Chapter 170: Lu Fa seized the Asura and the Gengyu Diamond Pestle, his sword aimed at Earth!

The heavenly screen froze on Ares' Supreme Hall.

The atmosphere was so cold it could form ice shards.

King Pirel sat enthroned on a throne forged from pure gold and starlight steel.

He looked down from above, gazing at Lu Fa, whose weapons had been removed, standing below.

The face that once clasped Lu Fa's hand and called him brother was now etched with coldness and hatred.

On both sides of the hall, thousands of the capital guard raised high-energy ion guns, their barrels locked onto the twenty‑five people in the central circle.

King Pirel rose to his feet.

He produced no evidence and summoned no witnesses.

He simply raised his right hand and pressed the red all‑channel broadcast button on the throne's armrest.

"Ares Supreme Commander Lu Fa, and his twenty‑four Imperial Guards."

King Pirel's voice, amplified, echoed across every corner of the planet Ares.

"You have committed Ares' highest capital crime, the Three Extreme Sins!"

A holographic projection burst open in the center of the hall.

Three lines of blood‑red characters hovered above Lu Fa's head.

"Greed, holding military power to exalt himself, plotting to seize the throne."

"Wrath, his nature violent and brutal, slaughtering innocent star systems in his campaigns."

"Obsession, fixated on force, ignoring the Ares code and galactic peace."

Lu Fa jerked his head up.

He stared at those three lines, then turned his gaze to the king on the throne to whom he had sworn loyalty for thousands of years.

The corner of Lu Fa's eye split open, and blood streamed down his cheek.

"Pirel!"

Lu Fa roared, his vocal cords tearing from extreme fury,

"Without me, you couldn't even stand on the steps of this throne! You dare pronounce my guilt?!"

The twenty‑four Imperial Guards stepped forward as one, shielding Lu Fa at the center.

They burst forth with their lingering psychic energy, trying to resist this baseless judgment.

King Pirel gave Lu Fa no chance to present a defense.

He couldn't even be bothered to glance at Lu Fa.

"Strip Lu Fa and his subordinates of their Ares citizenship."

King Pirel swept down his right hand,

"Activate the supreme punishment. Impose the Ares Gene Curse. Carry it out immediately."

The armored plates of the hall's dome slammed open to either side.

A ring‑shaped gene‑punishment device over a hundred meters in diameter emerged.

At its core, an intense emerald‑green energy surged wildly together.

Boom!

A thick emerald‑green column of light poured down, precisely enveloping Lu Fa and the twenty‑four Imperial Guards.

A shrill, anguished howl tore through the heavens, echoing across all realms.

This was no ordinary energy attack.

It was a total demolition and reconstruction of the Ares people's genetic foundation.

Lu Fa crashed to his knees on the hard metal floor.

His muscles spasmed violently, the blood vessels beneath his skin writhing and bursting like living things.

His once handsome, proud Ares visage began to twist.

His bones emitted a grating sound of breaking and reshaping.

His jawbone jutted outward, his teeth sharpening into fine fangs that pierced his lips.

His once smooth skin cracked, peeled, and grew a repulsive yellow‑brown rough keratin layer.

"Ah——!"

Lu Fa's son, Anmixiu, writhed wildly on the ground.

His back bulged high, and with the sound of flesh tearing, several vicious bone spurs burst through his spine and were exposed to the air.

Another Imperial Guard, Qiao Shefei, clawed desperately at his own face with both hands.

On his forehead, two curved horns burst through his skull and grew outward.

In just a few minutes.

The torment of the gene curse reached its peak.

The column of light faded.

In the hall's center, the galaxy‑wide elite once revered by all and who had shed their blood for Ares was gone.

Only twenty‑five monsters remained, crawling on the ground, reeking of foulness and radiating a brutal aura.

They had become the loathed aberrations of the cosmos—the "Yinming Demons"!

All realms fell silent.

Then a tsunami‑like wave of sorrow and rage erupted.

Cybertron Planet.

Autobot Base.

Optimus Prime's massive metallic frame trembled slightly.

He watched Lu Fa painfully struggling and drastically changing in the heavenly curtain, a deep sorrow flashing in his azure mechanical eyes.

"The most tragic ending."

Qingtian Zhu's low, metallic voice echoed inside the base,

"The bravest warrior did not fall under the enemy's plasma cannon, but died a miserable death from a backstab by the one he loyally fought to the death for, which is more despairing than destroying the Fire Seed Source."

Three-Body World.

Inside the manor.

Shi Qiang gulped down a big mouthful of eri guotou.

He violently smashed the glass liquor cup onto the ground, shards scattering everywhere.

"Damn King Ares!"

