Chapter 187: Top Ten Civilizations, Ares Armor Civilization Survey Complete!

Under the heavenly canopy.

The underground secret chamber of the Bar King Group.

Yan Di lifted the cup of clear tea and drank it all in one go.

The tea flowed down his throat into his abdomen. One second passed. Two seconds passed.

Yan Di's hand holding the tea cup suddenly froze mid‑air. His brows knotted sharply, and his previously relaxed posture instantly tensed.

An extremely cold, domineering energy exploded within his five viscera and six bowels.

This energy carried strong corrosiveness, directly severing his will‑energy circulation and began frantically devouring the genetic code within his body.

"Lu Fa, you worm hiding in the sewers!"

Yan Di pointed at Lu Fa's nose,

"A thousand years ago, you wore me down with your human‑sea tactics."

"A thousand years later, you poison me with such despicable means."

"In this lifetime, you will never dare to face me head‑on!"

"You will always be nothing but a pitiful coward!"

Lu Fa's face turned ashen, the corners of his eyes twitching wildly.

He stepped forward a pace, pointed at Yan Di and roared:

"Victors write history, losers are bandits! A dead man has no right to spout nonsense here! You killed my son—today you must die!"

Yan Di gave a cold snort and coughed up another large mouthful of black blood.

Purple spots began to appear on his skin, a sign that his genetic code was about to collapse completely.

"What does it matter if I die?"

Yan Di spread his arms, tilted his head back and gazed at the chamber's ceiling,

"I, Yan Di, have fought countless armies in my life and slain innumerable strong foes."

"I was born a martial madman, and even in death I remain a war‑spirit. And you, Lu Fa, even if you defeat everyone, you are still utter trash."

Purple light burst forth with a boom.

Yan Di's body shattered inch by inch in the light, turning into countless motes that dissipated completely into the air.

He left no last words, showed no weakness.

A martial maniac, the strongest of Flame Star, stood there and met his end just like that.

Lu Fa stared fixedly at the spot where Yan Di had vanished.

He stood rooted to the spot, motionless, for a full ten minutes.

For a thousand years he had proclaimed himself the greatest general of Ares Star.

He believed he fought for justice across the world, only to be betrayed by Pier Wang and forced into exile.

He had always retained a soldier's pride and a sense of righteousness he considered his own.

This self‑deceptive righteousness intertwined with his resentment toward the whole universe, making his will‑energy turbid and impure.

Neither pure good nor pure evil, he became a grotesque misfit.

This is also the fundamental reason he could never unleash the true power of the Shura Armor.

But just now, when he used a cup of poisoned tea and the most despicable means to kill a pure martial artist, the last line of defense in his heart called "honor" collapsed completely.

Lu Fa raised both hands and stared at his palms.

What is justice?

What is honor?

Pier Wang took everything from him through scheming—why couldn't he use scheming to take it back?

As long as he could win, as long as he could return to Ares, as long as he could avenge himself, he could kill anyone and discard any principle.

"Justice… is simply the biggest joke in this universe."

A low murmur rose from Lu Fa's throat.

With his mindset completely overturned, the will‑energy within his body underwent a drastic transformation.

His previously chaotic breath began to coalesce, and an extremely pure, extremely dark energy surged forth from the depths of his genes.

Black‑purple evil energy wrapped around Lu Fa's entire body.

The surrounding air temperature plummeted, and any standing water on the ground froze instantly.

This evil energy was pure to the extreme, containing not a trace of mercy or stray thought.

From this moment on, Lu Fa cast aside all burdens and fell completely into demonhood.

A demon whose evil energy had reached its peak.

Kula in the corner felt this terrifying pressure, fell directly to his knees, trembling all over, not daring to lift his head.

The myriad heavens shattered completely.

The Star‑Cluster Universe. The United Stars Command.

Human Federation Grand Marshal Xideni stared at the heavenly canopy, his brows locked tight. He slammed his fist hard onto the command console.

"A disgrace to soldiers! A failure of a commander!"

Xideni shouted angrily,

"You may set traps with schemes, you may encircle and annihilate with tactics."

