours later, he had reached a dead-end. When he tried to use his consciousness to scan the area to find the next entrance or exit…

"Hmm? What's going on? I can't scan the area?"

Qin Feng took a look at the seemingly impenetrable rocks in the area. These rocks were rare—this planet was one that had plenty of rare metals and minerals after all. However, these ones could block out consciousness. This was new knowledge to Qin Feng.

"Wait… could it be…"

Qin Feng put his hand on one of the rocks and unleashed his dark runes on them. The rocks then started to darken as its insides began to soften, crushing it from within. If these rocks were just "minerals", it would not have reacted this way. This meant that these "rocks" were living creatures.

"Hufff!"

Qin Feng took in a huge breath before extending his consciousness again. Now, even though there were still rocks and soil blocking his way, his consciousness could still travel far and wide. And the areas that could not be detected were also expanding in his conscious-mind's view—plotting out a huge figure in his mental map.

"So, this thing… is the broodmother?"

Qin Feng had never seen such a gigantic broodmother before.

He felt as though the entire underground of this planet had been completely sucked dry by this broodmother.

This was the raw power of a void beast. Just how powerful was it? This thing was not just an SSS-tier creature—it could very well be an "Immortal-tier" creature.

"Huh, I see. Shao Dongfeng is willing to go that far to kill me? Just what kind of resources or influence does he have that he could lay down such a huge stage to kill me? Or perhaps, it isn't him that's trying to kill me… it's…"

Then, a name popped up in his mind—Ahn Ping Prime.

If it was an entity like that, it was not unusual for Qin Feng to not be able to resist at all. Right now, all that Qin Feng needed to do was to decide if he wanted to leave or not. However, as Qin Feng peeked at the crater down there—the location of the currently motionless broodmother… His heart could not help but beat faster. This was the thirst of yearning for more power.

If he could kill this broodmother, then his power would skyrocket exponentially.

Still, this broodmother was so huge that if Qin Feng were to leap into its mouth, he would look like a tiny parasite to her. It was going to be rather difficult to harm such a titanic creature.

Then, Qin Feng recalled how he slayed the Glutton Leviathan.

"The more power and wealth I have, the more enemies I'd get. Now that my existence itself has already threatened others' shady businesses, it's best that I grow into something they cannot afford to lay a finger on!"

A beam of determination glinted in Qin Feng's eyes as he unsheathed his Verdant Emperor Saber.

The blade of the saber was glittering with silver rays—his Verdant Emperor Saber could now cut open the walls between dimensions.

In just one strike, Qin Feng had penetrated the rocky walls.

Despite how sharp his blade was, Qin Feng could still feel that something extremely powerful was pushing back, making it difficult to complete the cut.

This broodmother was so strong that its strength was nearing an Immortal-tier. If it did not merge itself with this realm, it could have shattered an SSS-tier to pieces if it wanted to.

Qin Feng was like small bacteria to the broodmother; so, his attack was not felt by the Armored Star Broodmother at all. This had given Qin Feng a golden opportunity.

Finally, Qin Feng was able to push himself through the rocky walls. It took him a great deal of time to do it though—he could only proceed less than two hundred meters within a day. Not only that, he probably had only entered the broodmother's skin—not into the flesh.

On the other hand, Zhao Ge was able to finish off all the armored stars that went after him. The man was, after all, an SSS-tier.

After killing all these enormous bugs, Zhao Ge looked around and saw no sign of Qin Feng.

Of course, Zhao Ge wanted to be sure. He did not believe that Qin Feng would die so easily. Thus, he waited for a whole day for the expedition team to return.

And he did not find Qin Feng amongst the crowd.

"Where's Qin Feng? I thought he's with you?" Petalbrook asked.

"Just now we got separated in the midst of battle. But he's quite powerful. So, he should be fine. For all we know, he could be still searching for the broodmother somewhere out there."

"Perhaps." Petalbrook did not suspect Zhao Ge's words at all.

Then, the second day came and went. And according to the expedition team, they still could not find any sign of the broodmother.

This raised tension and confusion in the group.

Then, some of them realized that the number of armored stars had begun to dwindle.

Then came the third day… The fourth day… Still no sign of Qin Feng.

