Chapter 2066: Contacting the Azure Armor

Above the Atlantic Ocean on Earth.

「Boom—crack!! Bang!! 」

The tremendous sound of the earth tearing was like a severed angry dragon; a colossal water spout over thirty thousand meters high sucked up from the seabed, forming a super water ball that gathered before Lin An.

Seawater was compressed at extreme speed, and under the effect of electromagnetic rules, it underwent continuous fusion explosions.

The fusion light was so blinding that it refracted a deep, mysterious blue in the high-altitude atmosphere, enchantingly profound.

Dense water vapor almost covered the entire upper Atlantic; from space it looked like an endless shadow, with countless lightning flashing within.

Under Lin An's mighty power, in just half an hour the former Atlantic turned into a barren land; amid the tangled seabed and underground fissures, scorching magma continually surged forth.

The sky and the seabed seemed like two separate worlds.

One side was dazzling azure light, with thunderous might.

The other side was hundreds or thousands of streams of kilometer-high magma erupting from the crust, red light illuminating the sky.

Such a scene, if any other survivors were present, would surely make them feel it was an omen of the apocalypse.

But for Lin An, he merely intended to thoroughly reshape the Earth before the starlight arrived.

With spiritual energy mobilized, Lin An calmly gazed at the largest trench area at the bottom of the Atlantic; seeing him extend his right hand, his extreme mental power and spiritual energy turned into an invisible giant hand, instantly tearing it open.

「Open!! 」

「Crack—crack」

「Bang bang bang! Bang! 」

The seabed wailed.

Under the terrifying force of Lin An forcibly lifting the crust, the scattered kinetic remnants were like a magnitude-ten earthquake, generating stone waves upon the seabed! If not stopped, this human‑caused submarine quake would sweep the globe within three hours, triggering chain‑reaction earthquakes!

Yet seeing the massive wound he himself had caused, Lin An not only did not intend to stop, but intensified the tearing!

「Break!! 」

「Boom!!! 」

Raising a fist, after instantly mobilizing more than a hundred times the total spiritual energy of a Fourth Stage Peak cultivator, Lin An drew a deep breath, his fist like a war bow, poised to blast through the Earth!

In an instant, the power condensed to the extreme erupted with the punch!

Only after a sound capable of shattering a Third Stage cultivator rang out.

A huge amount of spiritual energy and power burst through the atmosphere between sky and seabed at extreme speed; within 0.01 seconds, the exploding air ignited into a ten‑kilometer fire dragon between sky and seabed!

A shockwave exceeding a hundred times the speed of sound, carrying spiritual energy impact, almost in the blink of an eye smashed the torn crust into a violent depression!

「Boom!!! 」

The crust trembled!

Like an asteroid impact!

Even though the whole earth was struck, under Lin An's all‑out blow the entire planet paused for a moment; in its orbital distance in the universe, it seemed as if a giant hand had shoved it, actually deviating twelve centimeters!

At the same time, inside the Ling An base at the center of the New Continent, thousands of monitoring staff were all stunned as they watched the real‑time satellite feed.

From space, the region where Lin An was located suddenly resembled the detonation of a ten‑billion‑ton nuclear bomb; the immense magnetic storm effect even caused the satellite images to begin distorting and flickering.

Although they had witnessed Lin An's 'true' power, for them each display of his strength always refreshed the limits of their cognition.

Clearly Lin An's power and the Fourth Stage cultivators on Earth belong to the same tier, yet in everyone's mind Lin An's Fourth Stage is merely a title—his strength is so great that it long ago surpassed those ordinary Fourth Stage cultivators!

「Lin An!.. Lord Lin An, what are you going to do?! 」

「It blew up!! It blew up!! Damn! Quickly notify the coastal construction units to evacuate!! Storm!! The storm is coming our way!! 」

The operations monitoring room was in utter chaos.

Knowing Lin An intended to reshape the Earth, everyone thought he would merely purify seawater and move a mountain, as before.

But seeing global monitoring alarms simultaneously flash red, as if disaster were approaching, everyone instantly fell into panic, utterly unprepared!

This punch directly blasted part of the core! In a chain reaction, the whole Earth would suffer an unprecedented abnormal shock!

Yet before the person in charge could almost die of fright, they contacted the superior, Gao Tian.

