Chapter 10

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Protagonist:

Xuan Ge

Xing Xiao left.

It was Xuan Ge who let her go.

That day, in the study of the General's Mansion, after a standoff that lasted who knows how long, Xuan Ge let go of his hand first.

Xing Xiao was stunned for a moment, then immediately turned into a pure white phantom, disappearing beyond the layers of halls of the General's Mansion.

Xuan Ge neither stopped her nor pursued her.

He lowered his head, looked at his empty palm, and clicked his tongue almost imperceptibly.

He said he wasn't afraid of a god war, but he knew exactly what was what in his heart.

That "Destruction" star god Nanuk does not act like the Archer of Fate.

The Archer is most often a silent will, a trail of the Hunt.

But Nanuk... that big shot's habits, he just couldn't stand them......

If by then Nanuk "looked" over......

Finding his own Extinction Monarch locked in a room with a Hunt general, one reviewing documents, one handing over documents, hands still holding each other.....

That would be too much fun.

Either destroy Shen Wu Xian Zhou, or he himself might be "cow-napped" by Nanuk....

So, he let her go.

Knowing when to stop was his usual style.

At the center of the Sui Xing Dai, a patch of eternal chaos and deathly silence.

A point of pure white abruptly appeared against the backdrop of these ruins.

Xing Xiao's figure appeared; behind her, distorted light flashed in succession, the massive fleet of the Destruction Legion, the ferocious ranks of Void soldiers.

And those Doomsday Beasts like moving mountains, one by one breaking free from the Jump state, silently hovering behind her, filling the cold Void.

She stopped there, facing the direction of Shen Wu Xian Zhou, motionless.

The Antimatter Legion behind her seemed to perceive their sovereign's stagnant aura, the massive formation silently adjusting.

Like a tide of living shadows parting to both sides, clearing a wide, unobstructed "Tong Dao".

So that the sovereign's gaze could penetrate the distant distance without obstruction, falling upon that Xian Zhou which had now shrunk into a tiny point of light, that "hateful" thing.

Xing Xiao had long since put back on that star ring emitting a soft glow.

The cold halo obscured her eyes, and covered all emotions that might leak from her face.

From the outside, she was still that cold, indifferent Extinction Monarch suspended above the waves of Destruction, fused with this dead star domain beneath her feet.

Only she herself knew.

Her lips were trembling slightly uncontrollably.

She was gritting her teeth in secret.

With all her might.

As if a whole supernova about to explode was stuffed into her chest cavity.

Endless, cold anger, mixed with a shame and grievance she had never experienced before, almost making her soul tremble, was crashing wildly.

Seven days.

A full seven days!

She, Xing Xiao, was actually locked up in the General's Mansion by that damn Divine Might General, staying up for a full seven nights!

Accompanying him in processing those mountain-like, boring to the extreme Xian Zhou documents!

He reviewed, she handed over documents.

He was thirsty, she gave him warm tea.

He was tired, she had to sit beside him, listening to his nutritionally void, full of bad taste muttering to himself!

Although, objectively speaking, during those seven days she indeed did not go hungry.

The Xian Zhou's food was so exquisite that even her, an Extinction Monarch who had long abandoned most material needs, could find no fault.

But that wasn't the point!

The point was she was like what?

Like a newly hired clerk!

Like an unlucky subordinate forced by a superior to work overtime!

Even more infuriating was that because her underlings, that group of idiots, worked too hard at the port, with efficiency so outrageous it was off the charts.

During these seven days, Shen Wu Xian Zhou's construction progress advanced by leaps and bounds, the defense circle expanded, the new district's foundation was compacted.

Even the outer structure of the Xian Zhou itself visibly "gained a circle"!

What was this?

She, Xing Xiao, led the Destruction Legion to do seven days of volunteer labor for the Xian Zhou, with an Extinction Monarch thrown in as a secretary?

This wasn't even what made her most upset.

What made her want to immediately turn the Legion around, rush back to Shen Wu Xian Zhou, drag that guy out of the General's Mansion and beat him up, was what Xuan Ge said to her before she left.

