Chapter 1480: Dare to Fight Five at Once! Bloodline Demon Clan!

"What? You still want to save Luo Li?"

Noticing Xu Jingming's gaze, inside the Emergency Badge shield.

Chi Huang's crimson-gold heterochromatic eyes fixed on Xu Jingming, his lips curling into a grotesque smirk.

His voice carried through the shield, dripping with unmasked mockery:

"Let me be straight with you—I know a few of those guys from the God-Slaying Martial Temple and the Cosmic Mercenary Alliance. They're far stronger than me.

Just now you were so bold, holding a woman in one arm and a gun in the other, and still beat me.

If you really have the guts, go to the northeast right now.

Defeat all of them and get Eternal Star Alliance the top spot, huh?

All you're good for is infighting—you'll never earn my respect."

"Infighting?"

Xu Jingming found it amusing. "Judging by your current state, you seem a bit cracked. Even resorting to this excuse?"

Not getting the expected reply, Chi Huang's face darkened instantly.

He'd hoped to goad Xu Jingming into suicide, but the man was calmer than he'd imagined.

Compared to Xu Jingming's calmness, Yue Ying was far angrier—she snapped coldly:

"Who's infighting?!

If you hadn't provoked him first on the Star Mother Ship, would Xu Jingming have come after you?

Chi Huang, stop twisting the truth here!

Besides, Xu Jingming defeated you in a fair fight!

How dare you act like a sore loser?"

Yue Ying grew angrier by the second, her chest rising and falling with fury.

The stunning curves beneath her pale green battle suit became even more pronounced.

"Let's go. Don't waste words on him."

Xu Jingming's gaze swept over Chi Huang within the shield, his tone indifferent:

"With the Emergency Badge active, we can't deal with him now.

We'll settle accounts after the competition.

By then, he'll have no choice but to submit."

This matter had already ended.

But since Chi Huang was asking for death, he couldn't blame him.

After the competition, a few solid beatings were inevitable.

After all, their team instructor was Sister Ye Li.

He was certain she wouldn't stop him once he explained.

"You!"

Chi Huang glared furiously at Xu Jingming.

A suffocating mix of humiliation and rage churned in his chest, yet he dared not provoke further.

This guy Xu Jingming really would beat him up afterward!

Shhh—

Thunder Wings unfurled behind Xu Jingming.

But Yue Ying didn't rush to leave—she gripped Xu Jingming's hand tightly.

Her gray eyes turned to Chi Huang, her breathtakingly beautiful face breaking into a radiant smile:

"One against five? Not impossible."

She tilted her chin slightly, her silver hair shimmering with captivating luster under the crimson sky.

Her tone brimmed with absolute trust and pride in Xu Jingming:

"Wait in the elimination zone—keep your dog eyes wide open and watch Xu Jingming perform!"

With that, she no longer looked at Chi Huang's ugly face, turning to stand shoulder to shoulder with Xu Jingming.

Xu Jingming's lips twitched faintly, offering no comment on Yue Ying's declaration.

He cast one final glance at the map's several golden dots racing toward Luo Li's location, and behind him, the black thunder wings snapped open with a *shhh*.

Sssshhh—!

Amid the thunderous crack of lightning tearing through the air, Xu Jingming wrapped his arm around Yue Ying's slender waist.

The two shot skyward like a bolt of black lightning, vanishing in an instant at the horizon's crimson end.

In the basin, only Chi Huang and his several other eliminated teammates remained, their expressions complex.

"One against five? How dare she even think it!"

Chi Huang stared at the spot where Xu Jingming had vanished, utterly dismissive of Yue Ying's words.

In his view, it was just a dying duck's last defiant quack.

Xu Jingming probably didn't even have the courage to approach Luo Li's direction!

Meanwhile, deep within a swamp shrouded in gray-black mist on another part of Blood Refining Star.

The terrain here was low and marshy, choked with twisted, grotesque plants; the air reeked of thick decay and blood.

Dozens of varied figures stood or lay scattered across the area.

They were not human—they were all Star Peak demonic beasts.

Even several of the figures radiated an especially deep and terrifying aura, faintly emitting waves beyond the Star Stage.

Cosmic Stage!

The cosmic-tier beast, which should have been strictly monitored, now appeared here!

At this moment, these beasts were whispering among themselves.

Their voices were hoarse, shrill, and heavy, yet brimmed with excitement and bloodlust.

"This is our best chance to escape—our Emperor has taken personal action!"

A cosmic-tier beast, shaped like a giant bear but covered in bony spines, growled, its crimson eyes glinting with cruelty:

"The human race has imprisoned us in this hellhole for hundreds of thousands of years.

Every day is nothing but slaughter or being used as research material—I've had enough of this!"

"Exactly!"

Another avian beast spoke next, its voice piercing:

"Before we escape, we must slaughter every human prodigy! Let them taste despair!"

"Kill them all! Leave not one alive!"

"Especially the top-ranked ones—they're the future hope of humanity. Kill them, and humanity will suffer a two-thousand-year generational collapse!"

"Hahaha, just thinking about it is glorious!"

"......"

The beasts all echoed in agreement, their eyes blazing with ferocity, bloodthirsty killing intent spreading through the air.

"Don't rush—we must not reveal ourselves until the Emperor acts."

Suddenly, a deep voice rang out.

A golden-haired youth stepped into the swamp.

His figure was identical to a human's, even handsome, his skin Bai Xi, his features Lei Wu Guan.

He possessed pure golden eyes, pupils vertical like those of a dragon, opening and closing with a detached majesty.

A cascade of brilliant golden hair fell over his shoulders, glowing faintly even in the dim swamp.

Only the pair of small, exquisitely crafted golden horns on his forehead,

and the subtle, noble aura radiating from him—utterly alien to the surrounding beasts—revealed his non-human nature.

"Prince Jinyue."

The golden-haired youth's aura was merely cosmic-tier.

Yet upon his arrival, every beast present—including those cosmic-tier ones—bowed in reverence.

The reason was simple.

Jinyue was of Imperial Bloodline!

And an extremely rare "Ancestral Return" individual.

"Ancestral Return" meant the awakening of ancient ancestral power within an beast's bloodline, granting potential and might far surpassing peers of the same rank.

Such individuals were one in a hundred million—even among beasts, they were exceedingly rare.

Once born, they were immediately prioritized for cultivation by the beast elite.

They might even draw the attention of ancient beast entities.

It was precisely because of Jinyue's Ancestral Return that he had inherited the bloodline's ancestral memories.

Through a special secret technique, he had contacted a beast of Emperor rank.

And that being had promised to rescue them.

Otherwise, they would never escape from the Blood Refining Star.

"Hmm."

Jinyue nodded slightly, glancing around, then frowned slightly:

"Where is Yin Ci?"

"Your Highness, Yin Ci's aura vanished two months ago," replied a cosmic-tier beast. "We suspect he has been killed by the humans."

A Star Peak beast replied, "We suspect he has been killed by humans."