Chapter 517: Triumph Brings Arrogance

Can't beat him?

Jige and Jiufu were both a bit slow to react.

Could it be that after taking such an exaggerated hit, Wu Qi actually didn't die?

Impossible!

Chang Yao bowed respectfully and said solemnly, "This old man is willing to serve you to the best of his ability!"

As a Return-to-Void cultivator, he had not had his perception affected like Jige and Jiufu, so he had seen everything that just happened clearly.

Although he didn't know what the 'Dao Soldier Sacred Beast' in Wu Qi's mouth was, it was clearly something even more troublesome than the biological weapon hub.

This was the best chance to clear his own suspicions!

"You want to fight him? He..."

Boom!

A heavy, muffled crash cut off what Chi Jiuyu was about to say.

Chi Jiuyu's eyes narrowed, and Chang Yao's expression grew serious as they looked toward the royal palace—or rather, toward the extreme distance beyond Wang Cheng!

The sky suddenly darkened, the light of the fixed stars blotted out.

"Hahahaha!"

The great laughter that came rolling in made the entire planet tremble, surpassing the speed-of-sound limit, ringing out directly in every corner of the Seventh Planet.

Rumble!

The remaining half of the royal palace collapsed amid violent shaking.

Before everything crumbled into ruins, a streak of sword light burst out from the collapsing palace, soaring into the high sky and transforming into Chi Jiuyu's appearance..

Coming out with her were Chang Yao, Jige, and Jiufu...

'Just knew it wouldn't end this simply...' Chi Jiuyu gazed into the distance.

In all these years, the missions she had carried out—if nothing unexpected happened at the very end, that would be the real abnormality!

Her clear, bright eyes reflected the scene of the distant heaven and earth.

"This time is no exception either..." she muttered.

She had originally thought that with so many mishaps on the way here, this time she could finally complete the mission smoothly...

But in the end, she had still been thinking too much.

In the distance.

A pillar of purple light shot up to the heavens, within which seemed to flow countless fine, delicate star-sand.

The purple light spread all the way to the sky, continuously expanding, gradually painting the entire sky the same color.

In almost the blink of an eye, the purple light had already enveloped the entire planet, and was still extending outward, seeking to corrode the entire Gui Ling Thirty-Seventh Planetary System to nothing.

A scene like a heavenly calamity.

And within that pillar of light, a crystalline, translucent scale floated quietly.

Purple light forged bones, nerves grew upon the bones, muscles reshaped, the body restored.

Finally, the purple pillar of light gradually contracted and thinned, leaving only a single figure standing quietly in the sky.

Though his racial features had not changed, his physique had been adjusted to a perfection from which not a single flaw could be picked; a crystalline purple scale was set in his brow, but the most striking feature was still those iridescent, glass-like eyes.

A robe of purple, and in his palm a scepter condensed from purple crystal.

Judging by his aura, he had already completely surpassed Soul Transformation, and was even above Chang Yao.

Compared to the strike in which Chi Jiuyu had just fully gathered her power, Wu Qi's aura at this moment was utterly undisguised.

"He should be even more formidable than you. Are you sure you want to fight him?" Chi Jiuyu only now finished the sentence she had left unsaid earlier.

Chang Yao: "..."

Feeling that terrifying aura brimming with absolute suppression, he carefully observed Chi Jiuyu again.

Even now, this Sword Sect Immortal Envoy had not shown the slightest fear.

He clenched his teeth:

"Immortal Envoy, rest assured! This old man will take him down right now. I share a feud with evil that cannot coexist under the same sky!"

Boom!

A crimson fire wheel erupted with a roar, tearing a gash in the purple firmament.

At this point, to avoid the human race's subsequent reckoning, he could only gamble!

And besides...

He didn't think Wu Qi would let him off.

"Scram!"

A cold snort, like the true sound of heaven and earth, the manifestation of order.

The purple scale between Wu Qi's brows lit up.

A visible distortion spread outward with him at its center.

The crimson fire wheel that Chang Yao had become jolted violently; the moment the distortion touched it, all the firelight scattered completely, and it was sent flying backward at an even greater speed!

"Ah!"

With a scream, Chang Yao was smashed deep into the ground, his fate unknown.

Wu Qi was taken aback.

Taking down Chang Yao Zunzhu so easily was, truth be told, somewhat unexpected to him.

But very soon, he lost himself in his own ever-expanding power.

That's right!

Possessing such magnificent power, who could possibly stop him?

Her glass-like seven-colored eyes looked toward Jige and Jiufu.

"This Seat is willing to give you one more chance. Are you willing to follow This Seat and bathe in the glory of the Supreme *tribe?"

Her voice was vast and resonant, sacred and majestic.

Jige and Jiufu merely exchanged a glance, and immediately came to a decision.

"We swear to follow the Lord unto death!"

Although they did not know what that *tribe was, the strength Wuqi had now revealed was already enough for them to make their choice.

Watching the situation unfold from the side, Chi Jiuyu secretly shook her head in her heart.

"Tsk tsk! Really courting death."

Getting just one scale of a Dao-soldier Strange Beast and acting this arrogant — they simply don't know how the word 'death' is written.

But this Dao-soldier Strange Beast really is outrageously powerful.