Shi Qiang swore profusely, saliva flying everywhere,

"That Piel King is good for nothing! He lets people conquer the world, then after they're done he complains their blades are too sharp and turns them into ghosts!"

"What a damn high-dimensional civilization, playing dirty tricks even worse than Earth's gangs!"

Luo Ji sat on the sofa, exhaling a thick smoke ring.

He gazed at the heavenly curtain, his eyes deep and sighing.

"This is another side of cosmic survival."

Luo Ji flicked off the ash,

"Internal political strife in higher civilizations is often more ruthless and without limits than the mutual slaughter in the dark forest."

"Because they not only want you dead, but also strip away all your dignity as a hero."

Snow World.

Northern Liang Prince's Mansion.

Xu Xiao stopped wiping his spear.

He looked at Lu Fa's gruesome state, remained silent for a long time, then suddenly laughed.

"When the birds are gone, the bow is stored; when the rabbit is dead, the dog is cooked."

Xu Xiao shook his head,

"Lu Fa is still too straightforward. Holding such great military power, he dared to rush back to the capital alone to hand over the command."

"If it were me, I wouldn't advance a single step into the hall's gate with the 300,000 Northern Liang Iron Cavalry not deployed outside the city."

In the heavenly curtain, anomalies arose again.

Above the great hall, Piel King watched Lu Fa turn into a monster, a flicker of delight crossing his eyes.

"Drag these disgusting netherworld demons out and throw them into the cosmic black hole."

Piel King gave the order.

Several guards wielding electric spears approached cautiously.

Suddenly.

A large hand covered in gray-brown scales and bristling with claws shot out like lightning, grabbing the head of the foremost guard.

Crack.

The skull shattered, brain matter and blood splattering onto the pristine hall floor.

Lu Fa slowly rose to his feet.

His mutated body, towering at 2.5 meters, exuded a suffocating killing aura.

In those scarlet beast eyes, there was no longer loyalty to Ares, nor reverence for the code.

Only pure, all-consuming hatred remained.

Faced with towering injustice and torment worse than death, Lu Fa completely abandoned his last illusion about Ares.

He abandoned his ridiculous excuse.

"Since you turned me into a demon, I'll show you what I can do!"

"Kill."

Lu Fa's voice turned into a metallic scraping roar.

Twenty-four netherworld demons erupted simultaneously.

Although they had lost their armor, their mutated bodies granted them strength and speed far beyond ordinary humans.

This was a one-sided slaughter with no suspense.

An Moxiu punched through the guard's energy shield, his arm piercing straight through the opponent's chest.

Qiao Shefei turned into a blur, his claws weaving a death net in midair, slicing the charging guards into pieces.

Lu Fa strode toward the outside of the hall.

The high-energy ion beam struck his hard cuticle, leaving only a faint white trace.

He grabbed the necks of two guards and slammed them together; the two corpses slumped limp.

"Stop them! Activate the defense system!"

Chairman Balu hid behind a pillar and screamed.

Lu Fa paid no attention to these lackeys at all.

He led his twenty-four subordinates, directly carving a bloody path out of the heavy military encirclement of Ares' capital.

Severed limbs littered the streets of the capital.

The netherworld demons' howls became the most terrifying nightmare on Ares Star.

Lu Fa slaughtered his way to the alloy gate of Ares' supreme treasury.

He raised his right arm, gathering all remaining mental energy within his body into his fist.

Boom!

A punch blasted out.

The ten-meter-thick Starlight Steel giant gate was forcibly smashed open, leaving a huge hole.

Lu Fa strode into the treasury.

He didn't look at the piled-up rare metals and high-grade weapons.

He walked straight to the two display platforms at the deepest part of the treasury.

On the left was that set emitting a dark-gold sheen, hailed as the galaxy's strongest armor—the 'Shura Armor'.

On the right was the ultimate weapon hovering in an energy field, capable of reshaping genes or destroying planets—the 'Genggang Vajra Pestle'.

Lu Fa yanked off the summoner of the Shura Armor and fastened it to his wrist.

Next, he gripped the Genggang Vajra Pestle.

The eerie light flickering on the Vajra Pestle illuminated his ugly, twisted face.

"Go!"

Lu Fa turned around.

They fought their way up to the orbital spaceport.

Along the way, the defensive cannons were instantly flattened by the energy wave released from Lu Fa's Genggang Vajra Pestle.

They boarded the A Rui Si Supreme Command Ship—the A Fa Si.

"Activate the main engine, force a space jump."

Lu Fa shoved the pilot aside and personally pulled back the control stick.

The massive hull of the A Fa Si crackled with violent blue arcs.

At the last second when the A Rui Si main fleet completed its encirclement, the warship tore through space and plunged headfirst into the vast sea of stars.

Inside the cold bridge of the A Fa Si.

The atmosphere was deathly silent.