Zhao Ge was now beginning to conclude that Qin Feng had indeed died.

Petalbrook sighed and felt that it was such a waste for such a prodigy to fall in battle like that. To her, the young man was just a recently ascended talented rookie; so, other than feeling that it was a waste for the Human Alliance, there was nothing else that she was feeling.

***

Meanwhile, in the body of the broodmother, Qin Feng had opened up another armored piece from the inside and began to devour its energy.

These were not mere minerals. They were part of the broodmother's body, which contained enormous physical power.

Boom!

Qin Feng's body began to swell as power brimmed up in it, enhancing its physical prowess and power.

His body had now evolved to S6-tier.

Chapter 1034: The Ascending Broodmother

Qin Feng's strength had also grown exponentially. He had dug for four days straight. If he had not sensed the entire body of the broodmother via his consciousness, Qin Feng would have also wondered if he was still at the broodmother's skin.

Qin Feng swung his Verdant Emperor Saber again, cutting open the flesh around him.

Black blood splashed around wildly after the slash!

He had penetrated the flesh of the broodmother!

Showered in blood, the Verdant Emperor Saber's blade began to beam out blood-thirsty energy, like how when it first absorbed the essence of the Bloodlust Centipede. Wielding the saber, Qin Feng could also feel the excess of the energy channeled into his hand and body.

Qin Feng, without hesitation, squeezed into the open flesh.

This was different from the time when he was fighting the Glutton Leviathan. There was no resistance or attacks toward Qin Feng at all.

Qin Feng smirked, "Perhaps to her, I'm too tiny to be a threat."

This was exactly what he needed though.

As he turned his head, Qin Feng realized the open wound that he had cut open earlier had closed up, signifying the broodmother's rather fast self-recovering abilities.

Inside the body of the broodmother, Qin Feng did not see much flesh. Instead, he saw a wide screen of blood everywhere.

Insectoids were built differently from ultra beasts.

Insectoids were, after all, insects. About 30% of their bodies consisted of blood lymph.

Being inside the broodmother's body now, Qin Feng did not even need to move around. All he had to do was just hold his Verdant Emperor Saber and he was already feeling power that was strengthening his body.

This felt even better than when he ventured into the Bahamut continent.

Now that he could feel its power, Qin Feng was able to gauge the broodmother's actual strength. It seemed that this Armored Star Broodmother's power was not really at Immortal level. It was an SSS-tier beast deity that was nearing Immortal level though.

"Is this thing a hidden Immortal? Is it aiming to eventually become a planet… or replace the realm itself with its body?" Qin Feng shook his head with a smile.

Insectoids had such a low intelligence that they did not know how to best utilize their power.

Then, a grim expression crawled onto Qin Feng's face as he realized something.

Right now, the Armored Star Broodmother had already completely munched through the planet's insides. Its body might as well be the planet's core at this point. Due to it destroying the insides of the planet, the planet's core's energy had exploded, forming numerous minerals and resources on the outside.

The broodmother was devouring the planet's energy from the inside. In fact, the realm's core was right next to the Armored Star Broodmother's mouth!

"Growl…"

The Armored Star Broodmother widened its mouth and munched down the realm's core.

The core was about five hundred meters in width, a rather huge one! Qin Feng had never seen such a huge realm core before. And now, it was completely devoured by this broodmother!

Without its core, the realm had lost the power to stabilize everything in it. Gravity had begun to dwindle in power as the land began to tremor.

"Oh, no!"

Seeing whatever that was happening to the ground, Zhao Ge and Petalbrook's faces immediately turned grim. They both were SSS-tiers; so, they had great experiences throughout their lives. They knew that this was the sign of a realm collapsing.

"Retreat!"

Petalbrook yelled out loudly as she tossed a seed onto the ground. A few seconds later, the seed had bloomed into a massive flower. The flower then reached the ability users around Petalbrook and held them with its petals before growing upward and out to the surface.

However, the ability users who were not in her team were not as lucky as these men.

Crack!

A gigantic crack began to form from the south pole to the north pole of the planet, ripping the planet in half; the ability users who were still exploring underground were completely crushed by this!

They would not die immediately but this would still hurt like mad!

