Chapter 1672: First Ring Mission Complete! Annihilation!

"This—this is impossible?!"

Kola stared in stunned silence, swallowing hard.

Erin was equally shocked, her hand gripping the Ice Bow trembling slightly:

"He's truly only Eternal Stage One?"

Lin Qianxue stood beside them, a faint smile appearing on her icy face.

This was her man.

Wherever he went, he was always the most striking presence.

"Let's move too," Lin Qianxue suddenly spoke.

Her black spear shook, icy mist swirling as blue lightning erupted.

Her figure became a streak of blue lightning, lunging straight at an Eternal Stage Four insect warrior.

The insect warrior had been attempting to ambush Xu Jingming from the flank, but Lin Qianxue intercepted it.

"Human woman! You seek death!"

The insect warrior roared, its claws tearing through air.

Lin Qianxue's spear moved like a dragon, the tip gathering a point of lightning.

She clashed head-on with the insect warrior!

Boom—!!

The shockwave swept outward; Lin Qianxue stepped back slightly, but her spear's momentum did not waver—she thrust again.

Her lightning origin had been recognized by the universe.

Combined with the Destruction Dao, her combat power surpassed ordinary Eternal Stage Four!

"Eternal Stage One fighting Eternal Stage Four?"

"Another prodigy!"

Kola and Erin stared again, stunned.

Though compared to Xu Jingming, Lin Qianxue's display wasn't as overwhelming,

in the Eternal Stage, crossing one stage to fight was already exceptional.

Yet Lin Qianxue had leapt four entire stages!

She was unquestionably a celestial prodigy.

Xu Jingming, locked in battle, paid no attention to this fight.

On one hand, he had full confidence in Lin Qianxue's strength.

On the other, the Chaos Pearl was with her—enough to ensure her survival.

"Kill!!"

Xu Jingming locked onto the remaining Eternal-stage insect warriors and teleported again.

Each strike claimed the life of one Eternal-stage insect warrior.

The insect Eternal-stage warriors tried to block him, but Xu Jingming's teleportation was too fast.

Though it seemed like a group of Eternal-stage warriors were attacking, in truth, it was a one-sided massacre!

123 Eternal-stage insect warriors.

Under Xu Jingming's frenzied slaughter, their numbers dwindled rapidly.

Meanwhile, in the Virtual Universe, Starfire Continent.

Before the Starfire Hall, the massive holographic projection still hung in the sky.

Executor: Xu Jingming

Mission: First Ring (Kill 100 Alien Eternal Deities within 10 Years)

Progress: 5/100

Countdown: 9 years 295 days 11 hours 33 minutes...

Initially, passing prodigies paid no attention.

After all, it had been displayed in the sky for over two months.

The recent increase to 5/100 meant nothing for a tenfold-leveraged mission.

Many believed Xu Jingming was doomed to fail—the outcome of that bet had already been sealed.

Yet, at this moment—

The numbers on the holographic projection suddenly flickered.

5/100 → 6/100.

"Huh? Progress increased?" someone noticed.

"Probably just killed a lone Eternal-stage warrior—nothing special," another shook his head.

But then the numbers flickered again.

6/100 → 7/100.

8/100.

9/100.

The numbers began to flash continuously—each jump spaced only seconds apart!

"What's going on?!" someone cried out.

"He's killing Eternal-stage warriors in succession? So fast?!"

Passing prodigies halted, staring at the holographic projection's numbers.

11/100, 12/100, 13/100......

The heartbeat sped up faster and faster!

20/100!

26/100!

35/100!

The numbers surged like they'd gone mad!

It jumped almost every two or three seconds, rising by five or six, seven or eight each time!

"What the hell?! What's going on?!"

"This progress… this must be a bug?! "

"How could it be this fast?! It's only been a few minutes, and it's jumped from 5 to 35?!"

"Killing a Samsara-class alien isn't slaughtering chickens! This is definitely wrong!"