"But to poison in the shadows, to sneak‑attack a warrior utterly unprepared—such behavior simply sullies the very word 'war'!"

Xideni looked at the spot where Yan Di had vanished on the screen and said in a low voice,

"That fellow called Yan Di may be arrogant, but he is a pure warrior. His death like this is truly a pity."

The Light‑Country Universe.

Under the Plasma Spark Tower.

Seiwen Ultraman closed his eyes and shook his head.

"Too cruel. Lu Fa has completely lost his original heart."

Seiwen's voice was filled with deep sorrow and shock,

"He once fought as a hero to defend his home planet."

"But hatred and lust for power completely twisted him."

"Now he is no longer a living being, but a mass of pure evil thought."

Tairo clenched his fists:

"This pure evil aura will likely make the power of that Shura Armor reach an extremely terrifying level. Earth, we're in big trouble."

Cybertron.

Decepticon Base.

Megatron's crimson optical lens contracted rapidly.

He saw the black-purple evil aura erupting from Lu Fa's body and let out a low metallic grinding sound.

"All's fair in love and war; to achieve any goal, any means are used—this is the survival law of a hegemon."

Megatron's tone carried a hint of complexity,

"But we Decepticons would rather tear enemies apart on the front battlefield than stoop to using this poison. Emperor Yan died too aggrieved."

"However, Lu Fa in this state... he finally threw away those hypocritical burdens, becoming somewhat interesting."

Battle Through the Heavens World.

Star Fall Pavilion.

Old Medicine stroked his beard and sighed:

"This poison is overbearing, directly destroying foundations, incurable. A generation of powerhouse, not defeated by swords, but died by poisoned wine. Tragic, lamentable."

Super Beast Armor World.

Xuanwu Ship.

Huo Linfei leapt up, pointing at the screen and shouting angrily:

"Lu Fa, you're shameless! If you can't win, you resort to poison! What kind of hero is that!"

"Li Haotian and them will definitely blast this shameless scoundrel to pieces!"

The sky curtain continues.

Lu Fa, who has completely gone into demonhood, has no more scruples.

He retrieved the Shura Armor Summoner, turned and walked out of the secret chamber.

On the Demon-Sealing Tower.

The earth split open.

The Demon-Sealing Tower, originally hidden underground, burst forth with an extremely strong energy beam.

The stone shell peeled off, revealing the internal cold metal armor and huge propulsion engine.

Afas Ship.

The flagship of Ares Star, after sleeping for a thousand years, emerged once more.

The huge warship rose into high altitude, blocking the sun.

On the city streets, crowds panicked and fled in all directions, traffic paralyzed.

The energy turret at the bottom of the Afas Ship slowly turned, locking onto the region where the Earth Energy Crystal resides.

With just one shot, the Earth's core will be pierced, the whole planet will become cosmic dust, and the Earth Energy Crystal will fall into Lu Fa's hands.

"Destroy! Destroy all!"

Lu Fa sat on the throne in the main control room, watching the Earth city on the screen, burst into loud laughter.

Just as the energy cannon was about to finish charging, three beams shot up from three directions of the city.

Li Haotian, Xu Tengfei, Wu Gang.

The three combined their armor, summoning their respective shuttles.

Red Fire Punishment Ship, Blue Flying Shadow Ship, Yellow Diamond Ship.

The three shuttles accelerated rapidly within the atmosphere, heading straight for the massive Afas Ship.

"Fire!"

Lu Fa issued the order.

The side gun ports of the Afas Ship opened all at once, dense energy beams pouring down like a rainstorm.

Li Haotian pushed the control stick, the Fire Punishment Ship performed an extreme roll in the rain of beams to avoid deadly strikes.

At the same time he pressed the fire button. The red particle cannon precisely struck one of the Afas Ship's thrusters.

Xu Tengfei and Wu Gang closely followed; the Flying Shadow Ship's cutting beam and the Diamond Ship's heavy missiles consecutively struck the warship's energy shield, causing ripples.

Both sides engaged in an extremely brutal aerial battle at the edge of Earth's atmosphere.