Just one scale raised this ignorant imbecile to such a level.

She looked again toward the direction where Changyao had been smashed into the ground.

'Putting on quite the act…'

If she had never before witnessed a battle between Return-to-Void cultivators, she might really have believed it…

Thinking this, she took out a gray jade talisman.

This thing has already risen to Return-to-Void, and an extremely powerful one at that — there's no way we can fight it.

Now it all depends on whether that second grandson's grandfather can react in time.

If not…

Her Jiuyu Laozu isn't unable to cheat either!

Just then, two wisps of purple light shot out from the purple scale on Wuqi's brow and sank into the bodies of Jige and Jiufu, who were half-kneeling in the air.

"Despicable humans." Wuqi's eyes were full of mockery. "If you can defeat them, I'll spare your life. How about it?"

He would return every bit of the humiliation he had suffered, bit by bit.

……

……

Meanwhile.

Jiling Star System, Yan Ling Seventy-Second Planetary System.

The Sixth Planet.

Cangwu Star, a planet with over three billion humans living on it.

Compared to those planets still in the early stages of construction, this one was far more prosperous.

The capital of Cangwu Star!

A passenger starship, under the effect of a teleportation-traction array, slowly landed in the starship berthing area.

As the starship's hatch opened.

Passengers walked out chatting and laughing, discussing what they had seen and heard on this trip.

Inside the starship, in a private compartment.

【Dear passengers, we have arrived at Jiling Star System, Yan Ling Seventy-Second Planetary System, Cangwu Star, Cangwu City East Station】

【This starship will dock here for 0.5 standard hours】

【Next stop: Fengyu Star System, Cheng Yu Twenty-Third Planetary System】

【To ensure the personal safety of all passengers, please observe the following terms:】

【One, ……】

A sweet voice came through the broadcast.

Yin Zhihe sat quietly, looking coldly out the window.

On her delicate Bai Xi skin, faint dark-purple patterns flickered, arranged neatly like scales — but on her left wrist, one spot was conspicuously left empty.

As if a scale had been forcibly ripped off.

'I hope you can follow the guidance of the Supreme Cang Tribe and cast off the bullying of the human race…'

She sincerely wished this in her heart.

Seeing everything that had happened within Gui Ling Thirty-Seventh Planetary System, she ultimately couldn't bear it and sent out a scale of a Dao-soldier Sacred Beast.

The current Dao-soldier Sacred Beast had already fully adapted to the rules of the star domain — as long as it didn't act brazenly and recklessly, then…

Just as she thought this, she felt the feedback from the Dao-soldier Strange Beast's scale.

Yin Zhihe's face instantly became extremely ugly.

Damn it!

The power of the Dao-soldier Strange Beast's scale had actually been fully activated!

Didn't that idiot see the message she left?!

She was furious beyond measure.

The kid currently stationed at Fu Ling Star System is a genuine Dao Merging cultivator — even if she herself were to don the Dao-soldier Sacred Beast at its peak, there's still a high chance she wouldn't be his match.

How dare that alien…!

Anger, fear, regret and other emotions intertwined in her heart.

But very quickly, she suppressed all the emotions in her heart.

At this point, resenting anyone would not change the situation in the slightest — she could only try to salvage it.

'Supreme Ancestor, please hear my prayer, lead me out of this predicament with your supreme light…' Yin Zhihe prayed sincerely in her heart.

Purple surged in her eyes.

The voice she silently prayed for seemed, in that instant, to cross infinite distances, pierce the boundary between reality and illusion, and connect with a supreme being of immense grandeur, as if the origin of the Dao itself.

There was no speech, no communication whatsoever.

She did not even know whether that supreme being had responded, or whether what she had seen was real.

A strange cultivation method appeared in her heart, utterly without warning.

The True Method of Reversing the Body to Hide the Spirit from the Origin of the Dao

Reverse the bodies of all spirits, to hide my spirit within!

The instant she comprehended the true method, her magic power spontaneously flowed along its path, even incorporating the power of the Dao Soldier诡兽.

Hurry!

The purple hue swirling in Yin Zhihe's eyes vanished.

She rose swiftly from her seat and stepped out of the private cabin.

Only minutes later.

On the skin of nearly a thousand passengers aboard the passenger starship, a faint purple, scale-like pattern emerged.

Moreover, as each passenger came into contact with another, conversed with them…

The person touched also bore that faint purple, scale-like pattern.

Fifteen minutes later!

The entire city of Cangwu, over a million souls, were all infected.

Half an hour!

The thirty billion people of Cangwu Star all bore that faint purple, scale-like pattern upon their bodies.

They!

All had become Yin Zhihe's reversed bodies hiding the spirit!

The passenger starship slowly lifted off; every person aboard remained unaware, their words and actions showing no anomaly.

Inside the private cabin.

Yin Zhihe had returned to her seat.

The magic power flowing along its special pathway ceased, and the Dao Soldier诡兽, from which power had been drawn, sank into weakness.

A true method is so vast—how could a Return-to-Void cultivator easily comprehend it?

It was merely a clever, one-time use.

Outside the window, the silhouette of Cangwu City faded into the clouds, while the silhouette of Cangwu Star gradually emerged.

The entire starship had now reached beyond the planet. (End of Chapter)