The next second, in the satellite image, Lin An actually threw a dark‑red sphere straight into the torn core.

Before anyone could even stare in disbelief, not knowing what Lin An had done again.

Almost the instant the sphere entered the core, a long‑absent system announcement suddenly sounded:

「Beep, global announcement: 」

「Player Lin An, by using the Star Core item, has raised the Earth's level; total spiritual energy +10%, disaster and apocalypse generation speed –3%. 」

The announcement came and went quickly; as the global announcement ended, an invisible gentle breeze, like a tender great hand, swept across the world.

Under the astonished gaze of nearly ten billion survivors worldwide, the sky, which had been somewhat dim and reddish after the apocalypse, now became much clearer, tinged with blue; and the spiritual energy in the air also seemed more lively.

Of course, the greatest change lay beneath Lin An's feet.

One could see that, as the Star Core merged with the Earth, the Atlantic crust that Lin An's punch had depressed was now repairing itself at a visible speed.

It was like a self‑healing mass of flesh, and the earthquakes also ceased.

「The effect is not bad... 」

Watching the continually forming ring‑shaped land, Lin An nodded slightly, quite satisfied with the Star Core's effect.

What he had just thrown down was a Star Core from an alien species world; although its grade had been checked and it was somewhat damaged, it was equivalent to giving the Earth a big dose of tonic, strengthening it considerably.

Moreover, through Lin An's worldwide faith perception, he could feel that every person linked to him seemed to have received a boon from this planet, and he himself also gained considerable strengthening.

Seeing the Earth that he had violently beaten and then healed, Lin An even discovered that his bond with the planet had become even tighter.

Like a puppy being fed, he could sense a vague, quasi‑consciousness showing favor toward him.

Such a strange feeling made Lin An's complexion turn somewhat odd.

「This feeling... is it Gaia consciousness? Or planetary consciousness? 」

「Can a planet be considered alive? This point isn't hard to grasp, but it seems a bit foolish? 」

Long before, in the alien world, Lin An realized that a planet could also be considered a special life form; the life on a planet, in a certain sense, could be regarded as the sum of the planet's consciousness.

After reaching the Fifth Stage and coming into contact with information, Lin An had also heard that in extreme situations, some celestial bodies could 'activate' and become an alternative Body System.

Not to mention far away, the homeworld of the Heaven-eye people that was destroyed was actually activated by the Devourer; that monster intended to devour and become a planet.

"Looks like, this star core thing is actually not bad."

"Not only can it increase the strength of survivors on the planet, it can also lower the difficulty of catastrophes. The Body System also needs... maybe later we can get more..."

Casually waving his hand, he returned the purified hundreds of millions of tons of seawater to the newly formed mountain range outside the deep pit; Lin An looked thoughtfully at the starry sky above.

The resources that sustain a civilization are not only system props and equipment, nor merely spiritual energy and power.

Every star is food.

Competition is ruthless; survival is harsh.

Suddenly, Lin An only then fully understood the meaning of the ranks after the Fifth Stage.

"War Star, Destroy Star, Shatter Star..."

"These titles are not just a display of combat power; they also hint at what the Fifth Stage must do... the birth of a dead-star level, with countless stellar corpses beneath its feet."

"To survive, after the Fifth Stage one must spare no means to become stronger."

Gazing at the endless starry sky, Lin An also did not know how splendid this starry sky had been in the past; perhaps back then the stars were far more numerous than now.

If not restricted, if the Body System becomes mainstream, then perhaps in some universes there could exist dead universes.

There, life, in order to survive and resist the Apocalypse, might have consumed every star, and then could only remain on the final homeworld, gazing into the boundless void at darkness, dying in despair.

"Thinking this way... it's no wonder the World Destroyers are hated by all civilizations."

Lin An withdrew his gaze and shook his head slightly.

He could imagine that when he later prepared to quickly enhance his physique, the number of planets he would have to consume would not be small, and the World Destroyer and cataclysmic forces would eventually be exposed.

Besides, many debts do not worry about lice; once he chose to embark on this path, he would not fear how many enemies he had.

Even if the whole world were his enemies, he would not give up.

With a low chuckle, Lin An stopped thinking further and directly contacted Qing Kai.

The Starlight War is about to begin.