The shuttles' advantage lay in agility; they continuously weaved and detoured across the vast hull of the Afas Ship.

Lu Fa was completely enraged.

He personally took over the weapon control system, allocating all the main cannon's energy to the tracking missiles.

Hundreds of missiles guided by evil aura screamed out.

Li Haotian's trio's shuttles had nowhere to dodge, so they could only activate their shields to bear the impact.

Violent explosions lit up in space.

The armor of the three shuttles was severely damaged, system alarm sounds echoed throughout the cockpits.

But their attack also successfully pierced Afas's main engine reactor.

The massive explosion completely tore apart Afas's tail section.

The powerless warship and three damaged shuttles together fell into Earth's gravity well.

The high temperature generated from breaking through the atmosphere burned the warship's surface red-hot.

Finally, accompanied by a deafening roar, Afas and the three shuttles crashed onto a deserted small island deep in the Pacific Ocean.

The impact gouged a massive trench several kilometers long into the beach.

The warship's wreckage burned with raging flames, black smoke shooting straight up to the sky.

Lu Fa kicked open the twisted metal door of the main control room and walked out from the wreckage.

He looked at the burning warship debris around him, at the completely totaled Afas.

His only means of return to Ares was destroyed.

His thousand-year revenge plot, his dream of galactic domination—all turned to nothing in this moment.

Lu Fa turned his head, looking several hundred meters away.

Li Haotian, Xu Tengfei, and Wu Gang were helping each other up, crawling out from the shuttle wreckage.

"You... you bunch of Earth monkeys!"

Lu Fa's voice became hoarse and shrill from extreme anger.

He pointed his finger at the three, his whole body shaking violently.

"Again and again! Over and over you've ruined my plans! Destroyed my warship! Cut off my retreat!"

"I will make you suffer the most cruel death in the universe! I will make you wish you were dead!"

Lu Fa yanked the summoner from his waist and slammed the button.

"Shura Armor, unite!"

Black-purple lightning struck instantly, completely enveloping Lu Fa.

This time the Shura Armor underwent an anomaly. The armor, originally silver-purple, had turned completely into a deep, dark purple.

Energy patterns on the armor's surface flowed with thick black mist, and the chest energy core pulsed with an extremely violent frequency.

Pure evil energy perfectly matched the Shura Armor.

At this moment, Lu Fa's aura reached its true peak.

He needed only to stand there; the surrounding space began to warp, and the sand and gravel on the beach, unable to withstand the pressure, carbonized directly.

Li Haotian and the two others gripped their weapons, assuming combat stances.

But they had expended a large amount of will energy maintaining their shields in the recent space battle, and their physical strength was now at its limit.

Lu Fa's figure flickered.

No afterimage, no motion trail—it was pure spatial teleportation.

He appeared directly in front of Xu Tengfei.

Xu Tengfei instinctively swung his Absolute Shadow Whirlwind Blade, but Lu Fa grabbed the blade with one hand.

Lu Fa raised his right leg and kicked hard into the chest of the Flying Shadow Armor.

Xu Tengfei was kicked straight back a hundred meters, smashing a huge reef, disintegrating on the spot and collapsing in a pool of blood.

Wu Gang roared and swung his Thundersteel Explosive Axe from the side.

Lu Fa didn't even turn his head, backhanding a Shura Splitting Wind Claw.

A purplish-black light blade sliced the air, precisely striking the Diamond Armor.

Crack!

The explosive Diamond armor split open with a large gap.

Wu Gang spat a mouthful of blood and slammed heavily onto the sand.

Only Li Haotian remained.

War God Xingtian raised the Flame Punishment Heaven Fierce Sword to meet him head-on.

Lu Fa summoned the Shura Purgatory Blade.

Blade met blade.

No stalemate ensued.

Absolute power crushed everything.

The Flame Punishment Heaven Fierce Sword flew from his grasp.

Lu Fa reached out with his left hand, seized War God Xingtian's neck, and lifted him single-handedly.

"Is this your resistance? So weak!"

Lu Fa said coldly, the hilt of his right-hand Shura Purgatory Blade slamming hard into Xingtian Armor's abdomen.

