Chapter 358: The Descending Black Sun! (Part One)

Huge!

Unimaginably huge!

Boundless at a single glance — a magnificent body that an ordinary being could not traverse in a lifetime of walking upon its back. Seen from afar, it was as if, within this mysterious world filled with surging Grey Mist, a terrifying beast-shadow had suddenly risen, one that seemed capable of holding up the heavens! Even the clouds could only bow beneath its feet!

That was a vast, colossal force — one that, relying on the power of flesh alone, could shatter a continent with a single strike!

Every movement, every gesture, enough to affect the super beings of the entire world — at this moment—

It descended!!!

Even among LV5-level abilities, a planet-class power ranked among the very best — Planet Devouring — at this moment truly revealed its true form!

The next second, boundless black Light Points rose up, mysterious Symbiosis microorganisms resembling Black Suns, Black Holes, especially drawing the eye. The threads of light normally invisible to the naked eye were twisted by them, actually taking on a tangible appearance, devoured and absorbed clean.

Not only light — all manner of energies and radiation hard to see with the naked eye were, at this moment, being wantonly devoured by them, faintly cloaking their surroundings in a cold sheen! If any living being dared to touch this frigid Black Sun at this moment, they would likely be frozen into an ice sculpture in an instant by the icy aura around it; of course, how much flesh and blood would remain after becoming an ice sculpture is anyone's guess.

Blood Qi and the energy it radiated were likewise a delicacy for this Black Sun!

That was the source of Baichuan's 【Radiation Absorption】 ability!

The next instant, the black Symbiosis creatures resembling Light Points suddenly scattered in all directions, as if receiving some command, sending away the unrelated living beings on their master's body; as for what became of them afterward, that was no longer his concern.

After all, an entire continent had become Baichuan's body, and what awaited him next was bound to be a bitter battle. Naturally, there was no need to drag those innocent beings into disaster — this could perhaps be counted as his final mercy.

In the past, for ordinary beings, the vast distance between two continents was, for Baichuan now, nothing more than a few hundred or thousand meters to a normal person. In just a few breaths, the countless Symbiosis creatures gathered like a Black Sun returned to his body's surface, cloaking him in a layer of armor capable of absorbing tremendous energy and impact.

During this process, that eye-catching Black Sun naturally drew the attention of countless powerful Desolate Beasts. Yet these Desolate Beasts, who in days past had no natural enemies and could swagger about at will, had now encountered their true nemesis!

Facing the Symbiosis creatures — the Black Sun — which were part of the source of power of the Earthly Immortal Realm, in just a few breaths the Desolate Beasts turned into lifeless corpses. The once smooth, gleaming Desolate Gold was now dim and lusterless, no longer the unbreakable material it once was. Looking closely, one could even see countless tiny bite marks densely covering its surface — the true culprit behind the Desolate Gold's current wretched state!

With everything in place, Baichuan raised his vast, majestic head. In an instant, with merely a slight motion, dark clouds swiftly gathered, wind and thunder rolled — like war drums before battle, or as if they had become his servants, revering him between his claws.

Then, Baichuan fixed his direction, planted his foot upon the seabed, and with a single leap, launched himself skyward.

……

At the same time.

The world center, the great stronghold of the Lingneng Clan.

"Damned invaders!"

On the battlefield, artillery fire roared like thunder, countless attacks streaking wildly. The Desolate God Tiger dodged a High-energy Particle Cannon striking from behind, then manipulated powerful air currents to tear apart a Mechanical War Beast of the Lingneng Clan in a single blow. Borrowing speed far surpassing its companions, it finally seized a moment to catch its breath.

It glanced at its increasingly faltering allies, and a bad premonition welled up within.

Why, after they had been fighting for so long, had that one with impure bloodline — who had no idea what bewitching soup it had fed their Lord — still not come? Could it have deceived them and fled alone?

The more it thought, the more the Tiger felt this possibility was extremely high.

After all, what they faced was the true master of today's world — the nearly invincible Lingneng Clan. Any being with wisdom would feel dread; if the other had been observing this bloody battlefield from afar and, at the last moment, regretted and retreated, that would also be normal.

Such cowards had appeared in that war of the past as well.

But how dare that fellow?!

That was their supreme Lord! How dare that fellow toy with their Lord?!

It could hardly believe it, but the facts seemed already laid out before its eyes.