By controlling her flower, Petalbrook had brought her team out to the surface. Her flower was quite a peculiar breed—it was able to leap out of the soil and hover in the air, seemingly not needing any soil to live at all.

Boom!

The land crashed open as the energy of the realm's core exploded out.

"Aaaargh!"

Excruciating cries could be heard everywhere.

This energy was meant to shield the core's shell. Its power was magnificently enormous and extremely destructive! With a slight scratch from this energy, some ability users were even crushed to ashes under a second! Some ability users who were much powerful, too, could not handle it—the power flushed through their body's system and overwhelmed it, bursting every single blood vessel. They died as blood bled out from all their orifices.

Boooom….!!!!

The realm kept on collapsing. In a few hours, the entire realm had turned into a ruin. Then, a titanic-size Armored Star Broodmother emerged before them.

The creature had black, shining shell—when it reflected the light from the stars nearby, it looked as though it was shining like a star itself. Hence, its name.

Right now, there were only about a few hundred ability users left that could fight using their consciousness. Many survivors had already fled the realm after they realized that something was off.

However, the rest of them stayed… Even if they survived, there was nothing they could do. They were too powerless when facing such a behemoth.

"This… Is this the broodmother?! It's going to evolve into an Immortal broodmother! This is not what I've been told!" Petalbrook said in surprise.

A broodmother that was about to evolve into an Immortal was not something to joke about. If Qin Feng had ventured on to take on this thing, there was no doubt that he was as good as dead now.

Meanwhile, Qin Feng was still absorbing energy inside the broodmother. At the moment, the sudden rise in the blood lymph of the broodmother had made it easier for Qin Feng to absorb its energy faster.

Suddenly, the blood around him began to flail around wildly as the entire insides of the broodmother began to tremble.

The ability users who were facing off the broodmother too had noticed that something strange was going on. The creature was very nearly ascending to the Immortal tier. Yet, it had not after minutes had gone by. Instead, it was squirming around, seemingly in pain.

Upon seeing this, Zhao Ge realized something.

"Petalbrook! The broodmother cannot handle the enormous energy that is running in its body. It's about to explode! We need to kill it right now, stopping its evolution in its path!"

If this Armored Star Broodmother was in the middle of evolving into an Immortal, it could not afford to attack Zhao Ge at the moment. Not even if its enemies sent over hundreds of SSS-tiers at it.

On the other hand, it was still an SSS9-tier beast deity.

If one could slay it right then, they could obtain an obscene amount of wealth and resources. Not only that, they could also obtain that realm's core.

And if one could obtain such resources, he could be as rich as a country!

Chapter 1035: Crumbling Broodmother

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"Okay!" Blooming Lord agreed to join forces.

A large petal was unleashed along with her ferocious internal force. The petal landed precisely on the broodmother's body.

Their attacks were nothing more than tickles to the Armored Star Broodmother. It barely stopped the monster's charge. But their harassment did make its course to being an Immortal slightly more difficult.

Nonetheless, this slight delay was enough as the last straw they needed.

Inside the broodmother's body, Qin Feng could feel the energy in its blood pulsing stronger and stronger.

One of the cells beside Qin Feng finally yielded to the disproportionate power and exploded.

Boom!

The implosion marked the beginning of the broodmother's internal disintegration. The loud bang resonated loudly within the monster's vast body. A small blast to one cell of the broodmother was equivalent to a deafening explosion to Qin Feng.

Following the explosion, vital energy began to seep out from the deteriorated cell. Qin Feng's Absorption instantly reacted and pulled the energy into his body.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The first explosion triggered a chain reaction. The energy inside the broodmother's body had completely lost control. The beast had absorbed too much energy, which was way beyond its maximum endurance. The explosive force was reduced as the burst happened right at the tip of inflation.

This outflow of energy was a great stimulant to Qin Feng.

His physique strengthened considerably amid the explosion of the cells, which drastically raised his body temperature.

Boom!

Qin Feng's physique evolved to S7-tier.

However, he did not feel great about it. The power was too vast to his liking. Though it continued pushing his physique to a higher level, Qin Feng could not shake off the immense pain throbbing through his muscles.

Pop!

The crisp popping sound came from Qin Feng's body.

Some of his cells were beginning to burst too.

'Oh no!'