Li Haotian cried out in pain, crashing heavily to the ground, his armor's light flashing wildly as it neared forced disengagement.

All three collapsed.

Despair shrouded the entire island.

Li Haotian struggled to stand, but his legs refused to obey.

At that moment, two hands pressed simultaneously onto his back.

Li Haotian froze.

He turned his head.

Xu Tengfei and Wu Gang had somehow crawled up behind him.

Both were drenched in blood, lacking even the strength to stand, only able to kneel on the sand on their knees.

Yet their hands pressed firmly onto the back of Li Haotian's armor.

The blue flying shadow will energy and the golden vajra will energy flowed continuously through their palms into Li Haotian's body.

"What are you doing?"

Li Haotian stared wide-eyed in shock,

"Stop quickly! You're transferring all your will energy to me; after this you won't be able to summon armor anymore!"

Xu Tingfei tugged at the corner of his mouth, revealing an extremely weak, grim smile.

"Cut the nonsense, Xiao Tian. You are our last hope."

Xu Tingfei's voice was intermittent, yet utterly resolute,

"A Qing is dead, Earth can't be destroyed any further. Carrying our share, take down Lu Fa."

Wu Gang coughed up a mouthful of blood and roared loudly:

"This is us working together, uniting as three into one! Xiao Tian, don't hesitate! Kill him!"

The blue and yellow light completely merged into War God Xingtian's body.

Xu Tingfei and Wu Gang exhausted their last strength, collapsing limp on the beach, falling into a deep coma.

Li Haotian slowly turned his head, looking ahead at Lu Fa, who was advancing step by step.

His state of mind reached an unprecedented emptiness and clarity at this moment.

No fear, no confusion.

Only the weighty hope entrusted by his companions, and the ultimate belief in protecting everything.

Red, blue, yellow.

The three kinds of will energy perfectly merged within his body.

The red armor on War God Xingtian burst forth with a blinding golden halo.

The armor's form underwent a subtle change, becoming heavier and more divine.

Li Haotian raised his right hand and lightly swiped the card slot on his belt.

A brand-new weapon card, emitting an extremely dazzling light, popped out.

He inserted the card into the summoner.

Boom!

A thunderclap rang out in the sky.

A red light pillar descended from the heavens, piercing the entire island.

Li Haotian pulled out a sword from the light pillar.

The sword was slender and entirely crimson; its blade surface flowed with extremely complex and ancient Ares runes.

The sword tip pointed at the ground, and the high temperature instantly melted the surrounding sand into glass-like crystals.

War God Flaming Sword!

The moment this sword appeared, Lu Fa's charging steps came to an abrupt halt.

He stared fixedly at that red great sword; his pupils constricted sharply beneath his visor, his voice filled with undisguised shock and panic.

"War God Flaming Sword? How is that possible!"

Lu Fa bellowed hysterically,

"That's a legendary weapon! How could you possibly do that!"

Li Haotian gripped the hilt with both hands, slowly raising the blade; the sword tip pointed at Lu Fa from afar.

Without any nonsense, Li Haotian pronounced his death sentence.

"Lu Fa, for your own selfish desires you are brutal and vile, disregarding life and destroying all the world's laws."

Li Haotian's voice transmitted through the armor's amplifier, calm yet carrying undeniable divinity.

"I, Li Haotian. In the name of the armor's justice, I will execute you on the spot. Lu Fa, surrender!"

The words fell.

Li Haotian poured all the ultimate will energy within him into the War God Flaming Sword.

The runes on the sword blade all lit up.

The red sword aura instantly expanded to a length of a hundred meters, as if it would split the entire sky in two.

"I refuse to accept this! I am the strongest!"

Lu Fa roared in anger, gathering all his black-purple evil qi onto the Asura Purgatory Blade and charging toward that red sword aura.

Li Haotian lifted the great sword high and swung it down fiercely.

"Heaven-Earth War God Slash!"

The hundred-meter-long red sword Qi cut through Lu Fa's black-purple lightning storm like tearing through rotten stalks.

The Asura Purgatory Blade, upon contacting the War God Flaming Sword, was instantly shaken free and flew from his grasp.