Their Lord's judgment truly seemed somewhat lacking……

What a pity — so many companions who tragically met their deaths through being toyed with……

Thinking of this, sorrow involuntarily filled the Tiger's gaze.

"Damn it!"

In the midst of thought, the next instant its gaze shifted. It had no time for sorrow, hastily manipulating an atmospheric barrier to block an incoming attack — a great enemy of the Lingneng Clan had set its sights on it, wielding the body of their former companion, turning it against them.

The Tiger did not hesitate, gathering its sorrow into battle intent and charging forth to meet the attack.

But it had decided — once it survived this battle, it would find that coward and make it pay the most terrible price!

At this moment, not only it thought thus. Those Desolate Beasts, discontent with the Lingneng Clan's oppression, gradually awakened from their fanaticism as companions died in great numbers, finally realizing they were merely making futile efforts and unnecessary sacrifices. Perhaps that rumored true master had toyed with them! It was a scheme of the Lingneng Clan!

This notion, as Time passed, spread to more and more beings; one after another, they began to show signs of retreat.

Even an old god seemed somewhat baffled and began to waver.

Could it be that the prophesied day of legend was not now?

Had they been toyed with by some unknown fellow?!

For a time, everyone's heart was unsettled; it seemed all had begun to believe this was a battle they were bound to lose, and that they were now making nothing but futile sacrifices.

Even the God of the Summit could not avoid frowning. As the largest in stature in this battle, it could be said to be the Lingneng Clan's very first target.

All manner of large weapons and ultimate killing moves were directed at it. Eventually, the Lingneng Clan even dispatched two powerful beings of the same Earth Immortal Realm to ambush it. In an instant, wound after wound began to appear across its mountain-thick body; before old wounds could heal, new ones were added.

Yet a veteran god was, after all, a veteran god. Having reached the very end of the Earth Immortal Realm with nowhere further to go, these attacks were nothing more than a trifle to it. It even had the leisure to glance at its gradually wavering companions. However, facing this situation, it being fine did not mean its companions were fine, so it began ceaselessly contacting the Spirit Lord within its heart, attempting to ask when that being it regarded as hope would descend.

Yet all it received in reply was a single word: patience……

Were it not so familiar with the Spirit Lord's temperament, the God of the Summit would have suspected they had been cast aside as final pawns by the Spirit Lord. Just as it inquired once more without result, a sudden urgent message from the Spirit Lord arrived:

"Everyone — full defense! Quickly!!"

What?

Upon hearing this, the God of the Summit was stunned. In the middle of a perfectly good battle, suddenly ordering everyone to defend? Even some companions on the verge of successfully slaying the enemy? Moreover, once one abandoned offense for defense, it was easy to fall into a disadvantageous position — not everyone was skilled at defense.

What is the Spirit Lord up to aga…… wait! Could it be that mysterious being is about to descend?!

There was no time to think. Even it could not comprehend in what marvelous manner the being the Spirit Lord valued would descend. The God of the Summit suddenly felt a sharp pain transmit from its brow — that was its spiritual sense, honed over a million years, warning it.

In that instant, its divine power throughout its body surged. Its massive form suddenly stamped the earth, and layer upon layer of stone pillars rose to shield itself. Then its incomparably vigorous spiritual force swiftly transformed into a mysterious imprint, turning that single piece of information into an information storm that swept outward — thanks to the gathering, it had bestowed upon everyone an imprint bearing its own mark.

Thereafter, it spared no cost, broadly channeling its power to cast its signature spell — 【Mountain Wall】 — to shelter its allies. This was a rock-colored shield, tough as if unbreakable; even attacks of the Earth Immortal Realm could be blocked for a time.

At this, in the span of a single breath, the entire battlefield fell eerily silent, leaving only the ravaged, brutalized earth torn by powerful forces. Even those who had failed to react in time were, after all, few and weak, and no longer mattered.

In fact, Lingxin was somewhat taken aback at this moment. She, who had once been a True Immortal of elegant combat, casting countless spells with not a trace of worldly flair, had never imagined that the collaborator she had chosen would have such a brutal fighting style?!

No special movement technique, just crossing vast distances with the body alone? Are all descendants of Star Beasts this outrageous? But one has to say, there really were Star Beasts with such a rough style……

Why did it suddenly stop?

