Chapter 498: The Infiltrating Defected Human Race

After finishing all of this, Chi Jiuyu rose from her seat, placed one hand behind her head, and rolled her neck.

"Sigh, looks like it's all because of my supreme Sword Dao talent…"

What was that word again… heaven envies…

Heaven envies the talented!

After all, her Hehuan Laozu's Sword Dao aptitude was earth-shattering, unprecedented through the ages; if her talent on the traditional cultivation path were also unrivaled in the world, how would other people survive!

So be it.

Even if only her talent on the emerging cultivation path was unrivaled in the world, she could reluctantly accept it.

Not long after.

"Respected Captain."

"The jump engine has finished cooling. This cooling cycle took a total of 11 hours, 57 minutes, and 39 seconds. Data is normal!"

"All system modules detected no anomalies. The hull is in good condition!"

"Transit clearance has been detected as approved. Shall we begin the jump?"

The voice of the ship spirit Xiao Xue echoed through the control room.

Chi Jiuyu paused.

"Yes, begin the jump immediately."

You see, it wasn't that she didn't want to keep testing — it was that the jump engine had also finished cooling, and it was time to go carry out the mission.

Could it be that you thought she would worry her talent on the emerging cultivation path was also just average…

Impossible!

She was the Sword Venerable's personally-taught senior disciple, the youngest Soul Transformation cultivator from ancient times to the present, the foremost prodigy of all the myriad worlds!

The reason she wasn't continuing to test right now was that the mission destination was about to arrive, so of course the mission had to come first!

Mm!

That's right!

It was simply that!

She was Chi Jiuyu!

"As you command, my lord Captain."

A ship spirit still had to provide some emotional value.

Immediately, lines of data streamed across the pale-blue translucent screen at the front of the control room, eventually resolving into a few lines of text.

【Jump will begin in thirty seconds】

【Next stop: Fuling Star System, Gui Ling 37th Planetary System】

【Jump report uploaded】

Chi Jiuyu stared at it for a while, only sitting down in her seat when the countdown reached its final seconds.

"Jump commencing!"

Accompanying Ship Spirit Xiao Xue's voice, the control room immediately began to shake violently.

A sheet of Bai Guang flared before her eyes!

The next second, the starship itself seemed to be torn apart and reassembled in an instant.

Hum~!

The piercing hum continued without cease. The immense overload pressure seemed to compress the hull into emitting an overburdened groan, and a tremendous force sought to pin her firmly to the seat.

The scene before her eyes also began to twist and warp, turning into flowing streaks of color, as if she were inside a frenzied abstract painting.

"Mm~"

Chi Jiuyu yawned, and the warped vision before her eyes instantly returned to normal.

She often carried out missions in the starry sky, and her cultivation was not low; this bit of strangeness was no different from a breeze brushing her face.

"The alien races of Gui Ling 37th Planetary System…"

Chi Jiuyu muttered as she took out her phone and began reviewing the contents of the mission attachment.

……

……

Just as Chi Jiuyu began her jump, heading toward the Fuling Star System.

The Fuling Star System itself had come under attack.

In the Gui Ling series of planetary systems alone — the destination of Chi Jiuyu's mission — as many as twenty-plus planetary systems, including the 7th, 9th, 13th, 35th, and 37th, had massive numbers of biological weapons appearing.

Dense swarms of ferocious monsters appeared suddenly like a plague of locusts, lights flickering around their bodies as they pierced the void and fled through the air.

The special strange power they emitted actually briefly severed the connections between the nodes of the star domain's protective formations.

Then they dove straight toward the planets within the system that showed signs of life, one after another.

The Void Return realm garrison commanders within the star system saw this and manifested their own Dharma Aspects.

Propping up heaven and steadying the earth, seizing thunder and grasping fire, yin and yang swirling around their bodies, all manner of strange phenomena manifesting about them.

On one hand they raised magic power force fields to shield the planets within the system; on the other, relying on the system's grand formation, they fought life-and-death battles against biological weapons several times their own Void Return level.

Even so, the living beings within the system below Nascent Soul who could not leave their home planets — whether human or other alien races — were all uneasy and terrified.

If the aftershocks of the fighting had not been absorbed by the star system's spiritual energy sieve filtration system, even with Void Return magic power force fields shielding them, these planets themselves would have been shattered to pieces!

And outside the Fuling Star System.

A young man in a blue robe, after a period of pursuit, finally intercepted a severed claw covered in purple scales that kept tearing through space to flee.

The severed claw was extremely "perfect" — every scale, even the arc of the claw tip, was just right, like a work of art carved by the finest sculptor in the world.

After the blue-robed young man cornered it, the severed claw seemed to possess a spirit; sensing something was wrong, purple scales lit up with golden patterns, and a sharp claw flashing with cold light tore out!

Wisps of purple-black qi drifted out from the claw tips, bone growing and flesh lengthening within, scales forming and claws sharpening, and in the blink of an eye it swelled countless times over.

Transforming into several dozen bio-weapons, each of differing form, yet all incomparably grotesque.

Every one of them was at Return-to-Void Perfection, but their auras were utterly filthy and chaotic, as though haphazardly cobbled together.

This was only possible in the starry sky; if it were the Central Continent, such bio-weapons would have been ground into a puddle of rotten flesh by the dense workings of the Dao the instant they appeared.

And once those bio-weapons appeared, they let out wave after wave of soundless roars; though no sound could be heard, the terrifying ripples, like surging tides, piled layer upon layer, nearly twisting space itself.

