Chapter 1270: Is It You? Di Er

In the vast, endless starry sky.

Xu Jingming's three-meter-tall demon body fully unfolded.

Every muscle resembled an alloy tempered a thousand times, gleaming with a cold metallic sheen under the starlight.

Purple demonic energy swirled around him, as if carrying the breath of an endless abyss.

Powerful, cold—these were the best words to describe his current state.

"This... this is a demon tribe?!"

Far away, Di Er's pupils shrank sharply, "Damn it! How could a demon tribe appear in the Lingshu Empire?!"

His face changed instantly; he hurriedly pulled out a communicator to contact his bodyguards.

However, Xu Jingming had already prepared for this.

"Shen Yuan Pearl, activate!"

A faint glow flashed from his space ring; a crystal ball, as if containing an entire world, appeared in Xu Jingming's hand.

Whoosh—

Violent spiritual force surged into it; strange spatial fluctuations erupted violently from the Shen Yuan Pearl.

A spherical spatial barrier with a diameter of one thousand kilometers exploded into existence!

Di Er, in terror, discovered that his quantum communication signal had struck a wall of bronze and iron.

It was all reflected back—he couldn't contact the outside world at all!

"Give up. No one can save you." Xu Jingming's cold spiritual voice echoed in Di Er's mind.

The Shen Yuan Pearl was something he obtained from Hearing Ling Shuang after returning from Heishi Star.

He originally intended to use it as a space ring to store beast corpses.

He hadn't expected Di Er to be among the travelers on this trip, so he decided to use it when the time came.

Although he lacked spatial abilities and couldn't drag Di Er into the space within the Shen Yuan Pearl,

he could still manifest this isolated space through spiritual force.

This would delay the outside world from learning of Di Er's death.

"Spatial techniques? Speak—what resources do you want? I can give them to you right now."

As a member of the Noa Empire's royal family, Di Er still carried his royal bearing.

After the initial shock, he quickly calmed down and spoke.

It wasn't unheard of for alien races to attack humans within human territories.

But those attacks always targeted human prodigies!

He never believed someone like himself—who had taken ten thousand years to reach Star Level One—would be targeted by a demon assassin.

The only possible explanation was that the opponent sought certain rare resources from the Noa Empire through him.

"Resources? Sorry—I only want your life!"

Ssshh—

A flash of black lightning; Xu Jingming's towering figure vanished from his spot and reappeared before Di Er.

Thunder Extreme Instant Shadow!

This T7-level combat technique, when used with his Zi Yan Demon Body, unleashed unimaginable power.

In an instant, he crossed nearly thirty kilometers!

"You really intend to kill me?" Di Er roared.

Brilliant golden light erupted violently around him!

"Seventeenth layer of the Metal Domain—and still not even reached the Law Realm.

And it's a single-element domain. How pathetically weak."

Xu Jingming sneered; his violent Destruction Domain erupted, mercilessly tearing apart Di Er's Metal Domain.

Then, with an empty-air grasp, the Abyss Spear was already in his hand.

Seeing this, Di Er's expression grew even more frantic:

"I am Di Er, the Ninth Prince of the Noa Royal Family!

My father and maternal grandfather are both Immortal Gods. You can have anything you want.

Killing me brings you no benefit—worse, you'll be hunted afterward..."

But in the next instant, his voice cut off abruptly; he stared in disbelief at the spear in Xu Jingming's hand.

"No, no—this spear... you're Xu Jingming?!"

A voice filled with terror and disbelief rang out—he recognized this spear!

Shhh—

The battle armor's faceplate opened, revealing a face.

The face bore faint purple demonic runes, appearing both handsome and eerily uncanny.

More terrifying were those eyes.

Pure purple, reflecting the annihilation of stars—as if even a glance could drag a person into endless abyss.

At this moment, the face twisted into a cruel grin:

"Correct. Too bad—no prize."

"It really is you?!" Di Er's pupils shrank violently.

Though Xu Jingming's appearance had changed due to demonic transformation, he still recognized him.

"Why? We only had minor disagreements—why did you come to kill me?"

Di Er frantically pushed his Star-Level spiritual energy, attempting one final struggle.

Yet, before the overwhelming demonic aura and wild, pitch-black lightning, he trembled like a candle in a storm.

"A minor dispute? You really think I didn't know it was you who carried out the assassination on Black Stone Star?"

Xu Jingming unleashed his T7-level Sun-Eating Doushen Shenlei, continuously dismantling Dier's metal domain.

"Because of this? But you weren't even injured by it?" Dier couldn't understand.

Just because of one assassination attempt, did Xu Jingming dare to strike at me, a prince?

Where did he get such audacity?

"Because of this?"

It seems our noble prince doesn't value the lives of people like us at all.

Then, die!"

Xu Jingming sneered, and the last sliver of Dier's protective metal domain was extinguished by the Sun-Eating Doushen Shenlei.

Immediately, the Abyss Spear thrust forward!

Puch—

Dier was wearing a C1-class battle suit, its defense extraordinarily formidable.

Yet, under the enhancement of the Purple Nightmare Demon Body and the Domain of Annihilation.

The spear was only briefly hindered, then violently pierced through Dier's left chest!

Then, the Sun-Eating Doushen Shenlei erupted violently!

Pikilapala—!!

Lightning flashed, endless bolts of electricity exploded from the spear's tip!

"No!!"

Amidst a desperate surge of spiritual energy, Dier's entire body was consumed and erased by the Lei Guang.

Along with his battle suit and the nearby wreckage of the spaceship, all were erased together.

A void, where even dust was annihilated, stretched over ten kilometers centered on Xu Jingming!

If he had known that attacking Xu Jingming would lead to this outcome, he never would have dared to lift a hand...

"This is the Annihilation Domain of a Star Rank—so powerful!"

Xu Jingming's eyes glowed faintly.

But now was not the time to test the power of the Purple Nightmare Demon Body.

He quickly stowed the Divine Kite Pearl, exited the Purple Nightmare Demon Body form, and boarded the Venom Snake spaceship to leave.

In a villa beside the Ninth Prince's palace on the sixth planet, where the Lingshu Sacred Ground was located.

Because of Dier's orders, the Space Rank bodyguard Kunte, unable to accompany him, sat cross-legged in quiet cultivation.

Suddenly, he frowned and took out a small ball, the size of a ping-pong ball, from his space ring.

This ball was called a "Life Ball," capable of receiving a trace of spiritual energy.

As long as the one who infused it remained alive, the Life Ball would never extinguish, no matter where it was.

But the Life Ball in his hand had grown dim and utterly gone dark.

The person bound to this Life Ball was none other than the Ninth Prince, Dier.

"The Life Ball is extinguished?! It's over!"

Kunte's face turned ashen, and his figure vanished instantly from where he stood.