On the battlefield, as one side came to a halt, the Lingneng Clan was momentarily dumbfounded, unable to figure out what the enemy was up to. But since the enemy had stopped, their battle-hardened instincts seized the moment to press the attack relentlessly.

What would it feel like for a super-creature as massive as a continent to leap up from a planet and come crashing back down?

In the past, even Zi Da, with all his vast experience, had no idea—but at this moment, he thought he understood.

One instant he had been wearing a savage grin, slaughtering his opponents; the next he froze, his face changing drastically, because he saw the crimson alarm light up inside his cockpit—a top-level alert from the command center! Only those of relatively high status among the Lingneng Clan had been equipped with this function.

It meant: retreat at once—a powerful long-range attack was locking on and closing in, one that even the Lingneng Clan's techniques could not intercept!

After all, although the Lingneng Clan was powerful, that power lay more in individual martial might and reliance on the Ancestor's strength, not in a civilization that specialized in mechanical science and technology.

Still, hadn't this alert come a little too late?

Zi Da brooded, slowly raising his head to look skyward.

"Heavens, why has it gone dark?"

Countless people—even Lingneng Clan members—could not help but stop what they were doing and look up at the heavens.

What met their eyes was a sky rapidly turning pitch-black, and the source of that darkness was a Black Sun whose full form could not be seen!

A Black Sun plummeted down with the force of a thunderbolt!

Ten-odd minutes earlier, at the Lingneng Clan's highest-level detection command center.

"Wooooo!!!"

A piercing alarm suddenly blared.

The personnel holding fast at the detection command center, their faces solemn, operated their equipment with practiced ease. In an instant, a colossal detection projection displayed an incomparably huge "Black Sun" that was approaching and about to fall!

It was a terrifying "Black Sun" radiating a cold sheen, one that even twisted and devoured light itself, bearing none of the sun's loving, gentle, life-giving aspect—seeming instead to embody the sun's face of destruction and darkness.

The terrifying Black Sun rapidly approached the battlefield between the Lingneng Clan and that group of rebels. Gazing at that "Black Sun," someone laughed: "Heh, didn't expect anyone would actually try a long-range strike on our Lingneng Clan base—truly not knowing how to stay alive…"

"Indeed, they probably don't know how many times our Lingneng Clan has weathered such attacks before. It's merely Earth Immortal Realm energy level—intercept and counterattack with the intelligence brain, let those fellows see what a real long-range strike looks like!"

"Yes, sir."

Chatting and laughing, those few personnel ordered the intelligence brain to activate its interception function. This was something they, who were relatively unskilled in technology, had paid a hefty price to obtain through trade with another civilization.

In an instant, accompanied by a few faint activation sounds, terrifying attacks rose like a heavenly maiden scattering flowers, their scorching tails of flame streaking up to intercept that Black Sun.

Those were attacks called Fusion Bombs, containing terrifying destructive power—each Burst rivaling the force of a star. A single one could easily shatter a continent, and a direct hit could slay an Earth Immortal Realm powerhouse.

Of course, Earth Immortal Realm beings were no fools; with their extreme agility, unless they were trapped and subjected to saturation strikes, they were very hard to hit. Moreover, releasing such weapons at close range was no different from striking friend and foe alike, causing heavy losses to one's own side.

That was why those rebel attackers had to send personnel to do the killing. In the end, the Lingneng Clan was relatively unversed in that thing called Mechanical Art (technology); those technological creations were basically all obtained through trade by their civilization.

This was a technology-oriented civilization on par with an Earth Immortal cultivation civilization, and this was one of its strongest killing moves, representing the power of a star.

At the Earth Immortal Realm stage, whether on the cultivation side or the technology side, the strongest one could do was merely harness the power of a star. But at the True Immortal level, things were different—that was almost a qualitative transformation.

If an Earth Immortal could still possibly die from saturation firepower attacks in the starry sky or on a planet, for a True Immortal it was already nearly impossible—the terrifying power of a True Immortal could shatter anything that was not of the same level!

But the fellow before them, merely at Earth Immortal energy level—could he be a True Immortal?

Impossible! How could a True Immortal possibly come here! So he's dead for certain!

Recalling the instructions that came with the purchase of this thing, the smiles on those detection command personnel grew ever brighter, and they looked at that "Black Sun" as though it were already a dead object.

However, the next instant, the smiles on their faces froze!

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(End of this chapter)