Yet such terrifying ripples were more than enough to annihilate an entire planetary system.

Sweeping toward the blue-robed man, they didn't even ruffle his clothes; he merely raised a hand and pressed down, plain and unremarkable.

In his palm, it seemed, a black hole appeared, swallowing all light into itself.

Those bio-weapons, vastly larger than him by billions of times, grotesque and terrifying, were directly blasted apart beneath that single palm, ground into nothingness.

When he withdrew his hand again, a severed purple-scaled claw, perfect as a work of art, was already held in his grip, still struggling ceaselessly.

Fine black qi, like worms or snakes, emanated from those scales, seeking to pierce into his body and seize his supernatural powers for itself.

Yet he merely pressed down with his magic power and completely subdued it.

"A severed claw of a Guai-beast…"

His expression was utterly grim.

Bio-weapons were beneath notice, but as one of the ultimate weapons of the Cang Clan today, the Dao-soldier Guai-beast could not be treated lightly.

Since even a severed claw of a Dao-soldier Guai-beast had appeared, didn't that prove the matter of defectors from the human race infiltrating was also true?

These various thoughts took but an instant.

He turned and looked toward the Fuling Star System, watching the Return-to-Void cultivators within each planetary system battling the bio-weapons.

He immediately raised his other hand, using his finger as a brush, and began to write and draw in this pitch-black, unfathomably deep cosmic space.

Boom—!

A terrifying wave of spiritual energy howled, leaping and sweeping across the entire Fuling Star System; the traces it left behind resembled the marks of layered talismans.

The entire Fuling Star System, hundreds of billions of stars, all erupted with boundless light and heat in that single instant, yet not the slightest bit affected the living beings dwelling on the planets.

Using the Dao as brush, the workings of the Dao as ink, he stirred forth the light of stars and waves of spiritual energy, forming a talisman of ten-thousand-phenomena decree!

The supreme true-law inheritance of the Taishang Dao Sect — *Yanxu Chiming Chandao Zhenfu Jing*

The instant the talisman formed, its terrifying might directly twisted and altered the rules of the entire star system.

The sparse workings of the Dao suddenly became dense.

Soul Transformation cultivators, once capable of plucking stars and seizing moons, could now only cause a certain degree of destruction to a planet's surface.

Nascent Soul cultivators, who could easily annihilate all life on a planet's surface, had fallen further still, reduced to merely moving mountains and filling seas.

Even the Dharmic Aspects of the cultivators fighting desperately within the star system dimmed for this reason, falling back into the planets.

And all the bio-weapons within the star system let out a single agonized shriek before shattering into puddles of rotten flesh.

With but a single decree talisman, he had directly swept clean all the bio-weapons ravaging an entire star system!

Why those who have merged with the Dao are called Great Powers was laid bare without a trace at this moment.

But Fuling Zhenjun did not relax because of this; instead, he carefully observed the various conditions within the star system, seeking to find anything amiss.

"……"

Had it already infiltrated, or had it already departed?

Fuling Zhenjun's expression grew ever more solemn; just as he was about to return into the star system to investigate further, his figure vanished on the spot.

……

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Gui Ling's thirty-fifth planetary system.

The sixth planet.

A planet originally unsuitable for human habitation, yet made livable through the alterations of Star Refiners.

Because it was still in the early stages of construction, not many people had migrated to this planet.

So cities had only been built where resources were richest; other areas remained undeveloped — a true and genuine "vast land, sparse population."

Just as the people who had migrated to this planet were still worrying about the battle in the starry sky…

Outside the city, in the lush jungle grown through ecological modification, a figure was looking up at the sky.

Pale purple eyes, with hexagonal pupils, as though able to see beyond the star system in a single glance.

"*Yanxu Chiming Chandao Zhenfu Jing*… truly familiar…"

She murmured softly, then lowered her head; the hexagonal pupils returned to normal, and her pale purple eyes became like multicolored glazed crystal once more.

Yet her features were exquisite, her snow-white neck slender; even draped in a loose white robe, it could not conceal her explosive figure at all.

"Cutting off an arm to conceal oneself, and not acting again, should be enough to get past them."

As she spoke, she closed her eyes once more; when she reopened them, her glazed, multicolored eyes had already become stark black and white.

Relying on the might of the Dao-soldier Guai-beast, she possessed the ability to contend with one who had merged with the Dao.

But this place was, after all, within reach of the power of those undying old things of the human race.

Directly employing the Dao-soldier Guai-beast would be no different from seeking death!

Moreover, from now on she would have to act as little as possible, to reduce the risk of exposure.

Glancing at a towering ancient tree beside her, she sighed softly, raised her hand and drew, pulling a slender little purple snake directly from the tree.

She let it slither and coil along her fair, delicate lotus-root arm.

"How many years has it been? The human race is still the same, utterly unrepentant."

Trees that should have taken a thousand years to grow were forcibly spurred by them with spiritual liquid, aided by ecological modification techniques, and reached such a size in a single night.

All for the sake of harvesting them sooner, nothing more.

They couldn't even wait for it to grow before wantonly manipulating nature and altering the rules.

They showed not the slightest tolerance or compassion toward the other foreign races, nor did they ever extend a helping hand…

Such an overbearing and domineering race actually dominating the Xuan Realm truly left her heart unable to find peace.

They're simply like worms gnawing at the world! (End of Chapter)