Chapter 1474: Target Is Me? Did Scavenging Give Me Hallucinations?

Meanwhile, in the eastern region of Blood Refinement Star.

Chi Huang leaned lazily against a dark red rock.

His golden heterochromatic eyes were half-lidded, as if indifferent to the recent battle.

Beside him, several team members sat or stood, their qi signatures all formidable.

They studied the coordinate map projected by their smart bracers, searching for suitable targets.

One of them stood over three meters tall, like a tower of iron.

He was none other than the Elta tribe's prodigy—Taro.

Taro had bad luck: midway through the Beast Hunt, he encountered an extremely tenacious Star Peak beast.

After a grueling fight, he barely avoided elimination.

At the critical moment, he was rescued by Chi Huang's squad passing by.

After witnessing Chi Huang's overwhelming power.

Taro naturally joined the team and began operating alongside them.

At this moment, Taro, like the others, was.

Checking the updated holographic map on his smart bracer, displaying all competitors' coordinates.

"Hm?"

Suddenly, Taro frowned, letting out a puzzled sound.

He noticed a light dot on the map.

Approaching their position in a straight line at an astonishing speed!

Beside the dot, golden numbers "15" and the text "Xu Jingming" were clearly visible.

"Rank 15, Xu Jingming?"

Taro narrowed his eyes and reported: "Chi Huang, Xu Jingming seems to be flying straight toward us."

"Oh? It really is Xu Jingming!"

"Looking at the direction, he's definitely coming this way!"

"Tsk tsk, his speed's fast—what's he up to? Taking us for an easy pick?"

"......"

The rest of Chi Huang's squad also spotted Xu Jingming's location.

Yet their tone remained utterly relaxed.

"Xu Jingming?"

Chi Huang's lazy expression shifted slightly.

His golden heterochromatic eyes fully opened, flashing a hint of amusement.

He sat upright and pulled up his own coordinate map.

Indeed, the light dot representing Xu Jingming.

Like a shark scenting blood, shot toward his "7" marker like lightning.

"Target... me?"

Chi Huang raised an eyebrow; that signature smirk reappeared.

This time, however, the smile carried a colder, sharper mockery.

"Heh, interesting."

He chuckled softly, his voice metallic in tone.

"I wasn't even looking for him—he's come to me on his own."

Seems the lesson I gave him months ago on the mothership wasn't deep enough."

Chi Huang's tone dripped with unhidden contempt.

In his eyes, Xu Jingming was still that guy who stacked his rank with rare treasures.

Leveraged his connection with Ye Li to gain privileges, finally skimming the leftovers as the king of scavenging.

Even now ranked fifteenth, it was merely the result of opportunism.

True strength?

Before absolute power, it meant nothing.

"I wonder if scavenging for months gave him hallucinations."

Does he really think those petty, sneaky tricks let him pick a fight with me?"

"Soon, I'll show you what true strength really is!"

Watching the light dot racing toward him, Chi Huang's lips curled into a cold smile.

His original plan had been to hunt down the top ten competitors.

But since Xu Jingming came, he wouldn't dodge.

After all, the points of the 15th rank, though low, were still decent.

"There's another dot beside Xu Jingming—that's... Yue Ying?"

"Why is she with Xu Jingming?"

Behind Chi Huang, Taro stared at the holographic map where the characters "Yue Ying" nearly overlapped with "Xu Jingming."

His brow furrowed involuntarily; a sense of unease stirred in his chest...

"Hah! What's going on in your Eternal Star Alliance?"

"Judging by Xu Jingming's move, his target is Chi Huang? Is civil war starting?"

In the luxurious VIP lounge, the Eternal God of the God-Slaying Martial Temple, Ross, who had been monitoring the situation, burst out laughing.

He might as well have written right on his face: "Yeli, what kind of contestant did you pick?"

Colt stood beside Yeli, his usually stern face now curled into a cold, icy smile.

He said nothing, but the slight tilt of his chin and the fleeting sneer in his eyes fully expressed his attitude.

This Xu Jingming is utterly presumptuous!

"But then again, it's fine—let Chi Huang teach him a lesson; it'll ease my anger a little."

Colt's mood was pleasant.

Facing Ross's unhidden glee.

On Yeli's cold, breathtakingly beautiful face, not a single emotion stirred.

She trusted Xu Jingming.

If he dared strike at Chi Huang directly, it meant he had full confidence in his own strength.

Shhh—!!

A jet-black lightning bolt split the crimson sky of Xuelian Star.

Its speed exceeded the imagination of the vast majority of Stellar-stage cultivators.

Even on this planet with gravity far exceeding ordinary worlds.

The lightning still maintained a staggering two hundred times the speed of sound!

The air was torn apart, emitting a piercing shriek, then instantly left behind.

The dark red clouds were violently plowed open into a straight, vacuum-lined channel that refused to heal for a long time.

Xu Jingming held the slender waist of Yueying; each beat of his jet-black, ink-like thunder wings propelled them forward by dozens of kilometers.

Forty seconds.

In barely over forty seconds, Xu Jingming crossed more than three thousand kilometers and arrived at the target zone.

When he hovered in midair, just one kilometer from the Chi Huang squad.

The pair of jet-black thunder wings slowly retracted, dissolving into fine arcs of electricity that sank into his body.

The overwhelming gravity of Xuelian Star pressed down once more, yet not a single tremor shook his stance.

Xu Jingming stood suspended in midair, his posture straight as a pine.

His dark golden battle suit, under the dim red glow of Xuelian Star's sky, appeared even deeper, more somber, and deadly.

In his arms, Yueying's slender figure pressed tightly against his solid chest.

Her silver hair cascaded like a waterfall, gently swaying in the wind.

On her exquisitely beautiful, icy face, there was not a trace of tension; her gray-stone eyes gazed curiously downward.

"We're here."

Xu Jingming released his arm from around Yueying's waist, his voice low and steady.

Yueying stepped lightly to his side.

Her fitted emerald-green battle suit outlined a breathtaking silhouette as she stood shoulder to shoulder with Xu Jingming.

Xu Jingming's deep eyes swept downward.

With his current vision and spiritual force intensity, a distance of one kilometer offered virtually no obstruction.

The scene below was crystal clear.

It was a small basin surrounded by dark red rocks, relatively flat in terrain.

Five figures stood or sat scattered across the basin's center.

All radiated unhidden Stellar Peak energy.

Like five silent volcanoes, ready to erupt with world-shattering power at any moment.

At their head was Chi Huang.

He still maintained his lazy posture.

Leaning against a dark red boulder five to six meters tall.

His fiery red short hair burned like flame, strikingly vivid under the blood-red sky.

His crimson-gold heterochromatic eyes were half-lidded, appearing indifferent, yet had long since locked onto Xu Jingming in the air.

The signature wicked grin remained on his lips, now tinged with a colder, more mocking edge.

Beside Chi Huang, the other four Stellar Peak team members each occupied one side.

Their energies were solid, their spiritual fluctuations suppressed yet present—clearly seasoned experts.

Yet when Xu Jingming's gaze passed over one of those figures, his eyebrows twitched slightly.

Hm? That's… Tarro?