"……"

The prodigies who spotted this scene looked as if they'd seen a ghost.

Nearly forty Samsara-class beings slain in under a minute?

This is impossible!

Samsara-class beings aren't cabbage!

The nature of their Divine Bodies ensured they wouldn't be easily slain.

"Look! It's rising again!"

"Seventy! This is outright massacre!"

"What is Xu Jingming even doing?! Even if he's incredibly strong, he can't possibly find this many Samsara-class beings all at once!"

"……"

More and more prodigies noticed the change in the mission data.

And the number kept surging!

98/100!

99/100!!

100/100!!!

When the number finally stabilized at 100/100, the area around the square fell silent for an instant.

The first stage of the tenfold leverage mission—kill one hundred Samsara-class aliens within ten years.

Xu Jingming completed it in less than three months.

"Completed?! He actually completed it?!"

"How is this possible?! How did he do it?!"

"In barely ten minutes, he slew ninety-five Samsara-class beings? This is insane!"

"……"

Shocked murmurs swept across Starfire Continent.

If Xu Jingming were a high-level Samsara-class cultivator, they wouldn't be surprised.

But Xu Jingming had only just entered the Samsara stage!

This level of slaughter was nothing short of annihilation!

Meanwhile, on a certain planet in the cosmos, inside a luxurious palace.

Royce was drinking and laughing with several companions when his smart armband suddenly flashed a notification:

"Respected Prince Royce, in the betting pool you established, 【100】 Xu Jingming has completed the first stage mission."

Xu Jingming has completed the first stage task.

"Huh? So fast?"

Royce's hand, holding his wine cup, paused slightly.

Though he was a playboy, he was not foolish.

A Samsara-class cultivator under forty, selected for the Starfire Project.

Xu Jingming naturally had his unique qualities.

He never thought the first stage mission would stump him.

He just never expected the other to finish it this quickly.

"It's only the first stage—there are still four more stages ahead.

Let's take our time."

Royce quickly regained his composure.

Logically, for a prodigy like Xu Jingming, he ought to have sought to befriend him.

But he felt no such necessity whatsoever.

So what if he's talented?

Can he reach the Realm of the Boundary Sovereign like my ancestral patriarch?

If the Realm of the Boundary Sovereign were truly that easy to attain,

then over countless eons, the entire human race across the cosmos wouldn't have had only dozens of Boundary Sovereigns.

Since Xu Jingming can't reach that level, he naturally doesn't deserve any courtesy.

He could act as he pleased.

Meanwhile, on Seven Stars Continent.

Fourth Star Zone, Ashen Rift Basin.

The Lei Guang gradually faded, and the smoke and dust dispersed.

The basin that had originally been filled with a sea of insects had now become a stretch of scorched earth.

The ground was covered in ravines hundreds of meters deep.

The dark red soil had been scorched by lightning into a glassy state, wisps of bluish smoke rising from it.

The broken carapaces of the insect race piled up like mountains.

Dark purple divine blood gathered into streams, gurgling through the ravines.

The air was thick with a stinging smell of burnt char mixed with a fishy sweetness.

Xu Jingming held the Ninefold Thunder Prison Spear, standing tall at the center of the basin.

The three-meter-six-tall Purple Nightmare demon body slowly retracted.

The ferocious demon horns shrank back into his forehead, and the dark purple scales on his skin's surface also gradually faded away.

He returned to his original human appearance, only that faint golden-green Lei Guang still lingered around his body.

As if draped in a suit of lightning armor.

"I-is it over?"

At the edge of the basin,

Kola and Eileen stared blankly at the scene before them, their minds gone blank.

Eight Immortal-rank insect empresses.

One hundred twenty-three Immortal-rank insect warriors, nearly twenty-five million peak cosmic insects...

Apart from one of the insect empresses, all the rest were wiped out!

And all of this had been done by merely a first-stage Immortal human!

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