Twenty-four Netherworld Demons each sat slumped in a corner, licking their wounds.

Lu Fa alone stood before the huge porthole.

He gazed into the distance, where the A Rui Si star had dwindled to a point of light. That was the homeland he had once sworn to protect with his life.

A drop of scarlet blood-tear slid down his grayish-brown ugly cheek, falling onto the floor with a shocking sight.

Lu Fa suddenly turned around.

He raised high the Genggang Vajra Pestle glowing with eerie light in his hand.

His hoarse, mad voice echoed in the empty bridge.

"I, Lu Fa, swear an oath to the starry skies!"

"One day, I will return to Ares as a conqueror!"

"I will seize half of the galaxy's energy crystals! I will use the canon that Piel himself set down to crush him underfoot!"

"I will make the entire Ares Star pay the price of blood for today's betrayal!"

The vicious oath, accompanied by the howls of the Netherworld Demons, seemed to pass a death sentence on the entire galaxy.

The scene on the celestial screen flowed.

The narrator's voice sounded again, revealing Lu Fa's mad plan after he fell to become an interstellar bandit.

【In order to accumulate enough energy to forcibly activate the Genggang Vajra Pestle and oppose the mighty power of the entire Ares military, Lu Fa began piloting the A Fa Si, launching a frenzied plunder across the whole galaxy.】

In the picture, the A Fa Si descended above a vibrant green planet teeming with life.

The tractor beam from its underside shot downward.

Deep in the planet's core, a crystal radiating abundant life force was forcibly torn away. This was the planet's 'Energy Crystal'.

The moment the Energy Crystal was lost,

the green planet's ecosystem collapsed completely.

The oceans dried up within minutes, and the forests instantly turned yellow to ash.

The once-prosperous alien city turned to ruins amidst earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Countless beings died in despair.

A planet brimming with life, in an extremely short time, became a dead star drifting in the universe.

Such images kept flashing on the celestial screen.

One.

Ten.

One hundred.

Lu Fa completely abandoned all his limits.

Once the galaxy's absolute guardian, driven by hatred, he became the ultimate demon that terrifies the entire universe.

On the holographic star map, the A Fa Si's red route representing death spread like a virus across the galaxy.

Audiences from all realms watched this cruel plunder, feeling a chill.

Marvel World.

Thanos sat on his throne, watching Lu Fa's deeds, his brows furrowed.

"Unrestrained plunder will only hasten the universe's demise."

Thanos clenched the Infinity Gauntlet,

"This act of destroying planets purely for revenge is more foolish than slaughter itself. He is merely a madman blinded by hatred."

Swallowing Starry Sky World.

Luo Feng watched the planets that had turned into dead stars, anger blazing in his eyes.

"Taking the planet's core, severing all vitality—how is that any different from those star‑space giant beasts that devour the universe?"

Luo Feng gritted his teeth,

"No matter what injustice he once endured, the instant he brandishes his slaughter blade at innocent beings, his sole identity becomes mortal enemy!"

The pace of the images on the sky‑screen suddenly quickened.

The red route stretched continuously across the star map, passing through one star system after another.

【Lu Fa has already gathered half the Milky Way's energy crystals.】

The narrator's voice suddenly turned cold, carrying a suffocating pressure, as if an invisible hand had gripped everyone's throat.

【This is the final stop of his revenge plan.】

【It is also the ultimate goal—the galaxy's largest, purest source of life energy.】

The red route on the star map abruptly halted.

The image zoomed in at extreme speed.

In the depths of the vast cosmos, a sapphire‑blue star radiating beautiful azure light filled the entire screen.

【That… is Earth!】

Boom!

The screen image froze instantly.

The massive Afas‑class heavy interstellar battleship, like a steel beast crawling out of hell,

its huge shadow capable of eclipsing the sun and moon tightly shrouded Earth's atmosphere.

The battleship's star‑annihilating cannon at the base was charging, emitting destructive red light.

The piercing air‑raid alarm blasted loudly across the sky‑screen.

Audiences from myriad worlds sucked in a cold breath in unison.

The hearts of all Earth's forces clenched tight.

In the Super God Academy world, Ge Xiaolun directly summoned his greatsword, staring fixedly at the screen:

"Again? Why do these aliens keep picking on Earth?"

In the Wandering Earth world,

Liu Peiqiang slammed the highest‑level battle alarm:

"MOSS! Enter first‑level combat readiness!"

In the Spirit Cage world,

Captain Mark gripped the gravity‑lever, cold sweat soaking his back.

Earth, on the brink of disaster!

Can Earth's own forces fend off the Ares Regular Army that once swept the galaxy and now incarnates as demonic troops?

The Netherworld's slaughter blade already hangs over humanity's head.

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