At that time, he had already let go of his hand, and she was preparing to turn into light and escape.

He suddenly spoke, his voice not loud, his tone as flat as if evaluating the weather:

"Actually...."

He paused, then looked her up and down, his gaze lingering on a certain part for a fraction of a second.

Then he pulled out a smile she would never forget, mixed with playfulness, teasing, and a certain malicious "regret."

"I prefer.... bigger ones."

After speaking, he even shrugged his shoulders with a rather "regretful" air.

Xing Xiao felt a rush of blood straight to her head at that moment, and she almost shoved that Stellaron into his mouth on the spot.

Who did he think he was?

How dare he say such things?!

Who did he think he was?!

"Damn the Divine Might!"

A voice icy and piercing, imbued with the will of Destruction, was finally squeezed from between her clenched teeth, transforming into energy ripples in the vacuum and spreading out.

The nearest Doomsday Beast—the largest in size, its whole body gleaming with a dark purple metallic luster, and usually most fond of hoisting her up with its giant claws—suddenly and violently shivered without warning!

Its massive body even stirred several floating meteorite fragments around it.

Xing Xiao's icy gaze swept over.

And this pack of fools!

These Void Soldiers and Doomsday Beasts, who were so easily addled by the Xianzhou People with just a bit of celestial energy that they couldn't tell north from south, and almost wanted to change the two characters "Destruction" to "Infrastructure"!

Although they didn't need to eat, didn't need to rest!

But the Xianzhou People carried out some "humanitarian concern," regularly dropping refined celestial energy blocks.

So what? This pack of good-for-nothings actually scrambled to work!

Just to "perform well," to get a few more mouthfuls of "snacks"!

Look at them now! Discipline scattered, that glimmer of Destruction's red light in their eyes dimmed, revealing a kind of dazed and.... satisfied look after eating and drinking their fill.

Her gaze fell back on that dark purple Doomsday Beast—Xiao Zi.

It was a name given by that Artisanship Commission craftsman, and it actually remembered it after hearing it a few times, and seemed quite pleased with it!

"If you like that place," Xing Xiao's voice grew even colder, "then stay."

The dark purple Doomsday Beast "Xiao Zi" raised its huge head violently, its complex-eye-like red light flashing rapidly.

Then it shook left and right wildly, with such amplitude that it almost swept several nearby Void Soldiers away.

It lowered its ferocious head, carefully rubbing toward the Void direction where Xing Xiao was, emitting a low and submissive whimper.

Xiao Zi made it clear: Wherever the Monarch goes, I go.

Xing Xiao didn't bother with it, but seeing the residue left around Xiao Zi's mouth from wolfing down several mouthfuls of celestial energy before leaving, she hated General Divine Might even more.....

This bastard, not only humiliated her, but didn't spare her army corps either!

From spirit to "material," all-around defilement!

Her pure white figure floated up, lightly landing on the palm of "Xiao Zi"'s giant claw, large enough to hoist mountains.

"Xiao Zi" let out a low, seemingly excited hiss, its double wings suddenly flapping, stirring up violent energy turbulence, its massive body beginning to turn.

Behind her, the boundless Destruction army corps, like a black torrent receiving the final command, silently and neatly adjusted direction, following the Monarch and the giant beast, advancing toward the army corps' main base deep in the Sui Xing Dai.

Xing Xiao stood on "Xiao Zi"'s palm, her figure appearing aloof and cold amidst the embrace of countless Destruction creations.

But only she herself knew.

This confrontation with General Divine Might, she had been defeated.

Defeated thoroughly.

Although in the end, Xuan Ge casually threw her the Stellaron taken from Sila Bake Planet, counting it as her "spoils of war" for this trip.

But strategically?

Originally the stalemated front lines, because the Monarch was captured, the army corps' morale suffered an invisible blow.

And because of those fools' "outstanding performance" at the Xianzhou, the other side inexplicably gained seven days of construction time, their defenses becoming even more solid.

One's gain is another's loss.

She had already fallen into a disadvantage.

With all this pent-up anger, no matter what, she couldn't swallow it down.