The red sword light pierced the Asura armor and pierced Lu Fa's body.

Like the first ray of dawn sunlight, it completely tore apart the long night.

Lu Fa stood frozen in place.

A straight line of light appeared on the surface of the Asura armor.

"I... how could I lose..."

Accompanied by his final unwilling murmur.

With a thunderous boom, Lu Fa's body, together with all his ambitions, was utterly annihilated in the exploding flames.

A silver-purple Asura summoner fell onto the beach.

The battle ended.

Li Haotian removed his armor, walked to the place where Lu Fa had dissipated, and picked up the Asura summoner.

The tentacles were icy cold.

He looked at the metal block representing the strongest power of the Milky Way, and in his mind surfaced the words that Qing Zai once said:

The Shura Armor not only possesses the strongest combat power, but also possesses the ultimate law of reversing time and space.

Li Haotian lowered his gaze toward Xu Tengfei and Wu Gang, who had fallen not far away.

They were still alive.

Earth was saved.

But in his heart, there remained a regret that had persisted for ten years.

That nightmare that had tormented him countless days and nights.

Li Haotian took a deep breath and put the Shura Summoner on his wrist.

His mental energy was pure enough to fully meet the requirements of the Shura Armor.

"Shura Armor, unite."

Silver-purple armor covered his entire body. Li Haotian closed his eyes and locked onto a time coordinate.

Ten years ago.

City Center Park.

The energy core at the chest of the Shura Armor erupted with intense spacetime fluctuations.

Li Haotian disappeared on the small island.

The scene shifted.

The sun was shining brightly.

Ten years ago's City Center Park.

Ten-year-old Li Haotian was playing in the sandbox. Not far away on the bench, his parents were smiling as they watched him.

And in the bushes behind the bench,

The netherworld demon Kula was lurking there, its purple demon claws already raised, ready to strike down the defenseless couple.

At the moment Kula was about to swing its demon claw,

Space rippled.

Li Haotian, wearing the Shura Armor, appeared out of thin air behind Kula.

Kula was shocked, quickly turned its head, and looked at this deity descending from the heavens.

Li Haotian looked at that ferocious face; all the pain, struggle, and hatred of the past ten years found an outlet at this moment.

As it turned out, the true murderer of his parents was you.

Without any hesitation.

Li Haotian's right hand made a grasping motion, and the Asura Purgatory Halberd instantly formed.

Pfft!

The halberd blade directly pierced Kula's chest.

Kula didn't even have time to let out a miserable scream before his body instantly turned to flying ash, completely annihilated in the river of time and space.

The last remnant of the Netherworld Legion was completely eradicated.

The scene flashed again, returning to the present timeline.

Outside Huanhuan Teppanyaki.

A small Ares Star spaceship landed on the open ground.

Several Ares Star warriors wearing the Punish Heaven, Flying Shadow, and Vajra armors stepped down from the spaceship.

They found Li Haotian, Xu Tengfei, and Wu Gang.

The leading envoy gave them a standard military salute.

"Warriors of Earth. We bring the latest verdict from Ares Star."

The envoy reported respectfully,

"The former Galactic Chancellor King Pius, suspected of severe corruption and abuse of power, has been impeached by the council and thrown into the interstellar prison."

"The newly crowned King Louis issued an order. In recognition of the Earth Armor Squad's outstanding contributions, the summoners for the Punish Heaven, Flying Shadow, and Vajra armors will remain permanently on Earth, to be kept by you."

Li Haotian and the two exchanged a glance, revealing smiles of relief.

The scene on the celestial canopy gradually pulled back, freezing on the backs of the three standing side by side.

【Top Ten Civilizations of the Universe, End】

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The author has been very busy lately with various matters, basically no time to update, so we'll end here for now.

There will be side stories later about a chicken in the courtyard and Wandering Earth; the author will write them when he has time, no need to wait specially, just come see whenever they're updated.

Finally, thank you to every reader who has followed along to this point; the author's later writing really isn't that good, deeply sorry, thank you for sticking with us.

Thus, farewell.