Qin Feng was shocked. He quickly sheathed his Verdant Emperor Saber. However, the highly concentrated energy did not stop diffusing into his body.

It was overbearing.

Qin Feng promptly stopped his absorption. He soon realized it was not a very good idea.

Crack!

Qin Feng's skin began to crack and bleed as soon as he stopped absorbing the energy. He was still exposed directly to the gushing force although he was not a part of the broodmother's body. Without the Absorption Ability, his body might have long been crushed by the wild turbulence.

Qin Feng immediately reactivated the Absorption Ability. A black giant sphere emerged above him. He tried to mitigate the energy around him with the force of death.

He was in a tight spot. Unfortunately, his consciousness probe could not work properly in such a chaotic state. The tunnel he came in through earlier had disappeared from sight. He could no longer return to that spot since the non-stop explosions had pushed him further and further away along with the bloodstream.

Being trapped helplessly within an irresistible force, Qin Feng was overwhelmed and finally recognized how insignificant human beings really were.

The Armored Star Broodmother was crumbling from the inside. But at the same, it had not stopped evolving. The fate of the monster depended on which process—destruction or evolution—would complete faster.

Qin Feng was not more than a blood cell inside the monster's body at the moment.

Boom!

A deafening blast erupted right next to Qin Feng's ears.

Following the blast, Qin Feng surged forward along with the blood flow. He was thrust into a larger chamber at the end of the tunnel.

Five minutes later, he realized he had once again returned to the same spot.

Boom!

Another blast, another cycle.

'I am inside the broodmother's heart!' Qin Feng finally understood.

Insectoids only had a single loop blood vessel. That was where Qin Feng was trapped. The extreme speed made him feel dizzy. If he did not do something, he would lose control of himself and be shattered by the rapid current.

The third time he was in the chamber, Qin Feng had the Verdant Emperor Saber in his hand. Right at the moment when the heart was contracting, Qin Feng brandished the saber without hesitation.

"Thousand Spirit Chain Rend!"

The spirits countered the blood current and the resulting momentum slowed Qin Feng down. He moved sideways and finally found a wall of flesh after more than a thousand meters.

He buried the saber into the inner wall of the broodmother's heart. Though the force was still pretty impactful, it was much more bearable than before. Qin Feng hung tight onto the saber and steadied himself.

A moment earlier, Zhao Ge, on the outside, swung the claymore in his hand. Numerous internal force silhouettes came right out from the sword and lingered in the space.

In one swift motion, he slashed the claymore downward. All the qi around him obeyed the motion and struck straight down at the broodmother.

Boom!

The Armored Star Broodmother barely moved.

Its shell was at least a thousand meters thick. It was beyond any human's capacity.

Coincidentally, Qin Feng happened to unleash the Thousand Spirit Chain Rend inside the monster's heart when Zhao Ge struck.

Triggered by the internal shock, the Armored Star Broodmother coughed up blood. The energy-rich blood was a precious gem to humans.

Zhao Ge was encouraged.

"Quick, it is at its limit!" He shouted confidently.

Blooming Lord released more and more abilities.

Inside the broodmother's heart, a large globe was washed in by the rushing current.

This was the planet the broodmother had just swallowed. It was disintegrating into the blood rapidly. Every time it shrank, huge energy pulsated out of it and rocked the surroundings.

Once the globe reached its heart, the broodmother only needed to endure a little longer to fully digest the energy core and evolve into an Immortal.

But Qin Feng's attack, though minimal, had still caused a tiny blight in its heart.

The sudden, irregular palpitation developed into a bigger problem with the arrival of the globe.

In the next moment, what was a tiny slit cracked unstoppably into a large fissure.

Energy pulses from the planet escaped through the cut and ravaged the monster's organs. The internals of the broodmother were instantly smashed into a twisted mess.

Lifeforce immediately abandoned the broodmother. Without any conscious power left, its sturdy defense was rendered useless.

The seeds planted by Blooming Lord had fully covered the Armored Star Broodmother.

"Galactic Blossom!"

Blooming Lord unleashed her ultimate SSS-tier ability.

The nuclear explosion blasted across the galaxy. The powerful shell of the gigantic broodmother was shattered into pieces as if a dimension was crumbling.

Suddenly, time seemed to have stopped ticking.